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Shortly after I posted this article, I came across these News Reports that confirm some of the predictions listed below:
- · Is the Financial Collapse of Europe inevitable?
- · Swine flu pandemic outbreak sweeping through Britain even though 70 percent were vaccinated last year
- · BBC News: A new strain of the superbug MRSA has been found in the Isle of Man, the Department of Health (DoH) has confirmed
- · Extreme Global Weather
- · Gulf CEO: Oil May Near $150 a Barrel by Summer
As 2010 draws to a close, we are one year closer to the beginning of the end of the world. This article serves as a supplement to my continuing series of articles, Is this the End of the World? The predictions given below are not prophecies but rather reasoned probabilities of what to expect in 2011 in light of Biblical prophecy and current events.
For those in power, on top of the food chain, 'Austerity' will have little effect, but for the majority in developed countries, 'Austerity' is nothing short of a dramatic change from a middle class lifestyle of flat screen TVs and iPads to an impoverished class status, not knowing where the next meal will come from. For the already impoverished in the third world, 'Austerity' will lead to mass starvation where tens and hundreds of millions will not even be left with the pennies that they need to buy subsistence level nourishment. The time of 'sorrows' for the world is fast drawing near; 2011 will serve to hasten this process leading to the beginning of the end of the world. The following predictions are supported by evidence from mainstream news reports and other sources. Days of evil and darkness, of gloominess of the soul and spirit will soon engulf the world, only those who foresee the evil will be prepared; the majority of fools who think that the world will go back to 'normal' are in for very unpleasant and deadly surprises.
Proverbs 22:3 (King James Version) A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.
The World has become interlinked commercially as never before in history. Furthermore no nation in the world uses sound money such as gold and silver any longer; all nations are now on the paper (fiat) money standard with nothing of value to support their currencies. The debt based monetary system that has now taken root in every nation in the world. The system is based on usury and since the borrower is a slave to the lender, the whole world has become enslaved to the 'System of Usury'. The Bible tells us that the 'Love of money is the root of all evil', and over the past 40 years, since 1971, the whole world has turned whole heartedly to a money system that is based on nothing tangible, and therefore the level of debt in the world has reached levels never seen before in history. As the supply of money has increased worldwide, so has the love of money grown exponentially, and the stench of evil has touched the heavens themselves as a consequence. The complex subject of money creation by governments is a must learn subject for every citizen but is not taught in schools and colleges. The following links provided good information on this subject and will help those who want to understand the real causes of the economic malaise that is spreading like an unstoppable contagion across the planet.


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Nils Frahm Flaunts The Imperfection
Berlin composer and pianist experiments, makes music for autumn nights.
Fact Sheet
- For fans of Arvo Part, Machinefabriek, Brian Eno.
- "My piano teacher told me, 'Don't play with "popo" [points to his behind] play with heart," says Frahm. "I realised music needs to be played, with an intention or energy."
- KEY TRACKS: Over There, It's Raining; You; Familiar.
Born in Berlin in 1982, Nils Frahm was always surrounded by music. His parents were self-taught musicians, while his father, photographer Klaus Frahm, also designed covers for ECM Records, whose churchly jazz atmospheres, along with a wealth of classical music, filled the mind of the young Nils. By the time he was eight and having his first formal piano lesson, he'd already written his own compositions.
"My mother had a piano and I obviously thought I was already a great pianist," laughs Frahm over coffee, in the studio of his high-ceilinged Berlin apartment. "I played my pieces for my teacher, this old Russian guy. He just said 'Forget about that. We start over'."
"I like to arm-wrestle every situation."
"This old Russian guy" was Nahum Brodski, a student of Tchaikovsky's last protégé, who taught Frahm intensely for the next seven years. "My father would say 'Practice more'. Mum would say 'Don't practice too much, enjoy your life. Then at fourteen, I found out I was legally old enough to fly a glider, and that's all I wanted to do. My father said I'll give you any keyboard you want if you drop the whole pilot thing, so I got this keyboard, got together with friends and played Beatles tunes for saxophone, midi keyboard and drums. It was horrible. But that was the start of it all."
Since releasing his first album, Streichelfisch, in 2005, Frahm has recorded over ten albums and EPs, working with ambient and electronic artists as Greg Haines, Peter Broderick and Machinefabriek, and composing solo piano albums of a rare range and beauty. Yet Frahm's music is also about flaws and imperfections. 2011's Felt was recorded at 3am, the soft titular fabric layered in front of the strings to dampen the sound, while 2012's Screws was composed for nine fingers and a broken thumb, following a fall from a bunk bed. Both albums used mike-placing production techniques influenced by Thelonious Monk and King Tubby to emphasise rather than disguise these flaws.
"I like to arm-wrestle every situation," says Frahm. "ECM really influenced me but I really disagree with the serenity of their the ideal. I like more the idea of Charlie Parker or Arthur Russell. People who bent the possibilities of the instrument to their needs."
This focus on the unique phenomena of each recording extends to Frahm's new album, Spaces. Compiled from over thirty different performances, Spaces is, says Frahm, "more like a study in field recordings than a live album. I pushed up the sound of the room, the reverb, the audience, their coughing. Maybe Keith Jarrett can only create music from a dark place and tell everybody 'Shut the fuck up!' but it would totally block me."
Spaces effectively draws a line under the first stage of this accomplished composer's career. As for what's next, Frahm is thinking about "a thing with ensembles, a piece for choir, a prepared piano that works as a drum kit, a complete electronic album, and another solo piano album."

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"Too Many Medication Safety Issues in Australia"
Literature Review: Medication Safety in Australia 2013 is the third in a series surveying the available literature and information on medication safety in Australian health care. The first was published in 2002, and the second in 2008. Since the second review was published, the evidence base for medication-related problems and medication safety activities in Australia has expanded considerably.
The 2013 review provides important new information on the:
- Extent and nature of medication errors in Australia;
- Effectiveness of strategies to prevent medication errors.
The review is presented in three parts:
- Part 1: The extent of medication-related problems in Australia
- Part 2: Strategies for improving medication safety in the Australian healthcare setting
- Part 3: Medication safety intervention strategies: the international evidence
Writing in the foreword to the review, Professor Lloyd Sansom states
In the community there is growing evidence for multidisciplinary approaches to improving medication management including collaborative home medicines reviews.
The following statistics from the report also serve to highlight the need for medication management review services in the community:
- 230,000 medication related hospital admissions annually
- An annual cost of medication-related admissions of $1.2billion
- Medication related hospital admissions remains at about 2-3% of all admissions
- 12-80% of hospital discharge summaries contain a discrepancy
- Over 90% of residents in aged care facilities have a medication-related problem, with an average of 3-4 medication related problems
- People who participate in home medicines reviews have between 2.5 to 5 medication-related problems per person identified as part of the review
It is our hope and great desire to reduce these severe statistics in Australia, and internationally with the implementation of Our Pills Talk Medication Safety App.
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Use the Moen faucet repair cartridge to replace an existing cartridge in your faucet. Complete instructions for replacing the cartridge in a Moen faucet are available on the company's website, Moen.com.
To change the cartridge in a Moen faucet, turn the water supply off and gather an adjustable wrench, an open-ended wrench, channel-lock pliers and screwdrivers. You may also need safety glasses and a flashlight. Turn the faucet on to make sure the water supply is completely shut off.
Loosen the screw in your faucet handle, and then remove the handle. The company website states the exact tool you need for different types of faucets. Next, remove the washer and retaining clip from the cartridge.
The repair cartridge comes with a white plastic tool. Place this white plastic tool onto your existing cartridge so that it straddles the cartridge's ears. Twist the white plastic tool with pliers to loosen the cartridge. Once the cartridge is loose, remove it from the valve.
Place the repair cartridge into the valve so that the ears align with the retaining clip notch. Place the washer over the cartridge, and reinstall the retaining clip. Then replace the handle of the faucet, and tighten the screws.


