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Art and Craft News
Tim Holtz Stamp Platform News
25 July Update...
More are on their way, expected delivery is... drum dee dum dum ... early August! Like, in less than 2 weeks time :D Woo hoo! So excited!
If you purchase both the Platform and the Storage Case at the same time, you receive FREE Express Postage :) No code necessary. Just add both to the shopping cart and I'll do the rest!
Links to buying in now (or window shopping) :
- the Platform ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform PreOrder
- the Storage Case ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Storage Case
If you need more information or help with anything, please ask anytime :)
Thank you!
17 July Update...
The first order of platforms have arrived! :) Yay!
More will be arriving in September or October so nobody will miss out and there'll still be time to use it to make Halloween, Birthday or Christmas cards by the dozen!
Let me know if you'd like to be notified when its available to PreOrder again.
How to Chat :
- phone ... 0428898120
- email ... www.shop.artbyjenny.com.au/community/contact
- FB msg ... www.facebook.com/ArtbyJenny.GGofRB
Along with this exciting delivery is a new treasure we'll all need and want - the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Storage Case! Visit the link to check it out :)
Links to buying in advance (or window shopping) :
- the Platform ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform PreOrder
- the Storage Case ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Storage Case
If you need more information or help with anything, please ask anytime :)
Thank you!
12 July Update...
The first order of platforms are nearly here! Arriving here tomorrow or Friday :) Yay!
You know what I'll be doing all weekend! Packing and labelling Tim's stamp platforms and storage cases :) Those of you who have one in this new delivery - watch for the postie on Tuesday or Wednesday next week :D So exciting!
The next delivery will be sometime during or after August. I'm renaming the name (with PreOrder September) after this first delivery is posted to everyone to avoid confusion - so watch this space if you'd like to PreOrder your very own groovy stamping gadget! I'll post the link here when its ready :)
Requests will always be welcome (instead of buying in advance) and will be contacted once preorders are fulfilled, and posted in order of payment.
To chat, either phone, email, text msg, FB msg, by clicking the button "notify me..." or use the "contact me" button below.
Any questions, big or small - ask me anytime :)
Happy Creative Day!
19 June Update...
The latest update (woo hoo!) is that the Tim Holtz Stamp Platforms have finally arrived at Tonic Studio (UK) and are being packed as fast as they can for their journey to Australia.
Please note: The first exciting delivery of this groovy gadget was confirmed to be early June but they changed the date on me so now they are (hopefully) arriving late June 2017 along with their coordinating Storage Cases/Pockets (sold separately).
I'm just waiting for my shipping notification from them before I can give out any specific dates.
While I have sold out of my first delivery, more will be arriving in August or September, so once this first order has been finalised and posted out to everyone, I'll create a new PreOrder... it'll get too confusing otherwise!
Requests will always be welcome (instead of buying in advance) and will be contacted once preorders are fulfilled, and posted in order of payment.
To chat, either phone, email, text msg, FB msg, by clicking the button "notify me..." or use the "contact me" button below.
I'm very grateful for your patience. I hope you'll continue to wait with me! Any questions, big or small - ask me anytime :)
Thank you so much!
29 May Update...
3 weeks to go!
All my PreOrders are sold out now, so if you'd like to be contacted when they arrive (just in case of cancellations or having any left over due to my brilliant counting skills), msg or email or phone me anytime.
More will be arriving in August so let me know if you'd like to be notified when its available to PreOrder again.
How to Chat :
- phone ... 0428898120
- email ... www.shop.artbyjenny.com.au/community/contact
- FB msg ... www.facebook.com/ArtbyJenny.GGofRB
Along with this exciting delivery is a new treasure we'll all need and want - the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Storage Case! Visit the link to check it out :)
Links to buying in advance (or window shopping) :
- the Platform ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform PreOrder
- the Storage Case ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Storage Case
If you need more information or help with anything, please ask anytime :)
Thank you!
16 May Update...
I've exciting news :) The delivery of the Tim Holtz Stamp Platforms from the UK will be arriving instore mid June. That's in 4 weeks time!
This means I'm able to accept PreOrders again. I've only a few left in this first delivery but if you still like to see it before you buy, let me know :) I'll be taking oodles of photos and maybe even a video (you never know)!
Along with this exciting delivery is a new treasure we'll all need and want - the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform's Storage Case! Visit the link to check it out :)
Links to buying in advance (or window shopping) :
- the Platform ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform PreOrder
- the Storage Case ... Tim Holtz Stamp Platform Storage Case
If you need more information or help with anything, please ask anytime :)
Thank you!
10 May Update...
Same news from 30 April (2 weeks ago) but still the latest news :)
I have Fantastic News!
I've been chatting with Tonic Studios direct, both the US and UK offices for the past few weeks. Both are such lovely people and so helpful! Anyway, the UK Tonic Studios are working with me to enable me to buy direct. So pretty soon, you'll have your stamp platform - and without any legalities getting in the way.
Just waiting on confirmation from Tonic Studios about the delivery date!
Product link >>> Tim Holtz Stamp Platform PreOrder
This means that the UK version of Tim Holtz's Stamp Platforms could be here earlier than previously expected... hopefully June or July!
Due to the legalities with the US version of Tim Holtz's Stamp Platform, there has been worldwide delay on the launch. Therefore, its unlikely that we'll see the US version arrive in Australia before July or August.
I'm pleased to share that the UK version of Tim's Stamp Platform looks and works exactly the same as the one seen in videos and photos from Tim Holtz's blog, Tonic Studios' website, Creativation trade show (formerly CHA) and here at Art by Jenny.
What a huge relief! As soon as they land on my doorstep, I'll be singing from the rooftops :)
I feel for Tim Holtz and his team, Tonic Studios and My Sweet Petunia... court is such a stressful thing. Hopefully it'll be finalised as soon as possible and everyone involved is happy with the outcome. Fingers crossed for Tim and Tonic :)
Please continue to watch this blog post and I'll keep you up to date with any news, updates or anything else I find out. And of course, if you've a PreOrder, I'll write to you each time I update this blog too :)
If you'd like to buy in advance, here's the link >>> Tim Holtz Stamp Platform PreOrder
I'm so grateful for your patience and understanding. Thank you for continuing to wait with me! Any questions, big or small - ask me anytime :)
Thank you!
Happy Easter!
Update 14 April 2017 ... I have information for you about the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform and while its not fantastic news, its not the worst we could have received.
Since I last wrote to you, I've been trying to get hold of information from Tonic Studios for weeks but haven't had much response other than, we'll get back to you. In hindsight, they've obviously had their hands full talking to lawyers and reworking their groovy gadget.
I received an email from Mario Rossi this morning with an official letter from Tonic Studios about what's been happening. He's quite positive and sends his thanks for our patience and understanding.
Its a worldwide delay, not just the US… those who have already got their Stamp Platform in the UK are even luckier than just getting it early! They've got the original :) But we will get ours too one day. Just not this week (April) as expected :(
If you haven't heard, My Sweet Petunia have been granted a patent for the Misti and from what I understand, they are asking all other manufacturers to change their own products (ie, Tim's platform).
In the letter from Tonic Studios, they state that they are very excited to launch the new Tim Holtz Stamping Platform. While they don't consider their platform to be an infringement on the Misti patent and their claims, they do not want to expose us, their customers and retailers to any legal action, therefore are launching a newer model in place of the one seen in January at the trade show.
Because of this, there will be a delay in its production of 6-8 weeks - so it looks like it will be June or July before we see this arrive at Art by Jenny or anywhere else in Australia.
As with all inventions, everything gets reworked and revamped and redesigned as technology changes, ideas spring up and improvements are made. I'm sure the designer of Misti and all the other manufacturers including Tonic Studios work this out. There's enough room on our planet for everyone's amazing creations, gadgets and inventions :)
From a stamper's point of view (me), I wanted a stamping platform the second I saw Tim's version! Until then I was satisfied with my 2 bits of plastic stuck together with duck tape :) lol Whether its Tim or the colour that changed my mind I don't really know, but I do know that I can't wait for it to arrive so I can use it! Christmas cards are going to be so much faster to make this year - meaning more than 5 people will get one :D Yay!
Back to you ... I realise another 6 to 8 weeks can seem like a really long time so I'm truly grateful for your patience and understanding.
I hope you're happy to wait with me for Tim's amazing stamp platform.
Thank you for reading, watching or buying, anticipating the launch, and waiting with me! Its just a little bit exciting... like all new treasures from Tim :)
If you'd like to be notified when they've arrived and in stock (and not sold out... eg, 1 or 3 spare), contact me and I'll write to you when the big day arrives.
Have a wonderful, creative and happy Easter weekend!
About the Stamp Platform...
