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Paul would leave Athens for Corinth. It was a cosmopolitan Greek city influenced by its status as a Roman colony and a major trade port between the Western Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea. This created a pluralistic culture filled with religions and cultures of every type and combination. There he meets a Jewish couple named Priscilla and Aquila. They would become key leaders in Paul's ministry (Acts 18:18, 26; Rom 16:3-4; 1 Cor 16:19; 2 Tim 4:19). Priscilla and Aquila would share in both his ministry and vocation (1 Cor 9:1-18). So we pray for faithful fellow workers to serve alongside us as partners in our church planting ministry.
During this second missionary journey Luke tells us that Paul "reasoned in the synagogue" (Acts 17:2, 17; 18:4, 19; 19:8). It is his preferred term to describe Paul's ministry among the Jews during this missions trip. On some occasions they believed. On others some believed and others didn't. In Corinth we're told that they "opposed and reviled him" (18:6). So he left for the house of the man responsible for keeping order among the Jews, Titius Justus. Along with the leader of the synagogue and his family, they all believed Paul's message. So we pray for families to come to faith in our neighborhood and join the church.
Paul would say in Corinth for a year and a half "teaching the word of God among them" (18:11). The reason for his stay was a vision from the Lord. Luke tells us that God spoke to Paul giving him a command, an assurance, and a prophecy. The command was: "Do not be afraid, but go on speaking and do not be silent" (18:9). God wanted him to continue he teaching ministry despite the initial Jewish opposition. Paul was assured "I am with you...I have many in this city who are my people" (18:10). Before Jesus ascended to Heaven he gave the assurance "I am with you always even to the end of the age" (Matt 28:20). The Father knows we often need reassurance of his presence with us. He also tells Paul that "no one will attack you to harm you" (18:10b). This vision lead to Paul's eighteen month ministry in Corinth. So we pray for visions from the Lord that reassure, direct, and produce faithful ministry in our neighborhood.
Corinth was located in region known as Achaia. The proconsul (governor) was a man named Gallio. While Judaism was an accepted religion in Rome, they still were required to appeal to the governing authorities before bringing a final judgment against another. The Jews that opposed Paul earlier would attempt to bring a case against him to Gallio. But before "Paul was about to open his mouth" (18:14) Gallio shuts down the proceeding. The governing authorities (who had no sympathy with Paul or Christians) protected the church from religious opposition. So we pray for favor with local, city, and state government that would protect us from any opposition.


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Twenty-three peacocks were found dead at two different places in Rajasthan after consuming suspected poisonous food grains, police said today.
Carcasses of 17 peacocks, 5 male and 12 female, were found in Nagaur fort area in Tonk district yesterday, SHO of Nagarfort police station, Surendra said.
Six more peacocks were found dead in the forest area of Barwala village of Makrana town yesterday, police said.
Forensic experts of the forest department suspect that the peacocks died after consuming poisonous food grains. The samples of the food grains have been collected, the SHO said.
Cases under sections of Wildlife Protection Act have been registered by the forest department, he said, adding that the carcasses were buried after the postmortem.
Officer on Special Duty (OSD) in Wildlife Crime Control Bureau and environmentalist, BL Jajju, said it is sheer example of carelessness of forest and police departments that the national bird was being killed in parts of Rajasthan.
"We urge upon Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot to take cognisance of such wildlife cases and ensure free and fair probe so that responsibility be fixed on the forest department against such crimes," Jajju said.
"On average, ten peacocks were being killed daily by poachers in the state, but the forest and police officials are just sitting pretty on the fence. They are doing an eyewash job by only filing cases and ensuring no legal action against those who were engaged in illegal killings," Jajju said.
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The theme of this year`s Summer School of the University of Lodz will be "European Union Challenges: the New Context of Unity and Diversity". The seminars will be devoted to economic and social challenges the countries of the European Union are facing. Issues related to the mutual relations between the EU and other countries will also be discussed.
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Lectures and scientific debates are also intended to present the issues related to the changes of contemporary Polish society to the foreign guests.
This year`s Summer School participants are 40 students and accompanying lecturers from Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Ukraine, Russia, as well as scientists from Turkey and the US. The seminar will also be attended by a group of Polish students.
In addition to indoor and field didactic activities, the organizers have planned trips around Łódź and the region, cultural workshops and integration meetings.
According to Śpiechowicz, the organization of this international seminar is also a form of promotion of Poland and Polish culture, as well as Łódź as a developing city with a large scientific, cultural and economic potential.
The summer school will continue until July 7, and at the end students will receive certificates confirming the completion of the seminar and obtained ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits.
The Summer School Łodź 2018 is the only such initiative in Łódź to date. Its history dates back to 2004, when the authorities of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology and the Facultades Metropolitanas Unidas in Sao Paulo concluded an agreement on the creation of the Polish-Brazilian Summer School.
The Ecuadorian Universidad SEK in Quito joined the initiative two years later, and in the following years further universities followed, including the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires in Olavarría (Argentine) or the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico in Toluca (Mexico).
To date, almost 700 foreign guests have come to Łódź, including participants from Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Japan, China, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Hungary, Spain, Turkey and Italy. As part of the exchange, almost 400 students and lecturers from Łódź took part in similar seminars organized by foreign universities.
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We had another great year visiting the World Maker Faire in New York City. As usual, it was bigger and better than last time and we completely failed to capture it all. The young master wanted to do some interviews again, so here is one we had with the lovely people from the Vex IQ challenge. We're going to have to see if there are any events near us, although it's another couple years before the nerdlet will be within the target age range.


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Time Travel
I uncovered this photo of yours truly and one Robert E. Beamon Jr of (then) Chicago, Illinois. It was taken, with respect to our time, some twenty-eight years ago, in 1983, ostensibly in San Antonio, Texas. I am the one with the bigger, longer, and manlier gun.
This is shown because I have been asked many times to show my mug, and this example is as good as any other. This is as my personage was at one point in time. Little has changed except for the addition of depth and a fine chiseling due to maturity. My hair, for example, is of the same length, though my hat is now brown.