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As a first attempt at threading conversations, you might start with some basic string heuristics on the Subject header of the message and eventually get to the point where you're inspecting senders, recipients, and date stamps in an attempt to piece things together. Fortunately, mail servers are slightly more sophisticated than you might think and, as you know from mbox: The Quick and Dirty on Unix Mailboxes, there are Message-ID, In-Reply-To, and References headers that can be used to extract conversations from messages in a mailbox. A message threading algorithm commonly known as "jwz threading,"[20] takes all of this into account and provides a reasonable approach to parsing out message threads. All of the specifics for the algorithm can be found online at http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html. The implementation we'll be using is a fairly straightforward modification[21] of the one found in the Mail Trends project, which provides some other useful out-of-the-box tools. Given that no checkins for the project hosted on Google Code have occurred since early 2008, it's unclear whether Mail Trends is being actively maintained anywhere, but the project nonetheless provides a useful starting point for mail analysis, as evidenced by the salvaging of jwz threading.
Let's go ahead and take a look at the overall workflow in Example 3-14, and then we'll dive into a few more of the details.
Example 3-14. Creating discussion threads from mbox data via "jwz threading" ...
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text: Share: Comments Print February 10, 2014 at 9:56 AM Chat rewind: How college students can get more kids interested in higher ed Posted by Caitlin Moran Fifth grade students from the greater Bellingham area are greeted by Victor-E-Viking as they arrive on campus to participate in Western Washington University's Compass 2 Campus program. Photo by Mike Siegel / The Seattle Times. Our latest Education Lab story examines a mentor program at Western Washington University called Compass 2 Campus. As its name suggests, Compass 2 Campus operates under the premise that linking current college students with younger students can help kids navigate a path to higher education. Several other local programs — including the University of Washington's Dream Project — have also exposed thousands of young people to college life by connecting them with mentors and tutors. At noon on Tuesday, Feb. 11, reporter Katherine Long, Compass 2 Campus founder Cyndie Shepard and Dream Project director Jenee Myers Twitchell answered reader questions during an hourlong live chat. [do action="scribblelive" chatid="406705″ width="630″ height="500″/] Comments | More in Your voices | Topics: Compass 2 Campus, higher ed, live chat


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Autumn Rose Swisher received her Bachelors of Fine Art degree in Photography from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2007.
She was accepted into the New York Studio Program through Parsons in 2006 spending a semester in New York while interning at the 20x24 Polaroid studio.
Currently a freelance photographer on the west coast. Shooting for high end jewelry designers such as Esqueleto and Maya Jewelry. Her clients are in many major cities including Mexico City, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle and Oakland.
Swisher taught darkroom photography at the Youth Art Exchange in S.F. allowing high school students to have access to art.
Autumn's personal projects are deeply embedded in the Body modification culture. This has become a major part of her work and life, and she dedicates substantial time to documenting this unique community through her photography.
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CII has strongly welcomed the proactive measures taken by the GST Council in its 32nd meeting held on 10th January 2019. "The GST Council led by Mr Arun Jaitley, Minister of Finance and Corporate Affairs, has once again shown its complete commitment to ensuring a smooth and facilitative indirect tax regime in the country," stated Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII.
CII noted that the GST Council, since the introduction of the GST in July 2017, has continuously moved towards a simpler tax system. It has steadily reduced the tax rates on many items, ensuring a movement towards a 3-slab GST structure with a standard rate, a higher demerit rate and a lower rate for items consumed by the poor.
The Council has further proactively addressed procedural matters, enabling smaller enterprises to file returns at intervals and extending the time for adjustment. It has also taken up issues of consistency to minimize disputes and litigation, stated the CII press release.
CII said that the Council's decision to double the threshold limit for exemption from registration and payment of GST to Rs 40 lakh in the general category states brings huge relief to lakhs of small enterprises. These would no longer be liable to prepare returns and pay taxes from April 1, 2019, enabling them to conduct their business smoothly.
CII welcomed the extension of the composition scheme for services in particular. It stated that including suppliers of services and mixed suppliers under the composition scheme with a tax rate of 6% would greatly help small service providers and professionals earning less than Rs 50 lakhs per annum. It would lower costs for buyers of these services down the supply chain as well. CII had recommended including services enterprises under the Composition Scheme and thanks the GST Council for this decision.
Felicitating the GST Council for raising the turnover limit for the composition scheme from Rs 1 crore to Rs 1.5 crore, CII said that this would release numerous small enterprises from the procedural burden. Further, these enterprises can file returns annually, freeing them from the need to maintain documents on a quarterly basis.
A key decision of the GST Council was to set up a group of ministers to look at the possibility of introducing the composition scheme for the residential real estate sector. The residential sector has been impacted due to the divergence between GST on under-construction and finished houses as well as introduction of Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA) simultaneously. CII hopes that the committee would provide relief to the housing sector, particularly low-cost housing.
With such progressive decisions from the GST Council headed by the Finance Minister Mr Arun Jaitley, CII is confident that GST will emerge as a game-changer for the Indian economy and fulfill the promise of adding 1-1.5 percentage points to the GSP growth rate within the shortest period of time.
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Nicholas Johnson is Chief Scientist and Program Manager for NASA's Orbital Debris Program Office. In July 2008 he was awarded the Department of Defense Joint Meritorious Civilian Service Award for his contribution to Operation Burnt Frost, a mission that involved the interception and destruction of an out-of-control satellite before it could hit the Earth.
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Launch Date: December 2013
Completed: 2016
REGATTA: Wentworth Point Marinas Sophistication and substance redefined, Regatta at Wentworth Point Marinas is the eagerly anticipated third stage of Billbergia Group & AMP Capital's exciting vibrant waterside development.
Boasting superior position next to the Sydney Olympic Park Ferry Wharf, proposed marina precinct & future local public school, world class sporting recreational facilities, extensive parkland, and the groundbreaking future Homebush Bay Bridge, Regatta has it all right at your door step.
Stunning architectural design by Scott Carver coupled with Billbergia's sustainable design principles represents the synergy of aesthetic brilliance and practical, functional, and environmentally friendly ideas built into Regatta.


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Concorde Crashes, Killing Total of 113 And Putting Jets' Future in Question
Authorities Discuss Engine Problem As Cause of the Air France Disaster
An Air France supersonic Concorde bound for New York crashed on takeoff, killing 109 passengers and crew, as well as four more people on the ground, in the first-ever fatal accident for the vaunted, 24-year-old jetliner.
The cause of the accident wasn't known, but France and Britain temporarily grounded all Concorde flights. Eyewitnesses reported seeing one of the engines in flames as Air France Flight 4590, carrying mostly German tourists on a chartered flight, took off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Roissy, north of Paris....


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Azuolas Ciukas joined CellAge as a COO to help manage the business side of the company as he believes that the science behind CellAge is truly ground-breaking. Azuolas' experience ranges from project management to corporate finance. He worked in an M&A advisory boutique Porta Finance which is Rothschild's exclusive partner in the Baltics and KPMG's Deal Advisory division. Azuolas is a final year student and is about to obtain a Master of Arts with Honours in Economics degree from the University of Edinburgh.
At CellAge, Azuolas is responsible for exploring new business opportunities and fundraising.


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At UK Bathrooms we have bathroom suites to suit everyone's tastes whether you just need to update some old fittings, or you're going for a full and luxurious refit. The bathroom used to be just a place where you went when you needed to, but didn't think much more about it. Terms like sumptuous, or elegant were rarely used to describe bathrooms even by estate agents.
Over the past few years the bathroom has moved from being the smallest room in the house to something more like a sanctuary, a place to relax in warmth and comfort with luxurious fittings, lighting to suit you mood, and even TVs embedded in the walls if you're really going to town.
Many of our bathroom suite have coordinated fittings and furniture too so that your WC, sink and bath sit well together with the taps, heated towel rail, and even the cabinets.
Our products are usually available for a whole lot less than you'll see them sold on the high street, yet we still offer a range of great brands including Grohe, Roca and tiles from Porcelanosa and many others besides.
You simply shop online and your items are delivered just a few days later provided everything is in stock.
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Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
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A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.
