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Axe - "Rock 'N' Roll Party In The Streets"
PART ONE: US-81 OFF-RAMP TO MINNEAPOLIS WEST BANK
"Rock 'N' Roll Party In The Streets" is the rare song on Tuesday Tuneage which is not only a Q-98 Classic, but also has status as a favorite of the Cosmic Slop show on Radio K back in the day. I'd try to describe it, but you just have to track it. Soon you'll be pining for a summer night of having a keg cup in your hand, bumming a heater off of a friend, checking out the hot burnout girls in their Levi's, and nodding your head to the killer song blasting on the boombox.
And you gotta love the audacity of the song's premise. Most of us, when we have parties, we have them in our houses or backyards. Maybe in the garage. Not these guys and not this party. It's going to be IN THE STREETS BABY AND IT'S GOING TO BE A ROCK 'N' ROLL PARTY. How many kegs of High Life got drained out on the pavement that night? And did Axe invent National Night Out??
PART TWO: CONSUMER REPORTS SEZ
"Rock 'N' Roll Party In The Streets" is on the album Offering. A sophomore year dorm suitemate had Axe's Offering on cassette and played it frequently, I remember asking him if he could maybe play his copy of Hot Rocks for a change instead. I don't remember what the rest of Offering sounded like, but am pretty sure it didn't equal "Rock 'N' Roll Party in the Streets." Sure, I could go look up the take Rolling Stone had back in '82 or pull up the AllMusic review. But instead, I'm going to offer (sorry) up what genuine Amazon customers think of this album. Because if you are going to spend $15 on an Offering CD (or around $5 for the cassette on ebay, and I get the feeling cassettes outsold vinyl on the original release of this album like 10-1), you should know what the people truly think! (All spelling is left as-is.) Take it away, folks:
"The entire first side is terrific, and the second side is, too, until the last song or two. I own this album on cassette."
"I had 3 cassettes of Offering, one for my car, one for my boyfriend's and one for the portable player I took on my morning run."
"This album had a certain sofistication in it that, I, as a teenager, had to listen to a few times to grasp … Axe's sound, to me, is like Bob Seger electrified!!"
"I bought this on a cassette when it first came out. It's not a great album but definitely worth buying."
"Axe were your typical hard rock bar band type that had just enough licks to find them tapping on the shoulders of 80's A.O.R. radio stations. In order to get there, however, they put on a lot of polish to keep the airwaves sweet, which means that "Rock And Roll Party In The Streets" could have easily used some Everclear in the punch."
"It should also be on your current playlist if you are a true rock and roller."
"Way back in the early 80's my cousin and I walked into this independent record store in Missouri to pick up a Blue Oyster Cult album. At the recommendation of the owner we also picked up this GEM. I wore the vinyl out and switched to cassette."
"FYI - AOR stands for Album Oriented Rock, a very successful FM radio format in the late 70s and early 80s that evolved from the underground/freeform radio formats of the late 60s. ...Post disco, but pre Madonna. Quite a lot of these stations eventually morphed again into Classic Rock stations during the late 80s and early 90s. Axe is one of the many bands that had their moment in the AOR era, but have been excluded from most classic rock programming."
"I dont know if this is a good enough review or not. Need some feedback on it asap. This is my first time doing this."
New Radicals - "You Get What You Give"
With "You Get What You Give", New Radicals marked themselves as one of the great one-hit wonders of the past twenty years. I bought their only album, Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too, back in the day when I read somewhere it was a refreshing alternative to Beck's minstrel act on Midnite Vultures. It had always been a fun, pick-me-up album to listen to, but after recently loading it on my iPhone and having it grab me in some way it hadn't before on a bus ride home one afternoon, I began to get more intrigued the overall seventies blue-eyed sould vibe, the humor, the Prince homage in "Technicolor Lover", and daring to a leftist (if not ummm, radical) lyrical vibe into a mainstream album. Not to mention the essential appeal of the hooks a'plenty all over the album. My only complaint is that the scorching indictment of Corporate America is largely buried on the title track via mumbling.
And now it's Groundhog Day here for me, as New Radicals only released the one album. Frontman/mastermind Gregg Alexander broke up the band to focus on songwriting and producing. Great for him, you gotta do what makes you happy. Still, I feel depraved and depressed there have been no more New Radicals LPs, EPs, 45s, or iTunes Exclusives that have come down the line since 1998. All we have is this: Hall and Oates, with the help of Todd Rundgren, covered "Someday We'll Know" in 2003. As expected.
The Victims - "Television Addict"
The dream where I was a rookie homicide detective and Lieutenant Giardello took a shine to me and my work effort. The only time ever I enjoyed wearing a suit.
Spending an an hour of two of research and seventeen bucks at Amazon figuring out how to hook up my MacBook to my HDTV, just so I could watch my college hockey team on a bigger screen.
Years ago when a couple told me they didn't have a television, stealing Joey Tribiani's material and asking: "What's all your furniture pointed at?"
My Mom saying that TV was the best babysitter. She'd just plop me or my siblings in front of it, we'd stare at it, and she could get the housework done in peace.
The dream where I was part of the Carver basketball team (despite being in waking life short and horrible at hoops), hanging out with Cool, New York, and Thorpe, joining Salami as we walked out to the Motel California.
Those times in the nineties when I would go out of my way during Screen-Free Week - when such a silly concept actually got attention, had to Google it to even see what it's called and if it's still a thing - to watch more TV. Take that, snobby dorks!
The dream where a friend and I were involved with a meth dealer, contemplated turning state's evidence, decided to do one more favor for the dealer, then the cops pulled us over, I lied my socks off, my friend got hauled downtown on a trumped-up bunco charge, and I destroyed damaging evidence and decided to leave town permanently.
Run-DMC - "Rock Box"
F*ck it, cards on the table, this off my chest: "Rock Box" is the greatest heavy metal song ever recorded.
First heard these guys on Chicago radio during the two years in the mid-eighties when my folks lived in Illinois and I'd visit them on college breaks. Mom was in the store grabbing a couple of things, I was out in the car and started channel surfing. I came across two guys rapping-near-yelling while metal guitar wailed on. I had read in a recent issue of Rock & Roll Confidential that there was a rap-metal group called Run-DMC and figured "how many rap-metal outfits can there be?" Back in Grand Forks, I found myself in the Columbia Mall record store buying Run-DMC's King of Rock and Jason and the Scorchers Lost and Found, what with the purchase of Purple Rain the summer before having led to my permanent removal from the "I prefer music by long-established acts, many are likely British, and some may be dead" ranks.
Soon I would backtrack and get Run-DMC's debut, where they first came up with their groundbreaking (and there is no way of overstating this) sound. Drum machine, synthed chimes, heavy metal riffs, and Hendrix-like leads on guitar. It's like they took the controlled chaos of the early Funkadelic albums or those few seconds of "Beat It" where Eddie Van Halen totally shreds and constructed a whole universe around it.
In two years they would follow the natural progression that "Rock Box", then "King of Rock" suggested, brilliantly cover "Walk This Way," and rehabilitate Aerosmith completely. Their formula was so unique it has never been topped. Rap. Metal. Rap-metal. Boom. I'll listen to Run-DMC on a loop to my death before I get into old fogey songwriter music by the likes of John Hiatt or Elvis Costello.
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The miniature owl is 7/8" high.


