A day when much of Southern California felt a 5.3 tremor.. According to preliminary reports from the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was centered 35.4 miles southwest of Channel Islands Beach. The quake’s preliminary depth was 10.4 miles. Los Angeles county felt it..
And now that SAUDI is opening up to the early 20th century, Time Warner is eyeing the nation! Time-Warner wants to bring more of its brands to Saudi Arabia, a top network executive told Arab News after a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman..
Not being evil at all, but creative, this is worth noting: Scientists have grown veggies in Antarctica WITHOUT SUNLIGHT OR SOIL! .. no really. Real news here. Working out of a shipping container-sized lab in an otherwise barren snowscape, the team gathered about 8 pounds of produce from their first yield, the AP reports, including herbs, lettuce, arugula, and red radishes...
Scientists at NASA want to send drone bees to Mars! Again, real news: Engineers are developing swarms of robotic 'bees' that can hover above the Martian surface, collecting data and communicating with a mobile exploration base. It's bio-inspired engineering at its finest...
Nailed It! is a Netflix original series which premiered on March 9, 2018. It is a reality bake-off competition where three amateur bakers compete to replicate complicated cakes and confectionery, in order to win a $10,000 cash prize..
The show is one of the newest hits on the online service..
But one episode in particular stands out.. The contestants are told to make a cake of President Donald Trump. One woman's creation is horrific: Below is the right version and her version that pales in comparison.
And if that does NOT give you nightmares, a newer version of the image will.. grayed out.. black and white.. darkened on the edges.. with shadows made more prominent. The keeper of the crypt.
The temblor hit beneath the Pacific Ocean about 12:29 p.m., at a depth of about 10 miles beneath the surface, USGS reported. It was centered about 41 miles southwest of Ventura and 85 miles west of Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Fire Department is in “earthquake mode” following the shaking, as is standard protocol, LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas tweeted. He said units will be surveying the city.
There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage, according to law enforcement and fire agencies across Southern California.
Facebook asked several major U.S. hospitals to share anonymized data about their patients, such as illnesses and prescription info, for a proposed research project.
Facebook was intending to match it up with user data it had collected, and help the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.
Cunningham -- who worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- left work on Feb. 12, saying he wasn’t feeling well. The 35-year-old hadn’t been seen since.
The medical examiner said the preliminary cause of death for Cunningham is drowning but she said officials are still determining the exact cause of death.
The INTERNET is enraged over what it knew in the back of its collective head since TIME mag named Mark Zuckerberg their person of the year..
Facebook said Wednesday that most of its 2 billion users likely have had their public profiles scraped by outsiders without the users' explicit permission!
The acknowledgment was part of a broader disclosure by Facebook on Wednesday about the ways in which various levels of user data have been taken by everyone from malicious actors to ordinary app developers.
"We’re an idealistic and optimistic company, and for the first decade, we were really focused on all the good that connecting people brings," Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with reporters Wednesday afternoon. "But it’s clear now that we didn’t focus enough on preventing abuse and thinking about how people could use these tools for harm as well."
When logging into Tinder using Facebook, you get a prompt that says the app “requires you provide additional Facebook permissions in order to create or use a Tinder account.”
“This information is used to create fuller profiles, verify authenticity and provide support,” the pop-up reads. After pressing “Ask Me,” the app directs you to Facebook’s site to log in. Tinder then asks you to hand over “relationship interests, work history, and education history” from Facebook. Once you tap “Continue” in the Facebook app, you’re taken back to the Tinder app, where you will either see a loading “Logging In” icon or an error.
Eleven hours before she shot up YouTube headquarters and then killed herself, Nasim Najafi Aghdam chatted with police.
It was 1:40 a.m. Tuesday, and Aghdam was hundreds of miles away from home. Police found her car overnight at a Mountain View parking lot, about 30 miles southeast of YouTube headquarters.
A quick check of her license plate revealed the owner had been reported missing from the San Diego area.
