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We recently wrapped up London Design Festival at Sonos Studio, an event schedule packed with our friends from the creative world including Hole & Corner, It's Nice That, PATTERNITY and MUBI.
Amongst those friends was rapper / art director Kieren Gallear AKA DELS, who spoke at our 'Listening By Design' event hosted by It's Nice That. In his talk, he took us on a sonic journey through the listening habits of his day and discussed how the music inspires his creative output.
This week, DELS invited us into his North London home to show us how his two worlds as a both an art director and music artist merge and are influenced by what he listens to in his living space.
How much of your creative process starts at the home? Does that differ for art direction and music?
The nature of what I do creatively is so broad. I'm more inclined to come up with ideas for illustrations, screenplays and songs at home in my own space, than anywhere else. I can create my own worlds within these disciplines. I often draw inspiration from fantasy when working on illustrations and writing songs. There are parallels in terms of a creative mindset. It's impulsive, instinctual, and very personal. At my desk in my bedroom, I often pin up reference imagery and my own ink drawings. Without them, the impulsive, creative bursts of energy wouldn't happen. It feels like a form of escapism after a long day working on client based Art Direction projects or working at agencies.
When working on art direction projects, are their any rituals around listening to music that gets in you a creative mindset?
Before I start work, I usually begin with something really uptempo musically. That can range from energetic new hip hop records, Punk to new DJ mixes that I discover online. Before midday, I usually try to focus a little more and genres like Soul, Jazz, Afrobeat really help with that focus. I get lost in the rhythms. I can't listen to hip hop when I'm actually designing because it puts me in an alternate mindset. Hearing rappers like Andre 3000 pulsate through the speakers gets me so excited and I suddenly get so eager to start writing down words.
In the evenings, when I'm just winding down from a long day, I have a playlist that has loads electronic ambient works on them. There's something about the space and mood in this song Xtal by Apehex Twin that I find so therapeutic. Whenever I'm trying to relax, I often play this song. It's because of this very song that I am writing film scripts in my spare time. Words and imagery just flow in my mind when I hear it.
Is there something about the relationship between space and sound and its ability to clear the the mind here?
It's the cinematic feel and mood. The stripped back sound of this particular electronic playlist is soothing. I just get lost between the spaces between the individual sounds. I know it sounds weird, but sometimes music feels three dimensional to me and I feel like I'm manoeuvring between each individual sound and they are washing over me. That's even without the influence of drugs. I know I sound like a nutcase, but it all makes perfect sense in my mind.
Your living space seems to define your creative state of mind now but what were your influences at home when you were growing up?
I was heavily influenced musically by my Mother and Father who both listened to a lot of forwarding thinking, bass driven, music. Dad leaned more towards early rave, Chicago-House, Jungle and my Mother was more into Soul, Reggae/Dancehall, Hip-Hop & contemporary R&B. Growing up in Suffolk, we didn't have access to Galleries and stuff, so looking at the artwork on those vinyl record sleeves was my early introduction to the art world in a sense. Meticulously scanning the credits and studying the artists names that created those iconic artworks.
I've been revisiting these old Jungle mixes from the early 90's in the morning all Summer this year. My father used to play them to me as he was a big raver back in the day. When I listen to them, I am instantly transported back to my old bedroom where I'd be reading comic books and sifting through those vacuum formed rave tape packs that my Dad picked up after each rave. I loved the dream-like imagery of those tape packs, juxtaposed with the DJ names emblazoned across the front in bold, cheap typography.


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The 2011–2012 Annual Report is now available online.
Each year, Dumbarton Oaks publishes a report of the previous academic year's initiatives and achievements. The report recaps the previous year's public lectures, museum exhibitions, garden installations, previous fellow's projects and much more. Visit the online edition to learn about the exciting ways in which Dumbarton Oaks has grown and changed in the previous year!

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The political crisis in Niger appears deadlocked over the fate of a government elected under a referendum that West African leaders say was unconstitutional. The regional mediator to the conflict is waiting for the government and its opponents to respond to his plans for a power-sharing deal.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says President Mamadou Tandja's legal mandate expired last month at the end of his second five-year term. He remains in power today thanks to a controversial August referendum that did away with term limits and gave him another three years in power.
While ECOWAS has suspended Niger for what it calls "constitutional illegality," the regional alliance remains involved in the search for an end to the political crisis through the mediation of former Nigerian President Abdulsalami Abubakar.
He is proposing an interim government of national reconciliation and has given both sides until next week to respond to his plan before direct talks reconvene in early February.
But prospects for that proposal already appear dim, with Communications Ministry spokesman Kassoum Maman Moctar saying nothing will be done outside the framework of Niger's 6th Republic, which began with President Tandja's new term.
Moctar says President Tandja's government is still determined to do its best to pursue dialogue. He says those who are not negotiating in good faith have tried to prevent talks from taking place in Niger. Moctar says the president's supporters succeeded in having the mediation inside Niger so people can see for themselves who is negotiating in bad faith.
Moctar says President Tandja is determined to bring this dialogue to a reasonable conclusion. He says some of the opposition demands appear to be jokes. The government and the people of Niger have been patient, he says, and are willing to make concessions. He says that is why they have agreed to talk with people who Moctar says want to reverse the decisions of a sovereign people, opponents who he says know nothing.
Opposition spokesman Marou Amadou says it is President Tandja who is being hostile to sincere dialogue, something he says the president makes clear every time he speaks directly to both the regional mediator and to the nation.
Amadou says there is no question the government will reject former president Abubakar's proposal, meaning there is no real dialogue.
Amadou says the opposition is asking its supporters to prepare themselves for a determined and resolute fight to block what he says are President Tandja's plans to expose the people of Niger to suffering and distress just because the president and his supporters want to enjoy the country's riches.
One of the main reasons President Tandja gave for extending his time in office is to finish several large projects including a hydroelectric dam, a Chinese-financed oil refinery, and a French uranium mine.
With his political opponents boycotting the new government, President Tandja begins his eleventh year in power with a new legislature and a new constitutional court both stripped of those who spoke out against his staying in power.
Regional Mediator Proposes Power-Sharing Deal for Niger
The political crisis in Niger appears deadlocked over the fate of a government elected under a referendum that West African leaders say was unconstitutional. The regional mediator to the conflict is waiting for the government and its opponents to respond to his plans for a power-sharing deal.


