Michael Beckel, writing at The Center for Public Integrity.
The campaign money machines of Democrat Alex Sink and Republican David Jolly have not just been matched by outside forces, they’ve been lapped.
Roughly $12.5 million has flooded the heated special election on central Florida’s gulf coast, but less than one-third of that sum was controlled by the candidates’ own campaigns, according to a Center for Public Integrity analysis of federal records.
You can read more at the link.
Papers, Please, the game in which you bureaucratically decide the fate of hopeful immigrants, has surpassed 500,000 copies sold, according to the BBC. Created by former Naughty Dog developer Lucas Pope, Papers, Please was a 2013 favorite among many...
A woman was found dead this afternoon at Right 2 Dream Too—the rest area for the homeless at NW 4th and Burnside—possibly after overdosing on methadone and taking other medications for ailments including embolisms and congestive heart failure, according to her husband and other witnesses.
Emma Dreier, 45, was found unresponsive in the rest area's couple's tent around 3:30, after her husband, Don Perkins, 54, said he was unable to rouse her. They had walked over to Right 2 Dream Too around 1 pm from the Portland Rescue Mission. Perkins told me he could tell Dreier wasn't feeling well, possibly after overdosing on her medication, and that he turned to Right 2 Dream Too because he thought she needed a place to sleep.
"I wanted her to lay down," Perkins said. "She'd been taking other pills with her medication. She was addicted to opiates."
Dreier's death is the first at Right 2 Dream Too, which opened in October 2011, just shy of two and a half years ago. It has a steady contingent of 20 or so members who help run the site, but serves as a refuge for 70 to 80 overnight sleepers every day who come for 12-hour stints in a handful of common tents.
Members and others rushed to help Dreier, attempting CPR, until firefighters and paramedics showed up and tried to revive Dreier. Israel Bayer of Street Roots was the first to mention, via Twitter, that someone had died. Drugs and vice detectives followed rescuers to check whether Dreier had taken non-prescribed and/or illegal drugs. Forensics techs had also descended on the camp, but a medical examiner had yet to retrieve her body when I left a bit before 5.
Medical and police calls to Right 2 Dream Too have been decidedly rare, compared with traditional shelter providers in downtown—a finding in a Mercury story on dispatched 911 calls this winter. The Tribune also reported in January that 28 people had died at the $47 million Bud Clark Commons shelter and apartments through June of last year.
Perkins said he didn't mention that he thought Dreier had maybe taken too many pills when they came to Right 2 Dream Too and wasn't sure whether his wife had overdosed accidentally or on purpose. He also wasn't sure when she might have taken her medicine: "She didn't tell me. I just could tell by the way she was acting."
He said they've been married since November 11, 2001, and had been together in Portland since 2002. They've been homeless for the past two years. Dreier was struggling not only with her physical ailments and opiate addiction, but also her mental health, he said.
"She's tried to kill herself a number of times," via overdosing, he says. "They'd revive her and she'd go to Providence and they'd let her out and they didn't take it seriously."
Taking the pills, he said, was a way of coping. The heart failure, especially, he said, was bothering her. "It scared her."
Right 2 Dream Too has closed its tents for overnight sleepers for the time being. Eight other people in the common tents had to be woken up and moved out. Members were consoling one another on the sidewalk outside while the police and technicians did their work. It wasn't clear whether they'd reopen tonight, co-founder Ibrahim Mubarak says, pending a meeting with members and the completion of the police investigation.
Update 5:45 PM: Greg Margolis, a spokesman for Right 2 Dream Too, says the medical examiner has come and gone, and so have detectives and forensics technicians. That raises the chance the rest area will open as usual tonight; members had been expecting the authorities to linger for several hours longer.
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mom’s uncle went a whole visit once not knowing who I was
firehosetone is aggressively snarky, but the buried point: "When I get spoilers, I can sit back and enjoy the story in front of me, not checking my watch and waiting for everyone to get to the point."
I love spoilers. Or, more accurately, I demand spoilers. And I don't understand why you don't. Let me explain to you what you're missing out on.
    
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A man was stabbed with the point of a replica of the legendary sword during a domestic dispute in the city of Katy, Texas.
Eugene Thompson told police how his girlfriend called her ex-husband for help after they got into an argument, with Thompson drawing the sword as a means of defence.
