Marina Joyce On Drugs/Hostage Of Crazy Boyfriend #SaveMarinaJoyce
A bizarre conspiracy theory took over social media this week, as thousands of amateur sleuths tried to get to the bottom of what was going on with British vlogger Marina Joyce.
The hashtag #SaveMariaJoyce became a top trending topic on Twitter in both Britain and the US, as thousands of internet users scoured her online videos for evidence that the teenager was in peril.
Ms. Joyce runs a YouTube channel with approximately 750,000 followers, where she predominantly uploads videos about fashion and beauty.
However, some viewers became suspicious when she posted a message on Twitter inviting followers to meet her at 6.30am for an early morningparty.
Elizabeth Banks Democratic National Convention Entrance (C-SPAN)
When actress Elizabeth Banks walked onstage at the Democratic National Convention Tuesday night, her entrance was accompanied by Queen"s resilient "We Are the Champions," the same track Donald Trump used in his RNC address much to May"s dismay.
But in a statement to Rolling Stone, Queen guitarist Brian May says that Banks" usage, while equally unauthorized, at least made him laugh.
"Well, I think its fair to say Trump has been trumped!" May tells Rolling Stone. "I suppose, in a sense, Elizabeth Banks" use of the song AS WELL as Donald Trump restores the balance. She didnt ask either, but her lampoon did make me laugh. Watching Donald Trump parade himself to "We Are The Champions" gave me a sinister feeling but Elizabeth"s "performance" was clearly lighthearted."
Banks took the stage in Philadelphia and deadpanned, "You know, I don"t usually say this about Donald Trump, but that was over the top," joking that she purchased her fog machine from the GOP presidential nominee for $30 via eBay. She also compared the Republican to her egomaniacal, wig-sporting Hunger Games character, Effie Trinket.
May seems resigned to politicians using the band"s music without permission, but tells Rolling Stone, "Realistically, it seems we have little choice in these matters, but given the choice between our record being used to promote hatred and intolerance, or being used for comedy, I"d take the latter."
Trump first used the song without permission during his address after clinching the final round of Republican primaries. May responded on his website, "Regardless of our views on Mr. Trump"s platform, it has always been against our policy to allow Queen music to be used as a political campaigning tool."
A "frustrated" Queen then doubled-down on that stance after "Champions" appeared during the nominee"s dramatic RNC entrance. "Queen does not want its music associated with any mainstream or political debate in any country," the band wrote. "Nor does Queen want "We are the Champions" to be used as an endorsement of Mr. Trump and the political views of the Republican Party. We trust, hope and expect that Mr. Trump and his campaign will respect these wishes moving forward."
Kevin Durant & Klay Thompson Highlights - 28 Pts vs China | July 26, 2016 | USA Basketball Showcase
Carmelo Anthony,Jimmy Butler
United States" Carmelo Anthony, right, celebrates after scoring, alongside teammate Jimmy Butler during the second half of an exhibition basketball game against China on Tuesday, July 26, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. The United States won 107-57. (Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP)
What: Team USA vs. China
When: Tuesday, July 26 at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET
Where: Oracle Arena, Oakland, Calif.
TV coverage: NBA TV
How to watch online: Live stream available onfacebook.com/usabasketball/
USA 107, China 57 FINAL |BOX SCORE
DeMarcus Cousins finished with a game-high 21 points to go along with 11 rebounds. Carmelo Anthony scored 16 of his 20 points in the third quarter.
Klay Thompson had 15 points and a team-high five assists. Kevin Durant, playing in Oakland for the first time since signing with the Golden State Warriors as a free agent, finished with 13 points.
Shooting: USA (36-72) 50 percent, China (23-56)41percentRebounding: USA 48 (19 offensive),China21 (4 offensive)
First half: USA 52, China 24
KevinDurant leads all scorers with 13 points and DeMarcus Cousins has 10 points and five rebounds.
Shooting: USA 51.5 percent, China 29.2 percentRebounding: USA 24,China 9Second-chance points: USA 12, China0
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Team USA is now 3-0 on its exhibition tour, winning each game by an average of 45.3 points.
The USMNT will complete its exhibition tour with a stop in Chicago to take onVenezuela on Friday, July 29, before the finale on Monday, Aug. 1 against Nigeria in Houston.
We Happy Few Gameplay Walkthrough Part 1 LIVESTREAM
The hope with most games set in dystopian worlds is that they quickly transcend their more obvious influences. With Compulsion Games" eye-catching We Happy Few, you might settle for it being the sum of them. Take the game"s title a reference to the most famous speech in Shakespeare"s Henry V. It is, to a certain kind of misty-eyed "Brexit" patriot, the very stuff of Englishness. To others, exactly the kind of rousing hooey that leads young men to their doom on far-flung battlefields. Ask Guillaume Provost, the games producer and founder of the Montreal-based studio, to name the rest of the ingredients that went into the pot and you get a list that pretty much defines bleak, but brilliant, meditations on totalitarianism Terry Gilliam"s Brazil, V for Vendetta, Stanley Kubrick"s A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley"s 1932 novel, Brave New World.
