A modest proposal
The Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue is set to be released next week, marking fifty years of the nation’s premier sports magazine giving attention only to women when they are clad in little more than a thong and a prayer. And because evidently they felt like they hadn’t pissed off feminists quite enough for their liking, they went full steam ahead and teamed up with Mattel to make Barbie the centerpiece of the celebration.
I imagine the team behind this peed themselves a little in excitement over all of the controversy sure to be generated by pairing up two of the most prehistoric relics of American femininity and branding it #unapologetic. How defiant of them! Defending retrograde beauty standards in the face of a culture that has…continued to embrace said beauty standards. What courage!
The only way this could have become an even bigger pile of rage catnip for…
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#StripForJackie Campaign Gains Momentum
As part of the growing scandal surrounding Caretaker Youth and Sports Minister Faisal Karam’s call for an investigation over Lebanese Olympian Jackie Chamoun’s past photoshoot, Lebanese netizens have already come up with a creative way to support Jackie: Stripping.
The #StripForJackie campaign has just started and already features 10 models, men and women, who have stripped featuring a “I am Not Naked/I am a [Enter Job description]” tagline. Photographers Tarek Moukaddem and Carl Halal are the men behind the lenses (and in front of it) and they have called for everyone to join by sending them a message and booking an appointment.
Why are they doing this? Here’s the page’s description:
“Some women are beaten or killed, others are raped, and the media shifts their attention to a confident talented beautiful woman who represents her country at the Olympic games. This is about telling our “peers” to set…
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#StripForJackie: Why Jackie Chamoun Matters
Those who protest as Mr. Karami do so to build themselves or just want to be in the spotlight by downing others?
A Separate State of Mind | A Blog by Elie Fares
In certain ways, Faysal Karami is an interesting man. He’s the minister of sports and youth in our defunct government. He’s a parliament member representing the city of Tripoli. He’s also offended by the possible impact of Jackie Chamoun’s breasts on the reputation of his country and has asked the Olympic committee to launch an investigation into the incident, which has taken place about three years prior to current events.
Can Mr. Karami be outraged? Well, it’s his right I give him that. But Mr. Karami, don’t you have other things that require you to be infinitely more outraged about?
Lebanon’s sports have always been our pride and joy. We’re a small country with not much to give the world in many of the sectors that count but we did deliver, to the best of our financial capacities, in sports. But let’s forget about sports, of which Mr. Karami is…
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Head Shots | Work | Jon Burgerman
An ongoing series of interventions staged in public against the backdrop of advertising panels.
The performances are photographed, digitially added to and then documented and shared online.
32 sexual assaults reported at Wright-Patt AFB in 4-year period | www.journal-news.com
1. 32? Or 32 reported and probably 64 not reported?
2. Why is noting that 26 cases involved alcohol useful? To excuse or accuse drinking caused rapes/assaults?
WPAFB sexual assault allegations
There were 32 sexual assault allegations reported at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base from 2010-13. A total of 26 involved alcohol and the location for 20 was listed as “off base.”
via 32 sexual assaults reported at Wright-Patt AFB in 4-year period | www.journal-news.com.
The Positive Futures Guide
Creating and sustaining the Positive Future you desire may well begin right here…
I have created the Positive Futures Guide to assist you in creating & sustaining a positive future for yourself, your family, organization, community, or the issue that fires your passion.
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Lebanese inventor makes “alive” app for war-torn regions | Green Prophet
“I’m alive.” I’ve made that call, maybe you have too. That surreal statement instantly erases panic in whomever’s on the other end of the line. It reconstructs a momentarily unglued world.
When I made that call, mobile phones were in their infancy, and landlines were choked by overloaded phone networks. Now a Lebanese woman has developed an app to let you get that most urgent message out loud and clear, “Hey, I am alive!”
Bombings are a frequent reality in Lebanon, and Syria, and Egypt, and Iraq. Sandra Hassan, a Lebanese-born graduate student studying abroad in Paris heard about a car bomb in a Beirut suburb; and the idea was hatched.
“It was a little bit frustrating that, in Lebanon at least, we’re living in a situation that makes such an application necessary or useful,” Hassan told National Public Radio in a recent interview. “My way to express that frustration was to publish this app, kind of as a statement against what was happening, a statement of discontent if you will.”
Lebanon was bombed several times in January, and Hassan said it was stressful trying to contact family and friends to check on their safety. So this student of public health decided to develop an app that allows users to quickly get the message out. With one click, using the internet and avoiding potentially disrupted phone networks, they can instantly tweet the message: “I am still alive!” using with the hashtags #Lebanon and #LatestBombing.
The app is based on Twitter, but Hassan plans updates so that it is compatible with Facebook and could work like an instant messaging independent of social media; a single click to update everyone who wants proof that you are okay.
via Lebanese inventor makes “alive” app for war-torn regions | Green Prophet.
The sound of space discovery
From space data to beautiful music
To compose the spacecraft duet, 320,000 measurements were first selected from each spacecraft, at one hour intervals. Then that data was converted into two very long melodies, each comprising 320,000 notes using different sampling frequencies, from a few KHz to 44.1 kHz.
The result of the conversion into waveform, using such a big dataset, created a wide collection of audible sounds, lasting just a few seconds (slightly more than 7 seconds at 44.1kHz) to a few hours (more than 5hours using 1024Hz as a sampling frequency). A certain number of data points, from a few thousand to 44,100 were each “converted” into 1 second of sound.
Essense of Occupier and Privaleged Attitude! Israeli minister visits Aqsa compound under guard | Maan News Agency
Right-wing Israeli housing minister Uri Ariel visited the the al-Aqsa mosque compound o
n Tuesday under armed guard, a mosque official said.
Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, the director of Jerusalem endowments and al-Aqsa affairs, told Ma’an that Ariel and 27 rightist settlers entered the mosque compound through the Moroccan Gate.
The group toured the area and then left via the Chain Gate.
Muslim worshipers and students shouted “Allahu Akbar” at the minister, and Israeli police officers collected the identity cards of Palestinians in the the area.
Separately, Israeli police officers prevented the entry of equipment to fix a water pipe in the compound.
Last year, Ariel said that Israel should have full sovereignty over the Al-Aqsa compound and that the site must be open “at any hour to every Jew.”
via Israeli minister visits Aqsa compound under guard | Maan News Agency.




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