Dec. 16. - Handing back Colours of the 5th Manchesters.
Dec. 18. - Upholland and Ashton Grammar Schools Prize Distributlons. - Cotton Strike Settled.
Dec. 19. - Hospital Saturday and Sunday Annual Meeting.
Dec. 21. - Announcement of Extension Scheme at the Technical College. - Report, Public Meeting, at Ince re War Memorial. - Result of Ballot for first Permanent Officials of Miners' Federation.
Dec. 24. - Death of Mr. Jonathan Phillips, J.P., aged 76 years.
Dec. 25. - Hearty Observance of "Peace" Christmas.
Dec. 28. - Declaration of Polls in Local Parliamentary Elections. - Presentation to Councillor T. Watson, J.P.
Dec. 29. - President Wilson passed through Wigan.
Jan. 1. - Admiral's Daughter Married to Bombardier at St. Thomas's Church.
Jan. 4. - Publication of report of Wigan Air Raid. Also report of Visit to Battleflelds. - Damage by Overflowing of River Douglas. - Abram Old Folk's Treat.
Jan. 5. - Thanksgiving Services for Cessation of Hostilities.
Jan. 8. - Haigh and Aspull Ploughing Match.
Jan. 10. - Death of Mr. John Mawdsley, Jam Manufacturer, aged 76 years.
Jan. 11. - Publication of report of the Explosion at Gathurst.
Jan. 15. - Induction Services at Scarisbrick Street Baptist Church.
Jan. 17. - Appointment of Registrar for Pemberton District. - Death of Mr. George Sidwell Holmes, aged 84 years.
Jan. 18. - Report re Mr. S.. Walsh, M.P., and Government Office. - Rev. F. A. Sadler, M.A., appointed Vicar of Ince Parish Church. - Report of Gathurst Explosion Inquest.
Jan. 21. - Mr. Henry Brierley's Legal Jubilee. - Wigan and District Free Church Council Meetings.
Jan. 22. - Annual Meeting of Temperance and Rescue Mission. - Death of Mr. R. M. Peers, aged 72 years. - Presentation to Rev. J. NeaIe, Vicar, of Ince, prior to leaving for his new sphere at Congleton.
Jan. 24. - Death of Mr. William Hampson, retired Colliery Manager, aged 80 years.
Jan. 28. - Wigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Comforts Committee; Treat to Returned Prisoners of War.
Jan. 29. - Local Friendly Society Case at Liverpool Assizes: Collector acquitted on Forgery Charge.
Jan. 30. - Annual Meeting of Licensed Victuallers' Association.
Feb. 1. - Announcement of appointment of Mr. David Halliwell, Assistant to Superintendent of the Line of L. and Y. Railway Co. - Annual Meeting of Lancashire and Cheshire Colliery Deputies' Association.
Feb. 3. - Local Libel Case at Birmingham County Court. - Strike of Wigan Nightsoil Employees.
Feb. 4. - BeIgian Refugees depart from Wigan and Hindley for their native country. - Annual Meeting of the Wigan Y.M.C.A.
Feb. 5. - Discussion of Increased Tram Fares at Wigan Council Meeting. - Borough Annual Licensing Sessions.
Feb. 6. - Wigan County Licensing Sessions. - Lecture in Wigan by Mr. John C. Van Der Veer, Editor of the Amsterdam Telegraaf.
Feb. 7. - Decision to re-establish the Wigan Cricket Club.
Feb. 11. - Death of Mr. Edward Smythe, J.P., Ince, aged 70 years.
Feb. 12. - Wigan Chamber of Trade Annual Meeting.
Feb. 13. - Death of Mrs. Bessie Brown, Widow of the late Mr. Joseph Brown, J.P.
Feb. 16. - Death of Mr. John Peterkin, J.P., in his 82nd year.
Feb. 19. - Death of Capt. John Campbell, M.D., aged 30 years. - Death of Mr. George Lea Walker (Messrs. Walker Bros.), in his 42nd year.
Feb. 22. - Announcement that Wigan Corporation had come into possession of a Captured German Machine Gun.
Feb. 25. - Wigan Butchers' Annual Dinner resumed. - Deatb of Mr. John Hankin Taylor, formerly of Wigan, Cotton Master, aged 93 years.
Feb. 26. - Wigan Education Authority: New Scholarship Scheme.
