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Not bad, man. I'm sure folks could use these as they look pretty good.
I've never been very good at hand-drawing, so I'm not sure if anyone will actually use these, but since I'd made brushes out of them anyway for my current map, I figured I'd share
There are three brush pipes in the zip file, set to random. Tree Pipe - Boreal has the five trees on the top in the image below, Tree Pipe - Deciduous has the bottom five, and Tree Pipe - Mixed has all 10.
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Not bad, man. I'm sure folks could use these as they look pretty good.
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Yep, I'll probably use these in an upcoming map.
Cool! Glad they may get some use
I need something like this, but I'd prefer an isometric perspective.
An, if someone has ever seen something like that, a brush or icon that depicts a tree where elves would live (like the ones in Lord of the rings, not fearies or pixies ). Since I'm not a good drawer myself I'm desperate to find something somewhere...
Yeah there are. Somewhere in this forum. Try searching for "handdrawn trees". You should find some.
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For those of us who are GIMP-users... has someone developed a tutorial on building Brush-Pipes?
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I could do that. Will nail it down later, if no one beats me to it.
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Hmm, missed those posts during my hiatus. There's already a great tutorial for making pipes on the gimp site: http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Custom_Brushes/
Adding some hills and mountains in the same style; these brushes are filled with white (only in the actual brush part), so that they cover any stamps behind them. I'll be using them in my upcoming hand-drawn map tut.
Last edited by Gidde; 06-04-2010 at 02:57 PM. Reason: Added a brush.
very nice Gidde - have some rep with my mace of ok repping +3
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For the second time in three years, a Catholic priest has been pulled from parish duties from out of state and returned to Greater Cincinnati following allegations of sexual abuse.
The Rev. Robert F. Poandl was relieved of his ministry assignment as pastor of Glenmary missions in Georgia earlier this month and ordered to return to the Glenmary Home Missioners residence in Fairfield.
The action was taken after the Rev. Chet Artysiewicz, Glenmary president, was informed of an allegation of sexual misconduct involving a minor against Poandl. The abuse allegedly occurred about 30 years ago. Poandl, who is 70, has denied the allegation but isn't allowed to publicly function as a Catholic priest during the investigation process, Artysiewicz said.
Artysiewicz is Poandl's direct supervisor.
Police have been notified of the anonymous allegation, as have bishops in the dioceses affected by the investigation, including the Diocese of Savannah where Poandl was serving. The chairperson of the Glenmary Review Board was notified on Feb. 11, and an internal investigation was launched to determine the allegation's credibility.
"I am committed to maintaining accountability and transparency as this investigative process unfolds," Artysiewicz said in a prepared statement. "Father Poandl and I have both pledged our full cooperation in this investigation, and I will do whatever I can to meet the pastoral needs of all those involved."
In August 2010, just days before his trial on molestation charges in West Virginia was set to begin, all charges against Poandl were dropped. Poandl allegedly abused a boy on a trip there in 1991, when the complainant was just 10 years old. The case was dropped due to unspecified issues during the discovery process related to the boy's medical records.
The turn of events prompted the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) to write to 11 bishops in dioceses where Poandl worked, asking them to use their resources to contact others who might have been sexually abused by him, but only one in Texas replied.
Besides Cincinnati, Poandl worked in Kentucky (Franklin), Louisiana (New Orleans), Pennsylvania (Mifflintown and Doylesburg), Mississippi (Aberdeen), Oklahoma (Hugo), Texas (Pittsburgh and Mount Vernon), and most recently in Georgia (Claxton, Pembroke, Sandhill, Blairsville and Dahlonega).
He is originally from Metuchen, N.J., and studied in Ohio, Indiana and Mexico.
After the most recent allegation, SNAP has urged Artysiewicz to put Poandl in a secure treatment center away from children and pro-actively seek out others who may have seen, suspected or suffered from his alleged crimes.
In other news of possible priestly misconduct, jury selection continued today in a Philadelphia case involving two priests charged with rape and a monsignor charged with protecting them.
Monsignor William Lynn lost a bid to have his case thrown out based on new evidence found in a 10th-floor safe at the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. A memo turned over by the archdiocese this month states the late Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua ordered his top aides to shred a list of 35 accused priests still in ministry in 1994 — a decade before the child abuse scandal became widely publicized.
Lynn said he prepared the list and gave it to Bevilacqua after he became secretary for clergy in 1992 and started reviewing secret archives of priest abuse complaints. The complaints were kept in a secure room, rigged with an alarm, at the archdiocese's downtown headquarters.
A ruling that resulted in a temporary halt in Ohio executions last week means there are 148 inmates on Ohio's death row with uncertain futures. Ohio's death penalty is currently under scrutiny, largely due to opposition that's been raised from documented failures to follow protocol in state executions.
In January, Federal District Court Judge Gregory Frost of Newark, Ohio halted condemned murderer Charles Lorraine's Ohio execution because Ohio has allegedly demonstrated problems over the last several months upholding the execution protocol the state put in place itself in 1981. On Feb. 8, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Frost's decision, saying that because Ohio had been proven to stray from its own execution policies, it couldn't be trusted to carry out Lorraine's execution or any other death sentences. The next execution in Ohio is scheduled for April.
Frost is one of several advocating for the abandonment on Ohio's death penalty. "For close to eight years, the Court has dealt with inmate challenges to the constitutionality of Ohio's execution protocol. During that time, the litigation has morphed from focusing primarily on allegations of cruel and unusual punishment to allegations of equal protection violations. Ohio has been in a dubious cycle of defending often indefensible conduct, subsequently reforming its protocol when called on that conduct, and then failing to follow through on its own reforms," said Frost in his written opinion.
He goes on to describe instances in which state agents lied to the Court concerning state executions, expressing frustration about the state's lack of commitment to constitutional execution. "No judge is a micro-manager of executions and no judge wants to find himself mired in the ongoing litigation in which he must continually babysit the parties," said Frost.
That's just a piece of it; there are other judicial bigwigs hoping to have Ohio's death penalty overturned, including Senior Associate Justice for the Ohio Supreme Court Paul Pfiefer, who helped write Ohio's death penalty law when he was a state senator more than 30 years ago. According to Pfeifer, he's changed his mind because he sees the option of life without the possibility of parole more moral and socially beneficial.
