• Thirteen people, including the suspect, died in a shooting at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, on Wednesday night.
• One of the victims was identified as deputy sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus.
• Helus died in hospital after being struck "multiple times by gunfire."
• Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean said he "ran into danger hoping he might be able to save someone else's life."

The police officer who died in the Thousand Oaks bar shooting late Wednesday night has been identified as deputy sheriff Sgt. Ron Helus.

Helus died after being struck "multiple times by gunfire" at the Borderline Bar & Grill late Wednesday night, Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean told reporters early Thursday morning.

A gunman entered the bar, which was hosting a college night, and fired shots inside around 11:20 p.m. local time (2:20 a.m. ET Thursday).

A total of 13 people died: 11 victims, Helus, and the suspect. It's not yet clear how the gunman died, and his identity and motive are not yet known.

Read more:At least 13 dead, including gunman, at college bar mass shooting in LA suburb of Thousand Oaks

Helus served with the Ventura County Sheriff's Office for 29 years and four months, according to the Officer Down Memorial Page.

He had been hoping to retire in the next year, and leaves behind a wife and a son, Dean said on Thursday morning. Helus also planned to pursue a doctorate degree in the near future, according to his LinkedIn page.

Helus and a California Highway Patrol officer arrived to the scene within three minutes of receiving reports of the shooting on Wednesday night.

Upon arrival the officers heard more gunshots coming from inside the bar, and Helus "immediately made entry into the bar and confronted the shooter," the Officer Down Memorial Page said.

Helus was then struck "multiple times by gunfire," Dean said, while other officers moved Helus out of the way, the page said. Helus died of his injuries in hospital hours later.

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Dean told the "Today" show: "He was willing to sacrifice his life to save others. He ran into danger. He didn't walk. He ran into danger hoping he might be able to save someone else's life, and he made the ultimate sacrifice, but he did it as a hero."

Dean told reporters Thursday morning, choking back tears: "He was hard-working, he was totally committed, he gave his all. Tonight, as I told his wife, he died a hero. He gave his life to save other people."

President Donald Trump also acknowledged Helus' death, tweeting: "Great bravery shown by police."

Helus leaves behind a wife and a grown son. Helus was on the phone to his wife when the report of the shooting came in.

According to Dean, he told her: "Hey I gotta go handle a call. I love you. I'll talk to you later."

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• Tesla smashed expectations in with its most recent quarterly earnings report, turning a profit for only the 3rd time in its history.
• Still, Wall Street has noticed that a bunch of the numbers leave more questions about how Tesla got there.
• Plus, Tesla's plans for the future are very ambitious. Even with this influx of cash, investors are wondering how it's going to meet its goals without raising more cash.

Earlier this month Tesla blew its 3rd quarter earnings out of the water.

• As CEO Elon Musk promised, for the third time in the company's history it posted a profit.
• Net income was $311.5 million.
• Revenue hit $6.8 billion, up 70% from the previous quarter.
• And, perhaps most importantly, the company generated $881 million in free cash flow.

Musk promised that these numbers indicate the start of a new era at Tesla — an era in which the company would be profitable every quarter. That promise has Wall Street picking through the numbers to see if perennial profitability is possible for a company that has yet to turn an annual profit.

And Tesla's balance sheet leaves many reasons to be skeptical. With its $7.9 billion in assets still swallowed by $9.7 billion in liabilities; with a massive debt bill coming due in March; and with commitments to start all kinds of capital-intensive projects floating around, Tesla will need a lot of money. 

What's more, on Wall Street, accounting is as much art as it is a science. A really talented numbers-smith can make a smash hit out of a quarter that might otherwise have sounded sound like a flop. You just have to pay really close attention to what's really music, and what's just noise.

The noise

Now for the noise in Tesla's quarterly report.

First and most simply, Tesla got what UBS called "some unexpected help" by selling $137.2 million in non-ZEV regulatory credits to traditional automakers. It also sold $52.3 million in ZEV credits, bringing its total profits due to credits up to $189.5 million.

Tesla also went incredibly lean for the quarter. Research and development fell from 11% of sales to 5% despite the fact that Musk has said that a Tesla Roadster, Semi, Model Y, and a pickup truck are in the works. Tesla also lowered the cash in keeps on hand for warranties from $2,913 per car in Q2 to $2,249 per car in Q3, according to UBS. 

The company reported a 103% jump in receivables for the quarter, and mentioned this little ditty which shows you a little bit about how that happens (from the quarterly report):

As of September 30, 2018, one entity represented 10% or more of our total accounts receivable balance. As of December 31, 2017, no entity represented 10% of our total accounts receivable balance.

A Tesla spokesperson said that the quarter ended on a Sunday and said that entity is one of Tesla's partner banks which had issued a large receivable to Tesla for customer loans for cars delivered over the weekend. That cash was then distributed during the first few days of Q4. 

And one more head scratcher. Tesla reclassified $72.8 million of finished goods inventory as property, plant and equipment (PP&E).  They reasoned this saying it was a "decision to utilize some of our fleet cars as service loaners on a long-term basis."

One investor pointed out to Busines Insider that if you add that $72.8 million back to finished goods inventory, Tesla's Q3 finished goods would be $8 million higher than its Q2 finished goods inventory. In Q2 finished goods hit about $1.72 billion, in Q3 (with the add back) it's about $1.73 billion.

This is odd because Tesla delivered more cars than it produced in the Q3, so the number of finished goods on its books should decline compared to the quarter before.

