Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

January 08, 2010

Briefing by White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, 1/8/2010

James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

Excerpt below was found in the briefing listed above.

Q    Thanks, Robert.  The New York Times and The Washington Post have both editorialized about a bill in Uganda that would impose a death penalty for certain acts of homosexuality.  The New York Times suggested that the U.S. should stop funding to Uganda if the bill becomes law, as some other countries have already done.  If the law passes in Uganda, will the administration continue to send foreign aid to a country that sanctions the murder of people who are gay?

MR. GIBBS:  I will check on, prospectively, in the event that something like that passes, I would say that that type of — that type of legislation would certainly not live up to any record of universal rights and universal values that I think anybody would see in this country.

Lyrics:

Do you remember
When the sky was blue,
When I was a good thing
That happened to you?

Tell me you know me
From the outside in.
Oh, tell me how my patience
Wore so thin.

Oh, how I tried
To get you off of the side,
But you were comfortable there,
No obligation to care
Just staring off into space,
That stupid look on your face.
Baby, my insides writhe,
And you choose to be blithe?
Oh, you’d rather be blithe.

You were the guru
That I could believe,
And no proof was needed
That I was naive.

Hope was a shovel,
And I was a slave,
And you were the one
Just watched me dig my grave.

Oh, how i tried…

g-d

return

open

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xpect 4 string 4 frett

d-> d7

headlands

(polly)

terces

efac

art molly at surfside realty

music the sorries

books gardening

cultivating sacred space

E.MURRAY

poetry

the Gift poems by Hafiz

D.LADINSKY

decorating with wood

J.STRUTHERS

a    new

Surfers, Journal

beauty rests on utility.

everything in the room has a

purpose and there are no

unes unnecessary objects

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gotget back to it ohio

even so,the bed was the most important and   expensive.

piece of furniturein the whole

house because a host of

rituals was associated

with it . births marriages,

illnesses    and death .

W I L D W E S T

the great picture maker

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of frames to prevent

the display becoming

to formal

and eiurel.              giving

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pallid picture

some definite character and

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stongest woods of all.

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• hustler
• snow bird
• hornet

m a i n t a i n  t h e  r a g e

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A m e r i c a n s  h a t e  C a l i f o r n i a n s ,

C a l i f o r n i a n s  h a t e   S o u t h e r n  C a’  i a n s ,

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P e o p l e  i n  L A  h a t e  p e o p l e  f r o m  t h e

v a l l e y ,

A n d  P e o p l e  i n  t h e  v a l l e y

h a t e  k n e e b o a r d e r s “

– H O L M E S  L A W S

circa 1973

surfer   named,

cheyne horan

steinhart aquarium in SF

recycling of resources of recycling

ideas

• dig a hole
• dancing
• teaching
• costume weathering – arrives in advance           time travel

transformation of the audience a life surrounding a thing

what does it sound like to

lose your keys

live |  recorded

drum  |  boombox

slow and walk away

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pansy stockton

twilight performance occurs in a time of transition

to make structre

to make an outline

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{ multidisciplinary

dance sculpture

installation

video

figure skating

workshop

community

goal -

to make a collabortive

zack & john

artwork

. dig a hole

> teach a dance as presented as p

what would we want to teach/learn with gardeners

gathering,

watering,

glowing in the dark,

Britta Riley and Rebecca Bray – have set out to start a window farms craze in NYC. We are creating several different designs for suspended, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield light-augmented window farms using low-impact or recycled local materials. These prototype window farms, to be located in high-profile windows throughout the city, are intended to inspire other New Yorkers to design and implement their own window farms. Signs in the windowfarms will challenge New Yorker to create their own and direct them to a website where we can all share photos, plans, designs, and information. Together, we will derive viable methods for growing food under the local conditions of our own homes in a way that is efficient enough for New Yorkers’ lives.

In February 2009, through a residency at Eyebeam, we began working with participants to build and test prototypes. Growing food inside NY apartments is a challenge, but within reach. The foundational knowledge base is emerging through working with agricultural, architectural and other specialists, collecting sensor data, and reinterpreting hydroponics research conducted by NASA scientists and marijuana farmers.

This project fits within a larger context of our collaborative work: crowdsourced R&Diy solutions for environmental issues. Our inspiration for community involvement derives from concepts of local production (think of the coming network of 3D multi-material printers), mass customization, and crowdsourcing. We envision the DIY aspect, not as a nostalgia-inducing hobby or a compromise during hard financial times, but as a futuristic infrastructure-light alternative to big R&D. Instead of waiting for products and services to be developed by industry, local social networks develop solutions for themselves by dividing scientists’ breakthrough findings into actionable local steps.

For more information, or to take part in the project, contact us at bray.rebecca [at] gmail [dot] com. Learn more about other projects here.

http://windowfarms.org/