AppleMagazine April072018

PRIVACY FIRST:
SAFE TECHNOLOGY TO
PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS
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PROMISES, SPOTIFY’S STOCK MARKET DEBUT

PROMISES: STRIKES A CHORD WITH INVESTORS
FACEBOOK’S
HISTORY WITH
PRIVACY
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KRASINSKI’S ‘A QUIET PLACE’
IS INTOXICATINGLY CREEPY
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TRUMP SAYS HE WANTS SKILLED MIGRANTS BUT CREATES NEW HURDLES 08
ROBOTS TO INVADE DETROIT FOR GLOBAL COMPETITION 28
TESLA SAYS VEHICLE IN DEADLY CRASH WAS ON AUTOPILOT 56
HOUSE PANEL SAYS FACEBOOK’S ZUCKERBERG TO TESTIFY APRIL 11 72
FACEBOOK SCANDAL AFFECTED MORE USERS THAN THOUGHT: UP TO 87M 78
FACEBOOK CEO DEFENDS ADVERTISING-SUPPORTED BUSINESS MODEL 86
TECHNOLOGY REDUCES DOCTOR VISITS FOR LOW-RISK PREGNANCIES 88
UNITEDHEALTH GROUP JOINS BLOCKCHAIN PILOT PROJECT 94
BOX OFFICE TOP 20: ‘READY PLAYER ONE’ LAUNCHES WITH $53.7M 118
‘AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR’ DIRECTORS, DOWNEY ASK FOR SECRECY 140
GRACELAND OPENS VAULT FOR ELVIS DOCUMENTARY TO AIR ON HBO 142
SPACEX CAPSULE REACHES SPACE STATION WITH FOOD, EXPERIMENTS 150
REVIEW: BOOK SHOWS APOLLO 8 WAS A BIG RISK FOR 3 ASTRONAUTS 152
HUNDREDS LINE CAMBRIDGE STREETS TO HONOR STEPHEN HAWKING 168
US TARGETS WAIVER LETTING CALIFORNIA STEER EMISSIONS LIMITS 172
SOME OKLAHOMA CHURCHES EMBRACE STREAMING DIGITAL SERVICES 180
WHEN DRONE IMPERILED NEW ZEALAND PLANE, NOBODY CALLED POLICE 186
TOP 10 APPS 98
iTUNES REVIEW 102
TOP 10 SONGS 158
TOP 10 ALBUMS 160
TOP 10 MUSIC VIDEOS 162
TOP 10 TV SHOWS 164
TOP 10 BOOKS 166
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TRUMP SAYS HE
WANTS SKILLED
MIGRANTS BUT
CREATES NEW
HURDLES
It may be a while before President Donald

Trump gets another chance at creating a new,
“merit-based” immigration system, a keystone
of his four-part plan that Congress rejected last
month. In the meantime, his administration
is busy making it harder, not easier, for skilled
migrants to come work in the United States.
The State Department has ended an Obama-era

program to grant visas to foreign entrepreneurs
who want to start companies in the United
States. It is more aggressively scrutinizing visas
to skilled workers from other countries. And it
is contemplating ending a provision that allows
spouses of those skilled workers to be employed
in the U.S.
The administration and its backers contend

it’s trying to ix laws in the existing, employer-
centric skilled immigration system while
advocating for a complete overhaul of America’s
immigration system.
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“The stuf that they’re actually doing is not
so much restricting skilled immigration as
enforcing the law,” said Mark Krikorian of the
Center for Immigration Studies, which supports
reducing immigration. “They’re rolling back
some of the extralegal measures that other
administrations have taken.”
A primary avenue for skilled immigrants to enter

the United States is the H1B visa for specialty
workers, which is heavily used by the technology
industry. About 85,000 visas are issued annually
in a lottery system. Some critics argue they are a
way for companies to avoid hiring U.S. citizens;
Trump himself has said H1B recipients shouldn’t
even be considered skilled.
In 2016, two technology workers sued Disney,

alleging 250 U.S. employees were laid of
and many were forced to train replacements
who were hired on H1B visas. A federal judge
dismissed the lawsuit, saying Disney was
following existing immigration laws.
The Trump administration has increased its

scrutiny of H1B applications, requiring renewals
be submitted in person and asking for additional
proof the workers are needed and are being
paid top tier.
“This increase relects our commitment to

protecting the integrity of the immigration
system,” said Joanne Fereirra, a spokeswoman
for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
She added that 92.5 percent of the visas are
still approved, only two percentage points
lower than under the Obama administration
in 2016.
Still, businesses have noticed a change.
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“We’ve got employees that are going through
the process, who have gone through such
a level of scrutiny and interrogatory that is
unprecedented,” said Dean Garield, president
of the Information Technology Industry Council,
which advocates for H1B visas and has had
one of its own workers have to move back
overseas because of delays in approving the
requisite visa.
The extra time with H1B visas is only part

of the administration’s changes to skilled,
work-based immigration.
Last year, Trump signed an executive order that

directed all government agencies to “rigorously
enforce and administer the laws governing entry
into the United States of workers from abroad”
to ensure the maximum number of U.S. citizens
have jobs. The order also called for shifting H1Bs
from lower-paid workers to higher-paid ones
who truly have skills that can’t be obtained from
the native workforce.
The administration also stopped an Obama

administration program that was about to start
last year to provide visas to let international
entrepreneurs who start companies in the
United States live in the country for renewable,
30-month stints.
In December, the U.S. Department of Homeland

Security released its new regulatory agenda
which included further, unspeciied changes
to the H1B program. The administration also
indicated it will roll back the STEM OPT program
expanded by President Barack Obama that
lets international science and technology
students work legally in the U.S. for up to
three years.
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Meanwhile, the State Department said last
week it is seeking to further enhance vetting of
potential immigrants and visitors by requiring
all U.S. visa applicants to submit their social
media usernames, previous email addresses
and phone numbers — information that
was previously sought only from applicants
identiied for extra scrutiny. The department
estimates 710,000 immigrant visa applicants and
14 million non-immigrant visa applicants will be
afected annually.
Akash Negi, 26, graduated last month with

a master’s in sciences and analytics from
Pennsylvania’s Harrisburg University of Science
and Technology that he earned while working
as a big data analyst at JP Morgan Chase. Negi
moved to the United States after his father got
a diplomatic visa as part of a job at the United
Nations, but his legal residency doesn’t include a
work permit.
He was able to work while a student but

is waiting for his STEM OPT visa to remain
employed, and is concerned Trump will gut
the program.
Negi noted he understands Trump’s stated goals

of protecting U.S. workers but says he’s going
about it incorrectly.
“Any country wants to protect its own citizens,

but you don’t just end the program when
you don’t have your own population trained,”
Negi said.
The Trump administration has also signaled

it may end another Obama-era program that
allowed spouses of H1B visa holders to work
legally in the U.S. Many of these people have
been in the U.S. for years, sometimes long
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enough to have children who are now U.S.
citizens, yet can face a decades-long wait for
a green card. The prospect of being unable to
work is a shock to them.
“I would like to make my own living. I am

qualiied and skilled,” said Anushri Maru, 35,
a business analyst in Houston, adding she’s
baled her new home doesn’t want her talents.
“I’m not sure they understand that we are
skilled immigrants.”
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SPOTIFY’S STOCK
MARKET DEBUT
STRIKES A CHORD
WITH INVESTORS
Spotify’s opening act on Wall Street struck a

chord with investors betting the unproitable
company’s trend-setting music streaming
service will maintain its early lead over Apple
and other powerful challengers.
After several hours of anticipation Tuesday

morning, Spotify’s shares traded as high as
$169 in their stock market debut before falling
back slightly. The stock closed at $149.01 —
well above its previous high of $132.50 in deals
worked out during Spotify’s 12-year history as a
privately held company.
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The stock market’s warm welcome left Spotify
with a market value of about $27 billion,
according to FactSet. By comparison, internet
radio station Pandora Media’s market value
stands at $1.2 billion nearly seven years after
that company went public.
The performance left Spotify’s market value

among the 10 highest ever recorded by a
technology company following their irst day
of U.S. trading, according to Dealogic. Chinese
e-commerce company Alibaba Group holds
the top spot at $234 billion after its market
debut in 2014.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek who founded the

company, emerged as the day’s biggest winner.
His 27 percent stake in the Swedish company is
now worth $7.4 billion.
The good vibes surrounding Spotify stem

from its early lead in music streaming — a still-
evolving ield trying to hook people on the idea
that it’s better to subscribe for online access to
millions of tunes than to buy individual albums
and singles.
Spotify has attracted 71 million worldwide

subscribers so far and is aiming to increase that
number to as many as 96 million subscribers by
the end of the year. It has 159 million total users,
including people who are willing to listen to ads
for access to free music.
By comparison, Apple’s nearly 3-year-old music

streaming service has 38 million subscribers.
A list of other formidable competitors that
includes Google and Amazon also ofer similar
music streaming services, raising the specter
of Spotify being wiped out by far richer rivals.
Apple, Amazon and Google corporate rival
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have amassed a combined $402 billion in
cash compared to Spotify’s 1.5 billion euro
($1.8 billion).
Spotify’s success in music streaming has drawn

