Reviews for Adam Sandler’s new movie are in and critics have all kinds of things to say about it.
Critics finally got a peak at Adam Sandler's new video game nostalgia ride "Pixels". As you can see below, the reviews were "mixed."
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“They don’t wanna see me happy.”
Seriously, she’s Superwoman.
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Raven never told us about this vision.
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“So. Many. Things. In. Butts.”
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"I extenuated a patient (took their breathing tube out). When I asked if there was anything else he needed, he responded with 'a Vicodin and a butt plug.' Yeah, I'll get right on that."
"One day I was assigned a patient who, according to the nurse who had had her during the last shift, was halfway through a blood transfusion. Upon entering the patient's room I found a very distinguished-looking woman wearing multiple pieces of expensive jewelry, texting on a fancy phone and covered in blood. Apparently her friends' latest Facebook statuses were worth noticing, but the fact that her IV had been pumping type O into her sheets instead of into her veins was not."
It’s not all banjos and cowboy boots.
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Which is your app-solute favorite?
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E!
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Be honest, mornings need all the help they can get.
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Ironically, far less likely to give you any kind of muffin top than any baked good you'd find at the coffee shop. Available here ($10).
We asked the two lead actors of Paper Towns to assign cast superlatives to their co-stars. These are their answers.
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When the actors who play Margo and Quentin in the new hit film Paper Towns visited the BuzzFeed office, we simply had to ask them to call out their cast mates' behavior on set. For more, read on!
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Apple Model Management wants to give trans models a new stage.
Humanity science-ed pretty hard this week.
An artist's impression of this new world is on the far left. According to NASA: "The new discovery, Kepler-452b, fires the planet hunter’s imagination because it is the most similar to the Earth-sun system found yet: a planet at the right temperature within the habitable zone, and only about one-and-a-half times the diameter of Earth, circling a star very much like our own sun."
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That dust is the stuff that creates solar systems. The image was taken from the Japan Akari space observatory's recent all-sky survey.
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“Yes please take my money so I can hang out in this noisy sweaty room full of strangers.”
You like your friends, that's why they're your friends, you like talking to them, sharing conversations and jokes. So why would you spend time with them in a place where this is near impossible.
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If you do sit down there's nothing to do since it's too loud to talk to anyone.
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Most of these places don't open until 10pm, and then they don't get good until midnight, and that's just the lame ones. The really ~cool~ ones don't get going until like 2am, which is well past anyone sensible's bedtime.
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No lovely welcoming bowls of snacks, no reasonably priced fast food menus. Why hang out somewhere where it is near impossible to do the best thing life has to offer, eat.
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So fresh and so clean, clean.
^Especially when you've got some serious contour going on.^
Specialman FTW!
The more you know.
Awwww?
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We solemnly swear that we will get this right.
For everyone who hasn’t gotten their Hogwarts letter yet.
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Not only is this experiment cool, it also smells good!
Get the tutorial at Babble Dabble Do.
They're ALIVE!
Get the tutorial at Bitz & Giggles.
Sprite, ginger ale, root beer...what's your prediction?
Get the tutorial at Olivia's Looms and Crafts.
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The activists started with a simple question: “What side are you on?”
The chant rang through the hall of the Phoenix Convention Center on Saturday morning, upending a presidential forum at the annual progressive conference, Netroots Nation. And one after the other, the two candidates there struggled to find the right reply: Martin O’Malley was defensive, Bernie Sanders frustrated.
Two days later, Hillary Clinton got her own question. Had she been there — had she shared the stage with her two opponents — how would she have responded?
“Black lives matter,” she wrote from her campaign’s account on Facebook. “Everyone in this country should stand firmly behind that.”
But the activists behind Saturday’s demonstration — known as Black Lives Matter — weren’t much more satisfied with the response from Clinton.
The group’s name, often written as a one-word hashtag, is now synonymous with a broad and urgent social justice movement to raise questions about structural racism and violence involving law enforcement. Two years after its founding — even as it remains a dispersed, bottom-up organization — Black Lives Matter has also become an increasingly vocal, commanding presence in the 2016 presidential race.
The group is poised to present a constant challenge to these campaigns: Activists have promised more appearances, more protests, more questions. And so far, according to the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, Patrisse Cullors, no candidate has shown “authentic engagement” — including, she said, Clinton.
The leading Democrat has long voiced support for the movement. She first affirmed the phrase “black lives matter” as early as December. Most recently, on Tuesday, Clinton said the words again at campaign stop in a Detroit bake shop, when a local activist, Ife Johari, questioned her about social justice. “If you really believe, as you do and I do, that black lives matter,” she said, “you have to talk about what it’s gonna do to help lives really develop to the fullest of their God-given potential.”