Is enough enough?

All of these questions are about the past — about what happened in Q3 — but Tesla's balance sheet also leaves questions about its future. The company said that it expects capital expenditures to come in just under $2.5 billion in 2018 and between $2.5 billion to $3.0 billion annually for 2019 and 2020.

"Capital expenditures in the fourth quarter of 2018 are expected to support increases in Model 3 production capacity at Gigafactory 1 and the Tesla Factory, and for building additional stores, service centers and Superchargers, as well as the cost to acquire land use rights and our initial design and other expenditures for our planned Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai. We expect total 2018 capital expenditures to be slightly below $2.5 billion."

And of course, there are all the new models Tesla wants to build mentioned above.

These are pretty ambitious plans for relatively flat capital expenditures, especially while Panasonic, the company that makes Tesla's batteries, told investors on its Q3 call that it's seeing major US tariff risks ahead that could jack up prices. Tesla has $3 billion in cash, but it also has $3.5 billion in accounts payable.

In other words, to invest heavily in its expansion, Tesla still needs to generate even more cash than it has. The company says its cash levels should remain pretty flat over the next year or two though. 

And of course, there's the $920 million debt payment it needs to make in March.

This doesn't have to stop Tesla by any means. Musk can go raise some money from investors, but he's said repeatedly that he won't do that.

Which brings us to another, final question: Why not?

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• "Track Mode" is a software update to the Tesla Model 3 Performance that enables spirited, unstable driving of the sort that enthusiasts crave.
• Tesla released the update on Thursday.
• Motor Trend sampled the tech — and pro driver Randy Pobst lent a hand in its development.

Teslas are so fast in a straight line that they've gained some credibility in the drag-racing world. Until recently, however, they haven't been noted for around-corners race-track performance.

The company was aware of this and so for the Model 3 sedan, it developed a new feature called "Track Mode." I first heard about when I tested out a Performance version of the Model 3 earlier this year, but it wasn't yet ready for prime time.

Now it is. "With Track Mode, which is designed specifically for use on closed autocross circuits and racetracks, our goal was simple: use that same motor power and torque to make cornering on the track feel just as natural as forward acceleration,"Tesla said on its website.

After considerable testing and tweaking — including enlisting tame race-car driver and Motor Trend throttle jockey Randy Pobst — Tesla has released Track Mode into the wild. Tesla celebrated the achievement with a very informative blog post about the bonkers performance boost that managed to make it all seem like a completely arid engineering experiment. Sample: "By precisely controlling whether torque goes to the front or the rear wheels, Model 3’s dual motors can immediately and silently increase or decrease the car’s rotation in a corner at your request."

Luckily, the wordsmiths at Motor Trend crashed the party at Willow Springs, a track near Los Angeles. Their stylings were more in line with what enthusiasts might appreciate.

With Pobst's input, the Track Mode-equipped Model 3 was a stunner, posting a 1:21.49 lap time. That "snips a lifetime-like 1.29 seconds from Randy's recent lap in the Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio," Motor Trend wrote.

"The new time essentially matches a 2016 Porsche Cayman GT4 and even beats a former Best Driver's Car winner, the 2011 Ferrari 458 Italia (1:22.30). Until the new BMW M3 shows up, that perches the Model 3 atop the podium as the world's quickest sport sedan—at least around this track."

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In a nutshell, Track Mode in a dual-motor Tesla destabilizes an otherwise very stable machine, while also adding cooling to the powertrain, which needs it to avoid overheating. While you would expect a combination of two motors, antilock braking, and traction/stability control to keep a Performance Model 3 more or less glued to the tarmac under spirited piloting, Track Mode sends the nanny home. 

The result, to my eye (Tesla and Motor Trend each posted videos), is a Model 3 that wants to dart into corners, nail the apex and power out with some juicy oversteer, as power is vectored to the rear wheels. Fun stuff! As you can see from the screen grabs in this post, nice, juicy plumes of incinerated Michelin Pilot Sport 2 tires can now be conjured, a la "Top Gear."

Can't wait to strap on my helmet and take a crack at "simultaneously [applied] brake and motor torque to produce a net increase in tractive force while cornering."

I'm kidding, Elon. Track Mode sounds brilliant and is just what a lot of Tesla owners have been asking for.

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• Stocks closed lower Thursday after the Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged. 
• West Texas Intermediate, the US oil benchmark, tumbled into a bear market.
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Stocks fell Thursday as disappointing earnings weighed on technology companies and after the Federal Reserve left its key rate unchanged and signaled it was still on track for one more hike this year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average was mostly flat, and the S&P 500 was down 0.25%. The Nasdaq Composite lost 0.53%. The three major US indices had rallied a day before on the back of the midterm elections, where Democrats took control of the House and Republicans extended their majority in the Senate.

The dollar climbed 0.4% against a basket of currencies after the Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate steady at 2.25% and signaled its fourth rate increase of the year could come in December. Treasury yields were also higher, with the 10-year up 1.9 basis points to 3.232%.

Ian Shepherdson, the chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, said he was slightly surprised the Fed didn’t mention the drop in stocks. But he added that the rally over the past week meant the net impact on financial conditions since the stock market’s peak in early October had been relatively small.

“Assuming that remains the case, a rate hike next month is a done deal, but what we really want to see is how the Fed’s thinking evolves over the first few months of next year if the labor market continues to tighten and wage growth picks up, as we expect,” he said.

