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Metal News for December 7, 2011
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36 news articles posted on this day.
Saint Vitus Reveals New Album Release Date
As previously announced, U.S. doom legends Saint Vitus recently completed the recording of the band's eighth studio album, and the first since 1995.
This forthcoming opus, marking the return of seminal vocalist Scott "Wino" Weinrich, is entitled "Lillie: F-65" and has been tentatively scheduled for a March 23rd (27th in North America), 2012 release via Season of Mist Records.
Saint Vitus has also just been confirmed for the next edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, which will take place in Sölvesborg, Sweden on June 6th - 9th, 2012.
Eternal Legacy To Headline Cleveland Food Drive
WJCU 88.7 FM and Auburn Records will host a food drive for the Cleveland Foodbank and Friends of the Cleveland Kennel with a benefit concert on Friday, December 23rd at The Saw Concert Club (formerly the Jigsaw) in Parma, Ohio. Parma's own Eternal Legacy and Soulles will headline a 7-band billing. The free admission benefit runs from 6:30 p.m. to 1:00 a.m. with doors opening at 6:00 p.m.
Fans attending the third annual Iron Ingo Cleveland Metal Holiday Food Drive are encouraged to bring canned or non-perishable foods to help those in need this holiday season. A donation will be made from the Cleveland Metal community to the Cleveland Foodbank and Friends of the Cleveland Kennel (dogs and cats). The Saw, a popular Cleveland-area music club formerly known as the Jigsaw, had been on hiatus in booking original heavy metal bands since 2009 but recently reopened its doors on December 3rd with a new name and a return to a heavy metal format.
"I am absolutely thrilled to play at the old Jigsaw again," adds Eternal Legacy guitarist Shaun Vanek. "This club had become our home in previous years and we were all very saddened when it closed. We always packed this house full with pure diehard metal heads and I just want to say welcome back to the party. Expect one hell of a return. This show is going to be off the hook."
"We are delighted to once again be doing a show in our defacto hometown of Parma, Ohio," says Soulless frontman Jim Lippucci. "It's been several years since we've been able to thrash in Parma and we are confident that any DNA evidence has long since deteriorated, and that any outstanding warrants are long expired. The fact that the gig is a benefit for not one, but two great causes makes it even sweeter and has nothing to do with confidential settlements or court ordered community service. We encourage, no, we command all ye faithful Cleveland area metalheads to come forth with your canned goods and cash donations! Help a family down on their luck, or even a hungry pup or feline. Support the Cleveland Food Bank and Friends of the Cleveland Kennel by crushing skulls...with kindness!" More...
Scar Of The Sun Lining Up European Tour
Scar of the Sun, which began writing new material for an upcoming album earlier this year, has checked in with the following update about lining up a European tour and supporting Firewind at an upcoming live show:
"Hello everybody! We got some cool news for you after an extended time of silence. The band will be the direct support for the forthcoming Firewind only date in Athens, Greece on the 14th of January 2012, at the Fuzz club. We are all excited for the fact that we will be supporting this legendary band and we're preparing for a great show!
"Bare Infinity will be the opening act of the show, so the bill is really interesting and multidimensional! This is the official facebook page of the event, please feel free to check it out here.
"Tickets can be found at Tickethouse, Puplic and also on www.ticketarena.gr. The price on the presale is 18€. On the day of the event the price will be 20€, so hurry up an get your ticket as soon as possible! The band would like to thank deeply Firewind and Elias Aravidis for the invitation to participate in this very cool concert.
"In other news, the band has confirmed its first European tour, for which there will be an anouncement very soon, so stay tuned! See you people on January the 14th!"
Black Pyramid to Release "Black Pyramid II"
New England doom rock trio Black Pyramid will release its long awaited sophomore album" Black Pyramid II" on January 31, 2012 via MeteorCity Records. Recorded "in the foothills of the Berkshires" at Black Coffee Sound (Elks, Elder) and mixed by Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonic Youth / Witch / Dinosaur Jr.), the record features nine tracks of the band's self-titled "galloping war metal". "Black Pyramid II" was mastered by Matt Washburn (Mastodon) and is "at times a bit more death metal and black metal influenced" than the band's previous material, boasting a rich sound that will find immediate appeal in fans of Sleep, OM, The Gates of Slumber, In Solitude, Graveyard and Witchcraft.
"We're incredibly proud of the sonic landscapes we were able to achieve with the new album," said BLACK PYRAMID drummer Clay Neely. "It's a clear successor to the debut album and we allowed ourselves to further expand into some uncharted territories. The recording of the record was an incredibly rewarding experience and we can't wait to bring the show back on the road."
The track listing for "Black Pyramid II" is as follows:
1.) Endless Agony
2.) Mercy's Bane
3.) Night Queen
4.) Dreams of the Dead
5.) Tanelorn
6.) Sons of Chaos
7.) Empty Handed Insurrection
8.) The Hidden Kingdom
9.) Into the Dawn
In other news, Black Pyramid has announced vocalist/guitarist Darryl Shepard will replace guitarist Andy Beresky. Shepard will join Black Pyramid on the road and at Desertfest 2012 next April in London. Black Pyramid will share the stage with Church of Misery, Orange Goblin, Gentleman's Pistol's and more at the event sponsored by Metal Hammer and Classic Rock Magazine.
Bands Talk The Most Metal Gift They've Received
At the MetalSuckFest in New York City, Metal Injection asked members of A Life Once Lost, Fight Amp, Black Tusk, DAATH, Last Chance To Reason, Howl, Magrudergrind, Cannabis Corpse, Ultrageist, Obscura, Prime Evil, Rosetta, This Is Hell and Ramming Speed what the most metal gift they ever received was. Find out their answers in the video below. More...
Testament Comments On North American Tour
Chuck Billy, vocalist of the iconic West Coast thrash metal act Testament, has issued the following statement in anticipation of the band's upcoming co-headlining North American run with Anthrax:
"We are super stoked to announce our participation for the second leg of this already awesome thrash attack with our good friends in Anthrax and Death Angel. This will mark the last tour for 'The Formation Of Damnation' record cycle, as we will be gearing towards putting the new record 'Dark Roots Of Earth' in the spring. If you missed us the last time, we hope to see you and celebrate with this amazing line up!"
After wrapping up an October/November run with the same line-up, the all-star thrash trio of Testament, Anthrax, and Death Angel hit the road again for another round of dates beginning in January. Special VIP ticket packages will be available for all the upcoming shows. Dates are as follows:
Jan. 22 – Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
Jan. 23 – Anaheim, CA @ House Of Blues
Jan. 24 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
Jan. 27 – Indianapolis, IN @ Egyptian Room
Jan. 28 – Ft. Wayne, IN @ Piere's
Jan. 29 – Louisville, KY @ Expo Five
Jan. 30 – Ashville, NC @ Orange Peel
Feb. 02 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
Feb. 03 – Columbus, OH @ The LC Pavillion
Feb. 06 – Allentown, PA @ Crockodile Rock
Feb. 07 – Baltimore, MD @ Ram's Head Live
Feb. 08 – New York, NY @ Best Buy Theatre
Red Fang Offering Free MP3 Download
Red Fang just wrapped up a North American tour with Mastodon and The Dillinger Escape Plan and is now in the midst of a run of headlining dates. In conjunction with the new tour kick off Red Fang has teamed up with RCRD LBL for a free mp3 download of the song "Number Thirteen." The track can be downloaded here.
"Number Thirteen" is also featured in the new video game Rocksmith, available on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. A trailer for the game can be viewed at this location.
The band recently finished work on a new video for the song "Hank Is Dead" with director extraordinaire, Whitey McConnaughy. Look for the video to premiere in the coming weeks, with stills from the video shoot available here.
Red Fang is also streaming "Murder The Mountains" in its entirety via Bandcamp. The upcoming Red Fang tour dates are as follows:
12/7: San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar
12/8: Sacramento, CA @ Blue Lamp
12/10: Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
4/12: Tilburg, Holland @ Roadburn Festival
Angela Gossow Discusses Her Vegan Diet
PETA has conducted an interview with Arch Enemy's Angela Gossow about her veganism, and the organization has issued the following statement:
"If you've ever wondered what represents the arch enemy to Angela Gossow, you can find out in the Arch Enemy lead vocalist's exclusive interview with peta2, PETA's youth division, in which the Swedish death-metal singer reveals her foremost foe: factory farming. In the recent interview, Gossow—a lifelong vegetarian—opens up about why she decided to dump eggs and dairy products from her diet and go vegan for good. And from now through January 2, visitors to peta2.com can enter to win an Arch Enemy prize pack containing a copy of Khaos Legions, the group's latest studio album; a Century Media compilation CD; and an Arch Enemy poster and stickers.
"Besides the indisputable health benefits of ditching meat and other unhealthy animal products from their diets, vegans have a smaller carbon footprint than their meat-eating counterparts— and each vegan saves the lives of more than 100 animals every year.
"Gossow joins an ever-growing list of musicians—including The Agonist's Alissa White-Gluz, OTEP, Dillinger Escape Plan, GWAR, and Lacuna Coil's Cristina Scabbia—who have teamed up with peta2 to challenge archaic, cruel attitudes about animals." More...
