Almost every weekend this year, I’ve ended up at the movies. In a relentless news environment, it’s nice to head over to the local multiplex, plop down, and turn off the rest of the world for a couple of hours. Sadly, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend: Even there, before the greatest spectacle that Hollywood can provide, people can’t stay off their fucking phones.
At a recent showing of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, for instance, I watched a man come in halfway through the movie and immediately pull out his phone. As Keanu Reeves used everything from a library book to a goddamn horse to fight through one of the most violent ballets ever performed, this jabroni was browsing Reddit on a brightness setting I can only imagine is called “Hydrogen Bomb Test.”
And that’s not all! Just minutes later, a woman entered the theater actively talking on her phone. “Mm-hmm, yeah, okay. You don’t say? Well, I should really go,” she said. “I’m in a movie theater right now.” Yeah, no shit!
I wish I could say this was an isolated incident. In the last couple years, I’ve watched people become increasingly incapable of sitting through an entire movie without whipping out their phones. We’ve all paid upwards of 10 bucks to see this thing, but a significant percentage of the population can’t get to the end without reading that important text that says: “kk, c u later!”
If people were doing this discreetly, I wouldn’t mind. Unfortunately, this behavior is closely linked with a lack of basic knowledge about screen brightness. (Here’s a tip: Swipe down and pull the sun slider towards “I’m an oblivious jerk in a movie theater.”) An even more discreet way of checking your phone, by the way, is to take it outside.
Luckily for me, you, and anyone else who likes watching movies in the dark, I’ve come up with a solution: If you take out your phone in a movie theater, I’m going to ask to borrow it.
After all, it’s only fair. If what you’re looking at is so much more interesting than the movie we’ve all paid to see, the rest of us deserve a peek.
Is it a funny meme? If it’s so funny, let me check it out, too! I might even share it with my other seat neighbor, who shouldn’t be left out of the fun.
Naturally, anyone will be free to decline my request, but as long as your phone is out, I’ll be asking. Just let me borrow it, man, c’mon! And when I’m done, I’ll turn the brightness setting down, leaving it a bit less eye-catching.
Strangely, since committing myself to this course of action, I haven’t had the chance to try it. At the last few movies I’ve been to, no one has taken out their phones. Maybe other moviegoers can sense my newfound interest in their screens. Maybe they’ve rediscovered the magic of film. Maybe they just haven’t been annoying dicks.
Either way, I suggest you try it out yourself. At the very least, you’ll no longer worry about having your movie experience interrupted. When I head off to the movies these days, I look forward to the interesting emails I might read, the texts I might see, and the funny memes that—if they’re worth looking at, at all—deserved to be shared.
U.S.|Ruth Bader Ginsburg Treated for Tumor on Her Pancreas
The Supreme Court justice’s treatment lasted three weeks, according to a news release on Friday.
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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at a swearing-in ceremony for new American citizens in New York last year.CreditCreditChang W. Lee/The New York Times
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent treatment for a malignant tumor discovered on her pancreas, according to a news release issued by the Supreme Court on Friday.
“The tumor was treated definitively and there is no evidence of disease elsewhere in the body,” the statement said.
The abnormality was first discovered in early July after a routine blood test, according to the statement. A biopsy conducted on July 31 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City confirmed a localized malignant tumor.
“Justice Ginsburg will continue to have periodic blood tests and scans,” the statement said. “No further treatment is needed at this time.”
The health of the 86-year-old justice, the senior member of the court’s four-member liberal wing, has been a subject of concern.
In December, surgeons removed two malignant nodules from Justice Ginsburg’s left lung. The court described that surgery as successful, and said then that she was cancer free. After missing two weeks of arguments in January, she returned to work in February.
She was also treated for colon cancer in 1999, but she did not miss a day on the bench.
Justice Ginsberg’s career as the second female justice appointed to the Supreme Court, and her overall fortitude, have inspired books (“Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg”), a major motion picture, a documentary and merchandise, including a pin resembling the collar she wears when writing a dissenting opinion.
Justice Ginsburg has repeatedly vowed to stay on the court as long she is of sound mind and body. In a 2013 interview with The New York Times, she said she loved her work and intended to continue “as long as I can do the job full-steam, and that, at my age, is not predictable.”
