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Chap. 01: Policy Analysis (2002)
Chap. 02: Models of Politics (2000)
Chap. 03 [14]: Policymaking Process (2000)
Chap. 04: Criminal Justice (2000)
Chap. 05: Health and Welfare (2000)
Chap. 06: Education (2000)
Chap. 07 [09]: Economic Policy (2000, 2002)
Chap. 08 [10]: Tax Policy (2000 -- two versions)
Chap. 09 [11]: International Trade and Immigration (2000)
Chap. 10 [07]: Environmental Policy (2000)
Chap. 11 [03]: Civil Rights: Elite and Mass Interaction (2000)
Chap. 12 [13]: American Federalism
Chap. 13 [08]: Defense Policy (2002)
Chap. 14 [new]:Homeland Security: Terrorism NEW, 2005, 11e.
Chap. 15 [14]: Policy Evaluation (2002, 2000)
Policy-public policy is whatever government chooses to do or not to do/ a projected program of goals, values and practices.
-today people expect government to do a great many things for thempolicy analysis involves
-understanding the causes and consequences of policy decisions improves our knowledge of society
-policy studies helps us learn about the linkage between social and economic conditions in society
-policy studies incorporate the ideas and methods of economics, sociology, anthropology, psycology, history, law and public
-public policy can be studied for political purposes to ensure that the nation adopts the "right" policies to achieve the "right" goals
-policy analysis is finding out what governments do, why they do it and what difference, if any it makes
-learning about the consequences of public policy is often referred to as policy evaluation
1. a concern with explanation rather than presumptionfindings of general relevance.
2. a rigorous search of the causes and consequences of public policy
3. an effort to develop test general propositions about the causes and consequences of public policy and to accumulate reliable
-questionable that policy analysis can ever "solve" America's problems
-policy analysis cannot offer solutions to problems when there is no general agreement on what the problems are
-it cannot solve value conflicts
-policy analysis is one activity for which there can be no fixed programs
1. Models of Politics - used to simplify, identify certain aspects, understand and explain policies
A. Institutional Model
"Civil Rights policy is a response of a
national elite to conditions affecting a minority of Americans rather than
a response of
national to majority sentiments."
Mass Opinion Differences
Most whites believe that
there is little discrimination toward blacks
Blacks believe that they
are not treated equally in employment, housing, etc.
White majority opinion
only changed after civil rights policy has been implemented
Poor, uneducated whites
posses the least favorable attitudes toward blacks
Well educated, successful
whites are more concerned with discrimination and more eager to socialize
with blacks
A majority of whites
believe we have enough regulations against discrimination
Civil Rights policy reflects
the views of Congress, the president and the Supreme Court
exp.: 14th Amendment
exp.: Civil Rights Act of 1875, passed by Congress but declared unconstitutional
in 1883
Mass Resistance to Desegregation
The branches of government
get involved to enforce civil rights policy
exp.: Civil Rights Act of 1964 - COngress threatens segregated school,
with loss of federal financial assistance
exp.: 1957 - President Eisenhower uses military force to integrate Little
Rock's Central High School
Suppose to end racial
isolation in public schools
Mass reaction - white
children sent to private school, by parents
End result - schools
end up more segregated than before
Civil Rights Movement
Supported equality of
Ability to be able to develop one's talents and abilities
Affirmative Action
Supports equality of results
Sharing of incomes, jobs and material rewards, regardless of someone's
economic position
Not supported by the white mass
Supreme Court Cases
States vs Paradise (1987)
50% black quota system for promotions in the Alabama Dept. of Public Safety
Purpose to correct past discrimination
Richmond vs Crosen (1989)
Questioned affirmative action
Minority set aside program in Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause
of the 14th Amendment
1880's feminism centered
on the protection of women in families
Early 20th century feminism
concentrated on women's suffrage
1970's feminism focused
on the ERA to the Constitution
Failed - was not ratified by 38 states
Civil Rights Laws
Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 - prevents racial and sexual discrimination in hiring
and promotions
Federal Equal Credit
Opportunity Act Amendment of 1974 - prohibits sex discrimination in credit
Title IX of the Education
Act Amendment of 1972 - bars discrimination in admissions, housing, rules,
financial aid,
pay and staff recruitment
Three main propositions:
-Crime fighting strategy is deterrence:
to make cost of committing crime greater than benefits
- Strategy focuses on:
1. certainty- crime= costly punishment- Argues that American justice is not a deterrent - lacks swiftness, certainty and severity.
2. swiftness- justice must be swift
3. severity- it has to be harsh- Author argues that crime is down and that it can be attributed to, crackdowns, community policing and longer prison sentences.
[BUT Steven Leavitt's "Freakonomics" thesis: teen street crime declined in 1990s partly owing to abortions among poor single women in 1980s.]
- Makes point that juvenile crime is on the rise and attributes it to their lax punishment. He feels as though in the juvenile sector there is an absence of deterrence
1. Social Heterogeneity- Dye makes the point that crime ends up paying off in the criminals' eyes.
2. Socialization and Control
3. Irrational Crime
4. Innate Aggression
5. Deterrence vs. Liberty
[Liberal and conservative critics of anti-poverty programs argue over estimates of poor.] [Latent poverty: those 20% who would be poor without govt benefits.] [Feminization of poverty: 2/3 of poor are in single-mom families -- half of those live in poverty. Especially common in black and hispanic communities.] [Poverty based on income, not wealth, so elderly poor may have assets.]
[Human capital theory: poor have low productivity] [Inadequate demand, economic stagnation -- implies solution is growth.] [Discrimination: blacks earn less than whites at same educational level.] [Culture of poverty, present oriented]
deinstitutionalization decriminalization of vagrancy and addiction failure of community care.]