Herald Releases "Amanita" Video
Estonian act Herald has released the band's first music video for "Amanita," taken off the "Gaia" album. Herald commented on the clip:
"The video as well as the song is telling a story about the primal force of a mushroom. The video does not feature the classical stereotypes of a heavy metal music video (chains, leather, fire, rockin band etc.), but it represents an independent surrealistic short movie instead, which leaves plenty of room for imagination. Main part of the video consists of mass scenes where everyday rough-edged metal-heads had to wear a black suit with a white shirt, in short - become boring white-collars. Alongside with self-finding protagonist, the most important character in the plot is the mystic mutant-mushroom which is the initiator to the forthcoming lunacy.
"The directors of the video are Adeele Sepp and Marika Palm. Director of photography is Madis Reimund. Video was produced by Sven Varkel. Music is written by Egert Vandel and Tauno Nava and lyrics are written by Egert Vandel."
Psycroptic Reveals New Album Artwork
Aussie technical death metal outfit Psycroptic has revealed the cover art for the band's fifth studio album, "The Inherited Repression," which will hit stores on February 7th in North America and February 10th in Europe on Nuclear Blast Records.
Commented Psycroptic guitarist, Joe Haley, "The Inherited Repression is far and away my favorite Psycroptic album thus far - all of us in the band think this. It's the age-old cliché from bands when they talk about their current album as being the best of their career, blah, blah, but I have to say it because it's true. We wouldn't think there is a point of going on if we couldn't outdo each album prior. We are certainly not playing music for anything else than the love of creating it and performing it.
"The Inherited Repression is quite different from anything we have done in terms of song writing and structure, and we spent a lot longer writing and demoing the songs before we recorded it, which you can tell. It's a very dynamic album - the fast elements faster, the slow elements slower, and a lot of light and dark binding it together. It's a very catchy album as well - you can tap your foot, bang your head or anything else you want. Basically it has a lot of groove on it from start to finish."
The artwork can be viewed below, and the track listing is as follows:
1. Carriers of the Plague
2. Forward to Submission
3. Euphorinasia
4. The Throne of Kings
5. Unmasking the Traitors
6. Become the Cult
7. From Scribe to Ashes
8. Deprivation
9. The Sleepers Have Awoken More...
Uneven Structure Posts 2011 Recap Video
Uneven Structure, which released the "Februus" album earlier this year, has posted a 2011 year-end recap video online titled "The Forgotten SD Cards." Check out the clip below.
Uneven Structure also has the following upcoming live shows: More...
Nephelium Cancels December Shows
Dubai/Canadian act Nephelium has issued the following announcement about canceling upcoming December shows due to the band's drummer sustaining a hand injury:
"We are terribly sorry and regret to inform you that our December dates will have to be cancelled as out drummer Alan nearly ripped off his left pinky finger. Even though there is no break, the damage is pretty extensive and doctors said it will take at least a month to heal.
"Again, we cannot apologize enough and thank you for understanding. We will definitely see you soon however!"
Nephelium will be releasing "Coils of Entropy" on February 7th, 2012, with full details available at this location.
Vise Massacre Streaming "Rising Tide"
Brooklyn-based hardcore noise metal trio Vise Massacre has put the final touches on the band's official first full-length recorded assault, appropriately dubbed "Expendable Humans," and is preparing to start off the supposed last year of mankind's existence with a bang by self-releasing the album in early January.
In celebration of the forthcoming onslaught, hometown independent music faction BrooklynVegan is streaming "Rising Tide" from Expendable Humans now. Kill a few brain cells and tattoo your face to Vise Massacre's mayhem right here or through the player below.
Following a plethora of scathing demos, the ever-morphing Vise Massacre's current lineup fully completed every element of this filthy opus, and will now self-release the beast on LP and digital download for the last year on the Mayan calendar. Recorded at Studio 65 and The Warehouse Recording Studio in Hicksville, New York by bassist Chris Vezza (who also mixed the tracks), self-produced by the band, and mastered at Bonati Mastering in Brooklyn by Josh Bonati (ZU, AIDS Wolf, Julie Christmas, Racebannon), Expendable Humans boasts 14 tracks in 31 minutes.
Vise Massacre - Rising Tide by brooklynvegan More...
Devil's Note Posts Video Clip
Polish act Devil's Note has posted a new video clip online for the song "Babalon Whore," which you can check out below. The band also commented:
"We are pleased and proud to finally present our latest work - Babalon Whore. We thank those without whom it would have failed:
- Michal Goran Miegon - for recording drums and vocals (studio Music Saloon)
- Michal Urgul Barski - for mixing and mastering the song
- Sebastian Gizmo Parat - for shooting and mounting the clip
"We invite you to listen, watch and comment."
For more info on the band and to hear music available for streaming online, navigate over to the Devil's Note Facebook profile.
Tristania Vocalist Guesting On Trollfest Album
Norwegian band Trollfest is in the process of recording the new album "Brumlebassen," and the band has now checked in with the following announcement about recruiting Mariangela from Tristania to appear on the album:
"Yesterday Mariangela from Tristania stopped by to do some guest vocals for TrollfesT. This is the first time we have had the honour of having female vocals in our music!
"This albums never stops to surprise us, and we find ourselves trying new stuff all the time! Having 'fun' recording this album is a great understatement! Mariangela delivered some killer vocals and its going to be exciting to hear the end result!"
You can also find recently posted studio footage from Trollfest by heading over to this location.
Ufomammut Completes Work On New Album
Ufomammut, Northern Italy's sorcerers of obliterating doom, have completed the recordings for their sixth full-length, and first as part of the Neurot Recordings family. A press release from the band reads as follows:
"Oro is the title for Ufomammut's latest work, divided into ten massive movements overall which is now confirmed to be delivered in two separate pieces during the coming year. The first chapter, Opus Primum, will see arrival in April, and the second, Opus Alter, in September. The vinyl versions of both chapters will be handled directly by Ufomammut's own label Supernatural Cat Records, who were responsible for the release of all of the band's previous material. This is the third album in a row the band recorded with Lorenzo Stecconi.
"As with all previous Ufomammut albums, the concepts behind Oro are expansive and multi-faceted, mutating the Italian palindrome which translates to 'gold' with the Latin translation of 'I prey.' Oro explores the concept of knowledge and its power; the magical stream controlled by the human mind to gain control of every single particle of the World surrounding us. Oro is the alchemical process to transform the human fears into pure essence; into Gold. Although Oro's two chapters will be released months apart from each other, they must be considered as a single track in which the musical themes and the sounds show up and hide, mutating and evolving, progressively and increasingly stratifying culminating in the crushing final movement. Oro is like an alchemic laboratory in which substances are flowing, dividing and blending themselves in ten increments from the alembics and stills, culminating into the creation of Gold. The band are also in the process of crafting a full video/visual version of Oro which will accompany the audio. More...
Odyssey Posts More Live Footage
After previously posting footage of the band performing "Cellular Deconstruction" online, Spokane's Odyssey has now uploaded footage from the same show of "Transcending the Earthly Form." Check out the clip below. Both tracks are off the band's latest release "An Abstract Existence" (reviewed here). Odyssey also commented:
"Another live video was added to the Odyssey Youtube channel. It's us performing 'Transcending the Earthly Form.' Visit the link below to watch it and other videos and please subscribe to our channel or friend us! THANKS!"
Sawthis Recruits New Guitarist
Italian act Sawthis announced the departure of guitarist Devis Ercole last month. The band has now issued the following update about recruiting a replacement guitar player:
"We're ready for the announcement: The new Sawthis's guitar player is Andrea Giordano. We're very happy for this choice.
"Andrea is a great musician, a friend and big fan of Sawthis. His energy and his attitude is perfect for us, you'll love him!! Now is your turn to say WELCOME to the new one!!!"
For more details on Sawthis and to check out music available for streaming, head over to the band's official Facebook profile here.
Raped By Pigs Posts New Song Preview
Peru's Raped By Pigs will be releasing "Gushing Orgasms 2" at the end of the month via Pathologically Explicit Recordings, and the band has now posted an advance preview of the track "Gushing Inner Core." You can hear the preview in the player below.
Raped By Pigs will also be releasing a music video for "Sores Of Affliction" on December 11th, 2011. You can find a teaser clip for the video by heading over here.
GUSHING INNER CORE(advance song) by rapedbypigs
Intervals Posts Guitar Playthrough Clip
Toronto's Intervals will be releasing the new EP "The Space Between" as a free download on December 20th, 2011. The band has now posted a playthrough video for a song off the EP, which can be found below. Intervals also commented:
"So, with the upcoming release of our FREE EP 'The Space Between,' I decided to shoot another play-through video. The audio in this video is the pre-production version of this tune and a newer version (mixed by Nolly of Red Seas Fire) will be featured on the EP. Hope you enjoy!" More...
Xandria Announces New Album Track Listing
Xandria has issued the following update about the band's upcoming "Neverworld's End" album:
"Dear all! We are happy to present the track listing of our upcoming album 'Neverworld's End.' The album is to be released in a limited digi pack at first, consisting of 12 regular album songs + 1 bonus track. So - you better be quick then to not miss out on this one!
