Friday, June 29, 2018

Joe Jackson Dies From Terminal Cancer Battle At 89

Joe Jackson has lost his battle with terminal cancer.

Per TMZ, the patriarch has died at the age of 89 on Wednesday at 3:30 a.m. in Los Angeles.

As we previously reported, it was revealed he was in his "final days" last week. Wife Katherine and some of his children and grandchildren were supposedly recently at his bedside.

Video: Watch Janet Jackson Honor Joe In Emotional Speech

And you may have noticed, the nine year anniversary of Michael Jackson's passing was just days earlier on June 25.

While there aren't any details into how long the former manager had been battling the disease, Joe has faced years of health troubles. In 2016 he was hospitalized after coming down with a high fever. A year earlier, he suffered three heart attacks and a stroke.

Sending love and light to the family during this sad time.

[Image via DJDM/WENN.]

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What Trump supporters think of family separations at the border

Mesa, Arizona (CNN)As the Trump administration has ramped up the practice of separating children from their parents at the border with no clear plan for reuniting them, critics have been unsparing, calling it "government-sanctioned child abuse."

US law does not mandate separating undocumented families; the uptake in such separations is an effect of a zero-tolerance immigration policy the administration enacted in May to prosecute anyone who crosses the border illegally.
"I blame it on the parents for letting it happen because they bring them up and know they can't get across there legally," said Ron Carroll, a 69-year-old resident of Mesa, Arizona.
    Other supporters of US President Donald Trump say their feelings on family separation are not so cut and dry. "I don't want to see families torn apart, but I also support enforcing the law," said Jessica Lycos, a political consultant based in Phoenix.
    CNN spoke to eight people who identified as Trump supporters over two days in the border state of Arizona. Here's what they had to say about the controversial practice:

    Ron Carroll

    Carroll was one of four supporters of who spoke to CNN on Tuesday about family separation over breakfast at Nana Dee's Diner in Mesa.
    A retiree originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Carroll says President Trump should stand by the practice despite intensifying criticism.
    "He should enforce the laws like he's doing, and our Congress needs to abide by the laws and follow the laws and enforce the laws. Not go against our President," he said. He said he blames backlash over the practice on Congress for signing off on a law without knowing what it says, going back to the Obama administration.
    It has long been a misdemeanor federal offense to be caught illegally entering the United States, punishable by up to six months in prison. Previous administrations largely opted not to pursue criminal charges against people who crossed illegally with children, referring them instead mostly to immigration courts.
    Under zero tolerance, apprehended parents are held in federal prisons where their children can't join them.
    "Like I said earlier, it's the parents that bring them up, and they already know they're going to take them away, so to me there's no issue there, Carroll said.

    Madeline Carroll

    Carroll's wife agreed with him that parents were to blame for being separated from their children. Family separation should be enforced as long as zero tolerance is an administration priority, she said.
    "To be perfectly honest, I'm angry at the parents," she said. "I feel very honestly that it's their fault that the children have been separated, because they're bringing them in illegally. And the other thing is, the law that has been put on the books was not put on recently. It was put on back many years ago, and I think very seriously that they need very firmly to say enough is enough."
    She faulted the media for using children to play on people's emotions.
    "I think people need to stop constantly bringing up the poor children, the poor children. The parents are the problems. They're the ones coming in illegally," she said. "Quit trying to make us feel teary-eyed for the children. Yes, I love children a great deal, but to me, it's up to the parents to do things rightfully and legally."

    Carl Bier

    The 84-year-old retiree said undocumented immigrants should face consequences for trying to cross the border illegally. He worries about "bad guys" coming into the country, or that people may falsely claim to be parents to gain an advantage by using children that are not their own.
    "Here's how I feel about it: When I was a kid, 16 years old, I got fined for swimming in a lake 'cause I didn't follow the rules," he said. "These people that we have coming across the border illegally are breaking the rules. I have no feelings for them at all."

