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From the Associated Press: V Stiviano Has to Give Back the Millions She Got From Donald Sterling
The wife of former Clippers owner Donald Sterling is owed $2.6 million by a woman her husband showered with gifts, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Judge Richard Fruin Jr. awarded Shelly Sterling money that was community property from six decades of marriage that was secretly spent buying V. Stiviano a house, a Ferrari and other luxury gifts.
"Shelly is thrilled with the decision," attorney Pierce O'Donnell said. "This is certainly a victory for the Sterling family whose funds were dissipated by Donald to lavish millions of dollars of gifts on a conniving mistress."
Stiviano's lawyer had argued the gifts were made when Donald and Shelly Sterling were separated and that Shelly Sterling couldn't seek them from a third party. The judge rejected those arguments.
Attorney Mac Nehoray said he and his client were disappointed in the ruling and would appeal.
From the
Washington Post:
Anti-vax mom changes her tune as all 7 of her children come down with whooping cough
In the ongoing skirmishes between public health officials and vaccine skeptics, I'm scoring this one for the pro-immunization forces. A Canadian woman who had declined to have her children immunized against pertussis, better known as whooping cough, has changed her position now that all seven of her children have come down with the disease.
Yes, Tara Hills was stuck in isolation at her Ottawa home for more than a week with her sick children and her regrets about refusing to vaccinate them against the highly contagious respiratory disease. Whooping cough, a bacterial infection, causes violent, uncontrollable coughing and is best known for the telltale sound victims make as they try to draw breath. Occasionally, it can be fatal, especially in infants less than a year old, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Hills kids completed a course of antibiotics and were released from isolation Tuesday.
"I set out to prove that we were right," Hills said in an interview with the Washington Post, "and in the process found out how wrong we were."
From the
New York Times:
Power Over Iran Nuclear Deal Swings to Congress, Foiling Obama
In his assertions of executive power to advance his agenda in an era of gridlock, President Obama has been largely on offense. But his latest battle with Congress not only left him on defense, it actually broke the gridlock. Against him.
Mr. Obama’s abrupt decision to sign a compromise version of legislation on Iran that he had previously vowed to veto was a bruising retreat in his larger campaign to act without Congress’s getting in his way. In this case, partisanship gave way to rare consensus on Capitol Hill: Both sides agreed that he was wrong to cut them out.
The White House tried to make the best of the setback, arguing that a bipartisan bill was less objectionable than the initial draft. But the president’s concession in the face of potentially veto-proof majorities underscored that even his fellow Democrats believed he had overreached in trying to operate on his own. And it suggested that he may be approaching the outer boundaries of his authority with 21 months left in office.
From
CNN:
Aaron Hernandez guilty of murder in death of Odin Lloyd
Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez looked on impassively Wednesday as he was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole, a new low for a young man who once enjoyed a $40 million pro-football contract and now stands convicted in the 2013 murder of onetime friend Odin Lloyd.
Hernandez, 25, appeared to shake his head "no" earlier as jurors in the Massachusetts trial found him guilty of first-degree murder. He was also found guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition.
"They got it wrong," Hernandez said as he was being transported from the courthouse to a state prison, according to a law enforcement source close to the case. "I didn't do it."
From the
Washington Post:
Clinton’s populist theme heartens liberal donors
The amber wood-paneled lounge of the Four Seasons hummed with conversations about marriage equality, climate change and money in politics. Top officials from the AFL-CIO and Greenpeace leaned up against the bar next to early Google employees, on hand for a meeting of Democracy Alliance, a group that helps pool money on the political left ... In this heart of the progressive donor world, there was relatively little angst expressed about Clinton’s seemingly clear path to the nomination.
Rather, many big money players said they were heartened to see that in the first few days of her campaign she has already pledged to tackle income equality and a “dysfunctional” campaign finance system — two top priorities of alliance members.
People who attended the closed-door gathering said attitudes about Clinton’s bid ranged from pragmatic acceptance to jubilation — a sign of the widespread coalescing around her candidacy, as well as the lack of any viable alternative.
