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Otep, a Numetal band formed in 2000 fronted by Otep Shamaya, has been a favorite of mine for about three years now. The dark, poetic, and heavily political lyrics of the Smash The Control Machine album drew me in. I dived into other albums from them and I was hooked. Otep’s most recent album, Hydra (2013), was said to be the band’s very last album by the frontwoman herself.
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It’s all about money, in the end. Keep that in mind when you’re thinking through your marketing.
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Today, Dancing Star Farm, a permaculture farm in Augusta County, announced that it will be accepting CSA membership to participate in their third annual Community Supported Agriculture Program.
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On Wednesday, Sony held a conference call to talk up its new, eighth-generation gaming console, the PlayStation 4. I had written a column on the eighth generation one day prior to the conference. Now, I will be following up with some criticisms I have about the newest piece of hardware from Sony.
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Augusta Free Press LLC has announced upcoming Building the Machine workshops for February, March and April.
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In January 2011, I featured Social Media in this column. I reread it the other day and thought, “Wow, how things have changed in two years.” At that point in time I mentioned cell phones and laptops, and used the word “perhaps” in conjunction with smart phone and tablet use on the farm. For Social Media, I limited the discussion to Facebook, Twitter and blogs and only referred to “applications” once. I noticed that I wrote applications, not apps.
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Agritourism in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia will be able to roll out a whole new range of activities in the coming years thanks to a recent $60,000 grant from the Building Collaborative Communities program. The Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission will administer the grant on behalf of the Fields of Gold region. Funds will be allocated to develop partnerships, create business support services for farmers and agritourism operators, market the Valley’s rich agricultural offerings and build a sustainable organizational structure for long-term viability.
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The storefront at 16 West Beverley Street in Staunton has seen many retail incarnations over the last few decades, but its newest tenants are a contingent of entrepreneurs set on redefining what business and community development in small main streets looks like.
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Frontier Airlines is suspending its service from Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport to Orlando, Fla., beginning April 7.
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For the past eight years – first as a blogger (at www.NoneSoBlind.org), and then as a candidate for Congress here in Virginia’s 6th District – I have fought to help my country confront the pathology that has arisen in our times in the American political system.
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