Feb. 27. - Nominations for Lancashire County Council.
Feb. 28. - Death of Miss Vera Walsh, youngest daughter of Mr. S. Walsh, M.P.
Mar. 4. - Houses referred for Compensation at Adjourned Licensing Sessions.
Mar. 5. - Mr. Wm. Billington appointed General Manager of Corporation Tramways. Mr. B. Hall appointed Tramway Works Manager. - Question of Sunday Cinema Performances discussed at Town Council Meeting.
Mar. 7. - County Council Elections.
Mar. 12. - Lt.Col. N. ff. Eckersley appointed Sheriff for Shropshire. - Annual Meeting of Wigan After-Care Committee.
Mar. 17. - Re-opening of Elementary Schools after Influenza outbreak. - Mr. Wm. Gorman appointed Secretary to Wigan War Pensions Committee.
Mar. 20. - Rev. E. Baguley (St. Paul's), appointed President South-West Lancashire Federation of Free Church Councils. - Funeral of Mr. Joseph Winstanley, Pemberton, aged 66 years. - Rev. P. Temple's address in Wigan in connection with the life and liberty movement of Church of England.
Mar. 24. - Wigan Council Budget Day. - Annual Meeting of Wigan District Branch Catholic Young Men's Societies.
Mar. 25. - Publication in Observer of Judgment on an application regarding table of fees for the Parish of Haigh-with-Aspull.
Mar. 26. - Sub-Postmasters' Federation Meeting in Wigan.
Mar. 27. - 46th Annual Meeting of Wigan Rowing Club. - Presentation at St. Patrick's School to Father W. Westhead.
Mar. 31. - Presentation to Mr. John Dean, J.P., Chairman of Standish Urban District Council. - Mr. George Wm. Bond, a Wigan Tradesman, found drowned in a cistern. - Death of Rev. Father Walmesley, Standish, aged 61 years. - Closing of the Woodlands Hospitals.
April 2. - Exciting Scenes at Wigan Council Meeting: Business unfinished. - Deatb of Mrs. Elizabeth Cowper, second daughter of the late Alderman T. Cook, Wigan. - Wigan Catholic Bazaar in St. John's Hall.
April 5. - Presentation to Mr. Harold Sumner, M.B.E., J.P., at Woodlands Hospital.
April 7. - Wigan Territorials: Return of the Colours from the War. - Urban District Council Elections. - Heywood-Davenport Concert at Queen's Hall. - Death at Sunderland of Mr. Arnold Miller Johnson, Solicitor, a native of Wigan.
April 9. - Annual Meeting of Wigan and District Grocers' Association.
April 10. - Annual Meeting of Wigan Charity Organisation Society. - Lord Leverhulme distributes prizes at Technical College.
April 14. - Mr. Walter Farrar appointed Chief Engineering Assistant in Borough Engineer's Department.
April 15. - Quarter Sessions: No case for hearing.
April 22. - Death of the Rev. O. Jones, Welsh Presbyterian Minister, aged 65 years.
April 23. - Conference of Boot Trade Association in Wigan.
April 24. - Death of Mrs. James Marsden, aged 74 years.
April 25. - Death of Mr. Harry Weedall, Wigan, aged 40 years. - Presentation to the Rev. A. P. Thorne, St. Mark's Church, Newtown.
April 26. - Mr. George Airey's Will published.
May 1. - Local Breach of Promise Action at Liverpool Assizes.
May 2. - Milk Strike in Wigan.
May 5. - Presentation to Rev. C. J. Buckmaster (Hindley), on his 70th Birthday. - Presentation to Rev. Father John Lynch, at Ashton.
May 7. - Induction of Rev. W. A. Wood, Trinity Presbyterian Church, Wigan.
May 8. - Annual Meeting of Governing Body of Wigan Workshop' for the Blind.
May 9. - Local Government Board Inspector's Visit to Wigan regarding Corporation Housing Sites. - Presentation to Mr. John Dean, at Standish. - Death of Mr. Charles Mather, Hindley, aged 53 years.
May 10. - Annual Meeting of Wigan Branch of Workers' Educational Association. - Official opening of Municipal Bowling Greens. - Institution and induction of the new Vicar of Ince, Rev. F. A. Sadler.
May 14. - Inaugural Meeting of Lancashire and Cheshire Councli of Boot Trades Association, held in Wigan.