“Everybody here loves Hillary, even if they also love Elizabeth Warren,” said one major donor, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about private discussions. “They want to be supportive of this moment as she’s launching her campaign. And I think everybody has accepted the fact that Elizabeth Warren is not going to run, so what’s the point?”
From
Gizmodo:
The Long Pointy History Behind Hillary's Brilliant Logo
Since the announcement of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign was no secret, it was her campaign design that was the big reveal of the week. The giant blue H marched its way to the forefront of the breaking news, but at the center of Clinton’s logo is another, far more critical graphic element: The arrow.
The logo itself is bold and contemporary, and pretty enough that it won’t annoy us when we’ve been looking at it for 18 months straight. It’s lacking all traces of flag-like elements, which is great, and it’s also flat, which is nice. It’s not Obama “ O” good (actually, I always found Obama’s logo packing a little too much heartland/waves-of-grain for my taste), but an H is awkward letter—it isn’t nearly as iconic or cool. It needed something else ... The identity—which is reportedly designed by Pentagram’s Michael Bierut, although the designer would not confirm or deny this to me—was mostly picked apart for the very specific placement, shape, and color of that arrow. Why is it so big? Why is it so red? Shouldn’t it actually be pointing left?
The most famous graphic design arrow is a hidden one. Embedded in the FedEx logo is a white arrow created with negative space, if you know where to look (right between the E and the x). In fact, the arrow is such a beloved part of this logo that people were comparing Hillary’s H-> to the hidden E—>x pretty much instantly.
One problem with an arrow—any arrow—is the inevitable situation where it points at something to which the designer did not intend. Call it the “I’m with stupid” effect. But so far, the arrow seems to be extremely well-positioned for screen interactions.
On her Twitter page the logo points to her face; in the timeline, it points to all her tweets. Same on Facebook. It works well on the website for drawing attention to volunteering and donation forms. In customized logos, the arrow points directly at what Hillary stands for.
From
National Journal:
Gyrocopter Lands Outside Capitol, Pilot Arrested
A gyrocopter landed on the west lawn outside the Capitol early Wednesday afternoon, prompting a security scare and the arrest of the aircraft's pilot.
The Capitol Police said in a statement that one person had been detained and the streets in the area were temporarily closed. A robot has been deployed to check whether the aircraft contains any bombs.
The copter landed on the same side of the Capitol where an Illinois man committed suicide Saturday, shocking a group of tourists and visitors on a busy Spring day.
The Capitol Police have not identified the copter's pilot. But the Tampa Bay Times reported that Doug Hughes, the 61-year-old mailman from Ruskin, Fla., had spoken openly of his plan to land a chopper on the Capitol lawn as a protest against corruption and lax campaign finance laws. The paper said Hughes planned to bring letters for all 535 members of Congress demanding "real reform."
From
Reuters:
EU accuses Google of hurting consumers, competitors in Web search case
The European Union accused Google on Wednesday of cheating consumers and competitors by distorting Web search results to favour its own shopping service, after a five-year investigation that could change the rules for business online.
It also started another antitrust investigation into the Android mobile operating system, a key element in Google's strategy to maintain revenues from online advertising as people switch from Web browser searches to smartphone apps.
EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said the U.S. company, which dominates Internet search engine markets worldwide, had been sent a Statement of Objections - effectively a charge sheet - to which it has 10 weeks to respond.
From the
Los Angeles Times:
L.A. school district ditches iPad curriculum, seeks refund from Apple
The Los Angeles Unified School District has canceled further plans to use expensive curriculum that was part of a $1.3-billion effort to provide iPads to every student, teacher and campus administrator. In addition, the district wants a substantial refund from Apple, maker of the iPad.
In a letter this week to Apple, the district wrote that it "will not accept or compensate Apple for new deliveries of [Pearson Education] curriculum." Nor does the district want to pay for further services related to the Pearson curriculum.
The iPad effort was a signature initiative of then-Supt. John Deasy, who resigned under pressure in October. The project encountered problems from the start. Questions arose about whether Apple and Pearson enjoyed an advantage in the bidding process -- an ongoing FBI investigation is looking into that issue.
As part of the contract, Pearson provided English and math curriculum as a subcontractor to Apple. A three-year license to use the curriculum added about $200 to the $768 cost of each iPad.