"And I pulled it out and I stood in the doorway and he was just coming down that hall at me while I was yelling ‘Go away, you don’t live here,'" Thompson said.
"And he just walked right into the point. I don’t know if he thought it was a toy."
Link pulls the Master Sword in Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The man declined to mention whether he collected any rupees following the incident.
The ex-husband was taken to hospital following the altercation, but not before he, in true Zelda fashion, smashed a pot (a flower pot, over the head of Thompson).
Police have yet to confirm whether or not charges will be filed.
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House of Cards, S02E12 (“Chapter 25”)
Gavin Orsay (Jimmi Simpson) shows an FBI agent he has access to eight of AT&T’s datacenters by showing the agent a console scrolling through some Java source code that reads a file into a string.
firehose'One of his students was Christian Buhl, technical director on Electronic Arts’ Madden NFL series. About 50 percent of the multiplayer engineers on Call of Duty: Black Ops II are from USC. Activision hired 15 students from USC last summer. Other companies with multiple USC grads are Rockstar Games, Sony, Disney, Microsoft Game Studios, Innovative Leisure, and Blizzard Entertainment.
One of the most famous studios that came out of USC was Thatgamecompany, which made groundbreaking Sony PlayStation 3 titles Flower and Journey. The team included Jenova Chen and Kellee Santiago. While at USC, they developed an award-winning game called Cloud. Chen went on to work for Zyda on a serious games project before he moved on to Thatgamecompany.'
firehose'He has had 58 infusions of chemotherapy. He recently switched to a pill. But the drugs have not fully arrested the cancer that struck first in 2007, when his appendix was removed. It returned four years later. And it came back again last year. Each recurrence seems more dire, and yet after each, Scott has returned to his high-profile work at ESPN, ensuring that his private fight has become a public one.
Friends, family, colleagues and strangers ask how he is faring. Yet Scott, 48, says he does not want to know his prognosis.
“I never ask what stage I’m in,” he said recently over lunch. “I haven’t wanted to know. It won’t change anything to me. All I know is that it would cause more worry and a higher degree of freakout. Stage 1, 2 or 8, it doesn’t matter. I’m trying to fight it the best I can.”'
firehose'Oregon law requires the faculty union to give ten days’ notice before going on strike. And professors can’t go on strike until the current cooling-off period ends, in early April. The union has not set a strike date.
Their early morning announcement says the union is scheduled to meet with administrators Friday.
The two sides disagree on faculty salaries, the availability of multi-year contracts for teachers, and on the faculty union’s role in enacting policy changes.
The administration’s last proposal offered two options to the faculty: to accept smaller raises but get more of the policy changes professors want, or to get slightly larger raises but with less faculty influence on policy.
The union has offered a complicated salary schedule, geared toward making salaries more equitable. The faculty wants to maintain the current role for the union in policy, and to make multi-year contracts available to more professors than administrators are offering.'
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The FBI has turned over a redacted set of documents from its investigative archives related to Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, a notorious strong-man whose antics have cost the taxpayers millions in civil suit settlements for actions ranging from racial profiling to stealing a defendant's paperwork in open court to arresting newspaper owners who refused to turn over readers' identities to torching a house and killing a puppy in the process of investigating traffic citations.
The FBI archives, which go back to 2008, reveal that the Bureau recommended that some or all of former County Attorney Andrew Thomas, Arpaio and his officers be indicted for felony counts of "obstructing criminal investigations of prosecutions, theft by threats, tampering with witnesses, perjury and theft by extortion." This recommendation was ignored by federal prosecutors, who concluded that there was not enough evidence to proceed.
County officials who tried to rein in Arpaio have had their offices swept for bugs, believing that Arpaio's regime engages in dirty tricks and illegal wiretapping against local politicians that are hostile to his tactics. Arpaio's office filed several charges against hostile local politicians, none of which led to convictions (by contrast, Arpaio's friendly county attorney Andrew Thomas was unable to get reelected and was eventually barred from practicing law altogether).
Arpaio's bid to quash the FBI investigation and his campaign against local politicians have cost Arizona taxpayers over $44M to date.
Due to redactions, it is impossible to ascertain from the FBI records how many county law-enforcement officials were referred for criminal charges, who they were, or what conduct was considered unlawful.
