The Infiniti Q50 is set to ditch its new steering system in favour of the old one from its predecessor. Speaking with Car and Driver, Infiniti head of product planning Keith St. Clair admitted the Japanese car maker was planning to scrap the Q50’s base electric power steering system and replace it with the rack [...]
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Infiniti Q50 to ditch new steering system for old one from G37 – report
Lexus says no to high-performance SUVs
Japanese luxury manufacturer Lexus says it has no intention to create high-performance F models of its SUVs to go up against its German rivals. Speaking to the media at the launch of the new Lexus RC F in New York last week, the chief engineer of the F program, Yukihiko Yaguchi, confirmed there are no plans to [...]
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Renault TraficRider concept teased
The all-new Renault Trafic van is set to get the KnightRider treatment, as the brand prepares to show what is expected to be a new technologically-advanced version of the load lugger on September 2. A teaser video of the Renault van has been shown, highlighting the funky coloured lights that are fitted to the grille [...]
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Lexus LFA: no plans for next-generation supercar
A replacement for the extremely limited-edition Lexus LFA is but a dot on the horizon, as the Japanese brand has stated there are no plans currently underway for a second-generation supercar. There were only 500 examples of the Lexus LFA ever built, and the car was an exercise in brand-building for the Toyota-owned luxury manufacturer. Powered by a 4.8-litre [...]
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2015 BMW X6 M : New performance SUV drops camouflage
CarAdvice’s spy photographers have snapped the most revealing images of the new BMW X6 M to date ahead of its anticipated unveiling later this year. The shots show the red X6 M prototype in seemingly production-ready form on public roads in Germany with only small sections of camouflage wrap disguising its front and rear bumpers, wing [...]
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ANCAP adds date stamps to dispel confusion over crash test scores
The Australian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) has added a new feature to its star ratings, with the introduction of date stamps that are said to make it easier for consumers. ANCAP says the date stamps allow potential new-car buyers to “identify the requirements against which each car has been tested”, meaning those same people won’t [...]
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Startup Mentors — How Do You Filter Out The Good, The Bad And The Ugly?
In light of the recent brouhaha over the actions of a particular European investor who had a habit of attaching himself to accelerators as a ‘mentor’, it seems an appropriate time to do a quick rundown on the kinds of things entrepreneurs need to look for in genuine potential mentor to them and their companies. Because, in case you have been hiding under a rock, there a lot of… Read More
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Box Office End of Summer: Some Profitable Hits In An Overall Blah Season
The summer frame, defined this year as May 2 through Labor Day, is down an estimated 14.8% versus the same period in 2013, when the industry was headed to a record year. In 2013, Iron Man 3 was phenomenal on the domestic front, grossing $409M to be the summer's top film. Compare that with this summer's top performer, once again featuring Marvel comic book heroes, in this case, Guardians of the Galaxy: Despite the same content source and distributor, this summer's No. 1…
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The car enthusiast is dying
As someone who is just about to turn 30, I am not exactly in the age bracket to reminisce on cars of the 1970s and 80s. But even back in my day, being a car enthusiast was ‘cool’. It was a badge of honour amongst those of us that loved cars indiscriminately. So it saddens [...]
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Lamborghini Huracan LP610-4 priced $27,000 below outgoing Gallardo
Following its official unveiling at the 2014 Geneva motor show, the all-new Lamborghini Huracan LP610-4 has arrived in Australian showrooms wearing a $428,000 price tag. The Huracan is the successor to the $455,000 Lamborghini Gallardo, which, with 14,022 units produced over its 10-year run, was the most successful Lamborghini model to date, accounting for half [...]
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Jennifer Lawrence, Ariana Grande, Kate Upton, More Celebs Have Alleged Nude Photos Leak In Massive Hack
The leak has been traced back to 4chan’s /b/ board. This post is SFW. Update : Lawrence’s publicist has confirmed the pictures’ authenticity to .
"The photos are completely fake," he said to in an email.
"This is a flagrant violation of privacy. The authorities have been contacted and will prosecute anyone who posts the stolen photos of Jennifer Lawrence," they said in an email.
Not all of the pictures' authenticity has been confirmed.
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Mark Wahlberg Skips Donnie's Wedding, Sends Congratulatory Instagram Video Instead
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Today is truly a joyous day of days: '90s pop culture icons Jenny McCarthy and Donnie Wahlberg tied the knot.
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Vladimir Putin Isn't Going To Stop
Wreaking havoc in Ukraine is just the beginning.
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On Friday night, a local lawmaker left his home in the northern Russian city of Pskov when he was attacked from behind by three men and beaten unconscious only to wake up, bloodied, in a hospital hours later. The lawmaker, Lev Shlosberg, had been leading an investigation into the mysterious burials of several members of the Pskov-based 76th Airborne Division, who were rumored to have died fighting in Ukraine. Journalists who attempted to reach the cemetery days earlier were also attacked.
TV Rain, one of Russia's last remaining independent news outlets, has interviewed Russian servicemen taken prisoner in Ukraine. The Soldiers Mothers Committee, an NGO that focuses on human rights abuses in the Russian military, says it has counted 400 cases of dead or wounded Russian soldiers in Ukraine. Yet Russian dissidents still feel the need to pen essays beseeching the West to understand that a war is underway.
The game of "when will Russia invade Ukraine" began in May and continued over several months with fits and starts. Now that it is actually happening — military hardware has been spotted crossing the border; Russian soldiers are coming home in body bags — the world is at a loss. The European Union is riven by internal divisions fostered, in part, by Russia, while the Obama administration behaves as though nothing has really changed. "It's not really a shift," President Barack Obama said on Friday, when asked about recent developments in Ukraine. That's either willful blindness or a serious misreading of the situation.
After weeks of successes in winning back rebel-held territory — often with its own brutal bombardment of civilian population centers — the Ukrainian army now faces real pushback from the separatists, thanks to Russian reinforcements.
Russia watchers are now trying to figure out Vladimir Putin's grand strategy. Is he trying to foster chaos of the type that plagued the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, in order to leverage his position at the negotiating table? Does he want to see another "frozen conflict" — of the type that already afflicts several other former Soviet republics, like Moldova with Transdnistria or Georgia with South Ossetia and Abkhazia? Does he want to follow his own Crimean model and make East Ukraine — namely the regions of Donetsk and Lugansk — part of Russia?
A look at terminology might help. In the past several days, a term has forced its way through — into Putin's mouth and straight onto state television broadcasts. No longer do Russians hear about the Donetsk People's Republic, the term favored by the rebels, and their Kremlin masters, since the conflict began. Suddenly, we're talking about "Novorossiya," which translates as "New Russia." It's a Tsarist-era delineation that encompassed several southern Russian regions and parts of Ukraine (including Donetsk and Lugansk, among others). What matters most to Putin is total and explicit allegiance — whether the territory is technically part of Russia or not.
As is particularly the case when he is feeling on top, Putin has been unstoppably public lately. On Friday, he made an appearance at the annual Seliger youth camp, a project to build "patriotism" among Russian teens. Amid the warning to the West ("don't mess with us"), which came coupled with a casual reminder "that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers," Putin expounded on something new. He turned his attention to Kazakhstan, another former Soviet republic and one with a sizeable Russian population. He praised its president and the economic integration the two countries have seen as part of the Moscow-led Customs Union which, he said, "we will take…to its logical conclusion." Most notably, he said that "the Kazakhs had never had statehood" until the Soviet Union fell apart. It was a comment remarkably similar to one Putin notoriously made in 2008, saying Ukraine was not a "real country." "This is an extraordinary event," wrote Nate Schenkkan, a Central Asia analyst who dissected Putin's comments.
Which is to say, those who think Putin will stop in Ukraine are misguided. His nationalism appears to be growing by the day, but it has old roots. Many were confounded when Putin embraced Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer best known in the West for exposing Russia's network of labor camps in The Gulag Archipelago and One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich. But later in life, working off the same deep Orthodox faith that once sustained him as an opponent to the atheist Soviet regime, he turned to a Slavic nationalism that once had him appear sorely out of touch, but today increasingly fashionable. In a 1990 essay called "Rebuilding Russia," he urged the creation of a Slavic state built on Russian Orthodoxy. It would encompass Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and northern Kazakhstan.
"Twenty years ago I wondered what would happen if Russia had a Milosevich," said Toomas Hendrik Ilves, the president of Estonia. "Pan-Slavism, Orthodoxy, fascism. I think it's heading in that direction."
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gif. | Josh Barnett Slaps Shayna Baszler
Prior to her UFC 177 fight against Bethe Correia, Shayna Baszler got the taste slapped...
