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These people seem to think that telling me that "I pay your wages" will suddenly part the cones and allow them to drive their executive saloon unimpeded through the scene of the accident. One of them actually called me a fascist, and threatened to have my job if I didn't let them through. They have no comprehension that roads only get closed for a very good reason. A short diversion does not justify elitist abuse from every member of the would-be aristocracy that cannot bear the prospect of being five minutes late for their dinner party.
They have little, if any, concept of real life, and the tragedies that occur outside their electric gates and see the Police as no more than a necessary evil that should only interact with the lower classes or come running with bowed heads and doffed caps when someone pinches their staddle stones.Via Metafilter.
None of them knew what I had just gone through – I knew that. But regardless, I wished that some would give me a little more respect. We do what we do for a reason, and there is so much more to our job than most will ever know, or could ever imagine.


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If you are not going to make it to Las Vegas this weekend to experience Electric Daisy Carnival, this Saturday, June 22nd, sbe and Insomniac Events will be bringing a little of the EDC experience to Los Angeles with a performance by Armin van Buuren. Following his appearance at the festival in Las Vegas, Armin will make his way to sbe's Create Nightclub. The internationally acclaimed artist will head to Create Nightclub in Hollywood for a special show where fans will receive the full EDC experience. A spectacular LED and laser light show, falling confetti, and choreographed routines true to Insomniac's events by go-go dancers dressed in outrageous costumes will keep the party going until the early morning hours.
Tickets start at $75.00 and are available for purchase at www.createnightclub.com.
Rock & Reilly's Irish Pub on The Sunset Strip is kicking off the first Saturday of Summer with a daytime bar hop event that will allow you to enjoy cocktails at some of your favorite venues while basking in the Southern California sunshine. On Saturday, June 22nd from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., FSOS participants will hop from bar to bar, 6 bars total, via a luxury coach enjoying drink & food specials and tackling interactive challenges to score points and win prizes. A portion of all the proceeds from the FSOS Bar Hop goes to the Kanzius Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to ongoing research for Noninvasive Radiowave Cancer treatment; a treatment without any side effects.
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What better way to spend your Saturday afternoon than with your dog, some brews and food. Angel City Brewery is the place that will bring all three together as they have partnered with Much Love Animal Rescue to host Barks, Bubbles & Brews, a fundraising dog wash on Sunday, June 23 from 12 to 3 pm. For a suggested $10 donation to Much Love Animal Rescue, volunteers will wash all friendly dogs to a fluff and shine. The rescue will also hold a small on site adoption.
When not in the spin cycle, dogs and owners can enjoy live music from Marissa Gomez and Reseda Mickey of "The Ghosts of Echo Park," food from Tokyo Doggie Style and Son of a Bun food trucks, and beer inside the dog-friendly Brewery. All day long, Angel City will donate 15% of all beer sales.
Downtown denizens love their dogs. Angel City does too, and supports the mission of Much Love's rescue work. Much Love is a volunteer run, non-profit organization that removes dogs and cats from the Los Angeles shelter system and finds them forever homes.
Angel City Brewery just celebrated its official opening on May 4 and is now fully open to the public after more than a year of building and brewing. The Public House is Angel City's own 19-tap bar serving a changing roster of classic and newly inspired brews.
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AMC's The Walking Dead returns with carnage
Zombies in TV and movies come with certain expectations. There's a rather large cheese factor, there's significant artistry in the makeup department and, of course, there will be blood.
If you're following "The Walking Dead," you know the appeal is equal parts plot and gross-out special effects.
In the wildly popular series, based on Robert Kirkman's graphic novels, high-minded themes of valor, heroism, community and romance in apocalyptic times are balanced with the inevitable squishy sounds of undead bodies and buckets of blood.
It's no spoiler to say there's significant carnage ahead as AMC's "The Walking Dead" returns for a fourth season at 7 p.m. locally on Oct. 13. Start from the obvious hunch that an episode titled "30 Days Without an Accident" is just begging to break that safety streak.
Whether you watch in order to feel more alive yourself, whether you subscribe to the idea that zombies represent the mesmerized masses mindlessly following a political/ religious authority, whether you're a parent who suspects that the barrage of mobile, laptop and TV screen time is zombifying your whole family, or whether you're in it just for the grisly hand-to-hand combat, you know zombie fiction has grown into a massive industry.
The Season 3 finale of "The Walking Dead" drew a record 12.4 million viewers.
With Halloween approaching, plenty of live zombie-related fun is scheduled locally (see sidebar). And AMC will use the "Walking Dead" season premiere to kick off its annual "Fearfest," a 19-day spree of contemporary and classic horror films (including "The Exorcist," "Cujo," "Halloween," "The Omen," "Alien," "Friday the 13th," "Tremors," "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and "The Amity-ville Horror").
Once again, the deconstruction/fan fellowship of "Talking Dead" follows the new hour of "The Walking Dead," at 8 p.m. locally on AMC.
As the season begins, the zombies are amassing at the chain-link fence outside the prison claimed by Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), leader of the group of human survivors.
Imprisoned for their own safety, the survivors are making do, finding a bit of normalcy and holding onto some humanity -- even raising vegetables -- as the zombies stagger toward them, seeking human flesh.
These "fence-clingers" are easy to kill with pointy sticks and metal rods -- demonstrated again and again with lots of spurting and squishing. But the intrepid band of survivors find that less of a sport than killing zombies face-to-face.
How to regard the blank-eyed, dehumanized undead in our midst?
"They're not people, and they're not pets. Don't name them," Rick's son Carl (Chandler Riggs) observes. The sad truth of the zombies' state of being is akin to what his father taught him about the animals the survivors are now raising as a food source.
As always, the dilemmas faced by the survivors of the zombie apocalypse echo in our more mundane lives: How to be alive and armored against pain and suffering without becoming unfeeling? How to protect oneself without losing compassion for others?
Ultimately, the survivors express the essence of the modern human condition: "I don't want to be afraid of being alive."


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The National Football League is arguably the most controlling of its image of any sports league and the owners of West Flanders Brewing just found that out.
The Boulder-based brewery had to change the beer name from Brett on the Broncos to "Omaha! Omaha! Brett," after receiving a "cease & desist" letter from the magnanimous NFL.
The letter said the brewery is "engaging in unauthorized promotional use of the NFL Marks … including the AFC word mark and the Denver Broncos word mark and color combination." Who knew the NFL had rights to orange and blue. Someone should tell God next time he tries one of those sunsets.
