MTV Video Music Awards: Swift leads winners as West steals spotlight with announcement of presidential aspirations

PHOTO: Taylor won four awards at the MTV Video Music Awards including video of the year for her song Bad Blood. 

Most Moonmans but it was her reunion with rapper Kanye West on the MTV Video Music Awards stage that stole the show as West declared he will run for the US presidency in 2020.

Swift led the winners with four awards including best female video and best pop video for Blank Space.

Kanye West for president

Kanye West concludes a 10-minute acceptance speech announcing he intends to run for US president in 2020.

25-year-old Swift won video of the year, the night's top award, for the star-studded music video of her revenge song Bad Blood, which is reportedly about her feud with singer Katy Perry.

"I know there's been a lot of discussion about what this video means but I'm just happy that in 2015 we live in a world where boys can play princesses and girls can play soldiers," Swift said.

Perry did not attend this year's awards show.

MTV's annual VMAs hand out Moonman statuettes to the year's top achievements in music videos, but is better known for delivering irreverent and unexpected moments.

West, who famously stormed the stage and snatched the microphone from Swift in 2009 during her acceptance speech, was given the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award by Swift.

"Everyone in the world knew about our infamous encounter at the VMAs, but something you may not know is Kanye West's album College Dropout is the very first album I bought on iTunes," Swift said.

MTV Video Music Awards top winners

• Video of the year - Bad Blood, Taylor Swift featuring Kenrick Lamar
• Best male video - Uptown Funk, Mark Ronson featuring Bruno Mars
• Best female video - Blank Space, Taylor Swift
• Artist to watch - Fetty Wap
• Best pop video - Blank Space, Taylor Swift
• Best hip-hop video - Anaconda, Nicki Minaj
• Best rock video - Uma Thurman, Fall Out Boy

She added, in a parody of West's 2009 speech, "to all the other winners tonight, I'm really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Kanye West has one of the greatest careers of all time".

After a standing ovation, West rehashed the 2009 incident along with many other musings on the authenticity of artistry.

At one point he criticised awards shows and MTV for replaying the Swift incident over and over for "more ratings".

He ended his speech by declaring, "I have decided, in 2020, to run for president", quickly riling up social media.

Sunday's show was all about the shock factor as a scantily clad Miley Cyrus, 22, cursed her way through her hosting duties, flashed her bare breast and performed a new song about smoking marijuana.

Singer Justin Bieber made a teary return to the VMA stage after a two-year break.

He performed two new tracks and teared up at the end of the performance.

New Jersey rapper Fetty Wap was named artist to watch, Bruno Mars and Mark Ronson's summer hit Uptown Funk was named best male video and Minaj's Anaconda won best hip-hop video.

Austria intercepts 200 asylum seekers, five human traffickers in new border crackdown

PHOTO: Migrants at a makeshift camp in Austria wait to be transported to other processing facilities

Austrian authorities have uncovered about 200 asylum seekers and arrested five human traffickers as part of a new operation along the country's borders, a senior interior ministry official says.

"In the hours since we started implementing these measures that we agreed with Germany, Hungary and Slovakia, we have been able to get more than 200 refugees out of such vehicles and we have been able to detain five smugglers," Konrad Kogler, director-general for public security at the ministry, said.

Austrian interior minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner, speaking at the same news conference, said checks being undertaken along the Austrian border were not classic border controls.

"We are not in violation of [the European Union's] Schengen [convention]," she said.

The operation came after the arrest of five people over the deaths of 71 migrants — including a baby girl and three other children — who were found in an abandoned truck on the side of an Austrian highway last week.

Traffic controls have been increased in Burgenland state in close collaboration with the Hungarian, Slovakian and German authorities.

"The main aim is to target smuggling gangs. What is happening here are controls conducted by traffic police and security forces — these are not border controls," police spokesman Helmut Marban said.

As part of the clampdown on human traffickers, police are stopping every truck, van and car in an effort to catch those trying to make money from people fleeing war and persecution.

At a news conference on Monday, German chancellor Angela Merkel said the refugee crisis facing Europe was testing the core ideals about universal rights at the heart of the European Union.

"If Europe fails on the question of refugees, if this close link with universal civil rights is broken, then it won't be the Europe we wished for," she said.

She urged EU members to accept their fair share of asylum-seekers.

