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Whether he’s on or off the field, in season or out of season, Oklahoma State University quarterback Mason Rudolph likes to show off his game.

Rudolph posted a video to Instagram Monday of him and two others at Lake Anna in Virginia. Rudolph, football in hand, is seen making a pass to another individual as he jumps into the water from a diving board. The jumper then tosses it back to Rudolph while in midair.

Moments later, Rudolph throws the ball to someone else driving a jet ski, who seamlessly catches the projectile.

“That is so cool,” one Instagram user commented.

“Woah,” another exclaimed.

“Holy crap that was awesome,” one more opined.

See the impressive toss for yourself:

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The belief that the Koran promises 72 virgins in heaven for Muslim martyrs is the result of a monumental “mistranslation,” according to Islam scholar Irshad Manji, who claims that these individuals are, instead, offered “raisins” after death.

“Nowhere in the Koran does it promise 72 virgins, 70 virgins, 48 virgins. What it promises, as far as heaven goes, is something lush,” Manji told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. “The Arabic word for virgin has been mistranslated. The original word that was used in the Koran was the word for ‘raisin,’ not ‘virgin.’ In other words, that martyrs would get raisins in heaven, not virgins.”

Manji, who made this claim last month during a CNN special titled, “Why They Hate Us,” cited “several scholars” who she said have investigated this issue and concluded that the word “raisin” is a more appropriate Koranic fit:

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh referenced Manji‘s comments on the matter in a recent segment as well, explaining that he subsequently began looking into the dispute over the Arabic meaning of the word.

“I just am not wantonly accepting of this stuff. I actually dug into this,” Limbaugh said last month. “I found out that it is an ongoing controversy within Islam, the definition of the word that has been translated ‘virgins’ as it’s used by militant Islamists as they recruit.”

The radio host said that the debate remains unsettled and that “there is one interpretation that does mean raisins.”

WMAL radio host Chris Plante also addressed the issue on his show, taking a more sarcastic approach to the dispute over the definition.

“They’ve got bad news for jihadists,” he quipped before playing Manji‘s comments, laughing throughout the segment and taking aim at Zakaria and Manji. “Seventy-two raisins in a Sunkist box, and they are doing this straight faced. They are a satire of themselves.”

He continued, “The wheels have come off inside what’s left in their minds. These people are not well.”

This idea about raisins is not new, as a 2002 piece in the Guadian noted that author Christoph Luxenberg‘s book “Die Syro-Aramaische Lesart des Koran,” posited that “many obscurities of the Koran disappear if we read certain words as being Syriac and not Arabic.”

Based on this methodology, Luxenberg came to the conclusion that “white raisins” or “crystal clarity” were the real potential meanings behind the text attributed to virgins, according to the article.

(H/T: Christian Today)

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A Florida gun store owner made national headlines in July after he declared his business a “Muslim-free zone” following the Chattanooga shooting that left five U.S. service members dead. Now, the Inverness shop is stirring up controversy again with a new politically charged product.

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“Now, I have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety of all patriots in my community,” Florida Gun Supply owner Andy Hallinan said in a video uploaded to Facebook last summer announcing the Muslim ban. “And so effective immediately I’m declaring Florida Gun Supply a Muslim-free zone. I will not arm and train those who wish to do harm to my fellow patriots.”

Hallinan’s most recent video on the Florida Gun Supply YouTube channel features shooting targets depicting President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

The targets are now for sale on the store’s website at a discounted price of $4.99 (previously $9.99) for all three.

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A product description for the targets reads:

Is this target really legal?

Absolutely. The First Amendment protects the right to free expression, which includes the right to shoot, burn, or in any way destroy an image of anyone including the president as long you’re not posing a “credible threat.” The standard here is whether there is genuine intent to commit or incite violence, and also whether that violence is likely to actually occur. If there’s no “clear and present danger,” as Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. put it, there’s no basis for censorship. So unless the Seaside Heights boardwalk is, in fact, a surreptitious assassination training ground, the game is perfectly legal.

The Clinton and Obama targets were previously available, but the Sanders target was added in April. Hallinan posted a video at the time apologizing because “I didn’t show my new Bernie Sanders target sooner.”

He even created a separate website called BernieTargets.com to sell the targets, as well as a wide range of “politically incorrect” gear.

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American race car driver Alexander Rossi won Sunday’s 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 and brought the Borg-Warner trophy to the observation deck of the Empire State Building to meet the press Tuesday.

Speaking with a reporter from TMZ, Rossi was asked if President Barack Obama had called to congratulate him.

“No,” said Rossi, adding, “Now, that’s another thing that’s going to bum me out.”

The reporter pressed the Indy 500 winner, asking Rossi if he thought he should get a call from the president.

A chuckling Rossi responded, “Yeah, why not?” he said.

“That’s the most American thing we coulda done — 100th running of the Indy 500 in Indianapolis, American won. I think that’s pretty cool,” Rossi said. “So, Mr. President, I’ll be waiting.”

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BANGKOK (AP) — Forty dead tiger cubs were found Wednesday in a freezer at a Buddhist temple that operated as an admission-charging zoo, a national parks official said.