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Cyclists who live in Seattle, Washington, (or any place where it is guaranteed to rain on half of their riding days) are wet-weather professionals.
Those itching to get off the trainer and onto a real bicycle aren't going to let water and road grit get in their way. And those who live in San Diego, California? Well, there is an outside chance that one day, drops will fall from the sky and soil those perky racing singlets everybody wears.
Sooner or later, everyone will be faced with riding in the rain, and with a little knowledge and the appropriate gear, spinning through showers can actually be an enjoyable experience. How do we know this? We contacted our Pacific Northwest wet-weather expert Philip Booth for a short list of 10 ways to motor through the mist happily…more or less.
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The wetter you get the colder you are going to be. Being cold and wet is a quick way to get sick. Keep your core warm. A waterproof vest or jacket with a dropped skirt in the back and a hood is critical for heavy conditions. Wear a wicking underliner made from wool or polypropylene and wool socks.
Cover your shoes with neoprene booties to insulate them when they are soaked, and use full fingered water- and wind-resistant gloves. Remember, your body sweats rain or shine, so your jacket and garments must breathe (chose Gore-Tex-type fabrics or ventilated outer garments) or you'll arrive wet from the inside, instead of the outside.
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In low light, clear or yellow lenses for eye protection are critical. When riding in the rain, normal sunglasses cut out too much light and can make road obstacles hard to see.
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The Big Push for Midwives is a nationally coordinated campaign to advocate for regulation and licensure of Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and to push back against the attempts of the American Medical Association Scope of Practice Partnership to deny American families access to legal midwifery care.
The Big Push for Midwives Campaign was born from the National Birth Policy Coalition, which has coalesced around the following organizing statement:
"Increasing access to the Midwives Model of Care in all settings is essential to the health and wellbeing of childbearing women and their babies. The National Birth Policy Coalition supports legislative initiatives that promote the autonomous practice of Certified Professional Midwives and Certified Nurse-Midwives, and that ensure the availability of safe, evidence-based care during pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum."
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Dragon Age: First Impressions
Origin Stories
I've done the City Elf , Mage, and Human Noble origin stories so far. The Mage and City Elf stories were really good. The Human Noble story was decent, but extremely predictable.
World Building
I love the world Bioware has created. They've done an outstanding job.
I love the way elven and human societies interact. It is superb. Mad props to the Bioware writer who coined the word "Alienage" to describe the city quarter where the elves live. Melding the word "alien" with the connotations of "orphanage" was a stroke of brilliance. It sums up the entire relationship in a single word.
I really like the Chantry, the prophet Andraste and the Chant of Light. It is an extremely well done medieval religion, and really adds an extra dimension to the game. There is a scene in Lothering where the Reverend Mother gives you a blessing that was just beautiful.
The relationship between the Templars, the Magi, the Tranquil and the Fade is also extremely interesting. It is to Bioware's credit that they avoided the whole "church persecuting mages" storyline. The idea that the Templars are both protectors and jailors of the mages is elegant.
I'm not very far in. So far, the plot has been decent but rather predictable. The mage story pulled the same twist twice. I'm not entirely sure if that was deliberate for emphasis or just poor plotting. In the other strands, the bad guys look like bad guys, and so betrayals do not exactly come as surprises.
Of course, this is just the early part of the game. The main plot still has a long way to go.
First, I really like the way Dragon Age uses the game engine to render cutscenes. Having the character you made in her current armor be present in the scene makes the game much more immersive.
The graphics in this game are a bit odd. If you play with the over-the-shoulder view, the graphics are superb. On the other hand, if you zoom out to the overhead tactical view, the character graphics are pretty bad. They're blurry and smeared, instead of being crisp.
Part of the reason I'm playing on Easy is so I can stay in the over-the-shoulder view, instead of having to resort to the tactical view.
The blood spatter was a mistake. It injects a childish note into an otherwise adult game. Luckily you can turn it off.
Gameplay is decent. You can pause and issue orders for your entire party. Or you can set up "Tactics", which are short "Condition:Action" statements that the AI will follow. For example, Alistair is my tank, and I set up a tactic so he drinks a health potion if his health drops below 25%.
I'm playing it on Easy to minimize the amount of fiddling I have to do with my companions in battle. Oddly, my first character (elf rogue) still died a lot. I think I messed up her abilities, and ended up starting a new character (human 2H warrior). I think I underestimated how important Willpower (which controls your available stamina) is important to a melee character.
Mechanics-wise, it's a standard mana resource game. You have mana (mages) or stamina (warriors/rogues) which starts at full, and is used up as you use abilities.
The only interesting note is the fact that continuing effects have "upkeeps" which reduce the max mana/stamina you have available. For example, if I have 100 stamina, and activate a Brutal Strikes mode with an upkeep of 40 stamina, my max stamina effectively drops to 60, and won't regen higher. It's an intriguing method of keeping long-term buffs in check.
So far, Dragon Age: Origins is a pretty good game in the Bioware/Black Isle tradition. I am looking forward to working my way through it, and will probably end up commenting more on the game later.
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I have been interested in this game for a while, but was unsure of whether or not I wanted to give it a shot. It sounds great, and it has been a while since I have played a good old single player RPG. I might give it a shot.ReplyDelete
I picked it up on Tuesday night. Had to go to three stores to find a copy in stock. I've only just reached The Wilds, but so far am pleased. Like you, I find that the constant spray of blood borders on ridiculous.ReplyDelete
Go back and watch the opening scene when Duncan kills the darkspawn scouts and then proceed to wipe his face with his bracers before glancing over the horizon - that is how blood splatter should be done.ReplyDelete
My problem with the blood splatter wasn't so much that it got onto everywhere... it's to do with the characters not attempting to "wipe it off their face" afterwards and begin a conversation.
I think you might have wrote off some characters too early - in DA:O there are very few "pure evil" characters. There are certainly many characters that I didn't like but I've always felt they are driven by certain elements to be that way.
Finally, I'm told that the "noble dwarf" is awesome to play - go the pompous route.
I'm pretty much mainlining Dragon Age right now. Blew through the game in about 60 "official" hours on normal mode with a Human Noble female warrior (tank), and am now running around with a City Elf female rogue. I just can NOT stop playing. WoW, Demon's Souls, Persona 3... all abandoned for this game. Good job, Bioware!ReplyDelete
Also, I do agree that the constant blood splatters are kind of crazy, but there's an option to turn off the persistent gore, and if you're playing on PC, I *think* someone made a mod to lessen the random amounts of blood regardless of what mode you play in.ReplyDelete


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Anxiety is common when you are dealing with body changes. Try to talk to people you trust and who will listen to you share how you feel. This may be family or friends, or your doctor, nurse or other health professional.
