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Decorative ceramic tile, handmade fish tiles freshwater fish ceramic tiles for use in sliced pebble tile, polished pebble tiles / trout ceramic tiles in rock tiles/ golden trout ceramic tiles / brown trout ceramic tiles in rock showers / rainbow trout ceramic tiles for rock shower floors/ lake trout ceramic tiles / bull trout ceramic tiles / cutthroat trout ceramic tiles / silver trout ceramic tiles / gila trout ceramic tiles / apache trout ceramic tiles / ANY trout species in ceramic tile!
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Please click the Trout link in the RIGHT column for the current stock of trout fish tiles for sliced pebble, polished, pebble, and rock shower floors.
See my Shower: Trout link for great ceramic tile trout and rock tile shower floor installations.
Take a walk on the wild side. Can you imagine taking a stroll down your very own ceramic tile / mosaic tile trout stream every day. You enter your door and walk through nature into your kitchen. It just doesn't get any better than that; does it.
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The next time you are shopping for pebble stone, rock tile sheets, sliced pebble stone / tiles, or other rustic, natural stones for a floor, throw in a few of our trout shaped ceramic tiles and spice up a boring rock floor.
Follow Diane's board: Should trout only be found in streams and rivers? on Pinterest.
The picture below shows a cut stone / pebble stream bed with a rainbow trout - shaped / cutout ceramic tile mosaic insert.
Our rainbow trout shaped tiles come in an array of different sizes. If you scroll down our page you'll find pricing.
If you're looking for a realistic ceramic tile trout stream, peruse our page a bit further for more great trout shaped ceramic tile installations.
These is my rainbow trout shaped fish tiles. It has a Green Agate, green/brown and blue/brown cast to it, with Peppermint Twist sides and Smoke Gray fins with black backs.
Green Agate with Smoke fins and Peppermint Twist Rainbow Trout dorsal view tiles.
The Green Agate ceramic tile glaze, sometimes has a blue cast to it. You can see it in the picture above. It's a bit unpredictable, but still quite lovely. The picture below shows some trout tiles in Green Agate with Peppermint Twist sides, Smoke fins, and Dark Brown Cobblestone backs. I have these stocked for immediate shipment in 5", 6", 8", and 10" sizes.
The picture of the trout shaped tiles above shows a ceramic tile design idea. Do you see it? You can cut your trout tails and overlap them to create more depth in your rock floor installations.
It might be hard to believe, but the trout shaped mosaic / shaped ceramic tiles shown below are the same glaze as the picture shown above; Green Agate with Smoke fins. They were fired to a much higher temperature and have a olive green on their backs. This temperature difference completely changes the color.
Green Agate with Smoke fins and Olive Cobblestone
Another trout species that is popular as a trout tile is the cutthroat trout. The picture below shows cutthroat trout shaped ceramic tiles. The backs could be brown and the sides and fins more of a red-tone for an alternative.
Trout shaped ceramic tiles are a great design idea for sliced pebble tiles. There is a vast array of these pebble stone tiles available on the market. Just search using images.google.com on "SLICED PEBBLE TILES," or click this link.
The picture below shows a trout stream ceramic tile fireplace hearth that is laid out in the studio; prior to film mounting. This stone hearth pebble tiles would have been just another boring, rustic hearth, until the addition of a small trout stream.
This client opted to have leaf ceramic tiles inserted into larger pebble stones and have a stream bead of wavy water tiles, trout tiles, and raccoon track ceramic tiles. The rock/pebble stone concept saved the client money for this beautiful hearth installation. See our Cost Savings Idea for other great ways to stretch your dollars!
EVERY order is 100% CUSTOM. You can have any size, shaped, and color(s).
A completely different looking rock pebble design idea; a soothing look and feel by simply changing out the pebble sheets and modifying colors of the water and trout.
The rock shaped stones above are called "MICRO PEBBLES." The next time you are wanting a pebble tile design in your home, consider using micro pebbles sheets.
This studio layout shows just how different our customizations are between clients. This client opted to have us make the rock ceramic tiles in their mosaic tiled trout stream. The entire design was based off of a color swatch of their blue slate. The waters and fish were also done in steel blue tones to mute the overall look and feel of the stream.
We're hoping for finished installation pictures of this trout stream tiled shower floor, because there is a bench at one end of the pond with another pond that overflows down the side of the bench to this shower floor mosaic tile design.
NOTE: Because I work with "spirit"/angels, in much of my designs, I do NOT always have control over how the glaze colors come out. The fish shaped tiles shown above NEVER come out steel blue; they are green. So, if you decide later that you want more of a specific color, you won't get it. Please order what you require now!
And here it is...the finished masterpiece!
The handmade ceramic tile rounded rocks matched the customer's field tiles exactly. By matching the field tiles to our rock tiles makes a seamless transition into the decorative ceramic tile trout stream. Click the picture for an enlargement.
This is a new trout fish ceramic tile for 2015 called Mint Irish Cream with Smoke fins. I wanted to create a more muted, realistic trout as it would appear underwater. This one looks wonderful with many of the sliced pebble, polished pebbles, etc. currently being used for shower and bathroom floors with stone tiles.
When you are trying to color coordinate your rock, pebble, or stone floors to a trout shaped mosaic tile, look for a "like" color in the rocks. Based on this design concept, rock / pebble / stone design ideas for my fish shaped mosaic tile trout might be:
The sliced pebble tiles on the left would emphasize the fish tiles slightly, the polished rock tiles on the right would create a subtle, soothing transition. So, let's say you want to emphasize your trout shaped fish ceramic tiles. I would suggest using a gold or rust toned rock tiles like these:
Although these colors would make the fish tiles "pop," they also create a very soft look and feel to a floor.
The picture below shows Cappuccino Mint freshwater fish trout tiles. I like this glaze quite a bit because it blends nicely with pebble stones and other types of stones. By applying the glaze slightly lighter on the fins makes them a bit brighter in tone and unifies the color of the fish tile.
Cappuccino Mint
These trout shaped tiles would look great with sliced pebbles or pebble tiles like the ones shown below. FYI...these trout tiles in Cappuccino Mint would look awesome with an olive green Cobblestone on their backs!
The trout shaped tile below is Safari, also with a dark green cobblestone back. This glaze works nice for trout shaped mosaic tiles or bass shaped mosaic tiles.
Safari with dark green cobblestone backs
For a subtle look in pebble rocks or porcelain tiles, Safari with Olive Cobblestone is the perfect choice.
The pebble tiles shown on the left are called "polished pebble tiles. You can use any image search engine, like bing images to locate an extensive selection of these polished pebble tiles. Or click our "POLISHED PEBBLE TILE" link.
If you prefer a porcelain pebble shaped tile like the one shown on the right, try searching google images by using the keywords, "PEBBLE SHAPED TILES."
This is a new color that I'm using on trout shaped mosaic tiles. It's Green Blue. It can be used as a standalone color or the black cobblestone can be added to the back. It's a neutral color; more on the gray/green/blue tones.
These Blue green, shaped fish tiles would be a nice addition to gray-toned pebble tiles, or cut stone pebble tiles.
gray pebbles stones and gray sliced pebbles
Blue green with gray fins and black on their backs
If you are on a tight budget, just a couple of our trout shaped mosaic ceramic tiles can make a big impact in a rock/pebble floor.
NOTE: for people with neuropathy in their feet
When designing a rock, pebble tile installation, you should take into consideration your own comfort; not only under your feet, but how the colors effect your being. Round rock tiles are rougher under your feet, while the cut / flat rock tiles are smoother if you have any kind of foot neuropathy.
Trout shaped tiles in Pagoda Green, with Gooseberry fins and Brown Cobblestone backs.
New for 2015! These trout shaped mosaic tiles in Pagoda Green/Gooseberry Green/Brown look nice with nearly any sliced pebbles, micropebble / micro-pebble, or polished pebble tile floor color. They have an "olive" cast to the green.
Sliced pebble stone design ideas
The "Apple" green slice pebbles color range runs between a mint green and light and dark olive tones. This combination will lend a softer look and feel to your floor; slightly de-emphasizing the fish shaped tiles.
The picture below shows a close up view of Moss Agate brown trout ceramic tiles. The thinner the glaze is applied, the more color comes out; green, gold, copper, and brown. It it's applied heaver, the Moss Agate makes for a darker brown trout tile.
Moss Agate with Brown Fins
A scale texture is pressed into the ceramic tile trout to create a scale effect; even though trout don't have visible scales.
If you like our brown trout ceramic tiles and want a deep, rustic, warm stone color, these cut pebble tile and polished, pebble tile are a great addition.
You can have your trout tiles in ANY color, or combination of colors. The picture below also utilizes Moss Agate on the fins of this ceramic tile trout school.
If you would like to place an order at that time, click the email me links in the right column. There are instructions, as to what information I need, to get from you, to process your order, and for you to pay.
Most tiles ship the same day as payment.
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Thanks to a few of the members over at BeautyHeaven I recently discovered Sleek MakeUp and their Idivine palettes.... Now I know there's stacks of reviews and swatches out there for them, but I just adore the ones that I recently got my hands on so much that I just had to add my rave to the mix.
You can buy the palettes from Sleek MakeUp's website www.sleekmakeup.com they range from $10 to $13 USD ( I think) and shipping is $13.50 capped for any amount of items I believe, however I purchased mine from EBay, because the seller was offering cheaper shipping than Sleek.
I now own 3 of the 12 colour palettes in, Chaos which is all mattes, Acid which is a mix of Neon's shimmers, and Mattes and Storm which is a mix of neutrals and deep colours in shimmers and mattes. I find they are all pretty easy to use with all the colours and finishes being soft in texture, as usual mattes are just that bit harder to work with, but sometimes the result is worth it to figure out the best way of using them. The texture of the shimmers is much softer with quite a bit of flaking in the palette and a bit of fall out, but nothing a good primer first cant fix. The colours are just amazing, bright and ultra shimmery really quite stunning for such inexpensive palette.
First up Chaos, this is the matte palette.
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Acid - this is the palette with the mix of Mattes, Neon's and shimmers.
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Storm - Neutrals and Deep brights in shimmers and mattes
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( which is quickly becoming my fave black of all time ) Standouts, gosh that's hard I love almost every colour in this palette, and nothing is a disappointment!
Sleek palettes do not disappoint and are well worth looking into.
Have you tried Sleek MakeUp and what is you're favourite item?
( edit - these were all swatched over NYX eyeshadow base in natural )

