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Friday, April 10, 2015
Blood Moon II
Last week. Another lunar eclipse. Another full moon. Rising near sunset and moving across the night sky. Then, near dawn, a shadow passed across the brightness. The white light faded on red stone cliffs. Until the moon darkened into a red orb. Lit only by sun-fringed earthlight. This time, unlike last time, the moon was near the horizon as dawn approached. And a tricky trail provided a chance to join the blood moon against the brightening sky.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Winter, Or So They Said
photos by Greg
We've turned the astronomical corner into Spring. Leaving the cold dread of winter behind. But riding-wise (and otherwise) it wasn't much of a winter. We did get one day that started like this:
Then changed to this:
And ended up like this:
After that day, we had very little of this:
Before moving on to many, many days of this:
Which, isn't really a bad thing, from a riding perspective. We'll take it. But we'll continue to peer somewhat suspiciously into the future, wondering what spring and summer will bring.
We've turned the astronomical corner into Spring. Leaving the cold dread of winter behind. But riding-wise (and otherwise) it wasn't much of a winter. We did get one day that started like this:
Then changed to this:
And ended up like this:
After that day, we had very little of this:
Before moving on to many, many days of this:
Which, isn't really a bad thing, from a riding perspective. We'll take it. But we'll continue to peer somewhat suspiciously into the future, wondering what spring and summer will bring.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015
A Clear and Pleasant Danger - part 2
Words by Greg
Photos by Greg and Trina
Part 1 here
The drizzle faded away. The wind died down. The sky lightened. We paddled under the angled brace of a fallen tree. Into a straight stretch of creek. A slight widening of the canyon. And there on the grassy bankside, a trickle of water was pouring downward toward a bouldery beach. With just a hint of steam coming off that trickling flow? We beached the boats and stuck fingers into a boulder-lined pool. Hot! We'd made it. Trina was almost immediately grading the temperatures of the several shallow pools until she found one with the right mix of hot spring water and river water. She slithered in and laid her head back onto a smooth stone and closed her eyes, lost in a small piece of heaven.
I leashed the dogs and we explored the immediate neighborhood. A decaying cabin and some rusty machinery moldered next to a small tree-lined meadow. A perfect spot for our tent. The pack trail crossed the slope above, heading upstream, where we'd return, and downstream. The dogs and I wandered down and found more hot springs. Steaming water rolled down the hill and poured off rough, mineralized cliffs into creekside pools. Showers too hot to stand under. Pools too shallow to soak in. Though some toads were enjoying a mix of creek water and mineral warmth.
We were almost back to the boats when Sprocket, the red Assyrian Moth Hound, gave his warning bark. This usually means some sort of dangerous intruder, seen or smelled, violating his dog-sense of our private realm. We scanned in the direction he was aimed and saw a small furry creature on the hillside. Marmot? But no. Lower, flatter. Stripes. A badger. I'd only gotten a fleeting glimpse of one of them, ever. Trina had seen a pair, once. So a rare sighting for us. But what surprised us was that somehow Sprocket had been able to distinguish, at a distance, between a small furry creature he'd like to chase, and a small furry predator that he needed to warn us about. We don't know how he knew, but we are definitely glad that he knows.
The badger wandered off and we tucked the dogs under the trees with the gear since it was drizzling again. Then Trina and I headed for the shallow pools where we lay half submerged. Cold river water and hot spring water mixed and surged around our lower selves. Light rain tickled across our upper selves. The softest of breezes dried the rain from our exposed skin almost as fast as it fell. In all, a dazzling sensory experience. We sprawled, half aquatic, half awake, half melting, half evaporating into silence, until the light began to fade from the sky.
We emerged and fell to the comfortable rituals of camp. Dogs fed. Tent up. Bags unfurled. Food cooked and enjoyed. Wet gear slung in trees. During this, another warning bark from Sprocket. This time it was a pair of hikers. Two young men. One hale and fit, carrying enough gear for two. The other, tired and struggling to smile, carrying almost nothing at all. We chatted briefly as they filtered drinking water. Then they hiked onward. These, the only people we'd see over the two days of our trip.
Darkness fell. And shortly after, rain fell, pattering on the thin skin of the tent where we lay snuggled with dogs. Blind dark outside. We slid into a shallow stream of sleep between waves of rain and the softer shushing of the nearby creek. But later in the night our small meadow and the crowding trees were lit by blue-white constellations in a clearing sky.
Morning light limped slowly into the canyon behind a scrim of pale fire-smoke. Oregon was burning. Closer, the chill air was filled with steam rising from the hot spring. Pine trees spiked the rough grey rock and pale slopes of the canyon. Leafy trees and bushes gathered along the blue flow of the creek. The rich dark smell of wet earth pressed upward from our morning footsteps. Sharp, clear cries of unfamiliar birds winged through the nearby branches. Clearly this was a setting that called for a strong sense of leisure. To which we resigned ourselves. With enthusiasm.
We brewed morning beverages. Languished in the soft warmth of hot pools. Strolled with exquisite slowness along moisture-muffled trails. And let our minds wander through the calm air. Quietly alert to the silence that was never quite silent. To the stillness that never quite stopped moving. To the unknown around us that could never quite be known.
Eventually we fed ourselves and the dogs. Eventually the weak sunshine pulled most of the rain from our gear. Eventually the packs were loaded. Eventually we realized that we were about as spring-soaked and relaxed as we were ever going to be. Time to move onward into a new unknown.
