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Wednesday, July 4, 2018 | www.today-america.com | Southern News Group FBI says arrests man who planned to bomb Cleveland July 4 event If If you would like to share news or information with our readers, please send the unique stories, business news organization events, and school news to us includinig your name and phone number in case more informa- tion is needed. For news and information consider- ation, please send to [email protected] or contact John Robbins 832-280-5815 Jun Gai 281-498-4310 Traveling for the Fourth? Expect higher gas prices Publisher: Wea H. Lee General Manager: Catherine Lee Editor: John Robbins, Jun Gai Business Manager : Jennifer Lopez Address: 11122 Bellaire Blvd., Houston, TX 77072 E-mail: [email protected] Southern Daily News is published by Southern News Group Daily (Reuters) - FBI officials arrested a man who discussed setting off a bomb during Fourth of July celebrations in Cleveland, the bureau’s top agent in the Ohio city said on Monday. Demetrius Pitts, who had expressed allegiance to the al Qaeda militant group, was arrested on Sunday after a meeting with an undercover FBI agent where he said he planned to plant a bomb at a parade celebrating the U.S. Independence Day holiday and would target other locations in Cleveland and Philadelphia. “What would hit them in the core? ... Blow up. Have a bomb. Blow up at the Fourth of July parade,” Stephen Anthony, the FBI’s head agent in Cleveland, quoted Pitts as saying. Anthony also told a news conference that the man was “willing to chop off hands and heads.” Pitts, 48, is from the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, Ohio, the FBI said in a statement. Like many other American cities, downtown Cleveland puts on a fireworks display to celebrate July 4. Cities typically ramp up security around such events. “This defendant, by his own words and by his own deeds, wanted to attack our nation and its ideals,” said Justin Herdman, the U.S. attorney for northern Ohio. “He wanted us to be afraid to speak our minds. He also wanted us to be afraid to gather together in public places.” Pitts was charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He faces up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted. Officials said Pitts is an American citizen who had been radicalized in the United States. In 2015, U.S. law enforcement officials said they had arrested more than 10 people inspired by the Islamic State militant group ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, saying the arrests had disrupt- ed planned attacks. A pair of ethnic Chechen brothers inspired by al Qaeda killed three people and injured more than 260 with a pair of homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013. Eight people were killed in New York last Oct. 31 when an Uzbek immigrant was accused of using a truck to plow them down on Inside C2 a bike path. The suspect told police that he chose Halloween for the attack because he thought there would be more people on the streets, according to prosecutors. “We’re at a point now where big data is helping optimize inspection programs, so we don’t have to send guys into the field,” King said. Drones and crawlers may be a stepping stone. Nor- wegian oil producer Statoil is eying an unmanned, FBI SWAT team members confer at shooting scene outside Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland remotely operated production concept. Noble Drilling and General Electric Co this year launched a partnership to produce a fully digitized drilling vessel, work the companies said paves the way for an autonomous drilling fleet. “We have the technology. It’s just a matter of getting these projects executed. We’re not there yet on unmanned platforms for deepwater, but it’s coming,” said Statoil’s Lockhart. Largest U.S. business group attacks Trump on tariffs WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Com- merce, the nation’s largest business group and customarily a close ally of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump’s trade tariff policies. ThayerWith some of America’s tightest trading partners im- posing retaliatory measures, Trump’s approach to tariffs has unsettled financial markets and strained relations between the White House and the Chamber. The new campaign, detailed first to Reuters, is an aggres- sive effort by the business lobbying giant. Using a state-by- state analysis, it argues that Trump is risking a global trade war that will hit the wallets of U.S. consumers. “The administration is threatening to undermine the eco- nomic progress it worked so hard to achieve,” said Cham- ber President Tom Donohue in a statement to Reuters. “We should seek free and fair trade, but this is just not the way to do it.” The Chamber, which has 3 million members, historically has worked closely with Republican presidents and praised Trump for signing business tax cuts in December. But mounting trade tensions have opened a rift with the president. Trump has implemented billions of dollars in tariffs targeted at Chi- na, Canada, Mexico and the European Union, saying such moves are needed to offset trade imbalances. Nations have begun retaliating. On Friday, Canada struck back at U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, vowing to impose punitive measures on $12.6 billion worth of American goods until Washington relents. China is expected to impose a new 25-percent tax on soybeans in July. Mexico is adding duties to pork imports. The EU has targeted $3.2 billion in American goods exported to the 28-member bloc, including bourbon and Harley Davidson (HOG.N) motorcycles. Pushing back on Trump, the Chamber based a state-by-state analysis on data from the U.S. Department of Commerce and government agencies in China, the EU, Mexico, and Canada. Trump has previously been persuaded to back off of trade threats with the argument that states that backed him in the 2016 presiden- tial campaign will be hard-hit. For example, the Chamber said Texas could see $3.9 billion worth of exports targeted by retaliatory tariffs; Tennessee, $1.4 billion; and South Carolina, $3 billion. U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One as they depart for Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, from Morristown

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(Reuters) - FBI officials arrested a man who discussed setting off a bomb during Fourth of July celebrations in Cleveland, the bureau’s top agent in the Ohio city said on Monday.Demetrius Pitts, who had expressed allegiance to the al Qaeda militant group, was arrested on Sunday after a meeting with an undercover FBI agent where he said he planned to plant a bomb at a parade celebrating the U.S. Independence Day holiday and would target other locations in Cleveland and Philadelphia.“What would hit them in the core? ... Blow up. Have a bomb. Blow up at the Fourth of July parade,” Stephen Anthony, the FBI’s head agent in Cleveland, quoted Pitts as saying. Anthony also told a news conference that the man was “willing to chop off hands and heads.”Pitts, 48, is from the Cleveland suburb of Maple Heights, Ohio, the FBI said in a statement.Like many other American cities, downtown Cleveland puts on a fireworks display to celebrate July 4. Cities typically ramp up security around such events.“This defendant, by his own words and by his own deeds, wanted to attack our nation and its ideals,” said Justin Herdman, the U.S. attorney for northern Ohio. “He wanted us to be afraid to speak our minds. He also wanted us to be afraid to gather together in public places.”Pitts was charged with attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He faces up to 20 years in prison if he is convicted.Officials said Pitts is an American citizen who had been radicalized in the United States.In 2015, U.S. law enforcement officials said they had arrested more than 10 people inspired by the Islamic State militant group ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, saying the arrests had disrupt-ed planned attacks.A pair of ethnic Chechen brothers inspired by al Qaeda killed three people and injured more than 260 with a pair of homemade bombs at the Boston Marathon in 2013.Eight people were killed in New York last Oct. 31 when an Uzbek immigrant was accused of using a truck to plow them down on