Disclaimer... it may look different now. This clever gadget helps make stamping multiple cards and precision application so much easier.
No need for holding or taping down the card so it doesn't move while you rummage around trying to line up the stamp and acrylic block.
Works with all cling rubber stamps - red, grey or clear, old or new :)
These two little round things in the photos are strong magnets... these are to keep your card still while you stamp.
Working platform size is approx 8.5 inches (21cm) square... looking at the photo, the increments are the same as the ruler (sold separately)... in quarter inches with inches marked on the sides.
An innovative surface for precision stamping with Rubber and Clear stamps. Take your stamping to the next level with the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform. Designed to perfectly accommodate both clear and rubber stamps – and engineered to ensure an accurate even contact every time – the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform is a must have for any creative stamper!Highly durable, the Tim Holtz Stamp Platform is perfect for crafters attending classes or clubs or anyone requiring a tool for extensive stamping.
8.5 x 8.5 inch top and side ruler - marked in both imperial and metric measurements accurately placing stamps at specific intervals couldn't be easier. The measurements are in centimetres AND inches! Yay :)
- 1 x sturdy magnetic base plate with dual side and top measuring rulers;
- 1 x clear dual thickness, metal hinged stamping plate. Each side is marked to show the thickness of stamp that should be used. Use one side for clear stamps and the other for rubber stamps. Ensures a perfect, even contact between stamp and medium;
- 2 x high strength magnets used to clamp the medium in place when stamping.
Overall size: 29.2cm (11.5in) x 24.3cm (9.5in).
Msg me if you have questions :) Have a happy day! Jenny
Make Your Own Washi Tape
Its fun, easy and satisfying to make or decorate your own washi tape for scrapbooking, journaling, cardmaking, mixed media artwork or any other project.
The main treasure you'll need is either paper and adhesive tape (or glue), self adhesive paper, white paper tape, adhesive labels or my new favourite tape, Dylusions Journal Tape.
Dyan Reaveley's own paper tape is beautifully fine and super sticky. It stays put really well without lifting plus once its on, you can hardly feel it.
You can use anything you like to decorate this journal tape including paints, inks, pencils and markers. Stamping flowers or markings over a watercolour background wash always looks beautiful :)
Today I used the Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks and my Zig waterbrush.
First I drew circles in various sizes, starting large then filling the spaces with smaller and smaller circles. They don't have to be even :) I started with just 3 strips (half a sheet) of tape in the smallest size, 20mm wide.
I used 4 colours... night, blackberry, magenta and turquoise. I drew the circles in pink then added the others afterwards. The dark blue (night) I added last.
The next part is easy... using the waterbrush I washed over each circle and activated the pigments. The colours blended beautifully.
Stencils and stamps are great to use for making your own tape too. Use whatever colours you like and have fun!
Sing out if you have questions or need help :)
Happy Creative Day!
March Updates for New Arty Treasure - Oxides and Scribble Sticks inStore Now!
March 31 Update
PreOrder Update - Oxide Ink Pads are in stock!
The Distress Oxide Ink Pads are becoming scarce! If you miss out on an ink pad, buy a couple (or all) of the Oxide Reinkers. You can easily stamp and paint with these. The ink is smooth and creamy so sticks to rubber stamps quite well, with or without using an ink pad. I squirted some out onto my craft sheet and used my finger to dab onto my stamp. Worked out ok :) The colours themselves are different to the original Distress Inks... they're opaque, making the colours appear brighter. Well worth a try I think :D
New products are instock and online - Tim's Idea-Ology treasures including the gorgeous Boutique paper flowers, Transparent Alpha Tiles (so cool), Paper Dolls Die Cuts and the beautiful Design Tapes... plus lots more still to add :)
Actually, all that's left to add online from this delivery are the new binders, a few stashes of 12x12 and 8x8 paper pads, a "couple" of other Idea-Ology newbies, the Broadway Bigz Dies (its huge!), the cling foam alphabet stamps and 2 sets of Thinlet Dies (Tattered Florals and Wildflowers #2). Plus! New Darkroom Door stamps (more!) and Dina Wakely's Scribble Sticks will be added online soon. Dina's watercolour crayons (Scribble Sticks) are in stock now :D The colours are gorgeous!
Click here to buy new arty treasures
March 21 Update
PreOrder Update - My 2nd Delivery for Distress Oxide Ink Pads is next week, 28th March 2017 :)
I received a shipping notification today (21st) and had a wonderful surprise... the Oxides are on their way sooner than expected! Woo hoo! Wait till you see them in real life too - the colours look gorgeous :)
Single colours for each the ink pads and refills will be online later today along with everything else in my shipping notification - lots and lots of treasure! Gonna be a busy girl today :)
What else? I received a shipping notification from Stampers Anonymous a week or so ago, so more of the brand new CHA / Creativation releases will be here any day now!
- edit : 5 new stamp designs arrived last night - Slate & Stone, Vines & Roses (so pretty), Flower Jar (love it), Illustrated Garden (gorgeous) and Scribbles & Spirals.
Click here to check out the newbies :)
Dyary News
I know, the Dylusions Dyaries feel like they're taking forever but they'll be here very very soon. My sources say they'll be here with me at the end of next week (around the 28th) with Dyan's other groovy treasures like the journal tape, flip journals, Dyary ink, Dyary tape, Dyary stickers and a whole stash of Tim's Idea-Ology - boutiques of flowers, paper dolls, alphabets and more! So much more :D
Sadly, my order doesn't include the Dyary die cuts - but I do have in stock 3 collections of colouring sheets.
Its pretty awesome! I just need to get my skates on and get them online so you can find them. Which reminds me, if you ever want to buy Tim's set of 12x12 metal drawers or spinning storage tray, sing out any time! I have deliveries from the US every month so its easy enough to add 1 or 3 extra items just for you :)
Darkroom Door have just announced a set of fantastic NEW Eclectic Stamps and they'll be here late March or early April. The pics look amazing :) I'll download them and add them to this blog post. Sing out if you want to PreOrder :)
Tim's Hipsters look so groovy in real life... just sayin' :)
Thanks for waiting with me for these treasures. I wish you a happy, creative day!
Feb 26 Update
They've arrived! Tim's stamps of Hipsters, Motivation series, Illustrated Garden, Brush Strokes plus Darkroom Door's beautiful new collage stamps.
Dyan Reaveley's newly designed Silhouette Stencils arrived as well, named from left to right - Jay, Ben and Emmi. These 3 stencils are the replacements for the dearly departed Flossie, Ruby, Lottie, Bert and Fred.
Etcetera now means 'Tim Treasure'!
The Tim Holtz Etcetera tags are here! These look and feel amazing :D
Tim Holtz's Etcetera range of tags are different to any surface you've used before! Made by Stamers Anonymous from what they call thickboard, a type of craftwood or thick chipboard. These tags are strong, smooth and ready for anything you want to create, embellish, paint, sand or drill - anything at all. Available in 3 sizes - 5.5"x10", 6.5"x12" and 8.25"x14.25".
click here for New Treasure!
Love stencils? Me too! Finally, I've ordered my faves of the Mini Tim Holtz Layering Stencil range. The new ones aren't far away. The estimated release date from Stampers Anonymous is April (must check this!). If you come across any that I've not put online and would love to buy, let me know and I'll get them in for you. You can find all the stencils and masks here.
The Distress Oxide ink pads are arriving soon! Have you seen them? So much fun to be had I reckon. I've added them into the shop now as a PreOrder (click here) with the first delivery of ink pads and reinkers arriving mid to late March. Order today or contact me to be notified when they are here.
Dyan's dyary has had a slight delay but they'll be here very soon, also in mid March! Along with ALL the stickers, stamps, washi and more. The accessory bags aka stencil pockets will be here soon too.
So many treasures! Are you lucky enough to get your hands on any of these yet? Had time to play yet? I hope so. After all, that's what buying all these treasures is all about - more to use for art, craft and being creative in any way!
Thanks for your time :) Have an awesome happy, creative day!
Feb 12 Update
Some of Tim's stamps are flying across to us as I speak (type) ... Hipsters, Motivation series, Illustrated Garden, Brush Strokes and more. Darkroom Door newbies are instore now :D
I received the shipping notification from Stampers Anonymous yesterday (11 Feb) and it usually takes around a week for treasures to arrive so look for "nearly here" or "on its way" in the product name to see what's included. I've left the word "PreOrder" on as they're not here yet :) Any questions, sing out any time!
Tim's latest stencil designs will be here any day now... the tracking estimates Wednesday this week :D Sooooo exciting! Travelling with them are refills for the Masters' Cleaner, Yupo paper, most of Tim's stencils plus a "few" other treasures. Prismacolor blending pencils sold out again but will be back in March.
