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Photo ideas: photographing smoke and smoke photo art
The creative possibilities of photographing smoke trails are endless; after all, each one is as individual and original as your own fingerprint. It's easy, fun and the results are mind-blowing. In this photography project, we'll show you a simple smoke photography set up, and give you the tips and settings you need to get the best shots. We'll also show you a quick smoke photo tutorial for Photoshop which explains how to turn your smoke pictures into awesome art. Follow our tips and delve into a whole new genre of still life photography.
Smoke photography step-by-step
Step 1: Get the following equipment
As well as digital SLR and standard zoom lens, you'll need this gear…
Black backdrop
To intensify the backlit smoke, black is essential. Cheap and cheerful card will be fine.
Incense sticks
Better for your health than cigarettes and they smoulder constantly and predictably.
Your camera's built-in flash won't do, as you'll need to manually backlight the smoke to make it come alive. You don't need to worry about attaching the flash to the camera though.
The outdoor photographer's essential item is just crucial indoors, especially in this low-light scenario.
Step 2: Use these settings on your DSLR
Here are our recommended camera settings for taking a smoke photo…
● ISO – keep it as low as possible for best image quality
● File format – shoot RAW
● Focal length – around 50mm looks natural and works best
● Exposure mode – manual
● Aperture – shoot between f/8 and f/16 for sharp results
● Shutter speed – set this for a one-second exposure
● Off-camera Flash – set it to Manual and select 1/8 of full power
● Metering – ignore your camera's meter
● Shutter release – use a remote release or your self-timer
Step 3: Smoke photo set-up and technique
First of all, you'll need a dark room. To make sure ambient light doesn't affect the flash exposure you'll be using, block out light from windows and doors by draping sheets or towels over them.
Leave the light on while you clear a table top and place some black card against the wall to use as your backdrop. Position an incense holder and stick 12 inches in front of this. Now put your camera on a tripod around three feet from the incense (the actual distance will depend on the close-focusing ability of your lens).
To retain a good degree of sharpness in your smoke photos, use autofocus to lock on to the tip of the incense stick. Now switch your lens to manual focus to prevent the camera hunting for focus later. Recompose the shot so that the incense is just out of the bottom of the viewfinder.
Not all viewfinders offer a 100% view of the scene, so allow for this when recomposing the shot (otherwise the tip of the incense stick is likely to creep, unseen into the frame).
When you're ready to shoot, light the incense and turn the lights off. Use a remote shutter release or use the camera's self timer. Position a flashgun underneath and behind the incense and when the shutter opens during the 1-second exposure, fire the flash manually by pressing its pilot button.
Check your results after each exposure to make sure the composition and sharpness are acceptable.
Experimenting with the position of the incense stick at the bottom of the frame and gently wafting the smoke can throw up some spectacular results. However, remember that you're photographing smouldering incense, which has the potential to cause fire or injury.
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Did the Cleveland Cops Botch the Search for the Missing Women?
They did everything they could and it still wasn't enough. Here's why.
Cops can't enter a house without permission or a warrant, and they can't get a warrant without probable cause. Ariel Castro did not have a long criminal record, and there was no reason to suspect that anything was actually happening there. I've seen it implied that Castro's record of domestic abuse and his poor performance as a school bus driver should have triggered suspicions. These things may well have triggered suspicions that Ariel Castro was a jerk. It's unreasonable to expect, though, that the cops could have magically inferred that he was holding three women captive in his house.
In a Plain Dealer column yesterday, Mark Naymik writes that the disappearances of DeJesus and Berry, at least, were a longtime department priority. "I've seen police follow up on the most tenuous of leads, from teenagers too young to remember DeJesus' disappearance." Other reports bear this out: For example, the cops dug up a vacant lot in 2012 after a convict falsely informed them that Berry's body could be found there.
But Naymik makes another great point that I haven't seen cited elsewhere. "At the moment, the hum of criticism on Seymour Avenue is about the subtle signs, such as the lowered shades or odd behavior of Castro and how he never entertained guests," he writes. "These are the kinds of signs that police officers who patrol a specific beat over time might notice or hear about from neighbors. But that kind of patrol disappeared when community policing ended."
That kind of patrol disappeared when community policing ended—that's the line you should remember if you're looking to criticize the cops here. Intuition is one of a police officer's foremost assets. But missing persons and odd behavior become suspicious only when you are intimately familiar with a neighborhood, with what normalcy means and when normalcy is breached.
In Cleveland and elsewhere, that sort of hyperlocal knowledge is on the wane. Despite a high crime rate, the city, facing budget shortfalls, has laid off police officers and downsized the department over the past decade. As the president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen's Association wrote in a letter to the Plain Dealer in 2010, "The Cleveland Police Department has never recovered from the 2004 downsizing of 252 police officers. We have been working with no Auto Theft, Community Policing or Gang units."
All of the criticisms over police behavior in this case are actually criticisms of the do-more-with-less modern policing mentality—of the disappearance of the beat cop in favor of specialized units that are ostensibly more effective and efficient. And they might be more effective and efficient when it comes to dropping a city's crime rate over the short term. But the fact that Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, and Gina DeJesus spent years in a house in a dense Cleveland neighborhood is one indication of the long-term problems with this approach.
In the end, the Cleveland police and its critics are both right. The cops likely did all they could to sniff out where the missing women were being held. But in this age of departmental budget cuts, all they could do wasn't nearly enough.

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In this Aug. 2013 file photo, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon speaks in Harrisonville, Mo. Renewing his push to expand Medicaid eligibility to more lower-income adults, Nixon held a news conference Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2013, at his office in the state Capitol to discuss the proposed Medicaid expansion in advance of the 2014 legislative session.
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Challenge China on North Korea
Doug Bandow, Forbes
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North Korea has conducted its third nuclear test. Its action was the equivalent of an upraised finger to virtually every other nation. But it was aimed most directly and clearly at China , Pyongyang's nominal ally. The United States should use the North's latest provocation to challenge Beijing to do more to constrain the so-called Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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Patience certainly paid off for Cameron Taggart and the Monarch hockey team.
With a five-on-three advantage midway through the third period, Taggart had the puck in front of the net. Rather than immediately pulling the trigger, he wait for his moment.
"For some that's just a gift when you can have that kind of patience in a game," Monarch coach Jimmy Dexter said. "Most of the kids would have just slapped at the puck. He calmly for (Regis Jesuit goalie Sam Harden) to move a little and when he saw it, he buried it."
Monarch earned a trip back to the state championship game off of two late powerplay goals to beat Regis Jesuit 2-1 Friday at the Denver Coliseum.
Down 1-0 midway through the third period, Walker Harris scored six seconds into a powerplay with 10:06 to go in the game to tie the score. A physical match the whole game, Regis Jesuit was penalized twice with 9:21 to go, giving Monarch a 5-on-3 advantage.
Regis Jesuit coach Dan Woodley said he was frustrated with the timing of the double penalty.
"I can't say they're not penalties. ... My concern is those penalties occurred numerous times during the game. The ref chooses to call them late in a tied game," he said. "It's not the way hockey goes. Usually the teams earn it on the ice and not have the officials have that much impact."
With 14 freshmen and sophomores on the team, Woodley said he's looking forward for the coming years.
"I'm real proud of my team -- how young they are and how far they've come," Woodley said. "I look forward to seeing these guys growing in the future."
Monarch faces Ralston Valley in a rematch of last season's championship game at 3:30 p.m. Saturday.
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New Jersey suffered the largest drop in casino tax revenues of any state in the country at 8.2 percent, according to the annual "State of the States" report issued Monday by the American Gaming Association.