A new live box set captures the Highwaymen onstage in 1990.
When the Highwaymen recorded "Desperados Waiting for a Train," written by visionary songwriter Guy Clark, who died earlier this week, the supergroup of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson landed on their most poignant song. While Jimmy Webb's "Highwayman" may have been the foursome's signature, Clark's "Desperados," released on their 1985 debut album, dovetailed with their own outlaw legacy: that of aging icons who indulged the young guns their bravado while still beating them on the draw. They may not have been pushing 80 as in Clark's lyrics (all four were only in their late 40s or early 50s), but, especially now, it's impossible to think of the Highwaymen as anything but elder statesmen of country music.
"They need to be up there on the big rock with the presidents," says Emmylou Harris, echoing a sentiment near the end of "Desperados Waiting for a Train": "to me, he's one of the heroes of this country," goes the line, sung by Cash.
The group's heroics on the concert stage are celebrated today with the release of The Highwaymen Live – American Outlaws, a new three-CD box set that captures the band onstage, chiefly during a 1990 show on Long Island, New York. There's also a DVD/Blu-ray of that same concert. It's a fascinating package, testament to each man's individual output and what they were able to accomplish as a whole.
The idea for the Highwaymen came about in 1984 when Cash wrangled Nelson, Kristofferson and Jennings to film Cash's Christmas special in Montreux, Switzerland. Inspired by the camaraderie in the hotel, where they'd jam after long days on the set, the artists returned to the States and entered the studio with producer Chips Moman, eventually taking Webb's "Highwayman" as both their name and the title of the album. "It was a creative formula that worked," says John Carter Cash, who recalls Glen Campbell, Marty Stuart and Johnny Rodriguez present during those early sessions. Rodriguez, in fact, would lend his voice to the LP's "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)," a Woody Guthrie song.
The new American Outlaws set was painstakingly produced and curated by Nelson's long-time harmonica sideman Mickey Raphael, who also toured with the Highwaymen band, an all-star collective that included steel guitarist Robby Turner, now with Chris Stapleton. Onstage, the Highwaymen's live shows were a veritable legends jukebox, with each member taking a turn in the spotlight to play their hits. "You had Cash doing 'Big River' and then Willie doing 'Always on My Mind.' It blew people's minds," says Jennings.
Both of those songs appear here, along with some lesser-known gems that rise to the surface. The ensemble "The Last Cowboy Song" is a hypnotic elegy, Cash's spoken-word "Ragged Old Flag" unfurls with grace and subtle patriotism, and Nelson's take on Kristofferson's "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)" is dazzling.
Along with American Outlaws, and a new greatest-hits disc, The Very Best of the Highwaymen, also out May 20th, the band is the focus of PBS's American Masters. Titled The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End, the installment premieres Friday, May 27th, on PBS, and tells the group's origin story, while delving into the relationships of its members. At times, it could be a contentious union, especially when it came to the conflicting ideologies of Kristofferson and Jennings.
Cash seconds Bingham's assessment, marveling at the longevity of the Highwaymen catalog. "This is something that 200 years from now, it'll have a greater import than even it does right now. It'll be more clear, wherefore our tree came from. We're looking back over the history of our modern recorded music," he says.
And, as in Clark's heartrending "Desperados Waiting for a Train," they also faced mortality together. "Highwayman" was the band's theme, says John Carter Cash, but "Desperados" was the group's heart and soul.