May 15. - Visitation at Wigan Parish Church.
May 21. - Death of Mr. John Kellett, Iron Merchant, in his 84th year.
May 22. - Local action, Wordsworth v. Tagg, at Manchester Assizes.
May 24. - Annual Meeting of Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Permanent Relief Society.
May 25. - Death of Rev. Samuel Mort, Wesleyan Minister.
May 28. - Wigan Football Club Annual Meeting.
May 30. - Wigan Miner's Wife gives evidence before the Coal Commission. - Funeral of Mrs. Margaret Johnson Houghton, grand-daughter of the late Mr. T. Knowles, M.P. - Mr. R. B. Mawson appointed Chairman of Board of Management of Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Permanent Relief Society.
May 31. - Report of Closing Festivities Billinge Military Hospital..
June 4. - Town Hall question before Wigan Council Meeting. - Local Government Board Inquiry in Wigan relating to application to borrow £101,250 for the Electricity Undertaking. - Gallipoli Commemoration Concert at Drill Hall.
June 7. - Wigan Corporation Motor Bus Service begins. - Wigan County Police Sports. - Institution of the new Vicar of St. Mark's Church, Newtown. - Death of Rev. J. M. Courtenay, Vicar of St. Thomas's, Ashton.
June 9. - Gala at Abbey Lakes in aid of an Infirmary Memorial. - Military Sports at Ashton.
June 10. - Death of Mr. Cornelius E. Beazer. J.P., C.A., aged 81 years.
June 11. - Death of Mr. Arthur Stones, Mining Engineer, Hindley, aged 58 years.
June 16. - The Edward Medal awarded to Mr. R. E. Finch, Colliery Manager, Park Lane.
June 18. - Wigan Tradesmen's Holiday.
June 19. - Murder Charge at Lincoln Assizes against ex-Sergeant Joseph Woodhall, Goose Green.
June 21. - Announcement of Death in America of Mr. John Hyslop, a Wigan gentleman, in his 83rd year. - Wigan and District Miners participate in Demonstration at Blackpool.
June 23. - Death of Mrs. William Richard Bryham, Bank House, Wigan.
June 24. - Centenary Celebrations commence at St. John's R.C. Church, Standishgate.
June 27. - Annual Meeting of Wigan Permanent Benefit Building Society. - Second Annual Meeting of Wigan Soldiers' and Sailors' Rest Rooms.
June 28. - Thanksgiving Services on receipt of news that the Germans had signed the Terms of Peace.
June 30. - Wigan Infirmary Annual Meeting.
July 3. - Samuel Graham, Stockbroker, sentenced to three years penal servitude at Liverpool Assizes.
July 4. - Inquest on J A. Dewar, Coal Merchant, aged 45 years.
July 5. - County Bowling Match at Garswood Institute.
July 6. - Peace Thanksgiving Day: Mayor's State Visit to Parish Church: Death of' Mr. George Holcroft, Licensee.
July 9. - Wigan Compensation Authority Awards.
July 10. - Unveiling Memorial Tablets, Wigan Grammar School. - Funeral at Aspull of "Daff" Hulme, ex-Footballer. - Dedication Memorial Windows in Bickershaw Church.
July 16. - Presentation to Mr. W. Williams, retired L. and N.-W. Stationmaster.
July 18. - Presentation to Mr. James Brown at Eckersley's Mills.
July 19. - Official Peace Day: Great Celebrations in Wigan and District. - Wigan Territorials' Colours in London Peace Procession. - Total of £478,893 18s. 6d. invested in Wigan in the Victory Loan.
July 21. - Miners' Strike begins in Wigan and District.
July 24. - Wrightington Estate Sale.
July 26. - Rose Queen Festival resumed at Abram.
July 28. - Local Miners resume work.
July 29. - Mr. Robert Smillie, President of the Miners' Federation, of Great Britain, gave Address in Wigan on Nationalisation of the Mines. - Philharmonic Society decide to give two public concerts in the coming season.
July 30. - Scene at Wigan Council Meeting: Conservatives leave Chamber as protest against a resolution "of a political character." - W/igan Education Authority: Resignation of Mr. Henry Brierley and Mr. John Browne. - Unveiling Roll of Honour at Wigan Post Office.
July 31. - No cases for trial at Quarter Sessions.