1. A Prophecy Of Worlds To Fall
2. Valentine
3. Forevermore
5. Euphoria
4. Blood On My Hands
6. Soulcrusher
7. The Dream is still Alive
8. The Lost Elysion
9. Call Of The Wind
10. A Thousand letters
11. Cursed
12. The Nomad's Crown
13. When the Mirror Cracks (bonus track)
"Please also watch out for the third part of our video studio blog in a few days to come - which will feature Manuela's sessions this time. So stick around!" More...
Kataklysm Frontman Launches New Booking Agency
Kataklysm vocalist Maurizio Iacono has joined forces with his longtime agent and journeyman promoter Stephan Mellul, with the backing of Century Media, to launch a New World counterpart to Europe's "Rock The Nation" booking agency, christened "Rock The Nation America." The official press release on the matter reads as follows:
"LOS ANGELES – The North American metal scene just got a lot heavier. The launch of Rock The Nation America celebrates a groundbreaking booking agency partnership between Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono, his agent and Canadian metal promoter Stephan Mellul, and Century Media Records.
"Rock The Nation America will be focused on bringing the best names in heavy metal to North American audiences, while maintaining a razor-sharp focus on emerging acts and artist development. Iacono will capitalize on his decade as frontman of the Canadian death metal band Kataklysm as he heads the agency's artist relations efforts, while Mellul will build on his history as one of Canada's premier metal promoters and agents.
"Based out of the same Los Angeles offices that the Century Media and Nuclear Blast record labels call home, the pair will be supported by Century Media for all marketing and administrative needs.
"'I spent the last 15 years touring and learning what being on the road is all about, and my partner, Stephan Mellul, has been booking shows for 18 years – together, we decided to bring something different to the industry,' says Iacono. 'We decided to create an agency that will help new artists develop, as well as preserve and grow the careers of established bands. I'm a soldier on the field, I understand the touring life, I still live it… and the fans deserve unselfish packages and lineups that are worth paying the ticket price. We thank Europe's premier agency, Rock The Nation, for joining forces.'
"'Rock The Nation going overseas was always a big wish of RTN Europe,' says Stefan Hattinger, CEO of RTN Group Europe. 'We found experienced and hard-working people in Maurizio and Steph who know the market and what the artists need, thus the right people to run Rock The Nation America.'
"At their launch, the Rock The Nation America roster contains more than two dozen acts spanning the extreme metal market, including Hammerfall, Hypocrisy, Kataklysm, Wintersun and more. The agency's first tour will be Paganfest USA Tour 2012, a package featuring worldwide metal acts Turisas (Finland), Alestorm (Scotland), Ex Deo (Rome), Arkona (Russia) and Huntress (USA) – a complete itinerary will be announced shortly.
"'What really excites me about this agency is that it is a true metal organization,' says Century Media founder Robert Kampf. 'From metal agents, metal bookers and metal bands, straight to metal fans – when I heard of this I wanted nothing more than to be a part of it… Horns up!'
Only The Dust Remains Finishing New Album
Only The Dust Remains is currently finalizing work on the band's newest studio album, and the time has now come to unveil the artwork for "Noctem Aeternam: Act I: Quem Deus Vult Perdere." You can check out the artwork below, which was crafted by Melissa McHenry at VespaWAR.
"Act I" is set for a March 18th, 2012 release and features a special guest appearance by Dallas Coyle (God Forbid) on the track "Noctem Aeternam." The band is currently in post-production in Sweden with Jens Borgen (Amon Amarth, Opeth).
Only the Dust Remains Facebook fans will get an exclusive preview of the first single "Under a Darkened Sky" on January 1st, 2012 at this location. More...
Steve DiGiorgio Among Cast on Ephel Duath EP
U.S.-by-way-of-Italy avant-garde metallers Ephel Duath have announced an all-star cast of musicians will appear on their forthcoming EP due in spring 2012 thru AGONIA RECORDS. Steve DiGiorgio (Death, Testament, Sadus, Obscura), Karyn Crisis (Crisis, Karyn Crisis Band) and Marco Minemann (Paul Gilbert, Necrophagist, Kreator, Tony MacAlpine) join the group.
The complete line-up presents itself as follows:
Davide Tiso - guitars
Karyn Crisis - vocals
Steve DiGiorgio - bass
Marco Minemann - drums
Being fully into the preproduction process and about to record drums for the EP, the band will keep posting regular updates and videos of the recording.
Fueled By Fire Signs With NoiseArt Records
Californian thrasher Fueled by Fire have inked a European record deal with NoiseArt Records and a booking deal with Rock The Nation. Commented the band about the signing:
"We are extremely proud to announce that we are now a part of the Noise Art family. We feel that Noise Art is the perfect home for us; we have seen the great work Noise Art has done to help bands excel to their full potential throughout Europe and Beyond. We are looking forward to a great future with them! And we want to thank 'NOISE ART' for this opportunity to be a part of a great team…SO, KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR US…
"We will be out in Germany for the Keep it True Fest in April 2012! We are working to set up a tour around that! Also we will be out in Europe in the summer for sure! So you'll be seeing lots of FBF In the future! So be ready to get violent! We'll also be playing a Festival in Bolivia with DRI that should be insane!!! There are a few more dates we are locking down as we speak…so this should be a busy year for us.
"News on our next album… We are about half way done with writing the new album; it's coming out really fuckin great! We're happy with where our music is going! Fast and Heavy and Fuckin violent like we like it! You'll be banging your fuckin head soon!"
The band's latest album "Plunging Into Darkness" will see its release through NoiseArt Records on February 24th, 2011. More...
Winter Deluge Announces Debut Album Release
New Zealand based black metal act Winter Deluge has announced the official release of the debut album "As the Earth Fades into Obscurity" will occur on the 21st of January, 2012.
The band will perform an album release show at The Coda Lounge in New Lynn/Auckland with support from New Zealand bands Malevolence and Blood of the Moon. "As the Earth Fades into Obscurity" contains nine tracks of "fast, aggressive and melodic black metal" totaling 48 minutes in length.
Winter Deluge's debut album will be available to order through email at: firstname.lastname@example.com. For more on Winter Deluge, head over to the band's MySpace page.
Eyes Of Soul Signs With Underground Symphony
Italy's Eyes of Soul has issued the following announcement about signing with Underground Symphony for the release of the "Cyberian Tales" album:
"We're proud to announce the reaching of an agreement with historical metal label Underground Symphony for the release of our debut album 'Cyberian Tales;' recorded by Mattia Stancioiu at Elnor Studio and mastered by Jürgen Lusky at House Of Audio Studios in Germany, the CD will be available in the coming weeks in an elegant digipak package with a booklet of 20 pages."
For more information on Eyes of Soul and to check out songs available for streaming online, head over to the band's MySpace music profile here.
Christmas Metal Festival Lineup Announced
Napalm Records has issued the following statement about the upcoming Christmas Metal Festival in Germany:
"Metal fans who would like to rock out before the holidays, should make sure to visit Germany's biggest indoor festival. The festival takes place at the Eventhalle in Geiselwind. Besides Napalm artists like Grave Digger and Van Canto, an illustrious line-up including Blind Guardian, Iced Earth, Morbid Angel, and Arch Enemy, will guarantee raised fists and sore throats.
"Furthermore, the Napalm merchandise booth will offer a wide range of items just waiting to become part of your personal collection. Be sure to say 'hello' to our mailorder team! All details concerning the festival are available here. The official festival trailer may be watched below!"
Demon Hunter Guitarist Leaves The Band
Demon Hunter guitarist Ryan Helm has announced that he has decided to part ways with the group. Acccording to a statement released by Helm's management, the guitarist's departure, "was inevitable; however, it was on good terms." He plans to primarily focus on his solo project, Damien Deadson, which will release its debut album in January 2012. Helm joined Demon Hunter in 2009, replacing guitarist Don Clark, and performed on the bands latest studio album, "The World Is A Thorn."
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Gun N Roses Inducted Into The RNR Hall of Fame
Guns N Roses has been announced as part of the 2012 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. The complete list of inductees is as follows:
Performer Category:
Beastie Boys
Guns N' Roses
Laura Nyro
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Small Faces/The Faces
Early Influence:
Freddie King
Ahmet Ertegun (non performer) Award:
Don Kirshner
The Award for Musical Excellence:
Cosimo Matassa
Tom Dowd
Glyn Johns
The 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony returns to Cleveland April 14, 2012.
Kill Devil Hill Streams New Song
Kill Devil Hill, the new group that features Rex Brown and Vinny Appice, has posted a demo clip of it's new song "Time and Time Again" on YouTube which we feature here. You may also listen to the full version of the song by going here. The new album is tentatively scheduled for a March 2012 release on SPV and will be produced by Warren Riker. More...
Shear Signs With Lifeforce Records
Finnish power metal band Shear, which sports members of Amoral and Elenium, announced that the band has signed with Lifeforce Records. Shear released the debut EP "In Solitude" in 2010 and plans to release a full length LP in March of 2012. Details of that release are expected shortly.
For video studio reports on the upcoming new release, head on over to this location and this location.
