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Major marketers and their properties, agency companies, digital ventures and award winners.
Marketer Trees 2015 Update (December 2015)
Profiles, ad spending, brands, agencies and executives of the 100 Leading National Advertisers 2015.
Archived editions: June 2015 • December 2014 • June 2014 • Dec. 2013 • June 2013 • Dec. 2012 • June 2012 • Dec. 2011 • June 2011 • Dec. 2010 • June 2010 • Dec. 2009 • June 2009 • Dec. 2008
Agency Family Trees 2015
Holdings of the world's 50 largest agency companies.
Archived editions: 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008
Global Marketers 2015
Biggest advertisers by media spending in more than 90 markets.
Archived editions: 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010
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Digital ventures of major media and agency companies. Data on digital marketing.
Archived editions: 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008
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The definitive online tally of the best agencies, brands, creatives, production companies and directors, according to a weighted tabulation of the major advertising awards shows. Available only to subscribers of Ad Age's Creativity. Archived editions: 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008
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Worldwide and U.S. marketing spending
200 Leading National Advertisers 2015
200 LNA archive 1997 to present
Comprehensive ad spending estimates, most-advertised brands, U.S. ad spending totals and more.
Marketer Trees 2015 Update (December 2015)
Ad Age's interactive database of the 200 Leading National Advertisers, including profiles and analysis, ad spending, brands, agencies and key executives.
Top 200 Megabrands
Ranking of biggest-spending brands based on U.S. measured-media spending.
BtoB 100
2014 ad spending for 100 largest U.S. business-to-business advertisers (August 2015).
Archived edition: 2013 spending (August 2014).
Global Marketers 2015
Global Marketers archive 1997 to present
World's largest advertisers by measured media; the 10 largest advertisers by country.
Advertising to sales ratios by industry 1997 to present
From Schonfeld & Associates.
Coen's annual spending totals 1997 to 2002
Historical data from Robert J. Coen, Interpublic Group's veteran ad forecaster. See current data in 100 Leading National Advertisers section.
About Ad Age's advertising spending data
Leading National Advertisers
Advertising Age has ranked 100 Leading National Advertisers since 1956. Links above show rankings from 1997 to present.
Rankings are based on measured-media ad spending plus Ad Age DataCenter's estimate of unmeasured spending. Unmeasured spending represents the difference between media monitored by research companies and total U.S. advertising and promotional spending for the year.
For most years, the ranking is accompanied by profiles of the100 LNA. Profiles now can be found in Ad Age's interactive databases. Earlier reports were published in the print edition of Advertising Age and in PDF format.
WPP's Kantar Media and predecessor firms have been the primary source of measured media data for the 100 LNA.
In addition to the LNA ranking of companies, Ad Age ranks the most-advertised U.S. brands. For these megabrand rankings, Ad Age aggregates all measured spending for a given brand. Recent megabrand annual rankings are published within the 100 LNA reports. Earlier rankings ran quarterly, and later twice a year, in Ad Age beginning May 21, 1990. Data are measured media only, analyzed by Ad Age, using significant basic data from WPP's Kantar Media.
Global Marketers
Ad Age published the first listing of the world's top 100 marketers, ranked by measured media, Dec. 14, 1987. In some years the ranking ran in Ad Age's then-sibling publications Advertising Age International and, later, Ad Age Global. Editions from 1998 to present are here. Data are compiled from local sources including WPP's Kantar Media, Nielsen, Ibope, PARC and others. The 10 largest advertisers by country also are ranked within the report.
Coen figures
Robert J. Coen, retired senior VP-director of forecasting at Interpublic Group of Cos, compiled advertising spending estimates by medium. Some of his historic data are shown here.
Advertising to Sales Ratios
Schonfeld & Associates supplied Ad Age with advertising-to-sales ratios by industry beginning Oct. 3, 1977. Similar data were run in Ad Age as far back as Dec. 29, 1969, from various sources.
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Rankings and analysis of agency companies, agency networks and agencies
Agency Report 2015
Agency Report archive 1998 to present
A global overview of the agency business. Includes advertising, media, digital, CRM/direct, promotion, PR and specialty agencies.
Agency Family Trees 2015
An interactive database that breaks out holdings of the world's 50 largest agency companies.
Agency Report Questionnaires
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About Ad Age's agency data
The earliest Advertising Age data ranking agencies dates from 1943. Rankings initially appeared as the Agency Billings Report, then Agency Gross Income Rankings and most recently as the Agency Report.
Data on this site begin with the 1998 edition, which includes figures for 1996 and 1997.
Multi-tiered rankings
Agencies and agency companies are ranked on several levels.
Agency companies (sometimes holding companies) are the top level. This level may include independent agencies if they are of sufficient size.
Consolidated agency networks are the second level. These generally are branded, multinational networks, owning shops offering a variety of services.
The third level ranks agencies (or agency brands), often by discipline and without regard to the sibling shops in the same ranking.
A consolidated agency network may share the same name as an agency brand. But in the agency brand level, subsidiaries are stripped out of the network so that each each branded shop has an opportunity to be ranked. This offers a more granular level of analysis.
Rankings by discipline and the 75% rule
Rankings also include specialty disciplines, such as digital, search, direct, promotion, media, health care, African-American, Hispanic and Asian.
To keep rankings as equitable as possible, Ad Age uses the following rule: If an agency produces 75% or more of its revenue from a specific discipline, it will be shown ranked at 100% of its revenue in that specialty ranking. If revenue from the discipline is less than 75%, the agency will be ranked only by the percentage of its revenue produced by work in that specialty.
Overlap by discipline is allowed. For example, a 100% digital agency may have revenue from search representing only 25% of its total. The agency would be ranked among digital shops at 100% of its revenue. Among search-marketing agencies, the agency would only qualify to be ranked at 25% of its revenue.
Agency surveys
Rankings are based on Ad Age's widely distributed surveys of advertising agencies. Agencies are asked to provide Ad Age with revenue figures, employee data, specialties, clients lists and more.
From these surveys, agencies are ranked in many categories including multicultural, healthcare, and in some years, media billed.
However, in response to the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, many publicly traded agency companies declined to disclose financial information by agency beyond what they published in annual reports, the Form 10-K and other public documents and filings.
Beginning with the 2003 edition, Ad Age editors estimated the revenue figures by agency for these companies. In most cases, when agency estimates appear in rankings, the agency name is accompanied by an asterisk.
Here's the most recent Ad Age Agency Report Questionnaire.
Revenue (or gross income) versus billings
Early reports ranked agencies by capitalized billings, essentially the addition of three components: 1) costs for media space and time bought by the agency, 2) costs for materials and services charged to the client (including the markup) and 3) any flat fees charged by the agency, multiplied by 6.67 (the inverse of 15%, the assumed media commission paid to agencies at the time). This was sometimes known as volume, but most commonly know as just billings.
Subsequent studies began to include what were sometimes called non-traditional agencies--companies offering direct marketing, promotion and other services. Because the companies tended not to buy media, the idea of capitalized billings became unwieldy. (These agencies did business on a fee or revenue basis. The process of "grossing up" those fees, so they might be akin to media billings, made it difficult to produce accurate and equitable rankings.
Moreover, agencies either began to buy media for clients for a fee on a pass-through basis or, with the emergence of media specialist agencies, not buy or plan media at all.
Ad Age began ranking agencies by revenue (then called gross income) in 1972. The three components of revenue/gross income are 1) the commission on media, 2) the markup on materials and services and 3) flat fees charged to the client.
Media specialists
Media buying and planning duties migrated from ad agencies to media specialist agencies during the 1990s. The first ranking of media specialist agencies was published in Ad Age April 19, 1999, in that year's Agency Report.