Aug. 2. - Death of Mr. John Henderson, Scotch Draper, aged 78 years. - Death of Mr. Roger Green, formerly passenger agent for L. and Y. Railway in Wigan, aged 77 years.
Aug. 6. - Serious Fire at Messrs. Griffins' Furniture Premises, Market Place. - Death of the Rev. O. E. Hill, formerly Curate of Ince Parish Church.
Aug. 9. - Report of Death of Mrs. Bridget McHugh, Highfield, Pemberton, oldest Pit Brow Woman. - Haigh Foal Show. - Inquest on Wigan Soldier at Sutton (Surrey).
Aug. 11. - Death of Mr. Andrew Carnegie, a Freeman of Wigan, in his 83rd year.
Aug. 16. - Billinge and Winstanley Foal Show.
Aug. 17. - Death of Mr. Thomas Smith, Estate Agent, aged 68 years.
Aug. 18. - Presentation at County Police Court to Officials for rescue work at Park Lane Colliery.
Aug. 20. - Final for Blundell Bowling Cup. - Death of Mr. R. H Entwistle, Blackrod, formerly of Wigan, aged 80 years.
Aug. 23. - Memorial Tablet at St. Paul's, Standishgate. - Allotment Holders' Show in Mesnes Park.
Aug. 27. - Mrs. Annie Besant in Wigan.
Aug. 29. - Important local farms for sale.
Aug. 30. - Hindley Allotment and Garden Association's Second. Annual Show. - Parbold Allotment Holders' First Annual Show.
Aug. 31. - Closing of Soldiers' Rest Room, Wallgate.
Sept. 3. - Presentation to Mr. N. Wright, President Grocers' Association.
Sept. 5. - Appointment of New Borough Magistrates.
Sept. 6. - Ince and District Fur and Feather Society's First Show.
Sept. 7. - Dedication of Memorial Bed in Infirmary.
Sept. 11. - Death of Mr. G. A. Cowburn, formerly Headmaster of St. Catharine's School.
Sept. 12. - Annual Meeting of Wigan and District Band of Hope Union.
Sept. 14. - Demonstration of National League of the Blind.
Sept. 17. - Opening of New Labour Club for Ince.
Sept. 20. - Official Welcome to Returned Soldiers and Sailors at Wrightington. - Announcement that Mr. John W. Taylor, Wigan, had been appointed Post Master of Eccles. - Announcernent of the Death at Frimley, of Dr. W. O. Meek, in his 40th year.
Sept. 21. - The King's Proclamation as to the claims of Disabled ex-Service Men read in Churches.
Sept. 23. - Wigan Profiteering Act Committee appointed.
Sept. 24. - Mr. Frank Hodges, Secretary of the Miners' Federation, of Great Britain, addressed meeting at Ashton.
Sept. 25. - Death of Mr. Peter Sixsmith, a forner Wigan businessman, aged 68 years. - Annual meeting of Wigan Chess Club.
Sept. 26. - Great Railway Strike Begins.
Sept. 27. - Report of Sale of Local Hotels and Beerhonses belonging to the Albion Brewery Company.
Sept. 29. - End of Summer Time. - Mayor presented 40 representatives of Demobilised Sailors' and Soldiers' Assoclations cheque for £500, which was handed over to the Management of the Infirmary for endowment of a bed.
Oct. 1. - Opening of New Labour Club at Poolstock. - Coundfilor. J. M. Ainscough, J.P., selected as next year's Mayor.
Oct. 4. - Publication of special report on health of St. Patrick Ward.
Oct. 5. - Railway Strike settled.
Oct. 6. - Mab's Cross removed from its old position.
Oct. 7. - Death of Mr. Robert Barlow in his 80th year. - Quarter Sessions Court not held, there being no cases for trial.
Oct. 8. - Induction of new Vicar of St Thomas's, Ashton (Rev. A. P. Burton).
Oct. 11. - Mr. H. Twist adopted Labour Candidate for Leigh. - Death of Mr. Edmund Brown, Hindley, an old Bellringer, in his 81st year.
Oct. 12. - Mayor's Visit to St. John's Church, Pemberton. - Soldiers' and Sailors' Unemployment Demonstration at Ince. - Annual Conference of Catholic Young Men's Societies.
