A TERRORIST turned Westminster Bridge into a bloodbath by mowing down at least 20 people — with one witness calling it “a scene of absolute horror”. Screaming tourists ran for their lives as the Hyundai Tucson mounted the pavement and started ploughing through crowds.
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L.A. Theater Provides Barf Bags for Cannibal Movie ‘Raw’ | Hollywood Reporter
The intense French thriller follows a young girl who gets an all-consuming appetite for human flesh.Moviegoers nauseated by French director’s Julia Ducournau’s cannibal-infused Raw don’t need to worry about throwing up in their popcorn bags — at least at the Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles.The cinema is offering custom-made barf bags to customers before the movie begins playing. An usher hands out the bags after explaining that, due to the graphic gore in the movie, several viewers have fainted, while at least one person vomited.”One of the staff at the Nuart took up the initiative to make the barf bags out of paper lunch bags. What a fun idea! I remember that used to be done with some horror releases in the 1970s,” said Mark Valen, a film buyer with Landmark Theatres and who also programs the Nuart.It isn’t the first time people have responded in such fashion. There were also fainting and vomiting when the French thriller made the rounds on the festival circuit.Raw, about a young girl who develops an all-consuming appetite for human flesh, made its world premiere at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival before playing at other fests, including Toronto. Focus World picked up rights to the movie following Cannes.”Marking the feature debut of French director Julia Ducournau, who leads a terrific young cast into a maelstrom of blood, guts and unfettered sexual awakening, this Cannes Critics’ Week selection should become a hot potato (or is that a meatball?) at the market while propelling its talented creator into the spotlight,” The Hollywood Reporter’s review said of the movie. Adding to the gore factor is the fact that the film is set at a Gallic veterinary college.Raw, which opened in select theaters earlier this month, has grossed $78,000 to date from nine cinemas.
Source: L.A. Theater Provides Barf Bags for Cannibal Movie ‘Raw’ | Hollywood Reporter
Cops searching for well-dressed man in fatal Midtown stabbing | New York Post
Cops are on the hunt for a dapper-but-deadly young man who fatally stabbed a 66-year-old in Hell’s Kitchen during an argument on Monday, authorities said.SEE ALSO 3Mortally wounded man staggers into police station before dyingThe sharp-dressed suspect was caught on surveillance tape plunging a knife into the chest and back of Timothy Caughman near the corner of Ninth Avenue and West 36th Street at around 11:30 p.m., according to police.He was suited up in a large black overcoat, brown dress shoes and dark-colored pants, cops said.Caughman, who has 11 prior arrests, walked for about a block after the stabbing and staggered into the Midtown South Precinct, looking for help. He died hours later after being rushed to a nearby hospital.Police sources said the career criminal was refusing to talk to police about the incident and acting combative before his death.A witness told The Post that he had been arguing with the well-groomed suspect on the street about something when the drama unfolded, though it was unclear. She said the man who stabbed Caughman fled on foot towards 8th Avenue before disappearing.Police described him as a white male with blonde hair.
