LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Spike Lee's "Oldboy" has been delayed one month and will now open on Wednesday, November 27 rather than October 25.
FilmDistrict is handling domestic distribution for the revenge thriller, which is a remake of Chanwook Park's South Korean classic.
Josh Brolin stars alongside Elizabeth Olsen, Sharlto Copley, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Imperioli, Lance Reddick, Max Casella, Rami Malek and James Ransone.
Story follows a man held captive in a motel room for 20 years who has several days to figure out who kidnapped him and why.
"Oldboy" will now open wide against Disney's "Frozen," which caters to a much younger audience, as well as Fox Searchlight's "Black Nativity" and Open Road's "Homefront." Limited releases on November 27 include Relativity's "Out of the Furnace" and a pair of dramas from the Weinstein Co. - "Grace of Monaco" starring Nicole Kidman as Grace Kelly and "Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom," starring Idris Elba as Nelson Mandela.
PORTSMOUTH-The Portsmouth Humane Society will receive 20 Chihuahuas to help a California shelter.
"Miley Cyrus" and "Barry White" are among those pups landing?at Norfolk International Airport Thursday night.?
Beginning at noon Friday, the dogs will be available for adoption.?
In a news release, PHS officials said there's a lot of demand for small dogs.
Executive Director Jennifer Austin explained, ?We put a small dog up for adoption and nine times out of ten, he or she is adopted that same day. We get phone calls and people visiting every day looking for small dogs. We are in a position to help our friends at the Pasadena Humane Society and satisfy our potential adopters. It is a win-win situation!?
She noted that California animal shelters are inundated with Chihuahuas while many Virginia animal shelters are inundated with pit bull or bully breed dogs.
Of course, there are many dogs, cats and other animals waiting for forever homes every day at the Portsmouth Humane Society and shelters across Hampton Roads.
Jill Petrosillo, assistant director of the Portsmouth Humane Society, told WVEC.com that adoption costs are $100 for any dog 6 months and up. $200 for any dog 6 months and younger. They are all spayed/neutered, up-to-date on shots and micro-chipped.
Adoption hours: Friday, July 26 from noon to 5:00 p.m. Saturday, July 27, and Sunday, July 28, from noon to 4:00 p.m. The Portsmouth Humane Society is located at 4022 Seaboard Court.
NEW YORK (AP) ? A convicted sex offender has pleaded guilty to repeatedly using phony credentials to gain entry into New York City jails.
The New York Post (http://bit.ly/17HthlL ) reports that 36-year-old Yonkers resident Matthew Matagrano pleaded guilty Thursday to posing as a correction officer and sneaking into the Manhattan Detention Center.
During one of those visits, on Feb. 27, Matagrano assaulted an inmate and stole a $2,500 walkie-talkie. He also handed out cigarettes to inmates.
It's not clear why the former inmate, whose rap sheet includes a conviction for sodomy and sexual abuse, wanted to get back into jails.
He faces 10 years behind bars at sentencing.
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Information from: New York Post, http://www.nypost.com
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It was just six years ago when the NFL was immersed in one of its worst public relations nightmares ever.
Mike Vick pleaded guilty to federal dog fighting charges and would be banned from the sport for over a year. Also that year, Pacman Jones was suspended for a season after a strip club shooting. It was the first time in nearly half a century players were suspended for anything other than substance abuse.
The catalyst was Roger Goodell. The commissioner had constructed a new personal conduct policy for the NFL that resulted in harsher suspensions for players. It was a dramatic shift for the league as Goodell took actions that had rarely been done before.
Goodell was able to enact a harsher punishment model because of one indisputable fact: He had the moral authority to do so.
But now there's been a shift in how the NFL is handling problem players. It is leaving it up to the clubs.
A number of player arrests have again battered the image of the NFL with the most prominent being something potentially worse, it can be argued, than the actions of either Vick or Jones. The homicide accusations against former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez headline now what, in many ways, is a worse period -- at least in terms of image -- than it was in 2007.
Yet Goodell has been strangely quiet. As far as I can tell, there are no new initiatives being planned by the league. It's difficult to believe the league won't address this PR nightmare, but so far they have not as opposed to 2007, when Goodell took rapid and highly public action.
So where is Goodell?
His absence is purposeful and by design and represents a dramatic yet largely unnoticed shift by many outside of the sport.
It's become clear based on interviews with people across the NFL that Goodell has been silent because teams are increasingly the dispensers of discipline, not the league office.
This is something that Goodell has wanted and it might have been his vision all along. Six years ago, Goodell set up the punishment infrastructure, and was also the punisher. Six years later, with that infrastructure firmly in place, teams are now taking the punishment lead. Goodell can monitor instead of being the hall monitor.