In the latest sign of a booming job market, the Labor Department said unemployment claims remained near four-and-a-half decade lows last week, dropping by a thousand to a seasonally adjusted 214,000.

Earnings season continued, with Square beating on the top and bottom lines but falling short on guidance. While Roku earnings topped expectations, the company reported slower growth in the third quarter. Disney was scheduled to report after the bell Thursday.

Oil prices sank more than 1% as rising inventories overshadowed energy sanctions against Iran that took effect this week. West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, settled in bear-market territory — down 20% from its October high— trading just above $60 a barrel at session lows. Adding to concerns, the Wall Street Journal reported a state-run think tank in Saudi Arabia is studying what an OPEC breakup would mean for the oil market.

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• Late last month, two sets of bones were found beneath the flooring in the Vatican's embassy to Italy in Rome.
• The Italian media immediately reported that the bones were being investigated to determine whether they belong to either Emanuela Orlandi or Mirella Gregori, two local teens who disappeared in 1983.
• Police have since dated the remains and believe that one set belongs to a woman in her 30s, and the other to an older person.
• Meanwhile, more bones have been found at the embassy.

The discovery of bones, hidden beneath the flooring of the Vatican's embassy to Italy late last month, has only grown more mysterious.

When news broke of the discovery last week, Italian media started reporting that the two sets of remains were being investigated in connection to the disappearances of Emanuela Orlandi and Mirella Gregori, teens who disappeared within days of each other in 1983.

Orlandi's case was more high profile, as she was the daughter of a Vatican employee. She was last seen by friends getting on a bus on her way back home from a music lesson in Rome in June 1983.

Gregori disappeared a month earlier, after telling her family she was going out to meet a friend.

Coroner Giovanni Arcudi told Italian wire service ANSA that a preliminary examination of the bones shows one of the sets of remains appear to belong to a woman in her 30s and "not an adolescent." The other set of bones were older, but it's not known how much older.

The Associated Press reports that the age of the bones has only fueled speculation that Orlandi was held captive for years before being killed.

Orlandi's disappearance has captivated Italy, much in the way that JonBenét Ramsey's murder has in America.

Over the years, several theories have sprung up in the media about why she went missing, including that she was killed in a satantic sex orgy or that she was still alive and the Catholic church was taking care of her in London.

Read more:Here's everything we know about the 1983 disappearance of 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi

The most serious theory surfaced in 2008 when the former lover of an Italian gangster said that her late boyfriend had organized Orlandi's kidnapping. That gangster's tomb at a Roman basilica was later exhumed to see if Orlandi's remains were buried with him, but that search went nowhere.

Meanwhile, police were sent back to the Vatican embassy (also called the Nunciature) this week and they found more bones, though more details on the third set of bones have not been released.

ANSA reports that, according to two sources, workers at the Nunciature actually found the first two sets of remains on October 26, and not October 29 as previously reported.

Apparently the decision to call the police was put off until Vatican officials could return to Rome to deal with the situation.

If true, it doesn't reflect well on the Vatican, which has often been accused of having a hand in Orlandi's disappearance. Orlandi's brother Pietro has said on previous occasions that he believes Pope Francis knows what happened to his sister.

A lawyer for the family said they are still waiting on DNA results on the remains.

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• Smirnoff recently released four booze-filled glass ornaments.
• The limited edition ornaments contain the brand’s signature No. 21 vodka.
• They baubles hold 750 mL and cost about $12.99 each, depending on location. 

Smirnoff is officially getting into the holiday spirit with their latest release— oversized decorative ornaments that are filled with booze.

The alcohol brand recently unveiled four limited-edition glass ornaments that are filled with their 80-proof No.21 vodka. One of the brand’s popular choices, the No. 21 vodka is gluten-free, triple distilled, and non-GMO.

These colorful baubles can make for a unique gift or a great addition to any holiday party. Some designs include colorful holiday lights, snowy mountainscapes, and multicolored festive trees. 

Each bauble has a unique design and saying, like "Don't get lit, drink responsibly,""#BestGiftEver," and "Mix & Mingle." Each ornament comes in a 750 mL size. They cost about $12.99 each, but prices may vary depending on your location.

These specialty Smirnoff ornaments are only available until the end of the holiday season and can be found in select locations where Smirnoff is sold. And if you can't find these festive ornaments, you can still enjoy other festive drinks— Smirnoff is also bringing back their limited edition Peppermint Twist vodka for the holidays.

As always, remember to drink responsibly when enjoying these festive drinks.

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• Starbucks is currently offering six holiday drinks: the Peppermint Mocha, the Toasted White Chocolate Mocha, the Gingerbread Latte, the Eggnog Latte, the Chestnut Praline Latte, and the Caramel Brulée Latte.
• I tried them all.
• While they're all sweet enough to please even the biggest sugar enthusiast, the winner was one of the least sweet drinks, and an underdog: the Chestnut Praline Latte.

In the US at least, the second the clock strikes midnight on November 1, people toss their Halloween garb in the closet for another year and bring out the tinsel and Christmas music. For better or worse, it's officially the holiday season.

This means that it is also time for Starbucks' famous holiday drink menu. Not surprisingly, it's filled with holiday staples like eggnog, peppermint, and gingerbread. In fact, it features six holiday drinks this year: the Peppermint Mocha, the Toasted White Chocolate Mocha, the Gingerbread Latte, the Eggnog Latte, the Chestnut Praline Latte, and the Caramel Brulée Latte.