We let the languor follow us along the trail. One foot in front of the other. Miles to go… But no hurry. The day before we'd been pushed along by the rushing insistence of the creek. But the trail was smooth and made few demands. Leaving curiosity free to leap to fresh bear scratch. To the sweet tang of thimble berries and raspberries. To fire-blackened trees. To unusual flowers. To red burn-scars on lichen-blackened scree fields. To signs of the small quiet lives that played out in the canyon. To…
Warning bark! All eyes to Sprocket, who was pointing across the canyon, across the creek, to the opposite canyon slope. Across… there… nothing… Then motion. A thick black shape. A bear. Moving upward over brush and boulder. Then stopping to look over its shoulder at us. The dogs, intense and agitated. Sprocket -- warning us, but maybe also warning the bear that it had best keep moving. Zeek - fool of a Jack Russell, probably wanting to show the bear a thing or two about the predator/prey relationship. But we kept the dogs to hand. Happy to observe, briefly, from a safe distance. Then we moved onward to allow the bear to get back to the more normal business of being a bear.
Most of the trail was cut into the slope a little way above the creek. And from that higher perspective, the creek looked… small. Probably too small to entice any respectable paddler to think about floating. Certainly too small to account for all the thrash and dash of the day before. What had we been thinking? But we remembered back and knew what we had been thinking.
There. Floating forward. The pull of the creek beneath us. Looking toward the next bend. Not knowing what was about to come into view. We had been thinking -- with anticipation, with excitement, with a hint (at least) of caution -- that we really, really wanted to know. Wanted to find out. Wanted to round that bend and face what was there. Smiling as best we could. Hanging on as best we were able.
By mid afternoon we had finished the hike. We were off the creekside trail. Back to the truck. Gear strewn and thoroughly dried. Tea and naps attended to. The boats and gear re-packed. Then we jumped in the truck, turned it around, and headed down the dusty road. Headed off into the hazy light of a sky fading toward smokey sunset. Headed off into the rest of Idaho. Into the rest of our lives. Looking for the next unknown.
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Monday, January 26, 2015
A Clear and Pleasant Danger - part 1
Words by Greg
Photos by Greg and Trina
We fancy ourselves as adventurers, of a sort. Explorers. Yet we must be realistic. There is the Unknown, capital U. Mountains not yet climbed. Rivers not yet run. Caves not yet explored. Lost civilizations still moldering in the jungle, untouched by recent human hands…
And there is the unknown, lower case u. Which works fine for us. It is highly unlikely that we will ever fill in an empty spot on the map -- if indeed there are any empty spots remaining. Yet we can and do happily explore places where we have never been. We further admit that we are most attracted to places that are lonely enough and wild enough that they retain a sense that perhaps we could be discovering them.
This summer, we found ourselves in Idaho. Which (surprise) has been discovered and explored. And we happened to be in a small but active town through which a famous river runs. We happened to have our small boats along with us. We got some local beta from an outfitter and drove into the canyon and got out of the truck and stood on the side of the highway and stared down at the river. It looked fun. Wet. Swift. And as challenging as we required: pools and drops and waves and chutes and small holes and rocks to dodge.
We drove on down the canyon car-scouting and stopping for better views. We watched flotillas of commercial rafts bobbing along. We plowed along with other cars on the highway. We observed small masses of people wading in hot spring water that poured scenically from a culvert under the road. And despite the rugged canyon walls, the playful water, the convenient roadway, by the time we'd driven to the take-out, our opinion of the run was decidedly "Meh". It was all just a little too "discovered" for our taste.
At the take-out ramp, we struck up a conversation (--we can act extroverted when it suits our introverted purposes…) with a rugged-looking local river rat, asking if he knew of any smaller, more remote runs that might be appropriate for our little rafts. Despite the late season and quickly dropping water levels, he had a couple ideas for us. One, a nearby tributary with a patriotic-sounding name, was probably our best bet as it was road-scoutable and fun. The other creek was "a crazy long way back in there" but still scoutable from a dirt road. And he had no idea if there was enough water. Hmm. We said thank you and waved goodbye.
We turned off the main highway and headed to Patriotic Creek. From the winding paved road we could see that there was barely enough water, but what there was looked pretty fun and challenging. But when we stopped for a closer look, there were ATVs buzzing around, car alarms going off in campgrounds, fishermen, private property signs and other indications that we were not yet far enough from the benefits and perils of civilization. Hmm again. So… What about this Crazy Creek? It took us a few minutes to even find it on our state map. Miles and miles away. But we had a full tank of gas and plentiful supplies , so we pointed the truck in that direction and drove.
The pavement ended. Always a good omen. Then the road pointed upward steeply and got a bit jagged. Another good omen. Soon we were crawling upward into high mountains amid burn-scar forests until we were spit out on top of a pass. Bare, rocky peaks marched off into the distance, spilling yellow and red minerals from their tops. Steep drainages cut into the rough country ahead. And beside the road at the high point was The Sign.
It was a fairly standard and fairly fresh Forest Service sign with very few bullet holes, preparing us for the beauties ahead, but also warning us of all the dangers we would be facing if we carried on our way. Fire, lightning, deadfalls, dehydration, exhaustion, exposure. Bears, snakes, lions, wolverines. Warning us to be prepared and capable. All of this sounded great to us. And since we did feel like we were prepared and capable, we were excited to continue.
On The Sign was a map. Surprisingly detailed. We could see Crazy Creek. Could see that a road followed it, like we'd been told. But we could also see that the road stopped and the creek continued into wilder country, accompanied by a trail. Hmm! And down the creek -- how far? -- the map showed a hot spring. Hmm!! Gears started turning in my head. No scale on the map, but I juggled inches and formulas between our state map and the map on The Sign and came up with a reasonable figure. We put our heads together and speculated about the possibility of a little journey involving rafts and packs and camping wild and a remote hot spring.