Putting your concerns into words can help you make more sense of your situation and put things in perspective. You may feel less anxious and more in control.
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A couple of weeks ago, when the weather was actually pleasant, no I am not lying I actually remember the sunshine and everything, I went pattern hunting around East London with the guys over at Toshiba to test out their fab new Windows 8.1 tablet, Toshiba Encore.
It was a fun day, not only did I get to wander the streets snapping my patterns with my tablet, enjoy the company of my friends and discover the fab Maison Trois Garcons, I also got to learn all about pattern design from the gorgeous girlies of Patternity, Anna Murray and Grace Winteringham, who have just done an amazing collaboration with Clark's. If you love patterns, prints, and design you should check out their website and Instagram – filled with lots of inspiration.
East London is home to so much inspiration, but it was a little daunting finding my very own pattern that could be made into a T-shirt produced by YrStore, but what surprised me the most was how the simplest of things could make the greatest pattern when it was transformed into black and white, flipped, rotated and generally manipulated.
It was hard choosing which photo to go for, I was torn between the dotty railings, as polka dots are always chic, and the crumbling paintwork that I spotted on a window frame. In the end, the Patternity girlies convinced me that the paint chips would look amazing, so my one-off tee went from this photo above, snapped on my Toshiba Encore, to this striking T-shirt that I can't wait to wear. Now it has been flipped and rotated it kind of reminds me of a tree bark rather than a painted window frame.
The Toshiba Encore did impress me for such a little thing, it is a similar size to the iPad mini, and it did shine taking pictures up close on the Patternity tour with its 8-megapixel camera. It is also a perfect handbag size, which I found handy using while shopping, it is great for doing to-do lists and keeping my recipes on for baking.
However, its size also makes it a little hard to use, for instance, it comes installed with Windows Office, which is great, but I found the device a little too small to type Word documents or work on spreadsheets. I think this device is more about the social elements – it is great for Twitter, Facebook, browsing the Internet and playing games – I am addicted to the Microsoft Solitaire collection.
Overall, I found this tablet easy to use, the Windows platform is better bigger than when you use on a mobile, but I think to get the most out of this device you need to use alongside something like the Windows Surface 2 or a desktop computer and use the SkyDrive to store documents and pictures so you can easily switch between the two.
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The Merseyside Historic Environment Record (HER) was managed by National Museums Liverpool from on behalf of Merseyside's local unitary authorities until March 2011. From April 2011 until March 2014 the HER was curated by NML. From 1 April 2014 the management of the Merseyside HER transferred to the Merseyside Environmental Advisory Service (MEAS).
Through funding from the five borough councils of Merseyside and support from English Heritage the HER is now in the process of being digitised. During this process the skeleton digital records (GIS point data and limited information on the record concerned) can be requested via the HER enquiries service.
Enquiries should be sent to firstname.lastname@example.com, specifying National Grid coordinates for the centre point of the area you wish searched and a radius for the search area. Given the developing nature of the HER it is not currently possible to run thematic or period based searches. Data will be supplied as GIS MapInfo tables within seven working days. There is a charge for this service.
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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer headed over to the Center for American Progress to argue that "one of our two great parties is now an organization committed to an unprecedented level of lockstep opposition to the president." This is, Hoyer said, more than the simple frustration of a partisan. It's also the frustration of a majority leader who wants to get things done, even if those things include compromise. It's worth quoting from the conclusion (and I swear I'm doing it just because it mentions me):
I also know, in closing, how easy it is to accuse me of being disingenuous for even making this argument. It's easy to say that Democrats actually want extremism to be the face of the opposition -- that we would be happy for the 'Party of No' to keep saying no. But that's not true. When we say no to the work of legislating, we do real harm to the institution of Congress and our nation's future.
First, when one party takes itself out of the process, it means that less substance is debated openly -- and that the debates that do happen are empty exercises. When that happens, Congress is truly less accountable to the people; it fails in its role as the deliberative, representative branch.
Second, when Congress is deadlocked, and especially when the Senate is, the representative branch becomes less relevant every day. I think The Washington Post's Ezra Klein explained it very well: When "the minority party has a continual stake in Congress not really working … it's bad for Congress and bad for democracy. It means power devolves from the legislature and towards unelected, unaccountable organizations like the Federal Reserve, the EPA … or the courts."
Finally, the hard choices that are being forced on our country demand engagement from both parties. I'm thinking of challenges like reforming our massive entitlement programs, controlling the growth of health-care spending, and responding to climate change -- issues that are fraught with political risk and so easy to demagogue that it is almost impossible for one party to take them on alone. Those challenges are dangerously likely to stay untouched as long as at least one party is willing to be a "Party of No."
What Hoyer doesn't offer much of are solutions. But then, solutions are hard. Harder even in the House than the Senate.
On the one hand, the House is in better shape. Unlike the Senate, it's not paralyzed. But that's not to say it's working well, either. A world in which the only votes available for legislation are Democratic votes is a world in which the possible compromises and coalitions are very narrow. The House health-care bill, for instance, could have done a lot more to control costs if some Republicans had been interested in cutting deals. Hard compromises -- like capping the employer tax exclusion -- could have been justified by the need to attract Republican votes. Without that space to gain votes from politicians representing different interests, however, there wasn't room to make deals opposed by Democratic interests. And not all Democratic interests were right about every aspect of this bill.
But fixing that is a lot harder than fixing the Senate's anti-majoritarian tendencies. Ending the filibuster is easy, at least as a technical matter: You just end it. Making it safe for politicians to compromise with one another is much more difficult. Hoyer's speech is a call for Republicans to recognize their responsibility to the country, but responsibility seems sadly outgunned in the current era.
Hoyer's full speech is below the fold.
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" 'While the Democratic Party has won a great victory tonight, we do so with a measure of humility and determination to heal the divides that have held back our progress.'
"Just over a year later, those words from President-elect Obama still stand out to me as the most hopeful promise of his victory -- and the most elusive. While this year has seen lasting accomplishments in Congress, we should be honest about what this year has not seen: it has not seen a new civility, and it has not seen a minority party that's serious about joining in the work of governing at a time of crisis.