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a bike path. The suspect told police that he chose Halloween for the attack because he thought there would be more people on the streets, according to prosecutors.“We’re at a point now where big data is helping optimize inspection programs, so we don’t have to send guys into the field,” King said.Drones and crawlers may be a stepping stone. Nor-wegian oil producer Statoil is eying an unmanned,

FBI SWAT team members confer at shooting scene outside Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland

remotely operated production concept. Noble Drilling and General Electric Co this year launched a partnership to produce a fully digitized drilling vessel, work the companies said paves the way for an autonomous drilling fleet.“We have the technology. It’s just a matter of getting these projects executed. We’re not there yet on unmanned platforms for deepwater, but it’s coming,” said Statoil’s Lockhart.

Largest U.S. business group attacks Trump on tariffsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Com-merce, the nation’s largest business group and customarily a close ally of President Donald Trump’s Republican Party, is launching a campaign on Monday to oppose Trump’s trade tariff policies.ThayerWith some of America’s tightest trading partners im-posing retaliatory measures, Trump’s approach to tariffs has unsettled financial markets and strained relations between the White House and the Chamber.The new campaign, detailed first to Reuters, is an aggres-sive effort by the business lobbying giant. Using a state-by-state analysis, it argues that Trump is risking a global trade war that will hit the wallets of U.S. consumers.“The administration is threatening to undermine the eco-nomic progress it worked so hard to achieve,” said Cham-ber President Tom Donohue in a statement to Reuters. “We should seek free and fair trade, but this is just not the way to do it.”The Chamber, which has 3 million members, historically has worked closely with Republican presidents and praised Trump for signing business tax cuts in December. But

mounting trade tensions have opened a rift with the president.Trump has implemented billions of dollars in tariffs targeted at Chi-na, Canada, Mexico and the European Union, saying such moves are needed to offset trade imbalances.Nations have begun retaliating. On Friday, Canada struck back at U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, vowing to impose punitive measures on $12.6 billion worth of American goods until Washington relents.China is expected to impose a new 25-percent tax on soybeans in July. Mexico is adding duties to pork imports. The EU has targeted $3.2 billion in American goods exported to the 28-member bloc, including bourbon and Harley Davidson (HOG.N) motorcycles.Pushing back on Trump, the Chamber based a state-by-state analysis on data from the U.S. Department of Commerce and government agencies in China, the EU, Mexico, and Canada.Trump has previously been persuaded to back off of trade threats with the argument that states that backed him in the 2016 presiden-tial campaign will be hard-hit.For example, the Chamber said Texas could see $3.9 billion worth of exports targeted by retaliatory tariffs; Tennessee, $1.4 billion; and South Carolina, $3 billion.

U.S. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump board Air Force One as they depart for Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, from Morristown

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Summer means a search for new day care providers for many families, whether they’re moving into the Houston area, switching neighborhoods or seeking childcare for the first time.It helps to know a child care center’s history and whether the business has received citations for violations of state requirements, such as inappro-priate punishments, unsafe or unsanitary facilities or neglectful supervision.The State of Texas offers the public a useful tool for checking out a day care center’s history of viola-tions. Parents can check Texas state inspectors’ reports for day care centers, which are available online.The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services regularly inspects licensed childcare cen-ters and in-home child care operations, reporting violations ranging from missing background

Houston day care centers cited by state inspectorschecks to inappropriate punishments and neglect.These are some of the common reasons day cares get cited in the State of Texas.When a violation is found, or an incident is re-ported, it is listed as a deficiency on the state DFPS website for two years.Some day care centers have self-reported incidents to the state, and in many cases childcare workers have been terminated after a serious incident.The reports in the slideshow above compile state violations from various parts of Houston in the past 12 months. The slideshow is updated periodically to include violations from new zip codes.

By Dana Burke

Traveling for the Fourth? Expect higher gas pricesHouston gas prices are expected to climb higher on July 4, hitting $3 a gallon at some stations as drivers gear up for road trips on one of the year’s busiest travel days.The average price of regular unleaded in the Houston area dropped slight-ly last week to $2.61 a gallon but is expected to climb as high as $2.69 a gallon that on the holiday, according to GasBuddy, which tracks fuel costs nationwide. That’s the highest July 4 average since 2014, when crude oil prices topped $100 a barrel and drove the average cost of gasoline to $3.48 a gallon.

Now, with the U.S. benchmark for crude oil settling above $74 a barrel last week, national prices are expected to reach $2.90 a gallon during the hol-iday, up from $2.22 a gallon last year. As a result, GasBuddy anticipates that drivers will spend $1.02 billion more at the pump during the first four days of July.After declining for more than a month, gasoline prices have jumped alongside oil prices, driven by a decline in global oil inventories and news that foreign producers won’t substantially ramp up production amid a U.S. drilling boom.

