boat plans and books of plans
Game of Thrones - Season 2 - SciFiNow Magazine Story Details
... then run it up to the gates with the hull of the boat acting as cover from missile fire. It’s basically a medieval version of the landing craft from D-Day (my take, not the magazine’s). Season 2 is the ‘season of battles, especially episode nine’. The crew built another ship at the Linen Mill Studio in Bainbridge. This ship is 140 feet long, 35 feet tall and has a 3oo-foot greenscreen sur...
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Follower Love Giveaway hop and guest post from Paul Byers
...yboard and our nerves are not steadied by frosty steins of mead but of hot cups of coffee. (although when facing a deadline the mead works wonders!) When starting an adventure, you never know where it will take you. While you have a general goal or destination in mind, it is not always a straight line from point A to point B and as they say, it’s not the destination but the journey. So it is w...
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winter blossoms, rugs, and E.F. Benson
...h even if I had a lens, I'd have to cope with my apparent inability to get the camera to differentiate the red coyote from the patch of sunlight it likes to sleep in. Meanwhile, I have much to do in the house, and a great deal of research I need to finish, but my current guilty pleasure is E.F. Benson. I'd read his Lucia books, and I came across a copy of Secret Lives in London many years ago -- ...
Nerd Alert!! New TMNT Toys + Sailor Moon, DBZ, and 20 Years Of Spawn
...gh Gaiman has always maintained they were created by him specifically for that one-issue story, McFarlane added them to Spawn lore when Gaiman wasn't looking. These were recurring characters, and ones that got their own toys, and appearances in the animated series and 1997 film. McFarlane's image as a champion of creator's rights was seriously tarnished, which was particularly ironic considering t...
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Media release: Yemen Times launches new website and restores lost archive
...restore its archive after technical difficulties resulted in it being taken offline last year. The independent English-language newspaper’s site suffered technical problems, resulting in data loss involving the organisation’s digital archive of news dating back to 1997. “This was especially heart breaking,” said Yemen Times publisher and editor-in-chief Nadia al-Sakkaf in a release. 201...
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From a few weeks ago: It's dreary and rainy outside...
...I went to Aldi in the afternoon, and he went to Dillons for me later. Love him. I have been sitting here praying over this crazy week ahead, asking the Lord for grace and strength to do His will each day. On paper, it looks almost impossible, and I'd already rather hide at home instead {not an option}. But I was reminded again of what I wrote above, and how an easier life is not my goal. More ...
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@ The Poisoned Pen with Deborah Crombie!
... all sorts of questions about the part rowing played in the book and about the mechanics of the plot. As their conversation ended, he said that he would be more than happy to take her out on the river so she could experience what rowing was really like. Naturally, Crombie jumped at the chance. When the man left, her friend asked her, "You know who that was, don't you?" Crombie had been speak...
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A Bitter Wind Approaches Anglesey
...cape. At present, we seem to largely take for granted the ability to look up at a non obliterated sky, but if these applications for 400ft high turbines get the go ahead here on the tiny island of Anglesey at least, clear views of the sky, and indeed the whole of the Snowdonia range from Anglesey, will be a thing of the past, and will stay so for generations to come, and for what ? To solve our en...
January Reads
...m talk. Actually listening to other people talk is rather a novelty to her. Speaking of that, I hate how she treats her father like he's a child. He's a full grown man who has done just fine living on his own for the past however many years. You don't have to rush home to make sure that he has something to eat for dinner. And the constant patronizing that she does to the man drives me batty. He's ...
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Putt putt boats
...s to make that we intend to try at a later date) , Dave & the children embarked on their inaugural building of a putt putt steam engine & then finally a boat! After a couple of construction sessions, they were ready to test it out! We all headed down to little cow dam to ensure a proper launching! Note the myriad of other boats especially made to accompany her on her maiden voyage! Af...
