Sacramento Is About to Have the Most High-Tech Basketball Stadium

One hundred percent solar powered? A Wi-Fi network that can "handle over 500,000 Snapchat posts per second"? Wow. Wonder why Sacramento, California though? Well, as quoted from recode:

Just over two years ago, former tech CEO and then-Warriors minority owner Vivek Ranadivé purchased the NBA’s Sacramento Kings, ending a long tug-of-war that almost resulted in the team’s relocation to Seattle. As part of the deal, Ranadivé promised the NBA he’d build the Kings a new stadium in Sacramento before the 2017 NBA season.

When the new Kings basketball stadium is completed this fall, they hope it’ll be so outrageously technologically advanced that it will even wow fans from Silicon Valley.

WIRED

Whale Watching Boat Crashing Into San Diego Dock

Whoa! Thankfully no one was seriously hurt at this San Diego harbour when this whale watching boat called the 'Adventure Hornblower', literally plowed into the pier. The incident occurred due to some mechanical malfunction. The video has been viewed over 2M times already...

Amazing video taken on 3/31/2016 by our Belgian friends.

 

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Whale Gives Birth Next to Whale Watching Boat Off Dana Point

Awesome. She squirted out that baby and then they both just kept on going - even though the newborn didn't know how to swim...

Whale watchers had a breathtaking encounter today off the coast of Dana Point, California, when they witnessed a rarely seen False Killer Whale giving birth.

Passengers aboard Captain Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari’s catamaran watched in awe as members of a pod containing around 40 false killer whales (Pseudorca crassidens),came up to port side of the boat and pushed against it. There was a sudden burst of blood and newborn calf popped out! The unexpected birth occurred in about 80 feet water.

Captain Tom Southern, who witnessed the remarkable event, said “the whole group huddled around the calf, and they spent the next 10 to 12 minutes taking turns pushing the calf to the surface while the newborn learned how to swim”.

Dolphin Safari

Watch: Massive Gas Leak in California Revealed in Infrared Footage

And this has been going on for over 2 months already? Scary...


 Infrared footage captured by Earthworks shows the release of methane gas from a leak at the Aliso Canyon Underground Storage Field in Los Angeles County. First detected on October 23, 2015, the leak has spewed more than 4.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas into the atmosphere. Southern California Gas Company, which owns the storage facility, doesn't expect crews to be able to stop the leak before February. In the meantime, thousands of area residents have been relocated to temporary housing. The cause of the leak is under investigation. Aliso Canyon is the largest methane storage facility on the West Coast, but there are 333 similar natural gas storage locations across the U.S.

National Geographic

1 Day Old Sea Otter Trying to Sleep on Mom

Sea Otter or not - "mom is on the job." Aaaw. Can this get any cuter??...

This baby sea otter was born in the "Great Tide Pool" at the Monterey Bay Aquarium on 12/20/15. Her mom is a wild, Californian sea otter that sought refuge in the pool to shield her against other animals and the stormy days.

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Drone footage captures magnitude of Apple's 'Mothership' headquarters

Dubbed 'The Mothership', more recent drone footage captures the ongoing construction of the new 2.8M square-foot Apple campus headquarters in Cupertino, California which will contain an expansive cafeteria, an underground parking garage, and a subterranean auditorium where forthcoming Apple products will be unveiled to the media...

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Bears chased from property by tiny French bulldog

This video reminds us of a quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower: "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog."

This French bulldog might be tiny but it didn't stop him from chasing these two 100 lb- bears off this property in California...

 

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Info source: fox29

California Lake Mysteriously Runs Dry Overnight, Killing Thousands Of Fish

Ominous sign? Or sign of the times? This California lake which people were fishing from last Saturday, "drained like a bathtub" overnight killing thousands of fish...

CBS Sacramento

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This shot was taken on Sept 13th morning sometime. It was taken by my husband. It's my understanding that this was the last little bit of water. Unusual? A small amount of water was still spilling through the gate. - Tracy Keelan

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Mountain Meadows Reservoir was drained, This is drone footage of the lake. Bellow the dam was thousands of dead and dying fish. This was a beautiful lake and had some of the best large mouth bass fishing in the northern sierras. Video was taken September 20th 2015. This PG&E Reservoir is located just outside Westwood Ca. Indian Ole Road Westwood, CA 96137 The lake is also known as Walker Lake - peat12001

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Humpback Whale Breaches on Top of Kayakers

Whoa! Close call with a humpback whale for some kayakers on a Sanctuary Cruises whale tour, just outside the harbor in Moss Landing, California. They could have been crushed to death...

Sanctuary Cruises

Diablo Canyon could be California's Fukushima

Say it isn't so! Could this last operating nuclear power plant in California surrounded by fault lines be the next Fukushima waiting to happen?...

Business Insider

California drought: How officials are innovating in water conservation

Very fascinating to learn how California officials are trying to conserve water using black plastic 'shade' balls. These balls are used to cut down on water evaporation from the Los Angeles reservoirs just by floating atop of the water. Each ball cost .36cents - total cost said to be around $34M!!...

