Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - Movie Review
CinemaConis an annual event that is the largest gathering for the motion picture industry. Directors and stars from future films gather to introduce the world to their film.
Paramount Pictures started the event.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the ShadowsstarsMegan FoxandWill Arnettdived into the plot of the new film, as well as how Wills character Vernon is living since the firstTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Up next wasStar Trek Beyondand it doesnt matter thatJ.J. Abramsis no longer directing the franchise (Fast & Furious 6directorJustin Lintook over),Simon Peggsays the crew of the Enterprise got along just fine with out him.
There isnt even a trailer out for the last film Story of Your Life, butAmy Adams talks about how she couldnt say no to adapting the film andJeremy Rennergives a short synopsis of what the story is about.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows releases on June 3, 2016, Star Trek Beyond releases July 22, 2016, and Story of Your Life will be released sometime in 2016.
Klay Thompson Postgame Interview - Cavaliers vs Warriors - Game 1 - 2016 NBA Finals
Steph Curry and Klay Thompson struggled through their Game One NBA Finals victoryover the Cleveland Cavaliers. But Golden State"s "Splash Brothers" were in a laughing mood during Thursday"s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, making fun of themselves on national television by reading hilarious "Mean Tweets."
Sidebar Watch NBA Stars Read Mean Tweets on "Jimmy Kimmel"
"Have you ever been downloading something online and halfway through it just froze and couldn"t go anywhere? Think Steph Curry"s puberty," said the NBA MVP. "One day Klay Thompson is gonna leave the house without remembering to attach his goatee that he bought from Party City, and it"ll be awkward," recited the Warriors" other backcourt phenom, offering a grim stare into the camera.
Andre Iguodala, last year"s NBA Finals MVP, endured a cheap shot about his "dirty looks," while the recently eliminated Thunder"s Russell Westbrook was forced to admit he "looks like Jar Jar Binks." ("I"ll take your word for it," he fired back. "I don"t know who that is.") Magic Johnson also noted a famous celebrity similarity: a "bald, black John Travolta."
The bit also featured insults about Blake Griffin"s appearance ("Did Morgan Freeman and Carrot Top impregnate an Amazon [sic] or what happened?), commentator Reggie Miller"s ears ("Pretty sure Reggie Miller"s ears provide WiFi") andInside the NBA analystShaquille O"Neal"s weight ("Shaq is a fat a*s old man"). Dikembe Mutombo, Jalen Rose, Doc Rivers and DeAndre Jordan also joined in the disparaging fun.
Watch The Golden State Warriors play against the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
Every major tournament brings the chance for players to put on a star show for their country, and Copa America Centenario has plenty of candidates capable of making headlines toward a deep run.
We"ve spotlighted 10 guys set to take the stage with roles that could or even should allow them to spark their teams into the knockout bracket, where any magical thing can happen.
#10 Salomon Rondon, Venezuela
Fresh off a solid debut season with West Bromwich Albion, the striker is after his Copa breakout. Rondon"s has hit twice in nine career tourney tilts, but did fire the lone goal winner against Colombia in last year"s tournament opener. Venezuela could use his best in the Group C dogfight.
#9 Paolo Guerrero, Peru
With Jefferson Farfan and Claudio Pizarro omitted from the final roster, Peru"s hopes of advancement rest on the streaky Flamengo striker. In last year"s Copa, he bagged a hat trick in their quarterfinal win and scored again as they took the third-place match. It"s becoming a thing; in 2011, he hit five times in another bronze finish for Peru.
#8 Edwin Cardona, Colombia
Stateside observers may have had a sneak preview of Cardona"s wares in the Liga MX final, where he starred in a losing effort for Rayados. Buoyed by a stellar first season in Mexico, Cardona seems primed to step up for his country, setting up camp above the opposition area to slip lead passes into every channel and fire the occasional bomb curler from behind a screen.
The Seattle Sounder continues to score for the USMNT, and is now up to 19 goals from 38 career major tournament games. With Jozy Altidore out, the Nats will look first to "Deuce" to provide offense in his pirating style. It will be Dempsey"s first Copa America.
