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A classic , one of the first porn sites for many , RedTube.com is that place you can always count on to bring you free porn content at a consistent pace. Part of the Pornhub network, Red Tube is well-known for the insane number of amazing porn videos that they let their users stream for absolutely free. The only way it's possible that you've never heard of RedTube.com is if you've been living under a rock for the past decade. They've been around for a long time and are the go-to porn site for many people in the world.RedTube Has Been Around for a WhileRedTube.com has a long history dating all the way back to 2007 when they first launched. That same year, it got listed in the top 5 fastest growing websites by Wired. Only two years later it had an exceptional Alexa ranking, finishing in the top 100 sites. It fell down in 2010 but made a comeback in 2012. Since 2009 it was acquired by MindGeek, but it wasn't the only one as both Pornhub and YouPorn were also bought out by the company , which has been their proprietary ever since. Red Tube is based in Texas and has servers on both North American coasts.Phew, I know what I'm up for after that history lesson , some proper quality porn! RedTube.com ( often misspelled as "Redube", "RedRube", "Red Porn", "RedTude", "Redtibe", "Reftube", "Redtuve" or "RedTubr") has got my back on this as they show some of the finest porn videos in the industry. Not only are these videos some of the best , but there's also a whole shitload of them. And when I say that you better be sure I'm not joking. Millions upon millions of free porn videos are right there at your fingertips. All you have to do is visit the website and start watching, and you won't have to stop until you're completely satisfied, or you fall down in exhaustion.A Modern Look and Feel on Par with the Best So, what can you expect from RedTube other than amazing content? Well , there's the high-quality design , which has always been a perfect example of a porn site done right. Honestly , other porn sites should look at RedTube.com for guidelines. No stupid home button, instead delegate that to your logo. A very clean color palette, and a slick modern design with minimal details and everything in its proper place. The only gripe that I have with it is the sort of slow response time from the Category tab which needs a second to drop down.Other than that, you've also got the sick video previews which show you actual mini videos of the action rather than still images taken from the video, which I really like. It's like RedTube.com decided to flex on every other porn site by imitating YouTube. They were like, "hey, look at what I can do", and all the other porn sites have to watch and cry because they don't have the design budget to do stuff like that. Dick move , but I still love how the site looks and feels, and other than that slow response category tab , the site is top-notch. Get Rid of the Ads, One Way or the OtherThe ads here can be a bit annoying, as they usually are, but RedTube.com knows this and they offer to take them off your screen if you join their premium membership. And guess what, we all use AdBlock so RedTube.com decided to go ahead and say , "fuck it, if we can't stop them using AdBlock, why not give them a sweet deal instead ". Because of this, they are offering every AdBlock user a 7-day free trial , which is pretty sick if you think about it. And the no-ads feature isn't the only thing they offer with the premium membership, as they also give us more exclusive and high-quality content as well as the option to cancel at any time !After the trial expires, it's only $9.99 a month to keep using RedTube premium. Seeing as how some sites charge $30 bucks a month just to watch their content , this is a pretty reasonable deal in my opinion. Hey, we can all use a bit of exclusivity in our lives, and this seems like a luxury that many of us can afford. If you can't though , it's fine , you can watch the free content as much as you want ! But you can't sit with us though , rich kids only. Set Sail through the Endless Nooks and Crannies of Red TubeNah, I kid the free users, I completely get why someone wouldn't want to pay for porn. Why pay when there's so much good porn here for absolutely free? And with so many ways to navigate through RedTube.com, you'll be able to find the perfect videos to make your evening that much better. Let 's take a look at some of the features and how we can use them to better our experience here. It all starts with that Category tab that I was talking about earlier.The categories are pretty vanilla, but you've got everything you could possibly need here. Every basic category is covered, from anal, all the way to VR and hentai. The videos you get when you go to a category are usually related well to the category , which is something that a lot of sites mess up for some reason. No, I don't want to watch a shitty 3D Shrek animation , I want to watch some damn hentai! Anyway, though some videos might fall out of line , most of them make sense to be in the category where they are. Now , you can also use the Search bar to find the perfect video for yourself, and the RedTube.com algorithm seems to find exactly what you're looking for if something like that even exists on their site that is. The Search bar also seems to sport a drop-down menu where you can choose whether you want to search through videos, photos, or cam models. Let me tell you what, this really makes it easier to find a live cam model of your taste , so I commend these guys for that. Sort Them However You Like Now , what about the Pornstars tab? That's where they keep all the sluts that star in all those pornos. You can just smell the sluttiness in the air as you click on this link and all the different girls show up. Don't get me wrong , they're grade-A pornstars, but I wouldn't touch that with a 10-foot pole. But to be fair , it's not only the women, but you can also choose to sort the pornstars in the Male and Transgender category if you're into that. Luckily, this setting is set to Female by default , so we don't have to look at all your gayness when we want to see a hot bitch getting stuffed.You can also sort these according to their video count , subscriber count , or even alphabetically. So it doesn't matter what you want , whether it's the biggest slut o the site , the most popular one , or if you just like sorting things alphabetically like a huge nerd, you'll find the girl you're looking for without any trouble thanks to these features. But the sorting isn't only tied into the Pornstar tab. You can sort the videos as well. This is probably even more useful than the former sorting mechanism.Here, you can sort the videos according to their rating, their view count , their favorite count , the longest ones, and the newest ones. All of this is available straight from the drop-down menu Porn Videos, which is the first one that you see when you open the site , right next to the sexy simple logo. You can also save your favorite videos in a collection , for the rest of the site to see and enjoy. Or, if you're a lazy bum , you can also watch other people's collections and relish in their porn stashes like a raccoon or something. You can even sort the collections so that you watch straight , gay, or transgender videos only. Sweet ! Live Cams and Meet FucksWe already mentioned Cam Models when talking about the search bar , but to get a better picture of this we have to take a look at the Cam Sex tab at the top of the page. First of all, you're going to have to disable your AdBlocker for this one , since it detects all the live streams as ads ( well played, RedTube). Then, you can choose any one of the ladies that are currently available and watch them perform for you in real time , which always makes the moment that much more special. The Fuck Now option seems to take you to a different site , so we won't look at it too deeply though it does seem well made.All in all, when all is said and done, you can't take anything away from RedTube.com as being one of the king sites for watching porn. It has been around for so long that you can always trust them to bring you the hottest and freshest porn whenever it comes out , and all of that absolutely free of charge. Now if that doesn't sound like a sweet deal , then I don't know what is. Be sure to check RedTube.com out !