Teams know what Goodell wants and they are now doing it themselves.
Teams have always been a part of the discipline process, obviously. But this is still a shift and a smart one. Discipline flows easier and more rapidly when teams are taking the lead.
The examples of this are everywhere. The Patriots released Hernandez without almost any league involvement. The same happened when two Denver Broncos executives were busted for driving drunk. The Broncos instituted punishment, not the NFL. In the past, Goodell would have been front and center.
What happens from here? This is likely to continue. Goodell will still be involved, but the NFL will continue to allow this newer process of having franchises take the lead while Goodell remains in the background.
Because this isn't 2007 anymore. This is the future.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - A man in a wheelchair detonated a home-made explosive in Beijing airport on Saturday, injuring himself and sending smoke billowing through the exit area of the international arrivals section of Terminal 3.
There were no other injuries and operations were normal after the blast, the airport said on its microblog.
China's official Xinhua news agency said the man, 34-year-old Ji Zhongxing from the eastern province of Shandong, had detonated the loud device after being prevented from handing out leaflets that drew attention to unspecified complaints.
Some Chinese activists and rights lawyers later posted online what they said was a letter of complaint that Ji had filed regarding a 2005 incident in which he claims to have been partially paralyzed after being beaten by police in Guangdong province's manufacturing hub of Dongguan.
It was not possible to independently verify the letter.
Individual Chinese unable to win redress for grievances have in the past resorted to extreme measures, including bombings, but such incidents are rare amid the tight security of airports.
The explosion took place just meters (feet) outside the door from which arriving international passengers depart after picking up their luggage.
An airport spokeswoman declined to speculate about the man's specific motive, saying airport police were still investigating. Police declined to comment. Officials said the bomber was being treated for his injuries.
A Reuters witness said business had returned to normal about 90 minutes after the blast and there were no signs of extra security.
Explosives are relatively easy to obtain in China, home to the world's largest mining and fireworks industries.
(Reporting by Ben Blanchard in BEIJING and John Ruwitch in SHANGHAI; Editing by Clarence Fernandez and Gareth Jones)
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Samsung Galaxy S4 and Apple's iPhone 5 are seen in this picture taken in Seoul May 13, 2013.
The top prosecutors in San Francisco and New York say they are bringing in state and federal security experts to test the newest anti-theft features designed to thwart the surge of stolen smartphones.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday the security experts will be in San Francisco to test Apple's iPhone 5 with its activation lock and Samsung's Galaxy S4 with Lojack for Android.
Gascon says the experts will treat the phones as if they were stolen and try circumventing its anti-theft features to draw their own conclusions on its effectiveness.
Gascon and Schneiderman met in New York City last month with representatives from Apple, Samsung, Google and Microsoft, urging them to create a "kill switch" to render stolen smartphones inoperable. Almost 1 in 3 robberies nationwide involves the theft of a mobile phone, according to the Federal Communications Commission, which is coordinating the formation this fall of a national database system to track cellphones reported stolen.
"Together, we are working to ensure that the industry imbed persistent technology that is effective, ubiquitous and free to consumers in every smartphone introduced to the market by next year," Gascon and Schneiderman said in a statement.
Nearly 175 million cellphones ? mostly smartphones ? have been sold in the U.S. in the past year and account for $69 billion in sales, according to IDC, a Massachusetts-based research firm.
Lost and stolen cellphones cost consumers more than $30 billion last year, according to a study cited by Schneiderman in June.
In New York, police have coined the term "Apple-picking" to describe thefts of the popular iPhone and other mobile products like iPads. Phone thefts comprise 40 percent of all robberies in New York City, authorities say.
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Asheboro?s John J. Tuttle, a rising senior at Catawba, pitched eight shutout innings against the High Point-Thomasville Hi-Toms on Wednesday night in a Coastal Plain League game.
Tuttle struck out 10 in a 7-0 win and fanned the side twice. He allowed three hits.
Tuttle has enjoyed an overpowering summer against mostly D-I players. The former A.L. Brown star is 7-0. He?s struck out 41 while walking seven. His ERA is 0.39.
Tuttle has been successful for the Indians for three seasons. He?ll take a 21-10 career record with 198 strikeouts into his senior year.
? Blake Houston (South Rowan, Catawba) is now playing for the Gastonia Grizzlies of the CPL. He went 5-for-15 with four RBIs and seven runs scored in his first five games.
? Andy Austin (East Rowan, UNC Wilmington) is batting .250 with six extra-base hits and five RBIs for the Covington (Va.) Lumberjacks of the Valley League.
