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Interview: Karly Jewell
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My love of music comes from my Grandfather from a very early age so it's been a whole life time with music, kind of like breathing it's just an everyday part of life. I've thought about this a lot if I didn't do music, I'd be saving animals I guess or the planet in some way.
What do you like to do when you're not playing music and how does that influence your creativity?
I love to travel to new places, hanging out with my furkid fluffington Von Winkle he's my favourite soul in the world. I'm like the Aussie version of Freddie Mercury and his cats I video call when I'm on the road and bring him home gifts. I'm pretty chilled out like to hang in the garden. Meditation I do this daily as a way to just stop, breathe and focus just to have control I think that helps me with writing also that control of being able to shut the world out when it's time to make music and turn the hard work on.
Close to 11 years now
I think being in such a place as Melbourne with a great scene it definitely has that influence for you to be your best and play more live shows. With so many international bands coming on tour right in your city that also really drives me to do the same thing. ( WELL BEFORE COVID ANYWAY) Like it can happen you just need focus, put the hard work in and don't wait for things to happen you have to get out there and just go for it. I think the greatness in this city and being around so many amazing artists inspires us to do more as band and as individual artists we kind of have that sound already in us we grew up with, our own signature soul sound when we write so I guess that all comes together when we write and we just are what we are.
Karly Jewell That's me not much to it I started out on my own so I just kept my name. Plus, how cool was Joan Jett just being Joan Jett?
They're all the best even the bad ones. One day the worst shows are the shows you look back at and think oh my god we laugh, we think never ever again, we made some rock and roll history. There is that one time Mars got ask to play with a double tea towel on the snare and some kind of brush sticks the guys had their amps and were told not to plug in you can imagine their faces?? I had to beg them to stay because I had so many people come from work to watch. We had not been told about the noise restrictions as of midnight so a rock venue with no sound but we did it anyway and I reckon we would have made Lemmy proud.
It would have to be the Viper Room or the Whisky A Go Go Los Angeles and any venue in Melbourne we share music with our rock and roll family.
Next place anywhere and everywhere is where we want to go and I need to knock the Forum off my Melbourne list and lots more in the states there's too many to name.
It has to Rose Tattoo that has been a dream of mine as long as I can remember I have to make that happen one day and Joan Jett now that would be amazing.
Stay true, do it for the love of music, be willing to learn and go for it. Never compete with anyone but yourself, it's your journey but work hard and never give up.
I don't know really learn more there's always so much to learn I'm still learning
Out Of your songs which one means the most to you and why?
September a song I wrote for my late Grandmother and Phoenix. I wrote the song the night I played for the very first time at the viper room after supporting the Late Chuck Mosley of Faith No More. The Viper Room show was a promise to pop I would always tell him when I was a kid, I will go there one day and play for the both of us where Johnny Cash used to play. We both had a love for Johnny Cash and the first song I would ever play on guitar was Don't take your guns to town. I grabbed some drink coasters and started to write my story that moment I knew who I was and nothing was going to stop me or the band now. I didn't need anyone to make this happen for me because I was already doing it. To me that is making it being able to do something you love and never letting anything hold you back.
Sid and Nancy for sure it's so much fun live and it's normally the most asked for second would be let you down. Nothing like a bit of heavy to throw into a good live show.
What is the creative process for the band, and what inspires you to write your music? I write alone and normally it's the hook that will come first. That is the most important part then to nail start from finish how to tell a good story and wrap it up in the end. I do a demo and send to the band we get together and let them fall into place we never try and make them a certain sound they just fall into place. The band and I have a great energy and I think we all get that vibe going and feel of each other. Dave has an incredible gift of bringing dynamics to the songs, Adrain knows how to speak guitar so just his guitar playing alone already tells a story and the most important part is the heartbeat that carries the song from start to finish and gives it life with Mars on drums.
That we are only human, we have feelings and it's ok to not be ok sometime. To get back up and keep trying to never give up and most important show that the worst things in life can have positive outcomes and we are in this together. We have built an incredible rock and roll family in Melbourne and across Australia they know we are in this together and making that good rock and roll history. The message is always positive.