The discovery happened while authorities were removing mostly full-grown live tigers from the temple in western Kanchanaburi province following accusations that monks were involved in illegal breeding and trafficking of the animals.

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The cubs were found in a freezer where the temple staff kept food, said Anusorn Noochdumrong, an official from the Department of National Parks who has been overseeing the transfer of the temple’s 137 tigers to shelters. Since Monday, 60 have been tranquilized and removed.

“We don’t know why the temple decided to keep these cubs in the freezer,” Anusorn said. “We will collect these carcasses for DNA analysis.”

The cubs appeared to be up to a week old, he said. Authorities plan to file charges against the temple for illegally possessing endangered species, he said.

The temple’s Facebook page said in March that the temple’s former vet had decided in 2010 to stop cremating cubs that died soon after birth. Calls to the temple’s office were not answered.

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The temple, a popular tourist attraction, has been criticized by animal rights activists because of allegations it is not properly set up to care for the animals and flouted regulations restricting the trade of tigers.

The monks resisted previous efforts to take away the tigers, but relented this week after police obtained a court order.

The temple recently made arrangements to operate as a zoo, but the plan fell through when the government determined that the operators failed to secure sufficient resources.

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — Trump University gave employees detailed instructions on how to entice people to enroll in its real estate seminars, from targeting people making at least $90,000 a year and choosing words of flattery that are most persuasive to picking music for the gatherings — The O’Jays’ “For the Love of Money.”

The “playbooks” for the now-defunct business owned by Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president, were unsealed Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit by customers who say they were defrauded. Last Friday, a judge who has earned Trump’s scorn sided with attorneys for The Washington Post who argued that the public had a right to know what was previously confidential.

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The documents outline how employees should guide customers through “the roller coaster of emotions” once they have expressed interest.

“The motivation that they experienced can die quickly as the realities of their daily lives take over. It is our job to rekindle that motivation … to make them once again see the potential of achieving their dream,” according to a “sales playbook.”

A 2009 playbook quotes a Yale University study that found the most persuasive words in the English language are: you, new, money, easy, discovery, free, results, health, save, proven, guarantee and love.

“They share three characteristics: they are simple, familiar and dramatic.”

“The words ‘I noticed’ have a powerful subconscious effect on people because they send a subliminal message to them that they stood out in the crowd, that they are attractive or charismatic or that they impressed you,” the playbook continues. “People love recognition and attention.”

Trump University offered a three-day seminar for $1,495, using it as a springboard to sell more expensive “Trump Elite” packages for up to $34,995 a year.

“You don’t sell products, benefits or solutions — you sell feelings,” according to the sales playbook.

Trump University’s core customers are identified in the documents as male heads of households between 40 and 54 years old with annual household incomes of at least $90,000, a college education and a net worth of more than $200,000.

One way to identify buyers is to ask what they do for a living. “Let them know that you’ve found an answer and a way for them to change their lifestyles.”

During one-on-one conversations, “you may begin with some small-talk to establish rapport but do not let them take control of the conversation,” a playbook reads. “You must be very aggressive during these conversations to in order to push them out of their comfort zones.”

“If they complain about the price, remind them that Trump is the BEST!! This is the last real estate investment they will ever need to make.”

For those who have hit credit limits, employees are told to suggest they dip into savings or identify other “seed capital.”

“Money is never a reason for not enrolling in Trump University; if they really believe in you and your product, they will find the money,” a playbook reads.

Trump University is the target of two lawsuits in San Diego and one in New York that accuse the business of fleecing students with unfulfilled promises to teach secrets of success in real estate. Plaintiffs contend that Trump University gave seminars and classes across the country that were like infomercials, constantly pressuring customers to buy more and, in the end, failing to deliver.

Trump has maintained that customers were overwhelmingly satisfied with the offerings — a point that his attorneys repeated after the documents were unsealed. The documents included testimony from several satisfied customers.

“Much of the unsealed evidence, including declarations and surveys from former Trump University students, demonstrates the high level of satisfaction from students and that Trump University taught valuable real estate information,” said Jill Martin, vice president and assistant general counsel for The Trump Organization. “Trump University looks forward to using this evidence, along with much more, to win when the case is brought before a jury.”

The documents show meticulous attention to details such as seating at seminars. Room temperature should be set no higher than 68 degrees, and music should be The O’Jays’ “For the Love of Money” — which Trump also used on his reality TV show “The Apprentice.”

Employees are told to avoid speaking with the news media.

“Reporters are rarely on your side and they are not sympathetic,” a 2010 playbook reads.

The 6-year-old case in San Diego is scheduled to go to trial shortly after the November presidential election.

Trump has railed against U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who ordered the documents unsealed. At a rally in San Diego on Friday, he accused the judge of being “hostile” and a “hater of Donald Trump,” and raised questions about his ethnicity.

“The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great, I think that’s fine,” Trump said of Curiel, who was born in the U.S.

It was the second time Trump has brought up the judge’s ethnicity as he complained about his treatment.

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