"We contacted the woman inside the vehicle, who was asleep, to check on her and to determine if she was the same person who had been reported missing," Mountain View police said.
No surprise here.. anyone who acts like this is the first time they heard it needs their heads, or private messages, examined. Oh wait.. Facebook already examined them.
Facebook Inc. scans the links and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, and reads chats when they’re flagged to moderators, making sure the content abides by the company’s rules. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked or taken down.
The company confirmed the practice after an interview published earlier this week with Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg raised questions about Messenger’s practices and privacy. Zuckerberg told Vox’s Ezra Klein a story about receiving a phone call related to ethnic cleansing in Myanmar. Facebook had detected people trying to send sensational messages through the Messenger app, he said.
“In that case, our systems detect what’s going on,” Zuckerberg said. “We stop those messages from going through.”
The current debate has shifted from the private message links and photos to the bigger question: What ISN'T Facebook reading? ...
You can most likely deduct the answer using reasoning and common sense.
Heather Wade announced that she was going to go to Area 51 this coming June.. People have been responding fast and furious, with some stating she is in danger of being arrested--or even killed!
Talk show legend and original MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT host Art Bell is responding in kind to people on Facebook..
What Heather is doing is a brave act. For all my life people have talked Disclosure and talked and talked. I have no illusion that she will get to any Alien anything but at least she feels the need to do something, anything to move beyond talk and raise the stakes in trying to get to the truth. If we have been visited (and I believe we have) we have a right to know. It seems to me we have a moral right to know, will it change people’s basic faith? Not any more than the Pope suddenly being quoted as saying “There is no Hell”. We have a right to know, she is right and if a act of Civil Disobedience helps I am all for it.
On acts of civil disobedience..
Not much has ever happened in America until people have engaged in some act that ended up with jail or a sore head
On whether he would join..
I completely understand what she is doing and why, if I was younger I would join. I guess if you really want change you have to do more then ask
When asked about the famed pilot who called into his show while flying directly into Area 51 in the 1990s,
They don’t know when she is coming, like I have said I have no illusions that she will meet any Aliens or even get close, I think it just makes the point that talking won’t get it done, I feel we have a right to know and have always hoped it would be before I go...
A woman opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters Tuesday afternoon before dying of a gunshot wound, multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News.
Multiple injuries were reported.
It wasn't immediately known whether the woman killed herself or was killed by responding security or law enforcement officers.
A spokesperson for Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital confirms they're receiving patients from the shooting at their facility. They added patients are also being transported to other Bay Area hospitals.
SKY7 is over the campus, where law enforcement were seen approaching the building with guns drawn. Employees were evacuated with arms overhead, and the campus is flanked with dozens of police cars and emergency vehicles.
A law enforcement source confirms to ABC7 News reporter Dan Noyes that the shooter is a white, adult female wearing a dark top and head scarf.
Andre The Giant was literally larger than life in appearance but also in pop culture. He helped define 1980s profeessional wrestling.. That is why lots of fans were excited to hear that the WWE and HBO teamed up to do a documentary on his life.
Ric Flair shows up for the first time about 26 minutes in just to make a dick joke. At times, it’s exactly right. It’s maybe never as right as when Vince and Hulk spend about two solid minutes doing impersonations of Andre’s farts.At the same time, the “winner writes the history” version of WWE storytelling is heavy. Heavy. You’ve got Vince McMahon explaining how he took over the territory system by announcing that his product was “vastly better,” with no argument or even a conversation. It was just accepted as fact. Hulk Hogan’s the guy they go to when it’s time to talk about how Andre hated Macho Man Randy Savage, because of course he is, and at one point the documentary straight-up almost becomes a Hogan doc. They push Andre aside to explain Hulk Hogan, which takes time, but in fairness is somewhat necessary for the non-wrestling fan viewer to grasp the big WrestleMania III part. Hogan is there to talk about himself, wearing a Hogan’s Beach T-shirt. WrestleMania and how great WrestleMania is dominates the second half of the film. Mean Gene Okerlund is there to explain how he’d never seen anything as great as WrestleMania!