Released this week via Steam Early Access and Xbox One Preview, We Happy Few oozes menace, bringing every one of those ingredients to an alt-history 1960s Britain where post-war survivors in the fictional town of Wellington Wells treat their crazy with daily applications of a government-supplied drug called "Joy." You play as hapless everyman, Arthur Hastings, who spends his days redacting old newspaper headlines and who, after skipping his dose, begins to see the world as it really is a dystopian nightmare where happiness and h**l go hand in hand.
This is not the Beatles" Sixties, then. The Fab Four wouldn"t survive the first verse of "Revolution" any sign of social criticism and they"d be labeled as downers (the name given to those off their meds) and clubbed to the ground by an angry mob. Everything about the world Provost and his team have conjured is disturbing, more so because of the collective Joy-induced hallucination that makes rotten apples seem ripe, dead rats appear as children"s candy-filled pinatas and its shabby, broken down town conjure the existential horror of a post-apocalyptic theme park all bright paint, masks and lights that crumble to the touch as you make your way out.
Provost is clearly trying to say something about us, and none of it good.
"The basis of what I see as dystopia is the idea that people think that the society is actually utopian whereas the reality of it underneath the hood is a lot darker," he says. "And that plays into a lot of social trends that are quite current. I don"t try to make a big moral, social, "Oh you shouldn"t take drugs" statement, because I think the reality is much less clear and that makes that topic a lot more interesting to me. We"re not a black and white studio or at least we"ve tried not to be. We prefer a more gray morality."
Not a surprise considering Provost"s past, which includes a formative stint at French developer Arkane Studios. Though most famous now for its meaty stealth-action adventure Dishonored, in the summer of 2007, his team was working in secret on a never-to-be-finished episode of the grandaddy of dystopian sci-fi, Half-Life a contract job for the now world-bestriding Valve Corporation.
"Working at Arkane changed me completely," he says. "I really had a creative awakening working at that studio whose strengths were definitely more story and creative. At the time that was really eye-opening for me."
If at least part of Provost"s muse can be traced to a series that"s been dead for a decade, We Happy Few is very much a game of its time it ticks a number of boxes amongst the current game design zeitgeist, blending survival elements with procedurally-generated maps and permadeath (each time you die you have to start over from the beginning). That, along with a successful Kickstarter in 2015 and pride of place in Microsoft"s press conference, meant it scored big with the press at this year"s E3. It didn"t hurt that its dark and freakish world evoked the 2007 hit, Bioshock, a compliment Provost is happy to take, though he argues it was never a big influence.
"We"re very flattered by it," he says. "I"m not sure I would say it was a prime influencer, though the original one certainly managed to create psychological moments that previous games had failed at doing. I would say in general, though, for the context of creating worlds, atmosphere and narrative structure to our games, we tend to dive more into film and books."
You don"t have to look far to find them. The hero, Arthur, is a composite of George Orwell"s Winston Smith and Gilliam"s hapless Brazil bureaucrat, Sam Lowry. There"s the omnipresent TV-propagandist of Wellington Wells and the only character to appear as video "Uncle Jack," played by Assassins Creed actor Julian Casey, who channels both Jack Nicholson"s Joker and V for Vendetta"s Lewis Prothero. The town, filled with people who are basically psychopathic automatons reminiscent of Kubrick"s thuggish droogs, has the candy-colored patina of the Sixties hit TV series, The Prisoner, but gone to seed. And then there are the masks that everyone wears.
"In V for Vendetta they use masks to protect anonymity and it"s a symbol of resistance," notes Provost. "I thought I"d like to flip that on its head and make masks a symbol of the psychological oppression of the people and we thought, "What if we had masks that forced people to smile and this society where people were forced to be happy all the time?""
As founder and the creative lead on Compulsion"s games, Provost admits that his personal life if not his state of mind played a part. Shipping its first game, Contrast, in time for the PlayStation 4 launch in 2013 was particularly hard on him, he says, and led to a period of reflection that informed much of the tone of We Happy Few.
"My father passed away three weeks before we shipped. That and shipping a game to several million people worldwide and doing that while trying to manage my home life as a single parent was kind of a lot a sort of perfect storm," he confides." Coming out of it I was in a different mindspace that I really wanted to explore. I believe a lot of the creative impetus that comes from generating new ideas for game worlds comes from how you feel inside."
Which might make We Happy Few"s pitiless setting seem like a cry for help or at least a quick hit of Joy but three years on, he and his team seem to be doing just fine.