Ms Merkel added if Europe was not able to agree to a fair distribution of refugees, the passport-free Schengen zone would be called into question.

Security stops back up highways for kilometres

The new security checks caused a huge build-up of traffic overnight, and by Monday morning there were tailbacks of up to 30 kilometres along the M1 motorway connecting Budapest to Vienna, Hungarian media reported.

Many migrants picked up in Austria have already trekked on foot through four or five countries before they reach EU member Hungary, where smugglers pack them into vehicles without food or water, promising to transport them to richer European states like Germany or Sweden.

So far this year, the Hungarian government has reported more than 140,000 migrants entering the country from Serbia.

Since Hungary is in the Schengen zone, onwards travel has been relatively easy.

Several hundred migrants stuck for days in makeshift refugee camps at train stations in Budapest were on Monday allowed to board trains headed for Austria and Germany.

Hungarian police had previously prevented as many as 2,000 migrants from leaving the station because they had no legal papers.

But Austria's reinforced border units and tightened security checks are likely to make the process of entering the country illegally much harder.

This year alone, police in Upper Austria have arrested 93 human traffickers transporting a total of 1,630 migrants.

Menu From Titanic’s Last Lunch Is Going to Auction

Titanic's last lunch menu.

It could bring in as much as $70,000

A menu of the last lunch offered on the Titanic, which was saved by a passenger on a rescue boat, is going to auction, where it is expected to bring in $50,000 to $70,000.

The menu, which was saved by passenger Abraham Lincoln Salomon, listed items including corned beef and dumplings, the Associated Press reports. The menu is signed on the back by another passenger named Isaac Gerald Frauenthal. It’s believed the two first-class men had lunch together on that day.

Salomon was on a lifeboat that was known as the “Money Boat” in the press, based on allegations that the passengers bribed crew members to row away to safety rather than go back and save others.

On Sept. 30, auctioneer Lion Heart Autographs is offering the menu and other artifacts from the lifeboat. The objects being auctioned are from the son of a man who was given them by a direct descendent of one of the survivors.

Japanese protesters rally against controversial security bills that could see troops fighting abroad

PHOTO: Protests in Tokyo against Japan's Prime Minister controversial security bills attracted tens of thousands.

Tens of thousands have rallied outside Japan's parliament to protest against planned new laws that could see troops in the officially pacifist nation engage in combat for the first time since World War II.

A growing number of people, including university students and young parents, have joined a swelling opposition against the controversial bills as prime minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party gears up to pass them before the current session ends late next month.

Holding placards reading "No war", "Peace not war" and "Stop the security bills", chanting demonstrators filled the street in front of the Diet building in downtown Tokyo despite drizzly weather.

The debate over Japanese pacifism

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A huge banner reading "Abe should step down", adorned with black and white balloons, was carried through the crowd.

"I cannot stand idly by when I think of the excesses of the Abe government — Japan could become a country capable of going to war again," protester Kenichi Ozawa said.

Under the planned changes the military, known as the Self-Defence Forces, would be allowed to fight to protect allies such as the United States, even if there was no direct threat to Japan or its people.

Under a US-imposed constitution following WWII, Japan's military has been limited strictly to self-defence.

While the restrictions were ushered in by an occupying force, many Japanese have become strongly attached to their country's pacifism over the decades — outlined in Article Nine of the constitution — and they fear any change to that status will lead them down a dangerous road.

"For 70 years, thanks to Article Nine of our constitution, Japan has not engaged in war or been touched by any aggression," demonstrator Masako Suzuki said.

"Article Nine is our foundation." Bills necessary to deal with China, North Korea

Organisers said about 120,000 people took part in the rally in Tokyo, but police put the figure at 30,000. Similar demonstrations were held across Japan.

In the central city of Nagoya, a group of mothers staged a rally near the main train station as they shouted "Protect our children!". Abe and his supporters say the bills are necessary for Japan to deal with a changed security environment in the face of a rising China and unpredictable North Korea.

Washington has welcomed the move to change what some see as a one-sided security alliance that compels the US to protect Japan if it were attacked.

But opponents said the reforms would drag Japan into distant American wars, and many legal scholars have said they are unconstitutional.

The legislation is deeply unpopular among the general public and support for the Abe government is declining.

