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The TaG Cadet and TaG Cadet Rookie classes have been restructured as Mini Swift and Micro Swift. Details are on the Classes page, and the updated SKUSA Rulebook page with the corresponding engine PDF.
Neck braces are only mandatory for the SKUSA junior categories (including S5, Mini Swift, Micro Swift, and X30 Junior). See Rulebook section 10.4.2.3.
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All cameras used at SKUSA events must be registered prior to use and have the SKUSA inspection sticker clearly visible on the camera body. See the Tech Director to register your camera. Additionally, each camera must be clearly marked with the owner's name and mobile phone number. Cameras without identification may not be returned. Loss of the camera on the racing surface may result in penalties, including loss of positions, loss of points, and/or monetary fines. Rule 22.214.171.124.2. Identification.
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With George Steinbrenner on hand Thursday night for only his third game at Yankee Stadium this season, Yankees security clearly was on high alert, going so far as to keep more than 100 reporters stuck in a stairwall after the game ended.
After Game 2 of the World Series ended, the reporters who used the stairs from the press box to the bottom floor were not allowed to exit because Steinbrenner's exit was anticipated any minute. The lockdown led to a standstill in the stairwell that lasted close to 10 minutes and resulted in an overflow all the way back up to the stadium's second level.
When Steinbrenner was on hand for the home opener in April, after the game, reporters were ordered by security to leave the vicinity of the tunnel when Steinbrenner was leaving.
Steinbrenner, 79, has been in declining health in recent years, and the Yankees have been sensitive about shielding him from the public's eye. His son Hal officially took control of the team last November.
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With May being Asthma Awareness Month (and May 6 World Asthma Day), we thought we'd start the month with an overview of what asthma is, what it's not and what you can do about it.
What is Asthma?
Asthma is a disease. According to the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases, more than 230 million people around the world, including more than 18 million adults and seven million children in the United States, have it.
The disease affects your lungs and, therefore, your ability to breathe. That can be as scary as it sounds. People die from asthma attacks. That's why, even though there are "maintenance" medications, there also are medications called "rescue" inhalers.
Asthma typically doesn't "go away." Once you get it, you have it all the time and for the rest of your life. The symptoms may come and go, and they may even seem to disappear. But the underlying condition remains. So you can feel good one moment and the next have a flare-up that seriously affects breathing.
What Causes Asthma?
The cause of asthma is not known. What is known is what causes, or triggers, asthma symptoms.
Asthma triggers include allergens, such as dust mites, pollen, mold and pet dander, and irritants from air pollution, tobacco smoke and chemicals. Colds, bronchitis and other respiratory illnesses also can cause flare-ups. So can exposure to cold air, extreme emotional distress, such as from anger or fear, and physical exercise.
What are the Symptoms?
When people think of asthma symptoms, they typically think of shortness of breath and wheezing. But they also include coughing, a tight feeling in the chest and other symptoms that can be mistaken for other illnesses, such as cold or bronchitis.
This frequently means people with asthma go untreated. If you have any doubts, watch the progress of your illness. You may have asthma if colds regularly "go to the chest" or last longer than 10 days. Or if you have sudden onsets of coughing, wheezing, chest tightness or shortness of breath.
The only way to be sure, and be sure you're getting the proper treatment, is to see your doctor. So
What Can I Do About It?
While asthma can't be cured, it can be controlled. Your doctor can work with you to develop a treatment plan to control your symptoms and keep your condition from getting worse. If you think you have asthma, but haven't sought treatment, the sooner you talk to your doctor, the sooner you'll begin feeling better.
You can help your doctor determine the proper treatment with some simple preparation before your visit. First, write down any symptoms you have had, when they occurred and what you were doing when you had them.
Next, be sure you have a list of medications, prescription and over-the-counter, including vitamins and other supplements. Some medications and supplements can affect asthma or interact badly with asthma medications.
Also, be sure to write down any questions you want to ask. It's hard to remember everything when you're in the exam room. It's also hard to remember everything the doctor says, so be sure to take notes and keep asking questions if there's anything you don't understand.


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by Ross Bonaime
Comedy Bang! Bang!'s live show has been a staple of the LA comedy scene ever since it moved to the UCB theatre and started hosting such comedians like Louis C.K., Patton Oswalt and Sarah Silverman. On a larger scale, Comedy Bang! Bang! has become one of the most popular comedy podcasts and is now it wrapping up its first season of the Comedy Bang! Bang! TV show on IFC. Supposedly in an effort to continue the reign of Comedy Bang! through all entertainment, host Scott Aukerman has taken the show on the road, stopping at The Howard Theatre Wednesday night with Kurt Braunohler, James Adomian and Tim Heidecker for an over two hour night of great comedy, impressions and obnoxious girls in the front row.
Opening the Comedy! Bang! Bang! tour was Kurt Braunohler, who hosts Bunk on IFC that airs after Comedy Bang! Bang! Being from the Baltimore area, Braunohler had some great stories about the area, like when he would later go on to explain how we once dropped acid and peed on the Washington Monument. He also mentioned how an illiteracy campaign in Baltimore left many bus ads that read "Baltimore: The City That Reads", vandalized into the perfect "Baltimore: The City That Breads," instead of breeds. Braunohler's set was short but quite hilarious, especially with jokes about how he once went running through New York City with a double-ended dildo, greeting cards he writes messages in and then returns, and voicemail he leaves himself in his sleep.
After Braunohler, the actual Comedy Bang! Bang! portion of the show started. Aukerman introduced himself as Broke Ankleman, since on the second day of the tour he sprained his ankle and broke his heel. He went onto set up some ground rules that led him to elect a fire captain. This led to a great audience participation moment in which him and a member of the audience had to role-play different scenes. The role-play would lead to another to another to another, until it was the Inception of role-plays.
Once Aukerman set up how the evening would go (stand-up sets, followed by a live taping of the podcast), frequent Comedy Bang! Bang! guest James Adomian came to the stage. Adomian joked about how being gay in high school and on the football team worked out for him, as well as explaining his experiences living in New York City, where all cops either talk like lost Jerky Boys or outtakes from a heartburn commercial. His final bit went on about all the gay villains throughout children's entertainment, such as all the Decepticons,The Riddler, Ursula from The Little Mermaid and Skeletor from He-Man who had clearly died from AIDS.
What surprised me was the performer who received the most audience love was Tim Heidecker, whose stand up set was incredible. Aukerman introduced him, saying that he was new to the tour so he was having trouble fitting in. When Heidecker came out, he pretended he was having serious problems with the mic, unscrewing it, dropping it and even knocking the mic into a nearby viewer's water. His set was hilariously nervous and filled with intentionally bad jokes, such as how he expected Ron Howard or Howard the Duck to appear at The Howard Theatre. When he asked the audience for some sunglasses for an impression, he threw back glasses that weren't Ray-Bans. When he did receive glasses to his liking, he simply put them on said "I'm Jack Nicholson," then gave them back. He then got serious and went on an anti-Obama rant that led him to yell at the secret service guards that were sure to be there to shoot him. The best moment came when a woman in the front, who was yelling and raising her hands the whole time, had Tim break character to say to her, "Shut up!….FOREVER!" It was what everyone near her was thinking and was arguably the best moment of the night.
After a spin of the James Adomian to see which of his many characters he would come out to play (Huell Howser) and a clip from the Comedy Bang! Bang! TV show, the podcast segment was ready to begin. Braunohler was brought out and started talking about the sadness of two butts farting Coldplay songs. Heidecker came out and talked about a new TV show he has in the works, a remake of Shit My Dad Says, starring Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who landed a plane in the Hudson River and Tom Arnold as his son, where every episode ends up being a nightmare.
Huell Howser then came to the stage, whose bit is that he literally knows nothing. He calls DC the District of California, and then is instantly confused by the crowd watching. This led Howser to go down into the stage to ask people questions like, "Who is God's fuck are you?" and "you can talk?!" But the bright lights and cameras lead Howser to go a little insane and relapse into remembering he actually doesn't have a memory of anything happening before when he turned 18.
The night ended with a game of Would You Rather?, in which the question was would you rather have to dig through dinosaur poop for money or have a Kramer-like meltdown and have it YouTubed every birthday. Braunohler ended up winning for being the only person to actually give an answer.