"I"m in a much better place today, by the way," he adds, cheerfully.
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France church attack: Priest killed in hostage-taking near Rouen - BBC News
A week-long strike by Air France flight crews that starts on Wednesday will see the carrier scrap 30% of domestic and medium-haul flights at the height of the busy holiday period, the carrier has said.
About 35% of flight attendants, who account for 13,600 of Air Frances workforce of 50,000, are expected to join a stoppage which the airline said would affect 10% of long-haul flights.
Unions representing about half of the strikers said last Friday the stoppage would go ahead after lengthy talks failed to bring a breakthrough on renewing a collective labour accord on rules, pay and promotions which expires in October.
Related: French strikes threaten to blight start of Euro 2016
Management want to limit the extension of the agreement to 17 months, whereas unions want between three and five years.
Flights to destinations in Europe, North Africa and Israel will be affected, as well as some routes in Asia and Africa, the company said on Monday.
In late June, Jean-Marc Janaillac, the chief executive of the Air France-KLM group, warded off a pilots strike that would have been the second such stoppage during the Euro football tournament.
The pilots last strike, which grounded about 20% of flights from 11-14 June, hit France as it was gripped by social unrest over a series of disputed labour reforms from the Socialist government.
Apple Inc - AAPL Stock Chart Technical Analysis for 05-12-16 Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is set to report earnings after the close, ahead of tomorrow morning"s reports from another pair of blue-chip stocks. The event will be crucial for AAPL shareholders, who have watched the Dow stock wind its way lower over the past year. Meanwhile, ahead of earnings, options traders are busy, especially on the put side of the aisle.
Diving right in, put options are crossing at nearly double their usual intraday rate. Most active is the weekly 7/29 95 strike, where it appears traders are buying to open contracts in the hopes AAPL will drop below $95 by this Friday"s close, when the series expires.
Slightly longer-term traders, meanwhile, are targeting the critical $100 century level, with a mix of buy- and sell-to-open activity detected at the August 100 call,based on data from the International Securities Exchange (ISE). In short, the buyersbelieve AAPL will finally break through this recent area of congestion, while the sellershope resistance holds over the next four weeks.
Longer term, it"s the call buyers who have been in control. According to data at the ISE, Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX), traders have bought to open 1.79 AAPL calls for every put over the last 10 sessions -- a ratio that ranks in the 81st annual percentile.
At the same time, short sellers have been hitting the exits. During the past two reporting periods, short interest declined almost 46%, and just 1% of AAPL"s float is sold short. Elsewhere, the brokerage crowd remains upbeat, sporting 26 "buy" or better ratings against a mere five "hold" or worse recommendations.
This collective optimism could spell trouble if AAPL comes up short on the earnings stage, as it has recently. In the session following the company"s April and January reports, the stock lost 6.3% and 6.6%, respectively. A repeat performancecould reinvigorate short sellers, and/or force bullish traders and analysts to the exits, which could exacerbate technical pressure. Interestingly, though, expectations are relatively muted ahead of the big event, as the Dow stock"s 30-day at-the-money implied volatility of 24.5% is the lowest it"s been ahead of an earnings report over the past eight quarters, according to Trade-Alert.
Turning once more to technicals, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been anything but impressive. At $97.39, the stock has surrendered one-fifth of its value over the past year, and as alluded to earlier, is staring up at round-number resistance at the 100 strike. Potentially reinforcing this overhead speed bump is AAPL"s historically significant 40-week moving average, which turned back rally attempts late last year and in April.
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Grace VanderWaal: 12-Year-Old Ukulele Player Gets Golden Buzzer - America"s Got Talent 2016
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Jon Dorenbos received a standing ovation from all the judges during the first live Americas Got Talent of season 11 on Tuesday. Watch below!
As Gossip Cop has reported, Dorenbos is a NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles. But when not on the field, hes practicing magic. And his tricks so far have stunned the panel, and guest judge Ne-Yo even picked Dorenbos for the Golden Buzzer advantage during the Judge Cuts round.
Now for quarterfinals, Dorenbos took his magic to a new level with some serious mind-reading. Gossip Cop wont spoil how it went down, but the entire panel stood in applause at the end. I am mesmerized, Howie Mandel told Dorenbos. I predict that people are going to be voting right now, and I predict were gonna see you for another round.
Mel B assured the audience, We had no idea. You had no idea what we were gonna draw. She went on, I cant actually believe you did what you just did. That is crazy. Heidi Klum also praised, You are super-engaging. I just love watching you. Your magic is super solid.
A shocked Simon Cowell insisted, It was magic because it was right in front of me and no ones touched anything. He further told Dorenbos, I think you are a great guy, a real American hero, a real superstar. Americas gonna get behind you. Brilliant. Check out the full video below!