Any serious pornoholic has definitely at least heard of the tube site known as xHamster.com. Most of you, I'm willing to wager, have fapped to it on more than one occasion. For some of you, it might even be your go-to porn tube site. And, if that is the case , you are certainly not alone. In fact , there are 10 million others who fap to xHamster frequently enough to be registered users. After Xvideos and Porn Hub , it is the third most popular pornographic site on the internet today. Headquartered in Limassol, Cyprus, xHamster was founded in 2007 by Alex Hawkings. The minds behind the site wanted to do something different from what they were seeing most porno sites doing at the time. Coming off of the peak popularity of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter , xHamsters founders set out to create a site that was equal parts porn tube and xxx social media site. A spokesperson for the site said of xHamster's intentions that the site was meant for people who wanted to chat , exchange erotic pics and share amateur videos ... to find mutual friends online and maybe discover partners interested in intimate relationships." I think it is fair to say that x Hamster has done a bang-up job of providing the platform that they set out to provide , as it has become a cornucopia of amateur and homemade user-uploaded content. As far as the " discover partners interested in intimate relationships" part is concerned , though , I cannot speak to. I have never felt the need to resort to a porn site to find my " intimate relationships," but I am very curious to know if anyone's ever had any luck with that aspect of the site. The People's Porn Network Along with so much user-uploaded content , though , controversy is bound to come sooner or later. With the number of people out there in the world who are sick fucks—not sick fucks who spend all day fapping in their mothers' basements the way you are a sick fuck, I'm talking real , clinically ill sick fucks—a site like xHamster that allows its users to upload basically whatever they want was bound to become inundated with illegal and fucked up content. xHamster has not struggled in keeping up with the shifting social tides and establishing a sense of moral duty , though. In April of 2016, for example , North Carolina enacted laws that said its counties and cities were allowed to openly discriminate against members of the LGBT community. In response to this, xHamster blocked their site from any users with an IP address based in North Carolina. You might also recall hearing about the People V. Turner sexual assault case. To help combat the growing prominence of rape culture in America, xHamster banned all videos involving rape , including those which featured the fucking of unconscious partners. Their social and political involvements don't stop there, though. One of my personal favorite political statements that they made came in response to the 2016 Democratic National Committee email leak , when they offered Debbie Wasserman Shultz $50,000 to star in a porno opposite a Bernie Sanders lookalike. You know , since she already fucked him out of the election. Ah, if that isn't fucking gold, I don't know what is. The Site Itself Obviously , xHamster has made quite a name for themselves in their relatively short period of time as a xxx social media/porn tube. But does the site itself hold up to all the hype? Well , let 's take a look. From the moment you arrive at xHamster's home page , it is hard not to be impressed by how clean and easy to navigate the web design is. With videos broken into two simple and distinct categories: hot porn videos and newest porn videos. You can also easily filter by best instead of newest and by length (which is a great feature , considering homemade videos, for some reason , tend to be significantly shorter in length ). To your left , you can easily filter search results by category , channel , or porn star by simply clicking on it. You can also combine tags together with one click—a great feature that, somehow , is glaringly missing from a lot of tube sites that I've browsed. Their professional studio content appears right alongside their teeming archive of homemade content , unless you specify otherwise. You can also conveniently filter the videos so that you only see straight , gay, or shemale videos. If you don't discriminate at all in your hedonism, however , you can always activate all three. The most annoying thing that they added was a hardcoded watermark on top of the videos. It sometimes really messes with your fap experience , when you're about to see a guy jizz on a chick's face and then...BOOM! That damn watermark "this video has been uploaded to xHamster" appears on the chick's face like a motherfucking cockblocker! Seriously , whoever thought it was a good idea deserves a kick in the balls! As far as xHamster's social media components are concerned , you have all the usual community-oriented features that you'd be used to on other similar sites (such as Porn Hub )—you can comment on/rate videos, add videos to your favorites, upload videos/pictures, and message users directly. One thing that really sets xHamster apart from the others, though , is that, when you click on their tab labeled "dating," you are not brought to some sketchy third-party scam " get laid tonight" orientation If you're looking repayment a massive (and I mean massive ) archive of porn videos, Video-One.com might be the town for you. I'm talking exactly 54,000 pages (yes, I said "pages") of videos, each page containing about 360 videos. present math was at no my strong suit but I think that adds up to a grand total of nearly 20 million videos! Everything the fact that Video-one is adding new content every day even the loneliest, horniest fappers mid us would not skedaddle at of material on this tube site. From the moment you to video-one.com ( create sure you don't forget the hyphen; Video-One is a video chatting client ), you are immediately in the thick of all that the site has to offer. At the top of the page find 50 or so suggested categories to determine from (" brother " " extra small " "caught stealing ," and " amateur compilation" to big a not ). Lots of Raw Hardcore Content These tags probably give you a pretty good idea of what to wait from Video One. Another way to engage an idea of the of a of content they come is to make a look at what sites they link to: xHamster, Beeg, TXXX, and DTVideo are a few. What this should off you is that a majority of the content will be homemade, or at least amateur-inspired. You might label a lot of it Gonzo. I attend to use the term "raw." We're talking productions akin to Casting Couch Fake Cab and Asian Street Meat. Granted, Video-One does drink the occasional HD studio video thrown in here and there, the the of their content if not full-on homemade, is from one of these studios that specializes in raw content. Be Careful What You Click On Video-One also seems to pander to to the demographic of pornophiles who fancy the more taboo type stuff —daddy/daughter, brother/sister incest roleplay. Well at least I hope it's all roleplay. Some of the videos in these sections are from without recognized, reputable studios, but a good portion of them look to be very homemade and are tagged with things like " Real Sister." I have no way of verifying whether or not these videos are in illegal or not. I sure as hell ain't clicking on that shit. I wish that you sick incestuous fucks would arrive the fuck away from the legal web. Remain to the dark snare in the nasty shit like that. Furthermore, I really consider tube sites like Video-One should draw a hard line in the sand against illegal content like this. Level if these aren't true incest videos, why even-tempered guests that they might be? Anything tagged with something like " Real Sister" should be instantaneously removed from your site. This kind of shit, unfortunately, spoils what could have been a great tube site in the me. It should not be on the viewer's sound to view illegal or potentially abusive content. That becomes your responsibility the trice you decide to make a porn site. How the fuck is this a thing that I can't parallel skim via a tube site without worrying with whether or not doing so will get me put on some FBI liber veritatis that I have no business being on? Go on, Video-One, succeed your fucking shit together. Having said that, be careful what you click on if you come to pop this site. If you're okay with sifting end potentially illegal content there is a lot of legit, out material here to enjoy. And, again, a fucking massive amount of it. At to illustrate I was on the site destined 10 minutes more refreshing the homepage. In that 10 minutes, 15 new videos had been uploaded. That's crazy. You'll in no run not at of videos to choose from on Video-One. A Labyrinth of Pornography The site itself is designed pretty navigate Either As away as ads are concerned there are some, but most are thoughtfully kept to the bottom of pages. Which, given the bunch of videos that crop on each page , you'd have to do a hell of a lot of scrolling to till see them. I do conscious that aspect. However , time you do apprehend to them, there are shit load. No ads previously videos, though. You resolution run into the occasional pop-up, new tab ad when you click on a video, but at least it's not every fucking rhythm you click on something like it is on a lot of other sites. I would obviously prefer none , but if I have to search in them, then I guess these ads are a excusable. Into the the majority of the on-page ads are in the other tube sites (which is very convenient if you dearth to get the fuck away from the incest bullshit), and the new tab pop-ups were often pages that were unfit to load in not mode. I'm not sure exactly what this means, but if I can't perceive the ad, I'm happy. A R'{sum Call to Action In You Receive Back to Fappin' To be honest I am in turned off by the potentially illegal content to be found on Video-One. It's a diffidence too, because Video-One has so much potential to be a great porn site with a shit ton of content to pick from. Even if they removed all of their potentially illicit videos, they would still have a massive archive to explore. All of us porn addicts need to loosely together and just stomp this kind of shit out of our community. Vexillum shit that looks sketchy. If you can. Video-One, unfortunately, doesn't put that feature. Step up and take on the fucking responsibilities that come with having a porn site or don't have one. It's as simple as that. All hail the almighty Porn Focus ! The ruler of porn sites! Founded in 2007 close Matt Keezer, who sold it to Fabian Thylmann in 2010, because the fucker probably cared more about the money than the website itself! (Would you refuse of the Manwin branch which is now known as 'Mindgeek'. Other giants in the network include sites like YouPorn and Redtube. Although Porn Hub is currently not the most popular porn site in the world it does hold more pornographic pleasure than any other website doused in the romantic comedy silent 'Don John' of 2013? It's about a fap addict that can't suppress masturbating on porn sites, rhythmical though he has a very active sex life. 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hows the documentary on wilco -- anyone seen it?
