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And, of course, the little kid version of Tony Montana gets to drop his famous "say hello to my little friend" line.
People are going nuts over it.
Also, all the swearwords in the original script have been replaced with terms such as "fudge" and "B," which is amazing.
People are especially loving the set design.
Steph LdaVoski, the original poster, told BuzzFeed News he did not expect the video to blow up the way it did.
LdaVoski, a recording artist from New York, said he saw the video on YouTube and posted it to his Twitter because he thought "it was funny and crazy at the same time."
Hilariously, because he captioned it "What school decided that it would be a good idea to do a 'Scarface' play?" a few people were actually sort of mad about the video.
But it turns out Scarface the School Play wasn't ACTUALLY done by a school. Obvz.
The video was originally posted to YouTube under the title "Scarface School Play" in 2010, when it also went viral. But it was later revealed that the whole project was put together by music video director Marc Klasfeld. He did it with professional child actors in a theater in Los Angeles' Koreatown.
At the time, Klasfeld told the Los Angeles Times that it was "amusing" to see the outrage the video caused, adding that he wondered why the critics did not "speak out more against the sexualization of young girls in American culture or the relentless violence on screens of all sorts."
BuzzFeed News has reached out to Klasfeld for comment.
I read with interest the letter submitted to your newspaper on the 8th of August by Father Sean McManus.
The letter writer also makes reference to an Internet Animated Video which states that there is still deep rooted anti-Catholic bigotry in Northern Ireland. I would have to disagree with this to the extent that as a Protestant I feel that many of my faith and indeed of pro-Union political persuasions almost feel that we have to be apologetic about our faith and political orientation, so as not to perpetuate the divisions that still exist in Northern Ireland.
While there may be a superficial papering over of the cracks in many parts of Northern Ireland, we in County Fermanagh have a mutual respect and tolerance for each others differences.
To state that an anti-Catholic bigotry still exists and to use the words of one Protestant Minister as justification of this is quite insulting to the Protestants and Unionists in Northern Ireland and especially County Fermanagh, who do work with and for all the people of Northern Ireland.
Father McManus’s call for repudiation from Mrs Foster and Mr Elliott is nothing short of ridiculous, if anything there needs to be a greater separation of the state and the Church in Northern Ireland. Therefore it would be wholly inappropriate for any politician let alone two from two different denominations of Protestant Church than the Reverend Gray to make comment on what he states in his capacity as a Free Presbyterian Minister.
As for his comments that there are interested folk in the US Congress watching for either a condoning or condemnation from the Unionist leaders of Reverend Gray’s comments, well all I can say to that is that perhaps they should turn their attention to their own political pantomime rather than worrying about what we in Northern Ireland are doing.
LUBBOCK, TX (KCBD) -Today’s temperatures and winds have been impacted by cloud cover. The afternoon highs have ranged from the 80s along the Texas/New Mexico state line to the low 70s along the Caprock. As for the winds, some have gusted to near 30 mph in the western south plains and lower speeds in the central and eastern South Plains.
As for the mid-week forecast, it will be windier for most of the region as a storm system moves toward the south plains. Winds will continue from the south to southwest at 15-25 mph with gusts as high as 35 mph, depending on cloud cover and the approach of the weather system.
Those dry southwest winds will likely push most of the moisture needed for rain to the east and leave only a slight chance of a few showers and storms in the area Wednesday night into early Thursday morning.
Fire danger will remain elevated due to the dry, gusty winds on Wednesday with the greatest threat in the western south plains and eastern New Mexico.
Temperatures will remain in the mid 70s on Wednesday afternoon, but will drop with a cold front by early Thursday morning. With a northerly wind of 15-25 mph with low on Thursday will fall to the mid 40s and the afternoon high will stay around 70 degrees. It will be windy, as well as cooler day with winds gusting to 25 mph on Thursday.
Good Friday will begin chilly, but with sunny skies the afternoon should be in the 70s.
John is a fan of the great outdoors and when the skies aren't stormy you'll find John with fishing rod in hand, headed for his favorite spot to toss out a line. He and his family are avid campers as well. But when he's not fishing or camping he and his son can be spotted driving and showing their blue 1971 Mustang around town.
if it's good that symbian is now only mobilephones i don't know. symbian was and still is a rockstable os with worked in the ever best made pda: psion 5mx pro.
but hints have it that psion doesn't want to compete with symbian but brings out a new netbook with linux.
"No matter what you do (from a policy standpoint) it will be circumvented."
Nearly half of Generation Y employees in Canada say they routinely bypass IT usage policies and a quarter of them face no repercussions for doing so, according to a national study conducted by IT World Canada and Harris/Decima.
