Vin Diesel Remembers Paul Walker on Second Anniversary Of Death

Vin Diesel is remembering Paul Walker on the second anniversary of the actor’s death.

Walker was tragically killed in a car crash on November 30, 2013. At the time, the 40-year-old star was on a brief break from filming Furious 7. Diesel was understandably devastated over the death of his longtime friend and colleague.

Over the last two years, he has shared countless tributes in Walker’s memory. And on Monday, Diesel posted a new one that bitter-sweetly recognized the passage of time. “No matter where you are in this universe… You will always be, my brother,” he wrote. And on Instagram, Diesel shared a photo of himself and Walker with the words “Brotherhood Has No Limits.”

Colleague Tyrese shared a longer message of his own on Instagram. “It’s still not easy…… 2 years ago today… We lost our brother….. Today I’m just gonna lay low and process….. Clarity through Prayers and perspective is what I always seek and pray for….,” wrote the singer-actor.

Tyrese continued, “With a heavy heart I post this….. Please continue to pray for the Walker family and his real friends who was with him every single day…. They’re some of the best and strongest people I know…… I know you’re in heaven smiling and rooting for us all….. #RIH ( Rest in heaven ).”

Over the last year, Walker has remained a big part of his friends’ lives. In March, Diesel named his newborn daughter Pauline in the late actor’s honor. The following month, he was repeatedly celebrated as Furious 7 opened in theaters. And in August, the cast participated in a tribute during the Teen Choice Awards, where Diesel thanked Walker’s daughter Meadow for helping to keep their family “going.”

Meadow is currently embroiled in a wrongful death lawsuit against Porsche over the fatal accident. Just last week, Walker’s father filed a near-identical suit. Gossip Cop will update if more co-stars share tributes in Walker’s memory.

Adele's '25' Sales Rise to Over 4 Million in U.S.

 

The sales keep climbing for Adele's blockbuster 25 album.

After processing the first sales reports through Nov. 29, Nielsen Music says that 25 has sold at least 650,000 copies in its second week on sale in the U.S. Combined with the 3.38 million 25 sold in its first week (Nov. 20-Nov. 26), the album has now sold more than 4 million in pure album sales. The album’s second tracking week began on Nov. 27 (the always-busy shopping day known as Black Friday). 

25 is the first album to sell more than 4 million copies in a calendar year since Adele's own 21 moved 4.41 million in 2012. (In fact, the only albums to sell at least 4 million in a calendar year since 2006 have been titles by Adele. Aside from 25 in 2015 and 21 in 2012, she also did it with 21 in 2011: 5.82 million.)

There are slightly more than four days left in the sales tracking week to be tabulated (as it ends at the close of business on Thursday, Dec. 3) . Some industry forecasters suggest the album could sell another million copies in its second week, making it the first album to sell a million copies in more than one week.

Billboard is scheduled to report 25's second-week sales on Sunday, Dec. 6, once Nielsen has finished processing its weekly data.

Drake is Spotify's most streamed artist of the year globally

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FILE - In this Oct. 3, 2015, file photo, Drake performs at the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Zilker Park in Austin, Texas. Spotify announced its end-of-the-year list Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2015, and said Drake was the most streamed artist of the year globally, earning 1.8 billion streams in 2015. Rihanna was the year’s most streamed female performer with 1 billion streams, while Major Lazer’s ubiquitous hit, “Lean On,” was the most streamed song of the year with 540 million streams. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Spotify users are clearly listening to Drake. The rapper was the most streamed artist of the year globally.
Spotify announced its end-of-the-year list Tuesday and said Drake earned 1.8 billion streams in 2015. Rihanna was the year's most streamed female performer with 1 billion streams, while Major Lazer's ubiquitous hit, "Lean On," was the most streamed song of the year with 540 million streams.
The Weeknd's breakout album, "Beautify Behind the Madness," was the most streamed album of the year, beating Drake's "If You're Reading This It's Too Late," which was No. 2.
Ed Sheeran, who was the top streaming artist last year, was second behind Drake. The Weeknd, Maroon 5 and Kanye West rounded out the top five.
In the United States, Drake topped the list of most streamed artists, followed by the Weeknd, West, Sheeran and Eminem. Drake's "If You're Reading This" also topped the U.S. albums list, while Fetty Wap's "Trap Queen" was the most streamed song in America.
In Spotify's all-time lists, Sheeran is the most streamed act with more than 3 billion streams; Justin Bieber has the record for most streams in a day with 36 million streams; and Major Lazer's "Lean On," which features MO and DJ Snake, is the leading song.

