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“Tough Babe” Grandmother Punches Bear in Face During Attack

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“Tough Babe” Grandmother Punches Bear in Face During Attack

For all the good things about bears, like their ability to dance and ride on top of garbage trucks for five miles, it’s important to remember that they are wild, unpredictable animals that you should steer clear of if at all possible. But if you do happen upon one in the wild and it attacks you, you should try to be like 63-year-old Karen Osborne, who repeatedly punched the bear in the face.

NBC Washington reports that Osborne was walking her daughter’s dog Wednesday night when, because of how dark it was, she inadvertently walked between a bear and her cubs. The bear attacked, causing Osborne to instinctively fight back.

“She said she punched him in the face a couple times,” her husband, Ronald Osborne, said. “She’s a tough babe.”

Osborne then decided, smartly, that she was better off lying still and pretending to be dead.

“She went into a fetal position and called 911 laying there,” Paul Peditto with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources told NBC Washington. “At that point, the bear probably realized the threat to her cubs had subsided.”

The bear eventually left Osborne alone and returned to the woods. But unfortunately, she was tracked and euthanized, as is standard DNR protocol for a bear that has attacked a human.

“She’s been in the area forever. We all kind of love her,” Osborne’s daughter, Tara Snuffin, said. “We’re all very sad that this had to happen this way.”

As for Osborne, she suffered a broken arm and received 60 stitches for a cut to her head. She’s currently listed as in good condition.

If this story is too sad for you, please remember that Otis, a 1,000 pound Grizzly better known as the “Fat Bear Champion of Alaska,” is chilling somewhere up north right now, waiting lazily by a river for his dinner to swim past.

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5 Uncommon Thanksgiving Traditions To Try This Year

Brendan Bures
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5 Uncommon Thanksgiving Traditions To Try This Year

Thanksgiving is the simplest of fall holidays. Unlike Halloween, you don’t have to create some elaborate, creative costume that references pop culture in a sly way. You don’t have to worry about your celebration will reflect on social media. Here’s five uncommon Thanksgiving traditions to celebrate this year because, well, why not?

Regardless of your culture and background, December also invokes pressure: the pressure to stay for long periods of time together, the pressure to give stellar gifts, the pressure of capitalistic importance.

Thanksgiving is short and sweet. No one (really) expects you to stay through the weekend. A three-day visit is usually good enough. All that is required is you show up, drink, and eat. Perhaps you throw and/or watch football. Or you play card games. It’s all so simple.

That being said, what’s wonderful about our country is that we are so different. No one celebrates a holiday in the exact same way, and that includes Thanksgiving. Dig deep enough and you realize these outliers are what should be rejoiced. So we’re doing exactly that with some of the most uncommon, out-there traditions you’ll find on Thanksgiving.

Pie Night

So your eyes were bigger than your stomach and you packed your plate with turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, mac and cheese, and everything wonderful in between. This being Thanksgiving, you returned to your savage ways, and ate it all anyways.

But his presents a quandary of sorts: You’re too stuffed for dessert. Most push through the pain anyways, but what if you could enjoy the delicious desserts and pies in peace?

Meet Pie Night, celebrated on the Monday night before Thanksgiving. This tradition comes courtesy of The Single Dad Laughing blog. Here’s how it works: The extended family, i.e. most of the guest you’d see on Thanksgiving, comes over with all the pies they’d cook anyways and everyone chows down. Enjoy your sweets in peace.

Leftover Calzone

Sick of turkey sandwiches after Thanksgiving? Understandable. So why not get creative like this dad did, throwing it all together in a calzone and baking it. Forget the marinara. Drizzle gravy all over this creation.

Go Fancy, Like Joan Rivers

That’s what the late, great Joan Rivers did anyways. Instead of the more typical fare you’d eat during Thanksgiving, Rivers catered a 23-course meal full of treats and delicacies alike.

Here’s some of the dishes as described by Redbook: “five appetizers (such as caramelized-onion-and-goat-cheese tarts), first-course pasta (pumpkin tortellini), pumpkin soup (served in a carved-out pumpkin), roast turkey, smoked ham, six sides, and six desserts.”