    Sonya Coppa

    This mother of two says children affected by family separation are the victims of their parents' poor choices.
    "Unfortunately, those parents and those children are feeling what their choices are."
    A resident of Globe, Arizona, she says she worries about families of undocumented immigrants living off the state. Parents should enter the country legally if they want to be here.
    "You can't just come into this state and reap," she said. "Do it legally, get your card, become a citizen pay your taxes. That's what I believe in."

    Jessica Lycos

    Lycos attends "Politics on the Rocks" meetups, a monthly networking happy hour for people whose politics skew conservative. She and three other members of the group who identified as Trump supporters sat down Monday with CNN in a restaurant in Scottsdale, a Phoenix suburb.
    Lycos said she doesn't want to see families torn apart.But she said she could imagine scenarios in which separation might be appropriate, including when a family relationship can't be proven or if the adult is suspected of another crime aside from illegally crossing the border. (Under the zero tolerance policy, neither scenario need apply for family separation to occur.)
    She said she believes that family separation is a symptom of bigger ruptures in the immigration system. "We have people who came here the right way. We need to fix the broken immigration system in general."

    Brian Shiau

    The vice president of a private equity holding company, Shiau said he doesn't believe that the administration intended to harm families.
    But it appears that the administration did not fully think through the "human aspect" of how enforcement of a zero tolerance policy would play out, he said.
    "I don't think the people involved want to do it this way, but that's the way that the policy has been instructed for them to do," he said.

    Renee Padilla

    Padilla, who works in human resources said she does not support separating families at the border. But she supports securing the border, she said, and family separation is part of that, for better or worse.
    The practice of family separation started before the Trump administration, she said -- it's just now being implemented at a greater frequency through zero tolerance.
    "It's not just involving separating the families -- we're trying to secure our borders to stop the drug trafficking, the sex trafficking and I think it goes a little deeper," she said.
    "At the end of the day, to make America great again I think both sides of the aisle need to come together.

    Pascal Kropf

    Kropf, vice-president of "Politics on the Rocks," said he doesn't think children should be taken from their parents. But as long as a law that leads to family separation is "on the books," it should be enforced.
    "If we don't like it, let's get together and change it. Let's fix it," he said. But, with the midterm elections coming up, and the tendency of politicians to play to their bases, he said he's doubtful that bipartisan compromise will come soon.
    "Unfortunately ... it's politics."

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    Sunday, June 24, 2018

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    7 things most people don’t know about the early animation success of ‘Toy Story’

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    Some theaters are adding health warnings to their ticket counters in the wake of a Twitter thread about strobe light effects in Incredibles 2. 

    Blogger and advocate Veronica Lewis tweeted the thread on Friday, writing that the film's liberal use of flashing light — in one scene, for 90 seconds straight — could cause issues for viewers with epilepsy, migraines, or chronic illness.

    "I am not calling for a boycott of Incredibles 2, or to change the movie ... I just wish Disney/Pixar and theaters alike would issue a warning that the movie contains several scenes with strobe lights," she wrote. 

    "Parents have the right to make an informed decision about something that could impact their child’s safety and people with chronic illness have the right to learn about potential triggers/make steps to avoid them."

    Now, Variety reported Saturday, Disney has asked theaters to add signs alerting moviegoers who might be photosensitive. 

    That's right, y'all — Twitter made this happen. So, the next time someone tells you Twitter is bad, you can say that yes, it's absolutely horrible, but it did one good thing one time.

    Read Lewis's Twitter thread in full below. Don't worry, it's spoiler-free.

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    Initiative to break California into 3 states to go on November ballot

    (CNN)An initiative that would divide California into three separate states qualified Tuesday to appear on the ballot in November's general election.

    The proposal by venture capitalist, Tim Draper to break up California in a campaign called "Cal 3," received more than 402,468 valid signatures -- surpassing the amount required by state law.
    California Secretary of State Alex Padilla will certify the initiative as qualified for the November 6th ballot on June 28.

