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Post by swamprat on Mar 7, 2019 16:37:04 GMT
Today's sickest Facebook post of the day:
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Post by swamprat on Mar 7, 2019 21:30:28 GMT
Disney’s new 'Star Wars’ theme lands have opening dates
By Joe Williams Published March 07, 2019
Disney plans to soon launch its long-awaited “Star Wars” theme parks, CEO Bob Iger said on Thursday, but interested guests who want to go immediately will need to make advance reservations.
Galaxy’s Edge will launch at Anaheim, California’s Disneyland on May 31 and on Aug. 29 at Orlando, Florida’s Disney World. The timeline to open the largest lands Disney has ever built was accelerated amid “tremendous demand," Iger told investors on Thursday.
“We’re going to let guests explore those lands a bit earlier than we had originally planned,” he said at the annual shareholder meeting.
Those guests looking to go to the California location between May 31 and June 23 will need to book advance reservations.
At the park, patrons will be able to explore the planet of Batuu, interact with legendary “Star Wars” characters and pilot the Millennium Falcon, among other attractions.
On "Rise of Resistance," the other major ticketed ride, guests will participate in a battle between the First Order -- the government formed in the aftermath of the fall of the Galactic Empire in “Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi” -- and the Resistance.
This rendering released by Disney and Lucasfilm shows people on the planned Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance attraction, part of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge. The 14-acre area set to open this summer at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, then in the fall at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. (Disney Parks/Lucasfilm via AP)
“This is the most technologically advanced and immersive attraction that we have ever imagined,” Iger said. “No one has ever attempted anything of this magnitude.”
The new attractions come amid Disney’s $2 billion investment into its theme parks across the globe.
The company is building a Tron-themed roller coaster in Orlando’s Magic Kingdom and a new Marvel-themed land in California’s Disneyland, among other new offerings.
This rendering released by Disney and Lucasfilm shows the planned Black Spire Outpost, a village on the planet of Batuu that will be part of a 14-acre expansion project called Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge, set to open this summer at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, then in the fall at Disneys Hollywood Studios in Orlando, Florida. The lands will include two signature attractions: Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run and Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance. (Disney Parks/Lucasfilm via AP)
Disney is also preparing to launch its first online content streaming platform, bolstered by its purchase of key 21st Century Fox assets. The $71 billion deal is expected to close soon, Iger said.
(21st Century Fox is the parent company of FOX Business and Fox News. The company sold its entertainment assets to Disney in 2017 and the deal is expected to close in the first quarter which will create the New Fox.)
www.foxbusiness.com/media/disney-to-open-first-star-wars-theme-park-in-may
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 8, 2019 11:26:49 GMT
Good morning lovely people,
Detroit Free Press
Lake Michigan UFO sightings still unsolved 25 years later
by Dejanay Booth
Published 3:23 p.m. ET March 7, 2019
The eerie lights filled the sky along nearly 200 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, from Ludington south to the Indiana border.
On March 8, 1994, calls flooded 911 to report strange sightings in the night sky. The reports came in from all walks of life — from police and a meteorologist to residents of Michigan's many beach resorts. Hundreds of people witnessed what many insisted were UFOs — unidentified flying objects.
Cindy Pravda, 63, of Grand Haven remembers that night in vivid detail — four lights in the sky that looked like "full moons" over the line of trees behind her horse pasture.
"I got UFOs in the backyard," she told a friend on the phone.
Today, the mystery of one of the largest UFO sightings in Michigan history remains unsolved, but it continues to fascinate extraterrestrial researchers, psychologists and history buffs alike.
Pravda still believes the lights were UFOs.
"I watched them for half an hour. Where I'm facing them, the one on the far left moved off. It moved to the highway and then came back in the same position," Pravda told the Free Press on Thursday. "The one to the right was gone in blink of an eye and then, eventually, everything disappeared quickly."
She still lives in the same house and continues to talk about that night.
"I'm known as the UFO lady of Grand Haven," Pravda laugh.
Daryl and Holly Graves and their son, Joey, told reporters in 1994 they witnessed lights in the sky over Holland at about 9:30 p.m. on March 8.
