Well chaps and chapesses, here we are at the start of a brand new year, and we thought it’d be fitting to look back and see exactly how we got here. *WARNING* This is likely to be a rather long post, so go and grab a cuppa tea, a cider, or whatever your poison, and get comfy. Ready? Good.
It’s fair to say that 2015 was a huge year of growth for us as a band. As we started the year off, we had only just discovered Dave and he was yet to play a gig with us! Free For All Festival was the perfect kick off – held at the Stag & Hounds in Bristol and overflowing with amazing local bands and a great atmosphere, it was just right to introduce Dave to how we do things Leylines-style (safe to say, he definitely got into the swing of it!)
This month we spent mostly rehearsing and bringing everything together ahead of the summer. We knew we had a busy time ahead of us, not least writing and recording our song ‘Sat In A Field’, which we recorded at Modern World Studios, with Tony Hobden, Tarrant Shepherd and the guys from Weston College. It was a long evening, but we had a blast there, Tony and the guys were fantastic and the organisers of the Sat In A Field Festival came by to hear the song for the first time, which segues neatly into…
… Our video shoot for ‘Sat In A Field’. You’re all probably familiar with this song and the accompanying video by now, but just in case, have a look HERE!
Joining forces once again with Tony Hobden, who filmed and edited the video (a director’s cut of which can be found HERE), along with some great shots from his son, Arlie, we went up on the Roman Road in the Mendips to film with what has to be one of the most breath-taking backdrops we’ve ever seen.
N.B. Although it looks nice, warm and sunny, it was still March and flippin’ ‘eck it was COLD!
Another couple of firsts for us (there were quite a few in 2015!): Our first trip over the bridge to Wales and Cardiff to play at the quirky and charming bar GwdiHw AND our first gig joining Ferocious Dog at Exeter Phoenix. It’s hard to believe this was so long ago. We can remember the whole thing like it was yesterday! It was the very first time we’d encountered FD’s die-hard fans, affectionately called ‘Hell Hounds’, and were the biggest crowd we’d played to so far. We’re not exaggerating when we say that we made a lot of friends at that gig who have stayed with us throughout the year and spurred us on to what we’re doing this year. This gig was the start of all that and we’re massively grateful to Ken, Dan, Ellis, John, Les and Scott for having us along for the journey – it was a pretty big year for them as well (See: Ferocious Dog, Rock City Nottingham, making history!)
May was really where we kicked off the festival season at Kingsbury Episcopi’s May Festival. The one-day festival had a fantastic grass-roots and community feel, with a willow stage and plenty of great music to get the crowd going. We were over the moon to be asked back again this year to play at the pre-festival warm up in the village in April, and we can’t wait to see some familiar faces again!
We also had a (mostly) memorable gig with Mad Dog Mcrea in our home town of Weston-super-Mare – some of us can remember the whole sweaty, energetic gig, some of us might have been out with them until sunrise…we’ll let you guess which of us these apply to!
2015 was our first gig as a full band at Bearded Theory, where we had a set on the Woodland Stage, a great venue placed in (as the name suggests) a woodland glade on the festival site. It was backstage at this festival that we once again ran into Alan Ewart (creator of Sound Of Summer blog – definitely worth a read!) and had a good old chin-wag and general catch up with him. He then wrote some very kind words about our set, which you can read HERE
June / July
Pairing these together as these were fairly quiet months for us. June brought us the pleasure of playing at the Jinney Ring Festival – a great local festival held in the grounds of the Jinney Ring Centre, Worcestershire – The weather was fine, the beer was flowing, we seem to remember a certain organiser of Bostin’ Days (more on that later) swinging around a pole during one of the sets. All in all a fantastic weekend hosting by The Roving Crows! In July, we returned for the second time that year to Bar Brunel. We have always had a bit of a soft spot for this venue in Bridgwater. They have always been fantastic supporters of local musicians. Their Sunday evening live music sessions have amassed quite a following since they started and we always look forward to playing there.
If the last months had been a little slow-paced, August definitely made up for it. We had slots at the inaugural Livestock Festival, Lakefest, Farmer Phil’s Festival, our headline set at Sat In A Field Festival and rounded up with a last-minute appearance on the main stage at Watchet Music Festival with one of the most enthusiastic crowds we’d encountered over the summer. Let’s just say, there’s nothing that quite prepares you for people singing your own songs back at you!
The festival season certainly wasn’t over this month. We had a headline slot at Folkfest in Burnham-on-Sea, a great local (to us) free festival with stages scattered around the centre and a great turn out! Next followed the Heddon Valley Beer & Music Festival in Exmoor. It was great to meet so many new faces, some of which gave a much-needed helping hand when we had engine trouble in the car park (Hannah). Unfortunately, the rest of us weren’t so lucky – a series of events including a puncture, broken tools and running on fuel vapours/crossed fingers on the M5 resulting in some of us only just getting home at 8am the next morning!
Officially closing the festival season for us was Something Else In The Dean Festival, which seems to be an end-of-season party for everyone doing the festival circuit and it was where we ended up bumping into friends who were just new faces a matter of months ago. We’d played SEIND last year and we were over the moon when Gail and the gang asked us back for this one, which had sold out in a matter of days.
This can really only be described as the month we went ‘oop North’ (yes, we are from the Westcountry, so most places are North to us!). We had the good fortune to be offered a slot at The Greystones in Sheffield at fairly short notice, and blimey we’re so glad we took the gig! The line up included: The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican, Black Thorn and Brian Stone. We’d previously crossed paths with BS/VD at festivals during the year so practically bit Andrea’s (the promoter) hand off! Please check out everyone’s music – they’re all fantastic musicians! Anyway, there was a LOT of singing, dancing, swearing, jump-ararnd-ing and, naturally, sweating involved – the adrenaline saw us through the long journey back home – it really was one of the highlights of our year…
Until Bostin’ Days Live.
The only thing we can really say about that weekend in Nuneaton is: EPIC! We’d played downstairs at the Crew Bar the night before the main event with The Sweetchunks Band. These guys are hilarious as well as being great musicians and good chaps. The bar was packed and, well, let’s just say it was SO much fun, we were a little the worse for wear the next day. We might have needed a power nap in the afternoon before we were on the stage in the Queens Hall in the evening! We were (and still are) honoured to have been part of this incredible project, from it’s beginnings in October 2014 and becoming part of a massive family. Our thanks go out to Addie Burns, Steve Bentley and everyone involved for making it happen. Seriously awesome!
By the way, you can still buy the 2 CD album by visiting http://www.bostindays.co.uk/
November / December
We’re going to round up the year by putting these two months together, partly because this has become quite a long post, and because we’re fairly sure your tea’s probably cold by now (or you’ve finished your tipple and need a top up).
We had a surprise birthday party to play at in November. Normally, we wouldn’t disclose the details of a private ‘do, BUT this deserves an exception as it was for one of our favourite people. Clair and her husband Darren have been with us virtually from the start, travelling to our gigs, buying our stuff, making their own Leylines T shirts and generally being awesome human beings. When Darren approached us to play at her surprise birthday party, how could we say no?!
We returned to Weston in December to host our early Christmas party at The Imperial. It was fantastic to see so many old (and new) friends and family all gathered in the same place after rarely playing in Weston over the year. It was particularly great to see friends from much further afield travel across the country to see us! Having previously mentioned that we hadn’t played much in Weston…we were back again a couple of weeks later, celebrating The New Market’s 1st anniversary under the management of Jim and Jo Worley!
There is of course one massive thing we’ve missed off our review – THE NEW ALBUM!
We’ve been wanting to make an album for some time, and we finally managed to organise ourselves into actually doing something about it. This was in part set in stone when we did a live session at Glastonbury FM, and we (Steve) said that we would have new material released ahead of the festival season in 2016. SO, with that in mind, we set up and launched our crowdfunding campaign at the end of November. The response so far has been staggering – you guys have helped us reach around 95% of our target with around 6 weeks still to go before we hit the studio! If you haven’t done so already, please PLEASE visit http://supporttheleylines.co.uk/ and have a look at what we have planned. It really is VERY exciting!
Aaaand that’s it for 2015! Thanks for reading all the way down, knew you had it in ya!
See you out there in 2016 – have a look at our gig list, come to a gig, tell yer mates about us, chat to us online. You know the score!


