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  • CA Power Company Restores Power to Northern California Customers

    CA Power Company Restores Power to Northern California Customers

    Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has restored power to more than 20,000 customers in Northern California after the company shut it off over the weekend to guard against wildfires.

    The utility company turned off electricity on Saturday to prevent outbreaks of deadly wildfires caused by high winds blowing down power lines.

    The company explained further on their website, “We know how much our customers rely on electric service and that there are safety risks on both sides. We understand and appreciate that turning off the power affects first responders and the operation of critical facilities, communications systems and much more.”

    PG&E’s preventive action arises from the recent fire that completely burned down the town of Paradise.

    CBN News previously reported on those conditions, “It was just constant explosions…cars are trying to go around the side and bursting into flames and people are getting out of their cars and running down the middle of the road,” Allyn Pierce said about his terrifying escape from Paradise, California in 2018.

    The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released a statement in May determining the cause of the fire. The investigation reveals that the “Camp Fire” was caused by electrical transmission lines owned and operated by PG&E.

    Over the weekend, a brush fire broke out in Yolo County. The “Sand Fire” grew to 2,200 acres and about 125 people have been evacuated.

    KTXL-TV in Sacramento said, despite challenges fire crews were beginning to make progress. By Sunday night, the fire was 20 percent contained and a Red Flag Warning for Yolo County and other parts of Northern California had expired.

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  • In Front of God’: Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger Announce Their Marriage

    In Front of God’: Chris Pratt, Katherine Schwarzenegger Announce Their Marriage

    Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger were married over the weekend in a ceremony the “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor called “intimate, moving and emotional.”

    Pratt announced the nuptials Sunday in an Instagram post along with a photo of the couple walking hand-in-hand. He wrote they were married Saturday “in front of God, our families and those we love.”

    Pratt, 39, also is known for his role on the hit television series “Parks and Recreation.” As a Christian working in Hollywood, he has been very outspoken about his faith at public appearances, and also on social media.

    Schwarzenegger, 29, is an author and the elder daughter of actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and journalist Maria Shriver.

    She wrote the children’s book Maverick and Me in 2017 and the positive self-image book Rock What You’ve Got: Secrets to Loving Your Inner and Outer Beauty from Someone Who’s Been There and Back in 2010.

    This is Pratt’s second marriage. He was divorced last fall from actress Anna Faris after nearly nine years of marriage. They have a seven-year-old son named Jack.

  • YouTube Under Fire from Independent Creators over #VoxAdpocalypse

    YouTube Under Fire from Independent Creators over #VoxAdpocalypse

    Vox writer and video host Carlos Maza recently called for conservative commentator Steven Crowder to be removed from YouTube, claiming that Crowder repeatedly directed homophobic slurs at him. Maza took to Twitter to call Crowder out and pressure YouTube to take action, claiming that despite being used to “online harassment,” Crowder had been “bothering him.”

    Crowder defended himself stating that his comments were jokes and “harmless ribbing” in a video he released earlier this week. However, critics still called for him to be banned from the platform. YouTube was quiet about the situation for some time but has finally responded, stating that although Crowder’s language was “hurtful,” it did not violate the site’s policies.

    But one day later, YouTube reversed its previous statements by demonetizing Crowder’s account, preventing him from making money from ads placed on his videos. In a tweet, YouTube said “We have suspended this channel’s monetization. We came to this decision because a pattern of egregious actions has harmed the broader community and is against our YouTube Partner Program policies.”

    But the demonetization of Crowder was only one part of a much larger campaign by YouTube, which included demonetizing independent journalist Ford Fischer, banning a history teacher who posted Nazi propaganda speeches for educational use, and banning or demonetizing a wide variety of left-wing and right-wing channels.

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  • Mexico Claims Some Migrant Caravan Funding Came from U.S., England

    Mexico Claims Some Migrant Caravan Funding Came from U.S., England

    The operation tracked financial movements from October 2018 through current dates in an attempt to determine the sources of funding for the migrant caravans. According to their statement, the UIF identified a group of individuals that made several questionable international financial transactions from the cities of Chiapas and Queretaro during the times that the migrant caravans were moving through those places.

    Mexican authorities followed the path of the caravans and the financial operations from Queretaro to the border cities of Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Acuna, Piedras Negras, and Reynosa. Based on that information, Mexican authorities were able to trace the source of the funds to the U.S., England, Cameroon, Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, the statement revealed.

    Based on the result of the investigation, the UIF moved to freeze the accounts in Mexico of the 26 individuals and entities that are believed to have helped fund the migrant caravans or contributed to human smuggling organizations, the SHCP statement revealed.  While authorities did not name the individuals or the entities whose assets they froze, they revealed that they would be filing complaints with Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office for prosecution.

    The action comes at a time when Mexican officials are meeting with their U.S. counterparts in an attempt to keep the Trump administration from levying tariffs on international commerce as a punitive measure over the country’s lax approach to migration. The threat of tariffs has led to a series of posturing and threats from both sides, Breitbart News reported.