Source: Cops searching for well-dressed man in fatal Midtown stabbing | New York Post
High-risk sex, girl-on-girl experimenting linked among NYC teens | New York Post
Nearly half the Big Apple’s sexually active high-school girls have had female partners — and many engage in behavior that endangers their health, an alarming new study finds.Researchers from New York University and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine based their findings on a 2013 survey of public high-school students citywide — but most heavily in “high-risk neighborhoods” in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan.Of 4,600 girls surveyed, 1,101, or 27.5 percent, were sexually active. Of those, 513, or 46.6 percent, reported same-sex experiences, according to the study, published this month in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology.This “vulnerable population of girls” who engage in same-sex or bisexual activity are twice as likely as heterosexual teens to be sexually active. The researchers also found:These girls start having sex sooner, have more sexual partners and suffer more “intimate partner violence.”They are less likely to use contraceptive methods — putting them at higher risk of unplanned pregnancy if they also have sex with boys.They use more alcohol, marijuana and other illicit drugs.They report more suicidal thoughts or attempts. Girls “not sure” of their sexual orientation are at highest risk of trying to kill themselves.Even though female-to female transmission of HIV is possible, many of these girls do not test for it or other sex-related diseases.Dr. Chanelle Coble, an adolescent pediatrician and assistant professor at NYU Langone Medical Center, co-authored the study with Einstein assistant professors and psychologists Rosy Chhabra and Ellen Silver.The researchers found the abundance of same-sex activity even though not all teens who indulged identified themselves as lesbian or bi-sexual.“Just looking at how someone describes themselves doesn’t tell the whole story,” Coble said. “When they’re young, it’s harder for them to be specific about their identity — they’re still exploring and figuring it out.”An advocate for lesbian and bisexual youth called the study’s results, “disheartening, but not surprising.”Lesbian and bisexual girls are often stigmatized and treated with hostility, said Emily Greytak, research director for GLSEN, a Manhattan-based group that promotes safe schools for LGBT students.“That can lead to more risky behavior, and takes a toll on their health,” she said.The surveys were conducted by the city Department of Health for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Source: High-risk sex, girl-on-girl experimenting linked among NYC teens | New York Post
Google hopes to improve search quality with ‘offensive’ flag – ABC News
Google is trying to improve the quality of its search results by directing review teams to flag content that might come across as upsetting or offensive.With the change, content with racial slurs could now get flagged under a new category called “upsetting-offensive.” So could content that promotes hate or violence against a specific group of people based on gender, race or other criteria.While flagging something doesn’t directly affect the search results themselves, it’s used to tweak the company’s software so that better content ranks higher. This approach might, for instance, push down content that is inaccurate or has other questionable attributes, thereby giving prominence to trustworthy sources.The review teams — comprised of contractors known as “quality raters” — already comb through websites and other content to flag questionable items such as pornography. Google added “upsetting-offensive” in its latest guidelines for quality raters. Google declined to comment on the changes, which were reported in the blog Search Engine Land and elsewhere.The guidelines , which run 160 pages, are an interesting look into how Google ranks the quality of its search results. For instance, it gives examples of “high-quality” pages, such as the home page of a newspaper that has “won seven Pulitzer Prize awards,” and “low-quality” pages, such as an article that includes “many?grammar and?punctuation errors.”The guidelines cite an example of “Holocaust history” as a search query. A resulting website listing “Top 10 reasons why the holocaust didn’t happen” would get flagged.The new “upsetting-offensive” flag instructs quality raters to “flag to all web results that contain upsetting or offensive content from the perspective of users in your locale, even if the result satisfies the user intent.” So even if the results are what the person searched for, such as white supremacist websites, they could still get flagged. But it doesn’t mean the results won’t show up at all when someone searches for them.
Source: Google hopes to improve search quality with ‘offensive’ flag – ABC News
Rachel Maddow’s Trump ‘bombshell’ completely backfired | New York Post
Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you. Then there’s Rachel Maddow, who stuck her head in the bear’s mouth while talking trash. Chomp!It wouldn’t be fair to call her Tuesday night show the TV flop seen ’round the world. It was worse than that. Much worse.It was a gut-punch embarrassment to Maddow, to MSNBC, to NBC and to all the lefties who bought her afternoon tweet that “We’ve got Trump tax returns.” Were she selling stocks, she’d be busted for running a pump-and-dump scam.Yet for hours, between her boast and the actual show, Maddow launched a million fantasies. The anti-Trumpers had to be salivating, imagining that the big scoop would finally reveal the president as a tax cheat and liar, a filthy parasite on hardworking taxpayers.This could be it, the Holy Grail, the silver bullet that finished him. The nation would rise up in disgust, Republicans would jump ship, Trump would be impeached, Vice President Mike Pence would take over, Dems would promptly eviscerate him and presto, the Clinton presidency would be restored!And all because Maddow got the goods. She would be celebrated as the woman who broke the illegitimate president and saved America from the deplorables and irredeemables.–– ADVERTISEMENT ––Because of her, Black Lives Matter would be important again. Transgendered men could pee in little girls’ bathrooms. Never again would terrorism be linked to Islam and saying “America First” would be a hate crime.Chomp!The outrage at Maddow on the unhinged left, and the mockery of her among sensible people, is that her sin went far beyond delivering a dud. She assembled an audience only to deliver a great gift to Trump.Her scoop, courtesy of journalist David Cay Johnston, was two pages from Trump’s 2005 federal return. It showed income of $153 million, and a tax payment of $38 million.That works out to a rate of about 25 percent, higher than the rate paid in recent years by MSNBC parent Comcast, tax hiker Barack Obama, socialist Bernie Sanders and Warren Buffett, among others.SEE ALSO NBC fuming over Maddow’s Trump tax scoopMaddow made Trump a good guy. One can only imagine her anguish that the truth was able to emerge.Her hoax is the kind that validates Trump’s claims of fake news. The hostility to him is blinding otherwise intelligent people to facts, and they recklessly rush through red lights.Imagine what was going on with Maddow’s producers and staff. Did anyone dare say to her that we have a problem, that the tax return you’re boasting of actually shows Trump to be a billionaire who pays his fair share?That’s not what anybody wanted. They came to bury Trump, not to praise him. And so they tried, and failed.Heaven forbid that, faced with the facts it had, MSNBC would do the story the facts told. Not a chance. Trump must be savaged, truth be damned.Beyond the obvious reputational damage, the episode is serious for another reason, too. Leaking someone’s tax returns is a crime, one Maddow celebrated because the victim is Trump.But the rule of law can’t survive if enough people holding prominent positions believe the end justifies the means. It opens the door to endless conflict, and closes any hope of uniting our polarized nation.
Source: Rachel Maddow’s Trump ‘bombshell’ completely backfired | New York Post
Bomb parts found at Port Authority Bus Terminal | New York Post
An unassembled explosive device was found in an abandoned suitcase inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal, police sources said Thursday.Port Authority cops called the NYPD bomb squad after finding the luggage around 8 p.m. on the first floor near Deli Plus.They looked inside the case and found “a fuse assembly and black gunpowder, the items were not assembled and non-operational,” an NYPD spokesman said.A man named Arsenio Mason, 39, was arrested by Port Authority cops when he returned to the terminal and asked about the suitcase.Mason appears to match the description of a man seen on surveillance planting the suitcase, police sources said.
Source: Bomb parts found at Port Authority Bus Terminal | New York Post
NYC Blizzard Warning Cancelled As Snow, Sleet Continues « CBS New York
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The National Weather Service has cancelled its blizzard warning for New York City as snow and sleet continues to fall across the Tri-State area.A winter weather advisory is now in effect for the city, Hudson and northern Nassau counties until 8 p.m. Tuesday. The storm was expected to dump a foot or more of snow on the New York City area with wind gusts of up to 55 mph.CHECK: Latest | Forecast & Alerts | Radar | School Closings | Transit | Traffic | Severe Weather Guide | Send Photos | Photos | Videos“The storm actually has shifted, it shifted west,” Gov. Andrew Cuomo told “CBS This Morning.” “There’s less snowfall in New York City, there’s less snowfall on Long Island. There’s actually more in the Hudson Valley and the western part of the state.”
Source: NYC Blizzard Warning Cancelled As Snow, Sleet Continues « CBS New York
Snoop Dogg Pulls Gun on “Fucking Clown” Trump in New “Lavender” Video: Watch | Pitchfork
Snoop Dogg recently jumped on a rework of BADBADNOTGOOD and Kaytranada’s IV single “Lavender.” Snoop stars alongside a cast of clowns (including one played by Michael Rapaport) in the track’s new video, directed by Jesse Wellens and James DeFina. Watch it below. Of the clip, in which a Donald Trump parody reigns supreme—at one point announcing the deportation of all dogs—Snoop told Billboard, “Nobody’s dealing with the real issue with this f–king clown as president, and the shit that we dealing with out here, so I wanted to take time out to push pause on a party record and make one of these records for the time being.” In a climactic scene, Snoop pulls a gun on the Trump clown in a parking lot; later, a chain-bound Trump tries in vain to join Snoop and his accomplice in smoking a blunt. Read Snoop’s elaboration on the song and video concept below, via Billboard.The ban that this motherf–ker tried to put up; him winning the presidency; police being able to kill motherf–kers and get away with it; people being in jail for weed for 20, 30 years and motherf–kers that’s not black on the streets making money off of it — but if you got color or ethnicity connected to your name, you’ve been wrongfully accused or locked up for it, and then you watching people not of color position themselves to get millions and billions off of it. It’s a lot of clown sh-t going on that we could just sit and talk on the phone all day about, but it’s a few issues that we really wanted to lock into [for the video] like police, the president and just life in general.Read our “Icebreaker” interview with BADBADNOTGOOD on the Pitch.
