Looking Back at Highlights and Lowlights of 500 Episodes of ‘American Idol’
Looking Back at Highlights and Lowlights of 500 Episodes of 'American Idol'
venerdì 31 ottobre 2014
Looking Back at Highlights and Lowlights of 500 Episodes of 'American Idol'
Looking Back at Highlights and Lowlights of 500 Episodes of 'American Idol'
21 Fun Foods To Make With Kids For Mother's Day
Because moms are the best and deserve to eat adorable French toast kebabs.
Mini Pancake Cinnamon Rolls
These cinnamon buns are secretly just pancakes covered in icing. What's not to love? Find the recipe here.
French Toast Kebabs
Have your kids choose the fruit and arrange the kebab. Find the recipe here.
21 Fun Foods To Make With Kids For Mother's Day
Moby and David Lynch Talk God, Maggots and Music at IMS Engage Conference
The musician and director sat down for a one-on-one conversation at the April 16 International Music Summit gathering.
Moby and David Lynch Talk God, Maggots and Music at IMS Engage Conference
Power Lawyers 2014: The Complete List A-Z
Report: Apple Near $3.2 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
UPDATED: The acquisition of Beats Electronics, the headphone maker and music streaming operator founded by music producer Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre, would be Apple’s largest ever.
Report: Apple Near $3.2 Billion Deal for Beats Electronics
In Arizona, Operating Fantasy Sports Contests For Money Remains A Felony
Last week, Fantasy Sports Trade Association member Stacie Stern seemed so certain that Arizona was about to legalize play-for-cash fantasy sports that she even acknowledged to the media that she runs a fantasy sports business based out of Scottsdale, AZ (she purports not to have Arizona customers). However, yesterday the Arizona Republic reported that [...]
In Arizona, Operating Fantasy Sports Contests For Money Remains A Felony
Actually, the Comcast-Time Warner Merger Doesn’t Hurt Netflix
Remember way back (you know, like four years ago) when Netflix was primarily a mail-order DVD company? Things have changed a lot since then. Now Netflix–which has become a key player in online video–wants to kill the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger. Its announcement comes, not coincidentally, on the heels of a letter Senator Al Franken […]
Actually, the Comcast-Time Warner Merger Doesn’t Hurt Netflix
How Stereotypically Blonde Are You?
Like, it’s not a hair color, it’s a lifestyle.
Frank Micelotta / MGM / Baron / Getty Images / Justine Zwiebel for BuzzFeed
How Stereotypically Blonde Are You?
Neil Young, Jack White Cut a Vinyl Record on 'Tonight Show' (Video)
Young hits White’s 1947 Voice-O-Graph to record a vinyl version of “Crazy” live on television.
Neil Young, Jack White Cut a Vinyl Record on 'Tonight Show' (Video)
Friday Sector Leaders: Utilities, Consumer Products
In afternoon trading on Friday, Utilities stocks are the best performing sector, higher by 0.9%. Within that group, CMS Energy Corp (NYSE: CMS) and Wisconsin Energy Corp. (NYSE: WEC) are two of the day’s stand-outs, showing a gain of 1.5% and 1.5%, respectively. Among utilities ETFs, one ETF following the [...]
Friday Sector Leaders: Utilities, Consumer Products
Après Sebelius, Les Deluge
With the resignation of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and the end of the first year enrollment period, can we move beyond politics and focus on repairing the ACA to improve quality and reduce the costs of health care?
Après Sebelius, Les Deluge
giovedì 30 ottobre 2014
This Is What The Kid From "Sixth Sense" Looks Like Now
Haley Joel Osment now has an awesome beard.
Remember the cute kid from Sixth Sense? Remember him looking like this?
Brenda Chase / Getty
Or like this?
Naw.
Frank Micelotta / Getty
Well, he went out over the weekend and now he looks like this.
Frank Micelotta / Getty
This Is What The Kid From "Sixth Sense" Looks Like Now
Gas Makes Wind Affordable Even Without Tax Credit: Alliant CEO
Cheap natural gas is making wind energy affordable, even without a tax credit, the chief executive officer of Alliant Energy said in Chicago Wednesday.
Gas Makes Wind Affordable Even Without Tax Credit: Alliant CEO
Check Out The Most Over-The-Top Wedding Announcement Video You Will Ever See
Out of control.
Please don't be the new standard.
This seriously must be the most expensive save the date in history. They even hired a helicopter for some epic aerial shots!
And what about this symbolism???
This video is pretty much straight out of The Great Gatsby.
Check Out The Most Over-The-Top Wedding Announcement Video You Will Ever See
The Italian 'Ebola Outbreak' Is Just a Chance for Racists to Be Racist
Doctors working in Guinea to control the Ebola outbreak. (Photo via Flickr user EU Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection)
On March 21, Guinea’s government declared an outbreak of the Ebola virus. According to a report from the World Health Organization (WHO) the following day, more than 140 people had already died, with a total of 208 clinical cases of Ebola registered throughout the West African country. Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s assistant director-general, described the situation as “one of the most challenging Ebola outbreaks that we have ever faced."
Despite health officials stressing that Ebola is not an easy virus to catch, Italy—a main point of entry into Europe for African migrants—promptly freaked out. On April 4, an official statement from the Ministry of Health declared "the activation of appropriate measures of surveillance at all international access points to Italy."
This document highlighted the need to monitor all the "official and non-official" arrivals, especially on the island of Lampedusa, a renowned transit point for immigrants trying to enter Europe, and the location of controversial refugee camps that have been criticized for their mistreatment of migrants. In response to the statement, Pietro Bartolo—the healthcare coordinator in Lampedusa—told Italian press that the latest immigrants to be rescued off the island’s coast were mainly from Libya, and therefore unlikely to be Ebola carriers.