The Comedy Bang! Bang! tour worked out much better than I actually expected it would. It went for twice as long as I expected, the four comedians worked great together and were fantastic at integrating the audience into the show in fun ways. Even if I hadn't been a huge fan of all things Comedy Bang! Bang! before, this tour would have absolutely turned me.


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A fresh new project from up and coming Samuel Laws collaborating with Jacob Montague of the band "Branches." It started over coffee one day when the two began catching up on life after college. They decided then and there that they would create something new. The excitement grew and they began sharing ideas back and forth through voice memos and dropbox files. A month later they set up in a room at a local church and recorded the entire EP.


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Hello I have a problem with konedriver and setpoint, neither is working, i used to use konedriver and it worked fine, then i reinstalled the game via steam and now it doesnt work, so i uninstalled it again, installed a cracked version of the game and its still not working, any help please? i have 2 languages so i can execute it but it doesnt get injected. please help. thanks
Other hacks work but not these silent aim hacks, and those are the only ones i want to use.
And does anyone have like a .dll file of any silent aim hack? cause that might work to use a injector, but with konedriver i dont knwo which dll to inject.
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The Muslim World - Event Audio/Video
Silenced: Are Global Trends to Ban Religious Defamation, Religious Insult, and Islamophobia a New Challenge to First Amendment Freedoms?
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The 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the deadly 2006 Danish cartoon riots brought worldwide attention to the issue of Muslim blasphemy bans. Though these events made global headlines, they are only one aspect of the debate about blasphemy bans in recent times. Charges such as "blasphemy," "apostasy," or "insulting Islam" are no longer limited to censoring irreverent caricatures of Islam's prophet, Mohammed. Some maintain that: they are increasingly used as tools by authoritarian governments and others to influence behavior and acquire power.
Our conference speakers will address the prevalence of trends concerning hate speech and blasphemy laws, and whether they pose a serious threat to the freedoms of citizens of the West, including Muslims, as well as people in OIC member states. This panel on "The Muslim World" featured Prof. David F. Forte of Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law; Mr. Amjad Mahmood Khan of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA; Mr. Jacob Mchangama of the Center for Political Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark); Mr. Samuel Tadros of the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom; and Mr. James P. Kelly III, Director of International Affairs at the The Federalist Society, as the moderator.
**During the recording of this event, we experienced issues with the sound system. We apologize for the sound quality of this video.**
Panel I: The Muslim World
10:00 a.m. – 11:15 a.m.
- Prof. David F. Forte, Cleveland State University, Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
- Mr. Amjad Mahmood Khan, Attorney and National Director of Public Affairs, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA
- Mr. Jacob Mchangama, Director of Legal Affairs, Center for Political Studies (Copenhagen, Denmark)
- Mr. Samuel Tadros, Research Fellow, Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom
- Moderator: Mr. James P. Kelly III, Director of International Affairs, The Federalist Society
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*Make Plans- don't just go into the gym without a plan set up your workout plans at least a week ahead of time
*Change your workout- Never do the same workout! Change your reps, weight, or exercises every time you train
*Boost Metabolism-Lifting weights helps to boost your metabolism
*Lift Heavy- Don't be afraid to lift heavy (even ladies) work your way up slowly, but make sure you really feel the last 2-3 reps
*Correct Form- Make sure you are using correct form and focus on contracting the muscle you are working
Working out can mean a variety of different things. You can find many ways to get in extra exercise by lifting weights, doing cardio, playing sports, going for a hike or just swimming with the kids. There are so many exercises or different ways to train so change things up and have fun while getting the body of your dreams.
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Watch out for Wouts
15 March 2017Go Back Belgian MX2 champion Kevin Wouts made his Maxxis ACU British Motocross Championship debut for the new Lombard Express Suzuki team at Culham but it turned out to be a day to forget for the 26-year-old.
We caught up with Kevin, who was also fifth in both last years EMX250 series and the Dutch MX1 championship, after hed notched up a 24th in the opening MX2 race following a collision with another rider that forced him to pit for running repairs.
Its hard at the moment, said. I dont have a good day so far. Its the first race of the year I cant do any pre-season races because Im coming back from a knee injury, I had an ACL done last year.
I wasnt ready to go for the pre-season so we decided to wait a little longer. So today is like the first race and all the stress is there and nothing is going as planned at the moment.
I need to get used to the competitors and how the system is working and also a bit to the bike because Im just a month on the bike now. Its going really bad today but Im sure give me like a month and things will click.
After team boss Neil Prince worked flat-out to replace damaged triple clamps and bar clamps cracked in the collision his team was heading to the start for race two when they noticed the radiator was leaking. Quick repairs werent quick enough and the holding area was closed by the time they returned.
All-in-all it wasnt the greatest of debuts for Kevin but with some extra bike time under his belt and a more favourable roll of the dice he could come out swinging at round two at Lyng on April 9.
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But looks like he had something else in store for the actor. Karanwir said, "It is easy to woo women, but to test how charming you are, you need to first impress Manish who will be your lady for now."
Siddharth who was left with no other option, went on to propose Manish to marry him, who is at his nautanki and dramatic best. Kapil too as always, added his fun bit by enacting Manish's stern and strict dad.
Well at the end of this whole act everyone agreed to Sid being such a charmer that he is. Sid and Manish are great friends and therefore their bond makes such moments even more hilarious.


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Is The Nexus 4 Your Dream Device?
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So much news, is it flowing out of your ears yet? Trust me, it's not over yet, you have plenty of reading material for the next week. It can be said that the Nexus 4 will be "the phone" to outshine the Windows 8 phone, and possibly even the iPhone 5. Could this be the device that outshines any future devices? Well, it's not my place to make that decision, and I'll wait to see how things go from this point on before I make any assumptions.
So what makes this device so great? Let's go through some of the spendid features of the Nexus 4 and I'll leave you decide if this is your next dream device.
The Nexus 4 Screen
The screen on the Nexus 4 is definitely a big upgrade from it's sibling the Galaxy Nexus. The screen comes with 4.7″ 1280 x 768 dimensions. It has been said that saturation is beyond words, "contrast is deep," and the viewing angles are "fantastic." When it comes to "touch response,"" lightening reflexes" come to mind. The biggest recommendation given was to visit your local Sprint and AT&T stores, and hold the Optimus G to witness the true awesome display power. Then once it's in your hands, add an extra 48 pixels and you'll have a bright, vibrant screen that is wider than the Galaxy Nexus' screen, and will allow you more viewing estate. How could you pass up such a excellent opportunity?
The Nexus 4 CPU
Now I've heard of the droolings in regards to the Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro, and with good reason. It's a great processor! Now take this lightening fast processor and combine it with Android 4.2 and you have one fast, responsive, mobile phone. Oh, did I mention that it one of the fastest processors tested for Android? Don't believe it? Look at the LG Optimius G and you'll see for yourself.
The Nexus 4 Hardware
The Nexus 4 is definitely centered around how it feels in your hand this time around, whereas the Galaxy Nexus was how it felt up against your ear while in calls. The front of the Nexus 4 is sporting a "single piece of glass that wraps around the edges of the phone," which is said to help making swiping more "natural." There is also a peice of glass on the back as well, that is sporting a metallic patteren, and it's one design feature I'm not overly keen on. The piece of glass on the back of the phone was Google's way of keeping the phone from shattering, however I STRONGLY recommend that you still use a case of some kind.
On top of the glass we have the 2 GB of RAM, which adds to the already great processing speeds! More multi-tasking and less freeze ups, who could ask for more?
The Nexus 4 Software
It came as no surprise that the Nexus 4 would have the latest version of Android, which is Android 4.2 and will be the " new flavor of Jelly Bean." With Android 4.2 comes new notifications features, a better Google Now, the ability to sync your phone with your HDTV, a "gesturing" keyboard, a great way to use your photos with the new photo application, and so much more!
Now, take all of these already fabulous features, and put them in all in one, add a sleek, sexy case design around it, and what do you have? The LG NEXUS 4!! I have to admit the more I write about the Nexus 4, the more it grows on me and appears to be one gorgeous Nexus flagship phone! What do you think? Is the Nexus 4 your dream phone?


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I Can Feel It Coming In The Air Tonight……Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
….oh Lord…..
A debate cometh. Gird yer loins.
Who will win tonight?
The better question is: who won't lose?
Right now, big government Republicans are winning and therefore, America loses.
The only solace? Obama is destroying America and killing the country faster. Will being less bad be good enough?
Ah, hope springs eternal, which is why I write about politics.