Its probably no coincidence that the Philadelphia Unions rise in MLS has occurred in the same season that Blake was handed the No. 1 job. And in the first three months of the 2016 campaign, Blake has shown why hes earned comparisons with legendary keeper Oliver Kahn, courtesy of his national team coach. And with Costa Ricas Keylor Navas missing the tournament due to injury, Blake has a great opportunity to claim the goalkeeper spotlight all for himself if Jamaica can somehow replicate their Gold Cup run from last year.
#5 Alexis Sanchez, Chile
It was a bit of a trying season for the Arsenal ace, but he racked up seven goals in their last 10 games to finish with 17. With one Copa America title already under his belt, Sanchez has the speed and shiftiness to run wild at any major tournament.
#4 Javier Hernandez, Mexico
The ghost over your shoulder is back to his best. Fresh off netting a career-high 26 goals with Bayer Leverkusen, Chicharito is finally getting his first crack at a Copa America. Hernandez, who"s netted 13 times in 17 major tourney matches, needs four goals to become the all-time leading El Tri scorer.
#3 Hulk, Brazil
With Diego Costa, Roberto Firmino and Neymar all missing, Brazil may attempt to Hulk-smash their way to the final. Able to come at you from any angle on the front line, the 29-year-old scored 23 goals for Zenit St. Petersburg this season. He is also properly motivated, eager to wipe away memories of a scoreless World Cup 2014 with a memorable first Copa appearance.
#2 Luis Suarez, Uruguay
When you lead Barcelona with 59 goals, can score every way imaginable and occasionally sprinkle in some crazy behavior, no introduction is needed. What Suarez does require, however, is some time. He"ll travel to Copa carrying a hamstring injury and try to be ready for the knockouts. We shall see if Uruguay can buy him that time by escaping the group stage.
#1 Lionel Messi, Argentina
After piling up a "mere" 41 goals for Barcelona, the Argentina star is back to the chase for his first international winner"s medal since the 2008 Olympics. Messi, who has but one goal in his last 11 Copa America matches, has twice finished as a runner-up at this tournament and took home silver from World Cup 2014. How long can "close but no cigar" last for the diminutive dazzler?
The recent sale of online user data stolen from Myspace and LinkedIn highlights the need for human resource information technology professionals to make certain that employees arent using the same passwords for work and social media.
Time Inc., which owns Myspace, confirmed May 31 that the social networking site was hacked and that passwords, e-mail addresses and user names are now for sale online.
More than half a billion passwords have been stolen from Myspace, and 165 million LinkedIn accounts were compromised in May. Experts say the Myspace data was apparently stolen and sold by the same individual who hacked LinkedIn.
While many people may feel Myspace isnt as popular as Facebook, Twitter, etc., the bigger problem is password reuse, said Dodi Glenn, vice president of cyber security at PC Pitstop, a security software company based in Sioux City, Iowa.
With username and password reuse, an individual may use the same e-mail address or username and password on site A that they would use on sites B and C, he said. When site A gets compromised, the hacker uses an underground tool to check other various sites to see if this account login and password combination exists elsewhere.
Company leaders have to make sure employees know not to use the same passwords at work that they use to access other systems, experts say.
According to a survey by password management app Password Boss, 59 percent of consumers use the same passwords to access multiple accounts because its too hard to remember a different password for each account. The average professional memorizes 19 passwords between personal and work accounts, according to another study.
As SHRM Online reported last year, 54 percent of those surveyed by Software Advice said that their employers require them to use complex passwords; 51 percent are required to change their passwords regularly; 41 percent said they are locked out of their computer after too many failed attempts at entry; 39 percent are forbidden from reusing passwords; and just 29 percent are prohibited from using the default passwords that come with a system.
Said Lesley Fair, a senior attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, which enforces corporate data security, If you have personal information stored on your network, [then] strong authentication procedures, including sensible password hygiene, can help ensure that only authorized individuals can access the data.
