Liz Braun, QMI Agency Oct 21, 2014

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NEW YORK - Shailene Woodley is as steady-on as they come.

Woodley, 22, is indeed bright, beautiful and right on the cusp of famous, but no amount of tinseltown hoopla is going to get her to trade in her flannel shirt or abandon her earth-loving ideals. Environmentally aware, Woodley has often spoken about foraging, creating her own medicines and beauty products and fetching her own drinking water from the mountains. She doesn't wear her interests like a new overcoat, either the actress simply marches to a different drummer, and doesn't make a big deal about it.

She does hug you at first meeting, however, as rumoured.

Hippy-dippy though that may sound, it's a calming, positive gesture that makes a formal interview suddenly friendlier. Woodley is chatting about the advantages of buying vintage and used clothing and says she regrets that her second-hand rain boots are coming apart after four years of use.

"That's like wasting a good pair of shoes because one part's broken. That's a huge thing for me," she says.

"You know, we all have an abundance of s---," she adds, laughing.

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Woodley is promoting White Bird in a Blizzard, a new Gregg Araki movie that combines a coming-of-age story with a domestic mystery. Woodley plays Kat, a girl of 17 whose mother (Eva Green) simply vanishes one day. As she makes her way in the world, Kat believes she doesn't miss her mom, but she has disturbing dreams about her. The movie involves nudity and plenty of sex, and Woodley has been asked a lot about that in North America. "Where sexuality is so taboo."

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MEXICO CITY Mexicos largest exhibit of Mesoamerican manuscripts features a codex made of fig tree bark suggesting that Aztec emperor Moctezuma was slain by a Spanish conquistador with a sword.

The piece is among 44 codices made by several pre-Columbian populations including the Mayas, Purepechas and Zapotecos on display at the National Museum of Anthropology.

Some of the pieces in the temporary exhibit, titled Codices of Mexico: Memories and Wisdom, are as large as 10 sq. meters (108 sq. feet).

One cost the government $1 million to buy from the Bible Society in Britain.

Its the biggest codex exhibit (in Mexico), curator Baltazar Brito, director of the National Anthropology and History Library, said.

The codices were written by tlacuilos, which in Mayan means a person who carves stones.

The ancient manuscripts present a vision of history from the point of view of the people who were subdued after the conquest, Brito said.

They are a very important demonstration of the knowledge acquired by Mesoamerican peoples throughout their history.

The collections centerpiece is the Chimalpahin codex, which the government bought in May from the Bible Society to stop it from being auctioned off.

The manuscript was made by indigenous historians Domingo Chimalpahin (1579-1660) and Alva Ixtlilxochitl (1578-1650).

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Harris, who had been suspended on the heels of the allegations, has since been reinstated. He's expected to start for the Gators Saturday.(Photo: Randy Sartin, Randy Sartin-USA TODAY Sports)

GAINESVILLE, Fla. New information surfaced Wednesday surrounding the investigation of a sexual assault complaint against Florida Gators quarterback Treon Harris, but it's still not completely clear what happened the night of the alleged incident.

Harris was accused of raping a female acquaintance Oct. 6, after she told investigators they'd had sex against her will in Harris' dorm after a night at the club the day before, according to incident reports released by the University of Florida Police Department. Three days later, the woman withdrew her complaint.

What has become clear is that Harris and other Gators football players were partying with the woman and others at Rain nightclub in Gainesville during the night leading up to the incident. Several witnesses, including friends of both, recalled seeing the two being very close that night, even kissing at one point, a police report said.

Marcus Maye, Latroy Pittman, Brian Poole and Keanu Neal, all teammates of Harris, recalled the group leaving the club about 2 a.m. and heading to Waffle House, but stopping at a Kangaroo gas station. At the gas station, Harris and the woman were either holding hands or walking arm-in-arm before they left in her car, witnesses told investigators.

Police said surveillance images confirmed the chain of events described by Maye, Neal, Pittman and Poole. But what exactly happened when the two split off from their friends and went back to Harris's dorm room depends on whom you ask.

The woman claims she lied down on Harris' bed because she was tired, but then he forced himself on her, refusing to climb off and ignoring her pleas for him to stop. "I don't want to have sex with you," she recalled saying that night, according to a police report. Harris felt like a "dead weight" on top of her, she told investigators.

Harris didn't see it that way. In his initial interview with police Oct. 5, he said it all started with a kiss and didn't recall her saying she didn't want to have sex. "We were talking, and she did, she start kissing, we kissing each other, and like it just happened," he told investigators, the report said. Asked to clarify what 'it' meant, Harris reportedly said, "We had sex."

About 7:36 p.m. the same day, Harris sent the woman a text, saying "Don't tell nobody bout nothing." As Harris explained it to police, the pair had agreed to keep their encounter quiet.

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PROVO -- Joseph Smith learned early in his associations with deity that study and inquiry most often lead to revelation and restoration.

According to a new church essay, in the case of polygamy, Smith learned that not responding to the Lord brings unanticipated encouragement.

The essay, released Wednesday by the LDS Church, gives greater insight as to the nature of the practice of polygamy.

"The revelation on plural marriage was not written down until 1843, but its early verses suggest that part of it emerged from Joseph Smiths study of the Old Testament in 1831," the essay says.

During his study of the Old Testament, Smith prayed to understand why prophets such as Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses, David and Solomon had many wives without punishment.