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On January 1, 2013, the Cooperative Patent Classification (CPC) completely replaced ECLA, and all US published applications will now carry CPC classifications. The EPO's Espacenet search system has already added a CPC search tool to its portal, and many subscription-based patent search systems have also integrated the CPC into their US and EP patent records and search options. The official CPC website currently offers an "ECLA to CPC to IPC" concordance table for users who need find a relevant CPC symbol that corresponds to an IPC or ECLA classification symbol. The USPTO website now offers an additional useful tool to help users locate the correct CPC symbol by searching for a corresponding US Patent Classification (USPC) symbol. With this tool, users can enter any USPC symbol and automatically generate a list of the closest corresponding CPC symbols.
After the jump, Landon IP's librarian Kristin Whitman provides a brief guide on how to use the "Statistical Mapping from USPC to CPC" concordance tool! Continue reading
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Tokyo Marui Five-seveN
Consistent fps
Great finish and build
High capacity magazine
Little to no slide wobble
No barrel wobble
Consistent hop
Recommended for 134a only for long durability
Does not carry full trademarks
Hop adjustment requires partial dissasembly
This may be out of stock due to its popularity
The Tokyo Marui Five-seveN is a highly ergonomic pistol which has been long anticipated for. Its overall performance of this pistol can probably be enough to hold your own corner when used in a skirmish field due do its large capacity magazine, tight groupings and snappy recoil even when used with 134a.
The Five-seveN pistol was designed by FN company (Belgium) as a matching sidearm for the P90. The P90 and Five-seveN share the same ammunition, using the 5.7x28mm SS190 cartridge. The main reasons for using that ammunition was to provide good penetration power on targets that are using modern body armor, while keeping weapons' weight, dimensions and recoil as low as possible without compromising the stopping power. According to various sources, the Five-seveN pistol is capable to penetrate a PAGST vest at 300 meters and standard CRISAT (kevlar + titanium) vest at 100 meters.
The Five-seveN is a delayed blowback operated, semi-automatic firearm. Featuring a polymer slide, frame and rail. The gun is available in two versions: Five-seveN standard, intended for military use, and Five-seveN Tactical, intended mostly for Law Enforcement users who carry handguns as a primary weapons. The only difference between Standard and Tactical models is in the trigger type: the Five-seveN standard features Double Action Only trigger with long trigger pull and no external safeties; The Five-seveN Tactical featured Single Action trigger with short and light trigger pull and ambidextrous safety switch, located on the frame above the trigger. Both variants are striker fired, with internal firing pin safety. The sights are fixed, with optional night sights (with luminous dots inserts) available
Initial impressions
This pistol comes in a familiar TM style packaging with a glossy finished box, ASGK serials, warning labels etc, nothing new in terms of packaging from TM. Although this is soon to change as you open the box because you're about to see the Five-seveN right before your eyes! Inside the box you will find a small bag containing a manual, user warnings, usual targets and a ram rod which seems to be a standardized item for all TM pistols these days.
Upon handling the pistol and its magazine, the Five-seveN doesn't feel flimsy or too much like a toy at all. The weight of this is almost identical to the real steel counterpart, the construction and finish on this is decent as the mold lines are not obvious or leaving any gaps between the 2 halves of the slide or frame looking just like the real version. Its contoured grip allows the user to have a very comfortable hold without losing control of the weapon. Although this contoured grip is ambidextrous with the contoured thumb rest on both sides, this offers better comfort for the user compared to the other pistols that may have the thumb rest causing mild discomforts in the palm of your shooting hand.
The safety design on the Five-seveN is also ambidextrous and very easy to use as it is right above the trigger right where the trigger finger goes when you?re not ready to fire the weapon allowing easy and quick access to the safety mechanism. Furthermore, towards the rear of the slide there are two tabs, one either side of the slide. These tabs are there to allow the user to cock the slide much easier even when it is in a wet condition.
Although the TM Five-seveN is designed for use with 134a, this still offers fairly decent recoil when the weapon is cycling. Firing at 230fps on 134a isn't as bad as it seems, considering the hop up mechanism on this pistol is very consistent, firing a 6inch grouping at 20metres and 3inch at 5metres. This may improve once the hop up rubber has bedded in after some use. The sight base on this pistol is also of a decent length, at 17cm (just under 7inches) giving less of an error margin on the iron sights when compared to a pistol with a shorter sight base. The slide and outer barrel are also very sturdy and moves very little at all. There is usually a slight wobble with the slide on GBB pistols and also between the outer barrel and the slide, giving a more inconsistent shot grouping, this isn't an issue with the Five-seveN. A few players are running these pistols on green gas straight out of the box, for now there aren't any noticeable problems with this but it is not recommended as it puts extra stress on the moving parts on the pistol.
The Tokyo Marui Five-seveN is a highly ergonomic pistol which has been long anticipated for. It is a very popular item and many retailers have trouble keeping up with the demand. This is most likely due to the pistol being a good performing, yet realistic replica to compliment the P90 load out or many people just want to have a 5-7. Maybe there are plenty of Jason Statham fans out there wanting the "Crank" impression in the skirmish fields too, who knows for sure? The overall performance of this pistol can probably be enough to hold your own corner when used in a skirmish field due do its large capacity magazine, tight groupings and snappy recoil even when used with 134a. However as a critic, the logo and the markings on the grip and slide will not satisfy your criteria as a good replica. Given the markings on this replica is not authentic, the groupings and the feel of the recoil is enough to put a smile on your face as you use this beautiful pistol. If you?re a fan of the FN 5-7 and would like a reliable and skirmishable pistol, this is it. Go buy one now!


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Children's Alpaca
Keep little bodies warm in the sweetest of ways with alpaca, one of the finest natural fibres in the World. Hypoallergenic and silky soft, alpaca will be kind to tiny tots' delicate skin.
Playful colours and fun designs makes this range extra special and super adorable for newborns.
[Alpaca will leave you reassured that they are cosy and snug.
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The Bindaboo® Zoe range provides a save and secure place for your pet, keeping it safely contained when needed while allowing easy access between areas. It is a pressure mounted gate, easy to install.
• Fits openings from 97-108cm / 38-42.5in
• Gate height 1 m / 39.4in tall
• Auto-Close from any angle
• Smart Stay-Open feature
• Opens in both directions
• Suitable for doorways, hallways and more
• Sturdy metal construction
• Easy one-handed operation for adults
• Extends up to 5.08m / 200in with optional extensions


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
One of Napoleon's most persistent critics was Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) who sheltered many liberal opponents of the regime in her salon at Coppet in Switzerland. In one of the first histories of the French Revolution she identifies the ways in which Napoleon manipulated power to establish his tyranny:
It is generally after long civil troubles that tyranny is established, because it offers the hope of shelter to all the exhausted and timorous factions. Bonaparte said of himself with reason that he could play admirably upon the instrument of power. In truth, as he is attached to no principles, nor restrained by any obstacles, he presents himself in the arena of circumstances like a wrestler, no less supple than vigorous, and discovers at the first glance the points in every man or association of men which may promote his private designs. His scheme for arriving at the dominion of France rested upon three principal bases—to satisfy men's interests at the expense of their virtues, to deprave public opinion by sophisms, and to give the nation war for an object instead of liberty.
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Germaine de Stael knew something about tyranny. As the daughter of the last minister of finance under the old regime, Jacques Necker, and a committed liberal throughout the Revolution and Napoleon's empire, she was persecuted and forced to flee to Switzerland. Her revenge was to sponsor a famous liberal salon in her family chateau at Coppet in Switzerland where she gave shelter and support to many liberal critics of the regime. She also wrote one of the first histories of the French Revolution in which she was able to savagely critique Napoleon's tyrannical rule. This quotation is an excellent example of her thinking.


