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Mary Kills People Star Caroline Dhavernas Says Dying Is Not A Crime
Mary Kills People will premiere tomorrow night, and even before that first pilot episode airs, the Entertainment One drama is already stirring controversy with its unique take on doctor-assisted suicide. While much of the country seeks to change right-to-die laws in an effort to give the terminally ill the right to die with dignity and on their own terms, Mary Kills People takes those issues and forces the television-viewing public to confront them. Mary Kills People delivers the morals of the right-to-die issues in a dramatic format, combining related social issues with emotional stories, but Caroline Dhavernas (Hannibal), who stars as Mary Harris, believes the series is more than a sum of its parts.
Mary Kills People Creator Tara Armstrong On Tackling The Touchy Issue Of Euthanasia
The title of Tara Armstrong’s new series might just as easily precede a slasher flick, but, while Mary does, in fact, kill people, they are people who don’t want to live, but are compelled to live and suffer. Talking with Toronto Star, Armstrong says she developed the idea for Mary Kills People while she was still going to college, though she admits that the seeds for this idea were planted even earlier than that. Tara reveals she has always been intrigued by death and she says that obsession ultimately led her to choose hospice care as the subject of a non-fiction film project.
“I chose to go into a hospice and interviewed all the people who worked in there; it kind of came from that,” Armstrong says.
Tara adds that she chose the name “Mary” for its biblical connotations. She admits that there might be a note of sacrilegious humor in relation to Caroline Dhavernas’ name on Mary Kills People, but she’s okay with that. She doesn’t want the series to be too morose.
As for the star of Mary Kills People, Tess says Dhavernas wasn’t her first choice. In fact, the casting call was a long process with many qualified candidates reading for the part of Mary, but Tara says Caroline’s performance left her stunned. She knew, right at that moment, that she had found her Mary Harris.
“For me, she just is Mary,” says the Mary Kills People creator about Caroline Dhavernas. “I get goosebumps all the time just watching her.”
Caroline Dhavernas On Becoming A Fictional Doctor Death
In Mary Kills People, Caroline Dhavernas plays an emergency room doctor named Mary Harris. As the Hollywood Reporter shares, Mary fills her evenings in the company of a colleague, a former plastic surgeon, Joel, offering their services to those in need of unique medical assistance. As Mary Kills People sets Mary and her partner at odds against the law, Canada, the country in which creator Tess Armstrong created the series, has newly decriminalized doctor-assisted suicide.
As Caroline says, confronting the real social issue as well as her role in Mary Kills People, “Dying is not a crime.”
In most places, suicide and aiding those in the act are still considered crimes with the state taking jurisdiction over the individual’s right to die, but, like many, Dhavernas says that should be a private decision.
“Personally, it’s someone’s right,” says Ms. Dhavernas. “If you have nothing but suffering ahead of you, we make choices for ourselves through our lives, and that’s the final one.”
While the social position of the show would seem obvious, Caroline says Mary Kills People gives both sides of the argument equal time. While some stories do present the idea that everyone should have the right to choose, other stories deal more closely with the moral implications with characters who have a difficult time reconciling the issue.
“Since the beginning of television, we’ve seen life and death situations,” says Mary Kills People‘s Dhavernas. “That’s what people are drawn to. And these moments, where people die with dignity, are filled with emotion and intensity, and beauty and meaning. They’re everything but depressing.”
Mary Kills People premieres on Wednesday, January 25, on Global.
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Google I/O 2017 to Be Held in Mountain View; Starts May 17
Google, after some delay, has finally revealed the dates and venue for the annual developer event this year. The company however this time around hasn't actually announced the dates or venue but has instead dropped few hints on GitHub for people to figure out. Much like 2016, the Google I/O 2017 will be held in Mountain View, California on May 17 through May 19.
The hints were dropped on Twitter by Google Developers and Firebase accounts who shared the same tweet with a link to a dedicated savethedate website. The tweet read, "Around the world, from here to there, to the most clever minds, the secret will share" and were accompanied hashtags #googledevs and #savethedate. One of the hints at GitHub also confirms that the I/O 2017 will take place at Google's Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. This will be the second consecutive year when Google I/O event will take place at the company's backyard. The dates and venue were confirmed after solving the five puzzles at GitHub repository. The dates and venue was first revealed by few enthusiasts at Hacker News.
Unfortunately, the official I/O website hasn't listed the dates or venue for the annual event and still notes, "Check back soon for more details." Google can be expected to reveal the registration process for the I/O 2017 event soon.
Much like previous years, Google this year can again be expected to utilise the event to reveal the next Android version for mobile device and make it available to developers and enthusiasts as a preview build. Last year, the company revealed Android N (later named as Nougat). Additionally, Google can be also expected to announce changes to apps and its cloud products.
