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Just hours after unveiling their fourth studio album, ‘Gloria,’ singer-songwriter Sam Smith is looking to give fans yet another reason to cop the critically acclaimed set by lifting the lid on the high octane music video for its housed cut, ‘I’m Not Here to Make Friends.’
The Disco-Pop track, produced by Calvin Harris (who Smith previously collaborated with on the 2018 hit ‘Promises’
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FRIENDS were last night praying for news about Brit film star Julian Sands who went missing a week ago on a US mountain hike.
As fears for his safety grew amid treacherous conditions, they described the keen climber as a “great adventurer”.
Brit film star Julian Sands went missing a week ago on a US mountain hike[/caption]
Sands, 65, disappeared on Friday in California’s San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles.
He was reported missing after failing to return home.
His snow-covered Volvo car was recovered on Wednesday near Mount Baldy.
The area was hit by heavy snow and ice over the weekend, with searches abandoned.
Helicopters and drones have been scrambled during this week’s hunt.
Yesterday, All Creatures Great and Small actor Samuel West, 56, tweeted: “Please, please let Julian Sands be okay. A friend and an inspiration. Awful news.”
Rufus Sewell, 55, posted: “God, I really hope he’s OK.” Sands’ children Henry, 37, Natalya, 26, and Imogen, 23, yesterday joined the ground search for their father.
Henry is his son from a marriage to journalist Sarah Sands, 61, while Imogen and Natalya, are from his current marriage to author Evgenia Citkowitz, 59.
West Yorkshire-born Sands is best known for his roles in hit movies A Room with a View, Warlock and Leaving Las Vegas.
Movie producer Cassian Elwes, 63, an old friend of Sands, told The Sun: “It’s shocking and it’s not because he’s a great adventurer.
“He likes going out and risking everything — maybe not risking everything, but he’s an adventurer.
“He’s climbed all kinds of mountains. He is that guy, the guy that goes out and does stuff, the things all of us sit at home and dream about. He has done it all.
“That’s why we all love him. He had gone around the world climbing mountains and is an experienced climber. It’s incredibly sad.
“Mount Baldy was apparently having the worst storms imaginable over the weekend.
“We’re all in shock, it’s just mind-boggling. He went out on Friday and his family reported it when he didn’t come back.
“One of our mutual friends called me on Friday and told me they had found the car and they hadn’t heard from him.
“The car was still in the parking lot. As far as I know he had gone hiking on his own.
“They can’t even get up there to search apparently because the weather conditions are so bad.
“Even though it’s sunny in Los Angeles right now they had four feet of snow on Sunday apparently.
“We’re all saying our prayers, all his friends are rallying around each other. We’re praying that there’s a positive outcome, even knowing that it’s a very bad situation.”
Authorities have carried out 14 rescue missions on Mount Baldy in four weeks.
Bob Gregory, of Hawthorne, has been missing since Monday at nearby Crystal Lake.
Police on Wednesday warned hikers the weather on the mountain is “adverse and extremely dangerous”.
Local police said: “Around 7.30pm on Friday a hiker was reported missing in the Baldy Bowl area.
“A search crew was sent out but because of weather conditions, they were pulled on Saturday. Helicopters and drones will be out to continue to search, weather permitting.”
Sands disappeared on Friday in California’s San Gabriel Mountains near Los Angeles[/caption]
The Lovers & Friends Festival has returned. And it comes bearing a jaw-dropping stacked line-up of some of music’s most notable luminaries.
Set to take place in May, the second edition of Las Vegas spectacle will feature the likes of Usher, Mariah Carey, Chris Brown, Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliott, Lil Kim, Summer Walker, Miguel, and more.
Full story below…
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A group of college friends in western Pennsylvania is together in a local woods at night. After a while, they notice an unknown being, possibly a pale crawler humanoid in a nearby tree.
The following account was referred to me:
“My experience is from late 2006, just before the winter break of my freshman year of college. I went to a small college in rural western Pennsylvania and the freshman parking lot was on the edge of campus up against a State Game Land. We’d go out there a couple of nights a week to smoke some weed. That night, we went to our usual spot in a clearing with a fallen log to sit on just past what you could see from the parking lot (though we could see the lights from the lot through the trees behind us).