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The S201 take on the Maruti Vitara Brezza but it would much more expensive and would come with more features
Mahindra and Mahindra are bringing is a range of cars to the market. Recently, they launched the Marazzo MPV in the market and now the brand is preparing to launch the all-new Mahindra Alturas G4 later this month. In early 2019, Mahindra will launch the all-new compact SUV, which is currently being tested on the Indian roads and has been codenamed as S201.
The Mahindra S201 would be Mahindra’s third sub-4-meter compact SUV in the segment after the TUV 300 and Quanto, which was later renamed as the NuvoSport. However, the S201 would be very different from any of the cars launched by the brand in the segment.
It would be positioned as a premium product and would carry a higher price tag when compared to the competitors. The base price of the S201 would match the higher versions of the competitors like the Vitara Brezza and the Ford EcoSport. But with that, Mahindra would set the S201 very apart from any of the models in the segment by offering segment-first features and powerful engine options.
Mahindra would offer the sunroof in the segment, which would be first in the segment. Even though Tata offers the sunroof with the Nexon, it only is available as an optional accessory and not as a factory-fitted product. The S201 would become the first car in the segment in India to offer a sunroof.
That’s not all, Mahindra would also justify the price tag by offering the most powerful engine options in the segment. It would be powered by a 1.5-litre turbocharged all-new petrol engine that generates a maximum power of around 135 PS, which is much higher than the Ford EcoSportEcoBoost that generates a maximum of 125 PS. The diesel engine would be the same diesel turbocharged unit used by the Marazzo.
It generates 122 PS in the Marazzo and is expected to get around 125 PS in the S201, making it most powerful in the segment. Mahindra would add a long list of features including a large touchscreen, cruise control, dual zone climate control system, 6-airbags, 17-inch alloy wheels and LED headlamps.


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Do the solvolysis reactions of secondary substrates occur by the S N 1 or S N 2 mechanism: or something else? [Book Review]
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Primary and methyl aliphatic halides and tosylates undergo substitution reactions with nucleophiles in one step by the classic S N 2 mechanism, which is characterized by second-order kinetics and inversion of configuration at the reaction center. Tertiary aliphatic halides and tosylates undergo substitution reactions with nucleophiles in two (or more) steps by the classic S N 1 mechanism, which is characterized by first-order kinetics and incomplete inversion of configuration at the reaction center due to the presence of ion pairs. When the nucleophile is also the solvent, the substitution reaction is called a solvolysis, and both the S N 2 and S N 1 reactions now obey first-order kinetics. Schleyer and Bentley have provided solid, but not conclusive, evidence that secondary substrates undergo solvolysis by a merged mechanism, one that blends characteristics of both the S N 2 and S N 1 mechanisms. The following paper presents the history of their sustained pursuit of a merged mechanism and subsequent rebuttals to this claim. Several issues related to the philosophy and sociology of science are also discussed
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There’s nothing to fight for now. The corruption suspicions against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are being handled well by the police, and except for those allegations there is nothing significant on the agenda in the shallow and insipid public discourse that has taken hold here. The military draft bill is meaningless – let the ultra-Orthodox serve, let them not serve, who cares anyway – and except for that, no one is addressing any serious issue.
Israel pretends to be agitated by fateful issues, but the truth is it only deals with rubbish. From time to time there are fabricated dramas amplified by sharp political reporters, most of them terribly cynical and boring, like the dull politicians who feed them, until the drama, like the last one, subsides.
There’s also no one to struggle with. Aligned against Netanyahu is nothing, an empty space. No one stands up to him. The prime minister is being questioned as a criminal suspect and no one challenges him seriously, except for the police commissioner and protest organizer Eldad Yaniv. Just imagine similar allegations against Shimon Peres, with Menachem Begin or even Yitzhak Shamir in the opposition – heaven and earth would be shaking. But Israel has in recent years developed a regime with no opposition, like in Putin’s Russia or Erdogan’s Turkey – but with a global innovation Made in Israel: It’s the opposition’s fault that there’s no opposition, not the government’s.
The so-called opposition has nothing to sell. It has nothing to offer other than “Netanyahu is corrupt,” as if Netanyahu would be fit to continue in office if he were modest, morally pure teacher of Jewish law. There is no alternative to be found, even if you search with a microscope. This can be seen on the Facebook page of Labor candidate Avi Gabbay: It’s empty. “Together we will turn Israel into the greatest country in the world.” The populists Netanyahu and Yair Lapid couldn’t have put it any better.
As you scroll down, you see Gabbay sitting at a table with A.B. Yehoshua. Great! An ideological dialogue with a writer and thinker. And this is what the candidate writes: “I met today with the Israel Prize winner for literature and poetry, A.B. Yehoshua. We discussed his article on resolving the conflict with the Palestinians, and on the changes democracy is undergoing in Israel and the world. Shabbat Shalom.” Like an entry in Gabbay’s high school diary.
A.B. Yehoshua wrote a lengthy, thought-provoking manifesto, which will soon be published by Haaretz, about the one-state solution. What does the left’s prime ministerial candidate think of it? That we can’t know. He apparently doesn’t think anything about it at all. The fact is that he didn’t write or say anything after the conversation. The point was to be photographed with A.B. Yehoshua.
Here’s some more from the high-schooler’s diary. “I returned from a very successful trip to the United States.” Tired but happy? Lovely. What was successful about it? Again, a photo (with Bill Clinton) is the message. The only message.
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- Israel came 'this' close' to a snap election today, but crisis averted - for now
- Netanyahu took credit for averting elections. In truth, he lost control
From the other contender, Yesh Atid’s Yair Lapid, we could of course expect much less. “Mr. Prime Minister, you’ve done good things for the Jewish people. But enough.” What a fighting opposition! Lapid’s Facebook page deals mainly with corruption and conscripting the ultra-Orthodox. We all know that Israel that has no other issues to deal with – or maybe Lapid just doesn’t have anything else to say.
There’s an old joke that for every two Israelis there are three opinions. Now we have three Israelis who want to be prime minister and they have only one opinion. When there is nothing to fight for and no one to fight for, either, not only does emptiness prevail, but also despair. That’s why the recent elections/no elections drama was so unimportant. That’s why the next elections will also be unimportant, despite all the talk of how fateful they are.
It’ll be more of the same, maybe with less personal corruption. This is what Israel puts out. This is what Israelis want. This is what we deserve.

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Adele's "Rolling In the Deep" won the Grammy for song of the year. It's the British singer's fourth win Sunday night.
The tune was a No. 1 hit for Adele, who also had the year's top-selling album with "21."
Paul Epworth co-wrote the hit and also won the award. He also won the Grammy for producer of the year in the non-classical category Sunday.
"Rolling In the Deep" is also up for record of the year. "21" is nominated for album of the year.


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Celebrated Tourist Destination vs. Home to Vulnerable Communities
A city renowned for its breathtaking architecture, world-class dining, and vibrant culture, Paris is also home to some of the most vulnerable communities in Europe. Despite its reputation as one of the most visited cities in the world, the reality for many of its residents is a struggle for survival in the shadow of the city’s tourist hotspots.
The Duality of Life in Paris
On the one hand, Paris is a place of breathtaking beauty and sophistication, where tourists flock to see its iconic landmarks, sample its delicious cuisine, and enjoy its rich cultural heritage – here are the best things to do in Paris. On the other hand, there are parts of the city that are struggling, where residents are facing issues such as poverty, homelessness, and unemployment. This duality of life in Paris is a paradox that is difficult to reconcile, and one that exposes the city’s ongoing struggle to address the needs of its most vulnerable citizens.
The Impact of Tourism on Parisian Communities
The flood of tourists that come to Paris every year has had a profound impact on the city, particularly in terms of its housing market. With demand for accommodation driving up prices, many residents are being forced out of the city center and into the suburbs, where they face a host of new challenges. This has created a divide between the city’s rich and poor, with the vulnerable communities being left behind as the city continues to flourish as a tourist destination.
The Need for a New Approach
In order to address this paradox, it is essential that Paris takes a new approach to the relationship between tourism and the city’s vulnerable communities. This might involve the creation of new affordable housing options in the city center, the development of community-based initiatives that provide support for those in need, and the promotion of sustainable tourism practices that help to mitigate the negative impact of tourism on local communities.
The Role of Government and Private Sector
The government and the private sector both have a role to play in addressing this issue. The government can provide funding and support for initiatives that help to reduce poverty and homelessness in the city, while the private sector can invest in sustainable tourism practices that support local communities and the environment. Ultimately, it is up to all of us to work together to create a better future for Paris and its residents, one in which the city can continue to flourish as a tourist destination while also providing a supportive and inclusive environment for all of its citizens.
To Wrap It All Up!
In conclusion, the paradox of Paris is a complex issue that requires a nuanced and multi-faceted approach. On the one hand, Paris is a celebrated tourist destination, renowned for its iconic landmarks, rich history, and cultural heritage. On the other hand, it is also home to vulnerable communities that are grappling with gentrification, poverty, and social exclusion.
The challenge for Paris, and for other cities facing similar paradoxes, is to find a way to strike a balance between tourism, preservation, and social justice. This requires a concerted effort by government, developers, and communities to find creative solutions that meet the needs of all stakeholders. Whether it is through the adaptive reuse of historic buildings, the creation of affordable housing, or the establishment of community-led initiatives, it is essential that Paris continues to work towards a future where its celebrated tourist destination status does not come at the expense of its vulnerable communities.