AshleyMadison.com Hackers Release Details Of 33,000,000 User Accounts

Hackers calling themselves the Impact Team, have posted 9.7 gigabytes of stolen customer details from AshleyMadison.com online for all to see.

The sensitive customer information was uploaded on Tuesday, and was initially only available via the anonymising Tor Web Browser. Enterprising coders have since created websites that make it possible to enter specific email addresses to see if they match the stolen customer records.


According to several reports, the files seem to include the login and account details for almost 33 million people, who at some point signed up for the site. The released files date all the way back to 2008. While they do not contain any actual credit card numbers, they do apparently include street addresses, names, and transactions  While users of AshleyMadison.com may have falsified their information when signing up, (such as giving a false name), unless they used a pre-paid credit card, then their information will be contained somewhere within the near 10 gigabytes of stolen details.
AshleyMadison.com is a dating website aimed fully at men and women who are already married, and are actively looking to have affairs. The company has courted controversy since its founding by Noel Biderman back in 2001, but has proved to extremely successful as a workable business model. The company whose motto goes “Life is short, have an affair,” is no stranger to controversy, priding itself on its pro-infidelity approach to life. However Ashley Madison also prided itself on being ‘discrete,’ which may now no longer be a selling point for future users of the site.
According to Impact Team’s initial statement posted online, part of their motivation was to target a company that lies, and “profits on the pain of others.”  Another motivating factor was apparently the fact that Ashley Madison’s full profile deletion option, that generated $1.7 million alone in 2014 for the company, is not quite as comprehensive as users might have hoped for: Users real names and addresses are still allegedly kept on file, and this information comprised part of Impact Team’s statement.
Impact Team said they would release all the customer records they had obtained unless AshleyMadison.com was taken “offline permanently in all forms.” Ashley Madison did not comply with this request. Avid Life Media, the company owning Ashley Madison, said in a statement: “This event is not an act of ‘hacktivism’, it is an act of criminality…”
The original theft of the Data took place in July, and evidence allegedly points to a former employee of Ashley Madison with inside knowledge of the company.

Sex-mad Chelsea medic ruined my life

EXCLUSIVE: Eva said she bedded ace to upset me, claims ex-lover 

Passionate ... Chelsea doc Eva Carneiro

CHELSEA doctor Eva Carneiro’s ex says they split after she taunted him by claiming she had sex with a player.
Eva, demoted after a row with Jose Mourinho, had a passionate relationship with Rupert Patterson-Ward for 15 months. He said last night: “This woman ruined my life.
“Eva would blurt out she had slept with one of the players during heated rows. She said it just to make me feel bad. I don’t believe it was true.’’

 
 Besotted ... Eva's ex Rupert Patterson-Ward

Rupert claims one Chelsea player called her to his hotel room and answered the door naked.
He added: “She prides herself on being popular among the players. Eva loved the attention.”
Chelsea fan Rupert, 33, spoke after Eva was dropped from the bench after a row with manager Jose Mourinho.
Mourinho labelled his medical team “naïve” after they rushed on to the pitch to treat Eden Hazard in the closing stages of their home game with Swansea last weekend.
The Belgian star had to walk off the pitch after Eva and physio Jon Fearn attended to him.
It left Chelsea, already a man down, with just nine players.

 
Bust-up ... Jose Mourinho blasts Eva during match

Advertising salesman Rupert began dating Eva in January 2012 and last night told how she is passionate, ruthless and gets whatever she wants.
And he revealed how the Gibraltar-born medic, now 41, once led him to the bedroom and declared: “Let me treat you.”
He said: “Eva is a very sexual woman and not many people know the real her.
“She’s ruthless and gets whatever and whoever she wants.
“I was besotted with her and we were planning a family, but she chewed me up and spat me out.


 A touch of glass ... Eva downs wine on holiday in 2013 

“She rubbished me because I earned less than £30,000 a year — what some footballers collect in a day. I tried so hard but nothing was good enough for her.”
He said: “Eva loved sex. It was so important to her. We would have sex every single day.
“She is a fiery and passionate woman who knows what she wants. I was an incredibly lucky man.
“We were blissfully happy. We were an item and wanted the world to know — two people very much in love.”
Rupert was so keen to impress her he embarked on a rigorous gym regime in a bid to look more like the hunky football stars she worked with on a daily basis.
But one of his workouts left him in agony when he pulled a shoulder muscle.


 With Rupert ... couple before she dumped him

He said: “I was doubled up and really hurting. When Eva came back she saw I was in pain.
“She took me to her bedroom, and with a twinkle in her eye said, ‘I need to treat you’.
“She tore off my clothes, glanced at my shoulder, jumped on me and we had passionate sex.”
But months later, as their relationship floundered, he claims she taunted him by bragging that she’d had sex with a player during their time together.
Rupert said: “Eva would blurt out she had slept with one of the players during heated rows.
“She said it just to make me feel bad. I don’t believe it was true.’’
The fact the couple were dating was the subject of Chelsea fans’ blogs. One posted a photo of Eva and Rupert with the message: “A million dreams have just been shattered... Eva and her boyfriend.”


 Cleopatra ... her club party outfit 

Eva joined Chelsea in 2009 and former manager Andre Villas-Boas brought her into the first-team fold in 2011. She is regarded as a top-class professional and one of the best sports medics in the game.
Rupert first met her at Frankie’s sports bar in the club’s Stamford Bridge complex. He said: “I was a bit tipsy and loose-tongued and went over and began chatting.
“She was with her parents but I didn’t care. I chatted for as long as I could without freaking her out, and made sure she had my name, phone number, email, you name it.
“That day was like a Carlsberg TV ad.”
Rupert believes Eva mistakenly thought he worked at Chelsea FC. But he was welcomed into the inner sanctum of the club as her boyfriend and was on friendly terms with the team’s superstars.

Pet pooch ... the doctor with her dog

He said: “Eva got me tickets to every home game. I’d go to lots of away matches too.
“Everyone at the club knew who I was. I was invited to the homes of Florent Malouda and Petr Cech.
“I travelled to Munich for the Champions League final with John Terry’s wife Toni, Frank Lampard’s partner Christine Bleakley and all of the team’s friends and family.
“John knew who I was and I’d shake hands with Didier Drogba and others. It was amazing.”
During a lavish trip to Marbella, Eva asked Rupert if he would consider moving to Spain so they could live close to her family.
He said: “I answered ‘yes’ in a flash. We were so in love.
“We discussed having children. We had sex a million times.
“She could have fallen pregnant any day.”

Cup cake ... she enjoys a tasty treat Tim Stewart News Limited

But Rupert told how Eva’s high-pressure job means she can change emotions in an instant.
They began having bust-ups in September 2012.
Rupert sub-let his flat and moved into Eva’s property in Earlsfield, South London, but their rows became more frequent.
He was so worried he was losing her that he once hired a £50,000 Jeep 4x4 to pick her up from Chelsea’s training ground in Cobham, Surrey. But the cracks in the relationship began to deepen.
Rupert said he “saw the real Eva” when she briefly dumped him after her 39th birthday because he “hadn’t made enough effort”.
New Year’s Eve at a pub was also a disaster when Eva and Rupert were joined by her parents.
He said: “I saw Eva give out her number to another guy. I got drunk and went home alone.
“Later in Eva’s bedroom, she slapped me hard with both hands around my face. She then kicked me out of the house in front of her parents. I had nowhere to go and it was humiliating. We patched things up a day or two later.”
Rupert said whenever he rowed with Eva she would pull out her claim that she had slept with one of the Chelsea squad.

On hols ... pair together in June, 2013

He said: “She told how one footballer would constantly hit on her, parading around naked in front of her at every opportunity in the dressing room and making sure she got a real eyeful.
“After one match he called her to his hotel room and answered the door completely starkers.
“Eva rubbed my nose in it when we rowed. It was cruel.
“She is a fiery Latino, sex-mad, and prides herself on being popular among the players. Eva loved the attention.”
He said the professional demands placed on her by the team put a huge strain on the relationship.
“He recalled: “We would be sitting at home watching TV and she would have calls from players at 9pm or 10pm. They would have had a sore leg or had pulled a hamstring.
“She always went and returned in the early hours. I had to get my head around the fact she would be giving players rub downs.”
The end for Rupert came after an ill-fated trip to Marbella at the end of the 2013 season. He said: “She never spoke to me again.”
Rupert, who has since found new love, said of Eva: “She loves hanging around rich guys with huge egos. I think she liked me because I was different, but ultimately I wasn’t enough for her.”

Jihadi John On The Run, From ISIS

Mohammed Emwazi, who is believed to be the killer Jihadi John in several beheading videos released online by the Islamic State group, may have worn out his welcome with the terrorist organization. Emwazi reportedly fled the militant group in Syria several weeks ago, bound for North Africa.

Emwazi, once a London resident, apparently fears the militant group formerly known as either ISIL or ISIS will drop him “like a stone or worse if they feel he is no longer of any use to them,” a source told the Daily Express newspaper in the U.K. The source added, “So it is possible he will end up suffering the same fate as his victims.”

The 26-year-old gained notoriety when identified as Jihadi John, who had brutally beheaded journalists and humanitarian-aid workers from the U.S. and Britain in propaganda messages released by the Islamic State group over the past year. The Express reported the loss of anonymity has terrified Emwazi.

A priority of the American and British special forces fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is to track down Emwazi, who is concerned that jealous fellow militants may be plotting against him, the Daily Express reported.

Emwazi, a Kuwait-born U.K. immigrant who holds a degree in computer science from the University of Westminster, may be laying low with a lesser-known jihadist group in Syria. He is wanted by allied forces for questioning in the killings of James Foley, David Haines, Alan Henning, Peter Kassig and Steven Sotloff.

A former friend of Emwazi told the Express that the jihadist had not been “a good Muslim” and never wore the Islamic dress he has been seen wearing in the beheading videos. “He smoked drugs, drank and was violent towards other boys,” said the friend, who was not named in the report. “The fact he portrays himself as a strict Muslim is laughable and shameful.”

Dylann Roof Photos and a Manifesto Are Posted on Website

Dylann Roof Photos and a Manifesto Are Posted on Website

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COLUMBIA, S.C. — Dylann Roof spat on and burned the American flag, but waved the Confederate.

He posed for pictures wearing a No. 88 T-shirt, had 88 Facebook friends and wrote that number — white supremacist code for “Heil Hitler”— in the South Carolina sand.

A website discovered Saturday appears to offer the first serious look at Mr. Roof’s thinking, including how the case of Trayvon Martin, the black Florida teenager shot to death in 2012 by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, triggered his racist rage. The site shows a stash of 60 photographs of Mr. Roof, many at Confederate heritage sites or slavery museums, and includes a racist manifesto in which the author criticized blacks as being inferior while lamenting the cowardice of white flight.

“I have no choice,” it reads. “I am not in the position to, alone, go into the ghetto and fight. I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time had the highest ratio of blacks to Whites in the country. We have no skinheads, no real KKK, no one doing anything but talking on the internet. Well someone has to have the bravery to take it to the real world, and I guess that has to be me.”

The website was first registered on Feb. 9 in the name of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old man charged with entering a black church in Charleston Wednesday night, attending a prayer meeting for an hour and then murdering nine parishioners. The day after the site was registered, the registration information was intentionally masked.

It is not clear whether the manifesto was written by Mr. Roof or if he had control of it. Nor is it clear whether he took the pictures with a timer, or if someone else took them. The F.B.I. and Charleston police officials say they are examining the site.

But if it is genuine, as his friends seem to think, the tourist sites he visited, the pictures that were posted and the hate-filled words filling the site offered a chilling glimpse into the interests of an unemployed high school dropout said to have a fixation on race and a murderous rage.

“This whole racist thing came into him within the past five years,” said Caleb Brown, a childhood friend of Mr. Roof’s who is half-black. “He was never really popular; he accepted that. He wasn’t like, ‘When I grow up I am going to show all these kids.’ He accepted who he was, and who he was changed, obviously.”

