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Investigators are combing through surveillance footage of a mob robbery on a BART train in Oakland, California, which involved up to 60 suspects.
Dozens of teenagers jumped fare gates and stormed the commuter train on Saturday night, strong-arming six victims ― plus one on the platform ― out of a purse, five cell phones and a duffel bag in just 30 seconds, authorities told The Los Angeles Times Monday. The suspects scattered into the streets below before police arrived.
One victim told KPIX in the segment above that at first it seemed like the invading throng was just “horsing around.”
“By the time I realized it was turning violent, someone had already snatched my phone,” she said.
Two passengers required medical attention from paramedics for face and head injuries.
KPIX reported that at least a few flash robberies have happened before on the line ― but BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost said never in these kinds of numbers.
“I’ve been there 24 years and this is the first time I’ve heard of anything like this happening,” BART police officer Keith Garcia said, according to SF Gate.
A BART police sergeant and an officer who were in the Coliseum Station parking lot near the train arrived within minutes but were too late, the news outlet noted.
The surveillance video is not being released to the public because the suspects appear to be juveniles, according to SF Gate. But the footage is being shared with housing and school authorities to help identify the suspects.
“We have had success with sharing images of juveniles with this group and identifying and making arrests in the past,” Trost said.
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It’s been nearly two months since the 89th annual Academy Awards ended with the most awkward moment in Oscars history, and one of the people at the center of the controversy is now speaking out.
Faye Dunaway, who co-presented the final award with actor Warren Beatty, sat down with “NBC Nightly News” host Lester Holt to talk about the debacle. Though Beatty addressed the conflict both on stage and to reporters after the show, Dunaway, who was the person who actually announced that “La La Land” won Best Picture, kept mum on the subject until now.
“I thought he was joking,” the actress said of Beatty’s now notorious stall before announcing the winner. She did not know that her co-presenter was mistakenly given the wrong envelope before handing it over to her. She then read the film title off the card.
Dunaway said that she felt “very guilty” about the whole situation.
“I could have done something, surely,” she recalled thinking to herself. “Why didn’t I see Emma Stone’s name at the top of the card?”
Within hours, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers took responsibility for the mess, admitting that their employee gave Beatty the envelope for Best Actress in a Leading Role instead of Best Picture.
Last month, the board governing the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to retain the services of PwC despite the flub, though the accountant responsible for handing the wrong card will no longer be involved with the Oscars.
More of Holt’s interview with Dunaway will air Tuesday on the “Today” show.
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Always running late?
Despite your best intentions, you show up at least 10 minutes after you say you will. At least you’re dependable, right?
Chronic lateness isn’t thoughtlessness or “bad subway luck,” it’s a personality profile, according to research. There are multiple character traits at play that contribute to a person’s repeated tardiness, including some that may not be in your control.
But that doesn’t mean your timing problem is a pattern that will last forever. If you can identify what is behind the lateness, there’s plenty you can do about it. After all, no one wants to be the person who always arrives last.
Time flies when you’re juggling multiple items. A 2003 study that examined the habits of New York City subway workers found that those who multitasked were more likely to be late for their jobs than those who focused on on single activity at a time.
This could be due to a phenomenon known as metacognition, or an awareness of what you’re doing (in the case of lateness, it could an awareness of whether you’re doing what you need to make sure you’re on time). Multitasking typically makes it harder to have metacognition, Business Insider reported.
The Fix: Set alerts or reminders so you can stay on track if you get distracted.
“Set a very firm calendar and set of reminders with prompts that occur 10 or 15 minutes before a meeting or appointment is supposed to occur,” Susan Krauss-Whitbourne, a professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, told The Huffington Post.
Krauss-Whitborne also recommends mapping out how to get from point A to point B ahead of time and set your reminders based on that.
Your internal clock could help with regulating time, according to Krauss-Whitbourne. And if you’re always late, you may not have such a reliable compass.
A 2016 study found that chronic lateness may originate in what’s called Time-Based Prospective Memory, which is a function of memory triggered by a time cue (like remembering to watch a TV show at 9 p.m. every week, for example).
The study measured TBPM by giving participants tasks like completing a jigsaw puzzle and telling them to finish it in a certain amount of time, which required them to pace themselves so they can get the tasks done. The participants were given the option to check the time while they were working. However, the experiment was set up in a way that made it unlikely they would check since they were so engrossed in their tasks.