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Since the late 1900s, the number of honeybees in America and around the world has plummeted due to malnutrition, pesticides, and parasites. According to Bee Informed, “beekeepers total of 44.1 percent of their colonies over the year.” (Bee Informed) Human life depends on these honeybees, not only do they produce honey, but they also provide valuable pollination services along with butterflies, wasps, flies, and birds. Sustain web states, “around 80% of the US crop said to be dependent on honey bees.” Examples of these crops include blueberries, kiwis, cherries, cranberries, almonds, cucumbers, and many more.
The decrease in honeybees also causes issues within the dairy and meat industries. Clover is a common crop used to feed cows and without bees, there would be nothing to pollinate it. Many people think that the loss of honeybees would be insignificant however, it could easily ruin our entire planet.
There are many solutions to this issue, one of them is to refrain from using harmful pesticides.
While the exact percentage of pesticide-related bee losses is unknown, studies show that large decreases in bees are more common in states like Oklahoma, Iowa, Maine, Wisconsin, and Illinois where the use of pesticides is more frequent. When a bee lands on a flower or crop that is covered in pesticides, it goes directly to the bee’s nervous system, disorienting it, and damaging its thinking. When this happens, the bee will be unable to return to its hive and this is what destroys colonies. Instead of using these harmful pesticides, opt for something bee-safe like vinegar.
White wine and apple cider vinegar are common and effective alternatives to these pesticides. Another bee-safe pest repellent would be the chrysanthemum flower. They contain a compound called pyrethrin which is a natural repellent against things like mosquitos, moths, ants, and other pests. Chrysanthemum can also be boiled into a tea and sprayed onto the plants once cooled. The use of these pesticide alternatives could drastically help to decrease the number of honeybee colony losses.
Consider planting a bee-friendly garden and trees. Bees are an important component in every garden, without them crops, flowers, and trees would be unable to flourish. Planting non-hybrid flowers is not ideal because they don’t produce as much nectar, they prefer flowers like poppies, honeysuckles, lilacs, bluebells, sunflowers, and especially lavender due to the large amounts of nectar they produce. They also enjoy trees that bloom like: cherry, crabapple, and locust trees. Trees are important for bees to have access to because they produce hundreds of blooms for them to collect nectar from. Bee baths are another component that can be beneficial to a bee garden. Bees love to hydrate, placing pebbles and sticks for them to land on in a bowl filled with clean water and place it in a garden, will give bees a place to take a break and refresh themselves. To keep pests away in these gardens, only bee-safe pesticides should be used for the bees to work to their full potential.
One final solution to this worldwide issue would be to go organic. Only purchasing organic ingredients, will support small bee-safe farms. These farms almost always refrain from the use of pesticides. To be sure, it is important to look for labels that state “grown without pesticides”. A commonplace to find these products is at a farmer’s market when gardeners and farmers gather and sell their goods. Farmers’ markets also oftentimes will sell local honey. Purchasing local honey is a way to support local beekeepers who work to protect their bees and bring awareness to their importance of them.
The most efficient solution would be to plant a bee-friendly garden without harmful pesticides, in return, the bees will fly around pollinating the rest of the crops. Bees need safe places to gather nectar and when a pesticide is used it creates an unsafe environment for them. If there are no safe places for these bees to do their job and live, they will all die off. According to the National Resources Defense Council, humans wouldn’t live long without bees. By just simply planting a few seeds and not using pesticides, humans can bring honeybees back from the brink of extinction. This issue is more dangerous than most people realize yet the solution is quite simple.


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Although soil quality of highland was proper for cultivation, most farmers still used chemical substances i.e. pesticide, herbicide, and fertilizer. Chemical utilizaiton could cause hazard for human health because toxic contamination can transfer through food chain. Therefore, this study evaluated heavy metal contamination in agricultural soil at highland during dry season at Dan Sai District, Loei Province. Soil samples were randomly collected at 15 cm depth from top soil at paddy fields, pepper fields, banana fields, pineapple fields, and para tree fields because the heavy metal could be transferred from the soil to crop production. The results showed that maximum heavy metal contamination was iron (Fe 85.92–593.98 mg/kg), followed by magnesium (Mg 6.22.–23.67 mg/kg), copper (Cu 3.25–17.04 mg/kg), manganese (Mn 0.62–7.12 mg/kg) and zinc (Zn0.70–2.30 mg/kg), respectively. The pineapple field at high slope highland (HPi) was contaminated by Zn (2.30 mg/kg), Mg (23.67 mg/kg), and Fe (593.98 mg/kg). The soil of banana field at low slope highland (LB) was contaminatedby Mg 7.12 mg/kg. The soil of paddy field at low slope highland (LR) was contaminated by Cu 17.04 mg/kg. Average results of soil organic material were 0.08%-3.75%. The soil was under extreme and moderate acidic condition (pH 4.67-5.67). The acidic condition can extract Cu, Zn, Mg, and Fe from soils to leachate in form of bioavailability. The outcome of metal monitoring at agriucltural areas is useful for evaluating hazardous index and health risk assessment.
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The Hellenic Network of the European Music Day and The Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) are organizing the opening concert and the official opening ceremony of the European Music Day on the 21st of June (at 20:30), with a symbolic musical event at the Chios Mastic Museum, in the medieval Mastichohoria of the South Chios.
The event, which is carried out under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Ministry of Tourism, the Greek National Tourism Organization (EOT) and the Municipality of Chios, will take place this year for the first time in Chios, in a lively and cheerful place, with great musical tradition which was first recorded by the French linguist and Hellenist Hubert Pernot in the late 19th century.
The Chios Mastic Museum, member of the PIOP thematic Museums Network, depicts the connection between culture and environment, man and nature, tradition and today.
In this ideal landscape, where a unique in the world product – the mastic- is produced, the European Music Day chooses to highlight the value of music and culture in the Greek as well as in the international landscape with an original collaboration, in which Greek artists from a wide musical spectrum will present, exclusively for that day, a musical event, perfectly harmonized with the natural landscape.
The dexterous musicians of the Reggetiko Project are invited, together with the international Greek producer Serafim Tsotsonis, to make a dialogue with the classics, creating on stage the sound of today. Instrumental and electronic elements, physical instruments and computers are united and talking to a diachronic and global language that is no other but music.
Reggetiko Project stood out by their participation in the musical meeting “The Youth for Domna Samiou” at the Athens Concert Hall as a tribute for the great performer and researcher of traditional music, Domna Samiou. They are a talented new project that conveys traditional music and its values to today through a variety of music genres.
Serafim Tsotsonis is one of the most sought-after producers of the electronic scene. It is no coincidence that Ocean Hope, the recent side project he created with his sister Aggeliki, signed with an American record label. He will share the stage with the master of percussion, teacher, performer, music composer and creator, Iakovos Pavlopoulos.
Reggetiko Project: Sokrates Votskos (wind instruments), Theodoros Koumartzis (baglamas, melodica), Linos Tzelos (guitar), Marios Podaras (violin) and Nikos Varelas (cajon).
Serafim Tsotsonis: Serafim Tsotsonis (keyboard, vocals), Iakovos Pavlopoulos (drums / percussion)
The event will be recorded and broadcasted live on the official GNTO page on facebook (VisitGreece) and you will be able to watch it from the following link.
Six cities will broadcast live the Opening Ceremony: Athens (on rooftop of a community club), Kythira (town square), Lefkada (pedestrian street), Nisyros (town square), Paralio Astros (pedestrian street), Oropos (town square).
Entrance is free to the public. For safety reasons, a priority order will be followed.
Other concerts and events to celebrate the European Music Day are held by the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation and the following Museums of its network:
- Sunday 17/6
The Silversmithing Museum, Ioannina
Concert of jazz music of the musical project Christos Sidiropoulos Quartet (at 20:00).
- Thursday 21/6
Rooftile and Brickworks Museum N. & S. Tsalapatas, Volos
«Duo Armaos Rastani» concert (at 20:30)
Isthmia Archaeological Museum, Isthmia
«Myths in Music», concert by Corinthian Modern School of Music (at 20:00). Music editing: Georgia Giannakopoulou. Co-organizer: Ephorate of Antiquities of Corinth, the Historical and Folklore Museum of Corinthos, the Environment Museum of Stymphalia, under the program “Bridges: Tracing cultural footprints in Corinthos”
- Friday 22/6
The Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil, Sparta
«The Foam of the Days». Stelios Chatzikaleas Quintet, jazz concert (at 21:00)
Museum of Marble Crafts, Tinos
Tribute to Stavros Kouyioiumtzis by the Friends of the Museum of Marble Crafts Orchestra (at 21:00). Artistic direction-music teaching: Sofoklis Koskinas. General management: Giorgos Koumentakis.
- Saturday 23/6
Open-Air Water Power Museum, Dimitsana
Artistic Greek music concert by the Orchestra of the Municipality of Tripolis (at 21:00). Artistic direction: Sotiris Kostouros.
For more information, please contact Chios Mastic Museum, at 22710 72212 (daily, except for Tuesday, 10:00-18:00).
Chios Mastic Museum
Pyrgi, Rachi site (Tepeki)
82102 Chios, Greece
Τ: 22710 72212| www.piop.gr