LEVY TALKS ABOUT STRANGER THINGS 3.. "The first two seasons were very much school-based. This is that time of year where it’s not about school, it’s about the swimming pool and campfires and parades and Fourth of July and fireworks, so there’s kind of a poppy fun to Season 3 that’s really enjoyable before things inevitably turn super dark"
The Catholic university in Steubenville, Ohio sent out a tweet on Friday saying its ad was rejected for content that is “shocking, sensational, and excessively violent.”
DOW -450 TODAY.. Monday night bar rooms are no doubt full near Wall Street..
Yet another ridiculous new fad challenge.. It’s a game called the “condom-snorting challenge” and, not unlike other dangerous dares that have swept social media, teenagers have been doing it — for years now. “There are all kinds of drugs, and kids are clever, so it’s just really: What are our kids doing? So, that’s what we try to share,” Stephen Enriquez, a state education specialist in San Antonio, told Fox affiliate KABB. He visited a school to warn parents and teachers not only about drugs and alcohol but also about these social media challenges, according to the station.
MAKERS OF GET OUT ARE BACK: THR reports that Lindelof and Nick Cuse are behind the script alongside while American Gods and Westworld’s Craig Zobel will direct. Lindelof, Curse and Zobel have previously worked together on HBO’s The Leftovers.The Hunt will reportedly take inspiration from the current political climate in the US and the tensions between the left and right leaning.
The man who plays the gruff, stern — yet wholly charming — police chief in a made-up city in Indiana came to the real Indiana for the first time ever to talk to hundreds of “Stranger Things” super fans Saturday.. David Harbour answered questions from the mostly teenage audience at Indiana Comic Con and admitted that he didn’t think the massively popular Netflix show would be successful when he first started playing Chief Jim Hopper two years ago.
“Season 3 is set in the summer, so right out of the gate that’s a big difference,” Levy told Variety at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood. “The first two seasons were very much school-based. This is that time of year where it’s not about school, it’s about the swimming pool and campfires and parades and Fourth of July and fireworks, so there’s kind of a poppy fun to Season 3 that’s really enjoyable before things inevitably turn super dark.”
Most burned up before t narrowly missed an island paradise ..
And let's be honest.. how creepy
It appears that at around 8:15pm ET, Tiangong-1, Chinese for "Heavenly Palace", the failed space station, crashed in the South Pacific near Easter Island off the west coast of South America.
Despite the strange black smoke seen in the sky tonight after parts of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, it appears that the Chinese satellite is still on a collision course for TOMORROW..
Experts have revised the time the Tiangong-1 Space Station is due to crash.
Their latest forecasts have it down between 3pm tomorrow and 5am Tuesday morning.
They will continue to refine the expected impact time.
The promise is now that by tomorrow, experts should also be able to give the public an idea where the impact zone about 5-7 hours prior to impact.
I am not saying this is the satellite by any stretch of the imagination... but when the Tiangong is poised to hit earth somewhere in my latitude zone, it’s alarming to see bright flashes and black smoke streaks in the sky.
These images were about taken about 30 miles away from Marlton NJ in my travels back to Pennsylvania from an early Easter dinner
THE out-of-control Chinese space station heading for Earth this weekend is expected to put on a "splendid show", according to experts.
The Tiangong-1 space craft is expected to tear across the sky - similar to that of a meteor shower - once it plummets into the Earth's atmosphere somewhere between today and Easter Monday.
Here we go.. whether you like it or not. If you say you do well, we will be able to figure out if you really do.
Mind reading is here..
Scientists have developed an astonishing mind-reading machine which can translate what you are thinking and instantly display it as text.
They claim that it has an accuracy rate of 90 per cent or more and say that it works by interpreting consonants and vowels in our brains.
Study leader David Moses told the Sun: 'No published work has demonstrated real-time classification of sentences from neural signals.