Dyan's groovy Dyary (diary, journal) is on its way to us too. I've only ordered 1 box (10) so get your order in quick so you don't miss out! Next delivery is in March for these.
That's it for today's news. So far! lol :) There's always something exciting happening in the art and craft Universe!
Have an awesome happy, creative day!
Jan 31 News
As you probably have already seen and heard, there are so many arty treasures from Tim Holtz, Tonic Studios, Dylusions of Dyan Reaveley and Ranger about to be released.
Just like every new product announcement, they show off their new ideas and favourite new toys, then make us wait until the products have been manufactured. But its a good thing - this way we all get to have a good dose of retail and art therapy each and every month, not all at once!
Arrivals from Tim, Dyan and friends are happening every 4 or 5 weeks starting mid February. So exciting! Can't wait to see the bouquets of flowers (Idea-Ology), Tim and Tonic's fabulous new stamping gadget (like the Misti but half the price!) and Dyan's groovy new diary, I mean Dyary. I'd say sorry for my excitement but I'd just have to take it back because I simply love love love it all! The colours, designs, textures, ideas, inspiration, and more colours... {{happy sigh}} lol :)
This link will transport you to the "What's New" category to see what's just arrived
Click this link to see and preorder all the brand new goodies
Gorgeous NEW Darkroom Door stamps are on their way - arriving in a couple of weeks... can't wait :) I love the look of it all (as always! lol), the Grunge Marks, Butterflies and Classic Cars. And the Hummingbirds are gorgeous too! Rachel's special occasion sayings are practical as well as beautiful.
The Texture Stamps and more of the other collections are planned to arrive this year. Slowly I'm building up the shop to have every single Darkroom Door stamp available for you to buy.
This is a direct link to all Darkroom Door new arrivals
Speaking of my wishlist, Liquitex acrylic paints are arriving in the next few weeks. I'm ordering the basics plus a few favourites like veridian, aqua and turquoise! You've just got to have all the gorgeous mermaid colours at hand, it saves so much time and hassle mixing them. With basics you can create nearly every colour under the sun but if you want other colours, simply ask :)
The Liquitex bottles of ink are on their way too. I love ink :) Such a versatile medium - it can be used for drawing, colouring, painting, splashing, dripping - anything at all. Plus if you add it to the thick gel mediums, it becomes a thick paint. AND it works beautifully with all the Distress, Winsor & Newton and Gansai Tambi ranges too :) Yay!
Paint brushes are still here waiting to be added to the shop... along with Winsor & Newton mediums (watercolour paints in tubes and pans are on the way), Liquitex gesso, IndigoBlu stamps ... I've got Rain Drops, Kibble Puppies and Kittens, Rebecca, Ella Bella and a few more.
Anybody still want Brusho or Ken Oliver watercolour powders? I haven't ordered them again because I find my Tim Holtz Distress Ink Sprays to be so much easier to use. And cleaner if you can believe it! I ended up with watercolour dust everywhere when I last used Brusho powder - I've given it to a friend who simply loves the stuff :) Obviously it was something I did because she doesn't make a mess at all. lol :)
If you want them, let me know. Both Brusho Crystal Colours and Ken Oliver Color Bursts can easily be ordered from my supplier.
FYI ... Below is a background made for my latest ATCs using Tim's Distress Ink Sprays.
I've found that Tim Holtz's ink sprays and stains are permanent once heat set and if sprayed with a mist of fixative, the colours don't fade. Most watercolours need to be set with a fixative before adding other layers so the colours don't reactivate with water or other ink.
I always spray a fine mist of fixative over my art, just in case. Any brand will work - just make sure it says "non yellowing". If you can't find it or aren't sure what you're looking for, ask me anytime :)
Thanks for reading my shop's blog. I'm off to Blogger now to upload my latest creations... its been a while so there'll be a few pics to see. Have a wonderful, creative and Happy day!
Kuretake Japanese Art Pens Review
Summary... Love them!
Kuretake's Hikkei Double Ended Brush Pen and Fudegokochi Fine Point Brush Pens are Japanese professional pens with black archival ink, designed to be used for art, drawing, writing and calligraphy. Kuretake are the people who make Gansai Tambi watercolour paints and other very high quality art and design products.
Normally marketed towards artists who draw comics, cartoons and anime, these pens are versatile and flexible. The brush tips on both pens are springy and precise. They are extra fine if you mark with the very tip and wide if used on the side or pressed firmer. Only time will tell how well the tips last but so far the tips don't go furry and thick, meaning they'll stay beautiful and precise for a long time. I love drawing with them, so light and smooth to use! They glide over the page :)
Click here for the 'Pencils, Pens and Markers' category in the shop
The black ink is a clean neutral grey base. Alot of black inks have a red, green or blue base, meaning when the black is thinned down, it has a coloured tint. This ink is totally grey, not even a hint of another colour when I was cleaning off my Crazy Cat stamp.
The pencil drawing in the background of my play space was a sketch of Vincent van Gogh's Starry Starry Night... well, it started out as that then turned into just a few hills that the astromoner could climb to watch the various flying objects! lol Just noticed they're very feint in the photo so may not be visible on small devices but you can see the tent and mountaineer easily (top right) :) Here's my other one...
Anyway, back to the pens!
As a test, I drew a row of scribbly trees with the silver barrelled Hikkei to the right of the page. The 2 thick sweeps are drawn with the side of the pen. Below this I stippled with both the side and tip of the brush, then a few dashes... it can be extra extra fine if you go lightly :)
I then drew more trees with the Fudegokochi, both ends. I found the fine tip drew thinner than the Hikkei. Just realised I didn't draw with the side of this pen before taking the main photo but its about twice the thickness as the Hikkei's thick sweep as shown below.
Using the Tim Holtz layering stencil "Mini Twisted", I traced a couple of branches. The Hikkei was best for this as I could get the finer twists traced without filling in the space as much. See the yellow branch, its cleaner than the green.
Adding colour with my Zig waterbrush and Gansai Tambi paints, I discovered the pens were permanent on paper (and wash off plastic using water). No amount of water made the lines bleed.
Quick link to all waterbrushes :)
Cooooool :) So got out my Crazy Cat stamps! Love these guys :) I used the Fudegokochi thick end and brushed over the stamp... it inks up rely well and washes off easily. Great for precision and selective area stamping. Normally I use my Tim markers, Distress inkpads and Archival inkpad for inking up stamps... using this pen for the image will stop me getting black ink everywhere its not wanted!
I only inked up this kitten's head once but stamped the three times. You can see the nice cool grey outline better in this pic. Perfect when you want to ink up in grey not black. Just remember to stamp on scrap before your project to get the grey!
I've drawn on the last available page in my Strathmore "drawing paper" visual journal so the paper is absorbant (unlike mixed media, acrylic or mixed media paper) and water makes the paper pill (go fluffy) and swell. I'll draw and paint on anything though unless I'm working on a particular project (that requires a certain paper or object).
I love Strathmore's paper ... so here's another quick link, this time to Strathmore.
So my overall thought? Love them :) Thanks for reading my blog.
Have a happy day!
How to Trim Darkroom Door Stamp Sets
I love Darkroom Door stamps! There are so many ways to use them - as backgrounds of cards, featured in journals, added to a mixed media canvas, used on a scrapbook page - anything at all.
The quality of these stamps is superb. Every image is easy to ink up and prints beautifully every time, just as designed - not squashed or missing fine details like some clear stamps do (for me).
I may appear a bit biased as I sell them, but I do love them (which is WHY I choose to sell them).
The gorgeous green card above is by Godelieve Tijskens of Stamping Mathilda, talented artist and designer for Darkroom Door. Big thank yous go to Godelieve and Rachel Grieg for the use of this image :)
The only thing I've heard is tricky is trimming around each image or word. While the quotes, background and eclectic stamps by Darkroom Door are ready to use straight out of the packet (apart from taking off the paper backing), the stamp sets require a little preparation before use.
Click this link for my FREE Stamp Trimming Service!
How to Trim Your Darkroom Door Stamps...
Step 1
I prefer to use my Tim Scissors (Tim Holtz Tonic Serrated Scissors). They are sharp and strong, great for the stretchy rubber - plus the serrated blades grip the rubber as you cut, allowing you to cut closely with precision.
Step 2
Leave the paper backing on and with the image or stamp facing you, cut carefully around all the elements or just the element you require.
Step 3
The excess I find quite useful as it can be cut into shapes like squares, triangles, circles, polygons and anything else - shapes are great to use either featured (with doodling) or in backgrounds. Let your imagination be your guide!
Step 4
Next, peel off white backing paper and place stamp onto a clear acrylic block of a similar size.
Step 5
Colour the image with Distress markers, ink, stains, paints or press into texture paste or gesso. Be sure to wash straight away so the pastes don't dry onto the stamp.