Source: Snoop Dogg Pulls Gun on “Fucking Clown” Trump in New “Lavender” Video: Watch | Pitchfork
Student Satanists Announce Lamb Sacrifice and Bible Burning at Clemson U | Heat Street
As most people know, demonic cults were a myth propagated in the 1990s with the hysteria of ritual abuse spreading throughout the US and Europe. They never existed, but it has become trendy for some people to emulate the imagined practices of Satanists. And now students at Clemson University have announced plans (via a poster) to perform a “live bloodletting and lamb sacrifice” and a burning of Bibles to commemorate the building of a new campus chapel. A poster on campus attributed to a student organization.
It goes on to state that a live lamb will be provided for sacrifice by “[their] friends” at the Clemson Collegiate Farm Bureau. A Bible-torching ceremony is listed as part of the proceedings, with a cash prize for the student who burns the most Bibles. Finally, attendees are invited partake in a pentagram completion event, where they will “help summon Baphomet to celebrate the new Clemson Chapel.”
The “new Clemson Chapel” likely refers to the Cadden Chapel, a building currently under construction on the Clemson University campus. It is named after Samuel J. Cadden, a student who passed away in an automobile accident in 2015. WIS-TV reports that the student kept a bucket list of life goals within his Bible, one of which was to have a building named after himself at the university.
Other Clemson students who passed away before they could graduate will also have their names engraved on the chapel.
The chapel is intended for students of all religious and spiritual denominations, as well as those without, to serve as a place for quiet meditation and prayer. It will cost approximately $6 million to build, half of which has already been funded by students.
Speaking to Campus Reform, the Director of College Relations, Kirby Player, denied the claim that the Farm Bureau would provide the satanic organization with any livestock whatsoever for ritual slaughter.
Given the lack of any location for the event or contact information, it’s unclear whether the ceremony detailed on the poster will take place. What’s likely is that whoever made it did so to troll the friends and family of Samuel J. Cadden, whom such an event would hurt the most.
Ian Miles Cheong is a journalist and outspoken media critic. You can reach him through social media at @stillgray on Twitter and on Facebook.
Source: Student Satanists Announce Lamb Sacrifice and Bible Burning at Clemson U | Heat Street
‘Depressed’ Wall Street exec jumps to his death | New York Post
A 47-year-old financial company executive was killed Wednesday when he jumped from a luxury apartment building on the Upper West Side, authorities said.Kevin Bell jumped from a ninth-floor kitchen window at the famed Apthorp building on West End Avenue near West 79th Street around 7:20 a.m., a source told The Post.He landed on some scaffolding that was set up in front of the building and was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.Bell left a note indicating that he had been depressed, the source said. He had a history of depression, the source added.He left behind a wife and two daughters, a worker at the building said. His family was at home when he jumped, according to the source.“The family is hysterical. He was under a lot of meds. He did not give a specific reason why he jumped, but he was depressed,” the source said.Bell, a graduate of Duke University, worked at Arrowgrass Capital Partners, where he was head of credit risk, according to his LinkedIn page.He previously worked at Saba Capital Management, Citadel Investment group, Citigroup and Deutsche Bank, according to his page.“We are deeply saddened that our friend and colleague Kevin Bell has passed away today. We extend our sympathies and condolences to his family,” Arrowgrass spokesman Nick Lord told The Post in a statement from the UK.A building worker said some residents saw the man’s body.“A couple of our residents reported hearing a thud,” the worker said. “The daughter of a tenant looked out the window and she told her mother there was a man lying down on the scaffolding.”The worker said the mother saw the body and notified building workers.“He was bleeding,” the worker said. “Some of the residents are pretty shaken up.”A man who works in a nearby doctor’s was stunned about the suicide.“Oh my God, another one?” he said in disbelief. “Somebody committed suicide a few months ago … on the other side of the building. I can’t believe it, it’s almost exactly the same thing, but just around the side.”Among the famed Apthorp building’s famed tenants were Al Pacino, Sydney Poitier and singer and Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson.The building, which is modeled after the Palazzo Pitti in Florence, is listed on the National Register of Historic Placesand takes up an entire city block, from Broadway to West End Avenue between 78th and 79th streets.
