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The Southeast has changed dramatically in the last two generations. Since 1980, there has been a boom in its service economy, manufacturing base, high technology industries, and the financial sector. Examples of this include the surge in tourism in Florida and along the Gulf Coast; numerous new automobile production plants such as Mercedes-Benz in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; Hyundai in Montgomery, Alabama; Toyota Motors in Blue Springs, Mississippi; Kia in West Point, Georgia; the BMW production plant in Greer, South Carolina; Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee; the GM manufacturing plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee; and the Nissan North American headquarters in Franklin, Tennessee; the two largest research parks in the country: Research Triangle Park in the Triangle area of North Carolina (the world's largest) and the Cummings Research Park in Huntsville, Alabama (the world's fourth largest); and the corporate headquarters of major banking corporations Bank of America in Charlotte; Regions Financial Corporation,AmSouth Bancorporation, and BBVA Compass in Birmingham; SunTrust Banks and the district headquarters of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta; and BB&T in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As well as Fortune 500 companies, there are several large companies including several paper companies, such as Georgia Pacific in Atlanta and International Paper and Verso Paper in Memphis, as well as FedEx, which is one of the world's largest shipping companies. Fortune 500 companies having headquarters in the region included 20 in Virginia, 16 in Florida, 15 in North Carolina, and 14 in Georgia. This economic expansion has enabled parts of the South to have of some of the lowest unemployment rates in the United States.^[5] in Alabama there is a large-scale manufacturing project owned by the German steel megacorporation Thyssen-Krupp, which operates a massive, state-of-the-art facility in Mobile.

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The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (often shortened to Sprint Cup or the Cup Series) is the top racing series of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR). The series is named for its current sponsor, the Sprint Corporation, and has been known by other names in the past. It was originally known as the Strictly Stock Series (1949) and shortly became the Grand National Series (1950–1970). While leasing its naming rights to R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, it was known as the Winston Cup Series (1971–2003). A similar deal was made with Nextel in 2003, becoming the Nextel Cup Series (2004–2007)^[1] and it became the Sprint Cup after Sprint acquired Nextel in 2005. The name "Sprint" refers specifically to the subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank which is the entitlement sponsor; sprint car racing is a separate racing discipline.

The drivers' champion is determined by a point system where points are given according to finishing placement and laps led. The season is divided into two segments. After the first 26 races, 16 drivers, selected primarily on the basis of wins during the first 26 races, are seeded based on their total number of wins and compete in the last 10 races with the difference in points greatly minimized. This is called the Chase for the Championship.^[2]

The series holds strong roots in the Southeastern United States with half of its 36-race season in that region. The current schedule includes tracks from around the United States. Regular season races were previously held in Canada, and exhibition races were held in Japan and Australia. The Daytona 500, its most prestigious race, had a television audience in the U.S. of about 16 million viewers in 2009.^[3]

Sprint Cup Series cars are unique in automobile racing. The engines are powerful enough to reach speeds

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Windows Mobile was a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.^[2]

Its origins dated back to Windows CE in 1996, though Windows Mobile itself first appeared in 2000 as PocketPC 2000. It was renamed "Windows Mobile" in 2003, at which point it came in several versions (similar to the desktop versions of Windows) and was aimed at business and enterprise consumers. By 2007, it was the most popular smartphone software in the U.S., but this popularity faded in the following years. In February 2010, facing competition from rival OSs including iOS and Android, Microsoft announced Windows Phone to supersede Windows Mobile. As a result, Windows Mobile has been deprecated. Windows Phone is incompatible with Windows Mobile devices and software.^[3][4][5] The last version of Windows Mobile, released after the announcement of Windows Phone, was 6.5.5. After this, Microsoft ceased development on Windows Mobile, in order to concentrate on Windows Phone.


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Microsoft Windows (or simply Windows) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Microsoft. It consists of several families of operating systems, each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry. Active Windows families include Windows NT, Windows Embedded and Windows Phone; these may encompass subfamilies, e.g. Windows Embedded Compact (Windows CE) or Windows Server. Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x and Windows Mobile.

Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985, as a graphical operating system shell for MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).^[4]Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal computer market with over 90% market share, overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984. However, since 2012, it sells less than Android, which became the most popular operating system in 2014, when counting all of the computing platforms Windows runs on (same as Android); in 2014, the number of Windows devices sold were less than 25% of Android devices sold.^{[citation needed]}

As of July 2015, the most recent version of Windows for personal computers, tablets and smartphones is Windows 10. The most recent versions for server computers and embedded devices are respectivelyWindows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Embedded 8. A specialized version of Windows runs on the Xbox One game console.^[5]

The next server version of Windows is Windows Server 2016

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• .. that the Mohale Dam (pictured) won South Africa‍‍ '​‍s 2005 Fulton Award for "Best Construction Engineering Project and Best Construction Technique"?
• ... that actress Lo Kauppi was a singer and guitar player in the feminist punk band Vagina Grande?
• ... that the bentfin devil ray is threatened by overfishing, both as a targeted species but also as bycatch?
• ... that after the theatrical release of The Interview was cancelled due to Sony Pictures being hacked, it earned over $40 million from an online release?
• ... that Cole Pearn is the first regular Canadian crew chief in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series history?
• ... that Chinese general Li Zuocheng was named a "war hero" during the Sino-Vietnamese War?
• ... that the Huguenot-Walloon half dollar was controversial for being sponsored by a religious group?

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• Malcolm Turnbull (pictured) replaces Tony Abbott as the Liberal Party leader, becomingPrime Minister of Australia.
• An explosion in Petlawad, Madhya Pradesh, India, kills more than 100 people and injures many more.
• The ruling People's Action Party, led by Lee Hsien Loong, retains its majority in theSingaporean general election.
• A crane collapses at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, killing more than 100 people and severely damaging the building.
• Scientists announce the discovery of Homo naledi, a species of early human.

• Ongoing events: 
  • European migrant crisis
• Recent deaths: 
  • Moses Malone
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Grand Theft Auto V is an open world, action-adventure video game developed by Rockstar North and published byRockstar Games. It was released on 17 September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, in 2014 for the PlayStation 4and Xbox One, and in 2015 for Microsoft Windows. The game is the next main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series after 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV. Set within the fictional state of San Andreas (based on Southern California), the story follows three criminals and their efforts to commit heists, with the game's use of three lead protagonists representing a break from series tradition. In a single-player or an online multiplayer mode, players can freely roam the open world of San Andreas, which includes rural environments and the fictional city of Los Santos (based on Los Angeles). Upon release, Grand Theft Auto V was critically acclaimed, drawing praise for its open world design and technical capabilities. It became the fastest-selling entertainment product in history, earning US$800 million in its first day and $1 billion in its first three days.