Here at INSIDER, we love a taste test, so we decided to put all of these drinks to the test. 

Each one cost $5.45 for a grande (medium) size, with a range of caloric values. Read on to see what we thought.

Every year, just moments after the wafts of pumpkin spice have disappeared from the air, Starbucks announces their holiday drink lineup, along with their special holiday cups.

As usual, the cups were the cause of some backlash and controversy.

This year's holiday lineup, which hit stores November 1, consists of the Peppermint Mocha, Toasted White Chocolate Mocha, Caramel Brulée Latte, Chestnut Praline Latte, Gingerbread Latte and Eggnog Latte.

First up, I tried the Peppermint Mocha, a Starbucks staple. It returned in 2018 for its 16th season.

Peppermint Mochas are a fan-favorite. We know this because it has been imitated by other big coffee chains, like Dunkin' Donuts.

It is also a holiday classic, made with espresso, steamed milk, mocha sauce, and peppermint-flavored syrup. It's topped with whipped cream and "dark chocolate curls."

It contains 440 calories in a grande size.

Sadly, the "dark chocolate curls" were missing from my drink, but overall, it was a pretty solid choice — if you like peppermint, that is.

Don't expect subtlety in this drink — the peppermint flavor is very pronounced. I could barely taste the mocha in this drink, and the coffee might as well have been non-existent.

However, few flavors conjure the holidays and winter as well as peppermint does. So if you're looking for a drink to sip on while blasting "All I Want for Christmas Is You," this is your best bet.

The sequel to 2016's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" hits theaters on Friday, November 16. The film will see the return of characters from the first movie, including Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), Jacob Kowalski (Dan Fogelman), Tina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston), Queenie Goldstein (Alison Sudol), and Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller). 

"Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" also introduces a host of new stars, some whose characters have already been referenced in the "Harry Potter" world (like Claudia Kim's Nagini and Johnny Depp's Gellert Grindelwald) and others that are clouded in mystery for the most part.

Here's a handy guide to the stars of "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" and who they're playing. 

Eddie Redmayne stars as magizoologist and author Newt Scamander.

In "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald," Newt will travel to France and London. Details are sparse, but in the trailer, young Dumbledore is seen telling Newt about a safe house in Paris, "should things at some point go terribly wrong."

Katherine Waterston plays Tina Goldstein, a half-blood witch.

In the sequel, she is reinstated as an Auror for the Magical Congress of the United States of America (MACUSA).

Non-magical character Jacob Kowalski is played by actor and director Dan Fogler.

Jacob had his memory wiped after being exposed to magic in the first movie. 

It's a little bit comical to see a member of the royal family out of context in the "real world." But when they're not waving to crowds on walkabouts or participating in formal ceremonies, royals are just like us.

In honor of Prince Charles' 70th birthday, here are 21 amusing photos of him doing commoner things.

He rides bikes.

Prince Charles rode an eco-bike at a preview of an exhibit at Clarence House in 2011.

He goes skiing.

Prince Charles went skiing in the Swiss village of Klosters in 2004.

And wears warm hats on the slopes.

The pom pom was a nice touch.

• JD.com CEO Liu Qiangdong was briefly detained in Minneapolis, Minnesota, over a rape allegation in August.
• Since then, he has been absent from several high-profile events in China.
• Liu didn't show up to the World Internet Conference on Wednesday.
• JD.com shares fell almost 7%.
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JD.com, the second largest Chinese e-commerce site after Alibaba, fell nearly 7% Thursday after CEO Liu Qiangdong, who is the subject of a rape investigation in the US, didn't show up at a major state-sponsored internet conference in China. 

Liu was absent from the World Internet Conference, which opened Wednesday in Wuzhen, China. In recent years, the event had been a gathering of Chinese IT leaders, such as the founders and CEOs of Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and JD.com. This year, Chinese President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter that was read at the event opening.

It was not the first time Liu was a no-show at a high-profile event since he was briefly detained over a rape allegation in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August. Last month, Liu was not among the top business leaders invited to meet with Xi at a symposium. In late September, Liu also didn't appear at the AI World 2018 conference in Shanghai.

Liu, a Chinese billionaire, was arrested when he was participating in a business management course at the University of Minnesota. He was released without bail requirement. The allegation against Liu claims that he forced himself on a student after a night of heavy drinking, and raped the student without her consent. Liu, through his attorney, has denied any wrongdoing. 

Liu's net worth sank has plunged 34% this year to $6.2 billion, as JD.com shares have fallen sharply since peaking in January. Liu fell from the 16th place to 30th on Forbes' recently published list of China's richest people.

JD.com was down 48% this year through Thursday.

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• Cody Coffman was one of 12 people killed when a shooter opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks on Wednesday night.
• Coffman's father, Jason Coffman, said on Thursday that his son hadn't come home from the bar and he spent much of his morning visiting hospitals in search of him.
• He broke down in tears as he confirmed that his son was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting.

The father of a 22-year-old man who was killed in the Thousand Oaks shooting on Wednesday night broke down in tears as he told the media his son was dead.

Cody Coffman was one of 12 people killed when a shooter identified by police as 28-year-old Ian David Long opened fire at the Borderline Bar & Grill in the Los Angeles suburb of Thousand Oaks on Wednesday.

Coffman's father, Jason Coffman, told a press conference on Thursday that his son hadn't come home from the bar and he spent much of his morning visiting hospitals looking for him. 

