Month: January 2019

Studio changes and new release dates announced

Ghostbusters has a July 10, 2020, release date, and Morbius — starring Jared Leto and based on Marvel’s vampire antihero — will come out three weeks later July 31. The July 10 date had been earmarked for a Marvel pic, which turns out was Morbius. Both films have their respective opening weekends to themselves for now.

Jared Leto Morbius

VENOM 3 is likely for October 2, 2020 ..

MORE changes..

Sony moved Greyhound back 14 months in the schedule from March 2019 to May 8, 2020, a date that marks the 75th anniversary of V-E Day — which makes sense for the fact-based movie about a WWII battle led by Commander Ernest Krause, played by Hanks. Meanwhile, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood was shifted from this October 18 to November 22, which puts it in the potentially lucrative Thanksgiving Week frame. Hanks plays the iconic Rogers

RONDA ROUSEY TELLS THE WWE THAT IT’S HER LIFE AND HER VAGINA!

Raw Women’s champion Ronda Rousey commented Friday on rumors that she may leave WWE following WrestleMania 35 in April to start a family. ‘

According to ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, Rousey took exception with those who are speculating on her desire to have children: “I honestly don’t know why [anyone] feels [they’re] an authority to speak on plans for my uterus. It’s my vagina, my life, keep the speculations to yourself. Leave me and my reproductive organs alone.”

For now, Rousey is still the Raw Women’s champion, and she is set to defend the title against Sasha Banks at the Royal Rumble on Sunday.

Rousey is widely expected to retain before going on to face one or both of Charlotte Flair and Becky Lynch at WrestleMania.

Sad songs.. sad songs: Music has gotten increasingly sad and angry

This according to a new study..

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The US study team looked at lyrics of more than 6,000 songs from Billboard Hot 100 in each year.

Researchers analysed lyrics in best-selling songs from the 1950s to 2016 to find expressions of anger and sadness had increased, while words about joy had dropped.

The analysis showed the expression of anger in popular music lyrics has increased gradually over time.
Study co-author Lior Shamir, of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan, said: ‘The change in lyrics sentiments does not necessarily reflect what the musicians and songwriters wanted to express, but is more related to what music consumers wanted to listen to in each year.’ Songs released during the mid 1950s were the least angry and the anger expressed in lyrics has increased gradually until peaking in 2015.
The analysis also revealed some variations with songs released between 1982 and 984 being less angry compared to any other period, except for the 1950s.
In the mid 1990s, songs became angrier and the increase in anger was sharper during that time in comparison to previous years.
The expression of sadness, disgust and fear also increased over time, although the increase was milder compared to the increase in the expression of anger.
Disgust increased gradually, but was lower in the early 1980s and higher in the mid and late 1990s.
Popular music lyrics expressed more fear during the mid 1980s and the fear decreased sharply in 1988.

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Kathleen Napier LTU research songs
Kathleen Napier and Lior Shamir conducted research on the emotions in songs since the 1950s. Napier, a graduate student and Shamir, a professor at Lawrence Technological University, concluded that songs have gotten angrier over the years….
Napier and Shamir’s analysis was accepted for publication in the Journal of Popular Music Studies, an academic journal published by the University of California. It is included in the December 2018 issue at http://jpms.ucpress.edu/content/30/4/161.

DO we consume what we are…? Do we create the reality that we live in?
Fear and loathing is not confined to LA.. it’s earthly at this point.

And sadly sine 1988–back when Communism was busy falling and a new tech age was emerging, we seemingly got fearful .. got sad.. got angry?

NIRVANA summed that up for us best in the 90s when Kurt Cobain killed the 80s before he killed himself..

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And since then?
9/11… disease…hate.. division.. sowing the seeds for future music that will only get angrier than the music of our age!

The only hope may be A I making songs for us..
…..but will AI be happy?

Perhaps going back to the 1930s and changing the MEGAHERTZ that the Nazis created would be a good place to start.

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MICHAEL JACKSON SEX CLAIMS SHOCK SUNDANCE!

FROM AN AP REPORT ON THE MOVIE THAT IS ROCKING NEVERLAND

It’s not uncommon for audiences at the Sundance Film Festival to give standing ovations, but the ceremonial act took on a solemn air as two men who accuse Michael Jackson of molesting them as boys walked onstage following the festival’s only screening of “Leaving Neverland,” a documentary about their stories

Wade Robson, who says Jackson abused him from ages 7 to 14, and James Safechuck came forward as adults with their abuse allegations after Jackson’s death in 2009.
The four-hour film, which will air in two parts on Britain’s Channel 4 and HBO this spring, is a sprawling account of how their lives intersected with Jackson’s at the height of his fame in the 80s and early 90s, and then later as adults when the trauma of what happened in their youth started to emerge in serious ways 

In addition to accounts from Robson and Safechuck themselves, the film also interviews family members including the boys’ mothers, wives and Robson’s brother and sister. Jackson’s voice is heard in the film, through voicemails he left for Robson and an “interview” Safechuck did with Jackson aboard his private plane, and the film also shows some of the many faxes he sent to Robson. 