Among the protesters on Sunday were popular Japanese musician and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and opposition party leaders including Katsuya Okada, head of the Democratic Party of Japan.

Relatively small street demonstrations are frequent in the capital. But on Thursday a group of Tokyo university students staged a rare hunger strike outside parliament to protest at the legislation.

They said they would continue as long as possible.

On Wednesday the national bar association took part in a Tokyo protest rally with academics and citizen groups.

The controversial bills cleared the powerful lower house last month and are now being hotly debated in the upper house.

Hundreds of truckies head to Alice Springs for long-awaited reunion

PHOTO: Hundreds of drivers and long-haul trucks headed to Alice Springs. 

Hundreds of truck drivers and the long-haul vehicles they love have taken to the streets of Alice Springs for a parade showcasing decades of Australia's road transport history.

Every five years a truckies' reunion is held in Alice Springs, home of the National Road Transport Hall of Fame, culminating in an hours-long procession of grunting, lovingly restored machines down the Stuart Highway.

Up to 10,000 people are estimated to have turned up in the town for the event.

"Every five years we come to Mecca, to the Hall of Fame," second-generation earth-mover Barry Goldspring, from Adelaide, said.

"You just look around, you see the money spent, the time, the man hours and the passion that goes into [trucks]."

At the front of the pack, truckie Phil Ellbourne put the final polish to a cherry-red hauler he first drove as a rookie in 1970.

Thirty years later he rediscovered it, lying dormant in the Barossa Valley and decided to restore it to its former glory.

"I tried to negotiate and buy it off [the owner]. He relented after a while and we brought it back and pulled it back together," he said.

With the help of a restorer friend and an upholsterer, Mr Ellbourne returned the vintage vehicle to the road.

Such is the stuff truck dreams are made of, and they are on display in every blinding chrome detail and restored engine on parade.

'Didn't know how far we'd get ... but we got here'

Travelling from Rushworth, Victoria, no-one was more surprised than Gus Bradley and Andrew 'Jed' McKay when their ramshackle 1934 Ford Roadster arrived in Alice in one piece.

The rusty two-seater, with hessian-covered seats and rabbit traps hanging from the back, created a stir when it rattled along the parade after a line of shiny vintage utes.

"We just left [Victoria]," Mr Bradley said.

"Didn't know how far we'd get or anything but we got here and that was the main thing.

"We've just had a ball, everything's worked out well."

After a lifetime of long hauls, veteran Fred Simpson finally bought his own beast: a massive, gleaming Kenworth 908.

How does he keep it so brilliantly shiny?

"I think it's just the love of the job. And everybody helped me. The wife at home, she helps me clean it too. I've got to give her some credit," he said.

The Horsham grandfather is one of this year's 278 inductees into the Wall of Fame, honouring the long-haulers whose days are made up of many long miles and solitary nights — as well as their spouses and families.

Hall of Fame chief executive Liz Martin, a respected former truckie and OAM, said her favourite part of the event is adding new names to the Hall's Pioneer Wall of Fame.

"They're old blokes that are 80 and 90 years old. They've never been given any credibility or acknowledgement and the emotion from their families is just amazing. It makes it all worthwhile."

Fremantle beats Melbourne by 54 points to secure AFL minor premiership

PHOTO: The Dockers sealed the minor premiership with a dominant performance against the Demons.SCOREBOARD: FREM v MELBFremantle finally has some silverware to put in its trophy cabinet after locking up the minor premiership with a 54-point demolition of Melbourne in Sunday's AFL clash at Subiaco Oval.

17.6 (108)	Fremantle v Melbourne	8.6 (54)
at Subiaco Oval, August 30 2015
441	Disposals	377
44	Clearances	34
49	Inside 50	40
65	Tackles	85

The Dockers booted the first 10 goals of the match to secure the 17.6 (108) to 8.6 (54) win, with the result giving them an unassailable lead at the top of the table with one round to play.

Fremantle has the option to rest the bulk of its best 22 for next week's game against the Power in Adelaide, before gearing up for a home qualifying final.

Melbourne has lost 16 consecutive matches in the west, with the Demons' last victory at the Perth venue coming in 2004 when David Neitz and Adam Yze were still in the prime of their careers.

On a horrible day for the Demons, milestone man Nathan Jones suffered a game-ending ankle injury during the opening moments of the second quarter.