The phrase "with respect to our time" is necessary, because this picture was taken when Beamon and I were in the Air Force at Lackland AFB. It my belief that there we were subjected to a military experiment, during which the scene in this photo occurred.
Part of the experiment involved sleep deprivation coupled with extreme physical stress. I vividly remember being made to stand in line to receive drugs via an electric syringe. We also were made to eat substances which, judging by their taste, must have been laced with purposeful reagents.
From the photographic evidence I can only guess that we went back in time, and that, when in the past, we participated either in some nefarious activity or were part of a squad to quell such activities. I have no memory of which.
Since I cannot remember what happened, obviously the experiment was a success. But at least we have the evidence you see before you today.
I am on jury duty starting this morning. Posts may be somewhat irregular until I am released.
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I've never served on a jury, but my wife has – at the Old Bailey. Historic or what?
There's even a Stats page, Briggs.
So just how prophetic was this photo? You're a statistician, and so clearly committed to either a Life of Crime or Futile Revolutionary Martyrdom. Did Mr Beamon become an Intellectual Incorrigible as well?
Agh! Finger off the trigger! Finger outside the trigger guard!
Other than that, great picture.
Stare at the defendant. Then stare at the defense attorney. While he/she is looking back lift your necktie [you are wearing one, right?] by the tail end over your head, simulating a hangman's noose. You'll be gone within the hour. But don't let the judge see you.
As to the photograph, being in Texas AND the Air Force simultaneously does strange things to memory modules. It had less to do with chemical experimentation, than with how many week-end trips one took to Denton, aka "Tessieland". Of course in your era it was better known as TWU. Recalling this, one understands why blame is more conveniently lain at the feet of surreptitious government experiments.
You're losing out to CNN. Might be time to further debunk.
Robert E. Beamon, Jr.? From Chicago?
Would he be any relation to THE Bob Beamon?
I have been called to the pool for jury duty but either not selected or eliminated early in the process. I always assume it was because I held degrees and what lawyer in his right mind wants intellgent people on the jury?
I can relate. I was called up for jury duty in Denver a decade or two ago. They had you fill out a questionnaire on the first day. On the second day I was in a pool called in for a criminal case. At the beginning of the voir dire process the defense attorney was waxing poetic about how important it was for each of us to fulfill our civic duty. Whether one was a housewife or a … [here he paused to check his notes] geophysical engineer, we all served a curcial role. I knew when he called out my profession that I wouldn't be selected. Sure enough, within an hour I was excused.
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Lucky you. Where I live, you either sit around all day or get selected. If you're selected and the trial ends early, you get to go home. OTOH, if the trial is held over… If you're really unlucky you get picked for a trial that starts mid-afternoon — guaranteed to be held over.
Last time, I was selected for the very first trial. We were done around 2PM. It was kinda fun.
Try not to dwell on the fact that while you're getting $30 a day the lawyers are making $500 an hour.
It just occured to me that you look like a character from a Dashiell Hammett novel. Maybe Wisper Thaler from "Red Harvest".
I'd have never figured you for gangsta cred, Briggs. 😉
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Thanks for the Youtube video. That was a great moment in Olympics history. Only us older folks seem to remember the 1968 games, though.
Mr Briggs and Mr Beamon have captured that 1920's look we used to see in those black and white movies starring Jimmy Cagny and Edward G. Robinson. Nice picture.
I truly hope your experience(s) while locked in the jury room with a bunch of [strange] strangers aren't too mystifying, annoying, innane, etc.
And, I do hope you'll be able to convey what sorts of rationalizations, [il]logic, and so on & so forth some of the other jurors will inevitably display.
Pity nothing happened. I had a very positive experience as a juror in England a year or so ago. The Judge was highly competent and treated us an important part of the process. He encoraged us to ask questions (through him, of course) and he responded very positively when we followed him up on that. After he had asked our questions of the witnesses he then asked to see if we were happy with the outcome. We were.
I know other people may have different experiences but mine was 100% positive. We found the Defendant Not Guilty in an aggrevated dometic. Sharp kitchen knife – a fine spattering of blood in a small room. Hostile witness. I felt justice was being done and was seen to be done.
Sorry about spellings.
To clarify: when I said "fine" I meant generous …
When I was on a jury on a civil case in San Francisco, the plaintiffs lawyer in her summation says "The law says you must …" the Judge almost jumped out of her chair, directing her statement to the jury – I will tell you what the law is. The lawyer turned bright red and we the jury just smiled. It generated some prime comments during deliberation about lawyers.


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15th December 2016
Dear Santa,
I'm not sure if you will have had many visits from the Senior pupils yet – they have been especially busy in the last few days, enjoying end of term events. These have included taking time to remember the real meaning of Christmas at our Christingle service, showing great courage and confidence in Trinity's Got Talent, performing in the boarders' pantomime and then showing how proud of the school they are at our Carol Service in St. Michael's church. Despite this, I am sure that they all have their wish lists, and I was just wondering if you could add a couple of extra gifts from me. They are quite specific and may be difficult to get hold of, but I am sure you and your elves will find some way of helping.
A reward chart – this is similar to ones they may have had when they were younger, but with a slight twist. I need each pupil to have the elite version which automatically recognises whenever and whatever they have achieved – no matter how small or 'insignificant' it may appear to them. I really want them to acknowledge their own personal successes and not compare themselves to others.
An inner self mirror - not easy to source and quite a rare present. I need you to give all of our pupils the type of mirror that reflects their inner selves and personalities. The problem with most mirrors is that they don't reflect
the truth, just personal perceptions and insecurities. I really need them to be able to see their inner beauty and help them realise that it is who they are and what they do which is more important than what they look like.
Time – I bet you get asked for this all the time! If not possible, then how about just removing batteries from all time telling devices so that they can enjoy time with their family and friends without feeling under pressure or
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Plasticine – Ok, so old school, but this isn't such a bad thing. I really just want our pupils to be able to realise that they can all be creative and be able to mould and shape their ideas.