'Given the performance exhibited by [the machine] in this work and its capacity for expansion, we are confident in its ability to serve as a platform for the proposed speech prosthetic device.'
From the WWE: Hillbilly Jim often found himself standing across the ring from nefarious Superstars managed by Jimmy Hart, but in the years since their heyday, the relationship between the two men changed.
Their new dynamic will be on display when Hart inducts Hillbilly Jim into the WWE Hall of Fame during the 2018 Induction Ceremony, streaming live on WWE Network Friday, April 6, at 8 ET/5 PT.
In an interview with the Coronado Eagle & Journal, Funko founder Michael Becker reported that this Summer will see the launch of a brand new line of Funko Cereal that includes licenses that are part of the company’s POP! line.
First up: Freddy Krueger, Elvira and Beetlejuice..
More..
“One of the fun things is we are about to release our own line of cereal, with a mini-Pop inside,” Becker explained. “We got all the cool licenses like He-Man, Wonder Woman, Elvira Mistress of the Dark, Freddy Krueger and our own Freddy Funko. We start shipping to stores in June and we have the distribution set up and the product is pre-sold. It’s just one more of those feel-good Funko items.”
Looking forward to Freddy. The little HorrorReporter Ayden sans Cuphead. And the He-Man statement has me a little curious as to the future of my breakfast table..
Miley just released a sultry set of pastel-colored Easter pics to celebrate the religious holiday in her own way in a shoot with Vogue ... featuring the singer wearing bunny ears, standing in an Easter basket, petting a fluffy cat, flaunting a see-through top and cleavage, and... getting spanked.
Last night on MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT, host Heather Wade announced that she plans on breaking into Area 51 this June and is asking for volunteers to go with her.. MORE: It is a criminal act and poses danger to life and limb to cross the barrier at the gate..
ART BELL posted on Facebook last night, "All I know for sure is she is a truly determined Woman and no amount of talking is going to change her mind. I truthfully say the same thought has crossed my mind over the Years but the thought of Arrest or worst case getting shot always stopped me. She has Cajones"
Bell went on to reply to a comment asking if he would also go, "No, I will stay here to fill in if she needs it and my guess is she will, Area 51 Invasions are for the young."
Sources say the streaming giant is ponying up as much as $350,000 an episode for each of the show's adult
actors...
Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb McLaughlin, the show’s young male stars, are set to make more than $150,000 per episode,
according to the report. Millie Bobby Brown, considered the breakout from the first two seasons, is reportedly earning more than three boys.. All
four reportedly earned $30,000 per episode for the first two seasons.
The two main adult stars, Winona Ryder and David Harbour, are now set to make more than $200,00 per episode, according to the report..
DANNY MCBRIDE
promises his alternate HALLOWEEN movie will reference other films.. MORE: That means that even Halloween II, which takes place on the same
night and picks up immediately after the end of the first film, is not part of what McBride is calling an "alternate reality" for the franchise.
It's a somewhat risky move considering the franchise's long history, but like Disney's decision to wipe the slate clean with the Star Wars
Expanded Universe, it offers up a new world of possibilities for the creative team...
..
McBride and Green's film will be set 40 years
after the original and return to Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) — who's now a mother and grandmother — as Michael Myers reappears in her life.
How the film will address Michael's disappearance and the 40-year gap between stories (something the other films have never had the chance to
try) is still a mystery, but that means Laurie's days as a teacher living under an assumed name with her son (as in Halloween H20) no longer
count, and neither do the stories about Laurie's daughter Jamie (as in Halloween 4 and 5), which were already rendered non-canon by later
sequels..
This is going to be G R E A T ! !
! A horror movie from Shawn Levy and James Wan! .. MORE: The minds behind The Conjuring and Stranger Things are coming together for a new
YA-based horror film. According to Deadline, James Wan and producer Shawn Levy will be developing an adaptation of Stephanie Perkins’s novel
There’s Someone Inside Your House for a coming-of-age slasher-style film. The book centers on a young girl named Makani Young, who, a year after
moving from Hawaii to Nebraska to live with her grandmother, gets caught in the middle of something sinister when her friends start getting
murdered in hideous fashion.