Evidently, most of the deviations from the execution regulations were minor paperwork technicalities. Huffington Post reports the errors included switching the official whose job it was to announce the start and finish times of the lethal injection and not properly documenting that the inmate's medical records were reviewed.
Those in support of the hold, however, make another point. Controlling life and death is the most important power the state of Ohio holds; if it can't follow minor rules that it set for itself, who's to say there won't be larger, more detrimental errors in the future?
It's difficult to tell whether or not Ohio will just get a slap on the wrist for its slip-ups or if reform will be seriously considered. The death penalty has almost always been a part of Ohio's history, since it became a state in 1803. Ohio ranked third in the U.S. for executions among the 34 states that have the death penalty in 2011.
Listen to Paul Pfeifer and hear more about the controversy on The Sound of Ideas radio program below.
You poison one little French farmer and all hell breaks loose. Giant chemical-maker Monsanto yesterday announced it plans to appeal a Monday ruling that one of its herbicides in 2004 poisoned French farmer Paul Francois, who says inhaling a Monsanto weedkiller led to "memory loss, headaches and stammering"(coincidentally, these are the same symptoms of the accidental hangover™).
In addition to the French farmer being pissed enough at the company for giving him a hangover when he was trying to work his farmland, there are about a million other people officially declaring themselves as against Monsanto via "Millions Against Monsanto," an organic consumers association that campaigns for "health, justice, sustainability, peace and democracy." If you accept the possibility of Monsanto obstructing even a majority of these five concepts, it's easy to believe the company has enemies from a lot of different backgrounds.
That's why Monday's ruling by a French court finding Monsanto legally responsible for poisoning Francois and ordering it to compensate him has enlivened a bunch of angry activists.
Millions Against
Monsanto offers a wealth of content documenting the agricultural
biotechnology corporation's government ties, tendencies to take
small dairies to court, refusal to compensate veterans for Agent
Orange and getting their nasty chemicals in normal people's water
supplies. (Wikipedia is hilariously filled with references to things like dumping toxic waste in the UK, Indonesian bribing convictions and fines for false advertising.) Even 'ol boy Obama has gotten caught up in the mix with
charts like this one circulating on Facebook:
The latest news out of Millions Against Monsanto is the moving forward of a California ballot initiative to require mandatory GMO labeling that polls show has 80 percent support. According to the site:
"A win for the California Initiative would be a huge blow to biotech and a huge victory for food activists. Monsanto and their minions have billions invested in GMOs and they are willing to spend millions to defeat this initiative. California is the 8th largest economy in the world. Labeling laws in CA will affect packaging and ingredient decisions nation-wide. The bill has been carefully written to ensure that it will not increase costs to consumers or producers."
Back in France, our
friendly farmer will have to wait a while for whatever compensation
poisoning amounts to, as Monsanto says it will appeal the ruling.
According to The Washington Post: Monsanto spokesman Tom Helscher
says the company does not think there is "sufficient data" to
demonstrate a link between the use of Lasso herbicide and the
symptoms Francois reported.
"We do not agree any injury was accidentally caused nor did the company intentionally permit injury," Helscher said. "Lasso herbicide was ... successfully used by farmers on millions of hectares around the world."
A prominent Republican congressman is under investigation for insider trading. U.S. Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.), who heads the House Financial Services Committee, is being probed by the Office of Congressional Ethics for making suspicious trades and buying certain stock options while helping oversee the nation's banking and financial services industries.
Mitt Romney won a sizable victory in Tuesday's Florida primary, capturing 46.4 percent of the vote to Newt Gingrich's 31.9 percent. In all, Romney got 240,548 more votes than the ex-House Speaker.
"The size and breadth of Romney's win provide the first real evidence that he has the potential to coalesce a party that has been deeply split …" wrote Karen Tumulty in an analysis for The Washington Post.
A resident has filed a complaint with the city's Law Department, alleging that Christopher Smitherman's dual role as a Cincinnati city councilman and president of the NAACP's local chapter constitutes an abuse of corporate powers.
In his complaint, resident Casey Coston states that the NAACP's status as a 501(c)(4) organization under the federal tax code allows it to lobby City Hall and participate in political campaigns and elections without jeopardizing its tax-exempt status. Such activities are a conflict of interest with Smitherman's council duties, Coston alleges.
Anyone who knows me well can tell you that I'm a total Internet junkie. I spend a lot of my free time online, browsing various sites like Youtube, chatting in forums with friends and otherwise killing time. As of late, though, one particular subject seems to have pushed itself into the forefront of internet denizens everywhere. That is, SOPA, or the Stop Online Piracy Act, a censorship bill which was proposed by the US House of Representatives on Oct. 26, 2011. It's created quite a buzz online, and with all the people talking about it and what it supposedly proposes, it's hard to get one's facts straight. Friends of mine claim that the government's trying to censor the internet, block access to certain sites - that SOPA will cripple the World Wide Web as we know it.
A longtime campaign consultant has decided to jump into politics himself. Jeff Cramerding announced today that he will seek the Democratic nomination to run for Hamilton County treasurer next year.
Cramerding, 38, of Price Hill, is a local attorney who has served as a consultant to numerous area politicians, mostly Democrats and Charterites. They include Denise Driehaus, David Pepper, Jody Luebbers and Chris Bortz.


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here is my problem:
- All my users are on the same domain : foo.com
- Some of my users are managed by an open source linux system (exim+ldap+courrierimap :SERV1) and others by a Microsoft Exchange Server (SERV2).
The first thing i want to do is replaced SERV1 by Zimbra OSS.
I've migrated all the users from SERV1 to zimbra without any problem.All works perfectly except when I try to write to users who are located on SERV2. Zimbra doesn't know the users and refuse to send mail. I've tried to add "luser_relay = $mailbox@SERV2" in postfix configuration but without success.
Any ideas ?
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Islam 101?
Religion | Parents, pundits, and pedagogues battle over New York's Arabic school
"Islam 101?" Continued...
BROOKLYN, N.Y.- Most students starting middle school face problems like pimples and algebra. But when sixth-grader Noor Hasne walked into Khalil Gibran International Academy (KGIA) for the first time on Sept. 4, she faced reporters, uniformed security guards, and the opposition of a 500-strong grassroots coalition.
Amal Hasne, a pregnant mom trailed by a toddler and wearing the traditional Muslim headscarf, said she enrolled her daughter in the public school because it teaches Arabic, a language she wants Noor to learn and pass on to her own daughters. But KGIA's critics, including the "Stop the Madrassa" coalition, say that the school will teach not just Arabic but the Islamic religion as well.