Step 6
Store your stamp set in the handy storage case provided with each set.
Click here to see all stamps by Darkroom Door
Click here to see the Tim Scissors aka Tim Holtz Tonic Scissors


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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Jun 10, 2014
Scientists from several British, Spanish and Russian research centers (MIPT, Institute for Spectroscopy RAS, Kurchatov Institute and Kintech Lab Ltd) have come up with a method of synthesizing a new type of nickel-carbon compound.
The article titled Formation of nickel-carbon heterofullerenes under electron irradiation has been published by Dalton Transactions and is available as a pre-print at arxiv.org. The first author of the article is Alexander Sinitsa, an MIPT student, and the leading author is Andrey Popov (Institute for Spectroscopy RAS, 1989 MIPT graduate).
Heterofullerenes are hollow molecules with a nearly-spherical shape, which, unlike the typical fullerenes, contain atoms of elements other than carbon. Such compounds were synthesized quite a while ago, in 1991, but till now no heterofullerenes containing nickel, or any other transition metal, have been obtained. Yet, as the authors point out in their article, transition metals are now being studied as catalysts in the synthesis of carbon nanotubes and graphene.
"I'd like to emphasize that the majority of calculations have been performed by a student. Hopefully, students regularly visit the MIPT site and get inspired by their colleagues' successes. If you are especially interested in the role of MIPT graduates in research, then I can tell you that Irina Lebedeva graduated from the Institute in 2008, and Andrey Knizhnik, perhaps in 1999, but I'm not exactly sure about the year.
"I'd also like to point out that Elena Bichoutskaia (a Saint Petersburg State University Faculty of Physics graduate) is a member of the Russian diaspora abroad, which is typical of international cooperation of Russian scientists," Andrey Popov told the MIPT Press Service.
The synthesis of nickel heterofullerenes is supposed to be carried out under electron irradiation, which is used in high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) in order to obtain detailed snapshots showing, if needed, separate atoms.
A number of previous experiments conducted by various research groups demonstrated that electronic irradiation can also be applied to synthesize a variety of nanostructures, e.g., one-layer carbon fullerene-filled nanotubes were transformed into two-layer ones.
Using the latest data obtained from the HRTEM images and the results of computer modelling by methods of molecular dynamics, the scientists have shown the potential possibility to transform graphene flakes with nickel cluster into nickel-carbon heterofullerene.
The scientists, though, are not sure about the practical application of such heterofullerenes. According to Andrey Popov, "these new-type molecules can reveal some interesting electronic, magnetic, and optic features, or it may be possible to combine them with some organic functional complexes of interest to biologists and physicians. They can also be used to create 3D organic-metallic structures to store hydrogen".
In their work, the researchers developed and applied an authentic algorithm for modelling electron-nanostructure interactions. This allows taking into account both fast (just tens of picoseconds) and slow (lasting for full seconds) processes. The fast processes are associated with electron collisions, and the slow ones relate to molecular relaxation.
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When I was nine years old, my grandmother past away. She was the most wonderful person in my life and it has been almost ten years since her death. I miss her a great deal because she was everything to me. I remember the day my mom told me she had a stroke and was in the hospital. I didn't think much of it being so young and she was always in the hospital since she had diabetes. She had both her legs taken while i was growing up and i guess i never understood the severity of her case until she did't wake up from her coma after the stoke. i still remember the last day I saw her before she went to the hospital. SHe looked so strong and so happy. I regret the way i acted that last time because she wouldnt let me spend the night with her so i was upset. It was almost like she knew something bad was going to happen but didnt want me to be there when it did. I know its crazy but i really think she could feel it coming. Those few weeks after she slipped into coma were miserable because when we were allowed to visit her, the doctors had her strapped down so she didnt pull out the tubes. What hurt the most though was that she woke up for a couple of days. She couldnt talk but she would blink at us and that is the last time i saw her. We left the hospital thinking a miracle had happened and she was getting better, but then she fell back into coma. Then, after a few days, my mom and grandpa and uncle and aunt made the decision to take her off life support. That night, she passed away in her sleep. My grandpa was by her side when she left. I remember the next morning, I woke up to sounds around 5am in our living room and went to see what it was. My family was out there and my mom called me to her and told me my grandma was in a better place. I just went pale, walked to my room, grabbed my blanket my grandma gave me and cried. I think the part that hurt the worse was the fact she woke up to say goodbye and then she just slipped away.I just wonder that if i had loved her a little more, maybe she would have fought a little harder to stay here. I know she was in pain and i guess that is the one thing that helps me with my pain is knowing hers is gone and thats all i ever want for her.
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For the conscious shopper, there is an app that helps you decide where to take your money. Called Good On You, the Australian app lays out how ethically sourced 3,000-some fashion brands are. The app provides a rating and information about labor, environment, and animal protection.
"Our brand ratings are based on robust principles and independent data sources," says the Good On You app's website. "We assess how well each brand avoids causing harm to workers, the environment and animals, and what they are doing to create positive change on the issues you care about."
First created in July as part of a crowdfunding project, it was released in November to Australian shoppers. The idea of the app is to "translate everyday shoppers' desire for a better world into real incentives for brands to address the issues their customers care about," according to what the app's CEO, Gordon Renouf, said to Refinery29 in an interview.
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The great horn player Barry Tuckwell celebrated his 80th birthday earlier this year. Born in Melbourne, he studied under Alan Mann at the NSW Conservatorium Of Music, then joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the age of 15. "The horn chose me. Right from the beginning, it was something I knew I could do."
At 19 he left for London, gaining his first professional appointment with the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester in 1951 under Sir John Barbirolli.
He cites trombone virtuoso Tommy Dorsey as a major early influence and later in England, the horn virtuoso Dennis Brain, with whom he studied informally. By 1955 at the age of 24 he'd become the principal horn with the London Symphony Orchestra. The LSO is a co-operative managed by the musicians and Barry was their chairman for 6 years, resigning to become the first independent horn soloist and conductor. He also enjoyed chamber music with the Tuckwell Wind Quintet and the Jones, Tuckwell and Langbein Trio.
Many composers have written works for Barry including Oliver Knussen, Don Banks, Gunther Schuller, Robin Holloway, Thea Musgrave and Richard Rodney Bennett.
Barry Tuckwell is the most recorded horn player, with more than 50 recordings, and has three Grammy Award nominations.
Barry is now retired and living in rural Victoria. "Cows relate to the horn, they are attracted to the sound," he says. "When I play outside some very bemused cows from neighbouring fields come to visit." He devotes much of his time to mentoring young Horn players and is Honorary Patron of the Melbourne International Brass Festival. http://www.mifb.com.au/
Australian horn player Geoff Collinson, Co-Director Melbourne International Festival of Brass, talks to Barry about his extraordinary life and approach to music making.
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Race car haulers, like Ferrari's Fiat truckbased rig, were used hard and then discarded. Now, many transporters are as cherished as the cars they once carried.
Race Car transporters were like working folk in coveralls: seen but rarely noticed. Then suddenly, like the secretary in old movies who removes her glasses and wows her boss, old transporters started turning collectors' heads.
Transporters didn't begin to appear in numbers until the mid-1950s, when race cars became too specialized to drive to tracks. In the 1930s, Enzo Ferrari used ordinary trucks to move the Alfa Romeo team's race cars, so it was no surprise that for his own team he used Fiat transporters.
Like old race cars, transporters were discarded. Mercedes-Benz was probably the first to cherish its racing history, but that did not extend to The Blue Wonder, a carrier powered by a 300SL engine and designed to speed a race car to its destination at up to 100 mph.
The Ferrari transporters, in relatively good condition, were the first to attract collectors. Then, collector Dick Skipworth bought and restored the Ecurie Ecosse Commer to complement his stunning blue team Jaguars.
At Goodwood, Skipworth said he was going to the States to buy the most storied transporter of all "before the Yanks find out what they have." But vintage racer, collector and hot rod savior Don Orosco overheard the remark and beat him to it. In 2008, some two years and $600,000 later, Orosco appeared in Monterey, California, with his two Scarab Formula cars and Scarab sports car on the restored eight-wheel Fiat transporter, resplendent in Scarab livery.
The Fiat truck platform began service as the Maserati F1 team transporter in the mid-1950s. It later contested the 1960 Formula 1 season in the blue livery of American Lance Reventlow's Scarab team. When he took his outdated cars home, Carroll Shelby bought the truck to support his Cobras in their successful European episode.
Others whose colors had decorated the Fiat included Lotus, Alan Mann (Ford GT40s), JCB Equipment and David Piper. Piper put it to use with Steve McQueen while filming LeMans in 1970. During restoration, Orosco's paint team counted seven liveries.