Early media specialist rankings were by billings and after 2002 were based on data from RECMA, a Paris-based research company. Beginning with the 2008 edition of the Agency Report, these rankings are by revenue and based on Ad Age estimates or agency reporting.
Marketing-services agencies
Ad Age first ranked direct marketing agencies (at times referred to as direct response) March 26, 1987, in the Agency Report (however, Ad Age published rankings of direct shops as early as April 16, 1984, from the Direct Marketing Association); sales promotion agencies were first ranked April 4, 1988; digital agencies (initially called interactive agencies) July 26, 1999; and search agencies Nov. 6, 2006, in the Search Marketing Fact Pack.
These specialized agencies over the years began to merge, combine disciplines and offer other services such as event planning, customer relationship management and in-store marketing. Sometimes known as marketing services agencies, ranked agencies are now incorporated within Ad Age's annual Agency Reports.
Agencies outside the U.S.
Rankings of agencies outside the U.S began April 27, 1959, with 72 shops, all listed in a single table.
Later rankings showed agencies by country.
At their peak in 2002, these rankings included more than 1,500 agencies in 124 countries. By this point, at least one-third of agencies ranked in the international report were owned by or affiliated with large agency holding companies. In reponse to Sarbanes-Oxley, many public companies in recent years have declined to provide detailed financial data. Ad Age published the last of these reports in its print edition April 22, 2002.
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Facts on digital media and marketing
25 largest U.S. search-marketing advertisers in 2013
Amazon Tops List of Google's 25 Biggest Search Advertisers.
Mobile Marketing Fast Facts 2014
From U.S. mobile ad-spending forecasts to subscribers by carrier: Data on the mobile market in the U.S.
Digital Family Trees 2013
Digital ventures of major media and agency companies. Archived editions: 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008. The 2012, 2011 and 2010 editions included general data on digital market and social media.
Mobile Fact Pack 2013
Guide to mobile marketing. Includes ad spending by format, leading platforms, OEMs, penetration, consumer behavior and Ad Age DataCenter's ranking of agencies by U.S. revenue from mobile activities. Archived editions: 2012
Surveys about Facebook and Twitter: see Surveys section.
Digital Marketing 2011
Data on mobile market and online video.
Search Marketing 2009
Guide to search marketing. Includes search-engine market share, top keywords, online retail drivers and more. Search Marketing reports 2006 to 2009
Digital Marketing and Media Fact Pack 2007
Ad Age's 52-page guide to data on the digital world. In PDF format. Stats on online video, blogs, mobile and more.
Interactive Marketing and Media Fact Pack 2006
Includes demographics, advertisers, agencies, creative awards and more.
About digital
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U.S. industry employment stats and archived compensation reports
Ad industry jobs
Monthly data on U.S. advertising and media employment, 2000 to present. In Excel. Compiled by Ad Age DataCenter from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Executive compensation reports, 1999 to 2008
Ad Age's archived surveys of executive salaries and compensation trends in advertising, marketing and media. Includes top executive pay by industry category.
About jobs data
Ad Age DataCenter's monthly analysis of advertising and media employment based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Excel sheet shows monthly jobs data from 2000 to present.
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Data on media companies and media properties. For more media data, click on Advertising Spending, Digital and Survey sections.
Prime-time broadcast TV pricing survey, 2014-2015 Price for 30-second commercial on prime-time TV. Archived editions: 2013-2014 • 2012-2013 • 2011-2012 • 2010-2011 • 2009-2010 • 2008-2009
TV market facts and forecasts 2011
Ad Age's coverage on the 50-year mark of Newton Minow's "vast wasteland" speech.
Media companies
100 Leading Media Companies 2012
100 Leading Media Companies reports 1997 to 2012
The nation's largest media companies based on net U.S. media revenue. Ad Age produced this report through 2012.
Media Family Trees 2012
Nation's largest media companies by net U.S. media revenue. Includes significant TV, cable, print and digital holdings. Ad Age produced Media Family Trees through 2012.
Print media
Publishers Information Bureau, 2001 to 2014
Rankings of magazines by ad pages and dollars.
Magazine circulation rankings, 1998 to 2013
Semi-annual rankings of magazines by average circulation.
Newspaper circulation rankings, 1999 to 2013
Semi-annual rankings of newspapers by average circulation.
Magazine 300 reports, 1998 to 2008
Archived reports on Ad Age's ranking of 300 biggest U.S. magazines by gross revenue.
Consumer magazine linage, 1996 to 2004
Quarterly rankings of magazines by ad space sold.
Media markets
Ten Hot Media Markets, an archive
Ranking of the 10 largest media markets by media revenue per household. Most recently published: July 24, 2000.
About Ad Age's media data
100 Leading Media Companies
Advertising Age produced the 100 Leading Media Companies ranking from 1981 through 2012. Links on AdAge.com show data from 1997 through 2012.
Ad Age ranked media companies by estimated annual net U.S. media revenue. Subrankings included largest companies by medium (TV, radio, cable, newspaper, magazine, etc.) and biggest properties by medium. Early editions of the 100 Leading Media Companies featured profiles of the companies and lists of all media properties.
Magazine 300
The Magazine 300 ranking first appeared in Ad Age in June 18, 1990, and ran through 2008. Data on this site go back to 1997.
The 300 largest U.S. magazines are ranked by estimated gross revenue, a figure that includes gross advertising revenue and gross circulation revenue. Subrankings often include breakouts of largest titles by sector (business, consumer, technology) and by ad revenue, ad revenue growth, ad pages and ad page growth.
For these reports, publishers were given data on which to comment and amend where appropriate. But primary sources (shown below) are generally used.
Newspaper and magazine circulation rankings in Ad Age Datacenter are available from 1998 through 2013 for six-month periods. Earlier data ran in print editions of Ad Age.
Ad Linage and Publishers Information Bureau
This series of consumer magazine ad linage reports was first published in Ad Age in Jan. 21, 1946. Data on this site go back to 1996. Magazines were surveyed quarterly by Advertising Age until the third quarter of 2004. More recent linage data are available on this site from PIB through 2014. PIB data include ad dollar revenue estimates by publication.
Media Markets
A ranking of the ten largest media markets by media revenue per household was last printed in Ad Age in 2000.
Top 100 Markets
Rankings on the Top 100 overall markets by population began Dec. 15, 1975, and ran annually until Dec. 8, 1986, in the print edition. They include data on media, retail spending and disposable income.
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State of the industry. Ad Age's annual reports, 2002 to present
(Some Fact Packs sold separately.)
Annual 2016
Key stats and rankings; quick access to facts on marketers, media, agencies and jobs. Archived editions: 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2007
Digest-sized annual Fact Packs for 2003 to 2006 with links to comprehensive reports on advertisers, media and agencies. In PDF format. Archived Fact Packs: 2006 • 2005 • 2004 • 2003/2002
Hispanic Fact Pack, 2004 to present
Hispanic Fact Pack 2015
Ad Age's annual guide to the U.S. Hispanic market. Includes ad spending, agencies, creative awards and demographics. Archived editions: 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008 • 2007 • 2006 • 2005 • 2004
Fact Packs on digital marketing
Mobile Fact Pack 2013
Guide to mobile marketing. Includes ad spending by format, leading platforms, OEMs, penetration, consumer behavior and Ad Age DataCenter's ranking of agencies by U.S. revenue from mobile activities. Archived editions: 2012
Search Marketing 2009
Guide to Search Marketing, including search engine market share, top keywords, online retail drivers and more. Search Marketing reports 2006 to 2009
Digital Marketing and Media Fact Pack 2007
Ad Age's 52-page guide to data on the digital world. In PDF format. Stats on online video, blogs, mobile and more.
Interactive Marketing and Media Fact Pack 2006
Includes demographics, advertisers, agencies, creative awards and more.
