Articles for February, 2017

Dog the Bounty Hunter at CPAC day 3

Dog the Bounty Hunter at CPAC day 3ABC News' Lana Zak catches up with the reality TV star at CPAC


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Ian McShane Tells Game of Thrones Fans to “Get a F–king Life”
Ian McShane? More like Ian McShade! The British star appeared on Game of Thrones for one lousy (okay, it was pretty good, but regardless) episode and not only does he appear to not...
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TV’s Top Couple 2017: Vote in the Elite 8 Now!
And then there were eight. After an intense battle in the sweet sixteen, eight couples emerged to fight it out in round 4 of TV's Top Couples. Arrow's Oliver and...
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Verizon’s unlimited advertising is confusing everyong

Verizon’s unlimited advertising is confusing everyong

Verizon has rolled out a thorough ad campaign to go with its new unlimited data plan. As is normal these days, the ads focus on the pricing per line when you have four lines, which works out to $45 per line, plus taxes and fees.

Unfortunately for sales reps working in Verzion's stores, wannabe customers don't read the fine print.

Several Verizon retail sources have told BGR that customers are coming in "every hour" asking for "that $45 Unlimited plan," just to be told that actually, it's $80 plus taxes for the plan if there's just one of you. I'm sure Verizon is happy that customers are excited by the pricing of its unlimited plan, but people wanting one line for $45 per month seems to be causing serious problems for the retail outlets. One employee said that "if I have to explain the bad math to one more customer, I'm going to go [around the city] and write '$80' on every Verizon ad I can find."

A poster on the Verizon subreddit echoed the comments:

"I swear man, if another customer comes in and asks for our new $45 UDP, I'm gonna rip the posters off the walls. I'm not even cushioning my response to customers anymore. I just tell them it's gimmicky marketing math meant to get them in store. Anyone else having a lot of push back from frustrated customers on this phrasing?"

Verizon is definitely not the first wireless network to focus on the per-line unlimited cost, rather than being more upfront about the pricing. Sprint, T-Mobile and AT&T have all used per-line pricing in the past, despite the fact that most people don't actually have four lines per account. Still, it seems like people have been waiting so long for a Verizon unlimited plan that this ad campaign has sparked more interest than usual.


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Infant who survived in 1920s sideshow incubator dies at 96

Infant who survived in 1920s sideshow incubator dies at 96MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — Lucille Conlin Horn weighed barely 2 pounds when she was born, a perilous size for any infant, especially in 1920. Doctors told her parents to hold off on a funeral for her twin sister who had died at birth, expecting she too would soon be gone.


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IS suicide blast kills 51 near Syria's Al-Bab
Al-Bab (Syria) (AFP) - An Islamic State group suicide bomber killed 51 people outside Syria's Al-Bab on Friday, in a major blow just hours after rebels seized the town from the jihadists. In a statement distributed online, the group said its suicide b...
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Pipeline protest camp cleared, but area far from normal

Pipeline protest camp cleared, but area far from normalCANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) — Authorities this week cleared the last holdouts from a large Dakota Access pipeline protest camp on federal land in North Dakota, but it will be a while before the region returns to normal.


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Get Out Understands The Black Body
[This post contains spoilers.] In America, my body does not belong to me. This is the message that Jordan Peele’s electrifying horror film Get Out has for black men. Written and directed by Peele, it mines a potentially horrifying event: Chris (Daniel Kaluuya), who is black, accompanies his white girlfriend Rose (Allison Williams) to her... Read more »
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Hillary Clinton calls for ‘resistance and persistence’ from Democrats

Hillary Clinton calls for ‘resistance and persistence’ from DemocratsIn a video released Friday, Hillary Clinton encouraged Democrats to “move forward with courage, confidence and optimism” as the party prepares to rebuild after losing the White House and failing to gain majorities in either house of Congress in the November elections. The three-minute video was posted online shortly after it was greeted with applause at a Democratic National Committee meeting in Atlanta, Ga. The DNC will choose new party leaders, including a new chairperson, on Saturday. Although Clinton has mostly stayed out of the spotlight since her stunning election loss to Donald Trump, lately she has started to speak out more pointedly via her Twitter account.


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11 Films, Books and More Old Hollywood Gems to Check Out As Your Feud: Bette and Joan Obsession Begins
Allow FX to introduce--or reintroduce--you to Bette Davis and Joan Crawford. The legendary stars' just-as-legendary feud is at the center of your latest Ryan Murphy anthology...
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