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On reflection… the legacy of First World War commemorations in Wiltshire
One hundred years ago people and politicians around the globe were contemplating a new world order following more than four years of war. In Britain, January 1919 and the following months were marked by strikes, civil unrest and military mutinies. The flu pandemic continued its deathly march. The month also saw the beginning of the Paris Peace Conference which lasted into the summer concluding with five treaties formally ending the war – including the Versailles Treaty signed 28 June – and the formation of the League of Nations.
As a nation we have spent the last four years commemorating the centenary of the First World War (FWW). A hundred years on from this cataclysmic event and we are living with its legacy – with regional conflicts that have their origins in the war; with advances in medicine (reconstructive surgery, improved anaesthesia); with the music, art, literature and poetry produced during and after the war; with universal suffrage; and with a landscape shaped by war.
But what of the legacy of these commemorations? What will future generations find when they delve into early 21st century archives and history books, looking for evidence of how we remembered? Without doubt they will find an amazing amount of new, high quality research that has changed our understanding of the Great War. But have the commemorations reflected this changed narrative or have they reinforced the myths and iconography associated with First World War and which are embedded in our collective memory? Some historians are asking whether the last four years have been a lost opportunity.
From a personal point of view it feels as though much of the national commemoration did focus on traditional themes and symbols such as the mud and blood of the western front, the experience of the war poets, the silhouetted soldier. There have been some stunning artistic responses to the centenary, commissioned by 14-18 Now, including Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red, Jeremy Deller’s We’re Here Because We’re Here, Danny Boyle’s Pages in the Sea and film-maker Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old.
But these have also drawn criticism. 14-18 Now estimates that 35 million people engaged with their commissioned events, but historians Professors Maggie Andrews, of the University of Worcester, and Sarah Lloyd, of the University of Hertfordshire, question whether people critically engaged or merely encountered them. Were these national events, exhibitions and installations sufficiently challenging of historical myths?
There has been much work on myth-busting over the past four years but it can be tough going up against advertising executives and picture editors who are not historians. An enduring myth, reinforced by TV adverts and wrongly credited photographs, is that the Christmas Truce of 1914 happened throughout the western front and that football matches were organised between German and British troops. Neither is an accurate picture of what happened. (Check out Dan Snow’s mythbusting articles for the BBC.)
At a regional and local level, however, I feel very positive about the projects and events that have taken place. Over the last four years much of my work as an education officer has focused on researching Wiltshire’s role in the First World War and passing on that learning to others, especially primary school teachers and pupils keen to make the most of the local history study that is part of their curriculum.
Another aspect of my work has been supporting other organisations in delivering the educational side of their FWW projects. My colleagues in archives and local studies have also been busy acquiring new collections and publications that support the study of the Great War.
The number and range of FWW projects in Wiltshire has been impressive and sadly I cannot list all of them, but a good place to start is the History Centre’s own Wiltshire at War – Community Stories project.
The website and travelling exhibitions produced over the past four years have sought to unearth new stories and rediscover forgotten histories that together reveal the experiences of Wiltshire during the Great War.
The community-based nature of the project has allowed individuals as well as museums and local heritage organisations to share their stories with a much wider audience. I hope that schools – especially secondary schools – will also realise what a wonderful resource this is.
One of the first projects I was involved in when I joined the History Centre in 2015 was Dancing Back to 1914. This involved young people from across the county researching the history of their local area and presenting what they had learned through dance. The culmination of the project was a performance at County Hall in Trowbridge.
As well as groups, individuals have also contributed to new and exciting research. Actors/writers Lizzie Crarer and Phoebe Kemp, and musician Louise Jordan have each researched, written and performed shows that delve into the lives of women during the First World War.
Telling the home front story in Wiltshire has to include the county’s central role in supporting the military. Training for war and the presence of British and Dominion troops on Salisbury Plain transformed the landscape and people’s lives. One of the earliest FWW projects in Wiltshire was undertaken by the Codford Local History Society which looked at the impact of the sudden arrival of thousands of volunteer soldiers on the Wylye Valley in 1914. The history group was present at the national launch of the Heritage Lottery Fund’s (HLF) First World War grant scheme Then and Now.
Funding from the HLF and Arts Council, as well as grant support from Wiltshire Council’s Area Boards, has been essential to local organisations wanting to pursue their own projects.
Some projects have been bigger than others, some were logistically difficult. The latter category included the cutting of a new chalk badge by the Fovant Badges Society; the restoration by the Sutton Mandeville Heritage Trust of the “Shiny 7th” and Royal Warwickshire’s regimental badges; and the restoration of the chalk map of Australia at Compton Chamberlayne by the Map of Australia Trust.
Throughout the four years of commemorations museums (large and small) and heritage centres across Wiltshire have held special exhibitions and events, bringing to a wider audience wonderful local collections that tell the stories of men, women and children who contributed to the war effort. They have engaged with community groups, recruited new volunteers and worked with local schools.
In 2018 all these projects were building towards the centenary of the Armistice on 11 November. New projects were begun; others drew to a close. Our own Wiltshire at War saw the launch of the fifth and final exhibition Peace and Aftermath, although the exhibitions will continue touring this year. In towns and villages across Wiltshire poppies appeared on railings and village halls, and silhouettes of soldiers stood, heads bowed, by the roadside. In Salisbury a more unusual project took shape in the form of Binding the Past to the Present through Remembrance by artist Suzie Gutteridge. Community groups and schools from across the Salisbury diocese made over 5,000 felt poppies which were then sewn onto 100 puttees – the leg bindings worn by soldiers.
This commemorative installation went on display in the Morning Chapel in Salisbury Cathedral. (You can read more about the project in Suzie’s blog for the WSHC.)
And finally we came to Armistice Day, which last year was also Remembrance Sunday. Church and civic services were held, poppies were worn and wreaths were laid. Church bells rang out as they had a hundred years ago and beacons were lit. Nationally and locally, people came together to remember.
So where do we go from here? There is much to be done to ensure that all the hard work of the past four years (and more) by local history societies, schools, community groups and individuals, is not wasted; that the new and rediscovered histories are accessible and shared. So, if you are a Wiltshire or Swindon based history society or community group which has carried out First World War research please do get think about depositing a copy of your research with us at the Wiltshire and Swindon History Centre.
Heritage Education Officer
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In The Field: Conversations With Our Contributors–Kathleen Coskran
1. Tell us about your fiction piece in Volume 20. How did it come to be?
When I was teaching at Hamline in 1994, Jimmy––an inmate at Oak Park Heights Maximum security prison––took two classes from me, one in the MALS (Master of Arts of Liberal Studies) program and the MFA core class which I co-taught with Quay Grigg. Each week we taped the class, mailed him the tape, and then he called one of us from the Education Director’s office. Quay and I visited him in the spring of 1995 and then my husband and I started visiting him every six weeks or so. We became friends. Years later, when he was at USP (United States Prison) Coleman in Coleman, Florida, he told me that he had been feeding the gulls. The guards weren’t happy about it and told him to stop because the gulls were pooping (he used another word) on their cars. Then, all the inmates began feeding the gulls. He laughed and laughed when he told me. It is my practice to write a quick, flash fiction story every morning, so it is not surprising that soon after, the image of a convict feeding the gulls appeared, but with what I believe was the true inspiration for Jimmy feeding those birds, the yearning to be connected to something on the outside, to be over that wall and free.
2. What was an early experience that led to you becoming a writer?
I don’t think there was any single experience. I was a voracious reader as a child and particularly skilled (or should I say distracted?) as a daydreamer with stories always unfolding in my head. I lulled myself to sleep each night by telling myself a story (in which I was usually the central character). Also, I was and am quite shy and writing comes more easily to me than talking.
3. How has writing shaped your life?
I don’t know that writing shapes my life as much as it informs it. Writing is a way for me to discover what I am thinking, what I am wondering about, what I am interested in. That said, you would think that I would have stacks of journals, but I am not really much good at writing in a journal; my real life isn’t that interesting. That is why I started writing quick little stories first thing every morning, just making something up quickly without much, if any, forethought or planning. I love the surprise and the discovery of those stories, people and events that didn’t exist moments earlier until I started writing.
4. What books, writers, art, or artists inspire you and your work?
I like writers who cherish language and take me to worlds I’ve never known. Louise Erdrich inspires me just now. She is so prolific, such a beautiful writer, and writes about people and stories that I could never imagine, but who I know are part of Minnesota and thus part of my life. I am awed by Marilynne Robinson‘s use of language and depth of character. She writes of extraordinary people in ordinary situations, which, perhaps means that we are all extraordinary in some way.
5. What projects or pieces are you working on right now?
I am writing a book about Jimmy, the inmate who inspired “Gull Man,” telling his story against the backdrop of our broken criminal justice system. It is my first venture into nonfiction, and for me, much more challenging––I can’t just make it up! His is a long and complicated story beginning with his detention as a juvenile at age 13 for skipping school and running away from home. When he was sentenced, the judge said, “Now you will learn how to behave.” What he learned was how to be a tough guy, how to fight in order to survive the extraordinarily difficult and dangerous environment of juvenile detention in the 1970s. He called it “gladiator school” and that is indeed what the juvie system at that time turned out, young men groomed for conflict without any mediating influences, without anybody who believed in them as worthy human beings. In 1982 he was sentenced to 80 years without benefit of pardon, parole or commutation of sentence for a robbery of a deli with a fake gun in which nobody was hurt. His lawyer was disbarred a few months later for incompetence. Jimmy has repeatedly tried to appeal the sentence based on numerous errors committed at the original trial, but…it’s complicated. That’s my project now: following one man’s forty-five year journey through the morass of what we call justice in the United States has been both informative and discouraging.