A group of young explorers discover a secret area hidden from all maps and GPS devices. When they reach the center of the lake, they discover an abandoned facility that houses one of the largest, and deadliest apex-predators known to man.
With much of America lying in ruins, the rest of the world braces for a global sharknado, Fin and his family must travel around the world to stop them.


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What is Microdermabrasion?
Crystal Clear Microdermabrasion is a non-surgical rejuvenation technique provided at Medical Cosmetics in Nottingham. This beauty treatment is the best known and most effective microdermabrasion system, which offers a modern alternative to traditional methods like skin peels and laser treatments.
Microdermabrasion is a safe, controlled way to exfoliate and superficially peel the skin, reducing its thickness through mechanical abrasion of the dead skin cells. The treatment process is quick, providing instant and effective results for smoother, younger looking skin.
What can be treated?
Crystal Clear can be used to instantly rejuvenate and lift tired skin, with the opportunity for clients to have longer or repeated appointments for more in-depth results depending on their individual needs. The treatment can be used to combat a variety of skin conditions and problem areas such as lines, wrinkles, acne scarring.
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The process involves a flow of crystals against the skin's surface. The speed and abrasiveness of these crystals gently removes the epidermal cells layer by layer. Used crystals and dead skin cells are then drawn away through the vacuum action, allowing for controlled exfoliation.
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Legislation enacted since the establishment of DCYA
- Childcare Support Act 2018
- Adoption (Amendment) Act 2017
- Child Care (Amendment) Act 2015
- Children First Act 2015
- Children (Amendment) Act 2015
- Adoption (Amendment) Act 2013
- Child and Family Agency Act 2013
- Childcare (Amendment) Act 2013
- Thirty-First Amendment of the Constitution (Children) Act 2012
- Child Care (Amendment) Act 2011
Other legislation for which the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs has responsibility
- Adoption Act 2010
- Child Care (Amendment) Act 2007
- Children Act 2001
- Youth Work Act 2001
- Education Welfare Act 2000
- Protections for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998
Restatement and Revision of Act
A restated or revised Act is an administrative consolidation of that Act. It brings together in a single text all amendments and changes to an Act, making the law more accessible for all users.
The Statute Law (Restatement) Act 2002 provides that the Attorney General may certify the text of a restatement, which allows it to be used as prima facie evidence of the law in question. The Law Reform Commission has prepared a body of restatements under its two programmes of restatement and it intends to ensure that this work is maintained up-to-date on an ongoing basis. Because it may not be practicable to have each update certified, the Commission is making available uncertified restatements and will refer to these as Revised Acts. The term 'Revised Acts' is often used in other States, such as Australia and New Zealand to describe such administrative consolidations of Acts. (Source Law Reform Commission)
For more information on the programme of restatements see the Law Reform Commission.
Acts which are relevant to the Department of Children and Youth Affairs which have been restated or revised by the Law Reform Commission are listed below:
Please note that these documents are restated or revised up to a particular date which is indicated. The documents do not include any amendments which have been made to the Acts after that date.
Revised Acts
- Adoption Act 2010
- Child Care (Amendment) Act 2007
- Ombudsman for Children Act 2002
- Children Act 2001
- Protections for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998
- Child Care Act 1991
The Irish Statue Book (eISB)
The electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB) is produced by the Office of the Attorney General and includes Acts of the Oireachtas, Statutory Instruments and the Legislation Directory, which can be accessed on their website.


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During one of our awareness programmes with students from our evening study centres, we showed the short but powerful video 'I am that Change'. After viewing the video, students discuss it and how they can apply it. They all pledged to 'be the change!'
August 27, 2014
"I Am That Change" Short Film
Wednesday, August 27, 2014 Relief Projects India
We have been showing the following short film in our youth awareness programs. It addresses problems that are very relevant and commonplace.
August 25, 2014
Independence Day Celebration for our Tuition Students
Monday, August 25, 2014 Relief Projects India
We held an Independence Day Celebration at our property. The history of Indian Independance was covered and Independence and responsibility of each citizen was explained to the participants. Essays, speeches and drawings based on the independence were presented by the students. Many students participated in the dance program and enjoyed the celebration. Sweets were distributed to all!
August 22, 2014
More Parents Meetings
Friday, August 22, 2014 Relief Projects India
August 6, 2014
HIV Awareness
Wednesday, August 06, 2014 Relief Projects India
Tamil Nadu is one of the mostly HIV AIDS affected states in India. Being the 7th populous Indian state, the place has got high rate of HIV incidence.This has led to the setting up of an anti-AIDS society and a safe-sex campaign focusing on prevention of HIV by the government. To help tackle the AIDS problem in our local villages, RPI has started HIV awareness programs, which have been well-attended.
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One in four UK couples get married abroad. In the past two years alone, more than 400,000 brides and bridegrooms married on holiday, mostly in tropical resorts. The brief was to design a range of wedding invitations that would appeal to these sorts of couples.
The idea of a passport and supporting ethnic patterns and icons was developed into a range of 6 locations based upon the reported top destinations to get hitched. Among these, South East Asia and Mexico were the most popular. This range has attracted a lot of PR attention for the Photobox Invitations and Announcements brand Paper-Shaker.


text: It was wonderful to be back in the recording studio today, for the recording sessions of YANNI BURTON'S upcoming EP, producing the string/keys sessions! Great sounding at SYSTEMS TWO RECORDING STUDIO, Brooklyn NY. And most importantly the talented players of the Salome String Ensemble; who knew such a full, powerful sound could come from only a string quintet?


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The Avett Brothers are a genre-melding folk rock band from Concord, North Carolina. This occasion marks our third poster together (#1 & #2) as of this writing. I have yet to do as many posters for any other band, which allowed me to think a bit differently about execution on this go around.
"Forever I will move like the world that turns beneath me
And when I lose my direction I'll look up to the sky
And when the black cloak drags upon the ground
I'll be ready to surrender, and remember
Well we're all in this together
If I live the life I'm given
I won't be scared to die"
I'd already done the conceptual legwork in the previous poster, so I took the same concept through my process again, with a different emphasis to produce the feeling of a sequel or a series. I didn't feel like stressing over reinventing the wheel. This idea had legs. Also, I didn't even notice until the poster was released that the concert date was Jerry Garcia's birthdate. Happy 73rd, Jerry!
The unifying idea is that both the Grateful Dead and The Avett Brothers are longstanding folk rock groups with a rich visual history documented in poster art known with a known affinity for the ornamentation of Art Nouveau.as well as their use of collage. So with that reasoning, I did some absent-minded doodling, thinking of ways of serializing that previous poster and suggesting an evolution.
Instead of expending energy coming up with new narrative ideas, I just expanded on the previous one (whcih was decorative inspirit). I was able to put more time than usual into rendering and detail without concern over concept slowing things down.
I ended up using this watercolour and gouache illustration by Alphonse Mucha as a jumping off point. It is titled "II. Blessed Are the Pure in Heart For They Shall See God (1906)," and it's a spiritual portrait depicting two girls holding and examining a fallen birds' nest inspired by The Beatitudes (with poetically-postured flowers and vegetation).
Rough Composite + Refined Sketch
"I wanna fit in to the perfect space,
feel natural and safe in a volatile place.
And I wanna grow old without the pain,
give my body back to the earth and not complain.
Will you understand when I am too old of a man?
And will you forget when we have paid our debt
who did we borrow from? Who did we borrow from?"
Though I knew the vibe of what I was going for, looking at photographs of the group and other drawings of vegetation helped to spur the image into specifics. I added a few recent or interesting new photos from around the internet to the running file I have on the band. Things like social media are great for this as long as you keep your references partial and you aren't too photo-dependent (though depending on photos is a 100% valid technique that I'm using).
The border of the Mucha piece was cut out and filled with new pieces based on one of the [incredibly] loose thumbnails. I was originally going to illustrate the entire touring band, but didn't have the time to add them later on (tight timeline). This image serves as a safety net for the illustration so I know the gist of where I'll be taking things while keeping it all very loose. I did versions collages both with and without skin but ended up interpreting details over the tracings.
