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Norwegian Mexican food?
It took a visit from a relative to finally prompt me to write a post on one of the restaurants in town that I most often visit.
"Ole's restaurant?" my aunt asked. "Do you have Norwegian food in Scottsbluff?"
I was puzzled.
Then it dawned on me, and I started laughing.
My aunt missed the accent mark, and, thinking like a true Minnesotan, she defaulted to Ole of "Ole and Lena" fame.
"You mean Olé'! It's a Mexican restaurant."
We joked that it must be northern Mexican food, if the sign faked out a Minnesotan like that.
We stopped at Olé for lunch, and I defaulted to my number-one favorite dish on the menu: the chile relleno.
I am a bit of a chile relleno snob. It's what I usually order at Mexican restaurants when it's a menu option, but I am often disappointed. Too often, the dish arrives not-quite-right, with the breading on the chile soggy with grease.
Not so at Olé!
They skip the breading entirely and wrap their cheese-stuffed peppers in egg instead. Healthier! I like it!
A note on ordering at Olé: when you get a platter meal, the server will ask you "green or red?" or sometimes "hot or mild?" This refers to the sauce slathered over the dish.
The red sauce is the milder sauce. (It might be the same sauce that comes with the complimentary chips and bean dip?) The hotter green sauce is the pork chili that is so ubiquitous atop foods at the region's Mexican restaurants.
The server will also ask "corn or flour?" if your meal includes tortillas.
I have only ever ordered one other item at Olé aside from a chile relleno platter, and that was a special posted on the menu board at the front door: fish tacos. True to form, the fish chunks were not breaded – just sauteed au naturale. Yum yum!
Bugman and I can often be spotted hoofing it down 20th Street towards Olé on a nice evening (sure wish there was a traffic light and pedestrian crossing at the highway there!). We can have a beer or two with our meal and enjoy the sunset on our walk back home.
Olé is located at 1901 E. 20th Street (on the access road just east of Highway 26 near the Holiday Inn, Staples, and Pioneer vet clinic).


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Syria's First Lady Asma al-Assad
As Bloody Civil War Continues, Syria's First Lady Takes to Instagram
What chemical attacks? If you check out the @syrianpresidency Instagram account, it appears political life is proceeding as usual in the country ravished by more than two years of civil war that has left more than 100,000 dead. As President Obama makes his case to Congress and world leaders to take military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Assad's wife, Asma, is posting photos of herself hashtagged #Assad or #Asma. In them, she's carrying out typical first lady duties, like meeting with the country's top students. Comments on the photos do bring things back to reality, with one asking: "how do you sleep at night?"
Asma al-Assad, born and raised in the UK, has often been used by the Syrian government to help the country's image in the West. She was famously the subject of a Vogue 2011 profile that called her "a rose in the desert." The magazine has since unpublished the fawning article. Despite the most recent social media PR push, there's no denying the worsening situation in Syria. In his address to the American people and Congress last weekend, President Obama called Assad a dictator who has gassed "hundreds of children in plain sight." And today, graphic video has emerged of rebel, anti-Assad forces executing Syrian soldiers. No Instagram filter can hide the ugly situation.

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WASHINGTON – Today's action by the U.S. Senate confirming Richard Griffin as NLRB general counsel is the final piece needed to ensure a fully functioning National Labor Relations Board, the Communications Workers of America said in a statement. Some 80 million private sector workers, as a result of the approval, will continue to have the protections of federal law through the only agency that can enforce their workplace rights.
Last summer, the Senate confirmed five Board members, ending a delay in workplace justice for millions of workers.
"We call on the Senate to move forward on other critical nominations put forward by President Obama," the union also said in the statement.
Labor and progressives are anxious to see Senate approval of Tom Wheeler to head the Federal Communications Commission, Mel Watt to head the Federal Housing Finance Administration and judges for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. "If Senate obstruction continues, we call on Majority Leader Reid to take the necessary steps to move these nominations forward, " the CWA statement said.
Civil and human rights groups including the NAACP, National Council of Raza, National Urban League, and the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights have signed on to a letter to the Senate which cites Rep. Watt's, D-NC., 40 years of experience in housing and finance and urges his confirmation as chief of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Watts was one of the first members of Congress to speak out against the predatory mortgage lending practices that contributed to the economic crash that triggered the Great Recession.
The right wing Club for Growth has already warned lawmakers it will punish them if they even so much as vote to bring the nomination to the Senate floor. The group opposes any government involvement in the mortgage process.
The labor movement has long been committed to ending the abuse of the Senate rules, which allows a minority of Senators, or even one individual, to block nominations and prevent measures with majority support from having even getting a vote.
Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina nevertheless announced yesterday that he would personally block all future Obama nominees, including the Watt nomination, unless the administration gives him a more satisfactory explanation of what went wrong in Benghazi, Libya last year when U.S. diplomats were killed in an attack on a CIA outpost.
Under Senate rules it takes only one Senator to file an objection and a nominee or any other measure, for that matter, can be blocked from coming before the Senate for a vote.
Photo: Rep. Mel Watt, D-NC. (left), is President Obama's nominee for top housing post. AP


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pharma2web lets you keep a cool head
Always keep track of who is located where with which vehicle. Thus, you can convey exact delivery times and spot available time-frames quickly.
GDP-compliant cooling data, GPS data, and door openings are transmitted in real time. That way you can respond to deviations quickly.
Tours are optimized intelligently, monitored in real time, and analysed in retrospective. All data is stored safely und in accordance to the regulations.
pharma2web in day-to-day business
Make exact statements about delivery times
Monday morning, 9:45am: You are checking the status of your current tours in pharma2web, when a message pops up in the Tourmonitoring which warns you that the delivery to Lion Pharmacy will be delayed. With just a few clicks you pull up the relevant tour in the Vehicle Localization and find that a traffic jam causes the delay. The target planning with its accurate time-frame forecast displays that your driver will arrive 9 minutes late in the current traffic situation.
Immediately, you can relay the exact arrival time of the pharmaceuticals to your client. Despite the delay you are able to impress with precise communication.
Flexibly adjust tours to changed circumstances
You get the information that a new building site in the city causes redirections for a significant amount of time. This affects several of your tours and increases driving time.
The changes in pharma2web take just a few minutes which would have cost you much more time without the software. You reschedule the tours without a problem and adjust the time and delivery frames. Afterwards, the system optimizes the tours anew. With the communications module of pharma2web you send the updated tour information directly to your driver's navigation display. With the help of the time-frame forecast you can check if the arrival times for all pharmacies are met and correct them if necessary.
Track the cooling chain seamlessly
A new client, the medical laboratory "Paracelsus", demands a GDP-compliant record for each delivery.
The freight monitoring of pharma2web records temperature data from up to 6 sensors. Thus, you quickly have the respective reports at hand in digital form. For each delivery you extract the cooling chain report and transmit the data to the laboratory. The reports include temperature data of cargo hold, transport boxes or GDP-Van, depending on the vehicle's equipment.
After one year the laboratory asks for a report from several months ago. The data is saved GDP-compliant for 5 years. Thus, you can quickly extract the document and help out your client.
Immediately react in case of temperature deviations
You are planning new orders and tours in pharma2web when you suddenly receive an alert notice. The freight monitoring of a currently driven tour warns you that the temperature in the cargo hold is rising because the vehicle door wasn't closed properly. Immediately you contact the driver who didn't lock the door properly at the latest stop.
Fortunately, the time span of the temperature disturbance was really short, so no damages of the freight have occurred. To be safe you track the temperature status for some time to rule out any more disruptions. The temperature remains constant and the sensors also report no unplanned door openings.
Features in pharma2web
Here we go!
Your start with pharma2web
Simply fill out the contact form at the right side of the page with an offer request for pharma2web. Alternatively, you can also speak directly with our consultants or request a call back. After a comprehensive consultation via telephone or mail we will customize an individual offer for you.
After the contract conclusion a DAKO service partner will install the hardware into your vehicles. You will get your personal access data for pharma2web from your client advisor at DAKO. With immediate effect you can use the portal.
The first step is to import master data of vehicles, drivers and location(s), which is made easy by the fully automatic import feature. Then address data of clients and patients are next. With the imported data you can create regular and day tours. As of now you have full access to pharma2web.
At any time, we offer a product training via webinar or on site to get to know the product better (additional costs may occur). Just contact your client advisor at DAKO.