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The Ruger LCP Custom is a giant improvement and a great shooting pistol
By Bob Campbell,
This handgun represents an improvement of an existing handgun. The Ruger LCP has been a successful pistol and the newest version, the LCP Custom with improved sights and vastly improved trigger action, is easily the best choice in the LCP line up. After a modest break-in period, the Ruger LCP has given good results.
New .380 ACP pistols are probably responsible for the ammunition shortage in .380 ACP caliber. I hope folks actually practice with the pistols; many handguns sit in the dresser or safe and are not fired past the initial familiarization. But a box of ammunition with each new gun is significant. My friends at the gun shops tell us that it is more likely to see customers purchase two to four boxes of ammunition with the new pistol these days. We hope they are firing this ammunition—not hoarding it! I have used the Ruger LCP and found it reliable and useful for personal defense at close range. The Ruger Custom is plainly and demonstrably the more useful pistol for personal defense. With a $389 MSRP, the LCP custom is more expensive than the base LCP but well worth the upgrade.
Ruger has offered a number of limited editions in the past, but for the most part they are simply a different finish or some type of logo. The new pistol features a vastly improved trigger similar to the RTK types many of us added to the original LCP, but in this case the trigger design is considerably different as well. The Ruger remains a compact package with dimensions of 5.32 x 3.8 inches and it is only .8 inch thick. The sights and trigger action are the primarily improvements. The frame is polymer. The trigger breaks at a smooth 7.25 lbs. with little take up and no creep or backlash. The recoil spring is tight, even stiff, but this is the price to pay for a small locked breech pistol. The cocking serrations are well designed. The pistol uses a Browning type magazine release and does not lock open on the last shot. The magazine holds six rounds. The sights are very effective. The new sights are raised higher on the slide but more importantly, they offer a good sight picture.
I experienced the benefit during the firing test. Rather than more or less hitting the center of the target at 10 yards I was able to produce excellent accuracy and a respectable group. Good sights are important on any handgun and may be even more important on a light pistol. After all, accuracy is critical and what power the pistol has must be delivered accurately. As one shooter pointed out, as a trainer they will never be the person to tell a judge they taught a student to fire the handgun without using the sights! The visible rear notch and front post of the Ruger are a big help in accurate fire.
The new Ruger is one quarter ounce heavier than the older version. The pistol is supplied with a single magazine. Adding another from Cheaperthandirt.com added $22.62 to the cost of the pistol. A pistol really should be supplied with a spare magazine. During the initial firing test I fired the pistol with three different loads. These included the Sig Sauer Elite 100-grain FMJ load, using a copper plated lead bullet, the HRP 90-grain JHP, and the Winchester 95-grain FMJ load, each in a fifty round box.
I fired the pistol as quickly as possible at a man-sized silhouette target from Birchwood Casey at 21 feet. Combat style shooting, paying attention to the sights, results in good groups. The pistol was accurate enough to keep the shots in the X-ring. I experienced a failure to go into battery during the first magazine of ammunition. Checking the lube again and paying attention to the grip, I experienced a second malfunction with the second magazine load. After these two initial break-in malfunctions, the pistol never repeated this problem.
Care was taken to fire for accuracy and to attempt hostage rescue (head shot) type firing at 21 feet. With concentration the Ruger was capable of minute of cranium accuracy, although this isn’t something I would like to rely upon with this lightweight handgun. Although designed purely for personal defense the Ruger is accurate enough to pop a rodent or reptile at a few yards. The pistol handles well and accuracy is credible. When firing for accuracy the pistol was fired at 21 feet. I often test fire pistols at 25 yards for service pistols, and 15 yards for compacts.
With this light handgun I elected to fire at 7 yards. At 21 feet the Ruger easily delivered 2-inch, 5-shot groups or less with the three types of ammunition. I fired a box of HPR 90-grain JHP ammunition during the test to confirm feed reliability with a JHP bullet. This load not only gave good accuracy it was the single most accurate loading tested.
In summary, the Ruger is reliable, suffering a pair of break-in malfunctions. After the initial failures to go into battery following rounds never failed to feed, chamber fire or eject. The Ruger gets a clean bill of health. It is a gun for shooters.


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Circles and spirals appear beautifully in nature. For Day 21 let’s practice a little bit more color mixing in a fun project that has us working wet into wet with our watercolors.
With a dampened brush dip it into your wet watercolors and then begin to paint concentric circles in layers to experiment with color mixing and blending. Choose anywhere between 3 or more different colors to get the widest range of effects. I like to start with the lightest shade in my palette first and then slowly work in darker hues. Above you can see different examples painted with our Ocean Sediment, Field Sunset and Nisene Wildflower watercolors.
I’ve painted one concentric circle in a series at the bottom of the page above so that you may view what the progression can look like. Add in some sparkle on top and shimmer if you’d like while your paints are still wet for a more varied effect.
Don’t get too caught up in perfection or having your rings be perfectly formed. This beginner series was created and designed to help you gain confidence in connecting with your own personal creative force. Each journal prompt is to take you no more than 5 minutes to complete, so that even the busiest of us can still manage to carve out a little bit of time spent in self care everyday. I believe that individual expression is necessary for a heathy inner relationship and I personally like to nurture these pathways through art and the serene beauty and flow in natural watercolors.
Please remember to tag your posts on Instagram #wildthorneoctober so that you are qualified for entry to our giveaway at the end of the month of art and stationery supplies. I also enjoy admiring the many varied art journals and reshare them in our IG stories so that everyone else can see them as well.
In the evening add a small notation to your positive aspects page. Have you noticed a shift in your thinking since you’ve been doing this daily?