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Every Friday night, a group of people, mostly young people, travel the main streets and avenues of Campinas, SP, to deliver a small donation to people in need street: - A snack, a juice or chocolate milk, a cup of coffee and a few minutes of attention, affection and a little conversation to warm the hearts of those who find themselves in a situation of exclusion.
This initiative has been in existence for 10 years and it only happens with the collaboration of people who donate, in addition to bread, coffee and juice, their time and care to look with love at the people who live on the streets. Any help is very welcome, even more so now with the arrival of colder nights.
To participate in the project, just arrive at Rua Custódio Teixeira, 483, in Campinas, every Friday at 8 pm. Anyone who wants to contribute with donations can enter the project page on Instagram to find out how to donate.

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T-Mobile’s G2 has been generating a fair number of waves recently, and for those who have been hankering after this smartphone will have another channel to consider. RadioShack tweeted earlier today to inform the general public that the G2 will retail for $149.99, which is $50 cheaper compared to what T-Mobile offers, albeit with a similar 2-year contract. No Scorpion here as originally thought, as the G2 will carry the MSM7230 Snapdragon processor instead which runs at 800MHz, carrying a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, 720p video recording capability, 4GB of internal memory, a microSD memory card slot and dedicated quick-keys. We’re not too sure whether people would find the unskinned version of Android 2.2 appealing or not, but the fact that the G2 can run on HSPA+ networks should be enough of a dangling carrot for most.
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Bygone Days is an album of acoustic folk music by Roger Nicholson and Jake Walton, released on Front Hall Records in 1980.
The cover was designed by Jon Henry, who also designed the cross-stitch-like typeface used in the composition. The typeface is a similar style to the Front Hall Records logo, and was used at least as far back as 1976 for branding on the back of earlier Front Hall albums. It’s featured on the cover of at least one other Front Hall Records release (see Bob White’s Collector’s Series).
Eight years after the release of Bygone Days, the typeface was chosen among 10 winners in a 1988 design competition for Chartpak who then offered it under the name Abigail as part of their “Velvet Touch” type collection. Chartpak’s offering included a handful of dingbats and border pieces that could be used to compose decorative elements similar to those on this and other Front Hall albums.


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The mother of a missing Maine woman last seen working as an escort in New York submitted a DNA sample Wednesday to authorities trying to determine the identities of four women whose bodies were found dumped on a deserted beach highway on Long Island.
Meanwhile, the FBI offered its assistance with the investigation by Suffolk County authorities, who suspect they may be dealing with a serial killer.
Authorities obtained the DNA sample from Lorraine Ela and will ship it to New York in an effort to determine whether one of the bodies found is that of the woman’s daughter, said Robert Moulton, chief of the Scarborough, Maine, Police Department.
Megan Waterman, who advertised her escort services on the website Craigslist, was last seen in June at a Hauppauge, N.Y., hotel where she went with her boyfriend. The hotel is about 15 miles from where the bodies were found this week.
“There’s definitely a possibility, but we’re on hold at this point,” Moulton said of the suspicion that one of the victims is Waterman.
Investigators are looking into the disappearance of both Waterman and a 24-year-old Jersey City, N.J., woman who was last seen on May 1. Shannon Gilbert was working as a prostitute, authorities said, when she disappeared not far from where the bodies were found.
Suffolk County police discovered the first body on Saturday and the other three on Monday while following up on a missing-persons report for Gilbert.
A man recalled seeing the woman believed to be Gilbert briefly at his door around 4:45 a.m. May 1, Newsday reported Wednesday. “She was very scared,” Gustav Coletti, 75, said outside his home in Oak Beach, two to three miles from where the bodies were found. “She said, ‘Help me! Help me!’ ”
Coletti said that he called 911, but that the woman ran away and was nowhere to be found when police arrived.
The four bodies were systematically dumped, perhaps over a period of 18 months or longer, along a desolate, windy stretch of highway east of Jones Beach State Park on Long Island’s south shore, police said. Because the bodies were each just off the highway and within a quarter-mile of each other, police suspect the deaths are connected.
“We’re looking at that — that we could have a serial killer,” Dormer told reporters Tuesday. “I don’t think it’s a coincidence that four bodies ended up in this area.”
Family members became worried about Waterman not hearing from her during a trip to New York in early June, her mother said. Waterman always called three times a day to speak to her 4-year-old daughter, Liliana, but the last call came on the night of June 5, she said.
When police searched the hotel room they found Waterman’s clothing, makeup, cell phone and other belongings, Ela said.

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Editor: Recent reports from the business community and the federal government have confirmed my worst fears as to the exploitation of employees for the treadmill of ever-increasing profits for the business community. The federal government has usurped $57 billion from the EI deductions paid by employees and employers. Recent changes have authorized the federal government to cut off benefits to unemployed workers if they refuse to take employment up to 70 per cent of their previous wages and within a 100 miles of their workplace.
To put that into prospective, an employee earning $11 per hour would be reduced to approximately $8 and gas for 200 miles per day would cost approximately $36 — leaving them with approximately $28 per day.
The EI system was working just fine and was running an annual surplus. Allowing for the fact that most of this country’s natural resources are in rural areas and our climate is such that the resources which provide the GDP of this country are seasonal in nature.
The business community is largely dependent on providing service and supplies to the workforce of this country. They have their year-round jobs because of the products which are gleaned from the workers in our rural seasonal economies. The notion that only business employees are hard-working Canadians is false.
Marion E. MacCallum,