Enticed by our own imaginations, we leapt back in the truck and continued onward, down the ragged hill into the wild heart of Idaho. Hot summer pine dust in darkened forest. Small green meadows on the banks of thin streams of rippling silver. Open views of harsh crags seen through the shocked, stiff nap of standing snags burned by past fires. Beside the road, freshets gathered into runnels, runnels into brooks, brooks into a stream that poured at last into Crazy Creek.
Ah… The crazy little creek looked… small. Small and enthusiastic. But small. Still, we passed a slightly inhabited Forest Service camp and kept on driving down the dead end road that followed the creek. We hit the end of the road, grabbed the dogs, and sauntered down the trail for a closer look. Shallow-looking riffles connected deep emerald green pools where fish drifted within watery shadows. The creek had gathered a few small tributaries since our first sighting, and looked… bigger. Not big, but bigger. And just maybe big enough. We soaked our feet in the cool water. We'd passed a couple trucks and a couple fishermen on the last part of the road. But beyond here there would be no more trucks. No motors or alarms. No modern improvements. And probably no help of any kind. Just a slice of wild.
We stared downstream to where the creek disappeared into blocky canyon walls and sparsely forested slopes. Disappeared into, if not the unknown, then at least into the only-as-much-as-could-be-known-from-a-map-on-a-sign-on-the-side-of-a-forest-road-in-the-wilds-of-Idaho. Into a mysterious place of possible danger. Of probable adventure. Toward the unlikely lure of a steaming spring. And with the promise of possible satisfaction in our little quest for a small piece of something that was -- as yet -- to us -- unknown.
We decided we'd do it. We'd load the boats with gear and dogs and plunge in and see where the creek would take us. If the creek would take us. Was there really enough water to float? We didn't know. But if not, couldn't we re-pack the boats and hike out? Yes. And how dangerous could it be? We didn't know. But wasn't the whitewater danger lessened by the low flows? Er.. maybe.
By the time we'd had our afternoon tea (we like to keep our vacations refined…) and had taken our afternoon naps (we like to keep our vacations, you know, vacation-y…) the day had burned away. So we vowed that first thing in the morning we'd pack up and start our float. Which is pretty much how it worked. Just barely past noon the following day we had trimmed down our massive pile of gear into a huge pile of gear that we could carry. And we had carried that gear 200 yards to the river where we unpacked it all again and re-packed it into the boats. Then we each grabbed a paddle and a dog and shoved off into the emerald green water.
By this time, the morning sunshine was darkening into a monsoon afternoon. Grim clouds were rolling in over the canyon walls. The emerald green water was already taking on a darker and somewhat more threatening hue. And the wind was starting to pick up. We paddled around the first bend to where the walls of the canyon began to crowd closer. Paddled into… Swift little chutes. Butt-dragging riffles with dog-tossing stopper rocks. Fun, ping-pong rapids. Maze-like boulder gardens where we had to scout to find a channel wide enough to fit through. And wood.
Wood, wood, wood. The surrounding forest was spare and much of it had burned. Skeleton trees lay toppled in the water. Sometimes a single trunk in wide, slow water. At other times, a convoluted trap of tangled logs covering fast water. We turned every corner with our eyes wide. Peering ahead for the danger of wooden strainers and sieves. And also, always, always alert for The Falls.
Just before we'd left the truck, a young lady had walked past wearing running shoes and carrying a pair of hiking boots. Perhaps she worked for the Forest Service. And we, slightly uneasy about our unknown, had stopped her. "Do you know the creek below here at all?"
"Sure," she said, "Pretty well."
"Are there any… waterfalls?"
She answered: "Just one."
What? I'm pretty sure my eyes got big.
"It's about this high." she said, holding one palm two-and-a-half feet above the other.
Oh. My eyes shrank back down to normal size and I glanced at Trina. "We can probably handle that."
We continued to pick our way down the creek under cloudy skies. We splashed through small rapids. Dragged the boats over a few of the shallowest riffles. Ducked under skewed trees. Hoisted over downed logs. And took turns on non-dog-able rapids while the canine contingent stirred up trouble in the riverside brush. The water, while not warm, was not super cold, either. So we jumped in and out of the boats as needed in relative comfort, despite the lack of sunshine. Hours passed before we came around a corner and saw, ahead, The Falls.
A crenelated shelf ran diagonally across the creek. Water poured though gaps and "plunged" oh, about two-and-a-half feet. Maybe even three? I stood on shore and stared at it. The clearest channel ran left, but was choked with small boulders on the approach. It looked like I'd get stoppered in the rocks above, have a chance of flipping, and then get dragged over the ragged rock, paying a price in flesh. Trina looked at it and said, "I'll give it a go." Damn this woman and her adventuresome ways, I thought, quietly to myself, as she launched, weaseled through the boulders and came splashing happily down the chute with a big smile on her face. So naturally, I had to try it, too. With more weight and a less buoyant boat, I did get hung up on the rocks above. I managed to joust and stab myself clear and came into the dropping chute more-or-less straight, flumphed cleanly down the chute and into the frothy water below. With a smile on my own face.
After The Falls, things got interesting. We came upon the first of several massive logjams. Thick trunks and splintered branches blocked the creek, piled into a jumble fifteen feet high. A testament to the vast quantity of available material in the burnt forest around us. And to the power this creek could generate during high water season. We hauled our boats up the shoulder of the canyon to walk around. And put back in below.
Then it began to rain. The sky darkened. Wind kicked into the canyon and drove chilled drops into our faces. We stopped to put on rain coats and wondered if we should seek some kind of shelter. But there wasn't really any shelter to seek. The feisty little creek shoved us along while the wind knocked at us and tugged on our boats and paddles. There were a few flashes of lighting from up on the canyon rim. Rumbles of thunder rolled our way over the thrash of the creek. Then a scream and crack erupted from the right bank as a gust of wind tore a burnt snag off its roots and sent it crashing down with a whunk and a cloud of dust. We were suddenly aware that a tree could as easily fall across the creek or onto us. Were we safer in the water or amid the burnt trees on shore? We had no idea. We kept paddling.