"I saw six lights out the window above the barn across the street," Joey Graves told the Free Press in 1994. "I got up and went to the sofa and looked up at the sky. They were red and white and moving."
Others gave similar accounts, including Holland Police Officer Jeff Velthouse and a meteorologist from the National Weather Service Office in Muskegon County. What's more, the meteorologist recorded unknown echoes on his radar the same time Velthouse reported the lights.
"My guy looked at the radar and observed three echoes as the officer was describing the movement," Leo Grenier of the NWS office in Muskegon said in 1994. "The movement of the objects was rather erratic. The echoes were there about 15 minutes, drifting slowly south-southwest, kind of headed toward the Chicago side of the south end of Lake Michigan."
In 1995, The Free Press published the conversation between the National Weather Service and Velthouse.
"What do you think it is?" said the weather service radar operator.
Velthouse described witnesses seeing five to six objects, some cylindrical with blue, red, white and green lights.
The radar operator said, "There were three and sometimes four blips, and they weren't planes. Planes show as pinpoints on the scope, these were the size of half a thumbnail. They were from 5 to 12,000 feet at times, moving all over the place. Three were moving toward Chicago. I never saw anything like it before, not even when I'm doing severe weather."
Hundreds of reports of suspected UFOs were called in not only to 911 dispatchers but also to the Mutual UFO Network's (MUFON) Michigan chapter.
MUFON, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization founded in 1969, bills itself as the "world's oldest and largest civilian UFO investigation and research organization."
In 1994, the network received UFO reports from Ludington south to the Indiana state line, spokeswoman Virginia Tilly told the Free Press in 1994.
"We're getting 10 or 15 new sightings a day," Tilly said. "We have probably 20 people in various stages of investigating these reports."
The reported UFO sightings was the largest since March 1966, Bill Konkolesky, Michigan state director of MUFON, told the Free Press this week.
"It was one of the big ones in the state. We haven't seen a large UFO (reported sighting) wave since that time," Konkolesky said.
Konkolesky joined the network in 1993. He was not part of the investigation team but still has a copy of an article about the sightings with a picture of the Graves family on the front cover.
MUFON interviewed dozens of witnesses, Konkolesky said, many of whom remain in contact with the organization.
"There was a lot of enthusiasm into the UFO field (then) because of the amount of press coverage. It was outstanding," he said. "They were paying attention to the phenomenon."
Konkolesky said the flying objects reported in 1994 are characterized as "unexplained" and the sightings remain a mystery.
Not so far-fetched
The idea of alien life isn't as farfetched as once thought, with a number of recent discoveries pointing raising the possibility.
In a series of reports from USA TODAY, researchers have studied whether life could exist on a recently discovered "Super Earth" about 30 trillion miles away.
Villanova University astrophysicists Edward Guinan and Scott Engle told USA TODAY that the planet, known as Barnard b, has a temperature of 274 degrees below zero, but "niches of life" may be possible under the ice.
Another group of researchers is studying whether a mysterious object entering the Earth's solar system from interstellar space at a high rate of speed actually is a probe intentionally sent here by an alien civilization. Scientists later decided that the weird object actually was a comet.
And another study reports that more “fast radio bursts" – bright, short-lived pulses of radio waves that come from across the universe — have been detected by astronomers. Some researchers have considered the idea that these bursts could be signals from intelligent aliens, according to Science News.
more after the jump:
www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2019/03/07/lake-michigan-ufo-sightings/3078683002/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 8, 2019 11:37:15 GMT
Metro (United Kingdom)
Ex-Ministry of Defence UFO investigator publishes novel so sensitive it needed ‘security clearance’
Jasper Hamill
Thursday 7 Mar 2019 3:14 pm
He spent three years investigating mysterious sightings over Britain as head of the Ministry of Defence’s official UFO desk. Now the defence chief-turned author Nick Pope has written a book so sensitive it had to undergo a ‘security clearance’ process which resulted in the removal of several passages. Pope worked for 21 years at the MoD but became known around the world for his research and writing on UFOs after leaving public service. In this latest book, Blood Brothers, he draws on the worldly experience he gained during a Whitehall career which saw him named deputy director at the Directorate of Defence Security.
