Do we concertina the World Championships to semis and finals?
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A handbag shaped like a concertina also caught her eye.
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This wee apple, can't you see Around the concertina spree?
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The expanded mission would involve the installation of 160 miles of concertina wire atop existing border fences, NBC reports, similar to concertina wire installed at U.S. ports of entry in Texas, Arizona and California.
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Rolls of razor concertina wire wrap some of its outer walls.
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Tthe Concertronica is a modified version of a folk classic, the concertina.
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Jil Sander went even more minimal, with a concertina-style tan number.
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Checkpoints began appearing with increasing frequency, surrounded by brambles of concertina wire.
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Graphic: here At one barricade, concertina wire had been strung across the road.
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"Currently, there are no plans to remove the concertina wire," the statement said.
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The troops have spent the ensuing weeks mainly putting up miles of concertina wire.
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The white cloth, once freshly ironed, bears the trace of a concertina of folds.
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Instruments used in musical performances include the accordion-like concertina and a hammered dulcimer.
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While some troops have been bracing for conflict, others are still running concertina wire.
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"Maybe one day there will finally be concertina wire over everything," Mr. Endicott said.
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Arrows point us backwards and forwards; options concertina out of menus with just a click.
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Their duties will include mobile surveillance and putting up 28500 more miles of concertina wire.
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"Is Nogales being used as their concertina poster city?" the mayor asked at the meeting.
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That includes military planes to transport Border Patrol staff and setting up additional concertina wire.
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A double line of concertina wire separated me from what seemed like hundreds of prisoners.
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Likewise, the police found vines twisted around the area where the concertina wire was missing.
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"At places, they have blocked the main roads with steel barricades and concertina wire," he said.
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US military troops install concertina wire along the banks of the Rio Grande in Laredo, Texas.
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The desert tan flatbed trucks at the base are for hauling concertina wire, not food runs.
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The request for an extension also came with a request for another 22019 miles of concertina wire.
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As part of that deployment, troops are placing 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry.
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Some of the additional troops will also string up 150 more miles of concertina wire by March 31.
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They moved concertina wire aside while another Marine called in a mass casualty to the Army surgical team.
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Concertina wire spiraled over the American side of the border crossing leading from downtown Tijuana to San Ysidro, Calif.
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The remainder, to include military engineers tasked with putting up concertina wire, will be deployed from Kansas and Georgia.
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That's in part because DHS recently had the military drape the fence in concertina razor wire, which has been controversial.
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In December, after placing concertina wire at points deemed especially vulnerable to illegal crossings, around 3,600 troops were sent home.
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In that same investigation, a Marine allegedly was thrown into concertina wire during a Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation exercise.
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But the warlike posture on the border has intensified recently, as the troops set up base camps with concertina wire.
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India has erected a forbidding barrier of concertina wire along the thousands of miles of border between the two countries.
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At the DMZ, across snarls of concertina wire, we gazed upon the police state that South Korea might have become.
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For days, members of the caravan have watched soldiers standing around while construction crews topped the border fence with concertina wire.
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The US military has placed concertina wire and repaired some fencing along the southern border using pre-existing funds and authorities.
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These concertina fold-out books are displayed to great effect here, outstretched and casting a pleasing zigzag shadow on their plinths.
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There is already enough concertina wire at the border to cover 21 miles, O'Shaughnessy said, with another 21 miles worth available.
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The additional troops will be used to install concertina wire and provide more surveillance of the border area, Mr. Shanahan said.
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"Most recently DHS has asked us to support them in [installing] additional concertina wire and then expanded surveillance capability," Shanahan told reporters.
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U.S. military duties on the border, including stringing up concertina wire and building temporary housing, have been aimed at supporting CBP personnel.
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Others are crossing through fences, despite the addition of concertina wire along much of the border last fall by deployed US military.
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Officials said there was little engineering work to do for the troops, who have already strung concertina wire to bolster border crossings.
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Going forward, climate change will displace millions — and there is no concertina wire strong enough to hold back multitudes desperate to survive.
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"Short term, get the obstacles in," Mr. Mattis replied, apparently referring to concertina wire that troops are stringing up along the border.
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There, surrounded by sagebrush scrub and crowned in concertina wire, was the Adelanto Detention Facility, the nation's largest prison for adult immigrants.
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The duo will bring their talents, their comic personas and their saxophone and concertina to the summer's final performance in Circus Afloat!
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Instead, their mission is to lend support to the CBP, and they have been stringing up concertina wire and erecting temporary housing.