      The reasons for wanting to split California up?

      Draper has said that partitioning California into three states would allow regional communities to make better and more sensible decisions for their citizens to address the state's most pressing issues, including the school systems, high taxes, deteriorating infrastructure and strained government.
      "The California state government isn't too big to fail, because it is already failing its citizens in so many crucial ways," Citizens for Cal 3 campaign spokeswoman Peggy Grande said in a Tuesday statement. "The reality is that for an overmatched, overstretched and overwrought state-government structure, it is too big to succeed. Californians deserve a better future."
      "It will simply divide the state into smaller, more manageable populations. Think of North Carolina and South Carolina; North Dakota and South Dakota; West Virginia and Virginia -- California is already known for its Northern and Southern identities," according to the Cal 3 website.
      But critics have slammed the partition effort as a distraction and say that breaking up the state would cost billions of tax dollars.
      Under the proposal, each state would have about 12.3 million to 13.9 million people.
      California- This would include six counties: Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey and San Benito counties.
      Southern California- This would include 12 counties: San Diego, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, Mono, Madera, Inyo, Tulare, Fresno, Kings, Kern and Imperial counties.
      Northern California- This would include 40 counties including the San Francisco Bay Area and the remaining counties north of Sacramento.

      What are the chances of this happening?

      If the measure is approved by voters, the governor will transfer the notice of state approval to Congress, which will vote to ratify the creation of the new three-state structure.
      Constitutional lawyer and professor Jonathan Turley had told CNN that congressional approval is not impossible, but not likely to happen, as Democrats could feel they have too much to lose.
      "Dems consider California to be a single golden empire, it would be hard for them to accept it as three golden empires."
      California gets 55 electors in the Electoral College -- a powerful number that has been a huge unmovable bloc for the Democratic candidate. Three smaller states would change that equation, which could make a lot of Democrats just as nervous as the idea of four new senators would make Republicans nervous.
      Cal 3 sees this as an advantage: "Electoral College votes will be divided among the new states based on population, roughly the same as they are apportioned today, but with the additional recognition that comes with more direct and proportional influence over the Electoral College totals."
      It says that the California states will have more of the region's influence within the federal government with more seats in the US Senate.
      A CNN analysis in April found that even if California split into three states, it would still be underrepresented in the Senate compared with most of the US.

      California is rife with ideas on separation and secession

      This isn't the first time that Draper attempted to get an initiative to break apart the most populous state. He backed a proposal to turn California into six states in 2014 but it failed to get the required number of signatures to qualify and the measure was not presented to voters.
      Last year, an effort dubbed Calexit sought to bring the question of whether California should secede from the US to this year's ballot. But the Russia-based leader of that campaign backed off.
      Plenty of ideas about splintering California into smaller states have popped up -- including an effort by rural, more conservative northern counties that seek to break away to become "State of Jefferson." Another group proposes the creation of another state called New California, comprising mostly inland counties, over grievances of high-state taxes, regulation and single party politics.
      While proposals about separating California have been bandied about for years, Golden State voters will have their say on this particular initiative in November.

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      Saturday, June 16, 2018

      She says federal officials took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center

      McAllen, Texas (CNN)The undocumented immigrant from Honduras sobbed as she told an attorney Tuesday how federal authorities took her daughter while she breastfed the child in a detention center, where she was awaiting prosecution for entering the country illegally.

      Since the policy was announced in May, some 500 children have been separated from their parents within the last month, according to Miguel A. Nogueras, an assistant federal public defender for the Southern District of Texas in McAllen, citing an unofficial count by an attorney in his office.
      Some parents who are under arrest tell public defenders they don't know what happened to their children, Nogueras said. Some parents also claim they have been told their children are being taken to be bathed or cleaned up, then the adults don't see them again.
        "The government is essentially torturing people by doing this," Cornelio said.
        In an interview outside the federal courthouse in McAllen, Nogueras said: "It depends on who the agent is on that day. They'll be told, 'We're going to separate your kids so they can bathe.' And that's not true."
        He added: "It's really hard to look in the eye of a mother or father who would plead for you -- help me get my child back."