access issue prescription drug coverage issue nursing home care issue cost inflation defensive medicine. managed care patients' rights
A) Resolve racial conflicts and build an integrated societyII. Battling Over the Basics
B) Inspire patriotism and good citizenship
C) Provide Values
D) Various forms of recreation and entertainment
E) Reduce conflict
F) Basically everything except educate
A. Citizen groups that have an interest in educationIII. Educational Groups1. ParentsB. Public Strongly Support:
2. Taxpayers
3. Employers1. The 3 "rs"C. SAT scores
a. Reading
b. Writing
c. Arithmetic
2. Enforcing minimum standards with testing
3. Testing teachers for mastery of basic skills1. SAT scores where declining due to more students taking the testD. Global Comparison
2. College Board recentered scores in 1996 to boost scores
3. Now more than 500 students a year make a perfect 16001. Performance of 500,000 U.S. 13 year olds tested compared with 42 nations was 28 in math and 17 in science.E. Nation at Risk
2. The top nations had a cultural value for education and is valued in the family1. 1983 report by National Commission on Excellence in Education (A Nation at Risk) recommended a back to the basics reformF. Testinga. Minimum high school curriculum of 4 years of English, 3 yrs of math, 3 yrs of social science, and ½ year of computer scienceb. 4-6 yrs of foreign language beginning in elementary school
c. standardized testing for achievement
d. more homework, a 7 hr school day, and a 200-220 day school year
e. reliable grades and standardized tests for promotion and graduation
f. "performance based" salaries for teachers1. Minimum Competence Testing (MCT)a. test used for the need of remedial education or requirement for promotion or graduationG. Teacher Testing
b. about ½ the states require these test and are usually on 8th or 9th grade lv
c. Educators fear this will start teaching to the test education
d. some charge the test are racially biased1. NEA opposes all teacher testing, but the AFT willing to accept competency testing only for new teachers
A. Citizens vs. Professionals1. Citizens are often pitted against professional educators about education policy
A. Public UniversitiesVIII. Groups in higher education1. 3/4 of college students go to public colleges or universitiesB. Federal Aid1. State government carries the major burden of higher educationC. Student Assistance
2. Fed government directly assists many college students through grants and loans1. Pell GrantsD. Research money is given to large Universities for scientific research
2. Stafford Loans
3. Perkins Loan
4. Work Study
5. Most financial aid is given to middle class students
A. Separation of church and state comes from first amendment
B. Does not prohibit adoption of programs that help all children
C. Prayer is unconstitutional in almost all ways
Incrementalism in fiscal and monetary policy
Fiscal policies- decisions about taxing, spending,
and deficit levels, determined
mostly by the President and the Office aof Budget
and Management
Monetary Policies- decisions concerning money supply
and interest rates ,
determined by the Federal Reserve
Fiscal and Monetary policies are made incrementally,
meaning that modest
changes are made, and according to what was policy
was used the preceeding year.
-Incrementalism provides very
good short term predictions of government policies
-Policy makers do not have
the time , energy or information ro review budgets every year
Economic Theories as Policy Guides
Classical Theory -
economy that self adjusts
productive, and stable if govt. leaves it alone
there are more workers than there is demand, then wages will fall. But,
businesses will want
workers at lower wages - thus employment is ended.
demand falls, business inventories will rise and prices will be reduced
to sell, until demand
up again
Keynesian Theory-
Depression of the 1930's challenged popular confidence in classical economics
stability is a product of fluctuations in demand
both unemployment and lower wages reduced the demands
govt. can take necessary steps to expand demand by spending more and lowering
counter inflationary and recesionary trends, the govt. would take opposite
Supply-Side Economics
to long term economic growth is more important than short-term manipulation
of demand
growth increases overall supply of goods and services and thereby holds
down prices
of living are improved with the availability of more goods and services
at stable prices
market is better equipped to bring about lower prices and more supplies
is the problem
taxes penalize hard work, creativity, investment, and savings
regulations should be minimized to increase and supply rather than demand
and consumption
Monetary Economics
that the suply of money in the economy heavily influences supply, demand,
and prices
(general performance of the economy)
the govt., or primarily the Federal Reserve controls them money in inflationary
recessionary times
Federal Reserve
independent of all executive agencies
or contract the money supply through its oversight of the operation of
banks in
in the Federal Reserve system
members ever removed
The Performance of the American Economy
Gross Domestic Product
total production of goods and services for a single year valued in terms
of market prices
of all the goods and services that people purchase
the performance of the economy
The unemployment rate is the percentage of the
civilian labor force who are
looking for work or waiting to return to or begin
a job
Inflation erodes the value of the dollar because higher prices purchase fewer goods and services
Fragmentation in Budget Making - the OMB and the Congressional Budget Office are supposed to bring together requests and fit them into the whole.....the segmentation helps to secure political aggreement on the budget as well as reduce the burden of red tape in the process
determined by past policies of Congress and represent commitments in future
federal budgets
classes of people with legally enforceable rights to benefits
for over half of govt. spending
Budgetary Process
-The President,
through the Office of OMB has the key responsibilty for formulating the
-The OMB
sends out ceilings and floors to agencies, in which they take requests
-After budgets
are compiled, are sent to the Capitol, where reviewed by the Congressional
and house and Senate committees
approval is divided into thirteen seperate appropriations bills, covering
categories of spending
Appropriations acts provide money for spending.
Line item veto
IN order to avoid shutdowns, Congress grants "continuing
authorizing agencies to keep spending money for
a specified period of time
-economic policy is exercised through
fiscal policies: decisions about taxation, spending and deficit levels
monetary policies: money supply and interest rates
-decided by federal spending levels
-fiscal and monetary policies have small changes at existing levels
-goals of economic policy
growth in economic output and standards of living, full and productive
employment of the nations work force and stable prices with low inflation
-this type of policy making is an example of incrementalism because it uses last years spending to decide present years budgeting
-Theories used in this type of policy making:
macroeconomics: tries to explain economic cycles and to prescribe
governmental policies to counter inflation and recession
classical: view market economy as self adjusting mechanism
Keynesian: economic stability product of fluctuations in demands, written into employment act of 1946-promotes "maximum employment production and purchasing power"
- Reagan used Supply side economics - long term growth is more important than short term demand- free market is better equip than government to bring lower prices and supply and demand
- Clinton used Enterprise Economics- government is responsible to stimulate growth- and invest in
- Monetarist Economics- stability can be achieved
only by holding rate of money and economic growth at the same pace
-govnt spending has grown because of "Uncontrollable benefits" ex:
- Social Security is the largest item in the
budget while Medicare and
Medicaid are the fastest growing
-Burden of Debt ( p. 229) govent spends more than it recieves in revenues and this drives up the debt..things that cause this:
- Formal Budgetary Process & Spending Agencies
OMB in the executive office- has key responsibility for budget preparation (president has no formal powers over taxing and spending
house and Senate budget committees- they established the CBO to review presidential budget after submission to congress
Appropriations Act- provides money for spending, nothing can be spent w/o it
Appropriations Committees- used for specific appropriations in both houses
(more in the house than the senate)
Revenue Act-House committee on ways and means and the senate finance
committee work mostly with taxation
Presidential Veto
Continuing Resolutions and "Shutdowns"- any govnt agency that does not pass an appropriations act may not take money from the treasury and is obligated to shut down continuing resolutions allows a way around this
-there is no better illustration of the influence of interest groups in policymaking than natal tax policy
-tax laws treat different types of income differently
-unfairness, complexity, & inefficiency of tax laws can be attributed to interest groups
-Tax Reform Act 1986, IGs suffer defeat
Federal Tax System
-total revenues from taxes and fees consistently fail to match total spending by the gov
Individual Income Taxes
- today taxpayers pay more in Social Security taxes than income taxes
Excise and Custom Duties
- progressive tax--high income pay higher percentage of incomes in taxes
- proportionality/flat tax--all income groups pay same rate
- universality--all types of income subject to same rates
Economic Growth
- argues that if taxes were reduced, might increase gov revenue bec/ encourage growth
-Economic Recovery Tax Cut Act of 1981
- Tax Reform Act of 1986--reduction in tax rates in place of tax breaks
-many opponents--industry, real estate, multinational corps, oil & gas, labor unions...