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Maggie McGinnis ~~ 4 1/2 and 5 Star Reviews
Forever This Time (An Echo Lake Novel)
Maggie McGinnis
St. Martin's
Mass Market
978 1250069078
Ten years ago, Josie Kendrew fled her town of Echo Lake to make a life in Boston. Then her father has a stroke. Now she must come back to the town centered around the Kendrew family's holiday theme park, Snowflake Village... and its CFO, Ethan Miller. Once they were promised to marry, but she left.
Ethan never got over Josie, and he's not about to accept her return with open arms. At first, he will not let her help out at the park, something she isn't keen on doing anyway. But it is clear that Ethan needs help, though he will not admit it. Once he is forced to accede, he makes sure that she is given her least favorite tasks.
The above description barely scratches the surface of the plot of this Vermont set series starter. The vivid setting frames an emotional tale that tackles such serious subjects as alcoholism and childhood cancer. Fans of small town romances will find great joy here.
Heather Nordahl Files
Click on the titles to purchase from Amazon.
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Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan
Women's Movements in Twentieth-Century Taiwan by Doris Chang offers a compelling history of the recurrent feminist movement in Taiwan's imperial and post-war eras. Though Chang's primary concern is establishing a historical survey of Taiwanese feminism, the book contains an even more valuable—if largely incidental—subtext about the vulnerability of feminism against competing political and cultural movements.
We tend to think of sexism as the final barrier following a millennium of social progress; after centuries spent peeling away layers of barbarism and prejudice, it is a final lingering injustice. We also imagine that, following these other achievements, the realization of women's rights should be natural and frictionless. Chang shows us that this is exactly wrong.
In fact, feminist thought ebbed and flowed in colonial Taiwan under the Japanese, then under the Chinese, and then again under the autonomous Taiwanese government, always emerging briefly before being shuttered away by competing political and cultural identities. In a time when women were married off as chattel or sold into brothels, advocates for women's rights were again and again cast as selfish agitators sapping vitality from the political cause du jour.
This is not to say that the violent swaying of Taiwanese politics was in any way frivolous. Taiwan confronted the Sino-Japanese War, World War II, the Chinese civil war, and then decades of martial law under the Kuomintang. Each period sagged under the weight of ethnic and class inequalities, all of which retarded economic growth and democracy. Throughout this turmoil, feminist groups were repeatedly encouraged to ally with cultural movements, political parties, and class-based entities, and then were admonished to abandon their objectives to the greater goals of their partners.
This will sound familiar to progressives who feel themselves pushed to put women's issues on a back burner. The implication was—and remains—that in times of distress, women should shelve their feminist ideals and divert their attentions to some larger cause. Of course, it is impossible to ask a woman to prioritize her gender identity over her national identity or her class sympathies. Yet Chang shows us that this very tension drowned the advancement of women's rights at every moment of political reckoning.
The implications of these observations are unclear. Maybe the recent successes of Taiwan's feminists could only have been realized in the absence of war, imperialism, and censorship. Perhaps it was the eventual triumph of democracy that paved the way for women's freedom to marry, divorce, work, and study as they choose. But it begs the question: If the feminists of the 1920s had been able to find their voice, would it all have taken so long?