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Samsung could have handled the Galaxy Note 7 fiasco better, crisis managers say
Five months after reports emerged about spontaneously combusting Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, Samsung finally claimed full responsibility for its massive product-safety boondoggle that killed the company’s latest premium handset just weeks after it was released in August.
Some corporate crisis managers said the South Korean technology giant could have handled the situation better than it did, but Monday’s mea culpa is a move in the right direction following a detailed investigation involving hundreds of people and tens of thousands of affected batteries, they added.
“Samsung really took a death by 1,000 cuts approach,” Erik Bernstein, vice president of Monrovia, California-based Bernstein Crisis Management, told Salon. “They let the information keep coming out piece by piece and each little hurt them way more than it needed to individually.”
Bernstein specifically pointed to the way that Samsung communicated with the public during the early weeks following the initial Sept. 2 recall of 2.5 million phones. After phones with replaced batteries began catching on fire, the company was unable to explain the cause of the problem. For weeks Samsung dominated the news cycle while the company had no clear answer for the public even after the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ominously warned Galaxy Note 7 owners to not charge their phones during flights.
On Monday, more than three months after Samsung terminated sales of the phone, Koh Dong-jin, president of Samsung’s smartphone business announced that his company would take full responsibility for the flaw.
“Our investigation, as well as the investigations completed by three independent industry organizations, concluded that batteries were found to be the cause of the Note 7 incidents,” Koh said at a press conference in Seoul. “We provided the target for the battery specifications for the innovative Note 7, and we are taking responsibility for our failure to ultimately identify and verify the issues arising out of battery design and manufacturing process prior to the launch of the Note 7.”
While batteries were the prime suspect in the defect, it was unclear why the phones would burst into flames and the reason that switching suppliers didn’t fix the problem. Samsung has now asserted that the problem originated in the design specifications of the battery. In the company’s bid to make the phone sleeker, it had to fit the battery into the space. This led to rounded corners for the battery that increased the chance that the positively charged and negatively charged layers would come in contact, causing a fiery short circuit.
Eric Dezenhall, co-founder of Washington-based crisis-management consultancy Dezenhall Resources, said Samsung’s decision to not enter a blame war with the battery manufacturers will help it move past the brunt of the crisis.
“There may have been some legal merit to a fight like that but the PR tax would have been much too high,” Dezenhall said in an email to Salon.
Indeed, Samsung is already expected to pay at least $5.3 billion for the recall, with some estimates putting the final tab at more than $6 billion. The company will likely delay its next premium smartphone, the Galaxy S8, due to its adopting more stringent production measures. In the meantime Samsung will want to work past the intangible reputational harm costs and win back customers who have turned away from the company’s mobile devices.
“Taking responsibility, when it is yours to own, is the first step toward the ultimate goal of any crisis management situation – restoring trust,” Ronn Torossian, president and CEO of New York public relations firm 5W Public Relations, told Salon via email.
Bernstein said Samsung will also need to set up a contingency plan in case any of its future phones encounter product flaws.
“People are going to have their eyes on Samsung,” he said. “And if any problem emerges that even remotely looks similar, it will be so much more damaging than it would have been otherwise.”
Samsung may be putting one major concern to rest — indicating that the Galaxy Note 7 problem is specific to a particular model and one that can be fixed with design changes — but the company will be in damage-control mode for months if not years to come.
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COCO Vandeweghe produced one of the shocks of the tournament when she knocked defending champion Angelique Kerber out of the Australian Open — though considering the American’s background maybe it wasn’t such a shock.
And she didn’t stop at Kerber. Day nine of the tournament saw her end Garbine Muguruza’s campaign in quite some style, the Spaniard only scoring 10 points in the second set of a match which finished 6-4, 6-0.
So who is Coco Vandeweghe?
She is the product of an athletic dynasty on her mother’s side.
Her mom, Tauna, is an Olympic swimmer. Grandfather Ernie was a guard for the Knicks from 1949 to 1956. Uncle Kiki, an NBA All-Star, also played for the Knicks, among other teams, and coached the New Jersey Nets.
Uncle Bruk medalled in beach volleyball at the 1994 Goodwill Games, while Aunt Heather was once captain of the US women’s polo team. (Vandeweghe was raised by her mother and is not close with her father, Robert Mullarkey.)
In my family, you have to learn how to throw a football or get tackled harder than you probably want to,” she says. “[Kiki] wasn’t going to be merciful when we thought we could beat him at Horse.
She’s also fiery — not afraid to smash a racquet at times or speak her mind — and was branded “the Ronda Rousey of tennis” by Observer newspaper recently.
FAKE IT TILL YOU MAKE IT
But it wasn’t any of these sporting stars that taught Vanderweghe her most important sporting lesson, that honour belongs to her maternal grandmother Colleen Kay Hutchins, who was crowned Miss America in 1952.
