The four-minute video clip, titled “Last Chance,” uses computer animation to show what looks like an intercontinental ballistic missile flying through the earth’s atmosphere before slamming into Washington, near what appears to be the Lincoln Memorial. A nuclear explosion follows
The video is titled “A message to the Western Kafir [Disbelievers] from the Supporters of the Caliphate.” It’s narrated in English and subtitled in Arabic, and was posted on YouTube and other file-sharing sites.
A North Carolina man says he was arrested for failing to return a VHS tape that he rented in 2002.
James Meyers says he was driving his daughter to school Tuesday when a police officer pulled him over for a defective tail light.
He says the officer told him there was a warrant out for his arrest from 2002, because Meyers had rented the movie “Freddy Got Fingered” starring Tom Green and never returned it.
Meyers says the officer let him take his daughter to school and go to work, as long as he promised to turn himself in to the police department later that day.
Garry Shandling, the writer, actor, producer and comedian best known for his long-running and influential HBO series The Larry Sanders Show and his groundbreaking sitcom It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, died today at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 66
The cause of death was not released..
The NET is buzzing with tributes and sadness over the death of an iconic comedian too early..
The missing link has been found?! A remarkable story..
But now a team of researchers has found a remarkable parallel to one of evolution’s signature events. In a cave in Thailand, they’ve discovered that a blind fish walks the way land vertebrates do.
The waterfall-climbing cave fish, Cryptotora thamicola, has even evolved many of the skeletal features that our ancestors did for walking, including a full-blown pelvis.
“It’s really weird,” said John R. Hutchinson, a biologist at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London who was not involved in the new study. “It’s a good example of how much fish diversity there’s left to be discovered.”
Terrorists were preparing an attack on a nuclear power plant and had recorded 12 hours of reconnaissance footage, it has been reported.
The ISIS cell were spying on Belgium’s nuclear power chief, possibly as part of a kidnap plan to force him to let them into an atomic facility, according to newspaper Derniere Heure.
Hours of film of the home of the Research and Development Director of the Belgian Nuclear Programme were discovered in an apartment in Brussels raided by anti-terrorist police following the attack in Paris.
Newly released images captured by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft reveal a close-up look at Ceres’ odd bright spots and giant mountain, and hint at the existence of ice sheets at the dwarf planet’s poles.
It’s a body that had s body of water that froze.. And entire ocean of ice..amazing.. But this bright spot? That’s the perplexing thing.
UPPER DARBY >> A day after police broke up an underage drinking party involving several hundreds of teens at his Mary Street residence, a 54-year-old father was arrested Sunday on charges including corruption of minors, furnishing alcohol to minors and disorderly conduct.
When Abdul Ahmaddiya’s wife, 45-year-old Nichelle Davis-Ahmaddiya, arrived at police headquarters Monday to post his 10 percent of $1,500 bail, she also was arrested on similar offenses, Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said. Their 17-year-old daughter, who apparently promoted the Saturday night soiree on social media, was cited for alleged consumption and possession of alcohol.
A government document obtained by NBC News shows that just four months before Tuesday’s Brussels attacks, Belgian officials believed they were making progress in defusing the threat posed by ISIS terrorists in Belgium.
A confidential U.S. cable describes how the Belgian officials outlined the nuts and bolts of their aggressive new counter-terrorism program in meetings with U.S. counterparts.
“I saw blood everywhere where was a man whose chest was completely open. He had no more legs. Next to him a second man with no head whose body was shaking. Glass everywhere.”
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Kallouchi Mohammed, 28, works at cafe inside the Brussels airport
A wild day in newsrooms across the world.. This image is being shown on various agencies of the purported terrorists from the vantage point of leaked CCTV..
Most news agencies thus far have hidden this boy’s face in the photo above.. CNN chose to display the image without disguising the clearly underage child involved in the carnage in Brussels.. A journalistic decision
‘I heard a man shout some Arabic words then an explosion… then a second explosion, a massive explosion, much bigger.’
Speaking with blood on his hands and struggling to hold back tears, he added: 'It was a horror. I saw at least seven people dead. There was blood. People had lost legs. You could see there bodies but no legs.’
He added: 'I saw two men face down with blood pouring out of their heads. The injuries were so awful. You cannot imagine. People were so injured.
'I did not see the man who shouted in Arabic as he was behind me. I just heard the words. I don’t speak Arabic so I don’t know what he said.'