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Title: Decaffeinated Homunculus
Author: Sage SK
Date Started: 05/02/11
Date Finished: 05/03/11
Genre: General
Rating: K
Warnings: None
Comments: So this is in response to a couple of comments where readers wanted to see a Caffeinated!Ed vs. Envy fight/fic. I have no idea what it is they put in the coffee in FMA-verse, but I hope it's not as potent as whatever it was I inhaled when I wrote this fic. When I'm laughing to myself at a (thankfully empty) bus stop at 9:45 at night while writing a certain scene, then there was clearly something in the Pepsi that I drank earlier.
Oh, and blame Kristen Sharpe (my awesome beta) for some of this, too, okay? I think she got into my stash at some point.
"Please let me kill him!"
The plea rang on deaf ears, their owner boredly gazing back at the homunculus in front of him.
"He's insane!" continued Envy, an arm extended towards the surface. "I don't know what the military did, but he's gone completely crazy! He's talking nonstop, he's... Look, he killed me five times, and four of them by hugging me!"
"You know fully well that you can't hurt him. He's a vital sacrifice," returned Father, his chin resting against a hand.
"We can get other sacrifices," insisted Envy. "Some who don't insist on calling me their bosom buddy and hugging the life out of me!"
"So don't turn into small animals. And, furthermore, don't hurt him. That's final." The bored, yet stern glare that was turned towards him told Envy that he'd lost the argument once again.
The fact of the matter was that Envy had been skulking on the trail of a clue leading to the Ishvalan, Scar's, whereabouts. How the pipsqueak had found him was beyond him. It was as if the brat had gotten this sudden accelerated sense to detect homunculi. Several attempts to stop the crazed alchemist resulted in the loss of limbs, and the loss of limbs resulted in his turning back into his parasitic form.
"How humiliating," he grumbled. "I hate that little..."
"Who're you callin' little when you've got no room to talk!" Envy barely managed a squeak when he was yanked up by the tail. "Look at 'im, Al! Isn't this hysterical?"
Envy almost couldn't make out what the pipsqueak was saying. It was as though he were speaking a mile a minute, sentences running together without him stopping for breath. To make matters stranger, Edward Elric was shaking... or twitching? Or both? And, a huge, crazed grin consumed his entire face. To Envy, it was probably one of the most frightening things he'd ever seen. "I could use him as a key chain!"
With that, he proceeded to swing a protesting Envy around in one hand as he walked - or skipped, Envy couldn't really tell - back to his brother.
The armor that housed the soul of Alphonse Elric held up its hands. "Please, Brother, calm down. I know we had to catch a homunculus like the Colonel mentioned, but..."
"You're right, Al! Here, hold this!"
As Ed dropped a now dizzy Envy into Al's hands and took off down the block, the homunculus looked up at the suit of armor.
"What the heck is his problem? I knew the pipsqueak was nuts, but..."
"He's under a lot of stress," Al managed.
Envy gave him a dry look. "If that's stress, I'd hate to think how reacts when he's really ticked off."
He barely finished that sentence when the pipsqueak returned with what appeared to be a corked glass container as big as his head.
"TERRARIUM!" Ed shouted triumphantly, holding the container over his head like it held all the secrets of the universe.
"What?" said Al.
"Terrarium!" Ed repeated. "I'd like to see him get out of this one!" With that, he snatched Envy out of Al's hands and tossed him into the container, the cork following as he sealed the homunculus inside.
As much as he would have wanted to test the pipsqueak's theory, Envy was too exhausted to transform. He needed some time to recuperate. This, of course, wouldn't happen for some time as his "stressed" captor proceeded to shake the terrarium gleefully.
"Listen to that!" Ed cackled. "It sounds like a maraca! Which is perfect! Let's join a band, Al! I'm sure there's plenty of bands that need a maraca and back up cymbal!"
"Brother, we need to report to the Colonel," Al reminded gently.
"Right! The colonel! Let's go, Al! You think he'd wanna join our band, too?"
Al could only sigh as he followed his brother back to Central Command.
"Sir, there seems to be a problem with your 'secret weapon'."
Roy Mustang didn't want to hear about problems. Bad enough that there was a pile of them sitting on his desk in paper form; he didn't want to know what was in pieces or about to go up in smoke in Central. Furthermore, he didn't want to hear the words "Fullmetal" and "destruction" in the same sentence.
Still, considering the look his faithful lieutenant was giving him, he took the bait.
Riza Hawkeye riffled through the manila folder in her hands. "There was another altercation with one of the homunculi near Central Park. The Fullmetal Alchemist intercepted."
With a cringe and a deep breath, Roy managed, "Go on."
"Bear in mind, Sir, that he did have the coffee you ordered him to consume before going on this mission."
Ah, there was the headache. Right on schedule. Once again, Roy said, "Go on."
As Hawkeye continued her briefing on the damage caused, Roy ignored - or rather, didn't notice - the other members of his team staring out the window in open mouthed shock until Jean Havoc muttered, "Should we tell him...?" He was about to ask what they were looking at when all six members of the Colonel Mustang unit jumped a mile upon the door being kicked open.
A beaming Edward Elric strode into the office, a glass container under an arm as his younger brother followed slowly.
Finding his voice, Roy started to say, "Fullmetal, have you any..."
"Before you say anything!" With that, Ed slammed the terrarium containing Envy on a shocked Mustang's desk. "One homunculus! And, you wouldn't believe how we caught him!" Ed proceeded to tell his story... or rather give a verbal 'report' of his mission. The 'report' turned into a collection of mad ramblings that constituted of run-on sentences and wild gestures. Ed was speaking so fast that the soldiers in the room could barely make out what he was saying. By the time he'd finished his oral report, Ed had literally climbed onto the desk and jabbed a finger straight into the air as he proclaimed, "...and that's why I'm awesome!"
The members of Roy's unit save for Hawkeye were against the wall, all of them afraid to speak. Hawkeye stood by Roy, eyes wide, while Roy had literally sunk into his seat, fingers digging into the armrests.
"Thank you and good night!" That was the last thing Ed said as he turned to walk off the desk and landed face first on the floor.
As Al rushed to check on Ed, Roy slowly got out of his seat and peered over the desk. He was about to ask if Ed was still breathing when a loud snore emitting from the blond boy answered his question.
"Alphonse, how much coffee did Edward drink this morning?" asked Riza.
With a sigh, Al replied, "I lost count."
Hand to his face, Roy turned his attention to Al. "That's it. He's cut off. Add milk to it next time he goes for a cup. It'll stop him before it becomes an addiction."
With a nod, Al collected Ed into his arms. "I'll take him back to the hotel. Um... about the homunculus..."
"We'll discuss this thing when Fullmetal's more alert. Leave it here for now."
"Thank you, Colonel."
As Alphonse left, Roy caught the looks he was getting from his unit. "Yes, it was a stupid idea. No, it won't happen again. Yes, I'm fully aware that he'll have a caffeine hangover that'll make him a lot more obnoxious than what he usually is. Anything else?"
As he slowly pushed himself away from the wall, Vato Falman took in a deep breath. "When do you wish to go do damage control, Sir?"
Roy arched a brow. "Damage control? From what I got out of Fullmetal's report, there's no need for..."
"Not that, Sir," said Heymans Breda.
"Then what on earth is it?"
"Well...," squeaked Kain Fuery.
In a heart beat, all four men pointed out the window.
Roy honestly wasn't sure how to react to what he was seeing. Setting aside anger and the urge to strangle Fullmetal and set him on fire, he gawked at the giant statue pointing towards Central Command, directly at his window, that stretched higher than the tallest building in the city.
Envy, however, wasted no time. With a loud cackle, despite his imprisonment, he stated the obvious. "Wow! I knew the runt had a thing for practical jokes, but that's priceless!"
No one in the room dared to laugh, but the urge was overwhelming. After all, a detailed statue of Roy Mustang in a miniskirt... well, no one saw that every day.
And, Envy could have laughed more if Roy hadn't grabbed the terrarium from his desk and took his anger out on the homunculus. As he was shaken with all the fury the colonel could muster, Envy came to the conclusion that caffeinated brats and colonels that couldn't take a joke were hard to get along with.


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A dual acousto-optic laser scanning microscope system for the study of dendritic integration: Design, construction, and preliminary results
Iyer, Vijay
Saggau, Peter
Master of Science
Recent research has highlighted the vital role played by dendrites in effecting the computational properties of single neurons in the central nervous system (CNS). An ultraviolet (UV) acousto-optic laser scanning microscope system was developed that enables UV laser pulses to be delivered to multiple user-selected sites in the microscope's specimen plane with high spatial (<10mum) and temporal (<20mus) resolution. By employing "caged" neurotransmitters, the system can effect physiologically realistic spatio-temporal patterns of "synaptic" stimulation to the dendrites of a single cultured neuron. This system was combined with a previously developed acousto-optic laser scanning system for fast, multi-site optical recording of electrical activity (Bullen et al. 1999). This combination---the "Dual Scanner"---allows the study of important dendritic questions such as the underlying mechanisms of spatial and temporal summation. This thesis describes several current outstanding questions of dendritic integration, the design and construction of the system, and some promising preliminary results.
Neurosciences; Electronics; Electrical engineering


