Huffington Post staffers got a progress report last week on the site's plans for live streaming video. Originally billed during a splashy press event back in February as The Huffington Post Streaming Network, the service is now being called HuffPost Live and is gearing up for an early July launch, according to people briefed on the plans during two well attended Wednesday afternoon staff meetings.Roy Sekoff, Huffington Post's founding editor and a top lieutenant of the site's matriarch, Arianna Huffington, ran the meetings, during which he also announced some of the talent recently recruited for the venture. They include former Al Jazeera English co-host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (whose hiring was previously reported by Ad Age); Alicia Menendez, the daughter of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who ... Continue reading →
Illustration by Lola Dupré, based on an original photograph by Shaun Kardinal Last summer, near the end of my mother’s life, I woke up in my childhood bedroom in the middle of the night in a fever of panic. My heart was thrumming, my mind racing. In 1819, the English poet John Keats called anxiety a �wakeful anguish,� and so it was with me. Relief seemed impossible. Then I had an idea. I wandered into the room where my mother lay dying and found the hospice nurse�a gentle, generous soul�sitting quietly beside my mother as she slept. She looked up from her fat paperback. �Do you want to hold her hand?� she asked. �No,� I said. �I’m looking for the Ativan.� The nurse went back ... Continue reading →
1:51 Someone should tell her if you read one page at a time it will make a lot more sense. Poor thing, no wonder she looks so worried :( SmollettTV 9 hours ago 28 Continue reading →
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The Ovarian-Psycos Bicycle Brigade is a all-women bicycle group based out of the Eastside. Xela de la X of the Ovarian-Psycos Bicycle Brigade throws up the Ova's sign with the rest of the group in the background. Photo by Rafael Cardenas via EastsiderWriter.com (We’re working on a photo essay tomorrow following up on today’s story. So, come back tomorrow. D) Two months ago, when 22-year-old Bree’Anna Guzman was murdered in Lincoln Heights, the all-women bike group Ovarian-Pscyos Bicycle Brigade scrapped their previously planned ride to ride instead through the neighborhood to protest the killing. “Whose Streets,” one woman called out. “Our Streets” the more than 30 women riding answered. While many recent bike groups are either bicycling for recreation, bringing awareness to bicyclists on the ... Continue reading →
Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection"Blade Runner" Original Blade Runner writer Hampton Fancher is in talks to pen an idea for an untitled sequel to the classic sci-fi film for director Ridley Scott and studio Alcon Entertainment. Alcon and Scott are mum on plot details but they confirm that the story will be set “some years after the first film concluded,” according to a statement released Thursday. Blade Runner, which hit theaters in 1982 starring Harrison Ford, was an adaptation of the Phillip K. Dick story Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Fancher shared screenplay credit with David Peoples. The movie was a box-office disappointment when it was first released but has since become one of the most important films in the sci-fi genre. Ford played a ... Continue reading →
If the U.S. wants to ship goods for the Afghanistan war through Pakistan again, it may cost $5,000 per container. Photo: U.S. Air Force Washington believes it has a deal, finally, to reopen Pakistan’s resupply routes for the Afghanistan war, saving a bunch of cash. But not before its Pakistani frenemies drive the price up. Pakistan wants a $5,000 fee on every shipping container that passes through what NATO calls the Ground Lines of Communication, or GLOCs, on its territory. The old fee? $0. But that was before a U.S. commando raid in November on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead. (Never mind that a U.S. investigation found that the Pakistani troops fired on the Americans first and repeatedly.) Islamabad shut its gates ... Continue reading →
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iPRIMATE A trainer uses an iPad as she works with an orangutan at Jungle Island in Miami. The devices are too fragile to actually hand over to the apes, who use the iPads to communicate - the trainers must hold them. (Photo: J. Pat Carter / AP via MSNBC) #orangutan #animals #ipad #tech Continue reading →