Compromising with Special Interest
-key to overcoming opposition of special interests was to offer a tax rate low enough that most people would be willing to give up deductions and preferences
-bipartisan effort against special interests
Clinton,Deficits, and Taxes
- Clinton win on promise to revive econ
- Clinton propose raising taxes on affluent, elderly, corps, &energy
- Clinton and Reps agree to middle class tax cut in 1997
Tax Reform and the Flat Tax
-National sales tax-- replace federal income tax and get rid of IRS; penalize consumption not production
-IRS--"Simplifying tax laws would not only reduce cost of paying taxes but reassure taxpayer that system is fair..It would reduce the power of the IRS... taxpayers bill of rights might strengthen safeguards against arbitrary actions of IRS
Chapter 8 [10]: Tax Policy
Chad Hobbs, 2000
- 1/4 of the worlds total output is sold in a
country other that where is it was made
- US exports 11%--aircraft, computers,-- and imports
- Comparative Advantage--what each nation
produces best & shift toward making that
- US corps want lower trade barriers around the
world--lower US tariffs
- GATT--General Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade--regulate international trade
- WTO--World Trade Organization--adjudicate
trade disputes among nations
- IMF--International Monetary Fund--facilitate
trade by lending
- World Bank--long term loans
- NAFTA--eventual removal of all tariffs
between US, Can, and Mex
- Dumping--sale of foreign goods in US markets
at prices lower than charged in home--Japanese automobiles
- foreign trade lower US wages
- US corps want immigration for cheap labor
- Immigration Act of 1921--max # immigrants
accepted each year
- Immigration and Reform Act of 1986/ Simpson-Mazzoli
Act---regulate employers hiring immigrants
- aliens have no Constitutional right to come
to US, but once here that have right to due process and equal protection
- US Supreme Court mandate that state and local
govt cant exclude immigrants from benefits
- Proposition 187
I. How Policies Are Made:
A. creating an issue, dramatizing it, calling attention
to it, and pressuring government to
do something about it are important political
tactics, they are tactics of agenda setting.
B. "nondecision making: occurs when influential
individuals or groups or the political
system itself operates in society.
B. media power:
2. sets the agenda of public discussion
3. Concentrated with a small number of people.
4. Not much diversity in news reporting
2. provide cues to audience on the importance of an issue, personality, or event
3. "Media event" arranged primarily to attract coverage and thus attention
2. influencing attitudes and values toward policy issues.
3. Changing behavior of voters and decision makers
4. Power of tv lies in setting the agenda for decision making
A. policy formulation is the development of policy
alternatives dealing with problems on
the public agenda.
B. The White House: President and the executive
branch are expected to be policy
initiators and Congress the arbitrators
C. Interest groups: formulate their own policy
or do so in association with Congress
D. Legislative Staffs: reflect the general view
of their bosses, they research issues,
schedule legislative hearings, line up expert
to testify and write and rewrite bills
E. Think Tanks: policy planning orgs are central
in coordinating points in policymaking;
they bring together corporate and financial institutions,
mass media, government officials, and intellectuals to reach a consensus
on what action should take place.
B. the open, public, stage of policymaking
C. conclude it is a process of bargaining, competition, persuasion and compromise
D. decisions of the policymakers center around means rather than ends of policy
A. makes relatively little difference in the major direction of public policy whether Dem
or Rep dominate the political scene
B. Implementation and Policy making: all the activities designed to carry our the policies
2. much of the actual policymaking occurs within these orgs
E. Bureaucratic Discretion and Policymaking: most bureaucracy is performing routine tasks but they decide how to apply these tasks.
F. Policy Bias of Bureaucrats: personal beliefs inspire bureaucrats to expand powers, functions, and budgets of their agencies
B. Impressionistic: come from interest groups complaints, legislative hearings, media stories, and citizens complaints - stimulate reform
-each nation must have its own defense policy:
assess threats
develop strategies
appropriate forces/budget
-Deterrence: maintains nuclear peace, emphasizes
2nd strike capability, psychological defense,
fear of retaliation
-Strategic Weapons: TRIAD defense (ICBMs (Minuteman),
sub-based missles (Trident
missles), manned bombers (B-52 bombers)
-"second strike capability"
SALT I- (strategic arms limitation talks), 1972
between US and USSR, 1st effort to limit
nuclear weapons and ABS (anti-ballistic missle
SALT II- (1979), "over-all limit" on nuclear launch
vehicles(bombers and missiles, but subs
START- (strategic arms reduction talks), reductions
in nuclear weapons, equality, verification
with long- and short-term notice
START I- (1991), agreement on long-range missiles
START II- eleminates 1st-strike nuclear attack
by beginning to reduce amount and only have
reactionary nuclear defenses
-minimal deterence- dismantling of all old weapons
-non deterrable threats- terrorists, rougue generals/unauthorized
launches, accidental launches
-spread of mass terror weapons- Iran, Iraq, Libya
-Ballistic Missile Defense(aka Star Wars)- weapons
in space to be used as defense (i.e.,
lasers/missiles to shoot down incoming missiles/bombers)
-NATO- (north atlantic treaty organization), U.S.
and allies, opposed by Warsaw Pact (USSR
and other communist allies)
-collapse of eastern communism- reduced threat
on western europe and U.S
-Germany Reunited-balances power in Europe
-USSR crumbles- Soviet Union collapses, Warsaw
pact folds
-Middle East- (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria)
-Asia- (Tawain, North Korea)
-punish terrorists and terrorist-sponsered nations
-dissuade other nations from using or supporting
-protect interests- (support of vital national
interests with defined objectives
-sufficient strength to fight/win war
-have support of US people
-last resort
-should be threat driven (respond to threats)
-"1&1/2 war readiness"- should be able/ready
to fight and win one major war and still have
enough reserves to fight a smaller battle
-investments help defend and deter
Deterrence assumes rational enemies unwilling to suffer destruction 9/11/01 attacks directed against civilians Terrorism attacks noncombatants to gain publicity, impose fear. Democratic leaders are especially vulnerable and must sacrifice some liberties Global terrorism has increased and become more destructive, supported by states.