“They should’ve indicted them all,” said former Maricopa County Supervisor Don Stapley, who was among the public officials accused of illegal conduct by Arpaio and Thomas. “I had no way of knowing why they (federal officials) chose not to prosecute. But I think they ... didn’t want to expend the resources and they were afraid they’d lose it because of the popularity of the sheriff.”
The FBI’s abuse-of-power investigation was launched in 2008 at the outset of a vitriolic political war pitting Arpaio and Thomas against the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and the county judiciary.
County officials swept their offices, suspecting illegal wiretaps. Some said they were followed by sheriff’s deputies. Others refused to talk on their phones, fearing they were bugged. After county law enforcement’s first case against Stapley fell apart, he was arrested without a warrant based on allegations he committed mortgage and campaign fraud. The case eventually was tossed.
Report: FBI had urged charges in Maricopa County inquiry [Wingett Sanchez and Dennis Wagner/The Republic]
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(Image: Joe Arpaio, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from gageskidmore's photostream) 
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'With investment, Son argues that a combined Sprint-T-Mobile could even taken on America’s wireline broadband industry, which is alarmingly uncompetitive.'
The above chart comes from a presentation(video) by Softbank CEO Mayoshi Son to the US Chamber of Commerce yesterday.
Softbank, which already controls America’s third biggest wireless operator, Sprint, has begun a not-too-subtle campaign to convince America’s regulators to allow it to consolidate the country’s wireless industry further. There is no direct mention of T-Mobile US in the presentation, and a spokesman declined to comment, but rumors about Softbank’s desire(paywall) to acquire the fourth placed operator have been swirling for months. Son, who is in a full media blitz, told Bloomberg’s Charlie Rose, ”We would like to make the deal happen.”
The challenge for Softbank is that regulators, buoyed by T-Mobile’s recent resurgence, have signaled that they want to keep America a four-player wireless industry.
But Son is beginning to lay out what might prove a compelling argument for consolidation. He claims that a stronger third player in wireless could pose a genuine threat to the big two: Verizon and AT&T. It would be “a three-heavyweight fight,” he told Charlie Rose, one that he said would allow him to wage “a more massive price war, a technology war.”
With investment, Son argues that a combined Sprint-T-Mobile could even taken on America’s wireline broadband industry, which is alarmingly uncompetitive. As the chart above shows, 30% of American households have no choice of who they get their wireline internet from (or no wireline internet at all). That leads to some of the highest prices on the planet for internet access, as the chart below (of pricing per megabit of data) shows.
Wireless broadband is vastly inferior to internet from cable or fiber lines when it comes to upload and download speeds and consuming large amounts of data. But the advanced LTE services that Softbank has tested in Japan will make it a viable alternative for home internet in the future, Son says. Whether regulators are persuaded by this argument—at a time when wireline broadband could be consolidated further by the proposed Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger—is the multi-billion dollar question.
firehose'In the case of web services, the government has long been in the business of providing maps. A lot of that original government work underlines services like Google Maps. Now Google’s doing their own corrections, typing over bad government functions. There’s nothing wrong with that, until it becomes a monopoly. This is not a political question, it’s a quality question. When there’s only one player, they inevitably have insufficient incentive to stay as good as they were. If Bing were more credible, I suspect Google Maps would be evolving faster and getting better.'
It was 22 years ago yesterday that Nathaniel Borenstein sent his colleagues the world’s first email attachment: a picture of his barbershop quartet, The Telephone Chords. Borenstein, along with another researcher named Ned Freed, wrote MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) because one day he hoped to get pictures of his grandchildren over email. To the delight of grandparents everywhere, his technology became ubiquitous; MIME is still used for every email attachment, and has spread to host content all over the web.
Like his creation, Borenstein has been one of the web’s utility players ever since. In graduate school, he helped develop one of the first campus-wide networks. He got into digital commerce before eBay, digital payments before PayPal, and digital currency before Bitcoin. He has written dozens of articles, three books, and an award-winning essay on his time advising NATO on how to build war computers. These days he’s the chief scientist at Mimecast, a secure cloud service for business communications.
Email attachments are only three years younger than the web, which turns 25 years old today. Looking ahead at the next quarter-century, Borenstein told Quartz why we’re having the wrong conversations about security, how digital currency will survive Bitcoin, and why technology is easier to predict than human nature.
The following conversation, conducted over the phone and by email, was condensed and edited for clarity:
Quartz: You’ve been involved in digital currency since the 90′s. Why do you believe Bitcoin is doomed?