Rev. Sarah Renfro, former fashion model. Now preaching the good news of your body.
I was born and raised in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). I was active in youth group and worship. After high school, I left Kentucky to pursue modeling full-time, living in Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, and Europe for a bit. I had the opportunity to see the world, but at the same time, the fashion industry is competitive and harsh. I struggled with disordered eating and depression after constantly being told that I wasn't good enough just as I was. I wasn't thin enough or blond enough or big-busted enough or . . . I was the one of one percent of the population who is in the magazines and catalogs and on billboards and in commercials; yet, I had low self-esteem and a negative body image.
During my travels, I did not maintain a faith community. Oh sure, I attended on Easter and came home for Christmas, but that was about it. I was not grounded in a church that reminded me that I was a child of God. But deep down I knew. So when I retired at age 21, I moved home, attended the University of Kentucky, and went to church.
I became a youth group sponsor and loved it! I was invited to share my story from the fashion world for the first time, and I realized that I just might have something to say to young people about body image.
Fast-forward a few years, a failed marriage, and another stint in LA, and I came back home, finished college, and continued to work with the church. I received my call to ministry soon thereafter. At no time had I envisioned God calling a former Hollywood-type to the share the Word. But alas. Here I am.
So now I am a former model, ordained minister, married-again (to a minister), and mom to Miriam (almost three-years-old). My passions about body image have only increased as I continue to lead workshops and retreats with youth and women.
Media reinforces over and over and over again that we are not okay just as we are. That we are to subscribe to some "ideal beauty," which is impossible to achieve and devalues the diversity of God's creation. There are many passages from the Bible on which I base the title of my website and workshops "Beautiful Child of God: Embodying the Divine." Perhaps, my favorite is how God created humankind in God's own image (imago Dei), and called us not just good, but very good.
Most of us, women and men, young and old, of all colors and ethnicities, struggle with the reflection in the mirror. Media has much to do with our dissatisfaction. In my talks, I seek to expose the myths that reinforce negativity for capitalist gain, and I attempt to enforce the Truth that we are created beings, body and spirit, incarnated, imprinted with the Divine.
Robb asked how I came to use #ShapedByGod. That was an idea by a friend and colleague, Rev. Sarah Taylor Peck, who mentioned it as Lenten discipline. I immediately asked to join in her journey, because I believe we were molded out of the soil of the earth to be exactly who God shaped us to be. Some tall and thin, most not so. Some light skinned, most not.
When we look in the mirror, it is God whom we reflect. It is the Divine spark that shines from our eyes and in our bodily actions and spirit-filled prayers. We are shaped by God to be God's hands and feet and ears and voice in the world. We are not supposed to all have the same shape (tall and thin for women, "manly" and muscly for men), but we are to love the bodies that we were given, take care of them, and use them to bring about the Kin-dom of God.
There's your sermon for the day, but I realize that this is easier said (or typed) than done. I still struggle. Fifteen years removed from modeling full-time, I can still pick my body apart if I let myself, even though I eat well and exercise. But I try not to. I try to love my whole self because I lead workshops about this type of thing (duh), I am mom to a daughter whom I desperately wish maintains the love of her belly, the good foods she eats, the exercise she gets, the joy she has in her body and spirit, and I am a child of God. A beautiful child of God. And so are you!
Thanks for letting me share a bit of my story.


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Just a short distance below downtown Miami is Plaza on Brickell North and Plaza on Brickell South Tower. This two-tower estate seeks to give each of its residents luxury living. To do this, it has capitalized heavily on the building's interior design, and customer service.
First, customer service. Based on its front desk services, you will be ensured that you can live hassle-free in this building. The concierge is 24 hours and is open the whole week. Some of its services include packaging, delivery, dog services, and car rental services. Apart from that, they can provide housekeeping and maid service, as well as driver services. The reception does these jobs exceptionally well. Couple this with accommodating staff you encounter at the gym or at the pool deck.
Secondly, Plaza on Brickell not only performs but also displays prestige. If you are looking for a condo that made its name in the market, this is the one for you. The property has been in the residential industry since 2007. Since it only has a few units for sale and for rent, this shows that the building is seen as an investment opportunity. People are still finding more reasons to stay in this place the more they spend time in it. This can be attributed to the fact that there are so many amenities at the North Tower. There is a lounge room, wine cellar, and home theater, to name a few. It also has an indoor theater that can sit 10 people. If you have a number of guests, you can bring them downstairs where gourmet restaurants await them.
With only an average selling price of $510 per square foot, Plaza on Brickell's North Tower ensures affordability and luxury. They have fused a lavish kind of lifestyle along with their future buyers' willing to pay.


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A long-time Colorado Springs resident, Mary Chenoweth was one of the region's most prolific, multifaceted, yet understated artists. Hired on as an instructor at the Fine Arts Center's well-respected school in 1953, Chenoweth created a breadth of work over the years in a variety of media to include printmaking, woodcarving and painting. As a part of the FAC Legacy Series, this exhibition pays tribute to a Pikes Peak region gem through an in-depth look at the artist's extensive works on paper that can be found in the Fine Arts Center and Colorado College collections.