It was great to see them playing earlier versions of the songs, as they evolved.
i agree. i liked the album when it came out but i think it wasnt really until recently that i truly appreciated how incredible it is. i have 3 alternate versions of kamera alone plus a whole disc of alt. takes/versions and unused cuts. the movie and the outtakes are really companion pieces to the album. together they really give you a good idea of the whole process that made yhf so great. has anyone else heard any of these outtakes?NOT FOR THE SEASONALONENOTHING UP MY SLEEVEVENUS STOP THE TRAINRHYTHMWONT LET YOU DOWNUNTITLED INSTRUMENTAL #1 & #2or any of the alt. versions of album songs? what does everybody think of the new EP?

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I have tried all kinds of image software Gimp and Photo plus were two that I had recently tried. Gimp is great but could never get used to where all the commands were Photo Plus is ok but they give you half the suite free for life and relentlessly try to up sell you the rest of the software that really make the difference.
Paint.net I have been using for a while now and love it. The core software is free, your time to search and find how you want to customize it is your only cost. Pretty reasonable for this powerful software.
The plugins are very simple to install and you can acquire them right from the Paint.net Forum or you can download my zip file with some of my favorites that I recommend from this post The plugins have been updated and moved further down the thread ~ Ckick to go there
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The AeroPress Coffee Machine: A new concept for an ancient artView gallery - 2 images
January 16, 2006 There's always a better way – ALWAYS! Humans have been consuming coffee for 1200 years, the first coffee shops opened 500 years ago and coffee is the world's second largest traded commodity, behind only oil. More than 1.5 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day with the US market for coffee machines at 20 million a year and growing.
You'd think we would have already perfected the best way to produce a cup of coffee from coffee beans, but several years of research by Stanford University mechanical engineering lecturer Alan Adler (the inventor of the Aerobie flying disk which holds the world throwing record of more than a quarter mile) appear to have found a better coffee machine.
Independent reviews suggest the new Aerobie AeroPress delivers the smoothest, richest, purest and fastest cup of coffee (under 30 seconds) you're likely to find and the bonus is that the AeroPress costs just US$30. And while it might look like a French Press because both use immersion and pressure, it works quite differently.
Human use of coffee originated in Ethiopia more some 1200 years ago, with the first cultivation of coffee in Yemen, the world's first coffee shop opening more than 500 years ago (in Constantinople in 1475), and the first western coffee shops opening some 350 years ago (Italy 1640, Venice, 1652 London, 1672 Paris, 1675 Vienna). Coffee has been big business for a very long time, and surprisingly, is still the world's second largest traded commodity, behind only oil.
Logically, the process of roasting and grinding coffee beans and turning them into a beverage would have long since been perfected. After all, there are more than 1.5 billion cups of coffee prepared every day with the US market for coffee machines at 20 million a year and growing.
We constantly write up new coffee innovations because most of the Gizmag teams exists on a staple diet of coffee and … errr, well, we like coffee … okay! We loved Nestle's take on gourmet coffee creation at home ( Nespresso ) and have subsequently written about the capsule-based single cup brewer market comprised of Nespresso, Senseo, Illy's E.S.E Espresso pods, Keurig, Tassimo et al. We raved about the cleverness of the intelligent coffee drinker's mug and the low-cost simplicity and engenuity of the colour-changing disposable beverage lid because they allenhanced one of our favourite past-times - now we're ultra keen to get our hands on the AeroPress.
The AeroPress is the resulting of years of applied research by inventor/engineer Alan Adler. Adler's numerous brewing experiments demonstrated that proper temperature, total immersion and rapid filtering were the keys to obtaining excellent flavour. He then designed and tested dozens of brewing methods before settling on the AEROPRESS design.
After the methodology was settled, further trials were conducted with different prototypes being tested by households to finalise the design. The full AeroPress story is told in great detail here, complete with explanations of the different brewing methods and the advantages of each.
People see some similarities between the AeroPress and a French Press. Both use total immersion and pressure. But the similarities end there.
The filter in the French Press is at the top of the mixture. Because coffee floats, the floating grounds clog the filter and makes pressing and cleaning very difficult. Users are instructed to use only coarse ground coffee. But this reduces the amount of flavor that can be extracted from the coffee and necessitates long steeping times which extract bitterness.
Furthermore, even coarse ground coffee includes many fine particles. These small particles pass through and around the filter resulting in a bitter, gritty brew. The particles in the brew continue to leach out bitterness. Consequently French press users are advised to drink or decant the brew immediately. Also, some particles clog the filter screen making pressing and cleaning very difficult.
AEROPRESS coffee is micro-filtered. It so pure and particle-free that it can be stored for days as a concentrate. The concentrate can be drunk as espresso, mixed with milk for lattes, or diluted to make American coffee. French presses cannot make espresso or lattes.
Finally, cleaning the French press is quite a chore. The AEROPRESS chamber is self-cleaning. A ten-second rinse of the plunger is all that's required.
Reviews of the Aerobie AeroPress
Firstly, we need to acknowledge our friends at SingleServeCoffee, which not only tested the AeroPress here, but alerted us to the story in the first place. Not wanting to give too much away (because they have an extensive article on the Aeropress), but here's an excerpt: "Delicious. Very non-bitter and always got the flavor of the coffee we were using. We could also depending on the mix time and the amount of time we took pressing the coffee out of the Aeropress get various strengths of coffee. We really enjoyed having almost total control over the type of coffee we produced and it all felt very zen like when you would get in tune with the Aeropress.
We tried various combinations of water temperature, grind, and time to press. In the end we got what we wanted with 176 degrees F water, 30 seconds of mix time, and around 35-40 seconds of press time using a Pete's Coffee or the illy dark espresso pre-ground coffee."
Other coffee sites to have covered the AeroPress in blog fashion include CoffeeGeek and LocalsOnly Coffee
I've been very pleasantly surprised...This thing is really pretty amazing...it accomplishes about the same thing as that Clover thing as far as a short brew time and a cup made "expressly" for each person, but it costs 30 dollars instead of 6000. Coffee Geek
I am pleased to say, it not only has dramatically improved our home brew but also has made it difficult to drink anything else! You must try it to understand why this device is the only coffee maker I will ever own again. Making an AeroPress coffee takes only 30 seconds (start to finish) and best of all, only takes a few seconds to clean! Locals Only Coffee
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At next week's TechEd in Las Vegas, SAP HANA hardware partner Cisco will be presenting a customer session featuring Medtronic, a global leader in medical technology, discussing their recent SAP HANA deployment. As one of the first customers to install SAP HANA on a Cisco Unified Computing System Server Platform (UCS), Medtronic will join Cisco and SAP in a lively discussion to explain how SAP HANA will allow them to stay ahead of their competition through innovation.
Ben Eiref and Ulrich Kleidon from Cisco, Alan Westfall from Medtronic and Greg Monaco from SAP all will discuss the deployment in depth to show how SAP HANA installed on Cisco UCS will help Medtronic to better analyze their business operations, lower their TCO and speed time to market.
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Here's an article from Psychology Today with the headline 'Why atheism will replace religion'.Religion and the concept of God were evolutionary necessities to feed human curiosity and to cope with this mysterious world.Now that we understand our Universe through science and technology,they are no more required thus avoiding many damages done in the name of religion.But how long will it be that atheism will completely overtake Religion?I'm suspicious about it and that certainly is not going to be any time soon.Religion appeals to people's emotions,they serve political purposes as well.Even if people believe that god does not exist,still they will follow their religious practices and the norms.No doubt that Atheism is on rise with the progress in science and technology,the idea of its complete domination is still questionable.But I'm an Optimist.