"One of our two great parties is now an organization committed to an unprecedented level of lockstep opposition to the president: a 'Party of No,' whose political strategy is an investment in failure for our country and paralysis for its institutions. Even conservatives have criticized the transformation; as David Brooks wrote last spring, 'The G.O.P. leaders have adopted a posture that allows the Democrats to make all the proposals while all the Republicans can say is 'no.'
"No one expects Republicans to roll over for President Obama. But the 'Party of No' strategy is so disappointing because the history of Congress is full of loyal oppositions that shared responsibility for governing in trying times and shaped some of the most important legislation of their eras. It is not asking too much for today's Republicans to rise to those examples. The history of constructive minorities shows how much more we should expect and demand of them. It shows us that healing the divide is, at crucial moments, entirely possible.
"That's what President Obama believed when he took office, when he opened up the White House to repeated meetings with members of both parties, and when he urged Congress to incorporate Republican ideas in the Recovery Act. The G.O.P.'s answer? House Republicans voted unanimously against the Recovery Act—and then broke out in applause for themselves. In the Senate, one of the three Republicans to support it, Arlen Specter, was essentially driven out of his party. Those moments showed a party that, even with the economy facing collapse, put the highest value on group loyalty and ideologically defining votes. Rather than working to shape the Recovery Act, Republicans chose a strategy that could only profit from failure.
"Republicans again and again have chosen slogans and symbolism over constructive contributions. When President Obama proposed a budget with a detailed focus on education, clean energy, and health care reform, Republicans could have worked to put their stamp on it. Or they could have proposed a substantive alternative. Instead, House Republicans spent most of their energy lambasting Democrats -- releasing an 18-page document that famously included more pictures of windmills than charts of numbers.
"Again, on health care, the Democratic plan faced months of debate before it came up for a House vote; but from the beginning, Republicans made clear to the Democratic leadership and chairmen that they were not interested in participating. What's especially remarkable about Republican obstructionism on health care is that a central plank of the Democratic plan -- an individual insurance mandate -- was the Republican alternative during the Clinton administration. Since then, millions more Americans have lost their health coverage, and the average premium has more than doubled -- and Republicans now argue against the policy they once supported. Similarly, after proposing hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicare cuts, Republicans are now protesting our plans to save Medicare money as part of health care reform. That looks to me like a party determined to 'break' Democratic presidents, in the words of Senator DeMint -- even as its constituents continue to suffer under a broken system.
"In the Senate, of course, the minority's obstructive power is even greater. The filibuster has turned from an exceptionally rare tool of passionate opposition, into a routine hurdle. Political scientist Barbara Sinclair found that the last Congress, with a Republican minority in the Senate, set a filibuster record -- and that while just 8% of major bills faced filibusters in the 1960s, 70% do today. That goes far beyond the Founders' plan for the Senate's 'cooling' function -- that is a recipe for a Senate practically paralyzed. As a result, we have seen non-controversial nominations held hostage, action on global warming stalled, and, while families struggled in this crisis, unemployment insurance delayed and denied for weeks -- unemployment insurance that was finally approved by a unanimous vote.
"Just last week, Republican Senator Judd Gregg circulated to his colleagues an 'obstruction manual' full of helpful tips for taking advantage of Senate rules to stall debate on health care reform -- tips like offering 'an unlimited number of amendments -- germane or non-germane -- on any subject,' or making 'a point of order … with or without cause.' This was the same senator who, three years ago, blasted 'obstruction for the purpose of obstruction.'
"In the same way, Senator Jeff Sessions chose to filibuster President Obama's first nominee for appellate judge, saying: 'This side cannot acquiesce into a philosophy that says that Democratic presidents can get their judges confirmed with 50 votes.' The key words there are 'Democratic presidents' -- because when the President was from his party, judicial filibusters were 'unprecedented, obstructive tactics.'
"That is the deep irresponsibility of our minority party. And I'm not the only one to see it. One observer complained that Republicans are 'not consistently, methodically, offering positive alternatives.' Another called on Republicans to 'offer, based on their own principles, solutions to these problems.' A third said, 'The Republican leadership in the House right now is constantly trying to play a political game to get a headline.' Those aren't liberal bloggers: they are Newt Gingrich, Jeb Bush, and Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
"But as much as it disappoints me, this refusal to participate is kept in place by a number of powerful forces. There is a media that so often finds it more profitable to incite than to inform -- including media figures who are eager to punish any Republican who deviates from the party line, and eager to celebrate Members who break Congress's basic standards of decorum. There is the assumption -- pioneered by Newt Gingrich himself, as early as the 1970s -- that the minority wins when Congress accomplishes less. And, as Republican strategist Ed Rollins said, obstruction 'allows [the party] to stay unified and will help rebuild their financial base.' The 'Party of No' strategy also stems, in part, from Republicans' allegiance to special interests determined to keep Bush-era policies favorable to them in place.
"In fact, any party that finds itself on the losing end of an election has to struggle with similar forces. But we can still look to times when the minority party has tied its success not to Congress's failure, but to the shared work of governing -- when it has helped to create legislation that still marks our lives.
"In 1964, when LBJ needed to defeat a Senate filibuster of the landmark Civil Rights Act, he turned to Minority Leader Everett Dirksen. Sen. Dirksen worked for months to put together a bipartisan civil rights coalition. In his final speech before the vote, after 57 days of debate, he said this: 'Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come.' It was the first civil rights filibuster ever to be broken.
"In 1965, when some members of his party were denouncing Medicare as 'brazen socialism,' the ranking Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee, John Byrnes, chose to help write the bill instead. He proposed a voluntary program to cover doctor expenses; today, it's the basis of Medicare Part B.
"In 1983, Social Security faced a crisis as its trust fund was heading into the red. President Reagan and Congress agreed on bipartisan reforms to save it for the next generation. Minorities in both chambers would have found the issue easy to exploit; but instead, Republicans gave up their ideological opposition to Social Security, and Democrats gave up a powerful campaign issue against President Reagan. The compromise had the key backing of Republican Minority Leader Bob Michel -- a man whose decency and seriousness about the legislative process are still a powerful example of constructive opposition, loyal to principle and country.
"In 1986, Republicans and Democrats compromised on a major tax reform bill to simplify the tax code, lower tax rates, and close loopholes.
"In 2001, Ted Kennedy helped President Bush pass major, standards-based education reform: No Child Left Behind. Again, Senator Kennedy was negotiating from the minority for most of the months leading up to the bill's passage. It's true that he later criticized the president for failing to fully fund NCLB -- but that just shows how the minority can benefit from staying involved. It was exactly Senator Kennedy's involvement that gave him such strong standing to criticize and push for further funding.