? Noah Holmes (East, App. State) has three hits in his last two starts in the Alaska Baseball League.
Minor leagues
The Kannapolis Intimidators routed Delmarva 10-1 on Thursday for a road win.
The Intimidators scored five runs in the first inning, including a three-run homer by Mike Marjama.
Keon Barnum had four hits for the Intimidators.
? Justin Seager (NW Cabarrus, Charlotte) hit his second pro homer on Wednesday night.
? Whit Merrifield (Davie) rapped two doubles for Northwest Arkansas on Thursday.
Local golf
In the eGolf Tour?s HGM Hotels Classic being held at Rock Barn in Conover, Salisbury?s Frank Adams III has shot 71-70 ? 141 and is tied for 24th after two rounds.
The cutline fell at 142. Will Collins (Salisbury) shot 73-72 ? 145.
? In the Dogwood State Junior Championship held at River Landing Country Club in Wallace, Salisbury?s Eric Edwards shot 70-79-79 ? 228 and tied for 45th place.
Youth softball
Both Rowan Little League softball teams lost on Thursday in state tournaments.
Rowan?s 11-12 team lost 10-3 to Wilkes in Garner and finished second in the state.
Rowan?s 9-10 team fell 10-4 to East Surry for its first loss in the tournament
Rowan and East Surry both have one loss now. They?ll play for the state title tonight in Pilot Mountain.
Youth baseball
East Rowan?s 9U team placed second in the state and qualified for the regional tournament to be held in Franklin, Tenn.
SAC news
South Atlantic Conference commissioner Patrick Britz has received a contract extension through the 2015-16 academic year.
The SAC recently added Coker and Queens to its membership.
The SAC now has 12 teams, the largest membership in its history.
? Catawba defensive back/kick returner L.J. McCray was named to the BSN preseason All-America team.
Nobody tells you how to handle email in a large modern organization. You learn through pain, osmosis, and experimentation and end up with your own unique snowflake of subscriptions, filters, and settings. Picking an email platform and setup is like voting?there?s no candidate or party that exactly matches your views, but you just pick the one that least offends your humanity and decency.
Working on the assumption that what I?ve ended up with might be useful to others, here?s how I do email. I?m only dealing with incoming messages here. There are many other fine articles on the web delving into the art of crafting an elegant, effective electronic message. Also, this is for work email. Personal email is much easier.
First of all, don?t even call all your email ?email.? The term has hidden connotations and expectations of responsivity. The truth is that only a tiny fraction of the messages in your inbox are ?email? in the traditional (1990s) sense.
Rule #1 (The Golden Rule)
Before we get to nuts and bolts we have to lay down the overarching principle. And that is: your inbox and how you deal with it must reflect your professional goals and priorities. Which is to say that you have to categorize your email by where it falls in your professional pecking order. Usually, it goes something like this, from most important to least:
Messages where I am explicitly on the ?To:? line. This means it impacts my day-to-day work, helps me make progress on what I?m doing right now, or I?m expected to respond in some way. The response could be simply chiming in with an opinion that others will take into consideration, or a straight answer to a straight question, a clear decision, or? something else. If it?s something else, then email might help you get to the bottom of it, but you will usually need something stronger, like IM, video chat, or even a face-to-face to truly resolve it.
Messages to my team?s mailing list. The hub of most modern teams? day-to-day heartbeat is their mailing list. I?m not going to be explicitly on the ?To:? line here, but the expectation is that every team member peruses this at least a couple of times a day to stay abreast of what?s going on in their immediate professional environment. Is the build broken? Did someone send out a new design for review? Look at this massive change coming down the pipe!
Messages to the mailing lists of teams that my team interacts with. These might be teams whose work you build upon, or those who build on yours, company-wide infrastructure, ops etc. Occasional perusal (a couple of times a week) is all you need here.
Everything else. This is just organizational atmosphere. Usually not even technical. And if something really big happens, you?ll probably hear about it before reading the email.
There are a couple of other ground rules if you are to stay sane while dealing with the hose of modern email.
Rule #2: Email is a Terrible Place For a To-Do List
I really don?t get how one can tack on GTD to email. An email is not actionable. Once you read it and understand it, you might end up with a clear action, but your inbox is not the place to shove it.
Rule #3: Email is Not the Place Where Other People Get to Create Work for You to Do
I suspect this is the primary reason everyone is so stressed out by email. If every message is a chunk of work falling on you, no wonder it drives you mad. It took me a long time to realize this. The work you are supposed to do is discussed, clarified and assigned via other channels, usually chats with your manager. Email is for carrying out those predetermined responsibilities. Random people do not get to put tasks on your todo-list by simply sending you an email. You must hold a steady stance with this. If they do, you have to push back, politely, and clarify the situation through other channels. (I suppose an exception is if you are in some sort of customer-support/CRM role.)