The poet Nasrallah Ibn Abdallah Al-Qalaqis (نصر اللّه بن عبد اللّه القاضي الأعزّ ابن قلاقس) was born near Alexandria, Egypt in 1137. He was a master of language and a composer of many exquisite verses, and was also an intrepid traveler. The name by which he is generally known (Ibn Qalaqis) is derived from the Arabic word for colocasia, a plant cultivated in his day for its medicinal qualities. His biographer tells us (with a twinkle in his eye) that "He had so little beard that his face was quite bare and, for that reason, verses were composed against him, which I abstain from mentioning on account of their indelicacy." One wishes that these lampoons might have been preserved, if only to see how little insults have changed over the centuries.
And were she to hear one wounded lover condole with another?
She rejected suffering from torments like those of hell?
So that I became a mere breath, like the zephyr of that garden.
She, with the beauty-spot on her cheek, slumbers, neglectful of her sleepless lover….
Why should a gazelle [maiden] not remain with us?
When angered by his fellow-creature.
Of which the smell could not suffice me but the taste!
Men are very numerous, but I am destined to keep company with only sailors and caravan-drivers.
Returning from evil ways is highly meritorious.
It is by travelling that the crescent becomes a full moon.
Water, whilst it runs, acquires good qualities; when it settles, it becomes corrupt.
From the sea to the necks of the fair.


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Лилестрем () је значајан град у Норвешкој. Град је у оквиру покрајине Источне Норвешке и припада округу Акерсхус, где је први град по величини. Лилестрем је и седиште општине Скедсмо и истовремено једно од највећих предграђа Осла.

Према подацима о броју становника из 2011. године у Лилестрему је живело око 13 хиљада становника, док је у ширем градском подручју живело близу 20 хиљада становника.

Географија
Град Лилестрем се налази у крајње југоисточном делу Норвешке. Од главног града Осла град је удаљен 20 km источно од града.

Лилестрем се налази у средишњем делу Скандинавског полуострва. Град се развио на реци Нителви, у невеликој долини. Јужно и северно од града се издижу брда. Сходно томе, надморска висина града иде од 120 до 200 м надморске висине.

Историја
Први трагови насељавања на месту данашњег Лилестрема јављају се у доба праисторије. Данашње насеље није имало већи значај до почетка 20. века. 1908. године Лилестрем постаје седиште општине Скедсмо и од тада почиње бржи развој града, повезан и са близином Осла и пресељавањем његовог становништва у предграђа.

Током петогодишње окупације Норвешке (1940—45) од стране Трећег рајха Лилестрем и његово становништво нису значајније страдали.

Године 1997. Лилестрем је добио градска права.

Становништво
Данас Лилестрем има око 13 хиљада становника, док је у ширем градском подручју живи близу 20 хиљада становника. Последњих година број становника у граду се повећава по годишњој стопи од 1,5%.

Привреда
Привреда Лилестрема се традиционално заснива на индустрији. Последњих година значај трговине, пословања и услуга је све већи. Посебно је значајно скорашње премештање норвешког сајма у Лилестрем.

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 www.skedsmo.kommune.no Званична страница града Лилестрема и општине Скедсмо

Градови у Норвешкој
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Disclaimer: I originally wrote this post on January 1st, but it took me til today to actually post it.
For all the "not so happy" posts I've read about 2018, I'm sorry that last year wasn't good to you, but I will say it was FANTASTIC for me, my family, & my business. 2018 owes me NOTHING! I have a few things that I need to clear up on my own, but it was due to my own decisions & actions….
I completed 3 of my big goals on my list that i made at the beginning of the year.
I consolidated my two businesses into one which gave me peace of mind & made my accounting life easier.
I READ A BOOK! Actually, I READ 2 BOOKS! They were business related & it may not be a big deal to you, but it's HUGE to me!
My family is growing & we'll have another mini-me in March.
We were able to use the income from our Business to purchase a car this year.
I realized that it was time to put my faith where it's supposed to have been & service my clients full time. So as of January 10th I'm available for ALL THE THINGS!
We have a Home, Food, Insurance, and Healthy Children.
I learned a lot about balancing my career, my life, and my family. I learned that in order to grow, something has to be let go. So 2019 is All about Growth & Moving Forward!
March 19, 2018 Q & A Wednesday with A. Louise!


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You are still using old equipment in a cold or warm site as a back-up.
You haven't tested your DR strategy in over a year.
Your back-up equipment does not have the capacity to run full production.
You're not sure if all your data is available at the back-up site or whether all your applications will run.
We work with IT and business users to look at the business impact of their choices of RTO (recovery time objective) and RPO (recovery point objective).
We translate business requirements into IT service levels and help assess the type of data replication and back-up needed for each application.
We define tiers of applications based on RPO/RTO service levels and help map DR architecture options to each tier.
Qi supports public and private cloud options.
We can tailor different cloud replication and back-up technologies to your needs, including virtual machine replication, disk replication and database replication.
Our subject matter experts will implement the replication environment, test it and set up monitoring instrumentation to ensure that replication keeps running.
We'll also map out the emergency DR environment and test it to ensure that it's ready for you when you need it.
Once the replication services are in production, Qi's network operations centre continuously monitors the health of the system to ensure that any issues (e.g. replication failure, queue build-up) are dealt with quickly without loss of data or failure to meet service levels.
Our ticketing system captures any changes to your production environment over and above those that are automatically captured by data replication. These changes are applied to the DR environment (e.g. addition virtual machines) and the recovery environment.
During the initial DRaaS workshop, we'll ask you to decide on the frequency of DR testing (quarterly, semi-annually or annually).
Once the replication system is placed into production, we'll work with your team to do the first DR test to ensure that all data is being captured, the emergency DR environment can handle your production needs, and that your RPO/RTO service levels can be met for each application tier.
We also ensure that you can switch back to your production environment and capture any data changes made in the emergency DR environment.
After each DR test, we'll review the results with your team and make any adjustments to the replication environment and the emergency DR environment necessary.
Should there be an actual emergency for any reason, we work with you to formally declare the emergency, assess its extent (i.e. does it impact all applications) and cut over to the emergency DR environment.
We offer war room facilities that you can use for the duration of your emergency.
We continue to ensure that your production needs are met for the duration of your emergency.
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These people look like they're waiting, but I bet they're posing and waiting for the artist to finish. They don't look especially happy or sad. Just plain satisfied.
The City Daily Photo's theme for February is white. I posted one photo yesterday, but had more than one to share.
I bet he's playing great music.
National Museum of China. Loads of Faces. So just a crowd?
I'm not sure which document is getting signed.


