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How far has the U.S. market tilted toward pickups, SUVs and crossovers? Automakers are on pace to sell more than 10 million light trucks in a single calendar year for the first time. Meanwhile, car sales are on pace to fall below 7 million this year for the first time since 2011 and only the fourth time since 1962. So while it's increasingly unlikely that 2016 will beat last year's record for total light-vehicle volume, sales of the big vehicles that generate the bulk of many automakers' profits are at an all-time high. From that perspective, with gasoline prices expected to remain low and SUV sales still rising, 2017 could be even better for the bottom line. "I think it looks a lot like '16 with more movement towards trucks," AutoNation CEO Mike Jackson said on the group's third-quarter earnings call. "The only restriction has been installed productive capacity.... And that is certainly good for the industry overall to have. It's more profitable for the manufacturers on the truck side than on the car side." Through October, overall new-vehicle sales were 0.3 percent short of last year's record-setting pace. But light-truck sales were 7.1 percent higher than in the first 10 months of 2015. At that rate, trucks would account for 10.6 million units out of 17.4 million units. (Industry sales totaled 17.47 million units in 2015.) Light-truck sales have more than doubled since 2009, when 4.7 million were sold. Car sales, on the other hand, fell 9.7 percent through October. All nine car segments tracked by the Automotive News Data Center were down in the first 10 months of 2016. Disparity widens October was the industry's third monthly decline in a row, though the seasonally adjusted, annualized selling rate climbed to its highest level of 2016, 17.98 million, because the month had two fewer selling days than a year earlier. "The industry is not quite as strong as it was last year, but we're going up against some really tough year-over-year comparisons," said Erich Merkle, Ford Motor Co.'s chief U.S. sales analyst. "So we expect that the industry will be down a little bit compared to record sales numbers we were achieving in the second half of last year particularly." The disparity between trucks and cars widened in October, with trucks accounting for 63 percent of total volume, up from 59 percent a year ago. A comparison of several corresponding segments highlights how dramatically consumer demand has moved toward bigger, higher-margin vehicles: • Sales of midsize cars fell 21 percent, but midsize crossovers rose 4.2 percent. • Large cars fell 29 percent, but large SUVs surged 29 percent. • Compact luxury cars dropped 20 percent, but compact premium crossovers jumped 42 percent. Living large General Motors has reaped huge rewards from the market's shift, more than doubling its third-quarter net income and posting the smallest year-over-year decline among full-line automakers in October. GM is cashing in on its lineup of large SUVs, gaining 10 points of share in that segment vs. a year ago, even if total sales don't quite break a record this year. "Key fundamentals like job security, rising personal incomes, low fuel prices and low interest rates continue to provide the environment for a very healthy U.S. auto industry," Mustafa Mohatarem, GM's chief economist, said in a statement last week. "The U.S. auto industry is well positioned for sales to continue at or near record levels for the foreseeable future." Ford, another big truck seller, also is headed toward one of its largest-ever annual profits, though recall costs and the launch of its redesigned Super Duty pickups took big bites out of third-quarter earnings. Fiat Chrysler, whose U.S. sales this year are 85 percent light trucks, has raised its 2016 operating profit forecast twice this year. Nissan North America, whose parent reports earnings this week, also is taking advantage. Its U.S. car sales were down 1.8 percent through October, while its light trucks were up 13 percent. After a 2.2 percent decline in October -- compared with a 5.9 percent drop for the industry -- Nissan's U.S. share for 2016 is 9 percent, a record for the automaker. "Our strategy has been this is the year of the truck for us, as we drive growth with new launches," said Judy Wheeler, Nissan's vice president of U.S. sales. "We have new or freshened Armada, Pathfinder and Murano. We had five models up by [at least] double digits, and that was part of the success we had in holding our own in the market." Lindsay Chappell contributed to this report.