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36 CFR § 1010.7 - Actions that do not require an EA or EIS.
(a) Categorical Exclusions. Pursuant to 40 CFR 1508.4, the Trust has determined that the categories of action identified in this paragraph have no significant effect, either individually or cumulatively, on the human environment and are therefore categorically excluded. Such actions (whether approved by the Trust or undertaken by the Trust directly or indirectly) do not require the preparation of an EA or an EIS:
(1) Personnel actions and investigations and personal services contracts;
(2) Administrative actions and operations directly related to the operation of the Trust (e.g., purchase of furnishings, services, and equipment) provided such actions and operations are consistent with applicable Executive Orders;
(3) Internal organizational changes and facility and office expansions, reductions, and closings;
(4) Routine financial transactions, including such things as salaries and expenses, procurement, guarantees, financial assistance, income transfers, audits, fees, bonds and royalties;
(5) Management, formulation, allocation, transfer and reprogramming of the Trust's budget;
(6) Routine and continuing government business, including such things as supervision, administration, operations, maintenance, and replacement activities having limited context and intensity (limited size and magnitude or short-term effects);
(7) Preparation, issuance, and submittal of publications and routine reports;
(8) Activities which are educational, informational, or advisory (including interpretive programs), or otherwise in consultation with or providing technical assistance to other agencies, public and private entities, visitors, individuals, or the general public;
(9) Legislative proposals of an administrative or technical nature, including such things as changes in authorizations for appropriations or financing authority, minor boundary changes and land transactions; or having primarily economic, social, individual or institutional effects, as well as comments and reports on legislative proposals;
(10) Proposal, adoption, revision, and termination of policies, directives, regulations, and guidelines:
(i) That are of an administrative, financial, legal, technical, or procedural nature, the environmental effects of which are too broad, speculative, or conjectural to lend themselves to environmental analysis and the implementation of which will be subject to the NEPA process either collectively or on a case-by-case basis; or
(ii) Where such actions will not potentially:
(A) Increase public use to the extent of compromising the nature and character of the area or of causing significant physical damage to it;
(B) Introduce non-compatible uses that might compromise the nature and characteristics of the area or cause significant physical damage to it;
(C) Conflict with adjacent ownerships or land uses; or
(D) Cause a significant nuisance to adjacent owners or occupants;
(11) Preparation, approval, coordination, and implementation of plans, including priorities, justifications, and strategies, for research, monitoring, inventorying, and information gathering that is not or is only minimally manipulative and causes no or only minimal physical damage;
(12) Identification, nomination, certification, and determination of eligibility of properties for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and the National Historic Landmark and National Natural Landmark Programs;
(13) Minor or temporary changes in amounts or types of visitor use for the purpose of ensuring visitor safety or resource protection, minor changes in programs or regulations pertaining to visitor activities, and approval of permits or other use and occupancy agreements for special events or public assemblies and meetings, provided such events, assemblies, and meetings entail only short-term or readily mitigated environmental impacts;
(14) Designation of environmental study areas and research areas, including those closed temporarily or permanently to the public, provided such designation would cause no or only minimal environmental impact;
(15) Land and boundary surveys and minor boundary adjustments or transfers of administrative jurisdiction resulting in no significant change in land use;
(16) Archaeological surveys and permits involving only surface collection or small-scale test excavations;
(17) Changes or amendments to an approved plan or action when such changes or amendments would cause no or only minimal environmental impact;
(18) Contracts, work authorizations, or procurement actions related to proposals, programs, and master agreements related to administrative operation of the Trust;
(19) The leasing, permitting, sale, or financing of, or granting of non-fee interests regarding, real or personal property in the Presidio Trust Area, provided that such actions would have no or only minimal environmental impact;
(20) Extension, reissuance, renewal, minor modification, or conversion in form of agreements for use of real property (including but not limited to leases, permits, licenses, concession contracts, use and occupancy agreements, easements, and rights-of-way), so long as such agreements were previously subject to NEPA and do not involve new construction or new or substantially greater environmental impacts, and so long as no new information is known or no changed circumstances have occurred that would give rise to new or substantially greater environmental impacts.
(21) Rehabilitation, modification, or improvement of historic properties that have been determined to be in conformance with the Secretary of the Interior's "Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties" at 36 CFR part 68 and that would have no or only minimal environmental impact;
(22) Rehabilitation, maintenance, modification or improvement of non-historic properties that is consistent with applicable Executive Orders, provided there is no potential for significant environmental impacts, including impacts to cultural landscapes or archaeological resources;
(23) Removal, reduction, or restraint of resident individuals of species that are not threatened or endangered which pose dangers to visitors, residents, or neighbors or immediate threats to resources of the Presidio Trust Area;
(24) Removal of non-historic materials and structures in order to restore natural conditions when such removal has no potential for significant environmental impacts, including impacts to cultural landscapes or archaeological resources and is consistent with applicable Executive Orders;
(25) Installation of signs, displays, and kiosks, etc.;
(26) Replacement of minor structures and facilities (e.g., signs, kiosks, fences, comfort stations, and parking lots) with little or no change in location, capacity, or appearance;
(27) Repair, resurfacing, striping, installation of traffic control devices, and repair/replacement of guardrails, culverts, signs, and other minor features, on existing roads and parking facilities, provided there is no potential for significant environmental impact;
(28) Minor trail relocation, development of compatible trail networks on roads or other formally established routes, and trail maintenance and repair;
(29) Construction or rehabilitation in previously disturbed or developed areas required to meet health or safety regulations, or to meet requirements for making facilities accessible to the handicapped provided such construction or rehabilitation is implemented in a manner consistent with applicable Executive Orders;
(30) Landscaping and landscape maintenance in previously disturbed or developed areas;
(31) Minor changes in programs and regulations pertaining to visitor activities;
(32) Routine maintenance, property management, and resource management, with no potential for significant environmental impact and that are consistent with the Secretary of the Interior's "Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties" at 36 CFR part 68, as applicable, and with applicable Executive Orders;
(33) Upgrading or adding new utility facilities to existing poles, or replacement poles which do not change existing pole line configurations.
(34) Issuance of rights-of-way for overhead utility lines to an individual building or well from an existing line where installation will not result in significant visual intrusion or non-conformance with the Secretary's "Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties" at 36 CFR part 68, as applicable, and will involve no clearance of vegetation other than for placement of poles;
(35) Issuance of rights-of-way for minor overhead utility lines not involving placement of poles or towers and not involving vegetation management or significant visual intrusion in an area administered by NPS or the Trust or non-conformance with the Secretary's "Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties" at 36 CFR part 68, as applicable;
(36) Installation of underground utilities in previously disturbed areas having stable soils, or in an existing utility right-of-way; and
(37) Experimental testing of no longer than 180 days of mass transit systems, and changes in operation of existing systems with no potential for significant environmental impact.
(b) Extraordinary circumstances. An action that falls into one or more of the categories in paragraph (a) of this section may still require the preparation of an EIS or an EA if the NEPA Compliance Coordinator determines that it meets the criteria stated in § 1010.8(b) or § 1010.10(b), respectively, or involves extraordinary circumstances that may have a significant environmental effect. At its discretion, the Trust may require the preparation of an EA or an EIS for a proposal or action that otherwise qualifies for a categorical exclusion. Criteria used in determining whether to prepare an EA or EIS for an action that otherwise qualifies for a categorical exclusion include whether an action may:
(1) Have significant adverse effects on public health or safety;
(2) Have significant adverse effects on such unique geographic characteristics as historic or cultural resources, park, recreation or refuge lands, sole or principal drinking water aquifers, wetlands, floodplains, or ecologically significant or critical areas;
(3) Have highly controversial environmental effects;
(4) Have highly uncertain and potentially significant environmental effects or involve unique or unknown environmental risks;
(5) Establish a precedent for future action or represent a decision in principle about future actions with potentially significant environmental effects;
(6) Be directly related to other actions with individually insignificant but cumulatively significant environmental effects;
(7) Have significant adverse effects on properties listed or eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places;
(8) Have significant adverse effects on species listed or proposed to be listed on the List of Endangered or Threatened Species, or have adverse effects on designated Critical Habitat for these species;
(9) Require compliance with Executive Order 11988 (Floodplain Management), Executive Order 11990 (Protection of Wetlands), Executive Order 13007 (Indian Sacred Sites), or the Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act; and/or
(10) Threaten to violate a Federal, State, local or tribal law or requirement imposed for the protection of the environment.