Pancreatic cancer accounts for about 3 percent of all cancers in the U.S., and about 7 percent of all cancer deaths.
Some 56,770 Americans will be diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019; about 45,750 will die of it, according to the American Cancer Society.
For three weeks this August, Justice Ginsberg underwent focused radiation treatment, and a bile duct stent was placed, according to the court’s statement.
Dr. Diane Simeone, director of pancreatic cancer at NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, said the preferred treatment for a localized tumor is surgery to remove it, but said she was not familiar with the details of this particular case. Radiation “is not typically given as first-line treatment for a newly diagnosed pancreatic cancer,” she said.
“The question is: Where does this fit in the big picture?” Dr. Simeone said. “She had a pancreatic cancer resectioned about a decade ago. Is this a second primary tumor? Is this a local recurrence? Those are things that are unclear from the information we have today.”
Though pancreatic cancer has a reputation as an aggressive and fast-moving disease, Dr. Simeone said some subtypes are indolent and slow-growing. Some of them have a tendency to spread to the lungs and might have been implicated in the justice’s lung cancer.
“It’s hard to know the prognosis without knowing the true extent of the tumor,” she said. Radiation can be effective for local control but “it’s often not curative,” she said.
Other justices have had cancer while serving on the bench. In 1992, Justice John Paul Stevens underwent radiation treatment for prostate cancer. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist’s thyroid cancer was diagnosed 11 months before his death in September 2005.
Aside from canceling an annual visit to Santa Fe, New Mexico, Justice Ginsburg has otherwise maintained an active schedule this summer, the statement said. The State University of New York at Buffalo said in a statement on Friday that it had received confirmation that she would visit on Monday as scheduled.
Last month, in an interview with NPR, Justice Ginsberg dismissed concerns about her health by recalling a long-ago comment from a senator.
“There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months,” she said. “That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.”
There’s good news for Americans saving for retirement: We’re getting better and better at actually doing it, according to a new survey from Bankrate.com. The percentage of people who have increased their contributions in the past year has almost doubled since 2011, with 29% increasing their contributions. Forty-six percent of respondents said they’re saving the same amount as last year.
Older millennials (age 30-38), in particular, were the demographic most likely to have increased their savings rate. “They’ve got their student debt paid off, or they’ve bought that first house, or they’ve gotten that promotion that pays more, and they’re thinking downstream” more than the earlier years of their careers, Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate.com, said. The survey had 2,016 respondents.
You really should “get around to” adjusting your contribution
Here’s the not-so-inspiring news: 16% of people are saving less for retirement than they did last year. Many of the respondents cited other financial goals, but 12% said they simply had not “gotten around to” adjusting their contribution. Young millennials, McBride said, were the worst offenders among respondents who had let the task slide to the bottom of their to-do lists.
But young people have the most to lose by not keeping an eye on their contribution, he warned. “Because of the power of compounding interest, time is your greatest ally when saving for retirement,” McBride said. “And so there’s an urgency to contribute sooner rather than later.”
Steady progress wins this marathon, and even if you can increase your contribution by 1% this year, it’ll benefit your long-term financial health.“If you’re working and drawing a paycheck, you want to keep having that money automatically put into your retirement account,” McBride said.
But uh, about that economic forecast? Things aren’t looking so optimistic out there, but that’s no reason to start messing with your allocations when you log in to check on your contribution levels. “The biggest risk for retirement savers is getting the jitters from market volatility, and shifting the way your retirement savings is invested,” McBride said. “Volatility can actually work in your favor over the long term.”
Rob Gibson – Aug 6, 2019 / 8:42 am | Story: 262922
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Fort St John RCMP are investigating the attempted abduction of a road flagger that is alleged to have occurred on August 4th 2019 at approximately 9:30 a.m.
RCMP have learned that a dark blue van with silver striping approached a road flagger on
Highway 29 near Szoo Rd, approximately 27 kms south-west of Charlie Lake. The van came to a stop near the female flagger who was alone at the time and a caucasian male opened the van’s rear doors and attempted to pull the woman inside. The flagger struggled with the unknown male, who eventually got back in the van and took off toward Hudson’s Hope B.C. The victim did not recognize the person who tried to abduct her.