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It being reasonable to conclude that pragmatism appeared eons before anyone named it, it's reasonable also to conclude that someone found that burying the dead kept their spirits from creating a stink in the community.
I'm sure that's true, but it can't be the whole truth.
I can't let this opportunity pass. Whose evidence, mine or yours, passes the smell test?
It's reasonable to conclude that the more sensitive folk in those ancient communities wanted a story that treated their deceased more delicately.
The more sensitive folk in our present communities certainly do.
It's reasonable to conclude that the more sensitive folk in those ancient communities wanted a story that treated their deceased more delicately.
Putrescine and cadaverine don't seem quite an adequate explanation of the burial customs unearthed in ancient societies and the nearly uniform belief in immortality among them as detailed in Frazer's Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead.
Allan, are you concluding that I think the earliest motives are the only motives?
A friend of mine here at a retirement home for veterans has a bachelor's in engineering. In mid-life he added a masters in psychology.
He knows I have a bachelor's in math, economics and physics, a year of business law, a year of graduate study in math and physics, and have been doing hardball politics for forty years.
FYI, in hardball politics people lose their jobs and occasionally someone loses his life. Wikipedia has the story of the investigative reporter Don Bolles.
My friend refuses to accept, until he sees it in writing, an idea known to every law student and lawyer I've spoken with and a few sociologists.
I call his condition terminal innocence.
I will ask him if he calls my condition terminal cynicism.
The idea he finds so difficult to accept?
That the first purpose of law is to protect those who make the law.
Another possible reason why people believe in god is that Consciousness could be playing a much basic role is deciding the physical outcome,though suspicious yet very much possible.Maybe people call it by the code name 'god'.
Even though non-religion is on the rise in developed countries, eradicating religion I think is unlikely to happen. When examining the people that make up the "Nones" it was found that even when people no longer adhere to a particular religion they often don't identify as atheist since they may have spiritual/supernatural beliefs, possibly ones they've constructed on their own. I know some people like this personally and they have as many problems with organized religion as some atheists.
It may be that it's part of human nature to believe in things regardless of whether they are true or not as long as it fits into a particular worldview and serves to bond a group. Even atheists can believe in claims with little or no evidence. Secularism may one day become dominant in the world, but there would be nothing to prevent it from shifting in the opposite direction since social and economic conditions won't remain the same.
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Breaking the Routine
Use yoga to change habitual patterns preventing us from obtaining what we want most out of life.
All of us have habits that have worked their way into our lives through daily routine. Some are good, some not-so-good, but routine is an important part of our lives. Periodically, however, modifying our routines can bring a fresh blast of new energy.
It can often be traumatizing to let old habits go; not unlike having a good friend move to another part of the world. Some of us get so rooted in habitual patterns, we risk becoming completely unaware of just how stuck we have become. We take on a kind of numbness in the safety of knowing exactly what to expect from day to day.
One of the things yoga practice unveils is a deep understanding of physical patterns. As we start to work with the body, for example, we see how tight our muscles or how sore our joints can become. Often the cause of these physical ailments is habitual physical patterns that can develop into chronic conditions.
Through the course of practicing yoga, I've became aware of many things that simply blew me away. For example, I learned I had osteoarthritis in my hips going back 10 years—nearly no support cartilage in my hip joints. The doctor told me I had the hips of an 80-year-old and I would need hip replacement within five years. That was 10 years ago.
I also discovered the dull, annoying lower back pain bugging me since I was a kid was attributed to bad posture and misalignment in my pelvis. Over the years, I persevered with yoga, coupled with some alternative therapies to get a better understanding of my body and, eventually, these two conditions in particular immensely improved.
I also started to naturally become more aware of my behavioral patterns, some of which manifested in low confidence in certain scenarios, inevitably creating a mixed bag of neurosis when living my day-to-day life. We all have our quirks, but sometimes it helps to take a closer look at how they affect us.
I found as I became more aware of my physical processes, the psychological processes became more evident as well. I found as I corrected my physical posture I also learned to align my conscious mental state of being. Make sense?
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I decided to tell my story on how I came up with this...I have been cutting out expenses and I bought a new car better on gas and pocketbook- It is a stick. I stalled at alight and this guy was going nuts...I caught up to him and told him how sorry I was I got a stick haven't driven one in year etc etc.. He replied I'm such a jerk. People like you have to remind me what a %*T&88 I am - Then I thought how good it would be to start a movement drive it forward.
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Martin O'Malley tells his own story
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who spent 2012 as a top White House surrogate telling an upbeat story about President Barack Obama's record, has turned his attention to pushing a different story: his own.
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In public speeches and private remarks, O'Malley has begun to lay out a more assertive case for himself as a national leader in the Democratic Party, a narrative anchored in his Maryland record and in the state's performance during a deep national recession.
While O'Malley has done nothing to discourage widespread speculation that he's very seriously eyeing a 2016 presidential run, he faces long odds and a Rubik's Cube of political complications — starting with the prospect of a potentially field-clearing bid by either outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or Vice President Joe Biden.
More than most fledgling candidates in embryonic presidential cycles, O'Malley has to move gingerly while at the same time recognizing that the 2016 clock began ticking on Nov. 7.
O'Malley has drawn attention through his day job by pursuing top-of-the-list liberal priorities such as gay marriage and gun reform. But as he begins to wrap up his second term, O'Malley's also loudly trumpeting lower-profile achievements as well: making Maryland's public schools the top-ranked in the nation, lowering the crime rate and cutting billions in state spending.
( Also on POLITICO: Hillary Clinton still deflecting 2016 questions)
His overall theme, Democrats familiar with his pitch say, is results-oriented government — how he and the state of Maryland steered through tough economic times by balancing necessary cuts with long-term investments in education, research and more. It's a story O'Malley has told often during his time as governor; it represents the best case for his leadership role within the party, whether as a presidential candidate or in any other capacity.
O'Malley's "state of the state" address Wednesday will expand on that narrative, according to his chief speechwriter, casting O'Malley as a public-sector Mr. Fix-It whose state weathered the economic downturn better than most. That's a modest message in the age of "The Audacity of Hope," but it's a model of steady competence the party may remember should it turn to a nominee of less superhuman proportions than, say, Clinton.
"We came together and made tough choices so that we'd come out of this recession stronger — choices we made both around our own kitchen tables and through the common platform of our government," speechwriter Steve Rabin wrote in a preview of the speech online. "Did these choices work? Spoiler alert: We're #1 in education, #1 in innovation and #1 in regional jobs recovery."
( Also on POLITICO: What Hillary Clinton's saying about 2016)
In other words: this isn't just yet another Democratic governor, doing what any governor would do in a relatively prosperous state.
An O'Malley adviser said that more aggressively broadcasting his Maryland record was a natural next step for the governor, who's currently better known "as a loyal and persistent fighter for President Obama and an effective [Democratic Governors Association] chair."


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In recent weeks, we have seen a flurry of reports of record or near-record cropland prices across the Corn Belt.
On Oct. 25, an 80.47-acre tract of land in Iowa sold for $21,900 per acre. Earlier in that week, another parcel of prime Iowa farmland sold for $19,100 per acre.
In Nebraska, 1,855 acres were sold on Nov. 8 for $15.13 million or an average of $8,156.33 per acre with some parcels selling in excess of $11,000 per acre.
North Dakota saw an 80-acre parcel of sugar beet and potato farmland going for $800,000 or $10,000 an acre; it too was sold on Nov. 8.
This past week, Drovers Cattle Network reported Indiana and Ohio land sales ranging from $5,817 per acre to $11,194 per acre.