The novel deals with the threat posed by radical Islamist terrorists and is a is a ‘homage to the incredibly brave and dedicated men and women who serve in our Armed Forces and our intelligence agencies’. It deals with topics explosive enough to make the author submit it to the MoD, where it was checked to make sure it didn’t break the Official Secrets Act. Pope was even asked to remove certain passages. ‘I’m not sure I’m supposed to say much about the security clearance process,’ he told Metro. ‘However, I don’t want anyone to think I’m in any way disloyal or a whistleblower, so I can confirm that I did have to send the MoD an advance copy of the manuscript prior to publication, and it did ask me to make some changes, which I made. ‘Much of the book is about the SAS and MI5 taking on violent jihadis, so clearly the book delves deep into the secret and highly-classified world of Special Forces, intelligence and counter-terrorism. ”I consider myself a patriot and fully support the UK, US and other Western governments in the ongoing war on terror. ‘I wanted to make it realistic, but needed to be absolutely sure that nothing I wrote about in terms of strategy, doctrine, tactics, equipment issues or anything else was going to offer the slightest bit of assistance to any of the bad guys out there.’
It wasn’t all UFOs for Pope when he was at the MoD, because he spent several years focusing on counter-terrorism after 9/11. ”Counter-terrorism is something I know a lot about – and they say you have to write what you know,’ he continued. ‘Many action thrillers concentrate on car chases and gun battles, but I want readers to see how things are done for real – not that there’s any shortage of action in Blood Brothers. ‘My book deals with the policy issues, giving readers an insight into how political decisions on counter-terrorism are made at the highest level. ‘So in one scene we have the Prime Minister chairing a Cobra emergency committee, in the next scene we have MI5 analysts cracking a problem and then we cut to the SAS going in hard and fast, all guns blazing. ‘It’s about as different as you could get from UFOs.’
The book unflinchingly portrays the rival worlds of the intelligence services and extremist terrorists. ‘One of the reasons Blood Brothers is likely to be controversial is that it deals with the threat posed by ISIS and other extremist groups,’ Pope added. ”The most sensitive issues in Blood Brothers are race and religion. ‘Blood Brothers doesn’t demonize Islam, but shows how – like all religions – it can be misinterpreted and misrepresented by people with hate in their hearts.’
So does the former UFO hunter and high-ranking defence official believe the nightmare scenarios of his novel are going to happen in the real world? ‘Sadly, many of the things portrayed in Blood Brothers are already coming true, such as lone-wolf marauding terror attacks using vehicles and drones at airports – I’ve long warned about the terror implications of that,’ he said. ‘And of course, it’s no secret that terrorists want to get their hands on either a nuclear weapon or failing that, material to make a dirty bomb. ‘Western intelligence agencies are dedicated and highly capable, but the terrorists only have to be lucky once. I wouldn’t be surprised if there was an act of nuclear terrorism in my lifetime. ‘I don’t think this would lead to a Third World War, but there would certainly be a devastating response not just against the terrorists, but against any nation found to have helped the terrorists.’
metro.co.uk/2019/03/07/ex-ministry-defence-ufo-investigator-publishes-novel-sensitive-needed-security-clearance-8841980/
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 9, 2019 11:27:52 GMT
Happy Saturday lovely UFOCasebookers!
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Mar 9, 2019 22:31:36 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 9, 2019 23:51:05 GMT
Thanks thelmadonna for the heads up.
Crystal
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2019 3:16:51 GMT
One of the Drone Buildings is Going Up For Sale..Most are unaware of the Design Inspiration the drones got from the Empire state building for Sys meade and Android Jones.. 
While the building is an iconic landmark in the New York skyline, it is competing against newer office towers with large floor-to-ceiling windows and all the modern amenities.
Still the building is among the best known in the city -- even to people who have never been to New York. It is famous for its triangle-shaped, vaulted windows worked into the stylized crown, along with its distinctive eagle gargoyles near the top. It has been featured prominently in many films, including Men in Black 3, Spider-Man, Armageddon, Two Weeks Notice and Independence Day.