The current lineup of Shear is:
Alexa Leroux – vocals
Mikael Grönroos – guitars
Lauri Koskenniemi – guitars
Eerik Purdon – bass
Lari Sorvo – keyboards
Juhana Karlsson – drums
Soulfly Announces New Album Title & Release Date
Soulfly announced that the band's follow up to the 2010 album "Omen" will be entitled "Enslaved." The album was recorded at Tallcat Studios in Arizona and produced by Chris "Zeuss" Harris (Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, The Red Chord). Guest appearances will include Cattle Decapitation vocalist and DevilDriver frontman Dez Fafara. The album is slated for release on March 12, 2012 through Roadrunner Records. .
Tracks that will appear on "Enslaved" include (official order not yet released):
World Scum
American Steel
Redemption of Man By God
Plata O Plomo
Soulfly VIII
Necronomicon Streaming New Track
German thrashers Necronomicon, who recently signed with Massacre Records, are streaming the new track "Invictus," the title track from the band's forthcoming album due out on January 27, 2012.
The album also features a re-recording of the band's defining track "Possessed By Evil," originally released on the 1986 self-titled debut album. The re-recorded track is streaming on the band's official Facebook Page at this location.
The album art and track listing for "Invictus" is as follows:
1. Invictus
2. Unleashed
3. Bloody Bastard
4. Thoughts Running Free
5. Unconquered
6. Upon Black Wings
7. Face to the Wall
8. Pandoras Box
9. Before the Curtain Falls
10. Possessed By Evil (2011 Verison)
11. Possessed Again ... Unplugged
Check out "Invictus" in the player below:
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Firewind Posts Studio Diary, Pt. I
Greek now Boston based power metal band Firewind is back in the studio recording it's seventh album and follow up to the successful "Days Of Defiance" LP and tour. The band posted the first of a series of Studio Diary videos, this one showing the drum recordings.
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Napalm Death Unveils Album Artwork
Napalm Death revealed the album art for the forthcoming album "Utilitarian," which is due out on February 27, 2012 (EU) and February 28, 2012 (North America). More details on the release, as well as a fan filmed video of a performance of the new track "Quarantine" can be seen at this location.
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keith is being such a butthead... i won't be sad if he goes home & it looks like he doesnt do well...
keith is being such a butthead... i won't be sad if he goes home & it looks like he doesnt do well...
this is a reason for broken wings!
Ohh, Blayne's dress doesn't fit well at top.
Keith is being a diva. He might just need to go home. Its always someone else's fault with him.
LeAnne's dress was fabulous! If I was a twig I would love to wear that, lol!
Oh, PR gods, please send Keith home tonight!!!!
I hope Keith goes home.......fingers crossed.
Keith is acting like such a baby tonight. It's time for him to leave.
Wow, I'm really an awful person. I was giggling at Keith's tears. Boo hoo.
I am so glad Keith left His dress was so poorly fitted and boring. Joe's wasn't that well fitted either. His outfit made the model look bad.
No goat killers on my island.
LeAnne wins !
Keith goes home. I do think he has a somewhat good aesthetic but he really just needs to GROW UP! He needs to learn to take criticism and run with it.

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What to do during retreat. Guided Chenrezig front-generation sadhana.
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Three kinds of dukkha and causes
Teachings on how ignorance is the root of our sufferings and cyclic existence.
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How our anger creates many hindrances for liberation and enlightenment.
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January 19, 2007
FDA Alert
This alert discusses the recently enacted Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Act. The new law applies to all manufacturers, packers or distributors of a dietary supplement or nonprescription drug.
On December 22, 2006, President Bush signed the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, P.L. 109-462 (the "Act"), into law. The purpose of the Act is to establish a mandatory reporting system of serious adverse events for nonprescription drugs and dietary supplements sold and consumed in the United States. The Act amends Chapter VII of the Federal Food, Drug, & Cosmetic Act ("FFDCA") by adding two parallel and mandatory reporting systems: one for nonprescription drugs and the other for dietary supplements. The Act requires a manufacturer, packer, or distributor whose name appears on the label of a nonprescription drug or dietary supplement marketed in the United States to: (1) submit to the secretary of health and human services (the "Secretary"), within fifteen business days, any report received of a serious adverse event associated with such drug or supplement when used in the United States; (2) submit, within fifteen business days, any related medical information that is received within one year of the initial report; (3) maintain records related to each report for six years from the time the report is received by the company; and (4) permit inspection of such records.
Discussions in Congress regarding creation of a dietary supplement adverse-event reporting system began in the wake of the February 2004 Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") announcement that it would remove products containing ephedrine alkaloids from the market. The FDA's decision was based on the agency's review of evidence about ephedra's pharmacology, reports in the scientific literature, and adverse event reports, including some extremely serious adverse events. Around that time, Senators Richard Durbin, Tom Harkin, Orrin Hatch, Michael Enzi, and Edward Kennedy began discussions about how to craft a serious-adverse-event reporting system. As a result of their efforts, on June 21, 2006, the senators introduced Senate bill 3546— a bill to amend the FFDCA with respect to serious-adverse-event reporting for dietary supplements and nonprescription drugs. On September 25, 2006, Representative Chris Cannon introduced a parallel bill, H.R. 6168, in the House of Representatives. On December 9, 2006, the Senate passed S. 3546 and, on December 12, 2006, the House suspended the rules and passed the Senate bill. The bill was presented to the president on December 20, 2006, and signed into law two days later, on December 22, 2006.
The new reporting system was created to enhance FDA's efforts to identify potential public-health issues associated with the use of nonprescription drugs and dietary supplements, and to enable the government, manufacturers, and retailers to respond more quickly to potential problems. The Act is also aimed at enhancing the public's confidence in dietary supplements and nonprescription drugs.The Senate report accompanying S. 3546 reports that an estimated 150 million Americans consume dietary supplements regularly to maintain or improve their healthy lifestyles. Before enactment of this law, there was no reporting requirement for adverse events relating to dietary supplements, and reporting requirements for adverse events relating to non-prescription drugs was limited to those instances in which the product was previously sold as a prescription drug.
The Act requires the manufacturer, packer, or distributor ("responsible party") of a dietary supplement or nonprescription drug to submit, through a MedWatch form, any serious-adverse-event it receives, along with a copy of the labeling for the product to the FDA within fifteen business days after the report is received. To facilitate implementation of the reporting requirements and ensure adverse events are reported to the responsible party, the Act requires product labeling to include a continuously operating toll-free telephone number for reporting serious adverse events involving a product (whether or not the serious adverse event ultimately is found to be related to the product).
If a retailer's name appears on the label as a distributor, the retailer may, by agreement, authorize the manufacturer or packer of the product to submit the required reports, as long as the retailer directs to the manufacturer or packer all adverse events associated with the product's use that are reported to it through the address or telephone number required by the Act. A retailer that does not have a product bearing the retailer's name does not have any reporting obligations under the Act.
A"serious adverse event" is defined as an adverse event that results in death, life-threatening experience, in-patient hospitalization, persistent or significant disability or incapacity, or congenital anomaly or birth defect, and/or an adverse event that requires, based on reasonable medical judgment, a medical or surgical intervention to prevent one of these outcomes. This definition is based upon definitions contained in the FDA's current Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program ("MedWatch"). In addition, the definition of "serious adverse event" is modeled on nearly identical language for adverse experiences associated with drugs, which is set forth in 21 CFR 310.305(b).
The Act also imposes new requirements for records retention. A responsible party must maintain records of any adverse report it receives, whether serious or not, for six years from the date the report is received by the responsible party. Responsible parties must also give authorized government officials timely access to the records. Companies must maintain records containing the submission of serious-adverse-event reports to the Secretary of HHS, records containing submission to the Secretary of new medical information related to serious-adverse-event reports, and records containing communications by the responsible party with anyone reporting an adverse event to the company. Responsible parties must maintain the records regardless of the source and regardless of any determination that the adverse event was caused by, or associated with, the product.
The FDA has stated to Congress that it does not intend to publish statistics based on serious adverse events reported pursuant to the Act, but records submitted in compliance with the Act may be released to the public, subject to protections of the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act of 1974. To minimize potential liability, the Act specifically provides that submission of a serious-adverse-event report pursuant to the Act shall not be construed as an admission that the product caused or contributed to the adverse event. Responsible parties are permitted to submit a statement with a report, which shall be included in any public disclosure of the report, that denies that the report constitutes an admission that the product involved caused or contributed to the adverse event. While this is encouraging to companies, whether the event is related or associated with the product will remain an issue of dispute in any legal action.
The Act includes a state preemption provision intended to ensure that state requirements relating to serious-adverse-event reporting are consistent with the Act, and to preempt those state requirements that are contrary to, or different from, the reporting requirements under the Act. While this is also encouraging, the scope of preemption remains an issue that may ultimately need to be decided by the federal courts.
Products distributed with labels that do not contain the required telephone number or address will be deemed to be misbranded, and responsible parties will be subject to the enforcement and penalty provisions related to the sale and distribution of misbranded products. The Act also prohibits falsification of adverse-event reports to responsible parties or by responsible parties to the government. Noncompliance with the Act is prohibited under the FFDCA, and a violation can trigger an injunction or criminal penalties.
