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Photo of Grace, 4, who longed to fly is found hidden on plane with a heartbreaking note eight years after she died
A PHOTO of a little girl who dreamed of flying was discovered on an aeroplane with a heartbreaking note years after her death.
Grace Kelly, 4, passed away in November 2014 from a rare form of kidney cancer.
Little Grace Kelly died from cancer aged just four in 2014[/caption]
This photo of her was discovered on a commercial plane years after her death[/caption]
Just a few weeks after her death, her heartbroken relatives took a flight with Monarch Airlines and stashed a photo of her sitting in a plane on a funfair ride behind the jet’s bathroom mirror.
A touching tribute on the back of the snap read: “Our little angel had always wanted to fly – so she flies with Monarch – hidden away for as long as possible.
“Happy travels darling Grace, you made our life just perfect for all too short a time.”
The beautiful gesture has only just been discovered during a routine check by Frontier Airlines, which took over Monarch after its 2017 collapse.
Airline mechanics Cullen Johns and Shaun Brown found it as they worked on the aircraft in Tampa Bay, Florida, half the world away from Grace’s home in Crowle, Worcestershire.
The pair were so touched by it that they used social media to track down Grace’s mother, Dr Jen Kelly, and inform her.
Dr Kelly said: “I am so proud of Grace and all that she has managed to achieve.
“I always knew that Grace would move mountains.
“This is not the way anyone would have chosen, but now Grace is not only moving mountains but soaring above them too. She never had the chance to fly in a plane, so to know she is flying around high in the clouds is truly special.”
Johns and Brown also told her that they would keep the picture of her daughter on the plane in her memory.
The heartbroken mum added: “We are so thankful to Frontier Airlines for keeping Grace on board and we are truly grateful they tracked us down to let us know.
“Thank you so much to everyone who has made this possible for our girl.
“It feels so special to know that Grace’s photo has been flying for so many years and continues to do so.”
Dr Kelly founded and runs The Grace Kelly Childhood Cancer Trust in her beloved daughter’s memory, raising funds to fight the awful disease.
It had a heartbreaking tribute from her grandparents written on the back[/caption]
15-Year-Old ‘BIGFOOT’ PHOTO Resurfaces & Questioned
A 15-year-old photo allegedly showing Bigfoot walking through a field near Silverton, CO, is gaining new attention. The photo recently resurfaced and was discussed on various social media sites.
The photograph was taken in 2008. It shows a hairy, tall creature running along a river in Silverton near the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
A local newspaper, the Silverton Standard & the Miner, reported a “Hunt for Bigfoot” event was held in the town in 2010.
NOTE: My argument concerning this photo is that it is most likely a person wearing a dark hoodie carrying a skateboard. The Silverton, Colorado area has been the subject of Bigfoot hoaxes in the past, including faked photographs and a few far-fetched sighting reports. What are your thoughts on this photo? Lon
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INSECTOID ABDUCTIONS, Loss of Pregnancies, ‘Scoop Marks,’ & Other Unexplained Phenomena (PHOTO)
A California woman details a lifetime of possible abduction and other weird occurrences. She has experienced a multitude of incidents that seem to be connected, including loss of pregnancy.
The following email was forwarded to me:
“I actually think I have been abducted during my entire life. I am 23 years old and things started getting weird when I was 7. They always happened in different ways, when I’m sleeping, laying in bed, or driving in the car.
This last time, I was sleeping and I thought it was a dream. But waking up I was so panicked I’m pretty sure it wasn’t.
I knew right away they weren’t human because they had cricket faces with these tall muscular bodies and strange jumpsuits. The only way I could describe them was this metallic light rose gold almost leather-type material (but it wasn’t) with an assortment of zippers and buttons (but they weren’t that they just looked like that but they weren’t from this earth).
I was walking down a dirt road and they were still talking among themselves but I didn’t have enough time to run so I just laid myself down like a rug and buried my face in the dirt. I was so terrified and confused that I just wanted to disappear.
They just walked up to me and one crouched over me and then I blacked out.
I seem to have these 2 perfectly round scoop marks that appeared on my back right calf leg.
I have encountered lost time, sleep paralysis, encountered lights in the skies, humming noises, sleep problems, medical problems, crazy electronic malfunctions, and a couple other symptoms. My problems with technology have gotten so bad that I actually have to get a new phone once a month since they keep breaking.