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The Eli Young Band was handed an awesome surprise at last year's Academy of Country Music Awards, when their hit "Crazy Love" was awarded Song of the Year. And at this year's ACM Awards, the four bandmates (Mike Eli, Jon Jones, Chris Thompson, and James Young) have a solid chance of repeating that success–perhaps even twice over, as their Number One single "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" has been nominated for both Song of the Year and Single Record of the Year.
It was "a song that we really believed in, that we felt told out story," Jon Jones told Radio.com about "Breaks Your Heart." "We didn't know if it was going to work on country radio because it's such a passion song about playing music. And we were really lucky that people latched onto it and put themselves in the song."
"Even If It Breaks Your Heart" was the Texas group's second consecutive Number One country single, topping charts last July. (They had a third later that year, too, with their self-proclaimed "sappy love song" "Say Goodnight.")
Appearing on the group's 2011 album Life at Best, "Breaks Your Heart" was written by Will Hoge and and Eric Paslay. (Paslay cowrote "Barefoot Blue Jean Nights" for Jake Owen and "Angel Eyes" for Love & Theft, among other songs, while Hoge has spent years as both a writer and recording artist, with a long string of independent album releases under his belt.)
As Mike Eli told Radio.com, the EYB members initially heard "Break Your Heart" on one of Hoge's own albums. "When we talked about making the next record, that song just popped up. We knew right away that we wanted to put it on [our] record. Once it crossed our mind, we couldn't get our brain off of it."
Read more about the Eli Young Band and "Even If It Breaks Your Heart" on Radio.com


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EPA Region 7 Issues Notice of Violation to Grain Processing Corporation, Inc., of Muscatine, Iowa, for Clean Air Act Issues
Release Date: 03/27/2012
Contact Information: Chris Whitley, 913-551-7394, firstname.lastname@example.com
Environmental News
(Kansas City, Kan., March 27, 2012) - EPA has issued a notice of violation to Grain Processing Corporation, Inc. (GPC), alleging the company has violated the Iowa State Implementation Plan and the federal Clean Air Act for issues related to construction and operating permits issued for its facility at Muscatine, Iowa.
EPA Region 7 has coordinated with the State of Iowa on the notice of violation, which is separate from a civil lawsuit filed December 1, 2011, by the Iowa attorney general, which alleges that GPC's facility violated the state's air pollution laws.
GPC's plant at 1600 Oregon Street in Muscatine processes corn into ethanol, corn sweeteners and beverage alcohol.
EPA's notice of violation to GPC specifically alleges that between 2007 and 2011, its facility repeatedly violated limits on air emissions opacity that were set forth in the company's 1995 amended construction permit and 2003 operating permit. The notice further alleges GPC failed to notify the Iowa Department of Natural Resources of the opacity exceedances, and failed to address the exceedances in its annual compliance certifications for the years 2007 through 2011.
EPA's notice to GPC does not address penalties, but indicates the Agency will consider additional enforcement action, which could include penalties, to ensure the facility complies with applicable laws and regulations. The notice can be viewed online.
The notice was accompanied by an official request for information, which seeks details of GPC's compliance with the Facility Response Plan requirements and Spill Prevention and Countermeasures Control requirements of the federal Clean Water Act. Information provided by the company in response to EPA's request will be used by the Agency in evaluating GPC's compliance. GPC's response to EPA's information request is due within 15 days.
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Carpeting : Specialty Floors : Vinyl / Resilient Flooring :
(ARA) - We may live in a new age, but we still clamor for old world styling
in our homes. Today's interior design trends reflect our desire for looks that
say "handcrafted" yet perform "high tech."
Laminate flooring is an ideal marriage of the modern homeowner's love of
authentic details and need for maximum durability.
"Homeowners today can have the timeless appeal of wood's look in laminate
flooring products that offer superior durability, clean easily -- and install
quickly, without glue," explains Claes Wennerth, president of laminate flooring
manufacturer, Alloc, Inc. located in Racine, Wis. "This dual personality gives
laminate flooring vast installation opportunities."
Wennerth says that Alloc, the first company to manufacture glue-less, mechanical
locking laminate flooring, has seen consumers' tastes in design evolve.
Ironically, as homeowners invest in more high technology items for their houses
than ever before, they are demanding more Old World craftsmanship in their
décor. When it comes to flooring options, families are hungrier than ever for
the warm look of handcrafted wood -- yet they've been trained on a staple diet
of durable, quick-install laminate.
"We must provide the most modern of product innovations and the most
time-tested, Old World styling," Wennerth states. "Our latest laminate products
are so detailed, so inviting --just the right combination for savvy homeowners
who know what they want."
Alloc's Original product line is a prime example in the evolution of laminate
flooring design. Original products are commercial grade, meaning they are
suitable for use in public spaces thanks to their superior performance ratings.
However, two new additions to the Original line-up are most noted for their
amazing design details and authentic wood looks.
The Alloc Original Handscraped Collection is just that -- a collection of
laminate flooring products so steeped in authenticity that the plates used to
create the planks are scraped by hand. The result is an impeccable real wood
texture and look, available in three traditional finishes.
The Alloc Oiled Wood Collection is laminate's answer to the growing popularity
of oiled finishes in wood flooring. Products in this collection have a
distinctive low sheen, matte finish like that of real oiled wood. The line is
available in three options: Oiled Maple -- a three-strip design, Oiled Teak -- a
two-strip design and Oiled Teak Shipdeck. Shipdeck is a two-strip design (planks
are 3 and 3/4 inches wide) featuring black debossing and no end joints, for a
rustic, lineal appearance. As the name implies, the look is reminiscent of the
weathered and long, lean planks of ship deck.
"These new products have such detail, charm and authenticity, they almost belie
the advanced manufacturing technology used to create them," Wennerth summarizes.
"As strong as they are beautiful -- laminate floors are the floors of the new
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Bunny Valentines with Dum Dum Lollipop Tail
Remember those folded paper rabbits we made to go along with the book, Little White Rabbit? Well, my daughter decided she wanted to make bunny cards for all her friends for Valentine's Day. We printed the rabbit template from the ART with Mrs. Smith blog, attached some google eyes with Glue Dots, added a Valentine's Day message, "Just hopping by to say ... Happy Valentine's Day" and taped on a Dum Dum Lollipop for the fluffy tail.
We hope all the kids in her class enjoy the homemade Valentines!
Posted by Brimful Curiosities at 8:00 AM
Labels: Crafts, Valentine's Day
7 comments:
- Christy Killoran said...
That is just TOO CUTE!!!!!
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Robert Jones (1926- )
According to Walt Reed's "Illustrator in America" Jones was born in LA and began "drawing animation" for Disney while still in highschool. He then spent time in the military before taking two years at USC and two and half more years at Art Center School in LA.
He was still focused on humourous illustration when he joined the Charles E. Cooper studios in New York and his early assignments for The Saturday Evening Post reflected that strength, but gradually his range expanded and he began illustrating in a variety of styles for many national publications.
TI list member David Roach wondered if this was the same Robert Jones who regularly contributed to Mad magazine for many years up to and including the 1970s. With the help of list member Neil Shapiro, who has interviewed Jones, it was determined that this was indeed the same artist.
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Wow! This is a great idea Leif! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Great new blog Leif! And thanks for the wonderfulReplyDelete
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Hi, Leif, and congratulations on your new blog. I think this is a great idea.I was not familiar with the illustration work of Bob Jones, although I did see his occasional work in Mad. It's amazing how these old time artists re-invented themselves as the market changed. Magazines and comic strips died out and photography conquered advertising, but these guys were able to find new work by looking in new spaces adopting new styles. Their tenacity is inspiring.ReplyDelete
Allow me to be the first one to officially make a comment on your new blog, Leif! I think it's a great idea, one that expands the TI universe. I think it'll be a great addition to my ever-expanding blogroll.ReplyDelete
Looking forward to seeing more!
And I really like Robert Jones' work. Great style and use of color.
Thanks for posting this information on Robert Jones-- I was familiar with his work for Mad Magazine but I had no idea he was previously an illustrator working in a completely different style.ReplyDelete
I am looking forward to your blog and will check it regularly. Where else would I possibly learn about an illustrator like Jones? It's great that your network can pool information on these old timers. It is also amazing that that these old pros were able to re-invent themselves to find new opportunities as the market shrank. By managing to do good, solid work in a variety of styles, Jones was a real survivor. This reminds me of the wise advice of illustrator Daniel Pelavin: "Illustration as a career is most successfully pursued by those to whom no other option is acceptable. It takes that kind of motivation to overcome the inevitable and constant stream of obstacles."
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Is Bob still alive?? I'm a very old friend.. I knew him as a kid. Great guyReplyDelete
He is Luke, living in Yonkers NY. Dear family friend but haven't seen him in a few years. Wonderful man.ReplyDelete