The creek kept us occupied. We dodged rocks. Climbed over downed trees. Scraped for the deepest channel. Bounced through rapids. We found a rhythm in our motion that kept us moving forward steadily amid the ever-changing array of obstacles and choices. The rain tapered off to a drizzle. On one snatch of wind I smelled… Sulphur! The hot spring! We had no idea of where it was or what it looked like. Was it in the river? Next to the river? Above the river? How far down the river? How close? How would we know? Trina was a little chilled and had no intention of stopping until we found warm water she could soak in. Never mind that we didn't know if it was even possible to soak in the spring.
More log jams. More playful little rapids. And frankly, despite the chill and uncertainty, there was a fair amount of grinning as we spun and dodged beneath the angular towers of mottled gray rock that stabbed upward into the stormy sky. There was nowhere that we would rather have been.
Continue to part 2 here
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For Joseph and Georgia Gibson, $52,000 would be quite a windfall.
The Ironton couple recently received a letter stating the money could be theirs at no cost, that the attempt to give them money was not a scam.
Joseph Gibson said he knew better.
"There are a lot of unscrupulous people out there," Gibson said.
The man said he called the phone number on the letter, sent from a company called Montreal Finance Group. All he had to do to claim his prize was to pay $263 to insure the funds.
"As soon as they ask for money, as soon as they do that, it's a scam," Gibson said. "They are trying to rip you off."
And that's not the first time the Gibsons have been offered some sort of prize money.
Unfortunately, for some of Ironton's other elderly residents, they have been taken by similar scams.
Ironton Police Det. Joe Ross said he has had three or four reports recently of elderly people being scammed out of money through a Green Dot Card scheme.
"What happens is, these people have been calling people's houses, the elderly mostly," Ross said.
The victim of the scam would order a product being sold over the phone. The scammer would then ask the victim to purchase a Green Dot card for $250 and to give them the number associated on the card.
"Instantly they zap the money off the card and they (the victims) never hear from them again," Ross said.
And even though the police department has only taken a few reports on the scam, Ross said there could be more people who have not reported it.
"I would just warn people, anybody who calls and wants any information or personal information or credit card information, or any kind of information over the phone, do not give it to them," Ross said.
By Michelle Goodman - The Ironton Tribune, Ohio (MCT)
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I believe that the question is more theoretical than practical, even though kodak might make 400 ISO films with more silver than 100 ISO, it doesn't mean that faster films will always have more silver than slower ones, since it is not one of the factors that determines the speed.


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I don;t mind it at all but why do you guys like cumming on girls faces or in their mouth?I let them do it when I'm giving them a bj.. but every guy... Show More
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Its mostly cos of p*rn and its makes dudes think it's the norm when it's not. The first time I got a BJ I was baffled why the girl didn't want it on her, then I realized it actually isn't the "norm" to come ona girls face.
Personally, the appeal of it is a girls face is very soft, beautiful and nice. Coming on it is just one of those sexy tabboos, because it's slightly naughty is why I like it. Plus seeing a girls sticky wet face is hot, it's not a DIRECTLY linked to dominiance, it's more the act of watching like vouyerism, also it's hot because the face is ones identity and the ultimate point of physical uniqness and shooting your load on it is a bit bad and for that reason it's a bit sexy. BUT you gotta rememeber, dudes have to deal with the same when going down on a girl so it's a kinda fair I guess! buti'm not sure! either way if you both agree to do it, and it is consensual then there's no problem as both as both peopel are COMFORTABLE with it.
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i don't really like to...i prefer it in her mouth or somewhere else. I used to do it before but one girl I got it in her eye and she had an eye infection for a week from it. had to go to the doc and all.
but I think its a dominant thing or some idea from porn. but there isn't really much else that we can get out of it...i prefer to keep it going and not stop and let the girl finish me and not do it myself.
well it depends...well somethings are wired in us from the start...we can't change that...
just as we can't stop letching at gals...similarly this is one thing that excites us...i just that doing I gives us pleasure...
personally I can't explain why we do it...but I really enjoy cummin in my gals mouth...and she likes it too...
so unless the gal likes it where is the issue?
I have never been so thrilled about this.. and this irritates me with porn.. it's ALWAYS on the face. every single time.
My guess is a dominance thing? they like the fantasy of labeling their partner an object, but unfortunately, I can't elaborate on this, cause I have never been into that fetish.
Best answer I can give? it's dirty, it's kinky, and it feeds men's ego's, and if the girl is into it, she can feel like the "bad girl"
It's about being submissive.I admit,I find it a turn on,and I enjoy doing so occasionally,but I will never force my girlfriend to to so if she does not like it or is uncomfortable with it,fortunately,my girlfriend does do it every now and then.It's basically marking your territory and your girl giving you the right to be dominant and being submissive
I don't unless it's a one night stand. That's because if I'm dating her I'll have to kiss her one way or another which is gross. I don't want to kiss where I came yuck. Actually I'm not all for oral sex to begin with. I mean I know many people like it. But it's very degrading and nasty to jizz in a girl's face. I would never treat a lady that way even if she wanted me to...
My opinion those who do like it don't rag on me thanks...
No, it is a good answer. Some guys think it is hot and some don't simply because they have respect for the girl.
What Girls Said 3
I don't mind if they come in my mouth when I'm giving them a bj but I hate it when they just come on my face or in my hair. Most guys are like animals and have to control everything and mark that they have been there.
