An old postcard of Immaculate Heart Academy. Which then turned into Cardinal Brennan high school, my Alma mater.. which now sits dormant and vacant. Purchased by North Schuylkill school district, no plans have yet been announced for the building. But everything in it was sold at a public auction earlier in 2016..
The once famed Loeper Hotel in Ashland PA .. I have heard some rumors from old timers of how amazing the restaurant and bar were in the heyday of coal..
Now the building is the site of a senior citizen high rise …
This is a PBS documentary on the Centralia mine fire from 1982.. and these images, the smoke and houses and end of times feel, is exactly what I remember from my very early youth..
Truly nostalgia 101 with this..
My hometown of Centralia, PA… What’s left of it.. as seen by a drone around April of 2016..
The Ashland State Hospital in Pennsylvania sometime in the mid 1900s as shown with a postcard..
The hospital went through a lot through the years. Today it’s closed after mismanagement and bankruptcy from previous ownership..
Future plans include a potential drug treatment center.. But for now the building is shuddered..
The image you see actually isn’t what it looks like today.. there were new additions onto the hospital, that changed the architecture..
But what remains are ghosts … spirits.. and fifth floor intrigue.
If ghosts exist, I doubt that a closed hospital would have ever gotten rid of them at this location..
These are scenes from the 1980s SEARS Christmas catalog … The catalog was normally sent to houses around this time of year through September in the mail.
My wife and I were trying to tell my son today that this is how we used to do Christmas toys.. just get the book and circle what we wanted..
Ayden actually has already begun his summer list. Sure it’s early August, but why not..
And after looking through image searches for old nostalgic toy ads from paper books, I miss it…
The coal miner’s salute. Located in Minersville, PA..
This is the once future site of the Cressona Mall in Cressona Pennsylvania, taken long before stores and parking lots were ever contemplated..
The farm is still there.. but the big swamp you see is not, the river was rerouted and the rest was history..
Box Office: ‘Suicide Squad’ Heads for Enormous $140 Million Opening Weekend
Despite dismal reviews, Warner Bros. “Suicide Squad” is heading for an impressive $140 million opening weekend at the North American box office, early estimates showed Friday. The supervillain tentpole, playing at 4,255 locations, will wind up in the top 20 domestic launches of all time.
It is having an enormous box office weekend.. And doing very well in Mexico and the UK along with the United States..
Critics be damned.. this movie is huge.
Perhaps a strike back against movie reviewers in a big way: With dollars.
About 42 percent of likely voters favored Clinton, to Trump’s 39 percent, according to the July 31-Aug. 4 online poll of 1,154 likely voters. The poll had a credibility interval of plus or minus 3 percentage points, meaning that the results suggest the race is roughly even.
Among registered voters over the same period, Clinton held a lead of five percentage points, down from eight percentage points on Monday, according to the poll.
The reasons behind the shift were unclear.
And that is after THIS WEEK of stories..
Strange things above… panic below.
Now the weird lights reports are expanding..
Pittsburgh Pennsylvania is the latest area where strange orb-like visions have been spotted.. From CBS news:
KDKA received some calls into our newsroom about it, starting around 8 p.m.
People reported seeing a shiny, silver object in the sky. The reports were coming from areas west of downtown.
“Around 8 p.m., we were looking up into the northern sky and saw what looked like just to be a bright, silver object in the sky, and then after we got a telescope on it, it looked like it was a clear balloon that was catching the light as it moved from west to east,” said Russ Moll, of McKees Rocks.
Moll says it was it a very odd sight in the evening sky.
“It stood out because it was before dusk and so the stars weren’t out yet, so it just really caught our eye,” Moll said. “You noticed it as being something out of the ordinary.”
And this..
The National Weather Service sends balloons up to measure atmospheric conditions; however, they said they had no issues Thursday night.
In a statement, they say: “We’ve had no issues with the launch this evening or any calls about objects floating/glowing in the sky.”
Look to the sky!
You’ll never know what you will see..
