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Which Actor Should Play Pres. Obama In a Biopic?



Not sure who could pull this one off.



  • BET Star Cinema

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5 Black Actors We Need to Know More About



Our interest is peeked!



  • BET Star Cinema

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10 Powerful Quotes From Black Actor-vists



Jesse Williams isn't the only one dropping gems.



  • BET Star Cinema

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Top 25 Greatest Black Actors



These men are just 'flawless' on the big screen.



  • BET Star Cinema

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15 of the Most Influential Black Film Directors



The men and women who helped place our culture onscreen.



  • BET Star Cinema

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Coachella Music Festival Rescheduled For October



Travis Scott and dozens of others were set to perform.




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New Whitney Houston Biopic Announced With Black Director



The film is being produced eight years after her death.




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Rihanna Plays Director for Stance Holiday Campaign



Watch Rih work it behind the camera yet again.



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Lane Bryant Responds to Victoria's Secret's Skinny Runway



Their #ImNoAngel campaign celebrates all body types.





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Director Of ‘Last Dance’ Explains Change To Obama’s Title



The former president was weirdly credited.




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Former NFL Player Myron Rolle Is Now A Doctor Fighting Coronavirus

The Titans alum shares harrowing stories from the ER.




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Watch Doctor Sing ‘Rise Up’ In Honor Of Health Workers



Dr. Collin Brathwaite played the melody for his colleagues




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Director Of ‘Last Dance’ Explains Change To Obama’s Title



The former president was weirdly credited.




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Bank of Bermuda Foundation: 3 New Directors

The Bank of Bermuda Foundation has announced the appointment of three new Directors to its Board, including Lisa Howie, Dr. Julie Dunstan, and Christa Schweizer. A spokesperson said, “Earlier this year the Foundation ran a series of advertisements looking for members of the community interested in volunteering their time and expertise towards the philanthropic work […]

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Butterfield Bank: October Share Repurchases

In a filing with the Bermuda Stock Exchange, the Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Son Limited advised that during the month of October 2019, the Bank purchased for Treasury 150,000 Common Shares at an average price of $32.58 per share. Related Stories Butterfield Bank: March Share Repurchases Butterfield Bank: February Share Repurchases Butterfield Bank: January Share Repurchases […]

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Burgess Leads Medicine Hat College To Victory

Kieron Burgess led Medicine Hat College to a 76 –68 win on the road against St. Mary’s University. Burgess played 40 minutes going 8 for 27 from the field, 1 for 3 from behind the three point line and 7 for 15 from the free throw line for his 24 points. Burgess also had 17 […]

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Burgess Leads Medicine Hat College To Victory

Kieron Burgess and his Medicine Hat College Men’s Basketball teammates recently defeated Red Deer College 84 – 82 home to improve to 2 and 7 on the season. Burgess led his team to victory, finishing two steals short of a triple-double. He went 12 for 22 from the field and 0 for 4 from behind […]

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Baseball: Adam Hall Leads Delmarva To Victory

Baseball player Adam Hall and his Delmarva Shorebirds teammates fired their second one-hitter of the season as they wrapped up a three-game sweep over the Lakewood BlueClaws with a 3-1 win at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium. The team’s report said, “The Delmarva Shorebirds fired their second one-hitter of the season as they wrapped up a three-game sweep […]

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Adam Hall Helps Guide Delmarva To Victory

Adam Hall and his Delmarva Shorebirds teammates plated five late unanswered runs as they surged past the Kannapolis Intimidators 7-4 at Arthur W. Perdue Stadium. The Shorebirds’ surge began in the seventh. Down 4-2, Johnny Rizer walked with one out and then came home to score as Hall ripped a double into the left field […]

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Civil Aviation Director General Wins CEO Award

Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority [BCAA] Director General Thomas Dunstan has won Business Worldwide Magazine’s CEO Award. A spokesperson said, “The Director General of the Bermuda Civil Aviation Authority [BCAA] won global recognition in the 2019 Business Worldwide CEO Awards. Thomas Dunstan has been crowned Aviation Industry Executive of The Year [Global] for his outstanding leadership […]

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Bermuda Gold Cup Rescheduled To October

The Bermuda Gold Cup, hosted by the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, has been rescheduled to October from May due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. A spokesperson said, “Organizers for the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club’s Bermuda Gold Cup match racing regatta have postponed the celebratory 70th running to October due to the outbreak of the novel […]

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Yana Orlova Named Director Of The Year