The report concludes that the key reasons for the decline were the temporary casino closings in Atlantic City in the wake of Hurricane Sandy last fall and "increased competition from new casinos in the mid-Atlantic region."
The state with the second-largest drop in casino taxes collected was Delaware, down 5.5 percent.
New Jersey's casino tax revenues fell to $254.8 million in 2012 as an annual decline since 2006 continued – spending on gambling in Atlantic City is down nearly 40 percent in that time:
The drop in taxes for New Jersey came in spite of the much-anticipated opening of the $2.4 billion Revel casino last May. The new casino did help New Jersey gain 5.8 percent in total casino jobs, to 34,726. That figure is the second-highest in the country behind Nevada's 170,206 casino jobs.
The report found that the U.S. casino gambling industry overall featured an increase in gross gaming revenues for a third straight year, up 4.8 percent to $37.34 billion. That figure, the highest since 2007, was fueled by the opening of new casinos in New York, Maryland, Maine and Kansas.
Total casino taxes collected by states was up 8.5 percent to $8.6 billion.
The association also released its annual polling results, with 85 percent of respondents saying gambling was acceptable for themselves or for others even if they did not gamble themselves. That is the highest combined figure in a decade. The rise has come from the category that says "gambling is acceptable for others, but not you personally," which has climbed from 27 percent in 2005 to 38 percent in 2012.
The responses to several gambling-related questions each found the highest support from people under 40 and the lowest support from those over 60 – an age when people are old enough to recall when only Nevada offered casino gambling.
The association's review found that all but 10 states now feature either land-based, riverboat-based, or tribal casinos.


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Vault 711 is a vault in Gringotts Wizarding Bank that belonged to Sirius Black. It may have been the vault for the House of Black in general, as Sirius inherited all of the property and the last of the fortune of the House of Black upon his mother's death[1], though it is possible that Sirius acquired his own vault after being disowned using the money left to him by his uncle Alphard Black[2].
Sirius used gold from his vault to pay for Harry Potter's Firebolt in 1993[3]. In 1996, when Harry inherited the contents of the vault after Sirius's death, it still contained a "reasonable amount of gold"[1]. Given its depth, it is likely a high-security vault.
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- It is interesting to note that Sirius Black's death occurred on page 711 of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix book.
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I started reading this, Fred Hoiberg putting NBA pedigree to use at Iowa State - College Basketball - ESPN, only to realize it is an Insider article. Anyone have it that can summarize any highlights of the full article?
NBA vs. College, while similar are very different.
Hoiberg had a lot of really good coaches in college and pros.
He's smart and learned a lot in the pros about match ups and exploiting advantages.
He has a little black book with plays, since he doesn't need one for the ladies.
Lots and lots of threes is our mission. We're very efficient on offense.
We like Transfers - except for Booker (sometimes)
He relates well with players, Pollard Homerun.
He also smoked a lot of weed with the T-Wolves apparently.
Thanks for your help guys. Nothing particularly new, but glad at least one announcer tonight seems to like CFH.
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Yet greatly appreciated. :)
He is just saying, read it now before a mod sees it and removes it.
Haha, read it before the slashing!
Sorry guys, had to remove the premium stuff. If someone wants to put a more in depth summary up thats fine.
Read it. Decent, but nothing particularly special. The other mayor article from a couple of days ago was much better.
I own lots of Disney stock, so I couldn't let it slide!
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The latest interview from the ever excellent Julie Hamill.
Fifteen minutes with Grant Showbiz, The Smiths sound engineer and producer of Rank - Julie Hamill
Another nice interview with Julie. She's really getting to meet as many people as possible from The Smiths days. Showbiz has really lived life to the full. One of those people who make every minute count.
I'd like to volunteer to archive Showbiz's collection. What other Smiths treasures lurk there that even Showbiz has forgotten about? It would be nice to see some of what can be released made available. Perhaps in time and with some help.
Does anyone else think that the only time Julie could conduct one of these interviews and it WOULDN'T come off as lighthearted, personable, and informative would be if she ever actually interviewed Morrissey? I come away thinking that every time I read these.
Grant Showbiz could write a grat book about the Smiths, his video tapes
are pure magic, and should be capt secure in the London Tower, with the Royals Jewels,
amazing peces of Smithstory
I thought he was on Johnny's side, in some magazines who where totally about the Smiths,
he had said something about Morrissey's person, but if I read now, Times do change,
and he's in this interview positive about everything. Lucky to had the oportunity.
If he has a dozen of the Smiths those polo's as shown in the article, well Showbiz
I'm happy to get rid one of you, and pay for it, lovely white polo with a short and little written ' the Smiths
and that green sorta Irish symbol, dunno the real word in Emglish, biut it's beautifull, so as Grant's an Julie's
really interesting but take the time to read it all,, thanks Grant and Julie, it was a great read with footages and all
GREAT interview!
I thought this was a great interview. I've enjoyed all of Julie's interviews, there is something unique about her style.
It must have been so cool for Julie to be in the same room as all that Smiths memorabilia.
I wonder if she ever tried to get an interview with Morrissey. He really should grant her one know, she's certainly earned it. He wouldn't have to worry about her doing a hatchet job on him; it would be favorable, certainly. It could actually be the best Morrissey interview ever!
Wow what a interesting guy and what an interview! Fantastic stuff. I hope Mr Showbiz is doing the sound for The Fall's tour. And their new album does sound very good.
Thanks Julie.
Great interview.
I wonder if he can legally release his tapes? I wonder why Johnny didn't use them (or the rest of Rank for that matter) on Complete.
another great interview, I love it and Grant always looked like a really stand-up guy.
I never realized Showbiz was with Ths Smths for such a long time. The tales he could spin ! Celibate is correct, he should write a book but not just on The Smiths but the other groups he has worked for. IS there any other two front men as unique to work with as Moz and Mark E. Smith . Grant is such a lucky guy.
Bluebirds, I like your way of thinking in saying The Falls latest album (ReMit) is one of their better ones . I LOVE IT. Why o why doesn't Moz go with a small label like The Fall to get music out to the fans . It doen't make you look weak Moz just that you are giving something back to the people that made you. Go have beer with Mark E. Smith and he will clue you in.


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Effective July 1, 2010, The College at Brockport began a new policy in compliance with anti-sweatshop legislation established by SUNY for all campuses and their affiliates.
Regardless of the campus funding source used for payment (State, including IFR, DIFR and Sutra accounts, Brockport Auxiliary Service Corp (BASC), BASC Other Agency Accounts, BASC-College Support, Research Foundation, Brockport Foundation, Brockport Student Government (BSG), Procurement Card, etc.), all apparel and sports equipment purchases by any/all campus personnel will require vendors to complete and sign a Fair Labor Certification to ensure the product purchased was produced in a manufacturing plant that adheres to "fair labor standards in connection with working conditions, compensation, employee rights to form unions and the use of child labor".
Apparel is defined as, but is not limited to, the following: academic regalia, lab coats, uniforms (including sports, gym, staff uniforms, school uniforms), shoes (including athletic shoes or sneakers), sweatshirts, t-shirts, caps and hats. Apparel that is rented from an outside source, however, is not affected.
Sports Equipment is defined as, but is not limited to, the following: balls, bats and all other goods/equipment intended for use by those participating in sports and games.
A Fair Labor Certification form must be completed and signed by the intended vendor for the intended product(s) PRIOR to the order being placed. Please request an original certificate with each transaction - blanket certificates or copies of previous certificates will not be accepted. Each certificate must minimanlly refer to the brand(s) and product(s) being purchased and supplied. If a vendor refuses or is unable to complete the form, the order cannot be placed and a new source for the product(s) must be determined.
