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"Just over six months ago, President Obama gave a major address unveiling new guidelines to limit drone strikes abroad, vowing to narrow the scope of the U.S. targeted killing campaign. But a new analysis by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism has raised questions about how much Obama’s new rules have actually constrained the drone program. "

nyc

a snippet from a piece by Julianne Hing, follow that there link to the rest of it

"Cunningham had just paid a parking lot fee and was leaving an L.A. Fitness gym Saturday morning when campus police pulled him over for not wearing a seat belt.

The stop unfolded badly, according to Cunningham’s complaint, the Los Angeles Times reported:

Officer Kevin Dodd asked to see his driver’s license. Cunningham handed them his wallet, then the officers requested registration and insurance.

When Cunningham reached for his glove box to retrieve the documents, an officer “yelled at me not to move,” he said in the complaint. “I became irritated and told him that I need to look for the paper.”

A prescription pill bottle rolled out of the glove compartment, prompting the officer to ask if he was carrying drugs. Douglas said the medicine was for high blood pressure.

Cunningham couldn’t find his registration and insurance paperwork in the glove compartment and told officers he thought it was in the trunk. 

“When I got out of the car to search my trunk, Officer Dodd shoved me against my car, told me I was under arrest for resisting and locked me in the back seat,” Cunningham wrote in the complaint.

Cunningham, 60, said the officers shoved him against his car, handcuffed him, locked him in the back of their police cruiser and told him he was being detained for resisting arrest."

"was worried about Affordable Care Act deadline"

"The state does not know exactly how many people are affected by the information sharing. Social Security numbers, income and other information were not provided to the agents, exchange officials said."

WTF.

bit o scrap from yesteryear

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"Stephanie Lenz’s effort to hold Universal Music Group accountable for abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) to take down a home video of her toddler “dancing” to Prince in the kitchen is one step closer to fruition."

"Dan spent around 150 hours building the igloo, with the rest of the family and even a neighbor helping him out."

"To make the bricks, they filled containers with colored water, froze them and removed the paper afterwards."

The holiday jingles, under the fluorescent lightening ARE enough to cause any cashier's eye to twitch

fell into the well again,

apparently.

in the next few hours could either pay attention to this account a great deal,
 or pass out on the floor once the laundry has stopped. ( Rolls Dice )

3 - D sculptures. ( paper? ) gotta.

few months elapse.

thinkin

 Nja Mahdaoui

and then a little more. 

Parviz Tanavoli

we got another birthday coming up!

John McDermott, chasing light

These days, McDermott’s passion for the texture of ancient stones in tropical sunlight is guiding his lens even further afield, all the way to the monumental complex of Petra, in Jordan. “I still have a fridge full of rolls of discontinued infrared film, because it gives me the basis for that ethereal appearance I am looking for,” the photographer says, “and I love the way it maintains the stones’ darker texture against the light.”

The Other Modernism: Rediscovering Iran’s Avant-Garde | ARTnews

Yes, this is an article back from February, but I've been asleep on the updates lately

Overshadowed by revolution, sanctions, and outdated notions of the Modern, Iran's vibrant postwar art scene is coming into focus at the Asia Society

Ben Shahn

Shahn mixed different genres of art. 
His body of art is distinctive for its lack of traditional landscapes, still lifes, and portraits




        

Dr Sarmast's Music school

Dr Sarmast's Music School - Witness - Al Jazeera English

video complete with some soothing classical

though adding your own back ground music is of course optional. Yes.

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