Day: January 19, 2017

Trump protesters embark on a long, strange trip to Washington, D.C.

Activists gathered behind the Art Institute along Columbus Drive Thursday afternoon to board buses bound for Washington, D.C., as part of a trip the local branch of Act Now to Stop War and End Racism had organized to protest President-elect Donald Trump's Friday inauguration on Capitol Hill. Chris Cholewa, a DuPage County resident and two-time Obama voter who said he'd campaigned for Bernie Sanders during the presidential primary, was among those who'd claimed a seat.

Google’s VR art app is open source and ready to get weird

Google's Tilt Brush is capable of some pretty impressive results . But what if those 3D paintings and projects you made while strapped into virtual reality could escape into the real world? That's the idea behind the open-source Tilt Brush Toolkit , available now on GitHub.

Thoughts I Had… Margot Robbie as Tonya Harding

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Popular Photo App Meitu Is Asking For Very Strange Permissions

If you're starting to see your friends post bizarre photos onto Facebook or Twitter where they look like they've been given a makeover, there's a good chance that they are using a new photo app called Meitu which seems to be giving users anime-like makeovers thanks to its built-in filters. However if you're thinking of hopping on board the bandwagon, maybe you shouldn't.

Facebook CEO trying to buy out land near his Hawaii estate

In this Nov. 19, 2016 file photo, Mark Zuckerberg, chairman and CEO of Facebook, waves at the CEO summit during the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Lima, Peru. Zuckerberg is going to court to gain ownership of isolated pockets of land tucked away within his sprawling estate in Hawaii.

Motzko Back To Business At St. Cloud State After Winning Gold At World Juniors

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DBTB Quiz: Long-Time Buffalo Sabres Pictured in Strange Uniforms

A Sabres quiz featuring pictures of long tenured Buffalo Sabres wearing uniforms in which we're not accustomed to seeing them! Are you up to the challenge of identifying these temporarily non-Sabres players? Those who remember their Buffalo hockey history and can identify players by their looks ought to do well, and for some, it may be a matter of recalling which former players suited up for which other teams, or what numbers they were known to wear. Since the quiz is somewhat easier in terms of recall, there's no help with spelling on this one - you'll need to get the last names 100% correct.

RC Lloyd: A strange experience

Watching the recent "press conference" by President-elect Trump was akin to being on methamphetamine while simultaneously listening to audio books of "Trump: The Art of the Deal" and "Mein Kampf" with the CD player set on shuffle. The Colorado High School Activities Association's implementation of RPI for all team sports fell under heavy scrutiny during the football season, but by and large presented a fair case for itself in almost every other sport in the fall.

The bizarre history of presidential inaugurations

On Friday, Washington time, on the west stairs of the Capitol Building, Donald John Trump will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. The inauguration ceremony is expected to take several hours, and will include speeches, musical performances and a parade right afterwards.

Vlogger tries out surgery-free A 20 ‘nose job’ but finds there is a major catch

Raiza Contawi reviewed 'nose lifters', which promise to reshape your snout without surgery and for a fraction of the price Cosmetic surgery is an expensive business, so news that 20 nose jobs have gone on the market might seem too good to be true. The plastic hooks, sold three different sizes, in are designed to be inserted in your nostrils to change the appearance of your nose.

NASA images show Saturn’s bizarre ‘wavemaker’ moon Daphnis

A stunning new image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the closest view yet of Saturn's 'wavemaker' mini-moon Daphnis as it creates ripples along inside one of the planet's rings. The 5-mile-wide moon orbits within a 26 mile wide gap known as the Keeler Gap, and its gravity causes the edges to 'wave' in both the horizontal and vertical directions.

Pizza Hut plans to hire 11,000 ahead of the Super Bowl new

Pizza Hut is gearing up for the Super Bowl by hiring 11,000 people in the U.S. to cook up its pies, deliver them to hungry customers or manage its restaurants. The Super Bowl is the busiest day of the year for Pizza Hut, and it expects to sell more than 2 million pizzas during the Feb. 5 football game.

