Roads leading out of Oroville, Calif., were jammed with traffic Sunday evening as more than 130,000 people were ordered to evacuate the area due to the possibility of failure of the alternate spillway at Oroville Dam, authorities said.
Three years ago, the reservoir at Lake Oroville State Recreation Area was at just 42% capacity — water levels so low that archeological sites became more accessible.
The National Weather Service said Sunday, urging people living below Oroville Dam to evacuate. The evacuation was ordered because of a “hazardous situation” involving the Northern California dam’s emergency spillway. The National Weather Service said the auxiliary spillway is expected to fail and could send an “uncontrolled release of flood waters from Lake Oroville.”
Thousands of people evacuated below the Oroville Dam, jamming roads…
TV news footage showed long delays out of Oroville, with officials urging people to move to higher ground. Gas stations were also packed.
Evacuation centers were set up in Chico.
Butte County officials said they evacuated jail inmates due to the situation.
The company says the new plan will give users unlimited data use on smartphones and tablets, in addition to video streaming, 10 GB of hotspot usage, and calls to both Mexico and Canada with Verizon Unlimited.
The plague is not sporadic but sadly contagious throughout the United States..
The LA DAILY NEWS is reporting about how heroin is exploding in use among California millennials..
From the article:
California’s millennials continue to flood hospital emergency departments because of heroin, a trend that has increased steadily statewide and in Los Angeles and Orange counties over the past five years, according to the latest figures. The state data released last week show that in the first three months of 2016, 412 adults age 20 to 29 went to emergency departments due to heroin. That’s double the number for the same time period in 2012. Overall, emergency department visits among heroin users of all ages increased, but the sharpest was among the state’s young adults. About 1,500 emergency department visits by California’s millennials poisoned by heroin were logged in 2015 compared with fewer than 1,000 in 2012. Emergency responders, those who work in recovery programs, and parents of children addicted to heroin say the figures are unsurprising given the increase in prescription painkiller abuse that likely has led more young people to use heroin. “One of the unintended consequences of this prescription drug epidemic has been the increase in heroin addiction and overdoses, in part due to the transition from prescription opioids to less expensive heroin street drugs,” according to state health officials. “Heroin deaths have continued to increase steadily by 67 percent since 2006 and account for a growing share of the total opioid-related deaths.”
The same problem that has hit big cities and small town America is not striking the CALI crowd.. the same stories as a bag of heroin only being $5 a bag on the street... deaths.. horrid deaths ... so many people visiting the emergency room for treatment.
More from the article:
Still, some parents and those who work in drug treatment programs continue to see heroin as a major drug issue that isn’t going away. Jody Waxman saw it firsthand. Her son was 23 when she realized he was addicted to heroin. “He went to the emergency department a number of times,” said the San Fernando Valley woman. “He once almost died on my living room floor. He had gotten a hold of heroin laced with other drugs. It was very bad. “
Despite comments made by White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway, there never was a massacre at the hands of Iraqi refugees in the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky. In fact there never has been a terror attack of any kind in the city of 60,000, and local officials are now rushing to assure everyone their town is safe – and always has been. “I bet it’s brand new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized, and they were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green Massacre,” Conway said on MSNBC on Thursday night. “I mean most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.” It didn’t get covered because it didn’t happen. There was no massacre. It is true – as ABC News first reported in 2013 – that in 2009 two al-Qaeda terrorists from Iraq were found to be living as refugees in Bowling Green. In court, they later admitted that they had attacked U.S. soldiers in Iraq. The arrest of the two men, who are now in prison, led to a six month drastic curtailment and overhaul of the Iraqi refugee program in 2011. The entire saga played out in the small Kentucky town without bloodshed, much less a massacre.
And with that, a scandal developed.. a laugh line emerged. And another political football was thrown.
But I try to delve deeper than the static noise..
I saw an interesting theory online tonight regarding this event.. something worth passing on for your thoughtful intercession.
This is not a defense of Conway, nor any attempt at making sense of the Trump Administration thus far.. but it's being offered up because of my life of the Mandela Effect, the paranormal, and politics..
What if--WHAT IF!--Conway experienced a Mandela Effect? A time slip!? A moment where the past seems to be different from what you thought it was..?
A very public Mandela Effect, perhaps?
This is where politics may rear its head.. and quite possibly where you stand on Trump will have some play in what you think next.
