The fallout continues after the NSW Hunter Valley's Wine Machine finished in chaotic scenes on Saturday, with scores of patrons taking to social media to complain.
The festival was held at Roche Estate and drew a reported 11,000 patrons.
Ticket purchasers accused organisers of poor planning, with drink and food lines stretching out for well over an hour (and some patrons quipping it should be renamed Line Machine).
There were also claims of frozen pizza and no chardonnay.
A severe thunderstorm and lightning strikes cancelled the event before The Presets or the eponymous act Hot Dub Time Machine could take to the stage.
Fans bitterly also complained that afterwards, there was no "duty of care", with those who tried to take refuge from the storm on-site pushed out by police and security.
"As those in attendance well know, The Hunter Valley last night experienced an extreme weather system that included torrential rain and a high multitude of lightning strikes within close proximity causing an initial show stop and eventual evacuation of the event.
"This sucked for every single person on site!
"The safety of all patrons, artists, and staff is of absolute priority.
Part of the bar congestion was that liquor licensing rules meant that each patron could only buy two drinks at a time.
"Whilst licensing restrictions played a significant role in bar congestion at the Wine Machine NSW event, we must unreservedly apologise for our role in this and take full responsibility.
"Two of our staffing mini-buses carrying 32 staff were reportedly involved in an incident whilst en route from Sydney resulting in bars being understaffed.
"We are currently investigating the circumstances of this and following up on the conditions of those staff involved.
"Roche Estate are disappointed that patrons didn't get the experience they were hoping for at the Wine Machine event, held onsite on the 23rd of March.
"When visiting our cellar doors or restaurants or regardless of whichever event you're coming to see we always want every visitor to Roche Estate to enjoy their time at our venue and understand that for many at this event this wasn't the case.
DJ Hot Dub Time Machine is putting on two free shows for NSW Wine Machine ticket holders.
Admitting he was "gutted" over the cancellation, he has confirmed full-length make-up shows at Sydney's Enmore Theatre on April 11 and Newcastle's Exhibition Centre on April 12.
Tickets holders will receive an email with registrations details for these shows. These shows are for Wine Machine ticket holders only, and tickets can only be secured by using the same email address that was used for ticket purchasing.
Wine Machine is holding an event at Swan Valley in WA with The Presets headlining and has promised there will be no repeat of Hunter Valley dramas especially since good weather is forecast.
They insisted: "Wine Machine WA has always had the quickest and most efficient bar lines in the country.


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Wall to wall sunshine again. Last night however was a different story. During the evening the clouds built up and thunder and lightning started. And although it did not actually rain with us at the barn; the river suddenly went brown and swelled to such an extent that I have never seen before. The waterfall opposite was still the normal clear colour and normal dimensions but the falls just up from us were thundering and the colour of mud. Quite impressive.
Today Iain has decided to take Breezy and I out to lunch as a thank you. We have selected the Haut Salat in Seix. Everyone we know who has been there has raved about it both in terms of quality and economy. We were not disappointed.
Beautiful food and some nice wines. Thank you Iain!
Back at the barn we had a sedentary afternoon which included a siesta.
The thunder and lightning started again in the evening but this time it poured. Putting about 900 litres into the rainwater capture. A light supper of pate and cheese and some cards.


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Winter's Daughter
(Wintertochter)
Country: GERMANY, POLAND
Language: German, Polish, Russian
Eleven-year-old Kattaka is celebrating Christmas with her parents at home in Berlin when an unexpected phone call turns her world upside down. It's a horrible shock: her dad isn't really her dad. Her biological father is a Russian sailor named Alexi, who she didn't know existed. Furious and disappointed with her parents, she determines to track down her real father—and so begins an epic journey. Lena, a crotchety neighbor lady whose family was forced from Poland during World War II, agrees to drive Kattaka and a friend. And soon the three head east out of Berlin in Lena's van, on a quest to find Alexi. Their unusual road trip takes them through frozen Eastern Europe toward the Polish seaport at Gdansk, where Alexi's ship is docked. Kattaka and Lena have fears to conquer. They want both to find out where they came from, and to know where they belong. WINTER'S DAUGHTER will take you places you've never been: let the journey inspire you. (In German, Polish, and Russian with subtitles) –B.B.
Sunday, March 25, 2012 at 11:25 AM
Monday, March 26, 2012 at 9:25 AM
Johannes Schmid was born in 1973 in Vilsbiburg, Germany. He studied theater and film as well as art history and music. He has directed a number of plays and prize-winning short films and lives in Munich.
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The last meeting of the U of M-D Math Circles is Tuesday, May 5.
Please make sure to check parent connect as soon as possible for missing assignments!
Next week is 6th and 7th grade MSTEP!
There is no testing on Monday.
Testing will occur on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday beginning at 8:00 am.
The 7th grade will also be testing the following Tuesday, May 9.
Please do not be absent or tardy during MSTEP testing.
Come check out Dearborn High's Annual Film Festival!
Since Mr. Theisen is at home with his brand new baby!
After School Band has been cancelled for today!
Here is the schedule and registration form for students who would like to take the test out for World Language only. Students who successfully pass the test with 78% or higher will be awarded transcript credit.
Students may test out of one or two courses and each test is about 1.5 hours and covers reading, writing and speaking.
The dates and times for the tests can be found on the registration form and it must be signed by a parent, principal and counselor (that's me).
The annual Dearborn Public Schools City Wide Art Show will be on exhibit from April 19th to May 18th at the Padzieski Gallery of the Ford Performing Arts Center.
The opening reception is Wednesday, April 19th at 4:00 p.m., when most students, parents, teachers and administrators come to help us celebrate the creative achievements of our students.
STEM & ACE will be represented by 10 artworks this year.
The 8th graders will be taking the MSTEP all morning Tuesday-Thursday of this week and Tuesday-Wednesday of next week.
Remember to eat a good breakfast and get enough sleep tonight.


Emerged from slavery? Check. Beat back Jim Crow segregation? Yep. Helped elect a black president? Indeed.
However, African-Americans are far from closing longstanding economic gaps compared with whites. That fact was made clear in the National Urban League's "State of Black America" report, which the civil-rights organization released last week. In employment, income and wealth, blacks lag far behind their white counterparts, and some experts say it's only getting worse.
"The benefits of the recovery have not reached the Main Streets of our most troubled communities," said Marc Morial, Urban League president and CEO, referring to how blacks have fared since the Great Recession, in an executive summary of the report. "We cannot continue to rely on policies that have proven ineffective in communities with high unemployment and low income."
Unemployment for blacks was nearly double the rate for whites in all of 2015.
In 2015, blacks had a 9.6% unemployment rate compared with 4.6% for whites, according to the Urban League's analysis of federal labor data. Hispanics had an unemployment rate of 6.6% in 2015.
But in some metro areas with large black populations, the unemployment rate was even higher. For example, in Milwaukee, the unemployment rate for blacks is 17.3% compared with 4.3% for whites.
The median income for black households was $24,000 less than white households in 2014.
According to the Urban League's analysis of census data, the median household income for blacks was $35,481 in 2014. Whites had a median household income of $59,662. Hispanics were not as far behind, at $42,768 in median income.
The black-white income gap was largest in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul area. Whites earned an average of $74,455, twice the average of $28,138 for blacks.
The black-white wealth disparity is arguably the most staggering statistic of them all.
A family's wealth or net worth is the sum value of assets such as property, retirement savings and income minus all debts. The median wealth for white families in 2013 was around $141,900 — the median net worth for blacks at around $11,000, according to federal data analyzed by the Pew Research Center. Hispanics had slightly more wealth than blacks, at $13,700.