Join me on Twitter and/or Sulia. See you then!
The Romney V. Santorum Cage MatchTuesday, February 14th, 2012
Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum throwing down. They will cut…
Oh, who are we kidding? This is the prissiest primary slap fight anyone could imagine. When pressed, both whine. When criticized, both wear their persecution complex like a hounded high school nerd.
This primary is insufferable and has been. There shouldn't be an enthusiasm gap in the primary, yet here we are.
What is amusing in this situation: All the die-hard defenders of both men.
I don't get it.
Don't you have to feel ardently about someone in order to defend their honor? Who feels passionately about these guys?
Romney feels passionately about nothing.
Santorum feels passionately about everything.
Consequently, it's difficult to prioritize. It's difficult to latch onto an issue and identify with either candidate.
Neither man is a bad man. In fact, they both seem to be quite good people.
They're just throwbacks to a former GOP mentality where the government solved almost everything in not so stark contrast to liberals who were quite sure they knew how to make the world right with the government.
It's too bad we have these men at this time. We could really use a dedicated conservative willing to articulate passionately conservative values and push forth a grand vision for a self-reliant America.
Unfortunately, we don't have a man or woman like that still in the running.
We have Mitt and Rick.
Both men are incremental and concerned about trimming around the edges. Both men practices a big government interventionism.
But they're conservative in practice, you say.
Yeah, so is Barack Obama. He has the high expectations, early bedtime and family man image. He has the rather boring demeanor and technospeak that puts one to sleep.
Philosophically, politically and policy-wise, though, Barack Obama wants to make the world "fair", he wants to save those who he deems needs saving, he wants to make sure the government is nudging people in a certain direction to achieve a certain kind of behavior.
Is that very different than Romney or Santorum? Using the government to achieve big ends?
It's time for the government to BUTT OUT. It's time for a leader to be responsible.
On Mike Koolidge's radio program, I asked where the candidate is who articulates (forget Reagan's vision) but John F. Kennedy's vision,"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
Where is that guy? He's nowhere in this primary and he's certainly not Barack Obama.
So. We have a slap fight over trivialities for the GOP primary when we should be having a cage match over ideas and big visions.
Enthusiasm gap? It's downright depressing.
Mitt Romney Is Not The OneWednesday, October 12th, 2011
I've disagreed with voters, both GOP, Dem, and Independent a lot recently. There's kind of an axiom that the voter, like the consumer, is always right. Give him what he wants. What the voter wanted was John McCain and then, Barack Obama. We can see how that worked out. Can we admit those voters were wrong?
Right now, a chunk of the GOP primary voters want Mitt Romney. Like John McCain, nobody really wants wants Mitt Romney, they just fear that the media is right and that he would be electable.
In 2008, I felt that John McCain was wholly unelectable, that it would be a laborious, futile, uphill slog. Many of my DC friends vehemently disagreed with me. I feel the same about Mitt Romney. Yes, even against the Carteresque Obama, Romney would be weak.
At the GOP Fox/Google debate, I had an eerily reminiscent discussion with another DC GOP friend about Mitt Romney. What's wrong with him? Well, nothing, if you're a DC, big-government Republican. Mitt Romney is awesome if you secretly buy all the media's premises about Republicans: That they're heartless, gun-crazy, Bible-thumping, science-hating, economically stupid cretins who can barely find their way out of their sad middle-class existence to get to their sad middle-class jobs doing sad middle-class tasks. Ew. I mean, like, really.
The Meghan McCain incoherent diatribes about her fellow Republicans are really repackaged versions of what Peggy Noonan, and often, Charles Krauthammer think. Those conservatives! So gauche! (Except Meghan McCain doesn't know what the word gauche means.)
These are also the same people who couldn't find a bad words to say about Barack Obama. The media, the left, the independents and the big government Republicans loved Barack Obama. Meanwhile, conservatives saw an incompetent. But he was clean and articulate!
So now, the people who were wrong all ways in the last election are trying to push the GOP cart in the Mitt Romney direction.
Mitt Romney neutralizes every Obama criticism. TARP? Both for it. Gun control? Both for it. Stimulus? Both for it. Obamacare? Romney's staff helped Obama's staff to craft the legislation based on the Massachusetts model. How, pray tell, is Mitt Romney, silver-tongued as he is, going to debate Barack Obama and not sound completely inauthentic. Remember the flaccid McCain responses to Obama? Expect those.
Ironically, I felt that Romney would have had more of a chance in 2008 than now. He would have been a better candidate against the untested Obama. Not now. The Republican party has changed. America has changed. Massachusetts and the country struggles under the weight of big government "solutions" that have done nothing so much as added debt to the next generation. When looking back and forth between Obama and Romney, it's a matter of worse and worser.
Here's something I find distressing, too, while we're on the subject. Commentators on the left are clearly riding on the Obama bandwagon. They chose him over Hillary. They enthused about him. On the right, commentators try to be value neutral, as though any candidate would be great. Some seem to just want to be able to say when the Republican fails (and since they're human they all will), "I told you so."
We're not in "I told you so" territory here. We're in "America is about to go off a cliff" territory. This is no time to enjoying the sport of politics. Or is cynicism called for? Do some on my side believe we're so far gone that it won't matter who gets elected? They're all so bad that the best we can do is criticize the descent?
Well, I'm not to that point which is why I won't concede to Mitt Romney. Someone told me that Rudy Giuliani was way ahead at this point in 2008. There is still time. And that gives me hope. Because Mitt Romney is a flawed, weak candidate. The GOP can do better.
The country needs better.
CNN Poll: Any GOP Candidate Nearly Beats President ObamaWednesday, April 14th, 2010
This CNN poll came out with great fanfare because it put Huckabee ahead of Romney and Palin. But when all three of these folks are put up against President Obama, this is the result:
What about the hypothetical general election matchup in 2012 against President Obama?
The poll shows Obama topping Romney 53 percent to 45 percent, beating Huckabee 54 percent to 45 percent, defeating Gingrich 55 percent to 43 percent and topping Palin 55 percent to 42.
"It is important to remember that at this stage of the game, candidate matchups are largely driven by name recognition, and at least a quarter of all Americans are unfamiliar with Romney, Huckabee and Gingrich. As a result, Obama has an 8- to-12-point edge over each of them in hypothetical matchups," adds Holland. "But in a previous CNN poll, Obama managed no better than a tie against an unnamed Republican."
But there is something more than name recognition at work in Obama's big lead over Palin.
"Palin is almost as well known as Obama, but the general public appears to have some doubts about what they have seen of her so far," says Holland.
Hmmm…. Well, for being so unqualified, she's almost neck in neck with Huckabee and Romney and that's very interesting.
She has a couple years to demonstrate her qualifications. And if things get bad enough, her optimistic attitude might well be enough.
Hotair has more.
Is The Tea Party Dead?
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Moving Beyond Adding To The Tea Party Movement: Here's How
When another inevitable tea party break-up happened in my home town of Houston, the derivative group–a fine field of motivated folks–discussed their alternatives. We talked about branding. I suggested that they don't use the words "Tea Party" at all, but instead become a mission-focused organization. They did just that and currently fight corruption in local elections.
That seems to be the future of the Tea Party movement ultimately–breaking down into activist organizations either locally or nationally to fulfill a certain purpose. Some of those involved have jumped into the Republican organization with the goal of transforming it to a small-government, fiscally conservative party again. Others have decided to become watchdogs of their local school boards. Still others have organized Get Out The Vote efforts.
There's a lot of work to do.
Today, RedState's Erick Erickson has decided to leave the Tea Party movement behind–to move beyond it. He alludes to the Tea Party movement disintegrating into sects like churches.
The last straw? This:
Then last week, in what everyone would have thought was a joke had it happened on April Fools Day, a bunch of tea parties, or at least one saying it was doing it for more, put out a press release announcing the birth of the National Tea Party Federation, which is not an organization, not a structure, not a new set of leaders, but an evolution of alliances of 19 tea party organizations and a handful of other groups, except for the Tea Party Patriots, which has worked overtime to be simply a volunteer group of concerned activists who neither get paid nor make money. Yeah, I have a soft spot for Tea Party Patriots living up to their ideal.
Most of us can sit back and ask one simple question: What the heck happened?