comparisons to Netlix, which built upon its
pioneering role in DVD-by-mail rentals and
then video streaming to create a hugely
successful, subscription-driven franchise that
has produced spectacular investment returns
and has minted the company with a market
value of $122 billion.
A $10,000 investment in Netlix’s 2002 initial

public stock ofering would now be worth
more than $2.6 million, leaving some investors
wondering if Spotify might be on a similar
trajectory in music streaming.
“The similarities here, we believe, are much

greater than the diferences,” RBC Capital
Markets analyst Mark Mahaney wrote in a recent
research note assessing the parallels between
Spotify and Netlix.
Besides blending technology with a

subscription model to reshape a popular form
of entertainment, Spotify and Netlix have a
common executive in their lineage. Spotify’s
current chief inancial oicer, Barry McCarthy,
held the same job when Netlix went public and
remained in that position until leaving the video
service in 2010.
Unlike Netlix, Spotify still isn’t proitable,

having lost more than 2.4 billion euros ($3
billion) since it started more than a decade ago.
After losing 1.2 billion euro, Spotify has also
made it clear that it intends to remain focused
on adding more subscribers instead of making
money for now.
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Netlix has also set itself apart from its rivals in
video streaming by spending billions on original
programming such as “Stranger Things,” and “The
Crown.” Analysts are worried that will be more
diicult for Spotify to do because it is primarily
negotiating for the same music streaming rights
as Apple, Google and Amazon — companies that
can aford to pay even more, if they want.
“One of the big questions about Spotify is

whether they can take it to the next level like
Netlix has,” said Daniel Morgan, senior portfolio
manager for Synovus Trust.
Spotify Technology SA made its Wall Street

debut in an unconventional way. It used a
“direct listing” on the New York Stock Exchange
that allows the company’s early investors and
employees to sell as many shares as they want
whenever they want. That’s a departure from
a traditional initial public ofering in which a
company and a few select investors irst sell
a limited amount of stock at a starting price
determined by investment bankers who spend
weeks gauging investor demand.
The direct listing could result in wild swings

in Spotify’s stock pricing during the irst few
days of trading, especially since Spotify’s shares
sold in a range of $48.93 to $132.50 in privately
negotiated transactions during the irst 11
weeks of this year.
“Normally, companies don’t pursue a direct

listing. While I appreciate that this path makes
sense for most, Spotify has never been a normal
kind of company,” Ek wrote in a blog post .
“Our focus isn’t on the initial splash,” he added.

“Instead, we will be working on trying to build,
plan, and imagine for the long term.”
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ROBOTS TO
INVADE DETROIT
FOR GLOBAL
COMPETITION
Inside the Michigan Engineering Zone, it was

time to give “Tink,” a robot built by students at
Detroit’s Pershing High School, some rivets.
Safety glasses on and her red hair tied back,

15-year-old student Delann Pillivant grabbed
the robot’s aluminum frame and pushed a
power drill into its center bar, making the
modiication for an upcoming global robotics
competition coming this month to Detroit.
Pillivant spent most of her irst year at the

facility, known as the “MEZ,” watching older
students on the Pershing robotics team take the
lead in building a robot from scratch, modifying
it for FIRST Robotics competitions.
This year, Pillivant is in the driver’s seat —

literally — for the robotics team, which comes to
the MEZ in Midtown every week to get training
in science, technology, engineering and math
and hands-on experience building robotics
for competitions.
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“Teens from schools
all around Detroit
experiment with robotic
creations at the MEZ
workspace inside the
University of Michigan’s
Detroit Center in
downtown Detroit.”
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“I was in robotics last year. We had one guy,
a senior, who did everything and I was just
observing. And now I am the driver. That means
I drive the robot, give it love and do doughnuts,”
Pillivant said at the facilty last week. “We don’t
have speciic jobs. We all do everything. I
connected this motor controller here.”
Robotics will take center stage later this month

when tens of thousands of students from
across the world descend on Detroit for the
competition. The FIRST Championship — in
which student teams battle robots on a playing
ield — marks the irst time the event will be
held in Michigan, and it arrives in the Motor
City at a time when interest and participation
in robotics have exploded across the state,
organizers say.
With 15,240 students on 508 teams, Michigan

has the most high school robotics teams in the
nation. It also boasts another 1,536 teams in
grades K-8, according to Gail Alpert, president
of the non-proit, FIRST in Michigan, which
passes grant money to school teams to prepare
and compete. FIRST stands “For Inspiration and
Recognition of Science and Technology.”
Of the 400 teams from around the world

competing at FIRST in Detroit from April 25-
29, about 90 will be from Michigan, state
oicials said.
Alpert said interest in robotics has been fueled

by state grants given to K-12 school robotics
programs that pay for the programs’ costs.
Having the world robotics championship
in Michigan is a game-changer, Alpert said.
Michigan will host the world competition each
year through 2020.
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“The fact that it is within our state makes it
so much more accessible to our students. It’s
giving FIRST robotics huge visibility in the state,”
she said.
GROWING STEM INTEREST

The MEZ, created and operated by the University
of Michigan’s College of Engineering in 2010,
has helped 2,800 Detroit high school students
get exposure to hands-on STEM experience
that goes beyond what they can get in their
individual high schools.
Pillivant said being on the team has taught her

team-building skills “because I don’t ‘people’ very
well. I mean, who doesn’t want to connect robot
stuf? It’s fun.”
The MEZ on Woodward is a 5,200-square-foot

innovation space that has a computer lab and
full-service machine shop to accommodate
19 teams. There, each robotics team gets
a dedicated workstation, equipment and
parts storage and a cadre of mentors from
professional engineers and students at UM
graduate and undergraduate programs.
Jeanne Murabito, executive director of student

afairs at the UM College of Engineering, said the
reason for the MEZ and UM’s commitment to the
program is to grow interest in STEM — science,
technology, engineering and math — and get
Detroit students especially involved. Most Detroit
high schools lack the tools, resources and staf to
support a robotics team in their own buildings.
“Since we started this, we have had several cities

come and look at our model,” said Murabito,
including Kansas City and Rochester, New York.
“We were the irst in the country to do this.”
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Nikolai Vitti, superintendent of Detroit Public
Schools Community District, said the MEZ gives
students a hands-on learning environment
where real job skills are practiced, from team
problem-solving to critical thinking.
“This is a something we will look to expand by

including more schools and students,” Vitti said.
In the FIRST robotics competition, teams have

six weeks to build and program robots from a
kit to perform tasks, such as picking up a ball
and throwing it. Teams also have to raise money,
design a team brand, hone teamwork skills and
perform community outreach.
Detroit teams return to the MEZ during the

school year to modify and troubleshoot for
upcoming competitions, including a shot at the
FIRST competition in Detroit. Julian Pate, director
of the MEZ, said schools interested in pursuing a
robotics team must interact with FIRST robotics
organization to establish a team, which range
from three members to 20.
“People think that you pay the fee, you get a

box and everything that is required is in the
box. Not true,” Pate said. “What’s in the box is
the minimum required to build the chassis.
Everything above the chassis to be able to
successfully play the game is an outgrowth of
the team’s own creativity. Their approach to
innovation and how they would play the game.”
After schools are enlightened on the demands,

the MEZ provides space, materials and
mentors, he said. The Detroit district buses the
students to the MEZ. Food for the students
is provided through grants and other private
inancial support.
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‘CRAZY AND VIGOROUS’
Students at the MEZ are given help on college
applications and inancial aid. Several have
wound up attending the University of Michigan,
including Jacob Durrah, a 23-year-old who now
works at Ford Motor Co.
Durrah attended Finney High School, now East

English Village Preparatory Academy, and began
going to the MEZ as a sophomore.
“The MEZ I would say propelled me into

a career into engineering,” Durrah said. “It
was an extremely welcoming environment
with mentors, collegiate mentors, who
are there to motivate you and tell you can
be an engineer no matter where you are
starting. They ensure you that you can. They ask
inquisitive questions to make you think through
problems. They teach you how to solve
these problems.”
Durrah recalled a six-week window to

build a robot as “crazy and vigorous,” but
he also said the exposure to essay writing
and SAT preparation for college was life-
changing, too. He attended and graduated
from UM with a degree in computer science
and engineering.
Today, the Detroiter is on Ford’s connectivity

team, working on vehicle control and
communication as an engineer.
“That exposure and constant encouragement

and seeing the results of what you can do if you
put your mind to it. I can deinitely say that is
the reason I am here working for Ford today,”
he said.
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With software updates across all devices
(macOS 10.13.4, iOS 11.3 and tvOS 11.3),
Apple has launched a privacy push that sets
to immediately introduce new information
regarding data privacy. While there’s no doubt
that these updates, released on Thursday,
have been prompted by the new European
data protection regulation GDPR, they have
come at the ideal time after the Facebook/
Cambridge Analytica scandal that kicked
of last week. Apple CEO Tim Cook has even
made a public rebuke of Facebook founder
Mark Zuckerberg over the social media’s
business model.
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HOW PRIVACY BECAME
A MASS-MARKET CONCERN
Back in October last year, a blog post from
developer Felix Krause demonstrated how
easy it was for a developer to create a password
prompt that looks identical to the one we’re all
familiar with on our Apple devices. This blog
post received a fair amount of attention, with
many Apple users left feeling wary that their
data could be phished and used maliciously.
This fear became even more real in the wake of