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August 31, 1918: Municipal Journalarticle. Selection of Material for Service Pipes. "Service connections generally give more trouble to the superintendent than any other part of the water works system. This trouble is of two kinds, one being the deterioration of the quality of the water, the other consisting of leaks and stoppages. To minimize these troubles, the selection and laying of service pipes and the appurtenances combined with them should receive the most careful consideration of the superintendent….
About a year ago a committee of the New England Water Works Association collected some statistics about service pipe, mostly from New England States. These showed that 22 cities had abandoned the use of uncoated iron or steel pipe, 11 of them adopting galvanized, 4 adopting lead, 3 lead-lined, and 4 cement-lined. Seventeen had changed from galvanized to other kinds, 7 of these to lead, 7 to lead-lined, 2 to cement-lined, and 1 to enameled. Six had abandoned lead pipe, 4 of them for galvanized and 2 for cement-lined. Eight had abandoned lead-lined pipe, 5 for galvanized, 2 for cement-lined and 1 for uncoated iron or steel. Twenty-seven had abandoned cement-lined, 16 for galvanized, 6 for lead and 5 for lead-lined. The changes from plain ungalvanized pipes were made almost entirely on account of rust. Changes from lead pipes were largely on account of the possibility of lead poisoning, although in some cases it was on account of expense or because the pipes did not have sufficient strength. Lead-lined pipe was abandoned on account of lead poisoning and trouble from bursting and because of the difficulty of making joints that will not corrode.
Statistics collected by Municipal Journalin 1915 showed that, of 421 cities reporting 136 used wrought pipe exclusively and 130 for a part of their services: 144 used lead pipe exclusively and 130 for a part of the services; 4 used lead-lined pipe exclusively and 10 for part of the services: 1 used cement-lined pipe exclusively and 21 for part of the services; 1 used brass exclusively and 1 for part of the services, and 2 used tin-lined in part. Of those using lead for part of the services, 11 used it under paved streets, most of them using wrought pipe elsewhere. Lead-lined pipe appeared to be used largely and cement-lined exclusively in New England. Massachusetts was the most catholic using every kind of pipe reported."
Commentary: From this article and the one published yesterday (August 30), it is clear that water system managers and operators knew the dangers of lead pipe in the 19thand early 20thcentury. The fact that it was still widely used in some cities into the 1980s and 1990s is astonishing on many levels. Of course, Washington, DC remains the poster child for how not to deal with a lead service line problem. The previous sentence was written before the disaster in Flint, Michigan was discovered and publicized. Everyone in the U.S. should now be well educated on the dangers of lead service lines and exposure of children to lead in water.


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What a glorious morning- yeah for those that don't have to work!
That's priceless. Dwayne can afford being unemployed because he made a killing in his playing career. So he can just hang out, not do much, and film commercials.
She has beautiful legs though. ;)
Dwayne made $5,000,000 for his playing career. You gotta be able to live comfortably off that without doing anything else for the rest of your life.


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As with all plastic surgery, the DIEP flap (Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator), presents its own risks. Although the recovery is quicker and less painful than other flap reconstructive surgeries, the hospital stay is significant. The reason being is to lessen the chance that the transplanted tissue will die. The lengthy surgery is due to the extent of microsurgery that needs to be done to reattach living tissue to the body and reconstruct blood flow to the area. So immediately following surgery there needs to be careful monitoring of the blood vessels to ensure that adequate blood is circulating and feeding the tissue. This is done through Doppler monitoring. The instrument can listen to the blood flow to the attached veins and medical staff can readily determine that blood is circulating to the area. In the event that there is no sound of blood flowing, the surgeon can intervene through quick surgery to check and reattach blood vessels. Infection is another concern that needs to be monitored.
This is what I went through last year. I had nine hours of surgery and a five-day hospital stay. The day after surgery, I was up and sitting in a chair, and I had a shower in the first few days. I needed a blood transfusion due to the amount of blood loss, but this was a few days after surgery, and it wasn't a serious issue. Although I went home with drains, like the ones that come home with us after a lumpectomy or mastectomy, I was able to travel the 10-hour road trip with little discomfort nine days after surgery. I stayed a few extra days to meet with the nurse practitioner to check the surgical sites and the drains. I had my local surgeon remove the remaining drains a couple of weeks later, so I did not need to return to Baltimore for this. I also had my regular practitioner do the pre-surgical tests, so I didn't have to go prior to surgery.
The only concern during healing was a red area on one breast that I had my local surgeon monitor. I eventually had to have stronger antibiotics prescribed from the practitioner in Baltimore, but this cleared things up quickly. I kept her apprised of the situation through pictures of the area I sent by e-mail.
Several months of healing revealed the results more clearly. The side I had a mastectomy on over two years before, had a breast mound perfect in shape and contour, although a little on the large side. At the same time, I had a prophylactic mastectomy of the other breast followed by immediate reconstruction. This breast turned out to be a little less perfect; it was smaller and indented. I wasn't too concerned as this is what will be corrected during the follow-up surgery I am having on Friday. The doctor will also revise the tummy scar and construct nipples during this surgery. The only thing I will need to have after this is tattooing of the areola.
With DIEP flap reconstruction, the results are usually very satisfactory. Your breasts are your own, and they look and feel more natural than implants, without the concern of hernias from other types of flap reconstruction. So this is why all the fuss. My surgeon, Dr. Navin Singh at Johns Hopkins is also renowned for this procedure and well worth the travel.
Important: The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and not Everyday Health.


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The classic children's television show Reading Rainbow is now available to a new generation of readers in the form of an app for the iPad. Host and producer LeVar Burton announced yesterday the new venture for Reading Rainbow, which went off the air in 2009 after a 26-year run.
Designed for children ages 3-9, the subscription-based app delivers a library of hundreds of curated books and all new videos. From the dashboard of a hot air balloon, children can "travel" to themed islands, such as Animal Kingdom, My Friends, My Family, and Genius Academy, and find a variety of books and videos customized to their age and interests.
The app brings together books from numerous children's publishers and follows a library model, allowing kids to borrow books five-at-a-time from the various themed islands. Each book comes alive with audio storytelling by celebrity actors, including Burton himself, and features light animations and related activities to enhance the story.
Similar to the original series, children journey with Burton on real-life adventures— video field trips—that connect the stories children read to the world. The app includes a combination of newly-produced videos and classic segments from the TV show.
For parents, ReadingRainbow.com will offer a companion dashboard to receive updates regarding time their child spent reading, books read, and suggestions for new stories based on their child's interests. Parents will also receive discussion prompts and lessons based on the books children have explored.
At launch, the app will include 150 books and 16 video field trips. New content will be added to the service on a regular and frequent schedule expanding the library, themes, and topics children can explore.
The Reading Rainbow app is free for download on the iPad and includes the ability to fully explore the islands, videos, and to select one book to read. The subscription is now available for a limited-time introductory price of $9.99 a month or $29.99 for six months.
This post was originally written by Loren Moreno and published by ToyBook.com. For more news, visit www.toybook.com, follow The Toy Book on Twitter, and like The Toy Book on Facebook. The Toy Book is a bimonthly trade magazine covering the toy industry, published by Adventure Publishing Group.


