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Armpit farts are simulated flatulence sounds created using the hand to quickly release air trapped between the arm and the torso. Often used for humorous and comedic effect, Armpit farts can be considered juvenile or crude. Flatulence related humor is the oldest recorded in the world.

The sound produced by armpit farting can accompany singing or other rhythm

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"The Altar" is a poem by the Welsh-born poet and Anglican priest George Herbert, first published in Herbert's collection The Temple. It is an example of an Altar poem and of concrete poetry. It is one of Herbert's best known poems.

Publication and shape
The Temple, the book in which the poem was first published, was only printed after Herbert's death. It is the first poem in the section of the collection titled The Church, and, along with "Easter Wings" it was one of two concrete poems in the whole collection. The poem represents an altar in its shape on the page and is one of two poems written by Herbert involving altars. The other is shorter and was originally written in Greek. The earlier, shorter poem provided a model for the later piece. The shorter work has been referred to as a "meditation and a prayer," and is not a concrete poem.

Over the course of the poem's publication, the altar's shape has been altered reflect ecclesiastical attitudes different from those at the time The Temple's first printing. Some later editions include images of altars around normally formatted text.

Contents
Like the other poems in The Temple, "The Altar" is a devotional poem. Herbert's earlier poems mostly expressed didactic themes.

Influence and adaptations
Beyond being emblematic of altar poetry, "The Altar" has inspired several explicitly ekphrastic poetic responses. The piece has been set to music, most likely in an arrangement by John Playford.

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= Bernie would have won is a meme that emerged after the 2016 United States Presidential election ended in Donald Trump's victory over Hillary Clinton. The meme refers to the belief that Bernie Sanders would have become president after a hypothetical election between him and Donald Trump, a belief based on both polls and conjecture. The validity of these claims has been disputed. Some claimed assertions that Sanders would have beaten Trump, where Clinton lost, are sexist. Sanders has mostly avoided commenting on the speculation.

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 * The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter
 * One Art
 * my papa's waltz
 * Those Winter Sundays
 * Shine, Perishing Republic
 * Facing It
 * The Day Lady Died
 * I Knew a Woman
 * A Blessing (Wright)
 * The Fish (Bishop)
 * Parsley (Dove)
 * Diving into the Wreck
 * Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota


 * "The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter"
 * "Those Winter Sundays"

Chapo Trap House is an American politics and humor podcast hosted by Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Felix Biederman, Amber A'Lee Frost, Virgil Texas and Brendan James. The podcast became known for its irreverent leftist commentary in the run-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

Notable guests have included comedians Bill Corbett, David Cross, Rob Delaney, Tim Heidecker, Joe Mande, Patton Oswalt, James Adomian, Sam Seder, and Brandon Wardell; documentarian Adam Curtis; journalists Jeremy Scahill, Matt Taibbi, Liza Featherstone, and Alex Pareene; authors China Miéville and Naomi Klein; and policy analyst Matt Bruenig.

The first episode of Chapo Trap House was released on March 13, 2016. As of, 182 episodes have been released.

Repeat guests
Virgil Texas and Brendan James made multiple appearances before becoming cohosts, and Amber A'Lee Frost also made a guest appearance before becoming a cohost.


 * 1. James Adomian (8) (including brief in-character appearances)
 * 2. Derek Davison (7)
 * 3. Timothy "T-Bone" Faust (5)
 * 4. Alex Nichols (4)
 * 4. Libby Watson (4)
 * 4. Tim Heidecker (4) (including brief in-character appearance as Alex Jones)
 * 7. Adam Friedland (3)
 * 7. Sam Kriss (3)
 * 7. Bryan Quinby (3)


 * 10. Matt Taibbi (2)
 * 10. Kath Barbadoro (2)
 * 10. Ricky Rawls (2)
 * 10. Angela Nagle (2)
 * 10. Matt V. Brady (2)
 * 10. Karim Zidan (2)
 * 10. Connor Kilpatrick (2)
 * 10. Matt Karp (2)
 * 10. Shuja Haider (2)
 * 10. Matt Bruenig (2)

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Randy Bryce is an American ironworker and candidate in the 2018 midterm elections against incumbent Paul Ryan.

Personal life
Bryce was raised in Wisconsin, in South Milwaukee. Bryce briefly attended college, but did not receive a degree and served in the Army after graduation from high school.

After the Army, Bryce worked as an appliance deliveryman. After suffering from chronic pain for some time, Bryce was diagnosed with testicular cancer and was saved by an experimental treatment.

2018 congressional campaign
Bryce launched his campaign against Paul Ryan in mid-2017. Ryan is the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and been the congressional representative for Wisconsin's 1st since 1999.