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A brief analysis of baseball, history, movies, society, dreams, ambitions, women, music, culture, environment and anything else I can jam into my little piece of Idaho... A little Latin for ya: An nescis, mi fili, quantilla sapientia mundus regatur? - Don't you know then, my son, how little wisdom rules the world?
Monday, August 17, 2009
No Rest in Fantasy Baseball: Cash for Clunkers, Fines for Plunkers, and Punk'd Moves
The opposing pitcher Rick Porcello got 5 games, one start out of the rotation. So the punk is on Youk. (bottom of the picture.)
Recently, the cash for clunkers program has taken off. The idea of giving an incentive/rebate to get a hunk of junk and gas-addicted vehicle off the bridge to nowhere has boded well. Baseball teams often take a scrap heap worthy player and rebuild him to his old, not-so- clunkerish form. At least in theory.
And so, the Phillies recently gave cash to a clunker pitcher in Pedro "Punk" Martinez. (I call him one because he threw down a septuagenarian…ex-Bo Sox manager, Don Zimmer.)
But Pedro had a better day than Notre Dame WR/wannabe starter Jeff Samardzija who, along with Sean Marshall, got punked out of the ballpark by the Phillies power quartet: Howard, Utley, Rollins and Ibanez. And another punk in the stands let The Flying Hawaiian, Shane Victorino, have some alcoholic fruit punch to go along with his uniform without a Wailuku Lei.
No Luaus for Mr. Victorino are planned in Chicago. He'll be happy to sue that bleacher dude, without the surfboard, and whomever feels spry enough to take over ownership of the Cubs this season. Bummer.
Meanwhile, Rich Harden gets cheated by the rain Gods (not in Hawaii) on Sunday, God's day of rest. My pitching seems more contented to rest – no wins, dead last and a growing gap – than to pitch to victory.
God created the world in six days…then he rested because it was good. Well, in my case, there is no rest for the wicked, wacky, and winless warriors on my punk'd pitching staff. (Aside from Roy Halladay… he got royally punked over.)
All in a day's work – this punk is over.
(JP currently is running first! in a Yahoo! fantasy baseball league. Just took over that spot today.)
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It really confused me when I first heard it. Then I realized our duty can be a prayer, but our prayer can't substitute for our duty. Make sense?
Anyway, todays reading has a good example of neglecting one's duty.
Reading 1
2 Sm 1:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17
At the turn of the year, when kings go out on campaign,
David sent out Joab along with his officers
and the army of Israel,
and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah.
David, however, remained in Jerusalem.
Notice that it is the duty of the kings to go out on campaign. King David neglected his rightful duty.
What Is The Result?
David had inquiries made about the woman and was told,
"She is Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam,
and wife of Joab's armor bearer Uriah the Hittite."
Then David sent messengers and took her.
When she came to him, he had relations with her.
Food for thought as you go about your day.
Prayer: God, grant us the grace to prayerfully fulfill our duty this day.


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On to why the Sky doesn't work. There has been a seismic shift in the M&O household since the half term holiday. A great occurrence has occurred. YES, we finally have the builders in situ and they are busily turning our hideous loft in to a rather spiffing bedroom and bathroom. The excitement is overwhelming (although obviously tinged with sadness by the loss of our Sky - hopefully very temporarily until we work out a suitable place for the aerial). K and I have waited nearly a decade for this to happen. When we first moved in to this house it needed entirely gutting. Stripping, plastering, electrical overhaul, plumbing, walls knocked down and put up, painting, carpeting etc etc the whole shebang. I was very confident that our HUGE budget of about £15k would be enough to turn the entire house around AND turn the loft in to a fourth bedroom. I had watched property ladder, I had overseen an overhaul of the bathroom in our old flat. I knew it all. K gave up his job to do the labouring and oversee the trades he couldn't manage like the electrics, plumbing and plastering and I sought refuge at my mother's with our little baby Bea and waited for the magic to happen.
It turns out I didn't know anything. We needed tens of thousands more than I thought (particularly as I spent quite a bit on the furniture and furnishings section) and that didn't even include the loft. It transpires that trades are expensive, it turns out that not having an income means money you do have dwindles spectacularly quickly and it also turns out that trying to remortgage whilst no one in the household is earning money, is actually almost impossible. So, we ended up in something of a financial pickle
On to the moving part. Yes, we are planning to up sticks and start 'the good life' in the country. The loft is the final part of the puzzle. When it came to it, I just couldn't leave the house for someone else to do it. Also I couldn't bear the idea of not getting the most money out of the house as was humanly possible (so sue me - four bedroom places seem to be going for so much more than three beds that the cost and inconvenience of converting the loft seemed like a no brainer). Plus the delay will give the children a final term at their beloved schools and for us all to say our goodbyes and tie up all the loose ends. So once the loft is finished and the bathroom is re-tiled we are putting it on the market and finally finding 'the forever house' in the Suffolk countryside. I am scared and excited in equal measure. When I am in Suffolk and the children are all playing outside in the sunshine I can't think of a single reason to stay in London. When I am in London I can think of quite a few and worry I will make a terrible full time country dweller. I am sure that there will be times when I think I am a fool for moving, and times when I think I was a fool for not doing it sooner. Much like I can't quite imagine the loft actually being finished, I can't quite manage to picture our final goodbyes or leaving the house never to return, but I remain convinced that it is the best thing to do for all concerned. A smaller mortgage, bigger house, huge garden, smaller schools and hopefully a nice new job for K - it all seems to me to be the best thing for everyone. If I am wrong then there is really nothing much I can do about it other than live with my mistake for the rest of my life. We can't even afford to buy the house we currently inhabit, let alone move back should it all turn out to be a disaster.
Mother is adamantly opposed to the move. Which is odd as you would assume it would make her ridiculously happy to have me and the brood nearby. But you can never second guess what the woman is thinking. She has come up with a myriad of reasons why I will hate it, but I tend to ignore her, particularly her concern over what I will do when 'one of them needs to go to a party' (she is very concerned about the amount of time I will have to spend in the car and her party scenario was to highlight the fact that when one of them has a party, should I be alone, I will have to put all of them in the car and take them to and from the party....). Potentially she worries that I am moving purely for free childcare and that she will be forced to spend her retirement being dumped with a number of small children whilst I galavant about the place. I must admit, the idea of having her to help out on an occasional basis with childcare was definitely a bonus, but the whole point of the move was to enable us to spend more time altogether as a family. We can't wait to have a big garden that we can all spend the weekends enjoying and a house that is big enough to accommodate us both together and separately. It just seems to us that the stars have aligned and everything seems to suggest that this is our opportunity, and we intend to make the most of it.
Anyway, back to the here and now. We are tantalisingly close to the end of term - a week and a half to go! I have watched two sports days, with one more to attend, the children are up to date with all jabs, doctors appointments and dental checks. I have even given in the registration forms for Ted so that he can start school in September. I am totally on the ball. I have also attended Bea's end of year dance show which was something I hope I will never forget.
If I could live a different life I would love to be graceful and dance. I was desperate to be Penny from Dirty Dancing and have the ability to move with rhythm and beauty (and be tall and really skinny). Sadly it was never to be. Aside from the weight issue I was not one for learning to dance, I hated ballet and I was the only child who had a written excuse to get me out of having to do 'pliés'. I have watched elegant dancers and felt an ache that I will never be able to do anything like that. However, watching my first born prance effortlessly across the stage made me cry with an odd mix of emotions. Naturally pride, love, joy, but also an overwhelming happiness that she gets to experience something I will never know. I am at a loss as to where she inherited it from - K is lovely but I wouldn't say he sets the dancefloor alight with his dance moves although he is arguably more rhythmic than me. My mother and I are very much the 'galumphing' sort of folk - we have big hands and feet and are naturally quite clumsy. There were definitely some dancers on stage at various times who reminded me of me. The ones that 'have it' are mesmerising for all the right reasons; those without draw attention for all the wrong reasons. But I mentally high fived them for going ahead with it anyway. I would never have had the confidence.
Sadly for me I was gifted with musicality which is all well and good if you like playing in an orchestra (I hated it) and practising for hours on end every day (I hated it) and you liked performing said instruments in front of an audience (GUESS how much I hated that). The minute I stopped having to play them, I did. Dance is something you can do all the time and I am so happy that she has it. She performed four dances in all and we were all there to watch her - a first for us - we have never before taken children who can move to any of her performances lest it
So, that is really it, apart from an INCREDIBLY exciting surprise trip to Legoland to stay in the hotel next week. Two whole naughty skive days spent blowing their tiny minds and a night in a themed room with a view of the park. K and I are beside ourselves with anticipation and the excitement of surprising them. We have decided to act like it's a normal morning, making them get in school uniform and everything, before getting in the car and seeing how long we can last with their constant questioning about where we are going before we give in and spill the beans. We have envisaged getting all the way to the first sign post for Legoland, however I am pretty sure that half a mile down the road and we will want to rip out our ears. It is bad enough when they do know where they are going, let alone without and with seemingly deranged parents who have decided not to take them to school for some peculiar reason. Whatever happens, it is literally the most exciting thing to ever happen to us.
One of the best parts of my half term was a trip to and from London entirely on my own. The reason for the trip was rather dull - boring banking stuff to help get the money for the loft - I was only going up for a half an hour meeting so it was decided the children were best left at home with Mum. It was four and a half hours of utter bliss - just me, the car and four Nashville CDs. Awesome. Like being in a spa but without stressing about the fact that the 'one size fits all' dressing gown doesn't quite fit 'all' of you and with traffic.
And finally, I shall leave you with my favourite comment from Ted from the half term - I was lying in bed and trying to grab a few more seconds of lying down before I forced myself upright, so I asked Ted to go behind the curtain and see what the weather was like. He was quiet for a bit and I said, 'what can you see'. He replied, 'I can't see anything'. I asked if he was looking from behind the curtain or in front of it. He said 'I'm behind the curtain, but I can't see any weather through all this rain. I think it's a bit windy'. That amused me for a long time.
So, yet again I shall make hollow promises about getting in touch shortly and not leaving it nearly two months, but we both know the truth. I may come on briefly to brag about my new snazzy room, but I may be too busy sitting in it watching tv in my new comfy bed to come down the two flights of stairs in order to retrieve the laptop. But, with the shiny long stretch of holidays ahead of us, anything is possible.


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Occupy Miami: Miss Angela Samuels Eviction Victory Announcementon January 04, 2012
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Great news from Miami - yesterday's action to stop the eviction of Angela Samuels was a success! By standing up and fighting back, Samuels was able to get the due process she deserves and another chance to keep her home. The fight isn't over - but yesterday was a victory for Angela, thanks to her community and Occupy Miami rallying to her support.


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|Satire on Romantic Suicide - Leonardo Alenza Y Nieto
Many hailed him as a hero and many accused him of being a traitor.
Mr Snowden practically said that he was willing to betray his nation because he "can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building." (N.B: the PRISM has been running since 2007)
The US government (or any government for that matter) does not need to destroy people's privacy because most people are more than willing to do it, on their own volition, whenever they post on social networks details of their private life: photos of themselves, of their kids, of their relatives and friends; of their homes, cars, neighbourhoods and their vacations; when they tell the world of their whereabouts; when they share their favourite shop and spa; every single family quarrel they have, their depressions etc etc. Do they know most of the people they befriend online?
Internet freedom is not under threat: people are still free to wreck their privacy; people are still free not to use any online service; people are still free to use anonymizers; people remain free to give untrue information when opening online accounts. People are free in the Web and can pass undetected...as long as they do not commit crimes.
Regarding "basic liberties" (e.g. freedom of thought, liberty of conscience; political liberties and freedom of association), I don't see how surveilling communication patterns - which is basically what the PRISM surveillance programme does - will violate the described basic liberties. When individuals speak of liberties, they should remember that specific right comes with responsibilities, meaning that they must not use their liberty to violate other people's basic rights (to life, liberty and security).
Edward Snowden decided to ignore that the rule of law prevails in the USA and in other western nations. He convinced himself that his "basic liberties" granted him the right to endanger the lives of thousands of US and foreign agents (of allied countries) plus their contacts, handlers, safe houses, meeting points, escape routes etc. He imperilled the very same people who keep us safe and free - he is truly a hero...
There are a few interesting details that deserve a comment:
1. As many have pointed out, he didn't use the proper legal channels to leak this information. Instead, he went straight to the (left leaning) media. Interesting.
2. He told his supervisor that he "needed to be away from work for 'a couple of weeks' in order to receive treatment for epilepsy" - before packing and leaving to Asia.
3. He allegedly misled (although he called it being "vague") his girlfriend knowing that he wouldn't come back. His explanation "That is not an uncommon occurrence for someone who has spent the last decade working in the intelligence world." - sounds like he's a delusional field operative-wannabe.
4. Despite going away only for "a few weeks", he managed to empty his (not so little) house in Hawaii - so, how could he have told his girlfriend (with whom he allegedly cohabited) that he'd be gone for a few weeks? One of them is not being truthful...
5. His trip to Hong Kong - Chinese territory. He had to know that after leaking the information he'd be approached by the Chinese Information Services. What will this whistle-blower do: give classified information to a foreign government under duress? Unless, being extracted, in Hong Kong, was the original plan...
Edward Snowden is a traitor. The PRISM, a legal programme, will not stop running because of this scandal, nor it should.
The government is checking patterns of our communication activities (not their content) and, we have nothing to fear if we do not engage in terrorist activity; if we do not aid and abet terrorism and if we do not associate ourselves with terrorists.
Carry on...


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I was inspired by the challenge at Scrap Our Stash. I used graph paper (the white paper), hearts and ink.
I also chose my picture and the blue paper according to the challenge at Challenge Yourself.
The blue paper has chevrons.
Paper - Jen Hadfield: Cottage Living and DIY Home
Blue paper - Pink Paislee: Pen Pals
Stickers - Bella Blvd: Valentina
Doily - Dollarama
Black Ink
Blue twine
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I couldn't have been more delighted this weekend when I saw that my new Bugs and Roses tableware had been given Star Buy status on the Guardian's Wishlist page with a fabulously big picture to boot. But then, thanks to the lovely Emily at Caravan I found that a couple of my customised vintage bug plates had made it into the Independent's Design Issue too. Orders have been pinging into my notonthehighstreet.com shop ever since. Oh happy days!
Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Sunday, 26 April 2009
Smith and Coates will be at Origin in October
Smith and Coates is going to be at Origin this year, and although it's ages away (not until October), I'm starting to limber up already. Judith has been helping me with new postcard and label designs, and I've been frantically sewing in my shed. And I've just put a whole load of new jumpers on the website so it's all systems go.
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Saturday, 25 April 2009
new handworks spring summer collection
there is glamor in gardening wearing a kaftan!
"can I have a quilt to wrap around me?"
.....with miffy, sitting on my favourite quilt wearing a lovely skirt&top.
The new handworks collection has arrived! The childrenswear, modelled here by some of the best in town, is gorgeous. The prints are fresh and crisp. And there are some lovely new cotton quilts, table cloths and more. I will be having a preview day soon so do come and see the new arrivals, Let me know if you would like to be on my mailing list for this and future sales events.
Thank you to all involved in our fun and impromptu photo shoot today! Radhax
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Friday, 24 April 2009
Are you big or are you small? Here's a wee nosy at one of Mrs Booth's new cards, they're hot off the press this week. I'll be launching these and more at Pulse at the end of May. More to follow soon. x
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We start off with a fly cam zooming through some metropolis, where the buildings are all dark and angsty, so this might be some sort of tribute to "Blade Runner" or another movie where unhappy people live bleak futuristic lives. Of course, we're also hearing the lovely opening part of the song where a piano is playing, which should be soothing, so we've already set up a dichotomy of sorts. Are we going on a picnic or are we going to drown ourselves in gothic doom? Some of us face this decision every day.
As Amy, the lead singer, starts wailing, we focus in on a particular window in a particular building. All the other windows in the building are closed, but this one isn't, with curtains billowing in the wind, meaning a free spirit lives here. Or at least somebody who hasn't figure out how to close the window. The camera intrudes through the window (because it's not a real rock video unless there's voyeurism of some kind) and we see Amy lying on a bed, looking all lethargic and unsatisfied.
Suddenly, Amy is falling through the air in front of the building. She probably wasn't expecting for this to happen, since she's still wearing her slinky negligee and not something more helpful like a parachute. She's not opening her eyes, which is probably good, because who wants to see a street rushing toward their ass when they unexpectedly fall out a window that they probably should have closed before they started drinking absinthe?
Oh wait, now we're back in the bedroom, with Amy tossing and turning on her strangely-long bed. Is she dreaming? Does she have sleep apnea? So many questions. (Another shot of Falling Amy, still falling. This must be a very tall building.) Sleeping Amy appears to be singing parts of the song as she writhes in the bed. She seems to be in a lot of emotional turmoil. Maybe this wouldn't be happening if she had bothered to remove her gothic makeup and piercings before she retired for the evening. How can you rest comfortably with a metal stud shoved through your eyelid?
Brief pause in the music, then the camera rolls up the building a bit to another apartment, where the rest of the band is performing in a nice room with padded walls. (Symbolic, much?) They rock out for a bit, which apparently causes Sleep Apnea Amy to rise from her strange bed and head toward the window of her own boudoir. (Is this really a good idea? I'm still not seeing a parachute anywhere, and something tells me you might need one.)
Montage of the band jamming and Amy unable to resist the allure of the Death Window, slowly working her way to the opening, but pausing here and there to look tragic and pale for the camera.
Amy, still not properly dressed, climbs out her window (hey, that's a good idea) and stands on a tiny ledge. She starts working her way around the corner of the building (instead of going back to bed like a non-suicidal person would) while gale-force winds are whipping her hair and nightgown around. (Where is this severe wind coming from, anyway? Is the Republican Convention in town?) Brief sequence where Amy wanders past a window where an older couple is watching something on TV. They don't seem to mind windblown rock stars strolling outside their window.
Amy also passes a few windows where people wearing creepy masks are dancing with balloons and wearing unfashionable attire. (I'm going to guess this is a jab at pretentious music critics. Otherwise, I'm at a loss.) More shots of the rest of the band bouncing around in that padded room, and it appears that Amy wants to join them, gazing skyward as trees and cows blow past her.
She starts climbing up the building toward the floor where her mates are rocking comfortably in a room that doesn't have open windows. (Say, Amy, that's a really good idea. Climb even higher so you can fall even further. Smooth move.)
Hey, is that Jack Nicholson at 2:03?
Mount Everest Amy finally clamors her way to the floor with the rest of the band, which is pretty impressive considering she's barefoot and doesn't have any actual superhero skills. The band doesn't immediately notice her arrival, so she stands at the corner of the building and lets the wind whip her hair about while she writhes against the stone masonry. She finally gets bored with that, and staggers over to one of the windows, pausing to sing in a manner that indicates she might be enjoying what the wind is doing to her nether regions. Just a guess.
The other lead singer (no idea what his name is, but if memory serves he's just a guest on this song, so it doesn't matter that we don't know who he is) finally notices Morticia on the tiny ledge. He shoves the window open with far too much exuberance, causing Mount Everest Amy to lose her balance. She tumbles, but manages to grab hold of the tiny ledge just below the window. (It totally sucks when you scale giant buildings in the middle of the night, so many things can go wrong.)
This other lead singer climbs out on the ledge, and tries to rescue Morticia, which is initially a good thing. But they both keep singing, which is kind of stupid, and makes the rescue attempt much more difficult than it needs to be. This goes on for a while, with Morticia dangling, unknown other lead singer weakly trying to hold on to Morticia, but really more invested in his vocals, and shots of the rest of the band rocking out and not even trying to help in any way. Inevitably, other lead singer loses his grip and Morticia Amy plummets.
Really sad. But we were expecting this, yes?
So Morticia Amy falls for a really long time, in that slo-mo way they do things when we're supposed to pay attention. The other lead singer seems a wee bit torn up about this development, but he doesn't stop singing, so he's probably a little jaded about the sudden death of people he's performing with. (The rest of the band still couldn't care less, strutting about in the padded room.) The other lead singer does have a quick shot of him looking off to the right and appearing distraught, but he's probably thinking "dang, if Morticia is dead, how am I going to get another gig?"
Oh, now we've cut back to Sleep Apnea Amy and she's still in her bed. So, did any of this really happen, or was all of it a shifty dream, aided and abetted by the recreational use of controlled pharmaceuticals? We may never know.
The camera pulls away from the Building of Death and Falling People, leaving us all to ponder the significance of our lives and whether or not Rock and Roll might kill us at some point.
Fade to gothic black.
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American Novelist
1922 - 2007
Many of us dream of making a living from our art. We want to spend a hundred percent of our time on our art. Actually very few artists, musicians and writers make a living from their work. Most have to take on jobs to support their creative habit or starve. If the reason we write or paint is to make money, then we should give it up and go find a job in business. Making art is not about money. Making art is about personal growth and development — about the journey of the soul. Money, if it comes, is the gravy.
Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite novelists. His Cat's Cradle is in my all time list of favorite novels. I first read him in college and last in 2009 when I read Armagedd0n in Retrospect.
Here is a visual tribute to Kurt Vonnegut.


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Did you know it snowed yesterday? Well, it snowed yesterday and everyone forgot how to drive. Heidi explained to me that it's because a lot of people in Ohio are Republicans and Republicans are bad drivers. I never knew I was a Republican. Zing! Anyway.
Last night, while I was waiting for Heidi to get home, I did a bit of cleaning for our guests. Nothing extravagant like cleaning the bathroom (crazy), but vacuuming and cleaning Phoebe's litter box so it didn't smell like poo. Did I tell you I bought Phoebe a fancy, new litter box? It's one of those that has a little walkway and it's all inside an igloo, because I was tired of seeing her poo. Because, see, she doesn't always cover it up very well. Wow, anyway. I bought her this new one and I think she was really confused, because for a while, she wouldn't use it. So I took the lid off of it for a couple of days and then she used it and then I put the lid back on, but I wasn't sure if she was using it because she's not very smart. Maybe she just thought if the lid was on, the place to poo went away. You will never believe how happy I was yesterday when I lifted the lid and saw a bunch of turds. Joe called soon afterward and I was all, "Guess what! Phoebe pooped in her litter box!" and he was like, "Great, I just called to tell you about the CD I just found OK bye!"
You know, I think that's the greatest story I've ever told on a blog EVER. Speaking of blogging, today marks my fifth anniversary of blogging. Not just on this blog, though. Also here and here. Good times. Oh, shit, I guess it was yesterday. Oops.
Where was I? OK, so I cleaned a bit. Not as much as I should have. This is what we did last night instead of cleaning our apartment for our beloved friends:
- went to Starbucks and got hot chocolate (OH MY GOD YUM)
- went to Target, where I spent a bajillion dollars on toiletries and such
- went to Papa Murphy's to use a coupon and buy delicious pizza
- discussed a text message to send a boy
- watched 30 Rock
- watched Ugly Betty
- watched The Office
- watched more 30 Rock
- oh, and planted seeds for a tiny Christmas tree
Target Dollar Spot strikes again! I hope it grows big and strong by Christmas. Joe made fun of me (standard) for buying a tiny Christmas tree, but when Heidi and I are rich because of our Christmas tree farm, he's gonna be so jealous.
*fun fact: I found this entry by searching my blog posts for "bar police mom"


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Using the oven makes my apartment waaaaay warmer – so obviously pizza time.
Used my trusty pizza dough recipe – made two pizzas.
Pepperoni and Sausage:
– spread olive oil over the rolled out crust, rolled super thin, 1/4″-1/2″
– sprinkle with mozzarella
– cook some spicy italian sausage, crumble over top of pizza
– sprinkle with garlic powder, salt, pepper, and basil/rosemary
Sausage, Red Onion, Goat Cheese, and Balsamic
– olive oil over thin crust
– mozz
– crumble italian sausage, then diced red onion, then goat cheese
– top with black pepper and drizzle with balsamic
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Portrait of a Gourmand – A gourmand is simply, someone who takes pleasure in food and eating. This is a continuing photographic series of gourmands, from all walks of life. There are many gourmands that inspire us in profound ways that make us experience and think about food differently. These portraits essays and interviews share their amazing stories.
Shauna James Ahern's journey from suffering celiac disease to re-discovering food is a remarkable one. For the past 5 years, she's shared her path to healing through candid and intimate essays on her popular blog, GlutenFreeGirl.com. Oh her personal food website, Shauna created an incredible community of readers from all over the world which has morphed into a powerful gathering place of healing, eating well and how to life a fulfilling life without gluten.
Since then, she's met her soul-mate, Chef of 20 years and now husband, Daniel Ahern. The synergy between these two amazing, talented and compassionate people have turned the blog into a newer, more complete direction, now appropriately called Gluten Free Girl and The Chef.
Together, Shauna and Daniel explore the world of gluten free foods and share fantastic recipes that are explode with flavor and fresh, local produce. And of course, on the other side of their rainbow is the real pot of gold, their 2 year old daughter Lucy.
Their fascinating story, incredible recipes and passionate gluten free lifestyle has now resulted in a new cookbook titled,Gluten Free Girl and The Chef: A Love Story with 100 tempting recipes.
What encouraged you to start a blog?
{ Shauna } – After I was diagnosed with celiac at 38 years old, after years of feeling lousy, I was compelled to write about my experiences. Since I so immediately felt better after going gluten-free, I knew that I never wanted to eat the stuff again. It felt natural to me to turn to all the foods that are naturally gluten-free and celebrate the experience of eating again. And there are so many foods that are gluten-free that I had never eaten before: amaranth, fish sauce, millet, smoked paprika. I started going to farmers' markets and buying foods in season. I found good olive oils and discovered a world beyond tv dinners, deli foods, and the same 8 dishes I made over and over again.
Since I had always been a writer, I did what I knew: I wrote about it. I started taking photographs because the world looked so beautiful to me after being so sick, and I wanted to capture that light. However, I didn't know that I was writing a food blog. This was back in 2005, when there were only about 100 of us doing this. I thought I was just keeping a space where my friends could come to read my long emails when they had the time! When I first started getting comments, I was astounded. Who were these people? I found their blogs and left comments. Other discoveries arrived. More people came to mine. Slowly, I found a community .
I write from this place, and from that joyful sense of discovery. I write so that no one else has to be in the dark as long as I was.
How has cooking and feeding in your kitchen changed since you became parents:
{ Daniel } We're more conscious of what we are feeding each other because Lucy eats whatever we eat. We're feeding three, not two.
Having her be part of this, and feeding another mouth, has made us more conscious of how we can best spend our food money. Before she was born, we would buy expensive olive oil on a whim, or some fabulous new spice we had never tried before. Now, we plan our meals with her nutrition and our much-tighter budget now that she is around. We can see why family cooks have far different concerns than single cooks.
{ Shauna } The process is a lot more imperfect now. We stand at the counter to chop onions and poach eggs while Lucy re-arranges dishes and reaches for the mortar and pestle to listen to the sound it makes. She wants to be part of everything — the chopping, the smelling, the sizzling, the stirring. There's usually something dumped on the counter that we didn't expect. It might take longer to cook a dish than it did before, with more stops and starts, but it's far more fun. We love that she's there to be part of making every meal she eats.
We think that has something to do with the fact that she eats so well. (And she'll probably turn picky after I write that sentence!) She sees part of every stop of the process, from shopping to sitting down at the table with us. She really does love food.
What have you learned so far as parents and from feeding Lucy?
{ Shauna } We've grown more humble through feeding her. It used to be that we were amazed when we were in the grocery store and saw carts full of packaged foods and kids hanging off the end of the cart. We cooked everything from scratch, and elaborate meals at that. Why couldn't everyone else?
There's nothing more humbling than having a child. You don't sleep much anymore, you're changing diapers, your house is cluttered with blocks and dollls and leftover rice underneath her chair. As much as we love food, there are very few meals that require hours of preparation these days. Even when she's asleep, Danny's tired from working at the restaurant all day and me from being on the computer after wrestling a toddler to sleep. We still cook from scratch, but it's more like brown rice from the rice cooker, a roasted chicken, and some broccolini that we throw into a hot skillet with olive oil and garlic for a few moments.
That's let me see that the goal isn't to make the most impressive or elaborate foods. The point is to cook, and to sit together at the table.
{ Daniel } We want to give her the best food we can. Looking back, I don't want to feed her the crap I ate. McDonald's, boxed macaroni and cheese. my mom was a good cook, but she just had a LOT on her plate by the time I came along. (I was the the fifth of five children.) There was a lot of junk food in the house at times.
I want to take the time to cook. I want to teach her how to cook. I want her to enjoy it. People are running through their lives and they don't stop to enjoy this. that's just dumb.
What do you hope to teach Lucy about food?
{ Shauna } Danny and I fell in love through food. We both feel that food is a joyful way to be alive to our senses, to play, to discover, to truly live in the moment.
We eat three times a day. Why not make those moments memorable? We hope she knows that a thick slice of a ripe tomato grown in the garden and dusted with sea salt is just as good (and probably better) than an expensive meal in a trendy restaurant. And we want her to know that everything should be in moderation. We try to eat as much as we can in season, but frozen blueberries in the winter taste bright in a pie. Plus, sometimes you just need some potato chips. We hope she knows how to pick the good ones.
{ Daniel } We want to teach her to respect food. We want her to know that food doesn't just come from the grocery store. People grew her food. Hands picked it. Workers packed it. It takes hard work for food to get to us and for us to make it.
We also want her to respect other people's cultures. Eating food from around the world, and being brave about foods that may seem strange, is a great way to understand the way other people live.
What did you learn from writing a cookbook together?
{ Daniel } It's a hard, long process. You have to be sure of what you're doing all along the way.
I know a fair amount about cooking, and I'm always pushing myself to learn more, which sometimes makes me think I don't know that much. Then I think about the general person who may not know a lot about food. my mother, at 80 years old, still calls me for advice about roasting a prime rib. How many times has she made one by now? She still doesn't trust herself.
Knowing this gives me more confidence, but it also makes me want to teach more people. The cookbook was a revelation. I thought the only way I could nourish and help people was feeding them directly. But going out to dinner is a luxury. Now I know I can feed people in a different way.
Restaurants are all about rushing and cooking from muscle memory. Writing a cookbook I actually had to sit down and think, "What? Why do I do it that way?" I became a much better cook for that reason.
{ Shauna} I learned so much that it's hard to even say.
One of the best gifts of this was learning more about Danny. The biggest section of the book is called At the Restaurant. It's a day-in-the-life of a chef, with an essay followed by four recipes for every single part of his day. He talked and I typed, which meant I learned his stories. No one had ever asked him about the dishwashers in the restaurants where he has worked over the past 20 years, or why he grows so angsty when plates come back with a few bites of food left over. He was honored. I learned him.
Oh, and I learned SO much about writing recipes. Recipes are really stories, a clear guide to someone standing at the stove. I used to write recipes with far more of my own personal flourishes, thinking that made them better written. However, I also wrote ingredients out of the order of how they are used, left out steps, and forgot to show people how to tell when food was ready to come out of the oven. Danny helped me to see that the point is to write a recipe well enough that people could make the food!
Our book editor kicked our asses. He was tough, meticulous, demanded more from us, and sometimes left me infuriated. He was right. He's excellent. We learned how much we owe our editor.
I learned that we need to choose recipe testers carefully. That's an art.
Mostly, we both realized that we want to write cookbooks together for years and years to come. There is still so much left to learn.
More on Portrait of a Gourmand series:
- Shauna James Ahern & Daniel Ahern of Gluten Free Girl and The Chef
- Chef Hasty Torres of Madame Chocolat
- Martin Reed of I Love Blue Sea
- Dan and Jael Rattigan of French Broad Chocolate Lounge
- Amy Scattergood of LA Weekly Food Squid Ink
- Todd Porter of White On Rice Couple
- Helen DuJardin of Tartelette


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The goal of the water purification process is to take raw water and use a method to purify or clean it. When you are trying to explain water purification, you have to know the purpose the water will be used for. There are many methods and each is suitable for certain applications.
Mostly water is purified for homes, but there are applications like medical, scientific, industrial and commercial. Each has a water purification process that best suits it. Some of the different methods include, in no particular order, ultra violet light filtration, reverse osmosis, deionization and activated carbon treatment. There are many others, as well.
A complete water purification process will remove a whole host of things including algae, suspended particles of organic material, bacteria, viruses, fungi, minerals and metals. The government sets standards as to how many particles may remain and still be safe for human consumption. If you have to know exactly what contaminants are present, you will have to have a sample tested.
The source is sometimes a factor in which water purification process is best. Obviously we can not name them all, but the source could be a river, stream, lake, spring or well. These are only a few. Knowing the source helps experts to identify potential contaminants and choose the right water purification process to get the job done.
It's really pretty complicated, but what follows is a brief attempt to explain water purification.
First it is brought in from the source and stored. Then it is cleaned of big debris, tree limbs, for example. Then, it is preconditioned and pre chlorinated. The ph levels are adjusted to and the water is flocculated. Flocculation means "to make clear".
The water purification process continues with sedimentation, slow moving storage and filtration. To explain water purification, is to look at it as a series of steps, each one cleaning more contaminants than the last.
There are a number of different filtration methods that complete the water purification process. Granulated carbon, reverse osmosis, ion exchange, electro-deionization and direct contact membrane distillation are some of them. The water purification process used by your treatment facility may vary. But, in general, this should explain water purification at the treatment center's end.
In order to pass EPA standards, facilities are required to test for contaminants. The allowable levels are relatively high, many experts feel. The reason is that the standards are based on what would be toxic to a 175 pound adult. So, children could still become ill. Anyone who weighs less than 175 pounds could be in danger. I always worry about my dogs.
In my area, chlorine is used to keep the pipes clean and at certain times of the year, the levels are very high. When our treatment facility tries to explain water purification, they say that the levels are safe and that it is necessary to "flush" the system on a yearly basis, usually in the spring. Whenever this occurs, all three of my dogs develop diarrhea, unless I filter their drinking water.
It has become necessary to consider the treatment facility as only part of a complete water purification process. In the home, we have to do our share to protect ourselves, our families and even our pets. For more information, please see my website listed below. Larry L. Taylor


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It's worth having a look at Chiara's review of the excellent 'In this House of Brede'. I got this book for Christmas and finished it a couple of weeks ago. (It's the only book I've ever read that's made we want to become a Benedictine nun. ;) )
I should point out that it has recently been re-issued by the Loyola Classics stable of Catholic Fiction which is under the general editorship of none other than Amy Welborn.
Monday, January 30, 2006
In this House of Brede...
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WhenTalking| Deadly weapons, who wants to have them. While there are people all over who wants to protect themselves from the crimes of today, there will be those that will want to avoid those weapons as they consider them to be dangerous. Technically, there are two types that may be filled in as dangerous, and these will be those that are the mechanical types and the non-mechanical. Most of the weapons will be used in warfare, but when they get in the hands of ordinary people, it could be hell. Here are the top 10 deadliest weapons in the world today.
10. Heckler Koch HK MG4 MG 43 Machine Gun
Considered as one of the guns that come with the belt fed features, this was designed and developed by the Heckler and Koch Company in Germany. While it was developed back in the 1990s, this is considered as still one of today's most popular devices that will harm enemies from afar. This is apprised as one of the most favorite machine gun replacements in the market, and it will certainly be a top gun for killing.
9. Heckler & Koch HK 416 assault rifle
As an assault rifle, this is the best in the marker for the Heckler and Koch brand. It comes with the proprietary gas systems that will give you the power and the force that will be used against the enemies. In addition, it offers you the distinctive gas system that was used to replace the traditional systems of the M4 and the M6. Moreover, as an assault rifle, this is one that is handy and small.
8. XM307 ACSW Advanced Heavy Machine Gun
The ACSW stands for the advanced crew served weapon, and this will be the device that will come with the developmental 25mm belt Grenade system that will give you the smart shell capacity. Coming with the capacity range of as far as 2000 meters away, this is considered to be so powerful that it can destroy vehicles in the light armory types. Design by the US Army, this is the machine gun used to replace the old versions and will supplement and support the MK Grenade Launcher.
7. Accuracy International AS50 Snipe Rifle
This is a weapon manufactured by the British company named as Accuracy International and this will comes with the feature of long range targets. Accuracy is another of the features of the company, and it will boast of the facilities that comes with the two part machined steel receiver.
6. F2000 Assault Rifle
Crafted and designed by the Belgian Company named FN Herstal, this was first held as an exhibition item in Abu Dhabi in 2001. Consisting of two assemblies, which are the removable hand guard in front of the trigger and the enclosed trigger guard, this is one of the deadly weapons offering you safety precautions.
5. MG3 Machine Gun
A product of Germany, this is the machine gun weapon considered by many as those that will be chambered with the 7.62 by 51mm NATO cartridge. Technically, this is one weapon that was designed after the old guns in the Second World War. Over 30 countries have acquired and used this weapon for their infantry.
4. Uzi Sub Machine Gun
Until today, the weapon is considered as one of the most popular. Related to the family of weapons that are referred to as the open bolt and the blowback versions, this is the first weapon in the past that held the telescoping versions housed on the structure itself.
3. Kalashnikov AK47 Assault Rifle
This weapon is one that is designed from Russia, and it comes with the selective fire functions and the gas operated 7.62 by 39mm assault rifle. Again, this is a weapon that was technically copied from those used in WWII. It comes as a popular weapon because of the durability and ease of use that this weapon offers.
2. Thompson M1921 submachine gun
This weapon is more popularly referred to as the Tommy gun, and is one that came from the innovations of Americans. Mostly used decades past, it is still considered as one active weapon that will consider and bring much harm to the other party.
1. DSR Precision DSR50 sniper Rifle
Sophistication is the appeal of this weapon, and it comes with the powerful .50 caliber round that will be infused with the bolt action. This is a manufactured weapon by Germany and will be filled with features such as the adjustable butt sock and the cheek piece.


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BlackBerry Curve 8900 On January 19th? Yes / No!
Berry reporter is well reporting that BlackBerry 8900 WILL be released on January 19th to business customers and many people like Gizmodo, are wondering about the news. Some comments left on BerryReporter says that a sales rep has confirmed the device will go on sale on 19th.
But why fret? BlackBerry 8900 will be released to all of us on February 11th according to T-Mobile.
Berry reporter article.
Gizmodo where I got the image.


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Looking at Pinterest is one of my favourite things to do. Recently I came across a pin for how to make your own ink blending tools. I followed the link to here and thought that I could make some of my own.
A trip to Bunnings for the supplies - 1 piece of timber - about 3mm x 1.5mm. It comes in 1.8 m lengths. I had mine cut in half to fit in the car. I also bought 4 door handles ( the smallest Bunnings sell) and a packet of velcro. All up I spent about $20 on the supplies.


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Here's what I made:
I masked off an area of my card stock and stamped the snowflakes from Hero Arts Swirl Christmas stamp set and Hero Arts Tree-mendous Christmas Stamp set repeatedly using Simon Says Stamp Cobblestone ink. I stamped the sentiment from the Hero Arts Tree-Mendous Christmas using the same ink. I also colored a thin strip of white card stock with the same ink and added it just where the stamping ended. I added Nuvo drops Liquid mercury and Ivory seashell to add some more interest to the CAS card.
So how do you like it? Thanks for stopping by. Thank you for all the comments on my previous posts. I enjoy reading your thoughts.
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When I was a kid, my grandmother lived just up the street from my family's house and my aunt's house. Our veritable family compound laid claim to a rather isolated, wooded parcel of rural land and often made it feel as if we were the only ones in the world. On most days, when me and my cousins got home from school, while the parents were still off at work, we would get together at our grandparents' house for carousing. On the days when we weren't taking turns at Air Zonk or Keith Courage on the Turbo Grafx 16, we were usually outside, sweating through the sticky afternoons. We played basketball, one-on-one kickball (a modified form of soccer played with an under-inflated, smaller-than-soccer ball) and ragball (it's a baseball that is made of rags stuffed inside of a sewed rag shell, perfect for not hurting each other or the house). The formula of life then was so elegantly simple: play ourselves into a sweaty lather, retire inside to sit in front of fan, find some drink and sugar to refuel our engines, repeat.
This thing would thump against the house's siding with great regularity.
A lot of the time, we drank huge plastic glasses full of RC Cola on ice, the lifeblood of my grandmother, who was never then without her 32-ounce Rubbermaid mug, replete with bendy straw. To this day, I have had no other cola that has quite the fizz and bite of RC poured directly over ice. The effervescent, almost painful first gulp of an RC crackling over ice is a vivid, cherished memory of my youth.
Fizzy elegance.
On some days, though, RC was not enough to rally us. On such days, another go-to solution was to invade the stand-alone freezer off in the back room. Sometimes, there were fudge sickles or ice pops, and of course, on hot summer days, those were hard to resist. More often, though, we had only the default option to sate our need for sweet: milk chocolate holiday idols. At any time of year, no matter the date – no matter the date – there were giant milk chocolate Easter bunnies or Santas to eat. Our family came from modest roots, and whenever there was a deal to be had, my grandmother eagerly stockpiled provisions for us in the freezer. Seemingly endless roasts, packages of hamburger meat and chickens sat alongside bags and bags of half pound chocolates, emblazoned with bright orange "$0.25" clearance stickers. The chocolate was so ubiquitous that we were often tired of it. If you thawed one bunny or Santa, you had days of eating ahead, and if you put it back into the freezer to keep it from melting, it would often get freezer bite and turn into that chalky, white thing that chocolate does.
I would have sworn that sometimes these things were reproducing in the freezer.
I remember this time of life not only because I have been missing my grandmother recently, but also because today, I think she would be proud. On this day after Valentine's Day, I went out and hit 4 different locations, stocking up on over 10 pounds of discounted candy. For months hence, when people visit my home, they can raid my larder, like we kids did the freezer, and find for themselves the fuel they need to go out for another round of whatever game they are playing. They will just have to deal with the fact that, for the time being, it is all heart-shaped.


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Faizan Syed, purveyor of hysterical false claims
In PJ Lifestyle today I discuss how naive (or complicit) networks like NPR publicize propaganda from Hamas-linked CAIR while ignoring the Infidels who are today living under very real persecution from Islamic jihadists.
In PJ Lifestyle today I discuss how naive (or complicit) networks like NPR publicize propaganda from Hamas-linked CAIR while ignoring the Infidels who are today living under very real persecution from Islamic jihadists.
St. Louis Public Radio, part of the NPR Digital Network, reported breathlessly last weekthat "a 2013 report from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) identifies a network of 37 organizations that systematically promote anti-Muslim sentiment in America through prejudice, fear and hatred. CAIR calls it Islamophobia." As if anyone who has had access to radio, television, or the Internet over the last ten years wouldn't know that. The St. Louis Public Radio piece was just the latest in a steady stream of articles that have appeared over the last few years about the "Islamophobia" industry, a supposedly well-coordinated, well-funded band of bigots, hatemongers and racists who are doing their utmost to disrupt what would otherwise be a peaceful and harmonious welcoming of Muslims into the United States and other Western nations.There is more.
Faizan Syed, executive director of CAIR-St. Louis, articulated this mainstream view:
After September the Eleventh, you would expect there would be a spike in anti-Muslim or anti-Islam attacks in the United States. And that's what we saw after September the Eleventh. But what's unique is that after the first few years, those percentage [sic] of attacks actually kept going down and down and decreased. And then in 2008 and 2009, we saw another spike in those biased, motivated attacks. And we've seen that height now more than even after September the Eleventh. We feel that part of the bigotry and hatred that exists is not just because it exists. But rather, it is an orchestrated, well-organized, well-funded thought process that is being pushed on the American public.If it weren't for the "Islamophobes," we are told, Americans wouldn't have the low opinion of Islam that surveys show they do; innocent Muslims would not be victimized; and discrimination against Muslims would be essentially non-existent.
The only problem with this scenario is that every detail of it is false.
Jonathan S. Tobin wrote in Commentary in late November 26 that "when it comes to the question of America's alleged Islamophobia, there is a consensus in the American media: American Muslims have been under siege since the 9/11 attacks." However:
With the annual release of the FBI's hate crime numbers, statistical proof is once again available for those who are interested in the real answer as to which groups are subjected to the most attacks… Of the 1,340 incidents of anti-religious hate crimes reported, 674 or 62.4 percent were anti-Jewish in nature. Only 130 incidents or 11.6 percent involved Muslim victims. These figures are not much different from those assembled by the government for previous years. In virtually every year, the number of anti-Semitic incidents is a multiple of those involving Muslims.No genuine hate crime is ever justified, but the disproportionate media interest in "Islamophobia," and its comparative lack of interest in antisemitism, betrays the cynicism and hypocrisy of the entire "Islamophobia" enterprise. There is indeed an "Islamophobia" industry, but it is not the one that you will read about in sensationalistic "exposés" from leftist sources such as St. Louis Public Radio, offering highly misleading and often outright false information about the supposedly handsome funding of "Islamophobes."
The real "Islamophobia" industry is the one that endlessly churns out those "exposés," trying to convince the public that the problem most troubling the peace of the world is not Islamic jihad terror, but "Islamophobia" and the "Islamophobes" behind it. In reality, the producers of these "exposés" are the ones with the massive funding. They are the ones with the carefully planned and coordinated message. They are the ones, above all, who are by their actions justifying harm done to innocent human beings.
The moral inversion is astounding. It is hard to believe that anyone would fall for it, but understandable that they would, given the ubiquity of this line in the mainstream media and that same media's stonewalling about the Islamic identity and motivations of so many jihad terror acts and organizations around the world. In reality, the world faces not an "Islamophobia" problem, but a problem with genuine Muslim persecution of those who speak out against jihad terror and Islamic supremacism.Just last week, Bishoy Armia Boulous, a high-profile convert from Islam to Christianity in Egypt, was arrested and almost certainly tortured. Morning Star News noted: "Security forces claimed that Boulous was contributing to a 'false image' that there is violence against Christians in Minya," a Christian area where Egyptian Christians have faced ferocious persecution from supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, "those familiar with Boulous said his arrest had nothing to do with any reporting work but constituted retaliation for becoming a Christian."
Meanwhile, in India, a Muslim cleric issued a fatwa calling for the arrest and prosecution of the Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen for having "hurt the feelings of the Muslim community." She supposedly caused these hurt feelings by writing on Twitter: "Since independence, Indian politicians have been seeking help of clerics who don't respect human rights, free speech and the Constitution."


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I found this street view picture of the house on google maps (the weather has been pretty stormy here so I haven't been able to go out and get a recent shot) - you can definitely see it's dated since it was taken before the big tree and bush massacre, new roof and storm door replacement. I guess it's gotta be at least a year old.
I was thinking of painting the door black since we have a lot of black/ORB "trimmings" in the front - light fixture, mail box, iron work around the porch, light post, railing, etc. I've seen so many gorgeous black doors floating around the web, but after doing a little photoshopping, I realized that was not the way to go. I need to go much bolder to make it stand out.
I tried a few other colors. This is Behr's Windjammer:
Behr's Bright Star:
And then I got to thinking of the classic red front door. Two amazing bloggers (Sherry and Katie) had success with that so I figured I'd give it a
This is Valspar's Fabulous Red that Sherry used:
And Valspar's Front Door Red that Katie used:
It's funny that these two colors are right next to each other on Valspar's palette (great bloggers think alike!). Although the color of my bricks is definitely closer to Sherry's, I'm thinking of going with Front Door Red. Here's an enhanced picture with the new roof color, new storm door "installed," and pretty window boxes. I'm also kinda liking the shutters. One day... What do you think?
Of course I'm going to get swatches so I can compare them in person (rather than the computer screen) and may just get some others while I'm at it.
Please let me know what color you like best and if you have any different color suggestions, do share!! What color is your front door?


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Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Water balloons
On Friday I popped into one of those cheap stores that sell a random assortment of items (chiefly, it would seem at this time of the year, tacky Christmas decorations!) to get some water balloons for James' birthday party. As we were walking out, some large notepads caught my eye; the A3 newsprint I like for printing foundations - so now I have an even cheaper supply! I also found some huge (A2) pads of tracing paper, which I thought might be handy. They are! I used some last night, and it's perfect for laying over a quilt top and working out quilting designs - clear enough to see the quilt top clearly though it, but strong enough to withstand several iterations of drawing and erasing. I used it to design the feathers for my current Tree quilt - here's one section quilted:
Incidentally, it took Simon about 2 hours to fill 150 water balloons, and less than 2 minutes for a group of overexcited 5-and-6-year-olds to throw and burst them all!
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- QuiltingCyclist said...
Absolutely beautifully quilting. Thanks for sharing the technique.
- 17 November 2011 at 13:29
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This big boy is finally starting to fit into his nicer 3 months clothes.
He was so much smaller at birth than we expected, so we really didn't have anything that fit him. We made an emergency trip to go shopping when he was two days old to pick up some newborn clothes. In the past couple of weeks I have slowly been able to put some of those newborn clothes away.
Here is our handsome little guy in some of his cute big boy clothes.


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C2E2 EXCLUSIVE: Wood & Humphries "Divide" the Ultimate Universe
Stories utilizing Marvel Comics' shared universe have entertained readers for years because they offer a chance to experience fantastic and strange events through the eyes of a diverse cast of characters. The three books in Marvel Comics' "Ultimate Comics" line of titles offer that same experience but with an added twist — the events in the Ultimate Universe can be life altering and in some cases life ending.
The star of "Ultimate Comics Spider-Man" by writer Brian Michael Bendis is still a teenager granted super powers from a spider bite who is trying to be responsible with the powers he's been given. Only now his name is Miles Morales and the person who taught him that lesson about power and responsibility was Peter Parker, who perished protecting his friends and family from an attack by his greatest foes. When writer Brian Wood takes over "Ultimate Comics X-Men" this summer the book will still be about super powered mutants trying to exist in a world that hates and fears them, but these mutants are on the run from and fighting back against forces actively trying to imprison and wipe them out. When writer Sam Humphries takes over "Ultimate Comics Ultimates" in May, which features the Ultimate U's version of the Avengers, he'll be writing about a group of characters trying to understand and protect a world that's been drastically changed by the rise of two nations of super powered people.
Change is a constant force in the Ultimate Universe and this July it will rear its ugly head again when "Divided We Fall," a storyline running through all three titles in the Ultimate Comics line begins. CBR spoke exclusively with Wood and Humphries about the story, which was announced by Marvel today at their Ultimate Comics Universe panel at the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo.
CBR News: Sam and Brian, both of you come from an independent comic background. What is it like working on an event storyline like "Divided We Fall?" What do you find most interesting about telling a story like this?
Brian Wood: In my deepest days as an indie/small press comic creator, my assumption was that these sorts of event-oriented comics were, by default, Not A Good Thing. Now, on the other side of that, I can appreciate the amount of work and the care and attention to detail, and I can see how a story can be built up in a collaborative way. It really helps to have Sam to bounce ideas around with, and Brian Bendis obviously. And this is a small "event," if 2-3 books can even be called that, that it's easy to keep a handle on it all. So, yeah, it's been good. When you don't work in a vacuum like you often are in small press comics, it forces you to up your game.
Sam Humphries: What's been most interesting to me, as the rookie around here, is that "Divided We Fall" was completely organic. There was no dictate from "on high" to cook up an event. It grew out of discussions we all had together where we looked back at where previous runs were taking the characters and then we talked about what we wanted to do with the books this summer.
Those ideas collided with each other, became bigger and better, and suddenly we had an event on our hands. It happened so suddenly and unexpectedly that for the first couple conversations we were afraid to say it out loud. We called it "the e word." And the experience itself has been great. It gives me an excuse to call up Wood and Bendis whenever I want and pick their brains. They've mostly been cool about it, except for when I called from the Denny's bathroom at 5 am, sobbing. That only happened a couple of times.
[Laughs] Poor guy. How interconnected is the story that runs through the three titles in "Divided We Fall?" Is this a case of one issue leading into another or something else?
Wood: It's more a case of books running parallel to each other, telling different aspects of a single narrative. Right now, we're grappling with this one problem — events in X-Men are getting so hot, so urgent that logically there is no way that Captain America and Fury and the rest of the Ultimates would not interfere, seeing as they are all operating near each other. They would be absolutely compelled to. So we're looking at ways to address that without those heavyweight characters taking over Kitty and the X-Men, and stepping on my story.
Humphries: The three books already have three very different perspectives on the Ultimate Universe, and we're going to utilize those perspectives to tell some dynamic and dynamite stories. At the same time, the characters from each book will intersect with each other — in ways you wouldn't expect from an event.
Will you each get a chance to play with each other's characters during "Divided We Fall," or will the main characters all be staying in their respective books?
Wood: It looks like in "Ultimate Comics X-Men" #15, I'll be bringing in one of the Ultimates characters. I'm sure it won't be the last time.
Humphries: The Ultimate Universe is a messy, chaotic place. What fun would it be if each character always stayed exactly where you expected them to?
What can you tell us about the events that set "Divided We Fall" in motion? Will we see it in all three books and your individual characters' reactions to it?
Humphries: It's difficult to say without spoilers — but it all grows out of the seeds of the past year or so of Ultimate books. Global instability, anti-mutant hysteria, new players on the world stage eclipsing America — then at the end of "Ultimates" #9 — well, everything gets pushed off a cliff. There's no going back from that.
Both of you write team books with rather large casts. Who are some of the characters you'll be focusing on during "Divided We Fall?" What makes their perspectives on this story particularly interesting and relevant to you?
Wood: I am going much tighter with the cast of X-Men, which in its first year was quite sprawling and all-encompassing. I'm making Kitty Pryde the clear leader of the group, and sticking with her core team of Rogue, Bobby, Jimmy Hudson, and Johnny Storm. In #13, Kitty has a personal revelation that's going to prompt her to radically re-orient her mission and priorities, and in following, the direction of the book. They'll all become very proactive and aggressive, no more hiding in tunnels, and we take it from there. I think one of the taglines or solicitation bullets says that Kitty is out to "save America," which can sound kind of bland until you question it a bit. Save America from who? Who is she saving it for? And how, exactly? What will this America look like when she's done?
Humphries:The big, character-based news for the "Ultimates" is that Captain America is back from retirement. He's been gone for a long time, playing Boy Scout in the desert. When he pokes his head up again, America is — well, the place done changed, and not for the better. Cap is going to have to come to terms with what happened when he wasn't paying attention. How that affects him and how that challenges him to be a better Sentinel of Liberty is going to be a huge part of what happens in "Divided We Fall."
In terms of plot and themes what are your "Divided We Fall" stories about? How long are the individual stories you're telling?
Wood: I'm telling shorter stories. My #13 is a one-shot, a re-introduction to Kitty and the series and setting things up. #14-15 are my issues dealing with "Divided We Fall," and from that point onwards we're looking at arcs of 3 issues or so. I have the book planned out for about a year.
Humphries: We've got the "Ultimates" mapped out for a long, long time. How long "Divided We Fall" lasts is a secret I'm not telling.
How big is the scope and scale of "Divided We Fall?" What are some of the important locales where the action unfolds? What kind of forces are your protagonists up against?
Wood: In "Ultimate Comics X-Men," we'll see the team in the Southwest states of America, dealing with the Stryker regime and the Sentinel forces; also the militia that have allied with Stryker and are sympatico with his goals. The big set-piece action and world-building is going to happen in the Ultimates, and the smaller, more personal reflection of all that is what the X-Men is for.
Beyond that, we'll revisit Karen Grant and the SEAR later on in the year.
Humphries: In "Ultimate Comics Ultimates," it's BIG, as big as America itself. We're not going to see Thor and Tony hop on motorcycles and ride the freeways searching for truth and freedom like in "Easy Rider." But we are going to see quite a bit of the United States. "Ultimates" is a big picture book with a big scope, and we're not going to shy away from that.
During chaotic events like this heroes and villains tend to rise and fall. I imagine you can't comment on whether or not death will be a part of this story line, but will we see some characters make their Ultimate Universe debuts during "Divided We Fall?" If so, can you offer up any hints as to the identities of these characters?
Wood:I can't guarantee anything, but its a goal of mine — in both X-Men books I'm writing — to use as many of those old "Generation X" characters as I can. I found out I missed writing them.
Humphries: The cast of "Ultimates" is going to zig and zag during "Divided We Fall." It's a team book and you'll see the shape of that "team" shift along with everything else. Whether that includes new Ultimate characters, I cannot say at this time. Okay, okay! We're introducing Ultimate Forbush Man.
Hu-Ray! Oh wait, I think you might be kidding. In that case let's wrap things up. What's the size of the fallout from "Divided We Fall?" How big of an effect will it have on the status quo of your books and the Ultimate Universe? Is it comparable to the last line wide Ultimate Universe story line "Ultimatum?"
Humphries: "Ultimatum" was a great, glorious disaster epic. "Divided We Fall" is going to be a very different kind of story, but will it still gloriously upend the status quo of the Ultimate Universe? Yes.
"Divided We Fall" strikes Marvel's Ultimate Universe in July.
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I am a teenager who is sick of doing the same things everyday. I want to open my wings and fly away. with the help of my teacher of english I fly on the blogsphere and I escape from the routine. Hope you enjoy reading about my life and interests.
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To think before you speak.
Mine did, and I've been thinking recently just how much I still need to learn how to put that advice into practice. Sometimes, I find myself saying the dumbest things! The first time I heard the phrase "word vomit" I knew I had found the exact words I needed to describe what comes out of my mouth more often that I care to admit. We giggle when we think of the "darndest things" that kids say, but isn't it true that sometimes we say things that are "darndest" too?
I was at the park yesterday with a few of my good friends. One of my friends kiddos was off playing at the park when another little girl used some rather unkind words toward her. My friend informed this little girl that her words were not kind and in fact she was being rude! Don'tcha just wish you could grab their chubby little cheeks and say, "Didn't your mama ever tell ya?!"
As moms, it is SO important to teach our children the power of our words.
The words that we say are the most direct and forthright method of conveying our thoughts and feelings. My words can build up or tear down another human being. That is a lot of responsibility and immense power!
The consequences can be positive or negative. I wish we could just do tongue sit-ups to reign in our loose tongues and make sure we are constantly delivering life through our words. Don't you?
A good place to start reigning in our tongues is to think before you speak. My fifth grade teacher, Ms. Wohlenhaus taught us to ask three things before we opened our pieholes. I deliver them here to you.
Is it TRUE?
Is it KIND?
Is it NECESSARY?
Let's try to bring life through our words this week and teach our kiddos to do the same.


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Size Comparison 1. A Chub and a Classic for an idea of size.
Head Comparison. I figured this was worth a look. The Lego Dilphosaur needs a Friction Pin for mounting.
I figured the best system for putting numbers on these sets is the one for non-Lego kits.
The Questions:
Is it below, at, or above $10 per Frame? Below. (+5)
Is it a good size to use in a game? Yes. The Stegosaurus is the size of a Classic and the Velociraptor is a little larger than a Chub. (+5)
How many parts does it have to represent systems? Four. (+5)
Does it have enough parts you can remove to represent White Dice damage? Yes for the Velociraptor, no for the Stegosaurus. (+5/-5)
Score: +20 (A+), Velociraptor. +10 (A-), Stegosaurus. Good scores for both sets. But then again, I was going to buy these regardless of the score.


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