I know the press is (unfairly?) hammering Kellyanne Conway about this and everyone just assumes she made it up, but does anyone else remember an actual Bowling Green Massacre? And I'm not talking about the arms smuggling scheme or whatever that all of the articles I've read seem to think she might have been talking about. I mean an actual, honest-to-goodness terrorist attack. I definitely recall a bombing in Bowling Green that killed ... maybe a dozen people? I think it happened either at the end of the Bush administration or the first month of the Obama administration. I'm pretty sure it involved a suicide bomb being set off on a city bus. The way I remember it was a young muslim guy--he could have been in his late teens, possibly early twenties? (I'm ashamed to admit this, but I remember seeing his pictures on the news and thinking he was kind of cute.) He hid an IED inside a dufflebag or knapsack or something and I think he detonated it using an ipod or some kind of portable music player. Later, they arrested a second, older muslim guy. I think he was responsible for building the bomb. They were definitely both Iraqi refugees, like Conway said. So am I nuts, or did this happen? Everyone at work thinks I've lost it.
Yes this is a big stretch, and yes most likely many skeptical people will continue to be critical of the original post on REDDIT.
But ... for a late night with stars in the sky, such thought seems appropriate. After midnight, no holds are barred.. even political Mandela Effects that are felt far and wide..
She showcased 2012 Tweets from President Trump mocking her..
She came out as being gay openly and publicly..
And she dropped the F bomb before going to commercial...
Take that Alec Baldwin.
Melissa McCartney as Sean Spicer!! Hilarious stuff
The new net of Facebook, less creativity, and ‘socials’ is here.. the ghetto of socials..
Take this news for instance: IMDB is announcing on its site that a primary reason so many have visited and stayed through the years is going away. Their message boards are over February 20 ..
IMDb is the world’s most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. As part of our ongoing effort to continually evaluate and enhance the customer experience on IMDb, we have decided to disable IMDb’s message boards on February 20, 2017. This includes the Private Message system. After in-depth discussion and examination, we have concluded that IMDb’s message boards are no longer providing a positive, useful experience for the vast majority of our more than 250 million monthly users worldwide. The decision to retire a long-standing feature was made only after careful consideration and was based on data and traffic.
Because IMDb’s message boards continue to be utilized by a small but passionate community of IMDb users, we announced our decision to disable our message boards on February 3, 2017 but will leave them open for two additional weeks so that users will have ample time to archive any message board content they’d like to keep for personal use. During this two-week transition period, which concludes on February 19, 2017, IMDb message board users can exchange contact information with any other board users they would like to remain in communication with (since once we shut down the IMDb message boards, users will no longer be able to send personal messages to one another). We regret any disappointment or frustration IMDb message board users may experience as a result of this decision.
IMDb is passionately committed to providing innovative ways for our hundreds of millions of users to engage and communicate with one another. We will continue to enhance our current offerings and launch new features in 2017 and beyond that will help our customers communicate and express themselves in meaningful ways while leveraging emerging technologies and opportunities.
I have long been interested in the changing and twisting habit of NET goers.. When I was young it was AOL messenger, chat rooms, and really brilliant people in message boards espousing their beliefs on just about anything.
Those days are gone.. being anonymous is gone.. your name in bold print is here.
And with each shut down of old style technology, the ghetto of social media breeds bad habits.
Sorry to say, but keep Facebook. I know I’m on it.. Twitter and Instagram too. But the real debate and fun was on 20th century internet websites that are dying every day.
Goodbye old web. Welcome to the devolution of conversation inspired by corporate elites who save every keystroke and sell it.
Paramount’s Rings and STX’s teen romance The Space Between Us which are respectively opening to $12.8M in second and $3.8M in seventh..
The entire concept of RINGS appears to be oddly disjointed anyway.. it has been 15 years since the original VHS related horror flick. The mess of this film attempts to bind together early century technology with modern file sharing, and what could have been a clever homage to some other time and age turns into a clunky pile of 21st century junk..
But guess what’s first? Pretty exciting news for an M Night Shyalaman fan like myself: SPLIT is still in the lead box -- three weeks now and running..
And it’s actually the first title in Shyamalan’s resume to hold the No. 1 spot at the B.O. for three weeks in a row since 1999’s The Sixth Sense! Talk about old style century tech getting its revenge!
Good show M NIGHT..
SPLIT was a good film with (to me) not the greatest ending of M Night’s career.. but he was setting Philadelphia up for a sequel whether the King of Prussia mall is ready for it or not.. Bruce Willis is.
Late night estimates put Split at $14.7M for the weekend, and a running cume by Sunday of $98.8M, -8% behind Sixth Sense at the same point in time..
Prognosticators don’t think that SPLIT outshines SENSE, as a matter of fact by Valentine’s Day plenty of other films--included animated and a lot of SHADES of gray--will fill theaters..