the Facebook breach when it was found that
Cambridge Analytica had acquired a staggering
50 million of the social network’s proiles in
2014. This appears to be the most consequential
data breaches in history, rivalling even the
breach of inancial records from Equifax.
Sensitive information was harvested from a
researcher who used a survey to collect the data
from 270,000 users and their friends. Passing this
over to Cambridge Analytica is a clear violation
of Facebook’s terms of service and questions are
being raised as to whether the data has been
destroyed. The New York Times reported that at
least some of the data is still available online.
Cambridge Analytica has used these proiles to

develop techniques to inluence voters although
the company has denied any wrongdoing,
stating “no data from [the researcher] was used
by Cambridge Analytica as part of the services it
provides to the Donald Trump 2016 presidential
campaign.” However, many remain convinced
that Trump gained an advantage from this
illegally harvested data.
With 2.1 billion active users, Facebook is an

exceptional chance for advertisers to target
Image: Felix Krause

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“Apple believes
privacy is a
fundamental
human right
so every Apple
product is designed
to minimise the
collection and use
of your data.”
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more than half of the people in any developed
market. Five years ago, it was suggested that
the site’s algorithms could be used to predict
things like product and political preference
from the things that users ‘like’ and concerns
were then raised over privacy implications.
Now that the evidence is clear that Cambridge
Analytica abused this insight, consumers
are beginning to understand the risks and
implications of sharing their personal data
online and are calling for the US to regulate data
and increase privacy protection.
APPLE’S NEW PRIVACY-FIRST APPROACH

Those using Apple’s devices will now beneit
from the introduction of a uniied data
privacy iconography. This will now show up
alongside detailed information about how
the company uses personal data for its irst-
party sources. Once you’ve updated, you’ll be
told: “Apple believes privacy is a fundamental
human right so every Apple product is
designed to minimise the collection and use of
your data, use on-device processing whenever
possible, and provide transparency and control
over your information.”
These features may have been largely

prompted by the imminent introduction of
GDPR but they are still rolling out to users
across the world, and Apple has stated that
there have been no changes in software to
comply with new regulations. Apple says
that it has a responsibility to minimise the
amount of data that is collected, with Tim Cook
admitting “We could make a ton of money if
we monetised our customers, if our customers
were our product…We’ve elected not to do
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that. We’re not going to traic in your personal
life. Privacy to us is a human right, a civil liberty.”
This is a stark contrast to companies such as
Google see large scale data collection as an
advantage in certain areas.
Apple previewed these software changes in

January but now seems like the perfect time to
oicially release for iPhones, iPads, Macs and
Apple TVs. The company regularly promotes the
privacy of its devices and the fact that it makes
its money selling hardware rather than by selling
the data of its customers. The iOS 11.3 update
for phones and tablets also allow users to toggle
the controversial feature that slowed down
older iPhones to prevent unwanted shutdowns.
There’s no doubt that this will also bring a boost
in sales for Apple.
The Apple website will also be updated in May

to make it easier for users in Europe to access
the rights granted by the regulation. These
include gaining a copy of their data, requesting
a correction of their data, deactivating
accounts and deleting accounts. By removing
information from aggregated data stores
(isolating accounts but not deleting them),
Apple holds a strong advantage over its
competitors once again. This update will come
a little later for users in other countries.
APPLE GOING TO EXTREME LENGTHS TO

ENSURE YOUR DATA IS PROTECTED
After the San Bernardino case, Apple came
under strong pressure from the FBI to
weaken its security. The company resisted,
arguing that user privacy was important
enough to defend the principle in the face of
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terrorism. In that case, we could argue that
the company is going to extreme lengths to
ensure that user data is protected. A Reuters
piece even demonstrated how serious the
company is when it comes to this issue,
stating “Any collection of Apple customer data
requires a sign-of from a committee of three
“privacy czars” and a top executive, according
to four former employees who worked on a
variety of products that went through privacy
vetting […] The trio of experts […] are both
admired and feared.”
Furthermore, it was claimed that debates

over whether or not customer data can be
used to improve a service usually take around
a month to settle, with some privacy issues
being debated for as long as a year before a
conclusion is reached. These issues are often
escalated as far up as Cook himself. It was even
this refusal to compromise on privacy that
meant the death of the iAd App Network
which closed earlier this year. Similarly,
Apple’s smart assistant Siri has no idea who
you are or what your Apple ID is. Instead,
it learns your voice by assigning data to a
random number.
All of this means there’s no doubt that Apple

is leading the way when it comes to the
privacy of user data. In fact, when Tim
Cook was asked what he’d do if he were in
Facebook’s position he cheerfully answered,
“I wouldn’t be in this situation.”
by Benjamin Kerry & Gavin Lenaghan
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TESLA SAYS
VEHICLE IN DEADLY
CRASH WAS ON
AUTOPILOT
The vehicle in a fatal crash last week in California

was operating on Autopilot, making it the latest
accident to involve a semi-autonomous vehicle,
Tesla conirmed.
The electric car maker said the driver, who was

killed in the accident, did not have his hands on
the steering wheel for six seconds before the
crash, despite several warnings from the vehicle.
Tesla Inc. tells drivers that its Autopilot system,
which can keep speed, change lanes and self-
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park, requires drivers to keep their eyes on the
road and hands on the wheel in order to take
control of the vehicle to avoid accidents.
Tesla said its vehicle logs show the driver took

no action to stop the Model X SUV from crashing
into a concrete lane divider. Photographs of
the SUV show that the front of the vehicle was
demolished; its hood was ripped of; and its
front wheels were scattered on the freeway.
The vehicle also caught ire, though Tesla said

no one was in the vehicle when that happened.
The company said the crash was made worse
by a missing or damaged safety shield on the
end of the freeway barrier that is supposed
to reduce the impact into the concrete
lane divider.
The crash happened in Mountain View, in

California’s Silicon Valley. The driver was
Walter Huang, 38, a software engineer
for Apple.
“None of this changes how devastating an

event like this is or how much we feel for
our customer’s family and friends,” Tesla said
on its website.
Earlier this month, a self-driving Volvo SUV being

tested by ride-hailing service Uber struck and
killed a pedestrian in Arizona.
Tesla Inc. defended its Autopilot feature, saying

that while it doesn’t prevent all accidents, it
makes them less likely to occur than vehicles
without it.
Federal investigators are looking into last week’s

crash, as well a separate crash in January of a
Tesla Model S that may have been operating
under the Autopilot system.
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PROMISES, PROMISES:
FACEBOOK’S HISTORY
WITH PRIVACY
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“We’ve made a bunch of mistakes.”“Everyone
needs complete control over who they share
with at all times.”“Not one day goes by when I
don’t think about what it means for us to be the
stewards of this community and their trust.”
Sound familiar? It’s Facebook CEO Mark

Zuckerberg addressing a major privacy breach
— seven years ago.
Lawmakers in many countries may be focused

on Cambridge Analytica’s alleged improper
use of Facebook data, but the social network’s
privacy problems go back more than a decade.
Here are some of the company’s most notable
missteps and promises around privacy.
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2007
The social media darling unveils its Facebook
Platform to great fanfare. Zuckerberg says
app developers can now access the web of
connections between users and their friends, a set
of connections Facebook calls the “social graph.”
“The social graph is changing the way the world

works,” he says.
That November, Facebook launches Beacon,

which shares what users are doing on other
websites with their Facebook friends. Many
users ind it intrusive and diicult to disable.
Massachusetts resident Sean Lane buys his wife
a diamond ring for Christmas on Overstock.com,
but Facebook ruins the surprise , an incident
leading to a class-action lawsuit.
In December, Zuckerberg apologizes and

enables users to shut of Beacon. “I know we can
do better,” he says.
2008
Facebook launches Facebook Connect , aiming
to correct Beacon’s mistakes by requiring users
to take deliberate action before they share
activity from other websites when logged in
using Facebook. More than 100 websites use the
tool at launch, including CNN and TripAdvisor.