See a fantastically strange red seadragon on video for the first time

Scientists declared the ruby seadragon a new species in 2015, but that was based on dead specimens in a museum. Now though, Scripps Institution of Oceanography biologist Greg Rouse who led the team that originally discovered the species, managed to find two of the wonderful fish swimming around the Recherche Archipelago, off the south coast of Western Australia.

NASA’S Mars rover Curiosity discovered this odd rock in the Red Planet’s Gale Crater six days ago.

There's no end to the earthly items that Red Planet UFO enthusiasts have "discovered" on Mars - a snake , a coffin , traffic light , cat , lizard , even a sasquatch , just to name a few. But, as Live Science reports, one rock that has piqued scientists' interest is a unusual dark-gray object that seems out of place with the rest of the reddish rock and dirt spread across the Martian landscape.

Rare Rat Virus Infects 2 People In Wisconsin

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Minneapolis Mayoral Race: A Conversation With Rep. Raymond Dehn

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Raffles: The Future Of Campaign Fundraising In Minnesota?

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North Dakota Deputy Killed In Shootout Had Just Begun Job

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Rover finds strange rock on Mars surface

There's no end to the earthly items that Red Planet UFO enthusiasts have "discovered" on Mars - a snake , a coffin , traffic light , cat , lizard , even a sasquatch , just to name a few. But, as Live Science reports, one rock that has piqued scientists' interest is a unusual dark-gray object that seems out of place with the rest of the reddish rock and dirt spread across the Martian landscape.

Montana beekeeper stung by beehive thieves in California

Lloyd Cunniff tells the Great Falls Tribune it appeared the thieves used semitrailers to steal about 190,000 bees between Monday night and Tuesday morning in Yuba City, California. He said he was storing the bees on a fellow beekeeper's property before moving them to Fresno, where he had a contract to pollinate almond trees.

Milwaukee Sheriff Accused Of Detaining Man For Shaking His Head

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California scientist names moth species after Donald Trump

A scientist in California has named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump , saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The moth was named Neopalpa donadltrumpi by evolutionary biologist Dr. Vazrick Nazari, who discovered it while dissecting moths and noticing that three specimens had a distinct wing pattern and unique DNA profile, the Sacramento Bee reported Wednesday.

Target Teams Up With Minnesota United Ahead Of MLS Debut

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Bar to show adorable animal feed in lieu of inauguration

Need an adorable alternative to watching the presidential inauguration? Hinterlands Bar in Brooklyn, New York, has pledged to show cute animals on both of their televisions all day and night on Jan. 20. "It's going to happen but we don't have to watch it," the bar said in a Facebook post about Donald Trump's inauguration. The adorable animal-fest kicks off at 1 p.m. on Friday and ends 4 a.m. on Saturday.

Adrian Peterson Claims Interest In 3 Other NFL Teams

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UK court rejects bid for bridge to be recognized as sport

The Court of Appeal in London on Thursday upheld an October 2015 ruling backing Sport England's refusal to put bridge in the same category as badminton, billiards and ballroom dancing. The union had argued that a lack of sporting recognition meant fewer opportunities for public funding and to promote bridge.

Jail Time for Women Who Bit off Officer’s Ear

A Massachusetts woman who bit off a portion of a rookie police officer's ear during her arrest outside a bar has been sentenced to four years in jail. The Boston Herald reports that 19-year-old Emma Wiley was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to assault and battery on a police officer and mayhem.

Bizarre mask that pumps out smell of ‘private parts’ and…

Virtual reality is set to impact every area of our lives - from gaming and entertainment to shopping and travel - but no one is more excited about the coming VR revolution than the porn industry. From headsets that create the illusion you are having sex with your favourite celebrity crush , to sex suits that send impulses all over your body to recreate the sensation of being touched, there is already an astonishing amount of technology catering to this particular fetish.

