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There are no reeds, and there's no air going through vibrating reeds to make a sound.
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There were more reeds and water lilies, and more mosquitoes.
MORRISTOWN Reeds, Rhythm and All That Brass, with Bill Brandon.
Spend $250 or more at Reeds Jewelers, get $50 back.
The Reeds lived most of the year in Greenwich, Conn.
The charred reeds are mixed with water and rice husks.
It is played by the wind like a thousand reeds.
The Reeds have an armory that would make the NRA proud.
Saleh and his friend started hacking through the reeds with machetes.
Along its banks a frothy white scum pushes against the reeds.
Before this, buildings were made from wood, mud brick, and reeds.
But the bundled reeds that kept the craft afloat became waterlogged.
It brims with aquatic plants and is lined with reeds and willows.
Wild Reeds is a new band we all really liked as well.
I'd almost expect to see one in the reeds by a lake.
Another angler perched within the reeds suggested that Morgan was too late.
A car is parked in front of reeds in Florina, in northern Greece.
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"The photograph shows a worker making straw from the reeds for a living."
Her brother in Miami sends her clarinet reeds, but she cannot visit him.
And when the Reeds invited him back the next year, he happily agreed.
Bacalar's name is thought to come from the Mayan "Bakhalal," meaning place of reeds.
Meanwhile, NEMA is encouraging innovative packaging schemes utilizing sisal, water hyacinth and papyrus reeds.
They turned over rocks, combed through reeds, and plunged into the muck looking for critters.
Others, meanwhile, though this could be the perfect time for the Reeds to get involved.
"Reed River" 20143, in the museum's courtyard, includes over 200 bamboo reeds and Kentucky bluegrass.
The most recent recording from his "Strategy" series features blood-soaked reeds on its cover.
These were thin reeds to grasp, of course, but they were gripped all the same.
His flashlight rolled with them, plucking amphibious red and yellow eyes out of the reeds.
In other words, I could not take it to a park to clear bamboo and reeds.
They spend their days working—mostly herding and milking buffalo, collecting reeds to sell, and fishing.
Why do we build the tent and light the fire while Bran talks to the Reeds?
Just beyond the reeds were some nesting geese, and they had no time for young love.
Now, police say Laster, the Reeds' grandson, is being held on two counts of first-degree murder.
It'd be a shame if, after everything, that was the last we ever saw of the Reeds.
The canals pulled in salt water, and, as the salinity rose, the reeds and marsh grasses died.
Frantically, I searched the water while my father, chuckling, crept through the reeds, pole at the ready.
Yet woodwinds hint at Arab reeds and exotic dances, music the pilgrim has encountered on his travels.
With an expanded ensemble — percussion, guitar, bass, reeds and voice — he summons a dreamy but vigilant journey.
Along with those reeds and drumsticks, there's a good amount of cabling and even more THC-related products.
It also features a loop made from a Cornish fisherman weaving a traditional lobster pot out of reeds.
For those grasping for new signs of humility, generosity and depth, Mr. Trump offered the thinnest of reeds.
The metal fireplace screen was made by the sculptor Brian Russell and designed to resemble reeds in water.
We made our way southwest along the lake and through tall reeds bordering the inlet in the dark.
The other swallows things completely, leaving them to grasp at reeds as the water closes above their head.
After pulling on his white pastor's robe, Mr. Dixon grabbed a box of saxophone reeds and his microphone.
Bunches of reeds are dried on stones, then heated on a slow fire for up to three days.
They rose then from beneath the tree and went away into the reeds like animals of the place.
The papyrus reeds are used for roofing and making handicrafts such as mats and baskets, which local people sell.
The photo, widely shared on social media, shows the pair face down in the reeds by the river bank.
That has created more demand for their baskets, and so the women have planted more reeds to meet that.
About 25 officers from the park service used machetes to clear the reeds at the crime scene on Thursday.
"I have to go through a half a box of reeds before I find one I like," he said.
A photo of the two drowned migrants caught them face-down in the reeds of the river's trash-strewn shore.
Reeds have grown back over much of the landfill, and Nanhui Dongtan has become a major stopover for migratory birds.
For those interested in wearable diamonds, Reeds sells round diamond solitaire earrings mounted in 14k white gold, currently for $1,599.95.
Then the preparers would dry or smoke the flesh, clean the bones and reinforce the skeleton using reeds and clay.