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.gif | Bethe Correia Hip Thrusts After Defeating Baszler
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BJPenn.Com Radio Tonight At 7 P.M. Chris Cariaso, Luke Sanders, Joey Beltran, & MikeChandler
Listen To Sports Internet Radio Stations with BJPenncom Radio on BlogTalkRadio Our first guest Chris...
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Typing Writer Turns Your iPad Into A Typewriter (And No, It Wasn’t Created By Tom Hanks)
A couple of weeks ago, Hanx Writer, a typewriter app from movie star Tom Hanks, shot to the top of the Apple App Store. I guess there must be something in the air, because it’s not the only iPad-into-typewriter app to launch recently. There’s also Typing Writer, an app created by Stephen Elliott, founder of the literary website The Rumpus, along with Eli Horowitz, Chris Ying,… Read More
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AnandTech Founder Anand Shimpi Is Heading To Apple
A day after announcing his retirement from writing, it’s come to light that veteran journalist Anand Shimpi will soon be joining Apple. The move, which was first reported by Re/code earlier today, was confirmed by the company. Read More
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Microsoft Continues Its Campaign Against A US Warrant Demanding Overseas Data
A search warrant commanding Microsoft to turn over certain customer email data that is currently stored overseas was unfrozen late this week. The company declined to comply. In a statement, Microsoft said that it “will not be turning over the email and plans to appeal.” This protest act by Microsoft, arguing that domestic warrants should not be able to command access to data… Read More
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Apple’s New Spaceship HQ Doesn’t Look Like A Spaceship Yet, But It’s Huge
Apple’s new spaceship-style campus is one of the last things on the company’s mind right now, with the iPhone launch looming just over the horizon. However, that hasn’t stopped some curious folks from peeking around over at the construction site. YouTuber jmcminn has captured video on a GoPro Hero 3+ using a Phantom 2 drone, and the end result shows us the foundation of… Read More
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This Labor Day, Reflect On Diversity And The Future
2014 is the year that work became a central point of discussion in Silicon Valley. For the engineers and knowledge workers in the region, issues of diversity and inclusion finally got their turn in the limelight, forcing us to question our deeply...
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Investor Pavel Curda Dumped By Euro Accelerators After Sleazy Emails
Pavel Curda, the European Angel investor and ‘mentor’ who became the centre of a media maelstrom after admitting to emailing point-blank requests for sex to tech business woman at a conference, has been shunned by the tech accelerators he continues to list as working with him. Curda has now been dumped by at least three accelerators, as well as losing his role as a writer with… Read More
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Dana White: “There’s A Ronda Rousey On This Season Of The Ultimate Fighter
Ever since Ronda Rousey graced the Octagon with her skills, people have wondered if we...
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Derek Brunson Plans Return To Jackson Camp After UFC 177 Victory
“I need to get back out to Greg Jackson’s. He cornered me (Saturday), but I...
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Dana White Interested In Signing Ben Askren
Ben Askren has been campaigning very hard for a fight in the UFC, something Dana...
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UFC Pays Anthony Birchak And Scott Jorgensen Show And Win Money, Barao Earns $0.00
The UFC decided to pay Anthony Birchak and Scott Jorgensen their show and win money...
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Dana White Guarantees Faber And Dillashaw Would Fight Eachother
“It’s no different than GSP and Rory Macdonald… You don’t run around saying ‘I’ll fight...
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Barao Doesn’t Blame Passing Out On Weight Cut
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.gif | FAIL! Faber Gets Left Hanging During UFC 177
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‘Meet The Press’ Introduces Chuck Todd: VIDEO
NBC News this morning began warming up the Meet The Press audience for its new host Chuck Todd, who debuts a week from today.
The canned piece features Brian Williams, Todd's wife and mother, Savannah Guthrie and Tom Brokaw — who said he not only wants to extend good wishes to Todd, but also to David Gregory, the guy NBC News dumped to give him the slot. Aw, snap!
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Pete Hammond’s Telluride Q&A With Makers Of ‘The Imitation Game’ [Video]
Deadline's Pete Hammond is in Telluride for the film festival, busily seeing (and writing about) as many awards contenders there as he can. But Pete also took a bit of time after watching The Imitation Game to sit down with the film's producers Ido Ostrowsky, Teddy Schwarzman and Nora Grossman, screenwriter Graham Moore and director Morten Tyldum.
The film, being distributed by The Weinstein Company, tells the painfully true story of Alan Turing, the brilliant British…
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New York broadcaster picks up where Aereo left off with new Tablet TV service
Broadcasters fought tooth and nail against Aereo because they wanted to retain control of their content, but no one ever said the TV-streaming service wasn't a good idea.Now one broadcaster, New York's Granite Broadcasting Corp., is taking up Aereo's m...
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Apple may have a new partner for its iPhone 6 payment platform
Thanks to reports that appeared late in August Apple is expected to reveal a new iPhone 6 mobile payment platform in September, and the company has reportedly found a new partner.Apple has reached an agreement with American Express to work together on ...
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White: Barao May Need More than One Win to Earn Title Shot
Dana White was none too pleased when he heard that Renan Barao could not make...
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Jason “Mayhem” Miller Draws Rampage Jackson – WOW!
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PHOTO | Dan Henderson Knows How To Party, Over 30 Cases Of Beer
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White: Rousey Says She Wants to Beat Correia Before Someone Else Does
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Inflame: Smartwatches are everywhere, so why are they still winding people up?
The big smatwatch wind upLG and Samsung have released so many types of smartwatch of late you'd think everyone on the planet had at least eight arms - and that people actually cared about smartwatches. Although this week in smartwatch news, things did get a little interesting. LG discovered a new kind of shape. It's a bit like a wheel, sort of curved at the edges, and looks round. The press release said it was a Circle(TM). The LG G Watch R, complete with a serious-looking diver's watch face, converted quite a few Moto 360 fans to LG's wearable cause in a flash, although debate turned to how exactly LG's engineers manage to manipulate the bezel to mask the corners of the square display beneath. Some people felt they're being ripped off by having the corner of the square screen hidden from them, which is a little odd. Samsung also announced its Samsung Gear S this week, a smartwatch that curves along the other axis, bending around the wrist like a bracelet. Ideal for all those top fashion models who fancy trying out the Tizen OS.But is any of this enough to convince the world that a watch with a battery that only lasts a day or two, and functions like a stripped-down version of the mobile phones we already own, is a good idea? Normalised Looking quite like a normal watch is a strange selling point for a gadget, what with normal watches that look exactly like watches not exactly short on the ground. Beneath a piece on The Verge in which a writer spent 529 words saying he didn't like the look of LG's latest watch-like smartwatch very much, reader Wingzero0 hit incisiveness gold with: "If nothing else, it'll give Apple a template on what people like and don't like and they can go from there."After some tedious back-and-forth about Nexus 5 battery life and fights about who's a stupid fan of what, discussion returned to the standard watch and the status these ancient, non-smart wearables once inferred on the wearer. After someone claimed no proper watch enthusiast would consider a smartwatch, reader Pyrolys replied with: "Sorry, but you don't get watches. The 'rebirth' of the automatic watch is due to the renewed interest of people in the craftsmanship it involves. Phones have never been about that."Reader Decmir is also on the side of things that tick because of cogs rather than due to speakers, saying: "It's OK to buy a new phone every two years. It's also OK to die wearing the watch you were offered at twenty. Personally I'll stick to analogue timepieces!" Bottom gear Meanwhile, Samsung's tech announcement of the week was the Gear S, the Tizen-powered gadget it's using to target the sporty crowd. On the Guardian, no one was impressed by its size, with even this second-generation of slightly slimmer, curvier screens not going down too well. Commenter Nuspeak said: "I think they are all too big, too ugly and with too poor battery life. I think we are a number of generations, possibly 2-3 years away from something that will break the mass market."To which ageing reader SugarPlumpFairy replied: "Remember the first digital watches in the 70s? They were huge; you had to lift your wrist with your other hand to see the time. I'm sure I still have one shoulder higher than the other." Reader Threlly thinks Samsung and LG are simply pumping this stuff out there now before Apple steps up and owns the market, posting: "I sense a rush to get products out before Apple come along on the 9th and crush them like bugs." Rotate wrist toward face and wink to activate time-telling feature Apple Insider poked its nose in again this week, using the Samsung and LG launches as a way to get its readers slagging them both off to create a riot of page impressions. Reader Nagromme doesn't seem to think that even Apple can solve the issues currently dogging the wearables scene, though, belittling the devices with his questions: "Screen always visible (without weird twitches or gestures) or not? Battery life for days, or not? If those don't have good answers, then chasing the 'watch' concept is barking up the wrong tree."Perhaps some sort of kinetic self-charging option might be an option? Imagine the amount of physical activity the wearer would need to get up to in order to keep a smartwatch charged. It could single-handedly end the obesity crisis. Reader jkichline, meanwhile, is not overly won over by Samsung's wearable aesthetic, saying: "I'm not sure who Samsung is designing for. Buzz Lightyear perhaps? Does it come with a laser weapon too?" Later, better, more productive And what of the so-called iWatch itself? Beneath a Gizmodo thing about the trillions of vague rumours and Apple wearable patents that have popped up of late, the knives are already out and attempting to dent the iWatch's rumoured sapphire glass display. Reader Jonny Smyth leapt in with both feet, commenting cynically: "It'll be overpriced, underpowered and totally not worth it, but the Apple fanboys will defend it anyway." To which The Artgineer responded: "People will claim it's overpriced, underpowered and totally not worth it before it's even announced, if it even exists." Commenter The Terminator doubts smartwatches will ever become popular, as their features won't have the same timeless appeal of their non-smart forefathers. He commented: "A deal breaker for me would be a non-replaceable battery. Unlike mobile phones, watches are meant to last the test of time (no pun intended) as they represent fashion and have a nostalgic appeal. They're not meant to be thrown out with every new iteration." This is presumably why Apple's not done one yet. What's the benefit to a tech company in making a gadget that you don't have to replace with a new one every 18 months? Inflame is TechRadar's weekly look at beneath the fold.