“My grandmother always said to me: ‘Fake it till you make it,’” Vandeweghe said after reaching the last 16 at Wimbledon in 2015. “Coming from a Miss America that basically had to ooze confidence, that’s a pretty good line.”
And it’s a line that the 25-year-old American recited again after her win over Kerber.
“When you play tough players, like you will in later rounds of tournaments you can’t be showing that you’re struggling or not feeling confident in yourself. At least that is what I decided to tell myself this year and also last year, a lit bit because I was lacking in confidence in certain tournaments and certain stages. Last year I came here and didn’t even win a match. So here I am now.”
“Well, I guess I faked it a lot because I was feeling like crap out there. But, you know, fake it til you make it and you have got to keep out there and keep playing and just hope for the best and my game plan was to execute knowing that she was going to get a lot of balls back and you know, just to keep picking my spots and trust my game to beat her and it did today.”
ROMANCE OFF THE COURT
Right now, the 6-foot-1 athlete — who bears a striking resemblance to maternal grandmother Colleen Kay Hutchins, aka Miss America 1952 — says she’s too busy for romance, but she knows what she wants.
“A guy has to be taller than me,” she says. She’d make an exception for actor Scott Eastwood. “I looked it up on Wikipedia — he’s [5-foot-10]. I stalk his Instagram.”
Off the court, Vandeweghe binges on reality TV. She recalls seeing “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Yolanda Foster at the BNP Paribas Open and wrestling with whether or not she had time to take a selfie with her before the match.
“I grew up with [NBA legend] Bill Walton coming over to my house. I saw the best athletes in awe of my grandfather,” she says. “I don’t get awe-struck with athletes. I get awe-struck with trashy TV people.”
SHE LIKES TO SPEAK HER MIND
One thing’s for sure, if you get on Coco’s nerves she’s going to tell you and if there’s any confrontation, she’s going to remember you.
She made headlines at Wimbledon 2015 for calling Sharapova out for moving too much on the court while she was about to serve.
She was also allegedly involved in an exchange of expletive with Yulia Putintseva which went something along the lines of:
Putintseva: “You are a terrible player, only serve.”
Putintseva: “I won’t say I didn’t say that. But it happened right after when she told me that I am a f****** b**** who doesn’t know how to play tennis at all, and that my father is so stupid, and she started bull******** me. ”
Coco: “Being American and being obnoxious a little bit, I was like, ‘Well, I’m an American, so I have freedom of speech.”
Then there is the story about her getting a little too physical with Donna Vekic in a small on court collision at the 2015 US Open.
“Well, if I really bumped into her, and I meant to do it, she would be on the ground,” said Vandeweghe. “I mean, it’s just trying to make something out of nothing, which is fine, but I miss that kind of feistiness and confrontation of when I could play a physical sport.”
Asked about her fiery temperament, Coco has previously said: “I’m definitely not shy in that way.
“I’ve never been someone to back down from any sort of confrontation; I almost look for those sorts of confrontations in my own life today. I think I’ve gotten better at it, but what I think is right is what I think is right.
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Iggy Azalea is stepping out with a new man. The “Fancy” rapper was spotted rocking a barely-there bikini and spending time with music producer LJay Currie in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Saturday, Jan. 21.
According to onlookers who were also at the vacation hotspot, it looks like the two could be more than friends.
“They flew in together on a private jet for a friend’s birthday,” one source told Us Weekly. “They have been all over each other with major PDA. They rented a yacht and were making out on the deck.”
“He was spraying her down with a hose and wasn’t shy about putting his hands all over her body,” the source continued. “They went jet-skiing and he gave her piggyback rides on the beach.”
On Saturday, Currie took to his Instagram page to show off his chiseled abs and tattooed biceps as the blue water was shown behind him. In the picture, he was seen rocking a pair of black Calvin Klein briefs and white board shorts slung below his hips. The photo was tagged to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
Meanwhile, Azalea, 26, didn’t take to Instagram to share any bikini pics. But, she did take to the social media app to wish their mutual friend a happy birthday.
“Happy Birthday @ChuckieBones I can’t believe you’re almost a real grown up now…. aghhhh!” she captioned a photo of herself with Bones.”
As seen in the photos published in the Daily Mail and TMZ, Iggy-Iggz openly kissed and hugged the artist as she showed off her killer curves. The “Team” rapper left little to the imagination as she rocked a tiny red bikini that showed off her ample behind. Iggy also showed off her tattoos and rocked cornrows in her signature blonde hair. She then left her new boyfriend to take a ride on a jet ski with Chuckie Bones.