Two elderly cryptid hunters put the protagonist on the case to find something that lives in the reeds around Martinaise.
Hell, even Woody Allen probably needed to be told where to go to buy the best turtlenecks and clarinet reeds.
There is a sniper in the reeds just to the right of the birch tree at the edge of the grass.
Nishimura's Shifting Views (2013) turns her own photo of a Canadian mountain into a multidimensional garden of black and white reeds.
Budding from a rectangular soil bed, the delicate reeds convey new life and sway like bunches of goldenrod in the wind.
My LIX 3D Printing pen was sucking in reeds of filament and spitting out hot, soft-ish material from the tip.
Freeways are nice, but if you have to redirect down a puddled two-lane road between tall reeds that's fine, too.
The lake used to give the islanders everything: they ate from it, drank from it, and built houses from its reeds.
"If UNICEF had rented me a pirogue with a motor, I could have avoided the hippos and the reeds," he said.
To this day, the indigenous Uros people of Peru and Bolivia live on manmade islands constructed from reeds on Lake Titicaca.
Galway's charm was immediately evident as I walked along the canals of the River Corrib, past chirping birds and tall reeds.
The original plan called for the use of herbicides to kill the reeds, which were to be replaced with native plants.
It is springtime: The trees are a profound, almost bluish emerald; the first reeds are beginning to sprout in the river.
His 1971 piece, Void, presents viewers with a passageway made from two dozen columns of ceiling-height reeds covered in plaster.
Their mud-walled hut with its roof of reeds and old sacks allows daylight to stream in, as well the spring rains.
The outermost wall, at 80 feet high, was built of hundreds of thousands of bricks bonded together with reeds from the river.
His ensemble Little/Big has Greg Tuohey on guitar, Immanuel Wilkins on reeds, Spencer Murphy on bass and Kush Abadey on drums.
On Thursday, investigators continued to hack through the tall reeds in the Gateway National Recreation Area on the edge of Jamaica Bay.
Golda Solomon, Cheryl Boyce Taylor and E.J. Antonio read their poetry with Kelvyn Bell on guitar and J.D. Parran on multi-reeds.
Stomachs full and bodies hydrated, the musicians tune the reeds on their bagpipes and weave through the restaurant's tables to warm up.
Marushige's chopsticks are made with igusa (soft rush) reeds, the material traditionally used to make tatami, the floor mats found throughout Japan.
Customers will be credited in bitcoin, priced at the U.S. dollar exchange rate at the time of the refund, Reeds' website says.
Annual revenue fell 4% to 311.1 million pounds ($406.20 million), due to closures of the company's Your Move and Reeds Rains branches.
All we know is that he was forced to cut swamp reeds every day, suffered bouts of pneumonia and was occasionally tortured.
The Sumerian civilization (4,000 B.C.) in southern Mesopotamia used hollow reeds or golden tubes to sip beer, bypassing gunk left from fermentation.
Now, though, the creek bed is littered with dead reeds and mussel shells; the surrounding eucalyptus trees are exposed at the roots.
Bran decides not to go to Castle Black, and heads north of the Wall with the Reeds to find the Three-Eyed Raven.
There are even wilder questions surrounding the Reeds' extremely old bloodline, too, with ancestors who allegedly mated with the Children of the Forest.
The hippos were gone, but, during the night, a floating island of reeds and water lilies had blocked the area around his boat.
She and other parents hold children and command them to be silent, hoping that they will be invisible in the water and reeds.
Don't miss Javier S. Medina's atelier on Calle Escorial, where he makes charming vegan hunting trophy heads out of cane, reeds and grasses.
Ms. Thurman doubles as a vocalist and a reeds player, and then she doubles again: She's proficient on both tenor saxophone and flute.
The Sumerian civilization (about 4,000 B.C.) in southern Mesopotamia used hollow reeds or golden tubes to sip beer, bypassing gunk left from fermentation.
One morning, a tapir appeared in the reeds of the nearest islet, and Laureano scrambled after it with a shotgun, returning empty-handed.
Communities in western Kenya historically cut off from the main salt routes have developed a distinctive method for extracting salt from river reeds.
Instead, everything that's happened since last Monday has served as a reminder that the Republican establishment is hanging its fortunes on extremely thin reeds.
"Glasshouse Fiori" — a series of glass reeds, plants, and flowers convincingly interspersed among the flora in a conservatory arcade — is representative in this regard.
