Daily 30: Sat 11.22.2014

A Starbury is (Re)Born in China 3mo
The Coney Island Kid

7 The Coney Island Kid Vice Sports

When Stephon Marbury came to China, he saw the potential to revive his career in a fast-growing basketball market. Five years later, he is starring in a musical about his life in Beijing. He is beloved by millions of basketball fans. "I am playing for the rest of my life," he says. "This is my home now."
The Rap Monument 3mo

BTS: Atlanta Noisey Raps

A look behind the scenes at the Atlanta session for the Rap Monument feat: Pusha T, Young Thug, Killer Mike, Two-9, Cyhi Da Prynce, SL Jones, and more.
3mo
Rob Kardashian's Adult Onesies

17 Rob Kardashian's Adult Onesies Complex

The world apparently wasn't satisfied just with socks that say "YOLO" and "CARPE DIEM" on them, so Rob Kardashian is expanding his Arthur George line to include loungewear, namely adult onesies. Onesies. For adults. Kris Jenner's Instagram gives us a preview of the line with the above post, which shows a onesie—for adults, remember—covered in stars. The Arthur George Instagram also previewed a shirt and tailored sweatpants. The only reasonable explanation behind this move is that Rob, who once horrified Scott Disick by wearing a sweatsuit to a business meeting, is looking for an excuse to never put on anything but his pajamas. The onesies—again, created for adults—haven't hit stores yet, but if you're looking for a holiday gift for that overgrown man-child in your life or just a really, really large baby, hit up a Macy's location next month.
4mo
777

18 777 Rihanna

Gives viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Rihanna's unprecedented globetrotting concert tour that hit seven countries in seven days with seven shows to promote her seventh album.
5mo
The Grand Finale

19 The Grand Finale Steve Harvey

As the old adage goes, “all things must come to an end,” and for comedian Steve Harvey this week marks an end to a fraction of his 27 year comedy career.  The original “King Of Comedy” will headlines his final stand-up show, "Steve Harvey’s Grand Stand-Up Finale," at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
8mo
Scratch

20 Scratch Metropolitan Films

The film explores the world of the hip-hop DJ. From the birth of hip-hop, when pioneering DJ's began extending breaks on their party records (which helped inspire break dancing and rap), to the invention of scratching and beat-juggling vinyl, to its more recent explosion as a musical movement called turntablism.
Wale & Jerry Seinfeld 3mo
Collecting 500 Pairs of Sneakers

23 Collecting 500 Pairs of Sneakers Complex

It's no secret that Wale is a huge sneakerhead, but Seinfeld himself is no slouch with the slew of '90s gems he stayed rocking on his own sitcom.
3mo
Microsoft has robot security guards

25 Microsoft has robot security guards Daily Dot

Robots are increasingly replacing humans in a variety of mundane tasks, like bolting a car together or making lollipops, but now they are moving into the security business. Microsoft recently installed a fleet of 5-feet-tall, 300-pound robots to protect its Silicon Valley campus. The robots are packed with HD security cameras and sensors to take in their organic, protein-based surroundings. There’s also an artificial intelligence on board that can sound alarms when the robot notices something awry. It can also read license plates and cross-reference them to see if they’re stolen. The K5 robots come from a California company called Knightscope, which calls the robots “autonomous data machines” that provide a “commanding but friendly presence.” Sounds like something a robot manufacturer would say. Let’s be honest though, the robots look pretty damn cool. They’re like modern versions of R2-D2. Thankfully—or sadly, depending on how you look at it—the K5 robots don’t have any weapons on them. All they can do is assess a situation, sound an alarm to defuse it, or call a human security officer to the scene. There are, however, plans equip the robots with tasers sometime in the future. Microsoft’s new protectors are fairly autonomous. A single charge will last 24 hours, and if the robot notices that its battery is getting low, it will return to a charging port and plug itself in. It can fully recharge in 20 minutes, which is pretty insane. There are plans to one day expand the use of Knightscope’s robots and have them patrol the streets as part of human police units. We can’t even imagine what would happen if Elon Musk heard about this.
3mo
Immigration Battle