If you don't want to spend a fortune purchasing a motorcycle, you should consider buying used. Of course, whenever you purchase a used vehicle, there is some risk involved. Here are a few tips that will help you mitigate this risk when it comes to purchasing a used motorcycle.
Before you start looking for a used motorcycle, you should consider what type of riding you will be doing with the bike most often. You may use your motorcycle for touring, commuting, sports, or even a combination of the previous three types of riding. When it comes to purchasing a used motorcycle, this is definitely the most important thing you must must consider.
While it may be tempting to purchase a super bike for yourself, you should resist the temptation if you know you're only going to be using the motorcycle for commuting purposes. No matter how powerful and amazing the super bike is, you will likely hate it when commuting. This is especially true if you're planning on riding the motorcycle with an extra rider on a regular basis.
If possible, you should purchase the used motorcycle from a reputable dealership. In general, if you stick with private sales, the used motorcycle will cost you less. However, if the bike ends up breaking down, you will not have anyone to turn to. The vast majority of reputable dealerships offer a warranty for used motorcycles. The dealerships that don't offer warranties are typically willing to work with customers if anything goes wrong with the used bike within the first few months of purchase.
If you absolutely must buy a used bike from a private party, you should insist to the seller that you be able to take the motorcycle to a dealership before you purchase it. At the dealership, you will be able to have the bike inspected and assessed for a fee. The dealership will also be able to do an ownership history search to ensure the motorcycle isn't stolen or listed as "written off". By taking the bike to a dealership before purchasing it, you will mitigate the risk associated with private sales.
As you can see, there are many things you can do to ensure you're not ripped off when it comes to purchasing used motorcycles. Just follow the tips discussed above and you will likely be satisfied with the used motorcycle you decide to buy.
For more information, contact a local dealer, like Blue Ridge Harley-Davidson.


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// Copyright (c) MOSA Project. Licensed under the New BSD License.

using Mosa.Compiler.Framework;

namespace Mosa.Platform.x86.Instructions
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Representations the x86 call instruction.
	/// </summary>
	public sealed class Call : X86Instruction
	{
		#region Data Member

		private static readonly OpCode RegCall = new OpCode(new byte[] { 0xFF }, 2);
		private static readonly byte[] CALL = new byte[] { 0xE8 };

		#endregion Data Member

		#region Construction

		/// <summary>
		/// Initializes a new instance of <see cref="Call"/>.
		/// </summary>
		public Call() :
			base(0, 0)
		{
		}

		#endregion Construction

		#region Properties

		public override FlowControl FlowControl { get { return FlowControl.Call; } }

		#endregion Properties

		#region Methods

		/// <summary>
		/// Emits the specified platform instruction.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="node">The node.</param>
		/// <param name="emitter">The emitter.</param>
		protected override void Emit(InstructionNode node, MachineCodeEmitter emitter)
		{
			if (node.OperandCount == 0)
			{
				emitter.EmitRelativeBranch(CALL, node.BranchTargets[0].Label);
				return;
			}

			if (node.Operand1.IsSymbol)
			{
				emitter.WriteByte(0xE8);
				emitter.EmitCallSite(node.Operand1);
			}
			else
			{
				emitter.Emit(RegCall, node.Operand1);
			}
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Allows visitor based dispatch for this instruction object.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="visitor">The visitor object.</param>
		/// <param name="context">The context.</param>
		public override void Visit(IX86Visitor visitor, Context context)
		{
			visitor.Call(context);
		}