Nope we just keep having a good time for the longest time.
We have just dropped the new track Dancing With The Devil, so that's available worldwide on all digital platforms. The track has also been picked by Rue Morgue Records and added to Murders In The Rue Morgue Vol II for the 2nd Compilation Record featuring a number of huge Australian Artists so we have that coming out in April. Working on the next tracks to record and more shows to be booked.


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Multiple Arizona First Responders Shot And Killed In Horrifying Attack
When firefighters are called to a fire, they expect to deal with a situation not be ambushed by an active shooter. However, a set of firefighters in Arizona had to deal with a blaze, plus an armed gunman, making their job incredibly difficult.
Just Another Fire?
At 3:45 p.m., a house fire was called in near South Kino Parkway, according to Chief Chris Magnus. Quickly after the fire report came in, there was a report two emergency medical technicians were parked by Quincy Douglas Center and had been shot.
A gunman walked straight up to the window of the AMR ambulance and shot the 20-year-old paramedic in the head. The young man is still in critical condition.
His passenger, a 21-year-old paramedic, was hit with bullets in the chest and the arm. She called for help and gave officers a description of the shooter and his vehicle. As of Sunday, she was in stable condition.
Putting Out A Fire…
While this was going on, firefighters were at the home that was on fire. Neighbors were already working on extinguishing the flames.
While the firefighters and the neighbors were working on putting out the flames, the man who shot the EMTs came up to them and shot one of the neighbors in the head, While one of the Tuscan firefighters was shot in the arm and a neighbor was grazed on their head.
According to Magnus, a body was found inside the home, but the three children who lived there's location was unknown.
A law enforcement officer found the alleged shooter at the home in the SUV. Accoring to Magnus, the driver shot officers multiple times before being hitting a patrol car.
According to law enforcement, an 8 year department veteran shot and wounded the SUV's driver. He was listed in critical condition.
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Cha-ching: Personal investments market to hit $5tn
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Investing | 12 March 2018 | Lucy Dean
12 March 2018 — 7:56 pm
Inequality may pose a concern, but Australia's investors are set to see the personal investments market hit $5 trillion in the next decade.
That's according to analysis by consultant Rice Warner. In its annual Personal Investments Market Projections report for 2017, Rice Warner noted that 2017 was a strong year for the personal investments market, with a 12 per cent increase in total personal savings.
That's compared to a decade-long average of 6.2 per cent per year.
Further, while inequality "remains an issue", Rice Warner predicts the market will grow to $5 trillion, nearly double the $2,575 billion currently held.
This figure is larger than the $2,325 billion held in superannuation arrangements, Rice Warner's Greta Cilia observed.
"The 1 July 2017 tax changes caused a short-term dip in the rate of growth of personal investments, as wealthier households drew down on these investments to use the last chance to make lump sum contributions to super of up to $540,000 per person or $1,080,000 per couple," Ms Cilia said.
"Over the longer term, the tighter limits applying to superannuation contributions will increase the importance of personal investments savings, especially for higher earners."
Simultaneously, the value of directly held investment properties has increased by about 2.5 per cent on the 30 June figure.
These properties – not including mortgages – now account for 43 per cent of personal investments despite fears of rate hikes, and of property valuations in Sydney and Melbourne becoming stretched.
As for equities, the 2016-17 financial year saw households reduce direct exposure, with Ms Cilia arguing that this reflects a "shift away from traditional equities" and towards other means of return, like managed funds among other asset classes.
Continuing in its wrap-up, Rice Warner noted that assets held on wrap and like-platforms increased on last year's figure and should continue this path to over 10 per cent of the personal investments market by 2032.
"Much of this growth will be due to investors holding assets through these platforms rather than holding the same assets directly," Rice Warner said.
Alternative assets, including derivative products and smart-beta indices also grew to above 30 per cent. Held almost exclusively through wrap platforms and master trusts, these assets are growing in popularity due to a perceived innovative nature and the benefits of diversification.
