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And come June 1, he will expect you all to download his latest. Because he's created a buzz, right? West may think he's doing a great job of promoting his new album. Actually while he's trying to play America for the fool, he's looking more and more like one himself.
Is putting photos of abortion-clinic patients on the Web an invasion of privacy? Or protected free speech?
Last summer, a patient at the Hope Clinic for Women in Granite City, Illinois, was taken to a nearby hospital after complications from an abortion. Clinic staff tried to duck the half-dozen or so antiabortion activists assembled outside, but as they wheeled the patient to a waiting minivan, protester Daniel Michael cal...
Antiabortion activists embraced the tactic last spring after a federal appeals court ruled that Neal Horsley’s notorious Nuremberg Files Web site-which lists the names and addresses of abortion providers and shows their names crossed off after they have been killed-is protected by the First Amendment. Encouraged by the...
The Hope Clinic and its patient have now filed an invasion of privacy suit against the Michaels and the Web site’s owner. But although an Illinois circuit court ordered that the site remove the photo and records until the case is decided, photos of dozens of other patients taken outside clinics in 23 states remain post...
The Illinois case is the first time these tactics have been challenged in court. Legal experts agree that posting the woman’s medical records-copies of which were leaked to the Michaels from an anonymous source-falls within the established definition of invasion of privacy. But the use of the photo will be a much tough...
Pro-choice groups such as the National Abortion Federation say they are watching the situation closely. Meanwhile, Horsley continues to expand AbortionCams: He has been adding photos from new clinics almost weekly and has announced a plan to create a cable television show using video footage from clinics.
One of the ways to know a stylish man is by looking at the type of wallet he is using. No doubt, your wallet can say a lot about you. An average guy may not care about how his wallet looks. After all, it is concealed in the part of the body that is not easily seen. But consider a situation where you are out on a date a...
You could save yourself the embarrassment of an ugly wallet in the public by getting a new functional wallet. Besides, the time of big, thick wallet is so 1950. Nowadays, men who understand fashion know that slim but functional wallets are the best. These types of wallet don't make your pocket to bulge out and they loo...
There is no doubt that choosing a new wallet can be a challenge especially if you are trying to upgrade your style. To make it easier for you, we've made a list of some of the best clean, minimal, and simple designed wallets that are very functional and durable. This article will provide you with top wallets you can pu...
One reason most men love carrying large wallet is because they can put a lot of item into it. Unfortunately, these large wallets are usually not good looking. That is why Dango Tactical EDC wallet was designed. Now, you can use a minimalist-styled wallet and still be able to carry all your important business cards, deb...
Dango Tactical EDC Wallet has so many advantages. It comes with a handsome leather design and RFID blocking that will stop a digital hacker from stealing your personal information. It also has a multi-tool that you will definitely find useful for your everyday life.
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With so many choices out there, it can be really difficult to know which wallet to choose. However, there are some really good wallets in the market. The secret to choosing the right wallet is to know your style and then do your research to find the best wallet that will match your style and your budget.
It was a hot day in the African desert with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, on a deployment to Djibouti, Africa.
A Fox Company Marine lieutenant with 2nd Battalion, 6th Marines, stood facing thirty-some Marines as he briefed them before that day’s live-fire exercise.
Marine Capt. C.J. Baumann stood behind them.
But Baumann’s weapon of the day wasn’t a firearm. It was his pencil and sketchbook.
The piece he eventually created from that scene — an approximately 18-by-66-inch, three-piece pencil drawing, which took him about 50 hours to complete — now hangs in Heywood Hall at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia.
The logistics officer, who recently started as a warfighting instructor at The Basic School, hopes that it will inspire every Marine who walks by.
“It dawned on me that when I captured that, not only were his Marines going to be able to relate to that, but every single lieutenant who walks through the halls” will as well.
Art can do that, Baumann says.
He is one of only a few active-duty combat artists with the combat artist secondary military occupational specialty and part of the “combat artists program” at and funded by the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia.
Through the program, which dates back to 1942, Marines, reservists and civilians “document Marine Corps life on the battlefront,” and at home and in training.