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How to Knit a Buttony Chevron Cuffcomments (5) February 21st, 2014
Buttons can be such a fantastic embellishment to knit items, and I love making cuffs because they are relatively quick and easy and with infinite possibility! With this particular design, the buttons are essential to the functionality of the cuff as well as add a great design element, without which the item would be boring, in my opinion. These chevron cuffs will look very different depending on your choice of yarn, needle size, cast-on stitches, and buttons. Make yours as wide as you want or make a narrow bracelet, and pick any three buttons to adorn it-all the same, or one special one in the middle, small or large, basic or crazy!
- Variegated yarn (or stripe between two or more solids)
- Pair of knitting needles sized for your yarn
- Three buttons
- Needle with an eye big enough for your yarn that will fit through the holes of your buttons
For your yarn, you'll get the best striped look by using a variegated yarn with color sections around a couple feet long, which is like the yarn I used for the orange/yellow/green example. A variegated yarn with super-short color sections (an inch or two), like the narrower example, will not show stripes; a long self-striping type yarn may blend between colors instead of striping, or might leave you with a nearly solid color cuff (depending on the specific yarn and the cuff size). Your other options would be to use two colors, changing between them along one side; three colors, changing at the beginning of every row; or nonrepeating color stripes, weaving in the ends of each color when you're done.
If you're a beginner knitter, don't be scared of this project-you only need to know knit and purl stitches, one kind of increase, and one kind of decrease. The buttonholes are made in the bind-off, so there's nothing special to learn for those.
kfb: Knit into the front of the stitch, then into the back of the same stitch, to increase 1 stitch.
k3tog: Knit 3 stitches together, to decrease 2 stitches.
Once you have your yarn and needles picked out, decide how many stitches you want to cast on. The only requirement is that it's an odd number, but keep in mind when deciding that because of the chevron, the width will be narrower than you might expect. For my wider orange/yellow/green example, I cast on 17 stitches; my narrower variegated version used 13. Both were knit on size 6 needles with worsted-weight yarn (though the narrow one used a super-stretchy yarn, which is why it's shorter for the same wrist size).
Cast on an odd number of stitches with your favorite cast-on method.
Determine x whichever way is easiest for you:
- Count in from the two ends of your cast-on row until there are 3 stitches in the exact middle-the number of stitches you counted in is x.
- Or use this formula: (cast-on stitches – 3)/2 = x
x-1 = y
Pattern row (all right-side rows): kfb, knit y, k3tog, knit y to last 1 stitch, kfb.
Wrong-side rows: purl across.
Repeat these two rows until the cuff fits around your wrist. Bind off on a right-side row-the bind-off will create the buttonholes.
Knit 1 stitch, pull that stitch out into a larger loop (large enough to fit around the button you want to use), knit the second stitch normally, and pull the first stitch over the second like a normal bind-off. Continue with a normal bind-off until the stitch on your right-hand needle is the stitch to the right of the chevron center-pull this stitch extra large as you did with the first before binding it off.
Continue to the end, and do the same for the second-to-last stitch, before pulling it over the last stitch. Cut that last stitch and pull it through the buttonhole loop; tie it down and weave in the end.
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Today.Az » Society » Azerbaijanis living abroad face problems regarding visa to Azerbaijan
22 July 2009 [15:01] - Today.Az
Day.Az has received a letter from a reader which complains of problems related to obtaining visa to Azerbaijan.
The letter says: “Azerbaijanis living abroad face a number of obstacles while coming to Azerbaijan. Visas are not extended which is attributed to the fact that a foreigner can only stay in Azerbaijan for rest or in case of death of a relative or serious illness. Sometimes visas are not extended and fines are imposed.
They offer temporary registration. Then why there is a need for visa? Then they will fine for a expiration of visa in airport. We kindly ask you to learn price on visa for European citizens, particularly Estonian citizens and also how much extending visa costs. Why visas are not extended?”
Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Elkhan Polukhov said if anyone wants to come to Azerbaijan, he/she should have booked accommodation and return ticket.
Besides, there should be other documents to assure the consulate that a person will have an accommodation in Azerbaijan as local bodies hold responsibility for him/her after arrival to the country, Polukhov said.
He said visa for European citizens costs 60 euro.
“If an individual wants to travel to Azerbaijan as a tourist, he/she can apply to a travel agency which will arrange everything including visa at lower prices. If a visa expires, they need to apply to the migration service. It will send relevant letter which may permit them to stay for a longer term. We extend visa based on this letter or migration service itself issues a special certificate which allows to cross the border without extending visa,” Polukhov said.

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A new video shows Beyoncé‘s isolated vocals from her epic Grammys performance at the weekend.
Beyoncé lost out to Adele for Album and Record Of The Year at the Grammys on Sunday night (February 12), but she did deliver a show-stopping performance before winning Best Urban Contemporary Album.
The singer performed ‘Love Drought’ and ‘Sandcastles’ from her 2016 album ‘Lemonade’ while dressed in an outfit that took 50 people a week to make.
Hear Beyonce’s isolated vocals from the performance below:
Beyoncé's isolated vocals from her 2017 #GRAMMYs performance. ? ?
— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@BeyLegion) February 14, 2017
After beating Beyoncé to the two top awards, Adele used her acceptance speech to proclaim her love for the singer and to argue that her album ‘Lemonade’ should have won instead of ’25’.
Later backstage, the British singer told reporters: “I feel like it was [Beyoncé’s] time to win. My view is: what the fuck does she have to do to win Album of the Year?”
The Grammys were widely criticised for awarding Adele the top prizes over Beyoncé, with some viewers arguing that the Grammys has a racial bias.
Grammys boss Neil Portnow has since said: “I don’t think there’s a race problem at all… It’s always hard to create objectivity out of something that’s inherently subjective, which is what art and music is about. We do the best we can.”


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The popular Samsung Galaxy Tab line is getting an update with the new Galaxy Tab 4. There will be three different sizes available, with 7-, 8-, and 10.1-inch WiFi-only models in black or white that will be available for preorder on the 24th, and will officially go on sale May 1. AT&T, Sprint, and Verizon will be offering the 4G LTE versions this summer.
The new Galaxy Tab 4 tablets feature Android 4.4 (KitKat) running on a 1.2 GHz Quad-core processor, as well as dual cameras with HD video capture functionality. The new models also have 1.5 GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, plus microSD storage up to 64GB. Bluetooth 4.0 and USB 2.0 are included, as well as thin bezels and textured backs.
The full suite of Google applications will be included, such as Google+. Google Hangouts, and Google Play. Samsung apps such as MultiWindow and Samsung Kies will be preloaded as well, and ChatOn, Group Play, and Samsung Link will be available as free downloads.
Prices start at $199.99 for the 7.0-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 and range up to $349.99 for the 10.1-inch model. For more information or to place a preorder, visit Samsung.com, Amazon.com, Best Buy, Fry’s, Office Depot, OfficeMax, and TigerDirect.


