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Sunday, August 30, 2015
Project Complete: Celtic-Inspired Embroidered Tunic
Back in the fall of 2014, when I started this project, I knew I was probably biting off more than I could chew. This is definitely one of those instances where the vision in your mind, and the lure of potential end up setting you down a path you might not actually be ready for or interested in taking. As my husband and I talked over what to do with this gorgeous linen, we dreamed rather wildly about all the things it could be. The finished reality is less than those dreams, but worlds more than I thought I was capable of back when I started.
The tunic itself is nothing new or special in terms of construction and method. The linen kind of speaks for itself. It's an amazing weight- light but not handkerchief, and very comfortable against the skin. I suspect that my husband will wear a shirt underneath (to protect the raw back of the embroidery), but he wouldn't need to. All the sewing is done by hand with black linen thread, but I used a thicker pearl cotton for the top stitching to make it stand out a bit more.
I began the embroidery by using that same pearl cotton to outline the entire design. I used stem stitch for this and it went pretty fast. I think I had that all done after 4 day's work. I'd actually already started some of the fill embroidery, but realized that having the outline in place first was the better way to go.
The main fill of the two wolves is split stitch. The stitches vary in length (because I'm not a machine), but the average stitch length falls around 3/32". Which is probably why this thing took so long.
I used chain stitch, at about a 1/8" stitch length, for the birds. From a distance it makes no difference, but up close, the chains look a bit more like feathers. It also went a lot faster than the split stitch. And "faster" was sort of my motto by the halfway point of this.
The white areas were completed using either split or chain stitch. The gold bits are all satin stitch.
The white, blue and pink are Caron Impressions, a 50/50 wool/silk crewel thread. It stitches like silk, but has a soft fuzziness from the wool, and is one of my favorite threads. It was the perfect weight for this linen. The gold is 100% silk from Trebizond (Burnished Gold).
I chose the stripe/net treatments in the interior portions of the creatures right at the end. Originally the entire this was going to be solid filled, but as I got closer to that point, I realized that I needed more visual texture and I liked the idea of some transparency within the design. I was afraid that if the whole thing was solid it would look too heavy on the linen. I think the stripes are kind of quirky, but the effect was exactly what I think it needed.
This project has taken me close to 2 years from the moment I first started cutting out the tunic to the last stitch on the design. It's the second longest-running UFO I ever had. (The first is the pair of black wool hose, sitting in a drawer to my left.) As I completed this embroidery, I realized that this kind of embroidery style isn't one I that draws a lot of interest from me. On a technical level, I'm glad I had the challenge to use skills I knew I possessed on a grander scale, but I'll think twice the next time "potential" starts carrying a project away. All things told, however, I'm very happy with the end result, and I am proud of this piece.
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Posted by Turkse Media
Aug 13, 2017
Turkey mourns teenage boy martyred by PKK
Turkey is mourning the 15-year-old boy who was martyred by PKK terrorists in northern Turkey late Friday.
Eren Bulbul died from wounds sustained as he helped gendarmes track PKK terrorists in Macka, a town 22 kilometers (14 miles) south of the Black Sea province of Trabzon.
Gendarmerie Master Sgt. Ferhat Gedik, 41, was injured in the same incident and also martyred.
Funeral prayers for Eren was held Saturday afternoon and was attended by Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu.
Deputy Prime Minister Fikri Isik visited the hospital where Eren had been treated to express his condolences to the boy's family.
Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the opposition Republican People's Party (CHP), condemned the attack.
"You are so low as to fire a bullet at a 15-year-old boy," he said in a tweet.
Kilicdaroglu also called Eren's brother Olcay on Saturday and expressed his condolences, according to a statement made by CHP on Saturday.
Many people in Macka reacted to the killing of Eren by hanging Turkish flags at their houses and workplaces.
A poster of Eren was also hung outside the town hall with the words "Eren Bulbul, Macka will never forget you. Our martyrs rest in peace."
On Twitter, thousands of Turkish people posted messages commemorating Eren with the hashtag #iyikivarsınEren (means 'glad to have you' in Turkish).
NGOs, artists, businessmen and sport clubs all over Turkey condemned terror and killing of the 15-year-old boy, in statements.
Football teams in the Turkish Super Lig will also come out onto the pitch with banners commemorating Eren and will stand in silence for one minute during the first week of the league on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, according to a statement of Turkish Football Federation on Saturday.
The PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and EU — resumed its armed campaign against Turkey in July 2015.
Since then, it has been responsible for the deaths of some 1,200 Turkish security personnel and civilians, including women and children.
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'Dexter' Star Michael C. Hall Lists L.A. Home For $2.35 Million
Michael C. Hall, star of television show "Dexter," has put his compound in Los Angeles on the market for $2.35 million, according to his agent Josh Myler of the Agency in Beverly HIlls.
The roughly 4,600-square-foot, Spanish Hacienda-style house was built in 1926 at the end of a cul-de-sac in the Hollywood Hills. It has four bedrooms and five bathrooms. The home has a courtyard garden off the living room as well as a library, media room, separate den off the kitchen, formal dining room and a wine room.


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NEWORDER INDUSTRIES, a specialist information security company in South Africa, today announced a strategic partnership with international threat detection experts PWNIE EXPRESS to bring the Pwn Pulse network threat visibility solution to South Africa.
The arrival of Pwn Pulse in South Africa meets the growing need among local companies for full visibility of the network amid device sprawl and Internet of things (IOT) proliferation, says Marthinus Engelbrecht, CEO of NEWORDER INDUSTRIES.
As more users adopt technology in the workplace, growing numbers of employees will enter the workplace bearing connected devices that can make their work easier and more efficient, but these connected things are very difficult to control, Engelbrecht says. "Connected things bring numerous risks into the workplace that companies need to mitigate. IT executives need to change their mindsets about information security and act accordingly to address this imminent threat to business," he warns.
"Gartner forecasts that 4.9 billion connected things will be in use in 2015, up 30% from 2014, and will reach 25 billion by 2020. The Internet of Things (IOT)* has become a powerful force for business transformation, and its disruptive impact will be felt across all industries and all areas of society."
Engelbrecht explains that controlling the IOT environment is a challenge that has evolved from the BYOD and mobile management headache of years past. Simply managing and securing the mobile environment has proved beyond the abilities of many companies, he says, with extensive policies put in place, but no technology and action to support the paperwork. "BYOD has rapidly evolved into IOT, and presents some of the biggest challenges to network and data security, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. IOTT (the Internet of things threats) are growing on a daily basis."
Engelbrecht says organisations attempt to mitigate the risks by stepping up perimeter and end-point security, which leaves a large portion of the network unprotected. "We see growing numbers of purpose-built malicious hardware and applications targeting vulnerabilities in the corporate workplace. Take, for example, Raspberry Pi, which has become a useful tool for criminals: it is barely bigger than a matchbox, features USB ports and a local area network port, and can be programmed to do whatever it needs to do. It is worryingly easy to plant one within a corporate network, where it could remain undetected indefinitely."
Engelbrecht adds that extensive mobile security protocols don't stop a mobile device within the company from operating as an unsecured mobile hotspot, which could be compromised or infected, giving attackers a gateway to the enterprise and its systems. In addition, PWNIE EXPRESS's 2015 Report: "The Internet of Evil Things: The Rapidly Emerging Threat of High Risk Hardware" says malicious hardware is taking a backseat to IOT device threats such as unauthorised, accidental and otherwise misconfigured access points; BYOD and the personalisation of (formerly) corporate hardware; and insecure, misconfigured and vulnerable IOT devices. The report found that 86% of infosec professionals are concerned with connected device threats, with 55% already having witnessed an attack via wireless device, and 38% via a mobile device.
Despite this concern, 40% say their organisations are "unprepared" or "not prepared at all" to find connected device threats, while 37% can't even tell how many devices are connected to their networks. Seventy-one percent are concerned about devices in a default, misconfigured or vulnerable state, including devices with default passwords and "wide-open" settings, followed by unauthorised mobile devices, access points and wearables, and by corporate sponsored BYOD.
The arrival of Pwn Pulse in South Africa allows the IT security team to continuously detect rogue, misconfigured, and unauthorised wireless and wired devices on or around the network. It then audits and provides immediately actionable data that includes a comprehensive list of devices, behaviours, and even historical information; and allows the enterprise security team to track and disable devices from the network.
"Pwn Pulse gives you full visibility into the devices that are providing a path into your network," says Engelbrecht. "Brought to market as either a client-managed or SaaS solution, it enables centralised assessment of all your locations and automatically monitors, fingerprints, analyses, and alerts on the behaviours of any devices in main and branch offices, as well as in the field."
Described as the only solution available today to allow for real-time wireless and wired device detection, Pwn Pulse comes with broad-spectrum device visibility and awareness covering BYOx/mobile, wireless, Bluetooth, wired, and other network-enabled devices.
"Until now, there has been little to protect the corporate network between the perimeter and the endpoint in the new IOT environment. Pwn Pulse is a unique and highly specialised solution, and the only one of its kind in South Africa. Although it is a niche technology, it is priced within reach of even the mid to small business sector," says Engelbrecht.
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Hi, I'm Christian from Italy and I'm a big fan of yours.
I'm writing to you because I've found a T-shirt in a store with a bike
draw on it, and it looks familiar...
As you can see It's with no doubt your Monkee 11 "Gorilla Punch", but
your name isn't showed anywhere.
The brand is "selected" but even on the website there is nothing about you.
Maybe you already know about it and it's ok, but I've though it was
right to tell you about it.
I've attached some photos of the T-shirt. I Hope everything will be fine.
Christian www.planbmotorcycles.com
NO ! This t-shirt has nothing to do with Wrenchmonkees, other than to SELECTED HOMME has stolen our image of Gorilla Punch and used on this t-shirt.
This has not happened with our acceptance and has nothing to do with Wrenchmonkees!
We received this mail from Christian, and was surprised that this t-shirt arrived at Italy.
Many thanks to Christian for making us aware of this and the nice pictures!
An appeal to all you out there if you find this t-shirt in a store, on the street or maybe have allready bought one, please take a picture of it and write us an email telling where and what country you found it in.
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Here's a closeup view of the specimens.
Chris Pirrone applies vinac to the fossil vertebrae.
We collected these three vertebrae, but it was too cold to stay and dig through the sediment for more bones. I'm sure there are more; some forelimb or cranial elements would be great. I'll return to the locality once some more storm activity cleans off the cliff exposures.
During the course of my taphonomic research of fossil vertebrates in the Purisima Formation, I've found that associated vertebrate remains (two or more elements which in life are only joined by soft tissue) are extremely rare in the shallow marine fossil record (if the Purisima Formation is taken to be a representative shallow marine deposit). Indeed, this is one of a couple dozen specimens showing any degree of association or articulation.