Once the collage was complete, it was printed up on standard copy paper. A light table was then used to trace the collage onto a piece of smooth bristol. Multiple versions of the same image (pictured) as well as references of instruments, the band, and the environment (offscreen/not pictured).
Every area of the illustration was sketched lightly (then darkly) in graphite.
I did not wait for the entire drawing to be pencilled out before inking. Due to impatience, different areas of the drawing were brought up at different times and evened out later. You can also see a small sheet of acetate with some test marks on it. Using this means I don't mess up the paper doing something too risky.
At a certain point, things switch to mostly inking. I like using Rapidograph technical pens because I enjoy the sharpness and exacting feel of the nibs. Maintenance is a bit of a pain sometimes, though.
Ended up doing the illustration on two layers. Wanted to do one, but ran out of space and didn't feel like erasing. I sometimes work on clayboard, but I felt like working on paper to retain the feel of the previous Tallahassee poster (which was also drawn on paper).
Digital Processing
"And most of us out there got fooled
Cause the gold it glittered in the night
We chased it fast like drunk buffoons
The banker lived, the artist died..."
Once the inked key drawing is finalized, it is scanned and brought into Photoshop. From here, the drawing was separated into bitmapped (pure black and white) layers and set up for "flatting." The whites of the image are replaced with pure tones, which can then be grouped according to form.
Colours are grouped and new selections are made and saved within the Channels palette and within Layers as Masks.
While the flats are being sorted, I'm also flipping back and forth between drawing in the midtone. I usually apply an overall tone to image while doing this to keep things exciting. Things really start to come together once this groundwork is laid.
Bouncing back to grouping colours according to form. Using these saved allows one to drop in colour very systematically once all the weird blueprinting and legwork is done.
Once the midtone drawing is done and all the Channels are separated by form, the real fun begins. Layer Groups organized into White, Key, and Midtone contain all of the new layers, which are filled black and Masked (representing the transparency). These are attached to Adjustment Layers (which represent ink colours) and occupied areas are filled in according to rendering preference in a CMYK-style.
I ended up using a base orange like a sepia dropout under-tone, which gave the piece more warmth and solidity. SHown here is the digital preview straight out of Photoshop.
"Down with the shine, the perfect shine
That poisons the well, and ruins my mind
I get took for a ride every time
Down with the glistening shine"
Printing is an imperfect science, so there is always something lost and gained in the translation from preview to print. Colours don't dry or mix exactly as planned. Screens shift and registration wanders. Papers bloat or stick depending on the humidity of the weather or the weight of the ink.
Little flaws or variations are what distinguish each limited print from each other within the edition but that's just a safety net because printing is easy to mess up. Much of the art of screen-printing is keeping fuck-ups from happening so the resulting print comes as close as possible to the desired image.
Go too wrong and everyone will comment on the edition's flaws and blame the printer. Do your job right and most folks won't even realize that there's a person there.
Ended up going by an OCMYKG(Orange/Cyan/Magenta/Yellow/Keyblack/Glow) sequence for the regular edition of 200.
Also got clearance to do an alternate colourway, so I used one that was again similar to the previous Tallahassee poster. Felt fitting. And I really like purple.
Honestly had so much fun printing (very little went wrong and the prints finished ahead of schedule) that I forgot to take more photos of the actual printing process. But here are the trimmed piles, being sorted for editioning (signing and numbering).
Finished piles of prints, ready for shipment to Vermont (some withheld for online sale).
Variant "Moonshine," detail. Mission accomplished!
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"It's the skin and bones that keep me on the road
The shoulder blades of a beast that haunts my soul
Wandering lonely and scared
I live the tragedy I shared..."
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- Editions of 200 Regular (Warm) and 75 "Moonshine" (Cool) alternate colourways. All posters glow in the dark.
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Money is Just Paperwork explores the value of printed paper and the authenticity of print artifacts through analogue collage works, a print-on-demand publication and a panel discussion (distributed via podcast).
Printed paper money, which evolved from promissory notes, obtains fluctuating values assigned by independent investment banking organizations, cultures and governments. Paper bills hold the value of their denominations, and over time become more valuable when the edition of a print is out of circulation (similar to other printed matter, such as hockey cards or vintage publications). However, as these objects of exchange become more valuable to collectors they assume increasing irrelevance in world economies: As major money movements occur almost exclusively by digital means, the bills that the majority of society uses are transformed into tokens of small exchange.
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A delicious and filling low carb/keto breakfast sandwich that really hits the spot when you miss "the way you used to eat."
This low carb and keto breakfast sandwich really hits the spot whenever I miss "the way I used to eat."
Because let's face it – of course we don't NEED bread, even low carb bread. Obviously, the ideal low carb diet does not rely on low-carb substitutions to high-carb food.
A proper low carb diet should rely on real food. Meat, fish, eggs, aged cheeses, nuts, healthy fats, low-starch vegetables, and low-sugar fruit.
BUT. Sometimes you do miss the old ways! And when you do, it's so much better to come up with a low carb alternative than to go for the high carb junk.
So I learned to make 90-second bread. It's so wonderfully versatile, that I use it whenever I want a bread substitute. It's much easier to make than cloud bread, another low carb bread substitute, which is also very good, but more labor intensive.
I make this keto breakfast sandwich once in a while, mostly on weekends. It's very good – delicious, substantial and filling. Breakfast may not be the most important meal of the day, but it's my favorite meal. Low carb or not, I like to make it good!
How to make low carb Keto breakfast sandwich
For this keto breakfast sandwich, I make the 90-second bread in a slightly larger bowl (3 or 4 inches on the bottom). This ensures large enough bread slices to accommodate the filling. Although it also means thinner bread slices.
When I feel like splurging, I make two 90-second breads. I then use one as the bottom layer and one as the top layer of the sandwich.
So rather than make one 90-second bread and slice it into two thin slices, I make two breads. This gives me a thick, very substantial (and 700-calories worth but who's counting) breakfast sandwich.
Since the 90-second bread is a bit eggy and spongy, I go through the extra step of toasting it in a greased skillet. It really does make a difference! Although on particularly lazy mornings I make this low carb breakfast sandwich without toasting the bread and it is still very good.
Is this a make ahead recipe?
It's possible to make this low carb breakfast sandwich the night before, wrap it and refrigerate it, then microwave it in the morning. But it's not as good as when made fresh. That's why I make it on weekends, when I have more time in the morning.
Reviews of this keto breakfast sandwich
I love social media, and I especially love Pinterest and Instagram, because that's where I often get to see pictures of my recipes as made by others.
So when Daria posted this beautiful photo of her own creation on Instagram, I immediately asked for her permission to share it here, and she gracefully agreed. I think it looks absolutely scrumptious!
Daria says, "Low Carb Breakfast Sandwich is so delicious, easy, and versatile! It can really be made with any protein and any kind of cheese. This felt like a real treat to have for a Tuesday morning breakfast! I absolutely loved it."
Thank you for the review, Daria!
Low Carb Breakfast Sandwich
For the bread:
- 1 tablespoon salted butter
- 1 large egg
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
For the sandwich:
- Olive oil spray
- 1 large egg
- 1 slice cheese (I used sharp cheddar)
- 1 slice deli ham
- Make the bread: place a tablespoon of butter in a microwave safe cereal bowl (bottom should measure about 3 inches). Microwave until melted, about 30 seconds. Allow to slightly cool. Using a fork, mix in one egg, 1 tablespoon coconut flour and 1/4 teaspoon baking powder. Microwave on high for 90 seconds. Allow to slightly cool, then carefully slice into two slices.
- Cook the egg and toast the bread: Heat a nonstick skillet over medium heat. Spray with olive oil spray. Break one egg into the skillet (use a greased round egg mold if you want a round shape). Cook on both sides until done to your liking. Add the two slices of bread as well, lightly browning them on each side.
- Assemble the breakfast sandwich: Place one slice of bread on a plate. Top with a slice of cheese, a slice of ham, and the fried egg. Place the second slice of bread on top. Serve immediately.