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2009
Facebook announces “privacy improvements”
after a yearlong review by Canada’s Oice of
the Privacy Commissioner found that it geared
its default privacy settings toward openness,
failed to inform users their data would be used
to serve ads, and leaked data to third party
developers, including when their friends used
apps. Facebook vows to encourage “users to
review their privacy settings” but does not
agree to all the recommendations.
Beacon is oicially shut down, settling Lane’s

class action lawsuit.
The American Civil Liberties Union warns

people that Facebook’s default settings mean
that when a friend uses an app or takes a quiz,
the quiz- or app-maker can peer into your
proile, even if you’ve made it private.
2010
App-makers exhibit a sophisticated grasp
of data they can scoop from Facebook’s
social graph.
The Wall Street Journal reports that many

popular apps are transmitting personalized
Facebook data to dozens of advertising and
internet companies, among them, Zynga’s
breakout game FarmVille. Facebook responds
by shutting down some apps.
Prior to the Journal report, Facebook says it

has redesigned its privacy tools, giving its
400 million users “the power to control exactly
who can see the information and content
they share.
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2011
The Federal Trade Commission reaches
a consent decree with Facebook after an
investigation of its broken privacy promises
to consumers.
The FTC alleges, among other things, that:
—Facebook made its users’ friend lists public

in December 2009, even if they had been set to
private, without telling them.
—Even if users limited data sharing to “friends

only,” data was actually shared with third party
apps that friends used.
—Facebook failed to verify the security of apps

it put on a “veriied apps” list.
—Facebook promised not to share personal

information with advertisers, but did.
Facebook promises to submit to a privacy

audit every two years for the next 20 years, and
Zuckerberg owns up to mistakes.
2012
Facebook introduces new methods to help
advertisers reach people in ways “that protect
your privacy,” including an encryption tool
called Custom Audiences that lets marketers
match the email addresses of sales leads to the
addresses that Facebook users used to set up
their accounts.
Facebook also rolls out new privacy tools

aimed at simplifying its convoluted and
confusing privacy controls. Among other
things, it narrows the scope of app
permissions so they don’t suck in as much
user data automatically.
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2013
Facebook shares two-year-old anonymized data
on billions of friendships between countries
with Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan
and co-authors a research paper with him
(published in 2015).
Kogan creates a quiz app, installed by around

300,000 people, giving him access to tens of
millions of their friends’ data.
2014
Facebook says it dramatically limits the access
apps have to friend data, preventing the type of
data scoop Kogan and others were capable of.
It also requires developers to get approval from
Facebook before accessing sensitive data.
2015
Facebook says it learns from Guardian journalists
that Kogan has shared data with Cambridge
Analytica in violation of its policies. It bans the
app and asks Kogan and Cambridge Analytica to
certify they had deleted the data.
It rolls out “Security Checkup”, a new tool aimed

at simplifying its convoluted and confusing
privacy controls.
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2017
Facebook introduces “Privacy Basics”, a
Frequently Asked Questions site aimed at
simplifying its privacy controls.
2018
Facebook says it learns from The Guardian and
other media outlets that Cambridge Analytica
did not delete improperly obtained Facebook
data and suspends the company, Kogan, and
whistleblower Christopher Wylie from its service.
Zuckerberg tells CNN that “I’m really sorry

that this happened”. He promises to audit app
makers that gathered massive amounts of data
prior to 2014 and to notify afected users. Amid
calls for investigations in the U.S. and U.K., the
FTC begins investigating whether Facebook
broke its 2011 consent decree.
“Our responsibility now is to make sure that this

doesn’t happen again”, Zuckerberg says.
Facebook redesigns its privacy settings menu on

mobile devices and says in a blog post, “It’s time
to make our privacy tools easier to ind”
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HOUSE PANEL
SAYS FACEBOOK’S
ZUCKERBERG TO
TESTIFY APRIL 11
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify

before a House oversight panel on April 11 amid
a privacy scandal that has roiled the social media
giant, the panel announced Wednesday.
Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Frank

Pallone, D-N.J., said the House Energy and
Commerce Committee hearing will focus on
the Facebook’s “use and protection of user
data.” Announcement of the hearing date
comes as Facebook faces scrutiny over its data
collection following allegations that the political
consulting irm Cambridge Analytica obtained
data on tens of millions of Facebook users to try
to inluence elections. Walden is the committee’s
Republican chairman and Pallone is the panel’s
top Democrat.
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“This hearing will be an important opportunity
to shed light on critical consumer data privacy
issues and help all Americans better understand
what happens to their personal information
online,” Walden and Pallone said.
Their committee is the irst of three

congressional panels that requested
Zuckerberg’s testimony to announce a hearing
date. The Senate Commerce and Judiciary
committees also have called for Zuckerberg to
appear before them.
Walden and Pallone said last month that they

wanted to hear directly from Zuckerberg after
senior Facebook executives failed to answers
questions during a closed-door brieing with
congressional staf about how Facebook
and third-party developers use and protect
consumer data.
Zuckerberg said during a March 21 interview

on CNN that he would be “happy” to testify
before Congress, but only if he was the right
person to do that. He said there might be other
Facebook oicials better positioned to appear,
depending on what Congress wanted to know.
Walden and Pallone said a day later that as
Facebook’s top executive, Zuckerberg is indeed
the “right witness to provide answers to the
American people.”
Their call represented the irst oicial request

from a congressional oversight committee
for Zuckerberg’s appearance as lawmakers
demanded that Facebook explain reports that
Cambridge Analytica harvested the data of more
than 50 million Facebook users.
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The company, funded in part by Trump
supporter and billionaire inancier Robert
Mercer, paired its vault of consumer data with
voter information. The Trump campaign paid
the irm nearly $6 million during the 2016
election, although it has since distanced itself.
Other Republican clients of Cambridge Analytica
included Sen. Ted Cruz’s failed presidential
campaign and Ben Carson, the famed
neurosurgeon who also ran unsuccessfully for
president in 2016.
The data was gathered through a personality

test app called “This Is Your Digital Life” that was
downloaded by fewer than 200,000 people.
But participants unknowingly gave researchers
access to the proiles of their Facebook friends,
allowing them to collect data from millions
more users.
It’s far from certain what action, if any, the GOP-

led Congress and the Trump administration
might take against Facebook, but the company
will almost certainly oppose any eforts to
regulate it or the technology business sector
more broadly.
As do most large corporations, Facebook

has assembled a potent lobbying operation
to advance its interests in Washington. The
company spent just over $13 million on
lobbying in 2017, with the bulk of the money
spent on an in-house lobbying team that’s
stocked with former Republican and Democratic
political aides, according to disclosure records
iled with the House and Senate. The company
sought to inluence an array of matters that
ranged from potential changes to government
surveillance programs to corporate tax issues.
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FACEBOOK
SCANDAL
AFFECTED MORE
USERS THAN
THOUGHT:
UP TO 87M
Facebook revealed that tens of millions more

people might have been exposed in the
Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal than
previously thought and said it will restrict the
user data that outsiders can access.
Those developments came as congressional

oicials said CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify
next week, while Facebook unveiled a new
privacy policy that aims to explain the data it
gathers on users more clearly — but doesn’t
actually change what it collects and shares.
Facebook is facing its worst privacy scandal

in years following allegations that Cambridge
Analytica, a Trump-ailiated data mining irm,
used ill-gotten data from millions of users to try
to inluence elections. Facebook said this week
that as many as 87 million people might have
had their data accessed — an increase from the
50 million disclosed in published reports.
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This Monday, all Facebook users will receive a
notice on their Facebook feeds with a link to see
what apps they use and what information they
have shared with those apps. They’ll have a chance
to delete apps they no longer want. Users who
might have had their data shared with Cambridge
Analytica will be told of that. Facebook says most
of the afected users are in the U.S.
With outsiders’ access to data under scrutiny,

Facebook outlined several changes to further
tighten its policies.
Facebook is restricting access that apps can

get about users’ events, as well as information
about groups such as member lists and content.
In addition, the company is also removing
the option to search for users by entering a
phone number or an email address. While this
helped individuals ind friends, Facebook says
businesses that had phone or email information
on customers were able to collect proile
information this way.
This comes on top of changes announced a few

weeks ago. For example, Facebook has said it will
remove developers’ access to people’s data if the
person has not used the app in three months.
Wednesday, Facebook unveiled a new privacy

policy that seeks to clarify its data collection
and use.
Although Facebook says the policy changes

aren’t prompted by recent events or tighter
privacy rules coming from the EU, it’s an
opportune time. It comes as Zuckerberg is set
to appear April 11 before a House committee —
his irst testimony before Congress. Separately,
the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and various
authorities in Europe are investigating.
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As Facebook evolved from a closed, Harvard-
only network with no ads to a giant corporation
with $40 billion in advertising revenue and huge
subsidiaries like Instagram and WhatsApp, its
privacy policy has also shifted — over and over.
Almost always, critics say, the changes meant a

move away from protecting user privacy toward
pushing openness and more sharing. On the
other hand, regulatory and user pressure has
sometimes led Facebook to pull back on its
data collection and use and to explain things
in plainer language — in contrast to dense
legalese from many other internet companies.
The policy changes come a week after Facebook

gave its privacy settings a makeover. The
company tried to make it easier to navigate its
complex and often confusing privacy and security
settings, though the makeover didn’t change
what Facebook collects and shares either.
Facebook’s new privacy policy has a new section

explaining that it collects people’s contact
information if they choose to “upload, sync or
import” this to the service. This may include
users’ address books on their phones, as well as
their call logs and text histories. The new policy
says Facebook may use this data to help “you
and others ind people you may know.”
The previous policy did not mention call logs

or text histories. Several users were surprised to
learn recently that Facebook had been collecting
information about whom they texted or called
and for how long, though not the actual
contents of text messages. It seemed to have
been done without explicit consent, though
Facebook says it collected such data only from
Android users who speciically allowed it to do
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so — for instance, by agreeing to permissions
when installing Facebook.
Facebook also added clariication that local

laws could afect what it does with “sensitive”
data on people, such as information about a
user’s race or ethnicity, health, political views or
even trade union membership. This and other
information, the new policy states, “could be
subject to special protections under the laws
of your country.” But it means the company is
unlikely to apply stricter protections to countries
with looser privacy laws — such as the U.S., for
example. Facebook has always had regional
diferences in policies, and the new document
makes that clearer.
The new policy also makes it clear that