Jason Coffman broke down in tears as he confirmed to the press that his son was pronounced dead at the scene of the shooting.

"I just want him to know that he is going to be missed," Jason Coffman said as he stood next to his father-in-law. "I cannot believe that it's happened to my family … I am speechless and heartbroken."

Read more:These are the victims who died in the Thousand Oaks bar shooting

He said he spoke to his son just before he headed to the bar for the night.

"The first thing I said was, 'Please don't drink and drive.' The last thing I said was, 'Son, I love you,'" Jason Coffman said of his oldest son.

He added: "I just want him to know that he is going to be missed…. Son, I love you so much."

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• Hydration is a major key to a healthy body.
• Humans do get some of their daily fluids from foods that have high water contents.
• While cucumbers and watermelon may seem obvious, there are some surprising foods that can help you rehydrate, such as yogurt or spinach.

Dehydration can have many negative effects on your health. Drinking water is important for hydration, although some of our daily water intake comes from our diet.

Many fruits and vegetables have a high water content, making the produce section a great place to stock up on hydrating foods at the market.

According to Healthline, some dairy products can also be hydrating, as well as soups and broths.

Whether you're trying to get some extra hydration or you don't like drinking your water, it's beneficial to incorporate hydrating foods into your diet, according to Harvard Medical School.

Here are 14 foods to eat when you're feeling dehydrated.

Watermelon is juicy and hydrating.

Watermelon may seem like an obvious choice for a hydrating food due to its name. The pink fruit is made up of about 92% water, and is very low in calories.

Watermelon is not only delicious, but also a water-rich food that can help you stay hydrated, improve heart health, and reduce inflammation.

Cucumbers are water based.

At 95% water, cucumbers are a great way to get hydration from your food. In addition to their high water content, they also contain many vitamins and minerals.

Cucumbers not only promote hydration, but they also can help with weight loss, as well as promote regular bowel movements.

Celery has a high water content.

Well-known as a water heavy vegetable, celery is made up of 95% water. Since the water content is so high, and celery has very little calories, it is known to aid in weight loss.

Celery is a hydrating food that may also reduce inflammation and promote water retention, while still acting as a satisfying snack.

• The Dallas Cowboys have struggled through the first half of the 2018-19 NFL season.
• The Cowboys have a 3-5 record on the season and rank 29th in net total yards despite boasting offensive weapons such as quarterback Dak Prescott, running back Ezekiel Elliot, and newly-acquired wide receiver Amari Cooper.
• After Dallas' latest loss to the Tennessee Titans, seven-year-old Cowboys superfan Rylan Wood wrote a brutal letter to long-time franchise owner Jerry Jones to complain about the team's woeful season.
• The second-grader managed to say what every Dallas fan is thinking at this point in the season.

The Dallas Cowboys look much closer to America's worst team than to America's team at this point in the 2018-19 season.

It's still early, but Dallas looks primed to miss its second-straight playoffs. The Cowboys have a 3-5 record on the season and rank 29th in net total yards despite boasting offensive weapons such as quarterback Dak Prescott, running back Ezekiel Elliot, and newly-acquired wide receiver Amari Cooper. In their most recent loss, the Cowboys jumped out to an early lead on the Tennessee Titans but went completely cold in the second half to lose by 14.

Seven-year-old superfan Rylan Wood stayed up as late as he could to watch the Monday Night Football game, but he had to go to bed so he could wake up for second grade the following morning. When he woke up and learned that Dallas had lost the game, Wood was so fed up with his team's efforts that he decided to pen a brutal letter to long-time owner Jerry Jones.

"He told me, 'If the Cowboys lose, I really want to write a letter,'" Wood's mother, Kayla Jimenez, told USA Today's Matt Howerton. "He told me that he wanted to write a letter to Jerry Jones."

And so he did. Wood came home from school and began scrawling a frustrated message on behalf of Cowboys fans everywhere. When Wood announced he had completed the letter, Jimenez posted the finished product to her Facebook page before sending it off in the mail.

"Dear Mr. Jones,

My name is Rylan Wood. I am a 7-year-old 2nd grade student in Mansfield, Texas. My family has been Dallas Cowboys fans since the team was started. I have a lot of Cowboy gear and I have met ‘Zeke, Taco, Jason Witten and two other players who play on other teams. 

You have made my mom very mad because WE SUCK! Every game day she is yelling at the TV and turns off the game. We are wanting to believe in the boy but its hard. I hope 'Coach Garrett' is clapping if this letter gets to you. See what happens when Dez X is gone?? The cheerleaders are better than the team this year. I do not want to hurt your feelings.

Thank you,

Rylan"

Like Wood, fans have increasingly criticized Jason Garrett and called on Jones to part ways with his nine-year head coach. Throughout the season, Garrett has come under fire for cautious playcalling that has cost the Cowboys games on numerous occasions. Perhaps trading a future first-round draft pick for Amari Cooper was meant to spark the team heading into the second half of the season, but Dallas has still fallen flat even him on the field.

 "He's saying what everyone is thinking," Jimenez said. "I laughed and laughed before I posted it."

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Tax season is right around the corner.

If you don't file and pay your taxes, the things that could happen to you may cause far more than a headache.

Julius Green, tax partner and leader of Baker Tilly's tax practice in the Philadelphia region, explained to Business Insider the potential consequences of letting the deadline come and go without filing.

