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By Tom Kertscher, Dave Umhoefer. Published on Sunday, November 17th, 2013 at 8:00 p.m.
Barring something unforeseen, Gov. Scott Walker will stand for election for the third time in four years in November 2014. One year out, we examine his record on keeping campaign pledges he made in the 2010 contest. Sneak preview: he's keeping far more than he's breaking.
By Dave Umhoefer. Published on Sunday, November 10th, 2013 at 8:00 p.m.
Two items involving Obamacare, Mary Burke's political debut, debate over a proposed casino and a claim that Wisconsin sold water to California attracted the most page-views at PolitiFact Wisconsin in October 2013.
By Tom Kertscher. Published on Monday, November 4th, 2013 at 12:26 p.m.
VML hired Craig Elimeliah as director of creative technology, a new position at the agency. He joins VML from RAPP, where he led digital innovation efforts. Elimeliah will oversee creative technology and will work across VML's creative, strategy, and platforms and experiences teams. He will work across VML clients in New York such as Dell, LEGOLAND Florida Resort, Motorola, S&P and Xerox. Elimeliah will report to Jeff Geheb, chief technology officer at VML. "Increasingly, our clients are asking us not to solve marketing problems, they are asking us to understand how technology can transform their business," said Geheb. "And with Craig's leadership and new role, we'll have a new type of technology leader that can push our creative thinking forward through an understanding of technology." Added Elimeliah: "Our goal with the creative technology team will be not to disrupt, but to build the team organically so that we're able to bring these two worlds together for true integrations within the agency and for our clients' businesses."
Netflix users can no longer launch videos or control playback on Apple TVs or other AirPlay-compatible devices from the streamer’s iOS app, a change Netflix says is due to “technical limitations” and not a business disagreement with Apple.
Netflix first added support for Apple’s AirPlay in 2013. AirPlay is Apple’s content-sharing feature that lets users play videos, photos, music and other media from iOS devices on Apple TV and select AirPlay 2-enabled TVs and smart speakers.
Now, according to an update on Netflix’s support site, “Airplay is no longer supported for use with Netflix due to technical limitations.” The drop of AirPlay support in Netflix’s iOS app was first spotted by MacRumors, which found that attempting to access the feature resulted in an error message.
A Netflix spokeswoman said the company decided to phase out support for AirPlay because Apple is extending the feature to devices in addition to Apple TV — and Netflix is unable to guarantee its service will work on those third-party devices.
Netflix continues to be available on directly on Apple TV devices (second generation models and later) via a native app, according to Netflix’s site.
Netflix says the discontinuation of AirPlay support from its iOS app doesn’t stem from any business disagreement between the two companies. That may be, but the change comes as Apple is gearing up to compete head-to-head with Netflix.
At a splashy, celeb-studded event two weeks ago, Apple announced “Apple TV+,” its own subscription-streaming service that represents a direct rival to Netflix. Apple’s subscription VOD lineup will include original content from Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, J.J. Abrams and Sesame Street. The tech giant says Apple TV+ will launch in fall 2019, but hasn’t announced pricing or other details.
Apple also announced a redesigned Apple TV app that provides a unified experience for accessing TV shows, movies and third-party services across iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, smart TVs and streaming devices. Slated to launch in May 2019, the updated Apple TV app includes a “channels” storefront that will sell à -la-carte subscriptions to HBO, Showtime, Starz, Epix, CBS All Access, Noggin and others — but not Netflix.
Netflix has opted to not work with Apple to integrate the streaming service into in the updated TV offering, according to CEO Reed Hastings.
Reality came knocking on bulls’ doors on Tuesday, the first trading session in a holiday-shortened week. Most of the major averages are down almost 2% on the day. Will the markets bounce back later this week or are we in for a moderate correction? Let’s look at Tuesday’s top stock trades to see what ones are making the big moves.
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) is down about 2% on Tuesday, not bad considering management did not provide that inspiring of guidance after it reported earnings.
Shares keep chopping between this $128 to $130 level. If the lower end of this zone gives way, it’s possible for JNJ stock to retest its recent lows near $122. If current range support holds up, look to see if J&J can push through the 200-day moving average.