WhatsApp and Instagram are part of Facebook
and that the companies share information
about users. The two were not mentioned in the
previous policy. While WhatsApp still doesn’t
show advertisements, and has its own privacy
policy, Instagram long has and its policy is the
same as Facebook’s. But the notice could be a
sign of things to come for WhatsApp as well.
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FACEBOOK CEO DEFENDS
ADVERTISING-SUPPORTED
BUSINESS MODEL
The CEO of Facebook is defending its

advertising-supported business model.
Mark Zuckerberg’s defense comes after Apple

CEO Tim Cook said his company wouldn’t be in
Facebook’s situation because Apple doesn’t sell
ads based on customer data the way Facebook
does. Zuckerberg responded Monday that an
advertising-supported business model is the
only way that the service can survive because
not everyone would be able to pay for Facebook
if it charged a fee.
He says the idea that Facebook doesn’t care

about its customers is “extremely glib.”
Facebook is facing scrutiny over its data

collection following allegations that political
consulting irm Cambridge Analytica obtained
data on tens of millions of Facebook users to try
to inluence elections.
Zuckerberg spoke with Vox, while Cook talked

with Recode last week.
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TECHNOLOGY
REDUCES
DOCTOR VISITS
FOR LOW-RISK
PREGNANCIES
The Mayo Clinic in Minnesota is giving low-risk

pregnant women the option of fewer checkups
by providing equipment that allows them to
monitor their blood pressure, fetal heart rate
and other medical conditions at home.
Women involved in the OB Nest program

have eight clinic visits, Minnesota Public
Radio reported . The American College of
Obstetricians and Gynecologists says the
standard pregnancy visit schedule entails
more than a dozen appointments.
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Women enrolled in the program can contact a
nurse online or by phone if they see abnormal
results or have questions or concerns. The
program began in 2016.
The program gives doctors and midwives

more time to tend to patients with high-risk
pregnancies, said Dr. Yvonne Butler Tobah, a Mayo
obstetrician and health sciences researcher.
The program also allows pregnant women to

save time and sometimes money, she said.
Sometimes patients have to take time of work,
pay for parking or ind child care for other kids
“only to be told after a 15-minute visit that their
pregnancy was ine,” she said.
Allison Matthews had frequent appointments

during her irst pregnancy four years ago.
“I was taking time of work and it wasn’t doing a

lot for me,” Matthews said. “I kind of felt like I was
almost doing it more for the clinic’s beneit than
for myself.”
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She decided to enroll in the Mayo Clinic program
during her second pregnancy. The program
allowed her whole family to get involved in
monitoring the baby’s progress, she said.
“It was something we explored together rather

than having it done for us,” Matthews said.
Other obstetrics practices are testing out

remote-monitoring programs for low-risk
expectant mothers, said Dr. Nathaniel DeNicola,
co-chair of the telehealth task force for the
American Congress of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists.
DeNicola is working on an app called Babyscrips

at the George Washington University Medical
Faculty Associates in Washington, D.C. The app
allows mothers to transmit their weight and
blood pressure data to a practice remotely.
“All the remote monitoring is a way of

augmenting traditional care, not replacing it,”
DeNicola said.
Information from: Minnesota Public Radio News
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UNITEDHEALTH
GROUP JOINS
BLOCKCHAIN
PILOT PROJECT
UnitedHealth Group agreed to partner with

a rival health insurer and one of the country’s
largest lab testing companies in a pilot project
to examine sharing health care data through
blockchain technology.
Minnesota-based UnitedHealth announced

Monday that it will work with Kentucky-based
Humana, New Jersey-based Quest Diagnostics
and a New York irm called MultiPlan. The
inancial details of the partnership weren’t
disclosed, the Star Tribune reported.
Blockchain is software that began as a way

to create a secure digital environment for
exchanging inancial information, said Mike
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Jacobs, a senior distinguished engineer at
UnitedHealth Group’s Optum division for
health care services.
Industries outside the realm of digital currencies

are now exploring the option of using nonpublic
blockchains for their enterprises.
“This is likely one of the very irst nationwide

health care blockchain alliances,” Jacobs said.
“Health care in general is just getting started on
understanding what the appropriate uses are of
this technology.”
Oicials hope the project will improve data

accuracy, streamline administration and expand
access to care. The industry is estimated to
spend more than $2 billion annually to maintain
provider data, the companies said in a statement.
The partnership’s irst objective will be to see if

the technology can make sure the list of doctors
and hospitals within a health plan’s directory of
network providers stays accurate and current.
The project is designed to address business

problems for multiple companies that share
information, Jacobs said. A lab company
routinely picks up samples from clinics and bills
health plans for conducting tests. Insurers may
reject the claim if a lab company and a health
plan have diferent information listed about
those clinics, he said.
“It’s in a diagnostic laboratory’s best interest

to ensure that the most up-to-date information
is at the insurance company,” Jacobs said.
“And the best way to do that is to share the
best information that they have on hand,
and share it with as many of the insurance
companies as possible.”
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Paddington 2
Paddington is now happily settled with

the Brown family in their home in Windsor
Gardens, spreading joy and marmalade
wherever he goes. While searching for
the perfect present for Aunt Lucy’s 100th
birthday, Paddington spots a unique pop-
up book in Mr. Gruber’s antique shop and
embarks on a series of odd jobs to buy it.
Adventure ensues when the book is stolen,
and Paddington and the Browns must
unmask the thief.
FIVE FACTS:
1. The movie is the best-reviewed ever on
Rotten Tomatoes. As of March 14, 2018,
by Paul King Paddington 2 has received 192 Fresh reviews
Genre: Kids & Family and no naysayers. This meant that it overtook
Released: 2018
Price: $19.99 163 Fresh and 0 negative critiques from the
previous-record holder Toy Story 2 (1999).
2. Michael Bond, the creator of Paddington
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Bear, passed away six months before the
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3. The animation in the book sequence
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around London is very similar to that of
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and backgrounds other than Paddington
were cut-outs.
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was the nun outit.
5. Michael Gambon, Brendan Gleeson, Jim
Broadbent, Julie Walters, Jessica Hynes and
Imelda Staunton all starred in the Harry
Rotten Tomatoes Potter franchise.
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Black Panther
After the death of his father, the king of

Wakanda, young T’Challa returns home to
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his rightful place as king. When a powerful
enemy reappears, T’Challa’s mettle as both
king and Black Panther is tested. Faced with
a formidable conlict that puts the entire fate
of Wakanda and the entire world at risk, he
must release the full power of Black Panther
to defeat his foes and secure the safety
of his people.
FIVE FACTS:
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kept to himself while h was on set, reasoning
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in conlict with the other characters. Genre: Action & Adventure
Released: 2018
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3. Three out of every ive people in Wakanda
go barefoot. This was a deliberate decision
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4. John Boyega was considered for the role
of T’Challa.
5. The ilm was released in Black History
Month (February) when African culture
is celebrated across the US, Canada
and the UK.
Rotten Tomatoes
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“High Horse”
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Music
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We could agree that any album that starts

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she allows her emotions to lood through,
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Released: Mar 30, 2018
13 Songs
Price: $7.99
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BOX OFFICE TOP 20:
‘READY PLAYER ONE’
LAUNCHES WITH
$53.7M
Game on for “Ready Player One.”
Steven Spielberg’s virtual reality adventure

launched slightly above expectations with
$53.7 million over the four-day Easter weekend
and $41.8 million over the three-day weekend,
according to inal box-oice igures Monday.
The opening gave Spielberg his best since 2008’s
“Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull,” as well as 2018’s high-grossing debut for
anything not named “Black Panther.”
Still, for a $175 million ilm, the Warner Bros.

release will need to have strong legs to make
“Ready Player One” a success. Its international
rollout is helping, where the ilm grossed
$128 million over the weekend, including an
especially robust $61.7 million from China.
Tyler Perry’s “Acrimony” followed in second

with $17.1 million over the three-day weekend.
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The Lionsgate release, starring Taraji P. Henson,
drew an overwhelmingly female audience.
The top 20 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters

Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution
studio, gross, number of theater locations,
average receipts per location, total gross and
number of weeks in release, as compiled Sunday
by comScore:
1. “Ready Player One,” Warner Bros.,

$41,764,050, 4,234 locations,
$9,864 average, $53,710,325, 1 Week.
2. “Tyler Perry’s Acrimony,” Lionsgate,

$17,170,707, 2,006 locations,
$8,560 average, $17,170,707, 1 Week.
3. “Black Panther,” Disney, $11,486,915,

2,988 locations, $3,844 average,
$650,923,549, 7 Weeks.
4. “I Can Only Imagine,” Roadside

Attractions, $10,445,994,
$55,271,331, 3 Weeks.
5. “Paciic Rim Uprising,” Universal,

$9,370,405, 3,708 locations, $2,527
average, $45,836,225, 2 Weeks.
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6. “Sherlock Gnomes,” Paramount,
$7,001,570, 3,662 locations,
$1,912 average, $22,822,216, 2 Weeks.
7. “Tomb Raider,” Warner Bros.,