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— Steve’s Marketplace —
EDITOR’S NOTE: Contributing columnist, Steve Nicklas, expresses his views and insight on various topics in Marketplace column.
It’s pretty obvious that Amelia Island is an affluent place.
Million-dollar houses are commonplace. Topnotch resorts attract tourists from the world over. And celebrities are buying properties here.
But how does Amelia Island stack up against its neighbors? Pretty decently, as evidenced by a report published in the Jacksonville Business Journal.
Of the 25 richest zip codes in North Florida, Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island (as determined by the 32034 area code) ranked No. 7– with an average household income of $80,000 and net worth of $700,000.
Obviously, North Florida covers a lot of territory. And bunches of wealthy areas, including the Jacksonville Beaches, Fleming Island and affluent enclaves like Ortega and Riverside in Jacksonville.
Some places are dominated by retirees (much like Amelia Island), so the income levels are somewhat lower, but net worths are higher. And some places like Ponte Vedra Beach have both — sky-high incomes and net worths.
Nassau County is not just represented by Fernandina Beach/Amelia Island. Tiny Bryceville on the west side of the county also made the list at an impressive spot — No. 14. Bryceville boasts a household income of $67,000 and net worth of $500,00. And who thought the west side was sleepy?
Here are the rankings by area, household income and networth. Some places (like Jacksonville) are subdivided by area codes to differentiate them.
- No. 1: Ponte Vedra Beach, income $123,000 and net worth $1.1 million
- No. 2: Fleming Island, income $104,000 and net worth $950,000
- No. 3: St. Johns (area code 32259), income $103,000 and net worth $949,000
- No. 4: Ponte Vedra, income $114,000 and net worth $730,000
- No. 5: Jacksonville (area code 32223), income $92,000 and net worth $920,000
- No. 6: Jacksonville (area code 32258), income $92,000 and net worth $660,000
- No. 7: Fernandina Beach
- No. 8: Jacksonville (area code 32224), income $86,000 and net worth $530,000
- No. 9: St. Augustine (32080 area code), income $77,000 and net worth $568,000
- No. 10: Jacksonville (32225 area code), income $76,000 and net worth $560,000
- No. 11: Jacksonville (32256 area code), income $88,000 and net worth $480,000
- No. 12: Orange Park (32073 area code), income $72,000 and net worth $520,000
- No. 13: Neptune Beach, income $75,000 and net worth $475,000
- No. 14: Bryceville (32009 area code), income $67,000 and net worth $500,000
- No. 15: Jacksonville (32226 area code), income $70,000 and net worth $460,000
- No. 16: Jacksonville (32217 area code), income $66,000 and net worth $490,000
- No. 17: Jacksonville (32257 area code), income $68,000 and net worth $450,000
- No. 18: Jacksonville Beach, income $70,000 and net worth $415,000
- No. 19: Orange Park (32065 area code), income $68,000 and net worth $420,000
- No. 20: Palm Coast, income $59,000 and net worth $530,000
- No. 21: Atlantic Beach, income $66,000 and net worth $420,000
- No. 22: St. Augustine (32092 area code), $67,000 income and $390,000 net worth
- No. 23: Middleburg, $64,000 income and $400,000 net worth
- No. 24: Green Cove Springs, $55,000 income and $500,000 net worth
- No. 25: Flagler Beach, $55,000 income and $500,000 net worth
Throughout the U.S., the average household income is just over $50,000, but net worth is harder to determine. This is especially true following the economic meltdown that occurred in 2008 and 2009, when nearly all assets plummeted in value.
Put it this way. The average net worth was $120,000 in 2007, but it dropped precipitously in the financial collapse. Whatever way you want to determine it now, it is dwarfed the wealthiest areas in North Florida.

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Author: Lauren Johnson
Green Peaks: Urban Ecological Study and Intervention for Hintonburg
Studio: ARCC 4302 – Conservation Studio 4
Professor: Miquel Reina Ortiz
Year: Winter 2021
Green Peaks revolves around the community character and urban ecology of Hintonburg, a neighbourhood in Ottawa, ON. As 453 Parkdale Ave has been vacant for nearly the last decade, the presence it holds along the Parkdale Streetscape and Hintonburg is threatened. Green Peaks proposal examines the potential for green space in Hintonburg while emphasizing the roof typology, housing an architectural office committed to exploring urban ecology and enhancing the presence of greenery in the scale of the city block and neighbourhood as the community faces gentrification and intensification. As Green Peaks examines the coexistence between new, old, and green, it is open to the public, allowing community members to see the research and designs the architectural office is producing while also being able to enjoy the atrium and greenhouse at 453 Parkdale. This proposal can grow beyond the 453 Parkdale and influence other open space and underutilized areas to house sheltered green space, greenhouses for sharing plant knowledge or community gardens for food – enhancing the social and environmental sustainability of Hintonburg.


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A French-born US photographer who sparked a social media campaign to rebrand the often negative image of pit bull-type dogs has described the response as “overwhelming”.
US-based photographer Sophie Gamand said she first began the #PitBullFlowerPower photography project in 2014 with the goal of “rebranding” pit bulls.
Her portraits, which feature the unlikely combination of shelter and rescue pit bulls with flower crowns, have reportedly inspired a number of adoptions as well as increased open-mindedness about the breed.
Ms Gamand, 35, originally born in a small village near Lyon, France, told 9news.com.au #PitBullFlowerPower was inspired by her time volunteering as a photographer for animal shelters.
She said the breed – typically portrayed as aggressive and violent – has been grossly misrepresented, and that this has come at a great cost.
An estimated one pit bull out of 600 living in shelters get adopted out, with the result 599 facing euthanisation.
Approximately 800,000 to one million pit bull-type dogs are euthanised every year in the US, “for no other reason than our fears and shortcomings, and prejudice towards them”.
“Once you have heard these numbers, how can you turn away?” she said.
Ms Gamand began creating flower crowns for what she expected to be a “quick summer art project” involving “a few portraits”.
“I [wanted to] invite people to see these dogs for what they are: individual, soulful creatures who deserve respect and to be treated with dignity,” Ms Gamand said.
“The fact that all my Flower Power models are shelter dogs speaks volume about their temperament.
“You would expect them to be the most broken, therefore dangerous. Yet, I am able to put flowers on their head and photograph them. It speaks about their obedience and peaceful nature.
“It’s actually quite rare that a dog refuses a crown.”
More than a year-and-a-half later, Ms Gamand now has 250 portraits, a sizeable following on social media and an exhibition in a prestigious Parisian gallery.
She says that while the series has effectively “made” her career, she has the satisfaction of knowing it has also had a very concrete impact on shelter dogs, with many photos leading to adoptions.
“Every once in a while I get a message from someone telling me how they found their dog through my Instagram, and it feels great,” she said.
“Some dogs had been waiting for years before [their] photo got them an adopter.”
Ms Gamand believes her photos have led to greater exposure to specific shelters, leading to improved adoption rates not just of the breed, but other dogs too.
She said whatever the project’s current successes, getting shelters to agree to participate in the first place proved difficult.
“At first I got lots of closed doors,” she said.
“[The shelters] were unsure photography could make a big difference in their work.
“They thought it would be a lot of investment of time, for little outcome.
“So I volunteered with a rescue group for a couple of years. When I left the group, I approached shelters again.
“By then I had a better understanding of the challenges they face, and my work had proven to be very important for the rescue group I was helping.
“My photos helped them fundraise, adopt dogs much faster, increase their social media following, etc.
“So in a way I had proven the efficiency of good photography, and shelters were more receptive.
“It took a bit of convincing, but now I have a long waiting list, from all over the world!”
Ms Gamand, who describes herself as a “pit bull advocate by accident”, said she aims to continue volunteering her services to shelters for the foreseeable future.
A 2016 calendar featuring a range of Flower Power photos is currently available for sale online.


I really don’t know how front man of Woods, Jeremy Earl does it. The experimental folk band Woods always have an album in the works and just once you’ve digested their latest release, another one will be coming around the corner. And what gets me, is that they are always so god damn good, improving with almost every release. But it’s not just Woods that Jeremy Earl partakes in, oh no. He also runs the influential lo-fi label Woodsist (where Real Estate, Kurt Vile, Fresh & Onlys and White Fence found their feet), organizes the yearly Woodsist Festival that usually features most the above artists and to top it off he creates all the iconic, psychedelic artwork that surrounds Woodsist and in particular, all the Woods record sleeve art. He’s a bit of ‘do it yourself’ hero.
So it comes as no surprise that Woods have announced their next album, Bend Beyond, that will hit shelves on September 18th. And in fitting Earl fashion, this taster track ‘Size Meets the Sound’ is absolutely killer. Woods are known for being consistent in quality which is true but they’re also known for their consistency in style and sound which I believe is not so true. Sun & Shade was perhaps their most diverse record yet, At Echo Lake was without a doubt a full band record whilst Songs of Shame was more of a stripped back acoustic affair. From listening to Size Meets the Sound, I feel it lies closest to the work of At Echo Lake with it’s full band, rock n’ roll sound and with catchy, distorted guitar riffs aplenty. With the released artwork being another one of Earl’s, Bend Beyond is shaping up to be another Woods classic.