The Act becomes effective December 22, 2007, one year after being signed into law, and requires that the FDA issue guidance to industry within nine months of enactment. Over the next year, affected companies must become informed about to how to adopt adverse-event reporting systems in their manufacturing and distribution processes. The Committee Report accompanying S. 3546 provides some guidance and answers to common industry concerns. For instance, "it is the committee's strong view that the industries affected by the Act should undertake as quickly as possible training for their staff so that they are aware of their surveillance, investigation, and reporting duties.[1]
The committee also cautioned that the reporting system is designed to generate signals that require further evaluation and that a responsible party should forward reports from consumers to the FDA, even if the responsible party does not agree with the reporter about the seriousness of an event. On this point, the committee noted that the MedWatch form, which the company is required to use under the Act, explicitly directs consumers to "Report, even if you're not certain the product caused the event" or "you don't have all the details."
The committee also addressed industry concerns about balancing the fifteen-day reporting requirement with the requirement that reports to the FDA must be complete, accurate, and nonduplicative. While the Act requires the FDA to issue guidance on the minimum data elements that should be included in the reports, the committee suggested that the FDA's "Draft Guidance for Industry: Postmarketing Safety Reporting for Human Drug and Biological Products, Including Vaccines" (March 2001) may be helpful. That guidance indicates that there are four things that are requisite of minimum knowledge necessary to submit a report to the agency. These are an identifiable patient, an identifiable reporter, a suspect product, and an adverse experience suspected to be due to the product. Companies with this requisite knowledge must report within fifteen days of receipt and must not wait to perform further investigation.
The committee also noted that, although the Act does not require the label to make any statement other than providing the address or phone number, a company choosing to make a statement on the label about the address or phone number must ensure that the statement conforms to all requirements of the FFDCA. Companies are also permitted to include an e-mail address that consumers can use to make electronic reports, but the label must still include the telephone number or address, as required by the Act.
Affected industry members must use the next year to establish the processes and procedures necessary to come into compliance with the new law. This should include creation of policies and procedures for staff training, including receiving, investigating, and reporting adverse events. Companies also need to create standard operating procedures to cover all aspects of the new requirements, and should consider record-retention auditing procedures. In addition, companies will need to consider inclusion of required information in new labels and establish a hotline for reporting purposes. Companies should also make early assessments of their in-house capabilities for determining whether an adverse event is "serious" and begin negotiating any necessary third-party reporting contracts and record-keeping contracts.
Working through and beginning the process of establishing these procedures early in the year will permit the industry to raise questions with the FDA in anticipation of its guidance to the industry. For instance, the Act leaves open the issue of whether companies are required to perform independent investigations into adverse-event reports. The industry may ask FDA to address this issue in its guidance. Even with such guidance, companies will need to consider the pros and cons of further investigation, because failure to undertake an investigation and to act on investigative findings may lead to liability.
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A man convicted in the United Kingdom in the 2001 shoe bomb plot, who has been told he will be arrested if he travels to the United States, can testify through a video link at the terrorism trial of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and former spokesman.
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Tool Banks and Tool Lending Libraries
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- Berkeley Public Library Tool Lending Library
- Unconventional library service that increases opportunities for patrons. Libraries can combine tool libraries with volunteer instruction programming from their neighborhoods to expand patron base.
- Atlanta Community Tool Bank: Programs
- Very successful tool bank program in Atlanta, shows the possibilities of tool libraries for a community and community service. "Tool Lending Library: The ToolBank Home Repair Program began to develop a large cache of tools and equipment to serve its mission of providing no-cost critical home repairs to senior homeowners. Local churches and nonprofits began to inquire if they might borrow some tools for their own community projects. The process of tool lending was soonafter formalized, and the Tool Lending Library was formalized...Today, more than 45,000 volunteers use ToolBank tools each year in every conceivable type of communty project. The Tool Lending Library outfits every significant community service day in Atlanta, including Hands On Atlanta Day, MLK Day, National Youth Service Day, Georgia Tech's TEAMBuzz, and many others. Available tools include ladders, power tools, landscaping equipment, carpentry tools and over 150 other tool types."
The Atlanta program is highly successful and shows the popularity of tool loaning programs for individuals and civic groups. Such programs could be useful across the nation, if they get basic infrastructural support, primarily storage space and basic loan services. Many public libraries are already capable of offering such support. Adopting such programs would also expand the idea of what libraries are "for" in the minds of patrons and staff. This would encourage libraries to sponsor informal, community learning and civic support by facilitating a wider array of learning experiences.


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CPS denies prior calls of inaction in young girl's death
Critics say Indiana's child welfare system could have done more to help a an abused three-year-old girl who died just a few days ago.
Friday, an Indianapolis man pleaded not guilty to the beating death of Carmen Ellis. 13 Investigates examines a previous call for help for Carmen, and why lawmakers want a review of Indiana's child welfare system.
Chasity Parksey is nearly overcome with disbelief.
She didn't know three-year-old Carmen Ellis, or José Cruz, the man now accused of beating the toddler to death. But she heard Carmen's cries back in July and tried to save her.
"I thought everything was going to be fine. CPS did not do a damn thing," she said angrily.
Chasity's sister had lived with Carmen's mother and José Cruz.
During a visit last month she heard Carmen wailing.
The toddler's mother was away in the hospital giving birth to a little boy. So Chasity asked José Cruz if she could go into the bedroom to see what was wrong.
What she found prompted her to take these pictures and call police. The details are disturbing and graphic.
"She was filthy. Had on a [urine-soaked] diaper. Had a patch pulled out of her hair, bruises on her face. Bite marks on her stomach, a hickey on her neck in the back. I asked him what the hell was going on and he said a ghost got her," Parksey said, describing her confrontation with Cruz.
Before Chasity could take more pictures of the little girl, she says José Cruz grabbed the little girl and took off after she called police. Responding officers notified CPS.
According to police reports obtained by 13 Investigates, the CPS caseworker told the officer she would handle the incident and contact police if she needed further assistance.
Chasity's sister says CPS came around asking questions, but that's all.
"They didn't take the baby or nothing," added Katrina Parksey.
A spokeswoman for CPS claims the allegations are not true.
Stephanie McFarland said confidentiality laws prohibit the agency from talking about the case, but says claims that DCS did nothing are highly inaccurate.
State lawmakers are conducting a summer study session into Indiana's Department of Child Services.
Senator Tim Lanane is on that committee.
"It just emphasizes the urgency in trying to find out what are the problems in the system, if they are in the system," Lanane told 13 Investigates outside his Anderson office.
Senator Lanane says the agency has given back over $230 million over a four-year period. He would much rather see that money used to ensure the protection of children in need of services.
"Now is the time to act on this. Everyone come to together and find out the solution to this. It's obviously too important of an issue for us not to do that," he said.
José Cruz entered a not guilty plea in court Friday morning.
Police say he previously admitted he lost it on Tuesday after Carmen smeared her soiled diaper around and said "I hate you, Papa." (Cruz was not the girl's biological father.)
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José Cruz is under suicide watch at the Marion County Jail. His trial is set for November.


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I Was Scared I Didnt Know It Was Love.My story is kind of the Cinderella type but thing is it didn't end up like Cinderella,
I got to know this guy in a very weird way, through friends who dared me to make a call four years ago from this date and have this guy fall for me.... I fink I did however I lost him when I finally realised this could be someone I want to be with.
Anyway am more like a small town girl who just commenced freshman year at Uni, this so called friends of mine were the high society drama queens who got what they want when they want because they could. And this GUY was a fully fledge glorified driver, they still cannot believe I won this guy over.
I probably lied my way to wining him over but I never lied about what I felt, and to me that what matters, anyway when I realised he was the only thought in my mind when my mind is free, the only voice I want to hear when I awake and before I go to sleep at night. It must've been LOVE????
By the time he walked out even before I could tell him anything or even say good bye, I was so scared of social embarrassment and rejection because he was outta my league I was a student and he was........ And I was a simple girl, a student I would never had made his top 100 list of potential dates, I was soooooooooooo scared I said nothing and I let him leave.
The girls who put me up for this DARE made sure that I would never get to him, they made me feel less than a person because of my social status I came from an average wage earning family and that i did housekeeping work after school.... they threaten to shame me, and worst of all constantly reminded me that he was WAY TOO GOOD FOR ME and that I was wasting my time.
I was young and naive I didn't know what to do? My family never warned about this....... I was scared of what people would say if they found out, i didn't want to be labelled a gold digger etc... i was a coward i couldn't do it, the poor guy waited and eventually moved on with his life.
I mean i can't blame him; i just beat myself over everyday wishing I had never known him. If there is a potion or elixir they could erase all memories of him i would consume it , because the thought is unbearable.
I was soooooooooooo scared then I didn't know it was love.
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SLUG Games presents their second and final contest of the 2011 season– Construction to Destruction at Brighton Resort on March 5, 2011. Competitors will be jumping and jibbing on obstacles one would find at construction sites around town. The stellar course designed by the SLUG Games crew and Brighton's Park crew will feature barrels, Road Closed signs and barriers a plenty.
Registration is free and begins at 9 am, day of the contest at Brighton Resort. Discounted lift tickets will be available. Arrive early, as registration will cap at 100 entrants. All levels of amateur competition are welcome for skiers and snowboarders. Divisions include men and women's brackets, which will be subdivided into 17 and-under, and an open category. Helmets required.
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Warner Bros. Partners With Cogeco Cable
Cogeco Cable (Canada) has signed an agreement with Warner Bros. International Television Distribution (WBITD) to offer new titles and old classics from the Warner Bros. library.