Borenstein: I think the principal reason is it’s set up in a way to be extremely speculative, and there’s no way to see where the money is really flowing. The US currency used to be backed by gold. Now it’s backed by the faith of US government. Bitcoin is backed by wasting computational resources. It’s like the tulips in The Netherlands. What I didn’t anticipate, but didn’t make things better, was places like Mt. Gox going under. I think that’s going to deeply undermine confidence in Bitcoin. The fringe will continue to use it, because they think its a way to escape government currencies. But I think it’s built on a false foundation. My biggest concern is that the failure of Bitcoin is going to undermine enthusiasm for digital currencies in general. There are digital currencies that make a lot of sense.
Quartz: Some see applications such as Google Maps as on par with essential government services. Do you think the web will continue to create services that rival or replace what the government has to offer?
Borenstein: There’s a lot of reasons to think that anything that can be done with a market infrastructure can be done better than by a top-down government. What can actually be done that way? I don’t think that is as clear cut. In the case of web services, the government has long been in the business of providing maps. A lot of that original government work underlines services like Google Maps. Now Google’s doing their own corrections, typing over bad government functions. There’s nothing wrong with that, until it becomes a monopoly. This is not a political question, it’s a quality question. When there’s only one player, they inevitably have insufficient incentive to stay as good as they were. If Bing were more credible, I suspect Google Maps would be evolving faster and getting better.
Quartz: How do you see privacy changing?
Borenstein: People worry so much about their privacy going away, but I don’t think anyone has explained how it can be prevented. A lot of that effort of going into the privacy implications of new technology is wasted. People used to talk about hacking in Dick Cheney’s pacemaker, and it could have been done. You’re going to be walking around with a whole host of new devices in your body. They’re there because they’re good for you. You’re better off finding out about cancer when it’s seven cells than when it’s a tumor. This also means there’s info about you that is potentially leakable to the public. As horrible as it sounds, I don’t see any way to have the benefits of technology without having the risks to privacy. There’s never been a system that can’t be hacked. So I guess I get frustrated with all the privacy discussions, because they could be spent doing something more productive.
Quartz: How could these conversations be more productive?
Borenstein: Well, first of all, I think there’s a difference between privacy and security, and it’s something that gets confused a lot in the media. There are issues of real security. If you identify that with a small number of things—like how the government designs security around nukes, for instance—you can design a small system to protect these things. They have a specific threat.
I think it’s worth noting that the smaller these networks are—the less they do, in particular—the more secure they will be. I wouldn’t want to see a health care-specific network that all providers used instead of their company Intranet. I’d rather see a special purpose network for sending around, say, patient information and similarly sensitive stuff only. Now if your office manager accidentally downloads a virus by mail, it’s not on the patient information network. The next question is, how hard is it to get to the patient information network from the regular one? You could set it up so that it requires physically going to another machine, you could make it a simple proxy, or anything in between. The easier you make it, though, the less secure it will be, and the easier it will be for that virus to hop from the manager’s mail to the secure network.
Quartz: There is an arms race between many governments to develop things like quantum computing. How will this technology affect the web and the world?
Borenstein: I’ve not had experience with being the first with a new computing power advantage, but I’ve had other advantages, and I think people fool themselves about what’s important. I have, over the years, become deeply skeptical about first mover advantage. In fact, I have a hard time finding any examples of it. IBM was late to computers, then decades later was late to PC’s. Oracle didn’t invent the database, Lotus didn’t invent the spreadsheet, Microsoft didn’t invent operating systems or window systems, Apple didn’t invent the GUI, Google didn’t invent the search engine, and Facebook didn’t invent social networks. First-mover advantage is probably possible for one-time things. The first bad guy with mega-computation might stage the biggest crypto-related heist in history, but he won’t have a sustainable advantage.
Quartz: Pulling back and taking a broad look at the future of the web, what areas are predictable, and what aren’t?
Borenstein: I’ve never gone wrong with predictions based on Moore’s Law. I know, there are recurring articles predicting the end of Moore’s Law, but they’re never right, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it continues down to subatomic levels. It’s Moore’s Law that predicts the insanely small size and enormous power that computing devices will have, so I feel safe there. In fact, some of my poorer predictions have come down to a misapplication of Moore’s Law. I predicted in the 80’s that we wouldn’t have decent speech recognition in my lifetime, because I thought we’d have to understand language itself, for which we don’t even have an adequate theoretical framework. It turned out to be amenable to a brute-force approach, which was made practical by Moore’s Law.