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110 Powerful Affirmations for Manifestation (Manifest Your Dream Life)
There is nothing more important than positive thoughts when you are working hard to create your dream life. But surrounding yourself with positive energy has felt challenging in recent years, hasn’t it? However, it can be done with the right affirmations for manifestation.
Having your thoughts, feelings, and goals aligned is the most important thing when you are working toward your life’s big dreams. Affirmations for manifestation are the perfect tool to connect your mind and your heart.
So, let’s dig into these 110 powerful affirmations for manifestation that negative thoughts just can’t survive! It’s time to start creating the life of your wildest dreams!
What are Manifestation Affirmations?
If you want to use affirmations for manifestation properly, the first step is making sure that you have a good understanding of just what they are.
Affirmations are short, positive statements that hold great power. They are a powerful tool that can help you overcome the negative thoughts that sabotage your personal growth.
Manifestation affirmations are helpful in attracting positive energy. The Law of Attraction tells us that the universe gives us more of what we pay attention to. Using law of attraction affirmations means intentionally focusing on positive thoughts so that positive things present themselves in your daily life.
Why Should You Use Affirmations for Manifestation?
There are many benefits of affirmations that can improve all areas of your life.
It can be hard to train your brain to maintain a positive outlook amongst all the chaos of life. Since positive thinking doesn’t always come naturally, affirmations for manifestation act as a reminder that your mindset is a choice. Affirmations for manifestation are helpful prompts that can turn your thinking around when you need it most!
When used correctly, manifestation affirmations can lead to improved mental health, optimism, and positivity. Affirmations have the power to change your life by helping you work toward big goals that would otherwise seem impossible to reach!
How to Use Manifestation Affirmations
There are many different ways to use manifestation affirmations.
A popular method is to choose your favorite affirmations and rehearse them out loud in front of a mirror. This simple technique is a great way to intentionally attract positive energy into your day!
Another popular manifestation technique is the use of journaling. Affirmations are a great tool for journalling prompts! Focusing your thoughts and your writing on what you wish to manifest will help you notice more of it in your life.
Our favorite way to use manifestation affirmations is using an affirmation deck. Affirmation cards are easy to shuffle and draw your own affirmations at random.
The best way to use these powerful statements is to shuffle the deck and draw a new affirmation each day. This gives you new daily positive affirmations to focus on in your day-to-day life. With new affirmations each day, this strategy is fun and leads to positive results! Drawing at random can also help you manifest good things unexpectedly throughout your day!
Check out our collection of hand-crafted manifestation affirmation cards that we use everyday in our own personal and professional lives!
110 Powerful Affirmations for Manifestation
Manifestation affirmations are always most effective when they are your own affirmations. This means that you should always focus your energy on positive phrases that are meaningful to you.
Take some time to comb through this list of 110 affirmations for manifestation. Choose the ones that will help you make small steps toward living the happy life of your dreams!
Let’s get into these 110 affirmations for manifestation!
Manifest your Dream Life and Wildest Dreams
Using affirmations for manifestation is a very powerful way to start living your dream life. One of the keys to manifesting your dream life is choosing affirmations that help you overcome your limiting beliefs.
Your limiting beliefs are the stories you tell yourself that keep you from achieving greatness. These affirmations for manifestation will help you defeat each negative belief that is holding you back from living your dream life!
- I welcome unexpected opportunities.
- I am in charge of my life and my success.
- There is no limit to my creative energy.
- The opinions of others don’t stop me from going after my dreams in life.
- I do not compare my journey to those who have come before me. I use their journeys to motivate myself to go after my dreams.
- I am building a better life for myself.
- I make time to dream on a daily basis.
- I am on the right track toward my dream life.
- I live a good life full of opportunity.
- I trust my mind’s ability to focus on my goals.
- My successes align with my values.
- Every present moment has the potential to push me closer to my goals.
- Nothing will stand in the way of my success.
- There is nothing in the world today that can stop me on my path to success.
- I believe in myself and my goals and dreams.
- I jump out of bed every morning to chase after my goals and dreams.
- I appreciate the journey toward my success, not simply the destination
- Every decision I make has a positive impact on my journey toward success.
- The only person who can stop me is me.
- I choose to leave my comfort zone to pursue my life calling.
- I make smart decisions that will lead me toward success.
- I have the skills necessary to pursue the life I’ve always dreamed of living.
- I live a beautiful life full of dream chasing.
- My commitment to my success is the best thing about me.
- My success doesn’t define me. I define my success.
- I embrace my failures and the powerful feedback they provide me with.
- I feel inner peace when I am pursuing success.
- In the pursuit of my goals, I am unstoppable.
- Each day brings endless opportunities for better things.
- I live my dream life every day.
Manifestation Affirmations For Love
Love affirmations are helpful ways of focusing on what matters most to you in your relationships. Using affirmations for manifestation can help you build a better relationship by focusing on the most important thing to you.
- I believe in true love.
- I have an open mind about love.
- I prioritize open and healthy communication in my relationships.
- I am willing to wait a long time for the right person.
- Real life love is worth fighting for.
- I make self love a priority.
- I am honest with those that I love.
- I put the people I love first.
- Special times with the people I love are the best things about my life.
- I love myself.
- I feel grateful for the love that I receive.
- I am worthy of love.
- I embrace the power of love in my daily life.
- A life full of love is a happy life.
- I make time for the people that I love.
- I allow myself to be vulnerable while in love.
- I feel surrounded by love everywhere.
- Real love begins with me.
- I value real love.
- I attract a loving and trusting relationship.
Money Affirmations for Financial Goals and Career Goals
Money is one thing that people’s lives seem to revolve around. These affirmations will help you attract a healthy relationship with money that allows you to live your financial dream life.
- I am successful.
- I have enough money.
- My dedication to hard work is my money magnet.
- I choose to make every day feel like my dream job.
- Money enters my life in unexpected ways.
- I embrace new possibilities and the power they have.
- I can learn anything I put my mind to.
- My fear and doubt in my abilities won’t hold me back.
- I appreciate the challenges that I face each day that help me to grow in my role.
- My bank account does not control my life.
- I find creative ways to make money.
- I am grateful for the money that I have right now.
- My mind is open to receiving money.
- I am committed to improving my finances.
- I am in control of my own wealth.
- I live the life of my dreams with the money that I have.
- I use my money to make a positive difference in the world.
- I have good luck when it comes to receiving money.
- Money is not the only thing I value in my life.
- I have a safe relationship with money.
- I trust myself to use my money the right way.
- The money I have allows me to live a better life.
- I make money by doing what I love.
- I have a positive money mindset.
- I commit to living my financial dream life.
I Am Manifestation Affirmations
Using affirmations that are written in the present tense is one of the most powerful ways to make manifestation work. They help convince your mind that you are already doing the thing that you are attempting to manifest! For more affirmations like these, check out our list of 110 I Am affirmations!
- I am committed to reaching my goals and my ultimate success in life.
- I am humble and kind.
- I am not jealous of other people’s successes.
- I am showing up for myself today.
- I am motivated to reach my goals.
- I am confident in my abilities to handle any situation that comes my way.
- I am the powerful creator of my story.
- I am kind, caring and thoughtful. These attributes help me pave my own pathway to success.
- I am striving for better every day.
- I am in a great place in my life.
Build Self-Confidence and Overcome Negative Self-Talk Affirmations
One of the main reasons that people use affirmations is to manifest self-confidence and overcome negative self-talk. Affirmations are particularly effective at replacing negative thoughts with positive thoughts and supporting a healthier self-image. Use these affirmations for manifestation to feel confident in your own skin and start talking to yourself with self love!
- I have a healthy body and a positive attitude.
- Positive thinking gives me the power I need to succeed.
- I am in control of my emotions.
- I let go of any negative feelings that are holding me back.
- I am the best version of myself today and always.
- I choose to be grateful for what I DO have.
- I choose to have a positive attitude towards myself and others today.
- I thrive outside my comfort zone.
- I do not allow negative energy in my life.
- I am a better version of myself today than I was yesterday.
- My past experiences do not define me. I am the аrсhіtесt of mу lіfе.
- I begin each day on a positive note and embrace the new day before me.
- My happy thoughts are important.
- Today is a fresh start and I am taking advantage of it!
- I am in the right place.
- I have conquered my unhealthy old habits and replaced them with healthy and productive ones.
- I listen to and act on my positive feelings.
- Negative emotions have no place in my journey toward success.
- I choose to let go of the past. This is the only way I am able to receive what is to come.
- When I have low self-esteem, I hold the key to high self-esteem.
- My mental health is an asset to my success.
- I cannot always control what happens to me in my life. However I control how I choose to react in each situation.
- I push through discomfort to reach the greatness that is inside me.
- I am courageous. Fear does not control me.
- I have a bright light that I will not let the world put out.
Remember that manifestation doesn’t happen overnight. Properly manifesting your dream life takes time and dedication to retraining your subconscious mind.
Work your manifestation affirmations into your daily routine through either meditation, journaling, or by using affirmation cards. Use a vision board or a vision map to make your affirmations visible. This will help you make sure that you are heading in the right direction as you work toward your goals and dreams.
The power of affirmations for manifestation can truly bring change to your own life. All it takes is using a couple feel-good sentences to take control of your mind!
Don’t forget to share this post with your friends and family on social media! If you know someone who would benefit from affirmations for manifestation, this could be just the post that they need!