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COMMUNITYHistory of the Fourth of July

The Spirit of ‘76 Painting Independence Day, commonly known as the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Indepen-dence on July 4, 1776, declaring inde-pendence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. Independence Day is common-ly associated with fireworks, parades, barbecues, carnivals, fairs, picnics, con-certs, baseball games, family reunions, political speeches and ceremonies, and various other public and private events celebrating the history, government, and traditions of the United States. Indepen-dence Day is the national day of the United States. BackgroundDuring the American Revolution, the le-gal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Vir-ginia. After voting for independence, Congress turned its attention to the Dec-laration of Independence, a statement explaining this decision, which had been prepared by a Committee of Five, with Thomas Jefferson as its principal author. Congress debated and revised the Declaration, finally approving it on

July 4. A day earlier, John Adams had written to his wife Abigail:“The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the histo-ry of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding gener-ations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of de-votion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bon-fires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more. “

Adams’s predic-tion was off by two days. From the outset, Amer-icans celebrated independence on July 4, the date shown on the much-publicized

Declaration of Independence, rather than on July 2, the date the resolution of independence was approved in a closed session of Congress. Historians have long disputed whether Congress actually signed the Declara-tion of Independence on July 4, even though Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Benjamin Franklin all later wrote that they had signed it on that day. Most historians have concluded that the Dec-laration was signed nearly a month after its adoption, on August 2, 1776, and not on July 4 as is commonly believed. In a remarkable coincidence, both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers of the Declaration of Indepen-dence later to serve as Presidents of the United States, died on the same day: July 4, 1826, which was the 50th anni-versary of the Declaration. Although not a signer of the Declaration of Indepen-dence, James Monroe, the Fifth Presi-dent of the United States, died on July

4, 1831. Calvin Coolidge, the Thirtieth President, was born on July 4, 1872, and thus, was the only President to be born on Independence Day.Fourth of July Observance Historical Highlights• In 1777, thirteen gunshots were fired, once at morning and again as evening fell, on July 4 in Bristol, Rhode Is-land. Philadelphia celebrated the first anniversary in a manner a modern American would find quite familiar: an official dinner for the Continental Con-gress, toasts, 13-gun salutes, speeches, prayers, music, parades, troop reviews, and fireworks. Ships were decked with red, white, and blue bunting.• In 1778, General George Washing-ton marked July 4 with a double ration of rum for his soldiers and an artillery salute. Across the Atlantic Ocean, am-bassadors John Adams and Benjamin Franklin held a dinner for their fellow Americans in Paris, France. • In 1779, July 4 fell on a Sunday. The

holiday was celebrated on Monday, July 5. • In 1781, the Massachusetts General Court became the first state legislature to recognize July 4 as a state celebra-tion. • In 1783, Moravians in Salem, North Carolina, held a celebration of July 4 with a challenging music program as-sembled by Johann Friedrich Peter. This work was titled “The Psalm of Joy”.• In 1791 the first recorded use of the name “Independence Day” occurred.• In 1820 the first Fourth of July cel-ebration was held in Eastport, Maine which remains the largest in the state. • In 1870, the U.S. Congress made In-dependence Day an unpaid holiday for federal employees. • In 1938, Congress changed Indepen-dence Day to a paid federal holiday. While the official observance always falls on July 4th, participation levels may vary according to which day of the week the 4th falls on. If the holiday falls in the middle of the week, some fireworks displays and celebrations may take place during the weekend for con-venience, again, varying by region.The first week of July is typically one of the busiest American travel periods of the year, as many people utilize the holiday for extended vacation trips.

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Happy Fourth of July!!!Compiled And Edited By John T. Robbins, Southern Daily Editor

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BUSINESS

People wait in line for an emergency food pantry. (Photo/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump is making a big push to expand work requirements in the nation’s social safety net, calling on his administration to propose tougher rules for America’s most vulnerable population to benefit from welfare programs.Trump quietly signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order pri-vately Tuesday, ordering secretaries across the government to review their welfare programs — from food stamps to Medicaid to housing programs — and propose new regulations, like work requirements.The executive order calls on federal agen-cies to enforce current work requirements, propose additional, stronger requirements, and find savings (in other words, make cuts), and to give states more flexibility to run welfare programs.

“Since its inception, the welfare system has grown into a large bureaucracy that might be susceptible to measuring success by how many people are enrolled in a program rather than by how many have moved from poverty into financial independence,” the executive order reads.The order calls on the Treasury, Agricul-ture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Develop-ment, Transportation, and Education de-partments to use the next 90 days to submit a report with their recommended policies to the White House.The order doesn’t yet set any new policy, but it does reflect a hardline conservative view of the nation’s entitlement system — one that welfare experts say relies on faulty arguments and could cut off the nation’s neediest from lifesaving safety net pro-grams.Trump’s executive order implies tougher requirements for safety net programsThe text of the executive order calls for a review of all welfare programs across agencies, something a senior White House

official calls a push for a “coordinated” effort across federal and state agencies to reform the welfare system.

But the result could be recommendations that propose drastic changes to programs like Medicaid, which offers health care for low-income individuals; food stamps; and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), which gives poor families finan-cial aid. The administration is also looking at housing programs, the White House of-ficial said.Agencies are ordered to follow nine “Prin-ciples of Economic Mobility” to guide their proposed policy changes, including adding work requirements, giving states more flexibility — usually in the form of block grants — consolidating duplicative programs, and encouraging involvement from the private sector.Put together, this order outlines much of the conservative welfare agenda, which has long promoted cutting welfare programs, either through pushing people off the feder-al rolls with harsher work requirements or block-granting funding to the states, giving them more purview over how to allocate money to welfare programs.