Jones, playing his 200th match, was helped off by trainers after rolling his left ankle in an innocuous incident as he ran beside David Mundy.

The Demons skipper, who was put in a moon boot and forced to use crutches, had earlier copped a heavy head knock as he competed for the ball against Dockers defender Zac Dawson.

Fremantle also suffered an injury blow, with defender Cameron Sutcliffe dislocating his shoulder in the final quarter.

The Dockers entered the match having not reached the 100-point mark since their round-eight win over North Melbourne, but they reached triple figures against the Demons when Lachie Neale nailed a goal late in the final quarter.Fremantle suffered a late blow when goalsneak Michael Walters was ruled out because of calf soreness, but his absence was barely felt as the Dockers went on a goal blitz that left Melbourne for dead.

The scoreboard read 62-2 before Jeff Garlett marked in the forward pocket to give the Demons their first goal of the match at the 16-minute mark of the second quarter. But they never truly threatened to topple the Dockers, with Melbourne players failing to heed the pleas of their coach Paul Roos to play "angry".

Dockers skipper Matthew Pavlich booted three goals from 20 disposals before being subbed out in the third quarter to avoid injury.

Danyle Pearce (three goals), Mundy and Lachie Neale also played key roles in the win.

The Dockers are yet to taste premiership success but they are guaranteed at least one piece of silverware this year - the McClelland Trophy for finishing in first spot after the home-and-away season.

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Why Failure Hits Girls So Hard

Failing well is a skill

Mary, a college sophomore, tells me failure is “disgusting,” a wave of the “worst thing ever.”

When I ask why, she answers without hesitation. “I’m so used to doing well on things. If one thing goes wrong, I just want it to go away and feel like it never happened.”

That’s why Mary rarely speaks about her setbacks, including the study-abroad trip when she suffered from brutal homesickness, but didn’t tell a soul. She is terrified to be seen as anything less than extraordinary.

Jessica Lahey’s new book, The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed, says young women like Mary are in trouble. They’ve been so protected from mistakes, usually by their parents, that they fear failure, avoid risk and value image over learning. By the time they go to college, they are more vulnerable to depression, anxiety and stress.

Lahey says parents defail their kids’ lives in order to minimize kids’ pain and extend their need for mom and dad’s support. When kids are dependent on parents, mom and dad can enjoy kids’ wins as evidence of superior parenting.

A raft of studies back up Lahey’s point. But evidence suggests that girls may be especially vulnerable when it comes to failing, and being spared from it. Here’s why trying to protect girls from challenge hits them especially hard:

Girls respond to failure differently than boys. When girls make mistakes, they’re more likely to interpret the setback as a sign they lack ability — a factor much harder for girls to change. Boys, on the other hand, tend to attribute failure to more controllable circumstances.

The phenomenon has been traced in part to how teachers talk to students. In observational studies, teachers corrected girls for mistakes related to ability, while boys tended to get more behavioral interventions (“Pipe down!”, “Stop throwing that paper airplane,” and so on).

Other studies have found that girls are more likely to give up in the face of a stressful academic situation. In one study, fifth-grade students were given a task that was intentionally confusing. It was the girls who were derailed by the confusion and unable to learn the material. Notably, the highest-IQ girls struggled the most. The phenomenon continues in college, where Harvard economist Claudia Goldin found it was women dropping out of Intro to Economics when they failed to get A’s.

No, Selfies Aren’t Causing a Teen Lice Epidemic

One thing is for certain — we’re all taking more selfies than we ever have before. And while social science experts may debate what that says about us, doctors are more concerned about something else entirely: lice.

Lice, those tiny, barely visible parasites that can cling onto fur and hair, are more common in kids, who tend to have more head-to-head contact and share things like hats and helmets. But some doctors have been reporting — anecdotal — that they’re seeing more lice among teens. A few are, rather dubiously, are blaming selfies.

“People are doing selfies like every day, as opposed to going to photo booths years and years ago. So you’re probably having much more contact with other people’s heads,” Dr. Sharon Rink, a Wisconsin pediatrician, said on a local television show.