		#endregion Methods
	}
}

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Sacred, Sad And Salacious: With Many Meanings, What Is True Blue?
By Mandalit del Barco
Published November 12, 2014 at 2:41 PM PST
Jemal Countess
Phil Stanton (from left), Chris Wink and Matt Goldman are the founders of the theatrical performance troupe Blue Man Group.
The color blue has meant a lot of things to a lot of different people. In medieval times, the Virgin Mary's cloak was often painted a celestial, pure, sacred blue. In the early 1900s, Pablo Picasso created somber blue paintings during a period of depression. The color has been championed by everyone from jazz musician Miles Davis and singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell to the theatrical Blue Man Group.
In medieval art the Virgin Mary is often cloaked in blue. Above, Fra Angelico's Madonna of Humility, circa 1430.
Back in Colonial America, blue meant indecent. Lawmakers established rigid controls over morals and conduct; the so-called "blue laws" were designed "to encourage people to go to church, and to prohibit people from engaging in secular activities," says David L. Hudson Jr., an author and attorney who teaches about the first amendment at Vanderbilt University and the Nashville School of Law. The idea behind blue laws was to make certain activities illegal on Sundays.
"Common blue laws, for instance, prohibit the sale of alcohol on Sunday, prohibit certain sports on Sunday — hunting or horse racing — fiddling even." Hudson says.
Really? Fiddling?
"Fiddle players would often ... people would gather around and listen to them and drink and carouse and engage in activity that was not akin to sitting in a pew," says Hudson.
But why blue? Here's one theory: "The colony of New Haven printed their laws on blue sheets of paper," Hudson explains.
Sacrebleu!
Blue paper is also behind what's known as blue humor — jokes considered indecent or off-color. John Kenrick, who teaches the history of musical theater at New York University, says the term began 100 years ago, with performers working for the Keith-Albee vaudeville chain. After their first gig in each new theater, they would get notes written on blue stationary.
"That blue envelope was the management informing you what material in your act might be offensive to local audiences, and therefore had to be removed from your act on pain of termination," says Kenrick. "Over the course of time, blue came to be identified for any kind of humor that was off-color, that was a little too adult, that was risqué or even downright dirty."
In the early days of vaudeville, performer Sophie Tucker snuck some "blue" into her act with bawdy songs and stage shows. Comedian Milton Berle even found blue envelopes in his mailbox. The idea of blue meaning forbidden, adult, humor worked its way into Hollywood, and became a standard show business term.
"It was used in all areas of the business," says Kenrick. "So if you said something was blue, it meant it was dirty, it had to go."
Kenrick says Bob Hope loved telling dirty jokes in his burlesque career and in his private life, but was constantly censored on radio and TV. By the 1960s, though, comedian Redd Foxx's blue humor made it onto vinyl.
"Foxx was known for his incredibly adult humor," Kenrick says. "When these recordings did get done, they were carefully sold in the back of the record store, kind of like adult videos are in some stores today. 'Party records,' as they were known. And right in through my childhood in the '60s, there'd be a point where the grown-ups would put the kids to bed, they'd turn the volume down low and put on these adult party records. And that was where the blue humor got spread around."
These irreverent jokes were hip, Kenrick says.
Kay Nietfeld
A husky with one blue and one brown eye waits for the first sledge dog race of the 2012 season in Eastern Germany.
"It's cool to be blue," Kenrick says. "It's cool to be off-color. It is outside of the norm. It's cool to challenge the establishment."
Singing The Blues
Blue also can evoke a deep sadness — as in "feeling blue." No one is exactly sure where that phrase comes from. Some say it dates back to the 16th century. Others have attributed it to the nautical practice of flying a blue flag or painting a blue stripe around the hull of a ship after the death of a captain or officer. Naturalist John James Audubon even wrote in an 1827 journal entry that he "had the blues" (though maybe he was talking about blue jay specimens).
The music that came to be called the blues originated in the plantation work songs of African slaves in the Mississippi Delta in the 1800s.
#ColorFacts: A Weird Little Lesson In Rainbow Order
Folklorist Alan Lomax traveled the South recording this music throughout the 20th century. In his 1979 documentary, The Land Where The Blues Began, Lomax said the music was created out of loneliness and deprivation.
"As one old-times blues man told me: It'd take a man that had the blues to sing the blues," said Lomax. "And so the blues were born — field hollers floating over solid syncopated dance rhythms, songs that voiced unspoken anger, the powerful bitter poetry of a hard-pressed people."
But the name, the blues, may have its roots in another feeling besides sadness, says guitarist Debra Devi, author of the book The Language of the Blues.
"There was a phrase 'the blue devils,' which was used to mean the hallucinations that would bedevil somebody who had the [delirium tremens] from alcohol withdrawal," she says.
But Devi also offers another thought as well: "In West African culture — in Yoruba, specifically — there's a quality called coolness: Itutu, and it's symbolized by the color blue. And to have that quality means to be connected to the divine. This is a concept that came over with the Africans who came over here as slaves, and the color blue is used in Yoruban art to symbolize that quality."
Divine, soulful, cool, sad, naughty — it's a lot for one word to embody. Then again, the color blue comes in many shades.
Mandalit del Barco
As an arts correspondent based at NPR West, Mandalit del Barco reports and produces stories about film, television, music, visual arts, dance and other topics. Over the years, she has also covered everything from street gangs to Hollywood, police and prisons, marijuana, immigration, race relations, natural disasters, Latino arts and urban street culture (including hip hop dance, music, and art). Every year, she covers the Oscars and the Grammy awards for NPR, as well as the Sundance Film Festival and other events. Her news reports, feature stories and photos, filed from Los Angeles and abroad, can be heard on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, Alt.latino, and npr.org.


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The paper summarises a prescient report I wrote as a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce titled 'A Future for Plymouth'.
Eric Davies ridiculed me for suggesting in the report the possible demise of the naval dockyard in a generation, yet that's exactly what happened. The workforce is down from 16,000 (when the report was published in 1969) to 1,250 in 2011.
The newspaper editor's view is somewhat different to the columnist Eric Davies'.