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In depth: Forget IM: why email is still the ultimate form of online communication
Why email has enduredYoung people don't use email. Everyone hates their never-ending inbox. The likes of WhatsApp, Twitter and SnapChat are gaining in popularity. But does all that really mean that email is dead? For many of us, email is the internet's 'killer app', a neutral, open innovation of the kind it no longer seems capable of creating. It may have first been used in 1971 and it can seem woefully outdated, but email isn't going anywhere. In an uncertain world where the internet may already be full, email is the one thing we can rely on. It has stamina that new communication platforms can only dream of. "Email has staying power because it has continued to evolve over the past three decade," says Paul Leprévost, Frontend Developer at Mailjet. "It's a trusted source, as most people have an email address and see it as a reliable channel for sending and receiving messages."The write stuffWho still uses email? Well, everyone on the internet... and counting. The Radicati Group report that the number of worldwide email accounts will grow from over 4.1 billion today to 5.2 billion in 2018, with email users increasing from over 2.5 billion now to over 2.8 billion. The workplace is obsessed with email; The Radicati Group reports that the 108.7 billion emails sent by businesses each day will increase to 139.4 billion by 2018. Simply put, email is massive. "Email will not be replaced for the foreseeable future," says Dr Peter Chadha, Founder of DrPete and co-author of Thinking of...Going Google Apps – To Save Money and Get Ahead – A guide for SMEs. It has replaced the letter as a format of choice for formal relationships, and until the millennials enter the working environment I can't see that any other forms of communication will replace it." There is a tiny chink in email's armour; the increase in non-business email usage is slowing, with the 87.8 billion personal emails sent each day estimated to grow to 'only' 88.3 billion by 2018. The culprit? Instant messaging (IM).What about social media & IM?Unlike email, not everyone on the internet uses the same system. Social media sites Facebook (1.32 billion), Twitter (500 million accounts), Google+ (340 million), Tumblr (150 million), LinkedIn (200 million), Instagram (100 million) dominate, but there are countless others around the world, such as WhatsApp, SnapChat, Skype, Japan's Line, South Korea's KakaoTalk and China's WeChat. IM is part of all of them. What's your IM of choice? Depends on who you're communicating with, right? Perhaps you send text messages with close friends, and use either Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp with wider circle of friends, use Google Hangouts with colleagues and Microsoft Lync with clients. It's a sector in flux. "We are still in the Wild West as far as IM goes," says Chadha. "There is no huge brand name behind them all and no real de facto standard." Isn't IM a killer app on mobile?Email is integrated into all modern mobile OS so perfectly that it's arguably easier to access than anything else. Litmus reported in October that a staggering 48% of emails are opened on smartphones and tablets while mobile email users worldwide number 897 million, according to The Radicati Group. OK, so that's nothing when you consider that 73.44 percent of Facebook's total user base now accesses the service from a mobile device, but in terms of numbers, email wins again. Why else would Facebook have devised its own email addresses? Who doesn't use email?Unquestioning eyes might look at the figures and see a demographic time-bomb underneath email. "There is no point in emailing students any more," Professor Sir Steve Smith, the vice-chancellor of Exeter University, told The Times in May. "They get in touch with us by social media, especially Twitter, and we've had to employ people to reply that way. Students will tweet for help if something has gone wrong."The may be a new generation who rely on social media and IM, and hardly use email, but there are far more internet users that rely far more on email. Besides, those students will soon be in jobs where email is the accepted norm. How else does one send attachments and retrieve old messages? Who thinks email is dead?The cloud crowd, those Silicon Valley types who, as well as being young and therefore not emotionally tied to email, can't see any way to make money from anything that already exists. The argument from these guys is that productivity is suffering in the workplace (which just happens to have a collectively massive IT budget). "If businesses rely solely on email, they run the risk of silo'ing knowledge into individual departments and restricting cross practice creativity that can otherwise be harnessed on wider enterprise collaboration platforms," says Wim Stoop, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Jive Software. Some complain that email is a time-sink, but there are ways around that. One of the best – and simplest – tricks comes from Unroll.Me; sign-up and your email account is searched, revealing all of your distracting daily subscriptions (it found a staggering 317 in mine). After you've thinned them out, Unroll.Me then consolidates the others, sending you one single daily email called The Rollup containing all of your subscriptions. Stoop still thinks email, and even IM, are doomed in the long run. "Technology in the workplace should and will go beyond IM and email, empowering employees to innovate collaboratively," he says. "Virtual workplaces" and centralised communicationsDespite email's resilience as a communication tool, the bulging work inbox is the bane of many an office worker's life. "An oversized inbox is a daunting prospect and with technology increasingly available that can boost productivity and dramatically reduce email volume, a change in the way businesses communicate is ahead," says Jon Jorgenson, group director from Access Group. "The email might not be dead, but the frequency in which it is relied upon may be under threat." Though he admits that there will always be a place for email in the business world, Jorgenson thinks that we're going to start to see a shift toward using technology that can replace emails with more time effective ways of communicating."Enterprise cloud communication tools provide ways of allowing people to communicate as they would on email through perpetual messaging," he says, "bringing together elements of instant messaging, group chat and online communities into a group messaging application for businesses."Myriad new platforms are emerging that try to make email more like social media, with the likes of HipChat, Trello, Salesforce.com, Yammer, Convo and Slack all attempting to replace internal email with a platform that lets employees message each other, share stuff and chat. Slack – the creation of an ex-Flickr co-founder – even has its own Wall of Love on Twitter. "We've recently started using Slack, and it's the closest anybody has come so far to a viable replacement for email," says Jon Norris, Web editor at Crunch Accounting. "It's faster, more collaborative, and integrates nicely with lots of our third-party apps. I'd estimate it's saving us at least a few hours a day already." However, there's a catch. "We can't switch over to Slack wholesale as everybody outside our organisation is still using email." That's not going to change anytime soon because very few of us even work in the kind of corporate office environment where such software is available. How the inbox is changing"In the long-term I can see email becoming more of an invisible protocol that various specialised apps use to send data to one another, rather than the raw communication layer it is now – we're already seeing the beginnings of this with Google's new Gmail API – and I'm all in favour," says Norris. The evolution of email has been a constant in the life of the internet. Gmail has its Priority inbox, whereby all circulars go under one tab, and all personal email into another. Apple has plans to introduce Mail Drop, which lets users choose to send large attachments through iCloud instead of through their recipients' email servers, while Outlook now integrates social media. The email inbox is fast becoming a hub, which shouldn't come as a surprise; wasn't email the original social media? The inbox is becoming a smartbox. Task-orientated app for smartphones, Mailbox – now owned by Dropbox – was a huge hit a year or so ago, so there's obviously a demand for new kinds of email. Baydin's Boomerang is a productivity plugin for Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo that adds scheduled messaging and the ability to send an email off into the ether, only for it to return at a specified (less busy) time. "As the email experience has continued to improve … it's clear that email's days are not numbered," says Leprévost, citing how the Mailbox app has created slick email on mobiles. "Since email is constantly evolving, the email we know today will likely not be the email we know ten years from now – expect to see new hardware and software developed that changes the communication experience, particularly with wearables." Email, the internet's most trusted brand, has plenty of mileage left in it yet.