Purchases of apparel and sports equipment that are placed directly by departments and then submitted to the funding source, such as BASC, for payment must include the Fair Labor Certificate completed and signed by the vendor before payment can be authorized. Failure to provide this required document with the payment request will result in personal liability for payment. For this reason, retail chain suppliers, such as WalMart and Target, should not be used for such transactions as it will be difficult, if not impossible, to obtain the required documents from such vendors.
Citibank VISA account holders are also required to obtain a Fair Labor Certificate from the vendor PRIOR to placing an order. These documents will be required during any/all audits conducted by the College, SUNY Administration and the Office of the State Comptroller. Failure to obtain this information may result in a mandatory reimbursement by the individual to the state account. Non-state funds will not be available.
In addition to the new Anti-Sweatshop Policy, The College at Brockport implemented a policy related to the purchasing of products that are produced using The College at Brockport trademarks and logos. This policy will apply to any/all campus personnel utilizing any/all funding sources used for payment - State, including IFR, DIFR, and Sutra accounts, Brockport Auxiliary Services Corp (BASC), BASC-Other Agency Accounts, BASC-College Support, Research Foundation, Brockport Foundation, Brockport Student Government (BSG), Procurement Card - and is intended to protect the College's image and trademark use.
All products that will be produced using a College at Brockport trademark or logo will require that the order be placed with a Certified Licensed Vendor that is managed by the Licensing Resource Group (LRG). This will include all apparel and promotional products – even those that do not require royalty payments. (Royalties are paid by vendors when a trademarked product is produced and then sold for a profit, e.g., bookstore products)
When using a Certified Licensed Vendor for apparel or sports equipment purchases, it will not be necessary to obtain a Fair Labor Certification since the vendor, in becoming licensed, has already agreed that all products sold to the College will meet fair labor standards. These vendors will also have access to approved trademarks and logos for the College. A list of current licensed vendors and products they are approved to sell with a logo is available at:
(Search "Brockport", then click "view")
This list should be consulted prior to each purchase since a vendor may decide to not renew their license or may add/delete product from the approved list and thus, no longer be eligible to produce product or a particular commodity with The College at Brockport trademarks and logos.
If a department wishes to create new artwork using a College trademark or logo or modify an existing one, a new design approval will be required by the campus Design and Production staff. Only Design and Production can authorize use of and release the new artwork to certified vendors.
Sample College trademarks and logos are as follows: Ellsworth (eagle), The College at Brockport seal (torch), "The College at Brockport", "SUNY Brockport", Golden Eagles athletic eagle, "Golden Eagles".
In an effort to protect The College at Brockport name and its logos from inappropriate use, the following items are excluded from all licensing and may not be produced with any campus names, logos or other markings:
With this new information, an effort has been made to reach existing vendors that have produced trademarked product for campus departments in the past. There may be vendors, however, that were not captured in this communication. If there is a vendor that should be notified of this policy change, please send the vendor information to Donna Napier, and the vendor will be notified.
A single order trademark license (SOL) may be issued, campus-wide, only one time to a non-certified vendor for items that meet the following qualifications:
The purchase must (1) originate from campus departments and/or organizations and (2) not be resold above cost or used for commercial promotional purposes. The following intended product uses may apply for single order licensing:
Once a non-certified vendor is issued one single order license (SOL) for the campus, it must become a certified vendor to be considered for any future purchases that utilize campus trademarks or logos. An SOL must be issued before a campus department or organization may order products bearing names and marks of the campus. The department or organization, with assistance by the supplier, must provide the required license information and submit the SOL to the Campus Trademark Office (Procurement & Payment Services in conjunction with Design & Production) for approval to exempt the purchase from all royalty requirements and to confirm design compliance using TM (trademark) status. The following information, located on the Single Order Trademark License form, is required for the one-time license:
Once approved by the Campus Trademark Office, the Single Order License must be submitted to the vendor with the order. Upon acceptance of the order, the supplier agrees to the terms noted within the license. Only Design and Production can authorize use of and release artwork to SOL vendors.
A Fair Labor Certificate will, once again, be required for all apparel and sports equipment ordered using an SOL process. (See the Anti-Sweatshop Policy for these detailed requirements)
All campus entities will use the same forms to adhere to the above policies.
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Joey Logano won at Dover for the second time in 2012, once again dominating the race and leaving everyone else scrabbling to settle who would take second place in his wake.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Mike Glennon threw a touchdown pass to help North Carolina State beat North Carolina 13-0 on Saturday, earning its fifth straight win against its nearby rival.
James Washington ran for 110 yards for N.C. State (5-4, 2-3 Atlantic Coast Conference), which again saved its best for the Tar Heels in a surprisingly one-sided -- and often ugly -- contest. The Wolfpack ranked in the bottom half of the league's defensive statistics, but overwhelmed the Tar Heels (6-4, 2-4) and shut down freshman runner Giovani Bernard. N.C. State also knocked starting quarterback Bryn Renner from the game by the end of the third quarter.
It was N.C. State's first shutout in the series in more than five decades.
With that type of defense, Glennon and the offense didn't need a big day. Glennon threw an interception on the first drive, but N.C. State protected the ball the rest of the day.
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hi everyone, I have two large horse chestnuts in my garden,both heavily infected with Phytophthore [bleeding cankers]. unfortunately, both will have to be felled this winter as there is no cure. my question is, can the infected timber be used in my wood burning stove. chestnut can normally be used in wood burners but will the infection be a problem ?
The only problem I can see is if you stack the felled wood near to other trees that might become infected. It should burn OK.
I think the theory is that the wood should be burned 'on site' to avoid spreading the disease - it certainly shouldn't be transported - as you already have the disease in your garden I can't see why you shouldn't make sensible use of it to keep warm in the winter.
Horse chestnut wood gives out a good heat but it does spit a lot, so burning in a stove is ideal.
fidgetbones, and dovefromabove. many thanks for you`re considered advice.
we had to cut one down in the corner of our field and have burned it on our log burner


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This came from a 'proper' rose grower, and is true to colour, but the one obvious stem is twice as thick as the others (which have also borne flowers) and, as you can see, predominates. There are thorns on the early part of the stem and none at all on the top two thirds. It doesn't look quite right to me, but I don't know what to do about it (if anything) so any help would be greatly appreciated.
There are many different varieties of Roses. So I'm sure it is a rose. It's growth could be affected by a lot of lush greenery around it.
By the way, it's a Blue for You Floribunda.
When the blooms on that stem have gone over, I would cut it back by half to an outward facing bud. In the spring(late Feb/early March, depending on conditions) I would prune the weaker stems back hard, down to just 3 or 4 buds, pruning to an outward facing bud; leave the stronger stem alone. As pruning promotes growth, that should help the bush even itself out a bit.
After pruning give a mulch of well rotted farmyard manure (don't let it touch the stems) or a dressing of Fish, blood and bone and make sure your rose bush has space to grow - it's looking a bit overcrowded, which won't help the weaker stems.
Thanks Dove, I shall give that a go - is the reason that the stem doesn't have thorns just that it's running away a bit?


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I was 16 years old when Carl Johnson died on this ribbon of a road that winds between the river and a limestone cliff. He was not much older. We never spoke a word to each other. At least, I have no memory of his voice. But his black eyes looked out on the world through long, angel lashes and all the girls agreed that he was beautiful. If you favored delicate-boned, olive skinned boys, that is, which I didn't, preferring taller, sturdier types.
In a few weeks, Owen County families, some of whom have traveled many miles to return home, will gather to celebrate Thanksgiving.
Most dinners will feature "Mr. Turkey," complemented by potatoes and gravy, vegetables, rolls, and a variety of pies served in the good old-fashioned Owen County way.