$4,922,048, 2,788 locations,
$1,765 average, $50,715,273, 3 Weeks.
8. “Wrinkle In Time, A,” Disney, $4,842,624,

$83,399,038, 4 Weeks.
9. “Love, Simon,” 20th Century Fox,

$4,767,488, 2,024 locations,
$2,355 average, $32,108,320, 3 Weeks.
10. “Paul, Apostle Of Christ,” Sony,

$3,457,864, 1,473 locations,
$2,347 average, $11,488,702, 2 Weeks.
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11. “Isle Of Dogs,” Fox Searchlight,
$2,943,366, 165 locations,
$17,839 average, $6,050,860, 2 Weeks.
12. “God’s Not Dead: A Light In

Darkness,” Pure Flix, $2,689,677,
$2,689,677, 1 Week.
13. “Game Night,” Warner Bros.,

$2,511,676, 1,335 locations,
$1,881 average, $65,041,223, 6 Weeks.
14. “Peter Rabbit,” Sony, $2,121,583,

$110,767,709, 8 Weeks.
15. “Midnight Sun,” Open Road,

$1,822,313, 2,128 locations,
$856 average, $7,671,529, 2 Weeks.
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16. “Unsane,” Bleecker Street,
$1,450,574, 1,929 locations,
$752 average, $6,832,037, 2 Weeks.
17. “Death of Stalin, The,” IFC Films,

$1,345,577, 484 locations,
$2,780 average, $3,809,159, 4 Weeks.
18. “MET Opera: Cosi Fan Tutte (2018),”

Fathom Events, $1,265,000,
900 locations, $1,406 average,
$1,265,000, 1 Week.
19. “Red Sparrow,” 20th Century Fox,

$718,609, 508 locations,
$1,415 average, $45,679,149, 5 Weeks.
20. “Greatest Showman, The,” 20th

Century Fox, $700,398,
764 locations, $917 average,
$172,069,900, 15 Weeks.
Universal and Focus are owned by NBC Universal, a unit of Comcast

Corp.; Sony, Columbia, Sony Screen Gems and Sony Pictures Classics
are units of Sony Corp.; Paramount is owned by Viacom Inc.; Disney,
Pixar and Marvel are owned by The Walt Disney Co.; Miramax is owned
by Filmyard Holdings LLC; 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight are
owned by 21st Century Fox; Warner Bros. and New Line are units
of Time Warner Inc.; MGM is owned by a group of former creditors
including Highland Capital, Anchorage Advisors and Carl Icahn;
Lionsgate is owned by Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.; IFC is owned by
AMC Networks Inc.; Rogue is owned by Relativity Media LLC.
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KRASINSKI’S
‘A QUIET PLACE’ IS
INTOXICATINGLY
CREEPY
Let’s start with a popcorn warning. If you’re

bringing your usual tub of multiplex popcorn
into “A Quiet Place,” just be aware that you’ll be
hearing every single crunch.
That’s because much of John Krasinski’s

ingeniously creepy new ilm, in which he stars
alongside his real-life better half, Emily Blunt,
takes place in virtual silence. This is a movie
about a world where noise gets you killed. In
fact, if you ate popcorn IN the movie, you’d
quickly be dead. Unless you were standing by a
waterfall. More on that in a minute.
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Krasinski, in his third feature outing as director,
has a lot going for him here: An inventive
premise (was it dreamed up by some vengeful
librarian?), a terriic cast featuring two extremely
efective child actors, and the always superb
Blunt, who can register fear, joy, love and anxiety
in one scene without needing to utter a word.
He takes all this and runs with it, producing a
taut, goose-pimply thriller that earns its jump-
out-of-your-seat moments and only occasionally
strains its own logic — and then, who really
cares? It’s a monster lick!
We begin on “Day 89.” But what exactly happened

89 days ago? Our irst clue is that there’s nobody
in the streets of the desolate town where the
Abbott family — Lee, Evelyn and three young
kids — makes a precarious shopping trip. The
family has ventured on foot from their farmhouse
to search an abandoned store for badly needed
medicine. The next clue is all the “Missing” posters
on the streets. What happened to all these folks?
The most obvious clue is that the family cannot
speak, or make a sound. They communicate in
sign language, and walk barefoot on soft sand
and dirt so even their feet won’t give them away.
An early, shocking tragedy makes it clear what

they’re up against: evil, hungry monsters who
consume anyone who catches their attention
with sound. Soon, that fateful Day 89 skips ahead
to Day 472. The monsters still rule, and now
Evelyn (Blunt) is pregnant. As the family goes
about its soundless daily routines — cooking
meals silently, eschewing the washer-dryer for
hand washing, playing board games with soft
pieces, dancing to music on headphones —
one wonders how they’ll possibly bring a baby
into the world without making noise.
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Krasinski and fellow screenwriters Bryan Woods
and Scott Beck are cleverly tapping into universal
parental angst here. First, childbirth, already
pretty darned painful and stressful, is made even
more diicult — you can’t even scream! And how
on Earth can you keep a newborn from crying?
More broadly, there’s the constant fear for Lee
and Evelyn that any daily task can lead to an
errant noise, and quickly, death. What’s worse
than feeling like you can’t protect your child?
“There’s nothing to be scared of,” Lee (Krasinski)
tells young son Marcus reassuringly at one point,
as they leave the house. “Of course there is,” the
boy replies, correctly.
Basically the only place where one can talk

freely, in this world, is next to the roaring
waterfall where Lee takes Marcus (an
appealingly sensitive Noah Jupe) one day.
Because the waterfall is louder than they are,
they can holler with abandon. They’ve left older
sister Regan at home to help Mom. Despite
her obvious smarts and instincts, Regan is
technically at even greater risk from the evil
creatures, because she is deaf and can’t hear
them even if they’re right behind her. To survive,
she will need to be more resourceful than
anyone else in the family. (Regan is embodied
with warmth and poignancy by young deaf
actress Millicent Simmonds).
Remember we said this movie earned its

jump-out-of-your-seat moments? There’s one
in particular, involving Blunt, that is applause-
worthy, and you’ll know it when you see it.
There’s also a terrifying sequence in a grain silo,
reminiscent of the movie “Witness,” and an errant
nail sticking out of a wooden plank is used quite
(ouch) efectively.
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“A Quiet Place” may not have the weighty social
meaning or piercing comedy of another recent
high-proile horror thriller, “Get Out.” But like that
movie it is smart, it moves fast, it has a hugely
satisfying ending — and it deserves to attract a
much broader audience than the usual horror
ilm devotees.
But just watch out for that popcorn. Crunch too

loud, and you’re a goner.
“A Quiet Place,” a Paramount Pictures release,

is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture
Association of America “for terror and some
bloody images.” Running time: 90 minutes.
Three stars out of four.
MPAA Deinition of PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material

may be inappropriate for children under 13.
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#ThanosDemandsYourSilence
Image: Jay Maidment

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‘AVENGERS:
INFINITY WAR’
DIRECTORS,
DOWNEY ASK
FOR SECRECY
Actor Robert Downey Jr. is joining the directors

of “Avengers: Ininity War” in calling for fans to
maintain secrecy.
The star tweeted “no spoilers please.” He signed

it with the (hashtag) ThanosDemandsYour
Silence. Thanos is the ictional Marvel Comics
villain who will be portrayed by Josh Brolin in
the movie. Downey plays Iron Man.
Directors Joe and Anthony Russo went on

Twitter to tell fans they would be screening a
limited amount of footage prior to the ilm’s
release on April 27. They say “only a handful of
people know the ilm’s true plot.”
They asked fans to maintain the same level of

secrecy so that they don’t spoil it for others.
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GRACELAND
OPENS VAULT
FOR ELVIS
DOCUMENTARY
TO AIR ON HBO
A new television documentary about Elvis

Presley takes advantage of the vast collection of
footage, pictures, documents and music from his
estate to give a behind-the-scenes look at the
king of rock ‘n’ roll.
“Elvis Presley: The Searcher,” a two-part, three-

hour documentary, will premiere April 14 on
HBO. Director Thom Zimny, who worked on
several Bruce Springsteen documentaries, had
full access to Graceland’s vault and made ample
use of it to unearth little-seen footage.
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“That was one of the exciting parts because
every day I was discovering new gems of Elvis
Presley’s archives,” Zimny said.
“He came up with pieces of footage that

Priscilla and I had never seen before, and we
grew up with Elvis,” said Jerry Schilling, one
of Elvis’ longtime friends and an executive
producer on the documentary along with
Priscilla Presley, his ex-wife.
Along with his family and friends, Zimny

interviewed studio musicians, producers,
engineers and directors, as well as artists like
Springsteen, Tom Petty and Emmylou Harris.
Zimny uses only voiceovers for the narration
instead of seeing the interviewees’ faces to
keep the focus on the music and footage of
Elvis over his career.
“Most documentaries, you see people talking,

and I think that takes you out of the ilm,” Priscilla
Presley said. “So you do get distracted, where
here, you take on the low, you can see what’s
going on visually and you’re not taken out of
that moment, and I think that’s brilliant.”
Zimny makes heavy use of footage from

Elvis’ 1968 television special, considered his
comeback to music after a long period of
movie acting.
“He had been out of performing for years,

almost 10 years,” Presley said. “This to him was
the make or break of his career.”
Zimny said he had no limitations on addressing

any aspect of Elvis’ career, and the ilm does
touch on the controlling inluence of his
manager Colonel Tom Parker as well as Elvis’
prescription drug abuse.
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Priscilla said Presley began using prescription
drugs when he was given them during his Army
stint. Even after years of using medications, she
said Elvis never realized his addiction.
“He didn’t think he was addicted,” Presley said.