And finally, as you leave, please sprinkle them all with that magic dust called I really want them to believe in themselves and listen rather than just hear. We all make mistakes but it means that we can learn and be better.
As for me, don't worry, I had my early Christmas present in September; the joy of which will last with me forever.
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The commute from home to the office, our morning ritual and how we spend our weekend, in what order we find our groceries in the supermarket; our lives are full of routines. Because we know our daily routes so well they have turned into routines, we are easily frustrated if these are disturbed by, for instance, traffic diversions. But when we are vacationing we love to break our daily rhythms and are delighted when we stumble upon something we didn't expect to happen. We choose another breakfast, eat it later or earlier in the day and explore new routes.
Why do we have the urge to seek for a familiar route and why do we have a feeling of relief when we get rid of them? Is it crucial for creatives to break routines or is there a growing market for designing routes and routines? Leading experts in the field of way finding and routines will share their insights on how to design routes and lead people the way. How can we influence people once they have found a routine they intend to stick by? How we can get rid of our routes and why is this essential?
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Fenne Roefs studied Psychology, with a specialization in Cognitive Ergonomics (MPsy) at the University of Maastricht and graphic design (BA) at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague. She is a senior information designer at Mijksenaar, a way finding design agency. The Amsterdam based company specializes in the design of visual orientation, navigation, and information systems. At Mijksenaar, Roefs works on a diversity of projects, where she combines her creative and analytical skills to find solutions for special way finding issues.
Melle Smets is artist, curator and critic in public space. The landscape offers many signs and traces that represent old and current societal trends. By interpreting and visualising these traces Smets researches the relation of man and his surroundings. He does this by way of expeditions: he examines the surroundings by sight rather than by function creating a strikingly different result.
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"The Wetherbeat Scene" is a 36-track compilation released by 555 Recordings, formerly of Leeds, now based in Flagstaff, Arizona. It documents the small scene that developed in the Yorkshire town of Wetherby, leading eventually to the founding of 555. I was initially attracted to this release because it features some early tracks by Hood, although it's difficult to reconcile the chaotic, Pavement-like racket with the atmospherics that Hood have released in the last few years. (They are one of the few bands where I actually think their later music is better.) If you're familiar with Hood's early releases such as "Cabled Linear Traction" or the singles compiled on "Structured Disasters" then you should have some idea of what to expect, but the tracks featured here are more shambolic still and I think it's safe to assume that most of them were recorded in somebody's bedroom.
As you'd expect with a 555 compilation, there are a number of Boyracer tracks, including a hilarious take on Run DMC's "It's Tricky", which appears as the final, unlisted track on the CD. I always find Boyracer enjoyable, but I'm not sure if I really need any more of their songs. I already own something in the region of 200 Boyracer tracks and I'd probably struggle to identify at least half of them if they were played to me blind. One day I'll find time to sit down and listen to their entire back catalogue properly.
Apart from Hood and Boyracer, I hadn't actually heard of any of the other bands on the CD and I suspect most of them never went on to record anything else. The most prolific band on the CD, with 10 songs, is Baby Doll Lounge, whose members later formed Boyracer. Their music is typical light-hearted late-'80s indiepop, and if their song titles are anything to go by, they were influenced by The Wedding Present. You can easily imagine titles like "You Don't Have To Say Yes" or "Why Should I Communicate With You?" appearing on an early Wedding Present release, and just in case we haven't got the message already, they also have a song called "I Stood Next To David Gedge In Jumbo Records". However, their cover of Primal Scream's "Velocity Girl" seems unnecessary, as it is barely distinguishable, to my ears at least, from the original. Other bands on the CD include The Liddles, The Harbour Pilots and The Paisley Springtime. I can tell you very little about any of these bands, and Google only comes back with, respectively, a medical disorder, maritime job vacancies and some curtain material.
The CD comes with a 40-page book. Well, to call it a book might be a little generous. It has a nice glossy cover, but the inside resembles a cheaply-photocopied fanzine. Not that I'm knocking cheaply-photocopied fanzines; I've contributed to a few in my time and the presentation of this one fits perfectly with the music on the CD and the era it is documenting. It harks back to a simpler time, before the internet, when music was traded on cassette and interest in new bands was generated by word of mouth. The booklet features a few interviews with people who were involved with the bands (many of whom were still attending Wetherby High School when they recorded the songs included on the CD) as well as reproductions of gig flyers and, best of all, photos of fresh-faced youths with floppy fringes and paisley shirts:
That, in case you're wondering, is an early shot of Richard and Chris Adams of Hood. I find that picture particularly touching, because when I was at school in the late '80s, everyone I knew looked like that.
"The Wetherbeat Scene" is limited to 200 copies, so as soon as I heard about it, I ordered one directly from 555's website. I later found out that there are some copies for sale in the UK, so if you want one then it might be better to try Norman Records first before ordering it from the US. I'm not sure if paying for it in dollars cost me any more, but it did mean I had to wait an extra week for it to arrive. Having said that, if you do buy it from the label, you get a nice handwritten note from 555/Boyracer founder Stewart Anderson:
Although much of the music included is rather amateur in both style and recording quality, it has a certain endearing nature and, combined with the book, it makes a great historical artefact. Fans of Sarah Records and the like, or modern-day tweecore such as The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, will certainly enjoy the youthful enthusiasm found here.
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At the recent SWTPA agm attended by members of the Malpas club we returned with a good haul of silverware :-
Best event of the year 2013 - Dearnford lake pull
Puller of the year 2013 - Onky Ankers
Non competing member of the year 2013 - Julie Ankers
2nd Sport Farm class 2013 - Ian beardmore - Miss Dynamite
2nd Super Farm class 2013-Mark (bean) Fewtrell - Bluebird Express
2nd Limited Pro Stock 2013 - Onky Ankers - Skinny
It was very pleasing to win the event of the year for the second time in three years as a reward for all the hard work done behind the scenes by club members and helpers as well as all the pullers who attended , some of whom travel considerable distances,as well as all the spectators who enjoyed the show.