"Finally, we can add to that list the great accomplishments of loyal oppositions that controlled Congress but were willing to work with, instead of block, a president of the other party: the Marshall Plan; the Interstate Highways; historic clean air and clean water laws under President Nixon; President Reagan's and Speaker Tip O'Neill's work to save Social Security; and welfare reform and a balanced budget under President Clinton and Speaker Gingrich. In fact, even though Speaker Gingrich began his climb to leadership on the strength of obstructionism, at the end of his career in the House he had strong words for Republicans in what he called the 'perfectionist caucus': 'my fine friends who are perfectionists, each in their own world where they are petty dictators could write a perfect bill. … But that is not the way life works in a free society.'
"I've tried to live by that principle myself: under President Bush, I worked long and hard on intelligence reform with my friend Roy Blunt. And when the global economy faced collapse, it was Democrats who provided the votes for a painful financial rescue that I believe averted disaster.
"I understand that each of these examples is unique; many of them took place in a less ideologically rigid Washington -- one many of us still remember fondly. But all of these stories have something in common: they all happened at times when the pressures on our nation were felt more strongly than the pressures that so often make Congress a place of lockstep opposition. They all prove that, when it matters most, the opposition can make a true difference -- while staying true to its principles.
"Today, when it matters so much, I hope that a principled Republican party will once again step up to its responsibilities. I know I don't have much power myself to bring about that change. But I can keep reminding my colleagues of what our country needs and expects of them, and how much we will honor their willingness to stand up to the forces of extremism in their own party -- as Minority Whip Cantor did when he criticized Rush Limbaugh for comparing President Obama to Hitler.
"I also know, in closing, how easy it is to accuse me of being disingenuous for even making this argument. It's easy to say that Democrats actually want extremism to be the face of the opposition -- that we would be happy for the 'Party of No' to keep saying no. But that's not true. When we say no to the work of legislating, we do real harm to the institution of Congress and our nation's future.
"First, when one party takes itself out of the process, it means that less substance is debated openly -- and that the debates that do happen are empty exercises. When that happens, Congress is truly less accountable to the people; it fails in its role as the deliberative, representative branch.
"Second, when Congress is deadlocked, and especially when the Senate is, the representative branch becomes less relevant every day. I think The Washington Post's Ezra Klein explained it very well: when 'the minority party has a continual stake in Congress not really working…it's bad for Congress and bad for democracy. It means power devolves from the legislature and towards unelected, unaccountable organizations like the Federal Reserve, the EPA … or the courts.'
"Finally, the hard choices that are being forced on our country demand engagement from both parties. I'm thinking of challenges like reforming our massive entitlement programs, controlling the growth of health care spending, and responding to climate change—issues that are fraught with political risk and so easy to demagogue that it is almost impossible for one party to take them on alone. Those challenges are dangerously likely to stay untouched as long as at least one party is willing to be a 'Party of No.'
"In times with less at stake, saying no to the work we were elected to do may be an affordable luxury. Today, though, the price is far too high. That is why it is so crucial to make the president's election night promise come belatedly true: to govern along with a loyal opposition that puts the progress of our country ahead of the politics of its party; to heal the divides that still hold our progress back, at greater cost to the American people each day."
Ezra Klein
December 8, 2009; 12:25 PM ET
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It's a highly partisan speech that ignores 99% of what's wrong with our government--but at least you got a quote out of it!
Posted by: bmull | December 8, 2009 12:45 PM | Report abuse
I don't quite understand your rationale that republicans should support a bad bill if they can make it 5% better.
Posted by: spotatl | December 8, 2009 12:49 PM | Report abuse
Maybe the bill wouldn't be a bad bill if the Rs had been willing to engage at the start.
Of course we will have all the mewling partisans say such things as "That nasty Obama went 16 weeks without inviting a Republican to the White House to talk about health care" *sob*
Point being, the President put his platform out there and was elected by a fairly impressive margine to implement it. The Republicans think saying NO to everything is a winning strategy. We shall see.
Posted by: luko | December 8, 2009 1:25 PM | Report abuse
Instead of whining in a speech outside Congress Majority Leader Hoyer could introduce a constitutional amendment on the floor of the House requiring Congress to do it's business on a majority basis unless otherwise specified in the Constitution. That would pass easily in the House and highlight the fact that the filibuster isn't a law, but an internal rule of the Senate that hasn't always existed and can be changed.
Or is Hoyer (and the young pundit he quotes) so naive that he thinks Republicans are suddenly going to moderate their behavior for the heck of it?
It took half a century to flip the conservative Dixiecrats out out of the Democratic party and it will take another half a century for demographic realities to moderate the worst aspects of the current GOP. Unless a half century of Steny Hoyer waxing wise at a chicken luncheon is your idea of governing, I'd say his speech was damn near useless.
Politicians don't need to get along with each other for some higher purpose. What's needed is for VOTERS to see some positive feedback when they vote in a new member and that comes simply with the change in Senate filibuster rules.
Comity in DC is just so much BS. Republicans are acting rationally by being stone cold obstructionists. Change the rules so their obstruction is meaningless (end the filibuster) and they'll start cutting deals, as deals are the only tool they'll have to signal to their constituents that they are relevant.
Posted by: jamusco | December 8, 2009 1:29 PM | Report abuse
Hoyer's my Congresscritter, and I wax hot and cold on him: he's definitely got his good moments, but there are many times when I wish my Congresscritter wasn't quite so cozy with business and other powerful interest groups.
But this is just remarkable. This blows to smithereens my previous concept of What's The Best I Can Ever Expect From Steny Hoyer. I'm going to write him a letter to make sure he knows at least one of his constituents was VERY favorably impressed by this speech. Right on, Steny!
Posted by: rt42 | December 8, 2009 3:30 PM | Report abuse
"Congress" loses only if BOTH parties dig in. If one party is always willing to accept 'half a loaf' and the other digs in its heels, you just end up with a de facto party veto. Congress is actually able to pass bills when the Majority Leader is a Republican.
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I, George Galloway, do not drink alcohol and never have. Ask yourself if you believe the other candidate in this election can say that truthfully.
How does Galloway KNOW that God KNOWS what Galloway says it knows? How does Galloway KNOW that there is such a thing as "God"?
Oh, he doesn't, it's just electioneering, I know. But I wanted to say anyway.