Turducken

Is one bird not good enough for you? What about a bird inside of a bird inside of a bird? That’s how you get a turducken. A deboned chicken inside a deboned duck inside a deboned turkey.

And if you really want to get crazy, you stuff all that inside a pig.

Get Multicultural

Why subjugate ourselves to the same dishes year after year? Why not experiment, try something different?

Mashable has a great guide on how to incorporate dishes from around the world into your typical Thanksgiving fare. Add some kimchi mac and cheese or an antipasto dish to change up your Thanksgiving this year.

 

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Watch This Guy Chug A Gallon Of Pumpkin Spice Latte In Under Two Minutes

Amy Hansen
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Watch This Guy Chug A Gallon Of Pumpkin Spice Latte In Under Two Minutes

Do you love pumpkin spice lattes as much as Matt Stonie?

Probably not.

The 24-year old competitive eater from San Jose just showed us all up by drinking seven Venit-sized Starbucks PSLs. That’s more than a gallon of liquid. Oh, and he topped it all off with an entire can of whipped cream.

Stonie admits the whopping caffeine content makes this one of his most dangerous eating challenges. And this is a guy who tackled an 11,000 calorie ice cream sundae.

Let’s do the math.

There are 89 mg of caffeine per Starbucks espresso shot. There are three shots of espresso per Venti-sized Starbucks latte. That’s a total of 267 mg per drink for a grand total of 1,869 mg in Stonie’s giant pumpkin spice latte. For comparison, the Mayo Clinic pegs 400 mg of caffeine per day as “safe”.

Here’s Mr. Stonie assembling the World’s Largest Pumpkin Spice Latte. And drinking it.

 

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Cool Cats: 10 Kitties That Are Over It And Ready For Winter

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Cool Cats: 10 Kitties That Are Over It And Ready For Winter

As we’re entering the fall and getting ready for the holidays and festivities, you can start acclimating yourself with this adorable list of happy (mostly unhappy, actually) cats that are wearing the coziest sweaters known to catkind. You’re welcome.

The Over It Cat

Cleo in Cat Sweater

This cat doesn’t look like a sweater lover but that doesn’t make this picture any less cute. In fact, it makes it cuter.

Santa’s Little Helper

Krammer's Christmas Sweater

Conversely, this cat seems to be more comfortable with the holidays., and is rocking that red sweater.

The Cool Cat

Charlie Gentlecat

This cat looks right at home, like he could set the table for the Thanksgiving meal and make the toast before dinner.

Grouchy Green Cat

the christmas sweater is back.

Is that the Grinch?

Super-Grouchy Green Cat

No, this is the Grinch.

The Kitty Thinker


This thoughtful cat is the picture of fall. We can almost hear the leaves crackling.

Sweet Kitty Meow Meow


This is a present we’d all love to unwrap.

Twinsie Cats!


What’s better than a cat wearing a sweater? Two cats wearing sweaters!

The Furbaby Cat

Don’t. Ask. ? #sphynxcat #sphynxlair #sphynxswag #catsofinstagram #cats_of_instagram #catsweater #funny

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Killing it with that onesie.

Professor SkinMeow II

The Lord of Cat Town #sphynx #catsweater #americanapparel #Lordsofgastown @lordsofgastown @cats_of_instagram

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Creed II, anyone?

Live From The Fresh Toast Stage: Stoneface Honey

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Live From The Fresh Toast Stage: Stoneface Honey


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Stoneface Honey is a Portland based roots-rock / indie-pop band led by singer Angie Kopshy. Stoneface Honey’s music features a duo of female vocal harmonies backed by organ, synth, guitar, electric bass, drums, cello, clarinet and violin. After a successful kickstarter campaign, Stoneface Honey began recording their latest album Long Time Waiting with producer/engineer Charles Neal of Hip Stew Studios. Dana White at Specialized Mastering handled the album’s finishing touches.
 