Hours after the 71-year-old mother of Police Constable (PC) Dexter Dyer was shot dead on Piccadilly Street, Portof- Spain last Friday morning, Dyer, his wife and other members of his family, were placed in a safe house by officers of the Justice Protection Unit (JPU) of the Police Service. Felicia Dyer Francis was seated in the driver’s seat of her white Nissan Tiida car outside the South-East PoS Seventh Day Adventist Church on Piccadilly Street, Port-of-Spain where she had been praying moments earlier, when she was shot four times. Speaking with Newsday yesterday, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of crime, Irvin Hackshaw, said the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) is providing all of the necessary support to PC Dyer and his family, in the form of counselling. He also confirmed tha the officer and his family are now in protective custody while the Homicide Bureau continues to work around the clock to bring closure to this murder investigation involving the senseless murder of PC Dyer’s mother. Newsday understands that PC Dyer was recently placed in a unit based at the Besson Street Police Station, PoS - the Firearm Interdiction Team (FIT). This unit was mandated to recover illegal arms and ammunition throughout the country. According to reports, last Tuesday (November 1), PC Dyer and other members of FIT, acting on information, went to a house in the Caroni area where they detained a 29-year-old businessman and seized a nine mm gun, 14 rounds of ammunition and a quantity of marijuana. Newsday also understands that shortly before midnight last Thursday, PC Dyer received a telephone call from someone who advised him that attempts would be made to kill him, his mother and his sister. PC Dyer reported the matter to officers at the Besson Street Police Station. Hours later, his mother was killed. Yesterday, homicide sources told Newsday that the Cyber Crime Unit of the TTPS, as well as other units, are working closely the Homicide Bureau to deal swiftly with this investigation, so that the perpetrator/ s of the murder of PC Dyer’s mother could be apprehended and brought to justice. Newsday also spoke with a senior officer of the JPU, who said PC Dyer has been barred from speaking with the press because the investigation is at a sensitive stage. Following the murder of Dyer’s mother, police obtained CCTV footage of the murder scene, which was reviewed over the weekend. Yesterday, the officer’s colleagues at Besson Street Police Station told Newsday they were deeply troubled by the murder of Dyer’s mother and that they were praying for PC Dyer and his family to get through their troubles at this time. Officers also said they would continue to ‘give their all’ to recover illegal arms and ammunition from the hands of the criminal element. PC Dyer’s brother and sister, who both live abroad, were expected to arrive in the country yesterday. Newsday understands that they too will be given full police protection while they are here. Although funeral arrangements have not yet been finalised, it is expected that PC Dyer and members of his family will be given a ‘full escort’ to the service by heavily-armed police officers.

When the concept of downloadable content for games first hit us, people en masse were enraged at the fact that companies couldn't just sell us a complete game from the get-go. Fast-forward to today, and DLC is a much more accepted, but that doesn't mean the underlying issues no longer exist. For the most part, many gamers today seem fine with purchasing DLC as long as it feels like it provides real value. If a game is a mere 8 hours long and has $40 worth of DLC to extend that, no one is going to be pleased outside of the game's most intense fans. But when happens when DLC for an otherwise multi-platform game is only available for one particular console as an exclusive? That's something that console gamers know all too well, because it's the PlayStation 4 that seems to nail all of the hot deals. According to Microsoft's Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson, there's a good reason for that: Sony "decided to write a lot of [checks]". That's a ridiculously obvious answer, but it's nice to hear it from someone in a position of influence, and who has a lot of reach. It's clear that Sony is writing lots of checks to either persuade Xbox One gamers to move on over, or to keep PlayStation 4 gamers right in their place. With regards to exclusive DLC, Destiny is one game that tops the list. Last fall, with the release of The Taken King expansion, the game was treated to a handful of PS4-exclusives, and come this fall, those exclusives were supposed to be made available to Xbox One gamers. That, however, didn't happen. Instead, on the eve of the release of its latest expansion Rise of Iron, Bungie said that the exclusivity would be extended for another year. Imagine that! Destiny's Rise of Iron has exclusive PS4 content It's no secret why people hate exclusive DLC, and it's unfortunate that companies are so easily persuaded to offer it. Destiny's Rise of Iron also has exclusive PS4 DLC, which we expect will never hit Xbox One simply because Destiny 2 is due out in 2017. According to Hryb, Microsoft looks at opportunities like this from the context of, "Is this best for the community and the best use of our money?" From that, we can tell where Sony's priorities lay, and while that's great for PS4 gamers, it downright sucks for Xbox gamers.