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A great band that’s been playing the jukebox of your life for nearly a quarter century.
That last part kind of rules out the Beatles.
Ringo Starr was part of the historic quartet for eight years. But Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band has periodically visited Las Vegas — with different All Starrs — since 1989.
“It was one of those good ideas, and it’s gone on and on and on,” the 73-year-old Starr says.
To put it in perspective, it’s an idea that survived three members of the first band that played the Aladdin’s concert hall: saxophonist Clarence Clemons of Bruce Springsteen fame, The Band’s singer-drummer Levon Helm and R&B keyboardist Billy Preston.
This year’s edition, wrapping a tour with a two-night stand at the Palms on Friday and Saturday, doesn’t feature as many famous frontmen as it has at various times. It’s more a band of “musician’s musicians.”
The ’70s rock star Todd Rundgren is the most recognizable solo name beyond the star attraction, joined by keyboardist Gregg Rolie from the early years of Santana, Toto guitarist Steve Lukather, Mr. Mister singer Richard Page, saxophonist Mark Rivera and drummer Gregg Bissonette.
“I love this band. It’s just one of those moments where the personnel and the music, we’re all together on it,” Starr says.
The format has always been consistent. Starr anchors the show with his signature Beatles and solo hits, but each band member steps up with a song or two that represents his claim to fame.
“I like to say we are the best ‘1-800’ band on the planet,” Starr says. “Everyone has to have hits. And I’m covering the ’60s and some in the ’70s. Most of the (other) hits we’re doing are sort of ’80s right now with this band.
“It’s all about the show, and the musicianship. You just hope to God we all get on,” he adds. “There’s been times where it hasn’t been as comfortable as this, I’ll tell you that.”
Past guest stars delivered their hits, “so the audience are pleased, and I’m pleased I’m doing what I’m doing. But sometimes, you know? I don’t know, those darned musicians, they get finicky.”
The All-Starr Band emerged the year after Starr and spouse Barbara Bach sought treatment for alcoholism and launched a new era of productivity. The band has proved to be the commercial vehicle that lets Starr continue a prolific recording career without having to obsess about record sales.
“Ringo 2012” was his 17th solo album, and he’s already laid down the basic tracks for the next one, which he plans to finish in January.
“The drive is to make records because I love making records and just to hang out with those musicians and writers,” he says. “I’m not here to be tortured.”
He records “in the guesthouse here at home, so I don’t have to go far. I go for a cup of tea with Barbara and chat with the dog.”
In the liner notes for “Ringo 2012” Starr writes that he can “revisit the past when I want to, but I don’t live there.”
Yet this year has been one of looking back. The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles continues its “Ringo: Peace &Love” exhibit through March, a collection that raided Starr’s basement for rarities such as his “Sgt. Pepper” outfit.
An overlapping book project, “Photograph,” also includes photos from his own archives. Some of the photos will be on display at the Palms, in the Addison Room, from 2 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.
Starr made headlines last month when he put out a search to identify fans in a moving car that he snapped in 1964. The fans have come forth and will be flown to Las Vegas for his Saturday show.
“It wasn’t like I went out saying ‘I want to be in the Grammy museum’ or ‘I want to make this book.’ It just sort of happened naturally,” he says of being approached for both products by friends.
“I am looking back in both respects,” he says, “just not dwelling in the past. I’m trying to live in the now and not get so crazy about the future, because what is that going to be, we don’t know.”
Contact reporter Mike Weatherford at email@example.com or 702-383-0288.
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday
The Pearl at the Palms, 4321 W. Flamingo Road

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- Crab Cakes
- our special crab cakes, paneed and served with a celery remoulade and tangy sweet pepper sauce.
- Grilled Filet Tips
- grilled filet mignon tips smothered in a rich madeira demi-glace served over toast points.
- Crab Claws
- marinated in our special vinaigrette with fresh herbs or lightly battered and fried, served with remoulade.
- Grilled Portobello Mushroom
- a house favorite!! portobello mushroom grilled to perfection, served over a veal demi-glace with a coarse tomato marinara di casa and gorgonzola cheese.
- Fried Calamari
- thinly sliced rings of baby squid, lightly battered and fried, served with sweet horseradish and marinara sauce
- Spinach Artichoke Dip
- fresh spinach and artichokes in a cream cheese based dip served with our signature bowtie pasta chips.
- Rosemary Brandy Shrimp
- sauteed gulf shrimp flamed in apricot brandy and finished with fresh rosemary and cream.
- Oyster Brochette
- fresh louisiana oysters wrapped in applewood bacon and deep fried, served with a sour cream horseradish sauce.
- Mozzarella Caprise
- fresh mozzarella cheese and roma tomatoes marinated in our balsamic vinaigrette.
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The best place for a romantic evening. The filet mignon is to die for! xoxo

