No Thanks. I Got This.

Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rules – November 6, 2015 (HBO)

YUCK!

I love coffee, but I'm not a coffee fanatic.  As I've shared recently, you can't find brewed American coffee here, so I've learned to love instant coffee.

No eye rolling allowed coffee snobs!

You, too, would learn very quickly how to enjoy this instant brew if that was your only choice.

Anyway, some folks have come up with another way to consume coffee - a gummy bear like cube.

Can't say I'd run and try these.

What do you think?

Blue-Eyed Soul Singing Honky Tonk

I've always liked country music, even though many of the good 'ol boys who sing it leave a lot to be desired.  I can probably blame this affinity on Texas, too.

The thing is, I think country music is one of the best genres when it comes to telling a story in 3-4 minutes.

Check out this duet below singing "Drink You Away," which is technically not country, but it fits right in with the twangy crowd.

He's the Epitome of Resiliency

This is a wonderful article about an unlikely kid who grew up to play in the NFL.

Interestingly, he has ties to Sacramento.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/08/sports/football/lorenzo-mauldin-new-york-jets-keeps-bouncing-back.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=Moth-Visible&module=inside-nyt-region&region=inside-nyt-region&WT.nav=inside-nyt-region&_r=0

Lessons In Equal Pay From Kids

Amazing Eggshell Carvings

From The Daily Good - 

Former Prisoner Depicts Life Behind Bars With Astonishing Eggshell Carvings

by Rafi Schwartz

Artist Gil Batle had spent more than two decades of his 53 years shuffling through California’s penal system, including prison time spent in San Quentin, Jamestown, and Chuckawalla Valley for a variety of nonviolent offenses. There, his natural artistic ability was put to use drawing and tattooing—skills that served Batle well by impressing his fellow inmates. Now free, Batle has been documenting his experience behind bars in a series of pieces done in a medium as delicate and fragile as prison life can be hard and unyielding: eggshells. 

http://magazine.good.is/articles/eggshell-prison-art-gil-batle?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood

Doing the Right Thing

DADDY DON'T GO TRAILER from Pureland Pictures on Vimeo.

Experience Cuba in 360-degrees (English)

http://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/cuba360/?csp=travel

Mormons Preferred

From Atlas Obscura - 

An excerpt -

A few years back, when the Pew Research Center surveyed Mormons in America about their place in society, more than 60 percent of the participants said that Americans “are uninformed about Mormonism.” Mormons make up about 2 percent of the American population—about the same as Jews—but they’re not sure that the rest of the country quite understands or accepts them. Overwhelmingly, most Mormons described misperceptions about their religion or “lack of acceptance in American society.”

But there’s at least one place in American society where Mormons have found an unusual degree of acceptance—in agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA, which see Mormons as particularly desirable recruits and have a reputation for hiring a disproportionate number of people who belong to the church. 

And another - 

But, in reality, Mormons end up in these agencies for perfectly logical reasons. The disproportionate number of Mormons is usually chalked up to three factors: Mormon people often have strong foreign language skills, from missions overseas; a relatively easy time getting security clearances, given their abstention from drugs and alcohol; and a willingness to serve.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-mormons-make-great-fbi-recruits?utm_source=Atlas+Obscura&utm_campaign=dd4aa2b9b9-Newsletter_11_5_201511_4_2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_62ba9246c0-dd4aa2b9b9-59905913&ct=t(Newsletter_11_5_201511_4_2015)&mc_cid=dd4aa2b9b9&mc_eid=866176a63f

MARWENCOL official theatrical trailer

http://www.wired.com/2011/04/marwencol/

Hidden Cameras + Rising Temps = A Social Experiment | Upworthy Original ...

Dude, Put a Shirt On!

Foot Care

No Hiding

Forwarded email - H/T Forrest

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Ever wonder how they found the Boston bombers in just a few days? 

 

This may help you to understand what the government is looking at. This photo was taken in Canada and shows about 700,000 people. Hard to disappear in a crowd.     

Pick on a small part of the  crowd click a couple of times -- wait -- click a few more times and see how clear each individual face will become each time. 

Or use the wheel on your mouse.  This picture was taken with a 70,000 x 30,000 pixel camera  (2100 Mega  Pixels.).  

These cameras are not sold to the public and are being installed in strategic locations. The camera can identify a face among a multitude of people. 

 

Place your computer cursor in the mass of people and double-click a couple times. 

Scary sharp!!  

Not so easy to hide in a crowd anymore.

 

  

http://www.gigapixel.com/mobile/?id=79995

Is It Sad or Liberating or Both?

Although I wasn't over 50 when it happened, divorce was liberating for me.  

From The New York Times - 

In 2014, people age 50 and above were twice as likely to go through a divorce than in 1990, according to the National Center for Family and Marriage Research at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. For those over 65, the increase was even higher. At the same time, divorce rates have plateaued or dropped among other age groups.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/your-money/after-full-lives-together-more-older-couples-are-divorcing.html?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Vox%20Sentences%2011.3.15&utm_term=Vox%20Newsletter%20All&_r=0

How 'Bout a Razor Instead?

He Understood the Power of Photography

Courtesy of W. W. Norton

Frederick Douglass's Faith in PhotographyHow the former slave and abolitionist became the most photographed man in America. 

By Matthew Pratt Guterl 

An excerpt - 

An excerpt -

Douglass, we learn in Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography of the Nineteenth Century’s Most Photographed American, was convinced of the importance of photography. He wrote essays on the photograph and its majesty, posed for hundreds of different portraits, many of them endlessly copied and distributed around the United States. He was a theorist of the technology and a student of its social impact, one of the first to consider the fixed image as a public relations instrument. Indeed, the determined abolitionist believed fervently that he could represent the dignity of his race, inspiring others, and expanding the visual vocabulary of mass culture. 

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123191/frederick-douglasss-faith-photography?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=TNR%20Daily%20Newsletter

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123191/frederick-douglasss-faith-photography?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=TNR%20Daily%20Newsletter

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123191/frederick-douglasss-faith-photography?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=New%20Campaign&utm_term=TNR%20Daily%20Newsletter

A Game Changer?

From The Daily Good - 

New Paint Kills Hospital Pathogens

by DJ Pangburn

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Maintaining a controlled, sterile environment in hospitals is vital for both routine and life-saving medical care. One way of fighting hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) is to apply robust paint or epoxy layers on walls and floors that can be easily and repeatedly cleaned to keep bacteria out.

In addition to preventing the spread of bacteria and viruses, paints used in healthcare facilities have low or zero volatile organic compounds (VOCs) so that patients aren’t breathing in harmful chemical compounds. But paint manufacturer Sherwin-Williams just upped the ante with Paint Shield, a new paint created in collaboration with microbiologists that kills more than 99.9 percent of “Staph (Staphylococcus aureus), MRSA, E. coli, VRE, and Enterobacter aerogens after two hours of exposure on a painted surface.”

http://magazine.good.is/articles/sherwin-williams-bacteria-killing-paint?utm_source=thedailygood&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailygood

Soul Patches, Explained