Implementation
I use Gmail, so everything below is going to be in terms of that. It?s pretty simple really. I have filters for each of the organizational circles described above. It?s important to be fluent with Gmail?s handy keyboard shortcuts so that you can switch between views quickly. For example, everything to ?my-team-list@foo.com? gets labeled ?myteam?. I can quickly switch to that view by pressing ?gl? followed by the first few letters of ?myteam.? The unread counts mean nothing to me. Everything is a stream. Some messages go by unread because I get what I need from the subject line. The only exception is below.
The view I use for the innermost circle (i.e. messages explicitly to me) is the one where I spend the majority of my inbox time. The filter is use for that is?to:me is:unread newer_than:7d?, which gives me all messages explicitly to me sent in the last week that are unread. If I want blinders to just zoom in, I can drill down to just ?newer_than:1d? for just today?s messages. Or I can use a larger number of days to zoom out.
Go do email. Don?t stress.
How I do email | Vivek Haldar
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter speaks during an interview with Reuters in Cairo January 12, 2012.
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While speaking with a local Atlanta, Ga. news station, the 39th president argued that the decision made on behalf of the jurors was not a moral one, but rather a legal one based on evidence.
"I think the jury made the right decision based in the evidence presented because the prosecution inadvertently set the standard so high that the jury had to be convinced that it was a deliberate act by Zimmerman and that he was not defending himself and so forth," Carter told Atlanta's WXIA news station.
"It's not a moral question, it's a legal question and the American law requires that the jury listens to the evidence presented," Carter added.
When asked if the Zimmerman verdict says anything about race in America, Carter responded: "I can't allege the six jurors [?] are not just as sensitive about the race issue as I am or you are," he said. "I would presume they listened to the evidence."
Following Zimmerman's acquittal on Saturday, President Barack Obama, who previously said if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin, released a statement encouraging Americans to respect the decision of the jury.
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"[?] we are a nation of laws, and a jury has spoken. I now ask every American to respect the call for calm reflection from two parents who lost their young son," Obama said in the statement.
Although the majority of protests regarding the verdict have been peaceful across the nation, there have been some instances of violence, including minor vandalism in Oakland, Calif., as well protests in Los Angeles, Calif. which resulted in the arrest of 13 after violence and vandalism broke out on Monday.
The death of Trayvon Martin and the trial of George Zimmerman have sparked a nationwide debate on race relations and gun laws since Martin was shot in February 2012.
In February, Zimmerman, a 29-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer in a gated community in Sanford, Fla., shot Trayvon Martin, 17, after they got into an altercation as the teen was walking home from a convenience store close to his father's house.
Zimmerman was later charged with second degree murder and manslaughter, and during a tense court trial that began in late June, Zimmerman argued that he acted in self-defense, claiming that Martin attacked him.
The prosecution argued that Zimmerman "tracked" Martin through the gated community and provoked him into a physical confrontation that eventually ended in him taking the young teen's life.
Many Americans have argued that Zimmerman racially profiled Martin, and protests objecting to the verdict are slated for 100 U.S. cities in the upcoming days.
The Rev. Al Sharpton announced Wednesday that he will be leading these national "Justice for Trayvon" peaceful rallies this Saturday in an attempt to encourage the Justice Department to investigate civil rights violations in the case.
"Saturday, the verdict lost the battle, but we have not lost the war," Sharpton, known as Baptist minister and civil rights activist, said on Wednesday, as reported by USA Today.
"People all across the country will gather to show that we are not having a two- or three-day anger fit. This is a social movement for justice," Sharpton added, stressing that the events will be non-violent.
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Imagine a football game decades from now. After defining all the regulations, players could utilize Google Glass-esque headsets integrated into helmets and have a high-tech array of features at their disposal. Coaches could send messages to players and alter plays on the fly or watch first-person footage of a play going down. A world where plays don't get screwed up because of excessive crowd noise.
In a recent segment aired on ESPN, reporter Katie Linendoll shared the Google Glass experience with several NFL players from the St. Louis Rams. The video shows Rams quarterback Sam Bradford's point of view as he throws a pass to running back Tavon Austin -- and then another clip from Austin's view. It's an interesting example of how Glass could provide a new learning tool for coaches and athletes in professional sports.
"I could easily see [Google Glass] eventually being on a helmet and people at home and people in the stadium seeing what the player is seeing," Rams General Manager Les Snead says in the video. "That view of Sam and what he's looking at -- it's going to help the quarterback and all people involved."