Political support for US administration soared in short term Airlines lost custom, Security provided by new TSA. USA PATRIOT Act: surveillance unleashed; property seizures; detention without trial; aliens reporting; crime to harbor terrorists; enemy combatants not POWs. US Supreme Court (2000): detainees entitled to judicial hearing.
Oct 2001 EO: Tom Ridge coordinator of Office of Homeland Security. 2002: new Dept created from: Customs; INS; Border Patrol; TSA; Coast Guard; Secret Service; & FEMA. Security Advisory System scale from low threat to severe, with required security responses. Difficult to integrate 200,000 workers from 22 agencies. FBI, CIA and DOD remain outside, merely coordinated.
Must collect, analyze and disseminate intelligence to consumer agencies. Independent agency: CIA Agencies within DOD: DIA, NSA, NRO, NIMA, 4 armed services agencies. Agencies within other depts: State, Energy, Treasury, FBI, Homeland Security. Director of Central Intelligence. Prepares PDB and NIE reports. Supervises CIA including covert ops but these consist mostly of economic aid and military training. Does not supervise other agencies. Integrating Foreign and Domestic Intelligence 1947 NS Act banned CIA domestic activities, had only to give info to FBI for enforcement. Patriot Act permits both agencies separately to conduct domestic surveillance. FBI has put top priority on counter-terrorism, but prevention may conflict with traditional law enforcement processes and with civil liberties.
War against terrorism will be a long one. Historic wartime measures have infringed on civil liberties Civil war suspension of habeas corpus WW1 Espionage Act and imprisonment of Eugene Debs WW2 Japanese internment Costs to liberty: surveillance, seizures, detentions, military tribunals, DARPA's data mine.
-Policy evaluation is learning about the consequences of public policy
-Policy evaluation research is the objective, systematic, empirical examination of the effects of policy goals.
Impact of policy is measured through:
-Everything pertaining to policy has to be measured
both symbolically and tangibly.
- Politics used to be: Who gets what, when and
- Politics has become: who feels what, when and
- some believe that experimenting with policy idea
is best to do before implementing, but this
beings about some serious questions:
1. Policy evaluation: learning about the consequences
of public policy
2. impact of policy
1. target group situation
2. non target groups
3. future as well as
immediate conditions
4. direct cost in terms
of money and resources devoted to the program
5. indirect cost, societal
3. policy impact is not the same as policy output:
impact is concerned with all
variables, output is concerned with monetary and
target group production
4. an assortment of long term and short term goals
for a program must be
established in order to keep a program on schedule
5. often people rate the effectiveness on the
government by programs
implemented but not on the actual on the enforcement
of the program
6. public policy has transformed from who gets
what, when and how to a focus
on image
7. television has had an impact on public policy
by transforming it in to a focus
on appearance to the public
8. because of the transformation and wide coverage
of public policy , there has
been a rejuvenation of national pride and support
of the American people to the
example: Civil Rights Act 1968
9. Types of public policy reviews:
1. Hearings and reports:
public policy administrators are asked to report to
the chief executives on the effectiveness of their
program, often they over
exaggerate the progress and under exaggerate the
2. site visits: administrators
observe the sites of the programs and rate
their management as well as their compliance with
3. program measure: covers
program outputs
4. comparison of professional
standards: compares various programs against
each other to determine their effectiveness in
out puts
5. systematic program
evaluation: done with measuring the effect if the
program was not established
6. before and after comparison:
measures the atmosphere of the target
group before the program is establishes and the
difference after the program is
7. projected trend line
versus post program comparison: takes a period of
time and measures hoe the target group is doing
and compares that with the
same amount of time with the program installed,
this is effective because it
measures all variables, including the environment
change in that time period and
it considers the effect on the target group as
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Minifigures.co.uk: a new online shop for custom figs
Posted by Huw,It's a slow time for news... since the Simpsons bombshell was dropped last week, all the RSS feeds I monitor have been dormant and my mailbox is empty: there's nothing happening worth reporting at all...
So, what better time, then, to introduce you to a new online store that specialises in custom minifigs:
"We launched the Minifigures.co.uk shop in January 2013 to sell Premium Custom Minifigures from top designers around the world such as eclipseGrafx, Christo, Minifigs4U and Green Pea Toys. We also sell custom weapons from Combat Brick." says Brickset reader Andrew Clapham, who helps run the site. "What might interest your readers is that we try and source new polybags and sell them at reasonable prices. We currently have polybags from the LEGO Super Heroes, Lord of the Rings, Ninjago and Star Wars themes, and are on the look out for all the 2013 releases."
Sounds like it's worth checking out...
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Speaking of being slow, this site is ridiculously slow...
.."Resource Limit Is Reached
The website is temporarily unable to service your request as it exceeded resource limit. Please try again later."
Same here, could be overloaded with people trying to visit site.
Oh dear, is that the 'Brickset effect'?
I believe it is!
Thanks Huw for the post!
The site does have smoke coming out of it's ears from the Brickset effect - sorry if you get an error!
Hopefully if you try again it should be ok now.
This website sucks..........
Site works fine for me… I wonder how much shipping would be to the USA for some of those polys.
Not many official minifigs in stock, but Greedo is very competitively priced at £20.
As the online shop is only a couple months old we are have quite a lot of stock on order and waiting for it to arrive. The best bet is to join our Facebook page (link on our home page) for regular updates.
Looks like a cool site
My biggest complaint is the prices and it's over seas, I don't trust ordering anything from over seas due to customs.
That's a nice looking site, it definitely has the potential to be successful.
I've never been interested in custom figs but they look alright, can't afford to start collecting them too though!
Good luck with the site.
I think this website can really become sumtin great!
Speaking of that, I still have to finish my own customs...
I've encountered a bit of trouble due to the lack of medieval-themed parts... I may have to experiment with trying to make my own...
Those X-Men are bananas. I want them...but so expensive...ugh
Love the custom Storm and Rogue. I really hope LEGO starts doing X-Men sets, I'm not a fan of the Avenger and Spiderman. I assume because Disney/Marvel does not own the movie rights to the mutants they would rather LEGO focus on Avengers.
Looks like a nice idea and all, but I have some concerns with all those unlicensed (i assume) superheroes figs being made and sold for profit, I can't help but wonder at how they're going to avoid legal issues down the line the moment they get noticed.
Maybe individual sellers/fig-makers have been small enough until now to stay under the radar, and never get pursued (possibly this will too), but bundled together under one roof like this might start to attract unwanted attention from actual license holders. Also, TLG itself might even take issue with there being potential here for brand confusion between official lines and unlicensed home-brew figs, (as it looks like they're selling official figs too).