Well done to all the trophy winners , well deserved for all you efforts .
We would like to thank you all and hope you will come and support us again (bring some friends with you ).
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Just before Christmas some our members had great fun in Toys R Us spending £600 that we raised at our pulls in 2013 and they managed to persuade the shop manager to add another £30 . They Bought toys for kids all ages as well as books ,dvd's, games etc . All these were then handed over to the Hope House Childrens Hospice in time to help give all the children something extra at this special time of year.
We would like to thank everyone who helped to raise this amount for a very worthwhile cause and we hope we can count on your support in 2014 .
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Many car manufacturers are designing and testing driver-less vehicles, including Swedish giants Volvo.
But it seems that the self-driving cars have an problem with kangaroos.
Sweden's top car producer's Large Animal Detection System, apparently works well with the likes of a deer but cannot fathom out what to do when it is faced with a kangaroo.
So far their models S90 and XC90 have suffered from this issue.
A technical manager said it was to do with the way the animal moves. When in the air, it appears further away than what it is but on the ground it seems to be closer, which confuses the detection system.
Over 2000 collisions per annum are reported by drivers in Australia, so it is a major problem down under. In fact, 80% of animal collisions are believed to involve the roos.
The nation's insurance companies would love to find a solution to the problem, as it would save them a fortune in payouts.
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You cannot expect improvement unless you push yourself. To see change, you must make a change. For me, it was using the free weights. I was intimidated and afraid at first, but now I bench press next to the boys with no problem. It was outside my comfort zone; now it is just what I do.
1. Things that are outside your comfort zone
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Over many years of observation and experience, I've become a student of holiday stress. You're probably familiar with the "Stress index," which assigns a score to various life events. There are other stress indices to measure occupational stress, parenting stress, and other "locational and temporal" stress. In fact, Google lists 1,480,000 entries for "Stress index." That's a lot of interest in stress! However, examining one's own habits, behaviors, and attitudes can provide a more accurate indicator by measuring your reaction to potentially stressful situations, rather than the situations themselves.
We've heard (and possibly ignored) some of the sensible advice about managing stress: to eat right, exercise, don't hold emotions in. However, it's interesting that the stress inventory published by the Canadian Mental Health Association also includes the following "fill-in-the-blank" possibilities to the question, "Do you frequently. . ."
- Fail to get a break from noise and crowds?
- Race through the day?
- Fail to build relaxation time into your day?
- Think there is only one right way to do something?
- Make a "big deal" out of everything?
These elements are equally essential in managing your stress as are exercise, diet, and rest. They are harder to "fix," because they require a level of awareness and choice-making that goes beyond a simple "just do it." Yet, it's precisely in these neglected aspects that the Feldenkrais Method can help you learn to do better, and lower your stress.
There's something wonderful about the mood and ambiance of a Feldenkrais Class. No matter how many people are there, each one seems to blossom in the quiet expectancy that fills the room. Everyone has enough personal space on their mat, on the floor. There's no music blaring; just a calm, friendly voice to calm and guide you, and let you think, or just be. The movements are slow and gentle. You feel the contrast between the racing you left, and something else that feels better. You remember what it feels like to relax, to let your body and mind float, completely safe and supported by the floor.
Each lesson offers practical experience in exploring multiple options for accomplishing the same thing. Sometimes an easy solution is not obvious. You have to experiment to find the best way for you. You might catch a glimpse of another student, and notice that he's doing something a little different than you are. Together, you explore separately, and arrive at your own best way. It's refreshing for the mind and body to engage in an activity, just for a short time, where the stakes aren't so high.
It seems that our culture is full of judgment for those who "escape" or "turn off" like this. For some, the therapeutic language of pathology is the only way to rationalize the human need to be human, and on occasion, to rest. If you were a machine (and you're not, by the way), you probably would understand that you have to turn it off every once in awhile. You have to refresh, reboot, update. The "machinery" of your mind, body, and soul deserves no less. It can be as simple as making opportunities for yourself to examine how you do what you do. Improvement can be enjoyable!
People sometimes get the impression that the Feldenkrais Method is just for relaxation, to become a mellowed-out wet noodle of a being, floating through life with a silly smile on your face. It's important to remember that Moshe Feldenkrais was a black belt in Judo, and trained others in hand-to-hand combat, for real. He understood that strength, power, and endurance must be balanced with rest, awareness, and efficiency.
A little bit of stress and anxiety can be just what you need to get up off the couch and go do something productive. However, they can also sneak up on you, and suddenly you're not having any fun. (Neither is anyone around you.) I like the Canadian Mental Health Association list because it lists "stress habits" that can be changed with some self-awareness and a little practice in doing differently. This is where the Feldenkrais Method can help you to excel.


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When he got to the doctor's office, he was in for a surprise. Not that his blood pressure or cholesterol numbers had gone down; on the contrary, his weight had gone up. Yeah, he had to reluctantly admit that his shirts fit more snugly about the midsection and he tended to leave the last button undone. He found himself routinely sucking in his gut for photos, though it seemed to do little good. His pants protested as he did acrobatics to get the fastener secure and the belt around his waist.
Dammit, he thought, not changing his expression so the nurse wouldn't see his embarrassment.
The career move required him to pass a physical and a drug test. He had never as much as lit up anything more potent than the occasional stogie, and even those made him cough profusely when he did.
He sat in the room to which the nurse had relegated him, calmly awaiting the doctor's arrival. When the portly woman tapped the door twice and came in, he figured it was another nurse, there to draw a couple of vials of blood.
"Mr. James," the solid redhead with the freckled face asked.
"Yes, ma'am," he said cheerfully, "That would be me."
"I'm Dr. Martinsdale." There was an upbeat look on her face but it came off like a mask. Her eyes said something different that her smile.
"Hey, Doc."
She went on to tell him that, because of his body mass index, she was going to have to recommend a sleep study. He was honest in admitting his wife complained of his snoring and that he stopped breathing several times during the night.
The doctor's look was solemn. "I won't be able to pass you on the physical until after your sleep study. By the time that's done, you won't be able to start training for the new position for another two months."