About the annuals and Fact Packs
Ad Age publishes annual guides to industry data, drawing on rankings and analysis by the Ad Age DataCenter. These print guides have appeared as both digest-sized Fact Packs and as data-focused issues of Ad Age. The 2014 guide was published as an Ad Age Fact Pack in December 2013. The first Ad Age Annual was published at the end of 2006 as a compilation of marketing, media and agency data. Indexes to the Annuals link to more comprehensive reports on each topic. Compilations of data for the four years prior were published as Fact Packs; these files are here in a downloadable PDF format.
Ad Age has published additional Fact Packs on such topics of interest as Hispanic Marketing and Media, Search Marketing and Digital/Interactive Marketing and Media.
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Social Media
Advertising Age/RBC Social Media Survey, May 2014
Survey results in PDF format.
Advertising Age/RBC Survey of Ad Industry Attitudes Toward Facebook, September 2013
Survey results in PDF format.
Advertising Age/Citigroup Survey of Marketer Attitudes Toward Facebook, February 2013 • 2012 edition
Survey results in PDF format.
Ad Age's Survey of Ad Industry Attitudes Toward Twitter, November 2013
Survey results in PDF format.
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Selected timelines showing history of advertising, media and marketing
History Lesson: A Timeline of Ad Agency Consolidation
A flurry of agency deals and moves in the mid-to-late '80s put players in place -- WPP and Martin Sorrell; Publicis and Maurice Levy; Omnicom and John Wren -- who would go on to lead the advertising business through decades of consolidation. Ad Age combed its archives to provide an overview that helps put the megamerger of Publicis Groupe and Omnicom Group into context.
Published: August 6, 2013
Procter & Gamble Co.'s Advertising Spending, 1987 to 2012
How P&G; compares at its 175th anniversary (2012) vs. its 150th anniversary in sales, ad spending, R&D; and employment.
Published: Oct. 29, 2012
A Century of Women in Advertising
From "I Wish I Were a Man" cigarette ads to "My Butt is Big and That's Just Fine".
Published: Sept. 23, 2012
Ad Age Picks the Top 10 Female Ad Icons of All Time
From the Morton Salt Umbrella Girl to Progressive's Flo, we choose the most memorable women of the last 100 years.
Published: Sept. 23, 2012
Chevy Timeline
100-year timeline of General Motors' Chevrolet including TV commercials, print ads and historic headlines from Advertising Age.
Published: Oct. 31, 2011
TV's Share of U.S. Advertising, 1948 to 2010
TV's portion of ad spending since the dawn of television.
Published: April 18, 2011
Old and Improved: Relationships That Last for a Century
Clients and agencies cite trust, respect, adaptation. If there's a problem, change the people, not the agency.
Published: February 14, 2011
From the Great Depression Through the Great Recession: A Brief History of Marketing
A look at 80 highlights from Ad Age's first 80 years (1930-2010), compiled from our archives, Ad Age's Encyclopedia of Advertising and additional research.
Published: March 29, 2010
Up in Smoke: Documents From the Annals of Tobacco Marketing
A collection of internal memos, press releases and reports that changed the way cigarettes were sold
Published: March 29, 2010
How GE Birthed NBC in 1926
The Peacock Network's many owners. Timeline compiled as General Electric Co. sold NBC to Comcast Corp.
Published: December 07, 2009
Special Report: McDonald's 50th Anniversary
McDonald's timeline. McDonald's came a long way from a purveyor of 15-cent hamburgers to a multinational marketer whose annual revenue exceeds the gross domestic product of Belarus, the 100th country to be blessed with a McDonald's restaurant. From San Bernardino to Beijing, here's how the premier fast-feeder evolved over a half-century.
Published: July 25, 2005
75 Years of Ideas
Key events from Ad Age's first 75 years, 1930 to 2005.
Published: March 28, 2005
Advertising History, 1704 to 1999
From Advertising Age's "The Advertising Century" Special Issue.
Published: March 29, 1999
A Look Back at 50 Years of Agency History
And how Ad Age's Agency Report covered it.
Agency History, Part 1
Agency History, Part 2
Agency History, Part 3
Agency History, Part 4
Published: April 13, 1994
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During IKO instructor training I was asked what the first thing to teach when moving onto the water hooked in- I said practice pulling the safety "Oh, that's an idea." was the reply as if at any stage doing this had never even been considered.
I have also met a rider that "had always wondered why there was vecro in the chicken loop" - had never even heard of a safety - even after full lessons. Said thanks for showing him LOL

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Looking for offseason action?
It's no secret that wild hogs are trying to take over Texas, and if you happen to be looking for a little hunting adventure on the wild side, try hog hunting at night – with a bow.
If that sounds a little crazy, you're right on the money. The good news is that the hunting is done from elevated tree and tripod stands that offer you a little protection for close range encounters with wild pigs in the attack mode.
Carlos Fernandez has been hunting pigs at night since 1999 on his family ranches south of San Antonio in Atascosa County.
"We run a cattle business on our ranches, and the pigs became a problem many years ago," says Fernandez. "They were multiplying rapidly and doing plenty of damage to our fences, plus they can spread diseases and tear up the land. I began hunting them, but quickly figured out that it was a rare thing to see a pig in broad daylight. So it was obvious I'd have to go nocturnal if I wanted to eliminate some pigs. That's when I came up with the idea to set up corn feeders, with lights under them."
If didn't take long for Fernandez to begin killing pigs in big time numbers.
"The first thing I did was set up two corn feeders in areas that had a lot of pig activity," says Fernandez. "We have lots of acorn trees on the ranches. When they are dropping acorns in the fall; that's a true magnet for pigs. But during late winter and spring hunts they will come to corn, but only at night."
The drill is simple – find out where the pigs are, set up a feeder and a nearby stand. Fernandez says he rigs up a solar light under each feeder. This allows better visibility for more accurate shooting at night.
"I like to be on stand just after sunset," says Fernandez. "You never know when the pigs are going to come in. Sometimes they will come in just after it gets dark. Then there are nights when I won't hear or see a thing until around midnight. "
In most situations Fernandez says he'll hear the pigs squealing before they come in. But there are some big boars in the 200 to 300 pound class that come in unannounced.
"The boars that are alone can be very smart," says Fernandez. "They will make low guttural sounds and circle the area before coming in. They can be very sneaky. It's important to be still, and try to eliminate as much human scent as possible. I shower with hunter soaps and am very careful about placing my hunting clothing in rubberized bags to prevent scent contamination. Hogs have much better smelling ability than deer, so it is important to have a good scent control program in place on your body scent as well as equipment scent. I also like to use Scent Lok or Scent Blocker clothing to help control my scent. I use hunter's underarm deodorant, too.Most of the pigs Fernandez has killed with his bow are from a stand within 20 to 30 yards from the feeder. But during the full moon, he'll often stalk pigs as they are roaming around the ranch in areas that aren't so brushy. That can be a little spooky. There are lots of rattlesnakes to contend with. And remember that when shooting a bow, you have to get within range. That's why you must always play the wind correctly so the hogs don't get downwind and smell you.
The equipment you use for bowhunting hogs definitely makes a difference.
"I currently use a Mathews Switchback and a Diamond Nitrous," said Fernandez. "I use the Diamond bow, with a 60-pound draw weight, with a Hind site and True Glow site with a tritium pin. I use Beeman ICS Hunter 400 arrows with Muzzy three-blade or four-blade broadheads. I like the tough tips for breaking bone on those marginal shots. I also like to use lighted nocks, because most of the time the hogs come to eat after dark. With the lighted nock I can tell where the arrow hit so that I will know if I made a good shot or not."
Pigs are tough critters, and to bring one down with an arrow takes a good shot in the right spot.
"I prefer to make heart shots for a quick clean kill," says Fernandez. "However, with heart shots I have had hogs go anywhere from 5 to 120 yards. On average, they seem to go down after 40 to 60 yards. I like to make a quartering away shot and imagine where the arrow will come out to line up for the exit wound through the heart. I have tried various mechanical blades but have had problems with complete pass throughs on hogs from about 150 pounds on up. The 100 grain Muzzy's go through nearly every time."
One little trick that Fernandez has come up with is to bait various areas with fresh signs of hog activity. What he'll do is fill a plastic gallon jug about 3/4 full with corn. Next he'll pour red soda into the corn, filling it to within about 3 inches below the top. The corn will expand with the soda. Let the mixture set up for a few days and it's good to go.
"I'll sprinkle the soured corn along game trails or areas with fresh pig sign," said Fernandez. "You don't have to use very much. Also I'll hang the jug from a tree limb around the feeders. That way I can spread some of the scented corn out any time I'm on the ranch. That keeps them coming back for more."
The tactics that Fernandez uses will work just about anywhere you find wild pigs. The key to the whole deal is going nocturnal.
"I've got two young daughters and a wife at home, so I don't usually hunt more than a few hours," said Fernandez. "Most of the time, if I'm doing chores at the ranch, I'll hunt 'til midnight then head back to the house in San Antonio to keep out of trouble. If I get lucky and kill a pig, I'll skin and quarter it and place it on ice. There's always somebody at a church or a family member that can use the meat."


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In 2010 the USA Today reported that roughly 30 percent of freshmen entering college in our country are first-generation college students - or the first in their family to attend college. Twenty-four percent of college freshmen are first generation and low income. Nationally, a shocking 89 percent of low-income first generation college students leave school within six years without a degree. These students leave school for a variety of reasons - but financial need is at the top of the list. Raising tuition at our colleges and universities has certainly contributed to the problem.
At a young age I planned to attend college even though no one else in my family ever had. My dad has always worked very hard. Even today - at age 73 he gets up at 5 a.m. every day and drives a truck for a living. He pushed me to make good grades because he knew education is the great equalizer in our society. While I always knew I was going to college - there were some things I didn't know -?like how much it cost?- or that you actually had to be accepted to a college before attending.
I always understood that I would have to pay my own way through college which meant I would either have to save enough money to do so - or would have to work while in school. I did both. Work was nothing new to me. I was 10 years old the first time I was paid to work for someone else. I made a whopping 50 cents to mow lawns. I later had a paper route, scooped ice cream at an ice cream shop, cleaned a movie theater every day and worked at a record warehouse - all before I was 15.
While growing up in Cape Coral and attending North Fort Myers High School I worked as a photographer for a small newspaper, worked in the Sears customer service department, was a janitor for a dry cleaner's and prepared tax returns for a local accountant.
While attending Edison State College I dug ditches for a plumber for $20 a day and spent many nights loading and unloading tractor trailers, while attending class in the day. Driving home at dawn every morning covered in dirt and sweat is something I will never forget. While attending FSU I worked nights entering applications on a computer for an insurance company.
I know a lot of people who had to work and pay their own way to attend college. To a person - they all believe the experience made them truly appreciate the value of a college education and it motivated them to be successful in life. Fortunately, when we went to school is was actually possible to pay for school.
Unfortunately, today's first generation college students in Florida may no longer have the ability to pay their way through college. Why? Because the average cost to attend college at a public university in our state is now in excess of $20,000 per year. At a private school the costs can be double.
Some have argued that our colleges and universities are too inexpensive particularly when compared to schools around the country. Shouldn't our goal be to have the very best colleges and universities in America for the lowest possible tuition? This is particularly true if we want to provide access to higher education to first generation college students. What good is a top notch university system if 30 percent of your population can't afford to attend?
Properly funding our colleges and universities is extremely important. Our higher education system is critical to the economic success of our state. However, for the immediate future we should avoid further increases in tuition if at all possible. Otherwise, obtaining a college education will be unattainable for many who simply won't be able to afford it. That will result in fewer educated workers in our economy - and will trap future generations of low income students in the cycle of poverty.
Jeff Kottkamp was Florida's 17th lieutenant governor and also served three terms in the Florida House of Representatives. He practices law in Tallahassee.


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Remember the side table I found on the side of the road last week? I got it done over the weekend and worked completely with what I had on hand making this a $0 makeover. But let's remember how it looked when I rescued it from the trash pile.
The table started out it's lackluster life beat up and scratched sitting on the side of the road. I brought it upstairs and gave it a new home on our deck. I thought about what to do with it for for some time, elicited some reader ideas and even stared up at the spray paint section of Home Depot for at least 30 minutes pondering all the possibilities, nothing jumped out at me so I went home empty handed.
My impatience to get this project started got the better of me which forced me to take a look on the shelf of our shed and found an old unused can of Valsper spray paint in a beautiful pale yellow color that by happy accident coordinated with one of the stripes in our ombre pillows.
So I lugged the table downstairs and got down to business sanding it to a smooth finish, first with 100 grit sand paper to remove the finish then followed up with 250 grit sand paper to ensure everything was completely smooth. Note I forgot to attach the dust collector bag to the back of the orbital sander. Yes it took me a while to figure it out, I was COVERED in saw dust. I definitely should have taken a picture of the one, but alas you all will have to use your imaginations.
Then I wiped the whole thing down with a tack cloth and applied 2 even coats of a mixture of Minwax Red Mahogony and Colonial Maple stain with a soft cloth. Letting the stain soak in then rubbing off and reapplying according to the directions.
After the table sat out overnight to completely dry I taped off the table top with newspaper turned the whole thing over and grabbed a leftover can of spray primer in the shed and sprayed 2 thin and even coats of primer over the entire table base waiting in between coats the time indicated on the directions, followed up with a light sanding with 800 grit sand paper and wiped down with a tack cloth to ensure a super smooth top coat.
Then the whole process started all over again for the top coat, spraying multiple thin even coats until the entire table base was a nice buttery yellow color. Once dry I flipped the entire table over and added a numerous coats of satin polyurethane to the top of the table sanding between every few coats to get the smoothest finish possible.
Not only was this project completely quick and easy. It took about 2 hours over the course of 2 days.
This found table got a makeover using stuff I already had in about 2 hours. If you had to buy the paint the project would come in around less than $20 for the spray paint, stain and sealer.
Not too shabby for a $0 dollar makeover.


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GAM Newsletter
29 April 2010
Cosmic Concert - get ready for an unforgettable musical experience
On Wednesday, April 28, 19.00 U.T., you can enjoy an online "Cosmic Concert"— a live piano solo performance organized in celebration of Global Astronomy Month (GAM2010). This unforgettable musical experience is composed by Giovanni Renzo and takes inspiration from astronomical events such as pulsars, black holes and transformation of star maps into musical score. Accompanying the music are videos by Valentina Romeo and Gianluca Masi.
Cosmic Depths - To say good bye to Global Astronomy Month, at the Virtual Telescope will run a very special event, traveling across space and time, leaving the Earth for the Moon, galaxies and the most distant objects in the Universe.
GAM events around the worldBelgium -
Global Star Party at Fernelmont,Belgium
Germany -
Excellent weather over Germany
Sidewalk Marathon in Erding
Iraq -
Continuing the MEP in Erbil, Iraq
Last event of GAM in Ranya district, Iraq
Indonesia -
GAM in Indonesia
Ireland -
Hubble Anniversary Image Art Astronomy Workshop in Dublin
Moon talks and Moon views in Balbriggan and Swords Libraries
Irish Astronomical Society Star Party in Sandymount Dublin
Philippines -
Global Star Party celebrated in the Philippines
Sri Lanka -
UNAWE program in Sri Lanka
Two Days of GAM on a Maine Island
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The 122 Best PC Games Ever
Simply the bestest
…in our opinion. Where once this list denoted the singular tastes of six separate minds, now we are bonded into one, mighty Hivemind. This, then, is The List Of Lists: the 122 Best PC Games of The Last 22 Years. All games have been re-ordered by release date, revealing one year in particular as the best that PC gaming has ever seen so far. Which do you think that might be?