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Jarrett Moran, "Sonic Warfare," Artlog.com. Download PDF
"Steve Goodman Art Shows in LA and NYC in June," Big Up Magazine. Download PDF
Sami Yenigun, "Bad Vibrations: Investigating Sound As Terror," NPR. Download PDF
Stephanie Buhmann, "Galleries offer reasons to come in from cold," The Villager. Download PDF
AUDiNT, short for "Audio Intelligence" is a collaborative, research team comprised of artists and scholars Steve Goodman, Toby Heys and Jon Cohrs.
Since 1945, AUDiNT has been conducting research, rituals, and experiments into the opening of the 3rd ear, a dimension that materializes when sound, ultrasound, and infrasound are simultaneously deployed in a precise schema of sequencing, duration, and amplification. The 3rd ear forms a conduit for the channelling of voices and frequencies, allowing communication between the living and the dead, sanity and insanity and between disparate locations in space and time.
Adapting to, and capitalizing on the viral dynamics and tactical battlefields of 21st century digital networks, we are systematically uploading the AUDiNT research archive that has been compiled throughout the past 60 years. Our research concerns the hauntological power of sonic weaponry). This ritualized uploading of the spectral archive aims to create a prospective archive of wave-formed affect that is propagated throughout the living dead networks of our communication systems. This tactical shift – to open up our archive to the public – relates to our new mandate of arming the mass populace with the efficacy of sonic weaponry so that it does not become the sole preserve of the military-entertainment complex. With its dark science and sonically dissonant content, Dead Record Office is the enshrined location from which this viral transfer begins.
In 2011, AUDiNT produced the Ghostcoder software which allowed it to begin, in encrypted fashion, to upload its research archive through the trojan horse of bit torrented popular music files from the last 70 years, providing a digital parallel to the Dead Record Network set up by the original members of AUDiNT.
The GhostCoder software is a utility to embed sound files or spoken text files within flac files so the information can piggyback on top of torrents without being noticed. Later the torrent stream can be decoded to yield the embedded information. The GhostCoder produces public secrets – it is intended to use viral dynamics as an archiving tool to ensure important data stays within the public domain.
The Ghostcoder software has two functions for AUDiNT:
1) It allows us to upload our spectral archive of research relating to sonic warfare
2) It functions as an alternative messaging system, which has allowed under cover operatives to contact us in encrypted fashion.
The uploading occurs in a fabricated shack entitled the Dead Record Office. In actuality, the DRO is half office, half shrine, functioning as both a repository for AUDiNT's research archive, but also a sacred space, testament to the distributed efforts of AUDiNT members, over the last 7 decades, to re-purpose military research relating to acoustic weaponry, in order to improve previously occulted attempts to open up the 3rd Ear.
During the ongoing process of uploading, AUDiNT have been contacted through the Ghostcoder software channel by a correspondent going under the name the Walter Mancer. The messages from Walter Mancer (stored in a Dossier, the WMD) were comprised of computer-generated voices encrypted using the Ghostcoder and embedded into sound effects records. The content of the messages contain secret information regarding the US military's experimentation with infrasound and directional ultrasound speakers in Iraq, a project entitled Phantom Hailer. The Phantom Hailer campaign, according to the WMD, involved the attempt to manipulate crowd behaviour in Iraqi cities by projecting voices from the HyperSonic sound and LRAD type systems at bodies in a way that makes it difficult to discern whether the voice is coming from that persons own consciousness, or projected from the outside. With Phantom Hailer, the brain itself has become the battleground.
In phase 1 of AUDiNT's research, the Ghost Army campaign attempted to simulate the sound of the enemy. In phase 2, Wandering Soul attempted to simulate the sound of dead allies communicating from beyond the grave. In phase 3, Phantom Hailer entails the attempt to simulate the self, or even question that the voices in our heads are actually possessed by the subject in the first place.
This New York test site features a new upgraded version of the Unsound System, a bespoke Infrasound speaker system, and 3 directional ultrasound speakers. Dead Record Office also consists of, for the 1st time in the US, access to some of AUDiNT's research archive, and an upload portal that doubles as a sacred space dedicated to the opening of the 3rd ear.
Steve Goodman runs the record label Hyperdub www.hyperdub.com and produces electronic music as Kode9 www.myspace.com/kode9. He is a lecturer in Music Culture in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of East London, and runs the MA Programme in Sonic Culture. His book Sonic Warfare (MIT Press, 2010) is a theoretical investigation of sound, affect and power. Additionally, he is a member of the autonomous research collective, the Ccru (Cybernetic culture research unit).
Toby Heys produces music, sound / video installations and web projects as a member of Battery Operated www.batteryoperated.net and robotic/electronic media projects as a member of The KIT Collaboration www.kitcollaboration.net. He runs the sound/video label Cocosolidciti www.cocosolidciti.com. Recently he finished a year-long 'visiting scholar' post in the Music department of New York University and is currently an AHRC scholar finishing a PhD at John Moores University in England as well as a resident artist at Eyebeam in New York.
Jon Cohrs is a recording engineer who runs Spleenless Mastering and visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Often employing humor and absurdity, his work uses public engagement and site-specific interventions to address global issues. Recently, he created OMG I'm on .TV; an analog Pirate TV station that filled the void left behind by the digital transition. OMG TV was used as a reference in a Supreme Court amicus brief on creativity and copyright. Currently, he is a fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center working on creating boutique salt containing antidepressants from local water called Alviso's Medicinal All-Salt, a book on urban wilderness, and researching sonic weapons in collaboration with Audint. He also teaches at Parsons, The New School for Design. His work has been shown at Ars Electronica, FutureEverything, W2 + 2010 Vancouver Olympics, and discussed in numerous publications such as BoingBoing, Deutsche Welle, Neural Magazine, Make Magazine, Furtherfield, We Make Money Not Art, PSFK, and Gizmodo among others. splnlss.com / AUDiNT.net / spleenlessmastering.com
The New Commissions Program is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Jerome Foundation; Agnes Gund; and The Greenwall Foundation. Support has also been provided by Commissioners Circle leaders Joseph and Sue Berland, Toby Devan Lewis and Cher Lewis, and Commissioners Circle members Pamela Averick, Louise Phillips Forbes, Sean Johnson, Mary Lapides, Diane Max, Joyce Siegel, and Jeremy E. Steinke. Additional support for AUDiNT's project has been provided by the Puffin Foundation, Black Gold Records, Rhizome, and Traction Sound.
General support of Art in General is provided by General Tools & Instruments LLC; the Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation; Abraham and Lillian Rosenberg Foundation; public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York State's 62 counties; National Endowment for the Arts; Ralph E. Ogden Foundation; public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; Bloomberg; ConEdison; The Greenwich Collection; Cowles Charitable Trust; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; and by individuals.


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Kubernetes Tidbits
Let's face it. Most of us are not using the Kubernetes CLI every day. This posting is more a reminder for myself; I'd like to list some little helpers that help to improve your Kubernetes command-line skills:
Kubernetes Contexts
Show all available contexts (e.g. Minikube, GKE, Oracle Wercker):
$ kubectl config view --minify
YAML Output
Get the output of a deployment as more readable as YAML.
$ kubectl get deployment my-nginx -o yaml
Set custom namespace as default
Set default namespace, e.g. when working in a shared cluster.
$ kubectl config set-context $(kubectl config current-context) --namespace=XYZ
# Validate it
$ kubectl config view | grep namespace:
This one is again more a note to myself. Altogether I have spent way too much time to discover how to talk to containers running in Kubernetes from outside the Kubernetes cluster (Kubernetes for Docker, Oracle, GKE).
Run Pod via
kubectl run then use
kubectl expose deployment to expose via NodePort
- deploy the container with
kubectl run microg --image=fmunz/microg --port 5555
- you will not see it as a service, e.g
kubectl get services
- expose the pod with
kubectl expose deployment microg --type=NodePort. Note that other types are possible, see section below for deployment with a YAML file.
- get the NodePort with
kubectl describe service microg | grep NodePort
- you will see the new service exposed as
kubectl describe service microg
Deploy with Service YAML
For "kind" in the service YAML specify either (partly taken from K8s doc):
ClusterIP: Exposes the service on a cluster-internal IP. Choosing this value makes the service only reachable from within the cluster. This is the default ServiceType. To be able to talk to your service, start a Proxy server:
kubectl proxy --port=8080
NodePort: Exposes the service on each Node's IP at a static port (the NodePort). A ClusterIP service, to which the NodePort service will route, is automatically created. You'll be able to contact the NodePort service, from outside the cluster, by requesting
<nodeip>:<nodeport>. To find the NodePort, use the following command:
kubectl describe service microg | grep NodePort
LoadBalancer: Exposes the service externally using a cloud provider's load balancer. NodePort and ClusterIP services, to which the external load balancer will route, are automatically created.
Other resources
I will add more here for sure. These days I am using K8s a lot 🙂 Also check out the following resources:
- Kubernetes documentation (which is excellent)
- Kubernetes Patterns book by R. Huss and Bilgin Ibryam
- You can find a good posting related to accessing services on GKE here