KGIA is located in a Brooklyn neighborhood with a high Muslim population, just down the street from a Chinese restaurant that serves cuisine approved by Muslim religious law. The school is starting with 57 sixth-graders and plans to add a grade each year on the way to becoming a 6-12 school. According to its Executive Summary, the school's primary focus is "learning about the richness and diversity of Arab culture and history," including "the history, culture and official language of the Arab Nations."
"Stop the Madrassa" members ask why the Summary mentions only one culture. Pamela Hall, Stop the Madrassa board member, said her group fears the school will teach only Islam, ignoring Arabic-speaking religious groups like Coptic Christians, Maronite Christians, and Sephardic Jews: "Please tell us how they're going to talk and teach about the rest of the Middle East." Melody Meyer, spokesperson for the New York City Department of Education, said any accusation of political or religious indoctrination is "absolutely false."
Frank Gaffney, president of the Washington-based Center for Security Policy, says the school has not provided the information citizens need to judge for themselves. In a Stop the Madrassa press conference, Gaffney asked, "Who are the teachers? What are the textbooks? Who will be providing the after-school program?" Stop the Madrassa has filed four Freedom of Information Law requests, asking that the school supply details.
KGIA has stated that students will take classes in the Arabic language, Arabic visual arts, and Arabic music. History classes will focus on Arab-American contributions to American history. Michigan State University is helping the school craft its Arabic-language curriculum, not yet in place.
That curriculum is a red flag for Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum, who told WORLD that a school can teach Arabic objectively only by "rigorously controlling for political and religious pressures, making sure that these do not impinge on the learning process." Pipes said that since the curriculum was still "under wraps as though it were a military secret," citizens must look at school personnel to learn what the school represents.
Stop the Madrassa board member Hall said that school personnel have been "very loudly stating the Islamist ideology we are concerned about." Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a City University of New York trustee, complained that the KGIA advisory board consists "of a few left-wing rabbis and a few right-wing imams." For example, advisory board member Talib Abdul-Rashid is an imam at the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem: That mosque's website proclaims, "Allah is our goal. The prophet Muhammad is our leader. The Quran is our constitution. Jihad is our way. And death in the way of Allah is our promised end."
The Department of Education's Meyer said the school is no different from the 70 other dual-language schools in New York City: "They have the same focus and mission. . . . The Middle East is not a religious focus. It's not going to focus on any one religion or ideology." She says her department will monitor the school using an academic assessment test, and a Special Commission of Investigations will conduct an investigation if needed.
Several Muslims have added their voices to those opposing the school. Eblan Farris, board member of the Friends of Khalil Gibran Council, said the school "would not honor the legacy of this great poet," a Lebanese-American Christian. M. Zuhdi Jasser, chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, said that the school can't choose between Arabic culture and Islam: "If you're looking at Arabic culture and you remove the Islamic spiritual aspect of that, then you destroy it. . . . It would be no different than trying to take Christianity out of European culture." Jasser said his organization is against "any type of public funding for a theme school that is based on culture and religion," not just because it favors one faith over another but also because "collectivization and segregation" stimulate Islamic nationalism.
Wiesenfeld said Stop the Madrassa is not opposed to offering Arabic as a language elective in public schools: "We need Arabic speakers. We should have thought about it before and we can still do it." Pipes said he believes KGIA can teach Arabic without proselytizing for Islam, but "it should have teachers who understand the restrictions in working for a taxpayer-funded institution, and it should be supervised by a board that is aware of the problems that tend to accompany Arabic-language instruction." New York Department of Education Chancellor Joel Klein has promised to shut down the school if it promotes religion.
Stop the Madrassa has grown into a national organization-Citizens for American Values in Public Education-and the controversy is going national. In Hollywood, Fla., school officials ordered the Ben Gamla Charter School to suspend temporarily its Hebrew classes until they could determine whether or not teachers were advocating Judaism. Like KGIA, the charter school follows a state curriculum, but it also teaches Hebrew, serves kosher food, and has a rabbi for a director.
Meanwhile, mom Amal Hasne says of the whole controversy, "It's too much. It's too much. It's not the first school to open teaching Arabic." She said she will continue to send her daughter to KGIA because it is small, she believes it is safe, and her daughter will no longer be "segregated" from non-Arabic-speaking classmates.
'A veneer of moderation'
Federal prosecution is exposing the hidden agenda of some mainstream Muslim groups
By Mark Bergin
When the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR; see WORLD, March 22, 2003) opened its Central Florida office in the spring of 2004, Muslim convert Roy Smith signed up to volunteer. The retired lawyer and Tampa resident wanted to help CAIR's local chapter further the national organization's stated mission-namely, "to enhance understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding."
Smith, 50, became a dues-paying member and even applied for the paid position of civil-rights director at one point. But he began to suspect that CAIR's agenda ran deeper than its slick public-relations statement. He watched the group routinely shun simple solutions to cultural misunderstandings in favor of legal action and press releases about civil-rights violations. He wondered whether the organization was more concerned with publicizing the supposed victimization of American Muslims than it was with helping that community assimilate.
In an interview with WORLD, Smith revealed that behind closed doors CAIR's façade of moderation quickly lifted. He heard statements like "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." Smith's reaction: "People who fly planes into buildings are not freedom fighters." He still hoped that CAIR could serve an important purpose, until this past spring when he learned of the organization's listing as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal lawsuit against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), a defunct American Muslim charity accused of funneling millions of dollars to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.
Smith promptly asked that his name be removed from CAIR's membership rolls. He was not alone. According to a Washington Times report in June, dues-paying members of CAIR have fled the organization by the thousands in recent years. Tax records show that CAIR's annual income from member dues has plummeted from $732,765 in 2000 to $58,750 last year. Last month a CAIR attorney admitted that membership has dropped and donations have dipped beneath the organization's monthly budget requirements.
That's good news to Steve Emerson, executive director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism and author of six books on terrorism and national security. He has followed the HLF trial closely and told WORLD that the prosecution's evidence of connections between CAIR and Hamas has awakened some moderate Muslims to CAIR's true agenda: "Some of the chapters of CAIR are staffed by Muslims who are motivated by sincere beliefs about fighting discrimination and are not obsessed with Hamas. The unindicted co-conspirator designation was a shock to them."