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Partisan Records is thrilled to announce the signing of Madison, WI’s PHOX. Produced by Brian Joseph at April Base Studio in Eau Claire, WI and mixed by Michael Brauer at Electric Lady in NYC, PHOX’s debut self-titled album, coming in late June 2014, is a school of simple folk-pop songs swimming amidst a chaotic eddy of rock, psychedelia, and soul. PHOX will play songs from their forthcoming debut at festivals and shows throughout the country in the coming months. In addition to select shows at SXSW, the sextet will hit the road with Typhoon this month, with a Laura Mvula tour to follow in April. They can also be seen at major US festivals this summer, including Shaky Knees, Sasquatch, and Newport Folk. The full list of tour dates are below.
When fans sign up for PHOX’s mailing list today, they will get a free download of their Live At iTunes Festival London EP, via Noisetrade — feel free to reach out if you would like a private download or stream.
PHOX is a bunch of friends from the Midwestern circus hamlet, Baraboo, WI, a place where kids often drink poisoned groundwater and become endowed mutants. They make music that straddles Feist and Monty Python.
It was in Baraboo that the six unlikely musicians attended high school together, some playing on the soccer field, others on video production sets. But in a town with a drive-your-tractor-to-school day, they didn’t last.
They did the thing that most people do when they are 18: they fled the coop, each going their separate ways (to film school, cosmetology school, a job with Homeland Security…). But promises were made that couldn’t be kept, and as they fell in unrequited love and lost their respective jobs, in spite of themselves, each simultaneously pulled the ripcord and came home.
The sextet promptly (-ish) got a house together in the Portland of the heartland, Madison, WI. As prolifically documented in their online video series, PHOX rekindled their onetime A/V production house while discovering how to live as a family (i.e. how not to berate each other about the hair in the sink).
After two years of cohabiting, PHOX beheld a demo reel of bedroom-recorded music (and home movies) that made Bon Iver and The Fray recording engineer Brian Joseph blush. Donning his producer’s cape (and occasional lab coat), Joseph cheer-led the band through its debut album at April Base Studios in Eau Claire, WI.
Joseph’s enthusiasm propelled the band through the production of more than a dozen songs that have been swimming in the think tank for two years.
If the goal here is friendship, PHOX is doing quite well. If the chosen path is blue collar pixel-pushing and church camp trust falls, they’re on the way. And if their only coping mechanism is to lay down their arms and, for 30 or 45 minutes a day, shut up and listen to each other, you can’t be too upset.
WATCH: 7-song video EP from 2013 HERE
WATCH: PHOX’s Yours Truly session HERE
LISTEN: “Espeon” in NPR‘s Austin 100 SXSW Mix HERE
PHOX at SXSW
3/13 – KUTX Broadcast @ The Four Seasons – 8:00am
3/13 – ACL’s “Bloody Mary Morning” @ GSD&M – 11:15am
3/14 – BMI Brunch @ The Four Seasons – 10:30am
3/14 – ATC Showcase @ House of Vans / Mohawk – 8:30pm
3/8 – Phoenix, AZ – Last Exit*
3/10 – Dallas, TX – Sons of Hermann Hall*
3/13 – 3/14 – Austin, TX – SXSW
3/15 – New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks*
3/17 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West*
3/18 – Carrboro, NC – Cat’s Cradle*
4/2 – Chicago, IL – Hideout
4/6 – Montreal, QC – La Tulipe^
4/7 – Boston, MA – The Sinclair^
4/8 – Washington, DC – The Hamilton^
4/9 – Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg^
5/9 – 5/10 – Atlanta, GA – Shaky Knees Festival
7/6 – George, WA – Sasquatch Festival
7/25 – Newport, RI – Newport Folk Festival
* denotes w/ Typhoon
^ denotes w/ Laura Mvula
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The collection comprises the papers of Asher Harer, a member of the Socialist Workers Party and Socialist Action, as well as a trade unionist and anti-Vietnam War activist. It includes correspondence, photographs, reports, resolutions, minutes, notes, study guides, flyers, newsletters, leaflets, newspapers and newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks.
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ISLAMABAD: Preparation and also Advancement Priest Asad Umar on Friday said security dangers had boosted in the nation due to resistance by international powers to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) as well as the most up to date situation in Afghanistan.
” Safety and security risk rises,” he claimed in action to a question at a fast called news conference, including that no question growth on CPEC was considered with aversion by large international powers who wished to sow dissension in the nation. The difficulties are also there as a result of the unclear Covering situation. “So there are not just security difficulties, but these go to a raised degree,” he said.
However, Mr Umar claimed, the entire leadership led by the head of state as well as likewise consisting of the military chief as well as other security high-ups had taken reliable steps that had likewise been shown to the Chinese management that had actually revealed self-confidence in the added safety and security arrangements.
Priest asks politicians to be careful while commenting on hallway tasks
In such situations political leaders ought to take care while commenting on CPEC, he stated, adding that there was no bar on objection as well as suggestions but it ought to not be defined like “shut down, completed or destroyed”.
The minister was referring to the monitorings by chairman of the Senate Standing Board on Preparation Salim Mandviwala who recently stated the Chinese ambassador and also companies had whined regarding sluggish pace of service CPEC projects.
Without calling Mr Mandviwala, the minister said he was a skilled person as well as can not be expected of talking irresponsibly however perhaps he had been deceived. He said he expected that the Chinese embassy would likewise be releasing something informative to the media.
Mr Umar denied an understanding that CPEC had been reduced over the past three years as well as declared the major work on the corridor jobs had been finished during the tenure of the present PTI federal government.
In the very first stage of CPEC, power as well as infrastructure were the two significant sectors of focus and also power jobs of 3340MW were finished by the previous federal government, while 5864MW tasks were being completed by the existing government. On top, work with one more 1824MW jobs had likewise been begun just recently as well as these would be completed after the tenure of the present federal government.
In facilities as well as roadway industry, the minister stated, the PML-N federal government had completed 394km-long motorways as well as highways under CPEC, while the present federal government had so far completed 413km of freeways and highways.
He stated the PML-N federal government had totally ignored the western passage that was at the heart of CPEC. He stated Gwadar-Hoshab road was finished by the previous government which had likewise initiated Hakla-D.I. Khan freeway as well as finished 42 percent of job, while the remainder of 56pc was completed by the existing government. Other than these two projects, the previous federal government might not take to initial approval stage any of the roadway projects on the western alignment.
The planning minister said the D.I. Khan-Zhob road (210km) project had actually been authorized as well as a loan application sent while negotiations for the financing remained in procedure. Likewise, the service provider of the Zhob-Quetta road project had been mobilised as well as PC-1 of Quetta-Khuzdar roadway accepted, while funding for this task had actually already been designated in the Public Industry Development Program (PSDP) 2021-22.
Mr Umar said the existing government had finished 67pc service 10km Khuzda-Basima road and also would soon complete the rest of work. Similarly, he said, the 146km Hoshab-Awaran road task had actually likewise been authorized and also the professional had been mobilised. The task is an important part of the CPEC main positioning that connects the port city of Gwadar with Sindh.
“Actually, actual deal with western passage of CPEC has been begun by our [PTI] government,” he said, adding that instead of awaiting the Chinese lendings the government has started service the projects from its own sources under the PSDP.
Additionally, the government is likewise starting work on the connecting roads to the western placement. The Peshawar-D.I. Khan motorway task is among such projects which has actually recently been authorized. Likewise, the 460km Karachi-Quetta-Chaman road task has actually additionally been authorized and among the sections will be completed by the federal government itself while the other areas would be created under the public-private collaboration.
Also, the government has actually likewise accorded approval to various other such projects such as Nokundi-Mashkel road, Mashkel-Panjgur roadway as well as Awaran-Jhal Jhao roadway. The minister said these connecting roadways and the western alignment were being built to take maximum benefit of the chances to be open in Afghanistan after tranquility as well as security prevailed there.
Asad Umar stated that after completion of the very first stage, “we are entering the 2nd but extremely essential stage of CPEC under which investment would certainly pertain to a series of sectors, consisting of industrialisation, farming, livestock, scientific research as well as technology as well as other social sector development markets”. He claimed the here and now federal government had actually also taken 3 industrial zones to operational phase.

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Kolkata: Left Front and Congress members jointly continued their protests inside the assembly on Monday rushing to the well shouting slogans.
The Opposition members today raised their voice against the TET controversy in appoitment of teachers in the primary schools. They started slogan shouting since the start of the question hour and the replies made were drowned by the protesting voices and rushed to the well of the house shouting slogans.
Slogans were also raised against the suspension of Leader of Opposition and Congress member Abdul Mannan from the house. Manan was hospitalised on February 8 after he had taken ill while being evicted by the marshall from the House which witnessed a scuffle between Congress MLAs and security staff.
He was suspended by Speaker Biman Banerjee as he continued his protests against the government for bringing West Bengal Maintenance of Public Order (Amendment) Bill, 2017 and termed it as “black law” while refusing to heed to the Speaker who asked him to wait for discussions on it.