Oct. 13. - Inquest opened re gas ignition at Bispham Hall Collieries.
Oct. 15. - Election in All Saints Ward: Woman Candidate defeated. - Death of Mr. W. Carnelley, for some time Chairman of Messrs. Rylands and Sons, Ltd., 96 years of age. - Grand Concert at Queen's Hall. - Annual Meeting of the Borough of Wigan and District Permanent Benefit Building Society.
Oct. 17. - Important Farm Sale at Royal Hotel: Corporation purchase Pemberton Sewage Farm.- A nnual Meeting of Wigan Golf Club.
Oct. 18. - Dr. J. S. Haldane, F.R.S., at Wigan Mining College.
Oct. 23. - Mr. A. J. Hawkes (Aberystwith), appointed Chief Librarian of Wigan Libraries.
Oct. 24. - Nomination of Candidates for Municipal EIections. - Departure of Col. Broome Giles, C.B., from Ashton Military Convalescent Hospital.
Oct. 25. - Announcement of Captain P. W. de Courcy Smale's appointment as Organist at Wigan Parish Church. - Death, at Wigan, of Mrs. Emily Hannay, mother of Rev. Canon Hannay, better known as "George A. Birmingham," Irish novelist. - Irish Demonstration in Wigan.
Oct. 27. - Death of Mrs. E. H. Woodcock.
Oct. 28. - Case, Ogden v. Mason, at Liverpool Assizes. - First Meeting of Wigan Profiteering Tribunal.
Oct. 29. - Hambourg Concert at Queen's Hall. - Wigan Council: Report on Motor Bus Services to out-districts.
Oct. 31. - Retirement of Councillor J. M. Ainscough as Mayor-Designate. - Death of Mr. James Higham, Master Plumber and Painter, aged 70 years. - Skelmersdale Tragedy: Mother sentenced to death at Liverpool Assizes. - Death of Mr. E. H. Ambrose, formerly Wigan Workhouse Master.
Nov. 1. - Announcement of Death of Very Rev. Dean Barry, formerly Rector of St. Marie's, Standish, in his 80th year. - Wigan Municipal Elections: Labour Party gain three seats; two women Candidates contest. - Councillor James Walkden selected to be Mayor of Wigan for ensuing year.
Nov. 4. - Death of Mr. J. S. R Phillips, Editor of the Yorkshire Post, and formerly associated with Wigan. - Brotherhood Demonstration at St. Paul's Church, Standishgate.
Nov. 7. - Death of Mrs. Kellett, widow of the late Wm. Kellett, J.P., Mining Engineer. - Meeting in Wigan regarding Farmers and Co-operation.
Nov. 8. - Complimentary Dinner to Alderman Cheetham, the retiring Mayor.
Nov. 9. - Golden Jubilee of St. Benedict's Church, Hindley.
Nov. 10. - Wigan Council Annual Meeting: Councillor James Walkden appointed Mayor. - Home Secretary respited sentence of death (with a view to reprieve) passed on Elizabeth Williams for drowning her son at Skelmersdale.
Nov. 11. - Armistice Anniversary Observances.
Nov. 12. - Old Age Pensioner roasted alive in house fire in Wigan. - Wigan Cricket Club Annual Meeting.
Nov. 14. - Annual Meeting of Wigan Education Authority.
Nov. 15. - Death of Mr. John Lockhart Young, Director, Messrs. R. Burland and Sons, Bishopgate, aged 36 years.
Nov. 16. - Death of Mr. J. M. Whitehead, Secretary, National Union Life Assurance Agents, aged 63 years. - Mayor's State Visit to the Parish Church.
Nov. 17. - Wigan Police Force Entertainment.
Nov. 19. - Annual Meetings Wigan and District Free Church Council.
Nov. 26. - Death of Mr. James McLellan, Draper, in his 63rd year. - Grand Concert at Queen's Hall.
Nov. 27. - Funeral of Mrs. Linton, of "Oakdale," Wigan Lane.
Nov. 28. - Death of Mrs. Mather, Wife of Ex-Councillor A. E. Mather, aged 67 years.
Nov. 29. - Rev. E. F. Forrest, Pemberton, appointed Hon. Canon of Liverpool Cathedral.
Dec. 1. - Death of Mr. Joseph Speakman, Parbold, in his 81st year. - Death of Mrs. McCorquodale, widow of Mr George McCorquodale, in her 84th year.