Trump has long called for tougher require-ments to receive welfare benefits but hasn’t been specific on what policies he would like to see and which programs he’d like to target. His order is now calling on his administration to iron out the specifics.The White House is citing faulty evidence that work requirements workTrump signed a welfare executive order on April 10. Mark Wilson/Getty ImagesWhite House adviser Andrew Bremberg told reporters that Trump’s executive order is meant to “highlight the success” of Pres-ident Bill Clinton’s 1996 reforms to TANF. Those reforms added work requirements to TANF and fundamentally adjusted how the program’s funding worked, giving money to states in a lump sum and allowing the states to allocate their funding as they saw fit. In the early years, Clinton’s TANF re-forms were extremely popular.But over the past decade, poverty experts have reached a consensus that TANF no longer works, because states stopped us-ing the money for the safety net programs. “TANF is not an effective program,” James Ziliak, director of the University of Ken-tucky’s Center for Poverty Research, told Vox last year — it’s served fewer and fewer families over the years.This is a common misunderstanding of the longstanding effects of the 1996 welfare reform effort — and one that conservatives continue to push when proposing cuts to entitlement programs.

A misunderstanding of ’90s welfare reform is not the only faulty evidence the White House used when promoting the order signed on Tuesday. In a fact sheet sent to reporters, the White House cites the effec-

tiveness of food stamp work requirements implemented in Kansas and Maine — the case studies often used to promote work requirements.“Studies conducted after reforms in Maine and Kansas show that individuals who left welfare and went back to work saw their incomes increase, more than doubling on average; this increase more than offset the welfare benefits they lost. Welfare enroll-ment also dropped by 75 to 90 percent,” the White House said.But a decrease in welfare enrollment isn’t an indication of much other than the federal government spending less money.And a Center on Budget and Policy Priori-ties audit of the reports on Maine and Kan-sasfound that when actually taking into ac-count the loss of SNAP benefits after being cut off, the difference in income before and after reinstating the work requirements is much less stark than what the White House cited. The total resources (including earn-ings and SNAP benefits) available to SNAP participants who were cut off was 3 percent lower a year after the cutoff.

In other words, there is no clear indication that reimposing the three-month time limit reduced poverty levels. While CBPP did find some increase in wages, the slight dif-ferences aren’t necessarily because of the policy changes.The CBPP notes that the economy was get-ting better in 2014 — the same time those work requirements were put into place.These safety net programs are the last re-sort for millions of AmericansRepublicans have long demanded reforms to the American welfare system, decrying bloated federal handout programs that they claim disincentives Americans from work-ing. They argue that additional work re-quirements would encourage more people to get out of the cycle of poverty.

While poverty and welfare experts will point out there’s always room for reforms, the statistics paint a very different picture of how some of these conservative reforms actually play out.For example, food stamp recipients are mostly children and elderly or disabled people. The number of able-bodied adults without dependents is slim, and not nearly enough to make up the numbers in savings that the projections for this proposal indi-cate. Waste and fraud in the program are also relatively inconsequential.There is strong evidence that SNAP re-duces food insecurity and improves health outcomes, especially among children, who make up the majority of SNAP beneficia-ries. But the evidence from randomized studies of work requirements shows that they have little or no effect on poverty — and leave many people who aren’t induced to work without a safety net.

“It’s a false narrative,” Ziliak told me last year of a conservative proposal to cut food stamps. “The evidence shows that the pro-gram actually works. Not all programs work. But SNAP actually is one of those that does what it is supposed to be doing.”As is, SNAP and TANF, which provide services like child care or income assis-tance, already have work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents. Those requirements are often waived when the economy is doing poorly and reinstated when the job market is more stable, which is what Maine and Kansas did.Already conservative lawmakers — like Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) have proposed harsher requirements at the federal level, like tightening the window individuals have to find a job from three months to one month, increasing the number of hours they have to work per month from 80 hours to 100, and extending the requirements to able-bodied adults with dependents.It’s not clear what the Trump administra-tion plans to propose, but they said reforms to SNAP and Medicaid are front and center. (Courtesy https://www.vox.com/)

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The President And His Cabinet Propose Stronger Work Requirements For Welfare Across The Board

