There are now three helicopters buzzing over Winnipeg on a regular basis. Two media choppers and the police helicopter. The police chopper, a Eurocopter EC120 Colibri, is in the air quite frequently. It can be heard and seen in the downtown area during the day and especially at night. Looking out for bad guys.
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The CJOB radio traffic helicopter and the Global TV News helicopter are Robinson R44s. The Global News morning show has great aerial footage from their chopper everyday. The show runs from 6am to 9am.
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Winnipeg’s CJOB Traffic Helicopter Evening flight in a Robinson R44 Filmed with GoPro HD Hero Camera 90 minutes condensed to 1 minute.
Famous Monsters of Filmland is a genre-specific film magazine started in 1958 by publisher James Warren and editor Forrest J Ackerman.
Famous Monsters of Filmland directly inspired the creation of many other similar publications, including Castle of Frankenstein, Cinefantastique, Fangoria, The Monster Times, and Video Watchdog. In addition, hundreds, if not thousands, of FM-influenced horror, fantasy and science fiction movie-related fanzines have been produced, some of which have continued to publish for decades, such as Midnight Marquee and Little Shoppe of Horrors.
Famous Monsters of Filmland was originally conceived as a one-shot publication by Warren and Ackerman, published in the wake of the widespread success of the package of old horror movies syndicated to American television in 1957. But the first issue, published in February 1958, was so successful that it required a second printing to fulfill public demand. Its future as part of American culture was immediately obvious to both men. The success prompted spinoff magazines such as Spacemen, Famous Westerns of Filmland, Screen Thrills Illustrated, Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.
FM offered brief articles, well-illustrated with publicity stills and graphic artwork, on horror movies from the silent era to the current date of publication, their stars and filmmakers. Warren and Ackerman decided to aim the text at late pre-adolescents and young teenagers.
Famous Monsters of Filmland was originally conceived as a one-shot publication by Warren and Ackerman, published in the wake of the widespread success of the package of old horror movies syndicated to American television in 1957. But the first issue, published in February 1958, was so successful that it required a second printing to fulfill public demand. Its future as part of American culture was immediately obvious to both men. The success prompted spinoff magazines such as Spacemen, Famous Westerns of Filmland, Screen Thrills Illustrated, Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella.
FM offered brief articles, well-illustrated with publicity stills and graphic artwork, on horror movies from the silent era to the current date of publication, their stars and filmmakers. Warren and Ackerman decided to aim the text at late pre-adolescents and young teenagers.
Chinese Web Users Gasp—in Code—as NYT Cyber Attacks Exposed
The Atlantic
After the New York Times published an article detailing the four months during which the venerated publication was the subject of hacking attacks traced to China, the news spread on Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter. Despite internal censorship measures and the blocking of some sensitive keywords, some users nevertheless found a way to comment on the article.
Popular Weibo user and vocal critic @假装在纽约, whose handle means “Pretending to be in New York,” posted a screenshot of the Times article in English, with the simple Chinese tagline, “For 4 months, Chinese hackers with government backgrounds launched fierce attacks against that New York paper.” He then translated several key points from the article for his followers, including information supporting the piece’s argument that the hackers were likely affiliated with the Chinese military.
In response to his post, a number of users simply posed a rhetorical question: “Lanxiang?” The term is an abbreviation for Shandong Lanxiang Vocational School, an institution of higher learning known to produce hackers employed by the Chinese government . One user warned “Pretending to be in New York,” “Better not get on the bad side of the People’s Liberation Army,” while another speculated, “I bet your account is going to be deleted.”
This looks like a battallion of Chinese Army Hackers. The 3rd Shocktroop battallion of the 95th Regiment of Special Hacker Forces.
Since the Times published an expose on the wealth accumulated by Premier Wen Jiabao’s family last year, its website has been intermittently blocked and its content selectively censored; the media outlet’s Chinese name has been temporarily censored on various microblogging platforms, as have several homonyms for the paper, forcing Chinese Web users to get creative when referring to it. Posts related to the Times’ most recent offending piece were also censored, according to Twitter user @MissXQ.
As for the post by “Pretending to be in New York,” it garnered 80 comments and 207 retweets in the first hour before being deleted by censors. The Weibo critic had wasted little time in devising a back-up plan in the event his entire account were to be excised. He had thought ahead, though:. “If this account is ever gone,” he wrote a week earlier, “Please follow @假耳朵.”
What a society, always having Big Brother watching over you.
Bigfoot is getting hotter all the time. Beginning with the Beef Jerky commercials Bigfoot is splashed all over the T.V. now. But the giant cryptid must have a good Hollywood agent because the elusive Squatch is getting a lot of work. Not only is the shy bipedal beast becoming more approachable, it is starting to talk!
Former C.I.A. director General David Petraeus had to resign because of an extra-marital affair. A juicy sex scandal, exactly what the U.S. media loves.
According to Petraeus associate Steven A. Boylan, Petraeus began an affair with Paula Broadwell, principal author of his biography, All In: The Education of General David Petraeus, in late 2011 when he was no longer an active duty military officer. Petraeus reportedly ended the affair in the summer of 2012, around the time that he learned that Broadwell had been sending harassing emails to a longstanding family friend of the Petraeuses, Jill Kelley.
Kelley, a Florida socialite who frequently entertained senior military personnel at her and her husband’s Tampa mansion, had approached an acquaintance who worked for the FBI Tampa Field Office in the late spring about anonymous emails she considered threatening. The Bureau traced the emails to Broadwell and noted that Broadwell appeared to be exchanging intimate messages with an email account belonging to Petraeus, which instigated an investigation into whether that account had been hacked into or was someone posing as Petraeus. According to an Associated Press report, rather than transmit emails to each other’s inbox which would have left a more obvious email trail, messages were left in a draft folder which were then read when the other person logged into the same account.[179]
Although US Attorney General Eric Holder was aware early on that the FBI had discovered an affair, it was not until November 6, 2012, that Petraeus’ nominal superior, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, was advised. That same evening Clapper called Petraeus and urged him to resign. Clapper notified the White House the next day, November 7. After being briefed on November 8, President Obama summoned Petraeus to the White House where Petraeus offered his resignation. Obama accepted the resignation on November 9, and Petraeus cited the affair when announcing that same day that he would be resigning as CIA Director.
Mad Magazine’s take on it
General David Petraeus and his biographer turned mistress Paula Broadwell in July 2011
Democratic Party political strategist James Carville, also known as the Ragin Cajun, is starting to look more and more like a famous vampire, Nosferatu. When this guy pops up on CNN I get chills running down the back of my neck. It is hard to understand what he is saying half the time with his thick Louisiana accent, and now it is becoming hard to understand that he is human at all!
Adding to the Vampire conjecture is the fact that James is married to a Witch. Her name is Mary Matalin, strangely enough, a Republican political strategist. Mary was so devastated by Barack Obama’s second presidential victory that she went on an unbelievable hostile diatribe against the president on CNN. She was mean-spirited, ruthless, spiteful, sulking, and overall just being a horrid bitch. Not only are Republicans liars and dickheads, they are terrible losers. Mary needs a good roll in the coffin with James to settle her down.
Comparison of James and Nosferatu, the resemblance is uncanny.