Granted, you aren't guaranteed to suffer these consequences, and everyone's tax situation is different, but here are a dozen terrible things that could happen if you don't do your taxes.

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Pay a penalty fee

There are two kinds of "not doing" your taxes — failing to file and failing to pay. "If you fail to file, you get hit with a penalty of 5% of the tax owed, up to five months out, with a minimum penalty of $135, or as much as 100% of the tax owed — whichever is less," Green says. If you don't pay, he continues, you're typically charged a penalty, plus you'll have to …

Pay interest

"Statutorily, the IRS can't waive interest," explains Green. "They want the time value of the money you owe them." If you fail to pay, you may be paying a penalty plus interest, which is usually determined by the federal short-term rate (anywhere from 1%-4%), plus 3%, for a total of 4%-6%.

Get notices from the IRS

It's probably fair to assume that no one wants mail from the IRS. But if you don't file or don't pay, that's exactly what could happen. "The IRS gives you multiple opportunities to get it right," says Green. "They have to send you a notice before taking any action, and usually they need a response in 30-60 days. But many people in this situation know it's coming, so they panic when they get their notice and shove it in a drawer to deal with when they have the money."

But here's the thing: Whether you have the money or not, if you don't reach out to the IRS upon receiving a notice, they could start taking action. What kind of action? Well, they can make you …

• Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade announced the birth of their first child via surrogate on Thursday.
• Union had previously discussed her struggles with infertility, but the couple had not disclosed that they were expecting a baby.
• "We are sleepless and delirious but so excited to share that our miracle baby arrived last night via surrogate and 11/7 will forever be etched in our hearts as the most loveliest of all the lovely days," Union wrote on Twitter.

On Thursday, Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade announced the birth of their first child after enlisting the help of a surrogate.

"We are sleepless and delirious but so excited to share that our miracle baby arrived last night via surrogate and 11/7 will forever be etched in our hearts as the most loveliest of all the lovely days," both Union and Wade shared on Twitter, along with multiple photos from the hospital. "Welcome to the party sweet girl!"

Union revealed last year in her memoir, "We're Going to Need More Wine," that the couple's journey towards parenthood has been fraught with pain and complications.

"I have had eight or nine miscarriages," Union wrote. "For three years, my body has been a prisoner of trying to get pregnant — I've either been about to go into an IVF cycle, in the middle of an IVF cycle, or coming out of an IVF cycle."

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More recently, Union revealed that she has adenomyosis, which can cause an enlarged uterus, and heavy, painful periods. While many, including Union, had been quick to blame her age or career, Union said, she "finally got some answers" with the diagnosis.

"Everyone said, 'You're a career woman, you've prioritized your career, you waited too long and now you're just too old to have a kid — and that's on you for wanting a career,'" Union said while speaking at the BlogHer conference on August 8.

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• Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney general, does not plan to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. 
• Whitaker would also reportedly block Mueller from issuing a subpoena for President Donald Trump to testify in the Mueller probe. 

• Whitaker, a former US attorney from the Southern District of Iowa, is viewed by many as a staunch Trump loyalist, and appears to share the White House's criticisms of Mueller and the Russia investigation.

Matthew Whitaker, the new acting attorney general, reportedly does not plan to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation and would not approve a request from Special Counsel Robert Mueller to subpoena President Donald Trump for an interview.

According to The Washington Post, ethics officials at the Department of Justice (DOJ) will likely examine Whitaker’s past work and commentary to gauge whether he has any financial or personal conflicts that could interfere with his oversight of the Russia probe. Based on their review, ethics officials would make a recommendation, but Whitaker would not be legally required to follow it.

Whitaker, a former US attorney from the Southern District of Iowa, is viewed by many as a staunch Trump loyalist.

The New York Times reported in September that the White House chief of staff, John Kelly, once described Whitaker as the West Wing's "eyes and ears" in the DOJ, which is investigating whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to tilt the 2016 election in his favor.

Whitaker appears to share the White House's skepticism of Mueller and the Russia investigation. Shortly before he was hired as Sessions' chief of staff last year, Whitaker wrote in an op-ed article for CNN that Mueller had "come up to a red line in the Russia 2016 election-meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing."

Whitaker added that his concerns stemmed from reports that the special counsel was investigating the Trump Organization's financial records. Mueller's scrutiny of Trump's finances "falls completely outside of the realm" of his appointment, Whitaker wrote.

But in a letter outlining the scope of Mueller's appointment last year, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein gave Mueller broad authority to not only investigate "any links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated" with Trump's campaign, but examine "any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation."

Rosenstein also gave Mueller the power to investigate "any other matters within the scope" of the law outlining a special counsel's jurisdiction, including perjury, obstruction of justice, destruction of evidence, and intimidation of witnesses.

Subpoena wars

Meanwhile, where a presidential subpoena is concerned, if Whitaker were to reject Mueller's request for one, it could dramatically alter his ability to get to the bottom of several investigative threads surrounding Trump.

Mueller's team has been wrangling with Trump's lawyers for almost a year over the terms of a presidential interview. Trump's lawyers have repeatedly blocked Mueller's requests, but the two sides agreed to a first round of questions to which Trump's lawyers would provide written answers to inquiries about collusion, but not about obstruction of justice. Mueller agreed but reportedly insisted on getting a chance to ask the president follow-ups as well.

On Wednesday, CNN reported that as Trump was preparing to replace Sessions with Whitaker, the president had already begun reviewing the answers his lawyers had put together to send back to the special counsel.

