R. Kelly announces overseas tour
Article via CNN
Embattled singer R. Kelly announced new tour dates in a tweet Tuesday, but the tweet was later deleted.The announcement promised shows in Australia, New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
No further details were offered.
The singer has been embroiled in renewed controversy in the wake of the recent Lifetime docuseries “Surviving R. Kelly,” which chronicles allegations of abuse, predatory behavior and pedophilia against the singer.
Kelly has consistently denied the allegations, some of which date back decades.
Kelly’s attorney Steve Greenberg told CNN Wednesday he does “not believe that is accurate,” when asked about the tour announcement.
In 2017, the #MuteRKelly movement began to encourage radio stations to stop playing the singer’s music.
Since then it has expanded to protesting Kelly’s shows and calling on various businesses, including RCA Records, Spotify and Apple Music to stop doing business with the singer.
Last month, Kelly and Sony — the parent company of Kelly’s record label, RCA Records — reportedly agreed to part ways. The singer has continued to book shows in recent months.
In November, the Tampa Bay Times reported that a planned protest of the Kelly’s concert on the campus of the University of South Florida never materialized.
“If there’s anybody in here that feels they are going to be offended tonight, they need to leave, because it’s about to get freakier than a mother,” the paper reported the Grammy-winning artist as saying during his show.
Kelly’s announcement of his new shows was met with both anger and support.
“Hopefully Kelz will do a tour here in Chicago or the USA he has fans who know he is #survivingGroupieLies,” one person tweeted. German company Eventim has promoted two concerts for Kelly in Germany in April.
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas explains why she took her husband’s name
Article via Mashable
Unless you’ve been hiding under a giant rock these past few months, you’ll know that Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas got married.
Priyanka Chopra has since added Jonas to her name and she explained to Jimmy Fallon why she wanted to do that.
“I always wanted to add his name to mine because I feel like, we’re becoming family,” she said. “I’m a little traditional and old school like that.”
“But I don’t take away my identity, it’s added to who I am.”
Mysterious, well-liked egg’s Instagram account is all about mental health
Article via ABCNews
An egg is usually beaten, but its Instagram account whipped up a lot of buzz last month and on Super Bowl Sunday, its purpose was revealed: mental health awareness.
Instagram user @world_record_egg posted a generic picture of a farmer’s brown egg on Instagram in January and ultimately became the most-liked photo on Instagram with 52 million likes. Previously, celebrity Kylie Jenner held the most-liked spot with her birth announcement in 2018, which received 18 million likes.
On Super Bowl Sunday, a year after Kylie Jenner’s birth announcement, the intention of the egg post was finally cracked with a game-time ad on Hulu.
The advertisement began, “Recently, I started to crack. The pressure of social media is hurting me.”
As pieces of the broken shell began to fall away, the advertisement urged, “If you’re struggling too, talk to someone.”
It ended with a link for viewers to visit for more information: talkingegg.info.
At the website, users are prompted to choose from a range of global resources classified under “useful mental health links below.”
Within the United States section, there are three links to Mental Health America, CALM: Campaign against Living Miserably and NAMI: National Alliance of Mental Illness.
Prior to the advertisement’s release, the egg’s Instagram account posted a preview.
Soon after the account was created and broke the Instagram record, the account told viewers to “stay tuned,” according to a statement released to ABC News.
It turns out the intention of the egg was all it was cracked up to be as it is now shining a light on mental health awareness and people there are resources available if they are struggling.
The advertisement even ended with a message of unity: “We got this.”
Facebook will now let anyone remove messages from their chat history after people discovered Zuckerberg could
Article via CNBC
- Facebook will now let anyone remove messages from their chat history on Messenger.
- An April 2018 TechCrunch report revealed CEO Mark Zuckerberg had deleted messages from his chats.
- Facebook had reportedly said Zuckerberg would stop using the feature until it became publicly available.
Facebook Messenger is rolling out the option to delete a regretful or mistaken message from their chat history.