He didn't want to beg, but he knew that not asking if there was a way to take the physical, get the sleep study done, and start the job within the next few weeks, would be silly. He steadied himself for the answer he knew deep down would come.
Dr. Martinsdale lowered the boom with all kindness but we was crushed by her response, anyway. He tried his best to grin, took her recommendation on a slip of yellow paper, and made his way to the door.
Though he felt like a lonely kid kicking a can up the street, he knew the blame was all his. How many times had he promised to start working out and making better dietary choices? Instead, like most people, he made excuses.
As if on cue, the clouds gathered and began to rain. Yeah, he'd washed his car the day before, but this was about how his life was going nowadays.
"No," he said to himself aloud, pausing in the middle of the parking lot. The droplets went from a gentle weep to an all-out cry, no sparing of the snot. He refused to allow himself to make excuses or to feel sorry for himself. People rushed past from their cars into the building, trying to avoid the downpour in which he stood statue still.
He could take the doc's refusal to pass him on the physical as a sign that he needed to make some drastic changes. His sandcastle, which he had spent years building, had been kicked over by another kid. He could stand there like a sniveling fool, allowing the rain to hide childish tears, or he could see it as cleansing.
Leland James chose the latter.
He had no clue how he was going to break the news to his wife but he knew needed to whip his overweight butt back into shape. She wouldn't make too much of a fuss about him not getting the new job, since he'd never left the old one. The bills would still be paid and his family would be just fine.
This was just a wake-up call.
His clothes were saturated. He already felt the trickle of water forming a river down his spine, the basin of it being his underwear. It didn't matter if he ran to his car or not–he was soaked.
Home was only five miles away. It was August and the storm actually gave a welcome reprieve from the mind-numbing heat in the weeks that'd preceded it. He could think clearly for once. He decided to take the first step in his journey to rebuild and perfect his kingdom. A nice, long walk would give him the time to ponder and it would be some good exercise.
The doc's news was probably the best he'd heard in a long time. And he was still healthy enough to make the needed changes.


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Lorraine's entire career has been in the healthcare field servicing people. Lorraine works at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. She is a member of the Darien Chamber of Commerce, Co-chair of the Darien Women in Business and also serves on various local organizations and committees. Lorraine recently started a small business as an Independent Mary Kay® Beauty Consultant. She has used this as an opportunity to give back to the community by donating all or a portion of her profits to various charitable organizations and nursing homes. She is pleased to serve as D.G. Township Clerk.
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Experimentation in BDSM
The basic element of BDSM sexuality is one of pure experimentalism. Approaching BDSM with open-mindedness is essential to the enjoyment of BDSM. A commonality between BDSM and other types of sexuality is the spectral nature of the experience. Fetish sexuality exists along a spectrum, perhaps even within a field or universe of its own, and at certain times, the only true tenet in BDSM might be the notion that one cannot enjoy what one has not tried.
A list of hypothetical aesthetic and sexual analogs could be drawn up:
What I do not wish to imply is that my artistic taste or any of my work in music, painting, collage, drawing, photography, or film is influenced by the notion of depicting sexual acts or is intended to be an expression of the emotions tied to sexual activity. All I mean is that the action of choking a blindfolded lover with a belt while she cums multiple times after an hour's long lead up that involved high-impact flogging, degradation, humiliation, and tit torture—with a harsh noise wall used to drown out the sounds of her moans and her ability to anticipate the next crack of the whip—is about as far removed as you can get from the banality of boring in and out pumping with a club track playing in the background (those types of sexual encounters typically involve the participants fantasizing about other people anyways). I aim to achieve this level of unorthodoxy and rawness in my work, alongside the rational and calculated.
What I am getting at is that the expression of the anomic, the alien, the primal; all those elements of the paradisiacal island of sexual and aesthetic maturity; these are the concepts that I look to express in my music, art, and writing. All by way of experimentation. The promiscuity of forms and content is an exploration that my work is currently focusing itself upon. Building tools from scratch (just as I have built toys from scratch) is also a focus; I currently write patchers in software like MAX and Reaktor for both visual and sound applications. In fetish sexuality, anything can be tried; the gratifying elements are to be retained and the extraneous are to be reserved.
Fetish sexuality co-opts so-called lovemaking (which is an outmoded, strictly confined concept in and of itself) as an act that engages one's creative faculties. The most intense BDSM experiences are abstract, a sudden and sustained shock of distorted meaning and signification that engages distinct antipodal points of our human instincts (the aggressive and the primal; Eros and Thanatos), into a singular experience in time and space. The experiences are intense, experimental and highly memorable bits of pleasure and pain intertwined with one another. To approach the act of creation in this manner, is not for everybody, and that is the appeal of BDSM.
Psychical Exploration
To get at a really satisfying BDSM experience, one has to explore one's mind very much in a way that is similar to the methods of the Dadaists and Surrealists. Sexual experiences that have taken place between myself and various partners have been inspired by revelations made in therapy; dreams and nightmares; free writing; films; and the transposition of items not intended for sex into a sexual context (in fact, I pride myself on the ability to be able to walk into a hardware store with $50 and leave with enough material to pleasure a partner for the whole weekend without repeating the same sex act twice).
My early sexual experiences were often boring, by rote experiences of light spanking and gentle hair pulling before I engaged in a long-term study of the human mind and human society. At one point, I intended to formally study sexology and commit myself to a formal research of human sexuality—but I opted for a privately, more personally funded research endeavor instead. Exploring my own psyche involved a long process of dismembering my preconceptions about personal identity, a process of ego-dismemberment that involved experiences that were wide-ranging and unconventional. Part of that self-discovery involved experiences with straight women, gay men, lesbian couples, trans-women and trans-men, married couples, and groups I met through swingers' clubs and gay bars. These experiences included impact play, wax play, religious play, race play, age play, standard roleplay, WAM, watersports, emetophilia, and so forth. A turning point was when I began constructing my own floggers and canes; spanking benches and restraints; and ultimately realized that fetish sexuality is an art in and of itself that involves an understanding of one's mind, one's body, and one's spirit.