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The chain-link border fence, fortified by layers of concertina wire, is also being fitted with underground sensors, solar night lights and cameras.
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The dwelling design is inspired by Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes: lightweight, inflatable modular structures that can be connected by flexible concertina-style corridors.
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Soldiers from the 22006th Military Police Battalion and the 22008st Engineer Company from Fort Riley, Kansas, string concertina wire near the Mexican border.
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Mohsen Amini plays the concertina in the band but spends his free time experimenting with technology like multi-sample pads with expression pedals.
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The border mission includes mobile surveillance capability as well as the emplacement of approximately 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry.
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In response, the staff built 10-foot concrete walls topped with concertina wire, and made sure the enclosures were guarded round-the-clock.
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The 5,900 troops have spent the past three weeks stringing concertina wire and living in forward operating bases near the border with Mexico.
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He said the troops would deploy with 153 miles of concertina wire and would have 150 more miles of the razor-sharp material available.
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Not only is it the size and color of a blue whale, it has more than seven screens, gull-wing doors and concertina steps.
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But the Palestinian man perched in a gap in the concertina wire that tops much of the snaking 400-mile route of the wall.
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By February, concertina wire covered the wall from top to bottom, and the Nogales City Council passed a unanimous resolution calling for its removal.
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Now they're laying concertina wire when they're not twiddling their thumbs, and Trump has pretty much stopped mentioning the supposed enemy heading their way.
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Tasks performed by US troops have included hardening of border positions, placing concertina wire, operating mobile surveillance vehicles and the painting of border barriers.
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Photos from the bridge between El Paso and Juarez, Mexico, also known as the Santa Fe Bridge, showed police standing behind barriers and concertina wire.
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Around 250 worshippers packed the pews for a Good Friday mass at the Catholic church fortified with concrete blast walls, concertina wire and armed policemen.
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"Book Number 83" (1981), fanned open in a vitrine, is bound with an unsupported concertina that allows the pages to remain attached and fan outward.
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A few of the tire shops on East Erie Avenue were still open; plastic bags fluttered in the sagging concertina wire that lined the tracks.
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This season saw model Anna Ewers open the show in a navy knitted minidress with knit leg warmers, a concertina bag, and a naval cap.
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A former monastery on a hilltop, it would resemble a high school campus were it not for the rings of concertina wire that surround it.
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She said being at the museum, about an hour's drive from the concrete and concertina wire of Rikers, made her feel a little more normal.
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Concertina wire was spooled along its top, but it appeared someone had snipped away a small portion, creating a gap large enough to climb through.
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The American officers also saw members of the group try "to lift toddler-sized children up and over the concertina wire," dangerously so, it said.
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The Nogales City Council passed a resolution Wednesday condemning the concertina wire installed within the small border town's city limits, according to the Associated Press.
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Asylum seekers at the San Ysidro pedestrian walkway won't see much of the concertina wire, the stringing of which has been the troops' most visible responsibility.
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They sleep in hundreds of little brightly colored tents that have popped up on fields along the border, now demarcated by a double concertina wire fence.
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The military's task so far has largely been to put up concertina wire in border areas of California, Arizona and Texas the administration said needed fortification.
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He added that he wept after being shown a piece of concertina wire from a border along Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, which borders Morocco.
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For Gabriel's 13 year-old son Shyne, the tall, brown-eyed man behind the glass, iron, concrete, and concertina wire of Calipatria State Prison is dad.
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The military has also brought "critical material" including concertina wire "to cover up to 22 miles" and additional wire they can string for over 150 miles.
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In her concertina sketchbook series, she draws the fair's other attendees in fold-out A2139 notebooks, as they inspect weapons of mass destruction and guzzle champagne.
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That support includes a mobile surveillance capability through the end of September 2019 as well as placing 150 miles of concertina wire between ports of entry.
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Police and troops, many wearing heavy riot gear, dotted silent streets where checkpoints had been added around midnight, with more concertina wire laid out to create barricades.
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And while Special Forces units are based around the world, Delta has a single headquarters in a compound ringed with concertina wire at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
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Only months later, as I watched images of the concertina wire proliferating on my social-media feeds, did I finally understand what those ladders had been for.
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The troops are spread across a constellation of small bases where they spent the initial weeks of their deployment setting up concertina wire and other security barriers.
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At its peak, some 5,900 troops were part of the border mission, which has involved surveillance, aviation support and the placement of concertina wire between ports of entry.
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Danger emanated not only from the sky but also from the concertina-wire-crowned berms and highway checkpoints ringing the town—areas under the control of Al Qaeda.