Facebook initially promised the feature after TechCrunch reported in April that multiple people said Facebook messages they received from CEO Mark Zuckerberg later appeared to have been deleted while their own messages remained. At the time, Facebook told TechCrunch Zuckerberg’s messages were deleted for security purposes.
“After Sony Pictures’ emails were hacked in 2014 we made a number of changes to protect our executives’ communications,” Facebook told TechCrunch in a statement at the time. “These included limiting the retention period for Mark’s messages in Messenger. We did so in full compliance with our legal obligations to preserve messages.”
Following the report, Facebook said it would publicly launch the feature to let users remove their messages from their chat history. Facebook reportedly said it would not have Zuckerberg delete his messages until the feature was publicly launched.
Chinese satellite snaps image of the Moon from the side we never see
Article via BGR
The Moon dominates the night sky and, as the closest large body to Earth, we get to see it plenty. Unfortunately, since the Moon only shows us one face thanks to its tidal lock with Earth, and its far side is rarely the subject of photography.
Now, thanks to China’s efforts to learn as much as possible about the least-studied side of the Moon, we have a brand new view of it. The image, which was captured by the Longjiang-2 satellite that was sent skyward last year, even features Earth photobombing scene in the background.
The tiny imaging satellite was sent into space as part of China’s Chang’e-4 mission preparations. The country’s space agency sent communication hardware into lunar orbit so that it could relay information back and forth between the lander and rover on the Moon’s far side and engineers back on Earth.
After a radio-quiet period to avoid interfering with the Chang’e 4 Lunar landing, [Longjiang-2] became active again on 13 January 2019. The first opportunity to take photos of Earth and Moon were on 3 February, on which a command was sent to take another timelapse. The first image from this timelapse was downloaded with the Dwingeloo telescope on February 4, 2019. For the first time, it the entire Moon and Earth are in view.
In this image, we get a birds-eye view of the the Moon’s “backside,” complete with a wealth of interesting features that we don’t often get to see. Meanwhile, the tiny sphere of Earth is visible in the bottom right, appearing bright blue against the pale monotone of the Moon.
As space agencies like NASA gear up and renewed interest in Moon exploration grows, we might learn a few more secrets about our nearest neighbor, and will hopefully get some more lovely images like this one.
New Jersey school custodian accused of installing hidden camera in bathroom
ENGLEWOOD, New Jersey (WABC) — Police in New Jersey have arrested a school janitor after he allegedly installed a hidden camera inside a bathroom.
Authorities
say 59-year-old Francisco Javier Lopez-Martinez, who is the head
custodian at Dwight Morrow High School in Englewood, was found to have
installed the hidden camera after a woman who works as a cleaner
discovered it and watched a clip on it that showed him installing the
device.
It’s believed that Lopez-Martinez targeted the woman
and there is no evidence any children or other school staff were
recorded, police say.
Officials say all of the schools in the district have been checked for cameras.
via: https://abc7ny.com/nj-school-janitor-accused-of-planting-hidden-camera-in-bathroom/5122759/
Woman delivers baby after DUI crash, newborn critical
PHILADELPHIA — A woman went into premature labor following a crash involving a DUI suspect in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia. The newborn remains hospitalized in critical condition.
The crash occurred around 2:40 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Haverford and Overbook avenues.
Police say a man and a pregnant woman in a 2006 Chevrolet pickup truck were stopped at a traffic light when they were rear-ended by a 2003 white Lexus.
Arriving medics took the man and woman to Lankenau Medical Center where the woman gave birth.
Action News is told the baby was due in May.
The 42-year-old mother and 36-year-old man are in stable condition. The 56-year-old Lexus driver was arrested for DUI and driving with a suspended license.
The investigation lead to the closure of Haverford Avenue.
The investigation is ongoing.
via: https://abc7chicago.com/traffic/woman-delivers-baby-after-dui-crash-newborn-critical/5121502/
Toddler eats heroin baggies left out by parent
UPPER DARBY, Pa. — A toddler almost died after eating heroin that was found next to his passed out mother, according to the Upper Darby Police Department.