RCMP members have launched a full-scale investigation and are currently canvassing neighboring properties to speak with witnesses. They are also calling for any video surveillance that may be out there.
The vehicle is described as:
dark blue with silver striping
chrome on the front grille
barn style rear doors
The suspect is described as;
caucasian male
approximately 5’9
no accent when he spoke
‘We’re asking for anyone who was in the Charlie Lake area to try to remember if they saw a vehicle matching this description to call the RCMP’ says Sgt Joelle LaChance, A/Operations NCO of the Fort St John RCMP. ‘Your dash cam footage may be able to help us identify the suspect in this crime’.
The Ft St John RCMP are asking anyone who may have been in this area at the time of this incident and may recognize this van, the suspect or have dashcam video footage to contact the Ft St John RCMP at 250-787-8140.
Champions Manchester City finished one point ahead of Liverpool in last season’s table
Club record signings, a number of managerial changes and the introduction of video assistant referees (VAR) – the new Premier League season is almost upon us.
Will Manchester City become the first team since Manchester United in 2009 to win the title three years in a row?
Will European champions Liverpool be crowned champions of England for the first time since 1990 after going so close last season?
Chelsea have a new manager – as well as a transfer ban – while newly promoted Norwich City, Sheffield United and Aston Villa are looking to establish themselves.
Here, BBC Sport assesses each side’s preparations…
Arsenal
2018-19 Premier League finish: 5th
FA Cup: Fourth round
Carabao Cup: Quarter-finals
Europa League: Runners-up
Players in: Nicolas Pepe (Lille, £72m), Gabriel Martinelli (Ituano, undisclosed), Dani Ceballos (Real Madrid, loan), William Saliba (Saint-Etienne, £27m*), Kieran Tierney (Celtic, £25m), David Luiz (Chelsea, £8m)
Players out: David Ospina (Napoli, £3.1m*), Aaron Ramsey (Juventus, free), Petr Cech (retired), Danny Welbeck (released), Stephan Lichtsteiner (released), Charlie Gilmour (Norwich, free), Julio Pleguezuelo (FC Twente, free), Jordi Osei-Tutu (Bochum, loan), Daniel Ballard (Swindon, loan), Vontae Daley-Campbell (Leicester, undisclosed), Ben Sheaf (Doncaster, loan), Cohen Bramall (released), Xavier Amaechi (Hamburg, £2.25m*). Krystian Bielik (Derby, undisclosed), Laurent Koscielny (Bordeaux, £4.6m), Carl Jenkinson (Nottingham Forest, undisclosed), Eddie Nketiah (Leeds, loan), Alex Iwobi (Everton, £34m).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Summer so far:
Captain Laurent Koscielny refuses to travel on club’s pre-season tour of the United States.
Sixteen prominent supporters’ groups and bloggers sign a letter calling on owner Stan Kroenke to “reinvigorate” the club.
Tough December including games against Liverpool (home), Chelsea (away) and Arsenal (home).
Host newly promoted Sheffield United on the opening Saturday (15:00).
Dan Gosling joined Bournemouth in 2014 from Newcastle
Brighton
2018-19 Premier League finish: 17th
FA Cup: Semi-finals
Carabao Cup: Second round
Players in: Adam Webster (Bristol City, £20m), Leandro Trossard (Genk, £18m*), Matt Clarke (Portsmouth, £5m*), Taylor Richards (Man City, £2.5m*), Lewis Freestone (unattached, free), Neal Maupay (Brentford, £20m*), Romaric Yapi (Paris St-Germain, undisclosed)
Players out: Bruno (retired), Ales Mateju (Brescia, undisclosed), Will Collar (Hamilton, undisclosed), Anthony Knockaert (Fulham, loan), Markus Suttner (Fortuna Dusseldorf, undisclosed), Alexis MacAllister (Boca Juniors, loan), Ben White (Leeds United, loan), Leo Ostigard (St Pauli, loan), Christian Walton (Blackburn, loan), Jayson Molumby (Millwall, loan), Robert Sanchez (Rochdale, loan), Jan Mlakar (QPR, loan), Viktor Gyokeres (St Pauli, loan), Percy Tau (Club Bruges, loan), Matt Clarke (Derby, loan).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Summer so far:
Boss Chris Hughton is sacked and replaced by ex-Swansea City manager Graham Potter.