Cliff Drysdale Tennis [CDT] has named Director of Tennis Yana Orlova of Rosewood Bermuda its 2019 Director of the Year during their annual end of year Cliffy Awards. A spokesperson said, “The Cliffy Awards are presented to team members and clubs that embody the Cliff Drysdale Tennis experience through a commitment to world-class tennis and […]

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Free Stream Of Duffy’s 2018 Bermuda Victory

Triathlon fans are getting the opportunity to re-live the excitement of Flora Duffy’s win at the 2018 MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda – complete with the Bermudian triathlete’s commentary – as streaming platform TriathlonLIVE.tv offers its services free for one year. A spokesperson said, “This weekend Bermuda can re-live the excitement and pride of Flora […]

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Rawlins Leads Paramveer Tigers 19 To Victory

Delray Rawlins led the Paramveer Tigers 19 to a 24 run victory over the Smashers in US Open Cricket action. Paramveer Tigers 19 won the toss and elected to bat first in the 11-over per side match, Paramveer Tigers 19 scored 160/2 in their allotted 10 overs with Rawlins opening the inning scoring 101 off […]

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Photos: Tiny Octopus Found On Side Of Lionfish

While emptying a bag of lionfish they caught while diving in the Watch Hill Park and John Smith’s Bay area, local divers found a tiny octopus clinging to the side of a lionfish. In a post on social media, Weldon Wade said, “What a discovery! When freediving and culling lionfish we spear them and sometimes safely […]

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Energy Director To Speak In Dominican Republic

The Government of Bermuda’s Department of Energy Director, Jeane Nikolai has been invited, as a guest, to speak on a panel at the 2018 Resilient Infrastructure Forum [RIF]. The RIF takes place June 26 – 28, 2018 in the Dominican Republic. The RIF brings together key stakeholders from the public and private sectors to create […]

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Joanna Frith Joins BE Solar As Sales Director

Joanna Frith has joined the team at BE Solar as their new sales director, where “she will be working to develop customized project scopes for residential and commercial solar electric systems in addition to energy efficiency and battery storage projects. Joanna will focus on assisting existing clients while recruiting new clients for BE Solar.” A […]

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BIFF To Screen ‘Pavarotti’ Film On October 23

The Bermuda International Film Festival [BIFF] is to screen a documentary about opera legend Luciano Pavarotti at its monthly film series, BIFFFlix. Directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard, the riveting film is an in-depth, no-holds-barred look at the life, career and legacy of the musical icon. Dubbed “The People’s Tenor”, Pavarotti was the rare […]

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Argo Announce Board Of Directors Nominees

Argo Group International Holdings announced the nominations of Dr. Bernard C. Bailey & Fred R. Donner to stand for election to the company’s board of directors at Argo’s annual shareholder meeting on April 16, 2020. A spokesperson said, “Argo Group International Holdings, Ltd. an international underwriter of specialty insurance and reinsurance products in the property and […]

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Argus Group Appoints David Brown As Director

In a filing with the Bermuda Stock Exchange [BSX], Argus Group Holdings Limited [Argus Group] announced the appointment as a Director of Mr. David A Brown with effect from February 10, 2020. Related Stories Argus Announces Retirement Of Steinhoff Argus Appoints Simmons As Director Argus Group Reports Net Profit Of $8.2 Million Argus CFO Retires: […]

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Cosmic Launches Online Shopping Directory

In an effort to help the community navigate changing shopping landscape during the Covid-19 pandemic, Cosmic Ltd recently launched ShopSafe.bm, a free online resource that “allows businesses to input their new store hours while indicating how customers can purchase goods or services.” A spokesperson said, “As shoppers look for the safest methods of patronising their […]

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Bermudian Actor Reflects On Motown Role

With the tour of hit show “Motown the Musical” recently kicking off in Chicago, Illinois, Bermudian actor Nicholas Christopher, a member of the show’s original cast who is currently playing Smokey Robinson in the production, was interviewed by Broadway World about growing up in Bermuda, the role that Motown-era music played in his upbringing, and […]

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Actor Herbert Plays Historic Role In Production

Bermudian actor Daren A. Herbert is getting set to take on the role of Burrs, a vaudeville performer who makes his living in blackface, in a Toronto-based production of the musical ‘The Wild Party’. The Toronto production is casting — for the first time, to anyone’s knowledge — a black actor in the role, according […]

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Questions For Directors Of Ohio's Departments Of Jobs And Family Services, Commerce

This episode originally aired on April 24, 2020. Ohio’s unemployment rate has reached 11.6% due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 10th worst in the nation. Laid-off workers should be on the lookout for scams and schemes trying to swindle away unemployment benefits and federal stimulus checks.