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This photo series links two geographies to create a unified place that doesn't exist.
Home » This photo series links two geographies to create a unified place that doesn't exist.
By: Eric Zdancewicz
You might remember Kyler Zeleny from his ongoing Found Polaroids project, which has become a successful collaboration between writers, photographers and academics from around the world.
In his newest project, he has teamed up with Russian photographer Yanina Shevchenko to create Georgia Georgia, a linking of two geographies to create a unified place that doesn't exist.
The Georgia that Yanina has photographed is the former Soviet country located at the eastern end of the Black Sea.
The Georgia that Kyler has photographed is the southern U.S. state.
The collaboration began with Yanina taking photos around three broad categories that had been given to her by Kyler: people, landscape and the human built environment. When Kyler travelled down south, he built upon the images by finding similar subjects and identifying 'poetic connections' he found in Yanina's photos.
"As a conceptual project, it aims to challenge the viewer's understanding of place and placelessness, explored through the photographers' collective approach."
"The images are presented as a set of diptychs that capture the very obvious and apparent differences as well as the unexpected similarities."
Could you tell the readers a little bit about yourselves and your respective practices?
Y: I was born in Russia, but currently live in Barcelona, Spain. In 2012 I completed MA Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. That is where I met Kyler and from there the idea for our collaboration was born.
K: I grew up in rural Canada, but currently live in Toronto, Canada. Like Yanina I studied in London and currently work at York University and am working towards completing my PhD at York & Ryerson Universities. I try my best to edge out visual projects when I have the time. My dissertation work is focused on integrating photography and writing.
How did this project materialize?
K: There is some debate over that. Yanina and I both playfully take credit for the idea behind the project. For myself, I like the idea of collaborations, I like the potential that working with others can afford. Yanina and I also work in similar ways (around issues of representation, space and place). I hold strong that I came up with the idea and proposed it to her. I was telling her about the movie Paris, Texas and the idea of how name places can be misleading. I really liked the idea of this 'other' Paris that exists in America and then I started to think about other name associations and how that could be the base for an experimental collaboration. There is nothing special between the two Georgias, no grand connection (a lose religious one, but nothing more). It is meant to be playful and to push the photographers into boxes they are uncomfortable being in.
What was the biggest challenge in this collaboration?
Y: Time frames. We both have busy schedules, so to complete the project took much longer than we expected.
What were some of the other poetic connections you (Kyler) found in Yanina's photographs?
K: After looking at Yanina's images I made a list and then tried to locate the image that would correspond or create a visual connection. Going back to the notebook here are some of my favorites, some of which I was able to create an image for and others that remain unfilled.
Fat man on seaside boulevard, beach goers, in the presence of the mountain, the lone tree, the roadside advertisement, the dog, lines that string across the landscape, dead or relaxing, red bus in the green, hiding in the woods, lonely items in the landscape.
Were you both confident that you would find similar subjects to photograph?
Y: No and that was the most interesting part. We didn't know what to expect, because neither of us has been to the areas we photographed. That is why the themes we wanted to focus on were very broad. When you do a project like this I think it is important to be flexible and let the situation guide the process. My part was much more open to change than Kyler's though, because I went to Georgia first. Kyler had to build on the content I have created already.
What was the process of pairing the images together after both you and Yanina were finished photographing? Were there any disagreements about what should be paired?
K: An observer of our process might say Yanina and I bickered over image sets but that's part of our creative practice. We each went through the images and tried to make connections, we each made connections that surprised the other. And then we cut the ones we didn't think were strong enough or 'poetic' enough.
Y: We really had fun pairing the images. I think that was the time when we felt the strongest that this is a collaboration and not independent projects.
Who/what are your main influences for this project?
Y: We didn't really have any. We have similar interests in photography so we decided to do a project together. Georgia Georgia was, first of all, an experiment. I think it worked out well.
Can you tell us anything about the project that only the two of you would know?
K: Part of the engagement the viewer should have with the images is to guess their origin—nation state or American state. Only Yanina and I know for sure. We did an artist talk last September in New York and it was interesting to see how people guessed. Perhaps there is a latent critique of photography as a medium that accurately represents events and places. The project is about intersecting the truth telling ability of photography with the common and often mislead notions we have of particular places, whether that is a former Soviet satellite state or the American South. Globalization also fits into this equation but that is boring to talk about.
Georgia Georgia will be showing at Latitude 53 Contemporary Art Gallery in Edmonton from May 13 to June 18.
Check out more of Kyler and Yanina's work below:
http://www.kylerzeleny.com/
https://www.instagram.com/kylerzeleny/
http://www.yaninashevchenko.com/
Tags Georgia Georgia Kyler Zeleny photo essay photography Yanina Shevchenko


At GK Physio and Pilates we have a lovely, bright and airy Pilates studio, in which our class members are taught in small groups. We teach both Clinical Pilates and also Pilates for performance and general fitness, strength and well-being. All classes are taken by chartered Physiotherapists qualified in teaching Pilates with the Australian Physiotherapy and Pilates Institute (APPI) so clients can trust them to provide expert care, and modify the exercises according to their problems and weaknesses. Clinical Pilates combines the early work of Joseph Pilates and current medical research into muscle physiology, biomechanics and muscle stability to create a safe, clinically effective program for rehabilitation. As this research develops clients can be assured that GK Physio will be at the forefront of this pioneering approach.
Clinical Pilates is perfect for retraining over-used muscles which contribute to muscle imbalances. These can occur as a result of training for one particular sport such as running, cycling, golf or working to a computer or desk.
"Following abdominal surgery in my mid 60's, my consultant suggested Pilates. I booked in with Gemma and have never looked back. Seven years on it's the highlight of my week. I am now so much fitter, have a better body shape and can keep up with class members 30 years younger than me. Oh and most importantly no 'little accidents' when I sneeze!". — Kath, Ilkley.
We also run classes for general well-being and fitness to improve posture, core strength, muscle tone and change your body shape. We also run weekly ante and post natal classes (babies welcome). Any of our Pilates classes can be adapted on a one-to-one basis if required, and many of the Clinical Pilates exercises are used in conjunction with Physiotherapy to improve many problems and prevent their recurrence.