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Sugru, a new adhesive for repairs and crafts
Ever since she was a student at the Royal College of Art in London, Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh has been interested in fixing things easily. "And making people's lives better," she says.
About seven years ago, Ni Dhulchaointigh, 31, teamed up with retired Dow Corning scientists Steve Westall and Ian Moss to examine the properties of silicone caulks and adhesives that air-dry, and industrial silicone rubber used for objects such as baking trays that cure at very high temperatures.
They discovered Sugru, a new moldable silicone clay that bonds and sets at room temperature.
"It's a moisture-curing silicone that is activated when it is exposed to air," Ni Dhulchaointigh says. "After about half an hour it forms a skin, polymerizes and essentially becomes silicone rubber within 24 hours. It appears to be cured in five or 10 hours but we recommend 24 hours for a good bond."
In December, just six hours after a pilot launch on Ni Dhulchaointigh's website, Sugru (derived from Sugradh, the Irish word meaning play) sold out.
Bloggers loved it, and it seems homeowners with playful fix-it projects and arts and crafts enthusiasts were waiting for just such a material. Their broken toys, chipped objects, bicycle handlebar grips, key ring ornaments and iPod bumpers had found a new fix.
Ni Dhulchaointigh, from Ireland, exhibited Sugru at the Maker Faire in San Mateo this year and received a similar response. As word spreads on the Internet of Sugru's effectiveness, Ni Dhulchaointigh, headquartered in East London since June, is ready for a growing demand for Sugru. "It has changed our lives," she said.
At a glance
Expert opinion: Sugru is not structurally strong and is to be used as a "surface material for repairs," Jane Ni Dhulchaointigh says. "Its strength depends on the substrate it is attached to."
Unlike tough epoxy clays like Bondo that have to be sanded and painted over, Sugru is integrally colored and remains flexible long enough to be shaped by hand. It can be smoothed with water or molded against glass or plastic film for a glossy finish.
Pros: Sugru's insulating properties also make it ideal for repairing electronic parts and frayed wiring. It comes in standard black, blue, green and orange colors that can be kneaded together like modeling clay to make custom colors.
Cons: Sugru is not strong enough for objects that take a lot of wear, such as the soles of shoes.
Price: $16.50 for a dozen heat-sealed 5-gram bags of Sugru.
Resources: Sugru.com


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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sacramento State sophomore closer Sutter McLoughlin recorded his ninth save of the season and the 26th of his career, tying for the program record for career saves, and closed out a 3-2 Hornet win on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep of Chicago State.
Prior to Sunday McLoughlin had just two save opportunities over the last 25 Hornet games and none since April 12th. He had seven saves over the first 24 games of the year, and with a program-record 17 saves last season McLoughlin has now tied former Hornet Mike Frame for the career saves record.
"Its pretty awesome, I'm not going to lie," said McLoughlin, who actually pitched the last three innings of the game on Sunday and did not allow a hit in his longest career save. "To be able to do something that nobody's done before is pretty cool and it's a good feeling. (The lack of save opportunities) has been a little frustrating personally, but its good from a team standpoint that we're doing so well we are getting big wins."
With the win Sacramento State (31-18, 17-4 WAC) completed its fourth WAC series sweep this season and improved to 11-1 against conference opposition on its home field. Chicago State (14-31, 3-15 WAC) got its best pitching performance of the weekend from junior starter Dane Mehring but could not hold on to an early lead.
The Cougars jumped to a 1-0 advantage in the second inning when catcher Robert Swenson drove in freshman Sanford Hunt with a two-out double. Sacramento State pulled even in the bottom of the fifth, as senior Will Soto led off with a double and, with two away, sophomore Dane Fujinaka brought him home with an RBI single.
Chicago State regained the lead in the top of the sixth following a leadoff double and a sacrifice fly from Hunt, but it was a short-lived advantage. In the bottom of the sixth Hornet junior Kyle Moses reached on a one-out single and, after a walk drawn by senior David Del Grande, came around to score on a single by junior Rhys Hoskins.
With men on the corners and two away, Hoskins ran from first, drawing a throw from the catcher Swenson to Chicago State shortstop Julian Russell. Del Grande took off from third and Russell threw back to the plate, sailing his throw over the catcher's head and allowing Del Grande to score what ended up being the winning run.
With the lead in hand McLoughlin entered for starter Justin Dillon in the seventh and did not allow a hit or walk, as the only Chicago State hitter to reach base over the final three innings came on a Hornet error. Dillon allowed just six hits with no walks and six strikeouts over his six innings to earn the win and improve to 3-0 this season.
Mehring, who was starting in place of ill right-hander Ean McNeal, allowed just two earned runs and five hits over 6.2 innings pitched but dropped to 0-8 with the loss. Moses and Hoskins each had two hits as did Hunt and Cougar third baseman Chase Matheson as each team had just six hits in the contest.
Over the three-game series, Chicago State committed eight errors leading to nine unearned runs. The Hornets also hit .343 against Cougar pitching and struck out just five times over the three games.
Sacramento State is off until opening a weekend series on Friday at Texas-Pan American, the team's final road games of the regular season.


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A top-down estimation of the potential PSIM spending would normally take total security spending and parse it out based on certain assumptions. For example, of the, say, $50bn annual spend on security products and installation services only a portion would be spent in organizations considered candidates for PSIM solutions, like corporate facilities, airports and the like. Further percentages would be peeled away assuming the adoption lifecycle of PSIM-like technologies in those environments (long sales cycles, integrator reluctance, etc).
That sort of estimation could very reasonably find $1bn to $5bn or more of expected spending on PSIM products over the next few years. One magazine published a quote by a vendor claiming $10bn by 2012.
How many of those $1bn+ organizations will spend $100,000 or even a million dollars by 2012? To determine that, we interviewed end user executives in 15 more companies and described scenarios where PSIM solutions could produce value (see Table 1). For example, we described specific uses of technology to handle situations involving three or more data types in corporate, transit and government environments.
For every Global 3000 candidate able to spend $100,000 and more, there will likely be three or four candidates in the much more populous mid-sized corporate or government categories spending $50,000 or more, effectively doubling the total spend of the large organizations.
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The City Pendleton Council meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7PM in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 500 SW Dorion Avenue.
To present information or request action by the City Council, citizens must submit their request/information to the Administration office at City Hall not later than noon of the Wednesday preceding the Council meeting in order to meet the agenda publication deadline. Please call 541-966-0201 for questions or further information.