Numerous other Muslim organizations, such as the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust, also made the list of unindicted co-conspirators. But the potential impact of such revelations on the truly moderate Muslim American community has fallen short of Emerson's hopes due to sagging national press coverage. Most mainstream media outlets continue to take the quotes from leaders of CAIR and ISNA at face value.
Even segments within the Department of Justice have not heeded the implicit warnings emerging from the HLF trial. Last week, the DOJ co-sponsored ISNA's annual convention just outside Chicago, the largest such gathering of Muslims in the nation.
U.S. Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) attempted to dissuade DOJ officials from associating with an Islamic organization that U.S. attorneys have shown collaborates with the radical Muslim Brotherhood. Hoekstra's letter of protest charged the DOJ with making "a grave mistake to provide legitimacy to an organization with extremist origins, leadership and a radical agenda."
In a letter of response, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian Benczkowski defended the DOJ's presence at the ISNA conference as an attempt to engage the American Muslim community. He also noted the participation of a variety of government agencies, including the U.S. military, the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, and USAID.
Zuhdi Jasser, chairman of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, told WORLD that such associations between government and Islamist organizations only serve to reinforce perceptions that groups like ISNA and CAIR represent the majority of American Muslims. He believes prosecuting such groups, not befriending them, is the proper strategy for reforming Islam in America: "If we're going to get a reformation process to happen, and what I would call a second enlightenment in Islam, it's going to take more pressure from the non-Muslim community to get Muslims to own up."
The Justice Department has typically applied such pressure. HLF is one of many Muslim charities federal authorities have shut down since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Others include the Islamic American Relief Agency, Global Relief Foundation, Benevolence International Foundation, Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation, KindHearts USA, Global Charitable Organization, and Mabarrat.
Each of these organizations fell under suspicion for taking donations from American Muslims under the pretense of legitimate charity activity, while channeling some of their funds to known terrorist groups.
Kamal Nawash, president of the Free Muslims Coalition and a critic of Islamism, believes the exposure of such activity has pushed Muslims away from donating to mainstream Muslim groups. But he told WORLD that such financial retractions reflect only a general apprehension about getting into trouble, rather than any monumental awakening in the minds of American Muslims about the sinister aims of politicized Islamism: "On the grassroots level, the average Muslim is still completely oblivious to what's going on."
Both Nawash and Jasser hope to change that. Roy Smith is evidence that they can. "There's a veneer of moderation with CAIR, but it's just a veneer," Smith said. "You can't graft Islamist concepts into a democratic society. They are the antithesis of freedom, liberty, and due process."


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Presented by Grand Ole Opry at Ryman Auditorium
January 19, 2013
The show that made country music famous returns to its most famous home, the Historic Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville. The Grand Ole Opry is a 2 hour show that features a line up of new stars, superstars, and legends of country music in each show. At the Opry, you can count on things happening you just can't see anywhere else.
Scheduled to perform tonight at the Opry are: Artists will be added as they are confirmed.
Schedule Changes: The lineup for each Grand Ole Opry show is not completely finished until just a few days before the show. Artists are posted to the Opry website as soon as appearances are confirmed (artists and schedule subject to change). Plan to check back often, as most times artists' appearances are not confirmed until one to two weeks prior to the show date.
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|AWANA year ends with celebration program
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
While snowy weather kept some from attending, local AWANA club members were recognized at a year-end program Wednesday, April 17 at First Baptist Church in Holyoke.
AWANA is a non-denominational children's ministry for preschool through sixth-grade youth. It meets weekly from October through April in Holoke and includes Bible verse memorization, game time and story time.
Mac Macaulay led the group in prayer, and Dr. Darrell Tomky gave a spiritual message, encouraging the youth to trust in Jesus.
AWANA clubber Jesse Vasa presented an award to leader Jade Goldenstein as part of his Truth & Training program.
AWANA clubbers who were recognized at the April 17 end-of-year program are pictured from left, front row, Eduardo Solis, Emersyn Goldenstein, Rorey Schneller, Callum Mackay, Caiden Vowell, Caden Sporhase and Adison Goldenstein; second row, Ethan Schneller, Ashton Robles, Cooper Goldenstein, Tate Dille, Chase Johnson and Marysol Astorga; third row, Ximena Chavez, Llelitza Ochoa, Tristen Ferguson, José Astorga, Erick Marroquin, Rachel Krueger and Danielle Wilkening; and back row, Jaqueline Mosqueda, Alicia Astorga, Jessica Mosqueda, Crystal Astorga, Aaron Dominguez, Jesse Vasa, Cade Killin and Ethan Johnson.
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Book awards and participation certificates were presented by leaders of the Cubbies (preschoolers), Sparks (grades K-2) and Truth and Training (grades 3-6) clubs.
T&T fourth-grader Jesse Vasa received his second-book excellence award. Third-graders Tristen Ferguson and Cade Killin earned their first-book awards and alpha awards.
Sparks award winners were Cooper Goldenstein and Ethan Schneller, third-book awards; Adison Goldenstein and Tucker Keith, second-book awards; and Alexys Martin, Payton Ferguson and Caiden Vowell, first-book awards.
Cubbies awards went to Hannah Keith and Mickenzie Warner, third-book; Theoden Britton and Emersyn Goldenstein, second-book; and Callum Mackay and Rorey Schneller, first-book.
T&T attendance certificates were presented to Marysol Astorga, Rachel Krueger, Kota Widler, Danielle Wilkening, Alicia Astorga, Ximena Chavez, Riley Ferguson, Blanca Martinez, Darlee McMurrin, Bella Tori, Crystal Astorga, Kylie Brink, Osirys Martinez, Kassidy Porter, Sabrina Zink, Jaqueline Mosqueda and Jessica Mosqueda.
Also José Astorga, Tristen Ferguson, Ethan Johnson, Cade Killin, Tate Dille, Aiden Johnson, Erick Marroquin, Jesse Vasa, Luis Chafino, Logan Higgs and Dalton McMurrin.
Sparks participation awards went to Abigail Dille, Aspen Jagers, Evan Widler, Maddie Warner, Anna Hayes, Victoria Martinez, Chase Johnson, Caden Sporhase, Eduardo Solis, Riann Worley, Anastasia Drake, Kayden Porter, Edel Gonzalez, Ashton Robles and Jordan Martin.
