YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal

Josh Constine on TECHDIRT reporting,

YouTube made its top video creators an offer they literally couldn’t refuse, or they’d have their content disappear. Today YouTube confirmed that any “partner” creator who earns a cut of ad revenue but doesn’t agree to sign its revenue share deal for its new YouTube Red $9.99 ad-free subscription will have their videos hidden from public view on both the ad-supported and ad-free tiers. That includes videos by popular comedians, musicians, game commentators, and DIY instructors, though not the average person that uploads clips.

It’s a tough pill to swallow that makes YouTube look like a bully. Though turning existing fans into paid subscribers instead of free viewers could earn creators more than the ad revenue, forcing them into the deal seems heavy-handed.

Reaction is mixed.
Google is being slammed.

But the money is good.

YouTube Will Completely Remove Videos Of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal

HURRICANE PATRICIA TO HIT MEXICO–AND IS NOW THE STRONGEST STORM EVER RECORDED IN THE EASTERN PACIFIC!

This is a quickly and urgently developing weather story.. 

Hurricane Patricia is now reading as the strongest hurricane on record.. It’s A category five. It’s packing 200 mile per hour winds .. -200! And as seen from this map, it’s on a course to strike Mexico as a very strong storm before it diminishes in intensity over land..

This is the amazing part; This storm intensified quick–24 hours to go from a Cat 1 to a Cat 5..

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The estimated central pressure of Patricia dropped to 880 mb, breaking the record of 894 mb from Hurricane Linda set in 1997. The maximum sustained winds of 200 mph (160 knots) breaks the winds from Linda (185 mph) for the strongest surface winds ever in the eastern Pacific and in the area of responsibility of the National Hurricane Center.

There are high degrees of risks associated with this storm–property and lives are in the eye of the system..

The red area, along with winds, will also see 12 inches of rain or more..

Developing story..
As the storm churns..The eye burns.. and the earth warms.

POPE TUMOR RUMORS SURFACE

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Days ago, there were global rumors reported in a number of papers that Pope Francis was undergoing treatment for a brain tumor by a Japanese doctor..

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The story got lots of play in both religious based and non religious fishwrappers. Even the Drudge Report picked up the scoop and ran with it, giving it a headline for more than 24 hours on the page.

And now after the tumor turmoil, the Vatican has clearly denied the story..

“I fully confirm my previous statement, having verified the facts with the appropriate sources, including the Holy Father,” said Father Federico Lombardi, director of the press office. “No Japanese doctor has visited the Pope in the Vatican and there have been no examinations of the type indicated in the article.”

This, however, is where the intrigue pops in.

According to reporting on CatholicCulture.org, 

In a related development, Dr. Fukushima removed from his own personal web site photos of visits to the Vatican in October 2014 and January 2015. The web site had shown photos of a meeting between the doctor and Pope Francis; those photos appeared to have been retouched. Dr. Fukushima has said that he only met the Pontiff briefly, in the course of a public audience, and never for a medical consultation or treatment.

Pure coincidence. I am sure….?

The Centralia chronicles

The other day we reported on a story making its way around entertainment circles: Centralia is going to be a potential dark drama picked up by NBC!

Now there is more information, courtesy of a good friend on the website SKOOKNEWS.COM ..

Someone I know very well did a great interview with the creator and producer of the possible upcoming documentary..

Meredith Averill is a native of Pottsville, and was always fascinated by Centralia.. As reported from the interview: 

She noted that “Centralia” will not be a documentary but a story inspired by the town and the people that still live there. The story will be based on the same events that took place over the years, but Averill will add her own elements to the story.

In reality, Centralia currently has around 5 residents, but in the story, Centralia will have roughly 100 residents. Averill wants to portray the current Centralians as heroes who still have hope in saving their town. There will be an element of sadness felt but you will want to be rooting for them to succeed.

Within the timeline of the show, the government is threatening eminent domain to take the town but in the shows timeline, it has not taken it YET. The government’s reason for removing the residence of the town will be for their safety, due to the fire burning below, but the feds will have ulterior motives. The tourism draw of the town will also come into play, where they will have their own walking tour. Graffiti Highway will be included in the show. Averill also said characters will be unaware of the “evil” lurking below.

Even more, according to the interview, Averill has worked on a number of projects in the past. But this, she told the site, is giving her the most widespread attention she has ever received and generated one of the biggest responses..

Read the full report here.

As the fire smolders.. 

ART BELL’S RULES

Yes, indeed.. they are written .. no bad language. One call per show. And no more shooting rounds into his studio during live broadcasts..

Bell clearly believes that guns don’t kill people, people kill people. In the same light, it appears just as evident that he also believes people, with the help of guns, defend people. 

He posted this image onto Facebook overnight as a clear response to the incident that occurring during MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT the night previous.

Bell’s rules written.
And it is.

Art Bell website back online; police investigation of shooting underway

Art Bell’s website has been down most of the day .(along with Richard Hoagland’s) Adding to he mystery and intrigue regarding the shooting that took place near his facilities during the live broadcast last night .. The site has resumed its presence online ..