If special accommodations for hearing, visual, or manual impairment are needed to allow an individual to participate, or if in interpreter is needed, please contact the City's administrative office at 541-966-0201 at least 48 hours in advance of the meeting.
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Shades Of The Past Auto Show - Sharing The Shades
Shades Of The Past Hot Rod Roundup 2005
Vintage-vehicle owners typically enjoy sharing their pastime with family, friends, and even some interested strangers. This can be especially true for avid truck owners, who enjoy sharing stories of events they've attended. As you know, Primedia titles often feature vintage cars and trucks from the Shades of the Past car club's annual event. And word has saturated the southeastern states as more and more folks have personally discovered what all the fuss is about.
The Shades of the Past's 23rd show was the third time that the upper limit of entries was extended to '64, and as a result, the club decided the two giveaway vehicles should reflect the popular change. Instead of one finished and one unfinished vehicle, the club gave away two turnkey cars: a '33 Ford Roadster and a '63 Buick Riviera. The registered contest entrants heartily approved.
The Shades show is a somewhat abbreviated event, held only on Friday and Saturday in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. Early Friday morning the venue gates opened at 7:00 a.m., and those vying for a Top 25 pick were among the first few in line to claim a prime parking spot. This year, as in the past, the club enjoyed examining plenty of awesome rides-judges had quite a difficult task in selecting the Top 25 winners. Joining the club members were media judges who made special award picks. After narrowing the CCT pick down to three possibilities, our final decision was Roger Bennington's attractive two-tone '40 Ford pickup.
Friday evening, the show literally rolled to a nighttime cruise up and down the six-lane main street of Pigeon Forge. This popular activity continued until around 11:30, when festivities finally slowed to a halt.
On Saturday, the immaculate Top 25 award-winners and specialty award-winners were on display to inspect and admire. Also on Saturday, the Deuce gathering and Willys Roundup were held. Later, the awards ceremony began (around 4:30 p.m.) for those specialty awards, Southeast Deuce, Willys, Top 25, Street Machine of the Year, and Street Rod of the Year-and finally, the drawing for the giveaway cars.
Other visual entertainment included a good number of commercial venders, plus the sizable swap-meet area available for anyone who needed parts or information. Approximately 2,800 vehicles were on hand for 2005, which seemed to provide the perfect diversity for everyone's viewing pleasure.
With all this excitement rolled into two days, one can imagine the stories that will be shared with friends who'll want to attend next year's show! Many of these satisfied participants will be back year after year. So for those truck lovers who've never attended, plan on being in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, next year to see for yourself. The event is scheduled for the weekend after Labor Day-and will demonstrate exactly what the Shades of the Past car club does that's so unique and entertaining!


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Colorado receives 2013-14 Pac-12 Sportsmanship Award for post-flood efforts
Colorado received the Pac-12's annual Sportsmanship Award for its humanitarian efforts and resiliency in helping the university and Boulder community recover from the September flooding, CU announced Tuesday.
The award is bestowed by the Pac-12 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee.
"The way our student-athletes, coaches and staff responded during that difficult time was most rewarding to witness personally," CU Athletic Director Rick George said in a news release.


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Original Trinity Hymnal, #669
Come, let us sing of a wonderful love,
Tender and true, tender and true,
Out of the heart of the Father above,
Streaming to me and to you:
Wonderful love, wonderful love,
Dwells in the heart of the Father above.
Jesus the Saviour this gospel to tell
Joyfully came, joyfully came,
Came with the helpless and hopeless to dwell,
Sharing their sorrow and shame:
Seeking the lost, seeking the lost,
Saving, redeeming at measureless cost.
Jesus is seeking the wanderers yet;
Why do they roam? why do they roam?
Love only waits to forgive and forget;
Home, weary wanderers, home!
Wonderful love, wonderful love,
Dwells in the heart of the Father above.
Come to my heart, O thou wonderful Love!
Come and abide, come and abide,
Lifting my life till it rises above
Envy and falsehood and pride:
Seeking to be, seeking to be,
Lowly and humble, a learner of thee.
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A brief account of how the profession
evolved in Brazil
and how it is still developing
by Jorge Fischer, Jr.
LOOKING BACK OVER THE PICTURE OF AUDITING IN BRAZIL, we have
' noticed from the early days the existence of two types of firms.
First, the Brazilian firms, made up of people who were born here,
studied and acquired their basic experience here. Second, the branch
firms or those affiliated with large American or English organizations,
whose partners and managers are foreigners in the great majority.
The type of work done was also quite different. The foreign firms
followed the standards used in the United States, making tests of
transactions during one or two definite periods of the business year
and certifying the balance sheet and preparing analysis thereof at the
end of the year. The clients of these firms were almost all non-Brazilian
firms, or those which were financially associated with American or European
organizations. The economic support of these international auditing
firms came from other countries, however, and they could go on
remaining almost completely aloof to the financial conditions existing
among us.


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"Humans look for a problem, build a technical way of getting around it - and afterwards they build a museum".
Constantly beetling away with new discoveries and inventions, we humans are a curious breed... or that's how we might appear to the group of cockroaches recently spotted exploring the Science Museum's galleries. Find out what it's like to be one of the planet's true survivors. Having outlived the dinosaurs, what will they make of our obsessions with speed, time... and burning things? Put yourself in their shells. Sign up with your friends and family for A Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum and get an inquisitive take on the human race.
Created by SUPERFLEX as part of Science Museum Arts Projects. Script by Nikolaj Heltoft. Costume design by Emma Jorn and Sabine Storm in collaboration with Esben Horn.
The Cockroach Tour of the Science Museum is active from January 2011 - August 2013


text: At the Email Insider Summit, Brand Marketers and agency decision makers will come together in a tranquil setting to network, share ideas, discuss and debate technology, while working collaboratively to improve overall business of email marketing as well as their own email marketing efforts. The summit will include general sessions, keynote speakers, research presentations, workshops, etc. The summit will not be all work; you will experience fun activities that take advantage of the areas attractions. Past Email Insider Summits have taken place in Colorado, Florida, California and Utah.


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MARTINEZ, Ga. - Senior Heather Raines (Lawrenceville, Ga.) of the Georgia College & State University women's cross country team was named Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Runner of the Week, the conference office announced today (Sept. 21). Raines is the first Bobcat women's runner to ever be named to this weekly honor, which started in the 2005 season.
Raines led the Bobcats to a runner-up spot at the Ricardo Romo/Six Flags Fiesta Texas Classic. She finished the 5k course in 20:13, taking a top-10 finish overall at ninth. This marks the second time in as many races that Raines has led the Bobcats, and her 20:13 time was just three seconds out of the top-10 in school history.