I know lev will miss the gargoyles..
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 10, 2019 12:02:37 GMT
Good morning,
SFGate
There are hidden buildings and tunnels below Alcatraz's prison yard, study finds
By Katie Dowd
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Sixty years too late for would-be escapees, a series of remarkable buildings and tunnels have been located under the prison yard of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
A study published in "Near Surface Geophysics" details the steps archaeologists took to confirm the long-time suspicions of historians: that when Alcatraz prison was built in the early 20th century, it was constructed over the Civil War-era military fortification.
"These remains are so well preserved, and so close to the surface," study author Timothy de Smet, an archaeologist at Binghampton University, told PBS. "They weren't erased from the island — they're right beneath your feet."
So as not to disturb the land by digging, archaeologists used ground-penetrating radar and terrestrial laser scans in conjunction with historical maps and photographs. Below the prison recreation yard, they found fully buried structures, underground ammunition magazines and tunnels. Historians believe when the prison was built, workers elected to simply build over existing structures, rather than take the time and money to demolish them.
Alcatraz first came to the attention of the U.S. government after wresting control of California from Mexico in the 1840s. Because of its position in the middle of San Francisco Bay, it was viewed with interest as a military fortification. The island's natural topography was also appealing; the rock faces were used to create natural defenses. Brick buildings were constructed to house up to 200 soldiers and enough provisions to withstand a four-month siege.
By 1860, it was already being transformed into a prison. During the Civil War, Fort Alcatraz was the official military prison for the West Coast. In 1910, a new cell block was created for military prisoners. Two decades later, the Federal Bureau of Prisons took over operation of the facility. In August 1934, the first federal prisoners — deemed by the media to be the worst of the worst — began arriving. The last prisoner left in 1963.
While time has ground on above, the buried buildings have rested below, untouched.
Archaeologists are now planning more study to discover what else lies just below the surface.
www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/alcatraz-prison-buildings-radar-study-13664148.php
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 10, 2019 12:08:06 GMT
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Post by swamprat on Mar 11, 2019 2:16:56 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 11, 2019 11:39:03 GMT
Good morning lovely UFOCasebookers,
HISTORY
Published on Mar 10, 2019
Project Blue Book episode “War Games” draws from the unknown object detected and fired upon by soldiers in the Korean War in 1951. Soon after, the men were evacuated and found to have a very high white-blood-cell count.
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 11, 2019 11:51:11 GMT
Apollo Magazine
The rise of the monumental statue in modern-day India
Debika Ray
11 March 2019
The Statue of Unity portraying Vallabhbhai Patel, unveiled in Gujarat, India, in October 2018.
Photo: Reuters/Amrit Dave
The statue of Liberty holds her torch 46m above her pedestal on Liberty Island in New York. In contrast, the Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro stands at a mere 30m once you reach his feet. Far away in China’s Henan province, the Spring Temple Buddha, completed in 2008, rises to a height of 128m.
Liberty, Christ, and Buddha now have a new figure to look up to as India has completed what, at 182m, is believed to be the tallest statue in the world. The colossal ‘Statue of Unity’, which overlooks the Narmada river in the western state of Gujarat, is of Vallabhbhai Patel, a leader in the country’s freedom struggle and the first deputy prime minister after independence. The figure was designed by the now 93-year-old Ram Vanji Sutar, one of India’s most experienced living sculptors. He has previously created more than 50 significant statues of major figures such as Mahatma Gandhi. Patel here is shown wearing a dhoti, sandals and shawl, poised with his hands by his side as if ready to take a step forward. ‘Getting the facial expressions, the pose, the texture and drapery of the statue can be a daunting task when it is 522 feet high,’ Sutar has said of his design, which he created in his studio in Noida, near Delhi – where his son says he still spends most of his day.
Patel may be known as ‘the Iron Man of India’, but he is rendered here in bronze – 12,000 panels of it, covering 210,000 cubic metres of cement and 25,000 tonnes of steel (making a total weight of 67,000 tonnes). The initial idea was to use recycled metal from old iron farming implements collected across the country, but it’s reported that not enough good quality iron could be found.