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Reflector/Refractor equivalence formula
Posted 29 March 2013 - 12:41 PM
I decided to post this in the Refractor forum, too, to get people's input here. Jarad Schiffer, in the thread "Long focus Newtonian Vs refractor" in the Reflector forum wrote the oft quoted formula that to determine a Newtonian's performance to an equivalent refractor, do this ...
Reflector Primary - Secondary = Refractor Primary Equivalent
I noted Jon Isaacs many times writing that the real difference is more like
Reflector Primary - 1" = Refractor Primary Equivalent
I propose, to quantify Jon's assertion, perhaps the formula should look like this ...
Reflector Primary - (0.5 * Secondary) = Refractor Primary Equivalent
As one got above a 40% obstruction, this formula might not apply, but I'm not as concerned about astrographs functioning as visual instruments
I take the example of the Celestron Omni XLT 150, which has a 150mm objective with a 46.5mm CO. Now according to Jarad's formula, that should make the Omni XLT equivalent to a 103.5mm refractor for planetary performance. But in my proposed reworked formula, the "Refractor Equivalence" of the Omni XLT should be a 126.75mm scope. Now, people may say this is wishful thinking, and I cannot say with any certainty that it isn't, but it would be nice to see how an Omni XLT 150 compares with 4" ED, 110mm ED, and 120mm ED (as well as the equivalent achromatic) scopes. I own neither the 110 nor 120mm ED scopes, nor any achromat, though there's a STRONG temptation for me to buy the XLT and compare it to my 102mm ED scope. According to Jarad's formula, it should still surpass it, but really, just barely, and the planetary performance should really be about the same. Stay tuned, but anyone else wishing to evaluate my recalculation of that old Reflector ~ Refractor Equivalence formula is more than welcome to educate me and the rest of the CN Brotherhood.
For the record, the Omni XLT delivers the same number of photons to your retina as a 142.6mm refractor -- (Pi * r squared of the Primary) minus (Pi * r squared of the Central Obstruction). Obviously, those photons are maligned a bit for human vision by the CO, but how much is the question.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 01:18 PM
And if you want to make the comparison and not get an approximation, try using Abberator 3.0 to generate your own MTF plots. It is easy to use.
The MTF plot tells the truth about how much contrast is lost.
Here is an MTF for an 8" Newtonian with 23% obstruction (Dashed red) vs a perfect 8" aperture (solid red) and a perfect 6" unobstructed aperture. I have included the spider vanes (which means the scope started with a 21% secondary mirror and I added 2% to that for the spider vanes).
The Green line is for a perfect 6" Aperture with the assumption that the color correction is perfect (which is rarely the case by the way, but I am assuming a best case.
As you can see, the 8" scope offers contrast that is on par with the perfect 6" aperture for larger details, but for the smallest details, the reflector pulls away, still showing small detail after the perfect 6" aperture has run out of steam.
So, no need to apply coarse formulas when you can plot it pretty closely and know a more accurate picture.
Abberator will only allow you to plot one scope.
I plot the larger instrument, then hand draw the curve for the smaller perfect instrument.
In this case, the 6" has .75 of the maximum spatial response of the 8" scope, so it is plotted to the .75 index on the frequency line at the bottom of the chart.
Also, MTF ignores the higher illumination you get out of the larger aperture for a given exit pupil. A brighter image helps the eye better see the lowest contrast detail on the target.
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Posted 29 March 2013 - 01:33 PM
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Posted 29 March 2013 - 01:37 PM
I did it for you.
This is a plot showing a perfect 150mm aperture (red line), and 150mm aperture with a 33% obstruction (the secondary obstruction is only 31%, but the spider vanes add about 2% and dude, you have to count that too, though it is often not mentioned in these dialogs).
The green line shows the equivalent aperture for a scope that is a perfect 90mm aperture.
Now remember, just like most people don't count the spider vane, refractor people think refractors are all perfect, but fast ED scopes do indeed loose some contrast because of chromatic aberration, but at 90mm, it is usually not enough to matter (though at larger apertures it can indeed be meaningful).
As you can see, for the larger details (the left side of the graph, your scope will only equal about a 90mm unobstructed scope.
As the detail gets smaller though, your scope draws even, but at the important "Visual frequencies" that are generally represented by the left half of the graph, the scope is not really performing any better than a 90mm unobstructed scope.
For the right part of the graph (past about .5 on the frequency scale), the 6" easily pulls ahead.
The problem is that this represents detail that is very small, and better caught by a CCD camera. Visuallly, the exit pupil gets so small by the time the image gets large ehough that the brightness falloff causes the image to suffer.
A camera would show the difference in performance, but visually, the contras would be no better.
Ah, but once again, the larger scope has a huge brightness advantage. The human eye finds it easier to see low contrast detail when the image is better illuminated.
This means that when you magnified the image to 150x in both scopes, it would be much brighter in the 6" making the lowest contrast detail easier to see. Both scopes will show the detail with the same contrast, but all of the detail will be brighter in the larger scope.
I personally find that illumination is an important factor when planetary observing.
The last issue is quality. Don't expect your scope to have optics of the same quality as is common in even inexpensive ED scopes made today. I gave your instrument the benefit of the doubt and made it perfect.
Bottom line? It is very complicated, but I think you are being optimistic.
Expect planetary performance below what the best 4" APOs can deliver.
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Posted 29 March 2013 - 01:49 PM
Last year I had both in the field and on a few nights the much smaller Apo brought in more detail than the larger scopes (my C11 and an excellent 12" Dob).
When seeing did permit the use of higher magnification, the smaller Apo was easily bested by the larger scopes. This occurred less than 50% of the time however!
This is the main reason I believe there is so much of the
"this scope beat that much larger scope" and Refractor vs. Reflector controversy.
It's all about the four rights: The right scope of the right size used on the right target in the right Seeing Conditions.
This is also why one scope is not usually sufficient for everything.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 01:50 PM
My personal opinion is that the CO affect is a bit overstated if it is under 25% dso or 20% planetary. I was considering lengthening my ota and using a low profile (moonlite) focuser to allow me to get my secondary under 20%. Jon Isaacs told me to make secondary masks larger by the same percentage to see if it would be worth all the time, money, and effort. What I noticed on Jupiter was that the 5% make very little difference and so I used an even larger one to make the difference more obvious. I decided that it wasn't worth it.
Later I found out that the center of the refractor lens does very little if anything anyway. Now that I typed this, I think I should have answered in the reflector forum... Go easy on me.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 01:54 PM
A 6" APO is indeed a very difficult scope to beat.