Taking a cue from competing online services like Slack, which let workers chat and share information on the job, Microsoft is adding a new program called "Teams" to its Office 365 suite of internet productivity software. Analysts say Microsoft is catching up to a trend in which a host of tech companies—even Facebook—are competing to offer specialized online networks for organizations, as workers increasingly find that email and simple document-sharing services are too limited for communicating and collaborating. Like competing services, Microsoft's new "Teams" product provides a central place online for workplace groups to chat, share files and perform other tasks. But unlike competitors, Microsoft is offering the ability to easily transition into other widely used Microsoft programs, such as Outlook for email and calendars and Skype for voice and video conferences. "Teams" can also incorporate artificially intelligent "bots" and other software programs created by outside developers. Workplace software is a big business for Microsoft. While the giant tech company is best known for making the Windows operating system for PCs, it racked up more than $26.4 billion in revenue last year from workplace "productivity" programs like Office, which includes software for email, calendars, word-processing and other functions. Although other divisions bring in more revenue, Microsoft's "productivity" division is its most lucrative, with $12.4 billion in operating profit. But the company has been threatened by new offerings from big competitors like Google, as well as upstarts like Slack, which provide a central meeting place online where teams of workers can hold running conversations and share files that are easily accessible. Microsoft bought the workplace social networking service Yammer for more than $1 billion in 2012 and will continue that service, which some companies use as an interactive bulletin board. Analysts say newer, competing services have more functions. And new companies like Slack have entered the market by making their services easily available to individual departments or groups. But Microsoft has the advantage that its email and other programs are already widely used by companies, which could make it easier to add Teams. It's also touting that Teams offers encryption and other security measures, along with the ability to integrate with software from outside developers. "Yes they are late to the market, but they have recognized that and they have done a lot of work to circumvent that problem," said Vanessa Thompson, an analyst with IDC.

DESPITE the recent trend of the ‘dad bod’, more than 30,000 Aussie men battle depression and anxiety associated with the ‘man-boob’. And although many people today struggle saying the ‘L’ word, men are undergoing liposuction now more than ever. Gynecomastia corrective liposuction is a growing procedure for men which reduces the breast size through the removal of excess breast fat. The men opting to have this surgery and who benefit the most are “not significantly overweight, but struggle to remove subcutaneous, stubborn fat that resists tremendous efforts of exercise and dieting”, Dr Michael Rich, founder and director of Enrich Clinic, says. The goal of liposuction is no longer to completely remove fat, but to shift it from unwanted areas, to more desired zones within the body, such as the buttocks. Similarly to women, men struggle with the size and shape of their breasts. “Most of our male patients feel ashamed to be shirtless if they do not have a toned upper body and breast”, says Dr Rich. But since the rise in clinics such as Enrich, which is at the forefront of liposuction procedures within Australia, it has enabled men to seek advice from the professionals and has helped them improve their body confidence. And although liposuction is becoming a po[CENSORED]r procedure within Australia, Enrich Clinic emphasises the surgery is not a cure for obesity or a substitute for losing weight. “We look at liposuction as a ‘body shaping’ tool, absolutely not a weight-loss tool”, Dr Rich told news.com.au. If the patient maintains a healthy lifestyle with a balanced diet and exercises, the fat will stay off.

RENO, Nev. — The man who caused a commotion at a Donald Trump rally Saturday said he's a registered Republican who wanted only to show his displeasure with his party's nominee. Members of the audience at the event for the GOP presidential nominee tackled Austyn Crites, 33, of Reno after someone yelled "gun" while others were trying to rip away his anti-Trump sign. "I just went with sign that said 'Republicans Against Trump,’ " Crites said. "It’s a sign that you can find online. I held up the sign and initially people around me were just booing me telling me to get out of there. Then a couple of these guys tried grabbing the sign out of my hands." Crites had no weapon. Secret Service agents later released a statement to that effect and let him go without charges. Donald Trump rushed off stage at Nevada rally Agents whisked Trump offstage because Crites was near the front of the auditorium at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Crites said he holds no ill will toward the Secret Service or Reno police, who were just doing their job. “I was trying to get the Secret Service’s attention for them to respond,” said Michael Newton, 45, of Santa Rosa, Calif., who helped restrain Crites. “They didn’t respond. I thought I had to do something. I put my knee on what I think was his head, so I’m not really sure. There were five guys on him and he was moving. I tried to help them immobilize him.” Newton said he felt as if Crites were the aggressor. “I saw his hand contact someone’s face,” he said. “Maybe two people.” Crites said he didn't strike anyone, but after he was taken to the ground, he felt as if he were being mobbed. "Multiple people just tackled me down, kicking me choking me and just beating me up," he said. "That’s when things even got crazier. I was on the ground and people were holding my arms, legs and I kept saying I can barely breathe. I was turning my neck just to get a little bit of air to keep from passing out." That's when police intervened, taking Crites away in handcuffs. Newton's partner, Donald Newton, 47, of Santa Rosa took video of the immediate aftermath.