21.9-percent increase
A Corn and Soybean Digest article reported, "Iowa farmland prices have risen steadily in recent years. The value of tillable land jumped an average of 7.7 percent in the state over the past six months, according to a recent farmland survey released by the Iowa Farm & Land Chapter No. 2 Realtors Land Institute. The value of Iowa cropland for potential corn production increased nearly 21.9 percent over the 12 months ended in September, according to the survey."
"North Dakota farmland values rose an average of 14 percent in 2011, according to a survey by the North Dakota Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers," reported a Nov. 9 article in Prairie Business.
According to Farm and Dairy, "data from the Oho Ag Statistics Service shows an increase of 13.6 percent for bare cropland in Ohio for 2012."
The same article said, "the Chicago Federal Reserve Bank and Purdue University both conducted surveys in June 2012 and found that cropland values in Indiana had appreciated 10 percent to18.1 percent from one year ago."
Northern push
But it doesn't stop there. According to a Business Week online article by Alan Bjerga, the increase in farmland prices does not stop at the US northern border; "the promise of a Canadian Corn Belt has helped push farmland values nationwide up 27 percent from 2007 to 2011, to $1,610 an acre…. The northward creep of the Corn Belt is turning Canadian farmland into a long-term investment play on global warming, says Tom Eisenhauer, president of Ottawa-based Bonnefield, a farmland investment firm that owns 15,000 acres across the country."
In some cases in both the US and Canada, those paying these prices are neighboring farmers while in others it is people looking at farmland as an investment. In either situation, the factors driving the willingness to pay higher prices are similar:
High crop prices,
Low interest rates that make investments in bonds unattractive and the taking on of farmland mortgages at these prices possible,
A possible increase in taxes on long-term capital gains in the US provides incentives for land holders to sell land, and
Federal Crop Insurance which can provide stable returns in the case of low prices or production problems.
In addition, high prices have provided some farmers with the cash that they need to continue investing in the purchase of additional acreage.
For US northern tier and southern Canadian farmland, global warming and the introduction of new short-season corn varieties that yield well has allowed high-priced, higher-yielding corn production to supplant the growing of wheat and other small grains.
At the same time, it can be argued that high land prices are driven by underlying fundamentals. In the Farm and Dairy article, "Farmland value and rent outlook 2013," author Barry Ward writes, "with strong balance sheets in spite of the drought, many farmers will continue to be in the land buying mode. The Income Method of Capitalization, an appraiser's method of valuing assets, yields high land valuations based on 2013 projections for returns to land and interest rates….
"For example, using a $287.50 per acre 'return to land' (the midpoint of the projected soybean 'return to land' for 2013) and a 4-percent capitalization rate, farmland would be appraised (valued) at $7,187.50 per acre."
Others are not so sure. In a New York Times article, "Across Corn Belt, Farmland prices keep soaring," authors Ron Nixon and John Eligon write "two Fed surveys and sales data have raised concerns from bank regulators about a potential farmland bubble, similar to the housing frenzy that helped set off the financial crisis. A year ago, rising farmland prices prompted regulators to warn banks not to relax lending standards. In July, the Kansas City Fed held a symposium to discuss concerns about a bubble.
"'Any time you have an asset that doubles in value over a decade, there is cause for concern about how sustainable that growth is,' said Richard A. Brown, chief economist at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation."
Whether current land prices are sustainable or a bubble largely depends on whether recent factors that have positively affected land price increases continue into the future. Interest rates are unlikely to go into the stratosphere in the near future, and there will always be farmers looking add acreage to their farms.
The critical question marks are future crop prices and the ability of revenue insurance to help offset lower grain prices. What if the US produces 3.5-billion to 4-billion additional bushels of corn in each of the next couple years? This could easily happen if corn yields return to trend levels and farmers plant the corn acreage they brought into production the last couple of years.
That would not be a problem if there is a corresponding jump in demand. But demand prospects look much different from what was experienced in the previous five years or so. Clearly corn demand for ethanol will not repeat the explosive growth of earlier years. High feed prices and widespread drought have destroyed a significant portion of prospective livestock feed demand and US exports are likely to be affected as much by our export competitors supplying additional grain as importers demanding more grain.
Revenue insurance provides farmers nearly a "home free" card when crop revenue drops during—or just following—times when grain prices are abnormally high, but provide little to no meaningful protection during extended periods of severely depressed prices.
Two or three years of 14-billion- to 15-billion- bushel corn crops would most likely cause prices to be severely depressed. Since it is unlikely that revenue insurance could be the savior it has been this year and given the political climate for the next farm bill, it is very possible that net income in the years ahead will not support current land prices, let alone further increases in land prices. Then again with continuing weather-based yield shortfalls and the resulting high crop prices…
Daryll E. Ray holds the Blasingame Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Policy, Institute of Agriculture, University of Tennessee, and is the Director of UT's Agricultural Policy Analysis Center (APAC). Harwood D. Schaffer is a Research Assistant Professor at APAC. (865) 974-7407; Fax: (865) 974-7298; email@example.com and email@example.com; http://www.agpolicy.org.


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Joe Girardi batted .500 on two major decisions yesterday, and that was good enough for a Yankees victory even if the smart money wasn't on the plays turning out like they did.
Girardi walked Evan Longoria to load the bases for Rays neophyte Wil Myers in the sixth inning. The rookie hit a go-ahead grand slam off CC Sabathia.
An inning later, Girardi batted the ice-cold Vernon Wells for Chris Stewart with the bases loaded, two outs and the Yankees trailing by a run. Wells rewarded the manager's confidence with a three-run double to right-center.
Girardi's second choice was the key to a 7-5 Yankees victory over the Rays in front of an announced gathering of 46,013 at Yankee Stadium.
Becauae Longoria already had homered and doubled against Sabathia after entering the game batting .356 (16-for-45) against the Yankees' ace with five homers and 11 RBIs, Girardi's call to put Longoria aboard looked like the correct one. Myers, a raw rookie, entered the game hitting .190 (4-for-21) in five big league games.
"In that situation, I am going after the younger kid, and it didn't work out,'' Girardi said.
Wells was in a 9-for-90 slump, hitless in his pas 11 at-bats and not in the starting lineup for the past two games when he smoked a 1-2 fastball from Jake McGee clocked at 96 mph for a bases-clearing double that made a winner out of Sabathia.
It was Wells' first extra-base hit since May 31.
Even though a customer reached over and touched Wells' bouncing hit, the umpires ruled three runs could score because it was spectator interference and not a ground-rule double.
Left fielder Zoilo Almonte went 1-for-2, drove in three runs and walked twice after getting three hits and a homer Friday night in his first major league start.
Sabathia, who gave up five runs and six hits in seven innings, posted a second straight victory to improve to 8-5.
David Robertson worked a perfect eighth and Mariano Rivera recorded the final three outs for his 26th save.
In the sixth-inning jam, Sabathia got ahead of the right-handed hitting Myers, 1-2, with three fastballs that averaged 92.3 mph before Myers hit a 94-mph heater toward the scoreboard in right-center. Brett Gardner jumped into the wall, but just was unable to reach a ball that bounced on top of the fence and into the seats for a grand slam and a 5-3 Rays lead.
"It was a fastball down and away, and he put a good swing on it,'' Sabathia, said. "It got too much of the plate.''
After the Rays gave the Yankees three unearned runs in the first five innings, their bullpen walked three in the decisive seventh. The final one, issued by aspirin-throwing McGee, was to David Adams with the bases loaded and two outs to force in a run and cut the deficit to 5-4.
That's when Girardi called for Wells to hit for Stewart.
The first four pitches to Wells were heaters clocked at 96, 97, 98 and 97 mph. According to Wells, McGee throws his fastball more than 90 percent of the time.