Halliburton (NYSE:HAL) shares initially sold off Tuesday despite beating on earnings and revenue estimates. While the stock is still lower by about 2.5% on the day, the stock has erased most of its losses.
Plus, HAL had a big gap and rally on Friday, so Tuesday’s action isn’t all that bad.
I like that the name is holding up over the 50-day moving average. As a result, longs can use the 50-day as their stop-loss over the intermediate term while using Tuesday’s low as their stop-loss in the short-term.
However, downtrend resistance (black line) looms a few dollars overhead. On a rally, look to see if HAL stock pauses here.
Shares of eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) are rallying more than 6% after receiving a letter from activist investor Elliott Management. It’s a big move on a down day, but EBAY is well off its session highs.
Obviously it would have been positive to see eBay close over its 200-day moving average. However, much of the day’s selling could have been profit taking from breakout-buyers on Friday, as the stock closed over downtrend resistance for the first time since June.
I would wait for eBay to reset before taking a new position, but if it can consolidate at or above former downtrend resistance and current uptrend support (blue line), then EBAY could be a buy in the future.
Altria (NYSE:MO) caught a downgrade on Tuesday, among other things, and shares quickly plummeted to new 52-week lows. While MO may be a favorite among some investors, it’s clear the name has been out of favor.
Dare we say its charts have gone up in smoke? …I’ll show myself out after the chart work. The 21-day moving average and downtrend resistance (black line) have kept buyers underwater as sellers continue to push MO lower.
Not shown on this chart, but $48 was a big level on the four-year chart. Losing this mark was bad news and opens up MO to a decline down to the $41 to $42 level. All I know at this moment is that Altria is a no-touch for me.
I love the way this Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) has been trading. Up more than 1% on Tuesday, CMG is showing great relative strength on the day. Earlier this month, it pushed above the key $500 level and continues to grind higher.
Recent buyers can certainly use this level as their stop-loss at this point. If the market comes under selling pressure — like it did in mid-December — CMG is susceptible to getting caught up in the selling too. If that’s the case, Chipotle could break below $500, but reset as a great long candidate. Just look at that way it bounced back from its December lows!
It’s now butting up against its highs from August, so if the markets can hold up and/or rally, CMG could be setting up to blast higher. Let’s keep an eye on this one.
Article printed from InvestorPlace Media, https://investorplace.com/2019/01/5-top-stock-trades-for-wednesday-jnj-cmg-mo-ebay/.
While appearing on The Howard Stern Show today on Sirius XM, actress Claire Danes told Howard Stern that her popular Showtime series, Homeland, would come to an end after the upcoming eighth season. The series is finishing up it’s seventh season now with the finale on April 29th. It’s working on a two-season renewal that showtime gave it prior to the premier of season six in 2016.
Danes told Stern she was “really conflicted” about the series coming to an end but the character of Carrie Mathison is “a lot” and she is ready for a reprieve from that.
In the current season Carrie has left her job in the White House and moved back to Washington, D.C. to live with her sister Maggie. She takes on the Keane administration to secure the release of the 200 members of the intelligence community who were arrested under President Keane’s orders the previous season.
Along with Danes, Homeland stars Elizabeth Marvel, Linus Roache, Mandy Patinkin, James D’Arcy, Amy Hargreaves and Dylan Baker. Homeland is based on an Israeli series called Prisoner of War created by Gideon Raff. It was developed for American television by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon. The series debuted October 2nd, 2011 on Showtime.
Most people put a lot of faith in their doctors. We expect them to be able to diagnose us on a dime, typically with half the information they really need, and to know exactly how to treat us to get us healthy as a horse again. When going into surgery, they generally reassure the patient that all will be well and that they’ll see you on the other side.
But even doctors make mistakes. After all, they are only human. Unfortunately, mistakes when you have someone’s life in your hands are a massive and often unforgivable problem. According to The Independent, one man — who has remained unnamed by the hospital in question — was horrified to wake up from what was supposed to be a routine cystoscopy to discover that the doctor had circumcised him instead.
The incident report was released in March 2019, but the mix-up occurred back in September 2018 at the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust. It was one of eight “never events” to plague the trust in 2018, according to the Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group report.