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Sam Machkovech Out at the Observer
UPDATE #1: here is a bit more from Sam on what happened:
The reason on my goodbye letter says "you are being terminated today as a result of the performance issues we have discussed with you on multiple occasions.
that sucks ): give'em hell sam
agreed w/ delmore. this is shitty news.
fuck the observer. Sam is cool.
Sam is a fuck. He was/is a bombastic dip shit that knows as much about music as I do, which isn't much. The Observer should have fired his ass a long time ago.
As an occasional freelancer and someone who likes stuff waaaay more dangerous than the "safe" stuff he veers toward, I still give Sam a vote of confidence. What, did you expect it to read like an underground zine? It *is* Dallas, you know. If he had a more diverse talent pool of freelancers, the section would be (have been) much better. So, again, instead of bitching why don't you apply for a freelance position there?
anon 11:43 you are a dipshit and are probably in belafonte
Bravo, mc. Exactly.
As a friend to the past four music editors and as someone who's been able to see exactly how the sausage is made at the Observer, I can tell you that 1.) it's not an easy job at all, and 2.) Sam's done it well. I don't really care if you like Sam's taste or opinions. Hell, there have been times when I didn't like Sam himself. Neither here nor there. A good person performing a difficult task lost his job today. And that's a kick in the gut. Ask anyone over at the Dallas Morning News.
Do you really think the next candidate will do the job better? Differently, for sure, but better? Or would you prefer that there was no Music section at all? Maybe the Observer should be some DIY glory-hole fanzine for the Noize crowd? Printed on some ancient offset machine 'cause its just so analog? What really does the Anonymous Nation want? Seriously, I've been wondering since this blog's conception.
i think sam did a decent job and certainly took the shit everyone slung his way pretty well.
and guess what dudes? if you didn't like the observer when sam was music editor, just get ready for the sharp turn downhill the observer music section is about to take. it will make the sam-era observer look like skyscraper. seriously, i can only imagine the burden brothers-spoonfed tribe-south fm wank that we'll have suffer through. good luck!
Its all about money honey.. thats it.
Aww so sad! I feel your lose! Wang no lose job but him lose crack pipe. Losing crack pipe is crazing! One time losing both crack pipe AND heroin needle at same time in Algoma, WI......I get on stage, playing one Stooges song, then say: "Enough! Touring Cancel! This crazings too much!". Never got US money for show but someone giving me smack later on same night rocking hard! Yazuki!!!
Big sads,
-wang chung
a shame; course i am biased
The music section of the Observer was loads better under Sam's watch than I've ever seen it before. At least he covered lots of good bands and called out the bullshit going on in Dallas when he saw it. Did he support some bands that some people thought were douchey? Ya. But, he also supported some other great bands in Dallas and helped try to foster the indie music scene. And he didn't support bullshit like Belafonte, and he didn't kiss the Burden Brothers' asses. He was a music fan, and pretty phucking funny too. Sam, sorry buddy. That sucks.
maybe it had something to do with the lack of Curtain/Clearview ads last week??? hmmm..... I wonder. $$$. Don't bite the hand that feeds you.
Nevertheless, I thought Sam did a good job of giving people hell. I liked it. Nobody knows anything about music in this town. That's why it is called Dallas.
Actually, Dallas is a Comanche Indian word meaning "Belafonte Kicks Ass".
Cannot wait for the new girl to start, so we can see that we had it good for a while.
Sam is a great guy, and I've always enjoyed his articles. I'm sure he'll be fine w/out the Observer. Good luck to you, Machovech, in whatever you do.
All you Sam haters sure are gonna eat crow if he gets replaced by some emo/metal/Curtain club ass-kisser.
He did a a really good job of covering the indie scene here, shedding light on it. He couldn't write about everything that people may have wanted to see, but that is what these blogs are for.
Sam supported and championed some of our area's best bands and acts from many genres. Some of those genres may not have been to my liking, but he I got over it because he can't be as narrow-minded as some typical music fans. He criticized things that needed to be criticized and I thought he was pretty damn honest about it too.
I had gotten to know him recently and he was a really nice, friendly dude with good taste in music. I'm sorry to see you go Sam.
Too bad. Hate to see him go.
I know Sam was rad because he gave my band good press and bad press and no press and lots of press.
he's not dead people. stop talking in the past tense. waniewawah.
I pray to god almighty that the new person does not like this fake ass no-wave wanna be poser bullshit.
3:41 is hilario
is the new music editor a girl? i wouldn't have a problem w/ it except for the fact that i now feel like if you love music and are a dude, yer kinda fucked in dallas.... cause there are like 3 or 4 major concert bookers who are female, about 1/2 the blogs around here are (or seem to be.. bobbyewingdreams) written by girls.
...when's a dude gonna do something rad? is our time up?
...oh well, at least they don't piss me off too bad (not as bad as lance from spune, who might as well be a 16 year old girl w/ his booking practices)
i'm not trying to sound sexist or anything of that nature... i'm just wondering when a guy is gonna do something similar to what 5 or 6 girls are doing in dallas.
maybe i'm just waiting for someone to put on the shows that i would put on if i were somehow capable of doing so.
Yes, the new music editor is a girl. She starts the end of September.
You'd already have a job booking if you were half as smart as the 4 or 5 girls booking shows in Dallas. I've dealt with both male and female bookers. It's all the same. In fact, most female bookers are friendlier. For instance, if you ran across one out in the street and she realized you were in a band she booked, she'd probably say "hi". Not so, for the stoic assholes I've had to deal with from Rubber Gloves (a looooong time ago anyways) to Emo's to Tree's etc. etc.
the booking agent at rubber gloves is a girl, and she's pretty fly. when she knows you're in a band she buys you a drink. that and she emails you back about shit. there's a new idea.
"(not as bad as lance from spune, who might as well be a 16 year old girl w/ his booking practices)":
hey lance, MYSPACE BULLETINS IS NOT A SUBSTITUTE FOR PROMOTING A SHOW. JESUS CHRIST.
exactly what i mean.... and what's this "retreat" we're having?
gawd! quit spit-shining turds and book a show that's worth a damn. just a bunch of "whacky" ideas for the events name, etc but it's always the same damn show
it's called tallent, and the ability to put on eyeliner w/o a mirror isn't the kind of tallent we're looking for
Spune's upcoming shows at Cavern, next week, have something for everyone:
Tues: Lost Generation's Solo Composer Showcase featuring
Sean Kirtpatrick (the paper chase), Warren Hearne, Silk Stocking, Plexus Loom, Wanz Dover & more.
Wed: Drums and Tuba, Fishboy, Man Factory, Comrade
Thurs: The Chemistry Set, Calhoun, The Paper South (members of American Analog Set/Winslow), I Love Math
Fri: The Happy Bullets, Doug Burr, George Neal, Chao, Glen Farris
Sat: Single Frame, Red Monroe, Faceless Werewolves, Cartright, Emil Rapstine (of The Angelus)
Diverse lineups featuring some of the area's brightest talent.
"No results found for tallent.
Did you mean talent?"
I think 5:53 should get post of the day.
awe, shucks.
good riddance redhead!
well this is never good news. sorry to hear about that sam - good luck finding the new gig.
oh and yeah that spune's a funny guy. love him or hate him he's definately become one of those 'gatekeepers' that don't always make it easy for a band.
but whatever.
Doncha love when you get to see someone get their comeuppance? This has been a long time coming. You can only fool people for so long into thinking you actually have any ability and talent besides shooting off half formed opinions.
You're a naive fool if you think this has anything to do with his writing ability or his opinions. It's about money, nothing more, nothing less. And get ready for even less local music coverage.
sam, c'mon down to cedar springs, where you really belong. all the betty ford's you can drink, and a special spunkburger at hunky's.
don't worry sam, you are but the first of many. come to think of it, you werent even the first. maybe you should worry, fuckhead.
maybe samuel and tim delaughter can go back out to waco and raise the ashes. and drink their own kool-aid.........
Boy, you people sure are brave. Throwing shit like monkeys, but not man enough to say it with your real names.