In the aftermath, thousands of people waiting for flights this morning were penned inside the terminal as police sealed off the shattered arrivals hall.
People already checked in were then slowly evacuated through emergency exits – but were told to leave all their hand luggage as police checked bags for more explosives.
The images from Belgium are harrowing.. The nation feared terror for since and especially since Paris.. The arrest of the Paris attack mastermind didn’t help alleviate anything. And now today’s 8am morning rush hour double bombings of a subway system and airport in Brussels is being viewed by some as a response to the Friday arrest..
Clear at this point: Belgium and other European cities and nations are on lockdown.. People are being warned to avoid public gatherings.. The train connecting nation shut down..
The story and situation is developing.. With every passing moment more complications on the geo political sphere and in the world of open borders..
Linda Moulton Howe reporting on the EARTHFILES page about this:
A Pedricktown resident sent the following email with his image of a mysterious, pulsing pink beam that lasted for at least ten minutes before the strange beam kept contracting on itself half a dozen times getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared.
The light is bizarre to say the least.. in the description Linda received, the tipster wrote,
At 6:45 am, the beam disappeared. The way it disappeared was it contracted to about 2/3 of the size that was visible towards its center, disappeared,reappeared at its original size and repeated the contraction and disappearance-reappearance about five or six times.
This was not a spotlight, as the brightest spot was in the middle of the beam. Spotlights would be brighter at the power source. It wasn’t a laser pointer as known laser pointers are handheld and couldn’t produce a beam that strong.
There may be a very normal (?) explanation for this light.. but I certainly cannot think of something that would make it seem that way..
Is it possible that Lexa’s death on The 100 could actually be viewed in a positive way by the LGBT community? At the moment, there are thousands of people angry and frustrated at the removal of a lesbian character, but there could be another way to look at this.
There were valid points when The 100 decided to suddenly kill off Lexa. It showed that Jason Rothenberg was going in the same direction as so many other shows: bringing in gay characters just to get rid of them. There are very few shows on TV that support gay and lesbian characters, and most of them will kill them off in some way. Supernatural faced backlash for killing off Charlie during Season 10 for no reason.
As for her own reaction when she heard how Lexa’s story would go in Season 3, Debnam-Carey said, “I was just like, ‘Oh, I’ve got to do this really well! I’ve got to make sure I work really hard and do the character justice.’ Which is hard because that show, we run so quickly and we work really fast, so you’re never quite able to perfect anything, I think. But which also makes it so alive, because it’s constantly moving and developing as you’re filming.”
Spoiler warning for future events of The 100 follow…
Debnam-Carey was seen on the set of the Season 3 finale of The 100, but when I asked her what she could say about that appearance, she laughed and coyly replied, “What was the question? Can I talk about it? No.”
Madonna invited a 17-year-old fan onstage during her concert Thursday night in Brisbane, Australia, and then pulled down the teen’s corset top to briefly reveal her left breast…
The Material Girl ended up in a bit of hot water when she – seemingly accidentally – exposed a 17-year-old fan’s breast during her Rebel Heart Tour in Brisbane, Australia on Thursday.
“She’s the kind of girl you just want to slap…on the a**. And pull–” Madge said as she yanked the teen’s corset down and flashed her boob. “Oh, sh*t! I’m sorry. Sexual harassment. You can do the same to me.”
I am hesitant linking to the video.. there are some YOUTUBE accounts permitting the underage nudity.. even some showing it in SLO MO.
Every now and then if I find a gem online that is worth noting and re-posting I do so.. found such today. This one is called ONCE UPON A TOWN, and showcases old photographs of some famous and not so famous places prior to urban sprawl.. Amazing site. Great work. Check it out..
In a city defined by celebrity, Jones has a unique kind of fame. She’s been called the Beyoncé of earthquakes, the Meryl Streep of government service, a woman breaking barriers in a man’s world.
Her son, now 25, recently texted her: “You’re on Jeopardy!” with a photo of the clue.
Authoritative yet nurturing, the “earthquake lady” has a knack for making a complicated point so simple it seems obvious. Along the way, she has dramatically changed the way the Southland prepares for earthquakes. Buildings are safer, first responders are better equipped and millions of residents have learned that the worst thing to do in an earthquake is to run outside.
“When the big one hits, people will be living because of the work that she has done,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said.