“We can’t change what happened to us. And we can’t do anything about Michael,” Robson said in a Q&A with the audience. But he said he hopes it makes other survivors feel less isolated and raises awareness for anyone who is responsible for children.

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Scientists drill deepest hole ever in Antarctica

Scientists have been planning the project, called BEAMISH (Bed Access, Monitoring and Ice Sheet History), for the past 20 years. On Jan. 8, after 63 hours of continuous drilling using a hot-water drill (a large tool that melts the ice), they broke through the base of the Rutford Ice Stream in West Antarctica.

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The team reached a depth of 7,060 feet (2,152 meters) and threaded instruments through the hole to record water pressure and ice temperature, and to measure how much the ice has deformed.
By drilling down deep, the team hopes to find out how long ago the Antarctic ice sheet last disappeared and how water and sediments may be nudging the ice toward the sea, according to the project’s webpage.

The team drilled a second hole on Jan. 22, and the project is expected to continue until mid-February.

DEVELOPING

Stone Zone blown! Roger Stone arrested in Florida by the FBI

US special counsel’s office: Trump ally Roger Stone arrested in Florida..



A breaking news event occurring Friday before sunrise in Florida..

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In an indictment returned in Washington on Thursday, Mr. Stone was also charged with obstructing an official proceeding and trying to persuade a witness to lie to investigators. 

Mr. Stone was arrested in Fort Lauderdale, and will make an initial appearance in federal court there Friday, the special counsel’s office said.

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Afternoon update: Roger Stone is out of jail on bail..


And the government may be soon open.


The weird voices in your head may have been aimed right at you!

Prepare to be creeped out at the potential here ..

In The Optical Society (OSA) journal Optics Letters, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory report using two different -based methods to transmit various tones, music and recorded speech at a conversational volume.

“Our system can be used from some distance away to beam information directly to someone’s ear,” said research team leader Charles M. Wynn. “It is the first system that uses lasers that are fully safe for the eyes and skin to localize an audible signal to a particular person in any setting.”

That means the messages can be targeted.. to specific people.. voices in your head may be purposely on their way..


MORE : https://phys.org/news/2019-01-technology-lasers-transmit-audible-messages.html

Bryan Singer hits back after ATLANTIC piece derailed more sexual abuse allegations

A bombshell report unleashed a wave of news coverage on BRYAN Singer again… the new ATLANTIC report detailed more young men who said they were sexually abused by the Hollywood director..

“The last time I posted about this subject, Esquire magazine was preparing to publish an article written by a homophobic journalist who has a bizarre obsession with me dating back to 1997,” Singer said in a statement via a representative to news organizations.. “After careful fact-checking and, in consideration of the lack of credible sources, Esquire chose not to publish this piece of vendetta journalism. That didn’t stop this writer from selling it to The Atlantic. It’s sad that The Atlantic would stoop to this low standard of journalistic integrity.”

Developing..

Smile for dementia

Poor oral health is a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease. What’s not clear is whether gum disease causes the disorder or is merely a result—many patients with dementia can’t take care of their teeth, for example. Now, a privately sponsored study has confirmed that the bacteria that cause gum disease are present in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s, not just in their mouths. The study also finds that in mice, the bacteria trigger brain changes typical of the disease.


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The new study, published today in Science Advances, was sponsored by the biotech startup Cortexyme Inc. of South San Francisco, California. Co-founder Stephen Dominy is a psychiatrist who in the 1990s became intrigued by the idea that Alzheimer’s could have an infectious cause.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 23 2019 news roundup

Nancy Pelosi tells Trump there will be no state of the union speech until the government has reopened.. Trump said he is coming anyway! A showdown on LIVE TV set.. the epic battle of ratings. . . for the ages..
VACCINATION POLICE ARE COMING NEAR PORTLAND! A quickly escalating measles outbreak around Portland, Oregon, has led health officials in nearby Clark County, Washington, to declare a public health emergency as they warn that people infected with the highly contagious virus since the beginning of the year have visited schools and churches, a dentist’s office, an Amazon locker pickup station, a Costco, and an Ikea…
Massive booms heard in three Kentucky counties.. .. In a Facebook post, Jackson County 911 said “No it’s not a ‘conspiracy’ and no we are not hiding anything.”..
NASA wants to knock an asteroid out or orbit by 2022.. The asteroid in question, informally known as Didymoon, is a moon asteroid about 150 meters tall. It’s part of a double asteroid system — named after the Greek word for twins, Didymos — in which it orbits another 800-meter asteroid about a kilometer away…
Late shift, long after it was battled: Jay Leno opens up about David Letterman and Conan O’Brien.. MORE: “We don’t hate each other,” Leno said of Letterman. “The media makes a big thing about it. I am a huge fan.” ..