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Matakana wedding by Benjamin & Elise Photography
...and our Mums (very organised and artistic) along with willing friends and family were able to create an incredible wedding day. On the day our guests arrived to our ceremony at Whangateau Hall - inside we decorated the hall with a million handmade white flags that hung from the ceiling. Our ceremony took place in front of a large colourful fabric feature wall that us and some friends had fun m...
Writer Vince Flynn aims for a 'Kill Shot' against cancer
...ngs of conservatives. His 13th novel, Kill Shot (Atria/Emily Bestler Books, $27.99), will be published Tuesday. That said, Flynn acknowledges that his battle with cancer has not been a cakewalk. "The road is far from over. … I had some problems last summer," he says, referring to the disintegration of his ischium (hip) bone because of cancer eating it away. His medical roller coaster ride has i...
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January 31st Poetic Ticker Clicking
...cience Monitor: Me and My Big Sister___(ragline)___CounterPunch: Poets' Basement: Beatty, Orloski and Davies___(ragline)___Granta: Supernovae___(ragline)___The Guardian: The Saturday poem: My Life___(ragline)___Huffington Post: The Weekend Poem: 'A Boat Beneath A Sunny Sky' By Lewis Carroll___(ragline)___Morning Star: Well Versed: A Tory in Avalon___(ragline)___NPR: Newspoet: Tracy K. Smith Writes...
Did you ever have to be saved by a lifeguard?...
...ttle kid right now, what would you ask for on your Christmas list to Santa? I dont know. 6. Do you say "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas" in order to avoid offending people who don't celebrate Christmas? I say Merry Christmas. 7. Do you think that anyone can ever be "too old" to receive gifts on holidays? No. 8. Have you ever made / played with a sock puppet before? No. 9. When was the ...
biting your tail
... (that's why I pay for insurance). And if a horse I loved breaks his legs in the field I'll put a rifle to his head and shoot him. I'm not scared of loss, risk, or pain. Life is a sad, messy, and scary place and I accept the dark parts of it as much as the light parts. I refuse to spend a life setting myself up to not face these things are then label it "successful". I know a lot of miserable peop...
Countdown to Publication-Week 8: A Surprise Visit from my Publicist
...be there on Saturday, April 14, 2012) Saturday, April 28, 2012 @ 7:00pm-Book reading/signing at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle, Washington (I also plan to visit New York and Chicago on tour, but don't have dates yet, will keep you posted) Friday, June 1-Sunday, June 3-Open Up To Your Life's Purpose Yoga and Writing Retreat with Seong Yoon Lee (The monk I married) and Katherine Jenkins at The ...
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DRASTIC MEASURES... (begun Friday 17th February at 4.30am..) Any change...
...es, in order to muddy the waters... The devastation caused by the resulting surges is as nothing compared to the crippling physical effects that the technology will be having on many of the residents, and it's probably taking it's toll already... Those whose systems can't stand up to the battering of EMR and wireless frequencies will fall by the wayside, and only the strong will survive, hey Janne...
Laurence Gonzales, "The 12 Rules of Survival"
...: “How content we were; happy in spite of everything.” 6. Be a Rescuer, Not a Victim: Survivors are always doing what they do for someone else, even if that someone is thousands of miles away. There are numerous strategies for doing this. When Antoine Saint-Exupery was stranded in the Lybian desert after his mail plane suffered an engine failure, he thought of how his wife would suffer i...
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Why Hasn't the Day of Financial Armageddon Occurred Yet?
...what I have to say about the economy. Yes, it is too unsettling. But it is something much deeper rooted than the troublesome numbers, it is their misplaced faith in the US government, inculcated in them from their grade-school days, that is being shaken. Mass denial makes it easier for government to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes. What government is doing behind the scene The US Treasury Dep...
'A Question of Commitment' (A Short Story)
...eaving Cliff and Tye to take a nap. During the afternoon Cliff awoke and he turned his head to watch Tye sleeping beside him with his arm across Cliff’s waist. He slept soundly with his face near Cliff’s, so close that Cliff could smell the sweetness of cane and coconut on his breath. Quietly he leaned in and kissed Tye on the forehead. The bar was crowded that evening. Cliff and Tye sat at...