Midfielder Leandro Trossard joins from Genk for a reported £18m.
Winger Anthony Knockaert, who played 30 league games in 2018-19, joins Fulham on loan.
New boss Graham Potter’s first game in charge is at Watford on 10 August (15:00).
April includes home games against Manchester United, Liverpool and Manchester City.
Burnley
2018-19 Premier League finish: 15th
FA Cup: Fourth round
Carabao Cup: Third round
Europa League: Play-off round
Players in: Jay Rodriguez (West Brom, £10m*), Erik Pieters (Stoke City, £3m*), Joel Senior (Curzon Ashton, undisclosed), Ryan Cooney (Bury, undisclosed), Bailey Peacock-Farrell (Leeds United, £2.5m), Danny Drinkwater (Chelsea, loan until Jan 2020).
Players out: Peter Crouch (retired), Jon Walters (retired), Stephen Ward (Stoke, free), Anders Lindegaard (Helsingborg, free), Mark Howarth (released).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Boss Sean Dyche says he is working with a stronger squad than last season.
Key fixtures:
Start and end the season at Turf Moor against Southampton and Brighton respectively.
Away to Chelsea and Manchester United in January.
Jay Rodriguez scored 31 league goals for Burnley before leaving for Southampton in 2012
Chelsea
2018-19 Premier League finish: 3rd
FA Cup: Fifth round
Carabao Cup: Runners-up
Europa League: Winners
Players in: Mateo Kovacic (Real Madrid, £40m*).
Players out: Eden Hazard (Real Madrid, £88m*), Alvaro Morata (Atletico Madrid, £58m*), Ola Aina (Torino, £8.9m*), Tomas Kalas (Bristol City, £8m*), Jay Dasilva (Bristol City, £2m*), Gary Cahill (released), Fankaty Dabo (Coventry City, free), Rob Green (retired), Todd Kane (QPR, free), Nathan Baxter (Ross County, loan), Richard Nartey (Burton Albion, loan), Eduardo (released), Kyle Scott (released), Mario Pasalic (Atalanta, loan), Charly Musonda (Vitesse Arnhem, loan), Nathan (Atletico Mineiro, loan), Daishawn Redan (Hertha Berlin, loan), Ethan Ampadu (RB Leipzig, loan), Jake Clarke-Salter (Birmingham, loan), Matt Miazga (Reading, loan), Lewis Baker (Fortuna Dusseldorf, loan), Conor Gallagher (Charlton, loan), Kasey Palmer (Bristol City, undisclosed), Dujon Sterling (Wigan, loan), Danny Drinkwater (Burnley, loan until Jan 2020), David Luiz (Arsenal, £8m).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Summer so far:
Boss Maurizio Sarri leaves to take over at Italian champions Juventus.
Blues appoint former midfielder Frank Lampard as their new boss.
Lampard’s first match in charge is away to Manchester United on 11 August (16:30).
Face Arsenal away on 28 December before entertaining the Gunners on Wednesday, 22 January.
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Chelsea need to be ‘competitive straight away’ – Giroud
Crystal Palace
2018-19 Premier League finish: 12th
FA Cup: Quarter-finals
Carabao Cup: Fourth round
Players in: Stephen Henderson (free), Jordan Ayew (Swansea, £2.5m*), Gary Cahill (free), Victor Camarasa (Real Betis, loan), James McCarthy (Everton, £3m).
Players out: Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Manchester United, £50m), Jason Puncheon (released), Julian Speroni (released), Bakary Sako (Denizlispor, free), Levi Lumeka (Varzim, undisclosed), Ollie O’Dwyer (Aldershot, free), Joseph Hungbo (released), Tyler Brown (released), Alexander Sorloth (Trabzonspor, loan)
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Last two games of the season are at Tottenham on 9 May and at home to Manchester United on 17 May.
Host Champions League winners Liverpool on 26 December.