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TORONTO -- Canadian Tire will be performing a major shakeup over the course of the next five years. The retail outlet will focus its efforts on Sport Chek and Atmosphere, its most profitable corporate banners, by establishing 100 stores or approximately two million square feet of retail space, according to a news release.
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Washington – Three months after Sept. 11, many analysts are examining the domestic consequences of the "war on terrorism." In interviews conducted by the Institute for Public Accuracy, critics focused on the FBI's increased surveillance powers and the administration's boost to big business through a proposed "stimulus package."
Attorney General John Ashcroft "would like us to trust the FBI with sweeping new powers," said Nkechi Taicha, director of the Equal Justice Program at the Howard University School of Law. "This is the FBI that tried to disrupt and destroy numerous nonviolent organizations ranging from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador to Students for a Democratic Society. … Although the claimed purpose of the Bureau's COINTELPRO [Counterintelligence Program] action — which Ashcroft seems to want to revive and expand — was to 'prevent violence,' many of the FBI's tactics were clearly intended to foster violence, and many others could reasonably have been expected to cause violence."
Fordham University associate professor of law Brian Glick, author of "War at Home: Covert Action Against U.S. Activists," points out that "Ashcroft is not just proposing to drop the limits for spying on violent organizations — he wants to drop the limits, period. The FBI has a history of violating the legal limits; there is no telling what they might do without such limits. The document that launched the COINTELPRO operations against the black social movements directed FBI agents to 'disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize' dissident movements."
Chip Berlet, a senior analyst at Political Research Associates, warns that the enhanced surveillance measures could lead the FBI to more repressive measures. "Surveillance of dissidents across the political spectrum is now conducted through a loose network of government agencies, corporate security and private right-wing researchers," he said. "By re-establishing a dynamic where any dissident group can be secretly accused of being linked to terrorism, and subject to disruption, the government opens the door to domestic covert operations that in the past led to orchestrated confrontations and killings."
Meanwhile, Jim Redden, author of "Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State," recalls that "there's a long and sordid history of government operatives committing the very crimes they are supposed to prevent and setting up dissidents with phony charges."
Micah Sifry, a senior analyst with Public Campaign addressed the $100 billion "stimulus package" proposed by President Bush. "At a time when the country is experiencing a renewal of solidarity and a sense of shared sacrifice, we're confronting the twin challenges of war and a declining economy. It's obscene that some of corporate America thinks this is the moment to cash in on all their access and influence in Congress with unwarranted tax rebates and unnecessary bailouts. By a margin of 56 to 32 percent, the public chooses increased government spending over new tax cuts, according to a Gallup Poll. But Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill says not to worry. The $100 billion House bill will provide 300,000 new jobs, he told the Sunday TV talk shows. That works out to $333,333 in corporate welfare for every new job. Rather than using the word stimulus, the bill should be called the Campaign Contributors War Profiteering Act of 2001."
Joan Claybrook, president of the advocacy organization Public Citizen, said: "While virtually everyone in the country saw Sept. 11 as an immense tragedy, many special interests saw it as a rich opportunity. They promptly sent hoards of lobbyists to swarm Capitol Hill to line up for all kinds of goodies. The airline industry was the first in line and got a $15 billion bailout package with no strings attached. It didn't even have to share the money with its workers. Other industries have followed suit. The insurance industry is pressing for the government to bail it out in future attacks, and other big businesses are seeking huge tax breaks in the pending stimulus package. Even the administration has jumped on the bandwagon by dramatically cutting civil liberties and trying to push fast track trade authority through Congress — all under the guise of wartime necessity."
At the University of California at Santa Cruz, economics professor David Kaun brings up the question of war profiteering by military industries. "It wasn't that long ago — the late 1800s and forward — that the term 'war profiteering' impacted with a visible smudge upon those so labeled," he said. "After World War Two, 'arms merchants' became highly sophisticated, ceding the promotional role to our major universities and defense 'intellectuals.' Today, having been hit with the double-whammy of terrorism and recession, the old pejorative seems alive and well. It's full speed ahead with Star Wars … accompanied with equally misguided tax breaks for the wealthy and permanent reductions in corporate taxes. Under the guise of security and stimulus, the Bush administration and House Republicans have taken the concept of 'profiteering' to broader and more obscene levels than ever before.
David Harrison is a writer with IPA Media, a project of the Institute for Public Accuracy.


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New York is probably one of the most diverse cities in the world. A professor once told me you can listen to better music in New York´s Subway than in any other part of the world. I agree. New York´s Subway is a great place to discover music and listen to amazing performers. Of course, not every artist is wonderful, you can also see weird or funny people trying to get attention or Youtube views. Besides, as any New Yorker, you only have a few seconds to see how these artists might get your attention.
Why not have some motivation while waiting for the train?
Since 1985, the MTA Arts and Design Division of NYC Subway has been in charge of curating and presenting quality music to the commuting public of New York. More than 350 bands and artists participate in "Music Under New York", providing more than 7,500 annual performances at 30 locations. Impressive? Yes. Most of the bands and artists you see performing in the subway are carefully selected by the MTA Arts and Design Division for you to experience great music while waiting for the train. It makes sense. The subway is part of every New Yorker´s live. Why not have some motivation while waiting for the train? New York´s subway music scene is unbelievable, mysterious and eclectic. You can listen to incredible voices from bands like Infinity´s Song who performed with Tori Kelly, or solo artists like Damon Scott, the voice behind the hit song "Look Right Through" by storm Queen, or Denisse Weeks, who made it to The X Factor and impressed the judges with her voice.
From many bands I´ve seen performing at the subway, there is one band that captured my attention and left me speechless: Majestic K Funk. As the name speaks for itself, Majestic K Funk is a Motown style blues & funk band with powerful vocals and a soulful sound. With millions of views in Youtube, Majestic K Funk in one of those bands that instantaneously blows your mind. How can this guys still be undiscovered? That´s a great question. We decided to look for them and put up a real show at The Basement Bar in Brooklyn. This happened a few weeks ago.
Like Majestic K Funk, there are thousands of stories and hundreds of Youtube videos for subway artists, there´s even a webpage that brings New York´s underground musicians up to rooftops above the city. Subway musicians are just like many other artists trying to make it big in New York. They share their talent with thousands of visitors from all over the world and their stage is a subway station. Subway artists have maybe 30 seconds to impress before the train arrives and eliminates any possible sound, applause or chance to get a tip from you. Regular commuters pass in front of them like nothing was happening. Tourists are enthusiastic; they take videos, sing, dance and sometimes leave a tip. Next time you see a subway artist, go listen, tip, and help the New York subway music scene stay alive.
Now, think for a moment. Who´s your favorite subway performer? Would you like to find New York´s Subway music scene in one playlist?