The live oaks that gave the village its name ("chêne" means "oak" in French) are giving way to marsh reeds and other estuarine species.
It was on this spot, between the fourth and third millennia BCE, where Sumerians built their houses from reeds, a practice still followed today.
Several hundred people turned out to see Aruquipa, the shaman, set up a small altar of reeds at the edge of the impact zone.
Arundo donax, or giant cane, was deliberately brought to the United States as roofing material and to make reeds for instruments like the clarinet.
In a wet spring, the water'd run clear and high, minnows mouthing the sand and silt, a crawdad shadowed by the shore's long reeds.
Floating masses of reeds and water lilies began to clog the remaining waterways, making it impossible to navigate old trading routes between the islands.
Friends of Ms. Vetrano said she ran frequently with her father along the trail, which is lined by the tall reeds known as phragmites.
Golda Solomon, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, and E. J. Antonio read their poetry with Kelvyn Bell on guitar and J. D. Parran on multi-reeds.
He appears here with the members of his quartet: Scott Robinson on saxophones and reeds, Rufus Reid on bass and Billy Drummond on drums.
Their bodies have come to rest near a river bank where five discarded beer cans and an empty soda bottle sit in the tall reeds.
When stable enough to be moved, it is rubbed down with olive oil and set to age on reeds for a minimum of six months.
Nothing beat the hot outdoor shower just outside the bathroom side door, where bamboo reeds shielded me from all living creatures except the trilling birds.
Bog cotton stood on the reeds in a muddy bay, and there were concrete posts with the word "Water" on them driven into the moor.
Full size accordions can contain up to 500 steel reeds, and a complete tuning can involve filing and shaving each one and then resetting them.
Volunteers on Reeds Beach in Middle Township, N.J., sifted through nets that temporarily trapped shorebirds so that they could be counted, tagged, weighed and measured.
Red clover, reeds and more than 100 other plant species grow, while thousands of birds fly overhead, feeding on the insects and small fish below.
There were also ecstatically piercing, marathon lines coming from Mr. Mitchell's reed instruments, and peppery support from the lower-pitched reeds supervised by Mr. Robinson.
When he starts a fencing group, the children quickly take to it, even as they're stuck with foils made from reeds in a nearby marsh.
His flake, though small, was a practical cutting instrument due to its sharp edges; analysis shows the Iceman used it for cutting soft wood or reeds.
A good way to experience it is right after a massage, which is what I did at The Reeds Salt Spa in Stone Harbor, New Jersey.
They passed the rock quarry on the left, the gray pyramids of limestone and granite, and the iced-over pond in the distance, cowlicked with reeds.
The Starks and Reeds are known to have ancient bloodlines that gave them powers like greenseeing (psychic visions and dreams) and warging (melding mind with animals).
The movement of people and cows had left faint tracks across the islands and through the reeds and lily pads that filled the waterways between them.
CreditCredit REEDS BEACH, N.J. — On a recent spring day at this remote beach, hundreds of shorebirds flapped frantically beneath a net trapping them on the sand.
He parted fields of tall reeds with his fly rod to access these remote corners of the lake, and he found that he was not alone.
And all the fuzzy edges are related to the vegetation around the Hudson and the estuary up the road, where the reeds make the same edges.
But Ms. Avery was concerned about pests in some of the older buildings — at a previous apartment, mice ate the oboe reeds she had labored over.
We kept taking it back to the reeds, and then, when Grace took it to go back with the other ducks, the ducks tried to drown it.
The rescuers described a lifeless scene free of birds and insects, with the forest undergrowth gone, reeds burned in a creek, and hollowed-out trees still smoking.
London residential rents have risen by an average 13 percent each year since 2011, data accurate to December 2015 from lettings agency Your Move & Reeds Rains shows.
For students, the funding shortfall has meant that they often need to provide their own music books and supplies for basic upkeep, such as reeds and rosin.
Each day they fed in nearby fields and returned to sleep in the reeds at night, inevitably drawing the unwanted attention of a falcon looking to hunt.
"I've been playing them all my life," said Mr. Staton, who before starting on Monday night, discarded five different saxophone reeds before selecting one that suited him.
Both Bartrams, the feeling body and the remembering brain, show themselves in his description of a bull gator: Behold him rushing forth from the flags and reeds.