Eww gross in the hair lol
Yeah exactly. stay away from my hair. lol
Wow this seems like a question I should ask on here.... I am just a freak when I cum... I guess I need a freaky gurl...lol
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February is usually a slow month for movie releases but there are a three new movies in theaters this weekend that should appeal to all ages.
February is usually a slow month for movie releases but there are a three new movies in theaters this weekend that should appeal to all ages.
Not a whole lot to choose from this Super Sunday at the movies. Only two new movies will be in theaters, a comedy and a drama. So, if you're not into football you might give one of these movies a try. Enjoy!
A couple of new movies to choose from this weekend. First off, a classic horror tale remake 'I, Frankenstein.' And a Golden Globe-winning drama that stars Matthew McConaughey is in theaters. Enjoy!
Three new movies make it to theaters this weekend. Lots of drama and action to be expected in the true to life story based on former Navy Seal Marcus Lutrell "Lone Survivor" starring Mark Wahlberg in the lead role. Had a chance to see and hear Lutrell's inspiring story of courage and heroism a couple of years ago. Can't wait to see this movie! Also, half-man half-god "The Legend of Hercules" will be slamming into theaters as well. Finally, a story of a man who falls in love with a computer operating system "Her." Sounds a little bizarre.
The 2014 movie season gets kicked off this weekend with only one new movie. The franchise series Paranormal Activity is back with a new installment that is sure to give you sleepless nights. Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones is in theaters this weekend. And I don't know about you but people with solid black pupils just creep me out.
A couple more new movies make it into theaters this weekend including a series we're all familiar with The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' and Tyler Perry is back in "A Madea's Christmas" which also stars Larry The Cable Guy. See you at the movies!
It's going to be hard to dethrone 'Frozen' and 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' but there are two new flicks in theaters this weekend. If drama/action is what you want 'Out of The Furnace' starring Christian Bale delivers. The other movie is the Coen Brothers 'Inside Llewyn Davis' in limited release. See you at the movies!
Sometimes great artistry comes from coloring inside the lines. Walt Disney Animation's newest film, 'Frozen,' does precious little to push the boundaries of narrative storytelling. Indeed, it is a quite predictable – might I even suggest formulaic - culmination of elements. While picking over the bones of a half-remembered Hans Christian Andersen story, 'The Snow Queen,' Jennifer Lee and Chris Buck's film expands certain themes, disposes of some characters and, of course, modernizes a bit for contemporary audiences. However, miraculously, this doesn't feel like a Xerox of a Xerox impersonating a classic Disney film. There's precious little winking; hardly any of the 'Shrek'-effect. 'Frozen' has enough of the goods to play it straight and succeed on its own terms. It is a major entry in family-friendly entertainment, one that ought to reverberate for years with tie-in toys and stage productions.
Thanksgiving Day is only a few days away so why not take mom out of the kitchen for a movie. Two new movies hit the theaters this past weekend including the long awaited 'Hunger Games: Catching Fire' which is the # 1 movie. Also Vince Vaughn is back on the big screen in 'Delivery Man' about a man who discovers he is the biological father to more than 500 kids. No secret Hunger Games set some new records. Can you say Katniss? See ya at the movies.
This weekend the first big blockbuster of the holiday season is being released. The much anticipated franchise series Thor:The Dark World should hammer the competition with it's tale of good vs evil starring Chris Hemsworth. If time travel is your thing you may want to check out "About Time" starring Rachel McAdams. This movie is reminiscent of "The Notebook." My choice Thor. See you at the movies!
Now that Halloween is over and done with, the holiday movie season gets kicked off this weekend in theaters with three new movies for your enjoyment.
Looks like only two new releases in theaters this weekend to choose from. If you are a fan of the Jackass movies Johnny Knoxville is back with a different twist to his jaw dropping stunts and pranks in "Bad Grandpa


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- Updated: August 5, 2013
Before the start of every NFL regular season Bookmaker releases its futures odds for the projected win totals of all 32 teams and they are currently listed for 2013. These are some of the hardest prop bet odds to handicap considering that much of the rational for the numbers is based on last season's results, but there is always some low-hanging fruit on the list.
After digging a bit deeper into this year's odds, NFL Betting Trends has identified a few teams that standout as an excellent play on the UNDER for this prop.
The first team on the list is the New England Patriots with its current odds posted as OVER 11 Wins (+110) and UNDER 11 Wins (-140). The Patriots went 12-4 last season and in Bill Belichick's 13 seasons at the helm as head coach his team has won more than 11 games seven times including in each of the last three seasons. The fact we are going UNDER 11 on this team has absolutely nothing to do with last season and everything to do with this offseason.
Wes Welker is off to Denver, Aaron Hernandez is off to jail and there is no clear time-table for the return of Rob Gronkowski. Behind future 'Hall of Fame' quarterback Tom Brady, the Patriots were ranked fourth in the NFL in passing last season, but these three players accounted for close to 60 percent of those yards. New England will find a way to fill the gaps because that is what it always does, but a 10-6 record this season suddenly seems much more realistic.
Our next team to play the UNDER on is the Minnesota Vikings. Their current odds are OVER 7.5 Wins (-125) and UNDER 7.5 Wins (-105). The Vikings went from 3-13 in 2011 to an amazing 10-6 last season, but they also had quite a few things fall into place during that run. Running back Adrian Peterson turned-in a season for the ages with 2,097 rushing yards and Minnesota had the benefit of a softer schedule as a result of the previous year's record.
The Vikings are not going to sneak up on anyone this season and with the likes of the AFC North and NFC East on the schedule squeezing-out those extra three victories to match last year's total suddenly becomes a very tall task considering the tough competition in their own division. Their current win total projection appears to be right on the mark with a 7-9 record in 2013.