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A prominent physician in Australia – formerly president of the Australian Medical Association and a member of Parliament – has delivered explosive testimony to Parliament, declaring that she and her wife both have been seriously harmed by the COVID-19 vaccines.
Dr. Kerryn Phelps further contends the true rate of adverse events is much higher than the medical establishment and media are acknowledging, because of underreporting and “threats” from medical regulators, reports Australia’s News.au.com.
“This is an issue that I have witnessed first-hand with my wife who suffered a severe neurological reaction to her first Pfizer vaccine within minutes, including burning face and gums, paraesthesia, and numb hands and feet, while under observation by myself, another doctor and a registered nurse at the time of immunization,” Phelps, 65, told Parliament’s Long Covid inquiry
She continues “to observe the devastating effects a year-and-a-half later with the addition of fatigue and additional neurological symptoms including nerve pains, altered sense of smell, visual disturbance and musculoskeletal inflammation.”
Phelps said the “diagnosis and causation has been confirmed by several specialists who have told me that they have seen ‘a lot’ of patients in a similar situation.”
Phelps said her wife, Jackie Stricker-Phelps, “asked me to include her story to raise awareness for others.”
Censoring public discussion
The physician said she has spoken with colleagues “who have themselves experienced a serious and persistent adverse event.”
But “vaccine injury is a subject that few in the medical profession have wanted to talk about.”
“Regulators of the medical profession have censored public discussion about adverse events following immunization, with threats to doctors not to make any public statements about anything that ‘might undermine the government’s vaccine rollout’ or risk suspension or loss of their registration,” said Phelps.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency warned in 2021 that anyone who sought to “undermine” the national COVID vaccine rollout could face deregistration or even prosecution.
Last week, a member of the British Parliament alleged in a speech at the House of Commons that a senior member of the British Heart Foundation covered up a report showing the COVID-19 vaccine increases inflammation of the heart arteries.
The MP called for a suspension of the shots, as have prominent cardiologists such as the U.K.’s Dr. Aseem Malhotra, Dr. Ross Walker of Australia and Dr. Peter McCullough of the United States, who believes the best explanation for the “sudden and unexpected” deaths and cardiac events in otherwise healthy people is the COVID-19 vaccines.
‘If only she had listened’
Phelps herself, until now, was a passionate advocate for the government’s official COVID narrative.
Craig Kelly, who also is a former member of the Australian Parliament, reacted to Phelps’ testimony, wrote on Twitter, “IF ONLY SHE’D LISTENED.”
Kelly said Phelps “accused me of spreading ‘conspiracy theories’ when I tried to warn that the evidence showed the ‘safe & effective’ narrative peddled by Big Pharma was a lie.”
Malhotra, one of Britain’s best known physicians, also was an enthusiastic supporter of the COVID vaccine. He explained that it was the sudden death of his very fit and healthy 73-year-old vaccinated father in July 2021 that prompted him to investigate.
A Twitter user in Australia who describes himself as a former pharmaceutical executive, documented Phelps’ former advocacy for COVID vaccination.
He informed people outside Australia that Phelps’ change of mind and her testimony is a “pretty big deal.”
‘Never followed up’
Phelps said she and Stricker-Phelps did a lot of “homework before having the vaccine, particularly about choice of vaccine at the time.”
When they asked about adverse side effects, she said they were told “the worst thing that could happen would be anaphylaxis.”
And, said Phelps, they were told severe reactions such as myocarditis and pericarditis were “rare.”
Phelps said she was also diagnosed with a vaccine injury from her second dose of Pfizer in July 2021.
The diagnosis and causation was confirmed by specialist colleagues, she emphasized, through a “CT pulmonary angiogram, ECG, blood tests, cardiac echogram, transthoracic cardiac stress echo, Holter monitor, blood pressure monitoring and autonomic testing.”
“In my case the injury resulted in dysautonomia with intermittent fevers and cardiovascular implications including breathlessness, inappropriate sinus tachycardia and blood pressure fluctuations,” Phelps testified.
Phelps said both reactions were reported to the Therapeutic Goods Administration, but the agency “never followed up.”
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- ‘Scared for my life’: O’Keefe reveals courageous Pfizer whistleblowerThe industry insider who was key to undercover videos by James O’Keefe that exposed a Pfizer company executive claiming his organization was mutating COVID-19 in order to sell more shots says that “fear” is what is being used to control people.
It is disturbing the number of medical professionals that only come to believe these things after it has happened to them, or someone they love. Their lack of curiosity and courage is what has been most disturbing. They have harmed their own standing by following the money instead of the science. Fortunately, there were medical professionals that did stand up to the lies. They were unfairly punished, but they can still be found. The Great Barrington Declaration was signed by thousands of these professionals.
Dr Kerryn Phelps castigated Craig Kelly and anyone who earned the label mis/dis-informant or vaccine hesitant. She and her partner (wife) chose to get jabbed. Then they both suffered from adverse effects. Suddenly there was a 180 degree turnaround, and Dr Phelps wants everyone to know that the mRNA immunomodulating gene vaccines do indeed pose serious risks.
Are we supposed to be impressed? Someone with medical qualifications must surely have critical thinking skills. What happened there?
Whilst her courage to go public deserves recognition, it is deplorable that she had to personally experience adverse events before admitting that the mRNA jabs are neither “safe” nor “effective”. Many ethical clinicians and scientists have raised these facts since the early days the scam-plandemic.
Learn critical thinking skills Dr Phelps. Most importantly, line up all your facts before unthinkingly criticizing others who raise legitimate concerns!
Spot on as usual, Sylvia. I have been saying this for 3 years now. Where has critical thinking gone? People do what the media tells them to- why? Yesterday I was so saddened to see a person walking down the street completely alone.. wearing a mask. Why? Because the media has told this person there is this danger in the air. No thinking no questioning.. just head nodding and doing as told. Its very very sad.
So great to interact with people like you, whose awareness, objectivity, rationality, open mindedness, and critical thinking skills are on 24/7.
Mark Twain aptly deduced that:
“It is easier to fool people than to make them believe that they have been fooled”.
It describes the scam-plandemic strategy perfectly.