The tea party movement, one year later, is descending into a self-parody of infighting, money making, claims of national leadership, protests, unions, federations, amalgamations, etc. The groups have been so busy organizing themselves to distinguish themselves from each other that the core message is gone and media and left have been able to seize on the discord and paint a picture of the tea party movement as something other than it is and what we all know it to be — concerned Americans.
This has nothing at all to do with actual tea party activists. Let me be clear. I do not want to nor intend to slight the activists who care and show up with their hand painted signs, sometimes risking violence against themselves by the left and ridicule by the media.
But I have a simple message for them all — it is time to stop calling yourselves tea party activists and start calling yourselves concerned Americans.
The Tea Party Federation nonsense, and it is nonsense, bothered me too. Dan Riehl has touched on the problems. Here's my take:
A small group of spokespeople would be the mainstream media's dream come true. Only four or five "leaders" to undermine and smear? Awesome. Should one of these people have personal issues, misrepresent the movement, the media can smear the whole movement with the actions of one "hypocrite" (almost as bad a word as racist in the media world).
Why in heavens name would the Tea Party Federation group want to give the opposition ammo and line up to be shot?
Power. Money. Opportunism.
Yeah, that. There are bad actors in every movement and there are those kinds of folks in the Tea Party movement. And those folks are trying to get a federation of some kind to aggrandize themselves–TV appearances, business, whatever, under the pleasing call to put out a unified voice.
The Tea Party movement doesn't need a spokesman. It needs concrete action.
And that is happening. Sure, there are protests and that serves a very good purpose: Demonstrating the sheer numbers of people fed up with big government. It also gives people an image to associate with an idea: millions of people wanting smaller government heartens those who fear that the government is going to take over everything. Cynicism is a democracy killer. The public image helps that.
Still, more needs to be done. If we want empty bloviating, we can turn on C-Span to watch the latest Senatorial panel. What we need is to fundamentally change some things.
Are you a Tea Party activist or leader wondering what to do? Here are some ideas:
1. Go after education reform. If it seems like we're raising a bunch of no-mind Marxists, it's because the curriculum overwhelmingly favors liberal ideology.
2. Watch the School Boards or better yet, run for them. These bastions of local politics are notoriously corrupt and misguided. Help find ways to cut costs, hold teachers accountable and increase parent involvement.
3. Become polling-place observers. How many wrong things happen at voting stations? Depends on the place. Go observe. Bring your camera. Bring your video camera. Catch the corruption on tape.
4. Get out the vote. Make sure you get people out to vote on important days. Today in Texas, for example, is run-off day. Make sure people vote.
5. Run for office. Don't just stand there, do something. Sick of corrupt politicians? Replace them!
6. Blog. Oh, party operatives will hate you. Politicians may hate you. Heck, your brother might hate you. But since the MSM simply refuses, or because of funds, can't write stories keeping officials accountable, bloggers can and do. And no, there are still not enough of them.
7. Inform: Email, Twitter, Facebook, lunch with the ladies: Preach the small government gospel to anyone who will listen. Hearts and minds need to be won to the cause and evangelism happens person to person.
8. Fundraise. Good politicians, efforts and ideas need money to transmit and promote them. One blogger friend of mine said that he was changing his focus from blogging to giving money to candidates. He was done screaming and wanted to put his money where his mouth is. Many people, formerly unwilling to give politically, see the consequences of staying out of the process and would donate to help others.
9. Become a teacher or college professor. Start inculcating the next generation with pro-democratic ideals and free thinking.
10. Be an individual success. Be a star at something, or if you already are a star, and then, on your big platform, come out of the small-government closet and trumpet your message of excellence. Explain why you succeeded. Explain why America is great. Lead by example. Do you know how many people are still afraid to verbalize their ideology for fear of being called stupid, racist, fill-in-the-blank evil? Yeah. Have courage and state the truth.
There are so many ways to make a difference. Many Tea Party organizations are doing many of these things. Most aren't just showing up and complaining. Most are turning their words into action.
Do I think the time for the Tea Party is over? No. I'll be at a Tea Party event this week and why not? It's inspiring to be with like minded folks and to hear the stories of triumph. We need that.
It doesn't have to be either/or. The Tea Party brand is strong still and will be a catalyst for greater things to come.
Ray McKinney: A Republican Hope For Georgia's TwelfthMonday, April 12th, 2010
Another close district, another brave Republican doing the "impossible": Ray McKinney of Georgia's Twelfth District talks about the challenges and opportunities for Republicans.
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Stacy McCain talks about McKiney and his thoughts on the SRLC:
In the few minutes of their impromptu meeting, however, McKinney conveyed to Pence the necessary information: He is a candidate in Georgia's 12th District, seeking the Republican nomination to take on Rep. John Barrow, a "Blue Dog" Democrat whose peculiar vulnerability is one factor in the calculations for Nov. 2. If the GOP can make a net gain of 40 seats in this fall's mid-terms, Nancy Pelosi will become the former Speaker of the House, and Republicans cannot afford to miss any opportunity for a pickup — especially when liberals seem determined to lend a helping hand. The story of Barrow and GA12 is the tale of a building electoral storm with enough political power to evoke memories of Hurricane Katrina's devastating impact on New Orleans in September 2006 — two months before Pelosi and the Democrats broke Republicans' 12-year control of the House.
The 12th District was one of two new congressional seats Georgia gained after the 2000 Census, when Democrats still controlled the Georgia General Assembly and sought to carve out a stronghold for their party. Yet GA12 has proven to be more conservative than its designers anticipated, rated only a "plus one" for Democrats by respected national analyst Charlie Cook, and has a see-saw history. Republican Max Burns was elected to Congress by a surprising 10-point margin in the 2002 mid-terms, but lost his 2004 re-election bid to Barrow by four points. In 2006, otherwise a disastrous wipeout for the GOP, Burns came back to challenge Barrow and lost by fewer than 900 votes out of some 140,000 ballots cast. And then came 2008, when Obama's promise of Hope and Change proved the electoral tide that lifted all Democratic boats.
With a surge of black turnout in a district where more than 40 percent of the residents are black, GA12 re-elected Barrow — a white moderate — by a whopping 2-to-1 majority over a former GOP congressional aide, John Stone. Here, however, the story took a strange twist. In 2008, Barrow first had to overcome a Democratic primary challenge from state Sen. Regina Thomas, a black legislator with a far more liberal record and message. After winning that primary with 76 percent of the vote, Barrow then got a general-election boost from Barack Obama. However, Barrow has since voted against key items in the Obama agenda — including two votes against the recently-passed health-care law.
This race is winnable. Republicans need to stop conceding these districts and Ray McKinney is fighting for one right now.
Exclusive: Herman Cain, Dark Horse?Monday, April 12th, 2010
Herman Cain knows how to give a great speech. He was also a delightful man to interview. Mr. Cain sat with Tabitha Hale and me for a few minutes. We had a great conversation on Saturday afternoon of the Southern Republican Leadership Conference. He discusses God's will for his life. He also talks about Republicans attracting people of color. He answers the question about whether racists dominate the Tea Party movement:
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What Was Wrong At The Southern Republican Leadership Conference?–UPDATEDMonday, April 12th, 2010
What a weird conference. There. I said it. The Tea Party received the biggest cheers. The Republicans bashed their own party. Attendees were optimistic and cheerful. Politicians were purposeful and focused on 2010–a marked shift from the usual perspectives at SRLC which has been a conference that gives voters a first look at potential Presidential candidates. Ron Paul's groupies were suitably worshipful and idealistic. Mitt Romney's posse were mission-focuses as always. But something was off.
It wasn't the city or weather. New Orleans was more beautiful than I have ever seen it and the weather was perfect. Food? A+. Gambling? I wouldn't know, but people had fun. A shooting did clear a friend's restaurant, though–so it's the same old New Orleans we know and love.
It wasn't the venue or organization which was okay–although the scheduling was unorthodox. The speakers didn't get going until the afternoon every day while the delegates had various brunches. It made for an excellent blogging schedule.
What simmered below the surface of the event, though, made me uneasy. And it was who didn't attend the event that concerned me.
Eventually, Mitt Romney is going to have to show up at an conference with other political contenders. Will he get more cheers than Newt or Sarah or Mike Pence or Rick Perry? I know he's hoping to wait them all out, gather to himself a gagilliion dollars and be the presumptive nominee. That method worked in the past, will it work now?
Haley Barbour endorsed Charlie Crist who is miles behind Marco Rubio. Barbour was RNC chair during the 1994 revolution. Many of these old dogs are still around and enjoying power. They remember sweeping in and they don't want to be swept out.