Moses is shown as a small, red-faced, squawking babe of the utmost insignificance who has just been rescued from his fragile wickerwork craft among the reeds.
A lynx watches pensively from the shore; a raccoon gnaws at some unseen feast; and a moose wades into the reeds, the water rippling around its huge form.
By contrast, Lars von Trier, adapting Carl Theodor Dreyer's book, turned Medea into a real swamp witch, setting her domain in a landscapes where swamps and reeds abound.
The thick reeds and vital wetlands around its basin provided vast freshwater reserves, breeding grounds for fish, fertile soil for agriculture, and grasslands where farmers grazed their animals.
" As the sun set beyond a fence of painted bamboo reeds, a breeze picked up and the woman murmured, "This is the wind that will bring the storm.
Braxton, wielding an array of reeds, appeared twice, first with an eleven-piece ensemble and then with a trio (Taylor Ho Bynum, on cornet, and Kyoko Kitamura, vocals).
There is a bow and arrow on the floor by a campfire and reeds that can imaginatively be used to create handmade natural boats to float down the brook.
According to his blog post in a paper-builders forum, Zholner built the entire system from paper and started with only a couple of small paper reeds and pips.
To shoot scenes that felt immersive, the directors drew inspiration from the opening sequence of Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, which lingers over reeds undulating in the currents of a stream.
The push to make the thin remaining reeds of the welfare state — public housing, Medicaid, and food stamps — also tied to work requirements almost seems a natural policy move.
The lake had given Mainakinay and his ancestors everything—they drank from it, bathed in it, fished in it, and wove mats and baskets and huts from its reeds.
The town took its name from a lake that, in 1773, was christened by a Spanish commandant as Los Tules, for the tule reeds that grew along the shore.
There's some differentiation between them — those people that escaped with money can afford mud bricks to build their huts, while others have crafted shelters out of reeds and wood.
In another room, two workers deftly wrapped and hand-tied reeds around wheels of pungent Livarot, the traditional method to help the soft, washed-rind cheese retain its shape.
On "For Fannie Lou Hamer" — with Mr. Parker playing the marimba, glockenspiel and reeds, and leading a full band — Leena Conquest roams from spoken decree to wide, darkened vibrato.
Yet there was no mistaking that this was peatland: Paths submerged into black goop, teams of dragonflies swarmed over the hot water, reeds and forest grew from their depths.
" The poem describes the bird forming its neck into "a question mark" to feed on fish between its motionless legs "that rise like reeds to a distant body above.
The journey was gruelling, she said, but sometimes surprisingly companionable: people occasionally appeared amid the reeds in the countryside and asked if they could join her in the water.
Such hats are usually made from reeds, but his was produced by farmers from bamboo - a gift in gratitude for his help in pulling them out of poverty, he said.
For years his recordings on the Barclay label were of popular tunes and chansons; his producers told him that customers expected only that from his box of bellows and reeds.
The highlight was "Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds," an album recorded with her Black Earth Ensemble, an eight-piece band playing percussion, strings and reeds from traditions across the globe.
Those working in Zildjian's shop produced cymbals for the mehter — monumental ensembles with double reeds, horns, drums and other metallic percussion that belonged to the empire's elite janissary military corps.
Full of risk, they're marshes where islands form out of silt and reeds, drift and then break apart, where the boundaries between land and water can't be drawn for sure.
Would it be better to dive off the path and into the abutting reeds, or would they be pursued, forced to defend themselves against a full-grown, razor-toothed hog?
The village of Thoahnom Payam, where we met Chol and Nuer, is only accessible by traditional dugout canoes, which glide silently between the tall reeds as small, colorful birds fly overhead.
Hidden in the reeds, he told them to leave him there and run away from the marauding fighters, sent by the government's army fighting rebels in the South Sudanese civil war.
Within several hours, officers found Ms. Vetrano's body face down near a trail, with her clothing askew and her fists still clutching the reeds she was dragged into, Mr. Ulrich said.
The well-cast quartet of Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste, Leslie Cuyjet, Jessica Pretty and Tara Aisha Willis cross the stage in jerky or smooth dips that curl their spines into swaying reeds.
No campaign looks good in its dying days, and the end of a long, exhausting primary will leave any candidate angry, emotional, and focused on slights and thin reeds of hope.
In his hands, the accordion seems like some magical music box, but inside it is a complex network of mechanical rods and reeds that can sometimes confound even a trained physicist.
