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Well sadly my friends couldn't make it this weekend – probably a good thing as I have still got the tail end of the nasty cough and cold bug I have had for a month so I have been snuggling up under a fleece on my stitching sofa watching TV and hand piecing.
Much better for me than wandering round my beautiful but below freezing Yorkshire!
I have recently discovered the joys of quilting videos on You Tube, as we have been doing the Block of the Month challenges and I find it difficult to follow written instructions so I thought a would share with you a few of my favourite channels in case you have not discovered this marvellous resource, it is like having a Quilt Guild in your very own home.
Firstly the McCalls Quilting Channel. I have really enjoyed watching this Quilt Along learning loads of new techniques.
Next is the Fons and Porter Channel, I have seen Mary Fons in lots of magazines and this channel has useful basic tips videos as well as interviews with quilters like this one.
I found this Missouri Star Quilt Company Channel today and they have some brilliant videos on all types of blocks and whole quilts. Wouldn't this one make a great quilt for a gift!
I have always loved watching videos about quilting and have been a fan of The Quilt Show but didn't realise that there was so much free stuff out there as well.
Another thing I am a bit late to the party with is Craftsy, I have signed up from some fab free online classes for Block of the Months.
There has been great excitement here on TV this week as it is the start of series 3 of The Great British Sewing Bee! If you missed it here is a link to it on BBC iPlayer.
I would not like to participate (my sewing is far too slow for that) but would love to have day in the workshop with all my sewing friends.What a fab venue for a day out surrounded by all that lovely fabric – and the little café with all-important cake nearby!
Here is a picture of one of the contestants Deborah Simms with the beautiful fabric she chose for her final garment of this episode.
Little Black Duck Blog is following the series with useful tips and tutorials for each episode – this is the post about this week and making trousers.
This blog by Angela Kane also has some great tips of techniques from Series 2
Hope you find these useful, back to the sewing now- must spend equal time doing as watching or nothing will get finished ;-) ! See you in a couple of weeks and thanks for visiting.
Last weekend as well as the hand stitching on the hexagon car quilt I decided to go and have a play with some other quilt blocks, inspired by how much I enjoyed making the Dutchman's puzzle block for our block of the month challenge.
I don't know why but whatever craft I do I always choose very small-scale projects, my cross stitch is on small count fabric (so small I usually need a magnifier now!), I knit little arms and legs for bunnies and nothing bigger than a baby cardigan. It seems I am going the same way with quilting as most of what I have done so far is baby quilts and hexagons.
Partly it is lack of time, as I have limited time to finish things because they are usually gifts small means achievable so less WIPs hidden away.
But I do like small-scale so I thought for my practising last week I would use one of the Moda mini charm packs that I bought a while ago from Simply Solids. I have used up the other two already in the wash bag I made for an Xmas present and the hexagons I pieced from the Printemps pack (see kids I do USE the fabric in that room, it is just sometimes more sneaks in somehow!)
I have two of these 'Playtime' 1930s inspired prints and I thought if I keep making a few blocks every so often I will eventually have a small quilt at least!
I wasn't following a specific block just wanted to practise my half square triangles and stitching accuracy for those 1/4 inch seams but I have ended up with something that looks a bit like a Pinwheel block – albeit a bit random in terms of the fabric placement.
I also decided a 9 patch would be good (God alone knows why) which involved cutting an already small 2 1/2 " square into four pieces so excuse the slightly wonky finished article!
The miniaturising effect must be rubbing off as yesterday afternoon I rushed up to the sewing room to start on the Feb block of the month challenge, this is my only free weekend in Feb so I wanted to get a good start.
It must have been my haste that led me to create a pretty well pieced (only one triangle lost its point) but rather small block, the target was 12 inches and mine ended up as 8 inches. Turns out when you divide 12 by 3 the answer is 4 NOT 3 – who knew? Well supposedly me as I do actually teach Maths – oops.
However it will look lovely with an extra border to cover up the missing points and I am going to try it again this afternoon WITH 4 INCH BLOCKS!
My lovely Ellie sent me a fabric care package this week with a beautiful card, she is so kind. I had not been feeling well when she spoke to me a couple of weeks ago and work had been a bit stressful so she sent me this to cheer me up.
Look at this beautiful print, in three colourways! With matching solids! Thank you so much, you are a wonderful daughter as well as a great friend :-)
While browsing Justine's blog (she of the marvellous Simply Solids shop) I saw this 2015 bucket list that she had found on this blog Whip Stitch by Deborah.
I like lists and it is nice to have a focus and extend your skills so I am going to add that to my challenges for this year, some of them can already be fulfilled by things I have planned (Number 2 by all the medieval kit I have planned for friends) but others on the list I have though about doing but not done (Number 12 I want to make a bag for me).
So it is going to be a busy and fun year, 26 books, 17 plus sewing projects and 12 plus quilt blocks. And we are just sorting out our re-enactment events for 2015 and so far I have 10 events! 2015 is going to be a very good year :-)
Right better get off the laptop and on with the actual stitching now then if I am for achieve all this. Take care, have a nice week and thanks for visiting.
I love reading, it might even be more of a favourite thing to do than play with fabric and thread :-) Books are my constant companions and always have been, my childhood memories of the Saturday morning visits to the library every week and the joy that I found getting lost in the world of books have turned into an adult passion for reading.
It is the most wonderful thing to do and I am very bad at not resisting the temptation to buy them all the time, from Amazon, from charity shops, there is always room in this house for another book!
I came across this challenge while doing some blog catching up today – the original post is at this blog but I think I will join in and update my progress here and on the challenge Facebook page.
Here is the list of books.
I think 26 in a year will be reasonable to do (given that on my holidays to Spain I can do 5 in a week!)
My first book will be one that I have just started – was thinking that this could have been number 2, 'a book made into a movie', but strictly speaking it is a TV series', so this book will fulfil number 6, ' a book by an author you have not read before'.
Last year while on our National Trust holiday Kerry and I wanted to visit Montacute House but it was closed for the filming of a Hilary Mantel book , 'Wolf Hall', a novel about Thomas Cromwell. I love the Tudor period (would re-enact it if I had the time to make the costumes) so we promised ourselves we would look out for the TV series which started last week.
By coincidence there is a new charity book stall in my bus station – I was going to resist the temptation as I have so many books to read but didn't and found a brand new copy of the book there. I decided to record the series and read the book first.
Number 1 on the challenge, ' a book you own but have never read', will not be hard – I think I have 24 in my book stash at the moment!
Hope you might be inspired to join in, thanks for visiting.
I have just had chance to look at my blog stats review for 2014 and would like to say thank you so much to everyone for visiting me. It is lovely to know that my little bloggy ramblings have an audience and it is not just me waffling into the ether. The full report is below if you are interested.
I would like to say a special thank you to someone who always comments on my posts – a total of 51 comments in 2014 alone! 'Virtuosewadventures' I am particularly touched by your online friendship and would like to offer you a hand stitched gift of your choice from me.
Please could you e-mail me at email@example.com and let me what you would like me to make you, I know you love sewing so maybe some little stitching goodie?
Thanks to all of you for visiting and making me feel loved :-)
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Helen, Sharon and I decided while on our way back from the Harrogate show that we would like to extend our skills a little so then arranged to have a Block of the Month Quilt Along. Several other people from knitting group have also joined in. So that was yesterday afternoon's little project.
Helen is co-ordinating it and after discussion we decided to use this Quilter's Cache site run by Marcia Hohn which has a huge number of patterns all at the same size and a random number generator to choose blocks.
We thought this was a good way of extending all our skills as then we would avoid just choosing easy blocks. Helen has been quilting for a long time, Sharon has just started and I am in the middle in terms of experience (and fabric stash lol!).
This month the block is Dutchman's Puzzle which involves Flying Geese. I remembered that I had seen some videos on how to make these so being better at visual rather than written instructions used this very useful McCall's Quilting video on You Tube to make them using the 'no waste' method.
It was great having the video as I took the laptop up to the craft room and did it step by step along with the tutorial (mind you it did take me about 1 1/2 hours rather than the 10 minutes of the video!)
That did include choosing the fabric though which took a while. I tend to buy fabric in small amounts and as we will be making 12 blocks of unspecified patterns had a bit of difficulty with what to choose.
In the end I went with a colour palette that I have used for previous things with the addition of some of my new stash from Harrogate (the Cath Kidston look-alike flowers on aqua in these pictures).
The solids are far more pink than they appear here (winter light upstairs not good for pictures!) and I do have a few more options that I can add. The white on white fabrics are really too subtle to see in this picture but they show up better in the finished block.
It was a good experience though as I tend to buy either fabric for specific things or stuff that I like the look of but not much of it co-ordinates with anything else apart from my lovely Simply Solids stash.
I have to think about the fact that future blocks may be more scrappy so that ruled out lots of larger prints and that as I am trying to do it all from stash what am I going to use for binding, sashing and backing?
What I may do is make 6 of the blocks from this set of stash and six from another set if I run out. These will probably become donated quilts as I have plans to make others for family this year.
I was very pleased with my end result and the process was very simple to understand, good practise as well at sewing 1/4 inch seams.
The finished block has turned out a bit big but am pleased with the points at the centre and have only lost the nose from one of the geese!
It was an easy block to make and the video was very useful. Our aim is to make as many of the blocks as we all can (given busy lives) so no-one will be penalised for missing a month and we can use our regular meetings for knitting group to help each other out. There will then be a couple of quilting bees I should think when we tackle basting, binding and machine quilting.
After all that snow yesterday I awoke to this beautiful view – sunshine on the sparkling hills, if I wasn't just getting over a yucky cough I would be out for a wander but I will stay in the warm and admire the views from here.
Hope you have also had a nice weekend, thanks for visiting.
There was great excitement in the valley last week (well Sharon, Helen and I were very excited anyway) as we went to Simply Solids to meet designer (and Editor of Quilt Now) Katy Jones, who was launching her line of fabric Priory Square.
It was very interesting to hear Katy talk about the inspiration and the design process.
And of course we bought some of the fabric – Helen and Sharon bought some of each design in the range. Here is Lisa , one of Simply Solid's owners, who matches beautifully with the fabric she is cutting in her top made from one of the prints.
I bought this half yard of that one which is my favourite – look at those lovely flowers!
Helen won the raffle as well so got a lovely goodie bag full of fabric and thread.
There was also the great excitement of a big scraps bin – all at £1 for 50g, so I got all of this for £8 :-) Look at the cute prints, I think these are going to be some hexi centres for gifts for little people. I do love those little robots!
These are also beautiful fabrics for patchwork, do not have a project in mind for this yet!
There is a post on the Simply Solids blog about the event. You can also sign up for their monthly stash club for 2015 which this year has a choice of bundles, this is a really good way to build up your fabric stash and I am using loads from my last subscription.
Happy Christmas to one and all, I have finished a sewing gift late last night which I will post about soon and am still working on some things – better late than never!
Thanks for visiting and have a lovely couple of days.
Hope you are having a nice weekend. I am having a lovely relaxing yet creative one but just thought I would show you a few pictures from the lovely (sunny!) Jazz Festival last week.
You may remember the event last year was very, very wet so it was a real pleasure to have brilliant sunshine all weekend – in October, in Yorkshire.
It also put paid to all those comments about, 'why don't we have the festival at some other time of year'. As if you can ever guarantee nice weather in England!
Here are some pictures of the parade (courtesy of our local paper's website ) with the brilliant Tongues of Fire – loved that machine, very steam punk!
And this is a great picture of my lovely friend Bob who plays with several excellent bands including The Graham Browning Trio and String-fellows.
I managed to get away from my box office duties for a little bit to see the lovely Sugar Sisters and had a boogie to the late night band Bugalu Foundation who were excellent. Will definitely look out for future gigs from them.
Am finishing off the Christmas present aprons with the hexi design on the front and making a patchwork washbag this weekend in between stitching more hexis for future projects.
Hopefully I will be able to show you some completed stuff before I leave for Spain next Friday – I have lots of spa and Jacuzzi visits planned :-)
I am also doing some cooking – experimenting with muffins again and I have made some chocolate and orange ones with passionfruit curd inside (curd courtesy of the National Trust shop). I can safely say they are delicious and will not be around for long.
Also am planning to make some spinach and feta rolls tomorrow from this recipe to use up more of my veg box delivery.
I do love weekends at home! Take care and thanks for visiting.
Yesterday my friend Sarah from knitting and I went to Yarndale, a festival of all things woolly, in the pretty little town of Skipton on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Here is the front cover of the show guide – how cute is that sheep!
Skipton is worth a visit at any time as the town and the countryside are lovely and as the weather was beautiful we had a great journey there.
Sarah is a very talented knitter, crocheter and designer and she has some beautiful patterns here on her blog Wessenden Woollies and on Ravelry. She is working on some new designs and wanted to source wool for these.
I am being very good at the moment and not buying anything else (until the Harrogate Knitting and Stitching show) so just went for the chance to see some woolly loveliness.
And it was there in abundance! This is Yarndale's second year and it is held in the animal auctions sheds in Skipton so the whole place smells of sheep and the pens are ready to welcome new visitors such as these cute alpacas who had come to model their gorgeous fleeces.
There were some old favourites there such as Oliver Twists who do such beautiful threads and some lovely new things.
One of my favourites was Susan Crawford Vintage who designs garments based on patterns from the 1920s to 1950s, published as A Stitch in Time , I do like that name :-).
As well as wool there were textile artists. Two that I particularly liked were Marmalade Rose with gorgeous felted pictures (and some fab vintage linens re-used on her blog) and Anne Brooke with stunning stitched textile pieces.
There were also very original display ideas on the stalls and this was one of my favourites.
I think it is an old printer's drawer but thought something like this would be an excellent decoration for my craft room, loved all the little balls of wool and buttons!
The hall was decorated with strings of bunting made for last year's Yarndale and over 1000 mandalas made for this year's event by readers of Lucy's Attic 24 blog. They had been sent from 48 different countries after she asked for help from her bloggy friends – don't you just love the power of the internet!
These were a few of the ones laid out on the table for closer inspection, love the sheep buttons on that top one and the bike charms (you may remember Yorkshire hosted the start of the Tour de France earlier this summer).
There was also a display of crochet flowers.
And look at this cute button jug! Might have to add that to my Christmas list as that would look really good in my craft room.
Speaking of buttons I was very good and all I bought at the event were these few buttons. I am using them for more of my flower brooches and made this denim one last night.
Earlier on in the week I ordered some very similar buttons from a supplier I found on Ebay (was looking for holly buttons but got distracted!). They are from Bluebell Craft Supplies and were very good value as there are 80 small 15mm buttons in a packet for £1.69 plus postage.
Also bought some Christmas ones – these have got some very cute vintage designs on them.
Have found a supplier of the larger ones on Ebay at Willow Tree Mill as well so might be tempted to go back for more (only once I have used all these up though!)
I also signed up for a subscription to Simply Crochet, as well as improving my quilting this year I would like to learn to crochet as keep seeing wonderful things that I want to make (got to have something to keep me busy over the off-season apart from work and kit making!)
Since I have had a very busy first week of term and it is a dull day I am going to stay snuggled under my fleecy blanket and make more brooches and Xmas ornaments today.
Don't forget to like my last post for the giveaway to celebrate 400 posts (thanks to all of you who have already done so) I will be choosing the winner next Sunday. Hope you have had a nice week whatever you have been doing and thanks for visiting.
You know when you promise yourself you are not going to buy any more fabric as you already have lots that you haven't used (and haven't touched for years) and you really, really mean to stick to that promise but then along comes a really special something so you have to buy it even though it is a bit naughty? Well that happened to me last week, was just buying some tickets for the Knitting and Stitching Show in November and was checking the list of exhibitors and happened to see one of our local fabric suppliers, Simply Solids, listed so just had to have a little look at their website and they had the most fabulous themed fabric and it was on sale! I think this first one is going to be my favourite – though the others are fab as well. It arrived on Friday but did not have time to really appreciate it until I got back from the weekend. The other exciting thing is that she is opening a shop in town soon with classes and everything! That is probably going to a major dent in my budget but at least the kids will know what to get me for Christmas as I am sure she will do gift vouchers. The justification is that I am planning to make Christmas gifts so it can count as spends for that and not fabric spends, (I did have other stuff to make Christmas gifts with though – just have to use them up quick as well!) We usually go and have a little look in the National Trust second-hand book stalls when we visit properties and came away with a brilliant haul this time. As well as a big pile of fiction books they had just had a lot of quilting books donated so I bought these four. The pink bordered title was published in 1937 and is a detailed study of the history of 19th century quilting and the front book gives lots of hand quilting patterns. My favourite one is this wonderfully titled publication from 1984 which is so detailed in the process of making a block quilt. It has all sorts of useful things like a sizing chart for different bed sizes, a block design page where you are encouraged to colour in sample blocks to see which look best and most useful of all are sets of card templates for all of the blocks. I have decided that I will concentrate on quilting and patchwork for a while (in between lots of kit making sessions). I will still be knitting socially but after 9 bunnies and 3 elephants am going to swap skills for a while and there is so much that I have been wanting to do quilt wise. Quilting and patchwork will be the focus of the Christmas presents this year (so that I can feed my hexagon addiction!) and I will be making sewing notion gifts, two more aprons and hopefully a cushion based on this wonderful quilt using found textiles which have been embellished with embroidery and beads. This is from a Bee Quilt Stitch along that I found on this blog - I think it is made by someone called Chantal, the site is in French so not too sure but there are some wonderful hexagon quilts on there done using the quilt as you go technique where each hexagon is made and bound before being stitched together. Isn't it gorgeous and will be a great was of using up some of the vintage things I have bought over the last two years. So am going to be very busy and happy during the off-season! Take care and thanks for visiting.
Just thought I would do an update on my work yesterday and share with you a tutorial for my latest Xmas ornament. I had a very lovely day – unfortunately today is wet as well so I will just have to carry on sitting making more ornaments, how sad ;-)
I would love to design and make full-time but in the mean time am happy with the little bits I get to do.
This is my third original Xmas ornament design, tutorials for the crazy patchwork Xmas tree and information on the Crazy patchwork Xmas heart can be found at these links. None of these are earthshatteringly different from other things you can find on the web but are all my own work.
I have never done anything with hexagons before and have quite frankly considered English Paper Piecing a bit of a faff but I am very much enjoying this.
My inspiration came from two free gifts from my Love Quilting and Patchwork magazines. I started sewing the hexi pincushion last week on the train and I really liked it.
I do enjoy small-scale work and as friends have always told me these are very portable projects. The free pre-cut papers will come in very handy as well!
Here are the two I finished yesterday and below is a step by step guide for those of you who might like to have a go yourselves.
The ornament is made from 2 sizes of hexagon – 2 inch for the main body of the ornament and 1 cm for each of the hexagons in the 'flower'. Please note that hexagons are sized by the length of each side (something that I found a bit confusing to start with) and you can happily mix metric and imperial measurements.
If you want to save yourself the trouble of drawing round a template here are links for free printables from the Snippets and Blabbery blog and some free printable hexagon graph paper in different sizes and you can also buy pre-cut papers from many sources including these from Quilt Direct.
There are also lots of pre-cut (and even pre-stitched onto papers) fabric on Ebay if you really want to save time, for me half of the fun is choosing the fabric though.
I used material from my small (ahem) stock of Xmas fabric but this design would work well from charm packs and scraps from other quilting.
Step 1 – Cut out 2 of the larger 2 inch hexagons from your backing fabric, I have used plain for the front and patterned for the back.
Step 2 – Cut out 7 of the smaller 1 cm hexagons – I used 3 different fabrics from the same ranges for each of my designs. You need a bigger seam allowance than you might think for folding over, I use 0.5 cm.
The small size of the hexagons makes it great for fussy cutting elements out of larger designs but you may have to watch the orientation of the hexagons when you stitch them together if the design had a 'right way up'.
Fussy cutting means choosing a part of the design rather than just cutting out of the general fabric, it does mean you get more waste but the effect is good.
Step 3 – Sew the smaller hexagons onto your paper hexagons folding the seams over as you go. Use a contrasting thread then it is easier to unpick when you take the papers out. There is an excellent step by step tutorial on making a hexagon flower at Pretty by Hand's blog here which shows how to stitch the pieces together.
Step 4 – Arrange the 7 hexagons into a flower shape and sew all the seams together using small stitches. If you are using a plain centre fabric the same as the backing then you could just have a ring of 6 hexagons but I liked the stability of the flower shape. Iron at this point to help secure seams for the next stage.
Step 5 – Remove the stitches and then the hexagon backing paper pieces carefully. I use my unpicker for this bit, you can re-use the papers if you are careful. I did then tack the outer 3 edges of each hexagon (those that are not sewn to anything), this makes the next step easier.
Step 6 – Applique your hexagon flower to one of the large backing hexagons using small stitches in a matching thread colour – if you have multiple colours in your flower go for a match to your backing fabric.
Step 7 – Put the appliqued front hexagon and your backing hexagon right sides together and stitch all the way round – I used hand stitching with a running stitch then went back to fill in the gaps but you could machine stitch.
Step 8 – Turn ornament to show right sides – poking the corners with scissor ends or a pencil help to ensure sharp corners.
Step 9 – Stuff the ornament – I use polyester toy filling for all my work available from craft shops or places like this on Ebay.
Step 10 – Turn the raw edges of the open side over, pin and sew. I have made this the top edge on my ornaments as however careful you are it never looks the same as all the other edges and the ribbon hides some of this.
Step 11 – Sew through the middle of the centre hexagon with some tiny stitches pulling tight to create a hollow in the centre – stitch a small button, bead or embellishment there.
Step 12 – Attach a ribbon to the back of the ornament, I have also added a bead to cover up the stitching.
If you want more hexagon inspiration go and have a look at this Pinterest page that I found the other evening – I particularly love the designs from the Broderie blog featured on that page though it would take centuries for me to complete anything like her quilts.
And look at this for hexi love – this was from the same Pinterest page, not sure who it was from originally but look at that stash!
I am aiming to make 10 of these ornaments for this year's friends and family seasonal gifts so am going to be having an enjoyable and productive Autumn.
Happy ornament making and thanks for visiting.

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Apple Requires a "Direct Signature" for all Hardware
Date: Thursday, November 2nd, 2006, 03:00
Category: Hardware
Apple offers a new delivery option when ordering from their online store. After your order is processed an option is available to "pre-sign" for your shipment. The only problem is that FedEx won't accept a such a form to leave your package.
It works like this: after you place the order, you can click on a link on Apple's order status page to "Pre-sign for this shipment." It takes you to a page that instructs you to accept the terms and conditions outlined below. You are then be presented with a Shipment Release Authorization form which you must print, sign and attach to your door prior to delivery.
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I understand that Apple requires signatures acknowledging receipt of delivered goods. By signing the Shipment Release Authorization form, I hereby authorize Apple's carrier to leave my package at the address I have specified for delivery when placing my order. I understand that, in so doing, I assume the risk of any loss, theft, or destruction, and release Apple and its carriers from all liability that may result from, leaving the package where I have indicated on the Shipment Release Authorization form.
The problem is that FedEx considers a Shipment Release Authorization form an "indirect signature" because a live human did not sign for the package at the time of delivery. According to two FedEx representatives that I spoke to Apple specifically requires a "direct signature" for all their packages, no exceptions. So Apple appears to be sending mixed messages, telling FedEx that they require a direct signature but telling customers that they'll accept an indirect signature.
Shippers of valuable hardware need to protect themselves from fraud, especially in light of the recent theft-in-transit scams that are plaguing technology companies.
It's worth noting the discrepancy in signature policies in case you're waiting for a special delivery from Apple.


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The problem with firearms as investments (along with all collectables and some investments) is folks get so caught up in the collecting and maintaining the collection that they end up dying before they sell the collection for the monitary gain they wanted for the investment aspect. Then the kids or wife sells the collection for less than it is actually worth making it a net loss. MHO
"It's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and 'chuck 'im out, the brute,' But it's 'Savior of his Country,' When the guns begin to shoot." Rudyard Kipling
The value and desirability of guns fluctuates so rapidly no one could keep up with it. In the late 70"s and early 80's every pawn shop in town had M1 rifles for $100 or less and no one wanted them. Even today I don't understand why everyone wants a M1. I could think of at least a thousand guns I would want to purchase before an M1 would even get on my list. Korean war vets all hated the M1 of any flavor. We took their word that they are a POS and left them in the pawn shop.
M1 garands are pretty darn sexy they do not suck at all id like to own one not too many 30-06 semi autos out their with that kinda history
If you buy a massed produced modern gun it is not going to win you a lottery in ten or twenty years. Collector editions, if they catch on, may make some serious money if socked away in the box, unfired, with the papers. (personally I don't give a damn about a gun I can't shoot)
A standard, refurbished 1942 Mosin-Nagant 91/30 may keep up with inflation over time or might not. Get a good deal on an authentic PU-sniper or an SVT-40 today and you might make a nice buck on it in a few years, and certainly shouldn't lose money on your purchase. The same goes with the Finnish Mosin-Nagants that were made in the thousands or tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions.
All original American WWI or WWII guns will increase in value over time. (they aren't making any more of them)
"It is better to be too skeptical then too credulous"
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I may be wrong but here is my take. If SHTF and times get terrible. It would be pretty hard to take a 1 ounce gold coin worth $1400.00 and pay for something that costs $300.00 to aid in survival. Or to break a piece off worth $300.00. The ultra rich no doubt would be aware of this and would in all probability take full advantage of it knowing we were in a hard place trying to get cash to buy subsistence items for our family to survive. For example you need $300 worth of food then give me the coin. I would give them a gun or ammunition in trade. I think guns, ammo, replacement parts, toilet paper and other items to be much more of a bartering tool and certainly in demand. You can't eat gold, it is hard to divide up and most people would not have a source to fairly exchange it. Might not even be able to exchange it for dollars if they were of no value. Guns will protect you, your family and friends, get food, and above all a great bartering tool as well as ammunition that would be needed regarding protection and hunting for our families. And as previously stated regarding money if it is even relative or of value at all. The guns and ammunition are. I have several guns that are a great investments and generated much more money than money in the bank over the years. Also when I leave this earth the family can enjoy the investment and the pleasure of shooting them. If you remeber not to many months ago a $750.00 AR was bringing up to $2500.00. A brick of 22s $130.00 as crazy as it is. What do you think it would be like during SHTF. And as stupid as the prices were they may be worth more than that in the future when the supply dries up. Kind of like Bread and Milk before a hurricane. NONE on the shelf!
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Swan Point is in southern Maryland on the Potomac, an hour south of DC depending on where you are.
It's a vintage Southern Maryland course, a Carolina-style feel with pine tree lined fairways, forced carries over marsh, and some very tight landing areas with brutal par-3's on the backside. The course was designed by Bob Cupp in 1988, and from the back tees is 6,859 yards, 73.1/130, course/slope with four shorter tees. You're in total isolation in natural surroundings, it's just a hike to get here.
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This here is a no no Rockstar!
Posted by ArnellWhat do you mean? You have no idea what we're seeing on these images is about, so why would it affect on your interest?
I respect the hell out this Series and also thought of this game to be fairly interesting, but this here takes that interest back a notch...
This here is a no no Rockstar!
I respect the hell out this Series and also thought of this game to be fairly interesting, but this here takes that interest back a notch...
This here is a no no Rockstar!
Anyway digi_matrix: Sure, the skin and humans overall doesn't look perfect - but does it really look worse the most of the games out there? No. Rather the opposite, in fact... I think the hair looks pretty good too. Not Final Fantasy XIII- or Soucalibur V-good, but good nontheless comparing to your random game.
this video shows a bit of fabiana and everything and everyone looks solid. no need to complain here I will be getting this game 100%
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Works great, I can open multiple tabs / windows / players and they won't start playing until I'm ready for them.
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As of October Youtube had changed it's code, but the programmer has provided and upgrade that works (go into comment section to see his response and link - the upgrade works despite not having yet been reviewed by Mozilla)
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Ultimate Standings 2009: No. 76
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Title Track: 31
Ownership: 67
Coaching: 113
Players: 87
Fan Relations: 110
Affordability: 107
Stadium Experience: 43
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Cowboys fans saddled their squad with a 30-spot free fall, fifth largest among NFL teams. The blame starts with head coach Wade Phillips. Following an embarrassing 34-14 loss to the Rams in Week 7, the former defensive coordinator took over the reins to Big D's D. His charges then missed the postseason after allowing 77 points in the final two games. Not like it would've mattered if the team had reached the post-season. Among coaches who've helmed 100-plus games, Phillips has the highest regular-season winning percentage (.588) of all who have never won a playoff game (he's 0–4). Having the league's sixth-most expensive tickets doesn't help (average cost in 2008: $84.12), especially considering that all five teams that rank higher (Pats, Bucs, Bears, Giants, Jets) have frozen prices for 2009, while Boys fans face a 6.7% bump. It's not the kind of hike football fans in Dallas want to see.


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DULUTH — Sheldon Lee struck out seven and Max Dutto drove in the go-ahead run with a ninth-inning sacrifice fly to give the Willmar Stingers the 2-1 win over the Duluth Huskies on Wednesday at Wade Stadium.
The Stingers are now 2-0 in the Northwoods League North Division. They play at 7:05 p.m. today at Bill Taunton Stadium against the St. Cloud Rox.
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11:45 AM — Sherlock star Andrew Scott has claimed that Pride isn't a "gay film".
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Pop Goes the Geezer!
There are countless ways fathers embarrass their kids telling a certain joke, wearing a certain hat, saying "chillax" but forming an a cappella singing group and performing classic rock songs in public is surely one that could force their offspring into exile. But if your pop was one of the adorkable fathers of Who's Your Daddy, you'd be proud and you might even play their songs for your coolest friends. The group harmonizes, yeah-yeahs and doodley-oops through sparkling arrangements of "Alison," "Free Ride" and "Long Train Running." And their version of Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" showcases just what "song of tongues of lifting grace" is all about. All four Adam Gorgoni, Freddy Curci, Rick Neigher, Chris Cote have extensive credits in music, as well as film and television. "It's a blast performing these songs for people because they are the soundtrack that many of us baby boomers grew up to and everyone knows them. You can look out into the audience and see everyone singing along," says Adam. What's next? "We have a rule that if one band member doesn't like a song, we don't do it. Hence we do a Journey medley that consists of the two parts of the two Journey songs that we all agree on ... it's kind of short actually. We've discussed trying to do 'Roundabout' by Yes ... but it's a little scary. We'd probably have to block out a year just to figure out how to do all the parts!" The group celebrates its second album, Paternity Suit, at Genghis Cohen, 740 N. Fairfax Ave.; Fri., March 2, 8 p.m.; $8. (323) 653-0640.
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Head of Lifestyle: Grainne McAleer
Executive Producer: Teresa Smith
Updated: Friday 20th February 2015
These are Factual Entertainment and formatted programmes for the pre and post-watershed slots on both RTE ONE and RTÉ2.
Every slot has different requirements, targets and audiences but what all Lifestyle programmes have in common is the mission to engage and entertain while also informing.
Frequently lifestyle is in the business of reflecting the lives of our participants as well as creating a compelling television. Unlike Documentaries of other Factual areas, we involve ourselves with people, their businesses, their careers and their communities. Many of our best programmes make a real difference and don't feel contrived or needlessly artificial. Programmes like Operation Transformation, Room to Improve and At Your Service have become welcome staples in the RTE ONE menu.
We have also had recent successes with observational series like The Shelbourne, Pet Island and Connected all of which reflect new and sometimes quirky aspects of contemporary Irish life.
We are looking for formats for both RTE ONE and RTÉ2. Our preference is for original formats, designed primarily for an Irish audience and possible around the skills and expertise of particular presenters. We are also interested in formats that have worked elsewhere and which we think would work for our audience. Pilots can come through Format Farm or ideas may go straight to Commission.
The majority of our slots are half-hour pre-watershed on RTE ONE and 50 minute, post-watershed on RTÉ2. We have limited opportunity to develop post-watershed formats for ONE and most of these will come through funding mechanisms such as the BAI.
Format Farm - We are looking for proposals for programmes that would be suitable to pilot through Format Farm. These should be Factual Entertainment formats and we are primarily interested in half-hours for RTE ONE and hour-long formats for RTÉ2. We have some flexibility in durations but would prefer programmes that would work in our most available slots.
RTÉ One
On RTÉ One, we need new formats with strong talent. It's really difficult to establish a brand new idea in the schedule and if you want something to take root for the long-term it has a far better chance of doing so with talent an audience can buy into. Experts like Dermot Bannon, Francis Brennan, Eddie Hobbs and Eva Orsmonde have all given generously in terms of their expertise but also their personality. All have an angle on their speciality and a desire to communicate. And all have a sense of humour. We haven't had a stand out expert in a while and we need to find a new one. As well as finding an expert for a format we need to be open to shaping a format around a personality. David Brophy lit up our screens last year in High Hopes Choir and we don't necessarily have the right format for him yet in 2015.
While most of our shows rely on experts who are strong presenters, occasionally we need strong traditional presenters but here too our audience responds to distinctiveness, personality and humour. Angela Scanlon is bringing lots of personality to Getaways and presenters with attitude and humour like Jennifer Maguire and Maya Dunphy could be a breath of fresh air on RTÉ ONE.
In lifestyle we like to be ahead or at least abreast of the national mood and we feel there's a change in the air. Lifestyle is shunning austerity. We want hopeful, positive programmes that aren't afraid of aspiration and a bit of fantasy. Two of our biggest successes last year were The Shelbourne and Room to Improve.
We also want to stay true to what we're best at which is giving the audience strong, human stories and presenters who actually engage with participants over time. As the recession fades from the foreground, our audience has shown it's capacity to engage with issues through well told stories and The High Hopes Choir was tonally perfect for Christmas 2014.
Mid-week 20.30
6*25 Autumn 2016, 45k an episode.
There are two slots in the Autumn for mid-week 20.30. These may be commissioned from Lifestyle but could also come from other genres.
We are open to new fomats in any area but are particularly interested in new approaches to Health, Consumer Issues, Business and Property. Stories which cleverly knit together the individual and community, have always worked well for us so that's still of interest. New formats need to be able to sit alongside popular staples like Operation Transformation, At Your Service and Room to Improve.
No format for 20.30 can be niche. Don't send anything in that isn't capable of attracting a large audience which includes ALL age-groups.
We are no longer afraid of luxury and as Consumer power strengthens again, we would also like to look at formats which aim to highlight, name and shame rogue services, trades and consumables.
We're open to fixed rig formats, where appropriate, and to observational docs. Obviously though the subject, as well as the characters have to be riveting, the series has to be suitable for pre-watershed viewing and able to work on a number of levels.
The right talent can inspire a format and the right local talent can bring an international format to life for an Irish audience. The importance of strong talent in a crowded schedule can't be overstated.
We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system: https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx under the programme category "Lifestyle Midweek 20.30"
Deadline is Friday 13th March at 12 noon
Format Farm
This is a useful development tool for Lifestyle slots. Suitable submissions, which have potential for international sales as well as to fill one of our slots may be recommended and moved to Format Farm.
Lifestyle has commissioned a number of series and one-offs for RTÉ2. Amongst these are The Unemployables, Then Comes Marriage, Bressie's Teenage Kicks, Drunk, Connected, Norah's Traveller Academy and Don't Tell the Bride.
Programmes for RTÉ2 have to be either entertaining or Provocative and will preferably be both. They must be engaging, informative and reflect the society in which we live but unless they are made with the pace, production values and personality that are expected by the key 18 - 35 year old demographic, they will not cut through with this audience.
6*60 mins, post-watershed, Autumn 2015 (deadline March 13th), 85k
6*60 mins, post-watershed, January 2016, 85k
Don't Tell the Bride has been a staple in the RTE 2 schedule for many years but we need more staples. We need to build new formats that are capable of becoming lynchpins of the schedule on mid-week nights on 2. We need producers to really focus on the pre-occupations and preferences for this age- group. Programmes need to reflect these and we need programmes that offer plenty in terms of talkability and social engagement. New faces are important but so too are surprising formats for existing RTE 2 talent. Last year Eoin McDermott presented Drunk and Jennifer Maguire moved over to a Fact Ent format in the form of The Unemployables. Are there formats, either new or acquired, that could make even better use of some of our existing talent?
We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system: https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx under the programme category "Lifestyle Autumn 2015"
We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system: https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx under the programme category "Lifestyle January 2016"
January 2016, contestable.
6*30, post-watershed, January 2016, contestable.
Deadline- ongoing
We are also looking for series that would work post-watershed in half hours. These might be observational documentary series, they may come be developed from a successful Reality Bites or they may be a new consumer, health or food based formats. Bear in mind though that they must feel right post-watershed and that therefore the subject and approach should feel more adult and definitely more provocative. We are really interested in taking risks and definitely not afraid to shock and provoke an audience at this time.
We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system: https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx under the programme category "Lifestyle January 2016 contestable"
Reality Bites
10*60 55k (These will be sourced from various genres)
Lifestyle has a number of Reality Bites in production for RTÉ2 schedule. These are The Gun Show - a look at the new obsession with the perfectly defined male torso, The Verminators, following two pest control companies and Camden Chaos, a week in the life of a very busy street.
We are interested in any programme that experiments with new talent or brand new subject matter. We are particularly interested in documentaries that can subsequently be scaled up to 6 part series'. We also see Reality Bites as a way in which production companies can discover and mentor new production talent. While traditional documentaries produced to an RTE 2 pace and style are welcome, as are strong vehicles for existing and new presenting talent, we'd really like to see fresh approaches to story-telling and far more and innovate use of user-generated and self-shot material. Reality Bites really can be a teething ground for new documentary talent as well as new presenters and formats.
We ask, in the first instance, that producers submit ideas into the eCommissioning system: https://e-commissioning.rte.ie/SWIFT.Web/skins/rte/login.aspx under the programme category "Lifestyle Reality Bites"
Deadline Thursday 12th March at 12 noon.
Please note budget ranges are indicative only, and proposals that can achieve lower costs per hour will be particularly attractive'.
Please note:
The discussion of, or initial interest in, a proposal does not represent a commitment to commission by RTÉ and should not be understood as such. Commissioning decisions will reflect the quality of proposals received and the scheduling priorities operating at the time. RTÉ's financial position will also be a factor.
Any proposals previously submitted to RTÉ in categories listed here, and which were rejected on a first reading in a previous Round, should not be re-submitted and will not be reconsidered.


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The year 2003 was identified by the United Nations as the International Year of Freshwater with the aim, partly, of reaffirming the UN's Millennium Development Goal: "to halve, by the year 2015… the proportion of people who are unable to reach, or to afford, safe drinking water" and "to stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources." This ambitious goal, endorsed by the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) held in Johannesburg in 2002, also set a new target of halving the proportion of people who do not have access to basic sanitation by 2015.
The WSSD recognised the key role of water in agriculture, energy, health, biodiversity and ecosystems as well as in combating poverty. The link between social well-being and environmental health is now well recognised and any attempts to secure social well-being that do not acknowledge the environmental realities will ultimately fail.
Formally acknowledging water as a human right, and giving content and effect to this right could be a good way of encouraging the international community and governments to enhance their efforts to satisfy basic human needs and to meet the Millennium Development Goals. It could serve to increase the pressure to translate such a right into concrete national and international legal obligations and responsibilities, and to focus attention on the need to resolve conflicts over the use of shared water.
But critical questions arise in relation to a right to water. Why do we need a right to water? What would be the benefits and content of such a right? What mechanisms would be required for its effective implementation? Should the duty to provide basic water and sanitation for all be placed on governments alone, or should the responsibility in this regard be borne also by private actors, both individual and corporate, national as well as international? Is another 'academic debate' on this subject warranted when action is really what is necessary?
This paper addresses these critical questions in detail. It not only raises the questions, it also provides the material and analysis necessary to address them seriously. Without claiming to prescribe the answers, the paper seeks to clearly and carefully articulate the issues and to set out the competing arguments and challenges as it explores the contribution that a human right to water could make to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In doing so the paper has provided an excellent platform for critical thinking and informed debate.
This paper was produced through the collaborative efforts of staff and interns of the IUCN Environmental Law Centre and of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law (CEL). It has benefited from the assistance of the former Chair of CEL and from peer review by experts in the UNDP and the FAO. It bears witness to the value of partnerships in our collective efforts to meet the challenge of achieving the Millennium Development Goals.
Achim Steiner
IUCN Director General
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Menchaca defeated incumbent Sara Gonzalez for the City Council seat in Red Hook and Sunset Park.
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