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This week, we reported on the bombshell news that former longtime Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg finally delivered his under-oath testimony in a Manhattan court, where he officially turned on the entire Trump family.
In his bombshell under-oath testimony, Allen Weisselberg — who has enjoyed a decades-long relationship with the Trump family on both a professional and personal level — officially implicated not only scandal-ridden former President Donald J. Trump but his two eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump as well, in a massive, long-running tax evasion and fraud scheme.
According to reporting from the Washington Post, even Weisselberg himself fully recognized what he’s done, as he reportedly grew teary-eyed in the courtroom, as he told the court of the ways Donald J. Trump illegally dodged his tax obligations before taking office as the president of the United States.
Trump hasn’t taken well to the news of Weisselberg’s brutally damning testimony, but that hasn’t stopped the CFO’s testimony from getting worse and worse for the former president and his family.
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Bombshell new reporting from the New York Post confirms that Allen Weisselberg testified in the Manhattan trial and revealed that Donald Trump’s eldest two sons, Eric and Don Jr., at one point discovered that Weisselberg was implementing shady and unlawful tax tricks to cook the books for the family company. However, the two Trump children did not demote, terminate, or punish the chief financial officer upon their discovery of shady practices — but rather gave him a stunning $200,000 raise.
Priscilla DeGregory and Khristina Narizhnaya with the New York Post report:
Eric and Donald Trump Jr. in 2017 learned Weisselberg, 75, and two other top execs had been getting cushy perks that they didn’t report on their taxes — yet nobody was penalized, Weisselberg testified at the Manhattan Supreme Court tax fraud trial against the Trump Org. The sons learned of the tax cheating during a ‘cleanup process’ the company underwent with tax auditors when Trump took office as president, Weisselberg said.”
“When prosecutor Susan Hoffinger asked the longtime chief financial officer if the Trump Org demoted or punished him in light of the discovery, he said no,” the brutal report goes on to read. “‘Were you in fact given a raise … that totaled approximately $200,000?’ Hoffinger asked. ‘Correct,’ Weisselberg replied on his final day of testimony.”
Weisselberg has long been considered the most devout, most loyal member of the Trump Organization, and it was pretty widely accepted that he would go down with the sinking ship before turning on the family that essentially made him who he is today. But it didn’t go down that way in the end…
Allen Weisselberg ultimately accepted a plea deal wtih prosecutors to earlier this year, as the one individual with the most unfettered access to the Trump Organization’s entire financial operations, and admitted that he accepted a staggering $1.7 million in non-monetary benefits from the Trump family company as a way of evading tax responsiblities for the ex-president’s business.
Weisselberg’s damning testimony was part of a plea deal made with Manhattan prosecutors that will allow him to serve only a 5 month prison sentence for his tax crimes. The CFO’s testimony has already exposed a series of explosive, never-before-known details regarding the inner workings of the Trump Organization — including damning implications against Trump and his children, including the revelation that Donald himself “authorized” the schemes and tricks, the revelation that Weisselberg was never truly fired from the company and instead remained on the Trump Organization payroll and continued to implement these schemes despite the company’s public claims that they severed ties with the CFO, and the bombshell revelation that these schemes continued up until pretty much the moment Donald Trump took office in 2017 and the legal scrutiny of his business practices began.
Read the full report from the New York Post here.
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Registration required The content you have requested is available only to registered visitors. Sound System Equipment — Part 7: Please complete the short form 60268- all fields are required. Whereas loudspeakers are tested in open air, a headphone or earphone must be presented with an acoustic load that simulates the human ear.
The standard itself is a lengthy document, 9 Sections and 3 Annexes covering 46 printed pages. Calibrate the microphones per the instructions in the SoundCheck manual. A series of post processing steps calculates the attenuation curves, their average values and shows them on the final display. Headphones and earphones Status: Figure 1a and b: The primary difference in the test set up between a loudspeaker and a headphone measurement is in the way in which the transducer interacts with the microphone.
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Irkutsk Governor suspected Chinese growers of involvement in the poisoning of children in the region
The Ministry of agriculture of the Irkutsk region will verify the quality and legality of the vegetable production in the region. This instruction was given on October 10 meeting of heads of greenhouses JSC “Iskra” Governor Sergey Levchenko, reports the official portal of the Irkutsk region.
Instructions Levchenko was preceded by a complaint of the General Director of the farm, Hopes Litvintseva on artificially low prices for vegetables manufacturers from China. Answering the complaint, Levchenko hinted at a possible output connection of the Chinese with the frequent cases of intestinal poisoning in the region.
As explained by the head of “Sparks” in the markets of Irkutsk there was a cabbage for the price of 3.5 rubles per kg, and Chinese vegetable growers significantly reduce the price of potatoes and other vegetables. With such prices no one farm in the region that works legally, employs workers and pays taxes, to compete in the cost of vegetables can not. So, due to the underestimation of the price of competitors in the “Spark” forced to reduce the price of your vegetables. For example, cabbage, which the household planned to sell for 10 rubles per kilogram, the wholesaler has to give for the price of five rubles per kilogram, according to “Baikal info”.
“We are not opposed to competition in the market and worked out cheaper products, another thing is that when checking grown produce often identified unknown substances not included in the prohibited list. Here we regularly erupt here and there of intestinal infections, poisoning. There are other violations. All these activities need to check,” said the Governor.
We will remind, in July-August in the Irkutsk region there was a mass poisoning of children in Cheremkhovo psychoneurological boarding school. All suffered more than 40 children, four died. The incident was prosecuted. Chief physician cheremkhovskaya hospital fired the Director of the orphanage removed from office. The boarding school closed the children transferred to other institutions.
In September and October with an intestinal infection was hospitalized pupils of two schools in Osinsky district. In early October the mayoralty of Irkutsk has closed four of the kindergarten, which registered 68 cases of intestinal infection among the inmates, reported IA “Teleinform”.


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The prosecution in the corruption trial of KwaZulu-Natal businessman Lucky Moloi and his four co-accused received a tongue lashing on Monday after the start of the trial was delayed again.
The five appeared briefly in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court yesterday when the case was adjourned to March 11 next year and set down for a week.
Magistrate Jaco Jordaan expressed his unhappiness with the delay.
“This is unacceptable,” he said, adding that the delays cost the accused a lot of money because they had to retain counsel.
State prosecutor Bulelwa Vimbani, who took over the case from Rema Mahabeer, who has since resigned, said the trial was due to have begun yesterday.
However, a misunderstanding between the prosecutor’s office and the defence had resulted in senior counsel for the defence committing themselves to other trial matters under the misconception that the trial was not starting.
Defence advocate Siphiwe Moloi submitted that prosecutor Sasha Jacobs had communicated to them that the trial would not be starting yesterday.
Jordaan lambasted Jacobs for taking “unilateral decisions” and described her conduct as out of line.
Moloi appeared alongside his alleged cohorts, former bodyguard Thembinkosi Xaba, former Msunduzi deputy mayor Alpha Shelembe, his wife, Joyful Shelembe, and his sister, Nelisiwe Shelembe.
A sixth accused, Neville Watts, a former estate agent, made a secret appearance in a Durban court earlier this year. He pleaded guilty and indicated he was prepared to give evidence for the prosecution.
Watts was fined R50 000, half of which was suspended, and sentenced to a period of correctional supervision.
Another accused, former Msunduzi councillor, Themba Zungu, has died.
The accused are charged with colluding to persuade the uMgungundlovu District Municipality to buy the MIB Building in Langalibalele Street in 2003 at the inflated price of R6 850 000.
The State alleges that Watts, Zungu and Alpha Shelembe shared a R1 million “commission” between them.
The other accused are alleged to have helped launder the money to conceal its origin.
The property in question was bought by the district municipality for office and parking space.


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- It’s still all to play for in UEFA Europa League (UEL) Group F at the half-way stage, with all four sides remaining locked on four points apiece with respective records of: W1, D1, L1. Drawing after racing into a two-goal lead last time out in Europe against Midtjylland was disappointing for Arne Slot’s Feyenoord , but they did bounce back with a 2-0 domestic win against FC Twente to remain within touching distance of the Eredivisie leaders.
- Feyenoord could have had this group almost wrapped up by now after hitting the highest number of goals across all eight UEL groups (ten), yet that just goes to show that the main area for improvement is their porous backline. Even so, anything other than a positive result for Feyenoord would come as a shock, with the Rotterdammers scoring 3.3 goals per-match on average across a ten-match unbeaten run in European home encounters (W9, D1).
- The draw between these sides last week extended Midtjylland’s unwanted winless record against Dutch opposition (D1, L4), although a 1-0 Danish Superliga win against AGF over the weekend may serve to boost confidence. In stark contrast to Feyenoord’s continental home form, Midtjylland have won just once across their last 13 European away trips within 90 minutes (D5, L7), which hints towards a one-sided affair here.
- That record perhaps looks slightly more impressive when considering only Midtjylland’s away games in the UEL proper (W2, D1, L5). If they can improve that with a historic first win in the Netherlands, the Danish cup holders will match their UEL points haul from their first ever group stage appearance of 2015/16 when they finished second behind the current Serie A leaders, Napoli.
- Players to watch: Orkun Kökçü has scored in the five minutes preceding half-time in Feyenoord’s last two games, but only three of his last six scoring games ended in victory. Trying to outdo him, Midtjylland’s Anders Dreyer has scored the match winner in their last two victories and formerly plied his trade in the Eredivisie with Heerenveen.
- Hot streak: None of Feyenoord’s last eight competitive games produced a goalless first half.