Dec. 2. - Death of Mrs. Knowles, widow of Mr. John Knowles, J.P., aged 57.
Dec. 3. - Corporation Building Scheme discussed at Wigan Council Meeting. - Mr. Benjamin Hall appointed General Manager of the Tramways.
Dec. 4. - Wigan Girls' High School Prize Distribution.
Dec. 6. - Annual Meeting, Wigan and District Association, National Union of Teachers.
Dec. 7. - Death of Mr. Henry Dee, Shevington, in his 79th year.
Dec. 8. - Address in Wigan by Sir Robert Horne, Minister of Labour.
Dec. 9. - Wigan Amateur Operatic Society decide to resume Performances. - Death of Mr. Harold O. Timmins, Hindley, Gas Engineer, aged 46 years.
Dec. 10. - Upholland Grammar School Prize Distribution.
Dec. 11. - Wigan Grammar School Prize Day. - Hospital Sunday und Saturday Annual Meeting.
Dec. 15. - Presentation to Mr. Henry Brierley at Wigan Girls' High Scbool. - Inquest Double Drowning Fatality at Shevington.
Dec. 16. - Judge Spencer Hogg's farewell at Wigan County Court. - Builders' Annual Dinner.
Dec. 17. - Performance of "Elijah" by Wigan and District Philharmonic Society.


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Film Review: Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends)
A reminder of our shared desires to live, love, and rock the fuck out
by Zoe Camp
on February 13, 2017, 9:30am
A little over a year ago, nine terrorists drove into Paris with guns, grenades, and suicide belts. They were there to perpetrate a coordinated, calculated mass murder on behalf of ISIL and, more symbolically, to launch an assault on culture itself, by turning the city's houses of mirth – soccer stadiums, cafés, restaurants, and of course, the Bataclan concert hall – into monuments to death and fear. They wanted to spill blood, to shut the West up.
Anyone with a connection to the music world — be they label owner, booker, artist, or casual fan — felt the tremors from Paris, and more of them than not can instantly recall the circumstances under which they first got word of the tragedy. The events of November 13th were especially significant for journalists like myself. I was nearing the end of my shift at the Pitchfork news desk when the story broke – just as my co-workers were strolling out the door – in the form of my editor's piercing exclamations. Before long, we were all huddled around the office coffee table after hours, feverishly refreshing social media as confusion gave way to disbelief ("Check the death toll again; that can't be right"), followed shortly thereafter by profound dread. It was our 9/11.
While those evil men accomplished their first goal (130 people died that night, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in Europe in over a decade), they failed miserably at the second, particularly with regards to the rock and roll they hated so much. Three months after the attacks, Eagles of Death Metal — the California band whose Bataclan concert they'd disrupted with bloodshed, whom they'd tried so desperately to kill — returned to Paris. They took the stage at L'Olympia to sing the blues, crank out riffs, and, to borrow frontman Jesse Hughes' words, shake their dicks. Freedom and fun: That's what rock's all about.
(Read: Learning to Fly Again with Eagles of Death Metal)
So forms the crux and central argument of Colin Hanks' new HBO documentary, Eagles of Death Metal: Nos Amis (Our Friends), which explores this arc of tragedy, death, rebirth, and rock and roll as experienced by Hughes, his fellow Eagles (especially drummer and Queens of the Stone Age figurehead Josh Homme), their peers (most notably U2, who invite the Eagles to play a Paris show a few weeks after the attacks), and the fans who attended the show on that fateful night. It's less traditional doc, more 84-minute juggling act, split into thirds: one part a crash course on the Hughes-Homme bromance and the band it beget (complete with embarrassing yearbook photos and re-enactments), a product of their brotherly love; one part tearful oral history of the attack and its aftermath; and one part redemptive comeback story-cum-mini concert film.
Hanks faced some initial resistance from the Eagles when he proposed the documentary – unsurprising considering the mental scars they incurred that night and the uproar over the impassioned political statements regarding gun control and terrorism a shell-shocked Hughes made in the ensuing months, which he understandably feared would overshadow everything else. Accordingly, "Nos Amis" skews tender, honing in on its "emotional truth," a silver lining of sorts.