The album finds Triptych Myth — featuring Tom Abbs and bass and the ever-potent Chad Taylor on drums — in tender, slowly mutating dialogue with Cale Brandley, a reeds player and vocalist.
A creek bed of Bob Ross-worthy reeds and cattails are figured in "Spa Night," in which two women in exquisitely stain-painted tie-dye sarongs seem to baptize a third.
The ticket was bought at Reeds Ferry Market, a modest convenience store in Merrimack, N.H. The owner even came out a winner, claiming a $75,000 prize for selling the lucky ducat.
He shares old illustrations of Ohlone men, gliding along the water in long, sporty boats made of reeds, that show off the bay as it was before colonization — lush and nurtured.
He shares old illustrations of Ohlone men, gliding along the water in long, sporty boats made of reeds, that show off the bay as it was before colonization — lush and nurtured.
The response was always to build higher ramparts of mud, rocks and matting of woven reeds until the river ran on its own conveyor belt, sometimes 15 metres above the surrounding countryside.
For his part in this concert, presented by the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, he'll lead a trio with Dwight Andrews on reeds and flutes and Bobby Naughton on vibraphone.
After soaking the reeds for a day or two, O'Sullivan begins her work on the floor, using her knee or foot to hold the rods in places as she creates a base.
That's happening on "Finding Gabriel," a new album laden with political overtones, on which Mehldau plays analog synthesizers as much as the piano, and bedecks himself with reeds or voices or strings.
Morgan Krell, a 17-year-old wearing sunglasses and a cap, approached a dirty pond protected by tall reeds in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens with his fly rod in hand.
As much as the work points to the existence of the viewer, the phenomenal body in space, it summons a feeling of emptiness, of solitude among the clusters of angelic dead reeds.
Let Primitive Technology be your guide:Using just vines, sticks and reeds, the YouTube channel's silent, invariably shirtless host shows us how to make a simple but reliable shrimp trap in the video above.
True to those realms, Stetson's version of the symphony swaps out the dominant strings of Górecki's work for drums, electric guitars, synths, and reeds, locating the project more firmly in his own wheelhouse.
Most of the land they controlled was in remote regions such as the Central Highlands, the Plain of Reeds and other sparsely populated areas like those near the border with Cambodia and Laos.
In Stone Harbor, N.J., rates at the Reeds at Shelter Haven start at $549 a night during high season (from Memorial Day to Labor Day), but spring specials begin at $5003 a night.
Chinampas are floating gardens made from dredged-up black mud slathered on reeds and tree branches once used to produce as many as seven harvests a year for staples like corn and chili peppers.
Austin posts frequently about her partnership with Reeds Jewelers and its diamond-concierge service, which she said sourced diamonds for her and her fiancée that fit with their values of sustainability and social consciousness.
On the last voyage, I drifted towards an obscure mountain between a wall of reeds, which shifted in color from a pale cyan to green, then to yellow, to purple, then finally, cyan again.
Although men and women have different roles within Ma'dan society, traditional female work involved everything from caring for water buffalo and gathering reeds to cultivating rice and bringing handicrafts to sell in city markets.
Quiet old men wearing brim hats were already planted deep within the reeds, holding rods over the water and sitting on plastic buckets in the mud, crushed packets of Chinese cigarettes at their side.
Sara Haq has made dozens of delicate reeds sprout through the wooden floor, in an act of ecological disruption that also has delicate beauty (though its groan-inducing title, "Trans-plant," undercuts its poetry).
The drummer and vibraphonist Kate Gentile has a new album out this month featuring a quartet she calls Mannequins: Jeremy Viner on reeds, Matt Mitchell on piano and electronics, and Adam Hopkins on bass.
A tule boat representing the local Ohlone — the First Peoples of San Francisco Bay — its belly fashioned from reeds gathered in local marshes, was among the last of the flotilla to leave the beach.
Sprawling blue water, small cottages, and green reeds gently swaying in the wind: Travelers who get lost on Riems, a small German island in the Baltic Sea, could easily mistake it for a holiday destination.
Mr. Whalum, a Grammy-winning saxophonist, was so inspired that he plans to write an original score for the Ghetto Classics orchestra, while Mr. Marsalis has donated reeds, which are hard to find in Kenya.