Not only are you happy that someone lost their job, which is pretty fucking low, but you are mindlessly throwing out childish insults to top it off.
I definitely cheer everytime someone gets laid off or loses a job... hooray! Take that! Guess you anons win, huh?
I almost hope this new writer loves emo, plano, curtain club and country music. Then wtf will you people do?
not read the observer? still?
Didn't know Sam. I do know the guys from Belafonte and yes I admit I'm friends with them and not ashamed of it. What your feelings about them is your opinion and I'm not going to try to change that, but some of the reactions I've been reading sound so Chicken Little style. It's not the end of the world. The Observer is not bringing about the second coming of nu-metal. Things will still remain the same. Music writers don't make a scene, people do.
as far as the no curtain club ads theory goes like shampoomohawk said at 2:05. i would say that has less to do with Sam and more to do with the fact that Clearview is usually only open one night a week recently.
Sam you should team up with Frank, I bet you guys could cook up something supersweet
well when Sam spent several weeks condeming Clearview in print..what do you expect. Everybody suddenly thinks it's uncool to play at Clearview.
alot of shows were canceld at clearview by bands, which is sad, cause most bands sound better there than other places around town. They need to fix their AC tho.
zak: whats wrong with cheering when someone gets fired??
if my garbage man decided not to pick up my garage for 4 weeks, and he got fired.. i sure as hell would cheer! and if someone told me it was wrong to cheer for that persons lost job.. well i'd tell them they are a jerk for even thinking about condescending twards me in such a way..
this being said.. there is a lot of garbage as far as dallas, and music is concerned.. sam shouldn't be blamed for 'all' of it..
also as far as your comments on anonymity..
some people confuse the ability of being brave, and the ability of one to be stupid.. this is exceedingly true when it concerns themselves.. doubly so for as they talk about others..
follow the money trail kids... shampoomohawk is on it.
hey shampoo! I will call you tomorrow to see if you want to come in with jo jo to finish up recording.
I may need you also to fix that guitar part.
cheers bitches
I don't care who they bring in I stopped reading that stupid paper a long time ago. The internet is where it's at. Sams writing was shit anyway. The sky is NOT falling and no one will care about this next week.
Just think, Sam can run for Mayor. Everyone else from the Observer has.
"Everybody suddenly thinks it's uncool to play at Clearview."
suddenly? SUDDENLY? since when was it EVER cool to play at that place?
that's like saying that because he thought the deep elum music festival was crap, people decided it was uncool to go.... it's uncool because it IS. not because somebody had the balls to point it out dispite the fact that advertisements to the event were plastered all over the paper.
Sorry Sam. I did not alwaya agree with him or some of his opinions of me, but the local coverage was pretty much the best it has ever been under his watch. Not to mention he actually went to a wide variety of local shows and events which is a first for an Observer music editor. I am crossing my fingers on the replacement, but I have a bad feeling about what we are gonna get instead.
I agree with Wanz. Like him or not, Sam was really covering some cool shit - Strange Boys, laptop deathmatch, undoing, wall of sound, etc etc. He was a good voice for the scene that we all bitch and argue about on this very blog. I am REALLY concerned with who will be chosen for the job next. I fear thw whole thing is going to turn into Texas Gigs part 2.
Hey Sam, Don't make it easy on your replacement by handing over your contacts and spoonfeeding them which bands they should be looking at locally. make 'em earn it themselves!
and, HEY WSJR: i never thought i'd be saying this but, cindy chaffin is kicking your monkey asses up and down the street lately.
shit or get off the pot with this fucking blog!
sam himself will tell you that i run around town talking shit about him. but since the days of 'the met', i haven't known our local free papers to be the most trusted place concerning the scene. i think the observer definitely improved while sam was there. it's a tough job that i definitely wouldn't want. anyway, i probably won't be picking up the observer anytime soon. unless i'm looking for a place to sell some sperm or get some methadone treatment.
Disagree or agree with him, Sam will be truly missed.
And while it sucks Sam's gone, there are a lot of freelancers that were hired by Sam and staffers that are damn fine music writers. He gave them a chance, so if you appreciated him, you should too. Don't let Jesse, MC, Darryl, Geoff, Merritt, Noah and others fall by the wayside or the corporation wins.
I've actually got lots of writeups upcoming, which has nothing to do w/ Sam, more like $$$. If they were smart they'd be hounding me to take this job. I won't of course, but I guess for the next month or so I'll be doing what I can to improve it (at least the critics picks). Please send me any under-the-radar shows I need to write up at least 2 weeks in advance to firstname.lastname@example.com or my myspace.
I've actually got lots of writeups upcoming, which has nothing to do w/ Sam, more like $$$. If they were smart they'd be hounding me to take this job. I won't of course, but I guess for the next month or so I'll be doing what I can to improve it (at least the critics picks). Please send me any under-the-radar shows I need to write up at least 2 weeks in advance to email@example.com or my myspace.
I've actually got lots of writeups upcoming, which has nothing to do w/ Sam, more like $$$. If they were smart they'd be hounding me to take this job. I won't of course, but I guess for the next month or so I'll be doing what I can to improve it (at least the critics picks). Please send me any under-the-radar shows I need to write up at least 2 weeks in advance to email@example.com or my myspace.
I think blogger's server or whatever actually does this double posting garbage. I did not do a click - click wait thingie at all!
I think blogger's server or whatever actually does this double posting garbage. I did not do a click - click wait thingie at all!
I think blogger's server or whatever actually does this double posting garbage. I did not do a click - click wait thingie at all!
shit or get off the pot with this fucking blog? I have no idea what that means, but no other blog in town ever comes close to being as cool as our blog! We are the ones that are kicking asses and shit!
damn, stonedranger, that was one of your weaker retorts.
your ass is getting kicked though..
bloger tough-talk is fun!
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ugh shut up. i wish you were an ANON you're so terribly forgetable.
how is my ass getting kicked?
One of the best things in local music free paper history has just happened and theres not a war going on over here? But you guys can easily conjure 100 plus comments on nothing or Wanz? Amazing.
Or maybe we just don't care. Ha!
"Stonedranger said...
how is my ass getting kicked?"
well, I'd guess that your "ass being kicked" is the product of how you handle this blog, not by any other blog actually doing it better or anything, moreso I'd guess people like me are just losing interest in the whole damn thing. but, you're too cool to care about any of that shit, right? I mean really, what are you without everyone's crack-addict, dedicated attention Mr. Stonedranger? would you just instinctively list up all the weekly music happenings every week even if no one was actually reading?
further, your one-sided, repetative commentaries and "eh, whatever I don't give a shit" writing seems to do LESS for the readers, and MORE to your ego. I use the word "ego" lightly because, how much ego can an Anonymous person have? I guess you're showing us! seems like it's an army of Anons led by King Anon - that's what you offer, right? I think people are getting a little tired of it, I am. your one political post doesn't convince me you're "branching out" or anything, and your contributors posts are increasingly difficult to read and overly-opinionated. I read this blog all the time, but out of chore. it doesn't seem so much of a music lover's blog these days, more like a wrecking crew. unfortunately, it's all we have! can't you offer something more progressive?
the point of me writing this isn't to dog you Stoney, but to point out that THIS is the type of shit that is wrong with Dallas and it's music scene! this website promotes drama, the people get all riled up and act high school on here, on PURPOSE! we all care so much (apparently) that we get on a dumbass website and anonymously attack each other - is that actually GOOD for this scene?? it's very sad to me. you'd all seemingly rather bite each others heads off and pass around gossip than make actual changes. everyone wonders "why we don't have a scene like ______?" well, they probably spend more time sharing and enjoying their local arts rather than sitting around all day verbally attacking each other like fucking children.
I don't think Dallas can change at this point, and somehow become a national, important music scene in this country. am I wrong? prove me wrong. for every few good things that happen here, ten bad ones follow. this idea is based mainly on the fact that the "care" we have towards our scene is complately misdirected into drama-filled websites like this.