Source: ‘Depressed’ Wall Street exec jumps to his death | New York Post
Caitlyn Jenner: Trump’s LGBTQ views are ‘a disaster’ | Page Six
I have a message for Bruce. Stop representing a LIE. You cannot make a man happy or give him kids. You are a lie, and you’re father is the king of lies. HELLO ? Any Life left there ?
Caitlyn Jenner is taking a stand against Trump’s anti-LGBTQ views.Jenner, 67, shared a video on Twitter Thursday night expressing her anger about the president’s recent decision to lift federal protections for transgender student bathroom use.“I have a message for the trans kids of America, you’re winning,” she begins. “Very soon, we will win full freedom nation-wide and it’s going to be with bipartisan support.”“Now I have a message for the bullies: You’re sick,” she says.Jenner attended Trump’s inauguration and has been very vocal about her Republican views.She concludes the video by saying, “Finally, I have a message for President Trump, from, well, one Republican to another — this is a disaster, and you can still fix it. You made a promise to protect the LGBTQ community. Call me.”
Source: Caitlyn Jenner: Trump’s LGBTQ views are ‘a disaster’ | Page Six
Nancy Pelsoi caught on hot mic during Trump protest | Fox News Video
Feb. 01, 2017 – 0:44 – House Minority Leader caught telling fellow Democrat to tell the crowd he’s Muslim
Source: Nancy Pelsoi caught on hot mic during Trump protest | Fox News Video
Tom Arnold: Clinton begged me to release tape of Trump’s racist rant | New York Post
Comedian Tom Arnold is claiming Hillary Clinton begged him to release footage of President Trump using racial slurs just days before the November election.The 57-year-old alleged last year he had video of Trump repeatedly saying “n—–” and “every bad thing ever, every offensive, racist thing ever,” but is now saying Clinton called him just two days before Americans went to the polls to plead for its release, the Telegraph reported.“I had all the outtakes from Trump saying the N-word on ‘The Apprentice,’” said Arnold, who was just voted off Australia’s “I’m A Celebrity … Get Me Out Of Here!”“[Clinton] called me two days before the election and said, ‘Please release that,’” Arnold claimed, alleging that the Democratic nominee said, “The weight of the free world is on your shoulders.”“I’d love to be a hero, but I can’t hurt these families,” he claimed to have responded.Arnold says he might still release the reel with “their permission,” thought it remains unclear if he was referring to the targets of Trump’s vitriol or “The Apprentice” producers.In an interview before going on the British sitcom, Arnold told a radio host he didn’t want to release the hate speech out of respect for those involved.“Well, now, these people — two editors and an associate producer — are scared to death. They’re scared of his people, they’re scared they’ll never work again,” he said on Dori Monson’s radio show.The American actor and comic, who starred alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1994 film classic “True Lies,” also said he didn’t think releasing the racist rant “would work.”“I don’t think people would care,” he said.Trump still managed to cinch the electoral vote despite national outrage surrounding the October release of the notorious “grab them by the p—-” video.
Source: Tom Arnold: Clinton begged me to release tape of Trump’s racist rant | New York Post