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Coronavirus Doctor Q&A

Today is the day Ohio hospitals can resume nonessential medical procedures that don’t require an overnight hospital stay, which were postponed last month as part of the state’s pandemic response. The Ohio Hospital Association estimates hospitals lose $1.2 billion every month that elective procedures are canceled.




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Questions For Directors Of Ohio's Departments Of Jobs And Family Services, Commerce

This episode originally aired on April 24, 2020. Ohio’s unemployment rate has reached 11.6% due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 10th worst in the nation. Laid-off workers should be on the lookout for scams and schemes trying to swindle away unemployment benefits and federal stimulus checks.




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Position available: Director of field services, Mid-America

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has an opening for a position that closes June 1, 2020.




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Meet the Director: Guy Savard

This is a continuing profile series on the directors of the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science user facilities. These scientists lead a variety of research institutions that provide researchers with the most advanced tools of modern science including accelerators, colliders, supercomputers, light sources and neutron sources, as well as facilities for studying the nano world, the environment, and the atmosphere.




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Factors affecting female bear harvest rates

Examining the factors that affect the number of females being harvested during the bear hunting season will help Pennsylvania wildlife officials manage population.




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New Violin Doctor

Owlet has decided that violin lessons are interesting, and so she’s doing a couple of private ones with her violin teacher from camp in the afternoons. From what I saw yesterday, she works better one on one than in a group setting, which doesn’t surprise me at all, really. The fingerboard popped off her violin […]




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Legal Beagle: A draft submission on the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Bill

There are a few days left to put in a submission on the Electoral (Registration of Sentences Prisoners) Amendment Bill.
The bill would allow prisoners serving sentence of imprisonment under three years to vote, essentially restoring the status quo ante that existed before the members bill advanced by then National MP Paul Quinn was passed by a slim majority
For anyone interested in my views, they're published below. I've been sufficiently organised this time to publish them here a few days before submissions close, so if there are any errors, please let me know. 
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Utah Pulls Plug On Surveillance Contractor After CEO's Past As A White Supremacist Surfaces

A couple of months ago, a records request revealed a private surveillance contractor had access to nearly every piece of surveillance equipment owned and operated by the state of Utah. Banjo was the company with its pens in all of the state's ink. Banjo's algorithm ran on top of Utah's surveillance gear: CCTV systems, 911 services, location data for government vehicles, and thousands of traffic cameras.

All of this was run through Banjo's servers, which are conveniently located in Utah government buildings. Banjo's offering is of the predictive policing variety. The CEO claims its software can "find crime" without any collateral damage to privacy. This claim is based on the "anonymization" of harvested data -- a term that is essentially meaningless once enough data is collected.

This partnership is now on the rocks, thanks to an investigation by Matt Stroud and OneZero. Banjo's CEO, Damien Patton, apparently spent a lot of his formative years hanging around with white supremacists while committing crimes.

In grand jury testimony that ultimately led to the conviction of two of his associates, Patton revealed that, as a 17-year-old, he was involved with the Dixie Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. On the evening of June 9, 1990 — a month before Patton turned 18 — Patton and a Klan leader took a semi-automatic TEC-9 pistol and drove to a synagogue in a Nashville suburb. With Patton at the wheel, the Ku Klux Klan member fired onto the synagogue, destroying a street-facing window and spraying bullets and shattered glass near the building’s administrative offices, which were next to that of the congregation’s rabbi. No one was struck or killed in the shooting. Afterward, Patton hid on the grounds of a white supremacist paramilitary training camp under construction before fleeing the state with the help of a second Klan member.

If you're wondering where the state of Utah's due diligence is in all of this, there's a partial explanation for this lapse: the feds, who brought Patton in, screwed up on their paperwork.

Because Patton’s name was misspelled in the initial affidavit of probable cause filed in Brown’s case — an FBI agent apparently spelled Damien with an “o” rather than an “e” — any search of a federal criminal court database for “Damien Patton” would not have surfaced the affidavit.

Now that his past has been exposed, the state of Utah has announced it won't be working with Banjo.

The Utah attorney general’s office will suspend use of a massive surveillance system after a news report showed that the founder of the company behind the effort was once an active participant in a white supremacist group and was involved in the shooting of a synagogue.

The AG's office can only shut down so much of Banjo's surveillance software. Other government agencies not directly controlled by the state AG are making their own judgment calls. The University of Utah is suspending its contract with Banjo, but the state's Department of Public Safety has only gone so far as to "launch a review" of its partnership with the company. City agencies and a number of police departments who have contracts with Banjo have yet to state whether they will be terminating theirs.