Whether or not the employment, income and wealth statistics inspire shock among the masses, it should be evidence that racism, discrimination and mass incarceration continue to reverberate in communities of color.


The Sacramento region is among one of the largest agricultural producers in the nation. From time to time, I visit many of the local farms to document what local farmers are facing. Yet another dry season of agriculture cropping. The smokey and hazy skies were engulfing the region from raging wildfires and records of excessive heat warning were issued for the region.
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This tour is designed to help travelers spend more times in Sapa and also discover local villages.
6.30 – 7.00: Pick up guests at hotels in Hanoi Old Quarter, get on big bus and depart for Sapa.
8.00: A short drive to Y Linh Ho then trek through the rice terraces and along Muong Hoa Stream to the Black Hmong village of Lao Chai to see the spectacular landscape of Hoang Lien Son Mountain then trek to Ta Van village – home of Dzay ethnic people.
12.00: In the Evening: Have lunch and enjoy free time in the afternoon do discover Sapa town by yourself. Have dinner and overnight in the hotel.
11.00: Check out and clear bills, have lunch at the hotel and time at leisure on your own.
21.00: Arrive Hanoi. We say good bye to you at your hotel/ stay. Tour ends.


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January 4, 2020 January 4, 2020 by David
The Poem of the Physicist
As I stood upon the land
So the sea destroyed the shore
And a heart of stone was damned
To be sand forever more
My galleon world had long since lost its sail of leaves and birds,
Tempestuously shred upon the storm I hoped would bring us home.
I was tired now; so tired. "I didn't mean to kill her."
"You're the psychiatrist – you explain."
"I meant what did you mean to do?"
"Well," I shrugged, "obviously I must have meant to kill her." Whose nightmarish words were these; surely not mine? "It was strangulation. There's still time during the struggle to…" I faltered, "…contemplate…reconsider what you're doing."
"So why didn't you 'reconsider'?" He enunciated very deliberately, trying not to antagonise me, but it emphasised the cold, inappropriate verb. "You've no history of violence; according to your associates not one of those guys who might have the cork in too tight; likely to explode. So I want to understand. This is no request from a lawyer to find a legal loophole for some psychopath. Indeed you haven't even requested representation. You puzzle all of us, John."
I stared through the window. Snow. I'd no recollection of the passing seasons.
"Was it jealousy?" he asked.
"I'd just met her."
"What are you not telling me, John?"
"You're someone with no history of erratic behaviour. He looked down through bifocals at a folder and quoted. "'Just geekish idiosyncrasies', which one might expect from a gifted, absorbed scientist. As they say, how does a cliché become a cliché? Yet you called in sick – unheard-of apparently – joined a drama school and," the psychiatrist paused, "took the life of a young actress. Here, you've drunk nothing but coffee, though that, I think, I can understand. 'Macbeth hath murdered sleep'. But the strangest part is the radio in your room, switched to long wave and on which you seem obsessed with finding some signal that defeats us all." As he spoke. I became aware that I'd wedged my hands between my knees and seemed intent on pushing my elbows as close together as possible. "What might it be?"
"It was…it was her face, you see. When I said my line." The psychiatrist said nothing, but his practised hand slid below the desk to press a button; a recorder of some sort? Were my recollections entering uncharted territory? How long had I been here? "She was supposed to…"
Something started trickling down my cheek.
The glittering huntsman shone from far beneath a sea of clouds,
Which broke in grey and white upon the city roofs.
I watched this grand autumnal display from my empty bed. Clouds hurled themselves before the unforgiving vanguard of a storm, billowing like dust from the feet of Orion, There was a charge in the air, the kind that makes gazelles skittish on the darkening plains of the Serengeti before the rains.
My empty bed – those suffering a fullness of heart, but having never known love, will understand me. I sighed, my head turning on the pillow. What lies behind that theatrical gesture? Are we hoping the dark might split open and hurl the face of love onto the pillow beside us?
I'd almost waxed poetical, but Newton prevailed and the curse of the particle physicist struck me. Instead, I analysed the spectacle unfolding beyond my window – beyond my transient powers of imagination too, it seemed. My huntsman had transmogrified from a mythological giant into a group of stars anthropomorphised by primitive minds; burning gases beyond which lay an infinity of, well, infinity.
How I bored myself sometimes.
I thought sleep, like imagination, would remain beyond me while elsewhere hot lovers pressed their lustful claims; I would lie there feeling my body move to the rhythm that drives our blood and the sea, part of the tide of humankind being swept backwards and forwards, like turtles climbing a beach and returning to the ocean.
Instead there were just waves of drowsiness, and I nodded off.
I'm sitting on the floor of an empty hall, in what sounds like a community centre, my back against a wall. At the far end there's a door beyond which people are milling about. On my lap is a folder, to my left a spiralling black iron staircase; a fire-escape perhaps. I have the folder open. It's a script, but I can't focus on it.
The hubbub continues offstage; excited conversation, occasional peals of laughter, the clink of crockery. We're on a coffee break, whoever we are. A shape enters through that far door. I'm not looking directly, but see the form move gracefully across the floor; sense, rather than hear the swishing skirt, as she makes her way…towards me! – unless she's heading for the fire escape.
She's come to sit on the iron steps! Feigning insouciance, my usual defence mechanism against heartache, I look up, intending to give my best enigmatic smile. Profound silence replaces the thundering in my ears, underlined by the wind that whistles somewhere through old window-frames.
Somehow I know immediately that her face will never change another life like it has just changed mine.
It's not just the startling features; green, strangely iridescent eyes, strong nose, quirky smile, framed by shoulder length blonde hair. That description does no justice; as always with love at first sight, it's the indefinable; molecules and chemical emissions; knowing the valency is right. I'm sorry, sometimes you can't escape the science, even when you push it to one side and forget to breathe.
I know there are only two choices; we will be together forever, or death will part us – I guess that's three choices, if you allow each of us a death, rather than some bizarre suicide pact, which is another option I suppose, so technically that's four choices.
Am I babbling this nonsense out loud? That would be both sad and indicative of why my bed is empty, but such is her effect on me, anything's possible, especially as my jaw has dropped open and refuses to close. Has rigor mortis already set in?
She's saying something. "You seem hard at work, sitting back here on your own. Are you struggling with your lines?"
Her smile!
And then I have it, for the first time ever; the killer line. Absolutely the thing I want to say and the setting. Which is when her face starts to lose definition. I'm powerless, trying to tune her in again. I'm losing her. The signal's going haywire. The disaster that is REM sleep ruins everything. My eyes open and I close them again, diving back towards sleep, trying to save her as she slips overboard and sinks, sinks. I know I've lost her already, but I bury my face under the blanket in the desperate hope that sleep will come again.
But she's gone.
And in the wind an autumn slipped forever from my grasp,
Elusive as a leaf I may not catch except to crush.
Never had I felt more cheated. I wanted to stay buried beneath those blankets. Fate was adding new dimensions to my tortures now, robbing me as I slept, leaving me bereft; bereaved even. The emptiness surpassed anything my lonely bed and a stormy night had conjured before.
That leaf has fallen,
Gone to feed the soil of yet another spring,
While flowers on my hearth grow white with time.
The psychiatrist tapped the piece of paper, nodding approvingly. They'd found the poem in my room. I don't remember writing it.
"That's a startling image – beauty that's become too old even to fade. Is that what you were trying; to stop her growing old?"