Pearson could offer only sample units of the curriculum during the first year of the license, which was permitted under the agreement. But district teachers and schools never widely embraced the Pearson curriculum. And this week, the school board authorized the purchase of new math textbooks, which were expected to be made obsolete by the Pearson software.
From
The Guardian:
Fight for $15 swells into largest protest by low-wage workers in US history
Workers in Atlanta, Boston, New York, Los Angeles and more than 200 cities across the US walked out on their jobs or joined marches and protests on Wednesday during what organisers claimed was the largest protest by low-wage workers in US history.
Some 60,000 workers took part in the Fight for $15 demonstrations, according to the organisers. The protests are calling for a minimum wage of $15 an hour in the US, more than twice the current federal minimum of $7.25.
By late afternoon on the east coast no arrests had been reported, a marked contrast to last May’s action when more than 100 people were arrested during a protest outside McDonald’s Chicago headquarters.
The demonstrations were the latest in a series of strikes that began with fast-food workers in New York in November 2012. The movement has since attracted groups outside the restaurant industry: Wednesday’s protesters included home-care assistants, Walmart workers, child-care aides, airport workers, adjunct professors and other low-wage workers. It also sparked international support, with people protesting low wages in Brazil, New Zealand and the UK.
From the
Augusta Chronicle:
Horny Mom Threw Teen Daughter a Naked Twister Sex Party, AA Sponsor Says
Rachel Lynn Lehnardt, 35, was charged with two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
An Augusta woman told authorities Saturday that she was recently appointed as Lehnardt’s sponsor through Alcoholics Anonymous and Lehnardt told her about a recent incident at her home, according to a Columbia County Sheriff’s Office incident report.
Lenhardt said her children were with their father when her 16-year-old daughter texted asking if she could have friends over “to party,” according to the report. She agreed and allowed her daughter and her friends to drink alcohol and smoke marijuana in her home.
The woman said Lehnardt continued to describe the incident stating she played naked Twister with the teens and had sex with an 18-year-old and her daughter’s 16-year-old boyfriend, according to the report. The woman said Lehnardt also claimed she showed photos of herself and her boyfriend having sex and other pornographic material to her daughter.
From
CNET:
Netflix signs up new members like crazy in record-breaking quarter
Kimmy Schmidt may be unbreakable, but Netflix's membership milestones surely aren't.
Netflix touted a record number of people signing up for its streaming-video service in a report Wednesday on its first-quarter financial performance. And investors took heart, pushing shares to all-time-high levels in after-hour trading -- and ignoring the toll that foreign exchange took on the company's profit during the first three months of the year.
US subscribers broke through 40 million for the first time. Its members abroad broke through 20 million, as the company focuses on international expansion as a key strategy. Netflix credited both its international push and its packed pipeline of original TV and movies for luring subscribers in -- and keeping them.
From
Al Jazeera:
Does Title IX protect accusers in sexual assault cases involving athletes?
Whether in college or the pros, athletes are revered nationwide; their training, dedication and discipline widely praised, their performance often earning some pros millions of dollars. But away from the spotlight, there’s a dark side to the world of sports.
During her freshman year at the University of Alabama at Huntsville, a female student learned just how dangerous that could be.
In January 2013, she decided to stay the night in a friend’s dorm room after a night of drinking. Later that night, she said a stranger woke her up. The man told her that it wasn’t safe there, she said, and that she had to leave. Disoriented and groggy, she left with him. “It was really scary,” she said. “The whole thing was terrifying, and I hope it never happens to anybody else.” ... “It was awful,” she said. Once in his room, she said, the man proceeded to kiss and grope her before raping her.
“I just kept saying, ‘Who are you? Who are you? Like, who are you?’” she said. “The word ‘no’ never even crossed my mind. It was just, ‘Who are you, and what the heck are you doing?’” The man, she would later find out, was Lasse Uusivirta, a standout hockey player at the school. Then, she said, something unexpected happened. She received a call from the campus police sergeant overseeing the investigation, who explained that Uusivirta confessed to raping her.
Relieved he confessed, she believed her case would be open and shut. But things didn’t end there.