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Welcome to the website of the Silk Street Swing Band. We are a sharply dressed, sensibly priced, professional jazz swing band for hire. We’ve helped bring countless weddings, corporate events and parties to life with our sophisticated jazz sound and swing band music and we’d love to do the same for you.
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With a vast list of songs on our repertoire covering a wide range of jazz styles, we have an extensive list of songs to choose from. So whether you are looking for a traditional 1920’s jazz band to serenade you at your wedding or a rat-pack band to hire for your upcoming party, we have something for everyone. Silk Street Swing will cover all the classic swing hits including songs by Dean Martin, Bobby Darrin, Nat King Cole & Frank Sinatra.
We also love to perform modern swing classics from the likes of Michael Bublé, Jamie Cullum and Robbie Williams. If you are looking to hire a talented Swing Band then we have a choice of carefully constructed bands to enhance and add that finishing touch to your special day. Low-key or big party? Consider it done.
Our choice of line-ups can be specifically tailored for and intimate gigs through to party foreground entertainment, and even somewhere in between! With solo options right through to six performers and a full cabaret show, if you are looking for party ideas or a swing band for hire, then we are the jazz band to book.
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Nike steps the retro ’90s vibes up to 100 with the NIKE AIR MORE UPTEMPO 96 LONDON, PARIS, & MILAN.
This bold, in-your-face silhouette has been tapped for several new colourways in recent history, and this time around The Swoosh is representing for Europe. First up is the luxury-looking black and gold Paris edition, sat alongside the green, white, and red of the Italian flag on the Milan pair. The final colourway in the pack belongs to London, with a multicolour smoke cloud pattern across the entire shoe. Each silhouette has its chosen city embroidered on the heel.
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Keystone Agricultural Producers (KAP) and the Manitoba Young Farmers (MYF) program have announced that the 2021 Manitoba Young Farmers Conference will take place virtually next Thursday, March 4, 2021.
The event will focus on strategies for improving profitability without increasing farm size. Through expert presentations, participants will explore how to make data-driven decisions, improve efficiency, and add value to their farm.
KAP program manager Thea Green says young farmers need strategies and tools to remain competitive in an evolving global marketplace, "Providing practical learning opportunities to improve on-farm practices will help young farmers thrive during uncertain times."
A virtual platform will enable MYF to host industry experts, hold interactive workshops, and share farm tour videos. The platform also encourages participants to visit and network, with a social section available throughout the event.
The event is free for everyone, with a focus on farmers ages 18-40.
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When Black singer Marian Anderson was barred from performing in Washington by the Daughters of the Revolution – her Lincoln Memorial performance made her an icon of the Civil Rights Movement.
Hidden Figures shines a light on influential Americans who’s stories don’t usually make it into the textbooks – from the “Robin Hood of Harlem” to the greatest athlete of the 20th century.
By day he worked as an iron merchant – but by night, Thomas Garrett helped thousands escape slavery as a station master on the Underground Railroad.
Written over 25 years, Martha Moore Ballard’s diary gives us a unique perspective into the midwifery profession, and the lives of women in the newly independent United States of America.
In the 1960s, Black schoolgirl Ruby Bridges and White teacher Barbara Henry showed America the true power of racial integration in the classroom.
The brains behind the political slogan “Yes we can!”, Mexican-American labor leader Dolores Huerta fought for the rights of immigrant workers in the 1960s.
Thurgood Marshall, the most successful civil rights lawyer of all time and America’s first Supreme court Justice, was instrumental in the fight for equality in the United States.
In 1993, Ellen Ochoa wrote her name in the stars – as the first Hispanic woman to enter orbit. She continues to inspire generations of aspiring astronauts today.
Was Josefa Segovia – the first and only woman hanged in the state of California – killed for her actions or her race? And what can we learn from her tragic story?
Stephen H. Long mapped much of the unexplored American West – but he made one big mistake that set Western migration back decades.
In a world dominated by mainly caucasian dancers, Native American Maria Tallchief overcame discrimination to become the United States’ first prima ballerina.

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Pepsi and Coke have been battling it out for years, but lately Coke has surged ahead. Which is why Pepsi is seriously rethinking its strategy for 2012, and there's a lot of pressure on its CEO, Indra Nooyi, to change her vision, reports Mike Esterl at the Wall Street Journal.
When Nooyi came on board in 2006, she pushed to break into the snack food business, especially healthy foods, with acquisitions like its $5 billion purchase of Russia's Wimm-Bill-Dann Dairy and Juice Co.
But investors are saying Nooyi has been too focused on doubling the company's revenue from healthy products, when it should have been focused most exclusively on gaining an edge over Coke. This is interesting, because there's been a huge health food trend in the past decade. Though none of Pepsi's products are as high-profile as its namesake brand.
Some analysts are saying the company should split up like Kraft, which spun its grocery business in August. It's also possible that the company will cut thousands of jobs; and it will pour around $500 million into advertising its soft drinks in North America.

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text: Jewel Quest is an arcade game on www.flash-game.net in which you try to make the space of the interface turn gold to gain as many points as you can. You are now request to form matches of 3 in-a-row by swapping 2 adjacent relics. Spaces turn to gold when relics are matched. You should map your progress through 180 challenging puzzles, and you will encounter buried relics, cursed items, and mind-boggling boards. When you clear one stage, the teeth of the sculpture beside the pane will turn gold too and at last it turns gold all. And take care of the time bar at the bottom or you may face an intense status as it may go faster and faster after you clear stages. Have fun!