The White House Correspondents dinner, aka “the nerd prom,” may be in trouble. The New York Times reports that both Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, two Conde Nast publications, have pulled out of their annual parties. VF editor in chief Graydon Carter, no fan of Donald Trump, says he’s going fishing that weekend.
Then there’s the satirical Not the WHCD being planned by the very funny comedian Samantha Bee and sponsored by her network, which is owned by Turner Communications, part of Time Warner. When Bee announced this last week it sounded hilarious at least on paper. But it also depended on people of note coming to Washington.
Comedy is dead in the Trumpland...but who killed it? The people who hate Trump filled rage or Trump himself by being who he is?
Doesn't it seem like the entire world order of things has been turned on its head and ferociously shaken??
A lot of proper journalists have turned their noses at the dinner as inappropriate. Tom Brokaw has been very vocal about it. “I would watch on C-SPAN, and as I watched on C-SPAN, I would try to put myself, kind of, if you will, in the person of an interested citizen in Kansas City, or in Little Rock, or in Spokane, Wash., saying, ‘That’s the Washington press corps?’ I mean, there was more dignity at my daughter’s junior prom than there is [at] what I’m seeing on C-SPAN there,” he told Politico. Of course, a lot of people point to the 2011 dinner, hosted by Seth Meyers, as the moment Trump decided to run for President. Meyers and President Obama were merciless to Trump, who did not take the ribbing well at all. Maybe this year it would be best to have a smaller, non roast dinner, with fewer celebrities and no mention of the current President.
There's no business like....well, no show business.
A federal judge in Seattle issued a temporary nationwide restraining order Friday stopping President Trump's executive order banning citizens of seven countries from entering the United States.Judge James Robart, who was appointed by former President George Bush in 2003, ruled the executive order would be stopped nationwide, effective immediately.“The Constitution prevailed today,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a statement after the ruling. “No one is above the law — not even the President.”"It's our president's duty to honor this ruling and I'll make sure he does," Ferguson added.The ruling, made at the request of Washington and Minnesota, is the broadest to date against Trump's executive order.
“The project came spontaniously,” Geiger tells The Creators Project. “All of a sudden I would be on the metro or in the museum and feel on my own while it’s crowded. I could literaly see people’s faces melting on their screens, like their identity was being lost in the non-space of technology, like the spacial dimension of the present has been outstretched.” A bit of post-processing in Photoshop, and his eerie feeling was visualized.
The photos are chillingly weird and actually quite real–you can almost envision the melting of someone’s complete emotional existence into their smart phones..
“The project came spontaniously,” Geiger tells The Creators Project. “All of a sudden I would be on the metro or in the museum and feel on my own while it’s crowded. I could literaly see people’s faces melting on their screens, like their identity was being lost in the non-space of technology, like the spacial dimension of the present has been outstretched.” A bit of post-processing in Photoshop, and his eerie feeling was visualized.
The photos are chillingly weird and actually quite real–you can almost envision the melting of someone’s complete emotional existence into their smart phones..
Lady Gaga in a bra, a sneak peak of the new Super Bowl Pepsi commercial .. set to start a stir. By the time the halftime show rolls, we will wonder if we are shaken or stirred..
There is a high degree of attention being paid or the show this year. Hollywood and showbiz has taken to the airwaves to protest every move Donald Trump makes. If things go as some hope, Gags will make a political statement. In that light, there is already online petitions asking her to be BANNED> Because we have become frightened of FREEDOM OF SPEECH in Amurica...?
Regardless, I am intrigued as well by whether the LADY will make her appearance political in nature.
I predict this: We will hear some old songs..we will hear Poker Face.. we will see Patriots fans dancing (before and after the game, I predict as well) ...and we will get a covert statement. Nothing overt.
But that's just me.. and my little zany prediction... The game time is coming. We will see soon.
Robots yes. Technology yes. But another thing workers are facing is the end of employment and the dawn of the age of the contractor .. for better or for worse ..
It’s a discussion that has gained more attention in light of Carrier Fisher’s death, who also appeared in CGI form in Rogue One. In Fisher’s case, she gave permission for the VFX team to recreate her younger self for a Princess Leia cameo while she was still alive. When news of her sudden and tragic death on December 27, 2016 (a fortnight after Rogue One was released) spread, it was naturally assumed by most that the same CGI skill would be used to complete her role in Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Star Wars 9. In fact, some outlets reported that representatives had spared no time in negotiating with her estate for the rights to do so.
Whether it is morally right or morally wrong, it is going to happen. More and more and more..