These are Rock, Paper, Shotgun's most favoured PC games between the sacred period 1989 to 2011: all of these games are each in their own way precious, vital things that deserve to have shrines erected in their honour, first-borns sacrificed to them, that sort of thing. Is your favourite game missing? Well, you haven't asked us what our 123rd best PC game is, have you? Aha! And don't get us started on the 177th. This list is, of course, merely the start of the discussion, not the end of it – there are many more gems undocumented here, so please do suggest them. Perhaps one day soon we shall add to the list (and, indeed, expand the years covered). Meantime, clicking on each game-name will take you to a short essay on why we've chosen it and a few thoughts on why we believe it has a certain degree of importance beyond mere personal fondness.
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Why 122? Why 22? Oh, we could never tell you that. A terrible thing would happen if we did. What we can tell you is that we're very grateful to Intel's App Up Developer Program for sponsoring this titanic endeavour. Now, onwards, and to battle…
- Sid Meier's Colonization
- Sim City 2000
- System Shock
- TIE Fighter
- X-COM: UFO Defense aka UFO: Enemy Unknown
- Baldur's Gate / Baldur's Gate II
- Battlezone
- Falcon 4.0
- Grim Fandango
- Half-Life
- Jedi Knight: Mysteries Of The Sith
- Thief: The Dark Project
- Age Of Empires II
- Alien Vs Predator
- Counter-Strike
- Freespace 2
- Hidden & Dangerous
- Homeworld
- Jagged Alliance 2
- Outcast
- Planescape Torment
- Quake III: Arena
- System Shock 2
- Urban Chaos
- Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord
- Deus Ex
- Diablo II
- Giants: Citizen Kabuto
- Ground Control
- The Longest Journey
- The Sims
- The Typing Of The dead
- Airborne Assault 2: Red Devils Over Arnhem
- The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
- Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven
- Neverwinter Nights
- Beyond Good & Evil
- Call of Duty
- Eve Online
- Freelancer
- In Memoriam
- Knights of the Old Republic
- Max Payne 2
- Planetside
- Prince Of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Unreal Tournament 2004
- City of Heroes
- Half-Life 2
- Red Orchestra
- Rome: Total War
- Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War
- World Of Warcraft
- Battlefield 2
- Battle of Britain II: Wings of Victory
- Darwinia
- Guild Wars
- Pathologic
- Psychonauts
- Trackmania Sunrise
- Company of Heroes
- Dwarf Fortress
- Flight Simulator X
- Galactic Civilizations II
- Hitman: Blood Money
- Tomb Raider: Legend
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In creating these beautiful accent pieces, our artisans are unique in their use of only the finest, most beautifully colored glass from the Czech Republic, and in their careful selection of patterns and colors. The end result is an exquisite handcrafted piece of art that will complement any décor with its brilliance and sparkle. An elegantly styled brass base and finial showcase the beautiful globe.
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One week after the World Cup races in Albstadt several riders of STEVENS MTB Racing Team competed in the next international race: The UCI World Cup and the UCI Junior Series, respectively in Nove Mesto, Czech Republic. In the juniors race Emma and Markus Eydt will be at the start and Antonia Daubermann, Benedikt Fritz and Alex Bregenzer will take part in the U23 World Cup Series race.
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Submissions for Max calendar� should be emailed to email@example.com by 10 a.m. Monday the week before the event. Every effort is made to include all submissions, however, due to spacing issues, some may be omitted.
Events & Festivals
Beaufort Elks Lodge #1710 will be hosting a dance featuring The Band of Oz from 8 p.m. to midnight Nov. 22. The event is open to the public. Tickets are $20 per person in advance and $25 per person at the door. Funds raised will help support ELKS charities such as the NC Veterans Home, scholarships, little league, Wounded Warriors and other activities. Tickets or more information call 252-728-9060.
Coastal Carolina Artists and Crafters Guild hosts its annual Holiday Craft Fair/Car Art Contest from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 9 at the American Legion Building on Broadhurst Rd. The event is a fundraiser for the Onslow Shriners and American Legion Auxiliary and features local artists and crafters selling their handmade goods. There will be something for everyone including a Giant Gingerbread house for the kids to shop, Santa, a professional photographer to capture the children's moments with Santa, a scavenger hunt, raffle tickets, food and more. Entries in the Car ART Contest will be on display and the public is encouraged to vote for their favorite. Everyone is invited to enter their art work made of, on or with vehicles and vehicle parts. All mediums are accepted except video. Entry fee is $20 for 2 pieces and $500 in cash prizes will be awarded. The Local Idol Finalists performance will also take place during the event.
For more information call 910-938-7077 or firstname.lastname@example.com or visit ccacguild.org.
The traveling version of the National Postal Museum�s permanent exhibition, Mail Call, explores the history of America�s military postal system, and examines how even in today�s era of instant communication, troops overseas continue to treasure mail delivered from home. The exhibition will open Nov. 9 at Cape Fear Museum, and will end Jan. 19, 2014.
Mail Call, organized and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, tells the story of military mail and communication � from the American Revolution to current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Throughout American history, the military and postal service have combined forces to deliver mail under challenging and often extreme circumstances.
Visitors will gain access to firsthand records and heartfelt sentiments through excerpts from letters exchanged between writers on the front line and the home front. It also explores the contemporary military postal system works and the new ways men and women of the armed forces communicate with home.
The first annual Cedar Point Festival of Lights will take place from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Dec. 7 and 14. The Coastal Outlet Trolley will take visitors along the festival route for those who wish to park and ride, and maps and flyers will be available at the Cedar Point Town Hall for people who want to drive the route.
Highlights of the route include a live manger scene and the town of Bethlehem created by Emmanuel Baptist Church, and a visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus at the Octagon House. Cedar Point businesses will also be open and the public will be able to join in on a treasure hunt. For more information on the event, call Barbara at the Town Hall at 252-393-7898 or visit the Cedar Point Festival of Lights Facebook page.
The Historic Downtown Swansboro Merchants are ready to make your spirits bright with Swansboro by Candlelight, an event to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season from 5 to 9 p.m. Nov. 9 in Historic Downtown Swansboro.
The Swansboro Dance Studio will perform scenes from the Nutcracker from 5 to 5:45 p.m. at the pavilion, followed by the official town Christmas Tree lighting ceremony at 6 p.m. The Notorious Clamslammers will provide live music on the pavilion from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Another Chance Ministries MB Church presents �What Would Jesus Do?� fundraiser with dinner, play, fashion show and entertainment at 3 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Sneads Ferry Community Center, 126 Park Lane. Tickets $15 advance or at the door. For more information, call 910-523-0648.
Barnes & Noble Booksellers in Jacksonville Mall will be hosting an Anime event for teens who enjoy graphic novels, Manga, comic books and games at 4 p.m. Nov. 16.
For more information, call 910-577-0120.
Goose Creek State Park in Washington will hold the following events:
Nov. 10: The Forest of Goose Creek
Past, Present and Future at 2 p.m. Discover the natural and cultural history of the forest of Goose Creek State Park. Each month this autumn we will explore a different trail section of the park to learn about the forest of the past and present. What are the possibilities for the future? Attend this one hour program and find out. Meet at the Ivey Gut parking lot.
Nov. 17: Exotic Invasive at 2 p.m. Meet at the Park Visitor Center to learn about North Carolina�s exotic species that are hindering our native plants and wildlife. We will also discuss good land management techniques.