The group — with Chris Speed on reeds, Drew Gress on bass, Matt Moran on vibraphone and Red Wierenga on accordion — draws from a recent album, "Super Petite," on the front end of a monthlong tour.
Angels in rows like reeds still sing the flighthigh in a brownstone gifted with Americanclarity: sun filters through glass saints, strews roses on the nave, and tells of lightforever, as from fields, not cramped backyards.
A centuries-old crown of thorns made from reeds and gold and the tunic worn by Saint Louis, a 13th century king of France, were saved, Notre-Dame's top administrative cleric, Monsignor Patrick Chauvet, said.
In the early hours of Monday morning, rescuers launched dinghies onto chest-high waters, navigating through reeds and trees - where some people perched on branches to escape the water - to rescue those trapped by the flooding.
Its collection spans centuries of European classical music and instruments, with intricately decorated pianos and hundreds of reeds, horns and string instruments, including a 10-foot-tall octobass that is played with the hands and feet.
What struck me as the piece's most significant point, though, is that it's divided twice — once by a painted horizon line, across which the reeds are reflected, and once by the crack between the two canvases.
But the Colorado River — once so overused that it no longer reached the Sea of Cortez — now, thanks to decades of conservation and smart water policies, pushes through a forest of reeds to the sea again.
The largest is a landscape of a pond or lake, its foreground flush with reeds along the bottom of the canvas, while on the far shore, a misty forest rises above the calm, mirror-like water.
By the 1950s, we got the smiling and never-tired Donna Reeds and June Cleavers of black-and-white television: "a fly on the wall, but with the hands to stir coffee," as Ms. Coontz described them.
But this dynamic animates even the stiller works, as in the droopy individual reeds of grass in "Grass and Ferns" (2019), which seem to erupt from the canvas's center like the comet tails of an exploded firework.
"We started using this wetland wisely in order to have a place to dig, to plant Irish potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes and even to get papyrus reeds," said Justus Kamuhanda, chairman of the Mugandu-Buramba Growers' Cooperative Society.
Stepping up on a small stage, you weave between the pieces, some tall and with the shuddering movement of pond reeds in the wind, one with two metal cylinders that clang together with a satisfying, bell-like toll.
Eventually, VanderMeer and his friend decided to stand their ground, hoisting their packs like weapons — but then, the boar veered unexpectedly off the path, crashing through the thick stand of reeds and grasses and vanishing into the marsh.
Suspicious activity would have been noticed, yet I can't help but feel that I could have snuck off into the sticks, built myself a shelter of palm leaves and reeds and lived in it for weeks before being discovered.
Its tiled floor was dazzling, spattered with ruby and emerald and topaz light, beamed through the stained-glass picture panels in the porch door—a heron among green reeds, a kingfisher beside a stream, a swan on its nest.
Reduced to dust and withered reeds when Saddam Hussein drained them to flush out rebels in the 1990s, the wetlands once again buzz with birds, dragonflies and the songs of buffalo-breeders, thanks to the devoted efforts of Iraqi conservationists.
The most commonly used materials are wood (including repurposed chairs), wire, plaster, paper, plastic, reeds, rubber, and paint; Durbin makes occasional use of Plexiglas, silicone, sand, grass, wheat, bamboo, rocks, clay, papier-mâché, foam board, graphite, fabric, monofilament, needles, and clothespins.
The disappearance of fresh water, reeds, and other natural resources not only severely limits the role of women with the Ma'dan society, but Fawzi found that the Ma'dan women were not passing traditional knowledge on to younger generations within the culture.
"Skin picking is a natural grooming behavior that most humans engage in at some point or another," says Sarah Parker, PhD, who is the director and co-founder of The Reeds Center, a treatment center for anxiety, OCD, and related disorders.
A survivor, speaking to The New York Times in 2014, described how he heard a bullet whiz past his head, then played dead in a pile of bodies and hid out for three days among the reeds along the river.
Eight of the dried specimens that Edward gathered are on view here alongside the watercolors that comprise Orra's "Herbarium Parvum, Pictum" ("A Small Herbarium of Paintings"), whose pages contain spindly reeds of Kelly green, and ovate leaves scratched with delicate veining.
One of the things I love about indie bands is how different their approaches are, ranging from practically orchestral (San Fermin) to interplay among equal players (Warpaint, Lone Bellow, Wild Reeds) to bands built around a stunningly talented star (Samantha Fish).