It's unclear whether Mueller will accept the answers as is without pressing for an in-person interview. Trump's lead defense lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, told INSIDER in August that if Mueller subpoenas Trump, his lawyers would "would move to quash the subpoena." He added at the time that they were "pretty much finished with our memorandum opposing a subpoena."

A presidential subpoena would likely kick off a lengthy constitutional battle that would go all the way to the Supreme Court.

Current DOJ policy states that a sitting president cannot be indicted. Trump's lawyers have argued that if he cannot be indicted, he also cannot be subpoenaed.

DOJ veterans and Mueller's former associates have described him as a by-the-books prosecutor, adding that he is unlikely to go against DOJ guidelines on the issue of indictment.

But the move may not be completely off the table.

In May, The Washington Post reported that during a negotiation in March, Mueller threatened to subpoena Trump to testify before a grand jury if he did not agree to a voluntary interview.

Three previous US presidents have been subpoenaed. Roland Riopelle, a former federal prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, told INSIDER in September that based on past legal precedent, he believes that if Trump "gets subpoenaed ... the court will issue an order for him to appear before the grand jury."

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Actress Gabrielle started dating basketball player Dwyane Wade in 2009, and they recently celebrated their four-year wedding anniversary and welcomed their first baby girl to the family. 

Here is a look at Union and Wade's relationship timeline.

February 2007: The couple met for the first time.

Union and Wade first met while co-hosting a sponsored Super Bowl party. At the time, Wade was still married to Siohvaughn Funches. 

Just a year earlier in 2006, Gabrielle Union and her then-husband Chris Howard got divorced after being married for five years.

Wade would file for divorce from Funches later that year.

July 2009: Union and Wade were spotted together for the first time.

Co-hosting a charity dinner, The Summer Groove, Wade brought Union as his guest to the event. The rumors that the two were dating began to swirl.

May 2010: Funches sued Union.

Although Wade and Funches had been separated since 2007, their divorce was still ongoing in 2010.

In May, after Wade filed for sole custody of his two children, Funches filed a lawsuit against Union for "emotional distress."The case would later be dismissed by the courts.

• The special counsel Robert Mueller has reportedly begun compiling a final report of his findings in the Russia investigation.
• The news raised questions from legal experts who wondered whether Mueller had moved up his timetable following President Donald Trump's decision to replace former Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Matthew Whitaker, a Trump loyalist who has publicly castigated Mueller and the investigation.
• Whitaker reportedly will not recuse himself from the Russia probe or approve any request from Mueller to subpoena Trump.
• Whitaker also has final say on whether Mueller's report sees the light of day.
• The myriad questions surrounding Whitaker's independence prompted Department of Justice veterans and constitutional law experts to argue that Mueller has grounds to challenge Whitaker's appointment if he overrules a decision by Mueller.

The special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has begun writing a final report on its investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, CNN reported.

In addition to probing Russia’s election meddling, Mueller is also examining whether members of President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow and whether Trump sought to obstruct justice after he learned of the investigation’s existence last year.

News of Mueller’s team working up a final report is not entirely unexpected. There’s long been speculation that the special counsel was holding off on making any big moves until after the midterm elections, because of DOJ guidelines barring investigators from taking any overt actions that could be seen as influencing the outcome of an election.

Still, the news raised questions among some legal experts, who wondered whether the special counsel had moved up his timetable following Trump’s decision to oust Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday. The president replaced the long-embattled Sessions with former US attorney Matthew Whitaker, a hardline loyalist who has publicly railed against Mueller and the Russia probe.

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Whitaker has reportedly been described as the West Wing's "eyes and ears" in the DOJ. He also said in a CNN op-ed last year that Mueller had overstepped his mandate by digging into the Trump Organization's finances. And The Daily Beast has reported the new acting attorney general made the rounds in right-wing media over the past two years claiming there was "no collusion" between the Trump campaign and Russian interests.

On Thursday, The Washington Post reported that Whitaker has no plans to recuse himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, despite his history of making antagonistic remarks about the special counsel.

Whitaker's appointment comes as Trump's lawyers are putting the finishing touches on their written answers to a first round of questions from Mueller about potential collusion. They are refusing to answer questions about obstruction of justice, and Mueller reportedly insisted on getting a chance to ask the president follow-ups as well.

On Thursday, CNN reported that as Trump was preparing to replace Sessions with Whitaker, the president had already begun reviewing the answers his lawyers had put together to send back to the special counsel.

It's unclear whether Mueller will accept the answers as is without pressing for an in-person interview.

If the special counsel wants to subpoena the president, he would need to get permission to do so from Whitaker. The Post reported that Whitaker would reject such a request.

As the person in charge of the investigation, Whitaker will also have final say on whether or not to make Mueller's report public.

The myriad questions surrounding Whitaker's independence prompted DOJ veterans and constitutional law experts to lay the groundwork for a legal argument saying Mueller could challenge Whitaker's appointment if he overruled a decision by Mueller.

Attorneys Neal Katyal and George Conway wrote in a New York Times op-ed that because a "principal officer" of the US must be confirmed by the Senate, "President Trump's installation of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general of the United States after forcing the resignation of [former Attorney General] Jeff Sessions is unconstitutional. It's illegal. And it means that anything Mr. Whitaker does, or tries to do, in that position is invalid."