Nov. 19: Waterfowl of the Pamlico at 10 a.m. Are you curious about the thousands/millions of waterfowl moving into our area through the cooler months? Meet at the Park Visitor Center to learn about our native and migratory waterfowl.
Nov. 24: Skins and Skulls at 2 p.m. Have you ever wanted to feel how sharp a bobcat�s teeth are or what the fur of an otter feels like? By using the skins and skulls of animals you can get up close and personal with wildlife that is only seen from a distance. Meet at the visitor center.
The Friends of the Battleship is now offering the public the opportunity to explore the treasures and artifacts aboard the Battleship North Carolina in Wilmington with a free online catalog of the ship�s treasures at http://www.battleshipnc.com/friends.
The ship�s curator said more than 26,000 records of the collections are available for public perusal, and the catalog will be updated as new items are acquired. Audio fields, video clips, PDFs and the ability to order reprints will also be available in the future.
Emerald Isle Parks and Recreation will hosts its second annual Holiday Arts and Crafts Fair from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 30 in the gymnasium. The fair will feature all handmade or hand-authenticated items from local artisans and crafters. This is also the weekend of the Emerald Isle Christmas Parade which is the kick-off to the holiday season in Emerald Isle. If you are interested in participating in this event as an Arts and Crafts Vendor or Non-Profit Organization, contact Lainey Gottuso at 252-354-6350 or firstname.lastname@example.com for an application. There is no application deadline but space is limited and expected to fill up quickly.
The annual Holiday Craft Fair and Car Art Show will be held at the American Legion Building on 146 Broadhurst Rd on Nov. 9 at 10 a.m. The event will include a scavenger hunt and a visit from Santa. For more information, call 910-938-7077.
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Onslow Winds, Onslow County�s Community Band, has scheduled �Autumn Echoes,� the second performance of its 2013-2014 concert season, at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at Northside High School auditorium, located at 365 Commons Drive South, Jacksonville. The band�s first symphonic music program for this season will feature selections by such renowned composers Johann Sebastian Bach, Gustav Holst, John Phillip Sousa, and Alfred Reed.
The Onslow Winds is comprised of talented musicians from throughout Onslow County and the neighboring counties. Its membership includes students from high schools, Coastal Carolina Community College and UNCW, as well as local educators, current and retired military members and many working and retired persons from across the Band�s service area. Anyone interested in the opportunity to join and play in the Onslow Winds is encouraged to talk with the director and band members after the concert, or contact the Onslow Winds at its email address, firstname.lastname@example.com.
This concert is being presented free to the public.
Paige and Linda Murphy, will present a mix of country rock, American patriotic music, blues, rock with a folk influence, traditional �old time� Bluegrass and originals at 3 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Grainger Hill Performing Arts Center, 300 Park Avenue, Kinston. The third event in GHPAC�s Second Sunday Series will be performed with no intermission. Light refreshments will follow in the historic center�s newly refurbished lobby. The Gum Puddin� duo is the only group in this area featuring performances of old-time fiddle tunes, claw hammer banjo and bluegrass banjo. They look for those hidden or little-known jewels of American music and share them with as many people as possible.
For more information about the series or to buy tickets, $10 each, call 252-560-8515, 252-521-4513,
or visit the Grainger Hill website,
The Wine Bar at Brewed Awakenings Coffee Cafe offers live music on the weekends from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m.
Brewed Awakenings is located at 2355 Western Blvd.
Nov. 8: Friday Alive featuring Wild Honey hails from Swansboro.
Nov. 16: Saturday Night Rhythm & Wine featuring Anthony Lowrey plays everybody�s favorites. A huge range of hits from today and yesterday.
Nov. 30: Saturday Night Rhythm & Wine. Eleven O�Clock Records from Atlanta featuring Hank Barbee.
For information, call 910-219-1776 or brewedjacksonville.com.
Theater & Arts
The Council for the Arts invites all poets and writers 18 years of age and older to share their literary works at an Open Mic event at 3 p.m. Nov. 17. Due to the limited time allotted, the number of participants scheduled, each participant will have five minutes to present his or her material for each round.
This free event will take place at the council building located at 826 New Bridge Street in Jacksonville. To register call the council at 910-455-9840.
Organizers ask that participants use appropriate language. All ages will be allowed in the audience.
Sports & Recreation
The 14th annual Great Mullet Run, sponsored by the Swansboro Rotary Club will be held Nov. 9 in Swansboro. The event also includes a one-mile walk/run. Both races will begin and end at the Hammock Beach State Park Visitors Center. The 5K course is USATF certified. The mile run is scheduled to start at 8:30 a.m. and the 5K starts at 9:30 a.m.
The race is dedicated to the memory of Lee Cooper of Peletier, who died in February, 2007. Cooper, who was a retired U.S. Marine and an avid runner with more than 100 marathons to his credit, was a long-time supporter of the Mullet Run.
Race participants can register online at Active.com. Late registrations will take place on Nov. 8 at the Rotary Civic Center in Swansboro, 4-6 p.m. Race-day registration will begin at 7:30 a.m. at Hammocks Beach State Park. Runners who are pre-registered can pick up their numbers at either location.
The entry fee is $15. T-shirts, while they are available, are $15. This race includes a family entry. A family of four (parents and children) can enter either the 5K or the one-mile for $40. Each additional family member can register for $10.
Winners will be named in eight age categories, including 15 and under; 16-19; 20-29; 30-39; 40-49; 50-59; 60-69; and 70 and over in the 5K.
Trophies will be given to the top three finishers overall and for the top three finishers in each age category. For more information, call Charles Teachey at 252-393-2301.


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Clockonizer is an easy to use TO DO app that is now available.
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As the Pennsylvania Supreme Court prepares to review the constitutionality of the state's photo ID law, a University of Pittsburgh law professor flagged the flimsy and offensive precedent upon which the lower court relied when it upheld the law. In rejecting the plaintiffs' argument that the law violates the state Constitution's guarantee of "free and equal elections," the court cited the 1869 case of Patterson v. Barlow, which, Professor Jessie Allen points out, serves as a "blatant example of the anti-democratic voter suppression alleged by plaintiffs in the current voter ID case.":
The law approved in Patterson enacted a complicated set of registration procedures for Philadelphia (with its large working-class and immigrant populations) and a simpler procedure for the rest of the state. . . . The opinion justifies a tougher process for Philadelphia voters because "rogues and strumpets do not nightly traverse the deserted highways of the farmer. Low inns, restaurants, sailors' boarding-houses and houses of ill fame do not abound in rural precincts, ready to pour out on election day their pestilent hordes."
For good measure, the court explained that to overturn the tighter procedures for Philadelphia voters "would be to place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities, on a level with the virtuous and good man."
If the language of the opinion isn't offensive enough, the dissenting opinion makes clear that, even by the standards of the time, the law's crippling impact on the right to vote should have been obvious. Amusingly, Judge Thompson's dissent also reveals that the exaggerated fears of voter fraud have been with us for a very long time.
The professed, and possibly the real object of the law, was to prevent fraud in elections by voters. If this was the view of the framer of the act, I must in charity believe that it so engrossed his attention, as to lead to forgetfulness that among the barriers so ingeniously contrived to prevent it, the defeat of the duly qualified voters must inevitably occur. A remedy for a disease must be regarded as empirical, which would only eradicate it by producing a worse. If frauds were imminent by simulated voters, let penalties be provided for the rogues, and set honest and vigilant men to watch them, but let not the rights of honest voters be sacrificed to these apprehensions.
In her op-ed, Professor Allen points out that the Supreme Court could clearly distinguish the law at issue in the 1886 case from today's photo ID law. But the "generalized and biased fears about fraudulent voting" could be applied equally to the present case, in which Pennsylvania has admitted there are "no investigations or prosecutions of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania," and that they "do not have direct personal knowledge of any such investigations or prosecutions in other states." Meanwhile, the law threatens to disfranchise as many as 750,000 state citizens, with new anecdotes of trouble obtaining a photo ID emerging every day.