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Photographic Plates of Memory. Labyrinths by Marian Kołodziej at Platán Gallery.
Wednesday 12 June, 6:00 pm — Sunday 30 June 2019, 6:00 pm
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Photographic Plates of Memory. Labyrinths by Marian Kołodziej
Opening: 6 p. m. on Wednesday, 12th of June 2019 at the Platán Gallery
The author of the exhibition, Marian Kołodziej, was a Polish artist, theatre and movie scenographer. He was a prisoner of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz since the first day of its existence (camp number 432).
For nearly 50 years of his life he was silent about his war time experience and did not include it in his work. However, at the beginning of the 90's, as a result of a severe illness, he decided to follow the words of the great Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert who once wrote: "You have not survived simply to live. You have little time, a testimony must be given."
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Do you know yourself? Do you like who you are? Do you even recognize the person staring back from the mirror? If you answered no to any of these questions, it is likely you let others define who you are.
How well do you really know yourself – your likes, dislikes, preferences? Not just in terms of movies, music, or clothes; but in the kind of job you have, the people you choose to be with, the everyday choices you make? Are you living the kind of life you want according to what you will for yourself, or do you live according to the will of others, a life of "quiet desperation"? If you do not know yourself how can you know if you are truly living the life you were meant to live? The simple answer is that you cannot know. If we allow others to define our hopes and dreams, who we are, our lives become diluted, weakened, a sham.
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This 14th edition of High Peaks Trails includes the 46 highest peaks in the Adirondacks. New in this edition are trails in the Lake Champlain region, and trails further to the north.
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Ysgol Bro Pedr raise funds for life saving machine
PUPILS at Ysgol Bro Pedr have raised enough money to buy a defibrillator machine for the school.
The idea came after 15 Year 11 pupils achieved their Level 3 Emergency First Aid Qualification with Ceredigion Youth Service. Pupils felt that it was incredibly important that they and others at the school had the skills, knowledge and equipment to use in an emergency.
Mrs Caryl Jones and pupils raised an outstanding £1,150 through organising a bake sale at the school on 28 March 2019. The school extends their thanks to Lampeter businesses 'Oh My Cod' and 'Y Becws' for their kind contribution towards the sale.
Guto Crompton, School Based Youth Worker said: "Although first aid is not a mandatory part of the school curriculum in Wales, young people at Ysgol Bro Pedr felt that it should be something that all pupils knew about. This would help them to know what to do in an emergency, whether that be in the school or out in the community. Pupils worked hard to achieve their First Aid qualification which covered aspect such as CPR, casualty management and the use of a defibrillator."
The defibrillator machine will be placed in the school reception.
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RNLI in Wales urges people to stay safe as Storm Brendan hits
The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is urging people to stay safe near the Welsh coast as severe weather could make our seas and coastlines particularly dangerous.
Lifesaving charity, the RNLI, is encouraging people to exercise extreme caution if visiting the shoreline, especially along exposed cliffs, seafronts and piers.
The expected strong winds and severe gales pose a severe safety risk to those visiting the coast.
Named Storm Brendan by Met Eireann, it swept eastwards across Ireland before making its way through the rest of the UK this morning with yellow wind warning in place for most of the Welsh coast.
Chris Cousens, RNLI Regional Water Safety Lead for Wales said:
'This rough weather could make visiting parts of the Welsh coastline treacherous and bring very dangerous sea conditions.
'Sadly, around 150 people lose their lives on British and Irish coasts each year and over half of these people didn't plan on ever entering the water. Slips, trips and falls can be a major factor in these kinds of incidents.'
If you see someone else in danger in the water, call 999 and ask for the Coastguard. If you have something that floats that they can hold on to, throw it to them. Don't go in the water yourself – too many people drown trying to save others.
The charity, which provides a search and rescue service around the UK and Ireland, is facing its own Perfect Storm as demand for its services has increased but it is facing a shortfall in funds. This past year, the RNLI has been busier than ever, and stormy conditions can mean additional call outs for the already extremely busy volunteer crews. Whatever the weather, RNLI volunteers will still be on call to rescue those at difficulty at sea.
The RNLI's major new fundraising appeal, The Perfect Storm, which aims to help the charity get back to living within its means, is running throughout November and December. To find out more or to donate visit RNLI.org/ThePerfect Storm.
Are you missing out on a Council Tax reduction?
IF YOU'RE struggling to pay your Council Tax bill, then help could be available for you through the Welsh Government's flagship Council Tax Reduction Scheme (CTRS).
The scheme, which will continue to support vulnerable households in 2020-21, currently benefits one in five of all households in Wales. In the last year almost 280,000 low-income households have received help from the scheme, with 220,000 paying no council tax at all. Many more receive other discounts or exemptions.
You may be entitled to pay less council tax if:
• you believe you live on a low income
• you live alone, or with people/children who do not pay council tax
• you are a student
• you are disabled
• you are severely mentally impaired
Understanding why there are still vulnerable households not benefitting from the help they are entitled to is a priority for the Welsh Government. Last year we commissioned research to understand the circumstances of households in Wales and the effects of the UK Government's Universal Credit on the CTRS.
The interim report out today shows that for many households, the move to Universal Credit can have a significant impact on council tax reduction awards. Whilst many households currently receiving a 100% reduction will continue to do so, for others, the move to Universal Credit is shown to have an adverse impact, particularly for employed households, self-employed households, and working households in receipt of a Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment.
Full findings of the interim report are available on the Welsh Government website. These findings will now be considered in more detail to inform the next stages of the research and policy development in this area.
Encouraging people to make sure they are not missing out on help they could be entitled to, Finance Minister Rebecca Evans said:
"Ensuring every household in Wales receives the council tax support they are entitled to is an important part of our commitment to making council tax fairer.
"Our scheme is already helping hundreds of thousands of households across Wales, but we know that there are still many missing out on the discounts, reductions and exemptions they are entitled to. I encourage everyone to check the Welsh Government website to find out if they could be paying less."
It's not too late: Ceredigion residents still have time to register to vote
"CEREDIGION residents still have time to register to vote in the General Election on 12 December," said the council's Chief Executive and Acting Returning Officer, Eifion Evans.
Residents still have time to register to vote and to arrange postal or proxy votes if they want to do so. The deadline to register to vote is midnight on November 26. The deadline to register for a postal vote is 5pm on November 26 and the deadline to register for a proxy vote is 5pm on December 4.
Mr Evans continued, "Some residents may want to register for postal vote or a proxy vote. This could help people avoid possible wintry conditions of a December election, or young people who have moved out of county to study but still want to vote in Ceredigion."
Residents can register to vote by using this link: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote or by calling the council's Electoral Services Team on 01545 570 881.
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Wine in a wonderful and complex beverage. Each new bottle has its own nuances and characteristics that make it unique. The first step to learning how to taste like a professional is knowing what to be looking. Below are the main characteristics that tasters use to describe a wine.
Dry vs. Sweet
At the front of your tongue are the taste buds responsible for detecting sweetness, which leads to most people's first impression of a wine – how sweet is it? If sweet, you'll notice it on the tip of your tongue. This sweetness in wine predominantly comes from the amount of residual sugar and alcohol. You may have heard the term "legs" when a wine is described. This is a word used to describe the way the liquid slides down the side of the glass. The longer the legs (slower the tears of the wine drop down the side of the glass), the more likelihood of sweetness.
The opposite of sweetness in wine is dryness (in fact, typically a wine is characterized by "dryness", with very sweet wines lacking dryness). A complete bone-dry wine contains zero residual sugar, and thus is not sweet.
Note that this dry vs. sweet characteristic is based on the amount of sugar in the wine, detected by the tip of the tongue. A dry wine does not mean it dries out your mouth, a common confusion. A wine that makes your mouth feel dried out is one that is high in tannins.
Try this: grab a black teabag and make a concentrated hot tea – lots of steeping in little water. Take a drink. See how dried out your mouth feels? Congratulations, you've just experienced the effects of tannins.
Tannins are a natural compound found in grape skins, seeds and stems. These natural compounds are released into the grape juice (the future wine!) as the grape skins soak with the juice. The result is a bitterness that hits the back and sides of your tongue and the dry mouth feel.
Bitter and dry mouth, sounds horrible doesn't it? I guess it's a matter of preference, but tannins do really good things to wines. They act as a natural protector by acting as an antioxidant (which is also believed to be a health benefit), allowing the wine to safely age and build structure. A high tannic wine can age a really long time when stored properly.
When it comes to tannins in red vs. white wines, higher tannins are found in red. The reason for this is the different methods of production. Red grapes soak with the grape skins for much longer than white grapes, and it is the skins and seeds that are the prominent supplier of tannins.
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Similar to how dryness and tannins can get mixed up, the effects acidity in wine can get misconstrued to alcohol. The acidity is the tartness that triggers the taste buds on the front and sides of your tongue. Think of biting into a lemon – that tart, crisp, puckering sensation is from the acid. It causes your mouth to salivate and each drink feels so refreshing.
A wine with too much acidity will taste overly sour or tart, while one without acidity might come across as dull or flat.
Fruit Level
The level of "fruit" is a general categorization of the wine's flavor. We start by deciding if we think the wine falls on either the side of savory or fruit flavor, and from there we get into what specific flavors we notice.
If it lands on the savory end we may pick up flavors like dirt, mushrooms, herbs, tobacco, minerals or less sweet fruits such as cranberries, sour cherries or grapefruit.
A fruit forward wine is going to have a flavor impact of sweet fruits – strawberries, raspberries, peaches, mango, or blueberries (among many others).
Consider your first impression when tasting the wine – does it taste like a mouthful of sweet, fresh fruit or does it have hints of earthy, plants, or tart and sour fruits?
Wines have legs and body. Weird. Putting your finger on the body of a wine takes a little more time and practice. The body is the overall feel when it is in your mouth and the extent of a lingering effect or aftertaste (aka "finish"). If you're a coffee drinker, you might relate the body of coffee to how dark it is – a light roast vs. a medium roast vs. a dark roast. Or think of milk – skim vs. whole vs. cream. Each has a different feel in your mouth and varying degrees of a lingering taste.
Alcohol plays a big influence on a wine's body. The higher the ABV the fuller or heavier bodied a wine tends to feel. This goes back to the "legs" – the higher the ABV the longer the legs (or the slower the wine drips down the side of the glass). Again, the legs can hint at some of the wine's characteristics but does not tell us anything about its quality.
Corked Wine
At some point in our individual journeys we come across a bad, corked wine. This occurs when little tiny microorganisms make their home and begin feasting on the cork. These nasty rebels produce a chemical substance that ruins the wine. The end result? A wine that smells like a wet dog and has zero to little body, no fruit flavor and is just plain dull. It also leaves a frowny face on anyone who drinks it.
Practice Practice Practice!
Getting a handle on each of these characteristics takes time and it takes enough experience to begin comparing one wine for another. The more you taste and drink the larger your repertoire will become, which is the biggest advantage of professional wine tasters - they have tasted thousands of wines! Grab a bottle, pop the cork and start drinking, but do so thoughtfully and deliberately.
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Daedalize Sequence: Eating chocolate /is/ sexual.
ShockwaveLover "That chocolate feels so good around my dick, girl…"
Daedalize Especially white chocolate.
Sequence oh god whaaaaaaaaat
Sequence aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Sequence aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Sequence aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
Daedalize White chocolate is masturbation, milk chocolate is regular sex, and dark chocolate is anal. Scientifically proven.
Dr_Kens Oh, you taste that chocolate. Feel how smooth it is…like silk, rolling across your tongue. It's so rich, decadent…sweet, but not overly so. There's a hint of bitterness and spice. The aroma fills you, warming your body as it spreads throughout you.
Dr_Kens The chocolate, it's like a drug…the texture, the taste, the smell, it's all overwhelming. It beckons, making you beg for more. Not enough, never enough.
Dr_Kens You roll it around your mouth, letting the heat coat your mouth…and then…as the last of the chocolate melts on the tiip of your tongue…
Dr_Kens …you swallow.
Dr_Kens bows.
Sequence OH GOD AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Daedalize ^5s Kens forever
Sequence will never enjoy halloween again
Daedalize Our hands are now permanently connected in high five position.