That shocked me. I wanted to protest, but how could I? So I ignored him. "Someone once said we don't have beautiful dreams only because no-one ever taught us how. The brain processes only a tiny part of the data it absorbs; she was in there somewhere, woven in. My desire to find her was implacable."
He frowned. "Find her?"
"I couldn't wait for night to come."
"How did you fill the hours?"
"I can't remember. That day was wasted on me. I regret that somewhere in this universe someone died, who could have used it better."
The setting sun had burned the western world
And left the charring embers of a night.
But were the clouds, which rolled in black above,
A hint of midnight rain, or smoke from wars
Of worlds awakening beneath my feet?
I was battling the forces which had prevented me ever sharing the paradox that was my life; that precious thing, which I loved and loathed in equal measures. It had indeed been one long struggle with my lines, but only because I wasn't writing them myself. For too long, years and spiders had spun their nightly gauze upon the final pattern of my room.
I sat on my bed, seeking to reconstruct her face. Soon, like a puzzle with a missing piece or two, it was incomplete but recognisable.
Sleep must have overtaken me; I nodded myself awake. Was the night too calm; the static charge of a storm a pre-requisite for recreating her? Rather than this placid candle-moon, perhaps I needed a guttering flame behind the billowing curtains of wind-whipped clouds and bending trees; the suppressed desire of every scientist who'd read Frankenstein?
It wasn't happening – which makes my recollections that much stranger.
Water swirls violently around me, the muddy flood torrential and rope-like. I'm in a kayak or canoe. I cannot swim. Strange I'm not afraid. It seems I can always swim in dreams. I'm moving somehow against the current, at one with the torrent, using the paddle as a rudder and moving upstream. The terrifying canyon is the colour of sandstone. Here the pattern of my life doesn't consist of black veins of shadow on the lawn signalling another moon, another dying day.
High above is a distinctive rock formation. Suddenly I'm climbing, bounding over rocks, defying vertigo and gravity and find myself on one of the abstract rock pillars. Gazing down, the enormity of the canyon spreads out before me. If I weren't dreaming it, I'd laugh at the crude, almost clumsy symbolism of my dream's end.
I woke exhilarated, before registering that the day had advanced by only five minutes, while I lay curled on top of the bed, cold. Curled and cold.
Beyond the window, my world was a silhouette against a still-darkening sky.
An old tree watched the passing of the day;
Its limbs as barren as a battlefield.
That silent guardian shadow spoke to me
Of Armageddon and antiquity.
And so I slept.
Driving to work next morning, that tree was on my mind. A horn blared; I had wandered over the white lines, swerving and fighting for control. Then, like a lost, treasured possession, gone from view and then mind in that unreachable space beneath a car seat, a memory shot forward as I braked.
And I had seen that tree upon the seas;
A ship's mast hurled from wave to furious wave.
The recollection hit so hard, I slapped my head in frustration, harder than intended, but with less impact than the windscreen might have done. I pulled over to gather my thoughts.
I'd been a fool. Dreams weren't doorways into another world, simply signals from one. The alternative realities were here, surrounding us always, but we had our backs turned to them, our responses conditioned. We hear a dog barking and turn to find a single dog, whereas it could be two dogs barking in unison, if I allowed that possibility. Familiar objects in our lives were made from a whole lot of nothing, when you considered the empty space in an atom. Dreams were images captured unwittingly in the background of a photograph as we focussed on what we believed substantive. My alternative reality, inhabited by my dream girl, was right here. I just needed to make it happen.
As if on cue, the remembrance of something made me turn the car and head for home.
Having alerted the university to my influenza and cancelled my lectures, I searched the basket containing the post I intended to re-read, or more likely recycle. Animal charities, children's charities, third world charities, loans – I was going to need one of them to cope with the charities – impatiently I pushed each leaflet and envelope aside as if macheteing through the jungle from which all that paper had come. I was almost sure, but perhaps I'd been imagining it…no, 'imagining' was a word I would banish henceforth, to be put out for collection with the next recycling bag.
Success! 'Stage Right'. A flyer from a local drama school inviting me to attend a six-week 'Introduction to Acting' course. That had to be it. The date ? – starting September 15th ; tomorrow! I'd considered it, so was this another background image developing slowly in the dark room? Grove Hall, Henley – I knew it, having attended a symposium there on Quantum Biomechanics a year before. It was typical of many manor houses owned by once-wealthy gentry who'd fallen on hard times thanks to death duties and inheritance taxes, and had sold out to the country club or conference centre conglomerates. Magnificent parlours and ballrooms divided into utilitarian cubicles, where would-be power executives could brainstorm and role-play their way to marketing nirvana in overheated, theme-named seminar rooms.
I'd find out soon enough whether any of those theatres of dreams had a spiralling iron fire-escape.
I picked up the phone.
He looked at me, unable, despite every effort, to disguise his professional excitement. "So, John, now that your memory seems to have returned I'm understanding the context of that defining September evening. Do you remember what happened next, because till now…"
"It smelt damp as I walked through the grounds of Grove Hall. The storm two nights before had fallen on arid, dying vegetation after an unusually dry spell. It wasn't unpleasant. I've never liked searing heat; Spring's pregnant mutability and Autumn's heavy melancholy are much more to my liking. That smell was redolent of the garden of my youth."
"The smell of decay?"
"Sometimes I wish my life could always be September, when the embers of a dying season wisp and glow.
"What I'd overlooked, until I froze in the entrance to Grove Hall – something seemingly driven from my mind by my desperation to find my lady – was that I hated entering rooms full of well-heeled, particularly high-heeled, strangers, particularly those leaning towards the coterie."
"So, great idea to join a drama group in Henley". The psychiatrist smiled. "That epitome of chic and clique."
"What love drives us to. I was desperate. Forty-eight hours had passed since the mystery woman had stepped through the fissure into my world. Despite everything, her image was fading. It was now just a ghost; a wisp of steam escaping through cracks in ancient window-frames on a bitter, frosty night. So I swallowed hard and entered."
Perhaps fifty budding thespians had turned out. As we sat in a large circle, while the Goodwives of Henley who ran the group addressed us in the atonal clipped vowels peculiar to parts of the Thames Valley, I noticed, with a combustible, contradictory mixture of relief and dismay that 'she' wasn't there. The only things preventing me from leaving immediately were the unexpected friendliness of my immediate neighbours and the discovery, upon glancing to my left, of a mystic portal, or 'door standing slightly ajar at the other end of the room', to give its proper name. If nothing else I had to check that out.
Our initial exercise was designed to help us hide in plain sight – we were the Chorus in TS Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral'. I tried keeping my voice low and resonant in an appropriate dramatic manner – I had ladies to impress, even if she wasn't one of them – but sounded bronchial. The subject matter did little to lighten my spirits, but rather fed my unease. Like the Chorus, I still feared 'disturbance of the quiet seasons' and struggled with the line telling me 'destiny waits in the hand of God, shaping the still unshapen'. I saw the pattern of my life when we declared that:
'We have gone on living,
Living and partly living'
At last, a break. While others headed for coffee, I grabbed a bottle of water and made my way to the mysterious door. No enchantress's cave could have woven such a potent spell.
There was another large room, with wooden floors and a stucco ceiling, but for me its most compelling feature was Jacob's Ladder, the stairway to heaven, in the prosaic disguise of a cast-iron fire escape. My heart pounded as if I had already climbed all the way to the clouds.