The final team on our list to stay UNDER their projected win total is the San Diego Chargers. They are listed at OVER 7.5 (+100) and UNDER 7.5 (-130). Once the pride of the AFC West with nine or more victories in six of seven seasons from 2004 until 2010, the Chargers have been in a downward spiral ever since with an 8-8 record in 2011 and a 7-9 record last season.
There has been a change at the top with Mike McCoy taking over the head coaching duties for Norv Turner, but this team has already been depleted of much of the talent that accounted for all those wins during that seven-year run. Philip Rivers is still a viable starting quarterback in the NFL, but his production continues decline with each passing year. Look for another step backwards this season to five or six wins as it looks like it is going to be a multi-year rebuilding process in San Diego.
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Efforts to legalize marijuana in 2014 may be difficult, experts say
Category: Legalization | Posted on Mon, March, 25th 2013 by THCFinder
Proponents of California Cannabis Hemp Initiative 2014 may have a long way to go before they can see their measure implemented.
The initiative, which proposes to legalize cannabis hemp for industrial, medical and recreational uses, is in the early stages of the ballot process. The activists behind it are planning to begin collecting signatures in May, several months ahead of the deadline to file with the state for a shot at the November 2014 ballot.
"We've been getting a lot of positive feedback, and the cannabis movement is a really sophisticated and advanced movement that has a hard time getting on the same page," said Santa Cruz-based activist Michael Jolson. "A group of us want to wait until 2016 because they feel in 2016 they're going to get more young people to vote for a pot initiative."
Jack Pitney, a politics and government professor at Claremont McKenna College, said the initiative would have better odds at passing during the 2016 presidential election. Part of the problem with proposing the initiative during a midterm election is the voter demographics, he said.
"Midterm elections tend to be older and more conservative," he said.
"In 2012, the initiative in other states benefited from a younger and more liberal electorate - people who came out for Obama."
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Category: Legalization | Posted on Mon, March, 25th 2013 by THCFinder
Cannabis Apple Pie Recipe
Category: Recipes | Posted on Mon, March, 25th 2013 by THCFinder
Estimated Time: 2 hours
Serves: Makes 1 Apple Pie
Crust Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
I teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
6 tablespoons cannabutter (marijuana butter)
6 tablespoons shortening
6 to 8 tablespoons ice water
Crust Instructions:
1. Warm the cannabutter in the microwave for 10 seconds to soften it (not melted).
2. Combine all other ingredients into a large bowl. You may use your hands or a Dough Blender here.
3. Wrap dough in plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator until ready to use.
Apple Filling Ingredients:
5 Tart Peeled Apples
1 Cup Sugar
2 Tablespoons Flour
1/2 Teaspoon Cinnamon
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
1 Tablespoon Cider Vinegar
1 Tablespoon Lemon Juice
Apple Filling Instructions:
1. Peel and slice apples and soak in water with a tablespoon of lemon juice for 10 minutes.
2. Mix everything except the apples in a large bowl.
3. Remove apple slices from water and place in the bowl with with the other ingredients. Mix them around in order to coat the apples as much as possible.
Putting it all together:
1. Divide dough into 2 equal portions.
2. Roll one portion into a flat circle 1/8 inch thick.
3. Place and shape into baking pan.
4. Put apples in crust and top with some butter to enhance the flavor of the apples (you may use cannabutter here if you'd like).
5. Roll out the remaining portion of dough and place on top of pie. Use the back end of a knife to press the top to the bottom crust.
6. Wrap tinfoil over the pan so it covers just the other portion of the top crust, so the edges do not burn.
7. Bake at 400°F for 55 minutes or until the crust is a golden brown.
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Blue Dream Cannabis Medical Benefits, & the Positive and Negative effects
Category: Nugs | Posted on Sun, March, 24th 2013 by THCFinder
Blue Dream is a cross of Blueberry and Haze and was bred to provide the body high of an indica and the cerebral sativa effects. Blue Dream is highly effective for pain management without the sedative effects of a pure indica. Effects are long lasting and she has a pleasant fruity taste.
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Monaco GP: Mark Webber wins for Red Bull in Monte Carlo
Mark Webber won the Monaco GP for the second time in three years from Nico Rosberg and Fernando Alonso.
The Red Bull driver led from the start and controlled the race, measuring his pace to ensure he stayed ahead.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton ran third in the early laps but lost out to Ferrari's Alonso and Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel on strategy.
McLaren's Jenson Button had a difficult race, running with backmarkers after a poor start and retiring after a spin.
Super six
Mark Webber's victory has created a new record for F1 in that there has never been six different winners of the opening six grand prix of the season before
The top six, completed by Ferrari's Felipe Massa, ran nose to tail in a tense last 10 laps, enlivened by intermittent light rain.
But all kept their cool on the tricky and tight street circuit and there were no changes before the flag.
Webber's victory makes this the first Formula 1 season in history to feature six different winners in the first six races.
"I'm feeling incredible," said the Australian. "It was an interesting race. The first phase of the race was strange. It was hard to get the soft prime tyre warmed up.
"Seb had his tyres in and wasn't wearing them so he was coming back into the picture. I didn't want him to get the magic 21 second gap and take the lead.
"It's an amazing day for the team, myself and really happy to have won here again."
The result moves Alonso into the world championship lead , three points ahead of Vettel and Webber, who is classified third on results count-back.
Hamilton drops from third to fourth, 13 points adrift of the Ferrari driver.
Webber shrugged off his reputation for poor starts by leading into the first corner, followed by Mercedes' Rosberg, Hamilton and Alonso.
Up front, Webber pulled out a lead of about two seconds and controlled that gap, with Rosberg a similar margin ahead of Hamilton.