July 2017 campaign ad
The 2017 congressional campaign was launched with a widely watched announcement ad. It opens with shots of the Wisconsin landscape, and then

Campaign
Carter was inspired to run after receiving a shock while repairing a lighting system in the summer of 2015 and subsequently struggling to receive workers compensation from Virginia while unable to work. Before choosing to run, Carter had long identified as "...to the left of where the Democratic party [is]..." but was further inspired by Bernie Sanders to explore Democratic socialism.

Carter's campaign mostly focused on issues such as single-payer healthcare and financial contributions to politicians. Jackson Miller, the incumbent Republican, distributed a mailer campaign comparing Carter to Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong.

Scialabba v. de Osorio was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court found that lawful residents in the United States who turned twenty-one while their visa applications were being processed could not retain their original application date after "aging out" of eligibility for child-visas.

Narration
The novel features eight points of view, including a narrator referred to as a "Citizen" who provides about the history of New York, finance, and the fictional events of the 21st century..


 * our lady of loreto
 * wcau building (NRHP)
 * the bryant
 * the greenwich lane
 * Brian Wilson is a genius
 * On Vacation (CFCF album)
 * Pritchard's Outlook Historic District

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A Visit from the Goon Squad is a 2010 a Pulitzer Prize-winning work of fiction by American author Jennifer Egan. The book is a set of thirteen interrelated stories with a large set of characters all connected to Bennie Salazar, a record company executive, and his assistant, Sasha. The book centers around the mostly self-destructive characters, who, as they grow older, are sent in unforeseen, and sometimes unusual, directions by life. The stories shift back and forth in time from the late 1960s to the present and into the near future. Many of the stories take place in and around New York City, although other settings include San Francisco, Italy, and Kenya.

In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize, the book also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction in 2010. The novel received mostly positive reviews from critics.

Conception, research, and publication
Egan said the story was inspired by: Proust's In Search of Lost Time, HBO's The Sopranos, and literary theory. She has said that she was inspired by the "polyphonic quality" of The Sopranos and the show's conversion of peripheral characters to central characters.

The book was originally written in reverse chronological order. One of the chapters of the book is a PowerPoint presentation. Egan read a number of corporate PowerPoint presentations in order to make hers seems more realistic, and published a full-color edition of the chapter on her website after "calibrating the hues, trying to intimate times of day, particular characters, the changing light".

Narrative modes
Because of its unusual narrative structure, some critics have characterized the book as a novel and others as a collection of linked short stories. A Visit from the Goon Squad has thirteen chapters, all of which can be read as individual stories, and does not focus on any single central character or narrative arc. In addition, many of the chapters were originally published as short stories in magazines such as The New Yorker  and Harper's. In an interview with Salon's Laura Miller, Egan said she leaned toward calling the book a novel rather than a short story collection and she has also said that she considers the book to be neither a story collection nor a novel.

Themes
"Goon squads" were originally groups of violent thugs who would beat up workers trying to form labor unions. Later the term "goon" came to refer more generally to any violent thug, and the book draws its central metaphor from the term. In one story, a character named Bosco declares: "Time's a goon, right?", referring to the way that time and fate cruelly rob most of the book's characters of their youth, innocence and success. As Bosco complains: "How did I go from being a rock star to being a fat fuck no one cares about?" Some of the book's characters do end up finding happiness but it is always a limited happiness and it is rarely in the form that they intended. In an interview, Egan explained that "time is the stealth goon, the one you ignore because you are so busy worrying about the goons right in front of you."

Many of the book's characters work in the music industry, particularly the rock music business. Rock and roll, with its emphasis on youth culture, plays into the book's themes of aging and the loss of innocence. As Egan says, "my 9-year-old loves Lady Gaga and refers to Madonna as ‘old school’. There’s no way to avoid becoming part of the past." Rock music was also central to the marketing push behind the book, although the actual text does not focus directly on musicians or music making. Egan said she knew rock and roll only as a consumer at the time she began writing the book and had to extensive research on the subject.

Honors and adaptation
The novel won both the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, with the committee stating that the book was "an inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed." The book also won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

On April 20, 2011, two days after the Pulitzer win, it was announced that a deal with HBO for a television series adaptation had been signed. As of February 2013, and was no longer in development.

Critical reception
The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The Pulitzer Prize Board noted that the novel was an "inventive investigation of growing up and growing old in the digital age, displaying a big-hearted curiosity about cultural change at warp speed". In commenting on her Pulitzer, NPR critic Jonathan Bastian noted that "Egan is the one of the most recent and successful examples of a trend that has been steadily seeping into the world of contemporary literature." The unusual format of the novel, taking place across multiple platforms, has led some critics to label the novel "post-postmodern". Many critics were impressed by Egan's experiments with structure, such as a section formatted like a PowerPoint printout.