Now Jones hopes to leverage her earthquake credentials to tackle even more ambitious projects. She’s retiring from the USGS this month to help officials develop science-based policies related to climate change, tsunamis and other kinds of natural disasters.
The war on coal… the battle lines drawn. Particular states may be of interest to the Trump campaign this fall..
In rustic Buchanan County, 94 percent of residents are white and pickup trucks are the vehicle of choice – many carry bumper stickers declaring the primacy of the region’s main industry through slogans like “Can’t Keep The Lights On in America Without Coal From Virginia” or “Stop The War On Coal.”
For generations, coal has been the lifeblood in the region known as Appalachia, which includes southwestern Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, and parts of Pennsylvania.
That’s changed drastically in the past 20 years. A major consumer of coal, the U.S. steel industry, has struggled against cheaper imports, closing down smelters from Pennsylvania to Ohio and cutting the demand for metallurgical coal, the higher-grade coal found in Buchanan and surrounding areas.
In the past five years, a global supply glut has driven down coal prices drastically. The company that operates Buchanan County’s largest functioning coal mine reported a steep fall in fourth-quarter prices, from $68.58 per ton in 2014 to $48.41 in 2015.
“Right now we know that there is something out there that’s putting people in near death situations,” said Camden Metro Police Chief Scott Thompson.
Thompson says heroin at its purest form being sold in Camden caused 15 overdoses in several surrounding towns since Tuesday, 14 of those cases being young people.
“Generally young 20’s,” Thompson said. “We’re talking Washington Township, Cherry Hill and Haddonfield. Heroin doesn’t discriminate who it hooks into.”
As a matter of fact, I did.. thanks for the question.
I detailed the UFO sighting I had back in October or so of 2010 – I remember it fondly. It was a beautiful autumn night before my son was born. My now deceased dog Bailey was finding a spot outside during a walk.. and I looked up and saw a hovering cigar shaped light which, after seeing it, sped away out of sight..
This “hotspot” is due to the faster turnover of water through the Atlantic’s currents as compared to the Pacific, where water can take 200-300 years to make a full circuit from one end of the Atlantic to the other, as compared to the 600-900 years it might take for water to get around the Pacific.
In this case, warm waters from the Caribbean Sea that would normally be circulated northeast across the Atlantic Ocean are instead pooling off of the U.S. East Coast, due to the interruption of the North Atlantic Current. As water warms it expands, causing the ocean level to be higher wherever this expansion is experienced. NASA currently uses this effect to track ocean temperatures via satellite, using radar to record regional sea level changes to determine their temperatures.
Another recent study has shown that this has already happened, when a 4-inch sea level rise was recorded in a region of ocean between New York and Newfoundland that occurred in 2009 and 2010, due to a sudden change in the North Atlantic current.
“It could be the discovery of the century. It’s very important for Egyptian history and the history of the world,” he said, adding that the chambers may well have belonged to a king or queen. Further tests will be done on March 31 to discover more about the newly-discovered spaces, he added.
An emerald-green comet will brush the Earth Monday, followed one day later by a kissing cousin that will swerve closer to the planet than any other comet in nearly 250 years.
The first and bigger of the two comets will be visible Monday to the naked eye in the southern hemisphere, as long as city lights are far away. Stargazers in the United States will probably need only binoculars to see the bigger comet in late March. Scientists, however, are bringing out the big guns. The Hubble Space Telescope, the powerful ground-based Gemini telescopes and others will be trained on the celestial visitors, which will provide an extraordinary close-up of objects usually glimpsed only at a distance.
It’s about to feel like 2000 all over again. John Titor–the real time traveler!?–set for MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT with Heather Wade!?
Remember, TITOR never appeared on BELL’s COAST TO COAST AM, but was active in the AOL chat rooms of the early 20th century.. now 16 years later–and lots of time gone on–Heather Wade is able to brag up the fact that she may just have done the extraordinary: Contact made with the time traveler among us..
Fun times ahead .. ‘stay tuned’ appears to be the words..
The wrestler, known in court by his legal name, Terry G. Bollea, sobbed as the verdict was announced in late afternoon, according to people in the courtroom. The jury had considered the case for about six hours.
Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker and a defendant in the case, was found personally liable, as was Albert J. Daulerio, the site’s former editor in chief.
Google Maps has a street view of some amazing stuff.. including this:
Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima, is an abandoned island lying about 15 kilometers from the city of Nagasaki, in southern Japan. It is one of 505 uninhabited islands in Nagasaki Prefecture
According to the United Kingdom Meteor Observation Network (UKMON), the fireball momentarily overloaded the camera with light.