Long Time Waiting will debut on CD Baby plus all major streaming and download retailers November 4th while the band will celebrate the album’s release the same night with a live show at 10pm at The Secret Society, a 1907 Victorian-era hall come live music venue in Portland, Oregon. CDs of the album will be available for purchase at the event for 10 dollars.
 
“When conceptualizing this album, I embraced my band’s individual talents and collective strength rather than creating everything myself. The songs are a blend of their creativity and my perspective,” shares Angie Kopshy. “Every song on this album is personal to someone, to me, to the band. I know each listener has their own journey and perspective as well. This album is all about how we relate to one another.”
 
Frontwoman Angie Kopshy is the founder and director of Music Therapy Services of Portland. She holds a Master in Music from Boise State University with additional training in both neurologic music therapy and autism. Kopshy’s music therapy practice focuses on children living along the autism spectrum. She educates both the local and international community on the positive effects of music therapy in treating the physical, mental, social and emotional conditions related to child autism. Kopshy’s initiatives have reached children in the U.S., Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Uganda. Kopshy is also co-founder of The Cross-Cultural Music Therapy Foundation, a collective that travels internationally to educate people on the benefits of music therapy. The GMTP plans to release a documentary along with the creation of multiple music therapy centers around the globe. Kopshy also has a decades-long collection of songs, poems and short storiesavailable for sale on Amazon.
You can preview and share Stoneface Honey’s first single Beguiled off of Long Time Waiting here:
Here’s the video for Beguiled:
 
Stoneface Honey Upcoming Live Shows:
11/04 The Secret Society (CD Release Party) 10pm
 
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What Track And Trace Will Mean For Your Legal California Marijuana

Caitlin Murphy
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What Track And Trace Will Mean For Your Legal California Marijuana

We can all celebrate: Legal California marijuana, is now a reality following a successful vote on Proposition 64. Now it’s time for the real work.

Leading up to January 1st, 2018–mark your calendars–the day when legal recreational cannabis will begin being sold in retail locations to persons 21 and over in the state, California has a lot to do in order to make it work. One of those considerations will be Track and Trace systems, which track cannabis from seed to plant to dispensary to sale.

Don’t Get Twitchy

While some might get a little paranoid about such a tracking system, it’s pretty useful for legal regulation, and it’s also pretty cool: you can know the history of your bud, and it allows the consumer to know they’re getting what they’re paying for. If you’ve ever gone down the rabbit hole of wondering where your herb come from and whether or not it’s pesticide free: now you can know for sure.

Track and Trace also helps avoid the high likelihood of product being diverted to the thriving black market in states that do not yet have legalized bud. Sorry, everyone who has ever boasted that their dealer had the “good medical grade shit from California,” since that may no longer be as likely. While many smokers have likely lived under criminalization, this kind of tracking is important; following the rules is crucial as this great experiment commences in order to convince more skeptical states.

This is, understandably, a bureaucratic nightmare if you don’t already know what you’re doing. Other states including New Mexico, Illinois, New York, Hawaii, and Washington have jumped that hurdle by putting their track and trace needs into the hands of someone else, BioTrackTHC, which operates on both business and government levels with an all-in-one package that handles cultivation management, inventory, includes a point of sale system, and gives users analytics on sales trends, inventory, and shipment management.

Tracking Can Be Good For Everyone

They’re pretty smart for it, too. With experience in prescription drug and methamphetamine tracking, they know how to work with the government and law enforcement to keep everything in line, and with the boom in medical and legalized states, there’s definitely a need and many state legislatures are going to want something that’s tried and true. BioTrackTHC is apparently the person for the job, and already holding a government contract in Arcata, California, they’re probably crossing their fingers that the state will give them a tap on the shoulder as well.

California isn’t the only state to legalize recreational this past election day, either: Massachusetts, Maine and Nevada also voted to legalize recreational cannabis use in their states. With more states adopting medical marijuana and now eight states with recreational and many more with decriminalized marijuana, it feels like a tipping point in how the country views the issue into one that is not just a “hippie west coast” thing. Cannabis is increasingly rebranding itself both as a medicine and a legitimate recreational hobby.