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25 Living Room Ideas For Your Home In Pictures
A living room commonly known as a lounge is a room in the house for relaxing, resting and socializing. It is the most popular place in a house where family members come together at the end of the day, relax after a long tiring and busy work day or to watch and enjoy a TV […]
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25 Drawing Room Ideas For Your Home In Pictures
A drawing room makes the first impression of your entire home on your guests and can give a warm welcome to them with its decor and style. If you already have a living room for more low-key activities, your drawing room can act as a more formal and sophisticated setting for hosting and entertaining guests. […]
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15 Hacks That Make Your Tiny Kitchen Spacious
Once the house is constructed and the rooms are designed then they cannot be changed which is actually a dilemma, neither you can make it spacious , nor you can re-design it. But we do have a solution for that as well.So we welcome you to the world of being innovative, being different by designing your […]
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NASA Is Busy Building World’s Largest Rocket
Nasa bosses have said they are ‘firmly committed’ to building the world’s biggest rocket to take man to Mars. Although the agency might not be able to pay for the project, company has still completed a detailed review of the Space Launch System (SLS). SLS will be 384 feet tall and shall be able to […]
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Future US Army Tanks Will Look Like This
Tanks, the conventional ones, are slow and out-dated, right? But we all know that the modern warfare is about agility and to move rapidly while delivering the necessary firepower. So what is US Army going to do? The answer is quite simple; they are going with smaller, off-road vehicles that embody smart armor. The vehicle […]
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‘Doctor Who’ Down 1.59M UK Viewers In Sophomore Outing
Into The Dalek, the second episode of Doctor Who's new season averaged 5.2M viewers on BBC One on Saturday night from 7:30-8:15PM local. The sophomore turn by Peter Capaldi as the 12th Time Lord earned a 24.7 share. It was BBC One's most watched show of the day, but 1.59M, or 23.4%, down on last week's season 8 launch. Its lead-in, gymnastics competition show Tumble, fell to 2.74M viewers, its lowest rating of the series, but Doctor Who is expected to increase with…
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Simon Cowell’s Return To ‘X Factor UK’ Scores Best Launch Since 2011 With 9.5M Viewers
In a much ballyhooed return, creator Simon Cowell is back on the judging panel of ITV's singing competition show The X Factor UK. The 11th cycle kicked off last night with 9.49M viewers and a 43 share from 8-9:25PM local. (It peaked with 10.6M viewers and a 47 share.)
Over the last decade, the show's best debut rating was in 2011 with 11.3M viewers; the low end of the scale was the 2004 kickoff with 4.9M. Last night's bow is tied with 2007 for the No. 5 best perf.
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REPLAY! “UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Soto” Post Fight Press Conference
If you missed our live broadcast of tonight’s “UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Barao” post-fight press...
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Renan Barao Explains UFC 177 Withdrawal
Renan Barao reveals why he missed UFC 177 and more. “I was dehydrating in the...
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White on Barao missing weight, UFC 177
Dana White discusses Renan Barao’s absence from UFC 177, T.J. Dillashaw’s title defense and more.
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REPLAY! Diego Ferreira KO’s Ramsey Nijem
Highlights of Diego Ferreira’s KO victory over Ramsey Nijem.
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REPLAY! Yancy Medeiros’s Chokes Out Damon Jackson With Rare Submission
Check out highlights of Yancy Medeiros’s battle with Damon Jackson.
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REPLAY! Bethe Correia Blasts Through Baszler With 2nd Round Finish
Watch highlights of Correia’s fierce win over Baszler at UFC 177.
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REPLAY! Tony Ferguson Edges out Castillo In Controversial Decision
Check out highlights of Tony Ferguson’s controversial win over Danny Castillo at UFC 177.
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REPLAY! T.J. Dillashaw K.O.’s Soto In The Fifth
If you missed tonight’s “UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Soto” event, here’s some highlights from the...
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AnandTech Founder Anand Lal Shimpi Retires From Writing
We don’t always note when fellow tech writers hang up their hats, as those posts can start to seem a bit inside baseball-y. There are times when we just can’t help it, though — some writers are just too darned important. This is gonna be one of those times. Anand Lal Shimpi, namesake founder of the much-adored hardware news/review site AnandTech, announced his retirement… Read More
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Amazon Vs. Hachette: Fewer Middlemen Equals A Better World
By now everyone is well aware of the ongoing battle between Amazon and publisher Hachette. The thing is, we all know how this story ends, we just don’t know when it will be over. This one does not have a David vs. Goliath ending. Goliath is going to win — and that is a good thing for the world. Read More
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Lamborghini Factory Tour
You always remember your first. It’s like a sensory explosion, forever etched into your memory. The time, the place, intricate details. For me it was exactly 30 years ago – mid 1984. I was waiting at the lights on the corner of Nepean Highway and Alma Road in St Kilda in Melbourne, and there she [...]
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Saturday, August 30, 2014
UFC 177 Results: Brunson Wrestles His Way to Decision Win Against Larkin
Derek Brunson was able to get out of the path of Lorenz Larkin’s fists as...
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UFC 177 Results: Medeiros Lands Rare Reverse Guillotine, Submits Jackson in Round 2
Yancy Medeiros’ submission skills have improved greatly since training at Gracie Academy with the Diaz...
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UFC 177 Results: Ferreira TKOs Overaggressive Nijem in Round 2
We are two fights into this “lackluster” pay-per-view and it’s already worth the $60 price...
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UFC 177 Results: Correia Blasts Through Baszler, Picks Up Easy 2nd Round TKO Win
Bethe Correia’s kickboxing is among the best in the division. She showcased her skills tonight...
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UFC 177 Results: Ferguson Picks Up Close Decision Win Over Castillo
The split decision was razor close, but it was Ferguson’s offense off his back that...
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UFC 177 Results: Dillashaw Retains Title, KOs Soto in 5th Round
Joe Soto did do a great job tonight and showed rays of brilliance in his...
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UFC 177 Bonus Report: Dillashaw and Medeiros Take Home Extra $50,000
Fight of the Night: Diego Ferreira vs. Ramsey Nijem Ferreira and Nijem kept the excitement...
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‘The Voice’ Season 7 Contestants Have A New Advisor: Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift will be joining season 7 of NBC's The Voice which debuts on Sept. 22 and will be advising contestants across all four teams in a role similar to Coldplay's Chris Martin last season. Swift will be working with Voice vets Adam Levine, Blake Shelton, as well as new coach Gwen Stefani and Pharrell Williams in addition to previously announced advisors Steve Wonder (on team Levine), Gavin Rossdale (working with wife Stefani), Little Big Town (with Shelton) and…
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FT Vet Rona Fairhead Expected To Be First Woman To Chair BBC Trust
Former Financial Times Group chief executive Rona Fairhead is understood to have been selected by the British government as the next chair of the BBC Trust, the body that oversees the BBC. Fairhead still has to be questioned by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, and signed off on by the Queen, but BBC News reports Culture Secretary Sajid Javid said she was the government's preferred candidate. Should she garner all the necessary stamps of approval, she would…
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(Video) The Reason Why You Should Start A Business Using Youtube
My YouTube channel is 3 months old and I make more than a full-time income from it. In fact, I have an employee. I’m not the only one, either – I have friends who are making an income from it. I know 18 year olds who are making an income from it. There is nothing […]
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How The Digital Revolution Can Fix Scientific Publishing And Speed Up Discoveries
Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) publishing is big business. It generates $19 billion in revenue per year, the majority of which is earned by a few powerful publishers who enjoy profit margins of up to 40 percent. Inflated subscriptions s...
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Cable companies want the FCC to squash local cities' own networks
Local governments in two US cities have taken the internet into their own hands, building high-speed networks for their residents to use.And broadband association USTelecom - which represents Comcast, Time Warner and other internet providers - is determined to stop them.It's not just that residents whose municipalities provide internet for them are no longer subject to Comcast and TW's horrible and pricey service; it's that these governments can't be trusted to do it right, USTelecom said.And now it's petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to stop progress in its tracks.Haven't heard that one beforeSpecifically the broadband association wants the FCC to deny petitions filed by the cities of Wilson, North Carolina and Chattanooga, Tennessee asking the Commission to override state laws that could make those cities' own broadband networks illegal."States are well within their rights to impose these restrictions, given the potential impact on taxpayers if public projects are not carefully planned and weighed against existing private investment," USTelecom Senior Vice President of Communications Anne Veigle wrote in an official blog post."The success of public broadband is a mixed record, with numerous examples of failures," she continued. "With state taxpayers on the financial hook when a municipal broadband network goes under, it is entirely reasonable for state legislatures to be cautious in limiting or even prohibiting that activity."At least she admits that the association is calling on the FCC to block cities' broadband expansion for that "and other reasons." Wonder what those other reasons could be?The FCC wants gigabit internet speeds in every state by 2015
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Cultural Realities Of Latin American Entrepreneurship
One of the brilliant things about tech leaders and pundits in Silicon Valley is their true passion for entrepreneurship and their belief in the power of the human spirit and intellect. Surrounded by the sight of so many motivated and talented fou...