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text: ericncsu Report post Posted February 24, 2009 Especially when Crosby is looking the fool so far...he will not win their own personal issues with each other unless he cheapshots OV. Plus OV does not care what people think of him...good or bad. Yes I think OV is that good...he's proving to be the read deal...only time will tell if he'll be considered on of the best. I've always thought Ovechkin was the better player and always wondered why Crosby got all the press.. I suppose its the C on the jersey of a 19 year old that just makes people wet their pants. Crosby thinks being the Captain means he can argue every call with the refs.. especially when half of them are against him. Of course that attitude is all over the Pittsburgh organization... The commentators argued every call against them in the Philly game a couple of nights ago, their response to a hooking penalty was "Did you see him grab the stick and DIVE... " A bunch of cry baby's from Mario on down. I think Ovechkin does tend to play a little dirty.. I seen him hit with a elbow on multiple occasions, and witnessed him leave his feet for hits several times as well, but as far as pure goal scoring, skating and puck handling he is way more talented then Crosby.. he moves without the puck and Backstrom or Semin find him on the backdoor for an easy tap in.. I dont know if Crosby does, so I cant say this is an advantage, but I know Ovechkin plays all three man power situations, PP EV and PK. When I watched Washington beat Pittsburgh the other night OV was on the ice for the entire 2 minutes of a PP... thats endurance right there.. I know a PP is not hard skating up and down, but thats still a long time to be on the ice.. the other four players changed but he stayed out. Plus like the announcers said during the game.. his love and passion for the game is outstanding and contagious.. he probably smiles wider and celebrates harder when he watches a teammate score then when he scores himself... he jumps up and down and beats them on the back like it was their 1000th goal in the NHL.. and he does that every single time. He doesnt play for stats.. he plays for fun... he whoops and hollars and jumps and dances and doesnt care what anyone thinks... he is fun to watch. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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Ashley Bell is currently on hiatus with Bell & Washington. His cases have been reassigned to our staff attorneys for a smooth transition and the continued expertise that Bell & Washington clients expect. We congratulate Ashley for his new position as a special assistant to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, with a key role in the department's bureau of public affairs.Recognized as one of the top 25 attorneys under 40 in Georgia by the Daily Report, Georgia's legal magazine for lawyers, Attorney Bell is known as a smart, aggressive civil litigator. Ashley Bell has guided complex litigation and transactions at all levels of our judicial system. Attorney Bell's arguments before the state's highest court has made new case law in Georgia protecting the rights of litigants everywhere. He is also listed in the Red Book as an experienced public finance attorney having guided more than 500 million dollars in transactions revitalizing low income communities across the nation.
As a litigator Ashley has been called upon to guide labor and employment, worker compensation, and personal injury cases. As the family attorney for the stepson of recording artist Usher Raymond who was tragically killed in a boating accident, and other high- profile cases, Ashley is a highly sought-after attorney who receives record breaking results for his clients. Attorney Bell regularly appears as a legal expert commentator on MSNBC, CNN and Fox News.
A Hall County native, Ashley Bell was elected in 2008 at age 27 to become Hall County's youngest ever commissioner and one of the youngest in the state of Georgia. Mr. Bell is a graduate of Valdosta State University, and attended law school at the University of Georgia and Louisiana State University. He is also honored to be a 21st Century Leadership Fellow at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.
In Gainesville, Mr. Bell has been active with community service organizations including serving as co-chair of 2020 Leaders of America, Rotary Club of Gainesville, Family Ties, The One Community Organization (TOCO), Hall County Library Board, Gainesville Parks and Recreation Board, Hall County Boys & Girls Club, Vision 2030, The Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce, the Gainesville Elks Lodge, the Beulah Rucker Memorial Foundation, Founder of Generation Inspiration. He is a 33rd degree Mason, and a notable member of Iota Phi Theta, Fraternity.