“Preliminary calculations estimate the brightens to be around -7 mag and explosion -14 mag. An estimated terminal altitude was just 30 - 34 km (18.6 - 21 miles),” UKMON’s Richard Kacerek said.
“With the second video we will be able to triangulate and calculate the orbit,” he added.
It’s tempting to find these lapses in realism and historical provenance and find satisfaction in that detective work. But the preservation of the incorrupt is often meant to be noticed. The sacristan, an officer in charge of overseeing Anna Maria’s sacred relics (what he sweetly called her “little old lady things”) explained that the wax on her isn’t designed to trick people. It’s to preserve an honest impression of her the moment she was discovered in her grave.
Yet the mystery is part of how the incorrupt draw us in with their uncanny sleeping faces, as if the twins Hypnos and Thanatos were playing tricks by switching places. They are somehow both a memento mori and the opposite of the anonymous grinning skull. We will all die, but maybe, if we’re very good, we can linger in this world
It forced me into a strange place.. contemplation over what this whole NET thing is doing to the world. To us. To news.. to everything.
I turned 21 a week before 9/11 happened. When that terror attack took place, I went online and immediately began updating –in HTML mind you–my website about the terror attack.. There is still a record of it somewhere on Archive.org. So in that regard, I was immersed in the NET world at 21 before REDDIT and Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr. Back then it was AOL Chat rooms and Drudge, along with very basic chats..
But now? Twitter? REDDIT.. The REAL error of citizen journalism is here. And it’s fast, sloppy, messy, and amazing.
But to what end?
The funny thing is after watching THE THREAD, I feel out of the loop. Even though I was a NET kid, it was new then.. it was all new. Now it’s ‘always been’ to the generation born since 2000. Think about that.. Kids of today have no idea what a boring Sunday afternoon watching NICK meant.. Now it’s constant life online. Nothing boring but yet everything is. Kids of today? You don’t KNOW boring..
And even though I was somewhat on the ‘cutting edge’ of media evolution with my VERY OWN DOT COM in the early part of the century, it’s rudimentary when compared to the fast paced information overload of today’s age.
Fast news. Loose rules.. What you see isn’t what you get. And the best chance of real factual information may come when the book is written years later.
But we are all experimenting with this old media murder. The journalists of yesterday who are still paying their school loans are watching the carpet pulled from them. YOU. Me. EVERYONE can be a reporter.
Is it too much/ Too much Trump? Too much of a good thing? Live streaming until it gets dull?
Periscope…And all of the rest of the social networks popping up hourly.
In the early 1920s, Irish priests of the Order of the Holy Ghost established their mission in southern Nigeria. Later St. Patrick’s Society for Foreign Missions, dedicated on March 17, 1932, became one of many Catholic groups in Nigeria providing education both religious and secular.
These days Catholics in the country number some 20 million, and Nigerian seminaries send their ordinates all over the world to serve as priests. In fact, since numbers of clergy in Ireland have long been in decline, Nigerian priests have recently been assigned to churches there.
Though St. Patrick’s Day is not an official public holiday in Nigeria, plenty of Guinness stout will be consumed anyway. It’s the second most popular beer in the country, brewed with sorghum or maize instead of the European recipe’s barley, and packs a 7.5 percent alcohol content.
It’s said that St. Patrick’s revelers thought wearing green made them invisible to leprechauns, who would pinch anyone they could see (anyone not wearing green). People began pinching those who didn’t wear green as a reminder that leprechauns would sneak up and pinch those not sporting the color.
The Walking Dead creator debuted his new series Outcast at the South by Southwest film festival on Monday. The upcoming Cinemax series is adapted from Kirkman’s comic about demonic possession and exorcism.
The first episode’s climactic exorcism scene involves – spoiler alert for those who have not read the comic – the show’s troubled hero Kyle Barnes (Gone Girl’s Patrick Fugit) violently and repeatedly punching a possessed 10-year-old child in the face. Previously the character revealed such a method for driving out a demon worked for him in the past.
“He was a monster and he deserved it,” joked Fugit when asked about the scene, then added of the young actor: “He was such a little trouper.”
The only two ways to meet people that have had increased chances of success lately: Bars and online. The new reality of dating. Lots of lovely people now alone on couches with Netflix.. 💋💄
A good tale about why not to pick up hitchhikers. And a lot more.