From
Wired:
Hackers Could Commandeer New Planes Through Passenger Wi-Fi
Seven years after the Federal Aviation Administration first warned Boeing that its new Dreamliner aircraft had a Wi-Fi design that made it vulnerable to hacking, a new government report suggests the passenger jets might still be vulnerable.
Boeing 787 Dreamliner jets, as well as Airbus A350 and A380 aircraft, have Wi-Fi passenger networks that use the same network as the avionics systems of the planes, raising the possibility that a hacker could hijack the navigation system or commandeer the plane through the in-plane network, according to the US Government Accountability Office, which released a report about the planes today.
From
Salon:
Cheap Trick is one of the best rock bands ever — why aren’t they in the Hall of Fame?
Last week, Billboard ran an illuminating article about the process by which a band or individual musician gets elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. In particular, the piece shed light on the secretive nature of the balloting system, and the mafia-like code of silence surrounding it: Nominating committee members only spoke on background or not for attribution. Still, one person who did talk on the record was Jann Wenner. In fact, the erstwhile Rock Hall Foundation chairman and Rolling Stone founder/editor/publisher was candid with his remarks, particularly when discussing inductees. “It was easy enough in the beginning,” he said. “But at this point, all the clear, obvious people have been inducted, and it comes down to personal taste.”
Rock Hall haters–and there are many–probably have a bone to pick with Wenner’s assertion that “all the clear, obvious people have been inducted.” Up until recently, that group didn’t include inarguable rock stars such as Rush, KISS, Hall & Oates and Joan Jett; as of this year, classic rock titans such as Deep Purple, Yes and Iron Maiden still haven’t made the cut. Yet perhaps the biggest exclusion to date involves a group that’s never even been nominated for the Rock Hall: Cheap Trick, the pride of Rockford, Illinois.
From
Slate:
Why Are Fast-Food Restaurants Hiding Their Condiments Behind the Counter?
A few years ago, I started to notice something disturbing at my favorite fast-food chain, Taco Bell: Many franchises were starting to keep the hot sauce behind the counter. This meant customers had to request it from employees instead of just helping themselves. For diners who happen to enjoy, say, dousing their Nachos Bell Grande in revolting waterfalls of sauce, it meant saying, “Please, sir, I want some more” like some kind of overfed Oliver Twist.
Around the same time, I noticed that McDonald’s seemed to be getting stingier with its ketchup, handing out one or two packets where once I would have been given grand joyous handfuls of Heinz. Employees would often give out only single servings of fancier behind-the-counter sauces like hot mustard and barbecue; last weekend, on a grim visit to a restaurant in Claremont, New Hampshire, I had to pay for them. In Manhattan, I read, some franchises were even charging for ketchup. Ketchup! Our national fast-food vegetable! Something was amiss with America’s fast-food sauces ... We’re living in a time of condimental paradox: more flavors than ever, but less access to them. The simplest explanation, of course, is money. “The recession taught fast-food restaurants that you must run a much more efficient operation,” said Sam Oches, editor of the fast-food industry trade magazine QSR. “You must run a tight ship, and you cannot get by being loosey-goosey and freewheeling with your condiment packets.”
From
The Atlantic:
The Myth of Police Reform
There is a tendency, when examining police shootings, to focus on tactics at the expense of strategy. One interrogates the actions of the officer in the moment trying to discern their mind-state. We ask ourselves, "Were they justified in shooting?" But, in this time of heightened concern around the policing, a more essential question might be, "Were we justified in sending them?" At some point, Americans decided that the best answer to every social ill lay in the power of the criminal-justice system. Vexing social problems—homelessness, drug use, the inability to support one's children, mental illness—are presently solved by sending in men and women who specialize in inspiring fear and ensuring compliance. Fear and compliance have their place, but it can't be every place.
When Walter Scott fled from the North Charleston police, he was not merely fleeing Thomas Slager, he was attempting to flee incarceration. He was doing this because we have decided that the criminal-justice system is the best tool for dealing with men who can't, or won't, support their children at a level that we deem satisfactory. Peel back the layers of most of the recent police shootings that have captured attention and you will find a broad societal problem that we have looked at, thrown our hands up, and said to the criminal-justice system, "You deal with this."