Transporters took another move into the spotlight when Lawrence Auriana celebrated Maserati's 100th year by bringing his Fiat-based Maserati transporter to the 2014 Monterey Historics. Suddenly, it was 1957 and Fangio was winning the World Championship in the legendary 250F.
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Jeffs Blow Out Babson, 4-0
October 12, 2006
AMHERST, MA – The Amherst College field hockey team blew out non-conference opponent Babson College at Hitchcock Field this afternoon, 4-0. The Jeffs moved to 3-6 (0-5 NESCAC) on the season, while dropping the Beavers to 6-7 on the year.
The Lord Jeffs started their high scoring day off early, when junior midfielder Christa Porcaro (Pelham, NY) assisted on a Caki Guinee (Baltimore, MD) goal after just five minutes of play. The tally was Guinee's first of the season, and Porcaro's first assist on the year as well.
Ten minutes later, junior midfielder Sarah Tracy (Sturbridge, MA) broke the game wide-open with her first points of the season on an unassisted tally. Coming out of halftime with a 2-0 lead, the Jeffs kept the pressure high on Babson keeper Elissa Slovin (Andover, MA), who turned away 15 Amherst shots on the day.
Amherst netted two second half goals, the first coming with 21:45 left in the second half when junior defender Lauren Benson (Hamilton, NJ) assisted on a first year Molly Malloy (Stamford, CT) goal. The final Amherst goal was scored off another Porcaro assist, when senior co-captain Rachel Carr-Harris (Pleasantville, NY) punched home a loose ball in front of the Babson net with just nineteen seconds left.
In her first start of the season, sophomore goalie Jane Mostue (Lincoln, MA) posted a shutout win, and had seven saves.
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Three different concerns have presented themselves the past few weeks reminding producers that while summer and its heat may be over, the impact of the drought continues.
Cattlemen in the region are facing worries of aflatoxin in the corn crop, possible Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease in their cattle, and blue green algae in water sources.
Aflatoxin is extremely toxic chemicals produced by two molds. In corn, drought, extreme heat and ear injury from insect feeding stress the corn and create an environment favorable to these molds and to aflatoxin production.
Livestock, especially finishing cattle, will be the end user of much of the aflatoxin-infected corn, according to University of Illinois Extension beef educator Travis Meteer. "Caution and management are crucial to ensure that negative results do not occur from feeding this toxin-bearing feed."
Meteer recommends that the storage of corn that has aspergillus present needs to be dried down to less than 14 percent moisture to limit mold growth. Also, cool the grain down after drying and use aeration to control temperature. Mold inhibitors may also be applied to corn to reduce mold growth.
Test and monitor aflatoxin levels of corn to be fed to livestock. Blending aflatoxin-bearing corn with clean corn at the time of feeding can be a good practice to reduce aflatoxin levels in the diet.
Dilution is the solution. Blending should only occur directly before feeding. Blended corn is not legal for resale. Blending corn before feeding could result in contamination of clean corn.
Toxin-binding agents can also be incorporated into a ration. Grazing cornstalks where aflatoxin was found in corn should be of a lesser concern than feeding the corn. However, cornfields that have down corn or lots of ear drop coupled with aflatoxin being present may have potential to be dangerous to cattle. The less corn left in the field the better in this situation, Meteer says. Also, baling cornstalks from fields that have aflatoxin is discouraged.


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Claire Foy is featured in The Stage Podcast talking about of course 'Pulse' and 'Going Postal'. We learn that she's finished filming 'Homeland' in Israel. Listen to the lovely interview here.
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When Washington lobbyists fail to derail regulations proposed by federal agencies, they often find a receptive ear within the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, an arm of the White House Office of Management and Budget that conducts much of its business in secret
In early 2011, after years of study, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration moved to reduce the permissible levels of silica dust wafted into the air by industrial processes like fracking, mining or cement manufacturing. The move came after years of public comment and hearings, and reflected emerging science about the dangers posed by even low levels of dust. OSHA predicted the rule would save 700 lives annually and prevent 1,600 new cases of silicosis, an incurable, life-threatening disease.
The proposal stirred fierce opposition from an array of industries, which argued that the costs of reducing silica levels far outweighed the potential benefits. When OSHA pushed ahead, the lobbyists took their arguments to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a division of the Office of Management and Budget. Few people have ever heard of OIRA even though it is part of the White House and has broad authority to delay or suggest changes in any draft regulation.
OIRA's deliberations on the silica rule began in February 2011, and lasted two and a half years. During that time, records show, its officials held nine meetings with lobbyists and lawyers for the affected industries, but sat down only once with unions and once with health advocates.
Last August, the office sent a revised version of the rule back to OSHA; the worker protection agency has yet to act.
Labor advocates noted that the lengthy delay appeased House Republicans and pushed a decision opposed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce out of the 2012 presidential campaign. "During that delay thousands of workers were further exposed to silica,'' said Peg Seminario, director of safety and health at the AFL-CIO. "People have gotten sicker and some will die because of the exposures that have continued to take place."
What happened to the silica rule is no isolated example. A series of executive orders over the past three decades have given OIRA significant authority to reassess rules on every imaginable subject, from health care to the environment to transportation. The office shares early drafts of rules with the president's top advisers as well as other Cabinet-level agencies that might object.
Although some on OIRA's team have degrees in science and engineering, former officials say its leadership and staff are largely drawn from the realms of economics, law and public policy. Regardless, the office does not hesitate to rework agency rules that were years in the making and backed by peer-reviewed science. Often, OIRA officials make a proposed rule appear too costly by revising the calculation of benefits downward. As it did with the silica limits, the office can also prolong the process, holding regulations in limbo for months and sometimes years.
In an influential 2001 Harvard Law Review article, Elena Kagan, now a Supreme Court Justice, argued OIRA provides a crucial check on the actions of government bureaucrats. "From the beginning of the twentieth century onward," she wrote, "many statutes authorizing agency action included open-ended grants of power, leaving to the relevant agency's discretion major questions of public policy." Since agency heads are appointed, this could lead to administrative inefficiencies and, potentially, abuses of power. OIRA's review requires agencies to answer to the president — an elected official who, unlike agency administrators, is accountable to the people.
But in practice, OIRA operates largely in secret, exempt from most requests under the Freedom of Information Act. It routinely declines to release the changes it has proposed, the evidence it has relied upon to make them, or the identities and affiliations of White House advisers and other agencies' staff it has consulted. OIRA doesn't even disclose the names and credentials of its employees other than its two most senior officials. (Repeated requests to the office for the backgrounds of its employees drew no response.)
According to a study by the Center for Progressive Reform, a nonprofit research and educational organization critical of the office, 84 percent of the EPA's proposed rules from 2001 to 2011 featured changes suggested by OIRA as did 65 percent of other agencies' regulations. Officially, OIRA's "edits" are suggestions but they carry the weight of the White House and are typically accepted by the agency proposing the rule.
Among the rules OIRA has recently reshaped is a Federal Aviation Administration requirement on pilot rest. During its review, representatives of FedEx, UPS and other air-freight companies told OIRA that the dollar value of the pilots and aircraft that would be lost in fatigue-linked crashes would be far outweighed by the higher labor costs to the industry. The office successfully persuaded the FAA to exempt cargo pilots from the rule. (The regulation, protecting only passenger pilots, took effect this year.)
But the sphere in which OIRA's involvement has been most pronounced is environmental rules. At OIRA's prodding, the EPA removed manganese from a list of hazardous wastes and exempted certain types of engines, including motorcycles and snowmobiles, from a rule limiting emissions.
In 2008, an OIRA review by the Bush administration deleted a provision intended to protect plant life from the effects of ozone, a key component of smog. The EPA had proposed a sharp reduction in the permissible levels of ozone to protect forests and vegetation, which naturally remove carbon from the atmosphere. According to an investigation by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the White House summarily overturned the unanimous recommendation of the EPA's Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee and an array of expert testimony.
"I don't think OIRA has been shy about meddling in any aspect of the EPA's work," said Lisa Heinzerling, senior climate-policy counsel at the EPA in 2009 and the associate administrator of the office of policy in 2009 and 2010. "They really do a line-by-line edit — sometimes that involves changing what the regulations mean,'' she said.
In 2013 the Administrative Conference, an independent federal agency that reviews government administrative processes, released a study of OIRA's effect on the application and interpretation of science the agencies gather and analyze to write rules. In examining a group of air-quality regulations, the study found that most of OIRA's suggestions involved substantive changes. The report concluded that in some instances, the office has proposed changes to the basic science underlying the rules. These included revising numbers in tables created by the EPA, altering technical discussions and recommending different standards altogether.
"OIRA review makes the science done by the agency a façade," said Wendy Wagner, author of the study and the Joe A. Worsham Centennial Professor at the University of Texas Law School. "It gives the impression that rules are much more based on science than they end up being."