Added Glenn: The use of weak passwords and unencrypted database passwords still presents a serious security problem to individuals and companies alike, and its one of the top causes of data breaches.
Details of the Myspace Hack
Shortly before the Memorial Day weekend, the Myspace technical security team became aware that stolen Myspace user login data was being made available in an online hacker forum, according to a news release from Time Inc. The compromised data is limited to a portion of Myspace usernames, passwords and e-mail addresses from the old Myspace platform prior to June 11, 2013when the site was relaunched with significant steps to strengthen account security.
The hacked Myspace information is currently for sale at the price of six bitcoin (worth about $2,800), online news site Vice reported.
Link to the LinkedIn Hack
According to PC Pitstop, the hacker responsible for the Myspace breach is the same one who sold the data of more than 165 million LinkedIn users in early May. Known as Peace, this hacker now claims to have more than 400 million e-mail addresses and passwords of Myspace usersmaking it possibly the largest leaked password breach ever, PC Pitstop stated in a news release.
Before Time confirmed the Myspace hack, the breach was initially announced in a blog post by the new search engine for leaked data, LeakedSource, on May 27. LeakedSource scours the Internet for data and accumulates hundreds of databases, allowing users the ability to search and find whether their data is available online or not, according to its website.
The Myspace breach does not affect any of Time Inc.s systems, subscriber information or other media properties and does not appear to include financial data of any kind, Time stated in its news release.
Myspace says it is notifying all affected users and working proactively with law enforcement authorities to resolve this issue. Myspace has also invalidated the passwords of all known affected users and is monitoring for suspicious activity that might occur on Myspace accounts.
HR Implications
Because LinkedIn, the largest resume database in the world, is used by tens of thousands of recruiters worldwide, this breach should be especially concerning to HR professionals. When that hack was revealed, LinkedIn reportedly invalidated the compromised account passwords and alerted its 400 million users about the importance of choosing strong passwords.
On May 17, 2016, we became aware that data stolen from LinkedIn in 2012 was being made available online. This was not a new security breach or hack. We took immediate steps to invalidate the passwords of all LinkedIn accounts that we believed might be at risk, LinkedIn stated in a news release.
Aliah D. Wright is an online editor/manager for SHRM.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first-ever implant to fight opioid abuse last week, offering hope amid an epidemic that killed nearly half a million Americans between 2000 and 2015. But some addiction experts are arguing that making the implant commercially available is premature, as questions remain over whether it would do more harm than good.
The matchstick-size implant, Probuphine, was developed by Braeburn Pharmaceuticals and Titan Pharmaceuticals, and is designed to release buprenorphine over a period of six months.
Buprenorphine is used to treat opioid dependence including narcotic painkillers and heroin. It"s part of a class of medications called opioid partial agonist-antagonists and works to prevent withdrawal symptoms when someone stops taking opiod drugs by producing similar effects to these drugs.
Probuphine developers say the rod-like device is designed to make the drug less susceptible to abuse or illicit resale, which is a common issue with oral drugs currently on the market. However, Probuphines four rods must be surgically implanted into a patients arm, and thats just one area where Dr. Indra Cidambi, an addiction expert and detox specialist, sees problems arising.
Doctors of osteotherapy, internists and psychiatrists are three-fourths of the prescribers, Cidambi told FoxNews.com. That means these are the offices which dont have a setup to perform a minor surgical procedure.
This barrier brings a divided-care component into play, raising questions over which doctor will be responsible for overseeing the patients care, she said.
It should be that the prescriber and implanter are in the same office, but its difficult to get two doctors in the office in the same time frame, Cidambi said.
Another concern is whether patients will continue with psychiatric care and lifestyle changes after receiving the implant, Cidambi said. Patients prescribed oral buprenorphine may be prone to mixing the drug with another opioid obtained illegally to achieve a high, but therapy can help dissuade patients from taking part in such behavior.
When you mix buprenorphine with opioids, there is an increased risk of respiratory depression. Thats what you see when a parent goes into a childs room and theyre not audible, Cidambi said. When someone is on these four rods, theyre not following therapy theyre easily combining the drugs, and that can lead to death.