Mr. Roof, who is accused of being the lone gunman who entered the Emanuel A.M.E. Church Wednesday night and unleashing a murderous rampage with a .45 handgun, has been charged with nine counts of murder in connection with the killings. Victims included the Rev. Clementa C, Pinckney, who was both the church pastor and a state senator.

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Mr. Roof, who was first identified by surveillance footage released the morning after the killings, is being held at the Charleston County jail, along with a North Charleston police officer charged with shooting an unarmed African-American motorist in the back in April.

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Mr. Roof’s friends say that he only spoke of his racist leanings once — when he recently warned that he planned to do something crazy with the gun he had purchased with the money he got from his parents for his 21st birthday. But they say he was bothered by the uproar surrounding the Trayvon Martin case.

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Victims’ Families Address Dylann Roof

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Victims’ Families Address Dylann Roof

Family members of those killed Wednesday at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., addressed the shooting suspect, Dylann Roof, in court.

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The website, the lastrhodesian.com, features a photo of a bloodied dead white man on the floor. The picture appears to be a shot from “Romper Stomper,” an Australian movie about neo-Nazis. It was first discovered by a blogger who goes by the pen name Emma Quangel.

The blogger was inspired by another Twitter user to pay $49 for a reverse domain search that turned up the site.

According to web server logs, the manifesto was last modified at 4:44 p.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, the day of the Charleston shootings, and the essays notes: “at the time of writing I am in a great hurry.”

The manifesto says: “The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was,” the essay says. “It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words ‘black on White crime’ into Google, and I have never been the same since that day.”

 

Violent History: Attacks on Black Churches

The killing of nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., is among a long list of attacks targeting predominantly black churches in the United States. 

The account cites the website of the far-right Council of Conservative Citizens as a site he learned from.

A friend of Mr. Roof’s, Jacob Meek, 15, said the references to the Trayvon Martin case made it clear that Mr. Roof had written the essay. “That’s his website,” he said. “He wrote it, and I just can tell.”

Watchdog groups that track right-wing extremism say the manifesto reflects the language found in white supremacist forums online and dovetails with what has been said about Mr. Roof thus far — that he had self-radicalized, and that he did not belong to a particular hate group. “It’s clear that he was extremely receptive to those ideas,” said Mark Pitcavage, the director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. “At the same time, he does not have a sophisticated knowledge of white supremacy.”

In one picture, Mr. Roof is shown posing with wax figures of slaves. In others, he posed with a handgun that appears to be a .45-caliber Glock. He had a .45-caliber Glock in his car when he was arrested Thursday, the police said.

Mr. Roof is alone in all the photos, which show a slave plantation; Sullivan’s Island, S.C.; and the Museum and Library of Confederate History in Greenville, S.C. He sports the same gloomy look in many of the photos, but others depict nature scenes and vacation photographs.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s glossary of racist skinhead terms, “Fourteen stands for the ‘14 words’ slogan coined by David Lane,” who died in 2007 while serving a 190-year sentence for his part in the assassination of a Jewish talk show host. The slogan, according to the center, is “‘We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” The letter H is the eighth letter of the alphabet, so 88 is a known code for “Heil, Hitler.” The website’s links contain several passages of long racist rants, saying Hispanics are enemies and “Negroes” have lower I.Q.s and low impulse control. The writings are not signed.

Mr. Roof’s Tumblr had contained photos that matched his Facebook page, but both were taken down after the killings.

The manifesto discovered Saturday uses defamatory terms for blacks, whom he accused of being “stupid and violent” with “the capacity to be very slick.” It laments white flight, and suggested that the whites should instead stay behind in cities and fight.

Criticisms are levied at Hispanics and Jews, but Asians are praised for being racists and potential allies. Whites are unfairly portrayed as all having been slave owners, the essay says. In reality, the author wrote, slavery was not that bad.

Mr. Brown said his friend’s transformation appeared to have occurred after he transferred to a new high school in Lexington.

“He wasn’t putting on Facebook ‘I hate black people. I am going to shoot up a church,” Mr. Brown said.