I am fascinated by a growing number of younger people of didn’t know a thing (understood) and didn’t learn a thing in school (not understood) about Charles Manson..
Web entrepreneur Dmitry Itskov is behind the “2045 Initiative”, an ambitious experiment to bring about immortality within the next 30 years by creating a robot capable of storing human personalities.
The group of neuroscientists, robot builders and consciousness researchers say they can create an android that is capable of uploading someone’s personality.
We know they want to try it and do it.. But will it work?
Please please please.. Never again lecture me that I’m a kook who deserves a tin foil hat for believing hat weather modification and chemtrails are real things..
My latest trip there yielded sad results.. the mall is just about mostly vacant now. The newest stores appear to be struggling with the lack of foot traffic as well..
The once great shopping center on the hill in Frackville PA .. And the home of a ….future…prison? To join the rest.
I have been into this story ever since a few years back when Ian Punnett hosted a show about the potential ‘Smiley face killer’ nationwide on Coast to Coast AM.. Now this new book just released looks promising. I may consider a purchase..
The true mysterious unexplained story of the Drowning Young Men. Hundreds of young men; vanishing without a trace, only for many of them to be found dead; weeks or months later, in remote rivers or creeks, shallow ponds or canals, in areas that search parties have searched multiple times before; their bodies later discovered there, as though placed to be found.
Also if you’re as fascinated and equally creeped out by the entire thing, give the Smiley Face Facebook page a looksee.. http://ift.tt/1pioKUI
And just when you want to dismiss the entire idea–or at least dismiss the possibility of some weird connection between all of the vanished youthful men of the same age group who are subsequently found face down in bodies of water already searched in the aftermath of their disappearances, dive deep into the topic before rendering a verdict.. See where the information takes you.
“For me, out of everything I’ve ever done, the quality of the writing is so far superior to any of the other work I’ve done”
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Jamie Lee Curtis on SCREAM QUEENS..
Sharing her love for FOX’s hit Scream Queens at LA’s Paleyfest Saturday with costars Lea Michele, Emma Roberts and Niecy Nash – all of them returning for season 2 – Curtis said she knew from the premiere episode that the show would be a hit, and that she was in love with her character, Cathy Munsch, dean of murder-prone Wallace University.
Ronald Reagan giving a speech in Nevada in the early 90’s is startled by a crazed protestor who is tackled by the secret service. From CNN Headline News
DAILY MAIL REPORTS THE GORY DETAILS OF THE NEARLY 60-YEAR-OLD:
Swigging tequila from a fan’s hip flask, Madonna suffered another onstage meltdown yesterday as she branded ex-husband Guy Ritchie a ‘son of a b***h’ and begged 'someone please f*** me’.
The 57-year-old singer, locked in a bitter custody dispute with Guy over their son Rocco, couldn’t contain her emotions during a second mumbling show in Melbourne, Australia.
Her ‘chaotic’ appearance at the Rod Laver Arena included an emotional plea to the crowd, begging, 'Somebody take care of me please. Who is going to take care of me?’
Meanwhile, MADGE is apparently drunkenly attempting to audition for a SAW movie.. Tricycle and all.
A Bangladeshi man who suffers from an extremely rare disease causing tree-like roots to grow from his hands and feet has undergone surgery to relieve his condition and give him greater mobility ..
Dubbed “Treeman” because of the large growths, Abul Bajander has had the first of many surgeries to free the ‘bark’ encasing his hands and feet, reports Reuters.
A doctor consulted by the German pilot who crashed a Germanwings jet into the Alps last year, killing 150 people, recommended two weeks before the disaster that he should be treated in a psychiatric hospital, French investigators said on Sunday.
The unidentified private physician was one of a number of doctors consulted by Andreas Lubitz as he wrestled with symptoms of a “psychotic depressive episode” that started in December 2014 and may have lasted until the day of the crash, they said.
Prosecutors believe the 27-year-old co-pilot, who had a history of depression, barricaded himself into the cockpit and deliberately propelled his Airbus jet into a mountainside on March 24, 2015, killing everyone on board.
Rogue waves can damage and even sink vessels. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have come up with an algorithm that predicts when they are about to strike
Good morning! Did you remember to set your clocks forward one hour for daylight savings time?