Trump Wants To Slash Welfare With Stricter Work Requirements

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心,令其在院線上映的數日中贏得優異

口碑,眾多影迷紛紛在映後為其站臺打

call:“電影有梗有趣,有笑點有淚點”、

“題材新穎,愛與重生激發心靈共鳴”、

“演技在線,狗狗與演員全情投入,故

事真實感人”……電影不僅展現了壹場

全新的拯救行動,也為我們解讀了社會

邊緣群體的艱難境況。通過片中情節真

切流露出參與拯救計劃的這些五大三粗

的服刑人員們,在同小狗們親密交流

中,相互傳遞著“愛”的力量。借助

“我教妳生存,妳教我做人”的全新

拯救行動,深刻反映了每個生命的可

貴,揭露出影片“拯救生命拯救愛”的

社會情懷。

但面對暑期檔的激烈競爭與排片有

限導致院線觀影渠道不足,壹些影迷依

舊“想看卻看不到”。可喜的是,電影

《監獄犬計劃》近日已經登陸優酷VIP

頻道,實現,欲打造院線聯動網絡播出

的新模式。此番破冰之舉,將使影片觸

達更多觀眾,喜愛電影《監獄犬計劃》

的觀眾可以輕松地在家中點開視頻客戶

端,壹同支持這部匠心之作,感受人犬

救贖的溫暖力量,為支持社會救助弱勢

群體出壹份力。

網院聯手創產業新收 《監獄犬計劃》借力傳播新題材新故事

雖然院線和流

媒體是兩種不同的

文化產品,但也會

有交叉。相對於院

線因地制宜地排片

局限,網絡平臺卻

能完美地發揮出它

在時間和空間上的

優勢。受流媒體在

技術上領先,傳統

電影沖出院線借此

新載體將獲得更新

的播放方式,傳播

模式也變得更快,

進而滿足更多人的

觀影需求。

隨著制作原創影視作品需要投入

資金成本越來越高,流媒體與傳統院

線將不再是壹種競爭關系,兩者聯動

發揮各自優勢,將成為電影行業壹個

新的收入增長模式。當今美國最大的

網絡影視播出平臺 Netflix 總裁也曾

說:“電影院正在壹步步掐死電影產

業。過去 50年中,電影產業沒有任何

創新。”在 2011 年 Netflix 網絡電影銷

量就已經占據了美國用戶在線電影總

銷量的 45%;而且網絡電影的模式已

經相當成熟。

影片《監獄犬計劃》此次也將借力

而行,現已登陸優酷VIP頻道,通過網

院準同步的先進模式,以優質的影片

內容沖出重圍,擺脫院線壓力,借助

流媒體優勢,有效地為電影《監獄犬

計劃》打破電影在院線放映過程中的

時間、空間局限,為影片推廣和收入

提供進壹步的保障,也為更多觀眾選

擇這種具有社會意義的良心電影,提

供便利的條件。

電影《監獄犬計劃》影片正在全國

院線與優酷熱映中,該片由郭大雷執

導,郝蕾攜手《驢得水》原班演員劉帥

良、裴魁山、韓彥博、演員大力與阿如

那聯合主演。望大家在驚喜之余,多多

在線上支持電影《監獄犬計劃》,讓我

們壹同用“領養代替購買”,拯救生

命,拯救愛。

《大主宰》海報王源歐陽娜娜眼神帶戲

近日,大型青春奇幻熱血鉅制

《大主宰》曝光了主陣容角色海報。

作為壹部臺網聯動的電視劇,劇中男

女主角王源、歐陽娜娜以及駱明劼、

徐浩、馬月、王奕婷、孫溯夢汐、李

淑婷、張誠航、張亞奇等主要演員全

都是90、00後新生代演員。海報中,

眾人與角色契合度極高的造型讓壹眾

網友喜出望外,大呼“顏值演技雙雙

在線的靈境天團要誕生了!”。這支堪

稱史上最青春熱血的主陣容不僅展現

出了劇組選角的魄力和決心,也與

《大主宰》故事青春勵誌的熱血主題

高度契合。

近期在北京和新西蘭兩地拍攝的

《大主宰》,壹直都備受粉絲關註,

之前釋出的王源、歐陽娜娜兩人的古

裝扮相,壹個是帥氣威武的“第壹硬

漢”,壹個是仙氣十足的“洛神族聖

女”,如同從書中走來的神還原造型,

壹舉顛覆了兩人以往的形象,金童玉

女能文能武,引起了全網熱議。

這次全新曝光的劇照中,王源飾

演的“北靈境第壹剛”牧塵以青色系

古裝亮相,比起之前公布的造型更加

精致,金色發飾,肩部金屬紋理裝飾

凸顯劇組服化匠心。此外,在表情上

“牧塵”王源多了壹份穩重的成熟感,

眉眼鋒利,眼神堅毅,正在細細琢磨

手中卷軸,頗有主宰大千世界的霸

氣。而比起之前公布的淺紫文氣戲

服,歐陽娜娜此次曝光的這套純白

裙裝搭配迎風而動的長發顯得仙氣

十足。盡管身為洛族女皇,但海報

中歐陽娜娜望向鏡頭的眼神卻眉頭

稍蹙令人我見猶憐。故事中,兩人

是不同族人,卻在戰爭中相互扶

持,久經磨難,終於得成眷屬,王

源和歐陽娜娜兩人的合作也讓眾多

觀眾和粉絲頗感期待。

在全新曝光的演員陣容方面,擔

當主要角色的普遍都是90後、00後,

平均年齡不到25歲,青春靚麗,充滿

朝氣。曾在電影《閃光少女》中憑借

“鋼琴王子”的高冷形象引發不少關

註的駱明劼將飾演牧塵的最大對手柳

慕白。盡管身為北靈境柳域少主,柳

慕白卻處處不如牧塵,最終不惜墮入

邪道只為滅掉牧塵。從人人羨慕的完

美男神到性格復雜多變的反派,他將

如何詮釋這個全新角色,看點十足。

牧塵最佳搭檔譚青山由國民弟弟

徐浩出演。徐浩年少出道,此次出演

熱血玄幻鉅制擔綱主演之壹,對徐浩

而言是壹個全新的挑戰。作為東院地

屆中最強,“憨厚沈穩義薄雲天”這

樣的人設和徐浩本人不謀而合,他和

好兄弟並肩作戰,助力牧塵走向大主

宰之路。張亞奇此前曾出演多部作品,

此次再次挑古裝角色,飾演溫潤如玉、

彬彬有禮的沈蒼生,他是北靈院的守

護神,在北靈院遭遇滅頂之災之後奮

勇對抗邪神,可謂是兄長型角色。同

樣有過不少影視經驗的張誠航此前曾

在《秘果》中與歐陽娜娜有過合作,

這次跨次元再相見,飾演的是洛璃的

“守護騎士”李玄通,可謂是與歐陽

娜娜再續“前緣”,默默保護心愛之

人,這樣的暖心設定看來能籠絡不少