        'My daughter is here'

        Inside the crowded federal courtroom, another undocumented Honduran immigrant stood in shackles Tuesday pleading with a judge preparing to sentence him for illegally entering the United States.
        Authorities had separated Oman Rodriguez-Avila from his 8-year-old daughter when they caught him and other immigrants crossing the border a day earlier.
        "I would ask that you give me a short sentence because my daughter is here," he told a judge in Spanish, speaking through a translator.
        The federal judge sentenced Rodriguez-Avila to 15 days in jail because Rodriguez-Avila was previously convicted for the same misdemeanor offense in 2012 and deported.
        In a statement released Wednesday, Carlos Diaz, a US Customs and Border Protection spokesman, disputed the claims against immigration officials.
        "Nothing could be further from the truth and these allegations are unsubstantiated," he said in an email.
        In Texas, Cornelio recalled how quickly the tears flowed when the Civil Rights Project interviewed immigrants, whose children had been taken from them, after their arrest for illegally entering the country.
        "All the women would start crying and would need to take a couple of minutes before being able to continue talking about it," Cornelio said.
        This week, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department's Southern District of Texas said her office could not comment on the number of parents who had been separated from their children or how families were separated because of the zero-tolerance policy.

        'It should never happen'

        Children generally are separated from parents who are awaiting prosecution for crossing illegally, so prosecuting more parents will result in the separation of far more children from their parents at the border than before the policy took effect.
        Those children become the charges of the Health and Human Services' Administration for Children and Families (specifically, the Office of Refugee Resettlement).
        In an interview with NPR last month, when asked what he would say to people who say it would be "cruel and heartless" to separate a mother from her children, White House chief of staff John Kelly said: "I wouldn't put it quite that way. The children will be taken care of -- put into foster care or whatever. But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States, and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long."
        The administration said it seeks to reunite the families as much as possible after court proceedings, but it puts the onus largely on the parents to locate their children within government custody and seek their return.
        Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the administration's policy last month.
        "So, if you cross the border unlawfully, even a first offense, we're going to prosecute you," Sessions told a gathering of the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies. "If you're smuggling a child, we're going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law. If you don't want your child to be separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally."
        The new policy does not apply to asylum seekers who enter the United States through an official port of entry without paperwork; those people would only be placed into immigration proceedings.
        It has long been a misdemeanor federal offense to be caught illegally entering the country, punishable by up to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine. But previous US administrations generally didn't refer everyone caught for prosecution. Those who were apprehended were put into immigration proceedings and faced deportation from the country, unless they qualified to pursue an asylum claim.
        Supporters of the new program credited it with reducing the number of crossings and repeat offenders, while critics said it overwhelmed the courts and US attorneys' offices with low-level crimes that made it difficult to use resources to go after serious and dangerous crime, like drug smuggling and cartels.
        Nogueras said he has seen a shift in the caseload. During the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, public defenders in the federal courthouse in McAllen handled about 20 to 30 cases a day involving defendants facing charges for minor crimes, he said.
        On Monday, public defenders handled 170 cases of undocumented immigrants who were charged with illegally entering the country and about 120 on Tuesday. At least 60 children have been separated from their parents over the past two days, according to the federal public defenders in McAllen.
        "I'm outraged about it. I'm angry. It should never happen," Nogueras said. "I don't think that this represents the values of the American people."

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        Friday, June 8, 2018

        Instagram CEO confirms upcoming time spent Usage Insights

        Instagram is jumping into the time well spent movement, following the unveiling of Google’s new time management controls last week. Code buried in Instagram’s Android app reveals a “Usage Insights” feature that will show users their “time spent”. It’s not exactly clear whether that will be your total time spent in Instagram ever, which could be a pretty scary number to some users, or within some shorter time frame like a day, week, or month. Instagram has also prototyped a new commenting interface with a row of quick-add emojis and an @ button for tagging friends.

        [Update 5:30pm: Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has now tweeted a link to this article with a confirmation that Instagram is building this Usage Insights feature. “It’s true . . . We’re building tools that will help the IG community know more about the time they spend on Instagram – any time should be positive and intentional . . . Understanding how time online impacts people is important, and it’s the responsibility of all companies to be honest about this. We want to be part of the solution. I take that responsibility seriously.” This article has been updated to reflect the confirmation.

        It sounds like Instagram is willing to endure a potential reduction in usage and ad views to be serve the mental health of its community. That’s an admirable pledge, and we’ll see what degree of transparency Instagram rolls out. ]

        By being upfront with users about how much of their lives they’re investing in their favorite apps, tech giants could encourage people to adopt healthier habits and avoid the long, passive, anti-social browsing sessions that can harm their well-being. These features could also help parents keep track of what their kids are doing online. Both might lead people to spend less time on certain apps, but they could be happier with companies like Instagram.

        The Usage Insights screenshot and “time spent” code were discovered by prolific app investigator Jane Manchun Wong inside the Instagram for Android application package, or “APK”. She wrote “Be self-aware or be prepared to be ashamed for Instagram addiction”. When asked by TechCrunch for more evidence about how the feature worked, she tweeted screenshot above of Instagram’s code that shows a “slideout_menu_time_spent” element.

        Instagram Comments Emoji Bar

        Several of Wong’s other recent discoveries of unlaunched features like Facebook Avatars and Twitter encrypted DMs were subsequently confirmed by the companies as being in testing. She also just spotted code revealing an new Instagram commenting interface with an Emoji Bar that let’s you add the most popular little icons with a single tap, and an @ button that reminds you to tag a friend. 

        She also found code showing Instagram prototyping Android notification actions that let you reply to a comment directly from a notification without opening the Instagram app.

        Time Well ‘Grammed?

        Google’s I/O conference saw the debut of a new Android time management tool that shows a daily look at how much time you spend on different apps, and lets you set time limits. But since most of Google’s apps outside of YouTube are utilities designed to be used as quickly as possible, it might have less to lose by revealing how users spend time on their phones than Facebook . Many are hoping to see Apple launch time management features at WWDC this year.

        Offering “Usage Insights” aligns with Facebook’s recent discussion of research that shows active social networking, like messaging, posting, or commenting can be positive for people’s well-being, but endless zombie scrolling can make people feel worse. While Facebook hasn’t created anything like this feature in its own apps, it’s started to change its algorithm to promote active interactions while downranking viral videos that people consume passively. That led to Facebook’s first ever decline in its North American daily user count in Q4 2017, though it was growing again in the region by Q1 2018.

        Google’s new Android time management features. Image via The Verge.

        Instagram’s photo and video-heavy feed especially lends itself to the negative social networking behaviors like envy spiraling, where users constantly compare themselves against the glamorous highlights posted by their friends. Letting users know how long they’re Instagramming, or even letting them set time limits, could push people to go out and live life instead of watching through a screen as others live it.

        The question is what metrics we’ll get to see. Total time spent on Instagram ever could be a terrifying statistic that might drive users away. Daily or weekly counters would encourage more concientious use without being as scary. Breaking out time by feed browsing, Explore/other browsing, Stories, and Direct could identify the most harmful passive consumption behaviors.

        Systrom’s pledge mirrors that of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s promise from January, when he wrote about the well-being algorithm change: “I expect the time people spend on Facebook and some measures of engagement will go down. But I also expect the time you do spend on Facebook will be more valuable. And if we do the right thing, I believe that will be good for our community and our business over the long term too.” They both believe that priortizing time well spent is not only moral, but the right long-term business strategy since ignoring unrest about overuse could be an existential threat to their apps’ popularity.

