….when your almost 6 year old son tells people “my dad is weird” while playing the online Plants Vs Zombies Garden Warfare 2 on the Playstation 4 that ‘Santa’ brought for Christmas…… That’s how.
It was a wild night of celebrations and booze-fuelled mayhem on the streets of Britain last night as revellers welcomed in 2017 - and no one was wrapping up warm.
Usually, when it comes to big blockbusters like Star Wars or Marvel movies, reshoots aren’t that big of a deal. But Rogue One seems to be another case entirely. When you watch the movie, and then go back and watch the trailer, about half the shots in the trailer didn’t make the final cut. The film obviously went through some pretty drastic changes, and the “multiple readings” that the actors did for a lot of their scenes indicate that the director was prepared for that to happen. The best explanation for it all may be the pressure of meeting a deadline: because the release dates for movies like this are announced years in advance, the schedule is fixed. Edwards and the crew had to complete and release the film by the 2016 holiday season, which meant that, if they ran into a huge problem, they only had so much time to fix it. Having multiple takes of each scene may have been their way of covering all their bases.
2016 was one extra second longer.. Countries that use Coordinated Universal Time — several West African nations, Britain, Ireland and Iceland — added the leap second during the midnight countdown to 2017 — making the year’s final minute 61 seconds long..
The new year begins with a bang! Saturday, people from Owego to Broome county in New York and all the way down to Northern Pennsylvania began reporting odd shaking and a loud “explosion” noise. Reports said they “felt their houses and windows shaking."
The Tioga County Sheriff’s Department would not say if they received any calls. They told WICZ they "have no comment or information at the moment."
An Official from the Binghamton Airport said "it is not possible for a commercial plane to move fast enough to create a sonic boom."
He added that the airport has no record of any military training going on in the area..
There was once a simpler time.. there was once a more peaceful landscape .. 2016 is ending as chaotic as it began.. The year has proposed a valuable set of dilemmas for the human population.. so many took offense to things that seemed to occur in the last 12 months of the calendar that I lost count.
But it ends tonight. And begins as well.
For as much as a new years eve ends something, the midnight hour begins anew.. It begins with a certain sense of freshness.. a great deal of zeal .. Hope and love.. Auld Lang Syne..
Plus that, occasional bad decisions thanks to a complete set of alcoholic specials at the local or fine dining watering hole of your choice. Or your demise.
So try something different this new year.. Try something special.
Make a resolution that you can keep. Keep a resolution that you made.. And don’t make too many. It puts unneeded pressure on your soul.
But in the end, when the next twelve months slip by like the sands of time, you’ll find yourself in potentially new shoes.. Or the same ones. Your situation may find itself completely unresolved. Or maybe that miracle cure is coming.
Regardless of where December 31 2017 ends for you, let it be a year of constant new beginnings. Each day should be an adventure.
Perhaps I will re-read this post a few times throughout the year. I often find myself glazing over with doldrums and life, itself, often hits like a brutal war zone battle.
I need to re-read it.. I need to live a bit different myself this year.
I need to make the type of resolution that even I could keep.
525,600 minutes, 525,000 moments so dear. 525,600 minutes - how do you measure, measure a year? In daylights, in sunsets, in midnights, in cups of coffee. In inches, in miles, in laughter, in strife. In 525,600 minutes - how do you measure a year in the life? How about love? How about love? How about love? Measure in love. Seasons of love.
…the big news of CNN and NBC NEWS today, along with most people’s New Year’s Eve newsfeed, is the Vermont electric company claiming Putin’s Russia hacked into their system..
Various government spokespeople began to paint a picture of sanctions pushed personally by a bitter man. These were Barack Obama’s sanctions, not Donald Trump’s — not even U.S. sanctions. They were the sanctions pushed in a final, futile burst of hatred by a lame-duck president. Even Secretary of State John Kerry was a “good man,” undermined by an emotional president, according to the Foreign Ministry’s Zakharova.