女觀眾的芳心。

由馬月、王奕婷、李淑婷、孫溯

夢汐組成的新生代女演員陣容也看點

十足,顏值讓人驚艷且各有特色,其

中不少憑借青春靚麗的清純造型,在

大學軍訓時已經成為了熱搜女神。值

得壹提的是,她們都有著科班教育背

景,在演技和氣質方面為《大主宰》

品質提供了保障,未來很有可能走出

不少能獨當壹面的“演技小花”。

96年出生的馬月當年以全系前幾

名的成績被北京電影學院錄取,此前

就曾飾演過陰陽兩隔的雙胞胎姐妹,

這次她將挑戰的角色九幽身為上古神

鳥也是壹個“形態多變”的角色,雖

然處事率性但對牧塵情深義重,讓人

頗感期待。孫溯夢汐曾以全國第二考

進上戲表演系,演技實力不容小覷,

她飾演的溫清璇作為劇中大反派天邪

神的義女風情淩厲、嫵媚兇猛,不僅

對推動劇情有著重要作用,同樣十分

考驗演技。此外,以全國第壹的成績

考入上海戲劇學院舞蹈表演專業的王

奕婷年僅17歲,曾代表學校參加“全

國中職技能大賽”並榮獲金獎,多年

的舞蹈功底令其自帶古風氣質,在劇

中飾演北靈境唐域大小姐唐芊兒,將

與柳慕白展開壹段苦戀。同樣身為00

後的李淑婷飾演的葉筍兒天真爛漫,

是壹位百年難遇靈陣奇才,在修復北

靈院的護院陣法中發揮了至關重要的

作用。

《幸福三重奏》

感受簡單真摯的幸福日常

《幸福三重奏》在北京舉行了開播新

聞發布會,大S和汪小菲、福原愛和江宏

傑,還有陳建斌分別在發布會現場分享了

節目錄制幕後的有趣故事。節目將於7月4

日20:00在騰訊視頻獨家上線。

《幸福三重奏》三組嘉賓都是首次合

體參加觀察類節目的錄制,本次發布會現

場眾嘉賓不僅與媒體朋友共同觀看了節目

搶先片段,也分享了幕後趣事。

在搶先曝光的第壹期片段中,陳建斌與蔣

勤勤不僅恩愛練書法,陳建斌還大秀歌喉

唱KTV,陶醉其中十分忘我,完全“無視”

壹旁目瞪口呆的蔣勤勤。現場陳建斌也幽

默表示:“我的音樂品味非常的高,不是

壹般人能夠理解的。”並自曝手機中有壹

百多個音樂精選集,從古典到搖滾十分豐

富。然而陳建斌表示平時工作忙幾乎不去

KTV,在家中也從不敢這麽放飛自我秀歌

喉,竟是因為“害怕”蔣勤勤。

大S在節目中紮起了麻花辮壹秒夢回

“杉菜”,汪小菲為大S畫素描像滿滿都

是浪漫氣息。然而做飯的問題竟難倒了夫

妻二人,汪小菲爆料之後有壹大半的時間

都是自己在做菜,並十分享受,“這次能

帶妻子去到懷柔,在壹個充滿我童年回憶

的地方度過二人世界,真的十分開心。”

福原愛與江宏傑是三對夫妻中最年輕的壹

對,面對生活瑣事得心應手,做飯分工默

契十足。江宏傑表示在談戀愛時兩人分隔

兩地很難見面,婚後小愛很快有了孩子,

這次節目難得有了倆人獨處的時間,仿佛

回到了熱戀期。

節目制片人李笑在

發布會上分享了《幸福

三重奏》節目的創意背

景和初衷。“騰訊視頻

這麽多年壹直在關註用

戶需求,在整個用戶的

洞察和用戶的關註過程

中我們發現,情感類的

節目其實是用戶的剛

需。在情感類節目不同

的階段裏面,戀愛和婚

姻是大家比較關註的兩

個品類。”不同於以往

情感類節目“情感速

配”和“戀愛表演”的

模式,《幸福三重奏》

所傳達的是從細節中滲

透出的幸福感。

企鵝影視天相工作

室副總經理邱越表示,

騰訊視頻對家庭生活和

婚戀價值觀的關註,打

造了《幸福三重奏》這

樣壹檔“親密關系實景

觀察節目”。節目希望

以全新的視角開啟壹場關於婚姻的探討,

不是單純展示“什麽是幸福”,而是希望

處在不同婚姻或戀愛階段的觀眾,都能產

生共鳴或啟發,思考自己希望的幸福是什

麽。用“幸福綜藝”展現幸福生活,探討

幸福的生活方式,讓觀眾能在其中找到自

己的幸福印記,珍惜當下的美好生活。

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今天是個好日子,多部好萊塢大

片發布預告。由“大魔王”凱特· 布蘭

切特、傑克· 布萊克、歐文· 瓦卡羅主

演的奇幻驚悚片《墻上有壹個鐘的房

子》曝光第二支預告片,比起第壹支

幾乎全是新鏡頭。還有馬克· 沃爾伯格

的《22 英裏》發布劇場版預告片,

《辛普森壹家》導演的新作《祛魅》

發布預告片,以及DC最新的流媒體也

發布了壹款預告,讓人目不暇接。

《墻上有壹個鐘的房子》該片改編

自約翰· 貝拉斯1973年創作的同名哥特

風恐怖小說,講述上世紀中期,孤兒

Lewis(歐文· 瓦卡羅)搬去和叔叔(傑

克· 布萊克)壹起居住在壹棟老房子裏

,卻意外開啟了奇幻世界的大門。

《墻上有壹個鐘的房子》由伊萊·

羅斯(《猛龍怪客》《屍骨無存》《人

皮客棧》)執導,埃裏克· 克萊普克(

《邪惡力量》《永無止境》)操刀劇本

,環球與斯皮爾伯格的安培林娛樂聯

合出品,北美9月21日上映。

馬克· 沃爾伯格主演的動作片《22

英裏》今天發布劇場版預告片,和前壹

款預告片相比,這壹次曝光了更多的火

爆動作場景,可以預想到,這幾乎是壹

部全程在運動和搏殺的電影,類似於

《諜影重重3》+《突襲》的感覺。

恰巧,《22英裏》的另外壹位主

角伊科· 烏艾斯就是《突襲》系列的男

主角,新晉的亞洲動作明星,他在

《22英裏》中展現了矯健的身手。

從預告中已經大概能看到故事脈

絡了,伊科· 烏艾斯就是那名需要保護

的汙點證人,在自首之後,他都能夠

被刺客襲擊,如果不是身手過人,早

就被消滅了。預告片中幾乎是從頭打

到尾,馬克· 沃爾伯格在片中是壹名經

驗豐富的特工,他運籌帷幄處變不驚

,顯然是壹個能夠掌控大局的人物。

和彼得· 伯格之前導演的《孤獨的

幸存者》《深海浩劫》《恐襲波士頓

》不同,《22英裏》不再是改編自真

實事件。影片講述馬克· 沃爾伯格扮演

的CIA特工詹姆斯· 席爾瓦,在壹個絕

密戰術團隊的協助下執行棘手任務:

試圖將壹名攜帶有敏感信息的神祕警

官從某國偷運出來,顯然某國的各路

人馬不會放過他們。

DC公司旗下的全新流媒體平臺

“DC宇宙”也即將正式上線,DC還特

意發布了壹款這個平臺的預告視頻。

這個流媒體平臺集合“觀影、閱讀、

購物、交互”為壹體,用戶可以在平

臺上觀看動畫劇集、真人劇集、真人

電影、甚至還有新聞和漫畫可以在線

觀看,內容極為豐富。

趁著預告片上線之際,DC也公布

了最新的真人劇集《泰坦》的劇照,

布倫頓· 思韋茨扮演的“大少”迪克·

格雷森亮相,造型也隨之曝光,該劇

講述壹群少年超級英雄懲治壞蛋的故

事,按計劃會在2019年播出。

這款預告片中有1978年版的《超

人》電影,也有1992年版的《蝙蝠俠

歸來》,看來這個DC流媒體平臺是沒

有包括《神奇女俠》《正義聯盟》這

樣的最新DC真人版電影,估計出品方

之壹的華納想晚壹點再把最新的電影

推上流媒體。

Netflix出品的動畫劇集《祛魅》今

天發布首款預告片,看畫風是不是很

眼熟,想起了《辛普森壹家》了吧?

沒錯,這就是《辛普森壹家》的導演

馬特· 格羅寧執導的新作品。《祛魅》

講述了壹個中世紀的王國裏的公主

Bean的不幸遭遇,這位公主和貌美如

花是扯不上關系的,而且公主還酗酒

,國王都不待見她,在這個王國裏,

會有怎麽的故事發生呢?

據悉,《祛魅》會在8月17日Net-

flix的平臺上播出。劇集的幕後配音陣

容包括:艾比· 雅各布森、奈特· 法松

、埃裏克· 安德烈、馬特· 貝裏、約翰·

迪· 瑪吉歐、比利· 維斯特擔任等等。

熱鬧!多部好萊塢大片發新預告DC流媒體亮相 《辛普森壹家》導演出新作

也許礙於《復仇者聯盟3、4》的

劇透問題,漫威遲遲沒有宣布為《奇

異博士》拍攝續集的計劃。日前,漫

威影業主席凱文· 費奇首次開腔確認

《奇異博士2》已在籌備當中。

費奇向Cinemablend網站透露談到

“問題在於這些角色應該在哪裏出場

。奇異博士,不管我們什麽時候拍下

壹部(《奇異博士》電影),我們絕

對還會再拍壹部,續集故事會發生在

第壹部結束的幾年之後。同時這個角

色又在《復仇者聯盟3》裏有很重要的

地位。當妳有太多受觀眾喜愛的角色

,這就成了壹個甜蜜的煩惱。人們想

看更多這些角色的電影,但是我們也

得堅持自己的核心信念,那就是不斷

探索作品之前的區別,不斷嘗試新類

型。”

2016年上映的《奇異博士》是漫

威電影宇宙第三階段的重要作品,由

本尼迪克特· 康伯巴奇、蒂爾達· 斯文

頓、切瓦特· 埃加福特、切瓦特· 埃加

福特、本尼迪特· 王等主演。

影片打造出漫威版“盜夢空間”

式的奇幻視覺體驗,在全球市場以6.77

億美元總票房收官,其中內地市場貢

獻了人民幣7.52億元。

漫威掌門透露《奇異博士2》正在籌備中銜接前作數年後 火爆的角色太多也"愁人"

M· 奈特· 沙馬蘭執導的《分裂》

續集《玻璃先生》今日首曝壹張信息

量不小的正式海報。布魯斯· 威利斯和

塞繆爾· 傑克遜首度現身,置身二人中

間的則是詹姆斯· 麥卡沃伊飾演的“野

獸”。

整張海報被分成了正置的現實空

間和地面上倒置的倒影兩部分,現實

空間的三個人物都是坐姿,且都被截

去了頭部,不見真容,而倒影中則完

全顯現了三個人物的全貌。整個畫面

如此被分為上下兩部分又似乎是在暗

示兩個不同的平行世界。

作為《不死劫》和《分裂》之後

,沙馬蘭“驚悚宇宙”三部曲的收尾

之作,在《不死劫》中飾演大衛的布

魯斯· 威利斯和玻璃先生塞繆爾· 傑克

遜強勢回歸。

而《玻璃先生》的故事將從《分裂

》的結局講起,玻璃先生發現大衛正在

追查凱文具有強大超能力的“野獸”人

格,隨著事態的逐漸升級,Glass先生的

真面目也逐漸浮出水面,同時他手中還

掌握有關於大衛和凱文的秘密……

《玻璃先生》將由沙馬蘭和《分

裂》的制片人傑森· 布朗姆共同擔綱制

作。Ashwin Rajan、Marc Bienstock 和

史蒂文· 施耐德將出任執行制片。該片

已經定檔2019年1月18日。

沙馬蘭驚悚新作"玻璃先生"首曝海報

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星期三 2018年7月04日 Wednesday, July 04, 2018休城社區

【本報訊/鄧潤京,攝影盧耀輝】 兩岸時事論壇社於2010年成立於大華府。其宗旨是:帶動兩岸和平發展,促進兩岸團結,弘揚中華文化,促進中華民族的偉大復興。兩岸時事論壇社是兩岸民間交流的平台。通過兩岸組織民間人士、學者、專家的座談和溝通,增加相互了解和信任。