The hard predictions are the ones that involve human nature. It isn’t that human nature is such a mystery, but rather that it’s complex and in conflict with itself. We want everything to be easy, but we want it to be secure. We want open access to documents, except when we don’t. Some of us want digital currencies, while some of us—including most governments—are threatened by them. A lot of technological predictions involve social predictions in disguise.
The area where I feel most uncertain relates to wearable computing: how much will people accommodate themselves to such devices? Will they be acceptable in bars? Job interviews? Will the invisible versions be illegal? My guess is that people will end up accepting them, and it will be a big step towards the day we become actual cyborgs. But I wouldn’t care to predict when that day will be.
Quartz: Are you still performing with your barbershop quartet?
Borenstein: Alas, I mostly stopped making music in groups in the late 90’s, when life sort of got away from me. I’ve been talking about taking it up again almost that long. But thank you for asking!
firehoseThis is great:
'And… Oh, my God. That’s right. That’s exactly right. Who was I to judge, much less judge publicly? Maybe his music was terrible, but so what? It wasn’t for me. It was for him, and his friends, and his fans. Nobody was seeking my opinion, because it would be ill-informed and emotional, because those are the only opinions I could possibly have.
I was just pumping poison into the atmosphere, to feel good about myself, for another hit of self-righteousness. I was what was wrong, because I vomited out disapproval — could only vomit out disapproval — without intent or willingness to even attempt to understand.
If nothing else, I’m grateful for the reaction to Romantimatic, because it reminded me of that story, and how hard it is to be empathetic, and how desperately important it is. If anything comes from all this — aside from the $885 in ice cream I’m going to buy myself — I hope that it makes me a little more generous with my judgement, a little more kind with my opinion, a little more reserved with my disapproval.'
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Unfortunately, it doesn't change the fact that the app is designed to lie on your behalf.
firehose'America's most wanted domestic terrorism suspect—an alleged animal rights extremist—may be hiding in Hawaii.'
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US: Top domestic terror suspect may be in Hawaii San Jose Mercury News SAN FRANCISCO—America's most wanted domestic terrorism suspect—an alleged animal rights extremist—may be hiding in Hawaii. FBI agents are hunting for Daniel Andreas San Diego on the state's Big Island after receiving "credible intelligence" that he ... FBI hunt for most-wanted domestic terrorist narrows to HawaiiFox News Animal rights activist wanted in California bombings may be in Hawaii: FBIReuters FBI hunting Hawaii for top domestic terror suspectKSN-TV Examiner.com all 101 news articles » |
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That's the latest on that crazy story out of Florida, the AP is reporting. God, Florida is the worst. As are guns.
By the way, the accused killer, a former police officer, has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
firehose'Austin venue before police say he plowed through a crowd of South by Southwest festival-goers early Thursday morning downtown.
His brother, Lamar Wilson, told the American-Statesman that he last saw Owens on Wednesday evening before his show at Club 1808 near 12th and Chicon streets. Owens, whose stage name is KillingAllBeatz or K.A.B254, was the father of six young children, one of whom lives in Alaska, Wilson said.
His brother had been studying music production at an online university and had borrowed the car he was in from a friend named Andrew Barmwell, Wilson said
Christopher Haug, chief of media relations for Fort Hood, told the American-Statesman Barmwell was a soldier at the Killeen military base and had reported his car stolen Thursday morning. Haug said Owens was not a Fort Hood solider.
Wilson said he was shocked by news of collision. “He’s a real good dude, he was in college and making music, and was trying to live regular,” the brother said.
Earlier: Rashad Charjuan Owens was raised in a Christian home in Killeen, enjoys producing music and had been trying to go forward in life to do good and provide for his toddler son, his grandmother told the American-Statesman on Thursday afternoon.
Reached at her home in South Carolina, his grandmother said she was grief-stricken and shocked to hear of the allegations against her grandson.
“I pray. I pray. I pray,” she said, declining to give her name as she did not yet know the full details of what happened overnight Thursday and was still processing the shock. “He is good. He is so good. …Whatever happened was out of his control, I am sure.”