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"Mark Webber's win will have been particularly sweet as it came at another race in which he has had an edge on team-mate Sebastian Vettel, whose romp to the world title last year was probably harder on Webber than anyone."
Alonso initially dropped back a little from Hamilton but he was merely saving his tyres so he could use their grip closer to the pit stops.
The strategy paid off, as when Webber and Hamilton stopped on lap 29, two laps after Rosberg, Alonso stayed out for one more lap, on which he put in the two fastest sectors of the race to that point. That allowed him to emerge ahead of Hamilton.
"The target was to try to finish in front of Sebastian and Lewis as they are with us in the championship.
"At the start I had contact with Grosjean so thought there was damage, but the car was fine. We took Hamilton at the stop with a perfect time and a perfect stop again, so well done to the team."
The leaders' stops left Vettel, who had started ninth, in the lead.
The world champion had started on the more durable 'soft' tyres as opposed to the 'super-softs' on the drivers at the front of the grid.
And his race was made by leaping up to sixth place at the start as he took to the shorter escape road at the first corner to avoid an accident triggered by Lotus's Romain Grosjean spinning after he drove into Michael Schumacher's Mercedes.
Race stewards investigated Vettel's move, which was echoed by other drivers, but decided to take no action.
Monaco Grand Prix factfile
- Venue: Monte Carlo (street circuit)
- Circuit length: 3.340km/2.075 miles
- Laps: 78
- Race distance: 260.520km/161.879miles
- Lap record: 1 min 14.439 secs (Michael Schumacher, 2004)
- 2011 winner: Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)
- 2011 pole position: Sebastian Vettel 1 min 13.556 secs
- 2011 fastest lap: Mark Webber (Red Bull) 1 min 16.234 secs
- Number of corners: 16 (7 left/9 right)
- Average lap speed: 151kph (94mph)
- 2011 winning strategy: One stop (L16)
Once he was running at the front, Vettel pulled out enough of a lead to enable him to stop on lap 46 and rejoin ahead of Hamilton - he needed to chop across the McLaren on the way up the hill after the first corner Sainte Devote to consolidate his position.
From that point on, the top six stayed in close contact, nervously watching the skies for the threatening rain, and driving accordingly when it did start to fall.
Only four seconds separated Webber from Hamilton at the flag, with Massa only two more behind.
"Its been world class driving from all of them - on the trickiest circuit, I have not seen a mistake from any of these guys," said BBC co-commentator David Coulthard.
It was Red Bull's third Monaco win in three years - Vettel won in 2011 - and they became the first team to win twice in 2012.
Schumacher had qualified on pole but was demoted to sixth place for causing a crash in the previous race in Spain, sipped back to eighth on the first lap as a result of Grosjean pushing him against the wall at the start.
Schumacher was seventh after the pit stops, but progressively dropped back out of the points with an engine problem, retiring on lap 64, with 14 to go.
Schumacher's misfortune moved Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne into an impressive seventh, but he lost out with a late gamble to fit intermediate tyres.
That promoted the Force Indias of Paul Di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg, with Lotus's Kimi Raikkonen and Williams driver Bruno Senna completing the top 10.


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Apparently 2-9 is considered good enough to warrant another losing season. I guess it pays to be Mitch Barnhardt's old friend...
I take it that "expectations higher in 2006" means they hope to win three or four games instead of two.
Cats AD: Brooks to return as coach
Expectations higher in 2006
By Murray Evans
The Associated Press
LEXINGTON - Kentucky football coach Rich Brooks will be back next season, but expectations for the program will be higher, athletic director Mitch Barnhart said Tuesday.
Barnhart met privately with Brooks on Monday night to inform the coach of his decision and met with team members Tuesday morning, after word already had leaked to a handful of media outlets.
"Rich and his staff have their priorities in order and are emphasizing the right things both on the field and off the field," Barnhart said. "They want to build a consistently winning program. They want to do it without quick fixes, without bending or breaking the rules and without jeopardizing the integrity of this university."
Brooks is in the third year of a five-year contract that pays him $750,000 a season. He is 8-23 at Kentucky, including a 3-18 record against Southeastern Conference schools. His career record, which also includes 18 seasons at Oregon, is 99-132-4.
Kentucky (2-6, 1-4 SEC) will visit Vanderbilt on Saturday. "I'm pleased, obviously, that we're going forward, because I think we have something that is getting better," Brooks said. "I think we have some good, young players that will make it better."
University president Lee Todd said he supported Barnhart's decision. "We asked Coach Brooks to take a program in ruins and rebuild it," Todd said in a statement. "To that end, I am convinced that Coach Brooks and his staff are building a solid foundation for the future. Making this decision now will give our recruits the assurances they need and deserve as well as our current players, who have expressed strong support for this staff."
Brooks became Kentucky's coach in December 2002, assuming control of a program hit hard by NCAA sanctions that cost the Wildcats 19 scholarships over a three-year period that ended earlier this year. Brooks, Barnhart and Todd all have said numerous times that those sanctions have hamstrung Brooks' efforts to build the program into an SEC contender. Now, Barnhart and Brooks said Tuesday, is the time to stop talking about it.
"My job is to get this team to win games," Brooks said. "Obviously we haven't done it well enough in the time that I've been here. There have been some circumstances that have made it difficult, but people don't want to hear about those anymore, and I'm not going to bring them up anymore. We just need to go forward now and see what we can get accomplished."
Brooks, 64, said Tuesday he'd like to become the longest-tenured football coach in Kentucky history, which would mean he would have to coach seven more seasons.


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ID cards to be mandatory in U.K. by 2010
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Previously the ID cards bill, which the House of Lords rejected five times over the past few weeks, required anyone renewing a passport to also receive an ID card by 2008.