Patients may also forget the drug is helping them achieve their sobriety, leaving them under the false impression that they dont need to attend therapy or adjust their lifestyle changes. In turn, rather than addressing the problem, the device could lead to co-abuse and eventually relapse after the six-month period of Probuphine ends, Cidambi said.
According to the Centers for Human and Health Services, fewer than half of the estimated 2.2 million Americans who need treatment for opioid abuse are receiving help. Those who are receiving care are typically prescribed either methadone, which is available only in government-endorsed clinics, or buprenorphine, which is available as a pill or a strip of film. Probuphine works to release 8 milligrams of buprenorphine, which means potential candidates would need to require a low dose.
Its really for those doing well on buprenorphine and dont need a high dose, Dr. Adam Gordon, a professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and member of the advisory panel who voted in favor of approving Probuphine, told NPR in January. Will they need to be on it six more months, maybe many times over their entire life? When is a good time to stop treatment? These are unanswered questions.
Cidambi also questioned the removal process. She cited a clinical trial in which, despite following proper procedure, only seven of 15 participating surgeons successfully removed all four rods.
Im not saying that they shouldnt come up with a new medication to address the problem, but we need to be more practical, Cidambi said. Every medication has its pros and cons. Im questioning, why complicate it more than what it is right now?
Despite concerns from experts like Cidambi, Braeburn Chief Executive Behshad Sheldon told Reuters ahead of the devices FDA approval that the company has high hopes for the implant.
I intend to make this the most successful implant thats ever been marketed and I think its absolutely possible given the unmet need, Sheldon said.
The company is aiming to implant a patient with Probuphine by June 21.
In the first year that two Florida laws aimed at curbing opioid prescriptions were in effect, the state"s top opioid prescribers wrote significantly fewer prescriptions of this type of pain medication, a new analysis led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health finds.
At the same time, the law did not effect the extreme concentration of opioid prescribing among a small group of providers -- approximately four percent of prescribers accounted for 40 percent of the prescriptions for opioid painkillers that made up two-thirds of all such pills prescribed in Florida. Primary care physicians made up more than half of the top prescribers. These findings suggests both the potential impact of policies at curtailing prescriptions among high-volume prescribers and the limits of the new policies, since many physicians still prescribed at high rates.
The new analysis followed patients and prescribers from July 2010 through November 2012; the two policies were implemented in late 2011. The first policy created the state"s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), a database that tracks individual prescriptions, including patient names, dates and amounts prescribed, so physicians can be on the lookout for people with multiple prescriptions from multiple doctors, something associated with addiction and illicit use. The second law addressed so-called "pill mills," loosely regulated pain clinics that often see disproportionately high levels of opioid prescriptions. Florida"s "pill mill" measure requires clinics to register with the state and to be owned by a physician.
During the one-year period after the law went into effect, the researchers estimate that opioid prescriptions by Florida"s top opioid prescribers fell 6.2 percent and the total volume prescribed by this group dropped 13.5 percent (compared to a scenario in which the laws were not implemented). In this group, the number of patients also dropped, by 5.1 percent. (The top four percent included 1,526 providers out of a total of 38,465 in the state.) Among the remaining 96 percent of prescribers, prescriptions slipped a mere 0.7 percent.
The findings will appear online June 2 in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.
Opioid misuse and abuse has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., with an average of 44 people dying from opioids each day. To address the epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently issued new guidelines for prescribers initiating opioids for non-cancer pain in primary care. The guidelines recommend that prescribers use opioids only after other treatments have failed and that they use them at lower doses and shorter durations than in the past. In addition, every state in the country except for Missouri now has a Prescription Drug Monitoring Program in place.
"Our findings indicate how state policies such as PDMPs may reduce opioid use among the highest prescribers," says Hsien-Yen Chang, PhD, an assistant scientist in the Bloomberg School"s Department of Health Policy and Management and the study"s lead author. "But our report also shows that programs like PDMPs must be complemented by many other measures to combat the epidemic of addiction and non-medical opioid use."