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Intel’s CEO Envisions A Future Where Wearables Don’t Look Like Wearables — And It’s Not That Far Away
Intel CEO Brian Krzanich foresees a day when a wearable is no longer seen a one-size-fits-all device that you put on your wrist. That day could be coming sooner rather than later, as Intel-based wearable products will likely be shown off in the c...
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Lessons From The Sharing Economy
Companies everywhere are jumping on the sharing economy trend – from sharing skills to houses to cars, the sharing economy is transforming many industries. Technology has lowered the barriers so that anyone can provide services blurring the line between “personal” and “professional.” Read More
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Apple is fighting hard to get old Samsung devices banned from sale
The legal war between Apple and Samsung has been winding down lately, the mushroom clouds finally receding as the two companies cease their bickering in the dozens of cases they'd filed outside the US.But the war at home isn't over yet, Apple's latest move reveals.The house that Steve Jobs built recently appealed a US district court's decision not to grant an injunction against Samsung's sale of several devices that were previously found to be infringing on Apple patents.Judge Lucy Koh, who's been overseeing this case for years, said Apple can't prove that sale of these Samsung devices harms Apple's bottom line, but Apple clearly disagrees.What is it good for?The injunction Apple is seeking would permanently ban Samsung from selling devices including the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy Note 2, Samsung Galaxy S2 and several of its variants, Samsung Galaxy S3, and Samsung Stratosphere.Apple won the case years ago that says these devices and others do indeed infringe on some Apple patents, but the two companies have continued squabbling ever since.Nevertheless Judge Koh isn't convinced that Apple will benefit from a ban on the sale of these devices, thanks in part to the profits Apple posted in the third quarter of 2014."Apple has not demonstrated that it will suffer irreparable harm to its reputation or goodwill as an innovator without an injunction," Koh wrote in her previous ruling.Given both parties' proven tenacity, it's unsurprising that Apple would appeal, but here's hoping that this battle comes to a real end soon.Apple v Samsung: 10 secrets the court battle has revealed
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Telluride: Oscar Host To Oscar Contender? Jon Stewart’s ‘Rosewater’ Wins Standing Ovation At Festival
I ran into a producer and Academy voting member after this morning's smash screening of The Daily Show host Jon Stewart's impressive writing and directorial feature debut, Rosewater. He – and his wife – were raving about it, but also perplexed by a handful of early mixed reviews of the gripping political drama that had created some negative buzz among festgoers here even before the movie had its first screening (when it World Premiered Friday night at 9pm). “We were…
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White Explains Woodley vs. Lombard Fallout – ‘Woodley wants nothing to do with Hector fight ‘
“I sat down with Woodley after his fight in China. And, he won easily, quick...
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Bonnar Intentionally Released By Dana White To Go Beat Up Ortiz In Bellator
Earlier this week we reported that Stephan Bonnar was packing up and heading back to...
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EMBEDDED: White Fires Up Fighters Following ‘Most disgusting f*cking despicable media coverage of a PPV’
On episode 4 of UFC 177 Embedded, the cursed fight card becomes a Cinderella story...
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Watch Tonight’s UFC 177 Post-Fight Press Conference Live on BJPENN.COM
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UFC Boss: ‘Cancelling this event was never an option’
“[If] We cancel the show, some heavy shit has rained down on us if we...
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“UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Soto” Live Results & PPV Stream
“UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Soto” goes down tonight from Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena. In the...
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Exclusive Venice Clip: The Vibrant Bluegrass Music In Ami Canaan Mann’s ‘Jackie & Ryan’
EXCLUSIVE: Having screened earlier today at the Venice Film Festival and premiering tomorrow night, Jackie & Ryan, is the third feature from director Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of Michael Mann), which follows a train hopper, Ryan (British actor Ben Barnes), who is set on becoming a musician during the millennium's recession in Utah. He meets Jackie (Katherine Heigl), a single mother, who is fighting over custody for her daughter, however, a car accident propels their…
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Obama: "The World Has Always Been Messy... We’re Just Noticing Now Because Of Social Media"
The president downplays concerns of terrorism and crises, saying, “I promise you things are much less dangerous now than they were” in previous decades.
President Obama arrives at T.F. Green Airport in Warwick, R.I., on Friday.
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A day after saying "we don't have a strategy yet" to deal with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria militants, President Barack Obama on Friday sought to downplay concerns that terrorists and other international crises posed a greater threat to the U.S. than those during the Cold War.
Speaking at a private Democratic fundraiser in Purchase, N.Y., the president told donors, "if you watch the nightly news, it feels like the world is falling apart ... And I can see why a lot of folks are troubled."
But, Obama said, despite recent unrest in the Middle East, Russia's apparent invasion of Ukraine, and the explosive growth of ISIS, "the truth of the matter is, is that the world has always been messy."
"In part, we're just noticing now because of social media and our capacity to see in intimate detail the hardships that people are going through," the president told donors, who paid up to $32,400 a plate to attend the event. "The good news is that American leadership has never been more necessary, and there's really no competition out there for the ideas and the values that can create the sort of order that we need in this world."
His remarks came hours after the British government raised its terror threat level to "severe" as a result of militant activity in Iraq and Syria, meaning it is "highly likely" there will be a terrorist attack on UK soil.
"What we are facing in Iraq now with ISIL is a greater threat to our security than we have seen before," UK Prime Minister David Cameron said. "Poisonous ideology of Islamist extremism is the root cause of the terror threat," he continued.
Obama has faced criticism since telling reporters at a press conference Thursday "we don't have a strategy yet" to combat ISIS fighters in Syria, prompting Republicans to slam the president's foreign policy approach as the White House frantically tried to change the message.
"I promise you things are much less dangerous now than they were 20 years ago, 25 years ago or 30 years ago," Obama said Friday. "This is not something that is comparable to the challenges we faced during the Cold War."
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Friday, August 29, 2014
Tony Stewart Speaks Publicly for the First Time Following Kevin Ward, Jr.’s Death [w/ Video]
We saw the Tony Stewart press conference at Atlanta Motor Speedway this afternoon—you can watch his statement in the USA Today video at the bottom of this post, as well as a longer video of the conference—and we now know, well, pretty much nothing more than we did this morning. A clearly shaken Stewart, appearing to be […]
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‘The Greatest American Hero’ Gets Fox Remake With Phil Lord & Chris Miller
EXCLUSIVE: A Steven J. Cannell cult classic is getting a reboot at Fox. The network has given a put pilot commitment to The Greatest American Hero, a new take on the 1981 sci-fi dramedy, which is being shepherded by Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directors of the successful feature franchise based on another '80s TV series by Cannell, 21 Jump Street. Lord and Miller will executive produce the hourlong action comedy alongside Cannell's daughter, television director Tawnia…
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Fox Buys Detective Drama Based On Australian Miniseries ‘Jack Irish’
Fox is taking a spin on the crime drama genre with Jack Irish, an adaptation of the 2012 Australian mini-series starring Guy Pearce, which in turn was based on the detective novels by Peter Temple. (watch a trailer for the mini below.) Written by Seamus Kevin Fahey (The Following) and produced by 20th Century Fox TV and studio-based Chernin Entertainment, the adaptation centers on Jack Irish, a part-time lawyer, debt collector, and apprentice cabinet maker, who is getting…
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Animation Guild Wage Survey Paints Mixed Picture
The Animation Guild's 2014 wage survey is in (read it here), and it shows salaries for animators holding fairly steady this year compared with last year. But the reported median weekly pay for some jobs — most notably staff TV writers, feature storyboard artists, and staff story editors — is down from salaries reported five years ago. The median weekly pay reported by feature animation directors is up compared with 2013 and 24% higher than in 2010. Meanwhile, overall…
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Miranda Mayo Joins ‘Pretty Little Liars'; Samm Levine In ‘Selfie’
Miranda Mayo (The Game) has been cast in a recurring role on ABC Family's Pretty Little Liars, from Warner Horizon and Alloy. Mayo will play Talia, a chef who is new to Rosewood. She gets off on the wrong foot with Emily (Shay Mitchell), and things go downhill from there. Mayo, repped by Abrams Artist Agency and Sheila Crawford Management, recurs on Days Of Our Lives and next will seen in feature We Are Your Friends.