The Post is using homegrown software to automatically produce hundreds of real-time news reports about the Olympics. Starting tomorrow morning, those items will appear, without human intervention, on the Post’s website, as well as in outside channels like its Twitter account.
The idea is to use artificial intelligence to quickly create simple but useful reports on scores, medal counts and other data-centric news bits — so that the Post’s human journalists can work on more interesting and complex work, says Jeremy Gilbert, who heads up new digital projects for the paper.
“We’re not trying to replace reporters,” he said. “We’re trying to free them up.”
Gilbert and Sam Han, the paper’s head of data science, have a team of three engineers working full-time on Heliograf, the Post’s AI software. A few more product analysts are spending about half of their time on the project, and four or five newsroom staffers are also spending time shaping the software.
Goodbye yellow brick road.
Goodbye reporting…
‘STEELBERG’ is the person who deserves credit for the picture you are seeing..
This is what a STRANGER THINGS VHS cover art box would have looked like if it would have been released in the 1980s.. And since the show is based with the 80s as the setting, the cover art and photo just feel right. Like it WAS made in the Reagan era..
There are also many more images of what VHS cover art would have looked like for modern shows..
Very impressive work.
It makes me nostalgic for things that ACTUALLY EXIST NOW.
Well done.
.@HillaryClinton: I ‘short-circuited’ on ‘truthful’ email answer
Ooops.
This has turned into a mean ordeal..
Critics have lambasted the film.. some have called for the website ROTTEN TOMATOES to actually be shut down because of the negative press that has been linked on the SUICIDE SQUAD page..
What is noteworthy about the aforementioned article linked here: My friend Anghus Houvouras from Flickering Myth got quoted by CNBC about the movie and controversy:
“I think they believe the potential is there. Take (2016’s) ‘Ghostbusters’ which pushed a very strong misogynist narrative. It became less about the quality of the film and more about the 'importance’ of a blockbuster with an all-female leading cast,” Anghus Houvouras, movie maker and writer for the pop culture website Flickering Myth, told CNBC via email.
“Sony and Paul Feig got on board and beat that horse to death. But it didn’t end up resulting in the kind of cultural zeitgeist they were hoping for. Those who benefit from feuds are the media and websites that proliferate a binary narrative. Conflict breeds clicks,” he said.
On Friday, the FDA released a final environmental assessment of the trial, finding that it “will not have significant impacts on the environment.” The project, led by Oxitec, a biotech company that focuses on insect control, calls for the release of thousands of genetically engineered male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes. The lab insects are bred so that over time they could kill off much of the local mosquito population by passing on a gene fatal to any offspring they have with wild females.
The title of the document from the
International Olympic Committee that is prohibiting without exception the use of GIFs of memorable Olympics moments..
The full text reads:
“Internet and Mobile Platforms Notwithstanding any other applicable limitation included in these NARs, Olympic Material must not be broadcast on interactive services such as “news active” or “sports active” or any other related Video on Demand services, which would allow the viewer to make a viewing choice within a channel and to thereby view Olympic Material at times and programs other than when broadcast as part of a News Program as set out in Clause 1 above. Additionally, the use of Olympic Material transformed into graphic animated formats such as animated GIFs (i.e. GIFV), GFY, WebM, or short video formats such as Vines and others, is expressly prohibited.”
and with that.. the GIFs are banned.. Done. Edited out. Down the memory hole. Nonexistent.
WELCOME TO RIO…
The summer Olympics are set.. Brazil is ready? Maybe..
The opening ceremonies begin tonight even if there are still pollutants in water and mosquitoes on the loose.
Zika was the big fear.. other fears have come since.
A sampling for some headlines potentially paints a not so rosy scenario concerning the Rio Games …
CNN reports that Rio’s hospitals may not be ready to handle issues that arise..
The New York TIMES talks about the opening games beginning amid corruption in Brazil..
There are widespread political ramifications from protests in Rio..
NBC is tape delaying the opening ceremonies..
The International Olympics Committee is BANNING GIFs!