For the analysis, the researchers compared prescription data from IMS Health"s LRx for both Florida and Georgia, which at the time did not have either a prescription database or a "pill mill" policy in place. The research team compared opioid prescriptions between July 2010 and June 2011 -- before the laws went into effect -- with those made between October 2011 and November 2012. (The three-month interval, July 2011 through September 2011, allowed for Florida"s two new laws to take effect.) The researchers identified the top, or "high risk," providers who prescribed the most opioid painkillers for four consecutive quarters. (By "high risk" prescribers, the authors mean those most likely to prescribe opioids. They note that it is a quantitative rather than a qualitative descriptor.)
Chang notes that the researchers did not have information about patients" diagnoses, and could therefore not assess the degree to which the prescriptions were clinically appropriate, either before or after the policies went into effect.
"When we looked at the prescription numbers in the year before the two laws went into effect, we were very surprised at how concentrated the prescriptions were among a subset of prescribers," says the study"s senior author G. Caleb Alexander, MD, MS, an associate professor in the Bloomberg School"s Department of Epidemiology. "At the same time, these aren"t the only prescribers that we should worry about. There is an unmistakable correlation between the volume of opioids on the market and injuries and deaths from these drugs, and health care providers have a shared responsibility for the extent that these products are prescribed."
The authors note that it is difficult to fully separate the impact of the PDMP and the pill-mill law. But they argue that doctors should get in the habit of checking the database before they write a prescription.
"At some point, checking the prescription database before prescribing an opioid should be just as routine as doing a kidney test before starting a new blood pressure treatment," Dr. Alexander says. "I think we"ll get to that point; we"ll see prescription databases used like these other tools and have an even greater impact."
Greatest Moments in Hacking History: Samy Kamkar Takes Down Myspace
You may have left Myspace and its indie bands behind years ago, but Myspace hasnt forgotten you. Or rather, it hasnt forgotten your password, which is unfortunate, because it just revealed that a hacker stole username and password infomation from what could be more than 360 million accounts.
The Hack
Late last week, Myspace discovered that user login data (those usernames and passwords, and, in some cases, secondary passwords as well) were up for sale in an online hacker forum. Myspace says it believes the hacker responsible goes by the name of Peace, and that hes also responsible for therecent hacks of Tumblr and LinkedIn.
Importantly, according to the hack-tracking site LeakedSource, the intrusion itself took place in June of 2013, before MySpace transitioned from failed social network to failed music marketing platform. That means that even if you havent used MySpace in years, you still could be vulnerable.
Whos Affected
More people than you might think!
Email addresses, Myspace usernames, and Myspace passwords for the affected Myspace accounts created prior to June 11, 2013 on the old Myspace platform are at risk, writes Myspace in a blog announcing the hack. It may be hard to remember now, but Myspace was once hugely popular, as evidenced by LeakedSources findings that 360,213,024 user records are in the data set111,341,258 of which have an associated username.
As for current users, Myspace says it has increased its security significantly since 2013, specifically by using double salted hashes, which makes it much harder to crack passwords even if theyve been breached. If you joined Myspace after its 2013 relaunch, you should be clear, and also whats it like over there? Let us know in the comments.
How Serious Is This?
Its pretty serious. Its unlikely that anyone will break into your zombie Myspace page; the company has invalidated user passwords for all affected accounts, and didnt store credit card or other financial info anyway. The bigger worry, though, is that MySpace didnt protect passwords with much rigor prior to 2013, meaning that if you use the same username and password combo on any other sites today as you did for social networking in 2007, youre at risk.
Its also concerning just for the sheer volume of the hack; if LeakedSource is correct, this would be one of the largest breaches ever. That it comprises mostly old Myspace accounts also presents another problem: Who remembers the password they were using several years ago on a long-ignored platform? Its hard to change a compromised password if you dont even know what it is, which means that to feel truly safe, you should probably change any password youve been using for a long time across multiple services. Also, stop using the same password across multiple services. Seriously, stop.