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  • Scientists seek out limit to human endurance

    Scientists seek out limit to human endurance

    Washington (AFP) – US scientists who studied the performance of myriad athletes — including adventurous souls who spent five long months running across the United States — have come up with an estimate of the absolute physiological boundary of human endurance. The conclusions are pretty technical but the study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances highlights one feature in particular that makes people unique among primates: their physical endurance is indeed extraordinary. It is probably something we inherited from hunter-gatherers over the course of two million years, the researchers say. In a nutshell, when it comes to pushing one’s body to the limit, humans run circles around monkeys. The limit to human endurance is measured in multiples of something called basal metabolism, which is the minimum energy, counted in calories, that is expended by the body to keep itself going for one minute. And the limit to human endurance is about 2.5 times this basal metabolism, says the team, led by Herman Pontzer, a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. In athletic events defined as short — races that last anywhere from hours to weeks, such as a triathlon, a marathon or the Tour de France — people can crank their metabolism up to five or even 10 times their resting metabolic rate.

    But there comes a point in which performance will fall back down to about three times that rate, these scientists say. It is simply impossible for humans to stay above that level for more than a few weeks. To arrive at this figure the team followed five men and one woman who are considered extreme runners. From January to June of 2015 they took part in the Race Across the USA — 4,957 km (3,080 miles) from Los Angeles to Washington, DC. That’s the equivalent of doing a marathon a day, six days a week, for 20 weeks. “All of those people are losing weight. They’re burning away their fuel faster than they can put it back in,” Pontzer said. “What point do I hit where I can finally put as many calories back in as I burn each day?” The answer, Pontzer said, is 2.5 BMR — which stands for basal total metabolic rate. “That’s about 4,000 calories a day,” he said.

    – Crazy humans –

    Die-hards who ran across America drank eight liters of water a day in the first week and burned up 6,000 calories per day. But they kept losing weight all the way through to the end of the race and never reached a state of equilibrium. “You cannot really take in more than 4,000 calories a day,” said Pontzer. “You can burn more than that, but you’re losing weight every day. So that’s not really sustainable forever. You can do it for a couple of days, a couple of weeks, but you can’t do it forever.” His team says the limit to human endurance is probably linked to people’s digestive activity, rather than their muscles or heart, because this was the least common denominator in all of the sports that were studied. To wit: cycling, running and triathlons cause people to use different muscles. But they all have the same stomach. While humans stand out among primates in their ability to perform physically, other animals are also good at extreme endurance, such as migratory birds. But this part of the picture has not been studied as thoroughly. Pontzer notes an important difference between people and animals. “The other animals are too smart to do all these crazy things that people do,” he said.

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  • Arizona ‘futuristic hippie commune’ has a problem

    Arizona ‘futuristic hippie commune’ has a problem

    In the middle of Arizona’s desert lies something unexpected: a rather strange, unfinished “city of the future.” Jutting out of the vast, barren Sonoran Desert and reachable only by car, Arcosanti’s domes and curved structures look like something imagined up by a science fiction writer. A nonprofit group called the Cosanti Foundation has been working for decades to create a city that would inspire the future of urban design by incorporating a range of environmentally-friendly features to reduce sprawl and minimize the need for cars while harnessing solar power and natural vegetation to energy reduce costs. The Italian architect who originally envisioned the city, Paolo Soleri, called his ideas “urban implosion” because he wanted to reduce the suburban sprawl that is a feature of many American cities. He also invented the concept of Arcology, a way of thinking about urban design that’s in harmony with the natural world and more sustainable.

    Even though other architects and countries have surpassed Soleri’s goals – especially in Asia and the Middle East – his notions about local food sourcing, solar energy, eco-friendly living and walkable neighborhoods are now part of mainstream urban design. Each year, 50,000 people visit Arcosanti, according to Architectural Digest, but only about 80 residents call the city home. Some of those visitors are urban design students taking class trips, while others are people attending concerts and events held in Arcosanti’s large amphitheater.

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  • Boston Dynamics’ cool commercial robot Spot is about to go on sale

    Boston Dynamics’ cool commercial robot Spot is about to go on sale

    Boston Dynamics’ ambitions in the field of robotics have been the stuff that Internet virality is made of. The engineering and robotics company has already produced incredibly skillful machines that will haunt your nightmares if you’re one of those who’s convinced humanity is doomed and that the rise of the robots is at hand. The company’s robots have, for example, already shown an ability to navigate obstacles Parkour-style, easily manipulate boxes in a warehouse, deftly handle stairs and other barriers, along with much more. And now, it seems, the company’s designs are about to move from controlled test environments to the real world. The company’s four-legged, dog-like robot Spot — its first commercial robot — is going on sale soon.

    That’s according to a new piece from The Verge, which was told by Boston Dynamics’ CEO Marc Raibert that although there’s no firm launch date yet, Spot should start to be available for purchase “within months” and before the end of the year. “We’re just doing some final tweaks to the design,” the CEO told the news site. “We’ve been testing them relentlessly.” This follows a series of public appearances for the company and the robot, which was shown off in recent days at Amazon’s Re:MARS conference in Las Vegas. A pair of Boston Dynamics employees were seen shepherding Spot through the crowd on the first night of the event.