The Rise of a Federal Power
Congress created OIRA in 1980 to prevent federal agencies from demanding excessive amounts of data from public and private parties. President Reagan greatly expanded its powers, signing an executive order that gave the office the authority to review all federal rules. This was an important change, since most laws say the rules are to be written by the relevant Cabinet agency, not the president and his aides. At the time, Reagan's move kicked up controversy — still alive today — about whether it was appropriate for the White House to have such a direct say in government rulemaking.
Since then, both Republican and Democratic presidents have signed executive orders enshrining OIRA's pivotal role.
OIRA gets three passes at each rule it audits. First is the informal review, which takes place before a proposed rule is officially submitted. Informal review could include memos, phone calls, in-person conversations and the swapping of early drafts. This process unfolds in secret. Documents generated as part of the executive branch's policy deliberations are exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.
The office then reviews a draft of the proposed rule and the final version.
Proponents of this process depict OIRA as a counselor, providing a neutral, fresh look at long, complex regulatory documents; double-checking cost-benefit analyses; and ensuring regulations are "consistent" with "the President's priorities," as a guiding executive order states. Proponents also point out that while OIRA's chief and deputy are presidential appointees, its staff is career civil servants, which precludes the pushing of a political agenda.
Cass R. Sunstein, a prominent legal scholar who led OIRA from 2009 to 2012, rejects many criticisms of the office, namely that it lacks transparency and that its suggested changes and delays are politically motivated. Sunstein, now a law professor at Harvard, responded neither to ProPublica's requests for an interview nor to written questions.
In a 2013 article, Sunstein said OIRA largely functions as an "aggregator" of information from the executive branch and the public on any given regulation. Sunstein acknowledged that OIRA plays a substantive role in a rule's economic aspects, but said it does not rethink scientific conclusions. "When scientific issues are engaged, there is no 'political interference with science' (in my experience),'' he wrote. "Scientific issues are explored as such by people who are competent to explore them."
In a 2010 talk, Sunstein addressed criticism of the office's transparency, pointing to its "dashboard" web page, which features basic information on rules currently under review. In other venues, he has cited OIRA's posting of meeting logs as evidence of its openness. Neither the dashboard nor the logs disclose who has proposed changes in rules or what evidence they are relying upon.
Without question, OIRA review opens the door for a long line of people to influence federal regulations: from the President's chief of staff, to a Cabinet secretary, to a presidential adviser in an executive office such as the Domestic Policy Council, to a member of Congress, to lobbyists for regulated industries.
Coal Ash Controversy
One controversial rule currently under OIRA review would create controls on the handling of coal ash, the dross from coal-fired power plants. Coal ash contains a host of hazardous substances, including arsenic, lead and mercury, and is the country's most polluting waste — more than all oil refineries, petrochemical plants, paper mills and incinerators combined — as well as being one of the country's largest sources of waste overall. Questions about its handling burst into the news earlier this year after the toxic sludge spilled into the Dan River in North Carolina.
The ash is most often stored near power plants in artificial ponds from which nearby rivers, lakes and drinking water supplies can be contaminated — even if there is no catastrophic spill.
The rules for handling this waste, known as Effluent Limitations Guidelines, have not been changed since 1982, and many experts say they are weak. The EPA leaves most standards to the discretion of the states, many of which have done little to enforce and add protections. Essentially, most coal-fired power plants have been able to dump their ash indefinitely into unmonitored, open-air pits. Not surprisingly, the utility industry is resisting stronger controls to stave off costs of adopting new waste-handling methods and more technologically advanced water-treatment equipment.
The EPA sent OIRA its proposed new rules in January 2013. The agency submitted five options from which it would choose the final rule. In its draft, the EPA indicated it would likely pick one of two options, which it listed as "preferred." Both set relatively tough standards on power companies.
In the weeks leading to OIRA's completed review of the coal ash limits, a number of utility industry lobbyists and lawyers met with the office. While OIRA makes public a list of attendees and documents given to the office's representatives at meetings, it does not disclose the substance of their discussions. Such conversations are not unusual; any member of the public can meet with OIRA to discuss a rule. But the office has become a standard stop on the lobbying circuit for industries facing tighter regulations.
A 2003 Government Accountability Office study found that "regulated parties," typically corporations or their lobbyists, frequently get what they want after meetings with OIRA. Sometimes, the language of the edited rule is similar to that proposed by the regulated parties themselves.
When the rule on coal ash effluent emerged from OIRA, three more options had been added, a diluting of the two options the EPA favored. OIRA's draft dropped the tougher of EPA's preferred rules and identified those new, less demanding options as favored.
The office also recast the EPA's scientific findings. The agency initially stated that using ponds for storing the most toxic form of coal ash, the emissions captured in the smoke stack's final filter, did "not represent the best available technology for controlling pollutants in almost all circumstances." Revisions made during OIRA review recommended eliminating this conclusion, giving no explanation why. Other changes included softening data, such as reducing coal-fired power plants' share of toxic pollutants discharged to surface water from "at least 60 percent" to "50-60 percent." The post-OIRA version also recommended reducing the projected benefits of the EPA's higher standards, which the agency did.
The EPA reached its findings for handling coal ash after almost 10 years of extensive data collection, modeling and analysis. This work required the knowledge of biologists, chemists, engineers and toxicologists working on a team that varied in size from about eight to around 30 people at various phases. The EPA lists the staff in its Office of Water responsible for the rule in the document itself, on the agency's website and in press releases.
It is difficult to know the qualifications of the people at OIRA who rewrote the EPA's draft rule. The only credentials disclosed by its website are those of the current administrator, Howard Shelanksi, who has a Ph.D. in economics, and his deputy, Andrei Greenawalt, a lawyer who was a policy adviser to the chief of staff from 2011 to 2013. ProPublica's request to the OMB for a list of OIRA staff went unanswered, as did repeated requests for an interview with Shelanski. OIRA also failed to respond to written questions about its lack of transparency.
Formaldehyde: A Case Study
Prompted by evidence that formaldehyde fumes were sickening Hurricane Katrina survivors living in FEMA trailers, Congress passed a law in 2010 calling for tighter limits on the chemical. Specifically, the legislation required controls on the use of the known carcinogen in compressed wood products commonly used in building materials. The EPA, the body designated to administer the law, submitted its proposed regulation to OIRA in May 2012.
Included in the rule was a set of public health outcomes that the EPA, using peer-reviewed work by the National Academy of Sciences, judged would improve with the regulation. The agency projected benefits ranging from $91 million to $278 million, mostly from reduced medical care and hospitalizations of children with asthma.
While the rule was at OIRA, industry representatives met five times with officials from the office. The United States is a major market for formaldehyde: In 2011 the American Chemistry Council estimated that U.S. companies sold more than $27.7 billion worth of formaldehyde-based building products. Some of the world's most powerful companies manufacture, sell and use formaldehyde, including Koch Industries, Exxon Mobil and Dow Chemical.
During OIRA's review, the scientific findings were challenged — it's not clear by whom or on what grounds — and were ultimately changed. In the post-OIRA version, asthma was eliminated as a quantifiable health impact of the chemical. That single change erased over 80 percent of the financial benefits from regulating formaldehyde. Meanwhile, the costs of industry compliance remained just as high, dramatically tipping the scales against stronger limits.
The explanation offered in OIRA's edited version is cryptic. It says only that the EPA "later concluded" it had insufficient information on the relationship between formaldehyde exposure and asthma to assign a dollar sum for improved health. The office presents no supporting science justifying this failure to endorse the National Academy of Sciences' findings.
Other Levers of Power
OIRA has multiple tools for slowing and even blocking rulemaking. These include ignoring an agency's submitted regulation, asking an agency to withdraw a submitted rule, and leaving a rule to languish, sometimes for years, until the agency withdraws it.
According to OIRA's governing executive order, the office is supposed to complete its review within 90 days of receiving a regulation, with the option of one 30-day extension. But rules often gather dust for far longer. As documented in an Administrative Conference analysis, delays reached an all-time peak under President Obama between 2011 and 2013.
High-level EPA staff interviewed for the analysis thought OIRA reviews took so long because of political concerns over contentious rules in the lead-up to the 2012 general election. According to the report, "The employees said their agencies were instructed that such rules were not to be issued unless deemed absolutely necessary (e.g., judicial deadline) or if it could be shown they were not controversial (e.g., clear net benefits)."
Such instructions weren't issued in writing, but conveyed verbally by agency administrators who had been to meetings with key White House officials, the employees said.
The Administrative Conference report noted that in June 2013, 141 rules were under review at OIRA, of which over half had been there for more than 90 days. About half of those had been under review for more than a year, and 26 more for over two years. The rules were from a variety of agencies, including the EPA and the Departments of Energy and Labor.