text: New 'Alien' Wasp Is Bad News for Growing Pest 'In the insect world, we struck it rich' By Michael Harthorne, Newser Staff Posted Oct 22, 2015 6:00 PM CDT 19 comments Comments Kind of like this, but much scarier for stink bugs. (Shutterstock) (Newser) – Usually the discovery of a wasp described as something out of the movie Alien would be cause for alarm. Instead, the AP reports scientists are celebrating. That's because the Trissolcus japonicus kills crop-ruining stink bugs. The wasps—which, in more good news, are non-stinging—were found in Vancouver, Washington, over the summer by scientists at Washington State University. "We did not expect to find this wasp here and are very excited about the discovery," entomologist Elizabeth Beers tells the AP. "In the insect world, we struck it rich." The AP reports the parasitic wasp is native to Asia and targets a type of stink bug also native to Asia but now present in the US. The female wasp lays its eggs inside stink bug eggs. The wasp larva then hatches, eats the stink bug, and "bursts" out as an adult wasp. This is good news for farmers because the stink bugs have caused millions of dollars in damage to fruit orchards in less than two decades. According to the AP, the US government has been studying Trissolcus japonicus in quarantine as a possible weapon against the stink bugs for eight years. (Read more wasps stories.) My Take on This Story Report a story error Show results without voting | 2% Hilarious 34% Intriguing 1% Depressing 59% Brilliant 3% Scary 1% Ridiculous


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"Marry Me" in Silicon Valley
Last year, iText invested in a Belgian movie "Marry Me". We had a spectacular party at the Belgian opening night, but now we're also coming to Silicon Valley: the movie will be screened in San Jose during the Cinequest Film Festival in March.
This is the first movie that mentions iText in the end credits:


text: Adorable Creature Attacks! Cuteness Overload! Chapter 28 Posted onJune 13, 2018AuthorpetiepotterLeave a comment Read Chapter 28 here! Editors: Trivial King & Arka Translator: PetiePotter <3 Thanks for reading~ Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)


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For a woman who spends her day job in delicate gowns and opera-length gloves, we can't exactly blame Michelle Dockery for slipping into something a little more futuristic when off duty. At Sally Morrison and LoveGold's lunch in her honor in West Hollywood yesterday, the Golden Globe-nominated Downton Abbey actress looked lovely in gold David Yurman earrings with a Barbara Casasola dress. And, call us crazy, but her orange-y-and-black, colorblocked frock reminds us of something. Something...space-related. Like, say, our favorite Starship captain and intergalactic lover, James T. Kirk.
The gown's golden hue perfectly set off Dockery's delicate, British beauty. And, dare we say it, this getup is modest enough to earn even her aristocratic alter ego's approval. She looks, quite simply, stunning. So, with all due respect to the over-emoting Captain, we think Dockery easily wins this game of "Who wore it better?" Now, if Lt. Uhura were to show up in the same dress, we'd have some competition.
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Lucy: Gym is the one class CeCee and I have together.
CeCee: Except my gym anxiety is off the charts since I have about as much jock appeal as a stick of celery.
Lucy: Ha-ha-ha-ha! Good one, C.
CeCee: It's true. I literally have to force myself to participate so I don't tarnish my GPA.
Lucy: Here we go—the old GPA rears its ugly head again.
CeCee: Anyway, because Lucy is much more athletically inclined than moi, I'm turning this chapter over to her.
Lucy: Thanks, C.—although you're giving me way too much credit. Okay, it's not that I'm a muscle-building jockette or anything. It's just that I don't mind gym as much as my academic classes. Either way, here are some pointers to get you through the drudgery of Blob Tag and the like:
* Locker room doom. Got the heebies about changing in front of everyone? It seems like a big deal at first, but really, it's not. Just remember everyone feels weird in his or her underwear. If you're really sketched out, go to the bathroom and change.
*If you cause your team to get whomped, don't take it personally if the muscle heads don't take it well. For some, gym is life and death.
*If you have cramps and your gym teacher is cool, don't be afraid to tell her. She may give you a pass that day.
*Some gym teachers are sadists and designate certain days for marathons. For example, at Madison Heights, we have Marathon Mondays. If this is your sitch, try to think of something that inspires you while running—like your crush. If possible, listen to some high-octane tune-age on your iPod.
*Make sure to wear good kicks (tennis shoes) for PE. You don't want to compromise your feet.
*Remember to hydrate. I like to carry a water bottle so I don't have to drink out of the narsty school fountain.
*And for everyone's sake, don't forget the deodorant!
Try to learn to enjoy gym. At least you get to move around, watch fetch guys show off their (more often than not, nonexistent) muscles, and burn calories all at the same time.
Gym Must-Haves:
*Workout clothes or school uniform
*At least two pairs of clean gym socks
*One or two pairs of athletic shoes
*Sweatshirt (in case it's cold)
*Granola bar or something to give you energy
*Deodorant/body spray
*Soap/shampoo/conditioner depending on how much time you'll have to shower—it varies by school
*Personal hygiene items (just in case)
*A lock
*Bottled water


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A good link development strategy is essential to any successful search engine optimization (SEO) campaign. Modern search engines view inbound links as votes of confidence. The larger the quantity and the higher the quality of the links that point to your site's pages, the more potent your site becomes in ranking for its target keywords.
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|Image from Vinther's 2015 paper in Bioessays.
Today at Accumulating Glitches, I discuss the major findings of paleocolor and how we know what colors the dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals actually were. Check out the full article here.
Further reading:
Vinther, J. A guide to the field of palaeo colour, Bioessays, 37, 643-656 (2015). DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500018.