WBITD distributes Warner Bros. Pictures' feature films, many of which will now be available to Cogeco Cable customers on a VOD basis. WBITD will provide Cogeco Cable with box office hits such as Batman Begins, as well as many other titles from its extensive library.
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All they need is love, plus a loving and nurturing temporary home. Adoptable dogs and cats in overcrowded animal shelters sometimes need a transition home between the shelter and their permanent family. Kittens and puppies need a safe and quiet place to live as they grow and mature, before they reach an adoptable age. Some rescue and shelter pets need your loving attention to redirect behavioral issues. Fostering pets provides animal lovers a practical way to help animals in need.
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Contact the fostering coordinator at your local animal shelter or animal rescue league. You will most likely need to fill out an application and shelter staff may ask to visit your home. The coordinator will determine which type of pet best suits your foster home. Having other pets, time to care for a pet that needs attention regularly, and considerations like a fenced yard for larger dogs all factor into matching you with the right foster pet.
Prepare your home for the pet's arrival. If you already have pets, make sure their vaccinations are up to date. Puppy or kitten-proof your home, or find a safe room for them. Just like babies, young pets are curious and mischievous. Purchase supplies including a pet carrier, water and food bowls, litter box and litter for cats, toys, and a safe and warm place to sleep.
Be prepared to wait. Although there is a great need for pet foster homes, the placement process may take some time. Proper pet placement is essential to successful fostering.
The placement agency usually covers vaccines and medical expenses of foster pets; some also pay for the pet food. Fostering duration can vary. If you have a kitten or a puppy, they can usually be fostered until they reach the neutering/spaying age. Other pets may require more time before they are ready for their forever home, or until a suitable home is found.
A foster pet parent needs to be both compassionate and firm. These young animals or abandoned pets need a person who is patient and loving. Some also need to be house trained or socialized. You'll need to help the pet break bad habits. As a foster parent you may be tasked with training your adorable foster dog not to jump on people or chew on shoes.
The biggest challenge for pet foster parents is saying goodbye. When your foster pet has reached an adoptable age, has recovered and behavior issues have been addressed, it's time for him to meet his forever family. The satisfaction of knowing that you played a part in saving the pet's life can help make the transition easier. Plus, you can always start thinking about the next pet you'll foster!


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JERUSALEM (May. 29)
A group of senior Israeli officials has been working quietly for the past few months under the direction of the Prime Minister's Office, planning a war against one of the country's worst enemies — bureaucratic red tape. One reform, expected to be instituted before the end of the year, is the issuance of a single identification number (ID) to every citizen.
The one number will replace the jungle of digits that every Israeli must now carry in his head or on his person: army number; tax number; national insurance number, driving license number and many more. All government deportments will be plugged into a single national computer at the Interior Ministry which will use the ID number to simplify bureaucratic procedures.
The reforms represent the collective labors of a committee comprised of the director generals of all government ministries. It is chaired by Mattityahu Shmuelwitz, Director General of the Prime Minister's Office. An immediate result of his committee's work will be the distribution shortly of a government pamphlet explaining in simple language the procedures involved in 100 bureaucratic transactions, from obtaining a birth certificate to securing a permit to import a car.
Shmuelwitz is working especially hard to simplify the labyrinthine procedures that foreign investors must endure. He is hopeful that the time involved in consummating on investment in an Israeli enterprise will be reduced to a few weeks from the present waiting period of several months to a year. Under the new plan, the would-be investor will be required to submit his plans to a single office where they will be reviewed by representatives of the relevant authorities. The investor will not be required to make the rounds of various departments to seek approval, on exhausting, often frustrating process which sometimes results in the investor deciding not to invest.


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It looks like soon-to-be-out Digitas Chicago ECD David R. Mitchell has another gig already lined up. The creative, who we reported yesterday is parting ways with Digitas after 11 years in mid-July, apparently isn't moving very far as word on the street is that he's heading over to SapientNitro's Chicago office. We're unsure of Mitchell's start date or title as of yet as the Sapient camp isn't confirming or denying things (you pretty much know what this means at this point).
Prior to his decade-plus at Digitas, where he led teams on accounts including Miller Lite, Kraft, Harley Davidson and Walgreens, Mitchell served as SVP/ECD at Beyond DDB for nine years. He started his career as a copywriter at McCann Erickson/McCann Direct.


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last this week's Brainfood we linked to a paper which looked at agroforestry input supply systems, and recommended a commercial, decentralized model for getting high quality tree seeds to smallholders. Now I've come across "Gender and agroforestry in Africa: a review of women's participation." The bottom line — not surprisingly, alas — is that women's participation tends to be lower in enterprises in which there's more money at stake. But this second paper only looked at the outputs, not the inputs. It would be interesting to know whether women tend to be edged out of commercial tree seed supply enterprises too. I suspect they do, which suggests that following the recommendation of the first paper for tree seed supply systems might result in even more pronounced gender inequity. So what could be done about it? Both papers include ICRAF staff as co-authors, though there's no overlap. Maybe some of them have already thought about this and might like to comment here.
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Hi Luigi, I just discovered comments here on your blog. My response would be that it depends on the circumstances. From our surveys it seems that nursery owners are indeed most often men. However, Christine Holding in her chapter in a World Bank publication (easy to google) discusses a survey we made in Uganda, where it seems that there are a lot of women groups collecting seed and producing seedlings in nurseries. Quote "These women and their CBOs are not reached by any of the NGOs". I am still trying to find funds to expand the study into a project that could make their enterprises stronger.
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"I got to find ways to get (Bosh and Wade) comfortable in areas where they can be aggressive," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "And that will be my focus the next 48 hours."
Indiana will travel to Miami on Monday at 8:30 p.m. (TNT) for the decisive Game 7.
Bosh (ankle) and Wade (knee) have been hampered all series by not being totally healthy, but neither was willing to use that excuse following the Game 6 defeat, which tied the series at three wins apiece.
The two All-Stars combined to connect on just four of 19 shots on Saturday, but both Spoelstra and James are confident the two will be much more effective on Monday.
"We can state the obvious," James said. "They are both struggling. Chris is struggling with his shot (41 percent shooting in the series), and him hurting his ankle didn't help. I think he will find it. He will find it."
Wade has seen his shooting percentage lower from 52 percent during the regular season to 44 percent against the Pacers. His scoring average has plummeted to 14.5 points per game from over 21 during the regular season.
"Now Game 7," Spoelstra explained, "adversity and backs against the wall, I know those two men's character. This is when they come up big in these moments."It's been no secret to Indiana's success that their length – and subsequent rebounding domination – has been critical to it taking the defending World Champions to the brink of elimination, and Saturday was no different.
The Pacers on average have outrebounded Miami by 10 (51 to 41 per game) throughout this series, but on Saturday, they took it to a whole new level – particularly in the second half.
The Pacers held just a 27-23 advantage on the glass at halftime, but finished with a 53-33 (Miami grabbed just 10 boards in the final half) margin.
"It's a challenge with them," Spoelstra said. "They're so big, and if you don't get to them early with your speed and quickness, that size will get to you."
Indiana placed three players in double figures in rebounding, as David West (14), Roy Hibbert (11) and Lance Stephenson (12) were very active. Even the rail-thin Paul George (8 rebounds) was effective.
"It's a very fine line," Spoelstra said. "With our defense, the way we pressure, sometimes that can leave you exposed in the paint."Hibbert has arguably been the most effective Pacer in this series. He totaled 24 points and 11 rebounds in Saturday's victory, which really wasn't surprising to those that have followed the series.
"Roy is playing the best basketball of his career right now," Indiana Pacer coach Frank Vogel said. "He's leading us, and he's a big reason why we are where we are."
Hibbert is averaging a team-best 22.8 points and 10.8 rebounds per game in the series, but he is more proud of his defense. Despite ranking 10th this season in the NBA Defensive Player of the Year voting, Hibbert has confidence in his ability at that end of the floor.
"You know what, because y'all (expletive) don't watch is play throughout the year, to tell you the truth," Hibbert said of the reason behind his lack of respect. "That's fine. I'm going to be real with you, and I don't care if I get fined. We're not on TV all of the time. Reporters are the ones that are voting. It is what it is."
Hibbert helped hold the Heat to just 22 points in the paint on Saturday, as Haslem (zero points), Bosh (five points), and Joel Anthony (two points) each struggled offensively.
"If I don't make the (Defensive Player of the Year), that's fine," Hibbert said. "I'm still going to do what I have to do."


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That's the approximate size of Obama's job deficit. 13 million. Wow.
How could anyone get reelected with such a tremendous failure on his record?
That's the approximate size of Obama's job deficit. 13 million. Wow.
How could anyone get reelected with such a tremendous failure on his record?
How could anyone get reelected with such a tremendous failure on his record?
An ignorant base and a dishonest media.
How could anyone get reelected with such a tremendous failure on his record?
By appealing to people so stupid they can only process the claimed number of "new" jobs "created" by The One We Have All Been Waiting For, without looking at the fact that they have not even begun to replace the jobs lost.
The Obama smoke-and-mirrors accounting of the job situation is like the guy who announces that he "won" $500 at a casino. If you ask him a couple of questions, you learn that he went to the casino with $1500, lost all but $5.00, and then won $500 right before he went home.