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It certainly wasn't meant that way, but it sounded like a challenge to me:
"I don't know if you're intimidated by a bunch of ladies," said the kindly woman behind the cash register at The Barn Antiques in Lake Alfred, "but men go in there all the time."
She was talking about the Back Porch Tearoom, the utterly adorable dining room at The Barn, a family-owned outpost for high-end antiques since 1969. Easy to spot three miles south of exit 48 on Interstate 4 in Polk County, the old-fashioned red barn (as the place is informally known) is the most prominent tourist destination in a rural area otherwise known for lakes, groves and unspoiled country roads.
But, intimidated by the ladies? I don't think so.
I just wanted to look around first.
The Barn (barnantiques.biz) divides its extensive inventory of armoires, sideboards, tables, chairs, beds, dressers, pine, primitives, glass and art pottery into roughly a half-dozen areas, such as the Pine Room and studio featuring stained glass.
I saw things that I would never need in a million years (a $95 wool winder?) and pieces that I instantly wanted to take home, such as an inviting Hitchcock rocking chair ($295). I also imagined that I could make decorative use of an English willow cricket bat and batting pads, a relative bargain for $45.
Other affordable trinkets such as red and yellow enamel tea and coffee pots ($35-$55) sat on shelves across the room from an enormous leather bellows table from the late 1800s ($575) and a mahogany Scottish sideboard from the mid-1800s ($2,400).
Everything was beautiful, even to an undiscerning bachelor's eye.
Next to the antiques store, the Stable gift shop offered designer wreaths, flower arrangements and baskets. Outside, the Back Yard Garden shop was stocked with geraniums, colorfully decorated glass birdbaths, wind chimes, metal art, birdhouses and whimsical accessories such as "Tree Face," plastic features to add human personality to tree trunks.
Finally, it was time to enter the tearoom, where my lunch (turkey breast on a croissant, vegetable soup and lemon drop cake) was delivered in a cute wooden picnic basket to my table, adorned with painted wild flowers. My presence doubled the number of guys in the room. Not intimidated at all.


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Welcome to the online series "Getting Started in Woodworking," a multi-step program designed to guide you through the basics of woodworking and furniture making.
No matter what drew you to the idea of building projects with wood, whether you're taking on a do-it-yourself project around the house or shopping for a hobby, we've assembled our best collection of articles and videos to show you how to do it smartly and safely.
Beginning with this first episode, our video tutorials, related articles, and projects cover all the basics from choosing your first hand and power tools to setting up a workspace. We'll even get you started building your first projects. You can download free woodworking project plans for a handsome cutting board, a plywood workbench that you can build with just a few tools, and an elegant small box.
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Typically a woodworking shop starts in a corner of the garage or basement with a few tools. Over time you develop new skills, add tools to take on new projects, and expand the shop as you acquire a greater interest (or obsession) with woodworking.
Tool Storage Ideas
For many beginners just getting interested woodworking as a hobby, the hardest part of the process is determining what tools and equipment you need and what you can live without. In this episode, we share our recommendations for the best tools and equipment to acquire when setting up your first woodworking shop, from a sturdy workbench to the right mix of hand and power tools.
The complete tool kit for beginners
Our recommended tool kit includes: a sturdy workbench with a woodworking vise to hold workpieces steady when cutting or shaping parts. Marking and measuring tools for laying out and cutting parts. A circular saw or tablesaw for making rip cuts (straight cuts with the grain) and cross cuts (straight cuts against the grain). A router for shaping edges and profiles and cutting joinery. A block plane to shape parts by hand or smooth rough surfaces. A jig saw or bandsaw for making curved or irregular cuts. A palm sander to smooth surfaces for finishing. And a collection of clamps to assemble your projects or hold pieces on your workbench
More resources for setting up shop
We also point you to a number of articles and videos on StartWoodworking.com and our sister site FineWoodworking.com that provide more ideas and inspiration for setting up your first workshop, including an article detailing a smart shop in a one-car garage and an article about garage shop where all the tools roll away to make room for parked cars.
You'll also find a free article download to help you design and layout a shop space and a free project plan detailing how to build a simple plywood workbench, probably the most essential pieces of equipment you'll add to your workshop.
Related links
Smart Shop in a One-Car Garage
Roll-Away Workshop
Set Up Shop on a Budget
Free Plans: Build a Workbench
Free Plans: Rock Solid Plywood Workbench
A Layout Kit for Small Shops
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Cutting boards are a great first project for the novice woodworker because the process will introduce you to a number of basic woodworking tools and techniques and you end up with a project that is practical and attractive.
The cutting board project detailed in this video is also nice because it can be customized to your tastes by choosing different woods, shapes, and sizes. Once you get your material, either by purchasing rough lumber from a lumberyard and milling it to size or by purchasing pre-surfaced lumber at your local home center, you're ready to begin.
Our video walks you through the process of laying out the pattern of the cutting board, cutting it to rough size with a jig saw or on the bandsaw, smoothing the edges by sanding, rounding over the edges with a router, and drilling a hole in the handle so it can hang in your kitchen.
Finally, we'll show you how to properly sand the surface of the cutting board to be smooth and blemish-free, and we walk through the process of applying a food-safe finish that will keep your cutting board in good shape for years to come.
If you have a question about this episode send us an email or post a question in our Q&A forum.
Smart Stylish Cutting Boards
Routing Safe and Sound
Best Practices for Drilling
A Tablesaw Primer: Ripping and Crosscutting
Sanding Basics
Food-Safe Finishes
Joinery is one of the most essential elements of woodworking and furniture making. Almost everything you build from wood will require parts to be joined and in this episode of our series Getting Started in Woodworking we demonstrate the variety of techniques available to beginner woodworkers from screws to specialized woodworking joints.
One of the simplest joinery techniques is the butt joint, in which the end of one board is glued to the face or edge of another board. This isn't a very strong joint so we'll show you several ways to reinforce an edge joint with screws or another kind of mechanical fastener known as a biscuit.
One step up from edge joints are the variety of joinery techniques where sections of wood are cut away in one board to accept the end of a joining board. They include the rabbet joint, the dado joint, and the groove.
We'll also introduce you to some specialized router bits that can cut joinery, such as the cope-and-stick router bits used for building frame and panel doors. Finally, we review some of the more traditional woodworking joints including the dovetail and mortise and tenon, and walk through the many variations of these classic joinery techniques.
If you have a question about this episode send us an email or post a question in our Q&A forum.
Video Length: 4:12
Produced by: Matt Berger and Asa Christiana; Video and Editing by: Gary Junken
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Learn the basics of hand-tool woodworking in this two-part project video where we guide you through building a small elegant box.
Download our free article for a complete measured drawing with construction details and dimensions, and then follow along with our video tutorial.
We begin by laying out the joinery with a combination square, pencil, and marking gauge. The process detailed here employs common layout techniques that can be applied to any woodworking project.
With all of the parts marked, we walk you through cutting the half-lap joinery on the box sides with hand tools. You'll be introduced to two kinds of woodworking handsaws, the western-style backsaw and the Japanese pull saw. We'll also show you how to chop and pare with a standard bench chisel and mallet.
Sharp tools are the key to success on this project, so check out episode seven of Getting Started in Woodworking for a comprehensive lesson on sharpening chisels and plane irons.
If you have a question about this episode send us an email or post a question in our Q&A forum.
Video Length: 6:27
Produced by: Matt Berger and Asa Christiana; Video and Editing by: Gary Junken
FREE PLANS: A Small Elegant Box
10 Questions on Chisels
All About Sharpening
In the second part of this video on making an elegant small box with basic woodworking tools, we jump right in to the task of cutting a rabbet joint with an easy-to-build router table. Click here for free plans and a video detailing how to make a shopmade router table similar to the one featured in this episode.