But there is no data showing the current lice outbreak—which is in 25 states and features lice resistant to the drugs usually used to kill them—is overwhelmingly affecting selfie-snapping teens, the National Pedicurists (that’s the official scientific name for a louse infestation) Association told the Huffing ton Post. The Centers for Disease Control says six to 12 million kids, aged three to 11 years, get lice in the U.S. each year. Children, and teens, are more likely to pick up lice during close contact in cars, during sleepovers, or sharing headphones, than they are in the few seconds it takes to take a selfie, say some experts.

And many of those raising the alarm have something to do with nit picking — literally. De-lousing salons have sprung up to help reluctant parents who cringe at the idea of tediously taking to the tweezers to pick out the critters, one by one. What better marketing message than to alert the public to a new population of hosts for the ever-hungry louse

United Petroleum franchisees battle service station giant after businesses seized

PHOTO: Ram, Kirti and Dinesh Nijhawan at their United Petroleum franchise in Narre Warren, Melbourne.

Three former United Petroleum franchisees are launching legal action against the service station giant, claiming they have been unfairly forced out of their businesses.

Key points:

• Three former UP franchisees are launching legal action
• Franchisees were locked out of service stations in the early hours of the morning after being accused of breaching agreements
• One of those franchisees is counter-suing
• Claims UP engaged in 'unconscionable conduct', forced franchisees to stock products above market prices

One of the franchisees is counter-suing the franchisor, claiming it engaged in unconscionable conduct.

Ram Nijhawan and his wife Kirti thought buying a United Petroleum franchise in Melbourne's south-east would set their family up for life.

In 2011 the former NAB employee was struggling to juggle full-time work and care for his wife who was recovering from breast cancer and a mastectomy.

"Kirti was never going to return to work full-time so we needed a stable income and to build security for us," Mr Nijhawan said.

The Nijhawans invested more than $400,000 in a United Petroleum service station franchise at Narre Warren North.

According to court documents, United Petroleum loaned the Nijhawans about half of the purchase price.

But the family's hopes of running a profitable business with the help of their two sons, both university students, ended in February this year.

"We're devastated, totally. Financially, emotionally, physically. We have been ruined. We're finished," Mr Nijhawan said.

Franchisees locked out by United Petroleum representatives

After buying the franchise, Mr Nijhawan said he struggled to make it profitable.In addition to the business not doing as well as he had hoped, there was a series of problems at the Narre Warren North site.

The car wash was closed after the Nijhawans found water pouring over electrical sockets and a major refurbishment took two-and-a-half months.

When it re-opened, Mr Nijhawan said the electricity bill increased dramatically after United Petroleum allegedly changed suppliers without consultation. Mr Nijhawan refused to pay the extra cost.

As the dispute escalated he said he told United Petroleum he was going to India to try and raise money from relatives.

"Until then please do not let the situation worsen," Mr Nijhawan said he told United Petroleum.

It's a fight between an ordinary man and a giant. They can crush us.

Ram Nijhawan

While her husband was overseas, on February 20, Kirti Nijhawan was woken up by a phone call at 4:30am by the nightshift worker at the service station.

He told her security guards and United Petroleum representatives had seized the business, locking the franchisees out.

"I just fainted, everything was gone," Mrs Nijhawan said.

Her 23-year-old son Dinesh found her unconscious on the floor.

The family has not set foot in the business since that day, losing their whole investment including $50,000 security bond, all stock, cash and personal belongings.

The Nijhawans are now facing legal action in Victoria's County Court against the national chain of service stations.

"It's a fight between an ordinary man and a giant," Mr Nijhawan said.

"They can crush us."

United Petroleum is suing the Nijhawans for about $100,000 it alleges the family owes.

The Nijhawans are counter-suing, claiming United Petroleum engaged in unconscionable conduct and forced franchisees to stock products like gas bottles and confectionary above market prices.

Court documents also allege a United Petroleum representatives threatened to "breach [Ram Nijhawan] out" of business.

Claims sites intentionally re-sold to reap franchisee fees

Solicitor Tsungai Mukushi represents two other former United Petroleum franchisees who were also locked out of their service stations in the early hours of the morning after being accused of breaching their agreements.

PHOTO: United Petroleum's chief operating officer David Szymczak says terminating a franchise occurs rarely and is a last resort.

Mr Mukushi said his clients were also considering suing the service station company.

Each has lost about $500,000.