Be careful you don't get yourselves shut down en masse by Marvel/DC/TLG/Lucas or whoever else might be out there with £$millions wrapped up in license agreements... and with that thought, should Brickset be endorsing unofficial lines? I mean, we all go to so much trouble here to stay in TLG's good books, would hate to see that relationship spoiled.
As said, nice idea, but just thought i'd offer a word or three of caution to all concerned, that's all. :o)
@HUW: April Fool's is coming. I hope you have something like last year!
Are "Emerald", "Tempest" and such characters real X-men lookalike characters, or those names are just to avoid copyright issues? If the second, they failed.
I think you need to separate Sales from Reviews.
How much stock do you actually have? I click on something you are selling, then on for example the STAR WARS tag, then on another character and I am reading a review, not a purchase page.
It looks like a small bricklink store, wanting to appear much bigger than it actually is by space filling with reviews.
I'd seriously think about getting some stock and relaunching it. Keep the reviews separate from the sales.
I think you also need to define what you mean by "the quality is second to none and even better then LEGO". For example - is that about detail or about longevity of the print?
^^^^ The LEGO company does not have an issue with people producing and selling customised minifigs: in fact they have guidelines available regarding the use of the word 'LEGO' in such products etc.
Whether DC/Disney etc. does, is another matter, of course.
@aaclapham all i want is that custom flash on the side. :D You start selling that one, I might buy it. The one for sale is not the same.
Might pick up 1 or 2 but I just don't know about how much shipping will cost to the U.S and most of the time it is not pretty.
Nice. Now make me some costume Star Wars ones.
This looks like total copyright infringement. They aren't even subtle, name dropping the X-Men all over. They deserve the 'cease and desist' warning they will soon get.
In their site they have the Simpsons minifigures!
Just to let everyone know we have restocked on the Super Heroes/LOTR/Monster Fighters polybags.
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I just posted this comment on the wooden key board page but I guess it is better placed here!
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posted by: prettykitty1971 on 10.06.2008 at 05:48 am in Kitchens Forum I have been asked by several to post my kitchen redo so, here goes…forgive the repeats…forgive the length...
We began designing a rework of our home in 2004. The back of the house (where the kitchen is located) was okay and livable, but it did not flow or have any stylistic continuity to the front of the house, which is so amazing in itself. I felt like I was in a different house when in the kitchen. The main part of the house was built in 1890 and still has a Victorian feel, the kitchen and breakfast room and porches were built about 1920 in the Craftsman era and kept being added onto and changed – to the point that an "extra" half bath had been added jutting out into a hallway and disrupting important flow. There were a few things that had been done that would make me stare and say "why???" The kitchen also felt very far away from the living areas of the house. I have slipped in "before" shots where appropriate on the web album. before:
after: same view
The house was near museum quality in the front rooms, but it was like entering the twilight zone in the kitchen and breakfast room, breakfast room (yes, 2 of them) and bathroom(s). Our house had 2 nightmarish half baths downstairs, one of which had been built in the middle of a major passage way and was so small a space that the previous owner who had built it bumped out the opposite wall just a funky bit to accommodate the space. I would not even allow people to use that bath as it was not vented properly (think smelly) and would not flush well (think plunger). Mainly, we wanted to restore the architectural integrity to the back of the house, which included removing a diagonal path and countertop that was the main path to the kitchen, raising doorways up to 10 feet to match the doorways in the original house – kitchen doorways etc, were all 7 & 8 feet, one directly behind a 10 foot opening, so it was readily apparent something was amiss. Another goal was getting a back door and opening up our back porch which had been totally enclosed and door removed – the room that went nowhere with a window looking into the current kitchen. I also was determined to have French doors from the kitchen that went out to a deck which was the same elevation as the kitchen floor, to the North, shady side of our property.
We hired an architect that we had worked with previously with great success – we saw eye to eye on everything. After several attempts, he fired ME – not the other way around. He would not draw what I wanted, kept giving me drawings of what he thought we should do, that we should work with what had been done to the house – "don't open the old back porch, build on a new one; put the bathroom in the old porch," etc. That was $3000 down the tubes…we were already starting out in the negative! A dear architect friend of mine said she would work on the design. She drew what I wanted. I would ask for suggestions, but she assured me that my ideas made sense and would be really improving our home. The drawings were not cheap, but it was well worth it and we are even better friends, although, I was afraid I would be fired at any moment! Our cabinet maker said he was going to get me a nice "johnny-back" cabinet for over the toilet, I said no, you're going to make this...
A word about the bathroom: I loved this apron sink but knew I could not use it in the kitchen with the island we wanted, so I came up with this cabinet. The floor is American Restoration Tile and includes encaustic tiles. I almost went with white subway tile, but I felt it would be too utilitarian for the space, so these are travertine stone cut into bricks. They are the kind with holes and I paid a large fortune for the tiler not to fill the holes with grout! Many like the bathroom more than the kitchen. We had a family member who was very much a sportsman and inherited all his fishing and hunting items and gear and have chosen to use it in decorating to add a bit a masculinity to the house and we loved him very much so we enjoy having it around us. I have to say that I am proud of myself for coming up with this design, the architect drew it, but it was all me and my husband thinking it out and after living a year in the house, we knew what we needed and how we need it to look. I am picky if you haven't figured it out. The basis for the design was figuring out where the openings had to be in the rooms. I wanted the French doors on the north wall, we had to have the passage to the dining room, and we needed a double opening to the breakfast room. So with all that, that dictated where we could and couldn't have cabinets, a stove, a sink, etc. We were also returning the flow to the back of the house, so that made it easier to figure out where the back hall need to go and what was left over would become the new full bath. I will admit that in the days leading up to the wreaking crew coming, I was still trying to figure out if we could get a better layout out of the space. after receiving yet another delivery from ebay, my husband asked how many historic fixtures I had purchased, my quiet response "I don't know..."