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Now let's watch those balls rolling into the water again...

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Phys Ed Teacher Drags 14 Year Old Girl Forcefully into Pool - Denny Peterson - California

This 8-month-old vid taken in Stockton, California of gym teacher Denny Peterson dragging a 14-year-old girl unwillingly into a pool is gaining viral traction again with over 6M views...

According to the lawyer representing the girl and her family, Attorney Gilbert Somera, "No means no and stop means stop. This isn't a situation where she's attacking a teacher and he's defending himself," he told News 10.

Somera said the whole event started after teen refused to get into the pool because she had had her hair styled that morning for an event that night.

Instead of academically punishing her, as he could have, Peterson used brute force, he said.

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Info source: nydailynews

Fire in Cajon Pass Shuts Down 15 Freeway + DRONES Near WildFires ARE NOT ALLOWED!

A lot of vids (and tweets) coming out on the Cajon Pass fire on Interstate 15 Freeway in San Bernardino County, California which started on Friday and is now a 3,500-acre brush fire that's been moving rapidly across the area, damaging several homes and threatening about 50 others after jumping the Freeway. 

The fire forced the closure of part of the major highway and multiple vehicles were destroyed. 50 to 75 vehicles were said to be left abandoned on the freeway... 

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Meanwhile...

Drones have forced the landing of planes deployed to fight the so-called North Fire, so much so that San Bernardino’s fire department had to tweet out a poster from the US Forest Service reminding drone operators not to fly near firefighting operations.

According to nbclosangeles:

All air units not only pulled back from the fire because of the drones, but all five were forced to touch back down at the airport in San Bernardino after jettisoning their loads, John Miller of the U.S. Forest Service said.

"It can kill our firefighters in the air ... They can strike one of these things and one of our aircraft could go down, killing the firefighters in the air. This is serious to us. It is a serious, not only life threat, not only to our firefighters in the air, but when we look at the vehicles that were overrun by fire, it was definitely a life-safety threat to the motorists on Interstate 15," said John Miller of U.S. Forest Service.

Five drones were initially spotted over the fire, which consumed five homes and more than a dozen cars as motorists frantically fled on foot through the Cajon Pass.

Two drones actually gave chase to air units, and the incident delayed response by about 15 to 20 minutes, according to Battalion Chief Marc Peebles of San Bernardino County Fire Department. 

When asked if the delay contributed to the fire jumping the 15 Freeway, Peebles said “It definitely contributed to it.”

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Whale blows a rainbow in Southern California

Great capture! Pretty cool vid showing a Humpback whale blowing out a nice rainbow off the coast of Newport Beach, California...

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Cute, Tiny Octopus Discovered. Now They Want to Call it 'Adorabilis'

If you haven't heard by now, in the scientific world, a cute little octopus was discovered. Actually, he was discovered a while back but now they want to name it something adorable... say, for instance, Opisthoteuthis adorabilis  Everyone's saying this pink, fist-sized octopus is a cross between the ghost from the Pac-Man video game and a Pokemon creature. What do you think?

Would you believe scientists have been collecting samples of this type of a flapjack octopus since 1990, yet little is still known about them - probably because they live between 200 and 600 metres down deep into the waters where temps are only a mere 6 degrees Celsius. Watch the video below to learn more...

SciFri

Source(s): abc.net | huffingtonpost

Star Wars: Invasion Los Angeles

So the Imperial Army is declaring war on Los Angeles? Cool! Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're their only hope. How many prominent landmarks can you spot folks? This galactic battle by YouTuber Kaipotainment looks like a scene straight out of a Star Wars movie. Well done!...

"Shooting this particular video brought me to certain places that I haven't been to here in L.A.," Jones said in a behind-the-scenes video (see 2nd vid).  

Horse Passing Gas

Ok. So it doesn't sound too exciting but it's the way that he does that's cute!

Meet Archy the horse. He has beaten all the odds after being pulled from the wild, a trip to the slaughter mill, being rescued and starved, and rescued again. Now he lives at the "Rocking Horse Ranch" in El Cajon, California, a non-profit organization that adopts and rescues large animals from abuse and neglect. Archy has a intestinal issue and cannot pass gas normally like other horses can. He has to roll around on the ground to do it...

Lin Files

What Running Into a Deer - While On A Bike, Looks Like

Whoa! That deer came flying out of nowhere! Recorded on a Fly6 camera, this biker had a surprise run in with a deer in California, and lived to tell about it. Silas Patlove, the rider, doesn't remember much, but believes his Giro helmet probably saved his life when he landed on his back...

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Tornado in South Los Angeles - December 12th, 2014

It was an unusual phenomenon for the folks in Southern California when a small tornado touched down in South Los Angeles. And we mean small, as in EFo small - the smallest category possible, but it was still enough to excite everyone, especially this guy capturing it on camera in this vid...

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[HOONIGAN] KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA SEVEN: WILD IN THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES

Another daredevil favourite, Hoonigan, is back with some serious rubber burning through the streets of Los Angeles. This viralling vid has almost 10M views!!!...

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