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        Reagan’s daughter spoke up about what her dad would say about Trump. It’s not good.

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        Ronald Reagan's legacy is polarizing, to say the least.

        The 40th U.S. president was a staunch conservative who, among many things, slashed taxes for the wealthy, lured evangelicals to the Republican party, bulked up military spending, and did, well .... pretty much nothing in response to the AIDS crisis ravaging many U.S. cities. His presidency, for better or worse, changed America.

        All the same, Reagan operated within the bounds of presidential norms and loved his country dearly, as his daughter Patti Davis argued in a new op-ed in The Washington Post.

        And that made him wildly different from his modern-day conservative counterparts.

        Patti Davis speaks at her father's funeral in 2004. Photo by David McNew/Getty Images.

        "People often ask me what he would say if he [my father] were here now," Davis wrote, rebuking Trump without mentioning him by name at all in the piece. "Sometimes I'm a bit glib in response, pointing out that he'd be 107 years old. Other times, I simply say he'd be pretty horrified at where we've come to."

        In her essay, "Mourning America," Davis laid out four important things she believes her father would say to Americans if he were alive today.

        1. Reagan would warn us against authoritarianism.

        Davis argued that "we the people" must stop any president from blurring the lines between democracy and dictatorship:

        "I think [Reagan] would remind us that America began as a dream in the minds of men who dared to envision a land that was free of tyranny, with a government designed and structured so that no one branch of government could dominate the others."

        Historians have argued that Trump — who's attacked "so-called" judges and challenged Congressional rules meant to uphold legislative fairness — presents the kind of authoritarian behavior our Founding Fathers warned against.

        2. Reagan would be "heartbroken" by a Congress that has no backbone.

        Protecting a president that'll sign "whatever [Congressional Republicans] put in front of him," the GOP has excused, dismissed, or conveniently looked away as Trump tramples the Constitution and shatters political norms — from the president's threats to end the Russia investigation to the web of global conflicts of interest Trump's presidency poses to national security.

        As Davis wrote:

        "[Reagan] would be appalled and heartbroken at a Congress that refuses to stand up to a president who not only seems ignorant of the Constitution but who also attempts at every turn to dismantle and mock our system of checks and balances."

        Photo by Carlos Schiebeck/AFP/Getty Images.

        3. Reagan would point out the critical value of a free press.

        Trump blasts "fake news" on a near-daily basis, once called the free press "the enemy of the American people" and, according to journalist Lesley Stahl, even admitted that he relentlessly attacks news outlets so that the American public won't believe negative stories about his administration.

        Davis believed her father would be appalled:

        "[Reagan] would point to one of the pillars of our freedom — a free press — which sets us apart from dictatorships and countries ruled by despots. He didn't always like the press — no president does — but the idea of relentlessly attacking the media as the enemy would never have occurred to him. And if someone else had done so, he wouldn't have tolerated it."

        4. Reagan would defend immigrants against cruelty.

        Trump's misleading attacks on immigrants — both documented and undocumented — are unprecedented in modern U.S. history.

        Many immigrants are living in a constant state of fear in the face of deportation. Hate crimes against people of color have surged in the era of Trump. And teachers report that bullying against minority students has spiked in their classrooms under a president who routinely led chants of "build the wall!" at his campaign rallies.

        As Davis wrote:

        "[Reagan] would ask us to think about the Statue of Liberty and the light she holds for immigrants coming to America for a better life. Immigrants like his ancestors, who persevered despite prejudice and signs that read 'No Irish or dogs allowed.' There is a difference between immigration laws and cruelty. He believed in laws; he hated cruelty."

        Reagan was no angel.

        His agenda hurt women, the poor, people of color, LGBTQ people, and other marginalized groups. Maybe Reagan's and Trump's conservatism are more in sync than some would like to believe.

        But it's telling that Reagan's own daughter trusts that her father would join every living U.S. president in thinking our current commander in chief is dangerous and abnormal for our democracy.

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