FOR THOUSANDS OF years and still today in many parts of the world, brooms were fashioned at home as needed from whatever brushy stuff was on hand: reeds, sticks or grasses, lashed together, often with a stick pushed into them.
From early on, Mr. Balter said, he was attracted to Pan's complicated story: The demigod makes beautiful music, but on a flute fashioned in anger when the nymph Syrinx is turned into water reeds to protect her from Pan's advances.
Their relationship is founded on an encounter that one of the pair claimed to have as a child: once, vaguely, this thing reared up out of the reeds in front of her, mysteriously wavering in and out of existence before receding.
Pierce, who last year wrote a book, The Wind in the Reeds, about Hurricane Katrina and the recovery of his childhood neighborhood, starred from 2010 to 2013 as trombonist Antoine Batiste in HBO's Treme, which was set in post-Katrina New Orleans.
As one of the Kurds silently rowed the boat away from the looming snow-covered peaks behind them and toward the high reeds on the Syrian side of the river, Taaki was headed into one of the world's most dangerous war zones.
He was a boatman who lived in a riverside hut coated with clay and reeds and made his living by fishing and by taking cows to the islands of the Parana Delta to graze, bringing them back when the tide came in.
In the meantime, I'd already set myself up in a shack made out of reeds and palm leaves, built with help from Rachid, the obsidian-eyed child who had popped out from behind a bramble one day, a huge smile on his face.
Occasionally, in the more exotic reaches of his travels—as in a beautiful view of Ceylon that he painted in the eighteen-seventies—some small note of significant strangeness intrudes, ravishing color and breeze-blown reeds too intense to quite credit as reportage.
Throwing a ticker tape parade that doesn't just fall on the artists—hiking in to backcountry to build a sculpture, or lightning ice on fire, building a surfboard out of Tule reeds and then going out to surf it and so on.
What would have taken him ten minutes out on the street took an hour at least, his feet unsteady in a slurry of mud and trash, stiff dead reeds knifing at him, dogs barking, the drift of people's voices freezing him in place.
MATHIGA, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sheltered by a tarpaulin from the blazing sun, a group of Kenyan women weave handfuls of dried reeds, their practiced hands turning them into exquisite baskets, mats and hats that have been sold to tourists from around the world.
Australian world number one Jason Day opened with a 70 while five-times major winner Phil Mickelson battled to a 75 that included a quadruple-bogey eight at the sixth where he twice failed to dislodge his ball from thick reeds close to water.
They used to work with men in gathering reeds and in fishing, and we would see them in the market when they come and sell their produce, like the fish, and the milk from the buffalo, the cheese and the yogurt that they make.
In "Becalmed" (2017), a persimmon-colored inner tube floats in a lake, and both the toy and the water reflect nearby foliage: In the plastic doughnut, reeds appear as ghostly spindles, while the surface of the lake is splotched with upside-down pine branches.
"And now I'm in a unique niche — not that I planned it that way," said Mr. Lazarov, whose physics background comes in handy, especially when working on the smallest accordion reeds, which are made of steel and can be thinner than a human hair.
At one point, firefighters, policemen and municipal workers formed a human chain to remove the treasures, including a centuries-old crown of thorns made from reeds and gold, and the tunic believed to have been worn by Saint Louis, a 13th century king of France.
His spare black-and-white glimpses of vernacular scenes in the American West are characterized by a wry objectivity: the lone sign for "ice" sticking up in an empty desert landscape, a gabled California bungalow obscured by a lawn of uncut, roof-high reeds.
Mr. Rubio hopes to consolidate much of the vote to try to become the person who can sell himself to voters and donors as the man to stop Mr. Trump, who has run through the reeds of the Republican establishment with a machete in recent days.
Environmentalists are getting worried about the long-term impact to the lake, a popular destination for visitors to the region, who come to see its icy azure waters with their Andean mountain backdrop and traditional communities, some of whom live on manmade islands constructed entirely from reeds.
If not for the overwhelming beauty of Le Boeuf's harmonies and his crafty combinations of reeds and brass, it would be all too easy to grow dizzy while listening to the music of his Assembly of Shadows, a big band that is about to release its debut album.
Located at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, these marshes are undergoing a process of desertification as a result of climate change, with the natural resources the Ma'dan people depend on—such as the reeds used to make their iconic mudhif houses—vanishing along with the water.