In Freedom to Compute: The Empowerment of Generation Y, Toronto-based research firm Harris/Decima surveyed more than 1,000 workers between the ages of 18 and 29 about their attitudes towards technology. The results were presented to focus groups of CIOs and CEOs to explore the generation gap among older IT workers and future business leaders.
Of the 47 per cent of Gen Y workers who admitted to bypassing IT usage policies, 13 per cent said they do so on a daily basis. The most commonly used applications included instant messaging, music and online videos, according the report.
"Particularly disconcerting is the fact that 59 per cent of those respondents who work for companies that have usage restrictions say they believe employees generally do not follow these policies. It suggests that in many companies, usage policies are perhaps made to be broken," the report says.
Harris/Decima vice-president Lise Dellazizzo said the report should be a wake-up call to CIOs. "This is primarily due to the lack of enforcement of policies compounded by little to no consequences when bypassing corporate policies," she said. "We have also seen a 'passing the buck' attitude among senior leadership when it comes to who owns responsibility to enforce these policies between IT, HR and CEOs."
Matt Elliot, a 25-year-old who runs a blog called YWorking.com, says the level of usage violations and social networking in the enterprise may be greater than the report indicates.
"Realistically it's close to 100 per cent," he said. "It's not something they really think of against policy. It's like picking up the phone and calling a friend in your office about getting together later. Because it's on this new Web platform it scares off a lot of employers. In the minds of young people it's no big deal."
CIOs need to recognize the differences in Gen Y before usage policies become an issue, Dellazizzo said.
"The CIO is changing in large part because the demands being put on IT have changed as a result of a new breed of employee at an early stage of their career that are well equipped with advanced computing skills they bring to the workforce," she said. "They're independent, more willing to take risks and naturally inclined to almost anything technology based. They are hungry for information, highly mobile and globally connected. It is in CIOs' best interest to understand that these employees are their clients."
The worst thing CIOs can do, according to Elliot, is to start banning social networking and other popular online tools, as the Ontario Public Service and the City of Toronto, among others, have done.
"No matter what you do (from a policy standpoint) it will be circumvented," he said. "There has to be a middle ground. A lot of the opposition to seeing Facebook on a screen at work is fear. Maybe this person isn't doing any work or posting company secrets. There are privacy, productivity concerns. When you get right down to it, it's such a big part of the 20-something generation's life."
Many users are preparing for the worst, however: 49 per cent of those surveyed whose companies have usage policies expect restrictions to increase in the next five years.
Ann Katharine Seamans, a sophomore at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., was already known as a gifted young dancer, filmmaker and ceramist.
She was following in the artistic footsteps of her parents, Joseph and Elizabeth Seamans of Point Breeze. He is an independent producer and cinematographer who created award-winning documentaries at WQED-TV, and she works for Family Communications, producers of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," on which she plays Mrs. McFeely.
Ms. Seamans, 19, died Thursday as a result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in the Strip District.
"I've known Annie since she was born," said Fred Rogers. "What a wonderful person, filled with grace, passionate for the arts. She lived her almost 20 years as intensely and beautifully as someone who lived many more years."
While a student at Ellis School, from which she graduated in 1998, Ms. Seamans won an internship with Pittsburgh Filmmakers to work on several films of her own. Her dance training began in classical ballet and shifted to modern dance, which she studied with Dance Alloy. She had performed locally with different dance groups. At Ellis, she choreographed musical productions, created and performed her own solo work and in her senior year taught a section of sixth-grade dance.
She was equally gifted in ceramics, where she took Best of Show in the 1998 Scholastic Art Competition, earning a Gold Key, the highest award for the Western Pennsylvania region, and a finalist's place in the national competition. Her winning piece was displayed at the Warhol Museum.
"We all think our own kids are absolutely fabulous," said Judy Callomon, former director of the upper school at Ellis, "but Annie was. Her interest in the arts was tremendous but she was also a scholar, very active in peer counseling and president of the student council."
In addition to her parents, Ms. Seamans is survived by her brother Michael; her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Seamans of Beverly, Mass., and her maternal grandfather, Dr. Alexander Nadas of Needham, Mass.
Visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. today in Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Ave., Shadyside, where the funeral will he held at 11. Burial will be in Homewood Cemetery.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Dance Alloy Scholarship Fund, 5530 Penn Ave., Pittsburgh, 15206.
Four men have been arrested by the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) for drug offenses in connection with their involvement in Silk Road, an Internet underground marketplace for drugs and other illegal items.
The FBI shut down Silk Road, a website that was only accessible through the Tor anonymity network, in September and on Oct. 1 they arrested a man named Ross Ulbricht in San Francisco, who’s believed to have been the site’s owner and operator.
Hours after the FBI arrested the suspected creator of Silk Road, officers from the National Crime Agency, a new U.K. law enforcement agency that went live Monday, arrested three suspects, two in their early 20s from Manchester and one in his early 50s from Devon.
The three men are among several suspects identified as “significant users” of Silk Road as a result of close cooperation between NCA and American law enforcement agencies. Other U.K. suspects are to be arrested in the coming weeks, the agency said Monday.
The recent arrests are the start of a wider campaign to investigate the “dark” or “deep” Web used by cybercriminals, said Andy Archibald, the head of NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit.
When it was shut down, Silk Road had more than 13,000 listings for controlled substances like cannabis, heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, opium, as well as prescription drugs. The site was also used to sell malware, hacking services, stolen bank account information, forged identity documents, firearms and more.
Transactions on Silk Road were done in the Bitcoin virtual currency, the FBI seizing 26,000 Bitcoins from Ulbricht that are estimated to worth $3.6 million. However, authorities claim that more than 1.2 million transactions were conducted on the site from February 2011 to July 2013, generating revenue of $1.2 billion.
The NCA will lead a multi-agency team whose purpose will be to investigate and combat the threat that virtual currencies pose to the U.K. That work is currently being discussed with partners from around the world, NCA said.
Days before Radiohead perform their much-discussed Tel Aviv concert, Roger Waters once again criticized the band for not adhering to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement and canceling the gig. Waters also addressed Thom Yorke directly during an hour-long Facebook Live talk Saturday with the BDS Movement.
“My answer to people who say we should go there and sit around the campfire and sing songs: No, we shouldn’t. We should observe the picket line. Anybody who’s tempted to do that, like our friends in Radiohead, if only they would actually educate themselves. I know Thom Yorke’s been whining about how he feels insulted, people are suggesting he doesn’t know what’s going on,” Waters said.
The bassist also discussed Loach’s op-ed urging Radiohead to call off their July 19th concert in Tel Aviv, which Yorke responded to with a Twitter statement.
In the BDS talk, Waters responded, “I can absolutely see why some South Africans would be insulted by being told that these people – Thom Yorke, for instance – knows more about apartheid than Desmond Tutu does. It’s clearly ludicrous.” Tutu is a supporter of the BDS Movement.
“Do you stand with the oppressed or do you stand with the oppressor,” Waters asked later.
I stand with Radiohead and their decision to perform. Let’s hope a dialogue continues, helping to bring the occupation to an end and lead to a peaceful solution.
Earlier this week, a Long Island, New York rabbi and other local officials have called upon the singer’s Nassau Coliseum shows in September – which fall before the Rosh Hashanah holiday – to be cancelled over Waters’ affiliation with the BDS Movement, CBS News NY wrote.
During the Facebook Live chat, Waters responded to the attempts to cancel his Long Island shows.
What’s better than one buzzer-beater? How about … two buzzer-beaters!
That’s exactly what happened in a junior varsity hoops game in Indiana last week.
Let’s break down the situation before we get to the video. The game was between Avon and Harrison (classic rivalry). Harrison’s Nathan Earl hit a 3-pointer to tie the game with only one second remaining (just Nathan Earl being Nathan Earl, if you ask us).
So it seemed this game was destined for overtime, right?
Well, judging by the headline on this post (and the first paragraph of this post) we all know the answer to that.
Avon’s Alec Pfledderer (no idea how you pronounce that one) calmly drained a half-court shot to win the game (just Alec Pfledderer being Alec Pfledderer, if you ask us).
The Bay Area is the capital of pirate radio stations -- low-power, unlicensed stops on the FM dial -- and now they're leading the rebellion against corporate giants of the airwaves, lawyers and raids by the FCC.
They played the in-house anthem last Thursday at the unlicensed "pirate" radio station Freak Radio Santa Cruz. In a show of solidarity with fellow microradio station San Francisco Liberation Radio, which had its broadcasting equipment confiscated in a raid by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday, Freak Radio played "Screw the FCC."
"When it's owned by corporations and theirs is the only word/ We will seize the airwaves, speak freely and be heard," warbled the songwriter, one Phil Free, in a style closely resembling the campus-activist folk of the late Phil Ochs.
The next song, naturally enough, was by Rage Against the Machine.
Across the country, low-power FM radio stations are banding together to denounce a mounting crackdown by the FCC. Supporters claim that FCC Chairman Michael Powell, whose recent efforts to further deregulate the radio industry have met with resistance in the courts and in Congress and have been something of a PR disaster, is retaliating by "having his people go out and pick on the little guys."
"It's community radio, and what this is saying is that the community does not deserve to have a voice," said Michael Rosenberg-Beausoleil, a disc jockey on San Francisco Liberation Radio (SFLR, 93.7 FM) who goes by the on-air alter ego John Hell. A high school social studies teacher and a committed activist, a man who worked in corporate radio for years and didn't like what he saw, Rosenberg is a prime example of the kind of person who becomes involved in the murky world of unlicensed, low-power FM radio.