Along with its return, an update from the page reported this:

“During Art’s live broadcast of his “Midnight in the Desert” radio program Wednesday night, gun shots rang out in his neighborhood. Police were called to the scene and it was determined that a subject had driven into Art’s neighborhood and fired shots near or at Art’s studio.”

There has yet to be yet to be any announcement or details of the shooter, the investigation, or the potential subject of gun violence last night..

Still a developing situation..

The 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time, Voted on by Over 100 Experts

‘Experts,’ they said.

And 100 movies?
Chances are, the one you like made the cut.

100 is a pretty inclusive list after all. 

I would much rather see a list of the 100 WORST horror movies ever made. Now they may be worth watching..

But for this ‘best of list,’ the EXORCIST is number 1.

The 100 Greatest Horror Films of All Time, Voted on by Over 100 Experts

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DRAMA IN THE DESERT! SHOTS FIRED AT OR NEAR ART BELL STUDIO DURING LIVE BROADCAST!

While details are scarce at the hour, the MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT radio broadcast tonight was frightening, poignant, and edge-of-seat dramatic.

Bell, who normally says that he has ample amounts of protection to keep him and his family in Pahrump safe from intruders and less than good people, was a potential victim tonight of violence during his broadcast!

While some reported hearing gunshots during the show, it is unknown yet as to whether the audio was clear enough to make it out.

At that point, very intense and dramatic broadcasting began..

According to Bell himself, multiple shots were fired around his property while he was on the air this evening.. MORE: According to Bell, his neighbor informed him that the gunfire was happening. Even more, it appears the shots were fired AT one of Art Bell’s buildings..

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Bell left he air multiple times this evening to tend to personal affairs, the motion detectors around his studio were set off..

During the initial moment when Bell said we have a ‘little bit of  situation right here,’ he delayed his broadcasting using disco bumper music..  Themla Houston belted out the famed song, ‘don’t leave me this way’ and it seemed somehow extra poignant..  When he came back, he said there were ‘shots fired,’ and Bell speculated that someone driving by potentially drunk did it. Police were on the way. He reported immediately that he and his family were safe..

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Bell said, “we are very very well armed and my wife is a really good shot.”

Bell continued the interview with guest William Forstchen and the topic of the potential end of the world due to a nation-power going nuts.

A little further into the interview, Bell again played dramatic music while he checked to see what made his back sensor light activate during his broadcast.

One user on BELLGAB correctly points out,

That was some of the most intense scary radio I’ve ever heard. It was like the War of the Worlds broadcast when the aliens first strike and they keep playing music in between crazy reports.

The scariest thing to me is this happened right in the middle of tonight’s broadcast like it was timed. If it’s kids playing around in the desert, I don’t care how drunk or high you are, you aren’t going to be shooting up houses for fun.

Intense radio or not, it also appears that this it was a potentially very dangerous night for the talk show host..

At the end of the broadcast this evening, Bell signed off with his traditional song titled the same name of his radio show, saying to listeners, “Strange night to be sure.” He said went on to thank every person associated with his new show as the melancholy music played the night out..

DRAMA in the desert ends peacefully–but potentially could have had very opposite results..

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DRAMA IN THE DESERT! SHOTS FIRED AT OR NEAR ART BELL STUDIO DURING LIVE BROADCAST! was originally published on THE HORROR REPORT

DRAMA IN THE DESERT! SHOTS FIRED AT OR NEAR ART BELL STUDIO DURING LIVE BROADCAST!

DRAMA IN THE DESERT! SHOTS FIRED AT OR NEAR ART BELL STUDIO DURING LIVE BROADCAST!

While details are scarce at the hour, the MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT radio broadcast tonight was frightening, poignant, and edge-of-seat dramatic. Bell, who normally says that he has ample amounts of protection to keep him and his family in Pahrump safe from intruders and less than good people, was a potential victim tonight of violence during his broadcast! While some reported hearing gunshots…

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Star Wars: Resellers want up to $10,000 for opening night tickets

EW REPORTS: Across eBay and Craigslist, ticket-holders for opening night screenings of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on Dec. 17 are trying to pawn their seats for exorbitant amounts. 
There’s the $1,000 tickets for a 3D showing at 10:20 p.m. in Los Angeles, $750 tickets for a IMAX 7 p.m. show in Austin, a whopping $8,000 package for a Force Awakens event in Orlando (which includes just one ticket), and countless others. 

Countless many will fall for the hijacking of hard earned wages.. Money to burn and a Jedi to watch..
Star Wars fever about to hit in time for Christmas ..
At a high price.

Star Wars: Resellers want up to $10,000 for opening night tickets

Happy back to the future day!

Happy back to the future day!

NASA Gives 99-Percent Probability Of 5.0 Earthquake In LA

CBS reports:

“JPL experts predict a possible 5.0 magnitude quake in Los Angeles, but say it very well could be stronger. JPL geophysicist Dr. Andrea Donnellan, along with seven other scientists, has been using radar and GPS to measure Southern California’s chances for a sizable earthquake, and has made a sobering hypothesis about another big one.
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NASA Gives 99-Percent Probability Of 5.0 Earthquake In LA

This Creepy Puzzle Arrived In Our Mail - Gadgetzz

This linked article is sort of where all of this online insanity started concerning the creepy video making the rounds online THE RING style.. It’s a good write up.
I believe that there is an intention behind the video..
But in these days room also must be left for pure genius marketing–something else this certainly could also be..