The MOS is secondary, which means residents can take about two weeks at a time — away from the regular duties of their primary MOS — to embed with units as an artist and capture their experience and ultimately the essence of the Marine Corps.
In the past few years, artists with the combat artist program at the museum have gone from Djibouti, Africa, to Twentynine Palms, California, to capture part of the monthlong combined arms ITX exercise there. More recently, they joined the Trident Juncture exercise in Norway.
“Go to war, do art,” program founder Brig. Gen. Robert Denig, also the Corps’ first director of public information, said in 1942.
It is now the battle cry of the Marine combat artists.
The museum opened a combat artists art studio in 2017 — the same year the combat art gallery opened at the museum. Every second Saturday there is an event open to the public, sometimes with lectures, sometimes live models.
For the 100th anniversary of women in the Marine Corps in 2018, the program hosted a model dressed in old World War II attire for artists to draw.
Historically, every military branch has combat artists of some kind.
But the names of the greats who have been involved with shaping the Marine museum program in some way are hallowed to young Marine artists like Baumann.
Kristopher Battles is a contemporary fine artist and former enlisted marine who re-enlisted to join the combat arts program. Retired Chief Warrant Officer Marine Mike Fay, who first served as an infantryman and later a combat artist, was known for his art from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Col. Craig Streeter, the current commanding officer at the Virginia Military Institute, has served as a Marine combat artist. Freelance illustrator Victor Juhasz has had his work published by large outlets like The New York Times.
Baumann’s deployment partner, Richard Johnson, is currently a civilian field illustrator in the program. His illustrations from the invasion in Iraq and war in Afghanistan are featured in the Smithsonian.
On display in the combat art exhibit until April 2019 is “A World at War,” and a look inside everyday activities of Marines during World War 1.
Art had a way then of moving the hearts and of viewers and even move them to action.
And it is still just as impactful today.
One of the more powerful moments in Sgt. Elize McKelvey’s career was on a deployment in 2015 with the 15th MEU.
On a stop in Oahu, Hawaii, a Corps Osprey went down, and two Marines were killed.
McKelvey was right there — with her sketchbook and camera, which she carries with her.
After the accident, McKelvey was able to give the Marines’ families some of the photos of their last moments.
Since she had been attached to the same unit for six months prior the deployment, she had a whole archive of photos in addition to photos of the incident.
But she also painted the families portraits of their Marines, as well as a rough sketch of the Osprey crash, which she felt were more powerful and well received.
“The camera didn’t capture all the emotions that the drawing and paintings were able to capture,” she said.
McKelvey was hooked. She had no idea there was art in the military, she said. Though she had a drive to join the military, she had never thought she would be able to do both. So she reached out to some of the combat artists her teacher mentioned ― many of the same that Baumann knew.
The skill that it takes to be a member of the combat arts program is very technical, she says.
“You have to be able to traditionally paint, and have understanding of anatomy, and be able to draw from life and movement,” she said.
McKelvey learned a love of art from her artistic mother and grandfather, who was an artist for the Department of Defense during the Korean War. And though McKelvey’s father had been in the Army, she still didn’t feel like she had a strong military background or understanding of the Corps.
McKelvey shipped off to boot camp the day after she graduated college. Her military occupational specialty was combat camera, now revamped as communication directorate, and McKelvey works in the print shop and does graphic design for the Marine Corps.
For her, her primary and secondary MOS easily go hand-in-hand.
A Houston visit to NASA resulted in a piece of art depicting the first female Marine astronaut, Lt. Col. Nicole Mann.
In 2018, McKelvey led a team of seven to create a mural at Marine Week Charlotte — which included historical aspects of the Corps in the North Carolina town, like the first black recruit, Pvt. Howard Perry, a Charlotte native.
She also went to Twentynine Palms, California, in 2018 to do field illustrations at the ITX there.
And she recently got to paint the Corps’ 300th Medal of Honor recipient.
Retired Sgt. Maj. John Canley was bestowed the medal in 2018, more than 50 years after his heroic actions as a gunnery sergeant in Hue City, Vietnam.
McKelvey interviewed a former Marine private who served under the gunny, John Ligato, to get “his perspective and what he saw,” and draw her piece from that.