It is believed that the error occurred because the patient’s file was accidentally confused with the file of another patient in the hospital. Instead of a tiny camera examining his bladder, the patient went home without his foreskin.
Aside from a sincere apology for the awful mistake, the trust had no actual answers about how the incident had been allowed to occur.
Moira Durbridge, director of safety and risk at Leicester’s Hospitals, issued the public apology on behalf of the hospital and the staff.
The only detail the trust was prepared to confirm about the patient is the fact that he is an adult, not a child, according to The Daily Mail.
Another incident saw a hip nail implanted into the incorrect side of a patient’s body.
The trust has shared its concerns that “never events” keep happening at their hospitals in Leicester. As the name suggests, “never events” are occurrences that are so horrendously bad that they should never be happening, and are down to preventable mistakes rather than errors in judgement when treating a patient.
To the outside world, Jude and Mina on a very happy course. They live in an apartment in New York City and when Mina falls pregnant, it's just another happy occurrence. However, everything isn't what it seems and this is even more evident when the baby arrives. Mina instantly becomes incredibly agoraphobic and leaves the outside world behind. Cutting herself and the baby off from medicines and any form of external contaminates leaves Mina becoming more and more paranoid and their son actually suffering from her efforts.
Jude must find a way to stop Mina spiralling out of control and bring her back to reality before it's too late for all of them.
Hungry Hearts is a psychological drama directed by Saverio Costanzo which sees Adam Driver taking on one of his hardest roles to date.
'Girls' is back... tomorrow! If you've missed Hannah, Marnie, Jessa and Shosh as much as we have then you only have 24 more hours to wait. The premiere of 'Girls' season 4 premieres on Sunday 11th January.
After the week of terrorist attacks, massacres and hostage taking we've all witnessed, we're all in desperate need of some light-hearted relief. Fortunately, Girls is back and just in the nick of time it seems.
Girls is back on Sunday!
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'Girls' Season 4 Trailer Promises Iowa, An Arrest & Shosh Finally Facing Reality!
Check out the trailer for 'Girls' Season 4!
Girls is back! For a whole 1 minute 31 seconds. HBO released the official trailer for season 4 on Friday (7th November) and it's certainly got everyone talking!
The cast of Girls (L-R): Driver, Williams, Kirke, Dunham, Mamet, Karpovsky.
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Lena Dunham has never seen Star Wars? What?
Lena Dunham says that her friend and co-star Adam Driver finally persuaded her to watch Star Wars, but only because she insisted he watch 'Girls'. Driver is rumored to playing the primary villain in J.J Abrams 'Star Wars: Episode VII' and he asked Dunham to watch the original movie in the franchise ahead of the new movie.
"The funny thing is I've never actually seen Star Wars," Dunham told E! Online, "I understand that this is a huge cultural phenomenon but I get none of the references. As a young woman growing up in New York City it's actually not that hard to avoid Star Wars. It's not that hard to move out of Star Wars circles."
With filming once again under way following Harrison Ford's broken leg, Adam Driver explains what makes the Star Wars films so special.
Ahead of the greatly anticipated release of the seventh Star Wars film next year, Adam Driver, one of the new cast members took a moment to talk about what made Star Wars so special to him and millions of fans as children. According to Driver, the films have such a lifespan because of their grounded nature and ability to mimic relatable scenarios in a sci-fi fantasy setting.
In his interview with Total Film, Driver stated: "The thing about Star Wars that's so good - sure there's this huge [canvas]. It's space, it's a long time ago in a galaxy far away. That's set up immediately. But in the midst of all those things, what has made those movies last so long is that they're all grounded."
Daniel Radcliffe effortlessly proves that the indie rom-com could be his thing.
Daniel Radcliffe is eliciting another couple of thousand words this week, on whether he can safely navigate a "post-Harry Potter" movie career. The reason for this is What If - a new indie romantic-comedy starring the Wizard Boy himself as medical school dropout Wallace who's been repeatedly burned by bad relationships.