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This is the new landing page for www.intmoth.com. All the content has been transfered across, but if you still want to get to the old google pages site you can access it here.
In 2006 I constructed a foiling international moth. The hull was constructed over a male mould using a carbon foam sandwich using vacuum bagging methods to consolidate the layup and removed excess resin. A set of hydrofoils were also constructed for this project. The hydrofoils were formed using a female mould and had an active control system to maintain a steady fly height.
Use the linkes to the left to navigate through the build sections.
For my 4th year project in 2004, at the University Of Glasgow, I worte a paper that considered an electronic control system for hydrofoils. This can be viewed here: http://www.boardrepair.co.uk/downloads/ConSysMoth.pdf


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"A budget is your roadmap to prosperity," says Michelle Singletary in her book, The Power to Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom.
Why would that be the case? Budgets can keep us from spending more than we need, of course, since they set strict limits on unnecessary purchases. They can also help us save more, since the time we spend creating or revamping a budget is also a great time to deeply consider whether we can increase our savings and investments, and decrease the amount we allocate to unnecessary purchases.
Here's a "quick and dirty" rundown on how to create a budget, without purchasing a new computer program or app.
- Figure out your net worth (or the difference between your assets and liabilities):
- List all of your assets, including cash on hand; banking, retirement, and investment accounts; and the market value of your possessions, including your house, automobile, and furniture.
- List all of your liabilities, or what you owe on your mortgage, student loans, credit card debt, and any other outstanding debt.
- Subtract your liabilities from your assets, and you have your net worth! Is your net worth low or negative? Don't despair—taking the Financial Fast is a great first step. It's time to figure out how to pare down that debt and pick up your savings and investments.
- Now, let's look at your cash flow, or the money flowing in and out of your wallet.
- Track your expenses for one month. Write down everything you pay, from a cup of coffee to your mortgage payment. You can do this the old-fashioned way, by carrying around a small notebook for this purpose, or you can use an app, such as "Mint.com Personal Finance" for the iPhone, iPad, and Android phones, or SplashMoney for iPhones and Mac or Windows desktop computers. Blog commenter Genie recommends The Birdy, as well.
- At the end of the month, review your spending categories, and make a table (i.e. rent, utilities, groceries, gas, entertainment, dining out, etc.). Include any payments you make to savings or investment accounts, retirement accounts, and credit cards.
- Now, label your categories as necessary and unnecessary expenses? Necessary expenses are those you must pay, like a student loan or a mortgage.
- Consider your goals, both short-term and long-term. Do you want to send a child to school, or attend school yourself? Buy a house? Get out of debt? Thinking about your goals will help you take the next step….
Figure out where you can reduce your unnecessary expenses, and put the money you save into a savings or investment account. Examine your necessary expenses. Could you trim a little more from your monthly grocery bill, or carpool or bike more often to cut down on your gas bill?
NOTE: If you find that your debt is overwhelming or you simply cannot make ends meet, even once your unnecessary spending is down to nearly nothing, then this is also a good time to sit down and consider what you can do to become financially healthy. Can you take on a second, part-time job? Can you sell your car and use public transportation or carpool instead? Could you make space for a roommate, who could pay rent? Have you made all of the affordable improvements to your home's energy efficiency that you can, to help cut down your energy bill?
It's been a very long time since I took a look at my budget, so I've been ballparking the amount I spend that doesn't go to necessities. After taking a look at my accounts, I've noticed that I'm quite good at ballparking! However, my financial situation has changed since I did my old budget, and it's likely I could be doing better in some areas of my finances. I'm using the Financial Fast to revisit my old budget and ensure that I'm saving as much as I can.
Here are some journal questions for the week. Feel free to reflect on any of them in the comments section below.
- Have you ever taken the time to track your expenses and create a budget? If not, what's stopping you? If you have, what benefits did it deliver?
- If something unthinkable happened to you, would your loved ones know what to do? Would they be taken care of? If you have a spouse or long-term partner, do you know where his/her important financial information is located? Is it time to have these tough conversations?
- Do you have debt? How has it affected your life? How would it feel to be free of this debt?
- One of the two rules of the Financial Fast is to pay for every necessity you buy with cash, not credit cards. How has this been going for you? Does counting out dollar bills when you go to the store make you more cognizant of the fact that your purchases are having an impact on your finances?
See you next Monday for Week 3!


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What is the Gospel?
How are the Gospels like a running race?
More video for Reading the Gospels Wisely coming soon...
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Table of Contents, Forward, and Chapter One
This chapter surveys the meaning of "Gospel" in the Bible. It provides a provisional definition of the Gospel: Building on the Isaianic vision, the NT authors define the "Gospel" as Jesus' effecting of the long awaited return of God himself as King, in the power of the Spirit bringing his people back from exile and into the true promised land of a new creation, forgiving their sins, and fulfilling all the promises of God and the hopes of his people.
This chapter explores what kind of genre the Gospels are, concluding that they are a special kind of Christological and eschatological biography. A comprehensive definition of the Gospels is offered, based on chapters 1 and 2: Our canonical Gospels are the theological, historical, and aretalogical (virtue-forming) biographical narratives that retell the story and proclaim the significance of Jesus Christ, who through the power of the Spirit is the Restorer of God's reign.
This chapter gives nine reasons why the Gospels are essential to our understanding of God and Scripture. These include an emphasis on the power of story.
This chapter explores the assorted problems that arise from having four canonical Gospels instead of just one. Various solutions and explanations are given for these potential problems. Finally, some of the positive joys of having a fourfold account are discussed.
Addendum to Chapter 5 on Augustine and History in the Gospels
This chapter delves into the large question of what history is and how narrative texts like the Gospels communicate historically. I provide a discussion of how history has been understood over time epistemologically, and offer the category of Testimony as the best way forward in thinking about the kind of historical witness the Gospels give. Along the way I interact with assorted other approaches to understanding the Gospels, including that of NT Wright.
This chapter is the first of two chapters dealing with broad hermeneutical issues of how to read Holy Scripture. This chapter argues that the meaning of a text is found through approaching it with a variety of interpretive tools, which can be classified as "behind the text," "in the text," and "in front of the text."
This chapter is the second of two chapters dealing broadly with hermeneutical matters. In this chapter I address the specific questions of the role of authorial intent, what we mean by talking about "meaning," and most importantly, how our posture toward God plays a role in the interpretive process.
This chapter offers a brief survey of the previous seven chapters for the purpose exploring the implications of the preceding ideas for our reading of the Gospels. Several new concepts are introduced which will prove foundational for the overall argument of the book. Also, the issue of our goal in reading the Gospels is explored. This is summed up with the key ideas of Revelation and Identification.
In this chapter and the next I offer a method for reading and interpreting the narratives/stories of the Gospels. This chapter explores a plot analysis tool that guides us into discerning what are the most important emphases of any story.
This chapter builds upon the narrative analysis tool from the preceding chapter and expands it to include interpretive help from the ever-widening circles of context in which a story is found – the immediate literary context, the whole-Gospel context, and the context of the whole canon.
Similar to Chapter 8, this chapter sums up the preceding discussion and explores the implications of all that has been said for how to apply, teach, and preach the Gospel stories.
This chapter moves beyond the main argument of the book and suggests that the fourfold Gospel book should play a central and organizing role in our reading of the whole Bible. The image used is that of a keystone in an archway. Based on historical and canonical-theological arguments I suggest that the fourfold Gospel book plays the crucial role of the keystone that holds together the witness of the OT on one side and the rest of the NT writings on the other.
Many books on the Gospels slog through source criticism, form criticism, and redaction criticism--important topics to be sure. How refreshing it is, however, to find a book with a new approach, one that reads the Gospels as literature and sees their importance theologically. This book is like a cool drink of water in what is too often the desert of Gospel studies. While I don't agree with everything Pennington says, his arguments must be reckoned with, and they further the conversation in productive and stimulating ways. I believe this is the best introductory book on the Gospels. Both students and professors will find it to be invaluable.
Thomas R. Schreiner, James Buchanan Professor of New Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
This is a book that could transform many people's reading of the Gospels. Jonathan Pennington has a wide knowledge of the specialist literature, and he skillfully distills what matters most for the task of reading the Gospels wisely. He is especially concerned that we read the Gospels in ways that are appropriate to the sort of texts they are. What comes across is a powerful sense that the Gospels are not only historical but also life-changing.
Richard Bauckham, University of St. Andrews; Ridley Hall, Cambridge
Reading the Gospels can be tricky, but it is important to read them with a full appreciation of their theology. Jonathan Pennington's study helps you get there--and get there well, as well as wisely.
Darrell Bock, research professor of New Testament studies, Dallas Theological Seminary
Few academic enterprises of recent generations have been as chaotic and contradictory as the study of Jesus and the Gospels. Bultmann, Bornkamm, Borg, Burridge, Blomberg, Bauckham--and those are just some Bs--whom to believe? This learned yet lively volume attempts to transcend past miscues and cash in on lasting insights going back to patristic times. Pennington shows how the fourfold canonical Gospel ought to be read: as the proper entrée to becoming Jesus's disciple for the sake of loving God by the work of the Spirit. Few works explain more.
Robert W. Yarbrough, professor of New Testament, Covenant Theological Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri
See the Table of Contents, read the Foreword, and read Chapter 1: "What are the Gospels? Defining Gospel."