This is the key to creating true art.
Mediation: Scarcity and Saturation
In my life, I have had the recurrence of two extremes of BDSM experience: one with no toys and no paraphernalia; and the other with an overabundance of choices of toys and paraphernalia. Anecdotally, a long term partner and myself had engaged in a lot of different types of play and what we learned was the more complex the experience, the less satisfying it was on a primal level. What we eventually noted, was that when we had spontaneous experiences, say in a friend's house during a party or in a remote corner of the public library, we still had a satisfying experience due to the presence of our natural sexual apparatus (genitalia and hands). I was still spontaneously capable of choking her, spanking her, and penetrating her. Those experiences were often more satisfying to us than experiences involving a spanking bench, a St. Andrew's Cross, suspensions, a hitachi, a hundred yards of jute rope, a custom soundtrack, custom lighting, and so forth.
In a technological world, we often forget that we are animals who really only possess the disease of religion, philosophy, opinion, politics, murder, art, music, racism, classism, and the like. We are Idiots. We are over evolved Apes. Our hyperreality is comprised of an abundance of individual choices between sounds, flavors, images, and other sensate experiences. The self-aware realize this and engage both the beast and the intellect. However, these extremes, the primal and the rational, need mediation.
BDSM has taught me the importance of being resourceful when confronted with scarcity but also appreciating saturation and finding a time and place for each extreme. Currently, my work involves a data-saturation of sorts and the utilization of integer sets as generative material for various types of processing and calculation. At other times, my work will involve what might appear as childish scribbling or graffiti markings on paper and canvas. What is important is the mediation between extremes—the primal and the rational—between scarcity and saturation.
BDSM can be an incredibly intellectual, but there is also a state of altered consciousness that is entered. Anybody who has lots of experience and has had satisfying experiences is aware of this state. I need not utter the name of this mental state. Those of us who are initiated know the name of it, and the herd needs to learn it for themselves. Lesser humans have used artificial means to arrive here (think LSD, alcohol, ecstasy, crystal meth, etc.), but this can be achieved by several natural means and BDSM is one of them. For those of us who have experienced great fetish sex, we are well aware of that moment when rationality and intellect cease processing the real and the hyperreal and a trance-state is induced. This is why the spirit has to be maintained alongside the body and the intellect. BDSM is ritualistic and requires endurance, strength, suppleness, and everything in between. BDSM is a true yin and yang experience, as I have said, a mediation.
I am including a list of books, films, and music that have influenced my explorations of the fetish lifestyle throughout the years. While this list is not definitive and it is merely subjective, these have all helped me to understand these concepts and I recommend that those who are interested familiarize themselves with these works. Some of them deal with unorthodox sexuality, others are merely unorthodox:
The Psychick Bible by Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
Liber Null by Peter J. Carroll
Seductive Art of Japanese Bondage by Midori
The New Topping Book by Janet W. Hardy
Female Ejaculation and the G-Spot by Deborah Sundahl
Sex, Drugs and Magick by Robert Anton Wilson
Modern Sex Magick by Donald Michael Kraig
The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus by Violet Blue
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Cities of the Red Night by William S. Burroughs
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs
The Job by William S. Burroughs
The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave
Crash by JG Ballard
Music for Bondage Performance by Merzbow
Clitoris Projectile Pump Action by Masonna
Ejaculation Generator by Masonna
Adoration of the Faceless Woman split by Vomir/Paranoid Time
Filmworks V: Tears of Ecstasy by John Zorn
Ganryu Island by John Zorn and Michihiro Sato
The String Quartets by John Zorn
STRGTHS by SHXCXCHCXSH
The Disintegration Loops by William Basinski
My Love is a Bulldozer by Venetian Snares
The Piano Teacher (2001)
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Rubber's Lover (1996)
Año Bisiesto (2010)
Get My Belt (2013)
Crash (1996)
Caligula (1979)
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
Lunacy (2005)
Pink Flamingos (1972)
A Dirty Shame (2004)
964 Pinnochio (1991)
Visitor Q (2001)
Graphic Sexual Horror (2009)
Hakujitsumu (1964)
St. Valentine
shit pours from my lips
it fills the candlestick with gas and perfume
corpses intertwine like egos
and drips of alcohol
ignite their perfume
can you believe there is no censorship
left in the newspaper?
possibly the eroticization of relieved bowels
will disintegrate your shallow ego
your hallow ego
your okra, your dildo, your potato skin
your whole agenda
is divided into white, black
pink, blue
fiction, fantasy
and every shade of disbelief in between
you owe us nothing
yet, take everything for yourself
you have already begun to undress yourself
in front of the whole world
this is why I could never love you
everything and nothing is left for me
artificial light battles me lightly
attempting to write my own autobiography
after all of my slander has passed into idiocy
eternally grateful for the hateful anonymity
of the blanket of digital stars
fifteen awards
fifteen directors
emptiness knows his name
emptiness knows my name
attempting to remember where it all began
only the strong shall survive violence
only the violent survive silence
the silent will collect money, data, goggles, and heat
the mute button
writing for one more ride
one last chance
it is I who will write the story of our decline
juices flow
every passive aggressive
nonsensical bit of censorship
sucks up the savory worthlessness of its own ego
I forgot you
I forgot to indulge you
I forgot to follow you
instruct you and dominate you
you have unwritten our own story
our own revolution
I can comfortably move forward
knowing that our reticence
represents an ending
a quiet apocalypse
the mute orgasm of the smile
forget me forgetting you
it is over.
The film Hidden Figures depicts a time not mythologically different from our own —or more specifically, the historical context of the film (which takes place in the early 1960s, just before the landmark overturning of segregation in The Civil Rights Act of 1964) was made relevant to contemporary audiences via the utilization of cinematic significations, by way of the interplay of symbolic representations of race and gender. This usage of signification was necessary to create the dramatic effect that audiences have come to anticipate from their collective experience of cinematic mythology, from the storytelling —or in this case— the retelling of a nonfiction, a recognition of the achievements of three scientists who happen to be black and happen to be female.