One good insight into this was how Florida voted on legalizing medical use in the recent elections: 49 percent voted Trump and 48 percent voted Hillary, while a whopping 71 percent voted to approve Amendment 2, their first comprehensive medical marijuana legislation. It’s incredibly likely that the rest of the country will continue to overwhelmingly follow suit.

With the legalization of both recreational and medical marijuana no longer being such a “niche” issue, we can only presume that track and trace systems and others that streamline the industry will become more in demand. I think we can all hit our bongs, warm up our vapes, eat a cookie, and light a joint to that.  

Really Needed A Slice: Naked On Camera Breaking Into Pizza Parlor

Taylor Berman
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Really Needed A Slice: Naked On Camera Breaking Into Pizza Parlor

Police in Towson, Maryland are desperately trying to catch a man who last week broke into a pizza parlor, stripped off his clothes, and then took money from the restaurant’s cash registers.

Fox 5 DC reports the nude pizza crime took place just before dawn on November 10, when a still unidentified man broke into Towson’s Slice Pizza through a roof vent and—for reasons that remain unknown (maybe he wanted to avoid getting pizza sauce on himself?)—took off his clothes. From the Baltimore County Police & Fire Facebook page:

The investigation has indicated that around 6 a.m. on November 10, the suspect entered the Slice Pizza restaurant in the Unit block of West Pennsylvania Avenue through a roof vent. After entering the store, the suspect took his clothes off then damaged a vent hood and several registers. He took cash from the registers before running form the store.

Images of the suspect were captured on the store’s video surveillance system.

So if you live in Towson and see a naked man with a bunch of cash that looks like it came from a pizza parlor, call the police and, uh, then maybe hide somewhere.

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Pay for Marijuana Without Using Cash? CanPay Is An App For That

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Pay for Marijuana Without Using Cash? CanPay Is An App For That

If you’re lucky enough to live in a state where marijuana is legal, walking into a well-lit, clean retail store and buying a few grams of cannabis and maybe an edible is so, well, civilized and convenient. But the cash-only model is an outdated drawback.

Today, CanPay has launched the first debit payment solution for cannabis shoppers.

On the heels of eight states legalizing recreational or medicinal cannabis last week, Colorado-based CanPay is the only legitimate and stable debit payment solution for merchants legalized marijuana markets. CanPay is currently available in 15 retail locations across Washington and Colorado. Oregon is next on the company’s list of states.

Easier Than Ever To Purchase Marijuana

Even as more and more states legalize marijuana use, the banking system has been reluctant to participate in the industry.  Since the federal government still considers cannabis an illegal Schedule I drug, financial institutions refrain from servicing the industry for fear of hefty fines.  So cash is king at marijuana stores.

“CanPay is the future of payments for emerging industries, and is quickly becoming the preferred method of payment for cannabis businesses and banking institutions alike,” said Dustin Eide, CEO of CanPay. “As more and more states move to legalize medical and recreational cannabis within their borders, the time has come for a legitimate payment solution. With regulations being determined across the newly approved states, we will be expanding CanPay into each market in partnership with those institutions offering compliant banking to cannabis retailers.”

Consumers using CanPay will no longer need to carry large sums of cash into a store or use an ATM where the average fee is nearly $5 per cash withdrawal. Both merchants and consumers benefit from the ability of the consumer to decide what they are going to buy at checkout rather than predetermining their spending limit based on the cash in their wallet.

“CanPay offers us a quicker, more secure way of doing business while reducing the costs and hassles of cash.,” said Tim Cullen, Owner of Colorado Harvest Company in Denver, who has deployed CanPay in three retail locations throughout the state. “It’s not an exaggeration to say that cannabis businesses face a huge array of challenges that other industries don’t even need to consider. CanPay solves one of these pain points for us as a business, further enabling us deliver on our commitment to a great in-store customer experience by offering a highly-sought after alternative to cash that is free for our customers to use.”