Given how my main hobby has to do with historic preservation, I knew I wanted a classic kitchen. I wanted marble countertops and inset cabinet doors and those French doors! I spent hundreds of dollars buying kitchen magazines and found several key ideas from that process. The glass front cabinets and the stainless steel countertop on either side of the French Lacanche range came from one layout I found, the open shelves from another and the pink pantry from yet another photo from a magazine (theirs was bright yellow!). Our butler's pantry was actually in our historic house plans from 1920, so we just recreated it. About our butler's pantry: the bottom 2 cabinets on the left are false fronts – they don't open – they are where the air return in located. The vents are on the opposite side in the back stair hall, so this just camouflages the box of the air return. air return in the bottom cabinets
The glass cabinets, I thought about that problem of food storage and how unattractive that is and how to make glass front cabinets work for me. I just felt glass would be more appropriate for the look I wanted - it just looks elegant to me and says "original" although I'm sure that most true Victorian cabinets had wood fronts. I planned what would go in the cabinets before we got too far in design. I have about 3 complete sets of china in addition to two sets of everyday dishes and needed a place to put/display them, so then I needed a place for food. It's hard to visualize how much space you need for food when your food is all packed up for construction! I happened to have a little nook (it was our downstairs half bath, you could get your knees knocked off if someone tried to enter the bathroom while you were on the toilet!) that we originally designed as a desk area, that I made into "the pink pantry" which actually goes around a corner and is behind the refrigerator, where all the mess of the pantry is along with microwave and toaster oven. The part of the pantry that is visible (if you're at the main sink or range)stays neat and tidy given the way that it is designed - narrow shelves for spices, baking ingredients and display. I saw it in a magazine with its Victorian-ish trim and gave it to my carpenter and he just went to work. The counter in the pantry is just wood - out of money for any other surface and since there is not a sink in there it is not a problem. It is painted pink as that is the color that my 4 year old picked out - it was a compromise as she wanted the entire kitchen to be pink! She also wanted Dora the Explorer knobs - yes, there is such a thing - but I put my foot down on that! Where the "extra bathroom" had been removed at the back stairs and other demolition had taken place near the new/old back door, we found exterior sub walls under the plaster and sheetrock. In old houses this material is something like 1 x 6 set on the diagonal. I had been thinking about paint colors and what I was going to do with all this extra wall and I decided how wonderful it would be if it were returned to its exterior foundations – wood siding. I love texture and my contractor thought I was nuts, but he did do the siding for me and milled corner pieces for near the back door. We painted the siding the cream trim color like the rest of our interior house. This really added a wonderful historic and unique quality to the project. The house really looks like it's evolved and been added on to in a rather careful way. Exterior siding and trim on the inside
For our back hallway we mimicked the wainscoting that is in our foyer and dining room, but on a cheaper level – we used bead board and MDF. The bead board wainscoting is the cheaper stuff: it does not have as deep cuts/lines/beads as the good stuff and the flat vertical and cross pieces are not wood, they are that MDF that they are always making stuff out of on HGTV. The top piece is wood trim. bead board wainscoting
When I was picking out materials for our kitchen I finally reached a moment where I was afraid that the kitchen would be nicer than the rest of the house - which I did not want at all - so I began to try to pick out elements from the original house that could be reproduced in the kitchen, if only in variation, like the wainscoting and the slider doors instead of pocket doors. We have 4 countertop surfaces(it works because you can only see 2 at anyone time), one of which is unpolished black granite, which looks a lot like soapstone, then marble, polished granite and stainless steel. I really wanted a veined marble for the island and despite everyone, even the marble contractor telling me I did not want that as my island, I got it. I chose polished marble on the back splash so the gray veining would pick up the gray of the stainless steel, but I also considered bead board (we used it on our butler's pantry, I really love the look and it can be an economical choice if you get the "fake" stuff) and painted pressed tin. We have the marble island and love it and all of it's etchings that my 3 kids inflict upon it. They are not really noticeable unless you look for them. We have slider doors on reproduction barn door hardware (www.barndoorhardware.com) that divide our kitchen and breakfast room. Our house has pocket doors, but we could not afford to build 2 walls, so this was another research project and something we are really happy with and that everyone marvels over. I really think it turned out better than pocket doors would have and it is unexpected, which I like.
Our cabinets are creamy white with feet for an unfitted look. I did choose to get appliances that will take a custom panel, to be hidden into the cabinetry - careful if you get inset cabinet doors (where the door closes flush into the cabinet box) appliances that take a panel are designed to take full overlay doors – we just barely avoided a crisis situation that would have required me to be tried for murder. The main cabinets go all the way up the 12 foot walls, it is quite impressive looking, but fits the style of our home. Our bathroom cabinet is painted a red to give the impression of old wood - I could not afford to have "good wood" so came up with a color that happened to work really well for us. I bought most of my reproduction hardware from Van Dyke's restorers, Historic House Parts, and Rejuvenation, all online. I have different types of drawer and door pulls, just one or two in key areas, to help the kitchen look as if it evolved (Two are fish pulls, I love them!). Our kitchen finally feels like it goes with the rest of our home.
One other thing that worked out really well for us: you will notice in the web pictures that originally there were 2 windows on the wall where the stove goes. The outside of our house is a rough stucco (it was "smothered" in stucco about 1920, the Victorian gingerbread and elements are under the stucco – visible in our attic!) and I doubted that my contractor could match the stucco to my specifications – we had already had previously unsuccessful attempts on other stucco repairs. On the outside of our house, the windows appear to be there – I had wood shutters installed in the openings, the windows simply look shuttered. It's a nice touch to our exterior and I did not have to worry about the stucco being less than perfect. Lacanche Range, Sully Model - High performance, dual-fuel, double-oven stoves from France, one oven is electric, the other gas, top is gas and has the French cast-iron simmer plate over one of the two 18,000 BTU burners. NOTES: <none>
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posted by: budge1 on 01.04.2009 at 07:30 pm in Home Decorating Forum I've been following this woman's blog for a while and wanted to share - well actually, part of me wants to keep it just for me. I just love it. Can't understand any of it, but the pictures say enough for me.
I know there have been threads about favourite blogs in the near past, but if anyone has any to add, I'd love to peek at what others are coveting. Here is a link that might be useful: hus NOTES: <none>
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Foods containing lycopene, other than tomatoes: grapefruit and watermelon. Lycopene is fat soluable, so in order for it to be absorbed into the bloodstream, it must be consumed with a small amount of fat. (A spoon full of organic peanut butter sounds good to me!) :) Eddi (I'm ER 4 my T 'A') :)


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An entertaining film is often an escape from reality. Just as Agent Vinod was for Amarjit Singh Dulat, former chief of the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). He enjoyed the RAW agent-gone-all-Bond-and-Bourne on the big screen, but used the opportunity to tell us a little bit about the raw reality.
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June 2014 – "Suspicion" / October Films / Investigation Discovery / Series Producer
I'm very excited to be series producing October Films new series for ID. Based on the Hitchcock classic Rear Window the series will dramatise true stories of people consumed by their own suspicions.
March – June 2014 – "UNTITLED" / October Films / Lifetime / Writer & Director
I'm writing and directing a new drama doc format for Lifetime Movie Network. More info to follow.
February 2014 – "Britain's Young Football Firms" / Victory Television / BBC3 / Shooting Director
I've been following young British football fans who between them attempt to continue the "lads" tradition of organised hooliganism, shooting confrontational derbies and master interviews with the main players.
September – December 2013 – "Rude(ish) Tube" / October Films / E4 / Producer
I'm writing and producing 5 episodes of Rude(ish) Tube; Rude Tube's slightly better behaved little sister. Series produced by Dan Riley.