The Bay Area is an acknowledged leader in the free-radio wars, having set a hefty precedent in the mid-1990s with Stephen Dunifer's Free Radio Berkeley. That station exemplified what a small broadcaster with an alternative viewpoint could provide for its neighborhood, before it was shut down by court injunction in 1998.
"If micropower broadcasting could achieve some sort of critical mass or tipping point with the people in this country, there's not much the FCC would be able to do about it," said Dunifer on Friday -- coincidentally the third annual Media Democracy Day, in which organizers called for a mass show of civil disobedience from microradio operators. "Right now, they can go after the stations one at a time."
Having organized a global network called Transmitters Uniting the Peoples of the Americas (TUPA), Dunifer now conducts microradio training sessions in a West Oakland workshop and on the road. TUPA will present a benefit screening of "Something in the Air," a feature-length dramatization of the plight of Radio Favela, an underground Brazilian radio station serving a slum community in the 1980s, on Nov. 2 at La Pena Cultural Center in Berkeley.
"Our whole vision is to have hundreds of small stations dotting the landscape," Dunifer said. "There are pockets of people in every city basically cut off from the other media, which doesn't speak their language."
The technology needed to mount a broadcast is minimal, he said: "You can have a 10-watt transmitter kit and an antenna made out of $10-$15 worth of copper pipe and fittings and have a radio station. It's similar to programming a VCR."
Wednesday's much more substantial equipment seizure at an unassuming residence in the Castro district, where 10-year-old SFLR has been situated for the past year, came three months after a warning delivered by FCC agents. This time, they brought a search warrant and more than a dozen armed U.S. marshals.
SFLR attorney Peter Franck, one of the country's leading experts in microradio law, said he was dismayed that he was not notified in advance of the agency's plans, as he had requested by letter to the FCC.
"What's truly outrageous is that they went to a judge and got an order of arrest of equipment without notifying us, giving us an opportunity to be heard, " he said.
"Once you've been issued a letter of warning," explained Dunifer, "it's a reasonable assumption that if you continue activities which you feel are legitimate free-speech activities, you do have protection from the court."
According to Franck, the FCC has not been forthright in its dealings with the microradio movement, offering a strictly limited number of licenses a few years ago and then processing the applications "molasses slow."
"We were denied our application for a license, again without them notifying us. I found out when I checked the Web page of the FCC."
SFLR was denied a license on two grounds. The first was what the microradio movement calls the "bad broadcaster" rule, in which pre-existing stations that have received warnings from the FCC in the past are not eligible for licensing.
"That's so patently unconstitutional it's laughable," said Dunifer.
SFLR was also denied on the basis of the FCC's requirements for frequency separation between stations. Charlotte Hatch, who along with her husband, Jim Hatch, provides space for SFLR in her Castro residence, compared the issue to a person sitting on a barstool. As she phrased it, microradio supporters believe there is enough room on the dial for someone to sit on either side, but the FCC has ruled that four seats in each direction must be vacated.
As part of the misleadingly titled Broadcast Preservation Act of 1999, which actually restricted the number of FCC licenses available to low-power FM stations, Congress ordered the agency to conduct an investigation into frequency separation. Resulting studies, conducted by the Mitre Corp., showed that the FCC's guidelines are unnecessarily conservative.
"There is a proposal in Congress now to allow more stations," said Franck.
In the meantime, the low-power FM movement is feeling the heat. Having peaked at about 1,000 stations nationwide in 1998, the movement has an estimated 300 now. Many of them are the so-called "party" stations, such as the renegade, punk-rock-oriented Pirate Cat Radio 87.9, which broadcasts from a secret location on the Peninsula. Such stations have ancestral roots in United Kingdom outlets such as the storied Radio Caroline, an offshore operation that began broadcasting in 1964 as a pop-music alternative to the staid BBC.
The unlicensed "party" stations appear to the activists to be in less jeopardy than those that have political notions, such as SFLR and Berkeley Liberation Radio, the successor to Dunifer's Free Radio Berkeley.
"The FCC would say (the crackdown) has nothing to do with what we say, that it's just illegal to have an unlicensed station," said Hatch, 57, a self- described lifelong counterculture activist who says she became involved with SFLR after events such as the 2000 election dispute and the Iraqi war left her feeling disenfranchised.
"If you ask me, I'd say if we were an unlicensed Christian station, it's possible we'd still be on the air."
FCC spokesman David Fiske did not return a phone call seeking comment last week. But Cheryl Koel, the supervisory deputy U.S. marshal who was the lead agent in Wednesday's seizure at SFLR, rebutted the idea that the FCC's actions are politically motivated.
"We don't have an agenda to go after stations that particularly downplay the government," she said. "There's no hidden agenda there. These people are warned.
"Some people just don't like to recognize the government."