When local veterans are honored next month at Owen County High School for their service to the country, a new young leader will be behind the scenes making sure the event goes off with military precision.
The annual Veteran's Day program at OCHS will be held Nov. 11. All veterans are invited to stop by the high school at 11 a.m. for a special lunch provided by the students. At 1 p.m., a special recognition program – which is open to the public – will honor the veterans.
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Another Owen County football season is in the books.
The Rebels finished the season Friday night in the first round of the Class A Playoffs with a 70-20 loss to Newport Central Catholic.
Despite the loss, Owen County's Adam Hazelett threw three touchdown passes.
Friday's performance gave Hazlett over 1,000 passing yards for the season.
The Thoroughbreds scored first but the Rebels responded with a Hazelett touchdown pass to Sawyer Williams to tie the game at 7-7.
The Branch is as dry as I have seen it in the 33 years we've lived here. We did have a hard freeze one day last week but there was nothing to kill. The weeds, grass, and leaves have all dried up and turned to dust. John went to the woods on Thursday and cut the big tree that had been hit by lightning about three years ago. He cut it into burn lengths and we split it Saturday. It was a beautiful day to be out but it was so dry and dusty that we were both barely able to talk from the dust and sawdust in our throats. I hope the hunters are very careful.
I will be so glad when this election is over. I am sick and tired of all the political ads — on both sides. I mute them or watch DirecTV now to get away from them. Neither party of any of the races have shown themselves adult enough to be a representative of this state or any other elected position, which doesn't mean to say I won't vote. I have voted in every election since I got the privilege at 18. If you don't vote, you have no right to complain.
"It's not just you," Eddie Black stressed Wednesday at Owen Electric's construction safety and communications meeting.
It's been more than a quarter century since Black nearly lost his life while working as a lineman for an electric cooperative in Kentucky.
As he attempted to re-conductor two new power lines, a terrible accident occurred when 7,200 volts of electricity surged through his body. As he worked, an older, sagging line contacted two new lines.
As a result of the incident, Black lost both arms.
The Owen County Parks and Recreation youth traveling football teams all qualified and participated in the NCKYFL Playoffs last week at Gallatin County. Two of the three teams will be playing for the Super Bowl Championship. The Mighty Pro and Power House teams both advanced to the Super Bowl with victories at Gallatin County. The following is an account of the playoff games:
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Next game: Playoffs at Newport Catholic, Friday at 7:30 p.m.
• Newport Central Catholic finished the season 8-2. They wrapped up the regular season with a 40-39 loss to Beechwood in double-overtime Saturday night.
• The Thoroughbreds earned the top seed in the district by going 3-0 against Holy Cross, Newport and Lloyd.
• Owen County and NCC met two years ago in the first round of the playoffs. The Rebels lost that night, 50-14. Newport Catholic would go on and lose 26-23 to Fort Campbell in the Class 2A championship game.
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Ida Bell Wells was born a slave on July
16, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. She was 6 years old when the
13th Amendment was passed making her a free citizen. Both of her
parents died in 1876 as a result of contracting Yellow Fever.
Ida attended The Holly Springs
Freedman's School and supported her family after the death of her
parents with teaching jobs. In 1880, Ida and two of her sisters moved
to the home of an Aunt in Memphis, Tennessee where she entered Fisk
She was a strong adherent of both civil
and women's rights. Ida was not at all bashful about making her views
known and took an active stand on rights issues. In 1884 while
traveling on a train, she sat in a whites only seat and was forcefully
removed from the train. Ida sued the Chesapeake, Ohio & South
Western Railroad Company. Her suit was initially successful but
was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme court. As a result of
her suit, Ida was dismissed from her job as a schoolteacher by the
Memphis School Board.
Another cause which Ida was deeply
involved in was the lynching of Black's. (Three close friends of
Ida's were lynched) She became a reporter and part owner of the
newspaper Free Speech in 1889 and used the paper as a platform to
speak out against lynching. In 1890, as a result of her articles
on lynching, her office was ransacked and her press destroyed. One of
the participants bragged that they would have lynched Ida, if she had
been present. (She was in Philadelphia at the time.)
Ida moved to New York and began working
for the New York Age as a staff writer. She organized societies
against lynching and lectured across the country. She wrote "Lynching
and the Excuse for it" in 1901 and her autobiography, Crusade
for Justice in 1928.
Ida married Ferdinand Barnett in 1895
and moved to Chicago. Ida and Ferdinand had four children. She also
began to actively campaign for women's suffrage at this time. She
helped to found The National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People in 1909 and served as the secretary of The
National Afro-American Council in 1910.
Ida's unflagging efforts on behalf of
civil rights were the cornerstone in the fight against Jim Crow laws
and were at the heart of the Civil Rights movement of the 50s and 60s.
Ida B. Wells died of Uremia on March
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The Knights of Columbus annually hold a Free Throw Contest including rounds at the Council, District, Region, and State levels. This event begins in January of each year and is open to boys and girls age 10 through 14 as of the first of the year. Participants shoot in one of ten groups by sex and age.
Each Council that holds an event will crown one winner in each of the ten groups (boys 10, girls 10, boys 11, girls 11, etc.). Those winners are then eligible to participate in the District Round (typically including winners from about six Councils). District winners are then eligible to partipace in the Regional Round (typically covering the Archdiocese of Cinncinnati for us). Regional winners move on to the State Round. Finally, scores are ranked among the many State winners by age group to crown an International Winner.
The St. John Council held their first Free Throw Contest in 2006. Since that time, we have had the good fortune to have two shooter win every round including the State level. One of those was also crowned the International winner. There is plenty of good shooting at St. John!
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Worth Laboring For
BY: SusanD
"What do you do?" How often have you waffled, stammered or wilted when you've been asked that question? Too often women are embarrassed by their job title, unemployment, or the fact that they don't "do" what others deem worthy.
It's Labor Day, a holiday to give praise to all who work, in whatever capacity. I love the statistic showing my worth as a "housewife" with a $125,900 salary! If only…
Labor Day is also a time to celebrate the decline of child labor in countries around the globe. While working children is still a serious problem, we're seeing a remarkable surge in school attendance, especially among girls in developing countries. Out of the fields and factories, into the classroom is surely a miracle in our time.
Lack of a business card should not stop you from being proud of whatever it is you do to contribute to your world. Let this be the day of labor when you begin to think differently about your work. End the shame of not following traditional paths to employment. Honor yourself, and all people who work.
Oh, and if you're lucky enough to have it— enjoy the day off!
Be with me.
Not just in cloisters,
clouds and the parted sea.
Walk with me.
Reassure me that the
road is only unfamiliar
the first time I'm on it.
Speak to me concretely.
Take me past the metaphors
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Reach out Your hand
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True North Sports and Entertainment nailed it with the unveiling of the new Home and Away jerseys for the 2011 Winnipeg Jets.
While the jerseys have been unveiled, there will be a wait time for fans to get their own personal jersey. Reebok has mentioned that Winnipeg Jets jerseys will not be ready for delivery until October. The demand will, no doubt, be huge so it will be in your best interest to pre-order the jersey if you want one for the start of the regular season.
The Jets have given the green light to some NHL licensed retailers to accept advance orders for the new jerseys for delivery once the official release has been made.
If you are in Winnipeg, River City sports is accepting advance orders, as well as the Jets Gear store. If you would prefer to order online, you can order through Cool Hockey.Com for just $119.00.
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Jerseys looks great but the logo really sucks.