Several reassurances arrived from different parts of the country. The refugee center coordinator in Bolzano, a city in northern Italy, stated: “We took all the necessary precautions. What is more, the migrants coming from nations considered ‘at-risk’ left their countries way before the epidemic outbreak. Ebola has a 20-day incubation period. The refugees [who recently] arrived in Bolzano [had] been travelling for a long period of time before arriving in Lampedusa.”
Authorities in Pisa, Tuscany also reassured their residents that there was no need to be alarmed about an Ebola outbreak in the city, where 40 immigrants arrived on the day the Guinean government released its statement.
This is what’s been happening in the real world. Unsurprisingly, the internet hasn’t taken such a rational approach. A couple of weeks ago, a bunch of conspiracy theory websites reissued the Ministry of Health’s statement, claiming it was meant to be confidential and something the government was trying to hide. Of course, being inherently paranoid, some of these conspiracy theorists started to suggest that Italy was now at the mercy of plague-spreading illegal aliens, the government intentionally keeping quiet to avoid widespread panic.
One solution to prevent this invasion of infected immigrants was offered on the Facebook page of Catena Umana (Human Chain), an anti-Euro, anti-migrant, anti-banker, anti-Islam group that relays bullshit to anyone dumb enough to think that caps lock and exclamation marks are universal symbols of truth. Their illuminating status reads: “STOP ALL ARRIVALS, CLOSE ALL BORDERS OR KEEP [THE MIGRANTS] IN QUARANTINE ON THE SEA. DO YOU WANT TO GIVE THE CITIZENSHIP TO EBOLA AS WELL?"
Even Morocco, they claim, “has closed its borders," while Italians remain slaves to the “politically correct."
An anonymous letter from "an Italian Mother" (shared on a bunch of blogs and by thousands of Facebook users) claims that it's already too late for salvation and that the apocalypse is near. She also explains why Italy is an easy target: “We have an EXCEPTIONALLY EFFICIENT overseas taxi service, and with our DECRIMINALISATION of the crime of illegal immigration we're the most [attractive] destination for immigrants. We offer food and a place to sleep to whoever brings us adorable presents, like tuberculosis!"
The ideal conditions for a pandemic, explains the presumably fictional mamma, are all here: “While on the boats, the immigrants are crammed one on top of the other for hours and hours, and the exchange of fluids, in those conditions, is at high risk. YOU ONLY NEED ONE INFECTED PERSON to lead us to a catastrophe."
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While politicians decide to “ignore” this criminal biochemical threat, David Icke’s Italian Twitter followers are standing up for their country. Of course, conspiracy theorists aren’t the only marginal group getting involved; another large contingent is presumably made up of those who just flat-out don’t like immigrants. People like Alba Dorata—Golden Dawn’s Italian counterpart—who tweeted: “All everybody does is talk about useless things the truth is that Ebola is here…and we’re turning into Resident Evil…as they predicted.”
According to Vox News, the contamination has already crossed the Alps. This prompted a member of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (known for its racist farmyard promotional material) to ask to control the border between Italy and Switzerland to protect the health of his population. The article’s closing statement couldn't be more clear: "If we carry on with the Mare Nostrum operation [the initiative launched to save the lives of migrants whose boats have capsized while trying to reach Italy], it won't be long before other European countries—the mentally healthy ones—put us in quarantine.”
The peak of this hysteria was reached a few days ago, when CorriereSalute.com broke the news of Lampedusa’s first Ebola case, claiming that police had quarantined the island. After receiving over 20,000 Facebook likes in a number of hours, the article was removed at “the insistence of the national security."
The website now states: “In the island of Lampedusa, there is no sign of contagion,” which more than likely has been the case all along, but is bound to have all those chemtrail theorists salivating for the next couple of weeks.
The CorriereSalute story claiming that there had been an Ebola case at a Lampedusa refugee camp
This week, another website—VNews24—alerted readers to the “curious case of San Rossore," a first aid center in Pisa that “completely locked down due to 40 immigrants showing strange symptoms." They’re the same 40 migrants I mentioned earlier, and the “strange symptoms” were actually just caused by fever. You can generally expect that kind of thing when you haven’t slept or eaten for days, which—according to a local council member—was exactly what the 40 migrants had gone through before arriving in Pisa.
The news of the virus making its way into Italy has also been reported by foreign websites. “With the likely arrival of Ebola in Pisa, Italy,” says one, “the European continent is now at severe risk.” Apparently not even Americans are immune, with one report warning that “the virus could make its way to US shores via hundreds of international flights."
Obviously, this is all complete bullshit. The only thing being spread within all this is fear—fear of immigrants and fear of the “other." Ebola, unfortunately, does lend itself well to the situation; there’s no known cure, stirring up maximum alarm, and it’s seen as an “exotic” disease—one that can easily be pegged to other “exotic” stuff, like foreign people who speak a different language than you do.
If there's anything to take away from this weird outbreak of pseudo-science paranoia (other than "continue to ignore conspiracy nuts"), I suppose it's to google something that scares you before sharing your reaction. Because—as is evident from the social media updates concerning the non-existent Italian Ebola pandemic —make that mistake, and chances are you'll look like a tool.
The Italian 'Ebola Outbreak' Is Just a Chance for Racists to Be Racist
Step Inside Eerie Rooms Meticulously Pieced Together by Hand
For the last 10 years artist Anne Hardy has created richly detailed artificial interior spaces, rooms built to reveal something about the viewer.
Step Inside Eerie Rooms Meticulously Pieced Together by Hand
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