The amendments mean that until 2010, those renewing passports will be able to opt out of receiving an ID card but will still have their biometric and other personal details entered into the National Identity Register, the database which ID card opponents have objected to along with the issuing of the actual cards.
In a vote on Wednesday, the House of Lords approved the amended proposal by 287 to 60.
U.K. Home Secretary Charles Clarke said pricing for the ID cards will be determined once the bill becomes law.
U.K. Home Office Minister Andy Burnham said he was "delighted" to back the amended proposal and added that it "preserves the integrity" of the National Identity Register while "meeting the concerns" of those who opposed mandatory ID cards.
Sylvia Carr of Silicon.com reported from London.
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- Where are your papers?
- People in England better get used to answering that question.
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- It's odd how the countries that proudly stood up...
- against the Nazis now wish to become the Nazis themselves... kinda makes you question what their motives were back in WWII, was it to stop the Evil of Nazi Germany, or just a method to getting rid of the competition?
People in the UK, where are you? What's wrong with you, where's your outrage? I'll admit the US took a while to get their outrage to the surface after 9/11, but it's now starting to happen, but why are the brits being so complient?
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- It's particularly galling for us Brits, because we've never had a requirement to carry ID before. Unlike in the US, where it's an offense to fail to produce ID upon the request of a police officer, we've never had to. In the UK the officer has to demonstrate that someone is likely to have committed a 'serious arrestable offense' before damanding identification. We don't even have to carry our driver's licence to operate a vehicle. There is the presumption that free citizens of a free country have the right to live in peaceful anonimity.
When the UK Government first tried to sell ID cards to the country, they claimed the cards were necessary for "the war on terror." When it was pointed out to them that the 9/11 hijackers, the Madrid bombers and the 7/7 bombers in London all used legitimate ID in their own names, and therefore would not have been caught by the ID card scheme, the argument quickly changed. Now, ID cards were necessary to prevent illegal immigration and social security fraud. Riiight.
It's clear that the UK Government is addicted to social control. Like all politicians, they can't stand the idea of a big, messy society that they can't push around. With ID cards, they'll have the greatest tool for social oppression since IBM gave the Nazis tabulating machines.
Orwell was right, he just got the year wrong.
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ZUMA 2012 Duro Oni heads jury
AHEAD of this year's edition of Zuma Film Festival scheduled to take place in Abuja, from May 6 to May 10, 2012, the Nigerian Film Corporation (NFC) has released the names of members who will be adjudicating for the films entered for its biennial film festival, Zuma Film Festival.
The 5-man jury is being headed by Prof. Duro Oni, one of Nigeria's finest and astute experts in theatre and film studies, one time Director of Centre for Nigerian Cultural Studies, University of Ibadan and also a former Director/Chief Executive of Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC).
Others are, Jonathan Haynes, a Fulbright senior scholar, at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, Ahmadu Bello University and the University of Ibadan, and a Professor of English at the Brooklyn campus of Long Island University in New York, Molara Woods, a United Kingdom trained writer, editor and journalist; Anouk Batard, a Professional Masters Degree holder in journalism from the Journalism and Communication School in Marseille, France, and co-author of "Who killed Lolita" the Best European Radio Documentary for the Year 2010; and Sam Dede, a Nigerian filmmaker, lecturer, and Director-General of Rivers State Tourism and Development Board.
A statement from the NFC secretariat, says members of the jury were carefully selected based on their vast experience in motion picture matters which span several years.
Meanwhile, Pan African Film Festival (PAFF), Los Angeles, USA has indicated her willingness to partner ZUMA Film Festival (ZFF) in ensuring that there is indeed a growth in film activities within Black film cultures across the globe.
Ayoku Babu, Executive Director of PAFF stated this during an interaction with African participants at the 20th edition of the festival (PAFF) in Los Angeles, USA, which ended recently. According to Babu, PAFF and ZUMA, would leverage on their large networks and strengthen film production activities especially in the area of exhibition, distribution, marketing, and development of themes, co-production and the co-hosting of film festivals both in Nigeria and in Los Angeles.
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Absolute Radio is styling the service as "red button" content, in the same way the "red button" offers digital TV extra content, and presenters on the main station will direct listeners to Absolute Radio Extra during broadcasts.
Absolute Radio Extra will broadcast the station's Premier League football commentary, Rock 'n' Roll Football Live, every Saturday at 3pm. The commentary will continue to be available on AM.
Extra music content on the service will include full live sets from Paul Weller, Paolo Nutini, Madness and Kasabian at the V Festival on the 21 and 22 August and a stage set from Kings of Leon after the festival.
Absolute Radio Extra's line up will also include listen again and extra content from Absolute Radio DJs Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner, Iain Lee, Dave Gorman and Geoff Lloyd.
Clive Dickens, chief operating officer of Absolute Radio, said: "It's about putting some really exclusive content on DAB.
"It's a lot like ITV did with extra content from the 'X Factor'. It's not a new strategy but the radio industry has been far too slow to make consumers feel the benefits of DAB."
Initially, the service will have around 10 hours of content a week and will carry advertising, the majority of which will be sponsorship and promotions rather than spot ads. Dickens said over 40% of Absolute Radio's revenue is not from traditional spot ads.
In addition to the core Absolute Radio station the Absolute Radio family includes Absolute Radio Classic Rock, Absolute 80s, Absolute Radio 90s and Dabbl.
Dickens said: "Now we have five or six services we are comfortable in our position and can look to increasing their distribution and marketing.
"The marketing we do will be a combination of media, marketing is all about the mix and we have to practice what we preach.
"Our retained creative agency is Albion London but we do not have a contracted media agency. We have worked with Starcom and MediaCom for our last campaigns but we haven't decided who we are going to work with next."
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