While the killer is being pursued, Makani has to reckon with her own secrets, and according to the Deadline report, audiences can expect “1980s
and ’90s slasher movie meets a John Hughes coming-of-age tale like The Breakfast Club.” So if you’re into Stranger Things and teen screams, this
movie is for you...
STRANGER
THINGS gets hit with #MeToo! In a statement, the Duffer brothers said, “We are deeply upset to learn that someone felt uncomfortable on our
set. Due to the high-stress nature of production, tempers occasionally get frayed, and for that, we apologize. However, we think it is important
not to mischaracterize our set, where we believe strongly in treating everyone fairly regardless of gender, orientation, race, religion, or
anything else. We remain totally committed to providing a safe and collaborative working environment for everyone on our productions"..
This is from a UK GUARDIAN article in 2014.. the nostalgia has changed a bit. The danger of nostalgia remains the same.
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. It’s a signifier that you hate how your life has turned out. It’s a sign that you’ve mentally locked off, and you’re doomed to spend the rest of life drifting in a false reverie of a past that didn’t exist. Nostalgia is why Tim Lovejoy still dresses like it’s 1996 and is primed to weep the moment anyone mentions Ocean Colour Scene to him. It’s why all your Facebook friends spend their days in a whirlwind of incredulous bafflement at the passing of time, forever asking people to like JPEGs about conkers, all because they’re trapped in a loveless marriage to a woman they accidentally knocked up after ironically slow-dancing to I Want To Know What Love Is during a hideous School Disco party. This isn’t a generational thing, incidentally. Everyone’s guilty of it. When I was growing up, I distinctly remember having teachers who would reminisce about their wartime evenings in Anderson shelters. Give them a time machine and the first thing they would do is dart back and relive their glory days shivering in a hole next to a bucket of wee, constantly awaiting terrifying death from above. At least you’re only nostalgic about Blind Date.
Stranger Things, Everything Sucks, and other similar shows have captivated and capitalized on an audience that wants the sugar coated past to come back again. We decorate the fragments of our history with beautiful imagery.. often ignoring the darker forces that are always at play regardless of the time frame.
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing.. it is a time
Nostalgia gives you the rush of memory.. the intense beauty of your childhood and your parents, your family.. the local mall that is now shuddered.. the laughter that has gone away with time.. Yes, nostalgia seems almost fixated in destroying your present time and future alike..
But with nostalgia, as the happiness becomes subdued and subsides, your moral compass turns towards the sadness and grief over the passage of time that comes with it.
We are all aging faster than we want to. Some us just don’t realize it until we have aged far too much.
And as you embrace nostalgia, as you welcome it when it comes knocking.. the inevitable dangers come with it. You will smile at its melancholy colors.. you will laugh along with its stories of past times go by.. and as you give it one last hug, you’ll swell with emotion.
…and that is when it sinks its vampire-style teeth deep into your soul, tearing your very insides out and forcing your body to weep the blood and tears of the past times gone by.
The high-concept horror project from writers Justin Powell and David Charbonier follows two brothers who are terrorized by a sinister
being..
A horror movie /for our time/ .. It was announced just yesterday that James Gunn (Slither, Guardians of the Galaxy) is returning to the horror
genre with an upcoming film he’s producing, which will reunite Gunn with the star of his own Slither, Elizabeth Banks. Plot details are being
kept under wraps at this time..
According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Executives at A24 were familiar with the short
story, and when they heard the author had separately written a script, they became intrigued and tracked it down. What the execs found was a
shrewd character study where mystery and deep-seated scares blended in such a way that the company saw an opportunity to make a horror movie that
could also be culturally relevant, sources say. The plan is to fast-track the script to production, sources added.”..
Blade Runner 2049 best visual effects.. “Dunkirk” wins best film editing
DO THE OSCARS EVEN MATTER ANYMORE!?