The recent arm wrestling being done by the NRSC and NRCC against the RNC might actually be wasted effort. If donors are by-passing all of them and funding the Rubios of the world, the party bosses might matter less even as the give full-throated endorsements to establishment candidates who have zero chance of getting elected.
One Republican said to me, "It's like the Republicans are ten years behind the times. They're looking for women candidates, when the voters are beyond that."
What he meant was, the voters now, men and women, want a good candidate who follows, as Rick Perry mentioned, first principles. Gender matters little anymore. Beliefs matter most.
But first principles are inconvenient when an old-guard politician is trying to keep power and money. And so beneath a placid, optimist surface, there is struggling. The struggle would seem to be philosophical: big government Republicans against tax-assailing and small government conservatives with some Tea Party help.
Unfortunately, the struggle seems to be more base than that: who is going to man the ship when Republicans get power back in November? There are lots of Republicans angling for chairmanships and sweet deals and that seems to be a more important fight to them than fighting Democrats and a President who are trying to do to dismantle freedom and the American way.
Politics, like business, has many aging boomers who love their jobs. They don't want to give them up. Terrified of becoming relics and irrelevant, they fight like badgers to hold on to personal power while not paying attention to what they'll even be owning after they "win." If the establishment Republicans rip the party apart, they may have power in a party that no longer matters. Do they recognize this reality?
Many of the old guard are suspicious of the Tea Partiers and conservatives in general. Cozying up with small government types, makes keeping a big government difficult.
Bottom line, the leadership of the party isn't at the top anymore. The grassroots are leading, amoeba-like, toward a philosophical goal of smaller government, less taxation and more freedom. So far, no presumptive presidential candidate has taken on that mantal.
After the November mid-term elections, I expect a very wild presidential campaign. And while Mitt stuffed the ballot boxes at the Southern Republican Leadership Council, I don't think his place as the new face of the GOP is anywhere near certain.
The Republican party will change, people will give them one last chance, because voters burned themselves with Ross Perot going third party. But if the party isn't responsive to the base's concern after the last two years, I'm afraid there will be a new party building and the old guard will be manning an empty ivory tower.
Tabitha Hale has more. She has a controversial take on the opening speaker who decided that the most important issue facing the nation is gay marriage.
Here are some interviews I conducted at SRLC:
Texas Governor Rick Perry Talks Texas….And A National Run? Also here.
Ted Cruz, former Texas Solicitor General who has argued many cases before the Supreme Court (and won) discusses the possible legal approaches to get rid of Obamacare. Also here.
A great Republican running against Deborah Wasserman-Schultz: Learn about Brian Reilly here.
I also got to spend 10 minutes with Herman Cain. That video is still loading, but I'll add it to the cue.
Liza over at Culture Kitchen gives me a back handed compliment and then dismisses a Rick Perry run for President because of his secession hyperbole while extolling Mitt Romney.
One word: Jobs
Texas has them. No other state comes close.
One phrase: It's the economy stupid.
Rick Perry gets that, the Democrats don't.
Now, Perry may have no chance to get elected, I don't know. But please let's not pretend that Romney doesn't have baggage.
Can you say RomneyCare? And much as it pains me, his religion will still be a stopper for many people.
The press likes Romney way too much. Remember how they loved McCain? Yeah.
Brian Reilly Runs For Democrat Deborah Wasserman Schultz's SeatMonday, April 12th, 2010
Wasserman-Schultz must go down.
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RNC Chairman Steele: It's Partly RacismMonday, April 5th, 2010
RNC Chairman says the attacks he's receiving are partly racism and that blacks have a smaller margin of error. I'd say that's true for some few people, just as it's true for some small segments who have disliked Obama from the beginning. Mostly though, it's sore-loserism and establishment-ism and power-ism. You know, those "isms" that define Washington, D.C.
Here's the video of the Chairman's comments.
How about this for a theory?
1. Establishment Republicans see their power dwindling and they want to control the money.
2. The Crossroads business was hatched before last week when operatives from within this new money-seeking organization denounced their competition, the RNC–these people are going after the same dollars after all.
3. Republicans angry at Steele for saying the truth, that he's not sure they're ready to take the helm back, decided to gun for his demise.
You know, people are so sick of the Republicans. These guys demonstrated a frustrating inability to enact measures to trim the government's power when they were in power.
I see nearly zero reason to believe that they govern much differently once back in power. For months, they fought the influence of the Tea Party movement and even now, some establishment candidates grit their teeth about this growing movement. They have a vision for Republicans in America–it's big government, big business, big power.
Now, some have seen religion. They are terrified and want to get re-elected. But most who face primary challenges seem offended that they have to go through such lowly politicking to do the job they feel entitled to do.
In addition, those forming the Crossroads group, seem to ignore how this looks to people who now pay attention. It looks like the same old D.C. power plays. It looks like division and pettiness. It looks like the Mitch McConnell-Bush wing of the Republican party doesn't want to let go.
Guess what: they were voted out for a reason.
Now, a person reading this might construe me as some worshipful devoté of the RNC and its leadership. I'm not. I'm just an observer who doesn't believe, for one instant, that this Crossroads group is anything but an organization grown and built to support the Republican D.C. establishment while Chairman Steele is trying to strike the balance between an old and new Republican party.
Many Republicans don't want a new party. They don't want a younger, more diverse and more fiscally conservative party. It does not serve THEM.
They want power. It's naive to think anything else.
So is it racism? Maybe a little bit. But really, it's just Republican politics as usual.
P.S. The Republicans outside the RNC are questioning the judgment of Chairman Steele, right? Well, I question their judgment dividing the leadership during a year when Republicans are sure to win big because the Democrats are even more horrible than Republicans. What sort of wisdom do they have? How smart is it to divide the party on the eve of a big win. Yeah. Typical Republicans: shooting themselves in the feet.


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Still, each "people's" – each group's – struggles and experiences are its own, disparate and different. That means limits exist to my understanding and ability to empathize. And by recognizing that, I refuse to make blanket statements, i.e., the struggles that we, as persons of color, face today.


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I have had to turn the volume down again this morning due to her grating voice. As for Ore on Radio two!! So full of himself.
Irritated 8:57am Thu 9 Nov Report Abuse
She really needs to go. Her interaction with Ian Duncan Smith was infantile. Is she incapable of understanding as she repeats herself constantly. Get someone on who has some idea what they are talking about fgs. Btw she looks particularly drab this morning.
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Has anyone heard him standing in on BBC 2 radio? His oh so posh voice is irritating. Even her Maj does not speak that way.
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The most annoying,irritating & self obsessed person on tv,radio or wherever at the minute is Ore Oduba.Please BBC stop ramming this egotistical prat down our throats.
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Disclaimer: I do not own these characters, they and the world they live in, belong to the wonderful Kim Harrison. I just need an outlet for my Ivy/Rachel frustration.
I'd definitely hit a new personal record regarding proportional pain and blood. It was almost unbelievable: the excruciating amount of agony sizzling through my body couldn't possibly be real without a single drop of blood to divulge its cause. I made small sounds through closed lips and clenched teeth as I ascended the steps to the church, my body protesting every movement. It felt as if someone had slit the back of my neck and pulled my spine out through the wound, effectively rendering me as strong as a slug, prior to twisting my every limb into an inhuman angle and throwing me off a bridge. Yeah. I basically felt worse than a pile of shit tonight.
My fingers curled around the knob, and I exhaled slowly. Not that these doors were exactly hard to open, however they took a Turn of a lot of girl power. I'd never really thought anything of it before this night, but I had the feeling that they'd kill practically every part of my body as I opened them.
Never before had I hated being so right.
I groaned as the doors pulled open, been made distinctly conscious of every single muscle in my aching figure—some I wasn't even aware I had. The most painful would definitely have to be my back, throbbing as I pulled the large church doors open and crying out in protest when I used both hands to close the doors one at a time, once inside. If the disturbing crack I heard when I arched my back and stretched my arms out was any indication, I was in for an interesting week of aching limbs and tender muscles. The bleeding, I told myself happily, was most likely internal. It officially became a joyous occasion as soon as I realized that chances were I'd be covered from head to toe in bruises by the time I woke up tomorrow. I took baby steps towards my room—even though it was only a bit passed ten o'clock—in a desperate attempt to bend my body the least possible. Any and every simple movement seemed to send a harsh pain skittering through my spine: definitely something worth avoiding.