From
The Hollywood Reporter:
'Wonder Woman' Movie Finds a New Director
Just days after losing a director for Wonder Woman, Warners has quickly found another filmmaker to pick up the reins on the high-profile project.
Patty Jenkins, who at one point was to direct Thor 2 for rival Marvel Studios, has closed a deal to helm Warner Bros.' female superhero movie.
Warners moved at lightning speed to sew up another director after parting ways Monday with Michelle MacLaren, the experienced TV director and producer who was to have made her feature directorial debut with Wonder Woman. Creative differences were cited as the reasons for MacLaren's departure.
Selecting Jenkins helps Warners avoid what some saw as a gender bias against women directors helming superhero tentpoles. Ironically, Jenkins would have been the first female director on a Marvel movie if she had continued on Thor 2. She will now become the first female director to handle a big project in Warner's developing DC universe.
The studio needed to move quickly in order not to lose momentum on the project, which has been slotted for 2017 and has Gal Gadot attached to star.
From
Collider:
Angelina Jolie Eyed to Direct ‘Captain Marvel’
A couple months ago, it was reported that Angelina Jolie was circling Captain Marvel, and we now have confirmation that she’s definitely under consideration for the job ... Jolie is a terrific choice from an optics standpoint. In addition to a strong female director telling the story of a strong female superhero, she has the profile to attract non-comic book fans. The press loves her, she has no problem doing interviews, she’s personable, and that’s all essential to bringing the property to a larger audience ... The issue with Marvel Studios comes from their creative restraints where they allow for some personality to come into their pictures, but the filmmaker still has to work inside the studio’s mold so that there’s a visual and tonal consistency between inter-connected pictures.
From
Variety:
Zack Snyder Teases ‘Batman v Superman’ Trailer
Director Zack Snyder confirmed Monday’s Imax trailer event for “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” by teasing the highly-anticipated footage on Twitter late Wednesday.
The “Batman v Superman Imax Trailer Event” is billed as being 15 minutes long, prompting speculation that the presentation will include extra footage from the “Man of Steel” sequel, which stars Henry Cavill as Superman and Ben Affleck as Batman. It will also feature an intro from Snyder.
“Dawn of Justice” also stars Amy Adams (Lois Lane), Laurence Fishburne (Perry White), Jesse Eisenberg (Lex Luthor), Jeremy Irons (Alfred Pennyworth) and Diane Lane (Martha Kent), and will feature the big screen debut of Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman and Jason Momoa’s Aquaman ahead of two standalone films focusing on those characters, as well as two planned “Justice League” films, which will bring all of DC Comics’ most iconic heroes together. WB has also set release dates for solo films centered around fellow Justice League members “The Flash,” starring Ezra Miller; “Shazam,” with Dwayne Johnson appearing as antagonist Black Adam; and “Cyborg,” starring Ray Fisher.
From the
A.V. Club:
Russia bans 'Child 44' for “distorting history,” because only Russia gets to do that
The past few years have seen a resurgence of nationalism and heavy-handed tactics on the part of Vladimir Putin and the Russian government, so much so that some suggest Putin has pushed the country back toward the days of the cold war. But despite international condemnation for the country’s behavior in Ukraine, there’s one thing at which Russia will always be great, and that is censorship. Well, censorship, and distorting history in comically hilarious ways. Thus, it makes perfect sense that Yahoo! News reports the country has banned the new Tom Hardy/Gary Oldman film Child 44 on the grounds that it distorts history, because that is something that only Russia itself gets to do within its own borders.
Child 44, a film written by Richard Price from Tom Rob Smith’s novel, is the story of a serial killer of children on the loose in post-World War II Russia, a year before Stalin’s death. (You can watch the trailer here.) Hardy plays the investigator whose work is stymied by efforts from government officials to pretend that such crimes didn’t occur in the Communist country.
Russia’s Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky defended pulling the film a day before it was scheduled to be released, saying, “Films such as Child 44 should not go out in our country on mass release, earning money from our cinema audiences,” perhaps suggesting the film should instead be copied by hand and distributed illegally, samizdat-style, the way things used to get done around there before all this silly freedom and liberalism talk started spreading.