“The artists should have a host of operational experience from which to draw (pun intended),” he wrote, and ideally will be a mix of both officers and enlisted Marines.
Interested Marines can submit a portfolio of about 20 works to the program in order to be considered.
McKelvey is trying to get some artists she knows to that point — to join, what she says, is a very important part of Marine Corps history.
What to do when your sink is full of dirty dishes?
OPINION: A disturbing tweet of an American man using his toilet bowl to strain his spaghetti - because his sink is "full of dishes" - could surely bring an end to one of the 21st Century's most debated topics: Is a dishwasher necessary in a modern home?
Tagged #lifehack, the video cannot be unseen once it has been viewed.
While some applauded the man for his efforts - labelling it "sensational", most reacted with the more natural gag-reflex.
Many pointed out that even if his kitchen sink was full of dishes, he would have had to have at the very least "walked past the bathroom sink to get to the toilet" (and numerous other more appropriate places to prepare food) so why the use of the toilet?
His culinary dish has now been labelled "pissketti" or "pissghetti" by those on the Twittersphere.
No doubt it's a fair play by the TWIT-ter user Timmy Rinck to score some extra social media followers, but he may have been surprised when he also scored a free feed - courtesy of Uber Eats.
"Shoutout to @UberEats for the free pasta! Almost as good as toilet spaghetti …" Timmy later tweeted.
His actions have attracted the attention of thousands within days.
But the real message that needs to be taken away from this, by house owners and investors - and humans in general - must surely be: the time has come for everyone to get a dishwasher.
1. It's cheaper: Research carried out by Christian Paul Richter between 2007 and 2008 on two hundred households in Germany, Italy, Sweden and Britain, found that the households which had a dishwasher used on average 50 per cent less water and 28 per cent less energy than the households that didn't own a dishwasher.
2. It's more hygienic: Plenty of experts also say that in order to clean dishes properly, the water needs to be above 60 degrees - about twice as hot as when the average punter washes up by hand.
3. No more arguments: Never have to hear the whined "it's your turn" ever again (well, probably not never).
4. You could make money: If considering the purchase for a rental, while you may cop repair charges if it breaks, a home with a dishwasher will certainly garner more interest from renters - and as such you should be able to charge more weekly rent. Many find that over time the extra income is in excess of any outlay.
So, even if none of your family members appear to have the cooking creativity of Timmy, be smart, and invest in a dishwasher now.
Alternatively, just don't be like Timmy.
Timmy finally cleaned his sink.
A COFFEE morning and spring fair is being held in Shoreham to support the hospital radio service at Worthing and Southlands hospitals.
Cakes, books, bric-a-brac, crafts and tombola will be among the stalls at Shoreham Methodist Church, Brunswick Road, Shoreham, on Saturday, from 10am to midday.
The fair is being organised by Seaside Hospital Radio, which runs the service.
Microsoft released a video of the upcoming Xbox One's dashboard, demonstrating the Kinect's voice control and console's multitasking capabilities.
The staged video shows a gamer navigating his Xbox One dashboard, which has tiles that bear a strong resemblance to the Xbox 360, and, by extension, Windows 8.
He changes activities quickly, all with voice command, hopping from a movie to the game Titanfall when he's alerted the match is ready. He then records and shares game footage through voice commands, while playing simultaneously. The player then abruptly starts a movie and answers a Skype call from his friend, who remi...
The video also shows off another Xbox One dashboard feature called "snap," which places apps on the side of the main screen, giving users access to other content like Internet Explorer, their friends' list or Skype — all while simultaneously playing a game or watching live television.
The Xbox One hits shelves in North America on Nov. 22.
The Dark Knight is coming back to gaming this week for the third installment of the Arkham series of games.
This time, we meet a much younger and angrier Batman, as he deals with his first real challenges. The Black Mask has put a bounty on Batman's head; meanwhile, our hero must stop eight assassins and keep Gotham safe all at once.
Not only do players go head-to-head against some of the most interesting Batman villains, they must also use Batman's detective skills to solve mysteries.
Batman: Arkham Origins came out Friday for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and PC. There is also a companion 3DS and Vita game entitled Arkham Origins: Blackgate.

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