It's got all the hallmarks of a sort of...new...(500) Days of Summer. It's got the cool guy from Girls (Adam Driver), who plays Wallace's roommate Allan. It's got the cool girl from Ruby Sparks (Zoe Kazan), who plays an animator living with her steady long-term boyfriend. The thing is: Wallace forms an instant connection with Kazan's character - but can they ever be just friends? Yep, so it all sounds horrendously formulaic - but isn't that what we want from our indie romantic comedies? We want Brooklyn apartments that the characters couldn't ever afford in real life. We want coffee shops and skinny lattes and little dogs and Adam Driver and maybe, just maybe, we want Daniel Radcliffe.
We waited months for an official word on the Star Wars Episode VII cast, but even after a photo was released on the official Star Wars Website to announce the actors old and new, rumors persist surrounded further cast members and further revelations.
And they’re not unfounded. It’s true that Abrams had to rush out a cast announcement ahead of May 4 – which is known by many as Star Wars day (may the Fourth be with you, etc). And that throws up many questions; could everyone make the read-through that day? Is the casting process completely finished? Were some people written out when Abrams and “Empire Strikes Back” writer Lawrence Kasdan retooled the script?
The 'Star Wars: Episode VII' cast has finally been announced. Let's meet them.
The Star Wars: Episode VII cast has finally been announced, they’ve taken their sweet time with that one! So, who have producers picked to join original cast members Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew and Kenny Baker?
After months of rumors, speculation and a whole lot of nothing from Jj Abrams’s we were admittedly taken aback when the Star Wars Episode VII cast was officially unveiled yesterday. Alongside original stars Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, and Kenny Baker, Star Wars Episode VII will add seven new faces to the franchise. John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, and Max von Sydow have all been announced as joining the Star Wars cast, but sadly that’s where news ends as we don’t yet know who any of these actors will be playing. So armed with a leaked casting call list, lets try and work out who might be playing who in Episode VII.
'Girls' actor Adam Driver was one of the early names we’d pretty much pegged as a definite for the Episode VII cast. As of now the general consensus seems to be that Driver will be having a villainous turn in Episode VII. More specifically his character is thought to be an intelligent and scheming Sith. Thirty year old Driver could fit the decryption of either the confident late twenty something male that producers were looking for, or the intellectual thirtysomething. Then there’s Oscar Issac, the 35 year old actor best known for Inside Llewyn Davis, was the last and ultimately correct casting rumour. Character actor Oscar is one who has definitely got us stumped, really he could turn his hand to any type of character, wether it be hero or villain. It will surely be interesting to see which role Issac is eventually announced in.
Oscar Isaac Is Latest Star Wars Episode VII Cast Rumor - Big Reveal Soon?
It looks as though J.J Abrams is keeping his cards as close to his chest as is humanly possible, but some day soon, we’re going to need to know that Star Wars Episode VII cast, okay? Oscar Isaac is the latest rumored to be joining Adam Driver and ‘Attack the Block’s’ John Boyega in the high profile sequel.
Are Ford, Hammil and Fisher all returning for more of this?
Isaac would be a great addition to the cast. He has shown great on-screen flexibility so far, playing the hard-headed, troublesome punk of a dad that went ahead and died to leave Cary Mulligan open to Ryan Gosling’s overtures in ‘Drive’, and most recently, his brilliant turn as Oscar Isaac, the self-loathing, selfish, quite-talented musician in the Coen Brothers’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ has attracted attention; although there won’t be a call for singing in Episode VII. At least we hope not.
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[Spoilers] The 'Girls' season three finale was a climactic finisher.
The third season of Girls managed to pack more into its half hour, Lena Dunham-directed finale episode than the rest of the entire season combined. With major plot movements for many of the show's key characters, Dunham took her show in a bold new direction with fans hanging on for the crucial "what happened next" season four opener.
Lena Dunham's 'Girls' Has Made Its Season Three Departure.
Season three's twelfth and final episode, entitled 'Two Plane Rides,' began with a double revelation; the first hit when Hannah bumped into Adam's sister, Caroline, who had been living downstairs with Hannah's ex-stalker Laird and revealed that the pair were expecting a baby. The news coincided with Hannah opening a letter informing her that she'd been accepted on to the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop course. Her smile said it all.
The internet is split in half over Lena Dunham, but her SXSW speech is sure to tip the scales a bit.
Lena Dunham gets it wrong often, but when it's right, it's very, very right.