潘玲榮女士是現任大華府兩岸時事論壇社的社長。

經過多年來的努力,大華府兩岸時事論壇社組織的各項活動得到了華人社區普遍的認同。

為了進一步擴大論壇,近日成立了“得克薩斯州兩岸時事論壇社”。首任社長是休斯敦著名僑領鄭長祥先生。

7月1日,新成立的德州兩岸時事論壇

社在美南傳媒集團的國際貿易中心大會議廳舉行座談會。邀請到曾擔任 “海基會” 首任副秘書長的李慶平先生擔任主講嘉賓。

李慶平先生曾在大華府工作多年,擔任過駐美代表處文化組組長,海基會副祕書長,中國廣播公司總經理。曾任中國國民黨中央委員,現任中國國國民黨中央評議委員。中華商旅航運協會理事長。李慶平先生曾任“蔣經國國際學術交流基金會”駐美聯絡處處長。也曾參與著名的“九二共識”起草和兩岸討論的全進程。當天他講演的的題目是,《九二共識與未完成的考卷---兼論台灣可能的未來》。

講演之後,在場有30多位聽眾提出了各自的問題。李慶平先生逐一做出解答。

德州兩岸時事論壇社舉辦座談會 暢談“九二共識” 的前世今生

座談會的主持人常中政座談會的主持人常中政。。

華人協會副會長陳維國先生華人協會副會長陳維國先生在座談會上提問在座談會上提問。。

德州兩岸時事論壇社的首任社長鄭長祥德州兩岸時事論壇社的首任社長鄭長祥。。

講演中的李慶平先生講演中的李慶平先生。。

在座談會結束時合影在座談會結束時合影。(。(左起左起))德州和統會榮譽會長鄧潤京德州和統會榮譽會長鄧潤京,,德州和統會副會長德州和統會副會長劉志恆劉志恆,,李慶平先生李慶平先生,,德州和統會會長蒲浩德德州和統會會長蒲浩德,,美南傳媒集團董事長李蔚華美南傳媒集團董事長李蔚華、、朱朱勤勤夫婦勤勤夫婦,,德州和統會副會長陳鐵梅德州和統會副會長陳鐵梅。。

美南傳媒集團董事長李蔚華在座談會上美南傳媒集團董事長李蔚華在座談會上。。

現任大華府現任大華府兩岸時事論兩岸時事論壇社社長潘壇社社長潘玲榮玲榮,,專程專程從大華府趕從大華府趕來來,,參加德參加德州兩岸時事州兩岸時事論壇社舉辦論壇社舉辦的座談會的座談會。。

(記者黃相慈/休士頓報導)周三就是7月4日美國獨立紀念日,各地為迎接美國國慶,大休士頓地區都有盛大的慶典活動,除了遊行、演唱會、園遊會等大活動可參與外,最讓人期待的莫過國慶煙火秀,本報為讀者整理大休士頓地區一系列絢爛煙火慶典,民眾不妨好好趁著國慶日好好慶祝一番吧。

休士頓當地,8號公路旁的城市中心(CityCentre)是許多人喜歡聚集的地方,每年國慶都人滿為患。城市中心國慶日當天不免如有煙火施放。活動自7時至 10 時,搭配 Texas Unlim-ited 樂團帶來的精彩音樂表演,國慶日當晚重頭戲晚間 9 時30分有煙火施放,具體演出可參考官網 http://citycentrehous-ton.com/events。

同樣是購物中心,10號公路旁的Memorial City Mall國慶當天自下午1時至4時有慶祝活動,雖然沒有煙火施放,但邀請民眾一同來感受3萬磅重規模的人工雪場,在炎熱的德州,體驗雪地感覺。現場將有冰雕展示,還有音樂表演、臉譜繪畫、氣球藝術,適合全家大家一同參與。

休士頓濱海地區國慶日當天也是熱鬧無比,蓋文斯頓(Galveston)將有成群的遊行隊伍,其中車隊將會打造成軍事風,還有精彩的表演團體。遊行過後,島上將在9時15分於墨西哥灣沿岸施放長達20分鐘的煙火,地點鄰近37街和Seawall大道

上。濱海地區 Kemah Boardwalk一如往常會在國慶日當天燃放

煙火,國慶當天9時30分有精彩的愛國煙火表演,濱海樂園內也有遊樂設施和當地小店,海濱風光無限,可與家人一起共享天倫之樂,一起度過快樂的國慶假期。

其他大休士頓地區,Baytown地區7月4日將呈現闔家同歡的慶祝活動,除有遊行隊伍、軍事風車隊和經典車款加入,現場也有啦啦隊和學校樂隊表演,為表現愛國情操,遊行隊伍將以紅白藍三色為主。周邊也會有一些遊戲、藝術品展覽和各種樣式的食物餐車等。

迎國慶日 燦爛煙火慶典不可錯過

(記者高思/休斯頓報導)據休斯頓西南區警署表示,一名12歲的男孩上周日晚間11時左右在西南區街區徒步夜行,被一輛行駛中的汽車從內射擊,胸部中彈後被送往德州兒童醫院,據醫生反映,生還可能性很大。

事故發生時,該男孩正獨自行走在休斯頓西南區Pine Knoll街上,一邊打著電話。這時一輛陌生的車輛從旁經過,車內人朝他開槍。警方表示,子彈避開了所有受害人的要害部位,有意是要留受害人一命。但警方 同時 也表示,目前還沒有發現任何的作案動機,希望等男孩醒來後可以提供更多細節信息。

如果有任何線索,請致電休斯頓防犯罪小組:(713)-222-TIPS

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如有任何線索如有任何線索,,可致電休斯頓警局可致電休斯頓警局。。((網路照片網路照片))

國慶煙火絢爛美麗是國慶日最令人期盼的活動國慶煙火絢爛美麗是國慶日最令人期盼的活動。。((網路照片網路照片))

大休士頓地區有許多煙火慶典活動大休士頓地區有許多煙火慶典活動。。((本報資料照片本報資料照片))