The router might just be the most versatile woodworking power tool there is and it's a great first tool for beginner woodworkers. When set up properly and safely handled, a router can do everything from cutting joinery to shaping parts. Just be sure you understand the basic safety procedures and read the tool's manual if you're new to using a router.
After cutting the rabbet joints, we walk you through the glue-up and assembly of the box. This critical stage in the process involves applying glue to the box parts and using clamps to hold the parts together while the glue dries. The assembly and glue-up tips that we detail in this episode -- and our companion article -- can apply to the assembly of any woodworking project.
And then there's the fun part. We show you how to use a handplane to shape the curved sides and top of the box. Handplanes come in all shapes and sizes, and we show you how to use the most basic of them all, a block plane, to do the work. Finally, we'll help you choose a finish and apply it with good results.
If you have a question about this episode send us an email or post a question in our Q&A forum.
Video Length: 7:38
Produced by: Matt Berger and Asa Christiana; Video and Editing by: Gary Junken
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Woodworking hand tools, most notably hand planes and chisels, are some of the most useful tools in the woodshop. In the time it takes to set up many power tool operations, you could have finished the job faster by hand. However, your success with hand tools depends on your ability to keep your planes and chisels sharp.
Sharpening planes and chisels is a gateway skill in woodworking. It takes a lot of patience and practice to master a sharpening method, but once you do your woodworking skills will improve. Plus, using hand tools becomes much more enjoyable when they're sharp.
In episode seven of our free video series, Getting Started in Woodworking, we walk you through one foolproof sharpening method. We cover flattening and polishing the back, grinding the bevel, and honing the bevel. Once you learn these skills, you can keep your tools sharp with occasional regrinding and regular honing.
Sharpening Tool Kit:
Follow the links below for more information about the tools and supplies featured in this episode:
- Any model bench grinder - slow-speed (approx. 1,725 rpm) recommended
- 60-Grit Aluminum Oxide Grinding Wheel, White
- Veritas MK-II Honing Guide
- Any synthetic water stones
- Standard household glass (tip: use a piece of scratch-free glass from an old picture frame)
- Sandpaper (220 and 320 grit wet/dry abrasives available at any hardware store)
- Spray adhesive
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Video Length: 11:16
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A block plane is probably the first hand plane you'll use when getting started in woodworking. It's a relatively affordable hand tool and it's versatile. Plus, its diminutive size makes it easy to use with one hand for all types of woodworking tasks, including smoothing edges, breaking corners, trimming one surface flush to another, cleaning up end grain, and fitting joinery.
In episode eight of our free video series, Getting Started in Woodworking, we demonstrate some of the more common uses for the block plane, identify its parts, and show you how to tune up a block plane.
For that, we traveled to Salt Lake City, Utah, to the workshop of Chris Gochnour, for a detailed video tutorial. Gochnour demonstrates the tune-up process using a Stanley No. 60-1/2 low-angle adjustable-mouth block plane, but his tips and techniques can be applied to just about any plane in your tool box.
Anatomy of a block plane
The blade on a block plane, (click to enlarge drawing) commonly referred to as a plane iron, is mounted with the bevel side up to produce a cutting angle of about 37 degrees in a standard plane and 25 degrees in a low-angle plane. Some block planes feature an adjustable mouth, which allows the plane to be tuned for different cuts; Close the mouth and lower the blade for finish cuts or open the mouth and extend the blade for thicker rough cuts.
Choosing and buying a block plane
Block planes range in quality and price from hardware-store versions that cost around $35 to high-end brass planes that cost as much as $250. While the higher-priced models are likely to perform better out of the box and include higher-quality machining and parts, low-cost block planes can perform well if tuned up properly using the techniques detailed in this episode.
Additionally, buying an aftermarket plane iron, such as those made by Hock Tools, can improve the quality of a hardware-store plane considerably. A sharp plane iron is also a critical feature, and we detail one foolproof sharpening technique in episode seven of this series.
If you have a question about this episode send us an email or post a question in our Q&A forum.
Video Length: 8:13
Produced by: Matt Berger and Asa Christiana; Video and Editing by: Gary Junken
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In episode nine of our free video series, Getting Started in Woodworking, we demonstrate how to turn a piece of rough-sawn lumber into square and stable stock for your woodworking projects. This process, known as four-squaring a board, is an essential skill in woodworking.
While you can purchase pre-surfaced lumber at your local home center, there are several benefits to buying rough-sawn lumber from a hardwood dealer and milling it to size in your shop. Rough-sawn lumber is typically less expensive than pre-surfaced lumber. And rough-sawn lumber can be milled to custom thickness giving you more flexibility with your woodworking designs. Check out this video for a detailed explanation on how lumber is cut and sold, including how to speak like a pro at the lumberyard and how to calculate a board foot.
Most importantly, milling your own lumber allows you to always work with square and stable material. Wood has a tendency to warp and twist while laying around your shop as it acclimates to the temperature and humidity, and you avoid lots of errors by milling it to dimension after its had time to settle in your shop.
The four-square method of milling lumber
For this lesson on milling lumber, we headed out to the Connecticut Valley School of Woodworking, where instructor Bob Van Dyke demonstrated the classic sequence used to prepare rough lumber with power tools. Sometimes referred to by the acronym "FEE" (faces, edges, ends) the sequence involves flattening one face of the board on a jointer and then creating a parallel, flat opposing face with a thickness planer. After the faces are flat and parallel, square one edge with a jointer and then rip the other edge parallel on a tablesaw. Finally, crosscut the board to length with a miter gauge on the tablesaw.
Five tips for milling lumber:
- Cut in the direction of the grain to avoid tearout
- Don't have a jointer? Use a router to trim a straight edge and a planer to surface the face
- Don't have power tools? Surface a board the old-fashioned way with a handplane
- Use push sticks and push blocks to stay safe during the milling process
- Milled lumber should be properly stored to prevent warping or twisting as the wood acclimates to the climate in your shop
If you have a question about this episode send us an email or post a question in our Q&A forum.
Video Length: 7:33
Featuring: Bob Van Dyke; Produced by: Matt Berger and Asa Christiana; Video and Editing by: Michael Dobsevage and Gary Junken
Related links
How to Use a Jointer
How to Use a Planer
Flatten Boards Without a Jointer
VIDEO - Flatten Boards Without a Jointer
Edge Jointing with a Router
VIDEO - Smooth wide boards with a handplane
How Lumber is Cut and Sold
In episode 10 of our series, Getting Started in Woodworking, we complete our first season with a demonstration on how to apply an oil-and-wax wood finish. This finishing recipe is extremely simple and very effective. It will work for about 95 percent of the projects most woodworkers build; the only exceptions are surfaces that need to take a lot of abuse, such as a dining table tabletop.
This low-tech finish requires few tools, just some sandpaper, a sanding block, abrasive pads, clean cotton rags, boiled linseed oil, and furniture wax.
The key to a perfect end-result is to first prepare the surface. After sanding, or surfacing with a handplane or card scraper, the next step is to raise the grain with water and then sand and burnish the surface again.
Once the preparation is complete, simply flood the wood with several coats of boiled linseed oil, burnish it again with an abrasive pad, and top it off with a coat of wax for a nice shine.
The techniques described in this video are based on the article "An Oil-and-Wax Finish" by Charles Shackleton, featured in Issue #175 of Fine Woodworking magazine.
If you have a question about this episode send us an email or post a question in our Q&A forum.
Produced by: Matt Berger and Asa Christiana
Video and Editing by: Michael Dobsevage and Gary Junken
Related links
All About Waxes
All About Oils
VIDEO - Mixing and Applying Wax
An Oil-and-Wax Finish
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