Lena Dunham got topical on last night's SNL.
Lena Dunham hosted and helped out the SNL team with a few sketches last night. And it was hilarious – mostly if you’re a Girls fan. Much has been written about Dunham’s Girls – mostly about its white-washed, middle-class, spoiled and completely self-unaware cast of characters. At least no one can say that Dunham herself lacks self-awareness though.
Put Dunham and the SNL cast together and the fun never ends. Sort of.
From Brooklyn to a galaxy far, far away: Adam Driver's Star Wars journey may be about to begin.
If Adam Driver’s on-screen girlfriend, Lena Dunham, is to be believed, then the ‘Girls’ star has landed a role on J.J. Abrams’ Star Wars reboot, Episode VII. Driver will, according to Variety, play a role not too dissimilar to Darth Vader.
The news came in what appeared to be a misstep from Dunham, who tweeted how proud she was that her colleague and friend has landed such a prestigious role.
Jezebel failed to scoop anything juicy on the Girls star's Vogue shoot.
Feminist blog Jezebel do a lot of good with their articles, promoting womens interests and taking a stand against unrealistic representations of women in the media. However, the online magazine's true gossip baiting intention reared its unsightly head when Girls star Lena Dunham graced the cover of Vogue last month.
Lena Dunham Featured On The Cover Of Vogue, And Jezebel Offered A Reward For The "Real" Photos.
Dunham, who writes for and acts on the HBO show, was featured in a cover shoot and article celebrating her game-changing TV success and positive influence upon women today. Lena appeared in the shoot with her Girls co-star Adam Driver in a series of dreamlike and stylised shots.
Robyn is a free spirit with an unusual, not to mention dangerous, ambition to cross the 1,700 mile Australian desert from Alice Springs to reach the Indian Ocean accompanied by four camels and a dog. Mocked at by the Alice Springs locals, she starts to train camels on a farm and learn about survival in the wildnerness. By the time she is ready to embark on her journey, she is well equipped with the knowledge and tools of basic survival in a scorching desert. Before her trip, she meets a National Geographic photographer named Rick Smoland who promises to fund her trip as long as he can visit her on her journey to take photographs. Robyn's loneliness starts to overwhelm her and she has a brief romance with the photographer, but the real revelations are what she learns about herself along the way.
'Tracks' is based on the true memoirs of the same name written by the real Robyn Davidson who spent 9 months crossing the barren Australian sands. The movie has been directed by John Curran ('The Painted Veil', 'We Don't Live Here Anymore', 'Stone') and written by Marion Nelson, and it was nominated for awards at the Venice Film Festival and the London Film Festival last year. It is set for UK release on April 25th 2014.
'Lincoln' will show the last four months of President Abraham Lincoln's life as he campaigned for freedom before he was tragically assassinated in 1865. It will reveal in detail the extent of his conflict with various members of the cabinet over his decision to abolish the slave trade towards the end of the American Civil War. His very close success in the House of Representatives over the proposition of the Thirteenth Amendment which outlawed slavery is portrayed as one of the most crucial steps in his work against the trade. The last months of his life also saw him fail to negotiate an end to the War and saw the Union's ultimate victory.
This drama-fuelled biopic is the important story of one of the most influential and inspiring presidents of the United States that have ever been in office. It has been based on some of the biography 'Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln' by Doris Kearns Goodwin with an adapted screenplay by Oscar nominee Tony Kushner ('Munich') and the directing genius of the legendary Steven Spielberg ('Jaws', 'E.T.', 'Jurassic Park', 'Schindler's List', 'War of the Worlds') who wanted to show Lincoln 'at work' and not just 'posing for the history books'. Spielberg has described the former president as 'arguably the greatest working President in American history'. The movie is set for release in the UK on January 25th 2013.
Starring: Daniel Day Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones , Michael Stuhlbarg, Jackie Earle Haley, Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Sally Field, James Spader, Julie White, John Hawkes, David Strathairn, Bruce McGill, Hal Holbrook and Adam Driver.
The Romanian women's four squad of Cristina-Georgiana Popescu, Alina Ligia Pop, Beatrice-Madalina Parfenie and Roxana Parascanu took gold on day two of the European Rowing Championships in Czech village Račice.