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The military has also brought "critical material" including concertina wire "to cover up to 22 miles" and additional wire they can string for over 150 miles, O'Shaughnessy said.
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The medical tent is outfitted for handling all manner of injuries, but there's been nothing much besides mosquito bites and scrapes from the concertina wire they're putting up.
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He said he wept after a Spanish journalist showed him a piece of concertina wire from the border of Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta, which borders Morocco.
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Waiting for our ride at the end of one workday, I noticed them staring at a plastic bag snagged in the concertina wire above an old military gate.
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Shanahan said the upcoming increase in troops would help the Department of Homeland Security meet its goals of stringing up more concertina wire and expanding surveillance at the border.
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A large proportion of the media released by the US military and featured prominently in news coverage around the world showed soldiers stringing up concertina wire along the border.
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While the troops in Texas have largely been tasked with reinforcing border crossing points, largely with concertina wire, Mattis suggested that the deployment serves as a valuable training opportunity.
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" Rapuano added that there are certain functions that only military personnel should perform, including monitoring sensors, barrier construction and hanging concertina wire, "for which we do have ready capabilities.
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Early Tuesday, as migrants gathered at the border fence there, several teenagers with heavy jackets, blankets and rubber mats tried to cross or cover concertina wire at the barrier.
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It remains unclear how the attackers infiltrated the fortified base, which has a 24-km (15-mile) perimeter surrounded by a 3-metre (10-foot) wall topped with concertina wire.
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Last week CNN reported that the US troops on the Texas border with Mexico were close to finishing their assigned task of reinforcing border crossing points, largely with concertina wire.
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The agency added that teenagers wrapped in heavy padding went over the fence's concertina wire, stating that the group also unsuccessfully attempted to transfer "toddler sized children" over the barrier.
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For the first five days after the government's move, parts of Srinagar had been turned into a fortress, blanketed with armed paramilitary and rolls of concertina wire blocking main streets.
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It is expected that the military assistance would almost entirely involve laying additional concertina wire as it has done in the past during the early weeks of the military deployment.
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And if I can find a teacher with a flexible schedule, I hope to learn a new instrument, preferably the bandoneon, a kind of concertina featured in Argentine tango music.
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In the run-up to the 2018 midterm elections, the administration deployed more than 5,000 troops to the border, and more recently, aviation support and assistance with installing concertina wire.
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There, a soldier asked him if the troops would need to remove the hundreds of miles of concertina wire that they had strung up in the weeks before his arrival.
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At its peak, some 5,900 trooped were there as part of the border mission, which has involved surveillance, aviation support and the placement of concertina wire between ports of entry.
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It remains unclear exactly how the attackers infiltrated the fortified base, which has a 24-km (15-mile) perimeter surrounded by a 3-metre (10-foot) wall topped with concertina wire.
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"The bottom line is he misjudged it, he hit the back of Seb, that concertina-ed into Daniel and that was pretty much the end of our afternoon," Horner said then.
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Next to her stall, a narrow alleyway edged by concertina wire led to the modest house where Mr. Weah was raised by his grandmother, which is now occupied by other tenants.
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Washington (CNN)The approximately 1,300 US troops on the Texas southern border are expected to finish their assigned task of reinforcing border crossing points, largely with concertina wire, in the coming days.
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The Homeland Security Department also requested 146 mobile surveillance vehicles to be sent to four border states, along with enough personnel and material to install 150 additional miles of barbed concertina wire.
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In parts of the city where deployment was thin most of this week, armed paramilitary patrols returned to the streets in large numbers, manning checkpoints made with concertina wire and metal barricades.
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The firm, which employs 45 people, specialises in plastic coating, such as the concertina-shaped covers that go round vehicle gear shift sticks, and puts the plastic hand grips on metal pliers.
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His Hot Ingo earrings feature a 3-D printed polyamide spiral that the wearer can stretch, concertina-style, along a gold or silver rod or compress to create a tight ball shape.
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Well, it turns out that "dis" is many things: slapstick, juggling, magic, bubble sculptures, audience participation, and saxophone and concertina renditions of works by such disparate composers as Brahms and Irving Berlin.
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On Tuesday, CNN reported that the US troops on the Texas southern border were expected to finish their assigned task of reinforcing border crossing points, largely with concertina wire, in the coming days.
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The Department of Homeland Security has reportedly requested an additional deployment of U.S. troops to the border with Mexico to install concertina wire atop existing border fencing, adding months to the military's deployment.