I like the old (90's) jerseys better. The new ones will take seriously getting used to. not a fan of the new look. Sorry.
bad logo and bad jersey look cold like Winnipeg
Mayaswell call themselfs air canada. Thats the most pathetic jerseys ive ever laid eyes on. Its like toronto mapleleafs with a fat coiler on it. Id quit the team… Just sayin
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I've shelled out $239.00 for each of the home and away authentic Reebok edge game jerseys at a local NHL retailer in Surrey, B.C. I'm confident that I'm going to love the new home and away jerseys which will compliment the awesome new logos. I'll add a player kit to each of them once they release those too. And of course I'll buy the third alternate when they release that as well. I'm very excited to receive them when they arrive. I'll be patient till then


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Sunday's arrest is the latest in a series of high-profile success stories in which local Bangladeshi law enforcement officers have arrested terrorist leaders who threaten the country's democratic institutions and secular traditions.
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Oklahoma City Theatre Company embraces diversity with 2014-2015 season
The Oklahoma City Theatre Company faced controversy last year surrounding its production of "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told," but that hasn't stopped the community theater group from selecting more provocative works for its 2014-2015 season, which includes the musical version of Stephen King's terror tale "Carrie," the classic French comedy "Tartuffe" and Terrence McNally's often-protested drama "Corpus Christi."
Oklahoma City Theatre Company is diving into its 16th season focused on its continuing mission to bring an eclectic mix of plays to the community.
And controversy isn't going to knock the company off course.
"We don't play to themes as much as we do trying to give something for everyone, or almost everyone as much as we can. And diversity is a new major focus for us," said Artistic Director Rachel Irick.
"My feeling as artistic director is if we don't have several things on our season that people don't raise an eyebrow to, then I'm not doing my job. I want people to be talking about what we're doing, and I want people to have some sort of passionate feeling toward what we're doing. If it's positive, I hope it is, but if it's negative, that's OK, too."
Last year, local pastors and at least one state legislator campaigned against the company's staging of the comedy "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told" at the Civic Center, where it is one of the resident companies. But that controversy hasn't stopped the OKC Theatre from selecting more provocative works for its 2014-2015 season, which includes the musical version of Stephen King's terror tale "Carrie," the classic French comedy "Tartuffe" and Terrence McNally's often-protested drama "Corpus Christi."
"As theater artists, if we're not reacting to the emotional landscape and to the literary landscape of our own community, then we're irrelevant. We have to stay relevant to what people are thinking and talking about," Irick said. "I've had faithful patrons say to me, 'That particular show wasn't my favorite, but I always know the next show's gonna be completely different with you guys. I never know what to expect and that's what I love.'"
Starting with sharks
The community theater's new season officially opens Aug. 8 in the Civic Center's CitySpace Theatre with "Glengarry Glen Ross," iconic American playwright David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning story of "sharks in suits" real estate salesmen. The production will reunite OKC Theatre Company with its founding artistic director, Rick Nelson, who will play the role of play James Lingk, a timid client who "comes into this tank of sharks to try to get his check back and a contract canceled."
"It's really David Mamet's masterpiece … these one-liners, these zingers, these thoughtful comments, there's so many of them," said Nelson, who teaches theater at Rose State College and frequently acts in local productions. "It's probably been two years since I've been in any way officially connected with the company, so it's been nice to be back and be in rehearsals at the Civic Center after spending at least nine years there. And rehearsals have been a blast."
King of scares
The company often stages something spooky and sinister around Halloween, and the group will apparently be rolling out the pig's blood this year for "Carrie." Irick said OKC Theatre Company production manager Kory Kight-Pagala has long championed the musical version of Stephen King's famed horror novel. which has been adapted many times in movie form, most famously in the Oscar-nominated 1976 Brian De Palma film.
"He has been hounding me for years, 'As soon as the rights for "Carrie" are available, we gotta do it,'" she with a grin. "He believes so much in this show … and theater and Halloween just go hand in hand."
Getting personal
Irick will make an emotional return to the stage Jan. 8-18 to stage in "Wit," Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning one-act drama about a hardline literature professor dying of ovarian cancer. In 2001, "The Graduate" director Mike Nichols adapted it into an Emmy-winning HBO movie.
"'Wit' is going to be a very personal project for me. I'm going to appear on stage in the lead role, and I have not done that ever as artistic director," Irick said, adding she last acted she played one of the daughters in the company's 2010 production of "King Lear."
"But this is just something I have to do. My mom passed away from cancer in 2008, and seeing that production helped me really cope with losing her. … And my father is an English professor, so I grew up in a very literature-focused family."
Playing up diversity
In February, the company will present Moliere's 1664 comedy "Tartuffe," aka "The Imposter" or "The Hypocrite," a tale told in rhyming couplets about a family man who is deceived by a seemingly pious con man. Native Frenchman Fabrice Conte, who co-starred in "The Most Fabulous Story" and previously directed the company's productions of "Frankenstein" and "Madea," will helm the French farce.
"Making fun of religious hypocrisy really never gets old. Even people that are very conservative religious Christians or whatever can connect with that. It's a comedy – it's broad, funny, silly, witty," she said. "We'll be updating it to … a more modern setting to have a more televangelist feel for our 'Tartuffe.' Like, picture Tulsa in the 1980s."
OKC Theatre Company will end its 2014-2015 season with two projects with diversity in mind. From March 19 to April 4, the company will stage Terrence McNally's 1998 drama "Corpus Christi," about a gay man named Joshua who is brutalized and ostracized in his native Corpus Christi, Texas.
"He leaves Corpus Christi and travels, gathering followers along the way, preaching his message of love and acceptance. And when he returns to Corpus Christi, Texas, he's martyred for his beliefs and for his sexual identity," she said. "It's based on the story of Jesus. And the knee-jerk reaction is to say 'Oh, this is making fun of Jesus' or 'Oh, this is to be a blasphemous play.' It's not at all. It's to just maybe communicate to people in a very personal, real way."
Uniquely Oklahoma
The sixth annual Native American New Play Festival will close the season next May with staged readings, cultural events, panel discussions and more.
The festival annually includes dramatic readings of three new, unproduced works, and each year, the company selects one to be fully staged the following year during the event. This year's featured production will be "Hoop Jumper," by Oklahoma native and New York-based playwright Vicki Lynn Mooney, who is Cherokee.
"Vicki actually researched her own family's history in Oklahoma and their evolution. She's writing a trilogy of plays based on her own family's story," Irick said, adding the festival a few years ago included a staged reading of Mooney's previous biographical play "Broken Heart Land."
Irick said it one of only two festivals in the country showcasing new works by American Indian writers.
"Our name is Oklahoma City Theatre Company; to me says that we should be doing something that's uniquely Oklahoma. Our state (slogan) is 'Native America,' and what better group, what better place to be encouraging Native writers," she said. "We're almost a Mecca for Native American art … and storytelling is a very integral part of Native culture. And these plays, they do have a unique style and a unique voice that you won't hear anywhere else."
Although he no longer is artistic director, Nelson praised the eclectic approach OKC Theatre Company continues to take.
"Rachel has really continued that tradition of it being a repertory company, which means you don't do one thing all the time. You intentionally try to have a plethora or smorgasbord of different types of plays to keep your audience interested, to keep them off their game a little bit so they're not sure what's coming up next," he said.
"This season especially is really good at that, with so many different genres and different types of plays."
Oklahoma City Theatre Company 2014-15 Season
"Glengarry Glen Ross"
When: 8 p.m. preview Aug. 7, 8 p.m. Aug. 8-9, 14-16, 21-23 and 2 p.m. Aug. 17 and 24.
"Carrie: The Musical"
When: Oct. 16-Nov. 1.
When: Jan. 8-18.
When: Feb. 5-15.
"Corpus Christi"
When: March 19-April 4.
Sixth annual Native American New Play Festival
When: May 7-17.
Where: Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N Walker.
Information: 626-6605 or www.okctheatrecompany.org.