Samm Levine has booked a recurring role opposite Karen…
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Bob Cooper, EOne Prep Post-Apocalyptic Event Series With Book Acquisition
What if most of America is wiped out in a nuclear attack? Bob Cooper's Landscape Entertainment Television and Entertainment One Television are exploring that nightmarish scenario in an event series project based on the upcoming nonfiction book Raven Rock: The Inside Story Of The U.S. Government's Secret Plan To Save Itself - While the Rest Of Us Die by Garrett Graff. Landscape and eOne, where Cooper's company has a first-look deal, have optioned rights to the book, which…
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Telluride: Fandor Acquires Sci-Fi Short ‘The Sand Storm’ Starring Ai Weiwei
EXCLUSIVE: Indie film subcription service Fandor has acquired sci-fi short film The Sand Storm ahead of its Telluride debut this weekend, and has set a day and date release coinciding with its world premiere this Sunday, August 31. The narrative short is directed by Jason Wishnow, the filmmaker behind the viral idea-fostering TED Talks. It co-stars Chinese art star Ai Weiwei (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) in the dystopian tale of a city facing a water crisis in the near future…
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ABC Buys Medical Thriller From Janine Sherman Barrois & Aaron Kaplan
Medical drama's hot streak this pitch season continues with another sale at ABC. Cold Blood, from Criminal Minds executive producer Janine Sherman Barrois and Aaron Kaplan's Kapital Entertainment, is taking a different spin on the the medical genre, mixing it with a conspiracy thriller. Set at New York Memorial, the world's most prestigious hospital, Cold Blood has the feel of The Firm in a medical setting. It follows Dr. Cara West, an African-American attending who joins…
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Action! California Senate Overwhelmingly Passes $330M Film & TV Tax Credit Expansion
It's not totally signed, sealed and delivered, to quote Stevie Wonder, but Hollywood's tax incentive is finally going to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk. Two days after a deal was struck between the governor and the legislative leadership to increase California's $100 million Film and TV Tax Credit Program to $330 million, the state Senate today passed the Film and Television Job Creation and Retention Act. The bi-partisan vote on the amended legislation was 32 to 2 with 6…
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Box Office Matinees: ‘Guardians’ Will Become Highest Domestic Grosser of 2014; ‘November Man’ No. 3 This Weekend, ‘As Above/So Below’ No. 4
1st UPDATE, Friday, 4:47 PM: More estimates are arriving and it looks more like it'll be another Guardians and Turtles dominated weekend. The November Man is now in third place and may end up taking about $2.5M+ today for a three-day gross of maybe $8.6M to $9M and around $11M to $12M for its four-day and $12M to $14M for its five-day run. Pretty good considering Relativity acquired this film for only $3M earlier in the year.
As Above, So Below could pull in around $2.7M…
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Wil Wheaton Blogs His Syfy Show Is Toast
Wil Wheaton says Syfy will not order more episodes of The Wil Wheaton Project. The 12-episode summer series hosted by the actor/blogger/geek culture expert. The actor/blogger/geek culture expert blogged about it today, saying he got a call this week from a Syfy exec he did not name, as he was returning from a walk on the beach with his wife to look at the big waves.
"I have [Syfy Network Executive] for you," a disinterested assistant said. "Okay," I said. The line fell…
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Telluride: ‘Wild’ World Premiere Brings Tears And Oscar Talk For Reese Witherspoon
The Telluride Film Festival got started with a bang this afternoon — with a special Patrons screening in front of Friday night's official launch — as Fox Searchlight's December release Wild had its World Premiere and first-ever public screening. The best-selling nonfiction book by Cheryl Strayed about her hike across the 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail has been turned into a beautifully crafted cinematic journey by director Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club). R…
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A CNN Star Is Born As She Is Shown The Door: Video
The day before a holiday weekend usually is a good time to unload employees - Take Out the Trash Day, it's cruelly called in the business. Some of the best-known and most respected execs in TV industry have decided, the Wednesday before Thanksgiving for example, that they need to spend more time with their families or pursue other interests.
Corporate thinking is that the bad news will get missed by the many people already in vacation mode and not checking email, Twitter…
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15 Goofy Cameron Diaz Moments To Remind You Why You Love Her
Never change, Cameron Diaz, never change.
In one of her more recent films, she got hit in the face with a dodgeball. She is a fearless comedy warrior, and she deserves a salute. The goofiest of the goofy:
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It's On: Lawyers Fight For Supreme Court To Take Their Marriage Equality Case
The only question is whether the justices will agree to take on the issue — and, if so, which case or cases it’s going to be.
Gary Cameron / Reuters
WASHINGTON — Some of the top appellate lawyers and leading LGBT legal groups in the nation are squaring off in unusual filings at the Supreme Court this week asking the justices to hear their respective case about marriage equality.
Technically, the lawyers were responding to Supreme Court filings by state or county officials in Oklahoma, Virginia, and Utah that ask the justices to hear their case in order to uphold bans on same-sex couples' marriages.
In reality, however, the lawyers are pointing out to the justices why their case — and not a case in another state — should be the case heard by the justices in the coming term that will begin in October.
Although the justices won't consider whether to take any of the cases until, at the earliest, the end of September, the four filings this week showed how focused lawyers across the country supporting marriage equality are on getting a case — and, they hope, their case — before the justices in the next year.
The filings in cases challenging the bans on same-sex couples' marriages in Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia start from the unusual posture that all of the same-sex couples who filed lawsuits have won in the lower courts that heard their cases. Nonetheless, the importance of the issue has led all four legal teams — there are two in Virginia — to ask the Supreme Court to resolve the issue.
The filings share one thing: They argue that the justices should take a marriage case to resolve the issue, as the Virginia class-action plaintiffs put it, "so that the constitutional rights of same-sex couples in Virginia and elsewhere may be enforced without delay."
Although all four filings agree on that point, the four teams differ on which case or cases to take and why. Each explains why their case is the best "vehicle" for resolving the question, focusing on the distinctions between the cases.
One distinction is whether the justices will hear a case only asking whether same-sex couples can marry or whether the case will also address bans on recognition of out-of-state marriages of same-sex couples.
The filings also differ on how the state government officials treat the bans: Do the justices want to hear a case in which the state is totally defending the ban or are the justices OK with hearing a case in which at least some government officials agree that the ban is unconstitutional, like in Virginia?
Additionally, at least one of the briefs raises the issue of the experience of the lawyers involved in the case with Supreme Court litigation about gay rights issues. Finally, there is a question of whether the court might take multiple cases — something explicitly recommended in some briefs.
Of course, the justices don't need to take any of the cases, or they could hold them for a while, potentially into the next term, which wouldn't begin until October 2015. The unified filings — from supporters and opponents of the various states' bans — urging the court to take up the issue, however, suggest no one wants that.
In Oklahoma, local lawyers Don Holladay and James Warner of Holladay & Chilton and Joseph Thai, the lawyers behind Smith v. Bishop, have been joined by Jeffrey Fisher of Stanford Law School's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic to push the justices to take their case on behalf of the same-sex couples who sued back in 2004.
In Virginia, two different groups once fighting with each other have now resolved (at least for the moment) to push together, albeit in separate filings. They are urging the Supreme Court to take their case, filed after the Supreme Court's 2013 decision striking down the federal ban on recognition of same-sex couples' marriages.
In the named case before the justices, Rainey v. Bostic, the local lawyers with Shuttleworth, Ruloff, Swain, Haddad & Morecock were soon thereafter joined by the American Foundation for Equal Rights and lawyers Ted Olson, who argued against California's Proposition 8 at the Supreme Court, and David Boies with their respective teams at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Boies, Schiller & Flexner.
The second set of Virginia plaintiffs, a class-action lawsuit challenging the ban, successfully intervened in the Bostic case on appeal. They are represented by lawyers from the ACLU and Lambda Legal, as well as Paul Smith, the Jenner & Block lawyer who successfully argued against sodomy laws at the Supreme Court in Lawrence v. Texas.
Finally, in Utah, an ever-growing team has been assembled to represent the same-sex couples who sued the state in Herbert v. Kitchen. Peggy Tomsic, whose firm of Magleby & Greenwood brought the suit, was joined by lawyers from the National Center for Lesbian Rights at the appellate level and by Neal Katyal, the former acting solicitor general at the Justice Department who is now at Hogan Lovells, and lawyers at Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders.
In other words, a lot of lawyers are in on this — and they all want to be the ones who get to say their case was the one the ended the marriage bans across the nation.