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and since we started off with Brianna Banks' comeback, I think it would be only fair to let you know that she also did an exclusive comeback scene over @ legendary NaughtyAmerica Network, which means that she's fully back in business!!!!.. now, while we're on the subject of NaughtyAmerica Network, I have to remind you that you can get a 100% FREE, 30min full access as a Boobster friend, if you signup through this link (100% catch free)… but also, I HAVE TO let you know about few other cock stiffening masterpieces that were added there recently.. such as fantastic big tits latina super hottie, Bridgette B, in an awesome housewife POV fantasy scene, huge boobs mature teacher whore, Britany Oneil, in another mind boggling classroom fuck scene, and super stacked mature slut, Rachel Love, in a mouth watering cougar fuck scene!.. here are couple of teasers to help you understand what Im talking about here:
again, you can get 30min full access to all these scenes if you signup through this link, but if you wanna friendly advice from me, just get a full pass straight away (plenty of options and plans to chose from), cause once you see all the scenes/pornbitches, 30 mins will feel like a blink of an eye, and you're gonna want more anyways… enjoy!
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Want to add "Buy Now" buttons to your social media pages? Redirect users from an external source to your store cart? Don't know how to add e-commerce functionality to an external website? With Buy Links, you can do all that with ease!
For each simple product on your store, you can find two types of links; a Buy Link and a Permalink.
The Permalink simply takes you to a page with product information and description, whereas the Buy Link adds the the product directly to the cart, and can redirect the user to the product page, cart page or checkout page.
For example, if you wish to redirect a customer browsing a product from your Facebook, Instagram or Twitter page to the cart on your store, all you have to do is copy the Buy Link of the product from your Jumpseller store to the respective sources as you can see below:
You can even adjust the redirect setting of the buy links by going to the Checkout section underneath Settings on your admin panel, which means that you control where the user is directed to after they click on the link. You can redirect them to the cart, to the checkout or they can stay on the same page.
It gets better! With service like bitly you have the chance to customize links for free. Which means you can reduce the length of the URL to make it simpler to add on social media. With bitly, you also have the added benefit to measure the clicks on each link, giving you a better analysis of the Buy Link effectiveness.
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Engage to Change: Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan Seeks to Shift Consumer Behaviour
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Engage to Change: Unilever's Sustainable Living Plan Seeks to Shift Consumer Behaviour
April has been a busy month for one of the world's largest consumer goods companies. A year into its Sustainable Living Plan, the company released its 2011 progress report, and hosted global in-person meetings and a 24-hour live online Sustainable Living Lab, facilitated by GlobeScan. All this activity managed to generate a lot of buzz and rightfully so. Corporate Social Responsibility - or CSR - has been a delicate dance for many companies balancing the growing need for transparency with traditional communication tools that tend advertise only the positive. Unilever's commitments to reduce its environmental and social impacts are laudable and place the company among a small group of leaders in corporate sustainability. However, what is truly impressive is the way with which this global giant opened the conversation to anyone who wanted to join the dialogue. Especially interesting was the discussion on changing consumer behaviour. Unilever wants consumers to use less - a novel idea in an increasingly capitalist-consuming world.
The Lab
Hosting a 24-hour online forum seems like a big task, but not without its rewards. For the company, engaging with stakeholders enables the company to learn from customers, suppliers and others that joined the forum. The Lab was designed around four streams: Sustainable Sourcing, Sustainable Production and Distribution, Consumer Behaviour Change and Recycling and Waste. It is a smart, authentic way to try and explore difficult questions.
Ethical Consumer Behaviour
According to GlobeScan research, ethical consumers "reward" or "punish" companies by choosing to actively purchase (reward) or refuse to buy (punish) goods and services. [1] Voting with your money is a powerful tool for companies and over the years the increase of "green" products speaks to satisfying growing consumer demands. This pattern creates a rewarding environment for companies such as Unilever who listen to the shifting needs of their customers.
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Meirav Even-Har is a Justmeans staff blogger. She reports on Canadian CSR issues. Meirav is an independent sustainability consultant and writer working in Toronto, Canada.


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How was Fashion Foie Gras born, tell us your story?
It was truly born out of a hunger for all things fashion and no real place to express it properly. I saw the blogosphere as a place where people were having conversations about their passions and I thought this was a great place to let mine run free. So FFG came into existence. I wasn't really sure where it would go or what would happen but I went for it full force to see what I could do with it.
What inspires you?
Absolutely everything. I'm one of these cheesy people who can't be on my phone in a cab because I believe every moment driving through London is a moment to landscape or people watch. I am 100% inspired by the streets of London, it's beauty and the people that parade up and down the sidewalks.
How did you build such a huge following for your blog?
Aw, the golden question. I don't think there's a secret recipe. I do know, however, that persistence is key. Once I started getting and keeping readers, I felt I owed them something, so I doubled my efforts. At the start I was posting 10 stories a day.
Did you ever envisage the blog becoming such a success?
Absolutely not. I had no idea what to expect and trust me when I say that every day I feel lucky for what I do for a living and never ever take it for granted.
Advice for budding digital gurus?
Get ready to give your whole life to your passion - anything less than everything will get you nowhere.
What is the best thing about the digital space meeting fashion?
Realtime results. WE can see trends unfolding around the world in realtime. I can logon and see what a girl in Korea is marking as the latest greatest trend, then compare that to what's happening in Los Angeles or NYC. Then it's my job to try and translate and digest those movements in fashion.
Trend follower or innate style?
Innate style definitely. Trends are fun but I believe they are there to supply inspiration, not to be copied directly.
Favourite piece from Winser London Spring Summer 2014 collection?
I couldn't possibly choose. That's the hardest question you've asked me yet! Every season I am surprised by how Winser London takes the most classic shapes and cuts and makes them look new again. If I could, I'd have the whole lot in my closet.
Seaside or Poolside?
Seaside definitely. I'm an ocean girl!


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Vincent J. Monticciolo, DDS. MBA hosts his 15th anniversary free dental care event through his national charity - Dentistry From The Heart (DFTH). This event will be supporting Pasco County residents by providing free dental services to the first 500 people. The team of dental professionals at Monticciolo Family & Sedation Dentistry will provide the first 500 adult patients with a free extraction ,filling or cleaning. Registration begins at 5:30am on February 5th, 2016 In his New Port Richey Location. There will also be several hygienists, dental assistants,oral surgeons and other dental professionals donating their time and resources in order to provide free dental care to as many residents in need as possible.
Free Dentistry - Friday, February 5th in association with Dentistry From The Heart - at Monticciolo Family & Sedation Dentistry 5139 Little Road New Port Richey, FL 34655. This is the 15th annual event for Dr. Vincent J. Monticciolo, DMD, MBA the founder of Dentistry From The Heart. Previous events brought smiles to hundreds of people while donating over millions in free dental care at each event.
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400 BLOCK OF BROOKHOLLOW – A Sony MP-3 player was stolen from an unlocked vehicle.
Category Archives: Decatur Police Department
Friday, Jan. 8
600 BLOCK OF N. U.S. 81/287 – A safe and money was stolen from Alcoholics Anonymous. There were no signs of forced entry.
LA QUINTA INN – A laptop computer was stolen.
Monday, Jan. 4
LOWE'S – The store reported the theft of a landscape utility trailer from the business valued at $1,548.
900 BLOCK OF W. THOMPSON – Thirty CDs were stolen from a woman's vehicle.
Sunday, Jan. 3
1100 BLOCK OF OWL STREET – A woman's vehicle was burglarized. Her purse was stolen.
Saturday, Jan. 2
WALMART PARKING LOT – A man reported the theft of two toolboxes from the bed of his pickup while it was parked in the Walmart parking lot on Dec. 31, 2009.
Monday, Dec. 7
1400 block of U.S. 81 North – Two vehicles parked in a U.S. Forest Service parking lot were burglarized. Tools were stolen.
Sunday, Dec. 6
1300 block of Deer Park Road – A tailgate was stolen from a vehicle while it was parked outside a church.
Saturday, Dec. 5
300 block of N. Trinity St. – A pistol and a Sony Playstation were reported stolen from a residence.
Friday, Dec. 4
800 block of U.S. 287 South – The tires on a man's car were slashed while he was inside IHOP.
800 block of W. Mulberry St. – A residence was burglarized. The suspect stole a television and a laptop computer.
Thursday, Nov. 26
600 block of S. Cowan Street – An unknown suspect broke into a residence and stole video game consoles, video games and a computer.


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HOUSTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- A Houston furniture store said it is making good on its Super Bowl bet and paying customers $7 million in refunds.
Jim "Mattress Mack" McIngvale, owner of Gallery Furniture, said he would give full refunds to anyone who spent $6,000 or more at the store in the two weeks leading up to the Super Bowl and had their furniture delivered by 5 p.m. Sunday if the Seattle Seahawks came out victorious, KTRK-TV, Houston, reported Monday.
The store announced on its website McIngvale will make good on his bet and pay out about $7 million worth of refunds to qualifying customers.