One set of efficiency standards proposed by the Department of Energy has been stranded at OIRA since 2011. An EPA rule establishing a list of "chemicals of concern," those the agency flags as potentially dangerous and possibly warranting further regulatory action, sat at OIRA for over three years until the agency withdrew it in 2013. A Department of Transportation rule requiring rear-view cameras for passenger cars was marooned at OIRA for a year and a half, beginning in November 2011, before being withdrawn. During that time the DOT had data showing that, on average, "backover" car accidents injured 15,000 people annually and killed some 200 people a year, mostly children and the elderly.
When OIRA buries a rule, the agency has two choices — let it disappear or pull it and try again later. Sometimes OIRA recommends to agencies that they withdraw a rule, which would leave no fingerprints since none of these types of delays are publicly documented or explained. Curtis Copeland, former specialist in American national government at the Congressional Research Service and author of the 2013 study for the Administrative Conference said, "What I heard when talking to the agencies was that OIRA often recommends agencies withdraw rules. Then it can all be done in the dark."
All of this can have a chilling effect on agency staffers who come up with ideas for regulations and then explore, research, model and analyze them. As Copeland wrote in a 2009 Congressional Research Service survey of OIRA, "some agencies have indicated that they do not even propose certain regulatory provisions because they believe that OIRA would find them objectionable."
OIRA's motivations
While most changes made by OIRA do not recast the scope and impact of rules, many do. The GAO's 2003 report, and a follow-up in 2009, found that, of the rules examined, more than one-quarter of the regulations changed at OIRA's suggestion were substantively altered. In the earlier of the two reports, the GAO concluded that, in general, OIRA's suggested changes reduced the burden on regulated parties and, in some cases, sliced the rules' expected benefits.
John Morrall, deputy administrator of OIRA for almost 30 years until 2008, said that in high-stakes regulations, political and economic factors consistently play a role and may help account for the softening of many regulations. "Maybe on a one-by-one basis the science and cost-benefit analysis say you should regulate certain things," he said. But if OIRA approved all the scientifically valid rules agencies write, "it could destroy that sector and that could generate too much political opposition. … In particular states and congressional districts , that could be bad in an election."
Thomas Cmar, a staff attorney at Earthjustice, which sued the EPA over its delay in updating coal ash effluent limits, has, along with his organization, tracked OIRA's influence on the rule. "The regulatory process takes years, and an agency is supposed to develop reams of evidence that the actions they take are scientifically well grounded, that the rules are designed to protect people from harm," he said. Cmar believes OIRA's process is marked by favoritism for regulated industries and that it "turns our government into a completely arbitrary actor."
A Lack of Transparency?
To alleviate what some saw as OIRA's stonewalling and obfuscation, in 1993 President Bill Clinton issued Executive Order 12866. It said all federal rules must undergo a cost-benefit analysis, and it set deadlines as well as disclosure requirements on changes made during review. Clinton required that all documents exchanged between OIRA and the agency proposing a rule must be made public.
President Obama affirmed the directive, and OIRA's website now prominently quotes 12866's aim "to restore the integrity and legitimacy of regulatory review and oversight; and to make the process more accessible and open to the public."
Yet, as was true under George W. Bush and Clinton himself, the Obama administration has not fully honored 12866's disclosure guarantee, several agency officials said.
"This is being contradicted in almost every possible way," said Lisa Heinzerling, the former EPA associate administrator.
Not long after joining the office, Heinzerling, pursuant to 12866, drafted a public notice of a disagreement over a proposed rule between the EPA and OIRA. (She declined to reveal which rule.) Having reached an impasse, the parties were taking the problem up the chain of command for negotiation. However, according to Heinzerling, OIRA told her "in no uncertain terms" that she was not to make the memo public. She was surprised. "I hadn't seen it up close and hadn't known how completely it diverged from the executive order," she said. "It was unsettling even if you're a fan of having the White House in charge of regulatory matters."
Morrall, the former deputy administrator of OIRA, acknowledged the lack of transparency and defended it on the grounds that it might be politically damaging if the public learned more about the office's inner workings. "To do our job we don't need what went into our decisions out in the public domain because opponents could use that against the president."
In its 2003 report, the GAO recommended that all agencies disclose changes made at OIRA's request whenever they occur — in both informal and formal reviews. "That has never been done, under any agency," said Copeland, the expert on OIRA who is currently a special counsel at the Administrative Conference. "OIRA as an institution doesn't like that disclosure."
The GAO's 2009 follow-up report found that OIRA and the agencies had failed to adhere to seven of eight transparency recommendations made in its 2003 assessment. The one measure OIRA had taken was to disclose logs of meetings with people outside government, which it continues to do, although they are nearly impossible to search, contain minimal, sometimes-unclear information about the attendees, and have scant information about what was discussed.
While no entity has followed the transparency requirements set by the executive order, according to several former senior executives at the EPA, if the agency didn't follow OIRA's suggestions, the response would be swift. Consequences would likely be cuts to the agency's budget, a curtailing of its influence within the White House, and potentially the firing of the agency head.
Many administrative law experts, including Copeland, don't see anything inherently wrong with OIRA review, but most agree — along with the GAO and the Administrative Conference — that more transparency is needed. Still others think OIRA should be wholly revamped. Rena Steinzor, a law professor at the University of Maryland and current president of the Center for Progressive Reform, the group critical of OIRA, has called for the office to be stripped of its rulemaking powers, terminating centralized White House regulatory review. In a 2012 law review article, Steinzor wrote that the Executive would still have rulemaking power: "The President can exert sufficient control over rulemaking through the political appointees he has selected to lead the agencies."
Courtesy: ProPublica.org
While Nifty may get a short bounce, later on Friday, the trend is pointing downwards
Today for the entire morning session the indices were range-bound. Although Sensex managed to move above yesterday's close on various occasions, the Nifty barely managed to return to its yesterday's close. In the afternoon session, the indices lost strength and closed near their intra-day low.
Sensex opened at 26,106 while Nifty opened at 7,785. The benchmarks reached upto 26,119 and 7,792. Sensex hit a low of 25,854 and closed at 25,895 (down 192 points or 0.74%). Nifty hit a low of 7,711 and closed at 7,721 (down 70 points or 0.90%). NSE recorded a huge volume of 108.93 crore shares on account of July's futures and options expiry. India VIX fell 0.47% to close at 13.8225.
The global rating agency Fitch Ratings, said on Thursday that it has retained the 'BBB-' sovereign rating - the lowest investment grade - for India and a revision will depend on the government's efforts to usher in bold reforms. The agency has also retained a 'stable' outlook for the country's ratings.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the government's campaign for financial inclusion to ensure that 7.5 crore households that do not have access to banking have at least two accounts. Efforts will also be made to introduce mobile banking on all kinds of phones, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters today.
Cipla (1.92%) was the top gainer among the Sensex 30 stocks. Cipla has entered into a partnership with US-based BioQuiddity Inc for selling the latter's post-surgical pain management product OneDose ReadyfusORTM in Europe. The pact between Cipla Europe (CE) NV, Cipla's wholly owned subsidiary and BioQuiddity Inc will cover countries in Europe. The Indian firm intends to launch the CE marked OneDose ReadyfusOR pre-filled with Ropivacaine, under its own label in the German market later this year.
NTPC (3.01%) was the top loser among the Sensex 30 stocks. NTPC posted a net profit of Rs2,201.20 crore for the quarter ended June 2014 as compared to Rs 2,527.02 crore for the quarter ended June 2013. Sales increased from Rs15,694.07 crore to Rs18,336.75 crore for the relevant period.
IRB Infrastructure (7.79%) was the top gainer in the 'A' group on BSE. After market hours on Wednesday, it came out with its June 2014 quarter results. IRB Infrastructure posted a net profit of Rs 29.92 crore for the quarter ended June 2014, as compared to Rs 26.62 crore for the quarter ended June 2013. However, revenues decreased from Rs628.60 crore to Rs569.32 crore for the relevant period. It has also declared an interim dividend of Rs2 per equity share of face value of Rs10 each for the financial year 2014-15.
Cadila Healthcare (4.02%) was the top loser among Sensex 30 stocks. The stock hit its 52-week high at Rs 1,195.00 yesterday. Its net profit fell to Rs 197.29 crore for the quarter ended June 2014, as compared to Rs 340.22 crore for the quarter ended June 2013. Sales increased from Rs928.10 crore to Rs1,112.79 crore for the relevant period.
US indices had a mixed closing on Wednesday. The Federal Reserve, on Wednesday, upgraded its assessment of the US economy, although it also reaffirmed that it was in no rush to raise interest rates.