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• Bombardier announced a major overhaul of its business on Thursday that includes the sale of more than $900 million in assets and the loss of 5,000 jobs as part of its third-quarter earnings report.
• The company sold its Q Series turboprop airliner business to Viking Air for $300 million and its business aircraft flight and technical training business to CAE for $645 million.
• The deals are expected to net the company $900 million. 
• The company will also lay off 5,000 employees over the next 12 to 18 months. 

Canadian industrial giant Bombardier announced a major overhaul of its business on Thursday that includes the sale of $900 million in assets and the loss of 5,000 jobs as part of its third-quarter earnings report.

The company looks to be retrenching its resources to its rail transportation and business aviation activities. In fact, Bombardier announced that it is moving engineering talent to its business jet division. Bombardier CTO Francois Caza will also lead a new Advanced Technology Office, or ATO, that will apply aviation technology to its train business.  

The Montreal-based firm has also agreed to sell its Q Series turbo-prop airliner program along with the de Havilland trademark to fellow Canadian aircraft manufacturer Viking Air for $300 million. 

The company also sold its business aircraft flight and technical training business to another Canadian firm, CAE, for $645 million. According to Bombardier, the sale of these two assets will net the company $900 million. 

The sale of the Q Series program comes one year after Bombardier effectively gave away its prized C Series airliner program to Airbus. That aircraft has since been renamed the Airbus A220. 

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"With our heavy investment cycle now completed, we continue to make solid progress executing our turnaround plan," Bombardier Inc. President and CEO Alain Bellemare said in a statement. "With today's announcements, we have set in motion the next round of actions necessary to unleash the full potential of the Bombardier portfolio."

Bombardier will also lay off 5,000 employees from across its various divisions. The layoffs are expected to take place over the next 12 to 18 months and are expected to save Bombardier $250 million by 2021. 

Despite the layoffs and sale of assets, Bombardier saw earnings jump 48% over the same period last year with a profit of $271 million on $3.6 billion in revenues during the third quarter of 2018. 

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• Amedisys CEO Paul Kusserow runs a business that provides home care and hospice care, mainly for elderly people in the US.
• As the US population starts to age, he's traveled to other countries — including Japan as well as countries in Scandinavia — to see how they've tackled the challenges associated with keeping elderly people out of the hospital and in their homes.
• The solutions he saw relied on technology such as sensors that would notify health professionals in the case of an incident, rather than on in-person visits.

Paul Kusserow had to see it for himself.

Kusserow's the CEO of Amedisys, a $3.7 billion company that's in the home health, hospice and personal care businesses in the US. Amedisys has a front row seat for the challenges of an aging population in the US.

Elsewhere in the world — particularly in Scandinavia and Japan— countries have already started to experience a big shift into an aging population. In Japan, more than a quarter of the country's population is over 65, making it the world's oldest country. Some economists refer to the situation Japan is facing as a "demographic time bomb."

For comparison, 20% of Sweden's population is over 65, and as of 2015, about 15% of the US population was over 65. 

"They're living with what we're going to hit in 10, 20 years," Kusserow said. So to figure out what the US could do to keep itself from being over-extended, Kusserow headed to those countries to see how those countries are managing to take care of the elderly.

As a whole, the elder care market is worth an estimated $350 billion, and home health, hospice and personal care are all in their own right multi-billion-dollar businesses. The field is pretty fragmented: There are an estimated 2.5 million home care workers out there, and about 12,400 home health agencies managing them all.

Amedisys is a relative giant in a field made up of lots of tiny companies. Since the beginning of the year, Amedisys's stock is up 117%, giving the company a market value of $3.7 billion. The company has 18,400 workers and cares for 369,000 people. 

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Home care is growing as the US gets older. The idea is that having help at home, which can range from cooking and cleaning to bathing and medical care, can let elderly people stay independent for longer, and hopefully out of the hospital or nursing homes.

The problem is that as the number of elderly people increases, there's a risk of a shortage of home-care workers. The work itself tends to be difficult and poorly paid, too.

One solution is a change in the way at-home care is delivered.

That's something countries like Japan and those in Scandinavia are figuring out through the help of technology, Kusserow said. 

"What they're utilizing is really good technology," he said. 

Here's how that works: Say there's a relatively healthy 80-year-old living in Sweden who can still get around on her own. Using sensors — such as a watch with an accelerometer, a smart bathroom mat, or sensors around the kitchen — caregivers can remotely monitor her activity. Should she fall or stop going about her daily routine, those caregivers are alerted and can intervene to help her out. 

"They build that pattern analysis. When that's disrupted, caregivers go in," Kusserow said. 

That way, the 80-year-old can keep living in her home instead of a nursing home or other kind of facility, making care much less expensive. 

While the US is using sensor technology for seniors, Kusserow said he hasn't seen it used effectively yet. That might start to change in the coming years as the US starts to experience what countries like Japan have seen. 

Other big players in retail and technology have had their eyes on the aging population as well. In August, Best Buy bought health services company GreatCall for $800 million. The company makes cell phones and connected devices that can alert emergency services for seniors. 

Amazon and Walmart both seem to have an interest in the space, with Amazon's move into the pharmacy business with its acquisition of PillPack, and Walmart's partnerships with a health insurer focused on Medicare health insurance plans for the elderly..

Amazon hasn't said much about its healthcare ambitions, but what it has talked about publicly has to do with the aging population. In February, Babak Parviz, a vice president at Amazon, said that the elderly population was something "we deeply care about."

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