Entering the room, as I stood by the steps looking upwards it might have been 1911 and I Hiram Bingham, standing before Machu Picchu, not some sad, middle-aged particle physicist at a local am-dram meeting. If one of the Goodwives had asked me at that moment to emote – "John darling, give me fear and wonderment" – I would have nailed it. When such a stage and circumstance can elicit that response, isn't that the very definition of magic? When we enter a cathedral, what overwhelms us? Not the gold or stone, but the grandeur of the vision; the humble carved mark of the mason whose rough hands built it; the sawn off piece of original wooden scaffolding up in the tower, telling us that this divine piece was once a secular work-in-progress in which everyone believed; the vaulted roof draws us to heaven even as it mires us in our insignificance.
I sat down with a thud against the wall, a light sweat on my forehead and a rushing in my ears. It wouldn't stop, which was probably why I perceived, rather than heard the feet entering from the main hall, walking towards me. I absorbed the melange of sounds that is the lot of the outsider; clinking cups on saucers, the tinkling of a woman's laugh, the tidal ebb and flow from a sea of conversation, which the lone traveller hears emanating from behind lit windows and longs, but fears, to join. All the while she advanced, before stopping and taking a seat on the steps. She was saying something. "You seem hard at work, sitting back here on your own. Are you struggling with your lines?"
I heard a voice crying for help from an island in the middle of a waterfall, so thunderous was the sound in my ears. Was it me crying for help. Now I remembered I was holding my script; bent over it, I must have seemed intent. When I looked up at her I was caught not only in the eye of the storm, but also in the storm of her eyes. Yes, love makes a reality of even the most excruciating wordplay.
She was waiting for a reply. A reply, you idiot, I chastised myself. Your line; say your line. And it came to me – unfortunately, because this was not a dream.
"Yes, I'm looking for the part where we kiss."
With that her face changed.
Peculiar, the sensation of something starting to trickle down my cheek, "…we were supposed to…" I shrugged uncomfortably in that position. "…live happily ever after perhaps? But she started to sneer. I just got up and left before the full contempt of it could stain her beauty. She was the one. There would be no other. And…I couldn't let her go.
"No, it was more than jealousy. She put in her hand and ripped out my heart. But I didn't want it back. Nor was it within her power to return it. It was beyond either of us." I stopped and looked up at the psychiatrist. "So I did the only thing that was in my power, to stop her simply walking out of my life, leaving me with less purpose – less future – than a broken glass." I blinked; great gouts of tears coursed down my cheeks. "But now, her signal's fading."
The psychiatrist gave a nod of comprehension. "But isn't it better that it fades; that you move the dial on? Surely you don't want to hold onto your last memory of her."
He may have meant well, but he didn't understand and as my knees squeezed together I saw her again, peace and calm coming to her features at last between my tightening hands, sharing with me, in the dark grounds of Grove Hall where I had waited for her, the most intimate and lasting moment two humans can share, something no predator could ever take from us. Not for no reason is the orgasm known in some parts of Europe as the little death.
I was returned to my room. Passing along the interconnecting corridor of toughened glass, I could see that darkness had come. The night was unforgiving, it was cold. It fell with a malevolence of old like dusk-sheets on a widow's dusty world. As the door to my secured room slammed behind me I started to shiver, not knowing what would become of me now – consigned either to hell on earth without her, or simply hell? It had been better not caring. A curse on all your nuthouses. As I stood looking through the barred window I gave the radio switch an absent-minded flick. The shapelessness of the static was almost anodyne; a vast, featureless and snowy landscape stretching out forever. And I wondered; was that immense frozen wilderness the true alternative reality? A blank canvas against which we sketch our dreams, which I knew now were not signals from a parallel universe, but merely our way of dealing with the emptiness.
Yet even as I considered this and my mind wandered across the snow, a shape started to form on the blurred horizon. Nothing distinct; it had no recognisable form; didn't start to distil like a tree emerging as you take your footsteps in the fog. And I realised that it would never have a shape, because I wasn't seeing it after all, but rather hearing it. It was my name emerging from the static, spoken by a woman; repeated urgently. I was cold again now, shaking, but knowing that if this was a siren luring me towards the rocks, then this ship was meant to run aground.
But still, this night, and bobbing fitfully,
A mast sways in the safety of a cove,
And dances on the surge of sensual tides,
While flotsam lies with shells upon the strand.
"John…John."
Beyond the windows leaves swish and branches rattle in the autumn winds again. There's a gentle, but insistent pressure on my shoulder. I force my eyes open and she emerges from the sea of fatigue, my very own Bond girl, her face more beautiful than ever in its urgent sleepiness. I recall how it changed when I uttered my line in the drama class, the lips drawing back, not in a sneer, but in a self-conscious smile. And she must have seen something in my eyes, because then I saw something in hers. I stare at her now, incredulous, and she drops her gaze before looking up at me again, perhaps slightly embarrassed, but unrepentant, with just a hint of brazenness. Our dialogue at the drama class comes back to me.
"The part where we kiss? Mmm." She reflects. "I don't think we'll find that in TS Eliot. But maybe in my workshop now."
"Your workshop?"
She extends her hand. "Adele Greening. I'm here to take part two of the class." The face is familiar and growing more startling by the second; a centuries-lost alabaster bust emerging brush stroke by brush stroke from the sand.
"Aren't you…I've seen you on the television, haven't I?"
She looks pleased but embarrassed. "Possibly, in some bit parts. I'm more of a stage actress. I prefer the closeness and immediate interaction…the intimacy…" I realise that I'm still holding her hand, and she realises that I've realised, but doesn't retreat. "…with the audience." She pauses. "Anyway, we're due to start. I just wanted to know whether you're coming in. Or perhaps you've decided this isn't for you after all."
"Not for me?" I raise one eyebrow. "Let me tell you something about particle physicists." I don't know where this sudden confidence has come from, except she is the catalyst – the Philosopher's Stone.
"Maybe later." She looks coy and I couldn't care whether it's a well-practised expression, because it's my own private show. "I'll see you in there then." She turns to go.
"Adele." I'm emboldened now. She looks back. "What if I don't find our moment in part two either?"
And here we are; I still have the taint of her death on my hands; a bloodstain on a snowy landscape, but the falling snow will cover it soon.
She places a cool hand on my sweating face. "You've been dreaming."
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An island of filmmaking history in our midst
In North Acton lies a small neighbourhood that you have probably seen before, even if you have never visited it. That is because its streets have featured on screens, big and small, for the best part of a century.
Kids enjoy the matinee at the Island Triangle Film Festival
The Island Triangle Residents' Association (TITRA), ran a free film festival for residents recently to celebrate the area's long history of British filmmaking.
The inaugural annual Island Triangle Film Festival was attended by around 150 people at The Collective, North Acton. The Island Triangle conservation area (Stephenson Street, Goodhall Street, Stoke Place, Crew Place, Webb Place and Old Oak Lane) is made up of Victorian railway cottages, which have been seen on British screens since the 1930s.
The streets have been included in many recognisable advertisements, TV shows, films and music videos including The Ipcress Files (1965), Foyle's War (2019), Eddie the Eagle (2016), Wild Bill (2019), Common People by Pulp and Our House by Madness. The upcoming Phantom of the Open movie about amateur British golfer Maurice Flitcroft, which is due to come out later this year, was also shot there.
Oscar winners, nominees and other Hollywood favourites such as Michael Caine, Ralph Fiennes, Mark Rylance, Taron Egerton, Hugh Jackman and Rob Lowe are also listed on the cul-de-sac's showreel.
Musician Alex Rosenberg and presenter Samantha Meah at the Island Triangle Film Festival
'Above and beyond to support filming'
Much of the filming that takes place in the Island Triangle is organised through the West London Film Office (WLFO), which is based at Ealing Council.