OSCAR FLASHBACK: Twenty years ago, a “Titanic” sweep won record ratings for the Oscar broadcast. But ratings have recently been declining. Last year’s show drew 32.9 million viewers for ABC, a four percent drop from the prior year. Even more worrisome was a slide in the key demographic of adults aged 18-49, whose viewership was down 14 percent from 2016..
Critics and Netflix fans alike are raving about it, heralding Paco Plaza, it's director, as a genius for creating what is being dubbed 'the scariest horror movie ever'..
MORE: Telling the story of a young girl, who has to raise her younger siblings as her mother is absent, it takes familiar horror tropes and adds a dose of reality..
Young Veronica and her friends take a break from looking after the siblings and mess about with the Ouija board during a solar eclipse - worse time, who knew?
Trying to summon the spirit of a dead friend, they accidentally disturb the spirit of her dead father - and then something or rather someone else...
AND there is a blind nun.
Nothing scarier than that..
WHILE VERONICA is being said to be based on a true story, there is some loose playing with facts to create an intense horror flick: The events all took place in 1992 when a young girl in Vallecas, south Madrid, was briefly hospitalised and died after dabbling with a ouija board.
The story begins with three friends playing with a Ouija board and ends three days later with Jose Pedro Negri, a police detective who entered a house to find it full of strange smells and noises.
It is said to be the only time the word ‘unexplained’ marks a police file...
This song, KIDS from the STRANGER THINGS soundtrack, has a melancholy but mesmerizing tone..It reminds me of a less incredulous time. It spawns memories in the nostalgic portion of my brain to form—glimpses of my past, my childhood, my friendships, my parents singing me to sleep .. It is the soundtrack to nostalgia, in a sense.
There is something magical about most of STRANGER THINGS. But this song, as of late, has become a strange addiction… And as much as I hate the scourge of nostalgia, this song does nothing but open up more of the total recalls ..
Dr. Timothy J. Cunningham had been a rising official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Harvard-educated epidemiologist was promoted in July at the U.S. Public Health Service in Atlanta and contributed to responses following outbreaks of Zika, Ebola and health emergencies caused by Hurricane Sandy. He also was a prominent fixture in the Atlanta community, earning a spot in Atlanta Business Chronicle’s 40 Under 40 Awards last year.
But the researcher, who studies disease patterns, was not feeling well Feb. 12 and left work around midday
FROM WASHINGTON POST REPORTING:
Cunningham, 35, hasn’t been seen or heard from since, his family and police have said, sparking a $10,000 reward offered by the family in partnership with Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta for information leading to an arrest and indictment in connection with the incident.
“I feel like I’m in a horrible ‘Black Mirror’ episode,” his sister, Tiara Cunningham, told the New York Times, referencing the dystopian sci-fi television show. “I’m kind of lost without him, to be quite honest.”
She told the paper she speaks with her brother often, but their conversation Feb. 12 left her concerned. “He sounded not like himself,” she said. He did not reply to a text message she sent later, and their mother, Tia-Juana Cunningham, did not reach him either.
A magma reservoir potentially hidden behind an underwater volcanic crater could have civilization-ending results if it ever erupts, according to Japanese scientists. 100 MILLION PEOPLE, THEY SAY, COULD BE KILLED..
Experts from the Kobe University Ocean Bottom Exploration Center (KOBEC) have confirmed that a giant caldera or large crater exists in the Japanese Archipelago. The crater, measuring 32 cubic kilometers, is said to be the largest of its kind and the result of an explosive underwater eruption 7,300 years ago, according to their latest study.
Sitting between the Pacific and Philippine Sea Oceanic plates, Japan is a hotbed for seismic activity, which is why scientists are keen on updating methods of predicting natural disasters. The KOBEC team has been carrying out detailed surveys of the area and published their findings in Scientific Reports.
Heather Wade announced that she was going to go to Area 51 this coming June.. People have been responding fast and furious, with some stating she is in danger of being arrested--or even killed!