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Full-on and extraordinarily in depth study made just in time to let us hear from those involved at all levels in their own words. Sombre and gripping, with powerful narration and a profound theme from Carl Davis that somehow conveys so much about this period - the sinister, the thrilling sweep of glory, the personal anguish and the troubling. Immense.
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One of the best documentaries created. It doesn't treat you like an idiot, is full of factual information, very interesting and entertaining, yet very chilling as well. Reminds you of the horrors of war and does it in a very poetic and moving way. A definite must watch.
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More than you learn at school.
This is a complete series, nothing missing and learned more than I did at school, a lot more. It was an ITV series originally so it's the only decent thing to come from ITV ever.
Anti-Nazi 4:53pm Thu 13 Oct Report Abuse
Documentary and a Half.
Without question the most impressive documentary series ever produced. This was essential viewing during the 70's. So why can't I can't find it on BBC iPlayer?
The Anti-Hitler 12:29pm Tue 6 Jul Report Abuse
We may forget
Hitler came to power on a small minority vote. These troubled times aid/promote nationalistic politcs and policies. If this country, and Europe are not careful we may well repeat the mistakes made in the 1930s. This series should be shown to every one before they reach the age to vote
Worried 1:53am Wed 18 Mar Report Abuse
Response to scheduled time points
This airing is a repeat. Repeats are shown at all times of the day and night. No doubt when the original was aired in 1973 it had a prime time slot. It's scheduled time should hardly be an issue in an age of various playback devices and DVDs. The complete original series can be purchased for £35, the complete 30th anniversary edition can be purchased for £50.
John 3:22pm Mon 9 Mar Report Abuse
Fantastic documentary, one of the best I've had the pleasure of watching, but I agree with viewer. I cant understand why it isn't on at a more accessible time.
TheMiura 12:32pm Thu 5 Mar Report Abuse
Best day time TV ever.
The best show on daytime television ever shown. Why its not on at a more accessible time is beyond me.
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The definitive history of World War 2
One of the greatest pieces of documentary I have seen in my life. Widely acclaimed both at the time of release in the 70s and today, although it in terms of awards, at failed, which says everything it needs to about the people who select and award the BAFTAs & OSCARs. As Tyroneslater said, the definitive history.
John 8:34am Sat 31 Jan Report Abuse
Best documentary
This stands the test of time because of its excellent production. it informs, emotes and inspires interest in our history.
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My name is Chelsea and I live and create in Los Olivos, California. I'm a vagabond at heart, an eccentric artist and the maker behind my Etsy shop, Notional Notions. I've been drawing and making things for as long as I can remember, but it's only recently I started channeling that work into my Etsy shop.
I've always been pretty varied with my Etsy items, because I like to make so many different things. It first started with custom made children's books, and has since evolved into pearl snap earrings, artist's books, one-of-a-kind illustrations and prints made of sketches from my travels. Although I enjoy making all of the items in my shop, I think writing and illustrating children's books is my absolute favorite. Holding a finished, hand-bound, one-of-a-kind children's book makes me so happy!
What's the Etsy Stock Take?
It was an opportunity for artisans with an Etsy shop is get more exposure that I ran on LifesJewels in 2012. I believe in buying handmade and I would like to encourage others to do so more regularly. Right now I am not posting Etsy Stock Take link ups, but who knows, maybe soon I'll bring it back. Meanwhile check out the great artisans that have shared their stories over the last months.
Are you an Etsy seller? Would you like to be featured next? Contact me and we'll set it up.


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Actually, "light weekend reading" may be incorrect, because even though I'd definitely classify HEART OF THE MATTER as chick-lit, the subject of infidelity is never light or easy.
Emily Giffin's books are as recognizable by their pastel hues as they are for covering topics you'd expect in chick-lit (I don't mean this to be derogatory; is "women's fiction" better?): weddings, babies, love, friendship, and now infidelity. After having read some deeper books, I was in the mood over the wintery weekend for an easy read and saw the purple spine on my bookshelf. I was ready to be lost in a world of chattering women and married suburbia… Instead, it was a love triangle with no easy way out.
Tessa is married to Dr. Nick Russo, a pediatric plastic surgeon dedicated to his work. Married for seven years with two young children, they have a seemingly happy life in a wealthy suburb of Boston. The short version is Nick gets overly attached to a patient and his single mom. Seemingly (inappropriately; unconvincingly) unsatisfied with his home life, he starts along the slippery slope of lying about working late; Halloween parties, etc. I won't ruin the ending, but this was one of those books in which I didn't really identify with any of the characters and found none of their actions to be totally reasonable/understandable.
"Moral" of my review: books focused on infidelity aren't my thing. I don't mind if it's a plot point, but when infidelity is its own character I'm lost. I just like to think people are better than that – although my dad always says I'm too trusting. The silver lining is that it motivated me to update my blog! And y'all, this is a tenuous connection to my Southern list since the gorgeous Emily Giffin hails from Atlanta?!
Other books on infidelity that I haven't loved include many of the Jennifer Weiner's (I enjoyed the movie IN HER SHOES but was horrified that the sister slept with the others' bf!), ADMISSION by Jean Hanff Korelitz (though I loved her WHITE ROSE novel), the one about the teacher and student with a green apple on the hardcover jacket (don't remember the name of this one – anyone?)…
But I'm not a total prude: I have enjoyed many books for which infidelity takes place like Jonathan Tropper's THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU (in fact, my literary-lovin' pup just chewed this one up recently), Anita Shreve's THE PILOT'S WIFE (though it was traumatizing and I will still not date a pilot… and have been disappointed by every Shreve novel since), Sue Miller's THE SENATOR'S WIFE (infidelity was much less of a focus in this one) and I'm sure there are more, because for better or worse this seems to be a hot topic in our society.
This was a pretty boring review, sorry crew! I'm super excited for my Monday post on MAJOR PETTIGREW'S LAST STAND – please come back then.