Weshotjr, you assist in all of this by allowing a free-for-all forum for this type of shit, a steady 75 replies deep with constant negative commentary...ever thought about disallowing Anon posts? or would that bruise your ego?
love, Anonymous
Is it just me, or did that post contradict itself every other sentence?
The Dallas scene is fine. It's probably better then ever because there's a dialogue, of which Sam has been the harbinger and WSJR the catalyst.
From what I've seen, the Metal/AlternaCrap and Trance/Techno Clubs are on their way out, and some creative stuff has been beginning to thrive. If that's the case, Sam's mission has been achived, and up to us to keep it going.
Sams farewell was pathetic. Robin Hood of the Scene? Fucking hilarious. Yeah you left us with a laugh allright.
"...creative stuff has been beginning to thrive. If that's the case, Sam's mission has been achived, and up to us to keep it going." --4:59 PM
This is a joke, right?
Well, you should feel free to start your own blog if you don't like this one. Maybe you can help save the scene from all of the completely brainless negativity that is just driving things into the ground! However, there already is a blog (Fine Line) that is read by a lot of people and takes an extremely positive position on local music. The Dallas Obeserver, despite its negativity at times, also champions many bands that we don't, and you can read about those bands there.
As far as making the scene suck or whatever, its hard for me to respond to that because I don't know how much effect we really have on the local scene, if any. We have never held this blog out to be anything more than statements of our own opinions, and I think if anything, we have tried to move towards more professional writing and a careful approach (Most of the time) to true criticism and praise where we feel it is warranted.
As for the anon comments, a lot of them are pretty stupid and hardly productive. However, I'm not sure that requiring people to create a screen name to post on here would really make that much of a difference, because it doesn't require you to reveal anything about who you actually are. And it has nothing to do with my ego, even though it might be pleasant and easy for you to think that it does. We have a statcounter program that tells us how many people are on the site every day, so we don't even use the comments as a measure of popularily or success, because many times, the # of comments on any given day aren't a very accurate reflection of how many people are actually visiting the site... sometimes low comment days have a lot more people than high comment days, etc.
And if you don't like the writing on here, thats fine. I'm not always completely satisfied with what we produce either, but I will say that we all work pretty hard to make the content on here as solid as we possibly can in our spare time without compensation. We have done countless profiles of local bands we like, interviews with local figures and national touring bands, MP3s, record store sales and radio play info, pieces about underground music and culture in general, local politics, and our opinions on the Dallas scene in general. I think we have improved our content quite a bit in the past few months, and although you may not like it, the number of people that visit our site every day continues to increase on average, indicating that people are at least as interested in the site as they were six months ago, and probably more, since our returing traffic has increased as well.
I encourage fair and thoughtful criticism of our content, which is why I have taken the time to respond to yours. However, I hardly see how this blog is hurting the Dallas scene in any way, and if anything, I think Dallas has started to improve a bit over the past few months. I'm not saying that this is because of us, because again I have no idea about the effect we have (especially since we don't really talk to people about the blog in person), but I certainly don't think that we have ruined anything, and if you are going to say that we have, I would like to at least hear some concrete examples.
and actually, I do think that anonymous dialogue can help this scene, as it allows people to be more open in what they say. Does it also lead to sloppy and mean spirited crap a lot of the time? Yes, but I seriously doubt that people take the posts that say "Nigger" and "fuck your band you dumbass" very seriously at all. I just seriously doubt that people really care that much about that stuff.
I just simply can't start limiting what people say on here, because i want this place to continue to be a place where people can be honest and open, even if they don't always chose to be intelligent. I think the rational, intelligent voices on here will always prevail over the mean spirited and pointless.
"and actually, I do think that anonymous dialogue can help this scene, as it allows people to be more open in what they say..."
I have to agree here. I see this every day in my "real job." People get fired up, have opinions, want to make changes to corporate bullshit...but as soon as you stick 'em in a conference room full of execs, they clam up.
I don't think its as much cowardice as it is self-preservation and while its disappointing when real change needs to be made, I can't say that I blame some people for wanting to keep their identity cloaked.
Dialogue is dialogue no matter what, and thankfully, wankers aside, it can make a difference.
Wow, that made no sense. Are you being forced at gunpoint to read this blog? The writers are opinionated? Just like your longwinded comment, you mean? The anons are so negative? Just like your negative anonymous comment? It's really weird how there is all this outcry for this fucking blog to live up to some standard set by a bunch of assholes who are mostly just people in local bands who get all crybabyish when the focus isn't on them. Some of you sound worse than shareholders whining about how their investment isn't returning enough. This is a free blog. You come here out of your own free will. Then you bitch about it. It's free. Who cares? You're like people I dealt with working in retail who would complain that a coupon was "buy one-get one free" rather than "buy one-get three free" or some shit. If you're getting anything for free at all, why complain? If it entertains you then that should be enough. I don't think this blog was started to change your life or save the "scene". Define "progressive" for me? As in "Progressive Adult Alternative"? What progressive ideas do you want from someone who's just wasting all his fucking free time to tell you what he thinks is cool? Keep in mind that that's all this really is when this is said and done. The reason this blog has gotten so much attention is that every other outlet has done such a poor job of that. That only reflects on the local culture or lack thereof. As for not having the anonymous option anymore, that's been addressed on here several times and it's the reason you're allowed to criticize this blog and the anonymous comments with your very own anonymous comment.
well, I got a little mouthy earlier, but if this is the high school, you're the principal Mr. Stonedranger. I love your site, but your kids are running amok. I didn't mean to go nuts on my earlier post, but please understand my frustrations towards people that just want to BITCH about the scene, rather than DO something about it. my diatribe was aimed more towards your readers, honestly. call it PMS, my bad.
and yes, I guess I inadvertantly joined in and ultimately added to the lengthy e-drama. oops, contagious dallas vibe!
and to earlier gentleman:
"The reason this blog has gotten so much attention is that every other outlet has done such a poor job of that. That only reflects on the local culture or lack thereof."
exactly, I concur wholeheartedly
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August 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pm
his replacement, according to Lyons, is a Fort Worth native, Trinity Valley alum, and former editor/writer for the Santa Fe Reporter, Jonanna Widner"
Do a google search of her name & you can see some of the reviews she's done. Not too encouraging.
I think everyone here forgot that the Observer sucks. So firing someone from a shitty free mag is a big deal? Everyone, including me, that posted about this is retarded.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Congrats Anti-Sam-ites, you have gotten the emo-tastic Teen Beat music editor you all deserve. I hope you do like your elitist blogs because I have a feeling this girl's gonna make you want to run away to the dark recesses of the internet and curl up in a ball while rocking back and forth.
And I quote...
"... excellent silky country pop... Not only are they cute, Hundred Year Flood can play too."
~Santa Fe Reporter
Golly gee!
sheesh... that sucks.
"I think everyone here forgot that the Observer sucks. So firing someone from a shitty free mag is a big deal? Everyone, including me, that posted about this is retarded."
Ah, shit.
"... excellent silky country pop... Not only are they cute, Hundred Year Flood can play too."
are you sure thats not the fine lines quote?
Yes, us anti-Samites that have long abandoned The DO(uche)are sad because they replaced him with another douche. That makes perfect sense. Douche for douche. What's the difference. The point is that paper stinks.
Can this new person possibly make the observer any worse? I really don't know what the big deal is. People lose much more important jobs everyday.
people also DIE every day, it's just that it doesn't have anything to do w/ this blog so we don't type about it.
...i'd say a dallas music blog has a certain duty to point out when a music editor of a dallas newspaper (especially one who frequents this site) has been fired.
it may not matter, people who are "waaaay better" may lose their jobs every day, but it has nothing to do w/ dallas, music, or dallas music.
this does (he added, not much later).
you know the sound of pacman dying? thats what I keep hearing every time I read about Sam getting fired.
pyoo pyoo pyoo
Oh my "Gawd", everyone take flowers to The Fine Line as they mourn the death of Sam M. It's like a wake over there. Its as bad as Courtney Love reading Kurts suicide letter. He was so profound and AMAZING and now he's gone. A moment of silence please.