This Creepy Puzzle Arrived In Our Mail - Gadgetzz

New Films To Shed Light On Japan’s Infamous ‘Suicide Forest’

Ben Arnold writes:

It is beautiful, dense and tangled - it’s sometimes called the ‘sea of trees’ - and boasts ice caverns hidden in its volcanic rock.

But it has become known for a much more dark and tragic reason – it’s also been called ‘the suicide forest’, a place where up to 1988, around 100 suicides would occur each year.

A new movie, starring ‘Game of Thrones’ Natalie Dormer, has now been unveiled called ‘The Forest’, a horror thriller which finds Dormer searching for her twin sister who has gone missing in Aokigahara.

New Films To Shed Light On Japan’s Infamous ‘Suicide Forest’

This is an image from a video that is scaring a lot of people this Halloween.. 

SLATE reports that is a ‘nightmareish’ puzzle that has taken the Internet by storm.. Last night the DRUDGE REPORT linked up a British fishwrapper that said the video contained ‘threats’ to the President of the United States.. 

Lily Newman in SLATE had the backstory:

Last week, Johny from GadgetZZ.composted a writeup about a mysterious CD-ROM the site had received in the mail about three months before. The letter came from Poland to the site’s Swedish P.O. box, and at first it didn’t seem very interesting. The disc just had some numbers and letters written on one side that looked like a serial number.

When Johny looked at the contents of the disc, though, he discovered a strange video. In it, a creepy-beyond-creepy figure stands in a seemingly deserted building, at first in shadow and then plainly in a camera’s view. Staticky noise plays in the background and extremely subtle visual effects occasionally cross the screen as the figure gestures and holds up a blinking light. After you see it you know how the characters in The Ring felt when they watched the VHS tape that would mark them for death.

The internet has had it for months, though.. it has been circulating. And even more, REDDIT threads have been created well in advance to the latest series of news articles detailing the scary images that are tending to fright people in big numbers across the WEB as they see the video – spreading like the RING is surely a good comparison. 

YOU CAN WATCH THE VIDEO HERE..

Who is afraid of a potentially life ending asteroid on Halloween!?
Not us earthlings!

Costumes will still be donned.. makeup still applied. Scantily clad outfits at Saturday night Halloween parties still being stuck on..

Even though this was just discovered: An enormous asteroid will whiz past earth..

CREDIT: The IFL SCIENCE website:

2009 FD will approach within 6,194,000 km of Earth, about 16.3 times further away than the Moon. The asteroid was discovered in February 2009, a month before its closest recorded approach to Earth on March 27, 2009, at a distance of 624,100 km. 2015 TB145 will pass about 500,000 km from Earth, just beyond the lunar orbit.

2009 FD has been tracked by several instruments since its discovery. It was first estimated to be 130 meters in size by NASA’s Near Earth Program. A better estimate for its size came from NASA’s NEOWISE, which gave a value of 470 meters, although this is considered anupper limit.

2015 TB145 was discovered just over a week ago by the Pan-STARRS I telescope in Hawaii, and it has an estimated size of 320 meters. The passing of 2015 TB145 will be the closest approach by something this large until asteroid August 2027, when 1999 AN10 will pass within one lunar distance (380,000 km). NASA has given these objects a value of 1 on the Torino Scale, which is the value assigned to non-dangerous asteroids.

Business as usual.
Gather ye candies while ye may..

2007-2015

8 YEARS AGO I GOT MARRIED..On a fine October day after morning rain, the side shined through clouds in a brilliant manner onto the autumn leaves below.
Vows were exchanged.
Almost a decade in time. And wow, how time quickly showcases itself briefly on a stage and vanishes behind the curtain of life.

Eight years gone. Eight years strong. It goes so fast, times does pass, but limitless love lives on. Happy anniversary Tara.

2007-2015 was originally published on THE HORROR REPORT

Viral video appears to issue cryptic threats

This story appearing in UK press is getting high play across the globe after a link from the Drudge Report..

Some are slowing the video down.. Others see it at a bizarre and creepy death threat to the President.. Even more, there appears to be images of a woman being tortured when you decipher it more.

There are many more hidden objects and messages people are deciphering from the video..

The viral video has been making rounds on social networks for days. Now worldwide attention is being given to the strange series of images and messages contained within..

More:

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One Reddit user wrote: “I don’t think its a promo, like I did at first.
"In the spectrogram there are clearly images of women being tortured.
"At best its some weird hacker shit or a terrible decision by some PR company.
"At worst, its a terrorist threat or the work of some killer.”
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Viral video appears to issue cryptic threats

‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar

Less than 24 hours after Ahmed Mohamed met President Obama, his family decided it’s time to leave America for good.

The 14-year-old Texas boy who was arrested for bringing to school a homemade clock that authorities said resembled a bomb will soon be living in Qatar.

‘Clock kid’ Ahmed Mohamed and his family will move to Qatar