Youri Tielemans scored three Premier League goal on loan at Leicester in the second half of 2018-19
Liverpool
2018-19 Premier League finish: 2nd
FA Cup: Third round
Carabao Cup: Third round
Champions League: Winners
Players in: Sepp van den Berg (PEC Zwolle, £1.3m), Harvey Elliott (Fulham, undisclosed), Adrian (West Ham, free).
Players out: Danny Ings (Southampton, £20m), Alberto Moreno (Villarreal, free), Rafael Camacho (Sporting Lisbon, £5m), Sheyi Ojo (Rangers, loan), Marko Grujic (Hertha BSC, loan), Allan Rodrigues de Souza (Fluminense, loan), Kamil Grabara (Huddersfield Town loan), Daniel Sturridge (released), Connor Randall (released), Adam Bogdan (released), Rhys Williams (Kidderminster Harriers, loan), Ben Woodburn (Oxford, loan), Simon Mignolet (Club Bruges, £6.4m), Harry Wilson (Bournemouth, loan).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Players out: Fabian Delph (Everton, £8.5m*), Taylor Richards (Brighton, £2.5m*), Vincent Kompany (Anderlecht, free), Patrick Roberts (Norwich City, loan), Jack Harrison (Leeds United, loan), Aro Muric (Nottingham Forest, loan), Zack Steffen (Fortuna Dusseldorf, loan), Philippe Sandler (Anderlecht, loan), Tom Dele-Bashiru (released), Aaron Nemane (released), Douglas Luiz (Aston Villa, £15m*), Yangel Herrera (Granada, loan), Tosin Adrbioyo (Blackburn, loan), Danilo (Juventus, £34.1m).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Summer so far:
Spain midfielder Rodri joins from Atletico Madrid for a club record £62.8m.
Pep Guardiola hopes winger Leroy Sane stays at the club amid interest from Bayern Munich.
Former Bayern and Barcelona boss Guardiola describes midfielder Phil Foden as the “most talented player” he has seen.
Key fixtures:
Launch the defence of their Premier League title at West Ham on 10 August (12:30).
Host Manchester United on 7 December and visit Old Trafford on 7 March.
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‘Foden most talented player I have ever seen’ – Guardiola
Manchester United
2018-19 Premier League finish: 6th
FA Cup: Quarter-finals
Carabao Cup: Third round
Champions League: Quarter-finals
Players in: Aaron Wan-Bissaka (Crystal Palace, £50m*), Daniel James (Swansea City, £15m), Harry Maguire (Leicester, £80m).
Players out: Ander Herrera (Paris St-Germain, free), Kieran O’Hara (Burton Albion, loan), Antonio Valencia (released), Matthew Olosunde (released), James Wilson (released), Regan Poole (released), Dean Henderson (Sheffield United, loan).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Bruce’s first league match in charge is at home to Arsenal on 11 August (14:00).
Host Liverpool on the final day of the season on 17 May.
Norwich City
2018-19 finish: 1st in Championship – promoted as champions
FA Cup: Third round
Carabao Cup: Fourth round
Players in: Sam Byram (West Ham, £750,000), Aidan Fitzpatrick (Partick Thistle, £350,000*), Daniel Adshead (Rochdale, £300,000*), Rocky Bushiri (KV Oostende, £100,000), Archie Mair (Aberdeen, undisclosed), Rob Nizet (Anderlecht, undisclosed), Josip Drmic (Borussia Monchengladbach, free), Charlie Gilmour (Arsenal, free), Patrick Roberts (Man City, loan), Ralf Fahrmann (Schalke, loan), Reece McAlear (Motherwell, undisclosed), Ibrahim Amadou (Sevilla, loan).
Players out: Steven Naismith (Hearts, free), Marcel Franke (Hannover 96, undisclosed), Nelson Oliveira (AEK Athens, free*), Carlton Morris (Rotherham United, loan), Mason Bloomfield (Crawley Town, loan), Ciaren Jones (Eastbourne Borough, loan), Josh Coley (Dunfermline Athletic, loan), Sean Raggett (Portsmouth, loan), Savvas Mourgos (Dordrecht, loan), James Husband (Blackpool, loan), Ben Marshall (released), Diallang Jaiyesimi (Swindon, loan), Rocky Bushiri (Blackpool, loan), Tristan Abrahams (Newport, free).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
January includes Liverpool (away), Arsenal (away) and Manchester City (home).
