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Tuesday | February 22, 2011

An abandoned MetroFi antenna. Photo by M.O. Stevens.

Personal Telco repurposing old MetroFi wireless devices throughout Portland... as soon as someone donates the bandwidth
After the MetroFi, the company Portland hired in 2006 to create a wifi network covering the city, tanked two years later, leaving hundreds of dead wireless devices throughout Portland, the city was forced to take them down and put them in storage. Now, the city has donated over a hundred of them to Personal Telco, the free wifi nonprofit serving Portland. Now all Personal Telco needs to get them transmitting free wifi is donated bandwidth.

Go to story: Personal Telco deploys MetroFi's old Wi-Fi gear in North Portland

Monday | February 21, 2011

Anna Lavatelli, "The Pink Room"

Levitation Is For Indwellers
The Archer Gallery at Clark College presents Indweller, video works by Victoria Fu, Anna Lavatelli, Noelle Mason, and Lilly McElroy. "In each of these works, the bodies are used in a predetermined way within the space of the setting and the frame. The female figures are choreographed or set to a limited structure of movement, rather than used as character explorations. Through controlled gestures, constructed cinematic structures, and suspended moments in time and space, the figures become inseparable from the setting within the video, existing to complete the imagined world of the artist."
Exhibition • February 22 - March 18, 2011
Reception • 6-8pm • March 12
Archer Gallery • Clark College
1933 Fort Vancouver Way, FAC 101, Vancouver, Washington

Go to story: Indweller

Sunday | February 20, 2011

Phoebe the pooch has a loving family and is not one of the animals mentioned in this story.

The Quarantines are Being Filled
30 dogs, ranging from a couple days to 8 years old were rescued by The Humane Society from a Canby breeder; they were quarantined by The Humane Sociey, out of fear that these dogs might have infectious parasites. Doctors believe that these dogs could have diseases and/or dangerous stomach parasites. If this proves true, the Canby breeder could face up to six months in jail and $2,500 in fines because of charges of "animal neglect in second degree." Reasons for this might be that the breeder has been struggling to sell her dogs in this difficult economy. However, the dogs were clearly abandoned: evidence ranging from empty food bowls to lingering feces. The price must be paid.

Go to story: Dogs rescued from Canby breeder placed in quarantine at Portland's Oregon Humane Society

Saturday | February 19, 2011

Congressman Earl Blumenauer will discuss how Portland can take the easy way out at City Club of Portland; Friday, February 25, 2011; 12:15pm - 1:15pm.

Federal Alignment: Taking The Road More Traveled
From City Club of Portland Web Site: "Since the near collapse of the financial system two years ago, both the United States and Oregon have struggled to get their economies moving. The federal government faces significant challenges in solving issues related to Social Security and Medicare funding, massive defense spending and a seeming inability to solve educational problems. Though daunting, none of these challenges has been unforeseen. On February 25, Congressman Earl Blumenauer will consider opportunities for reform that need not be as radical as some are predicting. In particular, the Congressman will describe unique opportunities for Oregon to better align its plans with federal priorities, and will explain how, by making these adjustments, both national and state program could become more sustainable and effective. Congressman Earl Blumenauer was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996 and is a member of the Ways and Means Committee and the Budget Committee."

Go to story: A Decade of Decision: Why it Doesn't Have to Be This Hard

Friday | February 18, 2011

Michael Scheuer, former chief of the C.I.A.'s Osama bin Laden unit, appears at Powell's City of Books on Burnside (Sunday; February 20, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) to talk about his new book: Osama bin Laden.

It's A Tough, Brutal, Dishonest World Out There
And it's getting even nastier. The President (who briefly swung through Hillsboro today) is forced to cut deals with "business leaders" running massive, multinational corporations in hopes of making "America more competitive." Those same executives, who publicly fret that Obama's economic policies "increase business uncertainty" are quickly targeted by "grassroots" teabagger propaganda mills, like FreedomWorks and Free Enterprise Project, for imbibing in "crony corporatism in its purest form." Naturally, these same teabagger groups are financially propped up by other crony capitalists. Our Secretary of State is forced to talk out of both sides of her mouth as the Egyptian people rid themselves of their U.S.-backed dictator, masterfully displaying her flip-flop artistry (she was for Mubarak before she turned against him) as if she had taken private lessons from Flip-Flop King himself. Her training quickly paid off. Clinton managed to keep impeccable poise as she mouthed empty platitudes glorifying the many wonders enjoyed by "free people" everywhere, even as her security goons brutally dragged away an elderly, peaceful and quiet dissenter. In fact, in his earlier life, that same dissenter was a high-level C.I.A. analyst and an Army veteran. Fortunately, you have an opportunity to meet another former C.I.A. officer on Sunday! Michael Scheuer is scheduled to appear at Powell's (City of Books on Burnside; Sunday; February 20, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) to talk about his new book: Osama bin Laden. Scheuer, who served as chief of the C.I.A.'s Osama bin Laden unit from 1996 to 1999, will explain how the U.S. "mindlessly" played into bin Laden's plans to provoke a war on Muslim soil, which catalyzed a jihad designed to "obliterate America from within, by making it economically weak, until its markets collapse." It's a tough world out there. And it's getting nastier.

Go to calendar: Michael Scheuer, former chief of the C.I.A.'s Osama bin Laden unit, appears at Powell's City of Books on Burnside (Sunday; February 20, 2011; 7:30 p.m.) to talk about his new book: Osama bin Laden.

Go to story: Former CIA analyst accosted during Clinton speech about tolerating free expression

Thursday | February 17, 2011

Prague Spring? Obama delivers hope, change and missile defense in Prague, Czechoslovakia, April 2009.

Obama visits Intel in Hillsboro to prove he cares about jobs
Tomorrow morning, Obama's speech at Intel's lab in Hillsboro will be streamed live at about 11:30. He is not scheduled to speak about Intel's anti-competitive, monopolistic practices that squash innovations and jobs created by other processor manufacturers. However, he is scheduled to talk about how he and Intel are partnering together for better education and innovation. For America.

Go to story: President Obama's visit to Intel in Hillsboro will be streamed live Friday morning

Wednesday | February 16, 2011

Cult Of Ecstasy

Banging The Bhagwan
Nearly 30 years ago, followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh "bought the ranch" and led thousands to a remote area east of Portland for unrestricted sexual activity, communing with UFOs, taking drugs of all kinds and "spiritual" excess. Who says religious fanatics aren't any fun?

Go to story: Rajneesh and his wicked ways revealed on 30th anniversary of Oregon cult

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