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Which are your favourite eyeshadow palettes?
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Which are your favourite eyeshadow palettes?
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Jealous of your collection. I still love my original Naked palette although Naked 3 looks so pretty. xReplyDelete
The Beauty Trove
Gorgeous palettes! I really want to try the NARS and Stila palettes. The shades are so pretty!ReplyDelete
Tasha // shiwashiful.
I ADORE the Nars palette, it's so versatile and beautiful! I also really like the Nude Tude palette from The Balm at the moment xReplyDelete
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I love the sleek palette, the colours are so gorgeous and its so cheap!ReplyDelete
I also am just the hugest fan of Naked 3 - I find it has a shade for every occasion!ReplyDelete
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I love my Naked 3 and the Sleek Palette is so beautiful. I haven't seen that one before. XxReplyDelete
Naked 3 is so beautiful, love it!ReplyDelete
The little things in life
The naked3 is at the top of my wish list this year ! ;)ReplyDelete
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I love eyeshadow pallets. The stila one looks gorgeous!ReplyDelete
I'd say my favourite palette at the moment is my original Naked palette. I wanted to like the Naked 3 palette but it looked a little too warm for me :(ReplyDelete
I've had my eye on the NARS And God Created Woman palette for ages but have never got around to buying it. I have the Kalahari duo which I love so I'm sure I'd love the palette too. Just need to get my backside in gear and order it (along with the Virtual Domination cheek palette which looks amazing!)
The Nars virtual domination cheek palette does look amazing! I've added it to my Christmas wish list! :) xDelete
I'm a big fan of the In the Light palette as well. It's fantastic. Smashbox also makes really fab eyeshadow palettes. Honestly, I don't know how people can handle a bunch of single shadows. Those that I have I stash in the back and rarely even look at. It's so convenient to have everything in the same place!ReplyDelete
I love eyeshadow palettes because it's too hard to choose single eyeshadow :DReplyDelete
I have the Naked 2 and I love it.
I love your blog! This is a great post :)ReplyDelete
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Great review. I unfortunately do not own any of these palettes yet, though the Urban Decay Naked 3 palette should be in a box being shipped to me right this very moment. I have been eyeing this Sleek palette for a long time as well and i will pick it up when i visit London in November. Unfortunately Sleek is hard to get otherwise in Belgium. I have not tried anything from W7 yet but i heard great things and i will definitely take a look into it :)ReplyDelete
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All of these palettes look amazing, especially the NARS one! I really want to get In The Light, it looks perfect.ReplyDelete
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Lovely post, thanks for sharing! <3ReplyDelete
I need the Naked 3 palette in my life! Nice review.ReplyDelete
Dang, you have one beautiful blog. Lovely photography. I was already following you, but Catherine from The Beauty Trove gave me a good reminder.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much Holly! xDelete
That Stila palette has been on my wish list for a very, very long time!ReplyDelete
I have both the Sleek Oh So Special and Urban Decay Naked 3 palettes, and love them both! Really like the look of the colours in that Nars palette!ReplyDelete
Absolutely gorgeous palettes!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous palettes & I love your photography! XReplyDelete
Ohh that NARS palette looks like such a little gem! <3 xxReplyDelete
Ohh I always overlook Sleek!ReplyDelete
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Lovely style!ReplyDelete
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That palette looks so beautiful!! Totally jealousReplyDelete
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My favourite eyeshadow palettes are my Too Faced and non-Naked Urban Decay ones... But I love my Nars ones too a lot! Love yours! ;) xxReplyDelete
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These palettes are so pretty, I really want that Nars palette I love all the colours.ReplyDelete
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Ok that Nars palette is now firmly back on my wishlist - what a dreamy combination of colours!ReplyDelete
These are all lovely. They are all going on my wish list :)ReplyDelete
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Blur Brother no. 1, Keith, & one of RiccHardy boys.
Blur Brother no. 2, Steven, & one of RiccHardy boys.
Teaching people how to do the Diski dance.
Comparing calves to an Argentinian phys ed teacher's calf.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58193709064108022682018-12-02T17:05:36.851-08:00BLISSED OUTbeing deleted scenes and material related to Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, a book by Simon ReynoldsSIMON REYNOLDShttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819370906410802268.post-52950653745885343262018-03-26T18:33:00.000-07:002018-03-26T18:33:34.791-07:00SIMON REYNOLDShttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819370906410802268.post-29835648217461785122011-08-04T14:53:00.000-07:002011-08-04T14:54:10.564-07:00

Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock is available once again 21 years after its original publication. It's one of the debut batch of reissues launching Backpages Classics, which is the e-book imprint of Rock's Back Pages.

Blissed Out returns in substantially expanded form with five bonus essays that track the development of underground music and artists such as Morrissey and My Bloody Valentine in the years following the book's 1990 release. There's also an in-depth Afterword contextualising the rants 'n' raves therein as the byproduct of a unique historical phenomenon: the "space of possibility" known as the UK weekly music press.

On sale here and here

more information about Blissed Out here and here

SIMON REYNOLDShttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819370906410802268.post-78299075784040697522011-07-28T09:51:00.000-07:002011-07-28T09:59:44.552-07:00i'm pleased to announce the imminent return of Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock as one of the batch of reissued rock books that launches Backpages Classics, Rock's Backpages's new imprint for e-book reissues

publishing date: some time this summer

the new edition comes with 5 bonus essays that track the development of music and artists covered in the book subsequent to the original edition's publication in 1990. there is also a long afterword that contextualises the book in terms of the UK weekly music press as as a historically brief and highly improbably "space of possibility"SIMON REYNOLDShttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819370906410802268.post-37984642982643917232010-12-10T15:00:00.001-08:002010-12-10T15:00:46.695-08:00Blissed Out to be reissued?

looking likely

watch this spaceSIMON REYNOLDShttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819370906410802268.post-65213532783984850422010-12-10T14:59:00.000-08:002010-12-10T15:00:02.139-08:00in remembrance of lost daze of jouissance

Melody Maker fan grows up to be Irish academic but doesn't forgetSIMON REYNOLDShttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819370906410802268.post-10478771123326747542010-03-07T20:32:00.000-08:002010-03-07T20:37:28.845-08:00
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MY BLOODY VALENTINE / THE HOUSE OF LOVE / FELT / PRIMAL SCREAM / THE JAZZ BUTCHER / NIKKI SUDDEN / JASMINE MINKS / HEIDI BERRY
"Doing it For The Kids" Creation Records Alldayer, Town and Country, London August 7th 1988
Melody Maker, August 1988

As rock grows long in the tooth, as the possibility of it exceeding itself seems to dwindle further each day, so the temptation is to look back wistfully to the high points. For some the definitive Lost Moment is (still) punk's Pyrhric rage and convulsive passage through the mass media. Others can't see their way past the immaculate personal/political anguish of Marvin Gaye's What's Goin' On. And the truly perverse can currently be heard "cheekily" espousing the likes of Wendy (James) and Patsy (Kensit), in homage to that Lost Moment when Paul Morley got Kim Wilde onto the cover of the NME (as if there were still "hippies" to be baited, as if we hadn't all been through New Pop). In every case, though, the past pinnacles are venerated so utterly, the result can only be a neurotic endeavour to recapture the lost glory of those moments and extend it into eternity.

For Creation and its constituency--the sea of floppy fringes, black leather, suede and paisley gathered here today--rock is over, something that's been and gone. Creation isn't fixated on a particular Lost Moment, or a golden age with clearly defined boundaries, but it does have a canon of visionary outsiders, honoured tonight on the tapes played between acts. Tim Rose's "Morning Dew", Alex Chilton, The Seeds, Gram Parsons' "Grievous Angel", the Stones' "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby", Lee Hazelwood, all pretty incontestable, really, and close to my own ideas about the past, not least in the implicit rejection of punk's long-term effects (New Wave and New Pop). It's a canon that should be remembered, privileged even. The trouble is that the sense of upholding a legacy through the dark ages of plastic pop has bred a servile and lily-livered deference to the sources. Rewriting is unavoidable at this late hour, sure, but what's needed is an approach that can inflame these traces rather than preserve them in aspic. Otherwise you become a living, breathing archive of rock gesture. A mere footnote. The fate that's befallen too many of the bands at this event.

HEIDI BERRY is an admirably eccentric gesture for Creation. She harks back to the islet of troubled AOR occupied in the early Seventies by Sandy Denny and John Martyn, and indeed looks gloriously unfashionable in this context--her thigh-length suede boots, puce velvet jacket and boob tube jarring conspicuously with the (admittedly ravishing) ideals of female indie-style visible all around…

The reputedly "quite good" JASMINE MINKS get people jigging from one foot to the other with their moderately radiant guitar interplay, but the singer sounds like he's gargling a sock, and ultimately theirs is a thin-lipped and ill-fitting appropriation of "the Sixties". I never saw a band leave the stage so lackadaisical and unemphatic a manner.

Then the gaunt, scarecrow figure of NIKKI SUDDEN shuffles on for a couple of rather scrappy blues numbers. "Death is Hanging Over Me" would be affecting in its abjection if not for the camp effect of Sudden's weak R's. "Crossroads" is introduced as a song about Robert Johnson: "And he's ultimately the reason why we're all here today… even though you probably don't know his name." Well, yeah, no doubt that's true, in the strict archeological sense: but a hell of lot has happened in the interim. For a lot of the kids here, the Mary Chain's riot gig is almost prehistory.

THE JAZZ BUTCHER gains a point for sounding comparatively robust, but loses several for his Jennings-and-Darbyshire/Robyn Hitchcock Englishness, and for his session-standard saxophonist. Unclassifiable, clever-clever indie-bop, somewhere between Monochrome Set, The Woodentops and Jimmy the Hooever. Packed, bustling and void.

PRIMAL SCREAM's moment has long passed. The talk of feyness and innocence has evidently riled them into aping the Stones. They've abandoned the gossamer fragility of "Crystal Crescent" and "Gentle Tuesday" for a blues that sags but never approaches the ponderousness and tumescent turgidity attained by various visionary white bastardizations of R&B. Bobby Gillespie and the drummer are the main culprits, the dragging vestigial limbs. Gillespie's voice just doesn't have the grain for raunch, can only sing ba-ba-ba Bay City Rollers tunes. "Fire of Love" is rendered impossibly lukewarm and lackluster. Gillespie crouches low, wigs out in that boneless, rag-doll manner of his, a flailing cod-dementia, willing it to be as good as the old days.