Mark their return to the Premier League at Bournemouth on 10 August (15:00).
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‘He would disappear for a week and come back like nothing had happened’
Southampton
2018-19 finish: 16th
FA Cup: Third round
Carabao Cup: Fourth round
Players in: Danny Ings (Liverpool, £20m), Che Adams (Birmingham City, £15m), Moussa Djenepo (Standard Liege, £14m*), Kevin Danso (Augsburg, loan).
Players out: Matt Targett (Aston Villa, £11.5m*), Jordy Clasie (AZ Alkmaar, undisclosed), Steven Davis (Rangers, free), Alfie Jones (Gillingham, loan), Jack Rose (Walsall, loan), Kingsley Latham (Havant and Waterlooville, loan), Alex Cull (Totton, loan), Harry Hamblin (Bath City, loan).
*Reported cost of player. Officially undisclosed fee.
Summer so far:
Striker Danny Ings completes £20m move from Liverpool.
Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Image caption People hold up their phones during a prayer and candle vigil in El Paso, Texas, following a mass shooting at a Walmart store. The gunman is believed to have targeted Hispanics, murdering 22 people.
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Image caption An RAF Chinook Mk6a helicopter approaches the damaged Toddbrook Reservoir dam, near the village of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, to drop sandbags to shore it up. Whaley Bridge residents were had to leave the town for six days.
Image copyright Fazry Ismail / EPA
Image caption A Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department officer takes part in the search for 15-year-old Nora Quoirin, who went missing while on holiday with her family. Her mother’s voice has been played over loudspeakers in a bid to help find the teenager.
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Image caption A restored silver World War Two Spitfire plane is escorted by three others after taking off for a round-the-world flight attempt from Goodwood Aerodrome in Chichester.
Image copyright Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters
Image caption An anti-government protester throws a brick at a police station in Tseung Kwan O residential district in Hong Kong.
Image copyright Dibyangshu Sarkar / AFP
Image caption Tista Das, who is a transgender woman, poses for a photo before her wedding in Kolkata, India.
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Image caption Fans celebrate the 50th anniversary of the famous cover photo of the Abbey Road album by The Beatles. The original image was taken by the late Scottish photographer Iain Macmillan, who stood on a ladder in the middle of the street while a policeman blocked the traffic.
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Image caption People protest outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immigration detention centre in Adelanto, California. The protest follows a large raid in Mississippi by ICE officials in which nearly 700 workers from agricultural processing plants were arrested.
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Image caption Graeme Watson, from North Yorkshire, poses with his record-breaking gooseberry, seen on the left. The fruit beat the previous world record of the heaviest gooseberry, weighing in at 64.56g.
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Image caption Burryman Andrew Taylor is given whisky through a straw by local resident Mary Hamblin, as he parades through the town of South Queensferry, near Edinburgh, encased in burrs as part of an ancient tradition.
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Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week.
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Image caption A police officer points a gun towards anti-extradition bill protesters in Hong Kong. The incident came during clashes outside the Kwai Chung police station where dozens of protesters are being held.
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Image caption An RAF Chinook helicopter flies in sandbags to help repair a dam at Toddbrook reservoir near the village of Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire, after it was damaged by heavy rainfall. The 1,500 residents of Whaley Bridge were evacuated after “mortal danger” warnings.
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Image caption Nineteen-month-old female panda cub Yi Yi eats during her naming ceremony at the National Zoo in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
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Image caption Liberal Democrat leader Jo Swinson (right) and Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds (left) celebrate Ms Dodds’ win in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election. The MP overturned an 8,038 majority to beat Conservative Chris Davies by 1,425 votes, and reduce the government’s majority to one.
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Image caption Jockey Khadijah Mellah is seen in the parade ring before winning the Magnolia Cup ladies’ race at the Qatar Goodwood Festival in Chichester. She is believed to be the first person in the UK to appear in a competitive horse race while wearing a hijab.
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Image caption Fighter aircraft F-5 Tigers of the Swiss Air Force Patrouille de Suisse aerobatic team perform a show on Swiss National Day above Lake Geneva.