The concept was first proposed in 1895 by George Hudson of New Zealand, but the first widespread implementation of the adjustment wasn’t until 1916 when Germany and Austria-Hungary used daylight savings time as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, Russia, and the United States followed the practice, implementing it over the next two years.
After the war, however, many countries discarded the idea of daylight savings time until it was picked up again during World War II. Some countries adopted it later to help alleviate the 1970s energy crisis.
There has been research on the benefits and drawbacks of the time change, including energy use, economic effects, public safety, and health benefits. Not everyone was in favor, seen here in this cartoon depicting opposition to daylight savings time by Clifford K. Berryman.
The cartoon shown in this is ‘opposition to Daylight Savings’ from 1922 .. And the hard core feelings revolving around the issue have not gone away..
This morning, like you most likely, I woke up trying to figure out which clock was accurate and hoping that I would be able to find the universal clock online just to make sure all was well..
It is confusing.
But my vote is actually IN FAVOR of clock changes twice a year. It feels like the clocks move us as much as we move them.. it feels like they can generate spring time energy when we have light longer.. and as we should hibernate when we decide to fall back.. COUNTING CROWS sing about it..
Close call at another Trump rally in Ohio a day after Chicago madness .. This time Trump was warned before the cops saw.. Fast action took place and stopped the person attempting to run at Trump..
I have given up on politics lately. I am paying attention.. watching debates.. but I have chosen to eliminate my voice from the jungle of beliefs.. They don’t matter. I once believed in causes too and had a pointless point of view.
But events lately have caused concern for me.. I am seeing a nation boiling over in anger. From the Trump rallies to now the Trump protests.. to online forums and comment threads.
We sure have become an angry place haven’t we? A mightily divided nation hurling insults from the safety of keyboards..
I don’t have a crystal ball to predict how all of this will end up. But I can say the heat is just turning on.. the summer of hate did not even begin yet. This is going to be a long year.
No other words to describe this article appearing in the NEW YORK DAILY News besides ‘high strangeness’ .. Friends say that Richard Simmons, the exercising maven of the 20th century, has vanished into himself.. into his mind.. into his home. Madness has taken over. He has cut off contact with close associates and some haven’t seen or talked to him in two years. They are also blaming his long time housekeeper.. from the DAILY NEWS long diatribe:
Oliveira presents the most solid evidence of Simmons’ mental and emotional state, because his access to the mansion was more recent than others’. But even he has been left with a dearth of concrete, up-to-date information, leaving friends to concoct theories, some more outlandish than others.
“I think tormented is the best word to describe his mental state,” Oliveira says. “I think it was (caused by) black magic, witchcraft. That’s not close to your culture, but to my culture in Brazil, and to Mexicans” — Teresa Reveles is from Mexico — “that is a real thing. They invoke the spirits. They light black candles, and red and blue candles. I’ve never participated. I only saw from a distance. But at services, they do special meals. They offer meals to the bad spirits, and light candles, invoking with words.”
MY NIGHTMARE. It began a week ago. I got sick—selfishness took over and I requested leave time from my fatherly duties. My wife luckily allowed me to get a full day of sleep. Then the next day when my son, Ayden, went to school and her to work, I stayed home. And slept again.. Whatever this bug was took the life out of me..
My son was the next in the house to get it. Over the past 72 hours, we have gone through a series of traumas related to it.
Sickness is normal, and common. Fevers happen. But Ayden’s fever spiked several times to 105. At one point he was going up. We made the typical frantic night time calls to nurses on duty. We did the Motrin/Tylenol routine—which worked actually when we needed it to. We avoided the cold water however, as the body temperature dives quickly the fever spikes higher and just as bad immediately after the submerged body leaves the cold water.
It was the OTHER events that caused serious concerns. And a trip to the ER as a precaution.
WORLDS COLLIDING.
At this website, you’ll find a strange variety of paranormal and strange news.. mixed in some personal ramblings and a political opinion here and there. They all say blogs are dead. I suppose I’m one of the walking dead since I’m still writing. Nonetheless, I pride myself on the content provided. I hope you, the reader agrees. I digress..
For as long as I have been here I have been writing about sleep paralysis. When THE NIGHTMARE was released I praised it highly. I wrote about the subject matter a few more times.
This week, when my 5-year-old Ayden was sick, there were scenes seemingly torn from the pages of the playbook of THE NIGHTMARE.