Austin police have said that capital murder charges will be filed against the 21-year-old suspected drunken driver, who they say plowed through a crowd of South by Southwest festival-goers early Thursday morning in downtown Austin, killing at least two people.
Police Chief Art Acevedo said the man will face two charges of capital murder and 23 counts of aggravated assault. Police officials confirmed the identity of the suspect to the American-Statesman just before noon Thursday.
A search of public records shows Owens had several misdemeanor arrests out of the Fairbanks Fourth District in Alaska, including being charged with minor under the influence and criminal trespass. In October 2011, he was charged with driving under the influence, leaving the scene of an accident and a petition to revoke probation, the Fairbanks records show.
He pleaded guilty only to the DUI misdemeanor charge, and prosecutors dismissed the misdemeanor offense for fleeing, according to the filings.
He has an active warrant in that state for failure to appear, court filings show.
Owens was arrested by the Killeen school district Police Department in September 2010; he pleaded guilty to criminal trespass, a class B misdemeanor, according to a search of public records. He appears to have no criminal history in Travis County, according to court records.
His grandmother told the newspaper that she had learned news of the latest case upon the call from an American-Statesman reporter. She said Owens had been born in South Carolina but went to school in Killeen, where he was living with his family. According to public records, he was born in the West Texas town of Sonora.
The grandmother said she kept a close relationship with Owens, who often called home and had last visited relatives in South Carolina for his 21st birthday. He appeared to have been doing well and was loved by his family, she said.
“I just don’t know what happened,” she said, her voice mournful.'
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Suspect in fatal SXSW crash performed at downtown club Austin American-Statesman 5:15 p.m. update: Rashad Charjuan Owens had been in Austin to perform at an East Austin venue before police say he plowed through a crowd of South by Southwest festival-goers early Thursday morning downtown. His brother, Lamar Wilson, told the ... South by Southwest: Arrest in deadly vehicle crashBBC News SXSW Car Crash: Suspect, Victim IdentifiedBillboard South By Southwest Festival Continues After Deadly CrashCBS Local International Business Times -Big Country Homepage -KXAN.com all 60 news articles » |
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firehose"SXSW is too large and its inertia too strong to be stopped, so the festival will carry on as planned, though a portion of Red River will remain closed for most of the day while authorities continue their investigation."
After what happened in the early hours of Thursday morning on one of SXSW’s main thoroughfares, any sort of “Hey, we saw this band and it was good” recap feels understandably frivolous. Although most of the A.V. Club staff was at Stubb’s on Red River—a block or two from where everything happened—none of us was ever in any danger. The nature of SXSW fosters a lot of mingling in and out of its many venues, which is why the streets are closed to vehicular traffic. It could’ve happened to anyone at SXSW, and that makes it hit close to home for everyone at the festival. It’s an awful situation that obviously didn’t need to happen, bringing a tragic pall to a festival that’s otherwise all about revelry.
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As much as I dug Keanu, THAT looks like John Constantine. pic.twitter.com/aDF9SZ1yk2
— Brian Truitt (@briantruitt) March 13, 2014
Technically the first official image from NBC's Constantine is below the jump, but this crop from a larger shot of cast and crew is much more impressive to me. Last year's New York Comic Con offered many opportunities to play "Castiel cosplay, or John Constantine cosplay," but this picture here. This looks like Constantine.
firehose'including every Chuck Lorre comedy '
CBS will remain CBS for the foreseeable future: The network renewed 18 series today, including every Chuck Lorre comedy it didn’t order three seasons of yesterday and no-brainers like NCIS and 60 Minutes. (Or, as those two programs are known to CBS’ target demographic—your parents—“everything that’s on TV.”) The mass stay of execution leaves only four series in a state of uncertainty: The Mentalist, The Crazy Ones, Intelligence, and Friends With Better Lives. And the last of those four shows hasn’t even premiered yet, so the network is really only biding its time with The Simon Baker Observes That “Red John” Is Probably Still Out There Hour, Robin Williams Pulls Crazy Faces To The Dismay Of Sarah Michelle Gellar, and Chuck (Not Chuck).
But as The Hollywood Reporter notes, CBS’ generosity has its drawbacks: 19 pilots are currently vying for the empty spots that the ...
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indie games are as weird as they've always been, they're just getting a bigger profile thanks to the games journalism echo chamber