26 Immigration Battle Huffington Post

WASHINGTON -- After years of pushing the Obama administration to issue an executive action granting protections to undocumented immigrants, advocacy groups are now gearing up for a dramatically different challenge: making sure that policy actually works. There is a vast difference between advocating for action and implementing it. And if the jump isn't made seamlessly, reform advocates worry, it could endanger the gains they have made and complicate prospects for future, further-reaching reforms. With that in mind, a number of groups are shifting resources and focus. House Democrats, according to a senior aide, have asked the White House to brief them on the mechanics of the executive action "so that our members can explain the steps to their constituents." The president himself, according to two sources, has encouraged lawmakers and stakeholders to help sell the new policy to potential recipients. "For the president's reforms to be successful, people have to sign up. And people will only sign up if the reforms remain reasonably popular," said Simon Rosenberg, founder of the Democratic group NDN. He attended a meeting with the president moments before Obama unveiled the executive action. "Thus, immigration advocates will now have to not only focus on signing people up but defending the president's reforms so they remain popular with the public," Rosenberg said. Organizers working on the implementation of the president's new policy are aided in the task by having a clear template to follow. Similar work was done after the president issued his executive action on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which gave deportation relief to so-called Dreamers. But that action affected only a small number of undocumented immigrants. "This is obviously a much bigger magnitude," said Clarissa Martinez, deputy vice president of the National Council of La Raza. "With the magnitude of this, the existing infrastructure is not enough. We are trying to figure out how to equip service providers out there to be as effective as they can." Like other immigration advocacy groups, NCLR has taken stock of what worked and what didn't with DACA outreach. Martinez estimated about 50 to 60 percent of the eligible population actually applied for legal protection under that policy. One change being made now is simply to throw more resources toward informing potential applicants; Martinez said a coalition of 20 or so legal entities, Hispanic-issues organizations, religious institutions and unions are involved in that effort. "So many people have been waiting for this for such a long time, and DACA has proven to be very beneficial to the community, that I think initially we're going to see waves of people coming to service providers across the country," said George Escobar, director of human services at Casa de Maryland. "They're going to be inundating us with their requests. I think we're going to be beyond the capacity nationally to deal with the flood." The first task for advocates will be making sure people actually know that the new program exists and how to apply for it. The application process is likely to be complicated, and many people can't afford legal help, particularly on top of a filing fee that could be several hundred dollars. So advocacy groups plan to make legal resources available and to train other people to look over applications. They also plan to try to prevent undocumented immigrants from going to scammers who pose as lawyers -- something that's already been happening, Martinez said. Getting this information to immigrants, however, is not as simple as handing out leaflets and running television ads. A number of immigration, Latino and labor groups have partnered to create the iAmerica.org website to disseminate information on the new deferred action program. The website is in English and Spanish for now, but eventually will also be in Korean, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Chinese and Creole. The website will also have a tool to help applicants easily determine their eligibility for deportation relief. Kica Matos, spokeswoman for the Fair Immigration Reform Movement, said that network will be reaching out to people via text message, email and Facebook. Martinez said a telephone hotline will be available in different languages for people to get information or relay word of potential scams. Another tool will be media coverage. Advocates expect that while English-language news outlets are likely to move on from the story, Spanish-language news coverage will remain steady. Reform groups hope to leverage that by touting stories of people who have applied successfully -- something that could help temper the fears that applying could lead to deportations. "[We want] to remind them that we won this because of the immigrant rights movement and we've been able to defend DACA and we're going to defend this as well," said Felipe Sousa-Rodriguez, deputy managing director of United We Dream. Meanwhile, Univision, one of the biggest Spanish-language media companies in America, announced its own coverage plans this week. Those plans include local media stations "working with community organizations and consulates to answer FAQ’s and inform their local communities." Groups are laying groundwork to help supplement the media outreach. United We Dream will expand its Own the Dream program, which helped about 20,000 immigrants successfully apply for DACA, informed more than 90,000 people on the ground and reached 2 million more on online programs, according to Sousa-Rodriguez. The Latino advocacy group Mi Familia is holding town hall events and information sessions. Shannon Lederer, director of immigration at the AFL-CIO, said the union federation's president, Richard Trumka, held a briefing call Thursday for affiliates to talk about outreach plans. The group already has a national citizenship program running in target cities that it hopes to expand in the coming weeks. Jim Wallis, founder and editor of Sojourners magazine, said much of the outreach work the religious community plans to do will take place in the pulpit. "The reality is many of these people are already in our churches," he said. "They are in our congregations. They are in our networks. The greatest growth in many of our churches across the country has been immigrants for a long time. It’s not like they are strangers and we don't know where they live. These are our brothers and sisters." Even after these groups reach potential recipients of deferred action, hurdles persist. Among them is the fear that potential recipients won't step forward out of concern that the new program is temporary; that in two years' time, with a new president in office, their legal protections will be taken away but their identities will be known. Advocacy groups aren't dismissing that concern, though they argue DACA implementation has shown it's safe to come forward. "There is always the fear that if you're undocumented and you apply for this, the government will have an official record of what your status is and where you are," Matos said. "That certainly was a fear with DACA, and thankfully it was not a fear that panned out." A bigger problem could be the actual application process itself. Filling out the paperwork is likely to be tricky and laborious. The exact requirements of the new deferred action policy for parents has not yet been announced, but it will likely be similar to the existing DACA policy. DACA applicants need documents to prove their identity, when they arrived in the U.S., their immigration status, and that they have lived in the country continually. Those documents aren't always easy to find, particularly for undocumented immigrants who have spent years trying to keep out of the government's sight. Advocacy groups said they are working with consulates and embassies in other countries to prepare them for an inundation of requests for proof of identity. "It's really ironic," Escobar said. "You've based your existence on erasing your traces and erasing your tracks, and all of a sudden you've got to come up with a ton of information showing evidence that you do live here."
5mo
Focus

27 Focus Warner Bros.

A veteran grifter takes a young, attractive woman under his wing, but things get complicated when they become romantically involved.
4mo
Let's Kill Ward's Wife

28 Let's Kill Ward's Wife Well Go USA Entertainment

Everyone hates Ward’s wife and wants her dead, Ward (Donald Faison) most of all. But when his friends’ murderous fantasies turn into an (accidental) reality, they have to deal with a whole new set of problems—like how to dispose of the body and still make their 3 p.m. tee time. It  is a blackly comic caper about helping a friend out of a bad relationship by any means necessary.
Mad Max Is Back! 7mo
Mad Max: Fury Road

29 Mad Max: Fury Road Village Roadshow Pictures

A apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be able to restore order. There's Max, a man of action and a man of few words, who seeks peace of mind following the loss of his wife and child in the aftermath of the chaos. And Furiosa, a woman of action and a woman who believes her path to survival may be achieved if she can make it across the desert back to her childhood homeland.
7mo
Outcast

30 Outcast Arclight Films

A mysterious warrior teams up with the daughter and son of a deposed Chinese Emperor to defeat their cruel Uncle, who seeks their deaths.