All of you "Oh my God they fired Sam" people are the lamest collection of DNA on the planet. WAAAAAAAHHHHHH! A shitty music writer for a shitty FREE magazine for a shitty music town lost his shitty job.
And I agree with the Anon (whatever time) about how important people with important jobs lose them daily.
Well I guess I can't really blame you Dallas people. You are only a result of your town's lack of culture.
It's ok, we can all cry when this next music person gets chopped.
Ahhh the Dallas Observer, gave Dallas such greatness such as the douches known as Laura Miller and Zac Crain. C'mon Sam, run for mayor! You can do it! Make your town even shittier!
I'd like to thank Sam for getting Laptop Deathmatch a full spread when it was starting out. I hope he finds his place and keeps coming out to the event.
sam talked about the same 5 bands that have been talked about for over 5 years. He never had one good thing to say, and sold CDs to stores without even listening to them. Karma is a bitch and Africa isn't far enough away for someone who probably doesn't even know what dimished means.
Do you remember Perfect Strangers? Sam was neither perfect, nor a stranger, but he could sure form sentences better than Balki. (Don't even get me started on Cousin Larry...)


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Yesterday's trip with D. through the Miami-Globe area and on further east onto the San Carlos Apache Reservation was a delight – great scenery and companionship, lots of humorous moments, good road music, beautiful weather, plus the chance to practice some of the new photography skills that I am learning.
Associating with a professional photographer is improving my eye and compositional sense, though it is also creating a bit of gear envy. F-stop, ISO, and depth of field, are all terms that are rapidly becoming a part of my vocabulary, even though I don't yet have a camera with which to put that new knowledge to use. (My little "point and shoot" camera's days are numbered.)
The following photos of poppies and lupines were all taken late Tuesday afternoon, March 25, 2008, on a hillside just north of Highway 70, near San Carlos, Arizona. Other than changing the size and resolution for the web, they're pretty much straight out of the camera. I hope to have some time soon to do a little retouching in Adobe PhotoShop. If so, I'll post the results. Enjoy!


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Few bands are as important to me as Virginia's King Giant. That might seem to be a bold statement since Thin Lizzy, UFO, Rush and Marillion are my absolute favourites. So what is it with these gentlemen of despair that means so much to me that they managed to join this exclusive group of bands? Well apart from flooring me with their amazing music King Giant are the reason why I live in the States! So let me indulge you for a minute.
In September 2006 when MySpace ruled supreme in cyberspace I received a message from the band saying: 'check out our tunes, think you'll dig us'. That's all it said but I was intrigued enough to listen to their songs. It only took a couple of seconds and I was hooked, to say the least. Back then, if you remember, you could pick your top friends on MySpace, so King Giant naturally ended up in my top spot and yours truly claimed a top position on theirs. That lasted for only a week until this dark haired, mysterious, beautiful woman named Kesha knocked me off the top. It didn't take long before we started to chat and as it turned out, we had a lot in common apart from our love for King Giant. As time went on I finally asked for her phone number and called right away. Yes, you're right it's not cheap to call Maryland from Sweden for 2 hours but man, I was smitten! After a few months of calls and chats back and forth with interest in each other growing rapidly every day, I arrived in western Maryland for a 3-week visit in June-July of 2007. And that's all she wrote as the saying goes. To say that we fell hard for each other is the understatement of the century. About 6 months later I was back in the States permanently and Kesha and I have been married almost 7 years now. And this is all thanks to the mighty King Giant!
Throughout their amazing self-released full-length debut King Giant tells tales of misery, pain, violence, drug and alcohol abuse and loss. Blending it all with sludge, doom and a fantastic air of southern darkness (no pun intended), there's an extreme beauty in their songs, despite the bleak and down-and-out situations they portray. Two songs that encapsulate 'Southern Darkness' in it's entirety are 'Mississippi River' and 'Lady Whiskey'. Drinks, drugs, murder, regret and loss wash over me as King Giant are piledriving me with sounds akin to The Allman Brothers on a sludge-ride through the swamplands of Louisiana.
Whether King Giant are going full tilt like they do in '13 To 1', 'Potter's Field', 'Machine Gun Mantra' and 'Desert Run', or drag me down into the cesspool life can be in 'Hollow' and 'Shindig', everything is real. I can smell the filth and I can touch the evil, twisted minds that appear in the songs. I feel the desperation as well as the vile thoughts simmering through this stepping stone descending straight to Hell. Add 'Solace', 'Burning Regrets' and a rousing and well-fitting version of Skynyrd's 'Needle And The Spoon' and you have one of the most complete albums ever!
Don't miss out on these guys, they deserve to be out there more than most bands. Apart from this brilliant release they have an EP, 'Identity' and a second full-length, 'Dismal Hollow' available. Both cement King Giant's greatness even further. Messieurs Hammerly, Walters III, Brooks, Kowalski and Ingram, I bow to thee! You changed my world forever in a way I never thought possible. I am forever indebted to you. Hail the masters!
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Being Impulsive
Being impulsive has always served me well. I detest lingering over decisions, weighing all the pros and cons and doing analysis. Recently, however, this has bit me in the butt. In the middle of January, I bought a dog on an impulse. Within 48 hours I decided to get a dog, found one and brought it home. This has proven to be one of the most challenging experiences of my adult life. Having a new puppy with all of its associated responsiblities was more than I can ever imagine. It nearly brought me to the brink of a nervous breakdown. Today I started to reflect.......why have I been so impulsive my whole life? Springing into action is always a good thing. Not having a thought out plan first is usually not. I usually put alot of planning into my work and customer life. Why don't I do it with my personal life? Is this a characteristic of salespeople everywhere? Again after much reflection, I think it may be. Weigh in on this. Let me know if you think salespeople by nature are personally impuslive. Oh and by the way did I mention that I may be running for NJ Assembly. Something 48 hours ago that wasn't even on my radar? Let me know what you think about impulsiveness and sales techniques. Have a great March! Visit us at www.triplewinsales.com
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I loved Black Panther and Eleven in Stranger things is badass! I love Elle Woods from Legally Blonde too- https://sophiehearts.net xReplyDelete
Loove this post! It's so important to celebrate women all around us. I felt like taking over the world after Wonder Woman & Black Panther, I'm hoping this inspires Hollywood to create more badass female characters. Hopefully there will be a Black Widow movie! Xx
yess I love her! Poison Ivy is a great one too but doubt she'll ever get anymore screen time! xDelete
Such an important topic to talk about! I love the idea of turning everything around and showing that, sometime, a princess doesn't need a prince to get rescued! She can be her own superhero.
I love how many different women with different characters were mentioned in your post, G, because not every female is the same, but we still have something in common: We are strong and we are enough!
Happy (belated) international women's day!
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I can't believe that I haven't seen a single one of the TV shows or films that you've mentioned here, it's a travesty! I definitely need to pull my finger out and watch some because it sounds like I'm missing out on some seriously kick ass girl power action! Black Panther seems like an incredible all round film and Wonder Woman being directed by a woman is brilliant too - they go a long way to proving that a woman absolutely can do anything that's asked of her and can fulfil all of the top roles! A perfect piece of International Women's Day inspiration!
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I absolutely loved reading this Gi, Elle Woods is definitely one of mine! I love that Wonder Woman is directed by a woman too, I never knew that! Xx
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There are some incredible female lead roles out there in film and TV right now! I've not seen any of the shows/films you've mentioned yet but they're on my list! I love that these roles are not centered around their love lives too!
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Black Panther was INCREDIBLE. Loved this post gal xReplyDelete
Loved this post!!! Fab to see people putting so much effort and creativity into sponsored posts, great work girl! Totally agree that Diana aka Wonder Woman has to be in this list. Loved Gal Gadot's portrayal of her too, she was so cute and naive about human life which brought more dimension to her bad-ass self.
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A new study has found the elderly benefit better from a high-dose of the flu vaccine compared to the standard jab.
Researchers reported about one in four flu cases in older people could be prevented if the high-dose vaccine was used instead.
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