The Bobcats are back in action Saturday, Sept. 26 as they travel to nearby Macon, Ga. for the Mercer RunFit Sports Invitational.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, GCSU prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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"E.T." Opening at Okazi Gallery Photos
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Lucky Gallery Hosts a Pierogi Party
Lucky Gallery and collective members of "E.T." are hosting a Pierogi Party at 136 Lawrence Street in Downtown Brooklyn, on Saturday, May 12, 2012, 2 – 6pm. "E.T." is an art collective, formed by Laura Arena, artist and director of Lucky Gallery, comprised of eight multidisciplinary artists from New York City, Berlin, Guadalajara, London, and Antwerp, who have united forces 'to take over the art scene' in Berlin, Germany for a short moment of time. "E.T." will be hosting numerous events in Berlin as part of Performance Month in May. Øh1Øm1ke, TJ Hospodar, and Michael Loverich (Bittertang) are three NYC-based artists from the collective participating in the Pierogi Party. For more information on "E.T." exhibition read the press release.
"The preparation and cooking of the the pierogi is a collective effort between myself and the artists" say Amy Weng of Lucky Gallery. "The audience experience each participant's unique interpretation of the pierogi in this performance."
The Pierogi Party will feature live preparation of handmade fresh pierogi, live music and art, a silent auction of artwork and gifts from local Brooklyn businesses and artists. Øh1Øm1ke, TJ Hospodar, Michael Loverich, and Amy Weng of Lucky Gallery, will each produce fresh pierogi of different fillings at designated stations on site. Meat and vegetarian pierogi will be available for purchase. Music will be provided by Timothy Shipman, Marshall Moran, and Comandante Zero along with other musical guests yet to be announced.
The collective at 136 Lawrence Street has generously opened its doors to us to host the Pierogi Party. This special space emanates creativity and is easily accessible from anywhere in the City. The seven writers, musicians, innovative thinkers, and mind, body & heart healers, who live there cooperatively own and run a bed and breakfast out of their home called 3B. For more information, check out www.3bbrooklyn.com.
Please join us on Saturday, May 12 for a day full of festivities from 2-6pm. Tickets can be purchased at the event for samplings from the different pierogi stations. Drinks and food will be available.
All funds raised will help support travel expenses for "E.T." participating artists to Berlin and gallery support. More information about this exhibition and performances can be found at www.luckygallery.com.
Lucky Gallery and Okazi Gallery Presents the Work of "E.T."
The root of their collaboration will be in the method of the 'exquisite corpse', a technique invented by the Surrealists in the early 1900's, which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to the composition in a sequence either by following a rule or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed. "E.T." uses this process as the starting point for their collaboration, which began several months before arrival to Berlin.
"Through this process of the 'exquisite corpse' a large amount of new work will be created between those located in Europe and those in the United States", says Arena. "This work will encompass all our methods of art making and will mold us into a cohesive unit in preparation for our time in Berlin. The intent is to have these exercises be the framework for our collaboration in Berlin and this process will be demonstrated on the walls of Okazi Gallery."
"E.T." is also a participant of Month of Performance Art –Berlin (www.mpa-b.org), a month-long platform dedicated to highlighting, promoting and interconnecting the wealth and diversity of independent, contemporary and experimental performance art practices thriving in Berlin. E.T. is offering "Esprit de Corps", a series of events to promote, encourage and motivate all ages to become physically active as a means to participate in Art.
"Out of these exquisite corpse exercises and our unification in Berlin, we will be creating a new sport and its various paraphernalia: its uniforms, instruments, anthems, awards and opening ceremonies", says Michael Loverich, member of Bittertang. "Unlike most sporting events which are organized in advance around commonly understood rules our sports will be created on site, in the context of our temporary and intimate union in Berlin and directed by our new found friendships and interests. It will be an open experiment in gathering, interactive behavior, field design, sound tracking and accoutrement."
Opening Ceremony of "Esprit de Corps" will commence at 7pm on May 18th at Okazi Gallery. All the people of Berlin are encouraged to attend and participate. The opening ceremony will include various performances and programs will be handed out listing Esprit de Corps events happening at various times throughout Berlin.
Okazi Gallery will be the hub of all the activity by the collective. The exhibition is about the process of this collaboration rather than the work itself. Okazi Gallery is located at Türrschmidtstr. 18, 10317 Berlin, Germany. The opening reception is on May 18th at 6pm and opening ceremony for "Esprit de Corps" is at 7pm.
The members of "E.T." are Øh1Øm1ke (NYC), Yannis Angelopoulos (Berlin), Laura Arena (NYC), Bittertang (NYC and Guadalajara), Stephanie Homa (London), TJ Hospodar (NYC), and Tina Schott (Antwerp).


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War in the Middle East, the economy in crisis, health care for everyone, blah, blah, blah. Sure, these are the concerns of our time, but not when they are threatening one of the most sacrosanct moments of 2010: the premiere of "Lost."
President Obama's State of the Union address, previously scheduled for Jan. 26, is potentially being moved to Feb. 2 from 9-11pm, smack dab in the middle of the first show of the final season and their carefully calculated Groundhog Day premiere date.
Reportedly, the President is eyeing the move, which would preempt all other programming, in order to announce ratification of a new health care package bill. But fans of the show may find other matters more pressing. Like, if Juliet blew up the Island. If the white flashes that cause time travel are the same as the one the season ended with, meaning they've skipped through time yet again, possibly bringing them out of the 70s and back to the present. Is Locke is really dead? Was Jacob actually killed? Where is Claire? WHAT DO THE NUMBERS MEAN?
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President Obama is too savvy to alienate his constituents, especially not the obsessive, rabid ones. We're sure he'll do the right thing.
Or we're gonna unleash The Smoke Monster on him.


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Best Places to Wake-up Next to the Ocean in Nova Scotia
With 13,300 km of stunning seacoast, Nova Scotia truly is an ocean playground. Fill your days with ocean adventures like coastal hiking, surfing, kayaking or just relaxing at the beach. But don't let your ocean fun end with the setting sun. Book a room, stay in a cottage or camp along the coast and let the sounds of the ocean lull you to sleep and the rising sun herald a new day for adventure.
Ranging from high-end resorts to humble yet stunning camping locations with million dollar views, here are just a few of the best places to wake up next to the ocean in Nova Scotia: