It’s easy to take translations for granted when Google can swap between Albanian and Zulu with the click of a button, but even that tech has real world limitations. Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of 130 different endangered Native American languages in the United States that don’t have any kind of digital—or analog—legacy.
Friday nights in Los Angeles aren’t snoozers, especially October 3rd. That night, some celebrity will be caught mid-wardrobe malfunction boozing it up at Club Area by TMZ — or it could be the night Bruce Jenner holds his epic “freedom” party. While…
Heads up Titanfall gamers, if you were looking forward to new content for the game, you might be pleased to learn that the IMC Rising DLC has been released. The DLC was pegged for a release on the 25th of September and sure enough it looks like the folks at Respawn have delivered.
The DLC will be available to gamers on the Xbox One and the PC where it will be priced at $24.99 for the Titan Season Pass. Alternatively gamers who only wish to get their hands on some of the maps can expect to pay $9.99 for each map. There will be a total of three new maps released in the DLC.
As for Xbox 360 gamers, you guys will have to wait. As we’re sure you might have heard by now, the Xbox 360 version of Titanfall was not developed by Respawn. Instead it has been developed by Bluepoint Games which also means that DLCs and updates for the Xbox 360 version will be released after the Xbox One and PC version.
Like we said, the DLC will introduce three new maps – Zone 18, Backwater, and Sand Trap. They are pretty much just new maps in which players can play in against each other and will win by taking out the other team. If you’re wondering what you can expect, you can check out the IMC Rising gameplay trailer above for the details.
Titanfall IMC Rising DLC Now Available For Xbox One And PC
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iOS 8.0.1 was released a couple of days ago but unfortunately due to a series of pretty severe bugs, Apple has withdrawn the update and promised that iOS 8.0.2 was on its way. Well the good news is that it looks like Apple has worked pretty swiftly because iOS 8.0.2 has since been released.
The update was originally promised to arrive in the next few days, but we guess it took Apple less time than expected to get it fixed and pushed out to users ASAP. For those who are wondering what the big deal is, iOS 8.0.1 basically rendered the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus useless in terms of making calls. It also caused Touch ID to stop working.
With iOS 8.0.2, Apple has addressed those issues as well as included the bug fixes and improvements that were originally meant for iOS 8.0.1. This includes a fix to the HealthKit framework that will now allow apps to work with it. Prior to this, there was a bug with HealthKit that prevented its compatible apps from being released.
According to a tweet by CNBC, they claim that Apple has told them that less than 40,000 iPhone 6 and 6 Plus owners have been affected by the iOS 8.0.1 update. Considering that Apple has managed to sell over 10 million units, it does seem pretty small, although 40,000 inconvenienced iPhone users is nothing to laugh at.
iOS 8.0.2 Released, Addresses Cellular And Touch ID Issues
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Apple’s recently released iOS 8.0.1 update came with an unfortunate side dish of unanticipated issues, namely in the form of lost connectivity and issues with the Touch ID sensor. The outcry was quick and severe, and Apple issued a workaround alongside the promise that a fix was inbound. Today, that fix has arrived. Apple promised that the iOS 8.0.2 fix … Continue reading
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The video of Ray Rice punching his fiancee inside a casino elevator was sent to NFL headquarters to the attention of league security chief Jeffrey Miller in April, a law enforcement official says.
The NFL has repeatedly said no one with the league saw the violent images until TMZ Sports released the video earlier this month. Miller said Thursday through an NFL spokesman that he never received the video. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to release details of the case, said he doesn’t know if Miller ever saw the DVD or opened the package. His only communication with the NFL was a 12-second voicemail on April 9 from league offices confirming receipt of the package, in which a woman says, “You’re right. It’s terrible.”
The official told the AP two weeks ago that he sent the video to the NFL, but asked the AP not to report that he had addressed the package to Miller. He eliminated that restriction Thursday.
“Since the NFLPA and NFL have launched separate investigations into the league and the Ravens’ handling of Ray Rice’s case, I want to make a few things clear. No one from the NFL ever asked me for the inside-elevator video,” the official said Thursday. “I mailed it anonymously to Jeff Miller because he’s their head of security. I attached a note saying: ‘Ray Rice elevator video. You have to see it. It’s terrible.’ I provided a number for a disposable cellphone and asked for confirmation that it was received. I knew there was a possibility Mr. Miller may not get the video, but I hoped it would land in the right hands.”
Miller, in London preparing for the Raiders-Dolphins game Sunday, issued a statement to the AP Thursday night through an NFL spokesman.
“I unequivocally deny that I received at any time a copy of the video, and I had not watched it until it was made public on September 8,” he said.
Miller joined the league in 2008 as director of strategic security and was promoted to chief security officer in April 2011. Before joining the NFL, Miller spent nearly six years as the commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police. He worked for the state police for 24 years.
At the NFL, Miller’s responsibilities include overseeing investigative programs and services. He is also in charge of event security and game integrity. When players get arrested, the NFL’s corps of investigators rarely get involved, leaving that to local law enforcement. The league’s security operatives gather court documents and police reports available to the public, but don’t ordinarily interview witnesses or gather evidence independently.
It remains unclear what happened to the video once it arrived at league offices. There are two NFL executives named Jeffrey Miller, but the law enforcement official didn’t know that, and intended it to go to the chief of security. NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said the other Jeffrey Miller — who is involved in lobbying for the league — did not report receiving the video.
The law enforcement official said he wanted to make sure the NFL had the video before deciding on Rice’s punishment.
“My intention wasn’t to bring down Commissioner Goodell or anyone else at the NFL,” he said.
He said he didn’t know the identity of the woman who left him the voicemail. He said he chose Miller because of his law enforcement background, even though he didn’t know him personally.
Rice, a former Pro Bowl running back for the Baltimore Ravens, was arrested in Atlantic City on an assault charge for hitting Janay Palmer in February. A police summons stated that Rice had struck Palmer with his hand, knocking her unconscious. Rice has been accepted into New Jersey’s pretrial intervention program, which enabled him to avoid jail time and could result in having the charge expunged from his record.
Initially, Goodell suspended Rice — who has since married Palmer — for two games. After criticism, Goodell announced new stiffer penalties for future domestic violence cases. After video of the punch in the casino elevator was released, the Ravens cut Rice and Goodell suspended him indefinitely.
League and Ravens officials said they requested the video from law enforcement but were denied. ESPN and others have reported that the Ravens had a detailed description of the video shortly after Rice was arrested.
After the AP reported that the video was sent to NFL headquarters, Goodell announced that former FBI Director Robert Mueller would lead an internal investigation. That probe is ongoing, and there is no timetable for its completion.
The law enforcement official said he does not want to speak to NFL investigators, and Mueller, who is now in private practice with a Washington law firm with deep ties to the NFL, has no subpoena power. “I know nothing else about this case,” the official said.
Former FBI Chief of Staff Aaron Zebley, who is working with Mueller on the investigation, didn’t immediately return a call seeking comment.
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A judge has ordered the University of Montana to turn over to author Jon Krakauer any records on how the state’s higher education commissioner handled a rape case against Grizzlies quarterback Jordan Johnson.
The nationally known “Into the Wild” author is writing a book about sexual assaults at the university that includes the accusations that Johnson raped a female acquaintance in 2012.
A district judge acquitted Johnson of rape last year in state court. But before that, a university court recommended expulsion of an unnamed student – later identified as Johnson – after concluding the rape had occurred.
The accused student appealed the university court’s decision to Commissioner Clayton Christian, but there is no record of what action Christian took, if any.
Johnson was not expelled. The Grizzlies are 2-2 so far this year with Johnson at quarterback.
Krakauer filed his lawsuit after Christian’s office refused his request in January to turn over Christian’s records related to the case. Christian’s attorneys resisted, saying the university system could lose its federal funding if it releases personal information about student without that student’s consent.
They also claimed Krakauer could not file a public-records request in Montana because he is a Colorado resident and the student’s privacy trumps the public’s right to know under the Montana Constitution.
Judge Kathy Seeley in her order dismissed Christian’s arguments, saying the Montana Constitution allows anybody to examine public records and that federal funding would be jeopardized only if the school systematically disclosed personal student information.
She also rejected the privacy argument.
“The entire incident, from the initial administrative investigation to the conclusion of the criminal trial, is a matter of public record,” Seeley wrote. “The only aspect of the lengthy process that is not a matter of public record is the action taken by the Commissioner.”
The judge gave the state 21 days to make the records available, but she will allow officials to black out student names, birth dates, Social Security numbers and other personal information.
Commissioner spokesman Kevin McRae declined to release the documents to The Associated Press on Thursday, and added that he cannot even confirm that any records exist.
The Montana University system will analyze the order over the next 30 days, McRae said in an email. “We will proceed carefully to ensure we’re compliant with our legal obligations,” he said.
Krakauer attorney Mike Meloy said he anticipates the state will appeal the ruling.
ARLINGTON, Va. — An immigration judge granted asylum on Thursday to a Honduran woman and her children after the woman testified that she was beaten, threatened and raped at gunpoint by her husband before fleeing to the United States.
The woman, whose attorney asked be identified by her initials, D.M.L., to protect her identity from her abusive husband, watched the decision in Arlington via webcam from a room 1,800 miles away in Artesia, New Mexico, where she and her two daughters are being held at a makeshift family detention facility.
Holding her 8-month-old daughter, D.M.L. was present at the hearing — the second in her family’s case — as an image on a television set up to the side of the small courtroom. D.M.L. and her 17-year-old daughter already testified at a previous hearing, so the mother sat silently with her infant daughter as an expert witness from Honduras talked about the lack of protections for women there. When Judge Quynh Vu Bain read her decision, D.M.L. began to cry.
Her family’s case is one of tens of thousands in a recent influx of both unaccompanied minors and mothers with children who have crossed the border illegally over the past year. D.M.L. and her daughters are now a success story in an effort by attorneys to meet the need of those recent entrants, including many with similar stories of atrocious abuse in their native countries of Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Thursday’s decision was the third instance of attorneys working with the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s pro bono project to successfully argue for asylum for a family. The decision also reaffirmed another judge’s recent ruling that similarly made domestic violence the basis of an asylum claim.
The government has 30 days to appeal the decision in D.M.L.’s case.
Women and children apprehended at the border over the past year have strained the government’s detention and removal systems, and raised tension between those who want the undocumented immigrants out as quickly as possible and those who want to ensure they get a fair chance to make their case to stay.
On one side is the argument that people will continue coming to the U.S. if the government does not send a strong message that illegal entry will not be permitted. On the other side are those who would say D.M.L.’s story, and success in winning asylum, prove that children and mothers should be treated as refugees and given time and resources to argue for relief. After all, they may be fleeing for their lives.
D.M.L. and her daughters left Honduras for the U.S. earlier this summer, and were apprehended July 7 after crossing the border on a raft. They ended up with other families in the Artesia facility, where residents and attorneys who visited have complained of cold temperatures, undercooked food and mistreatment by guards. (Department of Homeland Security officials say those issues are being addressed.)
Attorneys with the American Immigration Lawyers Association traveled to Artesia to meet with the women there and help. Two of those who visited were attorney Lisa Laurel Weinberg and paralegal Karen Bobadilla of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, group Community Legal Services and Counseling Center. They spent eight days in Artesia earlier this month and took the case of D.M.L. and her daughters.
Weinberg and Bobadilla came to Arlington on Thursday for the final hearing, while the expert witness, Honduran lawyer Claudia Herrmannsdorfer, spoke by phone. There were technical difficulties — the long-distance calling cards used to speak to Herrmannsdorfer ran out of money twice, and eventually the judge disconnected because it became too difficult to hear. But Herrmannsdorfer nevertheless delivered convincing testimony about the dangers faced by women in Honduras, where she works with victims and advocates for legal changes to protect sufferers of domestic violence.
Herrmannsdorfer said that while there are some resources available for women suffering domestic violence, the offices face strained budgets and are difficult to access for some victims, particularly those in rural areas. Many women report that the police are unsympathetic when they ask for help.
“The general response of police is not to protect women,” Herrmannsdorfer told the judge. “It’s not a priority for them.”
“There is no security for life in our country,” she said later.
D.M.L. testified earlier this month about severe abuse at the hands of her husband. The 33-year-old met him at the age of 15 and married him at 16. They had three children — the two daughters who came to the U.S., and a son who remained with D.M.L.’s brother in Honduras. Although D.M.L. said her husband always had a violent personality, the abuse became worse in the past two years. He had an affair, and when she confronted him, he called her stupid, a bitch, and threatened to kill her, according to her testimony. He bought a gun and sometimes put it to her head and forced her to have sex with him, she said. She testified that she has scars from his beatings.
Although D.M.L. tried to leave once, her husband found her and their children. She decided that to get away from him, she would have to flee the country. She said she heard from family members that he is still looking for her.
D.M.L. said she never went to the police because she thought they wouldn’t help, and she was unaware of other resources. Whether she had access to aid from the government was important to her bid for asylum. The attorney needed to prove that D.M.L. was part of a specific social group facing persecution — in this case, married women unable to leave their husbands — and that the government was either unable or unwilling to help her.
Judge Bain said that D.M.L. had testified to “numerous horrific acts of harm” that amounted to persecution, and ruled that she and her daughters should receive asylum. The judge told D.M.L. that if her asylum stands, she can apply for legal permanent residency in a year.
In the courtroom in Arlington, Weinberg and Bobadilla wiped away tears after the decision, then quickly set about their first post-hearing task: Checking plans to get D.M.L. and her daughters out of the Artesia facility. Family detention is expanding rapidly, and immigration advocates are extremely concerned. They say women and children in asylum proceedings should be released if they aren’t determined a flight risk, rather than locked up where they’re denied free movement and have difficulty accessing legal counsel.
“We’re proving one by one that these women don’t belong in detention,” Weinberg said.
Apple is in full damage-control mode in the wake of Bendgate, the mini-maybe-not-quite-scandal ripping through the tech universe after a handful of users complained that their iPhones are prone to bending under duress. As part of its response , Apple has opened up the lab where it conducts durability tests to media outlets like CNBC and The Verge.
It’s Throwback Thursday and you all know what that means! That’s right, it’s time to sit down, kick your feet up, and put on Raekwon’s newest reimagining of classic hip-hop and pop hits. This week, the Wu Tang member and Mafioso rap pioneer takes on Sunshine Anderson’s 2001 song, “Heard It All Before.”
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