Fiat Chrysler will idle its minivan assembly plant in Windsor, Ontario, beginning Monday, union officials there said, because of a parts shortage. An FCA spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment late Thursday on the report, and union officials could not identify the component or supplier behind the shortage. It's unclear whether the suspension of minivan output is related to a large fire earlier this week that destroyed a Magneti Marelli warehouse in Tennessee. Magneti Marelli, a subsidiary of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, is a major lighting component supplier to FCA and other automakers. "FCA told us that they are going to give us a formal letter indicating that we are down but I haven’t seen it, yet," Unifor Local 444 president Dino Chiodo told Automotive News Canada, just minutes after speaking with company management late Thursday. "There is a posting in the plant already that suggests that, potentially, all next week we’ll be down." FCA’s Windsor assembly plant runs three shifts per day, building about 1,500 Dodge Grand Caravan and Chrysler Pacifica minivans. About 6,000 employees at Windsor Assembly will be affected by the downtime. "They’re trying to get everything in place and trying to determine if this is going to be the whole week or just a couple of days," Chiodo said. Workers are already scheduled to have Friday, Nov. 11, off to observe Remembrance Day in Canada. Chiodo said FCA told the union the shutdown is due to a parts supply matter. "Windsor Assembly Plant basically will not be operating next week because of some supplier issues that have occurred over the last few days," Chiodo said. "Because of that, they will be forced to shut down their operations to try and figure out how to get everything back into place and back into operation again." Magneti-Marelli’s plant and warehouse in [CENSORED]ski, Tenn., supplies lighting for the Pacifica. A large blaze Tuesday destroyed the supplier's main warehouse there used to store auto parts and shipping boxes, according to local media. The building is considered a total loss after the roof collapsed. FCA's minivan plant was already at risk of being idled if Unifor and Integram (Magna) Seating couldn't come to an agreement on a new labor agreement late Thursday. The strike was averted early today when a tentative labor agreement was announced by Unifor. The union was set to strike at the company that makes seats and "foam buns" for the minivans.

KARACHI, (AA): At least 18 people were killed and more than 40 others injured in a collision between two passenger trains near Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi’s Landi Railway Station on Thursday, police and health officials said. Witnesses described watching in horror as Zakaria Express from Multan rammed into Fareed Express from Lahore, which was parked there, with the roar of the crash swiftly followed by the screams of people trapped inside. Dr. Seemi Jamali, an official at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center, told Anadolu Agency 18 bodies were brought to her hospital and nearly a dozen injured were in critical condition. Rescue services have pulled out all trapped passengers after cutting through the mangled wreckage. The injured were shifted to nearby hospitals. The incident was the second of its kind in less than two months and senior railway official Nasir Nazeer told reporters an investigation had begun. Last November, 19 people were killed in Baluchistan after a train’s brakes failed and it sped down the side of a mountain. In July 2015, at least 17 people were killed when a special military train fell into a canal after a bridge partially collapsed.

Deep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election. Current and former FBI officials, none of whom were willing or cleared to speak on the record, have described a chaotic internal climate that resulted from outrage over director James Comey’s July decision not to recommend an indictment over Clinton’s maintenance of a private email server on which classified information transited. “The FBI is Trumpland,” said one current agent. This atmosphere raises major questions about how Comey and the bureau he is slated to run for the next seven years can work with Clinton should she win the White House. The currently serving FBI agent said Clinton is “the antichrist personified to a large swath of FBI personnel,” and that “the reason why they’re leaking is they’re pro-Trump.” The agent called the bureau “Trumplandia”, with some colleagues openly discussing voting for a GOP nominee who has garnered unprecedented condemnation from the party’s national security wing and who has pledged to jail Clinton if elected.

Audi delivers a mild update for one of our favorite subcompact sedans ahead of its big RS3 news, still about nine months away; for now, the S3 makes do with some freshening here and there. We’d guess that freshening makes a better car, but the 2017 S3 is essentially what it already was: a well-finished small sedan that’s good at lots of things and one that delivers rational daily transport without fear of frequent malaise. The S3’s ultimate appeal might come down to brand or exactly how much you believe a luxury badge is worth. Its 2.0-liter inline-four is carryover and different from the new, 186-hp 2.0 T in the base A3 sedan. The iron blocks are the same, but the S3 has a different head, fortified innards and a different turbo. The S3’s engine is identical to that in the Volkswagen Golf R (a close corporate platform-mate), with the same 292 peak hp and 280 lb-ft of torque. It’s the most powerful car in its luxury-brand class, save the alpha pups: the fully tuned Mercedes AMG CLA 45 and the BMW M2. More on that in a minute.