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We're laying down another 140 miles of concertina wire — [we're] about 30 percent done with that — as well as providing a ground-based detection and monitoring mission in support of [Customs and Border Protection].
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The roughly 5,900 American troops on the border are spread between southwestern Texas and Southern California in a constellation of small bases where they have helped set up concertina wire and other security barriers.
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He plays here with a different group, featuring Miguel Zenón on alto saxophone; Seamus Blake on tenor saxophone; Tirman Deus on bandoneon, an Argentine concertina; Matt Pavolka on bass; and Rodrigo Recabarren on drums.
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US Customs and Border Protection "has requested that an additional 150 miles of concertina wire be emplaced no later than March 31," Rood and the Director of Operations for the Joint Staff Vice Adm.
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And even now, with the ban on hold, these children will have to find a way to cross into the US illegally — over newly mounted concertina wire — if they want a shot at asylum.
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What became known as the English Folk-Song Revival was ushered in by accident when, in 1899, a conductor named Cecil Sharp chanced upon some Morris dancers accompanied by a concertina-player and was entranced.
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That puts the force, known as the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), in an invidious position as it mans the concertina-wire barricades in the main city of Srinagar and elsewhere in Muslim-majority Kashmir.
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"Are we trying to send the message by having people in the open air, behind concertina wire and barbed wire and fencing with reporters allowed to go up and transmit these images," he told VICE News.
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Indian troops have erected iron barricades and laid concertina wire in parts of the region to block roads, with armed soldiers in full riot gear patrolling the streets to prevent any protests, a government official said.
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Nearly 6,19903 active-duty troops remain deployed from the Gulf Coast to Southern California, where they are putting up tents and stringing concertina wire to face a ragtag band that is still not near the border.
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The concertina wire that encircles the walls gives the compound a cagelike feeling, but the barriers are meant to keep intruders from getting in as much as they are intended to keep inmates from getting out.
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Defense officials said at a news briefing that the total size of the U.S. deployment of troops to the southern border would reach 6900,2628 by March 28503, with 22019 miles of additional concertina wire to be installed.
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Contractors worked on the steel border fence that reaches across the beach and into the Pacific Ocean, unfurling concertina wire along the top of the barrier and across the sand while American military police officers looked on.
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"There's a 20-foot-tall wall along the border, we've got concertina wire stretched across it now, but nothing is going to stop the faith of a child and her Christmas wishes," Heiss told the TV station.
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Mattis highlighted that last point, telling troops their efforts to put in concertina wire along the US-Mexico border will help ensure a safe distance between migrants and Border Patrol on the off-chance the situation turns violent.
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For nearly a month, the primary job of those troops has been to string concertina wire along hundreds of miles on the border to prevent migrants from crossing into the United States anywhere but official ports of entry.
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The Pentagon says there are no plans for U.S. forces to interact with migrants and that they have been carrying out support tasks for CBP, like stringing up concertina wire and building temporary housing for themselves and CBP personnel.
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The Pentagon says there are no plans for U.S. forces to interact with migrants and that they have been carrying out support tasks for CBP, like stringing up concertina wire and building temporary housing for themselves and CBP personnel.
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A CitiBike station abuts the back wall; a retail mall has sprung up around it, and the Nu Hotel, across the street, offers a great view of the concertina wire, along with a bar in the lobby called Misdemeanor.
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The troops, who are prevented by the Posse Comitatus Act from engaging in law enforcement activities within the country, had been spread across small bases where they spent the initial weeks setting up concertina wire and other security barriers.
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Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan accepted the support request, and now US service members will transition from "hardening ports of entry to mobile surveillance and detection, as well as concertina wire emplacement between ports of entry," the statement reads.
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Concertina wire that was installed under the Trump administration last year to reinforce southern border barriers is being stolen and repurposed by homeowners in Tijuana, Mexico, for protection amid a crime surge in the city, The San Diego Union-Tribune reports.
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The duties of the troops so far has largely been to "harden" 2628 points of entry, which Rood said entailed putting up 28503 miles of concertina wire on top of existing barrier and creating barriers other ways including with shipping containers.
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The Army is setting up another outpost in an abandoned furniture store in nearby Weslaco and is eyeing a spot in Brownsville — all in an effort to shore up the entry points with, so far, hundreds of miles of concertina wire.
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Instead of football with their families on this Veterans Day weekend, soldiers with the 1.23th Engineer Battalion, fresh from Fort Knox, Ky., were painstakingly webbing concertina wire on the banks of the Rio Grande, just beneath the McAllen-Hidalgo-Reynosa International Bridge.