When the statue was unveiled last October, its £314m pricetag prompted protests from members of the local community in this mostly tribal area – many of whom had been moved to make way for it. The Sardar Sarovar dam that it overlooks has long been controversial: activists, including the writer Arundhati Roy, have objected to the number of homes now at risk from the prospect of rising water levels. In this light, the decision to create ‘a tribal museum’ nearby seems rather insensitive.
Gujarat will not keep its place at the top of the tall-statues rankings for long. In November, the government of Maharashtra, the state immediately to its south, approved the budget for a 212m-high statue of the 17th-century warrior king Shivaji off the coast of Mumbai. Sutar is said to be working on this project too, alongside his son Anil, and the estimated completion date is 2021. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh (UP), a state adjoining Delhi in the north, has announced plans for a 221m-high statue of the Hindu deity Ram and a 170m-high likeness of 19th-century Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda, as well as more modestly sized figures of late former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the incumbent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the two previous head priests of the temple that Yogi Adityanath, a monk – and the state’s current chief minister – now leads.
more after the jump:
www.apollo-magazine.com/monumental-statues-india/
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Post by swamprat on Mar 11, 2019 14:52:38 GMT
Dr. Beach wants your butts off the beach
Stephen P. Leatherman, Guest Columnist
March 11, 2019
Cigarette butts are the largest source of pollution plaguing Florida’s beaches. Americans smoke about 360 billion filtered cigarettes each year, and at least 275 million butts are tossed to the ground. Smoking is harmful to our health, but carelessly tossed butts are harmful to our environment and potentially our tourism. We need to get the butts off our beaches!
Americans love beaches. From the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean, they are Florida’s top recreational destination. In fact, our state is blessed with 825 miles of good-quality beaches. But we must act to protect them. Florida must ban smoking on its beaches.
Some cities, including Miami Beach, rely on sweepers to clean its shorelines every morning. But cigarette butts often fall through their screens. It’s a problem for people, sea turtles and any other living things on the beach. The chemicals and toxic heavy metals in cigarette butts dehave grade so slowly they hang around for up to 15 years. To make things worse, these butts sometimes end up in the mouths of our children or animals.
Cleaning up cigarette butts is also expensive. A San Francisco litter audit study found the cost of cleaning up the entire city, including its beaches, to be $7 million annually. Local taxpayers must bear this economic impact.
Beachgoers want clean water and sand. In fact, those are the two most important factors in my annual rating of America’s
Best Beaches. I actually give extra credit to beaches that don’t allow smoking.
Nothing restores the body and soul like a beach vacation. But sitting down on the sand and finding a nasty cigarette butt touching my hand spoils the whole experience.
Recent Florida voter opinion polls showed 75 percent of citizens are very concerned or somewhat concerned about cigarette litter. When Floridians were asked about whether local governments should have the right to establish smoke-free municipal parks and playgrounds, 66 percent agreed this is an idea whose time had come.
Seventy-two percent of respondents said local governments should the right to prohibit smoking in public places wherever children may be present — and sandy beaches are the favorite playgrounds of kids. These polls clearly show overwhelming support for smoke-free parks and playgrounds.
In 2007, Sarasota banned smoking, only to have a judge rule that local governments cannot ban something that is legal at the state level. But smoking is banned at restaurants and most buildings, so why do we allow it on our beaches? The island of Oahu, Hawaii prohibits smoking at all beaches, which includes the world-famous Waikiki Beach. They have led the way. Isn’t it time for us to follow?
In this legislative session, Sen. Joe Gruters will introduce Senate Bill 218, which would prohibit smoking tobacco on Florida’s public beaches. Gov. Ron DeSantis should take up this issue to complement his already strong stance on cleaning up the coastal environment, in light of the recent red tide problems plaguing our beaches.
Stephen P. Leatherman, Ph.D. is a professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at Florida International University. He is best known to the public as “Dr. Beach,” for his annual ranking of America’s Best Beaches.
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