"The Lord responded that he had commanded them to enter into the practice," the essay says.

It says Joseph was also commanded to enter into the practice -- no easy task.

With the thousands of descendants of polygamists that exist today, the purposes of growing the church seemed to have been fulfilled.

In what may not be new, but rarely discussed, information, the essay says that between 1834 and 1843 an angel appeared to a hesitant Smith three times and commanded him to proceed with plural marriage.

"During the third and final appearance, the angel came with a drawn sword, threatening Joseph with destruction unless he went forward and obeyed the commandment fully," the essay says.

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Moving is the worst.

Back in 2006, the wife and I fled New Jersey for a small mountain town, following in the footsteps of countless members of the witness protection program. We needed a moving company, and since my wife was on summer vacation at the time, she took charge of the process.

Understand, however, that my wife is a once-in-a generation gentle spirit. Shes a kindergarten teacher by trade, so shes largely sheltered from the seamy underbelly of the adult world.Unfortunately,theres a point wherebeing kind and trusting borderson navet.All of this is just to saythat my wife is the kind of person who would happily include our bank account in an email if she thought it would help the deposed prince of Nigeria.

So anyway, my wife interviews a potential mover over the phone, and receives a price quote thats one-third of the competitions. Sealing the deal, however, is the vibe she gets from the person on the other line; hes clearly just a great guy thats willing to move our stuff 2,000 miles for one-third the price out of the kindness of his heart, and not, say, a shiftless Russian mobster.

Of course, he turns out to be the latter. Thankfully, we narrowly avoided getting ripped off because my wife, in another display of her giving nature, was so enamored with the mover that she recommended them to her friend, who was also heading to Colorado the week before us. We got an inkling that something was amiss when the friend got to Colorado, only to find that all of her furniture was being held hostage at a weigh station in Kansas, and the movers wouldnt deliver it unless she wired them three-times the originally quoted price, in cash.

Needless to say, timing is everything.

But heres the thing: even when movers arent stealing your stuff and holding it ransom, theyre breaking it. Its so commonplace that most moving companies will execute a contract with you that allows you to seek reimbursement when your armoireis inevitably reduced to kindling.

This all leads us to the point at hand: last week, the IRS issued a Chief Counsel Advice regarding moving companies that offers a nice illustration of therules governing the timing of a deduction for an accrual method taxpayer; specifically, the interplay between the economic performance rules and the recurring item exception.

Facts of CCA 201442048

In the CCA, the moving company (Movers) offered customers a contract that formalizedMovers level of liability. The contract provided two options for placing a value on broken items: under the first option, Movers liability was capped at an amount equal to the greater of X or Y (these amounts are not explained in the CCA), while the second option limitedMovers liability to amounts lost or stolen.

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LEE COUNTY, FL -

We are uncovering new information about the death of a Cape Coral teenager who was fatally struck by a Lee County Sheriff's Office deputy's cruiser while riding his bike.

According to a newly released report detailing the full investigation, LCSO Deputy Douglas Hood was not driving in his lane, when his vehicle struck Austin Dukette, 15, on Kismet Parkway in Cape Coral in August.

The report shows the deputy was adjusting the brightness on his vehicle computer around the time he collided with Dukette.

Cape Coral Police Department's investigatory report reveals Lee County Deputy Douglas Hood was not watching the road moments before the collision that killed Dukette. Hood told investigators in the report that he was lowering the brightness of his laptop's computer screen.

When he looked back up - Hood said he tried to swerve out of the way, according to the report.

Residents are reacting to what happened.

"I think he needed to pull over and do that before - I mean it was too late after he had already ran the child over," said Robin McDuffie, who lives near the location of the crash.

Cape Coral police found that Hood was at fault along with these other details: He was not driving within his lane at the time of the crash; was not looking at the roadway as he was driving moments prior to the crash; and not driving in a careful manner.

As a result of those findings, Hood was cited with careless driving.

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FOR Michelle Simcock, life was a struggle seeing her baby boy grow up to become an active little toddler and not be able to join in his fun.

Weighing 19 stone, the single mum was constantly lacking the motivation and the energy to go out and do things.

But wanting to be more involved in her three-year-old Alfie's active life, Michelle was determined to slim down for him.

And in just under a year after joining the Chell group of Slimming World in June, 2013, she has managed to shed an impressive five-and-a-half stone, and drop 10 dress sizes.

"When I had my little boy, I just wanted to do everything I could with him," said the 38-year-old, from Harriseahead. "I didn't want to be an overweight mum in the playground. "It could have meant bullying for Alfie and I never wanted that for him.

"I'd always felt uncomfortable doing things, but he was the real reason I took the first step and joined a group."

But it was only after Michelle had joined the group did she find the desire to change the way she looked. "It was very daunting getting on those scales for the first time," she said.

"I was so shocked at how much I weighed. I'd deluded myself into think t wasn't so bad, but I thought now I can see how big I am, I never want to go back to that. "I'd always been a bit of a yo-yo dieter, but that was the heaviest I'd been.

"From that point on I was 100 per cent committed to the plan."

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BEDFORD After the Bedford Board of Works agreed to demote firefighter Jeff Key from captain to lieutenant Wednesday, city attorney Greg Pittman said the board members also would have to adopt findings of fact about the hearing.

The board adopted that legal document during its regular meeting Monday, finding Key guilty of"a violation of rules," "neglect of duty" and "conduct unbecoming an officer."

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