What are your thoughts on bringing augmented-reality eyewear to professional sports? In some ways, it could offer an interesting view for training purposes, but also it could serve as a costly distraction during a game.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) ? About 200 people are losing their jobs with the closure of a global manufacturer's Orangeburg plant.
Officials with Federal-Mogul said Monday the company is consolidating its Orangeburg operations to larger facilities in Tennessee and Mexico.
Federal-Mogul supplies equipment to automotive manufacturers across the world, and the Orangeburg facility has made brake pads. The company says it is laying off about 160 full-time employees and 40 contract employees.
The company says the decision to close the plant was difficult but was needed in order to compete in the global market. The consolidation is expected to take about two years.
Early July is about more than fireworks, cookouts and long weekends. It's also about hundreds of new state laws.
Around the nation, July 1 marks the start of new fiscal years and the date recently passed legislation goes into effect, although states often mark their independence by enacting new regulations on their own calendars.
The laws and effective dates vary somewhat from state to state, but an overview of legislation set to hit the books Monday shows that state lawmakers took positions on the following five topics of national debate:
? GUNS: State legislatures across the U.S. discussed gun laws in the wake of mass shootings that shocked the nation in 2012. Most efforts to pass restrictions faded amid fierce opposition. Only a handful of states enacted new limits, some of which go into effect Monday. Among them Colorado is notable for requiring background checks for private and online gun sales and outlawing high-capacity ammunition magazines. At least 18 states, however, have gone the other way and loosened gun laws. Kansas laws set to take effect will allow schools to arm employees with concealed handguns and ensure that weapons can be carried into more public buildings.
? TECH: Dozens of states examined technology laws. Recently passed legislation in eight states will prevent businesses from demanding passwords to social media sites as a condition of employment. The law in Washington state also stops employers from compelling workers to add managers as "friends" so their profile can be viewed. Four states updated tech laws to allow drivers to show proof of car insurance on an electronic device, such as a smartphone.
? CARS: A handful of states have restricted cellphone use while driving. Starting Monday in Hawaii and West Virginia motorists will have to put down handheld devices. Meanwhile, in South Dakota beginning drivers will face similar restrictions. Utah also enacted limits for newbies with a law that has already taken effect. A few states have banned texting while driving. Other state laws affecting drivers will make it illegal to smoke in a car with a child, raise highway speed limits, crackdown on drunken drivers and raise gas taxes.
? ABORTION: Nationally, state lawmakers proposed more than 300 bills that would have restricted abortions, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. At least 13 state legislatures passed new limits, though two are waiting for governors to sign off. Notably, a bill that would have closed almost every abortion clinic in Texas was dramatically defeated by a Democratic filibuster and a restless crowd in late June. The Texas governor, however, has ordered another special legislative session to push the bill through. North Dakota has passed the nation's strictest abortion law, which takes effect in August, banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy.
?DRONES: An Idaho law taking effect Monday forbids anyone from using an unmanned aircraft for spying on another. Virginia has passed a ban preventing authorities from using drones for the next two years, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Four other states approved anti-drone regulations, though legislation aimed at law enforcement in Texas isn't effective until fall.
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Not all of the measures set to take effect were matters dominating national political discussion. The following five examples of recently approved legislation show state-level updates can cover a variety of topics:
? SEXIST LANGUAGE: Washington lawmakers are completing work to strip the state's books of sexist language. References to "his" will be changed to "his or her," college "freshmen" will become "first-year students" and "penmanship" will be called "handwriting."
? JACKPOT: Wyoming residents might soon consider 7, 1 and 13 as lucky numbers. A Cowboy State law kicking in Monday calls for the state to establish a lottery for the first time, leaving a dwindling list of only a handful of states without such a prize drawing.
? ELECTION DAY DRINKING: Kentucky has lifted a ban on election day drinking. It was one of the last states with Prohibition-era restrictions on the sale of alcohol while polls are open.
? EDIBLE LANDSCAPING: Maine lawmakers this session have directed officials to plant edible landscaping, such as fruit trees or berry shrubs, around the Statehouse.
? TANNING: Dozens of states this year considered keeping minors out of tanning beds. New Jersey and Nevada restrictions kick in July 1, and an Oregon limit takes effect in January. The home of MTV's reality series "Jersey Shore" and its famously bronzed cast, however, took the law beyond sun lamps to block anyone younger than 14 from getting even a spray tan.
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Associated Press writers Lauren Gambino in Salem, Ore., and Greg Moore in Phoenix contributed to this report.
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