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Reese Witherspoon Went Full ‘Legally Blonde’ To Cheer Up A Kid With Cancer
People seem to have forgotten about Reese Witherspoon of late. She may not have had major roles in a while, but she’s still a great person. This video is proof of that. Witherspoon recently recorded a video of herself to cheer up a 4-year-old suffering from cancer. The little boy’s name is Will, and, according […]
Reese Witherspoon Went Full ‘Legally Blonde’ To Cheer Up A Kid With Cancer
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Miley Cyrus Gets Completely Naked On The New Cover Of V Magazine (Photos)
Just when it looked like Miley Cyrus was turning over a new leaf, she goes and does something like this. Miley will appear in the nude on the cover of V magazine for the “Rebel” issue. Karl Lagerfeld shot the cover, so I suppose it’ll at least be artsy, in some way. But really, it’s […]
Miley Cyrus Gets Completely Naked On The New Cover Of V Magazine (Photos)
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While You’ve Been Shmoney Dancing, Bobby Shmurda Has Been Facing 15 Years In Jail
Bad news for Bobby Shmurda. According to TMZ, police arrested the 20-year-old rapper on June 3 and charged him with felony criminal possession of a weapon. Shmurda was said to have a 9mm Glock pistol with a loaded magazine on his person while in a Brooklyn apartment. The police witnessed Shmurda holding the gun and went […]
While You’ve Been Shmoney Dancing, Bobby Shmurda Has Been Facing 15 Years In Jail
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Joan Rivers Is In Stable Condition, May Be Taken Out Of A Coma This Weekend
Yesterday, legendary comedienne Joan Rivers stopped breathing during vocal cord surgery. The 81-year-old was then taken to Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Doctors placed Rivers in a medically-induced coma, and she is said to be in stable condition. According to CBS News, Rivers will be taken out of the coma sometime this weekend at […]
Joan Rivers Is In Stable Condition, May Be Taken Out Of A Coma This Weekend
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Lena Dunham Isn’t Afraid To Show Us What ‘Woke Up Like This’ Really Looks Like (Photo)
Apparently, I’m not the only one loving Lena Dunham’s zero f*cks attitude. As of right now, this photo boasts a whopping 70,000 likes on Instagram. And the caption only makes it, and her, better. Is this what Beyonce was singing about? (Also, pretty depressing that this look isn’t even fueled by one ounce of alcohol) […]
Lena Dunham Isn’t Afraid To Show Us What ‘Woke Up Like This’ Really Looks Like (Photo)
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Beyoncé Wrote A Poem About Blue Ivy, And People Don’t Think Its ‘Flawless’
We all think Beyoncé is perfect, flawless and a goddess walking among us puny mortals. No one said she was a writer. Bey wrote a poem that will be featured in the CR Fashion Book, alongside a spread of photos of her. The poem is called “Bey the Light,” and Bey apparently provided the words for the […]
Beyoncé Wrote A Poem About Blue Ivy, And People Don’t Think Its ‘Flawless’
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LIVE! Watch UFC Fight Club Q&A With Anthony Pettis And Urijah Faber
Anthony Pettis and Urijah Faber got together with UFC Fight Club members to answer questions...
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New Photo Of Christy Mack Surfaces 3 Weeks After War Machine Beating
Earlier this month we reported on the story where War Machine brutally beat Christy Mack...
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LIVE STREAM! Watch The UFC 177 Weigh-Ins Live On BJPENN.COM (7PM ET)
The weigh-ins for UFC 177: Dillashaw vs. Barao II take place tonight at 7P.M. ET,...
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BREAKING: Barao Passes Out While Cutting Weight, Pulls Out Of UFC 177
We have exclusive insider information from an extremely reliable source on the ground that Renan...
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TJ Dillashaw Disses Barao For Pulling Out Of Rematch: “He’s Scared”
Earlier today news broke that Renan Barao had withdrawn from his fight with TJ Dillashaw...
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Nintendo Announces The “New Nintendo 3DS”
First released in 2011, the Nintendo 3DS has been re-released both as the bigger 3DS XL and as the the cheaper, kid-friendly 2DS. In today’s “Nintendo Direct” video update, Nintendo announced the “New Nintendo 3DS,” an update to the platform that’s somewhere between a minor update and a full-fledged follow-up. Read More
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An Interview With Max Gurvits, Boy VC
Max Gurvits is an investor. Based in Bulgaria, the peripatetic VC is almost everywhere, showing up at events around the world and scouting out some amazing ideas. I talked to him about how he became a VC at a comparatively young age and what it t...
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Predictive First: How A New Era Of Apps Will Change The Game
Over the past several decades, enterprise technology has consistently followed a trail blazed by top consumer tech brands. This has certainly been true of delivery models – first there were software CDs, then the cloud, and now all kinds of mobile apps. In tandem with this shift, the way we build applications has changed and we’re increasingly learning the benefits of taking a… Read More
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Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.29.14
Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.
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Zimperium Updates Its Security Suite To Protect Employees’ iOS Devices From Cyberattacks
Zimperium, a mobile security company, provides a way to test if a public network has any vulnerabilities. Now, the company has updated its Mobile Threat Defense Suite to 2.0, bringing a new app to iOS devices — zIPS. Read More
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Vice Media Confirms That It’s Selling A Stake To A&E Networks At A $2.5B Valuation
Vice Media has agreed to sell a 10 percent stake to A&E Networks. The $250 million investment values the company at $2.5 billion.
The news was first reported in the Financial Times (warning: paywall), and a Vice spokerson confirmed both the deal and the valuation. Read More
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ThemeBoard Will Let Designers Share Custom Keyboards On iOS 8
Since the introduction of custom keyboards in iOS 8 at this year’s WWDC, we’ve seen a few implementations come from developers preparing solutions aiming to make the typing experience more convenient on the iPhone. Taphive’s ThemeBoard is something else — it’s a keyboard that mostly acts like Apple’s, but you can customize it with designs from the community. Read More
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Someone 3D Printed A Castle In His Backyard And It’s Awesome
I now know what I want for my birthday. Using customized 3D printing technology, Andrey Rudenko printed a castle in his backyard. It took him two years from conception to completion. The result is incredible: Better than that image is a clip from his website, showing how the construction process worked: According to Rudenko, building the castle with concrete had some unique issues. Rudenko… Read More
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The Revival Of Semiconductor Funding
Over the past few years the semiconductor funding ecosystem experienced a significant downturn. According to the GSA survey, there were only 5 Series A semiconductor funding rounds and 10 exits in 2010 in North America, Europe and Israel. Most of...
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Clever Launches New Instant Log In Feature
When adults are struggling to remember all of their passwords, how can second graders? After launching to provide a common API for K-12 education two years ago, Clever wants to help instructors teach more and worry about resetting students’ forgotten passwords less. The education technology company recently launched a feature that will allow students to use a single sign on to all of… Read More
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11 TechCrunch Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week
Before we take off for the long weekend, check out the best stories from the past week (8/23-8/29). After months of rumors suggesting that Google was prepped to snatch up Twitch, Amazon ended up dropping the money to make this deal happen. Alex Wilhelm originally reported the news for TechCrunch, but Kyle Russell offered some critical analysis about how Amazon’s acquisition is too big… Read More
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Dubious Recording Keeps Controversy Alive Around Claim That LGBT Ugandans Were Stoned To Death
“There is nothing about the stoning of six people to death — we don’t have anything about that,” the station’s publicity manager told .
Adrian Jjuuko, executive director of the Human Rights Protection and Promotion Forum in Kampala, Uganda, which investigated the alleged stonings and found no evidence they occurred.
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WASHINGTON — A Ugandan radio station is denying the existence of a recording released by an American organization to support its claim that six LGBT Ugandans were stoned to death earlier this month.
The organization, which calls itself the Friends New Underground Railroad (FNUR), released the recording on Wednesday, saying it was part of a Ugandan radio broadcast that described the stoning of six LGBT people earlier this month.
FNUR has been under fire since it publicized the report of the stoning as part of an Aug. 16 fundraising appeal. An investigation by a Ugandan human rights group turned up no evidence that the incident had actually occurred. Stonings are not common in Uganda, and investigators from the capital, Kampala, who visited the area on Aug. 13 found no one who had heard of any incidents of mob justice, nor had police heard reports of any adults being murdered in that timeframe.
Ugandan LGBT rights advocates became so concerned about foreign organizations publicizing unsubstantiated claims of hate crimes that they called for an official investigation by the Ugandan government with which they have often been in conflict around the Anti-Homosexuality Act, which was struck down by the courts earlier this month.
FNUR said in a blog post published Wednesday that the 13-minute recording posted to their website was "evidence [that] corroborates" reports of the killings, which it said it had heard about from three independent witnesses. The recording appears to be in a mix of English and the Ugandan language of Lusoga. It identifies the program as "The Council" and identifies the station as KBS, Kamuli Broadcasting Services, which is based in a town in eastern Uganda just south of Buyende, the district where FNUR says the attacks took place. The person being interviewed on the program does not appear to have witnessed the attacks, but rather says he "heard about the homosexuals." He then reads a list of names and provides details on how some of the victims were said to have died.
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The station's publicity manager, Galimaka Charles, denied that his station had ever broadcast any reports of stonings. (He told he had not heard the recording posted by FNUR.) The only case of "mob justice" Charles said he knew of in Buyende District happened around six weeks ago over outrage that a government worker had misappropriated funds, and no one was injured. This incident was still dominating discussions with the local officials and other reporters he had seen in the past few days.