Even the Ultimate Newtonian 8" (which is what I plotted the first time) is only on par with a perfect 6" APO from a raw MTF perspective.
To get a clearly superior image, you would need to go to perhaps a 10" reflector.
That actually speaks volumes about the excellence of a high quality 6" APO.
I own one and can attest to their astonishingly good performance.
But they can be beat. It just takes more than an inch of aperture in most cases.
And often it takes more than even a few inches to equal the contrast transfer. I would put my 6" APO up against a good quality C11 and expect it to hold its own.
And the difference in the quality of the view between my C14 and my 6" APO is not "Breath-taking." Yes, better in the C14. I routinely observe detail that is out of reach of the 6" APO, but only with great patience and good seeing.
Many people think I am a refractor hater and nothing could be further from the truth. I admire them greatly, Though I have no use for small ones.
They can be beat though, but below about 8", and they really do have the upper hand unless you go to something like the MN 78 which is highly specialized and of superb optical quality.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 03:25 PM
After seeing that 10" apo video (with seeing issues) and comparing it to a memory of a d14 at a low angle, conditions limited both too much for any real comparison. I haven't ever used an apo big enough to compare to my 12" dob on a good night. I have had better views than that video, but what does that mean? So I guess in a very long way, I have said that I cannot confirm or dispute the formula.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 06:02 PM
Posted 29 March 2013 - 06:32 PM
While much of the attention is focused on the contrast transfer the instruments, (and it is so much more than "Theory") people often omit the role of illumination.
In a thread going on right now, someone said that they looked through a 400mm f/15 achromat and had one of the best views that they have ever had (though they did not do a side by side comparison with a similarly good 400mm reflector at the 5000 foot elevation of the observatory).
With 400mm of aperture, the brightness from Jupiter is probably so high at 300x that the eye is moving well into mesoptic mode, where the eye's contrast sensitivity threshold is much better than in scotopic mode that is common in much smaller instruments.
I almost always say that the bigger aperture will always have the advantage of having a brighter image at a given magnification, and that this added illumination can make low contrast details easier to see.
My own experience has been that the amount of detail I cold see on planets was almost dead linear to the clear aperture of the scopes I have owned. In almost every case, the more aperture I used, the more detail I was able to see.
Until I owned the C14, I never really was able to resolve any detail on the Jovian moons for example. Ganymede would show variations in shading but not really show specific details with specific shapes.
Only when I moved to the C14 did I start to resolve this kind of detail.
The smallest refractor that I have heard a similar report of resolving Osiris and Galilee Regio where from an 8" APO.
Clear aperture rules.
Anyone wanting better planetary performance should not be looking at "Planetary eyepieces." They should be looking for more good quality clear aperture.
And the illumination that comes with aperture is in itself an important advantage.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 07:14 PM
Posted 29 March 2013 - 07:32 PM
So should I buy the 152mm Explore Scientific Apo or a 14" Meade/Celestron?
Posted 29 March 2013 - 08:52 PM
I noted Jon Isaacs many times writing that the real difference is more like
Reflector Primary - 1" = Refractor Primary Equivalent
Honestly, I don't remember writing this. What I remember are calculations for light through put based on reflectivity and surface area measurements and mentions of rule of thumb estimations of planetary contrast based on "clear aperture", the aperture minus the secondary diameter.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 09:41 PM
Ed, first, thanks for doing the graph. This kind of information is enjoyable to look at. Something tangible, and yet ...
Sean made the point about "in the field". And here's where your graphs run afoul of reality. Joe Bergeron wrote this review in 2007, comparing his 92mm apo, 150 XLT and AP 155. In his estimation they lined up as one would expect, with the AP 155 best, the 92mm the worst, and the 150 XLT performing in between. Of course, this sheds little light on where and to what degree the 150 XLT would fall -- above a 102mm? above a 110mm? above a 120mm? -- since all those certainly fall between a 155mm and a 92mm scope. But Bergeron specifically notes it performing better than the 92mm, thus implying the graph you supply, Ed, may not apply in the field. "In overall performance, the $400 Omni was midway between these two fabled refractors, and closer to the big one than the little one." You may say this proves nothing, and you may be right. But you could be wrong, too.
I'd just like to hear from someone who has used the Omni XLT and one (or more) of the 4", 110mm or 120mm refractors.
I have always liked refractors, but can't forget the way I saw an 8" LightBridge put an Orion 120 ED to shame on Saturn one evening.
Posted 29 March 2013 - 10:57 PM
Posted 30 March 2013 - 12:20 AM
NewtApert - ObstructDiam = EquivApertAPO
seems reasonable. For faint fuzzies, I'd go with a straightforward light gathering-based equation:
NewtApert^2 - ObstructDiam^2 = EquivApertAPO^2
which is more favorable towards Newtonians.
Purely from a theoretical perspective, a formula like
NewtApert - ObstructDiam/2 = EquivApertAPO
can't be correct for the full range of secondary obstructions, as for secondaries approaching the size of the primary the equivalent APO aperture should drop to zero. For small percentage obstructions, however, the equation with the squares is mathematically equivalent to
EquivApertAPO = NewtApert - ObstructDiam^2/2NewtApert
Therefore, as a rough rule:
NewtApert - ObstructDiam < EquivApertAPO < NewtApert - ObstructDiam^2 / 2NewtApert
where the leftmost expression is more relevant for planetary, and the rightmost expression more for DSO.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 07:59 AM
I know what you are looking for - a simple equation somewhat like the CO subtraction - and in lieu of MTF - its a fair if rough call, but the graphic mapping out of it all sais it so handedly (and ego free) its probably the uncontested as the most revealing way to compare - though the author could tweak things a but to be quite frank. Too there are other variables Id like to see addressed in the graph. Environmental effects like fan versus no fan, cool down versus insufficient cool down. Being able to model these into the MTF graphic would be engaging stuff. Adding Pickerings scale of seeing effect as well could produce some great comparisons - along with the ability to overlay multiple scope MTF curves.
Anyway its worth downloading Aberrator even if at first it might seem a little wonky. Its all to a good end. And strangely like some other top notch programs - its free.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 09:06 AM
Posted 30 March 2013 - 09:13 AM
Sean made the point about "in the field". And here's where your graphs run afoul of reality.
Clearly you missed the part where I said that Illumination is an important characteristic of the telescopes.