For the most part, the study found that people relied on their own internal clock to regulate their time ― and those who were able to complete the tasks had a better handle on that inner clock and a better perception of time.
In a post for Psychology Today, Krauss-Whitbourne explained how the process can be applied to real life:
The situation in TBPM experiments is analogous to what happens when you’re engrossed in one activity, such as catching up on your social media feed, at the same time that you’re also supposed to be getting ready to leave your home to be on time for work. You think only five minutes have passed when in fact you’ve let 20 minutes slip by. People who are good at TBPM tasks seem better able to regulate their own clock-checking behavior, so they’re less reliant on their potentially flawed internal timekeeper.
The Fix: Work on perfecting your definition of time.
Make an effort to be your own best critic when it comes to managing your minutes. There are also tasks you can do to help sharpen your sense of time, Krauss-Whitbourne said.
“We all have internal clocks and if yours is constantly off kilter, you need to train yourself to recalibrate,” she explained. “One thought is to play games to guess the time without cues and then see how off you are. Resetting may be as simple as retraining your ability to estimate time.”
Studies suggest those who are typically late tend to underestimate their time ― and personality may be to blame. Research shows that those who display Type B behavior, or the personality type that’s known for being more laid back, may have an off perception of the clock.
The study found that those who associate with the achievement-oriented “Type A” character trait were more accurate in estimating the passage of time than Type B folks. Those who were Type B in the study suspected that less time had passed than it really did when trying to measure out a minute.
“Type A individuals estimated that a minute passed in 58 seconds, compared with 77 seconds for Type B individuals,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
The Fix: Practice empathy.
It’s totally fine to have a laid back personality (there are even benefits to it!) but it’s important to not be so relaxed that you don’t consider others in the process. Try adding more minutes in your schedule estimation, Krauss-Whitbourne recommends ― and do it for the people you’re meeting.
“Imagine that you’re the one always waiting for someone else,” she said. “It’s irritating to you and therefore irritating to others.”
Most of all, incorporating a few new lifestyle habits into your routine to prevent you from running behind may benefit you the most in the long run, Krauss-Whitbourne explained. Especially when it comes to your own wellbeing.
“Always feeling your late contributes to stress levels, and this is also bad for your health,” she said. “So try to change, even if you think it’s hopeless.”
It’s never too late to stop being late.
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Tucker Carlson officially took over the Fox News time slot that Bill O’Reilly once occupied by praising the networks’s disgraced former host, mocking women’s rights advocates, and celebrating President Donald Trump.
“I watched Bill O’Reilly at this hour for years, and I always marveled at how well-prepared he was, how tough he was, and how crisply and directly he expressed his views,” Carlson said at the start of Monday’s episode of Tucker Carlson Tonight. “He set a high bar, and I’m gonna do my best to meet it.”
O’Reilly was ousted last week amid sexual harassment allegations. The network’s parent company, 21st Century Fox, had reportedly known about the claims for years but only responded after pressure from advertisers and activists mounted. Fox News’ founder and former CEO, Roger Ailes, left the company last year amid a similar scandal.
Until Monday, Carlson’s show had aired at 9 p.m., directly after The O’Reilly Factor. But the primetime spot isn’t the only thing the two men have shared. Critics have also pointed out that they have a similar history of on-air sexism and transphobia. Carlson brought those comparisons full circle on Monday, mocking the women’s rights marchers and suggesting that the murder of trans women shouldn’t be considered a hate crime.
Carlson’s show also featured a graphic that we can’t help but think that his predecessor, a vocal Trump fan, would have approved of:
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There’s a reason networks often save their weakest fare for the time of year when more people are less likely to spend their evenings indoors.
Of course, that’s not always the case, since “Game of Thrones” is scheduled to make it’s much-awaited return this July.
But when it comes to new shows, you can bet networks generally save the worst for last. In the coming months, viewers can look forward to some stellar series this spring (including ”The Handmaid’s Tale,” “American Gods,” “GLOW”), while they’re more or less better off embracing the warm weather and misplacing their remotes by the time summer hits.
With allegations that former Nasty Gal CEO Sophia Amoruso was accused of creating a “toxic” workplace, it’s easy to see why the lead character of Netflix’s “Girlboss” is so incredibly unlikeable. The question, however, is why would anyone want to spend a significant amount of time watching her?
“Girlboss” is loosely based on Amoruso’s memoir of the same name and tells the story of how she began her vintage clothing eBay shop, before it became what we now know as Nasty Gal.