"A pattern of behaviour emerged which is very concerning to us and certainly warrants questions being put to the court about great injustices that have occurred," Mr Mukushi said.

He said both his clients were forced from their businesses on the basis of trivial breaches of their franchise agreement that they disputed.

"There's a very gross sense of injustice when someone invests their life savings and such a significant sum and effectively be terminated [like that]," Mr Mukushi said.

He also pointed out that United Petroleum benefited every time it re-sold a franchise site by about $145,000 in fees.

"If you own a site and you sell it to someone for $500,000, and you terminate that franchise agreement without compensating them, and you sell it to someone else for $500,000 ... you stand to make a lot more money than you would from the royalties of selling petrol," Mr Mukushi said.

"It appears based on the instructions that have been given to us that these people aren't interested in selling petroleum but are interested in selling franchises again and again from the same site."

'I am happy I didn't lose everything'

Father-of-two and former United Petroleum franchisee Harpreet Singh sold his Melbourne business at a loss in March and said he was relieved.

"I lost money but I am happy I didn't lose everything," he said.

The former carpenter moved from New Zealand to Melbourne three years ago and admitted he failed to check the business out properly before he bought it.

"I was way too excited to get into this thing, and we were brand new in this country," Mr Singh said.

It's a huge deal and a great thing back in India, to say to your family you are [running a petrol station] because they are also very proud.

Harpreet Singh

He said it is culturally prestigious for an Indian family to own a petrol station.

"It's a huge deal and a great thing back in India, to say to your family you are doing this thing because they are also very proud," Mr Singh said.

He said his business struggled because United Petroleum dictated what products its franchisees sold and at what price, including United Petroleum home branded products.

"We threw them. We literally threw them in the bin," he said.

Mr Singh said he felt guilty for selling the franchise on but he had no choice.

United Petroleum's chief operating officer David Szymczak said terminating a franchise occurred rarely and was a last resort.

He said at all times United Petroleum had abided by its legal and statutory obligations.

In the case of the Nijhawins, the franchise agreement allowed United Petroleum to terminate due to their repeated failure to pay electricity bills which totalled $17,000.

Regarding the allegation of forcing franchisees to purchase products above market prices, Mr Szymcsak wrote: "Like many franchise systems ... [United] Is permitted to require franchisees to acquire a designated range of goods from approved suppliers."

Spend the End of Summer With Your Kids

Play flashlight tag

A fun end-of-summer party idea is a campout!

This theme works especially well with children between the ages of 8 and 12. A fun overnight slumber party in late August is a perfect way to end summer before heading back to school.

Here are some fun activities to pass the time:

• Enjoy a proper cookout, and end the evening with s’mores.
• Have a water balloon fight.
• Tell scary ghost stories before going to bed. Have the storyteller hold a flashlight.
• Play flashlight tag.
• Pitch tents together.
• Use a telescope and gaze at the stars. Teach a fun astronomy lesson while you do this.
• Make tie-dyed T-shirts—a great take-home campout party favor.
• Blow bubbles and shine your flashlights on them. This produces cool effects everyone is sure to love.
• Make luminary bags with your guests to light the path to their tents.
• Take a long hike/walk through your neighborhood, or, even better, in a nearby wooded area or park.
• Have a sing-along around the campfire. Does anyone play guitar?
• Provide bug jars and catch fireflies.

Favors for this party can include flashlights, tie-dyed T-shirts, or little knapsacks filled with camping stuff (bug spray, glow-in-the-dark stickers, water guns, glow bracelets, little plastic animals that you would find in the woods, etc.). The ideas are endless.

As you can see, overnight camping parties are great fun. Kids love them, and you will too, given the variety of activities that can easily fill the night.

One cautionary note, and this is true of any sleepover: Make sure to get contact information from parents when they drop their kids off. Some kids are ready to spend the night away from home and others are not. In case someone wants to go home or gets sick, make sure to have the parents’ contact details on hand to make that important call.

Happy camping trails to you!

This article originally appeared on Cozi

This article was written by Lisa Kothari for Cozi, a Time Inc. company. Cozi is the leading family organizing app that makes it simple to keep track of everyone’s schedules, shopping lists and to dos. Information is updated in real time and shared with each member of the family, so everyone is always on the same page. Get the Cozi app (it’s free!) atcozi.com or search for Cozi in your favorite app store