And the AG's reaction isn't a ban. The office appears to believe it might be able to work through this.

“While we believe Mr. Patton’s remorse is sincere and believe people can change, we feel it’s best to suspend use of Banjo technology by the Utah attorney general’s office while we implement a third-party audit and advisory committee to address issues like data privacy and possible bias,” Piatt said. “We recommend other state agencies do the same.

It's refreshing to hear a prosecutor state that it's possible for former criminals to turn their lives around and become positive additions to their communities, but one gets the feeling this sort of forgiveness is only extended to ex-cons who have something to offer law enforcement agencies. Everyone else is just their rap sheet for forever, no matter how many years it's been since their last arrest.

The other problem here is the DA's office's tacit admission it did not take data privacy or possible bias into account before granting Banjo access to the state's surveillance equipment, allowing it to set up servers in government buildings, and giving it free rein to dust everything with its unaudited AI pixie dust.

These are all steps that should have taken place before any of this was implemented, even if the state had chosen to do business with a company with a less controversial CEO. This immediate reaction is the right step to take, but a little proactivity now and then would be a welcome change.




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As More Students Sit Online Exams Under Lockdown Conditions, Remote Proctoring Services Carry Out Intrusive Surveillance

The coronavirus pandemic and its associated lockdown in most countries has forced major changes in the way people live, work and study. Online learning is now routine for many, and is largely unproblematic, not least because it has been used for many years. However, online testing is more tricky, since there is a concern by many teachers that students might use their isolated situation to cheat during exams. One person's problem is another person's opportunity, and there are a number of proctoring services that claim to stop or at least minimize cheating during online tests. One thing they have in common is that they tend to be intrusive, and show little respect for the privacy of the people they monitor.

As an article in The Verge explains, some employ humans to watch over students using Zoom video calls. That's reasonably close to a traditional setup, where a teacher or proctor watches students in an exam hall. But there are also webcam-based automated approaches, as explored by Vox:

For instance, Examity also uses AI to verify students' identities, analyze their keystrokes, and, of course, ensure they're not cheating. Proctorio uses artificial intelligence to conduct gaze detection, which tracks whether a student is looking away from their screens.

It's not just in the US that these extreme surveillance methods are being adopted. In France, the University of Rennes 1 is using a system called Managexam, which adds a few extra features: the ability to detect "inappropriate" Internet searches by the student, the use of a second screen, or the presence of another person in the room (original in French). The Vox articles notes that even when these systems are deployed, students still try to cheat using new tricks, and the anti-cheating services try to stop them doing so:

it's easy to find online tips and tricks for duping remote proctoring services. Some suggest hiding notes underneath the view of the camera or setting up a secret laptop. It's also easy for these remote proctoring services to find out about these cheating methods, so they're constantly coming up with countermeasures. On its website, Proctorio even has a job listing for a "professional cheater" to test its system. The contract position pays between $10,000 and $20,000 a year.

As the arms race between students and proctoring services escalates, it's surely time to ask whether the problem isn't people cheating, but the use of old-style, analog testing formats in a world that has been forced by the coronavirus pandemic to move to a completely digital approach. Rather than spending so much time, effort and money on trying to stop students from cheating, maybe we need to come up with new ways of measuring what they have learnt and understood -- ones that are not immune to cheating, but where cheating has no meaning. Obvious options include "open book" exams, where students can use whatever resources they like, or even abolishing formal exams completely, and opting for continuous assessment. Since the lockdown has forced educational establishments to re-invent teaching, isn't it time they re-invented exams too?

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From Playing Games to Committing Crimes: A Multi-Technique Approach to Predicting Key Actors on an Online Gaming Forum

I recently travelled to Pittsburgh, USA, to present the paper “From Playing Games to Committing Crimes: A Multi-Technique Approach to Predicting Key Actors on an Online Gaming Forum” at eCrime 2019, co-authored with Ben Collier and Alice Hutchings. The accepted version of the paper can be accessed here. The structure and content of various underground … Continue reading From Playing Games to Committing Crimes: A Multi-Technique Approach to Predicting Key Actors on an Online Gaming Forum




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Data centre reveals it modeled interiors on <i>The Hunt for Red October</i> sets

Australia bit barn outfit NEXTDC adds classic film reference to usual mix of resilience, connectivity and security

Australian serial entrepreneur Bevan Slattery has revealed that he told the architects of a data centre he funded to make it resemble the sets used in classic submarine flick The Hunt for Red October.…




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Octo-Puce la pieuvre et Craby-la-Pince le crabe

Contes de fées aux enfants - Octo-Puce la pieuvre et Craby-la-Pince le crabe.




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