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Experimental, avant-garde, outsider: These are rubrics we use to define the wild fringes of the art establishment. But they can be just as elite as the academy they revolve around—an outside that becomes a different kind of inside. Those unfamiliar with the hermetic rituals and internal hierarchies of either sphere can feel unwelcome in both.
Opening up experimental art to everyone has been percussionist and improv-director Shannon Morrow's great gift to the Triangle. In the Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra and the marching band Scene of the Crime Rovers, and as a deep listening teacher, rhythm facilitator and Scrap Exchange outreach coordinator, Morrow privileges inclusion over exclusion. Her own joy in discovering the freedom of out music never ossified into snobbery, and she continues to spread her art-is-for-everyone message with missionary zeal.
One of Morrow's early bands was Special Agents of Her Majesty's Secret Cervix, an art-rock trio that included longtime Triangle musician Anne Gomez. "I have to thank Anne for helping me leave the boundaries of traditional rock," she says. "Some of our earliest experiments were together and they continue to be together." Someone played an Art Bears record for Morrow at a Secret Cervix recording session, which was an epiphany for her: "I realized there was so much more [than rock]," she recalls.
Morrow left her native Winston-Salem to attend East Carolina University, where she earned a B.F.A. in visual art. In 1999, she moved to improv-hotbed Chicago to pursue a B.A. in percussion performance at Northeastern Illinois University. She didn't complete the highly traditional program. "There was no room for creativity," she explains, "and it was just killing my soul." But she would find an invaluable education in the clubs of Chicago.
The first jazz club she attended there was the storied Velvet Lounge, where she saw the great free-music drummer Hamid Drake perform. "My jaw just hit the floor," she remembers. "I actually looked him up in the phone book and called him and told him I wanted to take drum lessons from him. Meeting him opened up a lot for me. There are all these big names in Chicago who you could see for three dollars, as they essentially practiced in a venue. They're friendly, they'll help you, and they're willing to play with less experienced people." It isn't hard to see how this gregarious, inclusive culture shaped Morrow's worldview.
Morrow had several rock-oriented projects in Chicago, including Bride of No No and a Stooges cover band featuring drums, trombone and tuba. She was sitting in on improv nights at various venues. And perhaps most importantly, she joined Fred Lonberg-Holm's Lightbox Orchestra, in which musicians were directed by handwritten signs and lighting cues, foreshadowing her own improv-direction work with the Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra. This was but one strand of the braid of interests that would inform Morrow's practice.
Another is the theory of "deep listening" pioneered by composer Pauline Oliveros, which, after a four-year battery of retreats and workshops, Morrow is officially certified to teach. She admired Oliveros' dedication to audience-inclusion and accessibility in the avant-garde. "That's so smart," she enthuses. "If you consider yourself an 'experimental' artist and you promote your music that way, who's going to come see it? The same five people every time."
Deep listening resembles a meditative practice. It entails listening as an active rather than a passive process, an attempt to hear "the whole of the space-time continuum and listen within yourself." Morrow met Sarah Weaver, the director of Chicago's Weave Soundpainting Orchestra, through the deep listening program. It was with this group that she began to learn the soundpainting sign language developed by composer Walter Thompson, a repertoire of hand gestures used to direct large groups in structured improv.
Morrow moved back to North Carolina in 2006, and in 2007, she founded her own Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra, where she is now one of three directors. She knows about 75 of the roughly 800 signs in the always-evolving language. "I could say," Morrow explains, gesturing with her hands, "winds one, low long tone with low volume. Or vocalist one, wind sounds with modulations. Some soundpainters want really tight control, but I don't use it that way. I want the players to organically develop their ideas; it's my job to step in when things are losing energy and shift them."
The Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra often plays outside of traditional venues, as does Scene of the Crime Rovers, the guerilla marching band Morrow founded in 2006. "Only certain kinds of people are going to come into the music club," says Morrow, "and if you want to get the music to the others, you have to take it to them." SOC. Rovers has an official partnership with The Scrap Exchange, a Durham-based nonprofit that salvages 300 tons of industrial discards for sale and creative reuse per year, where Morrow works as the outreach coordinator. SOC Rovers gets to use Scrap Exchange space to practice in exchange for providing entertainment for six Scrap Exchange events per year. SOC Rovers and the Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra will perform together (the latter in collaboration with A/V artist Jim Kellough) as part of the Third Friday Durham series at the CCB Plaza on July 18.
The breadth of Morrow's activity is such that it's difficult to summarize: Besides all this, she plays in rock-oriented bands Felix Obelix and Gates of Beauty, as well as structured improv trio Mahasamatman with Chuck Johnson (a fellow deep listener) and Chris Eubank. But of all her activities, Morrow describes her role as "rhythm facilitator" at Durham's Music Explorium as the love of her life, and her aim in that role—to maintain a space where people feel free to discover their innate rhythm, breaking down the artist/ spectator divide and restoring to music its ancient, communal function—seems like the purest distillation of what she does. (Morrow will host a free community rhythm circle, again at CCB Plaza, on July 26, from 7-8:30 p.m.) "My main interest," she says, "in SOC Rovers, Soundpainting, rhythm circles, everything, is relationships and creativity and ways to get big groups to work together and have freedom and express themselves." In her dedication to this cause, Morrow proves that artists can press their talents into the service of something bigger, more collective and more spiritually enriching than the stature of their own name.


Great thanks to everyone who’s read, subscribed to, or commented on our blog here at www.open.ac.uk/vem. The website will remain intact in its current form at the same address, but it’s now been migrated to a new site at www.valuingelectronicmusic.org. All content on this site has been moved, including reader comments. Posts here will be closed for comment – if you would like to add further comments to posts you have read here, please make them on the new site.
We’ll look forward to chatting with you at the new site!
To remind you of what you experienced – or to taunt you with what you missed – here is a selection of photographs from the Valuing Electronic Music free public event, taken by Jake Davis of HungryVisuals. Wish you’d been there? We wish you’d been there too. Maybe next time!
NB please excuse the ads at the beginning of the video, if you get any – a consequence of publishing the videos on a platform originally intended for broadcasting live gameplay rather than academic videos…
In my previous post on this topic, I introduced a problem – how to understand the work that explicit genre categorisations are made to do by people uploading tracks to the SoundCloud audio-sharing website – and a potential solution – identifying the three categories most frequently used by each individual in a sample and studying regularities in the ways in which pairs of categories tend to pop up within the same group of three. I also presented some partial and preliminary findings in the form of a matrix comparing co-occurrences of the five genre categories most frequently used by people within an initial sample. And I either glossed over or left unmentioned a slew of problems, some of which we’ve been more successful in addressing than others at present (because these are only blog posts, and we haven’t finished the research yet). The biggest problem is the sample itself: the analysis was done on the basis of a snowball sample, when a random sample would be more appropriate. Hence the provisionality of all this. The analysis will be redone soon on the basis of a sample that will enable us to make more robust claims, but in the meantime I wanted to share our thought processes and working methods with the world because – quite apart from anything else – I’m excited about the patterns that are emerging.
The (first?) Valuing Electronic Music public event took place on 6 June upstairs at the Lexington on Pentonville Rd in London. Which means that exactly seven days ago to the minute, I was standing in front of the mixing desk with Anna, wondering just how much longer I could credibly put off jumping onto the stage and introducing the whole thing. Thank you so much to everyone who made it happen (especially Glitch Lich, Winterlight, Slackk, Luis-Manuel Garcia, and our brilliant event producer, Josh McNorton), and to everyone who came along. Also to the people who spread the word, without whom so many fewer people would have come along. And thank you to the AHRC, because of whom the event was free.
Over the next few weeks, we’ll start uploading podcasts based on the event itself and on last month’s workshop.
One of the problems you’re always going to face when studying electronic music is the need to decide what you think ‘electronic music’ means. It’s a question of genre, and as Paul DiMaggio acknowledged in one of his most influential papers, genre is at once a formal and a social concept:
It’s now confirmed that the public event on 6 June (click here for the poster) will feature images from the Clubland project by HungryVisuals. One of the most interesting avenues that we’ve been exploring on the ethnographic side of the project is the embodied nature of valuing. Good DJs learn to read a crowd’s physical responses to music, for example. And different venues are characterised by different ways of physically expressing appreciation for the music played. The Clubland project is a unique attempt to document the London club scene through medium format photography, and as such it provides a powerful record of the embodiment of electronic music and its value.
We have been exploring how visualisations can illustrate over time how users comment on tracks in SoundCloud. Commenting has been highlighted in our qualitative research as a way of building relationships and showing appreciation of other musicians’ work. In fact, initial inspection of a sample set of comments is showing that most comments in our samples tend to be positive or constructive, rather than overly critical or negative.


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Night at the Museum is a Museum theme party on which the New Year Eve Gala Celebrations are being organised to welcome all party lovers and food enthusiasts to join and bid the memorable goodbye to 2016 by the immense welcome of the New Year 2017. With more than 100 varieties of starters and other food delicacies to soothe your palette, there are also unlimited premium beverages lined up to intoxicate you in their pop-up menu. But, that’s not all folks! For relishing the energy level, DJ Night will be hosted by trending DJ Dual Drama (SUNBURN Fame) who is all set to perform exclusively at the preferred venue of Royal Retreat. So, one can imagine that being in a Royal museum party encored between rare and beautiful artefacts collection around the world can sanction the feeling that is worth to grab.
And, to unwind the guests with pro enthusiasm, Night at the Museum Party is all set to bring the largest production in a themed way that has never been so far in their previous events. As last year, they received an overwhelming response of Bollywood Themed New Year Bash with the resident guests as well as unprecedented footfall of party freaks that graced the event. And, that welcome note of last year New Year’s Eve is still spoken with excitement till date. By seeing that response, they are back again this time with lot of attractions summed up with something new and enthralling.
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Kwara United coach Abubakar Bala has expressed his delight at his first win since he took charge of the relegation-threatened side.
The Kwara State Government-owned team beat Kano Pillars 2-1 in their Premier League match in Ilorin on Sunday, and Bala says he is confident the Harmony Boys will avoid the drop at the end of the season.
The ex-Niger Tornadoes coach became Kwara manager after John Obuh was fired on March 13 due to a series of poor results.
“It is a wonderful experience, and a turning point for me and the club,” Bala told our correspondent in a telephone interview on Monday.
“The victory will give us a winning mentality to turn the table around.
“Nobody is happy seeing the team in this position but with Sunday’s win, it is a sign that we will definitely get out of the relegation zone.
“My first target is to get out of the relegation zone, then my second target is in my mind.”
He praised the management of the club and players for their support since his arrival.
He added, “I have support from the stakeholders and the management, and the way the players are responding to my coaching philosophy, I am hopeful that we will not only get out of relegation but have a good story to tell.”
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