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Fay's Psychic boutique is locked. Murphy reels from a wet gale, shielding his phone. His slight mass angled defiantly into the biting torrent, Jones contemplates where they might procure a reliable ark—in Cleveland, at this unholy hour.
St. Clair Avenue is queerly serene, unmarred by the bustle of human industry. It's 1 PM in post-NAFTA America.
The two journalists had stormed Ohio—heedless of ominous forecasts and 193 enticing miles of sheds & firework billboards—for answers. And they'd get them by phone if necessary. They were on the cusp of an elusive and perplexing story rife with disturbing existential undertones and dire geophysiologic ramifications.
"Is this Fay?" Murphy asks. "I'm from, um, the uh… The New York Post, Ma'am." And I need to know who's going to win the Ohio primary…"
Jones is bearded and robed, poised over the prow of a majestic, "recently refurbished" ship. He chortles as a silvery deluge consumes thousands of campaign supporters. The deck beneath his feet teems with rats—Cleveland's true aristocracy—rescued providentially from the city's inundated catacombs. Their teacup ears pricked to the din of gurgling deaths overboard, the rats squeal a chorus of approval.
"You like Hillary—and so do the stars," Murphy repeats, smacking Jones, who is quietly squeaking and gnawing his lower lip. "OK, thanks for your time."
"The stars have spoken," Murphy says, perturbed. "Let's get out of this… place."
"No. It won't do," Jones demurs. "The stars are mindless nuclear reactors with notoriously little political insight. Those fissile conservatives are likely following the latest poll numbers. No, they're not a reliable source—we have to maintain some sort of journalistic standard here!"
They creep silently north. Folded within the gusts, one can hear the ghosts of outsourced jobs moaning softly, rattling chains and begging for change. Sandwich boards on street corners reassure pedestrians that "it's OK to say no" to panhandlers, and warn that many beggars are drug-fiends in disguise.
"Damn!" Murphy grumbles. "They're on to us."
The two will spend primary day, fittingly, in a state of simulated vagrancy. Shuttling from the temporary shelter of one business to another, heads bowed against the withering inclemency; rationing their meager allowance fecklessly in surrender to their bibulous appetites. Booze only amplified the irreality, anesthetizing them to the cold and bleakness of their surroundings.
Passing a Starbucks—signs of life. Jones scoops a wrapper discarded on the sidewalk by an exiting patron. Glancing back over her shoulder, the litterbug catches Jones's intervention.
"You'll make the world a better place!" she spits caustically. Jones blinks at her, nonplussed.
A Michael Jackson "Thriller" anniversary marathon echoes through the empty Metropolitan Café at W. 6th. The décor is purgatory-chic. Murphy pages through a copy of Cleveland's Employment News-a lurid prospectus, garishly colorized and prettified with pharmaceutically upbeat inducements like "No Selling! No Explaining! No Convincing!"
"B'der der der der der derm," Jones hums along to Quincy Jones's classic bass-line. "B'der der der der derm. B'der der der-."
"Here you are, sir," the waiter arrives with his second tonic. "I'll be right back with your food, gentlemen."
"B'der der der der der derm..." Jones resumes humming and absently sips.
Murphy cringes behind the employment broadsheet.
"B'der der der der der derm—'ncha!"
He throws down the paper as Jones breaks quietly into song.
"It's close to midnight, somethin' evil's lurkin' in the dahahark," Jones croaks tunelessly. "Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops your hawaheart..."
Murphy closes his eyes and rubs his temples.
"You try to scream... but terror takes the sound before you make it," his partner continues. "You start to freeze... as horror looks you right between the eyes—you're paralyzed…"
"Here you are gen—" The waiter breaks off in a gasp. Murphy looks up.
"Cause this is thrillaaah! Thrillaah niyght!" Jones belts uninhibitedly in a breathy falsetto, revealing a fresh and quickly bloodying gash across the length of his lower lip. "And no one's gonna save y—"
Murphy quickly seizes Jones's chipped, jagged glass and shakes it accusingly at the mortified waiter.
"I'm terribly sorry, gentleman, I—"
"Sorry like hell!" Murphy breaks in. "Get this man a receptacle—STAT! There's red gold in them thar lips!"
Jones, awakened finally to his lethal neglect by the commotion, lifts a napkin to his mouth.
"Don't be a fool!" Murphy barks, slapping the napkin out of his hand. Jones follows the napkin to the floor, noting the small red stains with terror. "Look, we have what you'd call a 'General Business Opportunity' here," Murphy calmly urges, shoving the want ads across the table.
ZLB Plasma's advertisement is surrounded by dubious offers for piecework and other contingency labor. The pitch is blunt: "Earn $40 Today," underscored by two $20 notes protruding in razor-sharp relief from a denim pocket. Here was genuine blood money. ZLB, with a ghoulish presence in 25 other states, had snapped a tourniquet around this dying metropolis to squeeze from its desperate, etiolated people their very last and most precious resource.
The waiter, panting, slides an empty soup bowl before the wounded reporter. Rivulets forming on his chin, the unflappably punctilious Jones fingers his silverware—unsure into which spoon he is expected to empty his potentially lucrative blood.
"They probably give you cookies, too," Murphy says, snatching the paper. "That looks good on a resume."
The rain turns to hail, stinging their faces. They drive aimlessly uptown and get back on the slick interstate.
"Jesus fucking Christ!" Murphy shrieks as a silver Dodge pickup nearly clips his front bumper. The decal covering the rear window depicts a bald eagle soaring in front of wind-swept Old Glory. 100% hick. The truck peels right and decelerates to exit. The reporters drift by, extending the obligatory highway salute.
"This isn't good," Jones murmurs as the heavily flannelled local squeals rubber across the exit divide back into traffic.
"No," Murphy affirms, spying the gaining madman in the rear-view. "No it's not."
"Give it some gas," orders Jones, swiveling in his seat. "He's right on our ass. I can't get the plate number—someone should know who killed us."
The car tops off at 90, and he's right back on them. "You get it?" Before Jones can answer, Murphy takes his foot off the pedal. The Dodge falls back and lurches forward at ramming speed.
"You don't have the balls, son!" Murphy screams, slowing his roll to 50, 40, 30…
"Oh, Christ," Jones manages as the truck swerves left, speeding beside them. "Does he have a gun?"
The hick shoots a steely glance. The two men smile politely, waiting for a bullet to smash the driver's side window and rip through their brains.
"I'm hit!" Jones squeals. Murphy strokes the intact window and inspects his own body. Nothing.
"What the hell are you talking—" Murphy halts. Jones's blood-filled doggy bag, he sees now, has leaked all over him. "Great, now how are we supposed to afford a hotel room?"
The hick speeds away.
The phone rings at Jake's Lounge in downtown Cleveland's Key Center Marriott hotel. "Uh, how's the election going, Bob?" the tender asks his elder counterpart. "Too early to tell," he parrots into the receiver.
Murphy is draining a Guinness; Jones sips bourbon. To their right, a TV tuned to Fox is running a story about the Clinton campaign darkening Obama's face in an ad. To their left, Howard Dean is yapping about something on CNN. A third television, behind them, replays NFL quarterback Brett Favre's seemingly interminable retirement press conference. This isn't a bar—it's Best Buy with a liquor license. A fourth screen, ahead of them, flashes a commercial for a new video game, "Army of Two," whose cooperative-play characters are mercenaries for hire by private security firms—one of which is called "Black Mountain Industries."
A well-dressed group of businessmen order another round of "Heinie lights" and posture themselves as the dominant pack.
The bartender, Bob, is a smallish fellow with a sunken, John Waters face and a grizzled mustache.
"Did you vote?" Jones asks him.