“When children
are impacted by their stupidity because of their drug activity then
shame on them,” said Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.
Chitwood said the 16-month-old boy ingested heroin and possibly fentanyl and is still alive because of Narcan.
“That child was lucky enough to get to the hospital, being taken by the drug addict father and mother, to where the doctor shot him up with Narcan,” said Chitwood.
Police say it was under the mother’s watch in the 7700 block of West Chester Pike when the little boy chewed empty baggies with drug residue. The mother was reportedly passed out, possibly high. The boy’s father came home and rushed his unconscious baby to the hospital where he was revived.
According to police, the father admitted the night before he used five bags of fentanyl.
“We do a search warrant of the location and we find a total of 12 empty packages and bags,” said Chitwood.
Distraught family members came to the home on Tuesday. The uncle of the baby says his sister and the baby’s father live there with his parents.
“For those who are responsible should be held accountable. Not my mother and father who have the biggest hearts in the world who cannot throw out people because of their children and then them people make decisions in the house that now reflect on everybody which shouldn’t,” said Brendan Boyle, the boy’s uncle.
Police are still doing interviews and tell Action News they are preparing to charge the mother.
She faces reckless endangerment, endangering the welfare of a child and drug charges.
via: https://abc7chicago.com/toddler-eats-heroin-baggies-left-out-by-parent-police-say/5122466/
Pope Acknowledges Priests and Bishops Have Sexually Abused Nuns
Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem.
Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Francis noted that Pope Benedict XVI had taken action against a France-based order after some of its religious sisters had been reduced to “sexual slavery” at the hands of the priest who founded the order and other priests.
“Should we do something more? Yes. Is there the will? Yes. But it’s a path that we have already begun,” Francis said while returning home from the United Arab Emirates.
“It’s not that everyone does this, but there have been priests and bishops who have,” Francis added. “And I think that it’s continuing because it’s not like once you realize it that it stops. It continues. And for some time we’ve been working on it.”
The issue has come to the fore amid the Catholic Church’s overall reckoning with the sexual abuse of minors and the #MeToo-inspired acknowledgement that adults can be victims of abuse whenever there is an imbalance of power in a relationship. In the past year, The Associated Press and other media have reported on cases of abused nuns in India, Africa, Europe and South America — evidence that the problem is by no means limited to a certain geographic area.
In November, the organization representing all the world’s female Catholic religious orders, the International Union of Superiors General, publicly denounced the “culture of silence and secrecy” that prevented nuns from speaking out and urged sisters to report abuse to their superiors and police. And just last week, the women’s magazine of the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano identified the clerical culture of the all-powerful clergy as the culprit. The magazine, “Women Church World,” noted that the scandal involves a corollary: nuns being forced to abort the priests’ children.
Francis said some clergy had been suspended for mistreating sisters. But he also noted that the mistreatment of women is a problem in society at large, where women are still considered “second-class citizens.”
“It’s a cultural problem. I dare say that humanity hasn’t matured,” he said, adding that in some parts of the world the mistreatment gets to the point of feminicide.
Francis credited Benedict, pope from 2005-2013, with having had the courage to tackle the problem, saying the popular impression that he was somehow weak was completely wrong.
He said Benedict took action against the French congregation “because a certain slavery of women had crept in, slavery to the point of sexual slavery on the part of clergy or the founder,” he said.
“Sometimes the founder takes away, or empties the freedom of the sisters. It can come to this,” Francis said.
Asked if any universal norms might be in the works to tackle the problem — as has been done to handle cases of clergy sexual abuse of minors — Francis implied that the priestly abuse of nuns was still being dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
“There are cases, usually in new congregations and in some regions more than others,” he said. “We’re working on it.”
“Pray that this goes forward,” he said of the Vatican efforts to fight it. “I want it to go forward.”
via: https://ktla.com/2019/02/05/pope-acknowledges-priests-bishops-have-sexually-abused-nuns/
Photo Credit: Pope Francis leads mass for an estimated 170,000 Catholics at the Zayed Sports City Stadium on Feb. 5, 2019. (Credit: VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images)