I was half-way across the hallway leading to my room when the voice stopped me dead in my tracks. Oh God, Ivy was going to bitch about my state as if there was no tomorrow once she saw me. She had distinctly told me not to take this run, even enunciating each word of her phrases as if I was a child...or a senior citizen in need of a hearing aid. The simple fact that I'd come home battered and bruised would only give her further reason to give me the age-old nag: I told you so...
I didn't answer her call, instead ducking my head and walking faster toward the door to my room. Ivy Tamwood was most definitely the last person I wished to have judging my intelligence right now. Even though my steps were now quicker than the pathetically slow ones I'd been taking before, they were still pretty sluggish; my heart beat wildly in my chest as I frantically hoped the vampire wouldn't catch me before I reached my room—and my bed. Her smug-like, superior face was still etched within my mind ever since the last run she'd advised me not to go onto had turned wrong. You're going to get yourself killed one day, she had said. Consider yourself lucky I'm here to do something other than laugh at you when you come home hurt. Because that's the only damn thing you're ever getting from Jenks these days.
When compared to Jenks, almost anything and everything suddenly sounded like rainbows, puppies, and butterflies. Okay, so I was willing to admit that Ivy genuinely cared about my well-being. But it most definitely did not excuse her harassing over-protective behaviour. I was really starting to get tired of the vampire cornering me whenever I got back from a run, when I clearly stated that I was fine, to poke and prod at my body, checking for bite marks, wounds, or anything else she could use as an excuse to assert her motherly role upon me. As if trying to prove a point, my back emitted a sharp pain to the top of my spine, and I grumbled softly.
The door knob was in reaching distance, now, and I would have smiled if my face didn't feel like someone had dunked it in concrete and then let it dry. I was seriously ready to simply collapse onto my sheets and sleep until the next full moon arose; which wouldn't be before another couple of weeks. Just as my fingertips touched the knob, a hand clasped itself around my shoulder, entailing a harsh, sizzling agony shot through every one of my limbs. The Turn take it, I thought I'd made it!
She barely had time to say my name, that I'd painfully pressed my body away from her and into the door leading to peaceful salvation. I let out a loud yelp, and she immediately retracted her hand and held it within the other as if she'd been burned. Her voice sounded rough and lost. "Rachel! What's wrong?"
"God damn it, Ivy!" At that moment, I hadn't registered that the tone I was using would probably hurt her well-hidden, and yet very much present feelings. "I just want to go to bed! Can't I do that without you coming to check up on me!? I'm tired."
"…and hurt." Her small voice added. Immediately, her vampire instincts kicked into play, pushing every other voice in her mind to the sides of her cranium, to be forgotten until I was once again wholly healed. Da-a-a-a-amn. This was not what I needed right now. I wasn't quite certain what it was, exactly, but Ivy's vampire instincts warped her into a super-nurse every time I was in the slightest bit of pain. She leaned in close, a thick, healthy ring of brown surrounding her pupils. Good. At least there was that.
She tucked a wild strand of red behind my ear, bringing her fingers down and accidentally skimming the side of my neck. A heavy rush of power coursed from my unclaimed scar to the apex of my thighs, and I quickly scrambled away from her touch. Her delicate hands caught me with tenderness, eyes boring into my own. The pain in my body had become a dull numbness because of the flitting, innocent pheromones flying around us. She was losing it…
"Ivy," my voice held the authoritative tone I always used when the vampire begun spiralling out of self-restraint. "Let me go."
"For the love of blood, Rachel." Her hands released me slightly, but not enough for me to be able to squirm away. "I'm not out of control. You're hurt. Let me help you."
I could tell by the tone of her voice that she was slightly pained by the fact that I didn't trust her enough to be this close to me without having the false assumption that she wanted to slice my throat open cross my mind. The fact, however, that my heart was thrusting itself against my chest cavity in a seemingly desperate attempt to burst through my sternum was most definitely not helping the situation at all. I was suddenly very much aware of myself as a woman, Ivy's hands delicately restraining me from escape, a growing heat pooling between my legs. The pheromones were piercing my skin and effecting my rational inhibition; I didn't think I could hold myself erect much longer.
"Rachel…I'm sorry about all of this." The vampire's voice was almost a growl, low and rumbling. She motioned towards the air around us, indicating she was very much aware of the unintentional release of pheromones. "Just…please. Let me help you; I know exactly what needs to be done. Go wait in your room, give me a couple minutes of recollection, and I'll be with you in a few moments. 'Kay?"
I inhaled deeply, delving in the feeling of liberation solely pheromones could provide, before slowly exhaling and giving her an assertive nod. I just wished my tone would have matched my determined posture when I answered, "Mmkay."
My pulse was frantic, my voice breathy and barely audible. Ivy tensed, perhaps sensing the direction of my thoughts, but quickly shook off the feeling and released me. Each of her footsteps mirrored the thump, thump, thump of my heart as she turned on her heels and walked away. The vampire's hips sashayed provocatively as she disappeared into her room, leaving my dazed and confused. What was happening?
Before my mind had enough time to skim through the multiple possibilities of my sexual orientation being faulty, my hand fumbled behind my back to find the door knob. I found it, and swung the door open, nearly falling clumsily into my bedroom backwards as I did so. My mind was still swimming in Ivy's presence, the soothing caress of pheromones stroking my flesh, coaxing my hysterical heart into a calm rhythm. I sat down on my bed, kicking my vamp-made boots off sluggishly. My entire body still ached, though I was prepared to endure a last painful movement to finally bathe in the painless salvation my bed offered. With a grunt and a strong-willed mind, I flexed my abs and let my body slowly fall onto the covers.
I don't know how long I lay there, but I didn't exactly care. All that surrounded me was silken sheets beneath me, wrapping my body in their warmth. My mind began to wander, as it always did in peaceful moments such as these—I didn't have to support my own weight, and as long as I didn't move, the pain simply seemed like a fictional component of my imagination. But the moment I heard the distinctly familiar footsteps of my roommate and best friend, my mind ceased its irrational daydreams and was immediately snapped back into coherent mode.
Ivy's voice was soft, enough to have been the wind. My eyes fluttered open at the hushed yet harmonious sound, and I found myself staring directly into her chocolate eyes. I was surprised as well as relieved to see that she wasn't carrying that god-awful emergency kit she usually brought me when I was in pain. Within the dreaded kit, there was a tall white bottle, one I never sought out to identify, that would bu-u-u-u-urn every time it was applied to an open wound. It'll help the healing, the insane vampire would always say. The sting doesn't last very long…
But this time, she came to me empty handed, and I momentarily believed she might have lost the "tools" needed to ensure my painful healing. No such luck.
"Trust me, okay?" I couldn't exactly say it was the words she'd utilized, but more the way she said them; as if she feared I might reject her attempts to help me dissipate the pain. The first thought that flickered through my mind was obviously the notion of pheromones being released to numb the sensation before turning it into a mild pleasure. And I honestly have to say, I'd much rather live with the feelings of discomfort than a delusional ecstasy created by Ivy's raw nature.
"Ivy, I don't—"
"No vampire mumbo-jumbo," she assured before I could finish what I was saying. "I promise."
I didn't know what to say at this point, seeing as she'd removed every single thing I'd been anxious about. There were no sharp, jagged instruments, no god-awful liquid equivalent to acid she'd use to burningly heal my wounds, and no pheromones, no biting, nothing. What else was there? I couldn't exactly tell her I didn't want her near me because it threatened my self-control, now could I? Of course not, I was Rachel Morgan. My ego was muchtoo puffed up for something as small as this to bully its raison d'être.
"Okay," my voice was barely a whisper. "I trust you."
She closed her eyes and inhaled deeply through her nose. I had to admit it was strangely intriguing, the way her features calmed almost immediately as soon as I uttered those seemingly unimportant words. Of course, vampires lived for trust, and mine was especially expensive to Ivy, since she seemed to believe she had done too much recently to be allowed access to it once again. But I really did trust the vampire. With my life, my soul, if it ever came to it. And I knew she felt the same about me.
"—okay, Rachel?"
Her words snapped me back to reality, and I blinked a few times to focus my vision. She was eyeing me with a quizzical glint to her chocolate eyes, and blood rushed to my cheeks as I realized I'd been ogling her while she spoke to me. In a desperate attempt to compensate for the day dreaming portion of her phrase, I over-enthusiastically bobbed my head up and down, only to grunt painfully as my neck sent a jolt of sizzling agony down my spine. I brought my hand up to the originating location at the back of my neck, and gave her a pouting expression. She nodded in understanding before speaking again.
"Take your shirt off," her words almost made my heart stop, the way she uttered them making it seem as if it was something people asked other people every day. She took in my aghast expression, to which I assumed she'd proceed with an explanation, but simply continued with saying: "Oh, your…bra as well."
"Ivy!" I was a polite person, to a certain degree. I would generally disregard the suggestive comments and occasional quips the vampire would let slip during our time spent together, but she would always turn a bright red after saying things regarding us sleeping together or sharing a sexually explicit blood-bond. In addition, those accidental statements were never said when she had a serious face on, or when she was staring directly into my eyes, intent clear upon her visage. This time, I simply glared at her for such a direct statement. Was she insane?
"Oh, sorry." Just as I thought the next words to exit her lips would be apologetic, she surprised me with, "Did you want me to leave the room?"
"No. What? I m-mean…yes! I mean…uhh…" I sighed heavily at my stuttering while attempting to recollect my shattered mind fragments. "W-what?"
She arched an eyebrow and narrowed her eyes slightly, eyeing me as if I were drunk. "Well I can't very well do it with your clothes on, now can I?" She inhaled in annoyance and placed her hands on her hips, evidently missing the primary reason I was utterly dumbfounded. "Oh for God's sake, Rachel, I know what boobies look like. I have two of them."
She jiggled her breasts for emphasis, and I thought I very well might die then and there. Immediately, my gaze dropped to the generous mounds of flesh; remained glued upon the subtle, yet noticeable way two hard peaks were visible through the thin material of her shirt. The vampire emitted a low growl of warning, and I looked up, to find the chocolate of her pupils rapidly fading to be consumed by the increasing darkness.
"Don't do this, Rachel…" Even though her words were meant to be menacing, everything about them compelled me to lean in. Ivy's tone was breathy, restrained. Her lips were a bright, inviting red, and I began to see vague hints of goose bumps forming in the fleshy area of her cleavage. "We don't have the time and I don't have the patience for stupidities like that, right now. Alright?"
Her last word was enunciated with strict prominence. I nodded once, shakily, and she cocked her head to the side in question. "You weren't listening to me, were you?"
I shook my head.
"Okay…" she exhaled in exasperation, rolling her eyes. "The only damage done was to your muscles. There are no open wounds, and I can't exactly patch you up from the inside. I'm going to locate your major pressure points and ease the tension originating from the essential location situated around your back area."
"Huh." She was speaking high-class gibberish. At least I could pretend to understand…
"A massage," she drawled. "I'm skilled with my hands in other ways that you might perceive, Rachel."
My breath hitched audibly, and I clamped my lips shut. Her voice had dropped to a seductive tone, pure feminine cajolery. I admit I'd deserved the outright accusation. She wanted to let me know that she was well aware of what I believed her to be, and wasn't ashamed of stating it before me. Ivy Tamwood was not a vampire hussy. I gotcha.
I couldn't deny the way my heart's rhythm increased when she specified what she originally intended to perform as a way to relieve my pain. I wasn't exactly sure if it was the fact that she'd be touching and rubbing my body, or the fact that she'd be doing it without me wearing a top. Either way…it was definitely not a positive reaction to be having when one was totally and 100% heterosexual. I was well aware of the fact that Ivy was hunting me, I knew of her feelings for me. Was it really a good idea to let her do this? Especially when my mind kept kicking itself to think straight—pun intended.
"Come, now." Her voice once again changed its pitch. Delicate. Warming. Comfort itself. "You won't regret this, trust me."
There it was again. Trust.
I nodded once and took in a deep breath before pulling my top over my head and letting it fall in a nice little heap on the floor. My movements were slow, as I tried to make the less brusque actions possible to prevent any major pain break outs. Ivy would wince sympathetically every time a groan would escape my closed lips, letting me know she cared. My hands were shaking by the time I unclasped the back of my bra, resting it atop my shirt, and turning back to Ivy, with my arms shyly folded across my chest. A shudder rippled through me as her gaze roamed uncertainly over my body before locking with my eyes.
The blackness of her pupils was fighting for dominance, expanding slightly before being harshly thrown back into place by the control that lurked beneath Ivy's flesh. It was eerily intriguing, I had to admit. The lines of chocolate in her eyes were undulating with restraint, her vampire instincts being pushed into play by everything surrounding us. She was in my room, swimming in my scent, desire coming off of me in waves as she ogled my topless body, and fear slowly creeping its way into my incoherent thoughts.
"Umm…" She cleared her throat, blinking hard as if trying to focus. "Lie down on your stomach. On the…bed."
I did as I was told, bringing my forearms to rest beneath my cheek, elbows out, as I placed my head sideways so that I wouldn't have to face Ivy's stunning complexion. I didn't know how this was going to turn out…but I was definitely ready to get a move on. The sides of my bare breasts were exposed to the cool air coming in through the door, and goose bumps popped into existence everywhere along my naked back. Did I still want to go through with this? Of course. Was I scared shitless, despite anticipation? Hell yes.
I let out a small yelp as I first felt a warm hand trail softly down my spine. The contrast between her body temperature and mine was astounding, and I tried my best to stay against the sheets when all I wanted to do was wrap my arms around the vampire and greedily take in all the warmth she could provide.
"This might hurt in the beginning." Ivy's voice gave gentle a new meaning. "Your muscles are wire-tight right now, and it's going to take a while for me to knead them properly. Chances are they're going to protest my invasive movements, but it won't last very long. Do you understand?"
All I could emit was a breathy exhale as she continued to run her fingers up and down my back, in a seemingly unconscious movement. She wasn't applying any pressure, but the delicate strokes of her fingertips were enough to make my body tense—entailing the harsh pain in my limbs and neck. She retracted her hand as soon as she realized it was distracting me, but I had the distinct impression she suddenly became aware of her innocent movements and ceased them because she didn't want things to get out of hand for either of us.
She cleared her throat again, and I felt her second hand splay across the small of my back, creating a gentle pressure that I wouldn't have noticed had my muscles not bluntly disapproved of the action. "Now, Rachel, I'm going to need you to speak to me. Tell me if something hurts or feels good. Mmkay? This is our first session, and I'm not yet accustomed to your body or muscles, so this might be a little awkward in the beginning."
The way she spoke to me was so delicate, one would have thought she was trying to coax a wild animal out of a corner. My voice came our hoarser than I'd intended. "Okay."
"Okay," she repeated the conformation as a statement, perhaps because the way I'd said it may have sounded hesitant. Ivy's first hand came to gently place itself beside the second, and together, they trailed their way to the nape of my neck. I took the path as a request, and I slowly shifted my position so that my forehead rested upon my forearms, head tilted downwards to give her full access to the nape of my neck.
My teeth clenched and my lips thinned into a straight line, as she began circling the elevated vertebrae of my spine with the tip of her thumb—the rest of her fingers splayed dangerously close to the unclaimed scars that seemed to hate me. I don't know how she did it, but Ivy had somehow ignited my entire spine, reanimated it from the dulling sensation I had managed to acquire with the least possible movement. The appendages close to my scars had, at first, appeared to be a problem, but as time went on, I found that there were no pheromones flitting in the air. My Algaliarept/vampire scars—visible or not—were as harmless as any other blemishes upon my body. I'd expected this to be soothing, even after she'd stated that it might be slightly painful in the beginning, but now I had to bite the insides of my cheeks to refrain from emitting grunts of pain as her thumb continued to knead the sore muscles. The hand she wasn't using was resting gently on my ribs, its warming comfort an extreme contrast with the aching that throbbed in my neck.
"Ivy…" I whispered before regaining my voice, tempted to pull away from the hand rubbing around the elevated bone. "It hurts."
"That, I know, dear heart." She had somehow managed to straddle the back of my thighs without my noticing. "Shush, now. It won't be for much longer."
The nape of my neck was the originating location, it seemed. The one place that sent signals of pain to every single other location in my body. Probably due to the fact that that's where I'd been whacked with a fire extinguisher when the goddamn case suspect deemed it necessary to use violence—what ever happened to 'never hit a lady'? And with a freaking fire extinguisher, at that! Son of a bitch had managed to escape.
I was effectively pulled out of my roaming curses as Ivy tried a new technique upon the guinea pig. Otherwise known as me. I still had no idea how the vampire managed to create such intense reactions, but it almost felt as if I was on fire—scorching heat licking teasingly at my skin. It was most definitely enough to make me forget about the bastard. She would circle the vertebrae a few times, before pinching the bulge with her index and thumb, and knead the flesh until I thought I'd burst into flames right then and there.
I let out a mild whimper and Ivy caved in, moving to a much more pleasant location. Ivy's hands placed themselves symmetrically; both with four fingers splayed outwards on my upper back, each thumb deliciously massaging the meaty, tender muscle beneath a scapula. The tips of her fingers slightly dug into the skin, as her thumbs stroked with a pressure that was indescribable.
"This?" I could hear the smile in the vampire's tone.
"Mmm, you're—it's g-good."
Ivy let out a small chuckle, and her movements began to increase in load. Instead, now, of rubbing the muscle, she was pushing it into itself using a downward movement with her thumbs. I felt the ripples of my internal tissue undulate with protesting anxiety as Ivy flawlessly hit every single spot that caused me pain, somehow altering the sensation from painful to soothing.
My eyes were closed as she moved to another location. Thumbs working together to trace parallel lines alongside my spine, both on either side of the boned column, as fingers gently massaged any flesh they could touch. She moved from the middle of my back, up to the base of my neck, and began descending once again. I heard an audible hitch in my breathing as I realized she kept going lower, wa-a-ay passed 'friendship boundaries' restrictions. Okay, so perhaps I was exaggerating. Ivy was massaging the tender muscle just above the hem of my leather pants; basically the lowest point one would still be calling "back" and not "butt." As much as I didn't like her hand placement, I definitely had to say she hit the heavenly spot that sent my mind racing and made my body go utterly limp.
Once again, it was her thumbs creating the intensity of the pleasurable sensations, with her fingers splayed out to back up those feelings with mild pressure. I honestly didn't know how she did this, but I would be unquestionably prepared to give her insane amounts of the little money I had to have sessions like this every week. She ground the sides of her thumbs into the tender spot aside my spine, always symmetrically placed, always the same amount of pressure, and I moaned aloud. Okay, make that every day.
I could have sworn hear her mumble a soft "good" before laughing quietly to herself. She trailed her fingers up to my ribs, next, dangerously close to the sides of my breasts. I shifted my shoulders uncomfortably, and was utterly dumbfounded when she lowered her head to my back and placed a gentle kiss directly between my shoulder blades. Even more surprising, was the fact that my body actually relaxed after she had pressed her lips upon my chilled flesh. Each hand carefully traced a rib, both sides at the same time, moving from the spinal column until the rib hid against the sheets. Multiple times I was tempted to lift my body, just so that Ivy could complete the trajectory of the bone to my sternum…which unfortunately was located between my breasts. Couldn't exactly allow the female vampire to enter that territory, now could I?
I had absolutely no idea where the insulting voice came from, other than the fact that it had originated from the inside of my head. Perfect. I was going insane. In addition, my inner meanie was actually having an effect on me. But I pushed away any feelings of regret, denial, or guilt, allowing myself to bathe in the beautiful, basking warmth of Ivy's attention. The vampire was of a high-blood family line, wealthy, and stunningly gorgeous. Ivy could be out clubbing right now, she could be out on a date with some expensively attractive individual right now; she could essentially be out doing whatever she desired, right now. And yet here she was, hands moving professionally upon my bare back, in my room where it was hard for her to concentrate without vampire instinct trying to take control, and devoting all of her focus on me. Me.
Why? Perhaps because of the same reason she'd previously planted a kiss between my shoulder blades in aim to soothe me. It was egotistical of me, possibly even downright hypocritical, but I allowed the woman to continue massaging my invisible wounds despite the fact that I was well aware she wanted more. Oh, what Ivy Tamwood wouldn't give for me to turn around at this moment and face her directly before bringing my lips up to meet hers. It made me feel blameworthy. And yet all I did was lay here, delving in the raw affection the vampire provided. No pheromones. No rebounded emotions. No bespelling. What was there to blame this feeling on?
Nothing, my mind gladly provided the missing yet evident answer. Nothing…
And it was with this last thought, that the pleasurable sensations created by Ivy's hands slowly helped lull me to sleep, in a land where I could imagine anything I wanted, without the negative repercussions of my actions having a noticeable impact upon my day to day life. A land where the same woman would appear time and time again, despite my many attempts to block her out of my thoughts. Ivy.
Ivy's hands did not cease their kneading, even for close to an hour after Rachel had drifted off into the land of slumber. The excuse she would have used, had the witch awoken with the vampire's hands still moving rhythmically upon her naked flesh, would be that a pain did not dissipate over time, and that the continuation of the kneading was essentially required for a full recovery. But Ivy couldn't deny the intimate connection she felt as her hands moved with skilled precision over the woman's body beneath her. It helped Rachel sleep, too. Even in her slumber, Ivy could hear soft sounds of content and pleasure escape the redhead.
But she stopped the private massage, not because she was bored or tired—no, never would she leave the witch's soft, creamy flesh because of a lack of interest. The reason Ivy had to sever the intimate bond she had created with Rachel was because painful cramps had begun to slice their way through the inside of her palms. Of course, when the pain had firstly evolved, she had ignored it, simply grateful to be allowed to delve into the magnificent sensation of Rachel's skin against hers. But the discomfort had altered into a soreness that could not be ignored.
Strange, Ivy thought to herself. It's almost as if her pain relocated to me…
It was an irrational assumption, however, and the vampire chuckled softly at her own stupidity as she shook it off. It was a simple matter of tender muscles being utilized too much in such a short period of time. Really nothing to be so concerned about.
Even so, Ivy didn't regret this time spent with Rachel, not even had her hands been in an illusion of scorching flames. She bent down once more, pressing a gentle kiss onto the dead center of Rachel's bare back, and whispered softly into her ear, "Thank-you."
As the vampire headed for her own room to join the witch in a land of endless possibilities, she clenched her fists repeatedly before shaking them, trying to dissipate the sore, tightening sensation that seemed to have latched itself upon her palms. It didn't matter, though. The pain would be gone in a matter of days, but the memory of this night would last forever.


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Stephen van Dyck
Music/Arts - Exhibit
Sunday, October 11, 2009
12:00pm - 6:00pm
all 27 miles of Washington Boulevard and in cars
Washington Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
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"A Day in L.A." shows work from over sixty Los Angeles artists and non-artists in unused public outdoor spaces along the entire length of Washington Boulevard's 27 miles, from Whittier to Venice Beach. For one day artists will perform works, create installations, facilitate happenings, and make music in unexpected spaces, such as on the sidewalk, between dumpsters, along railroad tracks, as well as inside the audience's cars as they traverse one of LA's most iconic boulevards. An official map of the day's events along with schedules and other downloadable information will be available to the public starting on October 4 on the event website (www.washblvd.tk).
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Participating artists include musicians, artists, writers, non-artists and residents of Washington Blvd's many neighborhoods: Danielle Adair, Karen Atkinson, Lisa Anne Auterbach, Lara Bank, Ama Birch, Michael Buitron, Kathrin Burmester, John Burtle, Amina Cain, Teresa Carmody, David Casey, Audrey Chan, Caroline Chang, Carolyn Chen, Samantha Cohen, John D'Amico, Ken Ehrlich, Daiana Feuer, Flint, Cary Georges, Mary Beth Heffernan, D Jean Hester, Jen Hofer, Julia Holter, Maryam Hosseinzadeh, Alexis Hudgins, Sarah Ibraham, Katie Jacobson, Ian James, Shaun Klaseus, Ari Kletzky, Sojung Kwon, Andrea Lambert, Eric Lindley, Elana Mann, Emery Martin, Anita K. Marto, Meghann McCrory, Joe Milazzo, Joanne Mitchell, Tracy Molis, Robin Myrick, Tucker Neel, Paul Pescador, Ali Prosch, James Rojas, Ally Sachs, Janet Sarbanes, Nate Schulman, Veronica Shalom, Katie Shook, Cynthia Simonian, Mark So, Mariangeles Soto-Diaz, Jennifer Styperk, Robert Summers, Jade Thacker, Mat Timmons, Jared Woodland, Austin Young, Luis Zavala and Yelena Zhelezov. Additional artists will be announced as the event draws nearer.


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