Asian indices had a mixed performance. Among the indices trading today, Shanghai Composite (0.93%) was the top gainer while Taiwan Weighted (1.39%) was the top loser.
European indices were trading sharply lower. US indices too were trading deeply in the red. German unemployment fell for the first time in three months, in a sign that Europe's largest economy is gathering pace after a second-quarter slowdown. The number of people out of work dropped a seasonally adjusted 12,000 to 2.9 million in July, the Nuremberg-based Federal Labor Agency said today.


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BioWare has concluded its unveiling of the Inquisitor's nine companions with Solas, described as "The Mind".
Though Solas was confirmed as a companion months ago, an official profile has been released which describes him as an apostate, who taught himself magic and spent years "exploring the spirit realm of the Fade and coming to an understanding of its denizens that few others could claim". Solas prefers his own company, though has emerged from his solace as he "will not stand idly by when his knowledge of the arcane could mean the difference between salvation and utter destruction"


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A couple Miami related artists are on Billboard's Hot 100 Singles charts for this week including Flo-Rida and the Jim-Jonsin produced "Kiss Me Thru The Phone", which also features Miami-bred artist, Sammie. The most notable song though is Pitbull with his rise to #4 for his smash hit single "I Know You Want Me". Definitely giving him an advanced notice for his new album Rebelution, which is due out September 2009 – along with his new single coming shortly, entitled "Hotel Room Service", which is produced by Jim Jonsin. Here's the Top Ten via ProHipHop/Billboard
Top 10 Singles on the Hot 100:
1. The Black Eyed Peas – Boom Boom Pow
2. Lady GaGa – Poker Face
3. Jamie Foxx – Blame It feat. T-Pain
4. Pitbull – I Know You Want Me (Calle Ocho)
5. Kid Cudi – Day 'N' Nite
6. Beyonce – Halo
7. 3OH!3 – Don't Trust Me
8. Flo Rida – Sugar feat. Wynter
10. Soulja Boy – Kiss Me Thru the Phone feat. Sammie


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By Nesha Starcevic, AP Sports Writer
KAYSERI, Turkey Top-ranked Argentina won its fourth straight game at the basketball world championship by defeating winless Jordan 88-79.
Luis Scola scored 30 points, his third straight game with 30 or more, and had 13 rebounds. Carlos Delfino added 18 points. Rasheim Wright had 22 for Jordan and Ayman Idais scored 20.
Argentina never trailed, led by as many as 20 and did just enough to hold off Jordan in the fourth quarter. Argentina plays Serbia on Thursday for first place in Group A.
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US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton abruptly left a memorial for the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks, due to what her campaign described as feeling "overheated."
"Secretary Clinton attended the September 11th Commemoration Ceremony for just an hour and thirty minutes this morning to pay her respects and greet some of the families of the fallen," campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said in a statement on Sunday.
"During the ceremony, she felt overheated so departed to go to her daughter's apartment, and is feeling much better," he added.
The former first lady's entourage helped her to a van after she fainted during the ceremony at New York's National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Fox News reported, citing a law enforcement source.
According to the report, Clinton stumbled off the curb while her "knees buckled" and lost a shoe as she entered the van.
"Clinton left the 9/11 ceremony 30+ mins ago but press pool was not told to where. Aides now not responding to any [questions] about her whereabouts," ABC journalist Liz Kreutz said in a tweet.
Margaret Talev, a senior White House correspondent for Bloomberg, also confirmed that Clinton had left the event. However, she said they were unable to "verify [Clinton's] status or location."
The incident took place in an area that was off-limits for the press. Clinton's Republican rival Donald Trump also attended the ceremony.
The incident further fueled speculations about Clinton's well-being, an issue that has been haunting her ever since she suffered a blood clot in her brain in 2012.
A viral video on Youtube, with more than 3 million views, claims that she is suffering from a plethora of diseases such as autism and a brain tumor.
The rumors surrounding Clinton's health gained more momentum after Trump questioned her well-being, saying that she "lacks the mental and physical stamina" to run the country.
US President Barack Obama's former doctor Dr. David Scheiner told CNN in late August that the former secretary of state needs to take a thorough test.


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By Ieva M. Augstums And Sara Lepro, AP Business Writers
NEW YORK Investors cooled their buying of stocks and commodities, pausing from a surge that's carried major stock indexes to their highest levels in more than a year.
Stocks ended mixed Tuesday. The Dow Jones industrials tacked on 20 points a day after shooting up 200 points for the second time in three days.
The market again took its direction from the dollar, as it has for months. Stocks drove higher Monday as the dollar weakened and slipped Tuesday as the currency rose.
The Dow rose 20.03, or 0.2%, to 10,246.97. On Monday the Dow closed at its highest level since October 2008.
The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 0.7, or less than 0.1%, to 1,092.01, while the Nasdaq composite index fell 2.98, or 0.1%, to 2,151.08.
The Dow swung in a range of about 60 points in light trading as investors increased their buying of safe-haven assets like the dollar and Treasurys. The ICE Futures US dollar index, which measures the dollar against other currencies, edged higher.
"People are reaching for a little less risk today after we've had such a run," said Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Wealth Management.
Record-low interest rates in the U.S. and the resulting slide in the dollar have been major forces behind the surge in stocks over the past several months. A weaker dollar allows investors to borrow money cheaply, while the low interest rates also encourage them to hold any assets other than low-yielding cash, such as stocks, commodities and bonds.
The falling dollar has enabled many investors to look past some of the economy's persistent trouble spots, including unemployment. The jobless rate rose to 10.2% in October, the highest level in 26 years.
Three stocks fell for every two that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where volume came to 811.3 million shares, compared with 870.8 million at the same point Monday.
Investors continue to seek guidance about the economy, hoping retailers' earnings reports later in the week will give a sense of how much consumers are spending. Without the help of the consumer, which accounts for around for 70% of the U.S. economy, any economic recovery will be modest.
In corporate news Tuesday, Beazer Homes USA posted a fourth-quarter profit despite a plunge in revenue. The Atlanta-based homebuilder said high unemployment and rising foreclosures continue to make it difficult to predict when the housing market will recover.
American International Group Inc. rose after analysts at Moody's Investor Service projected that the insurer will have adequate resources to repay the federal government. The government has injected more than $182 billion in aid to the company to help stabilize the financial system. The government holds an 80% stake in the company. AIG rose $1.41, or 3.9%, to $37.59.
Priceline.com jumped to a nine-year high after the online travel booking company said it was seeing an increase in customers booking airfare and hotel rooms. The stock rose $30.49, or 17%, to $204.22 after trading as high as $209.19.
Fluor Corp fell $3.63, or 7.6%, to $44.38 after the engineering and construction company posted an 11% drop in its third-quarter profit as revenue fell at its oil and gas and power divisions.
Bond prices rose, sending yields down, after an auction of 10-year notes drew solid demand. The 10-year yield fell to 3.48% from 3.49% late Monday.
Light, sweet slipped 38 cents to $79.05 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Gold rose to $1,103 an ounce.
In other trading, the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 5.34, or 0.9%, to 586.97.
Markets overseas were mixed.
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Wintour and Watt blog + Vince Cable
Nicholas Watt: Peter Mandelson makes his fourth comeback as Vince Cable and Ed Miliband turn to him for inspiration on promoting economic growth
Nicholas Watt: Jesse Norman says 'crony capitalism' has no place in Tory tradition as party responds to Ed Miliband's attack on 'predators'
Nicholas Watt: Whitehall sources say coalition needs to enter less confrontational phase after row over Beecroft report on employment law
Nicholas Watt: The British "Easter uprising" does have a slightly synthetic feel because it suits all sides to have a row
Nicholas Watt: There is some irritation in Lib Dem circles with Cable who has, according to some figures, fallen into a trap set by the Tories. They believe the prime minister will be delighted that he is now under fire from the most left wing of the five Lib Dem cabinet minsters
Nicholas Watt: Ed Miliband delivers sharp attack on coalition
Nicholas Watt: Shadow chancellor delivers final speech to Labour conference before standing down from front bench
Hearts sunk among senior Lib Dem late on Tuesday night when the early editions of this morning's newspapers suggested that the Orange Book had been replaced by the Red Book
Nicholas Watt: Lib Dem business secretary offers warmest support for coalition but makes clear he is chancellor's equal
Business secretary is Britain's most popular politician, comfortably ahead of David Cameron and Nick Clegg
Patrick Wintour: In a Guardian interview the Tories' general election campaign director reflects on his dry run for the crucial leaders' TV debates
So who won and were there any knock out blows? The consensus tonight, at Westminster and in the Twittersphere, is that "King Vince" was the runaway winner in the first major televised debate of the general election campaign
Patrick Wintour: Fascinating polling figures on economy as we approach the budget