"You can't ignore [non-fastballs], but it's deeper in your mind than other guys because his fastball is so electric,'' Wells said of the pitch he turned into a game-winning jolt.
Wells' extended slump led Girardi to use Almonte in left field for the past two games with Wells on the bench.
"Thankfully, Joe allowed me to get in that situation," Wells said of pinch-hitting. "Anytime you make the Stadium go crazy, it's the fun part of being here."


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The craft beer industry is asking the Legislature to approve the sale of a new size of growlers, which are reusable containers for taking home draft beer.
According to the bill's summary, it is currently legal for craft beer makers to sell 32-ounce and 128-ounce bottles of beer. Beer makers want to make 64 ounces a legal size as well. They say it is a better size for most consumers, holding about four pints.
The 64-ounce growler is the industry standard and is readily available and much cheaper to acquire than 128-ounce and 32-ounce bottles, beer company officials said.
The name "growler" is believed to have originated in the early 20th century due to the rumbling noise made by the carbon dioxide that rattled the lid of beer pails.
The legislation was up before the Senate Regulated Industries Committee on March 14 and has also been referred to three other committees.
I hope this gets passed. I've often wanted to take home a growler from Bold Bean, but the 128 ounce bottle is just too much for me and my wife. I don't want to sound like a lightweight, but a couple of beers in one night is usually more than enough for me. Thursday, March 14, 2013|Report this
Sitting at a table inside Intuition last night, my friends and I just had that same conversation. A gallon of beer is a lot to consume inside a week for a casual drinker.
"What it breaks down to is to get a quality bottle at 64 ounces, like the rest of the nation, is a little bit cheaper than a 32-ounce bottle," said Rob Whyte, whose Fort Myers Brewing Company will have its grand opening Saturday. "Customers don't have to buy two pieces of glass" for the same amount of beer.
http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2013/mar/01/craft-brewers-seek-to-sink-restriction-on-64/ Thursday, March 14, 2013|Report this
The laws hearken back to Prohibition Era politics. Here's an in-depth article:
"The system was intended to prevent vertical integration, in which a single company controls all aspects of a product from manufacture to sale."
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Don't be afraid to post here for a meetup near where you are even if you think nobody else will turn up, you might be pleasantly surprised by someone posting in your thread who was afraid to post :)
If something comes up and you can't make it to a meetup, say in the thread! Although it might feel bad having to tell everyone you can't make it, it's better than people being worried about your having not turned up and having to change plans at the last minute or panicking trying to contact you.
YOUNG MEMBERS! Honestly, it would be a good idea to not go to meet people that you only know over the internet -- we don't - and couldn't - run a background check on members here and it pays to be careful! If you are dead set on going to a meetup, do not go on your own- go with people you already know and are comfortable with and make sure you can leave quickly if you have to.
MINORS! Don't be afraid to mention that you're a minor: It's better to know that the meetup can't be in a drinking establishment beforehand, during the planning stages, than on the day.
Alright! So you've got an idea where you want to meet up? Excellent, put it in the thread title! You've got an idea when you wanna meet up? Excellent, put it in the thread title!
Say for example you wanted to meet up in London sometime towards the end of March next year. A good way to format the thread title would be:
London - Late March 2011
Great! It tells someone looking at the topic title where you want to meet up, and roughly when! However, there are lots of places called London, so it's be super-useful to give a country or state code when you make the title- after all, you wouldn't want to get all excited about a meetup happening in Kentucky only for it to turn out the thread starter meant London, England! So make that clear in the title somehow:
London, OH - Late March 2011
[UK] London - Late March 2011
are both totally acceptable ways to do this. Hooray!
Okay, so you've got the thread title all sorted out, it's time to get on to the main body of the post! Make it informative, useful, and inviting - after all, you want people to both know when and where you want to meet up, and want to turn up! A good example would be something like:
I will be in Toronto on January 9th, would anyone like to meet up for drinks/food? Most of my favourite haunts are around Adelaide & Spadina and anytime after 3pm works for me.
Of course, it's good to make clear exactly how flexible you are- it's better to outright state if you're only going to be somewhere for a single day, rather than just imply it. It's also good to make some kind of indication of when you'll have to head back home, if you have to.
Maybe there is a convention or some event that you're not arranging yourself, but you'll be going to, and you want to see if there will be other people from the forums there too? This is the board you want to post in. The rules are pretty similar to normal meetup threads. What would probably be est is to have the name of the convention/event in the thread title as well as the year, and make sure that in the message body there's a link to more information about the event, Even if it's something everybody's heard of, like SDCC or Dragon*Con. Just like a regular mertup thread, be sure to make clear when you'll be there, for how long, and what sort of stuff you're hoping or planning to get up to. Also mention if you're hoping or planning to do something after the end of the convention, like go out for a meal or go to the park or something.
Threads will be "stickied" (that is, forced to stay at the top of the thread listing, competing only with other "sticky" threads for top space) upon Moderator decision - if you want your thread to be stickied, send a PM to either me, or a Moderator you see online, and we'll make a decision within 24 hours or so. Don't be afraid! We are here to help.
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There's nothing like a relaxing evening at home. There's also nothing like breaking it up with a phone call just before 10:00. Since it was my land line, I figured it was either my mother or some brain surgery patient calling with a question.
Nope, not even close.
"Jeff, this is Officer Don Knotts with the Winneshiek County Sheriff's Department."
Yep, that'll pretty much remove any drowsiness you may have at that hour.
"We have a report of some cattle out in the 3200 block of Highway 9. I looked at the directory here and we show a Roger Ryan and a Jeff Ryan pretty close together in that area, so we figured they might be yours."
Whoa, hold on a minute here, Deputy! You got a call about loose cattle and your default assumption was to peg me as the source? REALLY?! Has it come to that? Did you even look at the map first, or did you kinda ballpark it and assume?
I told Deputy Knotts that I would run out and take a look.
"Okay," he replied. "Usually the best thing for us to do is to call a farmer. You guys all know one another, and whose cattle they are, and you usually know where they're supposed to go, so you can get it figured out better than we can. There's not much we can do from the office here, but if you need us for anything, I mean, don't be afraid to call."
Duly noted. I hope that your evening marathon of Everybody Loves Raymond reruns on TVLand isn't interrupted by other calls. Hate to see you fire up a cruiser to go investigate something and blow the budget clean out of the water.
Off the top of my head, I was puzzled on multiple fronts. I'd been outside not that long before the call and everything was in its place. The feedlot cattle had been fed an hour or two before and seemed quite content. The cowherd had been rotated to a new pasture a couple days before, and it was at the other end of the place, so any escapes from there should have either gone west into Howard County or encountered traffic on the gravel road before they made it to Highway 9.
I hopped on the Polaris Ranger and made a quick trip around my own building site to ease my fears. Everything looked fine. The bunks were lined with dozens and dozens of contented animals with lots of feed in front of them. The gates were all upright and chained shut like they should be. There wasn't even any bellering going on at the moment.
I headed east for a different look. The first thing I saw when I got to the pavement was exactly what I had hoped for. Nothing! No flashing lights, no random headlights or taillights pointed in directions different than the lanes of traffic, and no roaming herd of cattle. I was feeling good, but I was intrigued. Motorists can mistake foxes for dogs and cats for skunks, but they usually don't call in reports of cattle by mistake. Don Knotts didn't give me any details on cattle color, size, type, ear tags or any other distinguishing features. All I knew about them was that they were out, which was enough to get me out the door in a hurry.