I'll venerate FELT until the end of time for "Primitive Painters" alone. Like Durutti Column's "Missing Boy", it's a classic defeatist anthem, a shamefaced confession of an inability to cope with life's most rudimentary demands (like eating vegetables). Live, even without the stratospheric powerhouse of Liz Frazer's vocal, it's an irresistible, cascading surge, a contradiction of the vocal and its morose words. Laurence's listless whisp must be the ultimate voice of deficiency and unrealized selfhood: a one note range, and even then he doesn't sound in full command of that note. And there's plenty more of Felt's halcyon dappled sunlight and gilded ripple tonight, a sound perfectly complemented by the trippy back projections, including one that looks like rays of light convering on a retina and its burnt-out pupil.

What else to say about THE HOUSE OF LOVE? Nobody has a bad word for them. In the nicest possible way they are the Consensus Band of 1988, unimpeachably wondrous. Tonight, an incredible piece, like a whale song reverberating through the recesses of the galaxy, turns out to be Terry Bickers messing about while the others tune up. There's the godlike glow and gazelle grace of "Destroy the Heart", the vast cathedral resonance of "Christine", the luminous aftermath of a personal apocalypse that is "Man to Child". "Shine On" is all baleful gravitas and cold smouldering ascent, while "Nothing To Me" is one of these great Guy Chadwick lyrical inversions, like "Blind": the title's a monstrous fib as the sound tells you the singer's minds eye is ablaze with the memory of her. Burgeoning axe hero Terry introduces sounds and effects that just don't belong in this kind of pop. "Real Animal" leads into "I Wanna Be Your Dog" from the first Stooges album, which--impossibly--manages to be both bestial and celestial. Drowned, I tell you.

MY BLOODY VALENTINE are about to release a fabulous and quite extraordinary five-track EP [You Made Me Realise]. But live, the delicate melodies and the fine-tuning of chaos get crushed in the melee. "Cigarette In your Bed", a most peculiar, unplaceable song on record (a Sonic Youth lullaby?) is a shambles live, Belinda Jayne Butcher's bloodless vocal almost completely lost. The stop-start paroxysms of "Drive It All Over Me" and "You Made Me Realise" thrive better under the thrash approach, churning up foaming noise in the Husker Du/Dinosaur style. But they disappoint me by not playing "Slow", the sex song of the year (along with "Gigantic" by the Pixies). With its colossal "Sidewalking" bass, disorientating drones, and langorous, enervated vocals, it conjures up a honeyed, horny lassitude of desire to rival AR Kane. This raven-haired thrash-pop has a sight more edges and secrets to it than any of its "rivals."

The event peters out with a bit of malarkey involving a cut-out Alan McGee and Joe Foster attempting to lead a singalong of "We Are the World". The "no encore" rule (to ensure each act doesn't over-run) is observed even at the end, leaving the crowd restive and frustrated. Overall impression: a sense of "now" being eclipsed, drained vampirically by the past and its stature; the loss of the present moment through being made to seem impoverished next to the history it was umbilically bound to. Only The House of Love and My Bloody Valentine know that you have to torch the whole heap of pop signs and totems, rather than shuffle them about a bit. Only those two bands brought back the sudden quickening of "NOW" that eluded us most of the time today.

SIMON REYNOLDSSIMON REYNOLDShttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819370906410802268.post-85743540726116950432007-07-03T10:32:00.000-07:002007-07-03T12:05:55.500-07:00MARC ALMOND, The Stars We Are
Melody Maker, 1988

Can we trust Marc Almond? I don't know if we can trust someone who uses the word "I" so often - in 1988, the year of the eclipse of the self. Is he really the man, as he so incessantly claims, to take us to the borders of experience
("I'll take your heart to limit", he promises), or lure us to our doom in the "labyrinth of hopes and fears" that is his soul?

Marc Almond seems a little too happy in his abundant awareness that he's one crazily mixed up kid. His ideas about himself are just a little too collected. And he's far too confident that we all share his fascination with himself. Is he really that uncomfortable with himself and the world? His work smacks more of of self-possession, than of a soul possessed or dispossessed.

Of course, there's still a place for autobiography, or storytellers who use the first person singular - Nick Cave springs immediately to mind. But in 1988, the real "heroes" are on a suicide mission. They are vanquished by, and vanish into, some Other - whether it's the Loved One, or the blue Beyond, or some irretrievable, halcyon memory of continuum at the mother's breast. Guy Chadwick, A.R. Kane, My Bloody Valentine... they want to gaze, not be gazed upon; they disappear, rather than dramatise themselves in the spotlight, centre stage.

And so the production style of the moment is the Haze, where the voice blends and bleeds into the sound. Almond, revealingly, chooses to ape the production of Sixties
"entertainment music", where the voice is mixed upfront and diction crystal clear. Every painfully ill-fashioned word (random extract: "in my hand/like grains of sand/a thousand million moments of emotion") is pushed to the fore of our
consciousness.

The cabaret idea is to give pain poise, even grandeur. The models are Scott Walker, Gene Pitney (there's a cover of his "Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart"), Piaf, perhaps Tim Rose. Almond doesn't realise that the broken, beaten or deficient voice actaully communicates more these days (Vini Reilly, Band Of Holy Joy, The Valentines). He's even, finally, learnt to sing "properly". Like his lyrics, his
vocalisation is outre: what we get are the hallowed mannerisms of passion. It's over-demonstrative, full-bodied, plummy.

His words have always been prosaic, never quite purple or baroque enough. What inflamed them was his singing, that bruise of a voice. What was great about Almond was the way his voice didn't flow: it was the grain (the body's resistance to the voice) that gave his songs their special, glowering intensity. But The Stars We Are contains Almond's most controlled performances, and that sense of hysteria, of something being torn from the body, has gone.

As for the "classicism" of the arrangements, for all the wide-screen, windswept tumult of strings, horns, tympani and grand piano, this music isn't quite lush or flushed enough. It sounds a little cut-price, some-expense-spared. Almond's
ambitions fall short in much the same way that The Associates' Perhaps wasn't the passionade it could have been. Only "Your Kisses Burn", with its kettle-drum calvacade and Nico's frost-bite hauteur, is truly grandiose. The Stars We Are fails because you can't get that Scott Walkers feel in modern studios (you need compressors etc). But neither is it as dignified a rapprochement with modern technology as Walker's recent Climate Of Hunter, or as radical a deconstruction of orchestral pop as Skin's brilliant Shame, Humility and Revenge. Instead, what we get is faintly fetching, period drama. Hommage.

Almond's confession rise a little too easily to the surface: there's no sense of a violent unblocking. He's neither a consumptive nor a self-exorcist, but a product of
this century's incitement to self-analysis. We live in a therapeutic, counselling culture, where we're urged to a constant interrogation of ourselves, in order to penetrate the essence of our being. Madness, perversion, criminality, aberration, are no longer considered pathological, but as something within us all, and possibly the founding truth and mainspring of our identity. We're encouraged to gather more and more data about ourselves, and then reveal it the caring "experts". This
neurotic drive to self-probing and public baring has in the past driven Almond to the extreme of writing an anthem to masturbation, "Mother Fist". But some forms of self-knowledge are just banal, and Almond's writing reminds me more of the
current spate of singer-songwriters, or Cosmo-consciousness, than the haunted, hunted men he evidently admires -- the black, bitter solitiude of Scott Walker, Tim Rose's terrible burden of shame.

His work is like some exhaustive, protracted and public diary, all bald depiction and naff fantasy ("She Stole My Soul In Istanbul"!). The insatiable quest for self-knowledge that can drive someone to rewrite a diary from two years back, in order to include the insights of hindsight, can be touching in a friend. Certainly, it's better than being in poor contact with your heart of hearts. But is Almond's
relentless self-scrutiny turning up anything worth bringing to public attention? I fear not.

He was immensely special for a time, up to and including "Soul Inside", if for nothing more than his capacity for being embarrassing. And he's still an endearing presence. But what's likeable is his "innocence". He never seems borne under by the experiences he's (apparently) had, never sounds as though he's seen too much, or can't live with himself. It's this halo of ingenuousness that's the flaw in his art.

Like that other charming man, Morrissey, it could be that the seam of his troubled self is exhausted. But he's one of our last characters, you cry! Hmmm. Certainly, Marc Almond- like Julian Cope, Jobson, and all those other never-wozzers - makes the journalist's job easy. Just get them onto their favourite subject, and they're off, and you can put up your feet. I distrust those who fete the Last Eccentrics, in the same way I distrust people who say they only read biographies: people who subscribe to the Great Man theory of history, invariably secretly reckon themselves to be Great Men too. 1988 is the year of "the end of me", and poor old Marc Almond -I think we can strike him off our agenda of bliss.