Still, Clinton has not met with Black Lives Matter activists — and her campaign officials have yet to formally reach out to movement leadership, according to four people aligned with Black Lives Matter, whose members are set to convene this weekend in Cleveland for a conference, the Movement for Black Lives.
“We want a candidate who will take up a people’s platform,” Cullors said in an interview on Saturday evening. “We will be at every single debate.”
The “authentic engagement” Cullors is looking for — whether from Clinton or one of her competitors — requires, at least at first, a lot more listening than talking.
”Authentic engagement is saying to the people who are calling out anti-black racism, ‘I want to hear what you have to say, and I’m going to sit and listen,’” she said. “It’s not giving a prepared speech, or saying, ‘Well let me respond.’”
Clinton officials did invite Deray Mckesson, a lead organizer behind a new effort to foster new participation in the movement, to attend the campaign’s “official launch” event last month — a rally on Roosevelt Island in New York. And when Clinton attended a community meeting at a church in Missouri — just after the shooting of nine worshipers in Charleston, S.C. — aides worked with the church to ensure that local movement leaders were invited, according to a campaign official.
Black Lives Matter activists are strongest in number in states like Maryland, Missouri, and New York — the sites of prominent deaths and subsequent protests. Although the movement has grown nationwide — particularly through Twitter — some Democrats say the organization still lacks a central spokesperson or leader.
Clinton has stumbled before in the eyes of critics and members of the movement. At the Missouri stop last month, Clinton talked to attendees about her mother’s perseverance. "Years later when I was old enough to understand I asked her, 'What kept you going?' Her answer was very simple. Kindness along the way from someone who believed she mattered. All lives matter."
Within the movement, answering “black lives matter” with “all lives matter” is seen as diminishing. But campaign officials have stressed that Clinton made the remark within a different context: talking, as she does often, about her mother. (On Saturday, O’Malley was booed when he responded to the protests directly with the phrase, "Black lives matter, white lives matter, all lives matter.")
O’Malley, so far, is the only known candidate to have met formally with Black Lives Matter. The former governor sat down with activists from the group last Tuesday in New York City, a source familiar with the meeting confirmed.
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After the demonstration on Saturday morning, Sanders cancelled a meeting there with Black Lives Matter activists and backers, according to participants. One, Elon James White, said the campaign arranged the gathering to “get Sanders on track with the conversation about issues around racial justice.”
The U.S. senator from Vermont — whose campaign has focused with great intensity on an almost exclusively economic message — has attracted crowds of thousands from the progressive and labor communities. But Sanders has also argued that many of the questions driving the Black Lives Matter movement are rooted in “economic matters” — a frame activists have largely rejected.
The movement is adamant that police violence is systemic. Activists view, for instance, Clinton's vow to equip police officers with body cameras as insufficient.
"We've witnessed the deaths of black people — Eric Garner, John Crawford, Tamir Rice — and witnessed their killers not be indicted or held accountable for their violence," said Zellie Imani, a Black Lives Matter activist and blogger. "[The] majority of patrol cars have dash cameras, cameras that capture police brutality, and they are still not indicted or convicted.”
“Body cams cannot end police brutality, and neither can Hillary."
Her campaign advisers — now three months into the race — have concentrated their time and resources in the four states that begin the presidential primary. As a result, much of their black outreach has occurred there, on a local level, with operatives on the ground building relationships with black lawmakers and black churches.
In South Carolina, Clinton's state director, Clay Middleton, is helping lead the effort.
Her political director also spent much of the early campaign with coalition leaders and immigration and labor activists. Clinton herself met earlier this month with the Congressional Black Caucus on Capitol Hill, in addition to other members.
Last year, Clinton faced a series of protests from DREAMer activists, the undocumented youth who wanted the future candidate to support executive actions to slow, reduce, or end deportations. The demonstrations became a regular feature of politics in 2014, leaving a lasting impression on the party.
Clinton’s campaign hired Lorella Praelli, a DREAMer activist, for the role of Latino engagement director. The candidate herself laid out an extremely specific — and progressive — slate of policy proposals on immigration early in the campaign.
Clinton’s Facebook answer on Monday — in response to a question from a Washington Post reporter — stated that “black people across America still experience racism every day,” and went on to propose body cameras, changes to drug sentencing, and funding for education.
Dante Barry, the executive director of Million Hoodies for Justice, called it “predictable.”
"This response was not enough nor did it get to the points,” Barry said. “The questions I want her to answer are: How will she end white supremacy? I want concrete action steps — this is about ending racism and I want to see how she matches up to that without dodging questions about power. And what does it mean to be safe?"
Nom nom nom.
It’s in the (YouTube) stars.