With nothing to show yet for my search, I went to headquarters and refueled the Ranger for a potentially longer trip. Then I grabbed a flashlight and a 12-volt spotlight. Another trip around the block yielded nothing. Correction. With my million-candlepower light, I spotted five different raccoons, several cats and dozens of fireflies hovering at cow's-eye-level just to psych me out. What I did not find were skid marks of any kind on the highway; swerving marks on the shoulder; three-point-turn marks on any of the gravel roads; or livestock evidence of any kind. If my cattle were involved, they were in total stealth mode for the whole gig.
Not that I wouldn't put that past them.
Then I decided to head toward Ridgeway. Just before I hit the 3100 block, I saw a couple pickups in the yard of a neighbor. They did not belong to the neighbor. I drove in and found just what I had been looking for the last 45 minutes or so — people in position to herd cattle. You can spot those people right away. Their hands and arms are active and never hang at their sides. They look alert and will whip their head around at the slightest sound or light. They are frequently pointing directions at someone else nearby. Their vehicles are parked completely at random, frequently with the engine running and the lights on. If the door or doors are open, you know the prey is close at hand. Toss in a pair of tall boots on someone who is otherwise not remotely dressed for livestock work and you know the fuse on this bottle rocket has already been lit.
I walked up to the two closest neighbors and got some disappointing news.
"Holstein heifers. They're _________'s." (Another neighbor who lives close by.)
Well that sucks the fun right out of it. Had they been beef cattle, we'd be looking at some serious handling in front of us. Our herding instincts would be put to the test. Beef cattle are rugged individualists. A mind of their own. Free spirits with not a care in the world. No respect for rules or order. It would be like rounding up inmates after a prison break.
Holsteins, on the other hand? Yeah, well, they spend the better part of their life being cared for individually or in small groups. They're friendly animals that see people pretty much every day, multiple times per day. On the prison break scale, they're more like Uncle Clarence slipping out of the nursing home just before mealtime on Pudding Thursday. Even so, the heifers were still loose, so why not put the assembled crowd to good use?
The escapees were currently inside a small pasture around the building site, maybe an acre or two at the most. It was next to the highway and not really designed to hold cattle, so the decision was made to move them into a pen in the nearby feedlot.
We positioned trucks and people and got ready for the herd to be brought to us for their relocation. Whatdyaknow, these Holsteins ran a shade to the independent side! They went in about three different directions as they approached the corner of the barn and should have turned right to enter the feedlot. A few went right, a couple went straight ahead, and one or two others kind of went right and then gave us a Barry Sanders move toward the end and faked their way around the defender/truck to scamper down the field and keep the play alive.
Luck and fences were on our side, though. We repositioned a few items and persons and made another attempt at getting them in the feedlot, this time coming from the opposite direction. All but one of the 20 Holsteins were now in the feedlot. Another trip around the block of buildings and she was also back in the herd.
Then we got down to the real business of the evening — telling stories about all of our respective cattle gatherings, handlings, un-gatherings and mishandlings. The consensus was that this stuff is way more fun when the corn is knee-high rather than cab-high; it's better in the daylight; and it's better in direct proportion to the proximity of the pavement. Sirens and flashing lights just add pressure, not advantage.
We also got around to the fact that no law enforcement ever showed up to help or even provide plenty of intermittent, multicolored light. That's when I told them about the call I got and how Deputy Knotts just assumed the cattle were mine. That was met with ZERO surprise from all corners.
"Oh, yeah . . . yours were out on the highway before, weren't they?"
People, people, PEOPLE! C'mon, that was TWELVE YEARS AGO! One time. One dead critter. One totaled car. And now there's apparently a big circle drawn all the way around me for a couple of miles at the Law Enforcement Center (and mentally in the heads of my neighbors, it appeared). The circle probably has a red flag push pin in the center with a note: "Chances are, this is the guy to call."
So go ahead, make my day.
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Condensation in the summer heat is a vile byproduct of an icy beverage. Unpleasant to the hand. Devastating to wood surfaces. You must use a coaster, but the condensation is so strong its surface tension lifts most coasters right off the bar. Then again, the Blanco Sandstone Coaster is not like most coasters.
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It's a coaster, you animal. Use it. Like your mother told you.
Who's It For?
Thirsty summer guzzlers for whom no water is too icy, no beer too cold.
It's a porous, hydrophilic 4-inch square rock with four foam feet at each corner. It leaves no scratch as it slides across furniture. It sucks condensation from the base of a frosty glass. It is a triumph of geologic engineering. Or it's just a rock. Whatever. It works really well.
Using It
Fill a glass with the best ice cubes of all time. Go crazy. Clear out the freezer. Pour a drink. Center the drinking glass directly on top of the coaster between sips.
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It doesn't stick to the bottom of the glass every time you take a drink. Use this coaster, and you will never again stoop to retrieve a sopping disk that has once again fallen to the floor.
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The coaster can only absorb so much condensation. Past the saturation point, dry-out times can be quite lengthy.
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No matter how many of these you have lying around, you still have to tell guests to use them.
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Unless you prefer lukewarm beverages or decorate your furniture with discolored rings, yes.
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Artist, educator, inventor and naturalist, Charles Franklin Reaugh (1860-1945) is one of the Southwest's earliest and most distinguished artists. Acknowledged as the "Dean of Texas Artists," Frank Reaugh (pronounced Ray) devoted his career to visually documenting the vast, unsettled regions of the southwest in pastel and paint as he had experienced it before the turn of the century.
"It is my hope that my pictures portraying those times, aside from any artistic merit that they may possess, will tell their story, and will be preserved because of historical value; for the steer and the cowboy have gone, the range has been fenced and plowed, and the beauty of the early days is but a memory."
Frank Reaugh
December, 1936.
In 1876, at the age of fifteen, Frank Reaugh moved with his family by covered wagon from rural Southern Illinois to Terrell, Texas, thirty miles east of Dallas. There, on the family's cotton farm, Reaugh developed his artistic skills by copying the works of European masters from magazines and from illustrations found in large-animal anatomy books. In the early 1880's, Reaugh met cattlemen Frank and Romie Houston who provided a once in a lifetime opportunity for Reaugh to ride with them during the great round-up. Both men exposed him to the realities and the romance of those golden years on the trail and may have extended financial support to further his artistic studies. Between 1884 and 1889, Reaugh attended fine arts schools in St. Louis and Paris; exposure to fine examples of the pastel medium at the Louvre greatly influenced his development. In 1890, he moved with his family to the new and growing community of Oak Cliff, south of Dallas. There, Reaugh and his father built a metal studio building in the back yard called "The Ironshed." Over the next decade, Reaugh's work would gain attention and deserved national recognition through juried and invitational art exhibitions such as the Chicago (1893) and St. Louis (1903) World Fairs.
The Dean
For the arts communities of Terrell and Dallas, Texas, Frank Reaugh was both a model artist and an influential arts educator. Many of Reaugh's students (and artistic peers), such as Reveau Bassett, Olin Travis, Edward G. Eisenlohr, Alexander Hogue and Oscar Griffith, gained regional and national prominence in the early twentieth century. The Frank Reaugh Art Club, The Dallas School of Fine Arts and especially the Striginian Club were both educational and social organizations that strongly advocated for a greater awareness of and appreciation for "nature's design and nature's laws."
By 1906, students were traveling West on sketching trips with Reaugh on what would become annual events; first by horse, mule and wagon and later by automobile. In 1920, Frank Reaugh's custom built, open-air Ford touring bus, nicknamed Cicada made its maiden voyage west and continued to be employed for almost two decades on annual sketch trips that ranged from the Texas Panhandle south to Big Bend and west to sites in New Mexico and Arizona.
Reaugh's Renaissance
". . . No other medium can so truthfully give the freshness and bloom of childhood complexion, or the feeling of air in landscape. . . . Pastels are particularly suited to outdoor sketching. One advantage is readiness. The palette is set. The colors are mixed. . . . All this makes for speed: the essential in landscape sketching, where effects are fleeting. . . . Nature's beauty of design is matchless. Man's invention compares with it much as his feats of engineering compare with the motion of the stars."
