Fiorina gave an embroidered account of how Hewlett and Packard sold their first invention, an audio oscillator, to Walt Disney Studios for the soundtrack of “Fantasia,” a story that most HP employees know by heart.

In Fiorina’s telling, Whitworth said, Walt Disney invited two unknown Palo Alto engineers to Los Angeles to discuss making a machine for the movie soundtrack he had in his head. It was pure fiction.

“Walt did not get on the phone and ask Bill and Dave to come down,” Whitworth said. (Actually, as Packard recounted in his 1995 memoir, “The HP Way,” Disney’s chief sound engineer found the device at a technical conference in Portland.)

Whitworth asked Fiorina’s speech writer where the story came from. “He said, ‘I don’t know.’”

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-ra-carly-fiorina-trashed-the-hp-way-20150923-column.html

Man dressed as Rick James robs Indiana bank



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Bank robbers typically conceal their faces with masks or a pair of panty hose, but this may be one of the most creative disguises police have seen.

A man dressed like legendary musician Rick James robbed a bank in Indianapolis on Saturday, Sept. 19, according to a statement from the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department. The man was accompanied by an accomplice who dressed like Youngblood Priest from the classic 70s movie Super Fly.

Police said the pair entered the Indiana Members Credit Union around noon on Saturday, and demanded money.

The duo was armed and fled with an "undisclosed" amount of cash. The suspects both wore dark sunglasses, and the man dressed after the late Rick James was "5 feet 8 inches to 5 feet 10 inches," according to the statement.

Carly Fiorina's presidential campaign took her to an exam room at a crisis pregnancy center in South Carolina Thursday. She crammed in, along with a pregnant woman, an OBGYN doctor, and a crowd of reporters.

The visit came as the former Hewlett-Packard CEO has doubled down on her opposition to Planned Parenthood. She visited the Carolina Pregnancy Center in Spartanburg, a Christian-run organization that's becoming a popular campaign stop for presidential candidates opposed to abortion — she's at least the fifth GOP candidate to visit the center this year.

One client, Lacey Thomas, 31, is expecting a baby boy in February. She agreed to let Dr. Mary Haddad demonstrate a procedure for Fiorina. Speaking in the center's front room, Fiorina praised the group's work. She told the crowd it's hypocritical for liberals to support environmental protections for wildlife, while also supporting abortion rights.

"They are perfectly prepared to destroy other people's jobs and livelihoods and communities in order to protect fish and frogs and flies. But they do not think a 17-week-old, a 20-week-old, a 24-week-old, is worth saving," she said.

http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/09/25/443217357/at-crisis-pregnancy-center-carly-fiorina-renews-opposition-to-abortion

Landon knew she was a woman all her life, but came out as transgender last year during her junior year.

Landon Patterson, 17, is the first transgender homecoming queen in her school’s history. And the high school senior began transitioning just last year as a junior, though she’s always identified as a woman. She says that her decision to come out was made easier in part by the support of her peers and her family.

“To be elected homecoming queen was an amazing feeling,” Patterson tells BuzzFeed News. “I was so excited that my peers felt so accepting of me and excited that I was making history for the trans/LGBT community.”

“When I came out as trans I was so afraid that I was expecting a lot of hate, but surprisingly there wasn’t much at all,” she tells BuzzFeed News.

“What a great week,” she captioned smiling photos with friends after winning her crown.



This year, as a senior, she won the coveted crown of Homecoming Queen.

http://landon.littlethings.com/landon-patterson-homecoming-queen-2-v4/?utm_source=pos&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=inspiring

http://www.thedailymeal.com/news/eat/caught-camera-taco-bell-employee-putting-his-hands-down-his-pants/092415

An anonymous customer, shocked with the behavior, snapped the photo — which has since gone viral, much to the unease and disgust of Doritos Locos fans everywhere, according to Fox 8 News.

The unnamed Taco Bell employee has since been fired.

“This is completely unacceptable and has no place in our restaurants,” a Taco Bell statement said. “Our franchisee took immediate action, and has terminated the employee and retraining the entire staff (sic).We want customers to know that the person in the photo was never in contact with the food and that the Health Department inspected the restaurant and approved its operations.”

A video of a 92-year-old World War II veteran serenading his dying wife has gone viral.

According to the couple's granddaughter, Howard and Laura have been married for 73 years. Laura was in hospice care at the time the video was recorded and had been told she only had about a week to live.

Howard sang "You'll Never Know" by Rosemary Clooney with Harry James. Erin says that the couple often referred to the song as their "love song." They even sang it together during a reception after they renewed their wedding vows on their 50th anniversary.

http://www.ktnv.com/now-trending/watch-92-year-old-war-vet-sings-to-dying-wife