The MTF is concrete. It is defined by diffraction and makes the outcome absollute in terms of performance at the focal plane.
But in the same post, I very clearly said that illumination is usually ignored in these dialogs (I never ignore it) and said that while the obstructed apeture might not have any better contrast transfer, that the better illumination would make whatever detail was present easier to see.
So while the instruments are peformeing the same at the focal plane, the observer's eye has a stronger signal to work with, which again, is an advantage to apeture that is often not included in these converstaions.
In other words, I agree with you in one sense, that the field result will be a bit different, but the MTF is absolute. Nothing violates it.
And that is why I have said that clear aperture has for me been the most important attribute of how two telescopes would perform on planets and extended targets. Even if the contrast is the same, the observer always benefits from the brighter image in the larger scope.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 09:23 AM
It might seem like an abstraction of logic but once I got in the hang of it then it all made sense and with logic clarity.
Yes, once one really understands MTF, the clarity it brings to how an instrument will perform is very satifying.
And it is no more of an empty threory than the theories on the wave nature of light.
It is the wave nature of light that causes contrast loss, and it is absolute and easy to model, and can predict with very high accuracy how the instrument will behave.
That is why almost all professionals will use MTF to define instrument performance
It is all inclusive from design, quality, contrast transfer, and angular resolution.
One graph tells you the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth of how the image will be formed at the focal plane.
But as in my previous post, it is important to say that the human eye's contrast sensitivity has to be factored in when using the instrument visuallly, and illumination of a larger aperture aids in detecting and resolveing the smallest detail on the target.
Even when seeing limits my to 250x, the image is so much brighter in my C14 that all of the details are much easie to see than in my 6" APO.
Illumiantion is a huge key to our ability to resolve detail.
Take a black and white picture from a newspaper out at night and see what happens. The contrast on the target doesn't change but the illumination changes.
And the more illumination you put on that picture, the more details will emerge.
Simple experiment and conclusive. Increase the illumination 50% and you will see more on the target.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 10:00 AM
So should I buy the 152mm Explore Scientific Apo or a 14" Meade/Celestron?
Two very different instruments.
I own both a 6" APO and a C14.
I use the 6" APO mostly for wide field observing during the summer and winter Milky Way, and for doubles during this time of the year.
It works well for planets and if it is already set up, I will use it for planets, but if there is no scope set up and I want to look at planets, I bring out the C14.
But I get the appeal of the big refractor. For wide field work, the view is the best I have ever had. At all powers, stars are sharp right to the edge of the field stop.
And I get the appeal there. I love the pinpoint stars offered by the 6" APO.
But for must general use, if it fits into the field of the C14, I use that.
If it doesn't fit into the field of the C14, but fits into the field of the EdgeHD 8", I use that.
Only if it doesn't fit into the field of the EdgeHD 8" am I inclined to pull out the big refractor.
So, to me, they are different scopes for different uses.
What do you want to do most?
If it is deep sky, the C14 is clearly a better choice even with the off axis curvature and coma. For most deep sky targets, you don't notice the off axis abberations of the C14.
So, I cannot advise you really on what you should get. Think about what you want to observer and how important off axis performacne is to you.
Good luck.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 03:01 PM
One must be careful of treating the greater aperture as delivering a brighter image, this being the main reason for seeing more detail. Aperture, image brightness and resolving are inextricably intertwined. The larger instrument delivers better resolution because of the diameter of the entrance pupil, extra light is part of the equation.
To assess performance differences most objectively, and to minimize the variables, comparisons must be conducted at identical exit pupil. The exit pupil is the arbiter of the visual appearance of diffraction effects. A 1" and 100" aperture, both working at the same exit pupil, will provide identical appearances for a star (the stars chosen being of suitable brightness for the aperture, of course.) And for extended objects, like planets, at the same exit pupil the object surface brightness is the same, and the degree of resolution *as perceived on the retina* will be the same. It's just that the larger scope delivers a commensurately larger image and a concomitantly more detailed view. But on the retina, the *apparent* angular resolving power is the same.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 04:06 PM
I have said that a larger aperture will enjoy a better illuminated image for a given magnification.
And of course that means that at the same exit pupil, the image will be larger, but just as bright.
And the consequence of that is that you can magnify the image more in the larger aperture which makes it easier to resolve the detail.
And I have repeatedly stated here that these dialogs usually only talk about what happens at the focal plane and ignore the working of the human eye.
It would appear that we are not in dis-agreement here.
But I disagree that at the retina there will be no difference.
If the larger aperture is allowed by seeing to transfer more contrast, that contrast will show in more detail at all powers in the scope with the larger clear aperture. Angular resolution is quite a bit different than contrast ttransfer. You can resolve 192 line pair per millimeter in even a very poor f/10 telescope.
One observer might see a particular detail rendered with 6% contrast (right at the edge of perception for the dark adapted eye) while the other might see it with 15% contrast. The one that sees the higher contrast will say that the view is "Sharper". After all, that is what contrast transfer is. It is image sharpness. But the loss of contrast for mid-frequency detail does indeed make it less crisp in the eyepiece for that same instrument,
The MTF of the instrument allows the instrument to simply transfer more of the low contrast detail to the focal plane.
If there is more on the focal plane to see, then the observer will see it.
But once again, in my very first post on this topic, I said it was very complex. We are far more in agreement than we differ I think,
Posted 30 March 2013 - 05:28 PM
First, Jon, I'm pretty sure you recently wrote this, but I'm on an iPhone right now, not the tool to find your posts on reflectors' performance (you have quite a few in the regard, mind you!)
Ed, first, thanks for doing the graph. This kind of information is enjoyable to look at. Something tangible, and yet ...
Sean made the point about "in the field". And here's where your graphs run afoul of reality. Joe Bergeron wrote this review in 2007, comparing his 92mm apo, 150 XLT and AP 155. In his estimation they lined up as one would expect, with the AP 155 best, the 92mm the worst, and the 150 XLT performing in between. Of course, this sheds little light on where and to what degree the 150 XLT would fall -- above a 102mm? above a 110mm? above a 120mm? -- since all those certainly fall between a 155mm and a 92mm scope. But Bergeron specifically notes it performing better than the 92mm, thus implying the graph you supply, Ed, may not apply in the field. "In overall performance, the $400 Omni was midway between these two fabled refractors, and closer to the big one than the little one." You may say this proves nothing, and you may be right. But you could be wrong, too.