January – August 2013 – "Obsession: Dark Desires" Drama Doc / October Films / Discovery ID / Writer & Director
I've joined October Films to write and direct 3 episodes their new drama doc series for Discovery ID. Series Produced by Steve Murphy, exec produced by Alex Sutherland and shot by Kev Robertson the series will feature single voice testimony from the victims of stalkers, and sustained drama to reimagine their traumatic experiences. More info and press releases here.
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Investigation Discovery announce record breaking viewing figures for Obsession: Dark Desires
July 2012 – Dead or Alive / Darlow Smithson / National Geographic / Writer & Director
I am really excited to be writing and directing the first two episodes of Darlow Smithson's new drama doc series on animal attacks for Nat Geo Wild. With intricate witness accounts of the attacks and gory drama it's going to be a terrifying watch. The animals in question are Grizzly Bears and Cougars. Exec produced by Alex Sutherland, line produced by Steve Murphy and series produced by Hereward Pelling. DOP is Kev Robertson.
TX date announced here.
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May 2012 – 1980s: The Decade That Made Us / Nutopia / National Geographic / Archive Film Editor
I've joined Bruce Hepton and Fred Hepburn's team producing Nutopia's new landmark series for Nat Geo – 1980s: The Decade That Made Us. I'll spend pre-production with the Archive Team scripting and editing the decade's most iconic events and developing drama scripts.
April 2012 / Victory Television / Development Producer Director
I'm spending a few weeks working on fact ent formats with David Dehaney and Mark Rossiter at Sony's indie. I'll be filming and developing new talent and producing taster tapes and sizzles to accompany treatments.
October 2011 – Ladyboys / REDBACK PRODUCTIONS / skyLIVING / Producer Director
After the success of its recent 1hr doc on Ladyboys, skyLiving have commissioned Viv McGrath's Redback Productions to produce 6 x 1 revealing hrs. The shooting starts in Pattaya Thailand, where ladyboys from all over the world will be competing to be crowned "Miss International Queen 2011".
My second episode returns to Pattaya, aka the the "vegas of vice" to take a closer look at what is now reportedly Thailand's most popular tourist destination; a sea of beachfront gogo bars, vegasesque cabaret clubs, street vendors and scantily clad ladies and ladyboys coaxing in the tourists for drinks, company and more. Told through the eyes of four very different ladyboys, but what does the future hold for them? They share the common goal of preparing for their future, but will they eventually escape, or be swallowed up like so many before them.
Self shot by me on a PDW700. Please find clips on my videos page.
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After a decade in the joint, ex Gambino crime family member Louis Ferrante is applying his mafia business acumen to help struggling family businesses across the US. Using tough talking sit-downs, stakeouts and his sidekick George "Fat George" Dibello, each episode he will transform the fortunes of willing business owners. In the first episode, two brothers with competing locksmiths must settle their beefs or else. Please find clips on my videos page.
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I am cutting a one hour documentary on the Union Carbide chemical plant disaster in Bhopal. 3000 people were killed overnight and a quarter of a million suffered terrible health problems over the next 20 years. The film uses interviews, CGI, drama reconstruction and archive to create a tense chronological sequence of events that lead up to the disaster. You can watch the whole episode on my videos page.
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One more One Show film for Tigress with ingenious wildlife photographer Kim Taylor presented by Jamie Crawford. Shot on PDW 800. Executive Producer Kath Moore.
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Two American couples in crisis are flown deep into the Guyanese rain-forest for some extreme therapy with Emma Kenny. Taking part in jungle treks, canoeing, mountain climbs and sleeping out, they must must overcome the extreme environment whilst confronting the flaws in their relationships. Exec Produced by Amelia Hann, DOP Dane Lawing.
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I am making a series of short films on specialist wildlife photography, presented by Jamie Crawford. Shot on PDW 700. Executive Producer Kath Moore.
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30 minute documentary following the two days of intense technical rehearsals building up to the company's premier of their new piece: Monolith. Please find clips on my videos page.
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On 14th January Bobby Bleach was released from HMP Guys Marsh. We met him at the gate and filmed his first 24hrs of freedom, gaining a fascinating insight into the world of an ex-con. Would Bobby go straight back to his criminal past, or could he get his youth awareness scheme off the ground? Obs doc shot on EX3.
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Documentary series about real-life horror stories of ordinary people plagued by extraordinary infestations. From snakes and spiders to rats, roaches and raccoons. With interviews, drama reconstruction, archive and heavy use of effects to create drama and tension.
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"If you could get all your friends on Facebook together for a day… What would you do?"
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Documentary following ex US Marine assassin who has turned his skills to capturing poachers on the Baha peninsula. Directed by Ed Wardle – Alone in the Wild – Channel 4.
Croc Man / Tigress Productions / Discovery / Shooting Director
60′ obs doc following UK based crocodile enthusiast Shaun Fogget's quest to open the country's first crocodile zoo.
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A series of short films on specialist wildlife photography, presented by Jamie Crawford. Shot on PDW 700.
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90′ documentary following Mike Perham's attempt to become the youngest person to sail around the world. Filmed over two years.
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Melbourne coach Craig Bellamy is still learning how to cope with the effect of State of Origin on his NRL side, but for St George Illawarra, the pain is about to get a whole lot easier to handle.
A year after their NRL campaign hit a brick wall when the Dragons supplied eight players to the two Origin sides, the red and whites are facing the prospect of having zero representation in this year's series opener.
Winger-cum-fullback Brett Morris looms as the only Dragon with a legitimate shot at the NSW side, his selection likely to be determined by what Blues coach Ricky Stuart does with Parramatta star Jarryd Hayne.
While the Storm could provide up to six players for both sides, Bellamy is facing far greater certainty that at least his big three of Cooper Cronk, Billy Slater and Cameron Smith will be there for all three games.
And having seen the fatiguing effect Origin had on his side towards the back-end of the 2011 season, Bellamy said he would take measures to avoid a repeat.
"We'll be a lot more vigilant in that area, get them through that phase of the season okay, and get them nice and fresh at the end of the season," Bellamy said on Friday.
"It is (a testing time) without doubt.
"The last couple of years we haven't had as many as we used to have, but obviously our three Queenslanders are going to be there.
"And we'd like to think that Dane Nielsen and Justin O'Neill are going to be chances, and the two Ryans (Hoffman and Hinchcliffe) for NSW.
"Until we know how many we've got in there, during the Origin period and a little bit after the Origin period, we'll certainly be managing players as individuals."
The Storm have not lost a game heading into the final round before Origin takes effect, and are short-priced favourites to go all the way in 2012.
In 2011, the Dragons had lost only one of their first 10 games heading into the representative season - their form so good one bookmaker paid out on them to win a third straight minor premiership with more than half the season remaining.