The show stars Britt Robertson as 23-year-old Sophia, a college dropout who works menial jobs and yet can somehow afford a studio apartment in San Francisco circa 2006 ― and damn is it ever hard to watch. Sophia is petulant, whiny, and often just flat-out mean. What’s worse is that the series rarely gives you a reason to root for her. Characters don’t always have to be likable, but there has to be at least some reason to follow a person through their journey. With “Girlboss,” there’s nothing here.
”Great News,” the new workplace comedy from executive producer Tina Fey, can’t be described as great or even good.
The show follows Katie (Briga Heelan), a wallflower of a producer at a cable news program called “The Breakdown,” and her overbearing mother (Andrea Martin), who manages to land a job as as the show’s intern. Hilarity ensues, right? Not so much.
The show’s jokes just repeatedly fall flat, though surprisingly it’s Nicole Richie as a super-hip if slightly vapid co-anchor who actually shines brightest.
What do you really know about Albert Einstein aside from the fact that he developed the theory of relativity? National Geographic is willing to wager that you know very little.
“Genius” is an anthology series from executive producers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer about the lives of those deserving enough to be deemed as such, and Season 1 kicks off with none other than Mr. E = mc2 himself.
Based on Walter Isaacson’s book Einstein: His Life and Universe, the show stars Johnny Flynn when Einstein was a student in Zurich the 1890s, and Geoffrey Rush, as his older counterpart against a backdrop of the rising anti-semitism in 1922 Berlin, Germany.
Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” is by far the best new show debuting in the spring and summer season. Based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 dystopian novel, if you don’t already have a Hulu account, you’re going to want to sign up for one today.
Set in the not-too distant future where a fundamentalist Christian regime rules over the former United States, now known as the Republic of Gilead, women have been stripped of their rights and any sense of life as they once knew it. Elisabeth Moss stars as Offred, a woman who is forced to bear children for high-ranking men and their wives, after environmental problems cause widespread infertility issues.
The series is a chilling reminder of how quickly the Republic of Gilead could become a reality.
If you liked “Dear White People” the movie then you should probably watch it again, because the 2014 film from writer/director Justin Simien is far better than Netflix’s 10-episode series.
That’s not to say the series adaptation is a failure by any means. The show is still a smart and sharp take on the complex issue of race relations, and is definitely worth checking out.
The series picks up where the film left off in the aftermath of a racist blackface party, which has left a campus divided. Episodes are told and then retold through different student’s perspectives, which requires some commitment by the viewers since that format can feel awfully repetitive.
“American Gods” is absolutely the weirdest and most mind-bending new offering this season. Starz’s visually-stunning new drama is based on British author Neil Gaiman’s 2001 fantasy novel of the same name and requires total suspension of disbelief.
In this America, gods live among us mere mortals. There are two types of gods ― old and new. The old are the ones you’ve read about in myths and were brought to America by faithful immigrants centuries ago, while the new gods have gradually replaced the old ones and were born out of our modern obsession with media and technology.
As war brews between the gods, an ex-con named Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle) finds himself caught between the two sides.
Netflix’s “Anne with an E” is easily one of the most charming new shows. Yes, this is yet another adaptation of Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery’s beloved children’s novel Anne of Green Gables, but it’s far the best.
Amybeth McNulty stars as Anne Shirley, the young orphan who never stops talking and comes to live on Prince Edward Island with elderly siblings Marilla (Geraldine James) and Matthew Cuthbert (R.H. Thomson).
While you may have read the book a 100 times as a child, Netflix has managed to reenergize the story for modern audiences without betraying its source material. If anything, “Anne” digs deeper at some of the darker elements that Montgomery glossed over in the novel, and is a thoroughly binge-able experience for all ages.
You may have already watched the pilot episode of Amazon’s new series “I Love Dick,” based on Chris Kraus’ 1997 novel.
The show stars Kathryn Hahn as a filmmaker in an unhappy marriage, who follows her husband (Griffin Dunne) to his writing residency in Marfa, Texas, and becomes completely infatuated with a professor named Dick (Kevin Bacon).
“I Love Dick” is the latest show from “Transparent” creator Jill Soloway and is an intentionally uncomfortable yet humorous examination of human sexuality and the female gaze.
From ABC comes “Downward Dog,” a sitcom about a dog named Martin and his owner Nan (Allison Tolman), a woman struggling to get ahead at work and make sense of her personal life.