The surprise came around 4 p.m. local time, via a statement was published on the Kremlin’s website. Russia would resist even the minimum expected diplomatic response of retaliatory expulsions, the statement read: “[Russia] will not resort to irresponsible ‘kitchen’ diplomacy but will plan our further steps to restore Russian-US relations based on the policies of the Trump Administration.”
Putin even invited the children of U.S. diplomats to his New Year’s party.
With that statement, the Russian president marked a complete about-turn of his traditionally petulant diplomacy. Tactically, it was a triumph. Suddenly “Obama’s sanctions,” designed so as to be untouchable by a future Trump administration, no longer seemed so irreversible.
“It is a very smart move,” Lukyanov says. “It will humiliate Obama even more.”
An orchestral director lost his job at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome after telling an audience filled with children that the man in the red suit who delivers gifts to good girls and boys does not, in fact, exist.
The news agency ANSA said Saturday that Giacomo Loprieno lashed out at the young audience for failing to applaud following a performance of “Frozen” on Thursday.
The theater underlined the severity of the offense with a Facebook posting of the production’s new orchestral director alongside Santa Claus.
On social media, the firing has been both applauded for protecting children’s fantasies, and derided for punishing someone telling the truth.
The New Year’s Eve event began in 1904. That was the year the intersection of Broadway and Seventh Avenue was renamed Times Square, after The New York Times built a new headquarters there. It had previously been called Long Acre Square.
To celebrate the official opening of the One Times Square building, newspaper owner Adolph Ochs decided to throw a big New Year’s Eve party.
For the first three years, Ochs shot fireworks off the top of the building to signal the new year. But in 1907, the city banned fireworks.
That’s when the ball drop came in. Inspiration was drawn from the “time balls” first used in the early the 1800s to help ship captains tell time and precisely set their navigation tools while out at sea.
The New Year’s Eve ball has been dropped every year since 1907 — with the exception of 1942 and 1943, because of World War II’s “dimout” restrictions. Crowds instead held a moment of silence to honor the new year.
The first ball weighed 700 pounds and featured 100 light bulbs. The current one, which is permanently housed on top of the One Times Square building, weighs 17 times as much and features roughly 32,000 LEDs.
The building that started Times Square’s New Year’s Eve celebration now stands mostly empty — except for a Walgreens.
Most of the men and women Comas interviewed showed a zest for life and an interest in pastimes from amateur dramatics to playing the piano. Many also continued to carry out daily duties from farm work to caring for a disabled child.
Pedro Rodriguez, 106, plays the piano every day in the living room of his flat in Asturias, northern Spain, where he lives with his wife who is nearly 20 years younger than him. Their daughters visit them often.
“The nuns taught me how to play the piano as a child,” he said after giving a rendition of a Spanish waltz.
The majority of these elderly people were surrounded by family or had loved ones calling in on them daily showing how Spain continues to be a closely-knit society, where family ties are paramount.
It showcases that maybe things we value in the Western world aren’t really of much value at all.
When considering your New Years resolutions, give consideration to the story linked here.. think it through. Picture yourself at 100 and wonder, what would matter to you most then? ….social media following? Vacant friendships..? Or maybe a zest for something that actually is important in life..
Maybe playing the piano in your living room every day when you’re 106 is really what matters the most of all..
(CNN)A Vermont electric company said Friday it had found on a company laptop the same kind of malicious software that US authorities believe was used by Russian hackers in an attempt to influence November’s election.
Burlington Electric said it found the code after utility companies nationwide were sent an alert by the Department of Homeland Security.
From the Pottsville REPUBLICAN HERALD.. Marrones has been a staple in my local coal region for decades.. Very important events have occurred there for families for years.. It has been the place for half price pasta on Mondays and endless memories for those who were there at any point.
It has been an important place. A well-known place..
.. It is now closing after 83 years in existence..