AUSTRALIA is no stranger to public holidays. Nationally there’s Australia Day, Anzac Day, the Queen’s birthday, Good Friday, Easter Monday and Sunday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. That’s not to mention state and territory specific public holidays including AFL grand final eve and the Melbourne Cup in Victoria, cracker day in the Northern Territory and Labor and May Days in different parts of the country. But some countries give even Australia a run for its money when it comes to celebrating or commemorating national days of significance. There’s the Day of the Dead in Mexico — a national holiday to pay respects to the deceased. The most recent one took place earlier this week. Singles Day in China — an anti-Valentine’s Day to celebrate single people and a good excuse for an online discounted shopping frenzy will fall on Friday next week. In Japan, there are national days set aside to honour the elderly and the young. South Africa holds a national Day of Reconciliation each year to mark the end of apartheid and foster better relations between different racial groups. According to the Australian Industry Group, every public holiday we’re granted costs the national economy between $3 and $4 billion. For business owners the personal costs can be significant. But that hasn’t stopped the push for more public holidays, including a Reconciliation Day, in Australia. The ACT is set to become the first state or territory in Australia to recognise reconciliation with a public holiday. To avoid added costs, either the Queen’s Birthday public holiday or Family and Community Day will be replaced with Reconciliation Day in 2018, and the date potentially changed. But it’s not the only national day of significance adopted in other parts of the world and marked with a public holiday that could also work in Australia.

Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday handed himself over to the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) after weeks of heckling and mudslinging following accusations he had abused Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) finances. Moyo spent the latter part of the day at Zacc offices and was released at 8pm last night, and he is expected to appear in court tomorrow. The minister was released into the custody of his lawyers. Moyo had all along refused to be subjected to Zacc processes, insisting it was a kangaroo outfit and on Tuesday he accused the commission of being used by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to persecute him, as part of Zanu PFs factional fights. Zacc spokesperson, Phyllis Chikundura confirmed that Moyo had gone to the commission on his own accord to give his account of what happened. “It’s true, he has since presented himself to give his side of the story. The interview is still ongoing and I am not sure when they are likely to finish,” she said late in the afternoon yesterday. Chikundura then had said she was unsure what would happen after the interview, as well as the composition of the interviewing panel. Zacc is alleging Moyo and his deputy, Godfrey Gandawa, siphoned over $400 000 of Zimdef funds for their personal use. Following the Zacc exposé and the subsequent plan to arrest him during a Zanu PF politburo meeting last month, Moyo had steadfastly refused to submit to Zacc, citing what he called political, ethnic and factional persecution. On Tuesday, Moyo released a damning statement, where he threatened to sue Mnangagwa, Information minister Christopher Mushowe and his permanent secretary, George Charamba, Zacc commissioner, Goodson Nguni, acting National Prosecutor-General, Ray Goba, and journalists from the State media. In a sudden change of events yesterday, NewsDay witnessed Moyo presenting himself to Zacc in the afternoon. Moyo, who seemed relaxed, arrived at 3:22pm in a convoy of two vehicles and accompanied by an unidentified man and walked straight into Zacc offices. Sources told NewsDay yesterday that he presented himself to the commission after he was summoned earlier in the day. This comes after a Zanu PF committee tasked to probe Moyo’s allegations that Zacc was being used to pursue a factional agenda met to deliberate on the matter yesterday. Although the chairperson of the committee, Jacob Mudenda, refused to comment on the issue, senior Zanu PF officials yesterday told NewsDay that the team held its meeting to discuss and lay a framework on how to proceed with the probe The committee had initially sent a letter to Moyo requesting him to put his allegations against Mnangagwa in writing, as well as provide evidence. “Please forgive me, I am not going to comment on that issue, I am not saying anything in relation to the work being done by that committee,” Mudenda said. The committee is reportedly gathering its preliminary findings on the matter, threatening to tear apart Zanu PF, for presentation at the next politburo meeting. “It has become necessary to have this matter dealt with before our conference (next month). The committee met to see how to handle it and look at allegations that were raised by the professor (Moyo),” a source said. “Critical is to see whether any cent from Zimdef was channelled towards any party activity and also to investigate if the commission was not being influenced by outsiders through fact “The probe is not centred on the VP (Mnangagwa) alone and the alleged meeting he held with Zacc officials, but the independence of the commission from Zanu PF factions. Furthermore, the committee is looking at the manner internal contradictions are being handled.” Moyo contended that Mnangagwa was abusing Zacc and the Prosecutor-General’s Office to further his quest to succeed Mugabe. Asked by one of his followers on Twitter if it is wise to “sue your boss”, Moyo said: “This is about the law. In Zimbabwe the law is based on the supremacy of the Constitution and not on supremacy of wisdom, whatever wisdom is,” he wrote. Without mentioning names, Moyo yesterday claimed a “senior politician owns 739 gold mines, which uses smuggling as their tax-free export channel”. The Higher Education minister threatened to reveal names to the authorities through “the right channels”.

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