Bizarre facts you didn’t know about Presidential Inaugurations

From famous speeches to record-breaking crowds, Presidential Inaugurations have been a testament to the transition of power in American democracy, but sometimes they don't always go as planned. For instance, during John F. Kennedy's 1961 inauguration, his podium caught fire during Cardinal Richard Cushing's invocation speech.

‘Ghost wearing a hijab’ appears over young girl’s…

The young girl was reportedly home alone at the time of the recording and was terrified by what she saw when she watched the footage back A terrifying video appears to show a 'ghost in a hijab' appear over a young girl's shoulder as she was singing to her webcam and getting ready to post her video online. The young girl was singing her own version of the song Count on Me by Bruno Mars when she decided to record her performance.

Bizarre rules enforced at fruitpicking farm in rural NSW

'This is not a job for the weak, unfit, cry babies or depressed': One farmer's VERY blunt rules for backpackers trying to earn a visa extension by picking his tomatoes A backpacker who worked at a fruitpicking farm has revealed some of the bizarre rules she had to live by at the rural farm. The rules at a tomato picking farm in the Riverina region of south-west New South Wales included a warning to 'whingers'.

California scientist names moth species after Donald Trump

Scientists in California have named a newly discovered moth species after President-elect Donald Trump , saying the white and yellow scales on the insect's head are reminiscent of Trump's blond hairdo. The Sacramento Bee reports that a report by researchers at the University of California , Davis, on the new species became available Tuesday.

Public offered chance to buy police offices

A total of seven Lanarkshire properties are available through the organisation's estates department with prices ranging from 40,000 for Newmains to 150,000 for Strathaven. The Viewpark office in Old Edinburgh Road, which is described as a modern single storey building, closed in 2014 and is listed for offers over 100,000.

Weird but wonderful Wind House brings whimsy to Koreas Jeju Island

A peculiar home has popped up on Korea's idyllic Jeju island , and it's unlike any we've seen before. Moon Hoon , a Seoul-based architect who's never afraid to think outside of the box, recently completed the Wind House, a low-lying structure topped with a large-scale golden sculptural object that bears similarities to a duck head or hairdryer.

Singer suffers embarrassing wardrobe malfunction when her boobs pop out as she dances on stage

The entertainer didn't appear to notice that she was showing off a lot more than just her singing talent Milica Pavlovic, from Serbia, took to the stage in a risky corset, which only just about covered her modesty to begin with. And while she jumped around in the skin-coloured number, she accidentally revealed a little more than she intended to the stunned audience.

Weird Chico: A to Z

The future is weird, too: Keep Chico Weird Art Show Jan. 26-28 , at 1078 Gallery Keep Chico Weird Talent Show Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m., at El Rey Theatre Tickets: $16, available at JMax outlets and Chico News & Review Chico has always been weird, from the days of John Bidwell and the eccentric characters with whom he associated to the hippies and hipsters who currently groove and chill downtown. And it's the colorful folklore of old and fantastic freaks of the present that give our little Nor Cal oasis its quirky personality.

Julianne Nicholson joins Margot Robbie’s Tonya Harding comedy bio

PanARMENIAN.Net - Julianne Nicholson is joining the cast of Margot Robbie 's Tonya Harding comedy biopic "I, Tonya" with principal photography launching in Atlanta, Variety said. She joins a cast that includes Sebastian Stan as Harding's spouse Jeff Gillooly, Allison Janney as Harding's mother Lavona, and Paul Walter Hauser as bodyguard Shawn Eckhardt.

Driver clocked at 146 kph in snowstorm wanted new car stereo

New Hampshire State Police say a driver clocked at 91 mph during a snowstorm said she was late for an appointment to have a new car stereo installed. Police say they stopped 21-year-old Anastacia Hocking, of Laconia, on Interstate 93 in Concord on Wednesday morning.

A weird tale of two coastal cities

Stade de Port-Gentil is so new that you can smell the paint in certain areas while the legs of the chairs in the media stand were still covered in bubble wrap. You can see the adhesive on the tiles in the toilets in certain areas was recently applied.