The bikini shots come months after the New Classic rapper called her Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ashkan Ghavami “the man I owe my fabulous nose and breasts to” in an Instagram post from Nov. 26, 2016.
The Australian pop artist has been maintaining a low profile since ending her engagement from Nick Young last summer. Back in June, Iggy shared her side of the story in a series of tweets claiming that the two split after she caught the 31-year-old NBA player cheating inside their home as recorded on their security cameras.
“I broke up with Nick because I found out he had brought other women into our home while I was away and caught them on the security footage,” Azalea tweeted. “This is just like a second shot to the chest. And I feel like I don’t even know who the hell it is I’ve been loving all this time. People in this world are really f***ed up.”
Azalea was previously linked to rapper French Montana back in September shortly after she split from Young. The two seemed to be inseparable in various sightings and on each other’s Instagram pages until she was recently spotted with Currie on her beach vacation.
But, it looks like Iggy is back to work. On Monday, she went back to work on her highly anticipated new album Digital Distortion with The Rascals and Fifth Harmony singer Dinah Jane.
“My album has been finished for months now but of course I have been here doing [X Factor], which is a big task,” she revealed on the Confidential on Nova radio show back in November. “I’m going to put my single out, which has a feature on it, a girl singing with me, so that will be in January. I am really excited!”
In addition, Azalea will be headlining China’s Dragonland Music Festival on Feb. 26 at the Victoria Harbor in Hong Kong.
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Basketball- Jones, Holiday lead Pelicans past Cavs 124-122
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Terrence Jones filled in brilliantly for injured All-Star Anthony Davis, scoring a season-high 36 points, grabbing 11 rebounds and blocking LeBron James' dunk attempt in the fourth quarter, and the New Orleans Pelicans beat the Cleveland Cavaliers 124-122 on Monday night.
Jrue Holiday added 33 points and 10 assists for the Pelicans, and Langston Galloway capped a 12-point night with a clean steal on James' drive in the final minute, preventing the Cavs from erasing a deficit they had trimmed from 22 late in the first half to three with 1:32 left in the game.
Kyrie Irving scoring 35 of his 49 points in the second half, but the Cleveland fell to its fifth loss in seven games. James had 26 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds.
Two of Cleveland's recent losses came against Western Conference leaders Golden State and San Antonio, but two others have come against teams currently outside the playoff picture in the West: New Orleans and Portland
Kevin Love had 22 points for Cleveland, which could not quite keep pace with a Pelicans squad that tied a season high for 3-pointers with 16 and shot 49.4 percent (43 of 87).
Donatas Moteijunas scored 14 for New Orleans, while Dante Cunningham scored 11. Each hit a pair of 3s.
The Cavs drained 15 3s, eight by Irving, whose step-back jumper from long range had Cleveland within three with 21 seconds to go, but the Cavs got no closer until Love's anticlimactic 3 in the final second.
Embarrassed in a 29-point loss to NBA-worst Brooklyn at home on Friday, the Pelicans were eager for a chance to redeem themselves with a competitive showing against the defending champs. That did not appear likely when New Orleans announced less than an hour before tip-off that Davis would be unable to play because of his right leg bruise lingering from a collision with the Nets' Spencer Dinwiddie.
Coach Alvin Gentry inserted Jones for Davis as the starting center, and he responded with arguably the most dynamic half of play in the fifth-year veteran's career. He hit all eight of his shots in the first half, scoring 22 points on an array of jumpers - including two 3s - weaving drives and feisty put-backs.
Holiday, meanwhile, got into an equally prolific rhythm, hitting three 3s and highlighting several impressive drives to the hoop with a two-handed dunk. Holiday's pullup jumper from just inside the 3-point line with 6 seconds left in the second quarter gave him 22 points and New Orleans a 22-point lead, and Holiday pumped his fist while one of the biggest crowds of the season went wild.
In the last second of the half, James executed a long inbound pass to Love, who converted a quick-release layup to make it 70-50.
TIP-INS
Cavaliers: Coach Tyronn Lue was assessed a technical foul by official Leroy Richardson after the coach chastised Richardson for a late whistle giving Moteijunas free throws following a missed layup. ... The Cavs won the teams' only other meeting this season, 90-82 in Cleveland on Jan. 2. ... Irving slung in what would have been a sensational, off-balance, one-handed shot from about 30 feet, but it didn't count because it came too late after Irving was fouled by Tyreke Evans as the pair pursued a loose ball near mid-court.
Jones, Holiday lead Pelicans past Cavs 124 122 - Basketball
Pelicans: New Orleans improved to 2-2 without Davis in the lineup. ... G E'Twaun Moore, who is 6-foot-4, delighted the crowd by rejecting the 6-8 James near the basket in the first half. ... New Orleans shot 60.5 percent (26 of 43) in the first half.
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