Ever since I was little only my bedroom would get blackouts [except for when I was home alone then the whole house would get blackouts]. It actually became such a regular occurrence I thought it was normal. The TV would never turn on the channel I turned it off. I got this weird perfectly round puddle of water that appeared on my bed. I had something scratch the hell out of me to the point that I was bleeding. Lights ALWAYS turn off when I go near them or take a while to turn on. I have always had incredible intuition too which seems to be connected with abductions. And strangest of all my boyfriend and I was almost completely sure I was pregnant 3 separate times, I had all the signs, symptoms, and belly but then overnight I wasn’t anymore!
Another time my friend and I were driving down the freeway when we observed a lot of lights in the skies that were all different sizes about 3 groups large lights that looked like helicopters almost and medium and small lights that looked like stars and they started doing some crazy things. They would group up from largest to smallest in a straight light then they would get all mixed up and one would fly in front of the other covering it up. we experienced lost time, what should’ve been a 20-minute drive turned into an hour-long trip.
For years now I have been having these horrific nightmares where I was with this big group of people we were standing on the beach and looking at the sky expecting something to come to us. then these lights appeared almost like a milky way and then all of a sudden I’m up in space in a spaceship (I think) I just remember gray walls almost like how space mountain at Disneyland looked! I could’ve sworn I remember seeing a control room area I dunno. but then the dreams turned horrifying these lasted for months and they were always slightly different but I was running through these black halls almost like a dark parking garage trying to escape monsters with a bunch of other people as well. and also just living in the spaceship I think it was almost like a spacey hotel. the dreams are all mixed together but if you put them in sequence it’s like I lived there for a bit fine then things turned bad but they could just be dreams.
What panics me though is these scoop mark indentations. I have been researching other abduction marks and these look like them. You can very obviously feel the perfectly round indentations and there was absolutely no blood or damage when they appeared.
I live in Huntington Beach, CA.” HK
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Have you had a sighting of a winged humanoid or huge bat-like creature in the Chicago, Illinois metro area / Lake Michigan region? The entity has also been referred to as the ‘Chicago Mothman’, ‘Chicago Owlman’ & ‘O’Hare Mothman’ or ‘O’Hare Batman.’ – Chicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive Map – Please feel free to contact me at lonstrickler@phantomsandmonsters.com – your anonymity is guaranteed. Our investigative group is conducting a serious examination of his phenomenon. We are merely seeking the truth and wish to determine what eyewitnesses have been encountering. Your cooperation is truly appreciated.
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Couple Photographs HUGE SASQUATCH in South Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains (PHOTO)
A South Carolina couple was hiking through the Blue Ridge Mountains near the North Carolina border. They encounter a large Sasquatch that roared at them. They were able to get a photograph.
“I’ve had this picture for a while but was too scared to share. The First Nations person who saw the photo stated to me it was in fact the real deal. The only reason I’m writing you sir is that I believe people need to see this.
My friend John had taken a lady friend for a hike near a lake in South Carolina heading into the Blue Ridge Mountains and then into North Carolina. This area is about as rough as we have. They had been walking for around an hour. John said he had that ‘being watched’ feeling for a while but wasn’t too worried because he had brought his .44 Magnum with him.
They stopped walking so they could take a break. John walked over to a tree slightly off the trail and relieved himself. Big mistake. That’s when the Sasquatch screamed at him with that high pitch scaring him to death tone. It then followed up with a deep bass roar that you could feel in your chest. It grabbed a tree and was shaking it back and forth violently. Somehow they’re able to get one picture, one only. Maybe she already had the camera up and it was just luck. I don’t know.
John stated they ran as hard and as long as they could back. They weren’t followed as best he could tell. John said he never even thought to pull out his pistol, just to run. Whatever they saw scared him bad. it was not a black bear, not a regular human either. You can see the hair almost glistening. I can make out a right nipple and you can see the cut in its chest. Long muscular arms, flat bulbous nose, no neck, dome head, etc.
The date was February 25, 2021.”
Transcribed Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y5oqVFjhEc
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Windows 11 preview brings the Photo app’s ‘gallery’ view to File Explorer
Microsoft is making it easier to view your photos in File Explorer. The latest Windows 11 developer preview rolling out today includes Gallery, a new feature that lets you view the Photos app’s image library while browsing files and folders.