The production design was aseptically clean and perfectly arranged in its symmetry and purity —identical props were often present in the crash points of key shots, the hallways were always spotless, the movements of extras were seamlessly and sublimely choreographed, even the child's drawing of her mother was aesthetically pleasing as an object of organic perfection. This was a quality that was essential in drawing attention to the films' dramatic tensions of inaccuracies in mathematical computation and the inevitable shock value that would be experienced by contemporary white audiences in their viewing of the mythology of systemic racism and sexism (which is mythological to them as it can only be symbolically represented and never experienced as a pure reality). The aseptic whiteness of the production design carried a subtext that whispered into the subconscious of the viewer, "This is not our reality as we know it today. Our Golden Age could have been perfect if it was not for our lack of progress in science, gender equality, and racial equality." It is almost as if the film itself has appeared at a time when Americans are in dire need of reassurance that these boundaries have been overcome —the film serves as a means of sublimating our collective desire for social justice.
Monumental statues —themselves being phallic symbols of white masculine domination over ethnic and gender minorities— were seen throughout the film on campuses, near courthouses, and other significant locations. These monumental statues indeed exist in our present day society from the exact same cinematic vantage point from which the audience views them —that is to say, these statues are presented on screen in their 'real' life state, which is that of a perfected phantasm, a monument to the simulated history of America. The three women scientists also partake in bourbon or some other dark liquor at one point in the film, which is in itself a symbol of masculinity and particularly of white privilege (one is reminded of the mention of 'white man's burden' during the bar scene in Kubrick's The Shining). Their dark liquor is kept hidden away in a mason jar, which carries its own symbolic connotation of the clandestine male domination of America, which has arguably been achieved with the aid of the rampant proliferation of pleasures and intoxications. The phallic monuments are significations of the pain of male domination over the black women and the brown liquor serves to mute the effects of that pain much in the same way whiskey will cause a man to lose his ability to achieve a firm erection, an erection that can sexually satisfy a female or harm one.
There is a key point of symbolism in the film when the lead character, Katherine Johnson (played by Taraji Henson), spontaneously attends a meeting with high ranking military and government officials and she is handed a piece of white chalk so she can calculate the re-entry coordinates of John Glenn's spacecraft. The hand off of the small piece of white chalk was shown with the chalk almost dead center, and the hands of Kevin Costner and Taraji Henson at complementary points of interest on the screen. The image served two specific means, although other meanings could easily be extracted from the image. First of all, Costner's character did not suffer a xenophobia about handing Henson an item, yet this was not actual skin contact, but a vicarious experience of sensuality for the military personnel, a skin contact by proxy for Costner's character —much as a child imagines her lips touching those of her crush when she drinks from his cup. This is the climax of the emotional tensions experienced between these two characters. There is also a second meaning to be extracted from this gesture, the message was a silent means of granting the permission to Katherine Johnson to humiliate the gathering of powerful white men with a symbol of their inferior sexuality, to beat them at their own game of calculation with a tiny piece of white chalk—this was the moment of the revelation of Katherine Johnson's powers of computation, her perfect 'blackboard moment', where her own genius as a mathematician was laid out on the chalkboard before the high ranking officials. This was her subjugation of these men —but granted only with the permission of a high ranking, powerful white male.
The ultimate message of Hidden Figures, perhaps created unconsciously or as the result of an intellectual backfire by director Theodore Melfi, is that of a subtle piece of propaganda showing white and black audiences that our world could be perfect if it were not for our problems of racism and sexism, which are perhaps the result of a decline in intellectual faculties and reasoning —that is to say that rampant xenophobia and misogyny are the products of the stupidity of white males, although admittedly downplayed as male stubbornness in the film— however, Hidden Figures itself is littered with reminders that white domination is in fact our reality and that throughout American history the imbeciles have always decided exactly when freedoms will be handed to the ethnic and gender minorities for their use as a means of intellectual expression. In other words, the film declares the reality of the theme of white domination throughout American history, and rather than confronting the evils of capitalism directly, the film welcomes blacks and females as conspirators in the evils of capitalism —such as the destruction of the environment, such as class exploitation and the erasure of the third world and the cold war on communism. The audience is hoodwinked into thinking the film is a celebration of the achievements of these three women, when in fact it is an inadvertent celebration of their subjugation at the hands of white men—a message to which the viewer is comfortably, never overtly made aware.
In the gym, consistent work and repetition over a given length of time tend to give the best results. This is the definition of targeted practice. In art and music, I don't simply make art just to make art, nor do I simply view creating a masterpiece as the act of creating a so-called masterwork (something which I cannot say I ever have done). I view the action of creating art in very much the same way as a bodybuilder might approach "winning a contest" —that is to say that these actions are not one singular activity but a series of coordinated repetitions of varied movements, gestures, and processes; each undertaken with specific methods of analysis, synthesis, deconstruction, and reconstitution; in varying degrees of abstraction and signification; all united under their own means of the record keeping unique to each medium (i.e. score production, audio recording, photography, videography, painting, drawing, and so forth).
2. Art is not always a team sport and it is alright to work alone.
While I have been in various bands and performance groups, and even in an art collective (which seemed to deny my membership amidst their self-avowed "radical inclusivity"), I still have to admit that there is nothing more satisfying to me than participating in the creative equivalency of a solo sport. I am hardly interested in any egalitarian approach to aesthetics as I have learned that living in any city within the narrow confines of what constitutes American society will make the search —that is my search— for others next to impossible, that search for those who hold similar interests and are open and transparent about them (i.e. free jazz, Stockhausen, Murillo, the aesthetics of bondage and fetishism, Bataille, abstraction and cut-ups, and on and on).