Last month she released "Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis," and she will draw upon that disc's material in this concert, where she'll be joined by the multi-instrumentalist Hannah Marcus, the percussionist Ryan Sawyer, the trumpeter and reeds player Matt Lavelle and the guitarist and vocalist Kyp Malone.
But, as CoinDesk points out, some business are beginning to, such as REEDS Jewelers, which has over 60 retail locations in eastern U.S. Speaking of Vegas, the Golden Gates Hotel & Casino there accepts bitcoin payments at their hotels and restaurants but not yet for bets on the casino floor.
As the 100 guests gathered for dinner and the sunset faded to a star-flecked indigo, Tanner the goat was being quietly shepherded down the driveway, heading back to his pasture on a warm, starry night, and the newly married Reeds knew their adventures would continue with the sunrise.
Other items in his ancient tool kit included a small, sharp flake for cutting reeds; an oval-shaped stone called an end-scraper; a jagged-looking rock used for making holes in leather and wood called a borer; and a wooden block with a deer's antler called a retoucher.
A brilliant-green curtain of horsetail reeds and explosion grass, which conjured a tropical downpour, divided the restaurant from the store, where guests — including Laurie Simmons, Lorna Simpson and Prabal Gurung — mingled with Champagne amid urns of wild grasses mixed with Nerine lilies, dill weed and bronze anthurium.
As on her smart, engaging new album, "Otis Was a Polar Bear," she leads Boom Tic Boom, which could safely be described as an all-star team: Myra Melford on piano, Jenny Scheinman on violin, Ben Goldberg on reeds, Todd Sickafoose on bass and Kirk Knuffke on cornet.
He was a bent astronomer, tracing out the circle of time in the singeing stars above the mango trees; the careful stenciller of a flowered window frame, or the planer of a canoe; an egret stalking the reeds, his pen's beak "plucking up wriggling insects/like nouns and gulping them".
As with the original album, a studio full of brass, strings and reeds carry his new music along, and his voice continues to be a preternatural fit with the lush Big Band sound — so much so that you can't help but wonder: Did he make a mistake picking the country genre?
A crash course: "Unjust Malaise" (New World Records), with archival recordings of some of Eastman's most important pieces; the recent book "Gay Guerrilla" (University of Rochester Press), including a valuable, poignant long biographical essay; and the new release of an archival recording of his shining, tidal masterpiece, "Femenine" (Frozen Reeds).
More than 100 watercolors and classroom charts are here, from painstakingly accurate paintings of reeds and mushrooms to boldly colored abstractions of the earth's crust and core, and they share space with a splendid array of diaries and correspondence, redolent with the Hitchcocks' intertwined loves for science, God and each other.
Similarly, Cao draws on his own experiences of growing up in the countryside to describe how to harvest and use cogon grass to build a roof, make a necklace out of icicles, weave reeds into shoes and collect arrowhead corms — a tuber sometimes eaten during the Chinese New Year's celebration.
In May 1970, the Heyerdahl crew set sail for Barbados again, this time on Ra II, a frail 40-foot-long vessel fashioned from papyrus reeds with a wicker cabin amidships, an upturned prow and stern, an A-shaped mast and a square sail punctuated by a blood-red circle.
Yet the most exuberant events will be enlivened by amateurs, as the Mass Appeal gatherings call for hordes of French horns, accordions, guitars, double-reeds, and other instruments in spots around the five boroughs, including Greenpoint's Transmitter Park where you can bring your music box to join composer Angélica Negrón's evening soundscape.
Electronic sighs and moans, punctuated with fluttering reeds, lonesome six-strings, poignant synth-horns, gamelan-esque percussion, jazzy interludes, various swirly bits and pieces—and, on occasion, Allien's speak-sing vocals, both unadorned and laden in effects—culminate in a elegant, joyous drone that, in the album's final passage, dissolves into breakbeat bliss.
In June, a photo of a dead Salvadoran father and daughter tangled in the reeds of the Rio Grande drew attention for a while to the plight of U.S.-bound migrants, many fleeing violence and deep poverty in Central America, even with the hard-line immigration policies of U.S. President Donald Trump.
While Valerie read her magazines and Robyn worked dutifully through one page after another in her coloring book, the washed-out, numb winter landscape had borne cruelly in on them from beyond the train window: miles of bleached, tufted dun grasses, purple-black tangled labyrinths of bramble, clumps of dark reeds frozen in a ditch.

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