A thinking person would realize he lost $995.00. But a mindless math-deficient lemming would congratulate him on his "winnings" and tell people how well this guy had done at the casino.
By appealing to people so stupid they can only process the claimed number of "new" jobs "created"
Oh, come on now; doesn't The One We Have All Been Waiting For at least get a little credit for the 37 trillion jobs SAVED?
From the report:
Americans should be working right now. However, according to the February 2012 figures provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the number of non-farm employees in February 2012 was 132.7 million, leaving a difference of 12.9 million jobs
What Biden said yesterday:
"Simply stated, we're about promoting the private sector," Biden said.
"How could anyone get reelected with such a tremendous failure on his record?"-B4V
JP Morgan is buying lots of oil futures. Not options on oil, not derivatives but oil futures. Does JP Morgan need lots of oil? Nope. But with buying the underlying futures contracts they can create a seeming shortage of oil and make sure their bets aka oil derivatives don't end up losing money. All of this is financed with cheap loans near 0 percent care of the Fed. Wall Street is at 13,000 and they finance the billion dollar electoral campaign of Obama not the college students holding placards.
That is how Obama will be reelected.
So barstool, you're saying that the Obama presidency is all about the privileged class? I don't disagree, but –
"They're (GOP) about protecting the privileged sector. We are for a fair shot and a fair shake; – Joe Biden
Again, it's that ignorant base thing. Also, with a regulation or two, oil speculation can become a non issue. Simply have speculators take possession of the oil they buy – done.
If an airline thinks it will need X amount of fuel in October 2013 and buys a futures contract, but demand for flights are down should they be forced to take possession of the fuel or should they be allowed to sell the contract? You see the law doesn't say company xyz is a speculator and company pdq is not.
The law should be that the amount of options on oil to hedge against the price fluctuations should never be more than the underlying need of oil as seen in futures contracts.
In any sport, if the amount of betting vastly swamps the salaries etc. of the players one shouldn't be surprised at bribing of the players. In this analogy, when the bets on the price of oil swamp the actual market fundamentals of supply and demand one shouldn't be surprised at the gaming of commodity prices.
This is getting plain ridiculous. Just for anybody who cares, an 8.3% unemployment translates to 12.8 million people unemployed (from the same BLS study this moron of a congressman is citing).
That's right, it is patently impossible to employ that many more people, because there aren't that many unemployed people in the country based on the figures he is citing.
And for the third time, before the retard brigade comes in here and starts yelling at me, I'm using the same study he is citing for his figures, so any whining about how the real unemployment rate is higher than 8.3% or how that doesn't include underemployment is beside the point. It comes down to basic chart reading skills. You know, the things we were taught in like 6th grade. Like realizing that "non-farm" workers obviously does not include our entire workforce because people do, in fact, work on farms.
The outright contempt for empirical accuracy is getting to the point where I'm nearly convinced you guys are a lost cause. You seem happy to live in your own little world where the value of any statistic is not how reflective it is of reality, but how useful it is for bludgeoning your political opponents.
Jon your correct. And JR, that's exactly my point. This site uses Fox News as THE standard so your implication is the cause of bemusement. I guess I should have been more specific about the Tea Party's unpopularity.
You're not too good at recognizing sarcasm, are you Mitch? And for a loonie-toons Lefty like you to reference a Fox poll is, indeed, cause for bemusement.
The outright contempt for empirical accuracy is getting to the point where I'm nearly convinced you guys are a lost cause. – Jonathan
Excellent rebuttal Jonathan. Except for the fact that you just glossed over the continued high unemployment rate of which Obama promised would be lower, that only counts of course if you actually hold Obama to what he says which liberals will never do, and the fact that over 1 million people have simply given up and dropped out of the work force.
But good job pointing out meaningless semantics and you can thank Mitch, your faithful side kick.
Many people accepted the CBO figures for ObamaCare, which appear to be off over the first decade by as much as 250%. Original estimates for Medicare back in the mid-60's for the first 25 years of that program were off by over 700%. How much faith do you have the BLS firgures for unemployment are even close to accurate?
See, I pre-empted you three times and you still went for it. The figures cited to get the 13 million figure were from the BLS.
If the BLS is a worthless pile of trash, why is this blog using them incorrectly to come up with figures like this 13 million? Every single number used to do that calculation came from the BLS.
Frankly, I'd think you would be embarrassed. After all, you just went on in the other thread about how you follow through and do the research and make sure things are true, but you clearly hadn't even clicked through on this article to see how the figure was being calculated.
Swifty's little Hobson's Choice is fundamentally flawed.
First, and Spook knows this far better than most, and if Swifty actually read and understood the link he provided, Swifty would have acknowledged Spook's fine homework and research to locate a simple answer to the Swift puzzle.
Next, the contention that the Unemployment Figure as published by the BLS is wrong, and that based on BLS numbers there should be 13 million more working Americans based on the figures amassed by the BLS are not mutually exclusive.
The BLS phone survey used in the calculation of Unemployment numbers is flawed in its methodology of extrapolating a percentage; by excluding relevant numbers from the total workforce for purposes of calculating unemployment, but using the total workforce, calculated using a different method when extrapolating the employment numbers the BLS has set up two different comparatives, neither more reliable than the other.
As to whether or not there are an additional 13 million persons available for jobs, the BLS estimates more than 8 million underemployed for "economic reasons" and an additional 12.8 million not employed while seeking employment. The participation rate is 63.9% so if we use the BLS estimates, there are more than 38 million available for employment in addition to the 8.1 million currently working at less than capacity.
If unemployment were actually 6% as Obama's giant brain assured us, there would be at least 13 million (maybe more since the BLS numbers are pure estimates) more Americans working today.
If you're asking if I defend the BLS numbers, nope, never have never will. It is clear that the raw numbers may be somewhat accurate, or as accurate as an educated guess might be. But the methodology to extrapolate a purely political number in the form of a percentage is highly suspect.
Hey boss. The total number of people in the workforce number used in the article is the one used to generate 8.3%. It's not some separate figure in the same report. It is the same number. It's either right or it isn't. It isn't right for your purposes and wrong for mine.
I'm sorry you can't understand "jobs deficit" try Google ~ "Investors Business Daily" and "Jobs deficit", IBD pegged the jobs deficit at 10.5 million jobs in February. Unless you think IBD is run by "retards".
Once you understand it and want to stop picking the fly $hit, I'll discuss with you. Until then i have better things to do.
You can come up with similar job deficit numbers just fine, but the way they have done it, using the BLS numbers is so wrong that it is ridiculous.
I took a look at the article you mentioned. Yes, if this is indicative of their work, IBD is run by retards. Let's take a look at the graph from their article:
Surprise! They also got their numbers from the BLS.
Not only that, but look at where their imaginary line diverges from the graph. Actually, no need to eyeball it; they give us the answer:
"We are still 5.6 million jobs below where we were at the peak in 2007. Add to that the 4.9 million new jobs that would have had to be created just to soak up new entrants into the workforce, and all told we have a jobs deficit of 10.5 million."
Now Obama is responsible for job losses not just for all of 2008, but going all the way back to the employment peak in 2007! See, they had to choose a point all the way back then, because if they drew the same line using the same methodology from when Obama took office or even someplace in 2008, it would be pointing almost straight down, and using the same logic, Obama would have a job surplus in the tens of millions. That's the sort of thing that happens when you custom design an analytical method with a specific result in mind.
You guys should spend more time looking at raw data and less time getting your analysis of the data directly from editorial/opinion sources.
usual media matters trolls, usual BS, NEXT?
mostly pimply faced kids with paper route experience spouting talking points for idiots.
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Revision Comes To Colorado
The Ithaca, New York funk/rock machine Revision is bringing their monstrous grooves and high-octane live performances to Colorado, playing four shows in four nights. Starting in the mountains of Breckenridge, making their way to Boulder, Fort Collins and Denver, respectively, the trio melds the smooth vibes of Soulive with the confident songwriting of Wilco in a unique package that is entirely Revision.
Formed in upstate New York between three Ithaca College music grads, Revision showcases their tireless work ethic by playing over 120 shows per year. Taking to the road in their vegetable oil fueled touring van, the trio has shared the stage with such acts as Derek Trucks, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Bernie Worrell and the Cat Empire. Revision's signature sound is a blend of groovy guitar riffs, rolling rhythms and soulful melodies.
Their latest album, Amplification, was released in April of this year and was produced by Matthew Ellard (Billy Bragg & Wilco, Elliot Smith, The Slip). In addition to being available on CD, the music is also available on environmentally conscious reusable USB drives, cutting down on waste and providing listeners with additional bonus content such as video and artwork. The lead track "Don't Be Fooled" was featured on the ESPN Sportscenter segment Web Gems earlier this year.
Committed to cultivating a loyal fan base nationwide, Revision is continually expanding their touring schedule. A band that truly loves to play music, the Ithaca trio is a breath of fresh air for today's music scene.
10/22 – Three20South – Breckenridge, CO
10/23 – B Side Lounge – Boulder, CO
10/24 – Hodi's Half Note – Fort Collins, CO
10/25 – Dulcinea's 100th Monkey – Denver, CO
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Category: British princess names
By Anna Otto, Waltzing More than Matilda
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their second child in April, and rumour has it that they are going to have a princess, rather than a prince (rumour also said that Prince George was going to be a girl, so don't get too attached to the notion).