"No, there is nothing about the stoning of six people to death — we don't have anything about that" on the station, said Galimaka. He also said they broadcast no program by the name given in the recording. "We do not have a program [called] 'Council' on KBS."
Galimaka also said that he knew of no place by the name of "Itukira," repeatedly identified as the location of the stoning in the broadcast.
This is consistent with what was found by the Ugandan group that investigated the accounts before FNUR publicized it, a legal organization called the Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum. The group's director, Adrian Jjuuko, told that the group found no record of the town in official government documents, and that the five investigators dispatched to look into the reports found no one who had heard of the place. Jjuuko also said that his organization contacted KBS and the other radio station based in the district, Impact FM, before the recording surfaced, and both denied broadcasting anything on the alleged stonings.
FNUR's American co-coordinators would not provide more information on how the recording was obtained, saying they feared that bringing further attention to the broadcast could place individuals in Uganda in immediate danger. They also did not provide information on the date and time the program was said to have aired. In the blog post publishing the audio recording, the group said, "Additional evidence of these murders will be released when Friends New Underground Railroad receives permission from the Ugandan Railroad conductors to do so."
The secrecy in which the group operates has caused concern among Ugandan LGBT rights organizations and established international human rights groups in the region since it launched this April. The organization, which operates under the auspices of a Quaker congregation in Olympia, Washington, says it has worked with Ugandan partners to help more than 450 LGBT Ugandans leave the country, with 130 escaping to places like South Africa, Europe, and the United States. Fewer than 100 Ugandan LGBT refugees are known to other human rights and refugee organizations in the area, and those trying to resettle in the West can spend months or years waiting for their visas. Ugandan human rights workers say they know none of the individuals evacuated by FNUR nor the identities of FNUR's Ugandan partners. FNUR also declined to connect Ugandan investigators to witnesses of the alleged stonings, citing security concerns.
's efforts to independently confirm accounts of FNUR's work have been unsuccessful. On Thursday, spoke to a person on a Ugandan phone number provided by FNUR who said he had worked with the group to help 83 individuals escape. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety, said he was temporarily out of the country because his security had been compromised at home, and alleged that a cover-up was under way in Uganda to suppress word of the stonings. His identity and details of his account could not be immediately confirmed.
"I don't know why somebody is trying to cover up that, because it's common knowledge among the people in this part of Uganda," said the conductor.
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Nearly One In Every Two Syrians Has Been Forced To Flee Their Homes
“The fact that 3 million Syrians are now refugees is just part of the picture of human suffering.”
Syrian refugee in the Za'atari refugee camp in Jordan in Oct. 2013.
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The number of Syrian refugees registered with the United Nations has topped three million — but only approximately 5,000 refugees, or 0.16% of those registered, have been resettled in countries beyond Syria's neighbors, according to Oxfam, a humanitarian organization.
"The fact that 3 million Syrians are now refugees is just part of the picture of human suffering," said Andy Baker, head of Oxfam's Syria team in a statement. "With 10.8 million more people needing help inside Syria and indiscriminate attacks on civilians claiming more lives each week, more and more families will be forced to seek sanctuary."
Almost one in every two Syrians has been forced to flee their homes since fighting erupted in 2011, according to a U.N. report released Friday. The Syrian operation is now the U.N.'s largest in it's 64 years of existence, while an estimated 6.5 million people have been displaced inside Syria as well, according to the U.N.
The majority of Syrians have fled to neighboring countries like Lebanon — where there are now 1.17 million Syrian refugees. Turkey has taken in 830,000 Syrians while Jordan has taken in 613,000, according to the U.N. Around 215,000 more Syrians have registered as refugees in Iraq and Egypt, while an unknown more have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe.
A six year-old-girl at a tented refugee settlement in Lebanon, near the Syrian border.
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Western countries have taken in far fewer Syrian refugees. The numbers can be difficult to compare, as each country has a slightly different process, criteria, and quotas for accepting refugees, asylum seekers, and other resettlement programs.
The UK has resettled 50 Syrian refugees since 2011 under the country's vulnerable persons relocation program, and offered asylum to an additional 3,500 Syrian nationals and their dependents already present in the UK, according to Oxfam UK.
The U.S. has resettled a total of 174 Syrian refugees as of July 2014, according to Human Rights First. The group said 36 Syrians were resettled in 2013 and another 78 have been taken in so far in 2014, and did not provide numbers for 2012 and 2011. Numbers were not immediately available for how many Syrians had sought asylum during this period, or entered the country to join family already in the country. has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department for further figures.
Germany has resettled the most Syrian refugees of all European countries. In June 2014, Germany pledged to take in 10,000 more Syrians, most of whom had family already in Germany, in addition to the 6,000 Syrians it had previously resettled using similar criteria.
In the U.S., specific immigration restrictions have so far undermined calls to resettle more Syrians. Each year, the White House sets a national quota for immigrants — 70,000 for 2014 — and designates certain countries as priorities. The quotas are divided by region, and Syrians fall under Near East and South Asia, which in 2014 was allotted a projected 34,000 visas, according to immigration lawyer David Leopold. The U.N. has many specific criteria that registered refugees must reach to qualify for resettlement, so only a small minority are ultimately referred to the U.S. for resettlement. In a post-9/11 world, the U.S. has also implemented security restrictions, such as a broadly applicable ban on letting in any refugee that has aided terrorists. (To bypass the quotas, the president can issue an executive order to create special resettlement programs.)
The United Nations High Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) is also facing a severe funding crises, further curtailing its Syrian operations. The U.S. and UK have been the top two donors to the U.N.'s Syrian humanitarian response — but overall donor countries have provided only half of the funds they've pledge. In June, the U.N. downscaled it's funding target for refugee assistance from $4.2 billion to $3.7 billion because of the lack of donor funds, according to Oxfam.
The U.N. numbers only cover Syrians that have registered with UNHCR. U.N. officials acknowledged that thousands more Syrians have escaped to nearby countries without registering, making the actual number of Syrians displaced by their country's conflict likely much higher.
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American White Nationalists To Hold Conference With Russian And European Far Right
The fringes of the U.S. conservative movement build bridges with their counterparts on the other side of the Atlantic.
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WASHINGTON — The white nationalist think tank the National Policy Institute is holding a conference in October in Hungary that will feature Alexander Dugin, a Russian nationalist thinker who is increasingly popular in Kremlin circles.
Richard Spencer, the president of NPI and a former writer at the American Conservative, said the conference, which will also feature figures from the ascendant European far right, would be the first of its kind for NPI outside the United States. It's part of an effort to reach out to "European traditionalists" all over the world, he said, and the relationship with Dugin is just beginning: a publishing arm attached to NPI will publish a book this fall by Dugin, who this week called for Ukraine to be "cleansed" of the Ukrainian "race of bastards."
"I think there are a lot of things happening in Europe that I think would excite people like me and people who want to go to the conference, and would excite Americans who care about their European identity," Spencer said.
Apart from Dugin, the conference will also host Márton Gyöngyösi, a leader of Jobbik, Hungary's extremist far right political party.
This is not the first time that figures from the fringes of the American conservative movement have built bridges with the right in Europe and Russia. Pat Buchanan has publicly expressed support for Vladimir Putin's policies, as have others. But this is the first time that Spencer's crowd of white nationalists, who are no longer welcome in the mainstream U.S. conservative movement, have so publicly joined themselves to their Russian and European counterparts.
Spencer's thoughts on the Ukraine crisis hew closely to Moscow's.
"I think to a large degree the Maidan revolution was organized and funded by outside powers, I don't think that's a controversial statement," he said. "I certainly understand the position of Ukrainian separatists and nationalists. I think that to a very large degree they are supporting a geopolitical policy of Washington and I myself am more sympathetic towards Russia as a major power entering the world stage. Russia has the opportunity, to put it bluntly, to make the world a better place."
"I'm sympathetic toward Putin in many ways," he said.
Spencer is a great admirer of Dugin's, whom he says he knows personally, and will be publishing a Dugin volume about the German philosopher Martin Heidegger this fall titled Martin Heidegger: The Philosophy of Another Beginning under the Radix Journal imprint, which is part of NPI.
"We're certainly honored to have him at our conference," Spencer said.
"I think the fact that we're inviting Dugin is expressive of the fact that we want to have a real healthy dialogue with the major currents of Russian conservatism," Spencer said.
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Grab Your Metal Detectors! Artist Hides $16,000 Worth Of Gold On The Beach For People To Find
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Look Up! College Students Spend Most Of Their Four Years Staring At Their Cell Phones
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Man Intentionally Infects 24 Men With HIV, Brags About It To His Friends Via Text
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Apple's iWatch might debut with the iPhone 6, but it won't launch until 2015
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Sleep Monitoring System Raises $2.5 million On Kickstarter in a Month
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