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I've done a lot of research into the connection between Native Americans and the Ten Lost Tribes. Lazer Beams won its first major web award with our 5-part series entitled Trail of Tears. I'm convinced that the Cherokee stem from the Tribe of Zebulon. Furthermore, there's extensive proof that the 5-and-6 holed Native American flutes originate from the flutes of the Land of Israel and our Holy Temple, as you can see here.
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Dam removal is an emerging technique for ecosystem management. Reservoirs behind the dams are known to be both carbon sinks and sources. The Elwha dam removals in Washington State are the largest dam removals in U.S. history. In this study the fate of the carbon stored in the reservoirs upon its abrupt release is evaluated. Sediment samples from the estuary, delta and water column were tested for their particulate organic carbon content through loss-on-ignition testing. Grain sizes of sediment samples were analyzed and volume estimates of carbon deposits were calculated. The results indicated that particulate organic carbon was preferentially deposited in two locations. The large woody debris typically settled on the subaerial delta, while the carbon sorbed to silt and clay settled in the estuary and subaqueous delta. The sudden release of the reservoirs resulted in a condition where river meandering through the former reservoir beds is minimal. As a result, approximately half of the carbon likely sorbed to the sediment in the reservoirs remains. The rapid sediment accumulation resulted in a higher-than-average carbon burial rate of the roughly 165,000 +/- 124,000 tonnes of carbon deposited on the delta. This suggests dam removal can not only restore an ecosystem and may also be able to help mitigate climate change.