From the brochure Pastel, published in 1927 by The Reaugh Studios, Dallas, Texas.
Frank Reaugh and his associates manufactured boxed pastels, special coated papers and patented "lap easels" for retail and mail order sales to budding artists all over the Southwest.
Over his lifetime, Frank Reaugh invented a number of useful and imaginatively novel tools for artists, such as a folding lap easel and a compact carrying case for pastels. Reaugh also created and marketed his own brand of pastels, blended to color match the region's native flora. Each pastel was cast in a hexagonal shape for ease of handling and packing in the field.
Like any artist, Reaugh had specific ideas about a functional and well-designed studio environment. In 1928-1929, Reaugh built his now famous concrete and stucco studio, El Sibil (the Vault) which still stands at the corner of Fifth and Crawford Streets overlooking Lake Cliff Park, south of Dallas. Influenced by Southern Mediterranean and Mayan architecture, El Sibil contained a storage vault for paintings, a studio and music performance space, classrooms and living quarters. The open air Cicada art bus, which carried Reaugh and his intrepid crew of art students thousands of miles throughout the Southwest on sketching trips, was "Reaugh-designed" from its Model T Ford frame up. It contained fold-out seats for sleeping and a chuck box at the rear for camp cooking as well as storage for water, gas, and trip supplies, limited to 30 pounds per person. The roof carried the autographs and graffiti of artist and student passengers. Reaugh also invented a number of industrial items such as the Limacon Pump, a revolutionary rotary design whose variations could pump air, oil and water for a variety of industrial uses. The pump and the lap easel designs both carried U.S. patents.
The Frank Reaugh Collection
"I came to know Frank Reaugh along in the 1930's on his visits to Austin from Dallas, chaperoned by some admiring lady. He was bent on having the University of T(e)x(a)s accept a collection of his longhorn pictures. . . . He saw the longhorn as a rather exquisite animal, not rangy at all. While beautiful and distant, his longhorns (boldly) suggest open ranges, ranches and ranch people associated with them. . . ."
J. Frank Dobie
April 20, 1963.
During the late 1930's, Frank Reaugh searched earnestly for an institution in the Southwest to exhibit and preserve his art work. In 1937, eight years before his death, he gave a portion of his private collection of pastel and oil paintings to The University of Texas at Austin. Historians J. Frank Dobie and J. Evetts Haley admired Reaugh and included him in their publications.
The Ransom Center holds over 200 art works created by Frank Reaugh including pastel landscapes, charcoal sketches, pen and ink drawings, and oil paintings. Subjects include Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming landscapes; rural buildings and fences; ruins of Fort McKavitt; various domestic and wild animals including Longhorns; detailed studies of native flora; dramatic weather conditions; and the large-scale series of seven pastel drawings titled Twenty-four Hours with the Herd.
Access to the Harry Ransom Center Collections:
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Other Frank Reaugh Resourses & Public Collections
The Briscoe Center for American History
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University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
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The Panhandle Plains Museum
2503 4th Avenue
Canyon, Texas 79015
(806) 656-2244
The Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas 75201
(214) 922-1200 Fax: (214) 954-0174
The Dallas Public Library
1515 Young Street
Dallas, Texas 75201
(214) 670-1400
The State Preservation Board
The Texas State Capitol
PO Box 13286
Austin, Texas 78711
(512) 463-5495 Fax: (512) 463-3372
Bywaters Special Collections
Hamon Arts Library
Southern Methodist University
6100 Hillcrest Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75275-0356
(214) 768-2894 Fax: (214) 768-1800
National Ranching Heritage Center
Frank Reaugh Collection (1906–1945)
Texas Tech University
3121 4th Street
Box 43200
Lubbock, Texas 79409
(806) 742-0498
The Handbook of Texas Online
Listing for Charles Franklin Reaugh
The Bryan Museum
1315 21st Street
Galveston, Texas 77550
(409) 632-7685
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"To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace." - Oscar Wilde
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Tombstone Tuesday: The Very Reverend Daniel William Cahill, D.D.
Daniel William Cahill, D.D. (Doctor of Divinity), a Catholic Priest, was born in 1796 in Queen's County, Ireland. After completing studies at Maynooth, he was ordained, and for a time served as a professor in Carlow College. He was a noted orator and lecturer in Chemistry and Astronomy, the author of many pamphlets, and for a brief period, the editor of a Dublin newspaper. He removed to the United States, and died in Boston 28 October 1864. In 1885 his remains were returned to Ireland, and interred in Glasnevin Cemetery, Dublin. In 1887, as a symbol of grateful recognition of Doctor Cahill's service to Ireland, his compatriots erected this statue over his grave.
Copyright© J.Geraghty-Gorman 2011.
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O'Hart, John. Irish Pedigrees; or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation, Murphy & McCarthy, Dublin, 1923.


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When you have bulk mail to send to people on your Outlook contact list, you can use mail merge in Word. An Outlook contact list can be used as a data source for mail merge. The contact list is an address book that is used to capture and organize information about people.
Perform a mail merge using an Outlook contact list
The most important step in the mail merge process is to setup and prepare your data for mail merge. An Outlook contact card can contain basic information—a name, an email address, and additional information such as a street address, phone number, and photo. To add more contacts to your Outlook address book, see Add a contact.
Once your Outlook contact list is ready, follow the steps below to perform a mail mergewithWord.
In the Outlook Contacts folder, on the Home tab of the Ribbon, choose Mail Merge.
In the Mail Merge Contacts dialog box select the options you want. then choose the Document type you want to create. Click OK.
If you only want to mail merge to selected contacts, choose the Only selected contacts radio button. You'll have to have selected those contacts before you got to this point though, so if you didn't then choose Cancel, go back to the Contacts folder, select them and start again at step 1.
If you've already got a Word merge document created and saved, change the radio button to Existing document and specify it. Otherwise leave the New document radio button checked and Word will prompt you to create one when you get to step 3.
If you plan to use this list again in the future, check the Permanent file box and give your contacts file a name to save it. This is especially handy if you have selected a specific set of contacts to merge and will want to reuse that set without having to manually select them each time.
Microsoft Word will open. Depending upon the options you chose in step 2 you will either have your pre-created merge document or a new, blank, one. Type any text that you would like to have appear on every one of your merged documents.
Note: If you want more help with the mail merge process, on the Mailings tab, in the Start Mail Merge group, chooseStart Mail Merge>Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard. You can refer to the information in this article when you reach Step 3 in the Mail Merge Wizard, Select recipients.
Insert mail merge fields that pull information from the Outlook contacts list into your document.
Notes: Examples of mail merge fields include:
Address Block. Use to add a recipient's full name and address from your Outlook contact list to a letter or an email.
On the Mailings tab, in the Write & Insert group, choose Address Block.
Greeting line. Use to add a greeting (such as Dear Ms. Mills) to a letter or an email.
On the Mailings tab, in the Write & Insert group, choose Greeting Line.
For more information about adding merge fields from your Outlook contacts, see Insert mail merge fields.
When your documentis ready, choosePreview Results, and then choose the Next or Previous record button to see each specific copy of the document.
To complete the merge process, in the Finish group, choose Finish & Merge, and then choose Print Documents or Send E-mail Messages.
Save your mail merge
When you save the mail merge document, it stays connected to your datasource.
To reuse your mail merge document
Open the mail merge document and choose Yes when Word prompts you to keep the connection.
To edit your mailing list
Open the mail merge document and choose Edit Recipient List to sort, filter, and choose specific addresses.
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