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The End Of The World
By Russell T. Davies
Reviewed By Paul Bowler
"You think it'll last forever, people and cars and concrete, but it won't. One day it's all gone. Even the sky. My planet's gone. It's dead. It burned like the Earth. It's just rocks and dust before it's time."
The Doctor and Rose travel to a space station 5 billion years in the future, where the Earth is about to be destroyed by the sun. A number of alien guests have been specially invited to Platform One to watch the planets final moments. While the Doctor and Rose mingle with the guests, robotic spiders begin to infiltrate the station, killing members of crew and hacking into the computer systems.
While Rose struggles to cope with her new surroundings, the Doctor teams up with one of the alien guests, Jabe from the Forest of Cheem, to uncover who is trying to destroy Platform One. They later discover that the robotic spiders are being controlled by Lady Cassandra, the last human, a woman who has had so much cosmetic surgery she is now little more than a stretched out sheet of skin held together by a metal frame. She is driven by greed and vanity to fund her operations, and intends to take over everyone’s investments after the station burns.
As the shields begin to fail, the Doctor and Jabe attempt to restart the computer systems, but they only have a few minutes left before the sun destroys the Earth and Platform One. In order to help the Doctor get past the giant blades that block their path, Jabe holds down the lever to slow the fans, but the extreme heat causes her wooden body to catch fire, and she is killed.
The Doctor manages to get past the last fan and restart the stations systems, and raises the shields just as the Earth is blasted to pieces by the sun. After being reunited with Rose, the Doctor uses Lady Cassandra’s teleportation device to bring her back to the station, but without her guards to moisturise her, she begins to dry out. Cassandra begs the Doctor for mercy, even Rose asks him to help, but instead he stands back and lets Cassandra explode.
Rose watches as the shattered remnants of the Earth tumble past the observation window, she is sad by her world’s demise, so the Doctor takes her back to the present day in the TARDIS, where they arrive in the middle of a bustling street. The Doctor finally tells her that he is a Time Lord, explaining how his world burned in a war, and that he is now the last of his people. Rose tells him he still has her, before leading the Doctor away to buy him some chips.
Written by Russell T Davies and directed by Euros Lyn, The End of the World was the second episode in the new 2005 series of Doctor Who. Boasting some incredible CGI special effects, this first season episode also introduces a wealth of alien species: ranging from the blue skinned Moxx of Balhoon, the mysterious Adhernets of the Repeated Meme, and the bizarre Face of Boe. The evil Lady Cassandra voiced by Zoe Wanamaker, is a brilliant villain. Her flesh is now stretched so tightly in its frame that she needs to be constantly moisturised to preserve her looks. Jabe is another superb character, originating from the Forest of Cheem, she is intrigued by the Doctor and Rose and forms a close bond with the Time Lord over the course of the story.
The special effects in The End of the World are really impressive, especially the scenes with Platform One orbiting the Earth as is faces destruction, and then later when the sun filters begin to fail. Rose also becomes trapped in one of the room when the filter malfunctions, and the Doctor has to race against time to save her. The robotic spiders that Cassandra uses to take over Platform One are also highly effective, and Cassandra’s stretched skin and pulsating veins is another example of this episodes impressive visual effect.
Christopher Eccleston is great as the 9th Doctor; his incarnation of the Time Lord is a troubled soul who is still recovering from the aftermath of the Time War. At first he seems to be overcompensating, to a degree where he is almost showing off, as he delights in introducing Rose to all the different alien guests on the station. He also grows very close to Jabe (Yasmin Bannerman), they have some great scenes together, and she later makes the ultimate sacrifice to save Platform One.
Billie Piper is very good in this story as well as Rose finds herself overwhelmed by her surrounding and all the strange aliens she encounters. She also argues with the Doctor because he keeps evading her questions about his identity, and afterwards the Doctor adapts Rose’s mobile phone so she can call home and talk to her mum.
The End of the World sets up many of the new elements of the new series, as well as including some vital information for new viewers who might not have been overly familiar with Doctor Who. This is the first adventure in the new series to be set in the future, the psychic paper is also used for the first time to help the Doctor and Rose fake their credential, we learn of the Time War and how the Doctor is now the last of the Time Lords, and the Doctor also explains to Rose how the TARDIS can telepathically translate any language into English for them.
Although the crisis on the station is resolved quiet simply, and the way the 9th Doctor refuses to help Cassandra seems a bit ruthless, The End of the World concludes with a brilliantly emotional coda where the Doctor finally opens up to Rose and explains who he really is. This poignant moment is perfectly played by Christopher Eccelston and Billie Piper, its a brilliant scene, and the way they smell fast food and suddenly want chips provides a great end to this exciting episode.


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One of Jazz composer and pianist Thelonious Monk’s most revered ballads, ‘Round Midnight will be interpreted in spectacular style by Bay Area guitarist and composer John Schott and an all-star group of musicians in a continuous eight-hour exegesis, June 4 from 9:00 p.m. – 5:30 a.m. PT. The concert will be performed live in San Francisco at Light Rail Studios and streamed online as the centerpiece of DAWN, a bold reimagining of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot by Reboot. Tickets for the in person event are $36 and include two drink tickets with a taco truck dinner and treats throughout the night.
John Schott (b. 1966) is a Bay Area guitarist and composer known for his diverse ensembles, including the Actual Trio, the Typical Orchestra, Dream Kitchen, and Ensemble Diglossia. He has long standing collaborations with Ben Goldberg, Cecilia Engelhart, the Rova Sax Quartet, and producers Lee Townsend and Hans Wendl. He has also recorded with John Zorn and Tom Waits, composed for dance and theatre productions, and taught at UC Berkeley. His music reflects eclectic influences: Arnold Schoenberg, Thelonious Monk, Muddy Waters, ragtime, and Ornette Coleman.


Fishers resident Mike Kole made a decision that, by his own admission, is going to earn him extra scrutiny.
Kole recently endorsed reorganization for Fall Creek Township and the Town of Fishers.
Unlike a string of endorsements touted by the Citizens to Reorganize Fishers political action committee, Kole is one of the original plaintiffs on lawsuits that tried to compel the town council to put a city question on the ballot, as well as called reorganization into question.
“My perspective wasn’t enthusiastically City Yes,” Kole told Current in Fishers. “It was let the people decide.”
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Seascape painting of Priory Bay Beach, Isle of Wight ( SOLD)
£30.00 – £125.00
This limited edition giclee print is of a sold abstract seascape painting of Priory Beach on the Isle of Wight. I spent a weeks holiday there in August 2019 and absolute loved the beach particularly the neutral tones and couldn’t wait to get back and paint the scenes. I even ordered the paints online so I could get straight onto it. Other sizes are available and similar commissions are welcome. Contact me if you would like more information.
Seascape painting of Priory Bay Beach, Isle of Wight is available as a Giclee Print
The original seascape painting of Priory Bay Beach has sold however it is available to buy as an limited edition giclee print. It is printed locally by STR Design and Print and can be ordered in a variety of sizes to suit you. The print is created using Epson archival pigmented inks printed onto heavyweight matt 230gsm paper. The print is accompanied by a genuine signed certificate of authenticity by artist Jo Sharpe. Jo is very happy to discuss framing options with you.
Inspired to paint a seascape Priory Bay Beach, Isle of Wight
I holidayed close to Priory Bay Beach on the north east coast of Isle of Wight in August 2019. It is one of the quieter beaches on the island and joins onto Seaview beach. I found the beach so inspiring as the colours changed depending on the time of day. Sometimes the sea was a pale blue and sometimes it appeared white. The light reflecting on the water in the sunlight often made the beach looked silver . I could not wait to paint it, thus ordered my paints online so I was able to paint as soon as I returned.
I love painting seascapes so if you have a favourite beach you would like to be painted, why not commission me? To find out more https://www.jo-sharpe.co.uk/commission-an-artwork/
Mixed Media Technique
This seascape painting of Priory Bay beach was produced by mixing medias such as oil pastels, wax and acrylics. It works well especially when trying to imitate water. I enjoy creating different surface pattern textures. It is one of my idiosyncrasies. I learnt to do this on my printed textile degree course at Bretton Hall College an affiliate of Leeds University. If you are interested in learning this technique I run a mixed media art workshop in September from my studio in Oaks Park called Art in the Park.
20x20cm print, 30x30cm print, 40x40cm print, 80x80cm canvas print


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Loved ones of Alzheimer’s patients may experience different emotional reactions dependent on their racial and ethnic backgrounds, according to new research from the University of Michigan. The study, led by James McNally of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, found significant differences among blacks, whites, and Hispanics in terms of both grieving and caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s disease is unique, according to McNally, because loved ones often begin the grieving process long before the person’s actual physical death. This is due to the debilitating aspects of this disease, which can cause patients to be emotionally and mentally absent prior to their bodies shutting down.
Previous research has focused on emotional response and grieving based on gender and relationship to the patient, but this is the first study to look into racial and ethnic differences. This insight is valuable, because it allows advocacy groups and other caregiver resources to tailor support services to a family’s individual needs, resulting in better outcomes.
There are a few key findings from the study:
- Whites and Hispanics are three to five times more likely to report a sense of relief following a loved one’s death.
- Whites are two times more likely to experience emotional acceptance at a loved one’s death.
- White caregivers are more likely than both blacks or Hispanics to report feelings of anger towards a deceased loved one. Hispanics are least likely to report these emotions.
The study accounted for variations based on gender and relationship to the patient, but still found significant differences between ethnic groups. Findings also concurred with previous related research. For example, Hispanic families have been found to have a tight family support network, consistent with current findings that Hispanics are less likely to accept a death and least likely to experience feelings of anger towards the deceased. Also, research shows that blacks tend to have more stressors in their lives than other ethnic groups, fitting with this study’s findings that blacks don’t tend to experience emotional relief following a loved one’s death.
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