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Far too often, those who work in the music industry are so concerned with making a living they often forget they're capable, at their best, of making history as well. They sacrifice art and artists in the name of commerce, then sleep soundly wrapped in bedspreads made of silk and greenbacks. Musicians, be they legendary or unknown, sit at the very bottom of the industry's food chain, where they're devoured by greed and ignorance, and not even bulletproof vests made of gold and platinum can protect them from grievous harm. Ask Harry Belafonte, one of the music industry's rare immortals (even his skin is bereft of wrinkles or any sign of his 74 years), about the pain the business of music can inflict upon its best and most beloved.
Forty-five years ago, Belafonte released an album titled Calypso, containing such songs as "Jamaica Farewell" and "The Banana Boat Song (Day-O)," that would become the first by a single artist to sell more than a million copies. During the 1950s and '60s, he was among the most ubiquitous cultural figures in America: a Tony Award-winner, an Emmy Award-winner, a chart-topper, a film star, an activist and civil-rights leader seen in the constant company of his close friend and confidant, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Belafonte, wrote Look magazine in 1957, "is the first Negro matinee idol in our entertainment history." As such, he was accorded a modicum of power, which he used in the '50s to convince RCA Records chief George Marek to allow him to record an anthology of black music that would encompass everything from African chants to slave spirituals to chain-gang songs to minstrel-show compositions.
With the assistance of Marek and conductor-arranger-historian Leonard De Paur, Belafonte would spend a decade, from 1961 to 1971, holed up at Webster Hall in New York City recording five albums' worth of material with Count Basie's vocalist Joe Williams, bluesmen Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, jazz-pop singer Gloria Lynne, spiritual and slave-song practitioner Bessie Jones and a choir of dozens. The anthology was to have been released in the early 1970s; it was to have been a testament to struggle and a document of empowerment.
"The ultimate truth of this collection," Belafonte says now, some four decades after the project's genesis, "is about a people's struggle for freedom and for rights and for expression." His voice is a blend of harsh and smooth--sandpaper against silk.
But business stood in the way of such ambition: When a longstanding, record-club distribution deal between RCA and Reader's Digest collapsed in acrimony in the early '70s, the project, then titled New World A' Comin': An Anthology of Black Music, was banished to the vaults, where it sat for nearly three decades--unloved, almost forgotten. RCA, which is now owned by worldwide conglomerate BMG, had little interest in releasing such an enormous collection of esoteric music, and over time, the label became so decentralized the right hand had no idea what the right arm was doing. Only Belafonte, who obtained ownership of the anthology in the late 1970s, knew of its existence, and he was powerless to procure its release. "There was still this resistance," he says. "It was, 'Where do we put it? How do we market it? Who's interested in this? It's not Top Ten or MTV.' There was more of that around than not."
Only now, some 40 years after its inception, is the collection seeing release: On September 11, Buddha Records, under the auspices of BMG, will ship The Long Road to Freedom: An Anthology of Black Music, which contains five discs (just as Belafonte intended), a luxurious 140-page hardback book detailing the music and musicians and a DVD documenting the events leading to the boxed set's release. It's an astonishing document when gulped down in one sitting, a time-travel narrative that begins with African chants and ballads, boards the slave ships, disembarks in the cotton fields and battlefields, moves into the church and the minstrel shows and ends just before King's March on Washington. It reveals, as Belafonte insists, "a musical history of America's Africans."
Still, it's almost unfathomable that such a remarkable piece of work would sit on the shelves for so long. Had it not been for perseverance and a little luck, Long Road to Freedom might never have been released at all. Belafonte says he thought of just donating it to the Smithsonian, so scholars and historians might one day stumble across it.
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Aren't we all a little bit in love with red bicycles? In anticipation of warm spring days, what would make a more thoughtful Valentine's Day gift? Just in general, though, our hearts go pitter-patter for cycling accessories and gear in rich reds and Pop-inspired pinks. So we've pulled together our most stylish favorites. They range from the whimsical to the practical, so you can play Bike Cupid with abandon.
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When I first read the recipe for this cake I knew that I had to try it! It's everything that I love! And it was a huge hit, the cake itself was so perfect and the topping was sweet and crunchy and just perfect! This recipe was slightly adapted from Creole Contessa.
3 cups flour
2 stick butter (room temperature)
4oz cream cheese (room temperature)
1 cup buttermilk
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
4 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla extract
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
1 stick butter (room temperature)
8 oz cream cheese (room temperature)
3 cup powdered sugar
2 cups sweetened coconut
2 cups sliced almonds
1 tsp vanilla extract
milk as needed
Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour a pound cake pan. In a stand mixer cream the butter, sugars and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time until each is fully combined. Add the vanilla extract. In a separate bowl mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Alternate adding the flour mixture then the buttermilk to the butter mixture starting and ending with the flour. Pour into the cake pan and bake for 1 hour. While cake is baking mix together the butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Mix in the powdered sugar and vanilla extract. Thin out with 3-4 tablespoons of milk. Microwave the glaze for 15 seconds. Remove 1 cup of glaze and set to the side. Fold in the coconut and sliced almonds to the remaining glaze. Remove the cake from oven and let cool for 10 minutes then flip to remove from pan. Poke holes all over the cake and pour over the plain glaze. Cool for 10 minute the top with the coconut almond glaze and let cool.


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On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 02:24:16PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > >- it boots, but then falls over: > > error 2502 when trying to run /dev/hdb1/boot/servers.boot > > > > permissions of the file are: > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff > > Permissions are okay. What is the content? attached (bonus point for not trying to ftp to uni mail server as root ;) ) > > What am I doing wrong _this_ time? > > please send the file to the list. It needs some configuration. Have done. > > Sorry to continue being useless, and thanks for your continued patience, > > Useless? Since when are testers useless? When they don't offer fixes? ;) Matthew p.s. who owns the GNU/Hurd FAQ? I want to mail them about partition types. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
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For example, I was reminded just how good Mr. Jim's sandwiches are. And then I reminded my husband. And then a few days later, in early September, we found ourselves spending a day in the 'Peake.
At Mr. Jim's.
Surprisingly they also don't have high chairs or booster seats at Mr. Jim's,
so Ev got her first taste of booth sitting.
After we enjoyed our yummy sandwiches, we headed out to Bergey's Breadbasket. This place was the absolute star of drives from Great Bridge to the beach and back during the summers in high school. The ice cream? TO DIE FOR.
But we will get to that a little later.
First, we went to see the animals.
Ooooh, Daddy! Look! Over there!
Excuse the gratuitous walking photos...Evelyn had JUST started choosing to walk over crawl. And, being the parents we are, we were naturally tickled.
See? Look how tickled that Daddy is.
Onto the main event.
Ice Cream.
More please.
Yup. That's the stuff.
Then we just lingered a bit to enjoy the nice day.
All in all, a great day in the 'Peake.
Evelyn Rae is now 16 months old, I am 29 weeks along with Bump
...and these photos make me a little sad. Those shoes! That outfit! Neither fit her anymore. Thank goodness for the photos.


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I feel truly blessed to be able to follow my dream of being a photographer. I absolutely LOVE what I do! From the time I picked up a camera, I was obsessed with taking pretty pictures. After 12 years, my focus has shifted… I have come to realize that one of the most important parts of my job is telling your story through my lens. If I'm photographing your wedding day, I focus on authentic, natural and real moments. If I'm photographing your senior pictures, your personality and inner beauty will shine through! These are the moments that you will forever cherish and remember. Welcome to the blog. I can't wait for the opportunity to capture YOU and tell your story!
A huge thank you to all of the families that participated in this year's fall mini sessions! It was an unexpectedly warm day but the colors and light were gorgeous and it was SOO fun to see some of my past clients and meet some new people as well!! Have a blessed Thanksgiving and I hope to see you again soon!


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