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The Pecos Eagle sub-varsity football teams will be trying to keep a quartet
of unbeaten streaks going today, when the Eagles take on the Crane Golden
Pecos' junior varsity and freshman teams will go for their fourth straight
wins this evening, at home against Crane at 5:30 and 7 p.m., while the seventh
grade Eagles will both try to stay unbeaten on the season in afternoon games
at Crane. The purple team is scheduled for a 5 p.m. start and the gold team
will play at 6:30 p.m.
Pecos' eighth grade purple football team also will be in Crane today,
where they'll be trying for their first win of the season, while the eighth
grade gold team will look to even their season record this afternoon in Marfa
against the Shorthorns. That game is scheduled for 5:30 p.m., while the purple
team will face Crane at 6:30 p.m.
The JV and freshman teams have scored narrow road wins the past two weeks
at Lamesa and Brownfield. The JV took a 24-0 lead last week before holding
on for a 24-22 win to go 3-0 on the season, while the ninth graders are 3-1
after a 2-0 victory over Brownfield. After opening with a loss to McCamey's
JV, the freshmen got their first victory of the season over a split squad
of Crane players back on Sept. 5, by a 20-0 final score.
The seventh grade purple team played a scoreless tie with Monahans last
week and are 1-0-1 on the season, while the gold team is 2-0-1 after their
8-6 win over the Loboes. The eighth grade Eagles purple squad is 0-2 after
losing 28-0 to Monahans, and the gold team is 1-2 after their second loss
in two weeks to the Loboes, this one by a 34-6 final score.
By JON FULBRIGHT
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After losing at home to a team with a winless record, the Pecos Eagles
football team will now try to win on the road against a team with an
unbeaten record.
The 1-2 Eagles will try to jump start their offense and plug up the holes
on their defense Friday night in Crane, against a 3-0 Golden Cranes team
that drubbed Pecos by a 61-8 score the last time the two teams met, in 1999.
Crane comes off a 20-18 win last Friday at home against Seminole, in which
the Cranes rallied in the second half to take the lead, then had to survive
a late fumble to stop the Indians' bid to get into position for a winning
"Our defense played real well last week," said Crane coach Alan Cherry,
whose team dropped into District 3-2A this season after finishing second
in District 4-3A a year ago _ the district the Eagles are now in after dropping
down from Class 4A.
"They're not the team they were last year, which is good for us, but their
defense is still pretty salty," said Eagles' coach Fred Carter, whose team
will try to turn things around on defense after two bad efforts at home.
"I don't think they have the ability to score like in the last couple of
years. I saw them last year and I was really impressed, but right now, this
is not the same team."
"We lost a lot of seniors last year," Cherry said. "We're playing a lot
of kids who don't have as much experience as what we had a year ago."
But while the Cranes may not be as strong as in recent years, they did
go into Brownfield two weeks ago and defeat the Cubs by a 23-6 final score
_ the same Cub team that went into Pecos last Friday and downed the Eagles,
The Cranes have relied mainly on their running game this season, but were
able to complete seven passes both against Brownfield and Seminole. In their
win over the Cubs, Cody Corley threw a pair of touchdown passes, while in
the backfield, they've been using a trio of running backs in Gonzalo Hernandez,
Devon Zimmerman and Daniel Garza.
Zimmerman had a rushing touchdown and a kickoff return for scores last
week, Garza had three TDs in the Cranes' win over McCamey, while Hernandez
has two rushing touchdowns and has kicked four field goals in three games
this season.
"We just try to keep people fresh. They play on both sides, so they're
in and out," Cherry said of the Cranes group of backs. "It's not so much
about who's hot, but just to give everyone a rest, since they play on both
sides of the ball."
"That's what they try to do, run it down your throat," said Carter. "In
the two games we've seen on film, they haven't thrown it very much."
Corley was the Crane's junior varsity quarterback last season, and Cherry
said, "He's done a good job." He threw for 102 yards against Brownfield,
including TD passes to Edgar Baiza and Casey McCain.
If the Cranes do try and throw, they'll be going against what Brownfield
and Lamesa did to the Eagles the past two weeks. The Tornadoes completed
just one pass in five tries and the Cubs had their only pass intercepted.
But both teams won because their ground attacks were so successful. Pecos
has allowed 699 yards rushing the past two weeks, after surrendering only
50 in their 35-10 season opening victory at Alpine.
On the other side of the ball, Pecos' running game was hampered last week
by the absence of backs Oscar Parada and Bino Barreno, after Parada suffered
a concussion and Barreno an ankle injury in the Sept. 13 loss to Lamesa.
The Eagles still do have their No. 1 tailback, Matthew Levario, and he
ran for 91 yards on 20 carries last week. But Brownfield was able to stop
Levario and the other Eagle backs in most key situations, while Pecos' offensive
line gave quarterback Freddy Torres little time to throw most of the night.
"Our line is going to have to do a little better job giving Freddy time
to throw the ball," said Carter. "They need to stay in there and execute
their blocks. That's our biggest problem offensively. We know what to do,
but we just seem to have mental lapses at game time."
Cherry didn't want to single out any single player on his defense, which
has allowed only 193.6 yards and 10 points per game in their first three
outings. "We've may not be as big as we've been, but we've got pretty good
overall team quickness," he said.
Aside from Parada and Barreno, Carter said linebacker Roderick Villanueva,
who also missed last week's game, would be out again this Friday. Pecos moved
up junior varsity linebacker Eric Fuentes prior to last week's game, but
Carter said there wouldn't be any call-ups before this week's match-up with
the Cranes.
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My full length written speech for Michael Franti & Spearhead
I have had the privilege of getting to see a sneak peak of an inspiring new documentary called "Sounds Like a Revolution". The film premieres in America tomorrow at the Woodstock Film Festival; it features Mr. Michael Franti, Rage Against the Machine, the Dixie Chicks and a host of other artists involved with the new wave of protest music sweeping across America; make sure to grab a copy of this flyer off the merchandise table & check out the trailer @ soundslikearevolution.com
After watching this documentary & learning more about what Mr. Franti and other artists like him go thru to stand up and sing for what they believe, it makes me appreciate them that much more! Don't y'all just love that Spearhead released their latest album recently on World Peace Day? Me, too!
And now, I am humbled and honored to say the least to introduce a man and his band who helped me find the joy of life again after both of my adoptive parents died in 2008 when I first heard a hit song one day on my car radio that you might know called "Say Hey (I Love You)"….and here I stand today, as my husband and I are about to begin the process to become parents ourselves thru adoption, which by the way is my "Sound of Sunshine It is without a doubt my greatest pleasure to introduce to you my favorite musician of all time & a reunited adoptee, just like me.
Please give it up for this beautiful human being and his amazing band: let's hear it for MICHAEL FRANTI and SPEARHEAD!!!
Michael Franti & Spearhead and Cherine Anderson
Wow! Where do I begin? I attended the John Mayer concert last night in Dallas with Michael Franti & Spearhead and Cherine Anderson as the Opening Act. I admit it was the first time I have ever purchased concert tickets solely for the Opening Act and not the main one. And it was so worth it! They have the most uplifting music and were very interactive with the crowd.
I first discovered Michael Franti thru his hit song, "Say Hey (I Love You)." And then not long afterwards, my husband and I were watching Dave Thomas' "Home for the Holidays annual t.v. special about adoption). And listened to Mr. Franti share his story about being a adopted and then sang, "Have a Little Faith."
As time went on, I discovered we have alot in common. Both of us are reunited adoptees, had serious emergency appendix surgeries, lost parents in early 30s, but also have similar beliefs.
Although I did not have the opportunity to meet him in person, I am so thankful I had the privilege of seeing Michal Franti perform live last night. And also can not thank Mix 94.7 radio station in Austin, TX enough as their awesome DJ, Nikki Nite (aka @nikkinite947 on twitter) printed out and handed my "Open Letter" to Mr. Franti himself during her interview with him a couple of days ago and also got his autograph, which she will be mailing to me.
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Encourages warmth, kindness toward neighborhood elderly
I am writing about an issue that is continuing to grow especially as we enter the warmer weather, loneliness in seniors.
I fear that as the weather gets warmer, senior citizens, especially those who live alone, are at greater risk of medical issues. A lot of seniors do not have anyone checking on them daily and many need someone. This issue is growing as more and more people are starting to live longer.
My mother works in a nursing home and saw a perfect example of what I was talking about. Just the other day she was checking on a patient in their room and looked over to the patient's roommate and saw her on the corner of her bed sitting there and repeatedly muttering to herself, "I hope someone will come, I hope someone will come."
Luckily for her, she was in a nursing home and there were people to talk to and things to do, but just imagine she had lived alone and there was no one to talk to. I think that is something no one should have to experience.
Can you imagine how it would feel to be completely forgotten about? To just be left behind in your home while everyone else carries on with their life. I imagine it would be a terrible feeling.
Many seniors have to go through that every day, and some do not even have anyone they know around them to comfort or relax them.
This issue is not as well-known as it should be. Many people may pass elderly neighbors daily and not even think about how they're doing or if they are OK. I think more people should take some time to at least say "hi," to make them feel included in someone's life and not let them go on lonely and sad.
We should all try to think of ways to help the elderly in our neighborhood. You can do all sorts of things; for example, you can stop by and say "hi," bring over some baked goods. You can do all this and much more; you can even try volunteering at a local nursing home.
Just think, taking as little as five minutes a day or even a week to say "hi" to an elderly neighbor can change their day for the better.
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Judas betrays Jesus
Home Hidden meanings The Gospel text Bible study - Judas betrays Jesus
The soldiers who arrested Jesus did not know what he looked like. Judas, one of Jesus' friends, stepped forward, offering to identify Jesus so the soldiers would arrest the right man. He kissed Jesus, a common form of greeting, as a sign that this was the man they should arrest.
The Betrayal of Jesus, Giotto di Bondone, 1304
Giotto's painting of the moment when Jesus is betrayed by Judas is one of
the most important masterpieces of Western art. In it, Giotto emphasises
the confrontation between Jesus and his former disciple Judas, now turn-coat: Judas looks up at Jesus, and Jesus returns the stare with an
unflinching gaze.
The Taking of Christ, Caravaggio, 1602
The Kiss of Judas, (El Beso de Judas), Francisco Salzillo, carving, 1754
The Betrayal of Christ, Giovanni Barbieri, 1621
Conscience (Judas), Nicolai Ge
Judas watches as the soldiers lead Jesus away to his trial
The Capture of Jesus, Van Dyck
Suicide of Judas, Gislebertus, 1120, Cathédrale de Saint-Lazare, Autun
Christ and Judas, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, 1912
The Arrest of Jesus, Pierre Dancart, Seville Cathedral
Judas and the High Priests, Giotto
The Betrayal of Christ, Caspar Isenmann
The Arrest of Jesus, Albrecht Durer
Things to know about the betrayal of Jesus
The Bible text the betrayal of Jesus
Matthew 26:47-56
47 While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people. 48 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I shall kiss is the man; seize him." 49 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, "Hail, Master!" And he kissed him. 50 Jesus said to him, "Friend, why are you here?" Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him. 51 And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest, and cut off his ear. 52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword. 53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels? 54 But how then should the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?" 55 At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. 56 But all this has taken place, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples forsook him and fled.
Mark 14:43-52
43 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 44 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I shall kiss is the man; seize him and lead him away under guard." 45 And when he came, he went up to him at once, and said, "Master!" And he kissed him. 46 And they laid hands on him and seized him. 47 But one of those who stood by drew his sword, and struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his ear. 48 And Jesus said to them, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? 49 Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the scriptures be fulfilled." 50 And they all forsook him, and fled. 51 And a young man followed him, with nothing but a linen cloth about his body; and they seized him, 52 but he left the linen cloth and ran away naked.
47 While he was still speaking, there came a crowd, and the man called Judas, one of the twelve, was leading them. He drew near to Jesus to kiss him; 48 but Jesus said to him, "Judas, would you betray the Son of man with a kiss?" 49 And when those who were about him saw what would follow, they said, "Lord, shall we strike with the sword?" 50 And one of them struck the slave of the high priest and cut off his right ear. 51 But Jesus said, "No more of this!" And he touched his ear and healed him. 52 Then Jesus said to the chief priests and officers of the temple and elders, who had come out against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs? 53 When I was with you day after day in the temple, you did not lay hands on me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness."
John 18:1-12
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples across the Kidron valley, where there was a garden, which he and his disciples entered. 2 Now Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place; for Jesus often met there with his disciples. 3 So Judas, procuring a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 4 Then Jesus, knowing all that was to befall him, came forward and said to them, "Whom do you seek?" 5 They answered him, "Jesus of Nazareth." Jesus said to them, "I am he." Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them. 6 When he said to them, "I am he," they drew back and fell to the ground. 7 Again he asked them, "Whom do you seek?" And they said, "Jesus of Nazareth." 8 Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he; so, if you seek me, let these men go." 9 This was to fulfil the word which he had spoken, "Of those whom thou gavest me I lost not one." 10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus. 11 Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup which the Father has given me?" 12 So the band of soldiers and their captain and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him.
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Yesterday's post featured a list compiled by Marius Auer, called "10 Awesome Things About Being a Kid". I liked his list, and largely agreed with his assessment of the benefits of being a youngster.
However, in the interest of providing a platform for an opposing view, I will now present, having peered through the opposite end of the spectrograph, an alternate perspective. That's just the kind of fair minded and egalitarian blog this is.
10 Awesome Things About Not Being a Kid Anymore
1. While it is true that, as an adult, I am saddled with an onerous duty to pay taxes, it is ultimately because I get a paycheck. In fact, this paycheck means real cash dollars in my grubby little fist that I am free to — after taxes — spend any way I please. I don't even need to run it past Mom or anything.
2. It is also true that as an adult, I bear the responsibility to plan, procure, and prepare meals. But, because I am in possession of real cash dollars (see point No. 1), I am completely free to plan these meals around whatever appetites or hankerings I may have. And, if I so choose, I can even skip the planning-procuring-preparing parts and head to one of a plethora of dining establishments, since — once again — I have real cash dollars at my disposal and wouldn't need to run this decision past Mom either.
3. I may not know the significant differences between an X-box and a Play Station, but I can tell you the difference between 14 and 24 carat, Cantonese and Szechuan cuisine, and Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday. Booyah!
4. I'm not going to propose something ignorant like, "Let's celebrate our wrinkles!", but neither should their appearing be devastating. A conference speaker once made the comment that she couldn't imagine anything much worse than growing old and being afraid of losing one's beauty. Those to whom wrinkles signify they've lost something unthinkable… youth, which must be preserved at all cost — will probably divert some of their real cash dollars toward nips and tucks. But such measures will never prevent aging. Embracing the notion that wrinkles are an inevitable part of the cycle of life and greeting their onset with a measure of acceptance, will bring a wonderful freedom. A freedom to anchor one's self-worth in something much deeper and nearer our core than mere appearance. No longer able to derive personal significance from taut, ripped or otherwise gorgeous exteriors, we gain the liberty to say no to such things as impractical, bunion-causing stilletos. It's great to be an adult.
5. Getting old isn't as negative as our youth-worshiping culture would have us believe. With each stage of life we pass through, we have opportunity to enter new and fascinating territory. As one who has been through the college and early marriage phase with its acquisition of knowledge, slightly scary, bold firsts, and wonder; the little kids phase with its sleepless nights, runny noses, giggles, story books, and wonder; the adolescent phase with its high energy, boundless possibility, attitude and wonder; and the empty nest with its adult-to-adult conversations, budding careers, new little families, and wonder — I can attest to the reality of every phase being richer than the preceding one. Aging = adventuring.
6. I am no longer constrained to attend school: I am free to choose it. As a perpetual learner, I can now select subjects that pique my interest, study them at my pace, whenever I choose. I like that.
7. If I'm so inclined, I can learn to speak Technology As a Second Language. Or, if not, I can just invite one of the kids over to the house and ask him to reformat, install, download, upload, sync, or otherwise get our gadgets and toys set up for us. I have options. And either way works.
8. "Manual labor" *gulp* is no longer a bad word. (I know, that was two words…) Adults understand that work yields highly rewarding dividends, such as personal satisfaction and pride in accomplishment. We throw ourselves into things like planting gardens, interior remodeling projects, or restoring vintage autos. And for those manual tasks we'd rather avoid, we're often able to hire someone to do them for us, because — once again — we command those real cash dollars.
Well, there you have it. Eight awesome things about no longer being a kid!
[Now I think I'll go find a puddle and jump in it. Right after I stop by an ATM…]