“It was a part of his life, really. There was no Betty
Ford. There were no rehab centers. But he didn’t
think he had to go to a rehab center. There were
prescribed to him. The doctors knew what they
were giving to him. So that was pretty much a
part of his life.”
Presley said there’s still a lot for music fans to

learn about the star, who died in 1977.
“He was in uncharted territories,” Presley said.

“There was no other that reached the heights that
he did as far as changing style, changing music.”
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SPACEX CAPSULE
REACHES
SPACE STATION
WITH FOOD,
EXPERIMENTS
A SpaceX capsule carrying food, experiments

and other goods for NASA has arrived at
the International Space Station after a
two-day journey.
The Dragon capsule and its 6,000-pound

shipment was captured by the space station’s
robot arm Wednesday.
It’s the second trip to the 250-mile-high orbiting

outpost for this capsule, refurbished following a
visit two years ago. It will remain attached to the
space station for about a month, returning to
Earth in May.
The space station is currently home to

astronauts from the U.S., Russia and Japan.
The supply capsule launched Monday from

Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard a used Falcon
rocket. SpaceX wants to reduce launch costs by
recycling rocket parts. It combined a recycled
capsule and a recycled rocket once before.
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REVIEW:
BOOK SHOWS
APOLLO 8 WAS
A BIG RISK FOR
3 ASTRONAUTS
“Rocket Men” (Random House), by Robert Kurson
The irst astronauts to orbit the moon ended

their 1968 Christmas Eve television broadcast
with a personal message for the people of Earth.
No one knew what the three Apollo 8 astronauts

would say — not their worried wives 240,000
miles away nor the buttoned-down NASA
engineers who meticulously planned every
moment of the high-stakes mission to reach the
moon before the Soviets.
With the moon showing on TV screens, Bill

Anders began reading: “In the beginning, God
created the heaven and the Earth ...” Then Jim
Lovell and Frank Borman followed by reading
a few lines each from the book of Genesis. The
plain voices reading the Bible’s creation story
made grown men weep, Kurson writes, and sent
people outside to peer at the sky in wonder.
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Sweet moments like this punctuate this
mostly engrossing book about the historic but
sometimes overlooked Apollo 8 mission. Neil
Armstrong and company will always get top
billing among astronauts for landing on the
moon in 1969, but irst someone had to show it
was even possible to get there and back.
By 1968, the Soviets appeared poised to launch

and deal Americans yet another in a series of
space-related humiliations dating back to Sputnik.
NASA was determined to get there irst, even if it
meant dramatically compressing the timeline.
Kurson’s conception-to-splashdown reporting

had the cooperation from the astronauts and
their wives, giving him invaluable details of
what happened inside the astronaut’s capsule
and in their homes below. Most readers already
know how the mission turned out (success!),
but Kurson builds suspense around a mind-
bendingly complex and dangerous journey.
One NASA oicial explained that with Apollo 8s

5.6 million parts and 1.5 million systems, even if
the mission went 99.9 percent right, there would
be 5,600 defects. Borman, Lovell and Anders
knew full well there was a very real chance the
tiny capsule could become their tomb.
Their wives knew it, too. Marilyn Lovell, Susan

Borman and Valerie Anders shared all of their
husbands’ anxiety and got almost none of their
glory. Their fate was to keep brave faces for the
press photographers and to wait to hear their
husbands’ voices on the squawk boxes installed
in their homes. Just in case, Susan Borman sat at
her kitchen table to write her husband’s eulogy.
The three women provide the most poignant
moments in the book.
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The book starts slowly as Kurson tracks the
astronauts through their boyhoods, courtships
and military careers. But the gruf and no-
nonsense Borman pops of the page once they
start planning for the mission.
Borman argued with NASA mission planners

who wanted more lunar orbits than he thought
was prudent. Planners ofered 12 orbits. Borman
said 10 would be better. Planners told him 10
orbits would result a pre-dawn splashdown on
Earth. If the parachutes malfunctioned, no one
could see what happened.
Borman replied that if the chutes didn’t work,

they’d all die anyway.
Planners saw his point. There were 10 orbits.
Online:
https://www.robertkurson.com/
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THE MIDDLE
ZEDD, MAREN MORRIS & GREY
MEANT TO BE
(FEAT. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE)
BEBE REXHA
MY DEAR MELANCHOLY,
THE WEEKND
WHATEVER IT TAKES
IMAGINE DRAGONS
NEVER BE THE SAME

CAMILA CABELLO
FINESSE (REMIX) [FEAT. CARDI B] - SINGLE

BRUNO MARS
YOU MAKE IT EASY

JASON ALDEAN
HEAVEN
KANE BROWN
ZOMBIE
BAD WOLVES
PERFECT
ED SHEERAN
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THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
(ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
GOLDEN HOUR
KACEY MUSGRAVES
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

(2012 REMASTERED EDITION)
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR - THE ORIGINAL STUDIO CAST
& ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
EXPECTATIONS
HAYLEY KIYOKO
BLACKOUT
STEFFANY GRETZINGER
FROM THE FIRES

GRETA VAN FLEET
EVOLVE
IMAGINE DRAGONS
GIRL GOING NOWHERE

ASHLEY MCBRYDE
ZOMBIES
(ORIGINAL TV MOVIE SOUNDTRACK)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR

(ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK)
VARIOUS ARTISTS & ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
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I CAN ONLY IMAGINE (THE MOVIE SESSION)
MERCYME
RUNNING WITH SCISSORS (ACOUSTIC)

I SEE STARS
PERFECT SYMPHONY
(WITH ANDREA BOCELLI)
ED SHEERAN
DELICATE
TAYLOR SWIFT
FINESSE (REMIX) [FEAT. CARDI B]

BRUNO MARS
PERFECT
ED SHEERAN
ALIEN
SABRINA CARPENTER & JONAS BLUE
I CAN ONLY IMAGINE

MERCYME
MEANT TO BE
(FEAT. FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE)
BEBE REXHA
HAVANA (FEAT. YOUNG THUG)

CAMILA CABELLO
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PHARMARUSICAL
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE, SEASON 10 (UNCENSORED)
ONE DAY LIKE THIS

GREY’S ANATOMY, SEASON 14
TWENTY YEARS TO LIFE

ROSEANNE, SEASON 10
THE NOISE
SCANDAL, SEASON 7
SCOOBYNATURAL
SUPERNATURAL, SEASON 13
HARD TRUTHS
SUITS, SEASON 7
PILOT
SIREN, SEASON 1
GO FOR BROKE
THE TERROR, SEASON 1
DRESS TO IMPRESS
ROSEANNE, SEASON 10
CHAPTER THIRTY: “THE NOOSE TIGHTENS”

RIVERDALE, SEASON 2
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READY PLAYER ONE
ERNEST CLINE
RIVER’S END
NORA ROBERTS
ANOTHER MAN’S MOCCASINS

CRAIG JOHNSON
THE DISAPPEARED
C. J. BOX
BLUEPRINTS
BARBARA DELINSKY
ACCIDENTAL HEROES
DANIELLE STEEL
LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE

CELESTE NG
THE GREAT ALONE

KRISTIN HANNAH
THE WIFE BETWEEN US

GREER HENDRICKS & SARAH PEKKANEN
RED ALERT
JAMES PATTERSON & MARSHALL KARP
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HUNDREDS LINE
CAMBRIDGE
STREETS TO
HONOR STEPHEN
HAWKING
The life of renowned physicist and author

Stephen Hawking was celebrated Saturday
in English city of Cambridge, with hundreds
of well-wishers lining the streets for a glimpse
of the hearse carrying his remains to a
private funeral.
There was a spontaneous burst of applause

outside St. Mary the Great church when the
hearse arrived. The bells of the church tolled
76 times, one for each year of Hawking’s
remarkable life.
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Hawking was remembered as a brave man
who triumphed over motor neurone disease
by continuing his research into space and time
even after paralysis set in and his muscles faded.
Some 500 invited guests attended the funeral

for Hawking, who died on March 14.
Actor Eddie Redmayne, who portrayed the

scientist in the 2014 biographical ilm “The
Theory of Everything,” gave a reading from
Ecclesiastes during the service. There was also
a reading by Astronomer Royal Martin Reese
and eulogies by one of Hawking’s children and
a former student.
Hawking’s family released a statement saying

they chose to hold the funeral “in the city that
he loved so much and which loved him.”
Flags were lowered to half-mast in many

parts of Cambridge to pay tribute to Hawking.
The service was oiciated by the Rev. Cally
Hammond, Dean of Cambridge University’s
Gonville and Caius College, where Hawking
was a fellow for 52 years.
A private reception was held afterward at

Trinity College.
Hawking was known for his groundbreaking

research into black holes and other
phenomena. He was also the best-selling
author of “A Brief History of Time” and other
books and a pop culture igure known for,
among other things, his appearance on “The
Simpsons” TV series.
Hawking will be cremated at a later date

and his ashes are to be interred at London’s
Westminster Abbey near the remains of fellow
scientist Isaac Newton.
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US TARGETS
WAIVER LETTING
CALIFORNIA STEER
EMISSIONS LIMITS
Scott Pruitt, administrator of the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency, turned his
sights this week on a nearly half-century-old
federal waiver that allows California to pursue
its own, tough tailpipe emission standards,
and allows other states to opt in to California’s
standards rather than federal ones if they choose.
The waiver has allowed California, the U.S. state

with the most people and the biggest economy,
to steer the rest of nation toward tougher limits
on car and truck emissions that pollute the air
and change the climate.
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Pruitt said this week the agency will work
with all states, including California, to set new
pollution and mileage standards for gas- and
diesel-powered vehicles.
Here’s a look at California’s unique waiver from

federal emissions standards for cars, why it
matters to the rest of the country, and what
could happen if the Trump administration
moves against California’s ability to set its own
vehicle-emissions standards.
WHAT IS THE WAIVER?