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The Pentagon says there are no plans for U.S. forces to interact with migrants and that they had been carrying out support tasks for U.S. Customs and Border (CBP), such as stringing up concertina wire and building temporary housing for themselves and CBP personnel.
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What the videos don't show is that those who made it through that fence — a barrier constructed of corrugated aluminum used for temporary landing strips during the Vietnam War and topped with concertina wire — were stopped by another newer and taller barrier that wasn't breached.
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Asked about the extension last week, Mattis said he would likely grant it, but noted that many of the troops had completed the tasks for which they were deployed, especially those involved in placing concertina wire, concrete barriers and other fortifications at border crossing points.
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Last week, CBP said in a press release it was taking security measures to ensure that the port of entry was "not overrun," including the deployment of "Connex containers, K-Rails and several spools of Concertina Wire (c-wire)," CBP said in a release.
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The White House and homeland security officials have been pushing the Pentagon to continue to use military troops at the border — mainly to install, extend and repair a section of concertina wire used to stop immigrants from entering unmanned sections of the southwest border.
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If Trump were interested in facts rather rabble-rousing mendacity and the theatrical stringing of concertina wire by military forces needlessly dispatched to the border, he might note the following: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — not Mexico — are now the overwhelming source of northward migration.
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Inside a canvas Quonset hut, one of the arced prefabricated structures used by the military and surrounded by concertina wire, Trump received operational briefs from U.S. commanders suggesting a territorial victory against Islamic State was within sight, but the military needed just a bit more time, U.S. officials said.
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But being scrupulously selective about asylum requests does not mean we should be firing tear gas at families at the border, wastefully deploying troops to string concertina wire as cameras roll, ignoring our historical role as a haven for the persecuted or manufacturing a crisis for political purposes.
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As of last Friday, roughly one-fifth of the more than 600 photos and videos on the Pentagon's media site related to the deployment showed US troops looking at, pointing at, transporting, stringing up, or taking inventory of coils of concertina wire at a few border crossings in Texas and Arizona.
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Related: 'These crossings are nothing but fatal,' the tale of one rescuer and one desperate day at sea Visitors climb out of the boat only to weave through concertina wire and fences, a claustrophobic enclosure simulating how refugees and migrants are kept out of countries or held in crowded detention camps.
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What that means is that a generation of soldiers with more battlefield experience than any since World War II is getting back to basics: learning how to cook their own meals, cover their faces in camouflage paint, dig foxholes and latrines, lay concertina wire and live out of their rucksacks.
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Urban chain-link is meant to deter migrants on foot; an array of metal and concrete "vehicle barriers" have been strung in remote areas; and stretches of concertina wire are used to fill in gaps where there are no permanent structures and on top of structures where there are some.
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American troops he dispatched to the border on the eve of the midterm congressional elections as part of what the president called an effort to head off a migrant "invasion" have put up concertina wire along existing fences and barriers, but the administration has yet to spend much of the $1.3 billion Congress approved for border security last year.
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As the VC did venture into Tam Ky for a few hours in the middle of the night every few months, he strongly recommended that I stay in the United States Agency for International Development compound, which was surrounded by a high wall, protected by land mines and concertina wire and guarded 24 hours a day.
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"[The Department of Defense] is transitioning its support at the southwestern border from hardening ports of entry to mobile surveillance and detection, as well as concertina wire emplacement between ports of entry," the Pentagon said in a statement, according to the AP. The troops will reportedly operate security cameras, lay down wire and fly aircraft in order to support Customs and Border Protection.
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The codex, they argue, simply cannot be the handiwork of a mid-20th-century forger (or, more reasonably, a team of forgers) because its maker had to have access to the right amount of amatl, a paper made from the inner bark of fig trees — which was pre-Hispanic in origin — and know how to properly glue and bind the material into a concertina format.
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Today, rather than encourage the American people toward affirmatively broad forms of human cooperation — nationally and internationally — Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE discovers safety in a "beautiful" barrier wall of steel slats and concertina wire.
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Hokusai: Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, compactly presented in a handsome slipcase, opens up like a nigh-on infinitely expandable concertina of a book, in wave after wave after wave of images of daily life as it proceeded in the eye of that dreamily cloud-wreathed sacred mountain: a junk converted into a home is moored amongst reeds; a woman with her babe in the shadow of a lumber yard takes time out to admire smoke wisps encircling the snowcap… This magnificent suite of woodblock prints feels as homey as it is exalted.
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