"Yeah," he says solemnly, fixing his convex eyes and nodding with slow emphasis. "This is an important one."
Jones drops his gaze into his glass and puzzles wordlessly over this distasteful truism, swishing it around with the antiseptic sting of bourbon. This is an important election? It's a common enough sentiment these days. But it's worth noting that implicit in this newfound awareness is the damning corollary torpor that has so devastated the nation. Ohioans, for their part, have suffered not only disproportionate unemployment, but also a high number of military casualties in recent years.
"What do you mean, exactly? Is it because of the economy? The war?"
"All of it," Bob says, his voice quickening with Jones's coaxing. "People are hurting."
"How long has it been like this?" Jones asks.
"About eight years—since 2000," he replies tightly, as if Jones were now frisking his inseam. Bob is either cagily signaling liberal sympathies, or squirming to avoid self-incrimination for his baneful conservatism. His lipless glare indicates further probing is useless.
Eight years. How many arms had ZLB's bloodletters pockmarked during George W. Bush's hemorrhagic tenure? Their glasses dry, Jones and Murphy find themselves distressingly sober. Beyond the window at their backs, against the soft blueness of evening, sleet glows like tracer fire under the streetlamps. Earth's assault no longer daunts them.
They stride through the lobby. Murphy approaches the front desk. Jones orbits the foyer.
"Can I help you?" the desk clerk asks.
"Yeah, how much for a room for one night?"
"The rate is $200."
Murphy winces. He leers across the room at Jones, who is sniffing the scentless potted fernery.
"Do you accept plasma?" he asks the clerk, still fixating on his unsuspecting companion. Jones, ever innocent, meets his malicious gaze with a smile.
"Excuse me?"
"Plasma," Murphy repeats. The desk clerk furrows his brow. "You know, blood!" Concerned guests turn their heads and stare.
"I'm sorry, sir, our policy here at The Marrio—"
"Damn your policy!" Murphy scoffs, turning to collect Jones. "We'll go to a hotel where they appreciate the spirit of human sacrifice!"
The two journos push through the revolving door.
"What was that all about?" Jones asks, clueless.
"Nothing. Forget it."
Outside, a valet is discussing the incoming poll numbers with his coworker. Once again, there had been news reports of voting problems in Ohio. These initial rumors, later verified by the networks, came to the valet from his "cousin in Virginia," who also told him Obama was trailing in Ohio at the moment, but leading in Texas.
"People can't even vote right!" he declaims, smiling wryly and shaking his head. "You don't have to be a rocket scientist—it's 2008!"
"You used an optical scan machine?"
"Touch screens?" Jones asks knowingly, jabbing his finger stupidly at an imaginary console.
The valet had a point about the public's collective ineptitude. But Cuyahoga County, of which Cleveland was a part, had been directed to eliminate the sinisterly inscrutable touch screens at its polling places back in December. This was the first of several conflicting accounts about balloting Murphy and Jones would hear over the next few hours.
Softened by their repeated indulgences and hastening waywardly according to the wind's caprices, it only takes a block or so for their courage to wane. They take refuge inside the Old Stone Church, a designated polling place. Slumped beside the registration table, a rotund policeman offers a captivating demonstration in strength of materials: He is compressing an undersized chair of unfathomable endurance. He sits placidly, his morbid geometry consuming the seat and inflicting a cruel warp on its four legs.
"How's the voting been?" Jones inquires.
"Good," the cop replies flatly. "Pretty steady, actually."
"No problems?"
The cop shakes his head, as if winded by the exchange. It's a provocative question and his reaction might simply be an effort of self-preserving tranquility. He appears as though the slightest excitement could kill him.
Jones waits defiantly for something explicit.
The cop turns away from him with a labored rotation of his pink, ruminant head. "They said on the radio as soon as the ice breaks up to head out to the lakes," he reveals to the campaign volunteer behind him. "There's a lot of walleye around."
Summarily ostracized, Murphy and Jones head back down the stairs, but pause to talk to a woman huddled in the vestibule, as she waits for her husband to pull the car around. She just cast her ballot, she says. She's been voting at the church "since the '04 midterms."
"I've never had a problem here," she says. "But the ballots always look different."
Again, Jones asks about touch screens.
"No, it was a paper ballot."
"Oh. You just fill it out and run it through the machine, right?"
"No, it was just a plain paper ballot. I just handed it in. No machine."
She was brown—in Ohio. One can only presume her votes were counted.
Perched on a barstool, Jones's mood is leavening again with his renewed intoxication. By now, the image of Favre, the outgoing Packers QB, is ubiquitous. Jones half-suspects the cartoonish Uber-rube—who once piously decried the ills of "fancy toothpaste" in a Sensodyne promo—of colluding with McCain to distract people from the Democratic contest. But he no longer cares. Exuberant and emboldened, he taps a middle-aged man in a windbreaker convivially on the shoulder.
"What's the bigger story," he asks, "the election, or Brett Favre's retirement?"
The man strokes his mustache pensively, but stares straight ahead.
"Probably the election," he concedes reluctantly.
The Chop House is buzzing politics and weather.
"It's Tweedledee versus Tweedledumb," a man to their left describes the congressional primary between Dennis Kucinich and his rival.
"Last week it was, like, 80 degrees one day, and tornados and cold the next," boasts the barkeep. Jones is back on his ark. The end is nigh. The end of something.
Two waiters, a dumpy woman and a bald, skeletal man, lean against the bar's end, discussing their votes.
"The thing was barbaric," he says, alluding to an optical scan form. "It was just a folding cardboard sheet—and none of the lines matched up…I felt like an idiot."
Like a pair of slapstick upstarts, Murphy and Jones have graduated to Scotch—the expensive stuff. Their low breeding is shamefully apparent as they order their single malts. "We'll try the, uh, Lagavelin."
"You mean Lahg-a-voolin?" the bartender snaps remedially, impatient with their clumsy pretense.
The pair is doubly graceless, recoiling visibly at their accumulated tab. The sun is down. The sky is now disgorging a cannonade of concussive hail. Restaurant valets are dashing precariously back and forth to the lot across the icy street, shielding their heads with their arms.
"They're crazy, running like that!" the dumpy chick exclaims. "They're gonna fall!" In her insouciance, she can't appreciate the necessity of their rash swiftness. If she had her druthers, they'd work at a deliberate pace; shelled by ice until facedown in the snowdrifts, bleeding from their ears.
"Are you drunk enough to drive?" Jones queries Murphy. "If we're going to make the Clinton rally in Columbus, we should leave now."
Murphy breaks his ice-scraper chipping away at a windshield glacier, and they fishtail onto St. Clair. Traffic lights are out all over town. Cars slide slowly south down Route 71. Nine miles, three wrecks and an hour later, the two reporters give up on Columbus. Marooned near the airport, they settle for Howard Johnson's.
Murphy swallows his last Vicodin and packs his paltry amount of marijuana. He'll need it to endure. They may have escaped the perils of one storm, but the hotel would provide no respite. Election night television coverage would drench them in a filth far more sinister than nature's cold indifference.
9:30pm: Huckabee concedes, quotes bible repeatedly, affirms America's enemies are many and dangerous, the challenges great and that American theocracy is imminent. Or something.
On MSNBC, David Gregory's verbal treacheries continue unchecked. He uses "misnomer" as a synonym for "misconception" and distorts "imprimatur" into "im-PRIMIT-er." Jones takes cover beneath a flimsy blanket.
9:45pm: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell spouts nonsense about Clinton having a better shot against McCain in the general because she's faired well in the big contests and swing states. Chris Matthews threatens Pennsylvania with "seven weeks of thunder!"