At the same time that the personal investments market is seeing continued gains, inequality persists, Rice Warner concluded.
The consultant noted that the wealthiest 5 per cent of Australians with personal investments hold investments about 75 times larger than the poorest 5 per cent.
"This is exacerbated by the necessity for households which lack reliable income and access to credit to protect against emergencies by holding much of their limited savings in low-yielding cash," Rice Warner said.
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(CNN) When the Saudi Arabian artist Abdulnasser Gharem arrived in Los Angeles earlier this year, he brought with him a group of young contemporaries from his home nation.
Gharem was in California to promote his first ever solo US show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), no mean feat for a self-taught individual born far away from the world's cultural capitals.
Yet he was keen to share his successes with the next generation of ambitious Saudi artists.
A former lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian army, Gharam has paved the way for artists in the desert kingdom over the past decade.
When his ornate dome-like installation, "Message/Messenger," sold for $842,500 in 2011, it became the most expensive piece sold at auction by a living Arab artist.
His experiences as a soldier and a creator, meanwhile, have underlined the complex, often provocative nature of his work.
Yet pushing his creativity has not always been easy for Gharem or other Saudi artists.
He describes his country's capital, Riyadh, as one of the most conservative cities in the world. To counter this, Gharem founded his own studio which he hopes will foster young creative talent within the country.
"In our country it's very hard to say what you want but you can pass your idea through an artwork," he later adds.
Gharem's powerful back catalogue includes pieces like "Camouflage," a stamp painting that depicts an army tank against the background of a mosque, and "The Capitol Dome," an installation which appears to depict the U.S. Capitol building tilting on its side to reveal an interior decorated in Islamic style.
His 2007 performance piece in the Saudi city of Abha, meanwhile saw Gharem wrap himself and a tree in a plastic sheet where he remained for six hours in order to highlight how imported trees were damaging indigenous Saudi ones.
The tragic events of September 11, 2001, have also featured prominently in a number of Gharem's works.
Gharem was in the same class at school as two of the 9/11 hijackers — a revelation that made him question how individuals with a near identical upbringing to his own could be capable of such an atrocity.
"We have the same knowledge, we have the same environment … you know, we are almost the same," he explains.
Gharem's recent solo show at LACMA was called Pause, and brought together pieces influenced by his experiences in the aftermath of 9/11.
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in the devastating terror attacks, the deadliest ever on US soil.
Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who commandeered the planes that struck the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington D.C. on 9/11 were from Saudi Arabia.
The then head of al-Qaeda and orchestrator of the attack, Osama bin Laden, was also Saudi born despite being ensconced in the hinterlands of Afghanistan at the time.
Yet Gharem is keen to show another side to his home nation and puncture oversimplified stereotypes about people from the Kingdom.
"Those guys who did this 9/11, they are not representing us at all," he says.
"I think these kinds of pieces (referring to the artworks contained within his Pause exhibition) will let the people change their mind," he adds.
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Gharem's LACMA show ran from April until July.
According to the museum's curator of Islamic art, Linda Komaroff, Gharem's work displays themes and techniques an American audience is likely unfamiliar with.
She also posits that his LACMA exhibition offered an opportunity for people from the two nations to begin to understand each other.
"This is very important at this particular moment in American history, and the world's history," Komaroff says.
Gharem holds similar ambitions about his work breaking down cultural boundaries.
But, naturally, he hopes the fact it has been exhibited in a solo show in America for the first time will act as a spur to other aspiring Saudi artists.
"I hope what I'm doing is going to affect the society and going to inspire at least some young (people)," he says.


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Conte acknowledges conceding first goal ´killed´ Tottenham´s confidence in Aston Villa defeat
SoccerNews in General Soccer News 1 Jan 2023
Antonio Conte acknowledged Tottenham's confidence was "killed" after again conceding the first goal in their 2-0 defeat by Aston Villa.
Spurs began 2023 with only a second loss in their last nine matches played on New Year's Day, as second-half goals from Emiliano Buendia and Douglas Luiz gave the visitors all three points at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Tottenham, who missed the chance to return to the top four, have now conceded the opening goal in each of their last seven Premier League matches, doing so for the first time since November 2010.
They have also now conceded at least twice in seven consecutive league matches for the first time since November 1988 (eight).
Conte was missing the likes of Richarlison, Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur for Sunday's visit of Villa, and the Italian feels the lacking of a creative spark was detrimental for his side.
7 – Tottenham have conceded at least twice in each of their last seven Premier League games, their longest run of shipping 2+ in league matches since November 1988 (8). Alarming. pic.twitter.com/kcMJpMXEGi
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"In the first half, we played with good intensity," he told BBC. "We didn't concede anything, and we found a team that defended too deep. Then, we conceded this goal and then the confidence dropped for my players.
"We have to know that our life is this. We have to fight every game for one point or for three points. This is the truth, especially when you are without two or three important players and have difficulties.
"We have different characteristics. We don't have many players who are really good at beating the man. We don't have many creative players in our team. For sure, today was really difficult to find space in the first half.
"I'm sure that if we don't concede the goal, we could win the game instead. The goal that we conceded killed us in confidence and in many situations for sure. You have to try and improve and develop these players to be even stronger.
"We have conceded the first goal, and we try to play to score goals. We understand very well that the league will be really difficult for us.
"We have to try to recover all the [injured] players, and then we have to know that in every game, we have to fight and show that we are strong."
Tottenham return to action on Wednesday with a trip to London rivals Crystal Palace.
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By Xavier Jones
Media Specialist
Daddy Can You Hear Me?
BOOKS IN THE HOOD REVIEW
Patrice A. Lee displays two of her books
Daddy Can You Hear Me is collection of poems and prayers targeted to fatherhood, and what a father figure means to the family. Cass Tech and Michigan State alumni Patrice A Lee is the sole contributor of the poems in Daddy Can You Hear me. The subject matter covers fatherhood in a multitude of perspectives.
Ms. Lee wrote this book to remind the community that a father's job is never done, and that it's never too late to start over. There are pieces directed to absent fathers and suggested steps to earning the trust of the family. Daddy Can You Hear Me is endorsed by fathers across the country. I don't have any children of my own. But after reading I learned how deep my presence would affect the thoughts and behaviors of my potential offspring.
Patrice A. Lee is the founder of Leep4Joy Books. Her lituatrte dosen't stop at fatheroohd. Bullying, self image and motherhood are few of the many topics she tackles.
A survivor of workplace bullying, Patrice Lee, reaches out to parents, children, teens and adults with a message of faith, hope, healing and love, and considers it a privilege to share positive ways to handle bullying. Prayer and her personal relationship with Jesus were keys to her survival. She conducts parent workshops and speaks to classrooms and student assemblies on ways to avoid the negative effects of bullying.
Ms. Lee and her collection of books can be found on Leep4joy.com.
Xavier Jones - What inspired you to write Daddy could you hear me?
Patrice A. Lee - I had recently written another book, poems were coming from all over the place. But I didn't have anywhere to put them. I Met regional PTA Dad and read him the poems. The Dads all requested a copy of it. From then I went home and comprised all the poems. Written for dads but endorsed by everyone. To serve as a healing anecdote for families
Xavier Jones - Why is it important to have fathers at home with family and children?
Patrice A. Lee - God ordained the man to be the head of the household and the woman to be by his side. When the family is seperated normally, the woman has to step up. It's extremely hard to fill in the void. Father's not being home can create a snowball effect that leads to delinquency amongst teens.
Xavier Jones - In your opinion. What is a father's role in in the family?
Patrice Lee - Leader of the home, The one that makes decisions to guide the children. Ultimate example for sons and daughters. Their first teachers.
Xavier Jones - How do you suggest absent father's make a connection to their children?
Patrice Lee - Reach out in love. Be humble and ask for forgiveness. Be a man of your word and spend quality time with your children as much as possible.
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