I'd just like to hear from someone who has used the Omni XLT and one (or more) of the 4", 110mm or 120mm refractors.
I have always liked refractors, but can't forget the way I saw an 8" LightBridge put an Orion 120 ED to shame on Saturn one evening.
I can't speak about a 150XLT...but I can assure you that my 1/6-1/7th wave C-6XLT handily beat out my old Tak Sky 90, Megrez 90 and TMB 92L! Take it to the bank. So I have concluded that 6" of sct aperture trumps 3.5" of unobstructed aperture consistently. In addition, for a season I compared a 4" apo to a C5, and the C5 fell short. Bracketing would put a 3.5" apo in line with a C5.
Posted 30 March 2013 - 06:18 PM
However, I would still like a 6" Apo. Maybe I should start off with the SCT & get the Apo further down the track.


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Sioux City Police Look For Theft Suspect
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Ankeny Residents Sign Petition Against Casino
ANKENY, Iowa (AP) - Several residents have begun a petition drive against construction of a casino in the Des Moines suburb of Ankeny.
Almost 40 people gathered at Kirkendall Public Library on Monday to begin their drive for 6,600 signatures.
Ankeny resident Mike Meyerring told The Des Moines Register that the group members know the petition would have no binding effect on the City Council.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
SIGHTING (NSFW): Rafa's ass-ets uncovered...literally!
(image via Throw Up the Deuce + Men's Tennis Forum)
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Omigod! Hahaha that really made my weekend! I always imagine his butt to be that cute :DReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2008 at 6:34 PM
I'm too confused as to why he's naked outdoors to be thrown aback.ReplyDelete
Yep mine too - now we all know why his shorts keep getting eaten. That's a shelf baby!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Wowee. Merry Christmas, everyone! It's like the Baby Jesus's b-day came early this year. *gapes*ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Poor guy, can't even change his bathing suit without THIS happeningReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2008 at 7:38 PM
Rafa, if you are feeling embarrassed for being caught by paparazzi like this, DON'T BE! It's no biggie.ReplyDelete
And, you have such a pretty bum.
- Uvijek ArgenSeptember 26, 2008 at 11:00 PM
Rich and Co. its almost 2am and with this pics and your comments I almost wake my wife dying laughing!!ReplyDelete
"Now here is the towel boy, put some cloth" : )
Finally. That's it. Now I can leave this world in peace. Bye everyone.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2008 at 2:42 AM
You get excited about a naked butt? European Style. Nothing special. Almost everyone changes bathing suits like Rafa does. We just don't look.ReplyDelete
i have the goofiest smile on, it won't go away.ReplyDelete
Ok, now I can go to heaven..ReplyDelete
Or am I already there? :P
Ok, now I can go to heaven..ReplyDelete
Or am I already there? :P
OH DEAR LORD. I keep rubbing my eyes but Rafa's butt just won't go away! o_OReplyDelete
The thing is... I really feel for him here. It's so humiliating to be photographed like that. Poor thing. He really doesn't deserve press like that.
On the other hand... boy, that must feel like a baby bum. SOFT. SKIN. Oy, did I just imagine myself rubbing my cheek on it?!
Rich you're killing me, you bad bad boy. :D
"You get excited about a naked butt? European Style. Nothing special."ReplyDelete
- Rafa's ass-et is 'nothing special'???? Are you blind? Did you just read the text and ignore the pictures?? Not everyone is born with his gift. It's not the nakedness generally but his ass-et specifically. Appreciate!
i wish they'd get him up front!ReplyDelete
nice ass!
i'm extra partial to the very last one with flexing thighs...ReplyDelete
it appears you are Santa Clause Rich!
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2008 at 4:35 PM
- AnonymousSeptember 27, 2008 at 8:26 PM
That is the hottest thing I ever seen!!! Rafa is truly a tennis GOD. Roger and Nole can't beat that, no way no how, uh uh...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2008 at 5:12 AM
for the love of god. it's big. but he's still hot. of course, now that we know what's under his cargos it's slightly less interesting. oh well. <3 rafaReplyDelete
But Roger could SO beat that. So could Nole. Bet Roger's is hairy, but not as hairy as Gonzalez's chest. :P
b2012: i'm partial to partial nudity of Rafa for sureReplyDelete
anon 812: Nole might come the closest but NO WAY IN HELL does Fed even challenge these two in the ass-et department. And if it's as hairy as Gonzo's chest, we'll mos def be putting the wax down. Eeks!
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2008 at 8:51 AM
Nah, Nole and Fed are dreaming if they can compete with this tush. It is magnificent.ReplyDelete
"NO WAY IN HELL does Fed even challenge these two in the ass-et department. And if it's as hairy as Gonzo's chest, we'll mos def be putting the wax down."ReplyDelete
LOL!!!!! oh what a horrific image. I need to go stare at Rafa for a long while now.
No way any other player could beat that!ReplyDelete
No way any other player could beat that!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2008 at 1:53 PM
looks like these pics have beenReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 28, 2008 at 5:52 PM
Photoshopped? How so? Did they replace Rafa's real saggy bottom with a peachier butt?ReplyDelete
I think for any Rafa fan who's spent some, um, time looking at his clothed ass, the unclothed version pretty much looks exactly as expected, hehehe.
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2008 at 1:39 PM
No way is that photoshopped!!!! That ass is exactly as i imagined. Ahh waht i would give to lick that!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2008 at 5:27 PM
I would lick that so hard, blow his dick and then fuck his brains out!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 27, 2008 at 5:27 PM
I would lick that so hard, blow his dick and then fuck his brains out!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 30, 2009 at 7:07 PM
WOW! you could bounce a quarter off that!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 13, 2009 at 9:32 AM
Oh my. I have no idea who you are who posted this but you just made my day! No, month! I thought I'd hit gold with one I found of him in his undies...ReplyDelete
The caring, companionate, empathetic part of me wants to turn the computer off and spare Rafa just a tinsy bit less humiliation...
but the rest of me wants to make this my wallpaper! :D
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I've never used Parental Controls, but your wife's experience is troubling to me. Does that mean if a child selects a show s/he shouldn't see, they can see or hear part of the blocked show while attempting to guess the unlock code? I hope I'm wrong, but if so, I might consider reporting that as an issue here and in the appropriate "issues" thread for your s/w release. Just my .02. /steve
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