11:00pm: This is the end. Rhode Island, Texas and now, Ohio, are being flattened under 5 feet 6 inches of snow-white Hillary.
3:00am: A phone is ringing in the White House. Something is happening in the world. And the Clinton campaign has successfully shifted the campaign focus to national security experience and fear.
3:01am: Senator John McCain weeps tears of joy, sends box of monogrammed chocolates to one "Mark Penn." The card reads: "I love you."
5:00am: Murphy excretes more microorganisms than there are people on earth, casually flushes toilet.
Approximately 2050 AD: Billions die as temperatures and sea levels rise, and violent weather increases. Large swaths of Europe, Asia and the Americas resemble the Sahara. It's your basic planetary shit storm. It happens all the time. Mother Nature's one regular bitch.
Shafts of light penetrate breaches between the skimpy drapes, stirring the reporters to grudging wakefulness.
"We could head back into Cleveland, get some more quotes and—"
"No!" Murphy wails, thrashing about in his bed sheets, his eyes dilated with fear—PTSD from the previous night's drive.
"We'll just get breakfast next door," Jones says evenly. They rise and prepare to trudge across the unstained tundra.
"Hmm…says here that Bob Evans decided to marry his wife when he first tasted her 'fluffy stacks'," Murphy ventures, perusing the menu. "You think that's a euphemism?"
The front of the restaurant is staffed entirely by white women. Men and the darker races occupy the kitchen. Micki, their waitress, is an aging but robust amazon with a Thatcherite coiffure and clenched-teeth reticence. She thunders sternly from booth to booth on her powerful haunches as though management has fitted her puckered thigh with a cilice.
"What did you think of the primary?" Jones asks Micki, as she serves juice and coffee.
"What can I say?" she shrugs. "I'm happy. I voted for Hillary."
She starts back toward the kitchen and Jones, believing she's finished, raises a glass of OJ to his lips. Micki pauses halfway to the galley and turns.
"She's the lesser of two evils, right?" she continues. Jones nods politely and continues sipping. Micki steps closer and, looming with growing menace over the booth, snarls: "Because, to be honest, Barack scares the shit out of me!"
Murphy and Jones swap glances. Jones, normally a gourmet of profanity, is astonished at this unseemliness. Who curses at breakfast?
After eating, Jones pulls Micki aside to inquire what precisely "scares" her about the Illinois senator. He already has a pretty good idea what she's going to say. Just days earlier, "60 Minutes" had broadcast an interview with a cross-section of Ohio voters. Kenny—a drawling, gelatinous and imminently jobless peon from Chillicothe—expressed tentative support for Barack without elaborating. But he fretted over a rumor that Obama is covertly a Muslim who "doesn't even know the national anthem," and "wouldn't use the holy bible" as his spiritual guide in office. Kenny's jowls quaked and his eyes welled with tears as he pondered his grim future: no prospects for reemployment, no healthcare and a wife suffering from multiple sclerosis. He looked like a man who could no longer afford the luxury of his religious fantasies, or the dubious innuendos reinforcing them.
Sure enough, Micki is privy to the same scurrilities. Curiously, she claims Snopes.com had confirmed the Islam rumor and several others. Snopes had indeed listed these rumors on its Obama page—and categorically debunked them.
"He was a Muslim, but he won't admit it," Micki says. "They have whole list on there."
She's on a roll. Jones doesn't wish to interrupt.
"If he'd just come out and said, 'I was [a Muslim], but now I'm not,' that would have been okay. But, he didn't. He said, 'I'm not and I've never been.' Well, that's a lie…I know [he'd be] the first black president. That's fine: I don't care what color they are. But with him being a Muslim, and everything else—it's just too much."
Jones steps outside into the winter blankness. He throws back his head and laughs. Over the past few months, Obama has subjected America to his zombie-like gyrations on "The Ellen Degeneres Show." He has solemnly affirmed his Christian faith—from which it may be inferred that his sexual activity is exclusively and dully procreative (though he's already begun disavowing his pastor's less expedient preaching). And he's sloughed off the impoverished subjects of Israeli apartheid in Gaza, intoning the obligatory and superfluous nonsense about the colonialists' "right to exist." No radical Islamic fifth columnist could likely endure these degradations; nor, for that matter, share a stage with Degeneres without detonating a suicide bomb. Besides, these odious exertions haven't placated the nation's staunchly bigoted constituencies. Obama has been wasting his time—and ours.
He has exuded a cautious and amorphous persona, encouraging voters to invest him with their discrepant aspirations. Consequently, the exultation of his supporters—from congressmen to pop stars—is a largely incoherent excitement. His lilting enchantments about "hope" substitute for genuine political courage, belittling the urgency for resolute leadership. Aggrandized by twelve straight primary and caucus victories, he arrived in Ohio a ponderously cultish figure. There, Obama bestrode the rubble of NAFTA like a dickless Colossus: moderating his attack on free trade, eschewing populist rhetoric in a sop to his corporate underwriters.
A piece in the March 5 Cleveland Plain Dealer cited AP exit polls indicating 20% of Ohio's voters had considered race an important factor in their decisions. "In no other primary in this campaign have such a high percentage of voters cited race as a critical factor," the article stated. Analysts chalked this up not only to hardcore racists, but also to Republican men opting to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic contest, viewing her as the weaker general election opponent. Obama lost Ohio 54% to 44%. His defeat, they argued, was mostly about his inability to counter the Clinton juggernaut. Ohioans, according to pollsters, "wondered who Obama was."
The cretinous and masochistic masses in Ohio, then, voted for a reprise of the Clinton years. Nostalgic for the economic vampirism of Bill Clinton, workers and unions turned their cheeks on his NAFTA betrayal and offered up their throats to Hillary for a matching set of fang marks. As CounterPunch noted, Obama failed to make the "full case" on what the Clintons' policies have done to working people. He fell back on narcotizing incantations and Ohio's walking dead went for the candidate with ice in her veins.
The chilling events of election night mark the last meaningful contest of the 2008 Democratic primary. It's now a mathematical impossibility for either candidate to secure the nomination without the backing of the "super" delegates. This was the winter of our disenfranchisement. And other clichés.
By 2040, some scientists estimate that 80% of earth's species will be gone. There's too much carbon in the atmosphere. Erratic and extreme weather will kill billions of people. And there's not a damn thing we can do about it. There are no arks that large.
During these reporters' stint in Cleveland, one driver was killed and four more succumbed while shoveling snow. It's a start.
Elitist maggots colonize democracy's bloated corpse. The politics of prejudice and fear precipitate the end of reason. The dusk of human civilization is at hand. A bold, new breed of citizen will evolve in this hopeless environment. Ones with new abilities; ones sufficiently ignorant to maintain the brutal folly of life.
Paying the tab, Murphy glimpses this grim future: "I don't know enough to vote," admits the plump, blonde cashier. "I don't want to put someone in office just because I like their name or face."
"That doesn't stop anyone else."
"Um, are you sure?" she blushes.
"More now than ever."
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Some girls can't resist an older man, but no man can resist an 18+ teenage girl. With her tender, smooth, perfect body and tight pussy, it's every over-40-year-old man's dream to be able to show a young girl what it is to be fucked hard and good by a real man. Young Pussies & Mature Cocks has five cute, horny young sluts who want to show these older men that they know how to please a man by letting him do whatever he wants to her, even anal for the first time. Starring the fresh new talent Madison Parker and friends, this movie is so hot it will take years off you.
Movies: Young & Tasty 6


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For a mother like no other
For scrumptious, strawberry-scented showers
Take a journey in the tub
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Get up every morning with a smile on your face
Bathtime motion pictures
Sunny tangerine suds
Transform your bath into a mystical forest
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Citrusy sunshine
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