Ayden had three (bad things come in threes, right?) extremely awful and terrifying sleep issues. My wife and I initially thought it was a reaction to medicine. The doctors seem to think it was due to the stress on the body and the abnormally high fever for his age that this viral infection caused (it was not the flu or anything else they could pinpoint) ..
During all three separate times, Ayden’s face locked in a fear position. His mouth widely opened as did his eyes. He was sleeping next to me during two of the occasions. Oddly I woke up at the same time he did. I looked at him thinking he was awake, but he could not move. His eyes were rapidly looking around the room, his legs twitching, and his fingers somewhat moving. He was stuck. While I feared a fever related seizure could have been occurring, my wife and I dismissed it as there were no signs of it. We made him sit up. And even though he caused his movement, he stayed stuck in a dream.
The dreams or whatever world he was glued within caused him to say some wild statements. Such as “Daddy stop moving the TV.” Or “I am getting too small!” These statements may sound ludicrous and humorous to a non parent, but picture your innocent child screaming these things out in shear panic and fear, unable to move his body and even break from the nightmare he was within.
The third time it happened, we were already prepared for a doctor visit but we wanted him to nap beforehand. The nap ended with the worst of the sleep issues of the week. He could not break from the nightmare. He screamed at his mom and me: “I’m mad!” while he tried to weep but could not even find the strength to cry. We quickly dressed him and got him to see someone. All the while during a 20 minute drive, he stared at me from his car seat in some form of rage. A look I never saw before—and one that was not him. I don’t think it was. I think for the duration of that drive he was still stuck in a nightmare….
RELIEF
I don’t “knock on wood” for luck. But as I write this I am knocking on wood just in case the old adage has any merit. Ayden’s fever has gone down as I write this. He slept the night with only one moment of waking up to use the bathroom. And he seems better. He seems to be coming back to this world again.
I hope it continues. If you, reading this, have sick kids, we as parents all know the normal drills and how fearful fevers can get. Yes they are a sign of the immune system reacting as normal. However, that system response can certainly freak you at at 3am, the witching hour, when a temperature skyrockets to 106.
YOU ARE NOT ALONE
It’s the modern age. One of the first things I did yesterday after the situation began to calm a bit, was go to Facebook and ask friends if they have experienced any of these issues. Not sleep paralysis of the adult kind, but the toddler version. I got an overwhelming response with a number of people relating frightening sickness related terrors that their children experienced. One person I know told me her son gets it on a regular basis. My other brother reminded me that my nephew got it severely when he was a child. At one point about 15 years ago, my nephew got it so bad during a fever that he was stuck in a dream for an hour screaming wildly and having trouble breathing until my sister showed up—he was requesting my sister’s presence during his terror.
I am not alone. If it is happening to you, you are not alone. I also found a number of forums of people naming their experiences. Heck, I even found people posting video of their children experiencing it on Youtube—something that seems dreadfully tacky though exceptionally accepted in the modern age.
FINAL MESSAGE
During the quiet moments of desperation, your body forgets to do certain things and also remembers to do others. For example, between my being sick and my sick being sick, I lost an incredible 10 pounds this week . While I wanted to lose weight, it wasn’t the way I envisioned. Though now in an ironic twist, as I woke up this morning, I am at the desired weight that My Fitness Pal told me I’d safely be at by May. Nonetheless, while I forgot to eat, I also remembered to pray. Pray to whoever listens.. family? Friends? Grandparents? Mother in law? God himself. I hit them ‘all’ up for some help.
The day was a mighty beautiful day yesterday. Too beautiful to spend a day in the ER though we were there. I took a brief talk to the cafeteria and got to a window, and snapped a photo of the scene.
Later in the night, a voice told me to go back and look at the photo again. So I did. And as I inspected it I saw an orb in the bottom center.
A point to mention: I rarely believe in orbs. I think they are dust, glare, or just passing moments of errors on the camera phone. However, in this situation, I will just think of that orb as a little hello from the series of prayers I let loose at the window as I was staring at the early spring sun.
Scientists in Chile have figured out a way to resurrect the prehistoric traits of dinosaurs.
In a ‘reverse evolution’ experiment, a researcher has manipulated the genes of modern chickens to induce the legs of a dinosaur.
These ancestors of birds once had a tube-shaped fibula that stretched down to the ankle. Through evolution, this transformed to become the short, splinter-like fibula of birds today.
Jurassic park version of the other white meat.. Wait until your future wing night when all you can eat will be just one. Big. Massive. Dino-leg.