Jersey Boys is the story of The Four Seasons.  4 kids from New Jersey who started out singing arcapella under the street light and grew into one of the biggest names in the music business today.  Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza), Frankie Valli (John Lloyd Young), Nick Massi (Michael Lomenda), Bob Gaudio (Erich Bergen) are the members of this successful group.  Their story is directed by Clint Eastwood and ranges from the 1950s to the present.  While Jersey Boys opened to mixed feelings, I thought it was basically a very good movie.  The Jersey Boys’ story was well told and entertaining.  The music was fantastic and the cast was spot on.  Christopher Walken played Gyp De Carlo, who was a mafia figure, appeared to tremendously smooth the mafia connection.  The group went through many trails and tribulations including $150,000 owed to a loan shark for a gambling debt incurred by…

The Slap has an impressive cast but doesn’t appear to have the potential for a long story line.  In fact, it’s an American mini series, based on an Australian adaptation of the same name.  So far, only the pilot has aired so there’s not a whole lot to report on, regarding the quality of the series.  I found some parts of this story quite repulsive.  An unruly 5 year old brat at a family, birthday barbeque is pulling up the hostess’s garden, destroying classic vinyl records, refusing to acknowledge he’s been called out after the 3rd strike in a softball game and the worst of all, being breast fed by his mom Rosie (Melissa George) every time he gets out of order.  Hugo’s father, Gary (Thomas Sadoski) observes but does nothing.  The slap was caused when Hugo repeatedly kicked an adult, Harry (Zachary Quinto) in the shins because Harry was…

Huffpost WorldPost

Click link below picture

.

Denmark was on high alert after a shooting near a synagogue in Copenhagen left a civilian dead and two police officers wounded early Sunday morning, hours after a gunman fatally shot a man and wounded three police officers at a free speech event in the same city.

Combined, the shootings left two dead and five police officers wounded.

The second attack, adjacent to a synagogue in the Krystalgade area of Copenhagen, left a male civilian dead, and two officers with wounds to the arms and legs, police said. The wounded officers were receiving treatment. Police spokesman Allan Wadsworth-Hansen said that is was unclear if the attack near the synagogue was related to the attack at the free speech event.

.

.

.

Click link below for story

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/14/shooting-copenhagen-synagogue-_n_6685512.html

.

__________________________________________

Click link below picture

.

Intellectual Ventures’s Global Good division has teamed up with General Electric to create a new test for malaria that’s designed to spot even the parasites that cause the disease, even in cases that would otherwise be missed by traditional testing.

It’s important work, since someone can be a host to malaria-causing parasites for months before showing symptoms, all the while transmitting those parasites to mosquitoes that then carry it to other hosts. By detecting the parasites early, health workers can provide treatment to affected people, and hopefully eradicate the disease altogether in the future.

The test is powered by work that GE Global Research did on a Lateral Flow Immunoassay (LFA) test for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and a “state-of-the-art reader that will detect nanoparticles tagged to key bio-markers for the detection of malaria” developed by Global Good.

.

.

.

Click…

There are several series out that deal with national and international affairs but there are none that deal on the level of Allegiance.  A couple, Katya (Hope Davis) and Mark O’Connor (Scott Cohen) are retired Russian spies or as the pilot suggest, current sleeper cells.  The O’Connor’s have 3 children, Natalie (Margarita Levieva),  Alex (Gavin Stenhouse) and Sarah (Alexandra Peters).  Sarah is also a Russian Sleeper Cell but her brother, Alex is a gifted CIA analyst who is assigned to a joint FBI/CIA investigation into a SVR plot to destroy critical infrastructure within the United States.  Their younger sister, Sarah, has no clue as to the whole spy endeavor.  Alex also has no clue about his sister, Natalie, or his parents true lifestyle.  In fact Katya is the only family member originally from Russia.  She recruited her husband and daughter.  Katya and her husband have no desire to spy…

FROM

Huffpost WorldPost

Click link below picture

.

African leaders agreed to send 7,500 troops to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in northeast Nigeria, an African Union official said Saturday, as the international community, including long-time foes the U.S. and Iran, rallied in support of Nigeria against the militants.

The move came after the council urged heads of state to endorse the deployment of troops from five West African countries to fight the terror group, said the head of the African Union’s Peace and Security Council, Samil Chergui.

African leaders who are members of the 54-nation African Union are meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for a two-day summit that ends Saturday.

.

In this Thursday, June 6, 2013 file photo Nigerian soldiers stand guard at the offices of the state-run Nigerian Television Authority in Maiduguri, Nigeria. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File) | ASSOCIATED PRESS

.

.

Click link below

Everyone loves a vibrant sunset, but this stunning picture does more than just capture a few rays – it displays the sheer wintry chill of Greenland, the largest non-continental country on the country. The Inuit population under Danish rule is isolated between the Arctic and Atlantic ocean. The lucky traveler aboard a plane captured this glorious scene while travelling to Canada from Iceland.

There is no water in this image, although there is an ocean. That’s right, the coast of the ocean displayed in this photographer’s dream image is frozen and this is likely to due to the fact that the average temperature in Greenland at this time of year is -8 degrees celcius.

Brrrrrr!

Image rights belong to Reddit user arowberry.

FROM

Huffpost Teen

Click link below picture

.

“Oh, you’re so pretty for a black girl.”

“Do you speak good English?”

“She has a Jew nose.”

Though they might be unintentional, these offensive phrases — called micro-aggressions — are heard all too often in everyday conversation. And while they’re frequently said in a joking way, the meaning of those words can have lasting negative effects.

.

.

.

Click link below for story, video and slideshow:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/10/microaggressions-video-_n_6655702.html?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

.

__________________________________________

FROM

Huffpost Crime

Click link below picture

.

The suspect, 46-year-old Craig Stephen Hicks, surrendered and was arrested on charges of first-degree murder. He is accused of killing Deah Barakat, 23, Barakat’s wife, Yusor Abu-Salha, 21, and Yusor’s sister, Razan Abu-Salha, 19.

Police responded to reports of gunshots at about 5:15 p.m., Tuesday, when they found the victims’ bodies. The shooting happened in a neighborhood that is mostly rental apartments where students live, and crime there is low, according to the News and Observer.

.

.

.

Click link below for story, videos and slideshow:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/chapel-hill-murders_n_6660080.html

.

__________________________________________

Click link below picture

.

The social network released its latest government transparency report on Monday, revealing that the number of requests for user information in the second half of 2014 jumped 40% over the previous six months.

Twitter received 2,871 requests for 7,144 user accounts and cooperated with 52% of them. More than half of government requests came from the United States — up 29% from the first half of last year — but the company noted that it saw the biggest increases from Russia and Turkey. Russia, in fact, had never requested data about Twitter users but made 108 requests this time. The company did not cooperate with Russia and Turkey on any of their requests.

.

.

.

Click link below for article:

http://mashable.com/2015/02/09/twitter-government-requests-spike/?utm_cid=mash-com-Tw-main-link

.

__________________________________________