Some of CanPay’s features:

  • It’s Fee Free: No “convenience” or other fees when you make a purchase.
  • It’s Convenient: No pre-planning to get cash or waiting in ATM lines.
  • It’s Safer: No cash to lose.
  • It’s Secure: Cutting-edge security means only you can make purchases with your account.
  • It’s Simple: Just generate a unique payment PIN in your CanPay app and you’re ready to make a purchase.
  • It’s Debit: A debit is made to your checking account in the exact amount of your purchase.

The CanPay App is available for both Apple and Android users by visiting here while on a mobile device.

Liquid Kitchen® Presents: Maple Bourbon Old Fashioned

Kathy Casey
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Liquid Kitchen® Presents: Maple Bourbon Old Fashioned

It’s getting cold outside, which means it’s the perfect time of year for spirit-forward sips! I am talking about those cocktails that are stirred rather than shaken. These aren’t meant to be gulped in a rush but rather sipped and savored with good company over long conversations. If you like Old Fashioneds (or are just discovering them for the first time), try switching up the sweetener with Real Maple Syrup for a wonderful fall flavor. Want to go a step further? Infuse your favorite aromatic bitters by adding a piece of cinnamon stick and an orange peel strip – let sit at least 24 hours — and voilà! — a super spiced bitters, customized for the season. So stir up that cocktail tonight and try to stay warm will ya?

Maple Bourbon Old Fashioned

  • 2 ounces bourbon
  • ½  ounces REAL maple syrup
  • 1 dash of your favorite bitters or switch it up with 2 types like
  • Bitter Truth Orange Bitters and Bitter Truth Creole Bitters
  • Garnish: fat orange peel disk

Measure bourbon, maple syrup and bitters into a mixing glass. Fill 3/4 with ice and stir swiftly for 20 seconds. Strain over fresh ice in an Old Fashioned glass. Express orange peel over the drink to release the oils, twist and add to drink.

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Kathy Casey is a chef, mixologist, and is known as the Original Bar Chef. Her newest book is D’Llish Deviled Eggs, which is a great accompaniment to any cocktail. Follow Kathy on Twitter and Instagram. For more great cocktail recipes, visit www.LiquidKitchen.com.

3 Cool A.I. Experiments That Probably Won’t End Of The World

Brendan Bures
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3 Cool A.I. Experiments That Probably Won’t End Of The World

When we envision artificial intelligence, we tend to go 0 to 100 real quick. Any basic machine learning inevitably leads to worried visions of Terminator or Matrix or “Black Mirror” future realities. In some ways this is fair. We should steel ourselves from this happening. But Google A.I. Experiments are much less end-of-worldy and more super cool.

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But A.I. doesn’t always have to be so doomsday. Imagine being alone in a different country where you don’t speak the language. You peruse the market, and find a delicious-looking Bartlett pear. How do you communicate the purchase of such an item when you can’t speak the language?

These Machines Are Here To Help (Don’t Panic)

This is an A.I. experiment called Thing Translator. It’s part of Google’s A.I. Experiments program featuring open-source projects that help coding newcomers and experts alike tinker and play with machine learning. As seen above, Thing Translator allows users to take a picture of a thing, like our hypothetical Bartlett pear, and translate it into various languages, sounding out pronunciation and displaying the written form of the word.

Another component of Google’s A.I. experiments has to do with sound. For human ears and brains, sound is a deeply complex and robust experience. Think of music. How many times have you heard something you’d qualify as percussion? A booming bass or a baseball bat ding or a high-hat rhythm. How would you describe the difference between these sounds? Furthermore, how would you organize them into searchable and similar categories?

Turns out machines are very good at this. The above experiment feeds hundreds of drum machine sounds into a computer without any indication or hints of what they are. To the computer, it’s just a conglomerate of sounds. But it can then cluster sounds that are similar together and organize them into a color-coordinated scatter plot through a process called t-SNE.

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Most of these Google A.I experiments are simple, typically reducing data into a visualized component or vice versa. Be sure to check them all out, they’re certainly worth your time. Hopefully you won’t feel too much like you’re living in The Matrix while playing around with them.

 

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