From
/Film:
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Legacy Trailer: Decades of Chaos Lead to This
Mad Max: Fury Road looks unique in part because it resembles action movies of years past more than it looks like a modern tentpole release. That’s in part thanks to the guiding hand of George Miller, who has directed all four entries in the Mad Max series, and has consistently worked with some of the most insane stunt people around. The first three Mad Max movies were made when digital effects weren’t an option, but Fury Road, the fourth film, looks like it was made with the same attention to physical mayhem. Warner Bros. has created a new trailer that assembles footage from all the films in the series — not to recap that overall story, but to suggest that this new film fits right in line with the previous three.
From
Ain't It Cool News:
Wanna See The Full Body Armor Of A FORCE AWAKENS Stormtrooper
We’ve seen glimpses of helmets and chest armor via leaked helmet shots and in the teaser which arrived late last year. Now comes a look at the fully Appleized Imperial Stormtrooper, courtesy of an AICN reader codenamed The Bothan Bruiser.
From
Rolling Stone:
Being Ringo: A Beatle's All-Starr Life
There are some things Ringo believes. "If you are on a desert island and you have coconuts, you can survive." There are some things Ringo can't answer. Was "Taxman" recorded on four-track or eight-track? "Ask someone who knows. I only know I'm on it." There are times when Ringo can be quite acerbic. "I was having dinner with him recently in L.A. with Dave Grohl and our wives," says Paul McCartney. "I know Ringo has been sober for years, so I joked, 'C'mon, Ringo, have a whiskey.' Ringo looked at me for a second and says, 'What, and end up looking like you?' I deserved it."
And then there are things Ringo Starr wants to make absolutely clear. He is dressed all in black and turns his sunglasses toward the sun. He speaks slowly in his Beverly Hills-via-Liverpool Postal District 8 accent.
"You know my real name isn't Ringo, right?"
From
Billboard:
Wiz Khalifa's 'See You Again' Knocks 'Uptown Funk' Off No. 1 on Hot 100
Wiz Khalifa completes a fast and furious vault to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, as "See You Again," featuring Charlie Puth, and from the box office smash Furious 7, zooms 10-1. The song stops the command of Mark Ronson's "Uptown Funk!," featuring Bruno Mars, after 14 weeks. The latter remains tied for the second-longest rule in the Hot 100's history.
Spurring its Hot 100 coronation, "Again" holds at No. 1 on the Digital Songs chart and roars to No. 1 on the Streaming Songs and On-Demand Songs charts.
Plus, Walk the Moon takes one giant leap into the Hot 100's top 10 with "Shut Up and Dance."
From
Cosmo:
16 Female Senators Give Their Best Advice to Young Women
In the history of the United States, just 46 women have ever served in the Senate. A full 20 of them are serving right now — a record high. Twenty out of 100, though, is far from equality, and female senators remain notable for their successes in such a male-dominated environment. Earlier this year, Cosmopolitan spoke with 16 of them about their lives, their careers, and how they see the role of women in the Senate in 2015. And they had a lot they wanted to say directly to Cosmo readers. Their best advice on succeeding in your career — and perhaps taking your own Senate seat someday — is below.
Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.):
"I'd tell her to throw her feet out there and try it. This was always the amazing thing — women just need to try. Just get out there and do it. It's so easy to focus on what could go wrong, on what else you could do before you try the thing you really want to do. No. Just get out there and try."
Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.):
"Women have to be a lot like a phoenix. Now, what's a phoenix? The phoenix is the mythical bird of my city San Francisco, and it grew out of the ashes of the 1906 earthquake. The message is, life is filled with defeats … It takes time to learn the expertise, to learn your strengths, your weaknesses, to be able to work to your strength and not to your weakness. And everybody has both."
Susan Collins (R-Maine):
"Role models are really important. It was much easier for Olympia Snowe and for me to be elected to the Senate because Margaret Chase Smith had paved the path for us. And the best example I can give you, of role models, is to recount a story that happened in my 2008 campaign. My campaign manager had an 8-year-old daughter … and she asked him, after watching me on television one night, and she said, "Daddy, can boys grow up to be senators?" And it was because, her whole life, [she] had only seen Olympia Snowe and me as senators. And I just love that story because it shows how powerful images are in role models."