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Image caption A worker prepares graves at the Sao Sebastiao cemetery in Altamira, Brazil, for inmates who died in a riot at Altamira jail. Fifty eight inmates were killed when members of a criminal gang attacked rivals.
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Image caption Orthodox nuns take part in a religious procession during the celebration of the 1,031st anniversary of the Christianisation of the Kievan Rus region, in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Image caption Acrobat Alyssa Moore practises her routine at The Dome in Edinburgh ahead of her performance at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Image caption Canoli the cat is seen backstage before the Algonquin Hotel’s Annual Cat Fashion Show in Manhattan, New York. The costume design was inspired by German lederhosen.
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Bad news, money-makers. The popular stock-trading app Robinhood recently sent emails to an undisclosed number of users, letting them know that the company made a bit of a boo-boo and stored their passwords on its servers in plaintext.
While you probably get a number of emails from your various financial institutions, and probably filter Robinhood’s to a folder (or trash) if you’re a fairly active trader, you’re definitely going to want to comb through your email app or web-based service to see if you’ve been affected by this issue.
Even if you haven’t, or are too lazy to look, changing your password on the service is easy. Pull up the app and use the “reset password” link on the login page, or visit this link on the web.
Once you’ve done that, make sure you’ve set up two-factor authentication on your account so you’re a bit more protected even if someone has managed to decipher your password. I almost feel like I don’t even need to tell you that, because it would be the absolute worst practice in the world to only have a simple password protecting a financial app like the one you use to buy and sell stocks.
Even though Robinhood has a verification system in place that alerts you via text message or email whenever there’s a new login attempt for your account, you absolutely should use every security measure you can get your hands on for your financial services. This is not an area where you want to be lazy about your account security, because the consequences could be disastrous—even more so than when your favorite stock pick tanks.
As for Robinhood’s plaintext problem, the company maintains that no third-party used them to access user accounts. That’s reassuring news, even though you should still be a little upset about the company’s gaffe. As they wrote in an email to affected users:
“When you set a password for your Robinhood account, we use an industry-standard process that prevents anyone at our company from reading it. On Monday night, we discovered that some user credentials were stored in a readable format within our internal systems. We wanted to let you know that your password may have been included.
We resolved this issue, and after thorough review, found no evidence that this information was accessed by anyone outside of our response team. Out of an abundance of caution, we still recommend that you change your Robinhood password.”
And, of course, please don’t use a new password for Robinhood that you use for other services around the web. You’re better than that.
The Roku Channel currently offers a mix of free-to-watch, ad-supported movies, TV shows, and live news. You can also purchase subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, Starz, Epix, and other networks through the Roku Channel instead of subscribing to each of those streaming apps separately. Beginning today, the company is adding a new section to the Roku Channel that’s focused on kid and family content.
The Kids and Family area is available now in the US on Roku streaming players, Roku TVs, on the web, and on select Samsung smart TVs. It includes a curated mix of shows that are grouped into different age ranges so that it’s easy to find something appropriate when trying to entertain a child. Roku says that it provides “a unique blend of quality shows, movies, live linear and short-form video typically found across multiple free and paid kids channels and brings them together to watch in a single place.” Everything is chosen by an in-house editorial team, so one would hope nothing too weird or creepy will slip through.
Everyone will be able to stream a family-friendly mix of TV shows and movies at no extra charge. In total, Roku says it’s including “7,000 free, ad-supported movies and TV episodes” from partners including All Spark, A Hasbro Company, DHX Media, Happy Kids TV, Lionsgate, Mattel, Moonbug, and pocket.watch, among others.”
But customers who subscribe to Noggin, Hopster, or even HBO or Starz will see kid-appropriate content from those networks featured in this new section as well. Roku explained to me that this will only happen if you subscribe to those channels through the Roku Channel. So if you’re paying for HBO elsewhere, Sesame Street won’t show up in the Roku Channel’s kids and family portal. Make sense?
Roku notes that although the new section is ad-supported, it’ll see 40 percent less ad volume compared to regular Roku Channel content, which the company claims is already below cable TV averages. Like the TV shows and movies you can stream, ads will also be screened to ensure kids aren’t seeing anything they shouldn’t.
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