However, suppose Prince George did have a sister rather than a brother, what might her name be? I looked through the names of all those born in the House of Windsor to a monarch, or to an heir to the throne, and found that the names chosen for them tended to follow fairly clear patterns.
Our thanks to Anna Otto of Waltzing More than Matilda for allowing us to reprint this condensed version of her fascinating blog. See the whole post here.
Royal babies have been on everyone's mind lately, and we recently saw two babies born in the royal family within less than a month of each other.
Not only have been people been doing web searches for Prince George and Maud Windsor, they've been searching for royal baby names in general, uncommon royal names, and royal names that nobody else is using. So here is a list of queens and princesses connected to English royal houses by either birth or marriage, whose names aren't popular or common.
Adeliza of Louvain married Henry I, and became queen of England. She didn't produce any royal heirs; however, after Henry's death she re-married, and had seven children and is an ancestor of many of the noble English families. William the Conqueror had a daughter called Adeliza, named after his sister – the name wasn't uncommon amongst Norman–French aristocracy. Adeliza is a medieval English form of Adelais, a short form of the original old Germanic form of Adelaide. It's pronounced ad-uh-LEE-za. Although it doesn't have any connection to the name Elizabeth, it looks like a combination of Adele and Eliza, and might feel like a way to honour relatives who have variants of these names.
For this royal week, Eleanor Nickerson starts her guest blog with name-loving Queen Victoria herself, then goes on to explore the name trends in the Britain of her era.
Queen Victoria not only gave her name to an entire era, she also 'gave' her name to generations of children who were named for her, and was arguably a huge name icon of the nineteenth century.
It is said that Victoria was very particular about the names she chose, selecting from family members and friends, and even tried to dictate what her grandchildren were named. Her nine children were named:
- Victoria Adelaide Mary
- Albert Edward
- Alice Mary Maud
- Alfred Ernest Albert
- Helena Augusta Victoria
- Louise Caroline Alberta
- Arthur William Patrick
- Leopold George Duncan
- Beatrice Mary Victoria
It is clear to see from the vast number of children named Victoria and Albert (or Victor and Alberta/Albertine for the opposite gender) that the Royal couple were huge namesakes for British Victorians, as were the queen's children and grandchildren. Many a Victorian child had at least one name that was also used by a member of the royal family –in many cases, the whole name – as can be seen in the records by the great number of children named Albert Victor (after Prince Albert Victor) and Helena Victoria (after Princess Helena Victoria).
Some lovely Royal names include:
- Alix Viktoria Helena Luise
- Beatrice Leopoldine Victoria "Bea"
- Christian Victor Albert Ludwig Ernst Anton
- Franziska Josepha Louise Augusta Marie Christina Helena
- Leopold Charles Edward George Albert
- Marie Viktoria Feodore Leopoldine "May"
- Margaret Victoria Charlotte Augusta Norah "Daisy"
The Birth Index clearly shows that if a name was used for a Royal baby, that name would most likely rocket in popularity. For example, Melita is recorded for 104 children from 1837-1876. In November 1876 Prince Alfred named his daughter Victoria Melita and in 1877 alone 41 children were given the name –with 276 more Melitas recorded over the following twenty years, peaking again in 1894 when the Princess married.
Okay, this might be a little premature, since the royal couple isn't even married yet, let alone pregnant. But at Nameberry, it's never too early to start offering our ideas.
There are certain limits, however, for even though Princess Anne named her daughter Zara, and Queen Elizabeth's first great-grandchild was recently christened the Americanized Savannah, it's pretty doubtful that Prince William and Princess-to-be Kate Middleton will go that far afield for the name of their first son or daughter. More than likely, they'll reach back into royal history—but because British rulers typically use three or four middle names, they could slip in something less conventional for third or fourth choice. Not surprisingly, there's more wiggle room for girls than boys.
Putting aside the most obvious options—such as Queen Mum and Grandmum name Elizabeth (also the middle name of Catherine Middleton herself) and Victoria and Mary and Anne, the royal couple would be staying within the prescribed lines if they considered any of the following names from British royal history:
Adelaide. The capital city of South Australia was named for the beloved 19th century British "Good QueenAdelaide," the wife of William IV, and could be an appropriate choice for a 21st century "Good Princess Adelaide."
Alexandrina. This unusual member of the 'Alex" family of names was actually the real first name of QueenVictoria, and would make an interesting and unusual pick, even though five syllables is a bit much, especially when followed by several other appellations


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As the classic Bay City Rollers song says, "after a full day of WordPress talk and geekery, there's nothing like a libation with all your WP friends, new and old." Luckily, you won't have to wander far, because we're holding our not-really-after-party* at the Eliot Center!
Plan to stick around after sessions conclude on Saturday for some tasty Full Sail beer, light snacks and all the fun you can handle. Festivities start at the end of sessions and continue until about 7:30pm.
It's just a Saturday night.
*because, of course, there is a half-day of WP fun awaiting you on Sunday afternoon.


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Most of that is pretty bad. Kids being in diapers in the house is FAR from abusive, though - kids don't like clothes, it bugs me when people think that kids not being clothed all the time is abusive, it's simply not. You couldn't keep clothes on me until I was like 10. I would come home from school and literally just strip down to my underwear unless someone was coming over. I agree with reporting her for abuse but at least report her for things that are actually abusive.
January 27th, 2013 09:12 PM #38
Daphne, but with a Ze). Ziazan means rainbow. It's even a bit out there for characters, and this is coming from a girl who named her first character Aloysia. She had a twin named Zebulon- you could always use that, too!
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The old grey lady reports on a new blue pen: one that scans in color, has 8MB of built-in flash memory and a microSD card slot to add more.
Planon's RC800 DocuPen works just like the old hand-held scanners from the 1980s: just slide it over the page. Now, of course, you can just whip it out of your handbag, do the deed, and plug it in later to a PC or Mac's USB port to view the secret plans. It is available now through the manufacturer's website at www.planon.com, priced $350.
Be warned that the "pen" is in fact 9 1/2 inches long, so DocuPaintbrush or DocuSausage might have been more apt, albeit harder to market, names for the device.
Color ScanPen [NYTimes.com]


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ruby rag doll
I drafted this Ruby doll as a simple single-pattern piece rag doll, fairly large in size (about 15 inches). I attempted to embroider her face in the style of the blogger, bybido, who makes really stunning dolls (I've been carrying around a feeling of hero-worship for her work since seeing her Christmas doll back in 2010). My embroidery skills aren't quite up to par (that right eye is particularly wonky), but luckily, two-year-olds are very forgiving. I'll have to practice on more dolls!
I ran out of time to make the fancy clothes I had envisioned, so these simple ones will have to do for the moment. There's plenty of time to add to the wardrobe later. Ruby really loves her doll, and that was entirely the point. :)
If you are looking for doll inspiration, check out my doll pinterest board, already full of goodies.
14 comments:
- Jessica at Me Sew Crazy said...
your embroidery skills aren't up to par?! I think they are AMAZING! this doll is so cute! Your daughter must love it :)
- July 17, 2012 3:31 AM
- laButiq said...
you make such beautiful things!!!
- July 17, 2012 5:08 AM
- Simple Simon & Co said...
WoW! I love your doll....we have been working on dolls at our house this week too! (Great minds must think alike....)
- July 17, 2012 6:42 AM
- Bonnie said...
Your doll is adorable! Glad your daughter loved it.
I noticed on your pinterest board, you don't have this pattern: http://www.weewonderfuls.com/store/put-together-5.html. It's the Kit, Chloe and Louise Doll by Hillary Lang. I've made 3 of these dolls and they've all turned out so cute! Love them.
- July 17, 2012 7:02 AM
- Aimee said...
I think your doll's face is beautiful! I don't see anything wonky about either eye :)
Amazing job!
- July 17, 2012 7:14 AM
- tatiana said...
que linda
- July 17, 2012 1:33 PM
- CAlili said...
If you have not seen it, Angela Yosten has a wonderful fabric "paper" doll tutorial on Moda Bakeshop. My daughter and I have really enjoyed making these dolls and their clothes. I use old clothes that my kids have outgrown for the fabric. PS I think your doll looks great!
- July 17, 2012 6:45 PM
- Jen said...
She is so cute! I've made dolls for my girls too and they love them!
- July 17, 2012 7:18 PM
- Sparkly Chic Jewels said...
Such a pretty doll, great job!!
- July 17, 2012 8:10 PM
I don't supposed you'd be willing to post a template for this. (Please?) I absolutely love it!
- July 18, 2012 12:43 PM
I don't supposed you'd be willing to post a template for this. (Please?) I absolutely love it!
- July 18, 2012 12:43 PM
- Andrea @ TheTrainToCrazy.com said...
She's adorable!!
- July 18, 2012 8:40 PM
- Sascha said...
Love it! I've been recently interested in doll making and it's been quite a challenge. I've been trying to master my doll eyes. They eyes add so much character.
- July 19, 2012 10:12 PM
- Emily said...
Would love to see a template for this...what a cute doll.
- August 13, 2012 4:18 PM