The Gallery view, the shortcut to which is found in the File Explorer’s navigation panel, arrives in Windows Insider Build 23435. After selecting Gallery, the main file-browsing window will show thumbnails of the same images from the All Photos view of the Photos app. Microsoft says it’s optimized for accessing your most recent photos if you have OneDrive Camera Roll Backup activated on your phone; they’ll display right up top.
It should also make it easy to find content from specific folders. “You can choose which folders are shown in Gallery through the Collection dropdown,” Microsoft’s announcement reads. “You can also add subfolders of existing sources to filter to a subset of your content, such as desktop backgrounds and SD card/camera imports.” In addition, Gallery will appear as an option in the file-picking dialog, which should simplify attaching images to emails, PowerPoint presentations or social posts.
Microsoft says the feature is rolling out gradually and won’t be available to all Dev Channel Insiders immediately. Instead, the company will “monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.” Although it seems like a feature that will make its way to future stable releases, it’s still in beta and could (theoretically) end up on the cutting-room floor if the company receives negative feedback or changes course.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-preview-brings-the-photo-apps-gallery-view-to-file-explorer-191318340.html?src=rss
Windows 11 preview brings the Photo app’s ‘gallery’ view to File Explorer
Microsoft is making it easier to view your photos in File Explorer. The latest Windows 11 developer preview rolling out today includes Gallery, a new feature that lets you view the Photos app’s image library while browsing files and folders.
The Gallery view, the shortcut to which is found in the File Explorer’s navigation panel, arrives in Windows Insider Build 23435. After selecting Gallery, the main file-browsing window will show thumbnails of the same images from the All Photos view of the Photos app. Microsoft says it’s optimized for accessing your most recent photos if you have OneDrive Camera Roll Backup activated on your phone; they’ll display right up top.
It should also make it easy to find content from specific folders. “You can choose which folders are shown in Gallery through the Collection dropdown,” Microsoft’s announcement reads. “You can also add subfolders of existing sources to filter to a subset of your content, such as desktop backgrounds and SD card/camera imports.” In addition, Gallery will appear as an option in the file-picking dialog, which should simplify attaching images to emails, PowerPoint presentations or social posts.
Microsoft says the feature is rolling out gradually and won’t be available to all Dev Channel Insiders immediately. Instead, the company will “monitor feedback and see how it lands before pushing it out to everyone.” Although it seems like a feature that will make its way to future stable releases, it’s still in beta and could (theoretically) end up on the cutting-room floor if the company receives negative feedback or changes course.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/windows-11-preview-brings-the-photo-apps-gallery-view-to-file-explorer-191318340.html?src=rss
Researchers used machine learning to improve the first photo of a black hole
Researchers have used machine learning to tighten up a previously released image of a black hole. As a result, the portrait of the black hole at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, over 53 million light years away from Earth, shows a thinner ring of light and matter surrounding its center in a report published today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The original images were captured in 2017 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), a network of radio telescopes around Earth that combine to act as a planet-sized super-imaging tool. The initial picture looked like a “fuzzy donut,” as described by NPR, but researchers used a new method called PRIMO to reconstruct a more accurate image. PRIMO is “a novel dictionary-learning-based algorithm” that learns to “recover high-fidelity images even in the presence of sparse coverage” by training on generated simulations of over 30,000 black holes. In other words, it uses machine learning data based on what we know about the universe’s physical laws — and black holes specifically — to produce a better-looking and more accurate shot from the raw data captured in 2017.
Black holes are mysterious and strange regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. They form when dying stars collapse onto themselves under their gravity. As a result, the collapse squeezes the star’s mass into a tiny space. The boundary between the black hole and its surrounding mass is called the event horizon, a point of no return where anything that crosses it (whether light, matter or Matthew McConaughey) won’t be coming back.
“What we really do is we learn the correlations between different parts of the image. And so we do this by analyzing tens of thousands of high-resolution images that are created from simulations,” the astrophysicist and author of the paper Lia Medeiros of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, told NPR. “If you have an image, the pixels close to any given pixel are not completely uncorrelated. It’s not that each pixel is doing completely independent things.”
The researchers say the new image is consistent with Albert Einstein’s predictions. However, they expect further research in machine learning and telescope hardware to lead to additional revisions. “In 20 years, the image might not be the image I’m showing you today,” said Medeiros. “It might be even better.”
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/researchers-used-machine-learning-to-improve-the-first-photo-of-a-black-hole-170722614.html?src=rss