Attractive MACE PEPPER SPRAY LEATHERETTE MODELS fit easily in a pocket or purse. Features glow-in-the-dark locking safety cap and key ring. 11 gram stream unit sprays up to 10 feet. Contains 5 one second bursts. Available in five fashionable colors: red, black, blue, purple and green. Includes key ring. This pricing is available ONLINE ONLY. Standard retail or in-store price is much higher.


Biofilms develop in heterogeneous patterns at a µm scale up to a cm scale, and patterns become more pronounced when biofilms develop under complex hydrodynamic flow regimes. Spatially heterogeneous biofilms are especially known in spiral wound reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membrane filtration systems used for desalination and wastewater reuse to produce high quality (drinking) water. These spiral wound membrane modules contain mesh-like spacer structures used to create an intermembrane space and improve water mixing. Spacers create inhomogeneous water flow patterns resulting in zones favouring biofilm growth, possibly leading to biofouling thus hampering water production. Oxygen sensing planar optodes were used to visualize variations in oxygen decrease rates (ODR). ODR is an indication of biofilm activity. In this study, ODR images of multiple repetitive spacer areas in a membrane fouling simulator were averaged to produce high resolution, low noise ODR images. Averaging 40 individual spacer areas improved the ODR distribution image significantly and allowed comparison of biofilm patterning over a spacer structure at different positions in an RO filter. This method clearly showed that most active biofilm accumulated on and in direct vicinity of the spacer. The averaging method was also used to calculate the deviation of ODR patterning from individual spacer areas to the average ODR pattern, proposing a new approach to determine biofilm spatial heterogeneity. This study showed that the averaging method can be applied and that the improved, averaged ODR images can be used as an analytical, in-situ, non-destructive method to assess and quantify the effect of membrane installation operational parameters or different spacer geometries on biofilm development in spiral wound membrane systems characterized by complex hydrodynamic conditions.
Staal M, Farhat N, van Loosdrecht M, Vrouwenvelder J (2017) Biofouling patterns in spacer filled channels: High resolution imaging for characterization of heterogeneous biofilms. DESALINATION AND WATER TREATMENT 80: 1–10. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.5004/dwt.2017.20863.
The research reported in this publication was supported by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). The authors would like to thank Sergey Borisov for providing the optode material.


Chris Horner has pulled out of his title defence at the Vuelta due to having 'below healthy' cortisol levels.
Cortisol is important for the body to recover after injury; Cortisones are medicine that affect the levels of cortisone in the body. The popular anti-inflammatory drug is also performance enhancing, which has made it a bone of contention in the cycling world.
Horner has been taking cortisone to treat a lung issue that has followed him since the Tour and had been given a Therapeutic Use Exemption on 15 August, which means he could have taken part in the Vuelta.
His Lampre team are part of the Movement for Credible Cycling, which subjects teams to more stringent testing for performance enhancing substances. Membership of the MCC is not compulsory for any team, Team Sky and Omega Pharma Quick-Step are just two examples of teams that aren't part of the MCC.
Although his TUE would mean Horner could compete in the Vuelta according to UCI rules, Lampre's membership of the MCC means that he has had to withdraw from the race. This has caused controversy amongst Pro Cycling and highlights the imbalance in terms of dope-testing amongst the World Tour teams.
In May a controversy bubbled up around Chris Froome's use of an inhaler during Stage 2 of the Criterium du Dauphine; which contained the corticosteroid Prednislone to treat his breathing problems. Sky defended their Champion by saying Froome has used an inhaler since he was a teenager, and waved a TUE from the UCI in the face of the critics.
The question is had Sky been part of the MCC would Froome have had to withdraw from the Dauphine? The issue will be hotly debated over the next few months, perhaps we can expect compulsory membership of the MCC in the future.
The 42 year old American Horner was an outsider to successfully defend his title in a race that includes big names including Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana and Alberto Contador; but he would have wanted to give it a go anyway.
Vuelta a Espana – Stages 1-7 Preview.


There's no such thing as starting out small — especially for a new book festival coming to Minneapolis this spring.
The Loft Literary Center on Thursday unveiled the lineup for its inaugural Wordplay Book Festival, happening May 11-12 in Minneapolis. Among the 100-plus authors who will give readings, sign books, lead workshops and make appearances are Stephen King, Amy Tan and Mitch Albom, along with local stars like Nora McInerny and Marlon James.
"It brings together some of our best contemporary writers from best-sellers to budding artists, locally grown to internationally celebrated, emerging to award-winning — including several Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalists and winners," said Steph Opitz, founding director of The Loft's Wordplay.
The weekend kicks off with a Friday concert at First Avenue by the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of several authors including King, Albom, Tan and Dave Barry. The festival will also include a book-themed pub crawl.
Ready to book your weekend with the wordsmiths? Registration for the Wordplay festival will open to Loft members at 10 a.m. March 14, and to the general public at 10 a.m. March 15. Wristbands start at $10. All paid registrations will include a $5 book voucher toward the purchase of a book with festival booksellers.
Meanwhile, general admission tickets to the kickoff concert on May 10 will cost $40, which will be sold by First Avenue. Ticket sale dates will be announced soon.
Check out the festival's full lineup here.