Ewan Willmott, the WLFO's manager, said: "Goodhall Street and Stephenson Street are brilliant, unique locations. In the terraced railwayman's cottages, London-based productions have a northern backdrop on their doorstep.
"The Island Triangle Residents' Association goes above and beyond to support filming and build on the local area's classic cultural heritage. It's not every street that can boast about being a location in the videos for Madness's Our House and Pulp's Common People."
The film festival
The Island Triangle Film Festival was funded by the OPDC Heritage Grant, small grants awarded for community projects. The aim of the residents involved is to make it a yearly event open to the wider community next year. TITRA has hosted many free community events, including several street parties with inflatables, free food and live music over the last 20 years.
The event was open to all residents on application and included a children's film party; a film location tour; and an industry expert talk hosted by previous BBC morning breakfast broadcaster Samantha Meah in discussion with award winning local actors and screen writers Ivan Kaye (Vikings and Stephen King's The Dark Tower), Douglas McFerran (Sliding Doors), Jason Salkey (Sharpe) and Linda Hartley. There was also a movie screening and then live music from the TITRA community band.
Linda Hartley, Jason Slakey, Douglas McFerrin and Ivan Kaye deliver an Industry Talk at the Island Triangle Film Festival
Ivan Kaye, actor and producer said: "I was delighted to be invited to take part in the first ever Island Triangle Film Festival. Having been involved in many film and TV productions over the years, I am very passionate about the importance of retaining key filming locations for the British film industry. The Island Triangle streets are unique and they are particularly special in the midst of all this HS2 construction and other major developments popping up around us."
"The reason we do events like this is to protect the area from commercial and private encroachment," said Craig Gunn, Island Triangle Film Festival tour guide. "We want to protect the rich London history that is kept in the architecture here. These houses represent the working class of Britain."


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Oct 8, 2019 | Local News
Colette S. Peters, Director of the Oregon Department of Corrections (ODOC), announced the appointment of Tom McLay as the Superintendent of Powder River Correctional Facility (PRCF) in Baker City. The appointment was effective October 1, 2019.
McLay has over 18 years of experience working for DOC and has been Acting Superintendent for PRCF since December 2018. He started his career in 2001 as a Correctional Officer at Snake River Correctional Institution and promoted to Correctional Sergeant and Correctional Lieutenant. In July 2017, Tom promoted to Institution Security Manager at PRCF.
McLay grew up in Payette, Idaho. He holds Basic and Intermediate certificates from Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training (DPSST), Supervisory Leadership Academy Certification, Organizational Leadership and Management Academy Certification from DPSST, and is a Certified Taser Instructor.
Director Peters stated, "Tom brings a vast knowledge of solid security practices and works collectively with all institution partners and community stakeholders to ensure processes are followed and that PRCF continues to be recognized as Oregon's largest drug and alcohol treatment provider for adults in custody."
PRCF is a minimum-security prison in Baker City that houses approximately 366 adults in custody who are within four years of release. PRCF serves as a transition and re-entry facility and is focused on cognitive programming, work programs, and preparing for return to the community. PRCF is home to the 128-bed New Directions (Drug and Alcohol Treatment) Alternative Incarceration Program. Individuals who successfully complete this 180-day in-prison program are released to the community for a 90-day transitional leave period. Those who successfully complete the transitional leave period are granted a reduction in their sentence and move to post-prison supervision. PRCF opened in November 1989.
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Deer River woman pleads guilty to second-degree murder
In July 2022, 42-year-old Crystal Wilson allegedly stabbed a man inside of his camper and then set it on fire before fleeing the scene.
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BALL CLUB, Minn. — A Deer River woman has entered a guilty plea on charges related to the death of a man found in a burning camper in northern Minnesota in July.
According to documents obtained from the courts, 42-year-old Crystal Wilson pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of second-degree intentional murder and first-degree felony arson after prosecutors she stabbed a man and then lit his camper on fire in Ball Club, Minnesota.
On Monday, Wilson admitted to the crimes occurring over the night of July 17, 2022 leading into July 18, 2022.
According to a criminal complaint, bystanders recounted the man needing to be dragged out of his camper while on fire by neighbors; he suffered severe burns and puncture wounds all over his body.
Following her arrest, Wilson admitted to police she was in the victim's camper and thought he was going to attack her, so she stabbed him multiple times. During the interview with police, she described a "surreal" feeling and at one point "thought she was burning a witch," while she was igniting the flames that eventually caused serious damage to the camper.
Wilson faces up to 448 months in prison with guilty pleas to both charges. Her sentencing hearing is set for Jan. 20, 2023.
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Trumpchi Cars: A Triumph in the Motoring World
When it comes to automobiles, success can be measured several ways. First, it would be the actual performance of the car (and this includes the high level of craftsmanship and innovation placed on each and every vehicle). Second, would be style.
Some of the most iconic vehicles ever created have their own unique look that seems to grow better with age. Third, and probably the most important, would be driver and passenger comfort. It all boils down to the experience a vehicle can give to a person!
And all three facets are incorporated in every Trumpchi car. Let's get to learn more about this wonderful brand below!
A Triumphant Beginning
As part of the massive GAC Group, Trumpchi cars take pride in manufacturing some of the most stylish marque vehicles in China. Launched just last 2010, the group continued to grow and develop even more innovative cars.
Related: Other Chinese Car Brand Chery Automobile Co., Ltd.
So much so, that the group does plan expanding globally. This is a delight, considering the Trumpchi cars do excel in the mentioned motoring facets tackled above.
As of today, the group has expanded in key locations across the globe. With the Philippines, United Arab Emirates, and Russia enjoying the fine rides from the group, do expect more surprises that Trumpchi can only provide for the motoring industry!
Some Excellent Trumpchi Models to Get Behind the Wheel
We'd like to share some of the most excellent vehicles created by this amazing group. Check them out below:
Full List of Trumpchi Car Models
Trumpchi GA5
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Look stunning while on the road in the Trumpchi GA5. Based on an Alfa Romeo design, this car includes the promising motoring enhancements that the Chinese car brand takes pride of. A remarkable ride!
More About Trumpchi GA5 on Wikipedia
Trumpchi GA3S
A sedan wonder, the Trumpchi GA3S first launched last 2013, appealing Chinese motorists for its stylish looks and wonderful appearance. In fact, this car's aesthetics was inspired by the delightful Guangzhou Auto E-Jet concept car revealed earlier. But more than being just an eye candy, the Trumpchi GA3S continued to be revamped, with an electronic hybrid version released in 2016. Transmission comes in both manual (5-speed) and automatic (4-speed), with an impressive 1.6 L engine under its hood.
More About Trumpchi GA3S on Wikipedia
Trumpchi GS4
Another compact SUV, the Trumpchi GS4 brings the very best out of this vehicle category – with a lower price tag that will truly delight drivers! Additionally, an electronic variant also exists, showcasing the innovative prowess of the brand.
More About Trumpchi GS4 on Wikipedia
Trumpchi GE3
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Go all-electric for a cleaner and smoother ride! The Trumpchi GE3 is a crossover SUV that is powered by a unique electric motor. Best of all, it can even match up with contemporaries – showing that you can still be powerful and clean at the same time!
More About Trumpchi GE3 on Wikipedia
GAC GS8
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Launched in 2016, the Trumpchi GS8 proves that it is still a force to be reckoned with today. Both a high-performance and stylish SUV, this vehicle actually made waves in Lebanon!