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Eric Sprott Explains The Chinese Gold Vortex
After a long and agonizing winter which was attributed to the so-called "Polar Vortex", we thought it would be appropriate to highlight for precious metal investors the implications of what we call the "Chinese Gold Vortex".
While it is still early, the Chinese Gold Vortex is firing on all cylinders and data so far this year suggests that demand will far outstrip supply.
Over the past year, we have been very vocal about what we consider an aberration: the complete disconnect between gold supply and demand fundamentals and the actual price of the metal.
The stars are aligned in 2014 for a significant re-rating of the gold price.
The tailwinds are twofold for gold: the Chinese Gold Vortex is putting an undeniable pressure on the physical market, while focus on price manipulation makes it progressively harder for price manipulators to operate. The reversal of this anomalous, yet explicable market dysfunction could provide astute investors with multi-hundred per cent returns.
Do not miss this Golden Opportunity!
By: Eric Sprott, Markets At A Glance:
We have shown in February Markets at a Glance (MAAG) that, for all of 2013, demand from emerging markets, particularly China, was extremely strong, outstripping world mine supply by a fair amount. But this extreme tightness in the physical market was not reflected in gold prices. We have since then discussed many signs of manipulation in both the paper and physical gold markets (ETF flows, Indian intervention, LBMA fixings, to name a few).
This month's Markets at a Glance presents an update on the demand dynamics in China, discussion around new evidence of manipulation and concludes with an illustrative example of the opportunity in gold equities.
Supply and Demand
While the year is still young, we have been able to gather a few data points from China and they are truly impressive. The table below shows Chinese net imports of gold for the first two months of 2014.1 So on average, each month this year, China has imported about 204 tonnes of gold, up from about 143 tonnes last year.2
Chinese data is taken from the Hong Kong Census and Statistics Department. Swiss data is taken from the Swiss Customs Administration, which started reporting gold exports to specific countries in 2014.
To put these numbers in perspective, for the full year 2013, total mine supply excluding China and Russia averaged 192 tonnes per month (see the February 2014 MAAG for details on the methodology).3 Basically, China is currently vacuuming, on a monthly basis, all of the world's mine production plus an additional 10 tonnes. But that is only China; anecdotal evidence from other countries suggests that demand remains strong in other Emerging Markets, where Central Banks keep adding to their gold reserves. Moreover, whereas last year's ETFs contributed (unsustainably) to supply, this year has so far seen net inflows into gold bullion ETFs.
What immediately comes to mind is: where does all this gold come from? As we have long argued, gold to Emerging Markets has been supplied by Western Central Banks for many years.4 Recent data substantiates this claim. A closer look at Swiss import and export data shows that it imports most of its gold from the US and the UK and exports most of it to China and Hong Kong. For example, in the first two months of 2014, the UK has exported over 233 tonnes of gold to Switzerland; this is more than half of the Chinese net imports over the same period (remember the UK doesn't produce any gold). Similarly, the US, which has a monthly gold production of about 19 tonnes, has exported, in the month of January alone 56 tonnes, most of which went either to Switzerland or to Hong Kong directly.5 So where does all this gold come from? It is supplied by Western Central Banks, which according to our analysis have very little gold left.
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While it is still early, the Chinese Gold Vortex is firing on all cylinders and data so far this year suggests that demand will far outstrip supply.
The topic of gold price manipulation seems to be making its way into the mainstream. Regulators in Germany made the first foray into gold manipulation with their investigations of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) now infamous Gold Fixing.6 Now, we hear that the CME Group (which owns the COMEX, where paper gold trades) has been sued by three traders for allegedly selling order information to HFTs ahead of the broader market.7
Simultaneously, academic studies have found evidence of manipulation in the gold market and a consultancy (Fideres) even claims that "global gold prices may have been manipulated 50% of the time between January 2010 and December 2013".8
We have long suspected manipulation, but it is now clear to us that both the physical and paper bullion markets have been tampered with for quite some time, to the advantage of those that are naturally short gold (i.e. the bullion banks and other gold dealers). With the increasing amount of scrutiny from the public, academia, regulators and now lawyers, manipulators should have a progressively more difficult time preventing gold from reaching fair value.
The Opportunity
The stars are aligned in 2014 for a significant re-rating of the gold price. In our opinion, the best way to participate in a return of the gold price to fundamentals is to invest in junior gold miners. The tables below show EPS estimates under various gold price scenarios and the associated stock price targets, assuming a price-to-earnings ratio of 10x, for both a major (Barrick) and a junior (Crocodile) miner. From the table, it is obvious that junior gold miners have much more leverage to the price of gold.
Estimates are for FY2014. Price returns assume a P/E ratio of 10x. All figures in USD.
Source: Sprott Estimates and RBC Capital Markets
For illustrative purposes only, Eric Sprott and Sprott Asset Management Funds beneficially (directly or indirectly) may own in excess of 1% of one or more classes of the issued and outstanding securities of the above securities.
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In summary, the tailwinds are twofold for gold: the Chinese Gold Vortex is putting an undeniable pressure on the physical market, while focus on price manipulation makes it progressively harder for price manipulators to operate. The reversal of this anomalous, yet explicable market dysfunction could provide astute investors with multi-hundred per cent returns.
Do not miss this Golden Opportunity!
|As a side note, we take this opportunity to reiterate that since China does not export its gold production, it is reasonable to assume that net imports into China are a good
proxy for demand.
|Swiss exports directly to China are not available for 2013 as the Swiss Customs Administration started reporting the country specific trade data only in 2014.
|See for more details: http://www.sprott.com/markets-at-a-glance/don't-miss-this-golden-opportunity!/
|See the Markets at a Glance series "Do Western Central Banks Have Any Gold Left???".
|US data is taken from the USGS Monthly Industry Surveys; February 2014 data is not yet available.


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Chuck Hagel, in a typical mid-nomination self-abasement ritual, now finds that he really really likes the gays. He now supports don't ask, don't tell repeal, and he vows that if given the chance to serve, he'll move heaven and earth to extend full family benefits to gay families.
I think that sounds pretty swell. The Log Cabin Republicans are only partially assuaged. Amanda Turkel in HuffPo:
"For years the Pentagon has been dragging its feet with regard to extending benefits to the families of gay service members," said Gregory T. Angelo, interim executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, said in a statement to The Huffington Post. "To ensure that action is taken on this front, we need to be sure that there is a champion for our cause at the helm of the defense department. There is nothing in Hagel's record to suggest he will be that champion.
"While Senator Hagel's recent professed support for gay military families is encouraging, it stands at odds with his record of opposition to the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell and his broader record of opposition to equality for gay and lesbian Americans," Angelo continued. "We look forward to the confirmation hearings when the Senator will be able to explain his apparent epiphany in greater detail. We continue to remain cautious about his nomination until that time."
Uh, look, Log Cabin Republicans, what is it you want? You've got a Republican here saying full health benefits for gay and lesbian military families. How huge would that be? In this country?
You're in a party that otherwise would just as soon cut off your reproductive organs and feed them to wild boars. How about a little perspective here? Your insane party is spending $3 million this year to keep the Defense of Marriage Act alive in court. Three million taxpayer simoleons, that is.
In a way I sympathize with this group. If you happen to be a fiscal conservative and gay, well, there you are, you're stuck, you can't be a Democrat (on fiscal grounds), so you just have to do your best and try to make the change from within. In another way, they just seem pathetic. Not quite Kulaks for Stalin, maybe, but not exactly all that different either.


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