A combination of climate, geography and a lot
of cars and trucks has given California some
of the worst smog in the country, especially
in the Los Angeles basin and other inland
valleys. To ight that, California has regulated
vehicle-tailpipe emissions since before 1970,
when the EPA and the federal Clean Air Act
came into force. Because of that, Congress
wrote an exemption into the landmark
Clean Air Act: California could seek waivers
to set its own limits for pollutants from cars
as long as its rules were at least as tough as
federal standards. Since then, Democratic and
Republican administrations have renewed
California’s waiver dozens of times. A Trump
administration challenge would revive an
abortive 2007 efort by the Bush administration
to block California’s power to set its own
emissions rules.
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WHY DOES THE WAIVER MATTER?
While the California waiver is unique, at least 12
other states in the Northeast and elsewhere have
chosen to opt into the tougher tailpipe emissions
standards that California sets. That means up to
40 percent of cars on the road nationwide follow
California’s emissions standards.
Gasoline and diesel exhaust is a main source

of pollutants and gases that endanger public
health and are changing the climate. California
Gov. Jerry Brown, a Democrat, wants to reduce
the state’s climate-changing greenhouse-gas
emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by
2030. Receiving continued federal waivers for
progressively tougher state emissions standards
will be a critical part of that.
Currently the federal and California standards

are the same.
Some car manufacturers and conservative

groups want the EPA to roll back federal controls
on greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles,
arguing for a single emission standard set by the
federal government. That makes the question
of whether California’s waiver survives still more
critical nationally.
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WHAT HAPPENS IF THE TRUMP
ADMINISTRATION MOVES
AGAINST THE WAIVER?
California oicials have vowed to ight to
preserve the state’s waiver.
“We’re ready to ile suit if needed to protect

these critical standards and to ight the
Administration’s war on our environment,”
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra
said Monday in a statement. “California didn’t
become the sixth-largest economy in the world
by spectating.”
The Trump administration would have a tough

ight legally if it tries to revoke California’s waiver
outright, especially since it’s stood for nearly a
half-century, said Richard Frank, director of the
California Environmental Law and Policy Center
at the University of California, Davis.
California would have “somewhat less of a

powerful argument” legally, however, if the
Trump administration refuses to renew the
waiver the next time the state comes before the
EPA with a plan to tighten state emissions rules,
Frank said.
President George W. Bush’s administration made

its own move against California’s unique say on
emissions standards in 2007, for the irst time
denying California its waiver.
Before courts could decide the matter

conclusively, the Obama administration
reversed that waiver denial in 2009.
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SOME OKLAHOMA
CHURCHES
EMBRACE
STREAMING
DIGITAL SERVICES
According to streaming technology provider

Media Fusion, ive times more people watched
church online on Easter in 2017 than did the
year before.
The statistic is one of the few metrics available

to track the growth of online church and the
proliferation of social media in houses of
worship. Locally, several churches are embracing
technology in a variety of ways, including
streaming services.
Brad Mendenhall, lead pastor at World Harvest

Church, said his church streams one of its two
Sunday services live every week.
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“We stream on our website, and we also
just started streaming on Facebook Live,”
Mendenhall said. “We’re reaching about 40
computers on the website and 150 viewers
on Facebook.”
One of the diiculties of tracking viewer

numbers is that streaming services can log IP
addresses of connected computers but not the
number of people watching the stream, so an
entire family gets counted as one computer.
Mendenhall said World Harvest has been

streaming live for several years, and most viewers
are members of the church who are out of town
or cannot attend for other reasons, like illness.
“We also get participation from people who have

moved away and want to remain connected to
Enid or the church,” Mendenhall said. “We have
one man who watches from England.”
At Emmanuel Baptist Church in Enid, two of the

three Sunday morning services are streamed
live from the church’s website. Like World
Harvest, Emmanuel gets viewers from around
the country and in a few other countries, the
Enid News & Eagle reported . Lead pastor Wade
Burleson said many of the viewers consider
themselves members of Emmanuel.
“We respond to their needs like we would any

other member,” Burleson said. His comment
anticipates a common criticism of online
church — that it is not the same as actual,
physical membership and leads to less
relationship formation.
“Many of our ‘echurch’ viewers are gathering in

small groups to watch,” Burleson said. “They may
not have a teaching gift in the group, so they
may use our service for the sermon. That seems
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to me like what the early church did, meeting
house to house. It encourages relationship.”
Burleson said Emmanuel is reaching 100-

125 computers a week on its streams and an
unknown number on Facebook, where the
worship team posts music videos, many of
which are shared beyond Oklahoma.
“We see the videos getting shared by large

entities like Bethel Church or Hillsongs Australia,
so we’re making connections with groups from
all over the world,” Burleson said.
Mark McAdow became the pastor of Willow

View United Methodist Church in June 2017. His
church is working with some of the challenges
congregations face when they move into
digital technology: volunteer staf, access
and understanding of digital platforms and
technical issues.
“We are videotaping the services for now,”

McAdow said. “We have sound issues that need
to be worked out before we can stream services.
I’m hoping to have it resolved within the
next month.”
Like many churches, Willow View hopes to use

more technology moving forward, and all three
pastors airmed a belief that technology will
continue to grow in importance over the next
several years.
In a world in which 25 percent of Americans

listen to podcasts and billions of people around
the planet are on social media, it’s impossible to
ignore reality for an ancient faith.
“I think digital church is the future,” Burleson

said, “and churches that don’t adapt are going to
lose people.”
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WHEN DRONE
IMPERILED
NEW ZEALAND
PLANE, NOBODY
CALLED POLICE
When a drone lew within meters of a landing

plane last week, endangering 278 passengers
and crew, Air New Zealand responded by saying
that such reckless drone operators should be
thrown in prison.
Other agencies also sounded the public alarm.

Air traic controllers said they were concerned
about the increasing numbers of drones lying
illegally in controlled airspace, while regulators
said lying drones into a light path was
inexcusable and the “height of stupidity.”
Yet The Associated Press has found that none of

the agencies involved notiied police about the
drone. Not while it was endangering the plane,
nor later to try to track down the perpetrator.
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Air New Zealand didn’t call. Auckland Airport
didn’t call. Air traic controllers didn’t call. And
the Civil Aviation Authority, the regulatory
agency that oversees aviation safety, didn’t call.
Flight NZ92 from Tokyo was landing at Auckland

Airport on March 25 when it had the close call.
Air New Zealand said the pilots spotted the
drone about 5 meters (16 feet) from the plane at
a point in their descent when it was impossible
to take evasive action.
The airline said the drone passed so close that

the crew worried it had been sucked into an
engine, although a later inspection showed that
hadn’t happened.
“It’s clear the time has now come for tougher

deterrents for reckless drone use around airports
to safeguard travelers,” David Morgan, the
airline’s chief operations and integrity standards
oicer, said in a statement last week.
But police told the AP that there was no record

of any report to them about the drone. And
that’s despite police oicers being routinely
stationed at the airport.
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Under current regulations, drone operators who
breach aviation rules can be ined up to 5,000
New Zealand dollars ($3,600).
Airways spokeswoman Emily Davies said the irst

priority for air traic controllers during a drone
incursion is to safely manage the planes in the
area. She said a controller can call police if it’s
operationally safe to do so.
“On Sunday (March 25), the controllers on duty

were unable to safely leave their positions to
make a call due to the workload associated with
heavy traic volumes and managing the drone
incursion,” Davies said.
She added that controllers are required to notify

regulators, who may decide to involve police in
an investigation.
Auckland Airport said airlines contact controllers

about drones, who in turn contact police if
there is an imminent threat. Air New Zealand
said questions about tracking down the drone
operator should be directed to regulators.
The Civil Aviation Authority said it had received

a report from the pilot about the drone but
couldn’t provide further details “as its part of the
information gathering that is now underway in
connection with this incident.”
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