What was appealing about bodybuilding to me were not the results or even the activity itself, but the unsocial nature of being in the gym. Like anything else in late-capitalism, bodybuilding has been co-opted for economic reasons to profit off of various powders and pills, garments and slogans, and has become a cultural meme in and of itself. None of this existed when I first began, nobody seemed interested in going to the gym with me, but now that our cultural wasteland is awash with viral reminders of fitness and millions of sales in pseudo-scientific theories about workout timing, dietary scheduling, and supplementation, and so forth, the solo sport has become a mass movement of impoverished wage-slaves struggling —as Zizek has said— to perfect their only real possession, that of their own bodies, their personal machines of flesh, blood, bone, and muscle. Perhaps the only authenticity left today is an authentic aversion to popularity, to followers and to social media. An authenticity I wish to express in my art by way of expressing the path of the loner and the rebel in a society of social media driven fads.
3. Repetition is key.
If I want to work my chest and triceps, I have a set number of exercises and a set number of reps that I am going to aim to achieve. If I fail on the sixth rep of my last set of eight reps, I will return to the gym and try again after I have rested. This is the key to targeted practice. I know at the beginning of any given week what specific projects are currently underway and what I need to accomplish these things. I know that by the end of a given day I will have produced X amount of drawings and written a certain amount of music, and perhaps read and watched relevant materials. I am not even thinking about whether or not this particular piece or that particular piece is what I need to create to become famous, or how many 'likes' it will garner on social media. I am thinking only about progress, growth and transcendence of my former self —a self that was weaker in terms of sublimation and self-awareness, a self that could not attempt to start what I plan on being able to accomplish in the not so distant future. It is the only way to look at one's work and generate a personal mythology or similar narrative (that is a mythology generated from the meager materials that have been deterministically bestowed upon the artist by the circumstances into which he was born, which are in my case, those of a Native American from a relatively poor family, who has grown to be estranged from his parents and siblings in adulthood).
Stockhausen's Refrain
I can actually recall —almost perfectly— the first time I heard Stockhausen's composition Refrain for piano, vibraphone, and celesta. I had ditched school (I was a freshman in high school at the time) and purchased a copy of the piece from a record shop that was around the corner. The cover of this particular album, available on the Koch Schwann Musica Mundi imprint, was memorable in and of itself. This serpentine eye done in green and yellow gazed out from behind the lettering that announced Stockhausen's name and the contents of the disc.
I was already familiar with the overall layout of Refrain's score, as it was prominently featured in nearly every book I had picked up on contemporary music, serialism, and post-war classical music. Despite having seen numerous reproductions and facsimiles, nothing really prepared me for the moment when I finally heard this music. I patiently sat through Zyklus for percussionist. When track two began and the first chord from Refrain hit, there was a tangible mysticism in the room, as if a suspension of the banality of day to day existence had occurred —as if I was witnessing a rare occultation of the popular culture and public education that consumed my life. The music sounded incredibly esoteric to me, with unresolved dissonances floating past, only to be broken up by the 'refrains' of the composition. The phonetic syllables uttered by the three players throughout the piece sounded ritualistic. This really was truly my first experience of one of Stockhausen's masterworks. It was obvious that this was the next logical progression from Webern and Schoenberg (I have to admit, even to this day I am still not a huge fan of Alban Berg).
That first chord from Refrain has made its appearance in a few of my own scores, as a nod to Stockhausen's influence, but also because this is possibly the most life changing chord I had ever heard at that time and may have heard since. Technically, that sound is simply two notes, e natural and f natural. It is their close proximity to one another and the unison sounding of the same chord in all three instruments, that gave the opening of Refrain a particularly initiatory flavor.
Stockhausen forced me to make a rupture with everything I knew in order to gain an understanding of his music. I had already practiced blues music, Hendrix songs, Nirvana songs, and played a number of pieces as a percussionist in concert band, it was Stockhausen who forced me to forget all of that. I had the freedom to study his music, to study contemporary music, just as I had the freedom not to. I have found that most individuals in music take full advantage of the freedom not to study this music. I suppose this is why I still view the best art, as so-called elitist art. Populism and mass appeal —receiving that stamp of approval from the vulgar herd— will always be meaningless to me. As Tony Wilson said, "Some people make money and some make history."
My high school years would not have been the same if it weren't for this early encounter with Stockhausen's Refrain. I stopped socializing. I began reading books on music and art. I took an interest in Japanese philosophy. Most importantly, I began to compose serial music. I did not have access to theory books or a knowledgeable teacher. I had to figure out all the ways I could make variations on single tone-row or cell. I had to develop my own systems for serializing not just pitch, but durations, dynamics, timbre, articulations, and all the other elements of the short compositions I wrote throughout high school. The lesson of Stockhausen's music was that whether somebody loved what I was doing or not, whether there was an audience or not —I enjoyed working and making art, and that's what I was put here to do. Despite any setbacks or discouraging experiences, I haven't really wavered from this path at this point in my life and I love writing, I love painting, and I love studying. I thank Stockhausen for giving me the material I needed to realize this about myself.
My Soul Friend, Nilufar Farahmand
In the past year, via social media, I have developed a series of conversations with a young woman from Iran. Her name is Nilufar Farahmand and there really is nobody in my general periphery who can even speak of the things we typically converse with one another about. Our messages span the spectrum of topics like individuation, existentialism, the spiritual meaning of events and experiences, and a number of other esoteric topics related to art, music, and the creative act.
Sometimes she even speaks poetically and it is beautiful and touching like nothing I ever come across on social media.
"A friend asked me how I recently connected to the sky
I moved objects
I dreamed good and bad things
I prayed good and bad
I painted strange pictures with unknown sources
but I still don't know the exact way I connected to the sky"
Speaking to me
on Facebook Messenger
I am not joking, Nilufar actually writes to me this way. Please follow her Instagram account. She's amazing and I don't think I know any artist quite like her.
On Cyberpunk. . .
Cyberpunk futurism —those visions of the excess of technology and amusements—have passed into a permanent state of retro-prophecy, with each passing year marking the expiration date of technological ideation, the adherents of this outmoded futurism can only be disappointed that their wildest dreams of romance and fantasy have never come into being, leaving them perpetually and virtually unfulfilled in a novel state of aesthetic immaturity.
Denton McCabe
Composer, Artist, Writer
April 2019


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