Now, I’m sure you’re already thinking, “It was probably just the weed.” But we were veteran smokers, had just started smoking that night, and had been smoking out of the same bag previous nights without any weird things happening. We packed a bowl and had maybe one hit each as we sat there talking quietly. It was winter and this night was particularly cold, like in the teens (Fahrenheit), but very still. There was no wind, almost nothing making sound out in the woods where we were. I took my first hit and handed the bowl and lighter back to my friend, then looked up to exhale.
That’s when I saw it through the smoke. There was a humanoid face in the trees on the other side of the clearing, opposite the parking lot. It was just above a branch that it had its hand wrapped around, I think it had three fingers with a very long, narrow thumb that stuck out several inches past its other fingers, each tipped with a pointed nail.
As the smoke cleared, I got a better look at its face: Very pale, almost grayish skin. Bald, no eyebrows, no other hair of any kind. No ears that I could see. Big eyes relative to its head that was very dark in color, catching just a little bit of light from the lights of the parking lot behind us which made them seem kind of reflective. I didn’t get a great look at the nose or mouth as I was fixated on the eyes. But from what I recall, they seemed small relative to their head compared to a human.
I tapped my friend’s knee and quickly glanced over at him to see if he saw it as well, and he was starting at it too. So it’s something we both saw independently. I looked back at it just as it released its hand from the branch, revealing very long, thin fingers to match the thumb, and then it moved backward out of our sight without making a sound, even though there were dry leaves all over the ground.
Only a few seconds actually passed during this span, but it felt much longer and there was this odd calm over the whole situation. As soon as it was out of sight, however, my friend and I both felt intense fear and we ran back to the parking lot. It was in such a panic that he didn’t realize he had stuffed the still-smoking bowl into his coat pocket and dropped the lighter. We ran to the opposite side of the lot from the woods where there was a road, some cars passing, and some other students walking around where we finally felt safe.
There was an initial, “Oh my God! did you see that? What was that?” We calmed down and talked about the details of what we saw, which matched up perfectly. The only thing he noticed that I didn’t was that he said he didn’t think it even had a mouth. We thought maybe it was a “classic gray alien” or something, but knew no one would believe us and didn’t tell anyone else.
The next day, we went back to the spot in the woods and found our lighter standing upright on the log we were sitting on. The odds of it falling and landing like that are very, very low, adding another creepy factor. Did this thing find it and put it there?
We also walked over to the tree where we saw it and found the branch it was grasping. It was a good 10-12 feet above the ground. We couldn’t even reach it by jumping and there was nothing around. No stumps, no rocks, no lower branches. Nothing that it could have been standing on, so it had to be tall to appear there.
Weirdly, the leaves on the ground had been disturbed all around the area beneath the tree. Not like, just tracks or something, but it was as if something had intentionally brushed the leaves away and then dug some shallow holes, maybe 4-6 of them about 6-8 inches deep and 2-3 inches wide. My friend was a biology major who had been an Eagle Scout (and now works in a state park), so he knew a good deal about most of the area’s wildlife and didn’t know of anything that would disturb the ground in that fashion. Plenty of animals dig, but they don’t sweep away an area (probably 5ft x 5ft) of leaves like that just to dig a couple of holes like that. He couldn’t find any other tracks leading away from the area either.
We never went back out there after dark again and never saw it again either.” BB
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Growing up, I never played Dungeons & Dragons. It was probably a combination of the game seeming overwhelming with its many races, classes, and rules to learn, but also because it seemed like it was too dorky for a kid who was already spending most of his time playing video games–cool ones, though. However, and as my eventual career path would prove, I was lying to myself. I found the appeal of Dungeons & Dragons growing stronger as I discovered hilarious shows like Nerd Poker and, more recently, Dimension 20. I was starting to learn the basics of Dungeons & Dragons’ rules despite only tuning in for laughs, but everyone I knew who played the game was already very experienced. Who wants to play with someone who’s still learning how to tack on modifiers and roll for initiative? Video games seemed like a good alternative, but choosing one wasn’t so easy.
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From the desk of ‘I’m not sure this is a good idea’ at CES in Las Vegas, comes 444. The early-stage startup is planning to combine pepper spray with some electronics so a potential attack victim’s friends can be notified when they’ve had to deploy the defence spray to get themselves out of a bind. […]
This pepper spray will phone your friends as you mace your assailants by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch