Warning on Fraudulent Typhoon Relief Fundraising

Warning on Fraudulent Typhoon Relief Fundraising


I pass this along, although I know it couldn't possibly affect any of my readers-- you know, you evil trads who can't stand the poor and distressed, and who would never have any compassion for them. In fact, from reading the internet, I learned that you don't like to even have any contact with them unless you can step on them and steal their lunch money. But, anyway, here goes nothing. From the Archdiocese:Archdiocesan warning regarding possible fraudulent donation solicitations for Typhoon HaiyanIt has been reported to the Archdiocese of St. Louis that an alleged fraudulent solicitation of funds for Typhoon Haiyan relief was made over the phone using the Archdiocese of St. Louis name. During this alleged incident the caller asked for a credit card number.At this time we wish to make the public aware that the Archdiocese of St. Louis is not soliciting donations over the phone for this purpose and any call regarding donations for typhoon relief did not originate with us. We are accepting donations for typhoon relief through special collections at Sunday Masses; we are also accepting donations by mail to the following address:Archdiocesan Finance OfficeAttention: Catholic Relief Services—Typhoon Haiyan Disaster Relief20 Archbishop May DriveSt. Louis, MO 63119All donations collected by the Archdiocese of St. Louis will be directly turned over to Catholic Relief Services.

Texas Prohibits Pet Neutering

Texas Prohibits Pet Neutering



"Now, darlin', you're the one who wanted to live in Texas."

Austin, Tex.
— On Friday, the Texas Senate passed one of the strictest anti-abortion
measures in the country. Gov. Rick Perry is expected to sign the bill after a
Democratic filibuster blocked its passage last month. Buried in the bill is a
provision to prohibit pet neutering, or “spaying,” as it is commonly called.
Gov. Perry
applauded lawmakers for passing the bill, saying, “Today the Texas Legislature
took its final step in our historic effort to protect life [and] tirelessly
defended our smallest and most vulnerable Texans, whether they walk on two legs
or four.”
The bill was
opposed by leaders of the American Congress of Gynecologists, which ran
advertisements that questioned the scientific foundations of the legislation
and told legislators to “Get out of our exam rooms.” The bills author,
Representative Jodie Laubenberg, responded to the ads by saying, “Hell, I kinda
like being in there. Got all kinds of videos Ive uploaded to YouTube. Sold
quite a few at the local flea market, too.”
Francois
Puces, president of the Texas Veterinary Association, expressed shock at the anti-pet-neutering
provision: “The legislature wasnt thinking. This will only encourage back-alley
neutering.” Madge Geschnitten, chairperson of the Back-Alley Neutering Group (NYSE:
BANG) defended her members by saying, “We provide a service. If they cant get
a doctor to do it, we will, at half the price. More BANG for the buck,” she laughed.BANG stock rose 17 percent on
the news.

Positively 4th Street Bob Dylan

Positively 4th Street Bob Dylan


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Merry December!

Merry December!


[Cimory Christmas Tree]

This is just a quick intermezzo post! Happy December everyone! We're heading to the end of the year 2013 and eleven months felt like the blink of an eye. There must be questions like "Have you done something good for others and for yourself?", "What have you done so far that you consider awesome and life-changing?", or "Where do you think your life is heading?", and definitely reaction like: "OH CRAP I AM GETTING OLDER!"

Just a quick friendly reminder: life is a SERIOUS-ly FUN roller-coaster: there are paths of ups and downs, luckily, if you have experienced this, then you are a real human being! You just can't be too-something-something in life, well everyone wishes for the good to keep on happening but when you believe everything happens for a reason, you'll probably be happier. That's just the way I live my life :).

Have you made your new year resolution? Well, you could probably start now. December 2013 is the time to finish whatever you started and 2014 is just the perfect time to start or re-start everything, don't forget to keep your dream high, big andfierce, and remember this: whatever you pray for if you don't balance it with efforts, they are simply... nothing! Work hard, pray hard and then play hard!

In the meantime, let's just hope that this month brings us a lot of good fortunes! I believe! *fingers crossed*

[Christmas Tree in Plaza Indonesia]and for all the hopeless romantics: I hope you guys find your prince charming and princess beautiful!
[Sparkling Christmas at Pacific Place]HAPPY DECEMBER!Infinity thanks for the tremendous to eatandtreats
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If I Could Donate My Heart WEP

If I Could Donate My Heart WEP

Today is the Write . . . Edit . . . Publish bloghop aka
WEP. The theme for this month of November is SHARING. All participants can post anything they want
(a short story, poem, or even a story through pictures) about sharing. And its
not too late to sign up!




Back Story: I have been experiencing heart problems (non-life threatening) for almost two years now, and during the time when I was really scared I started to think about what it would be like to get a heart transplant. That train of thought eventually turned to donating my heart. This essay is very personal, and it is hard for me to share, but I do want to know what you think of it. :) It is 569words long.
If I Could Donate My HeartbyChrys FeyWhen someone is
waiting for a heart and receives one through an act of fate, they may never know where
their heart came from. This thought struck me with wonder. If I had a heart transplant,
I would want to know if the person was good or bad. I would want to know what
the heart had gone through before it was given to me. What kind of traumas did
it face? What kind of sorrows did it feel? What kind of triumphs made it beat
faster? Those are the things I would want to know about the strange heart
beating inside my chest . . . but what if my heart was being transplanted
into a foreign body? If I could donate my heart there are a few things I
would want the person receiving it to know. While the person
recovered I would want them to know we are sharing
the same heart. I may not have a body, but as long as my heart beats inside
theirs then I am still alive. I would want them to know theyd never be alone
as long as they breathed. I would always be with them as an angel, as a second heartbeat.
When they leave the
hospital, taking my heart with them, I would want to whisper in their ear to
take care of it for me, not to abuse it, not to take it for granted, and
definitely not to hate it. During my lifetime, it was a reliable heart. They must keep it beating, because the
moment they die I will die all over again.As they live their
new life with their new heart, I would want to tell them about the struggles my
heart had faced during my life, like the scars that might be left on it from my
childhood. I would want them to know I had built a wall around my heart to keep
it protected, a wall that still might exist within them. I would want to apology
to them, because taking down that wall could be a struggle, extending trust
could prove to be difficult, and finding love could be a challenge. But if they
wanted to trust and love, they would see my heart would be up for the
opportunity. If they do fall in
love, I would want them to know I had never been
truly, madly, deeply, earth-shatteringly in love, so while they fall in love I
am falling in love too. I would want to thank them for letting my heart feel
the lovely phenomenon for the first time.
On their deathbed, I
would want them to know it'd be okay to let our heart stop beating; it
lived two great lives. And when they pass into the light, I want them to be
comforted by the fact that I'd be there to welcome them with open arms, to
thank them for the journey they took my heart on. Then I would place their hand
on my transparent form and show them my heart hadnt really left me after all.
And with their other hand on their chest, I would tell them it belonged to both
of us, that the reasonwhy I was born was to provide a single heart
for two lives.
If I could donate my
heart . . . that is what I would want the person receiving it to know. ©

Everything is in Place for Another Crisis

Everything is in Place for Another Crisis


The locomotive is the market, and in the end markets are always more powerful than government intervention. The locomotive is gaining momentum for the reason that I have been making since May, which is when the tipping point was reached. Since then there have been more investors willing to sell government securities than the Fed or other central banks are willing to buy. The consequence has been rising yields on the 10-Year Treasury Note.But interest rates are not rising in spite of QE, instead, since May they have been rising because of QE. Interest rates are just way too low and do not offset all of the risks associated with holding Treasury paper. Therefore, Treasury paper is being sold, meaning that its supply is greater than the demand for this paper.The reason why all of this so incredibly important is that everything is now in place for another crisis as we approach the February debt ceiling limit. As a consequence, it is extremely critical that investors understand that they should absolutely not be holding dollars or Treasury paper. They are incredibly overvalued and therefore they will be the ultimate losers here. Physical gold and silver are the place to be, and can continue to be picked up at prices that reflect severe undervaluation.
- James Turk via King World News:http://kingworldnews.com/kingworldnews/KWN_DailyWeb/Entries/2013/11/4_World_Reaches_Tipping_Point_As_Next_Catastrophe_Approaches.html

challenge 146 - pea-nucklewell

challenge 146 - pea-nucklewell


The challenge this week - Pea-nuckle and Well ................. together.

I find Pea-nuckle frustrating enough on its own, let alone trying to make it work with Well. They do not play well together! At least not in my journal.

So, I fell back on a favourite transitioning tangle - knyt - which works for me as a very structured, yet organic tangle allowing me to go from the more rigid Pea-nuckle to the more flowing Well (you can seethe steps on how I draw Well like this here)

It doesn't feel all that exciting to me as I've done similar things before with different patterns, but at least I managed to get these two tangles to call a brief truce. I do like the mechanical feel of Pea-nucklein this design - reminds me of a stretchy metal lattice thingy. Yeah, one of those. LOL.2 weeks to go! I did my last Thursday classes today and have just two Tuesdays left.hx

A quarter square triangle quilt

A quarter square triangle quilt



My starting point was these fabrics.




I wanted to use them for no other reason other than they were big, bold, bright and happy fabrics; the perfect antidote to the onset of winter gloom.

I thought that just on their own though, they'd all be shouting to be heard and that even by my standards it would be a bit OTT.

So I added in some more.



Checks and plaids and then some 'quieter' florals. I also slipped in a bit of text fabric as well because well, you can never have too much text fabric.

And then I dusted down my Go! Baby from Accuquiltand used the quarter square triangle die to crank out lots and lots of triangles.




Accuquilt has been around since 2008 but then a couple of years ago they really ramped up their marketing and started reaching out to quilt bloggers to really get their product out there, including this side of the Atlantic. Quilty blog world was awash with the world and his wife extolling the virtues of owning the fabric cutter and at the time, I was one of the lucky ones to win one.

And then in to the fray stepped Sizzix. Originally devised as a die-cutting machine for paper back in 2001, Ellison (the company behind Sizzix - I would link to Ellison but their website appears to be down at the moment) obviously saw the success Accuquilt was having and in the spring of last year, started producing their own dies specifically for quilters.

And then a funny thing happened. Quilty blog world in these regions stopped talking about Accuquilt and suddenly Sizzix was the name of the game. It would appear Sizzix has proved to be the stronger marketeer.

Now I don't own a Sizzix and have no affiliation with Accuquilt so this is my opinion per se about fabric die cutters for what it is worth:

if you're just starting out I wouldn't buy one. Work out what kind of a quilter you want to be first and then you can make a better judgment. By that I mean if you're a modern, improv, slash and stitch kind of a quilter you probably won't have use for a die cutter. If on the other hand you're an appliquér extraordinaire with a love of pumpkins, birds, snowflakes, pears, hearts, owls, butterflies (several sizes), cats, lions, dogs etc etc then you clearly need one in your life
bear in mind if you do purchase one, dies are expensive and you'll have to work out if you would use that die sufficiently to get your money's worth from it. In particular I am thinking about the strip cutter 2 1/2" die offered by Accuquilt - usually the width you'd cut for binding. Is it really so much easier, quicker (not to mention less wasteful of fabric) than using a rotary cutter and mat?
if you buy some of the triangle and square sizes you are stuck making quilts with those sizes - if you fancy different sized triangles and squares it's back to the rotary cutter and cutting mat anyway
maybe it's just the cutter I've got but it doesn't always cut cleanly so you're left to snip off bits still hanging to your wastage
yes, there is wastage. How much depends on how canny you are with your cutting but there will always be wastage. It's the nature of the beast.
i think they are a brilliant idea for circles and circle based shapes which is where I think they come into their own. The one die I most definitely have got value out of is the Drunkards Path. Circles really do come out as circles and I think it probably is the best way to achieve perfection
Is it worth buying a die cutter for?Weigh up your usage and interest against cost and that's your answer.***So when I'd got all the triangles cut, I initially played around with values but it looked too contrived and I reminded myself that I'd cut these shapes in the first place just because I loved the fabrics and the random way they played together.



However, should you have a more ordered mind than me, there are endless possibilities of creating secondary patterns by playing around with the values.

A badly illustrated star shape but you get the picture.




A square on point. Could be all lights. Could be all darks. Could be one hot mess so then the triangles to the left, right, up and down could be more subdued.




Or sub-divide the square on point to a pinwheel block with the use of light and dark values.




Or don't look at it at all in terms of blocks but look to highlight a grid effect with choice of values. So I started highlighting what the vertical would look like but loss the will to live putting the horizontal dark and light annotations in but you get it.




Of course I didn't do any of this and just randomly sewed and sewed and sewed.




And I've just come to the conclusion that I really rather like random.




I find it more exciting and visually interesting.


And I think I like randomly pieced quilt backs too. I think it gives you a chance to show off mad, bold fabric too.



And I've also come to the conclusion that the more values and colours you use in a quilt, the harder it is to photograph and really show the quilt's true colours.





And if you add blue skies and fast moving clouds into the mix, your quilt gets another look entirely.




And the trade off for a longer, leaner shadow at this time of the year is the disappearance of any signs of a waist.


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