But the Dragons won just three of their next 12 games to fade from premiership reckoning - with their plethora of representative stars struggling to find their best form down the stretch.
Still holding out hope that he and a few of his Dragons teammates will be there when the NSW team is named on Sunday, Morris believes the club is better placed for last year's experience.
"It was pretty hard last year, I think we all saw what happened," Morris said.
"... you never know how many are going to get picked, but I think we'll be better prepared for it this year.
"I think we've learned from last year how much it does take out of you physically and mentally."


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"Teaching children about God through music!"
The music ministry of Spring Hill Baptist Church offers a variety of music experiences for our children. A group of experienced and dedicated leaders guide children in singing, playing, making friends, and having fun!
Wednesday Night Music and Missions for Children meets each week during the school year, 5:30-6:15 p.m.
Preschool Music Activities
Music for Threes - Three year olds will experience an introduction to listening, singing, rhythm and instrumental activities. "Mommie, Daddy and Me", a night where parents join their children in their music activities is a favorite event of the year!
Preschool Choirs - The older preschool and Kindergarten children learn basic music elements involving rhythm, melody and expression through various activities that involve singing, playing instruments and movement. This spring the Kindergarten Choir presented the musical, "Good Little Sam," a very unique way of telling the story of the Good Samaritan.
Music Makers (Grades 1-3) The Music Makers continue their training in the areas of rhythm, melody, harmony, form and expression. Special attention is given to developing singing skills, introduction to music reading and playing instruments. First and Second Graders enjoy playing music games, learning about our hymns and the stories behind them. Third Graders learn to play recorder, choir chimes, have special guests to tell them about instruments and take an annual trip at Christmas to share music in a Senior Living home.
Young Musicians Choir (Grades 4-6 ) The Young Musicians continue to learn, through a variety of activities, the elements of music and reading music. Singing skills and learning to lead in worship as a choir is the emphasis of this group. Members of Young Musicians Choir are given the opportunity to audition for the Alabama Baptist Children's Honor Choir. Those chosen will join children from other churches throughout Alabama to present a concert in March.
Young Musicians Handbells and Choir Chimes (Grades 4-6) These groups learn basic skills in handbell playing and reading music. They meet Wednesdays at 5:00 p.m.
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Victorian French Bronze Guillotine Figural Cigar Cutter
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A macabre bronze figural cigar cutter in the form of a guillotine. The perfectly detailed guillotine includes a movable "bascule" and "lunette". On the full-size models, these were the portions to which the victim was strapped and tilted into the machine and the part with a hole that surrounded the neck to hold the head still. In this case, a cigar is laid on the bascule and the lunette closes around the very tip of the cigar. When the rope is released, the heavy blade drops, lopping off the tip which falls into the bucket underneath. The bronze elements are entirely hand-fashioned and are mounted on a simple mahogany base. Incidentally, cigar cutters, regardless of their shapes, are often called "guillotines" in France.
Origin: France, ca. 1860. Condition: excellent, even the rope appears to be original. Size: 8" tall.
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The Story Behind Alloro
"Alloro" is Italian for Laurel as in laurel bay leaves. Gina and Salvatore chose this name because Salvatore loves to cook with it, because it carries centuries of symbolism and because it is a perennial green herb (many of you know green is a favorite color of the Corea family).
In the summer, one can enjoy an Alloro sorbet while in the winter it accompanies meat dishes in a jus lie reduction. "Alloro" is not to be confused with "Allora" which translates to "well then…" One may of course use them in the same sentence as in "Allora, andiamo ad Alloro!"
Chef Salvatore Corea was born in Albi, a small town of about 800 inhabitants, in the province of Catanzaro in the Calabria region of Italy. Calabria is known for its homegrown vegetables, fruits and especially for its homemade olive oil and wine. Salvatore grew up on freshly grown foods all his life and was surrounded by women who harvested and cooked delicious, labor-intensive food. Chef Corea discovered his passion for home-style cooking at a young age in his mother's kitchen.
At 20, Salvatore enrolled in a local hotel management school where he would study to be a waiter. After noting he was too anxiety ridden to even carry a tray to a table, he quit. He began to think back to cooking with his mother and to his time in the service. While serving his mandatory one-year in the military, Salvatore quickly moved from the firing range to the kitchen. He was such a poor shot; his superior traded his rifle for a vegetable peeler. He knew the kitchen was his place.
At 22, Salvatore moved north to Le Marche to work for his older brother where he was again handed the vegetable peeler. Here he confirmed two things: the kitchen is where he belongs and brothers are better off working separately. He moved to Rome in search of a cooking job.
While cooking Roman dishes in an Irish pub, he met an American English teacher named Gina. Melissa was Gina's roommate and worked in the pub as a waitress. She insisted on a blind date for Gina and Salvatore. Gina declined claiming she was done with Italian men! However, one night Gina ate Salvatore's food. It was love at first bite! She was hooked after her first dish of Stracchetti con Rucola e Parmigiano.
Soon after their first date, Salvatore was offered the position of Executive Chef at La Torre, renowned restaurant on the exclusive Island of Giannutri in Tuscany. Salvatore bargained for an agreement that would include Gina coming along to learn to wait tables. The two worked side by side for two consecutive summers.
After living in Rome together for 4 years, in 1998 the two decided to move to New York, Gina's hometown. Chef Corea held the Executive Chef position at Va Tutto!, La Gioconda, La Giara, and Baraonda.
Chef Corea has opened several successful restaurants since coming to NYC as chef/partner: Cacio e Pepe in the East Village, Spiga on the Upper West Side and Bocca in Gramercy. When Salvatore realized that the best partner is a life partner, he sold his shares. He remains a partner in Cacio e Pepe and is the co-owner of Alloro with his wife, Gina.
Salvatore and Gina live one block away from Alloro, on 77th Street with their two girls, Giada and Maila. They spend their days with the girls and their nights at Alloro where they are always looking forward to welcoming you to their cozy restaurant. Go where you will be sure to enjoy a delicious meal prepared only with the freshest in-season ingredients set in a chic and adventurous dining space accompanied by your favorite cocktail or a glass of fine Italian wine.
Benvenuti e Buon Appetito!


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Clare Marie Carroll is a 20 year-old California native. Growing up in Los Angeles, Clare was lucky to be immersed in the arts from day one and hopes to continue to remain in the arts for the rest of her life. She has studied both visual and performing arts and is both self-taught as well as professionally trained. Currently attending New York University, Clare is in the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in which she hopes to combine her love for music, photography, film, and computers into a interdisciplinary degree and eventually a thriving career. In addition, she is working toward a minor in Computer Science. Clare also enjoys roller coasters, super heroes, and playing the ukulele.
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