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The Stanley Kubrick collection has been digitally re-mastered again and each of his films have been re-released as two-disc sets with commentaries and documentaries. I purchased the new edition of A Clockwork Orange (1971) the other day and curled up on the leather couch with my 55" television and surround sound and escaped into pure cinema bliss. Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess' novel is one of my top ten films of all time. I have owned it in virtually every video format since the early 1980s… the old CED video disc (it was played with a needle)… on VHS tape…on laser disc (with the tiniest letterbox bars – this transfer was supposedly approved by Kubrick)… and three times on DVD. The first time it wasn't a very good transfer of the film, the second time it was re-mastered in stereo for the first time (and the slightly wider letterbox was supposedly ALSO approved by Kubrick) and now a third DVD with even better surround sound and it's finally letterboxed to its true screen ratio.
This is a film that brings back many memories and reminds me why I love cinema as an artform. I first saw it when I was a freshman in high school, standing on my toes at the ticket counter to look older so that I could get into this R-rated – formerly X-rated – film. I should note that I wasn't a typical teen-ager who was just trying to see a "dirty movie." I had read the book and the film just blew me away. To this day, it is still my vote for the best adaptation of literature (as opposed to a pulp novel) to ever hit the screen. Almost tying for this award is the film of To Kill A Mockingbird. I have lost track of how many times I have seen this film since 1973, but it has to be over 30 times. Whenever it played at a movie theater I went to see it. I saw it again in one of my college film classes and wrote my term thesis on one sequence which was studied and analyzed shot by shot on a Moviola in my professor's office. (There was no such thing as home video in 1978). And so this film is very special to me.
A Clockwork Orange explores the theme of free will and how it relates to the rights of the individual vs. the State. Malcom MacDowell plays Alex, a charismatic young hoodlum whose interests include rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. When he is sent to prison, he is chosen as a subject in an experiment to forcibly rehabilitate hardened criminals into model citizens. This is done using classic Pavlovian techniques in which he is shot up with drugs that will induce panic attacks and make him feel deathly sick while he is forced to watch ultra-violent films. The desire to act violently induces the sickness. Alex can become a model citizen but at the cost of his free will. The question that A Clockwork Orange poses is this: Who is worse, the sociopathic and remorseless Alex or the government that shows no respect for human rights? It is a scary film, and its theme is no less relevant now than it was almost forty years ago. On a pure cinematic level, A Clockwork Orange attacks your senses on a visceral level and it doesn't lose its punch after all these years. And no one – NO ONE – uses classical music in a film as brilliantly as Stanley Kubrick.
I am not going to write a full length analysis of the film. I am just thrilled to see a classic film like this getting the DVD treatment that it deserves. It drives me crazy when I see garbage like the Hostel movies getting multi-disc special editions while classics often hit the DVD shelves as "bare bones" editions with no restoration done to the film at all. The first Kubrick DVDs were all rushed out in shoddy editions. The new discs are a marvel. For anyone who is interested, the new 2001: A Space Odyssey double disc also looks stunning, and the new disc of Eyes Wide Shut finally eliminates those idiotic digital hooded figures that were inserted into the orgy sequence so that we can finally see it the way it was meant to be seen and the way that everyone in Europe has seen it since 1998.
Watching a restored print of a classic reminds me of why I fell in love with cinema in my college days during my film classes. Watching this one made me feel like I was 20 again.


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Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization- Texas A&M Chapter
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CEO at Texas A&M provides many resources for students including entrepreneur guest speakers, mentoring relationships, networking opportunities, volunteer opportunities and more. Entrepreneur Guest Speakers will answer common questions such as, Should I start my business right out of school or should I get some work experience first? or I have an idea, now what? E-society allows students to network with entrepreneurs and fellow students from across campus to leverage the different knowledge and perspectives the each major has to offer.
For more information visit the CEO @ Texas A&M's Facebook page, Twitter, or send the club an email!
Aggies In Business (AiB)
AiB Consulting complements the lessons taught in the classroom, offering an opportunity for students to put their knowledge to use. AiB employees are comprised of students from many programs and disciplines, such as: MBA, Economics, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, and may also include other graduate students outside of Mays Business School depending upon project scope. AiB offers businesses the chance to receive fresh ideas and high quality deliverables at a price that won't break the bank. AiB Consulting offers consulting projects for paying clients seeking assistance.
Aggie Investment Club
The Aggie Investment Club (AIC) was established in 2000 and has become a top-tier business organization at Texas A&M. The AIC was created to focus on "providing the nuts and bolts of building wealth" and recognizes that "you will need more than a degree to be financially free." Today, the AIC continues to attract some of the best students at Texas A&M and strives to be the best organization possible. AIC facilitates knowledge to its members through three main avenues: a speaker series, workshops, and our travel series. All majors are welcome and no prior knowledge or investing experience is needed. The opportunities are there for the taking, so what are you waiting for? Join AIC today!
Global Business Brigade
Global Business Brigades (GBB) is a socially conscious network of volunteers that bring business skills and a passion for change to developing communities around the world. The secular organization empowers college students with the material, know-how, and support to assess and deliver sustainable micro-enterprise solutions to impoverished villages. GBB is currently focusing their efforts on the Central American region, which contains some of the poorest communities in the Western Hemisphere. GBB is a fast-growing national non-profit organization with over twenty chapters at universities across the nation. College students have seen this growing global need and are seeking the solutions to solve the problem.
Collegiate Association for Social Entrepreneurship
A common platform for social entrepreneurs, we provide resources to help utilize entrepreneurial principles towards community service projects. We have launched several projects through our own members as well as in collaboration with various organizations to help make a difference in the Bryan-College Station community.
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Review by Garrett D. Kennedy
First, they reminded me of The Tallest Man on Earth, then the Avett Brothers, the Felice Brothers, and Mumford & Sons. The Lumineers have elements of all those bands, but after about fifty listens in a week to their self-titled debut album, they are their own band. I realized this more around the tenth listen, but the point is – I couldn't stop listening.
Comparisons are great. They are a reference when trying to describe music, which is difficult to do without creating your own Spinal Tap-like moment. Describing sound isn't easy, and I'm not going to begin trying to figure out why a genre is called anti-folk. Furthermore, comparisons are a place to start, so start with those bands in mind, and turn up The Lumineers' album to eleven – because it's louder than ten.
In the first song, Flowers in Your Hair, lead singer Wesley Schultz reminded me of The Tallest Man on Earth (aka musician Kristian Matsson), yet with a raspier voice. After the first three songs, the above comparisons stuck, and I was disappointed because I already have those bands' albums.
On track four, Dead Sea, is where the separation begins, and the album really takes off – becomes addicting. I am not a walking, or typing, advertisement for NPR music. I just find a lot of new music on there, and that is where I first heard The Lumineers. They sang the fifth track and their single, Ho Hey. In an interview on NPR's Sessions, the band joked they named the single in that order because they didn't want to say hey to a ho. Comedy may not attract you to listen to a band, but this single will. After first listen,Ho Hey may not stick with you, but…but it'll call you back when you wake up singing its refrain – "I belong with you / you belong with me / you're my sweetheart."
A band's formation and backstory of tragedy may not make you listen either. But, I'm going to tell you anyways. Jeremiah Fraites lost his nineteen year-old brother to a drug overdose. His brother's best friend was lead singer Wesley Schultz. Soon after, the two wrote songs and performed in New York as a duo. A move to Denver led them to the third Lumineers' member, Neyla Pekarek who is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist (allmusic.com).
If you were wondering, classically trained musicians search Craigslist too! And, that's how the three met. Pekarek responded to the boys' ad of them looking for a cellist. Her influence on the band is definitely heard, and creates a sound that makes me want to compare, equaling a much cleaner and structured sounding Felice Brothers.
The sixth track, Slow It Down, does just what the song infers. It feels like a blues song and adds more depth to the album. I pictured this fitting in well with the songs on Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's album Howl. This is followed by Stubborn Love, one of the album's best songs. It keeps building throughout, and ends with the band harmonizing a controlled scream. This captures much of what the Lumineers have to offer, and makes one believe they will be a great live act.
All these songs are emotional, but not to the point of nausea like so many songs out there (a la almost every song performed on American Idol). It is not rocknroll; more along the lines of the Americana genre. Yet, with all its emotion, the Lumineers still kept it a fun album to listen to, resulting in a beautifully executed first album.
Check their touring schedule to see when they play near you: tour dates. I will be catching them live this summer at Central Park SummerStage.


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Someone asked me who I thought was the greatest saxophone player ever. I don't think it's easy to answer that question — in fact, I don't think it's possible. But I can answer a different question: what would the ideal saxophone player be like? I think it would have Paul Desmond's sound; Charlie Parker's improvisational ability; Lester Taylor's (or Stan Getz's) lyricism; and John Coltrane's creativity.
Here's a related idea. This may be in the realm of sci-fi, but suppose we could create a synthetic instrument that would really, really reproduce a given timbre. Then I would order a saxophone that sounded like Dexter Gordon on the lower register; Stan Getz on the middle register; and Paul Desmond on the high register. Naturally, it would be called the Dextan Getsmond saxophone. Alternatively, I would substitute Ben Webster for Dexter Gordon and call it the Benstan Getsmond sax.


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Where: Bell Island, Newfoundland- 2007
Inspiration: This rock formation totally looked like an elephant. Amazing the shapes and configurations that are carved out by nature.
Every Friday in 2015 I am sharing a photo that I have taken somewhere that we have travelled. My goal in looking back at these travel memories is to rekindle the inspiration that caused me to take the photos in the first place.