    Raibert went on to say the company is aiming to start churning out 1,000 robots a year. What will be interesting to watch is whether Boston Dynamics can turn this into a commercially viable enterprise. The company is not alone in this field, with a number of rivals to contend with, and it remains to be seen whether and why companies will buy robots like Spot enough to represent significant revenue for the manufacturer.

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  • America’s rural radio stations are vanishing – and taking the country’s soul with them

    America’s rural radio stations are vanishing – and taking the country’s soul with them

    Lucke pulls on a Steeler’s jacket and a baseball cap over brown hair that falls halfway down his back, and leads me across the five-acre yard. Out here, 90 miles east of Tucson, the desert is a long sweep of brush the color of beach sand. Lucke seems to slip through the rainy day like a ghost.

    The radio station, whose call letters are KHIL, has long been the daily soundtrack for this frontier town (population 3,500) that prides itself on its cowboy culture and quiet pace of life. But six decades after the founding of the station, the property is in foreclosure, with utility disconnect notices coming nearly every month.

    Small-town radio is fizzling nationwide, as stations struggle to attract advertisement dollars. And as station owners are forced to sell, media conglomerates snap up rural frequencies for rock-bottom prices, for the sole purpose of relocating them to urban areas. In a more affluent market, they can be flipped for a higher price. With limited frequencies available, larger broadcasters purchase as many as possible – especially those higher on the dial – in a race not dissimilar to a real estate grab.

    The “dungeon” turns out to be benign – just the original radio station building. Lucke explains that country music star Tanya Tucker “used to hang out here with the jocks”. This was before she recorded Delta Dawn at the age of 13 and left Willcox to produce a slew of hits, which landed her in the Country Music Hall of Fame. Her familiar drawl can still be heard at the top of every hour on KHIL, saying, “Hello, Willcox. This is Tanya Tucker, and you’re listening to the station I always listened to when I was a kid.”

    Except for a washing machine and stacking radio conductors, the dungeon is empty. From here, in a feat of electrical wiring, several radio stations (four of which are run by Lucke) are connected to the 5,000-volt radio tower behind the dungeon, and pushed out into the sky.

    KHIL was founded in 1958 by Rex Allen, who gained notoriety as the last of the singing cowboys. On the silver screen, The Arizona Cowboy could be seen strumming a guitar from the back of his horse, until the genre came to a close in 1954. He would go on to narrate a plethora of Disney movies, including Charlotte’s Web, and for years was the voice behind Ford truck and Purina Dog Chow commercials.

    Allen – who died in 1999 – is now immortalized by a statue in the historic downtown. Born 31 December 1920 to Horace and Faye Allen in Willcox, Rex Elvie Allen was cross-eyed at birth, reads the plaque below the statue.

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  • VIDEO: Home Security Camera Catches Mail Carrier Pepper-Spraying Dog In The Face

    VIDEO: Home Security Camera Catches Mail Carrier Pepper-Spraying Dog In The Face

    Security video captured what first looks like routine mail delivery, but in seconds flips to what appears to be a disturbing case of animal cruelty. The video captured a mail carrier reaching into her bag and then dropping something. Moments later, she picks up the object and then sprays the dog in the face. Jose Amezcua, the dog’s owner, says his 4-year-old Siberian husky Coco was acting strangely on Monday when he came home from work. That’s when Jose checked his security cameras and saw what had transpired.

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  • Black Plague Looms For Los Angeles – BillLawrenceOnline

    Black Plague Looms For Los Angeles – BillLawrenceOnline

    Black Plague Looms For Los Angeles — Dr. Drew Pinsky on last night’s (May 30) Ingraham Angle reported that Los Angeles is experiencing medieval diseases such as typhus, typhoid fever, and, notably, the bubonic plague, which killed half of Europe in the 14th century.

    “We have a complete breakdown of the basic needs of civilization in Los Angeles,” Pinsky said.

    He said airborne disease like tuberculous is exploding.

    He said that rat-borne disease is unchecked as L.A. is one of the country’s few major cities that doesn’t have a rodent control program.

    There will be a typhus outbreak this summer, he said, and worse.

    “I’m hearing from experts that bubonic plague is likely. It’s already here,” he said.

    And of course, there is the disease spread by fecal filth in the street like typhoid fever.

    “This is not Third World,” he said. “This is medieval. Third World countries would be insulted if they were accused of being like this,

    Welcome to the Golden State. Guess that’s what happens in “sanctuary states” that consider unrestricted abortion to be the primary health objective.

    Pinsky noted that L.A. is sub-optimally immunized.

    “God forbid if measles gets in,” he said.

    Questions for all the progressives sneering at the anti-vaxxers: Do unvaccinated illegal immigrants — who exponentially outnumber anti-vaxxers — cause any concern for you?

    For laughs, the Los Angeles Times is blaming “climate change” for the looming plague outbreak. Do people really still believe the garbage the establishment media is feeding them?

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