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Dead rats anyone? Hollywood gets creative to promote movies

August 26, 2015 admin film, global, global-mobile, pasadena, propulsion, simon-jessop, the-businesses, toured-the-lab, united

Hollywood studios are going to ever more creative lengths to attract attention in a jam-packed entertainment market where social media plays a key role in promoting content. For Matt Damon's October film “The Martian,” in which an astronaut is stranded on Mars, 20th Century Fox Studios hosted a media day last week at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California just to promote a trailer

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Suspect in Virginia TV shooting had history of workplace issues

August 26, 2015 admin brendan, flanagan, florida, letitia, letitia-stein, propulsion, the-businesses, the-shooting, the-slain, united

By Brendan O’Brien and Letitia Stein (Reuters) – The suspected gunman in the shooting deaths of two television journalists in Virginia on Wednesday was a veteran anchorman with a history of workplace grievances who had previously sued a Florida station alleging discrimination because he was black. Vester Flanagan, 41, who went on the air under the name Bryce Williams, was a former employee of WDBJ7 in Virginia, where both of the slain journalists worked.

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U.S. arrests CEO, employees of largest online male escort service

August 25, 2015 publisher arrests, boxes-labeled, crime, employees, employees-were, evidence-out, jeffrey-hurant, largest, manhattan, officers-take, police, rentboy-com, seen-carrying

U.S. authorities on Tuesday announced the arrests of the chief executive officer and six employees of Rentboy.com for promoting prostitution through what prosecutors described as the largest online male escort service.

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U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy used personal email for official business: audit

August 25, 2015 admin arrests, crime, employees, hotel, japan, japan-caroline, jeffrey-hurant, largest, manhattan, millennium, seen-carrying, tokyo

U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy used her personal email for official business despite a State Department policy advising employees generally to avoid this, an internal audit released on Tuesday said. The State Department's Office of Inspector General made the finding in a routine report on the Tokyo embassy as the agency is under scrutiny for Hillary Clinton's use of a private email address and server when she was secretary of state

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Caitlyn Jenner costume for Halloween sparks social media outrage

August 25, 2015 publisher arrests, during-the-2015, japan-caroline, jeffrey-hurant, largest, manhattan, millennium, nokia-theater, press, united-states, vanity

By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) – Retailers selling Caitlyn Jenner costumes for Halloween sparked a social media firestorm on Tuesday from critics who say the get-up insults transgender people and promotes stereotypes. Jenner, a former Olympic gold medalist and reality TV star known as Bruce, came out as transgender this year and introduced herself in a Vanity Fair cover story that earned international attention. A change.org petition launched on Monday is demanding that Spirit Halloween, a costume company with over 1,100 locations in the United States and Canada, stop producing and selling the costume, which includes a brunette wig, shiny white padded bustier and shorts resembling the outfit Jenner wore in the Vanity Fair cover photo.

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Fox News: Republican Trump should apologize after latest Twitter outburst

August 25, 2015 admin donald-trump, during-the-2015, game, japan-caroline, manhattan, stage, trump, vanity

The head of Fox News on Tuesday called on Donald Trump to apologize after a string of posts on Twitter lambasting Fox anchor Megyn Kelly, the latest in an ongoing flap between the network and the leading Republican presidential candidate.

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Alibaba drop leaves stock pennies above IPO price

August 21, 2015 creative alibaba, alibaba-group, below-the-price, breaking-below, china, dropped-below, firm-the-second, global-slowdown, hangzhou, largest, potential-move, price, san, seen-inside, underwriters

By Noel Randewich SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Shares of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd fell 3 percent on Friday and were perilously close to breaking below the price set in the largest IPO in history as fears of a China-led global slowdown rattled investors. A potential move below $68 would make China's largest e-commerce firm the second high-profile tech company to fall below its IPO price this week after Twitter Inc on Thursday dropped below its 2013 IPO price.

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California man, 19, charged with ‘revenge porn’ against girls

August 21, 2015 creative alibaba-group, china, dropped-below, extort-underage, man-accused, potential-move, price, social-networking, underwear

A 19-year-old California man accused of posing as a modeling agent to dupe and extort underage girls into sending him naked pictures was charged on Friday with more than 150 criminal counts in what prosecutors called a “revenge porn” case. Cesar Mauricio Estrada-Davila is accused of preying on 21 girls between the ages of 12 and 17 between January and April of this year, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Jon Hatami said in a written statement. Hatami said Estrada-Davila befriended his victims on a social networking site, telling them he was a modeling agent who could make them famous and asking for pictures in their underwear.

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McDonald’s grilled over labor, tax practices at Brazil hearing

August 21, 2015 creative brasilia, brazil, brazilian, cases, its-employees, its-regional, labor-abuses, make-their, man-holds, thursday, union-leaders, world

McDonald's Corp , the world's biggest fast-food chain, was accused of mistreating its employees and dodging taxes on Thursday during a Senate hearing in Brazil, where politicians, union leaders and workers from five continents voiced allegations. McDonald's has come under increasing scrutiny worldwide for allegations of labor abuses, health and safety violations, plus tax evasion in Europe, and Brazilian Senator Pablo Paim called a hearing to allow both sides to make their cases.

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Faux candidate Deez Nuts polls nine percent in Clinton-Trump match-up

August 21, 2015 admin brazilian, filed-on-july, hillary-clinton, labor-abuses, make-their, north, the-creation, the-fictional, world

A fake U.S. presidential candidate named Deez Nuts, reported to be the creation of an Iowa teenager, has stirred a social media frenzy by polling nearly 10 percent of registered North Carolina voters in a hypothetical match-up against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. A statement of candidacy on behalf of the fictional 2016 White House hopeful, listing him as an independent, was filed on July 26 with the U.S.