More About GAC GS8 on Wikipedia
Styled to impress, the Trumpchi GS7 is an amazing vehicle that also excels in road performance. Featuring an appealing exterior, this powerhouse of a ride also offers comfort for drivers and passengers alike.
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Showcasing how it can pick up inspiration from top brands, and churning out enhancements of its own, the Trumpchi GS5 is a subcompact SUV that brings in the joy. By combining the best of the GA5 with some top highlights from Alfa Romeo (and boosting engine performance as well), this is one ride that brings in the excitement on the road!
Trumpchi has also created its own subcompact SUV. The Trumpchi GS3, which is based on the popular GA3 model, serves us joy and thrill with its sleek looks and powerful performance. With two choices of 1.3 L and 1.5 L I4 engines, there is always a Trumpchi GS3 that will fit any sort of driving style out there.
Trumpchi GM8
Another minivan under its helm, the Trumpchi GM8 was actually the brand's first take in exploring the many possibilities it can do with MPVs. And even as of today, the Trumpchi GM8 still excels in both style and reliability. Powered by a 2.0 L engine, this is truly a powerful and comfortable ride!
More About Trumpchi GM8 on Wikipedia
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For a minivan, the Trumpchi GM6 is surely a really stylish one. Able to comfortably seat up to 7 people, this eye candy of a van performs wonderfully as well. The Trumpchi GM6 is powered by a 1.5 L engine, proving that is has enough strength no matter the road situation is.
Another impressive sedan, the Trumpchi GA4 features both power and style. Officially released just in 2018 during the North American International Auto Show, this car did made waves with its innovative features. This car comes in two variants – a 1.3 L turbo I4 engine, and a 1.5 L I4 one.
The latter comes with either a 5-speed manual or 4-speed automatic transmission options; the former has a 5-speed manual or 6-speed options. Its testament to perform had recently been displayed in the Philippines: the Trumpchi GA4 trumped other vehicles in the Kalayaan Cup Endurance challenge done in 2019.
A mid-size sedan, the Trumpchi GA6 brings about the excellent style and performance that this automobile company can only deliver. This vehicle was launched in the Beijing Auto Show last 2014.
Bringing about excellence in a bigger format, this car continues to be a hot choice among motorists. The latest model, which was launched in 2019, also comes with a tech-savvy AI driver assistance system – a wonderful integration that will surely win more drivers!
Bridging the gap between executive styling and sporting performance, the Trumpchi GA8 is truly an excellent ride to be in. Powered by an impressive 1,991 cc engine, this car is filled to the brim with other motoring enhancements (to name a few, a tire pressure monitor, safety features like electronic stability program and electronic parking brake, and a strong interior frame). Truly, an excellent vehicle during its 2016 release and today!
We hope that you'd get the chance to drive a Trumpchi car today!
Video of Trumpchi Car Models
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Trumpchi Vehicle News, Trivias, Photos and Car Updates.
Other Trumpchi Car Brand Resources:
Trumpchi on Wikipedia
Trumpchi Official Website
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Citizens' Economic Council
Economics and economic policy matters enormously to all of us whether we like it or not. The more we all understand it the better democracy we will have and the better policies politicians will enact.
Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies
Discussion of the economy in the UK has been dominated by two contrasting narratives in recent years: before the 2008 financial crash it was a story that growth was robust and eventually would solve all problems. Since then, the narrative has focused on austerity, with spending cuts presented as the tough discipline of sound financial management. Despite its major failure in 2008, the financial system remains largely unchanged with broadly the same institutions, regulatory frameworks, policies and monetary system as before. The quality of debate about the economy fails to match the scale of the challenges we face in the 21st century.
Many people aren't familiar or confident with the terminology used in economics. Equally, discussion of economics is often shrouded in unnecessary jargon. "Expert" opinions become accepted as objective scientific truths rather than one view among many. This lack of transparency prevents people from engaging in economic debate or holding politicians to account. The result is a lack of creativity where new ideas, with genuine potential, remain on the political margins for fear the public can't grasp them.
The Citizens' Economic Council was the RSA's attempt to address this democratic deficit through an independent public engagement process which brought together a randomly selected and demographically diverse group of citizens to embark on a journey of deliberation and dialogue on the economy and economic policy.
Drawing from the best contemporary thinking the council explored:
What are the goals of an economy?
Who should the economy serve?
What are the trade-offs involved in economic decisions that need to made transparent and explored?
What new, innovative economic policies can we create that represent the perspectives, wishes and values of the public?
The Council developed principles for the goals of the economy based on the values and perspectives of citizens, co-produced practical recommendations and strengthened the transparency and accountability of economic policy.
The Council's deliberations are being used to engage the public in more informed and wider discussion and debate about the goals and priorities of economic policy through social media, a series of deliberative events focusing on economic inclusion, conferences and seminars in collaboration with self organising groups about local economic democracy, and an interactive online training course.
If you would like the opportunity to participate in the conversation join us on Twitter #citizenseconomy @citizenseconomy
If you would like to contact us about the programme, please e-mail citizenseconomy@rsa.org.uk
Towards economic democracy
You can read about the journey towards economic democracy in our Citizens' Economic Council interim report.
The Citizens' Economic Council is a brilliant initiative that arrives at the time when it is most urgently needed. All over the world, economics is all too often portrayed as the realm of stern experts, a territory where "ordinary" citizens must not venture. The very real perils of this perspective have become all too clear: nations stumble from one crisis to the next and extreme inequality is now the defining trait of our economic systems. The best way to bring about change is for ordinary citizens to come together and actively participate in defining an economic vision for the future.
Manuel Arriaga
Visiting Research Professor at NYU Stern and a Fellow of the Center for Digital Innovation at the University of Cambridge
Independent Advisory Group
The programme has an independent advisory group convened to ensure a high-quality engagement process. They have combined expertise in democratic dialogue, public engagement in policymaking, financial inclusion and the role of the media in strengthening democracy.
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Prof Rosie Campbell
Professor of Politics, Birkbeck University
Prof Graham Smith
Centre for the Study of Democracy
Victoria Waldersee
Rethinking Economics, Project Manager of Economy
Prof Steve Schifferes
Professor of Financial Journalism, City University
Diane Warburton
Researcher, Evaluator and Writer, Shared Practice
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Dialogue practitioner
Sian Williams
Toynbee Hall, Head of Financial Inclusion
Prof Ivor Gaber
Professor of Broadcast Journalism, University of Sussex
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Award-winning reinterpretation of the origins of modern international relations.
This book rejects a commonplace of European history: that the treaties of Westphalia not only closed the Thirty Years' War but also inaugurated a new international order driven by the interaction of territorial sovereign states. Benno Teschke, through this thorough and incisive critique, argues that this is not the case. Domestic 'social property relations' shaped international relations in continental Europe down to 1789 and even beyond. The dynastic monarchies that ruled during this time differed from their medieval predecessors in degree and form of personalization, but not in underlying dynamic. 1648, therefore, is a false caesura in the history of international relations. For real change we must wait until relatively recent times and the development of modern states and true capitalism. In effect, it's not until governments are run impersonally, with no function other than the exercise of its monopoly on violence, that modern international relations are born.


Dustin and McKenna really had an Oregon fairytale wedding in the forest. We had the honor of documenting this special camp wedding in the Bend, Oregon area over the summer and every element and detail felt magical. Especially the love Dustin and McKenna share for each other.
They selected a forest location right outside Sahalie Falls, filled with enchanting light, vivid green trees, and added so many personal details that really brought this fairytale to life. Dustin's mother made them a themed wedding cake, McKenna designed and created her own jewelry, belt and headpiece, and McKenna's Maid of Honor played and sang the song for their first dance.
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The following blog was written on May 8th 2014 shortly after the NFL Draft. I've decided to reprint it with some new ideas and include an offer from Topgrading to help you improve your Hiring Batting Average.
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New evidence suggests missing Littleton man is…
New evidence suggests missing Littleton man is possible homicide victim
Joseph Michael Brinson was reported missing two months ago
By Kirk Mitchell | kmitchell@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: March 28, 2019 at 8:49 am | UPDATED: March 28, 2019 at 4:02 pm
Jefferson County Sheriff's Office
Joseph Michael Brinson
Jefferson County sheriff's investigators have discovered evidence that indicates a 28-year-old man who has been missing for more than two months is a homicide victim.
Joseph Michael Brinson's family reported that he was missing on Jan. 23, according to a news release Thursday by Jenny Fulton, the sheriff's office spokeswoman.
"Recently discovered evidence in an ongoing investigation of a missing person case leads investigators to believe foul play may be involved," the news release said..
Authorities have not said what the new evidence is and have not indicated whether they have a suspect.
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Man, 73, stabbed to death in Lakewood apartment on Saturday night, assailant is at large
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Off-duty Colorado corrections officer fatally shot neighbor over July 4 fireworks dispute, affidavit says
Brinson was last seen at his home in the 9000 block of Mica Mine Gulch Road in Littleton on Jan. 17, Fulton wrote.
Check back with this breaking news story for updates.
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Kirk Mitchell
Kirk Mitchell is a general assignment reporter at The Denver Post who focuses on criminal justice stories. He began working at the newspaper in 1998, after writing for newspapers in Mesa, Ariz., and Twin Falls, Idaho, and The Associated Press in Salt Lake City. Mitchell first started writing the Cold Case blog in Fall 2007, in part because Colorado has more than 1,400 unsolved homicides.
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Members: Mike Gee, Afrika Baby Bam, Sammy B
Years active: 1987 – present
"I'm a jungle brother, a true, blue brother - and I've been to many places you'll never discover"
The Jungle Brothers are an American Hip Hop group, and founding members of the Native Tongues collective. The Jungles Brothers pioneered the fusion of jazz and Hip Hop and also became the first Hip Hop group to use a house-music producer. The group began performing in the mid-1980s and released its first album, Straight Out the Jungle, in July 1988. With Afrocentric lyrics and innovative beats, the Jungle Brothers were critically acclaimed and soon joined the influential Native Tongues collective. The original trio comprised Michael Small (Mike Gee), Nathaniel Hall (Afrika Baby Bam, a homage to Afrika Bambaataa) and Sammy Burwell (DJ Sammy B).
Their first album, Straight Out the Jungle, was released on an independent record label (Warlock). The single "I'll House You," added to the album in 1989, is known for being the first hip-house record recorded outside of the Chicago scene.
In spite of the commercial failure of Straight Out the Jungle, Warner Bros. Records soon signed the group and released Done By the Forces of Nature in November 1989. In 1990, the Jungle Brothers contributed the song "I Get a Kick" to the Cole Porter tribute album "Red Hot + Blue" produced by the Red Hot Organization.
Following a four-year break, the Jungle Brothers returned in 1993 with J Beez Wit the Remedy, another commercial disappointment. The Jungle Brothers involved themselves with an emerging Hip Hop organization called Ill Crew Universal (ICU) which released worldwide compilation albums and supported independent Hip Hop artists. Their fifth album, V.I.P. was produced by Alex Gifford of Propellerheads and, during production, they found time to add their vocal stylings to the Propellerheads tracks "Take California (And Party)" and "You Want It Back". Their latest album to contain any new releases is 2002's All That We Do.
Official site: Jungle Brothers
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_Brothers
Jungle Brothers "Straight Out The Jungle" (1988)
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New book on JFK's Bethesda autopsy, by one who was there
From Beverly Bandler:
Mark, there is a new book out, by James Curtis Jenkins and William Matson Law—At The Cold Shoulder of History: The Chilling Story of a 21-year old Navy Hospital Corpsman Who Stood at the Shoulder of JFK during the Bethesda Autopsy. Trine Day (October 12, 2018). At the Cold Shoulder of History gives an in-depth look at what happened in the aftermath of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. One of the only living participants in President Kennedy's autopsy now comes forward after almost 54 years of silence and speaks about what truly took place inside of the morgue at Bethesda Naval Hospital on the night of November 22, 1963. Jenkins gives a detailed account about the procedures performed on the President's remains. What he learned that night led him to believe there was a conspiracy in the murder of the 35th President of the United States and caused him to undertake his own personal journey into the labyrinth of the assassination. Why was Gen. Curtis LeMay in the JFK autopsy roomwhere he had no business being?
I am no expert on the JFK assassination, but I have done a fair amount of reading. The "law of probabilities" was violated just too many times. The whole issue smells of conspiracy, in my view.
Remembering JFK in 2018
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is being allowed to go quietly into history. We must not let that happen, not yet, not ever." – Gaeton Fonzi.
Gaeton Fonzi: "We can't forget John F. Kennedy's assassination. If we do, our vision of what our democratic system is all about, already waning, will dim dangerously."
Gaeton Fonzi (1935-2012) was an investigative journalist and author who focused on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He worked as a reporter and editor for Philadelphia magazine from 1959 to 1972 and contributed to a range of other publications. He was hired as a researcher in 1975 by the Church Committee and by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977. He published his findings as a congressional researcher in The Last Investigation.
Salon published November 23, 2018 an excerpt from Fonzi's book, The Last Investigation(2013). https://www.salon.com/2018/11/22/we-cant-forget-john-f-kennedys-assassination/ Readers are encouraged to read the excerpt, his book, and the work of several indefatigable people committed to finding the truth about the Kennedy national tragedy. There are excellent websites and many fine writers on the subject of John F. Kennedy's presidency and assassination. Fonzi's book should be singled out along with several others. Please refer to the lengthy bibliography in my post: "JFK's Assassination" (2013-11-16) attached. If you have only time to read one book on JFK, may I suggest: James Douglass's well researched JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters. Touchstone; First Touchstone Edition edition (October 19, 2010).
There are those who want us to forget the assassination, and have good reason to do so. Not only is there a dark truth of the assassination hidden, but the connection between JFK's assassination and to where we are as a nation today has been hidden. We must not forget. A president of the United States was assassinated more than five decades ago, and as Fonzi wrote: "our Government still tells us it doesn't know what really happened. There is no doubt now that the murder was a conspiracy, it says, but it isn't sure of anything beyond that." Think about that. It was a conspiracy, but… There is something very wrong and very chilling about that conclusion.
We are all overwhelmed by the daily chaos, confusion, uncertainty, incompetence, corruption, greed, irrationality in our American Nightmare brought to us by Donald Trump, today's version of the Republican Party, and a weakened Democratic Party (although one that gave "the wolves of oligarchy" a surprise on November 6, 2018), and the corporate hostile takeover of our country. We are awash in neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, neo-fascism, and authoritarianism with a heavy dose of Christian right extremism. We are living in a "time of monsters," Antonio Gramsci would remind us. While we do have leadership to help guide us through this period, unfortunately it is in shorter supply than desirable and it is stressed. Ordinary citizens will have to commit themselves to civic duties.
Many of us believe the nightmare in which we are living was not accidential—that it was planned, and suggest that a connection to the murder of John F. Kennedy in 1963 should be considered. – Beverly Bandler
"JFK's Assassination" by Beverly Bandler, November 16, 2013. (22 pgs)
Contents: Intro. The Motorcade Account. The Warren Commission. The Warren Commission Report. The 1976 House Select Committee on Assassinations. The Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board. The Zapruder Film. The Context: The Cold War and Domestic Division. The CIA. Some CIA History. Guatemala PBSuccess Operation. Operation Mongoose. Operation Northwoods. Phoenix Program. CIA Tie to Drug Traffickers. Operation Mockingbird. Websites. Bibliography.
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Advisors to the World Pankration Federation include some of the
most respected leaders of the martial arts and combat sports in the world.
The President relies on their advice and direction in matters of rules, refereeing,
operations, and matters pertaining to the furtherance of the sport of pankration.
Jim Harrison
Called by Bruce Lee "One of the most dangerous men in the world", and one of the greatest legends of the modern martial arts, Jim Harrison needs no introduction to anyone who has had even a passing interest in the combat sports during the past few decades. Known for his notorious battles during the unforgettable "Blood-N- Guts" era of American karate, He has been called the closest thing to a modern samurai the 20th century can produce.
Mr. Harrison was 3-time U.S. Karate Champion, 3-time All American Grand Champion, undefeated light-heavyweight Kickboxing Champion, and coach to the undefeated U.S. 1974-76 U.S. Professional Team.
He has trained U.S. Special Forces, Rangers, SEALs, Marine Recon and Delta Force, provided personal security for Chuck Norris, Linda (Mrs. Bruce) Lee and Prince Mikhail Matijasev, was awarded a Ph.D. for Research, Analysis and Instruction by Yudansakai University, was inducted into the International Karate Hall of Fame with Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee, and was Grandmaster Magazine's Hall of Fame "Man of the Millenium."
As feared and respected as Jim Harrison was (and remains) as a fighter, he was equally respected as a referee, and brings un- equaled experience and expertise to the WPF as a senior advisor, with particular attention to competition rules and officiating.
Known as the father of sport karate and kick- boxing, Mike Anderson started the Professional Karate Association, built kickboxing into the number one spectator sport of the 1970's, published Professional Karate Magazine, and was instrumental in building the worldwide kickboxing movement, in which he remains active.
One of the foremost authorities on competi- tive combat sports, both in the U.S. and interna- tionally, Mike Anderson brings over 40 years of competition, officiating and organizational ex- perience to his senior advisory role with the WPF, and lends particular expertise in the areas of rules, safety equipment and international development.
Bob Boggs
Bob Boggs holds a 7th Dan recognized by the USA Karate Federation, the United States Karate-do Kai and Mr. Jim Harrison.
In 1993, he became the 18th Modern American awarded a Ph.D. in Martial Arts by the Hall of Fame Society. In 1988, he was selected Sports Commissioner for the Junior Olympics, the first year karate was entered as a sport. In 1994, he was the Director and Coach of the Gold Medal Junior and Senior TEAM USA competing at the Goodwill Games in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 1996, he was awarded the "All American Award" for his work resulting in American athletes being allowed to participate in the 1995 Pan American Games in Argentina.
In 1997, Boggs was inducted as the 25th member of the USA Karate Hall of Fame, and shortly thereafter
into the USA Jujitsu Hall of Fame. In 1999, he was appointed as the Secretary Generall of the USA Federation of Pan- kration Athlima, and later that year as the Secretary General of the International Federation of Pan- kration Athlima.
He serves on the Executive Boards of the USA Karate Federation, the United States Karate-do Kai and the US Jujitsu Federation, and brings extensive experience in rules, refereeing, competition, and inter- national operations to his capacity as a senior advisor to the WPF.
Bob Thurman
Called by many "The man who built ESPN", Bob 'Thunder' Thurman was the undefeated Middle-weight World Kickboxing Champion from 1982-1990.
Holding a coveted Bushidokan black belt under World Shootboxing Champion Steve Mackey, Thurman brings a wealth of competitive experience and instructional know- ledge to his advisory capacity with the WPF.
Additionally, Bob Thurman actively participates in training and officiating with the WPF, providing athletes, coaches and officials with an opportunity to learn and benefit from his many years in the amateur and professional ring.
Eric Pence
A past Executive Director and Director of Coaching for the WPF, Eric Pence now serves as an advisor in the areas of rules, officiating and training.
Airborne, Ranger and Special Forces qualified, Pence was a member of Special Forces Operational Detachment A-732 from 1978 to 1985.
He holds dan ranks in judo, jujitsu and karate, boxed and kickboxed profes- sionally, and trains military and law enforcement units in task-specific defense/control tactics and combatives.
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ARVANITIS
The "Father of Modern Pankration", Jim Arvanitis revived the ancient combat training and sport of his forefathers after years of study - modernizing, systemizing and formalizing the tactics, techniques, skill sets and training regimen of his system, Mu Tau Pankration, in the early 1970s.
Resisting repeated attempts to capitalize on the historical and cultural aspects of the king of the Ancient Olympic sports at the expense of the ideals of strength, honor and integrity, Jim Arvanitis has been the driving force behind the growth of pankration for the past 30 years - and continues to be.
The World Pankration Federation recognizes Jim Arvanitis as the founder of the modern pankration movement, and as the historical and cultural authority on pankration.
Paul Holder
As an NCAA Referee for 22 years, Paul Holder brings unique experience to the WPF in the area of referee selection, training, testing, review, oversight and continuing education, as well as organizational structure and development.
His input from an elite amateur athletic perspective adds greatly to the development of intra-divisional cooperation and responsibility.


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Graduate Theses and Dissertations - Spanish and Portuguese
Transgresion y modernidad : la prosa de Ruben Dario
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Helguero, Lorenzo.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgetown University, 2009.; Includes bibliographical references. I argue that the impetus for the narrative production of Ruben Dario is transgression, which is manifested on different levels such as eroticism and the figure of the poet (or more exactly in that of the artist). I do not believe that one has to privilege one of them above the other -as Pedro Salinas and Angel Rama do- but to see the fundamental issue behind these two great themes: the transgressive element that breaks with bourgeois values of the epoch, i.e., sexual repression and utilitarian work.; Bourgeois society at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is a society that in practice (but not in its discourses, as Foucault reminds us) represses sex. Dario's writings are characterized precisely by the contrary: he continuously exalts sexuality and sensuality. Even in his narrative works one can discover references to types of sexual conduct that sexologists of the epoch defined as illness, such as homosexuality or fetishism. But what abounds definitively is an interest in making sex speak. Here sexual pleasure appears separated from its procreative function, thus its transgressive nature. To the capitalist rationale that accelerates productivity and the commercialization of industrial goods, Dario opposes an economy of pleasure: pleasure for pleasure itself.; There is, nonetheless, another type of production that strikingly opposes capitalistic production: the poetic, the artistic. And artistic production is in opposition precisely because it is not a utilitarian production nor does it seek necessarily an economic end. In modern society there is no longer a space for poetry or art: beauty, the ideal, has been displaced by material interest: money, industry, commerce. In a society in which production and utilitarian work have achieved so much importance, the poet--the artist in general--will be considered as totally unproductive.; Thus, understanding "transgression" as the break with what is morally acceptable for bourgeois society of the moment, I view transgression as the axis that articulates these two great themes in Dario's narrative.
Dario, Ruben, 1867-1916--Criticism and interpretation; Sex in literature; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); Art and society
Speak Softly or Carry a Big Stick?: Comparing the Approaches of The Humane Society of the United States and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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My thesis explores the varying methods that animal protection groups use to achieve their goal of increased protection for animals. In particular, I compare, contrast, and critique the approaches of The Humane Society of ...


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