The show is told from Martin’s perspective’s via his internal monologue, voiced by Samm Hodges. The series is inoffensive enough if you can stand to listen to Martin, who is the male incarnation of a droning Valley-girl in canine form.
Showtime didn’t provide any screeners for “Twin Peaks,” which is returning as a limited series 24 years after David Lynch’s original version ended.
Because of this, we can only tell you what you probably already know: Lynch will direct the entire series and you can expect to see many familiar faces, including Kyle MacLachlan, who returns as FBI Agent Dale Cooper.
Showtime’s new drama “I’m Dying Up Here” is a look at the lives of stand-up comics trying to make it in Los Angeles in the 1970s ― and you’ll be tempted to heckle if you can muster the strength to make it through a full episode.
Yet another show based on a book, the series is inspired by William Knoedelseder‘s 2009 nonfiction work I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-up Comedy’s Golden Era and features an ensemble cast including Ari Graynor, Melissa Leo, Clark Duke, Michael Angarano and RJ Cyler.
Even if you’d rather do just about anything else than watch professional wrestling, you really shouldn’t discount Netflix’s new original series “GLOW.”
Inspired by the real story of the 1980s women’s wrestling league “Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling,” “GLOW” is one of the most enjoyable shows to debut this season.
Alison Brie stars as a struggling actress desperate to make it in Hollywood, giving one last shot at her dreams when she auditions for a series about female wrestlers. Featuring an outstanding and diverse cast, the series hilariously tackles issues of racism, stereotyping, sexism and sisterhood in the world of women’s wrestling.
Freeform’s “The Bold Type” is inspired by Cosmopolitan and its editor-in-chief Joanna Coles, and it’s the perfect show for summertime viewing.
Starring Katie Stevens, Aisha Dee and Meghann Fahy as three friends working at Scarlet Magazine, the show follows the young women as they navigate their careers and personal lives in New York City.
This show is exactly what you would expect from reading Cosmo ― not a bad way to curl up on the couch with a glass of wine.
The remote town of “Midnight, Texas” seems to be the supernatural center of the United States with witches, ghosts, assassins, angels, psychics and other creatures calling it home. But there is entirely too much going on.
Based on the trilogy series of the same name by author Charlaine Harris, “Midnight Texas” follows Manfred (François Arnaud), a psychic who can communicate with the dead, as he arrives in Midnight and befriends fellow outsiders like himself.
USA’s “The Sinner” is a different kind of thrilling mystery that finds Jessica Biel starring in a TV series for the first time since her days playing Mary Camden on “7th Heaven.”
Biel plays Cora, a young mother who commits an unspeakable act of violence against a stranger at the beach. There’s no question that she did it. The only question is why. Bill Pullman also stars as a detective obsessed with uncovering Cora’s motives.
As the series delves into Cora’s past and pieces together what happened that day at the beach, chances are you’ll be just as obsessed.
“Saturday Night Live” is on hiatus this summer, but Colin Jost and Michael Che will fill the void with “Weekend Update” ― a 30-minute, primetime version of the long-running segment. With “SNL” seeing some of its highest rating in years, Jost and Che will keep things going in August and make sure you’re on top of all the news that can be satirized. So basically everything.
Marlon Wayans stars in what’s supposed to be an update on the classic family sitcom, but this isn’t anything we haven’t seen before.
“Marlon” is loosely based on Wayans’ real life as he plays a wise-cracking, over- protective yet immature father to two precocious kids (Amir O’Neil and Notlim Taylor). He also appears to share a too-close relationship with his ex-wife (Essence Atkins).
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Our hardware and technology have come so far along that games that once required some decent hardware to run can now be played within a web browser. If you grew up playing the original Tomb Raider and wouldn’t mind reliving some of the action, then you’ll be pleased to learn that you’ll be able to play the game’s original level within your browser.
This is thanks to the work of developers that are part of the OpenTomb project. The developers had initially requested for the game’s original source code but were denied (which we guess kind of makes sense), so what they did was that they built the entire level from scratch. The end result is the creation of the second level from the first game – the City of Vilcabama.
Players will be able to take control of Lara Croft and also be able to alternate between first and third-person view. The team has also uploaded the code on GitHub where developers can poke around and even add to it if they wish. So if you do enjoy a bit of tinkering then this could be something worth checking out.
We’re not sure if the team will ever go about recreating the entire game, or when the next level will be made available, but those interested can follow the team and their updates in the Tomb Raider Forums. In the meantime gamers who want to play the game can do so here.
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