That truth, Hanks posits, is love, and he takes great lengths to argue that point: especially in the live shots, which emphasize the everlasting love between artist and audience. "I fucking love you motherfuckers," Hughes gushes to crowd after rabid crowd, darting back and forth like a giddy, tattooed puppy. These fans may as well be his children, and on the evening of November 13th, he welcomes them with a heart-shaped hand sign, the aforementioned profanity-laden exclamation, and a declaration of love en Français. "When I look around, only two words come to mind," booms Hughes. "Nos amis."
Moments later, it's war. In the film's most disturbing moment, Hughes recalls peeking out from behind the curtain during a pause in the carnage, only to witness a theater full of bodies falling like "wheat in the wind." He recalls a warm, red mist filling the air, the taste of pennies on his tongue. "It's not like it is in the movies," he whispers, choking back tears. "It's a force pushing a body in a direction it doesn't want to go, and it rips it open, and it makes noises that aren't normal – people make noises that aren't normal when something's exploding out of their chest and shit." With a grisly image like that seared into your mind, it's hard to stay cheerful, even in the wake of others' acts of heroism – the attendees who helped each other find the exit, the gentleman who helped the shell-shocked band into a cab – or the film's triumphant ending, which finds a cape-clad Hughes strutting the stage once more.
Hanks' "emotional truth," then, is an inconvenient one: Rock lives on, but the wounds remain. Oddly, he leaves one of the deepest scars untouched: the passing of Nick Alexander, the band's touring merchandise manager and close associate who died in the attacks. Save a few renditions in the background, there's no talk of "I Love You All The Time", the Zipper Down single covered by everyone from Beck to Florence and the Machine in the passing weeks to benefit the victims: a puzzling omission, considering the anthem's ubiquity; it's basically the sonic equivalent of the heart emblem.
Hanks' aforementioned glossing over of Hughes' political comments and conspiracy theories proves problematic as well. Understandable as the omission may be from the perspectives of both filmmaker and subject – Hughes later apologized for his comments, and besides, who the hell are we to tell a survivor how to process his trauma? – it contradicts the movie's underlying message of peace, love, and unity.
However incomplete, Nos Amis nevertheless stands as an engrossing portrait of the power of honesty and friendship, the permanence of art, and the perseverance of the human spirit. Everyone loves a good comeback story, after all, and in our current climate of existential fear and ample political uncertainty, where division and suspicion run high, we could all do with a reminder of what ties us together: our shared desires to live, love, and rock the fuck out.
Film Review: American Fable
Metallica announce North American stadium tour, and they promise that their mics will be working

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dodge ram vs gmc sierra 2019 – Maybe 30 years back, there was a more prominent separation among full-estimate trucks, however now we're not entirely certain. The 2017 Ram 1500 is evidence of that. As the most established among its rivals, the full-estimate Ram is no pooch. It offers a full supplement of strong motors—every it possess apparatus for a particular occupation, good looking insides, natural highlights, and expanded solace.
The Ram 1500 territories from fundamental to reckless outwardly. Work trucks are plain undertakings with a straightforward, dark clad crosshair grille and steel wheels. Slam Rebels brandish a dark, surrounded "Demise Race 2000" throat and back badging that is unobtrusive like a stick of explosive.
Same goes for the insides that traverse fundamental vinyl seats to profound, control movable cowhide cans. All through the range, we wouldn't be reluctant to move on board in boots and gloves, and the Ram still games an unpleasant and-tumble quality that is fairly charming.
dodge ram vs gmc sierra 2019 A year ago's motor lineup has stayed in the Ram. The base 3.6-liter V-6 is the best harmony amongst capacity and mileage, and can pull up to 7,600 pounds. It's appraised at 305 drive and 269 pound-feet of torque, and is outfitted with a smooth moving 8-speed programmed.
The 5.7-liter Hemi V-8 is discretionary on most models with the exception of Sport, Limited, Laramie, and Laramie Longhorn renditions, where its standard. The motor makes 395 hp and 410 lb-ft and is useful for up to 10,500 pounds of towing, dragging any more requires a HD show.
A 3.0-liter turbodiesel V-6 is the effectiveness champ and our top choice. It's the main full-estimate, light-obligation oil burner around and its solid 420 lb-ft of draw is sufficient to overlook that it's appraised for 240 hp. It's appraised to tow more than 9,000 pounds, and can get up to 30 mpg on the expressway. It adds $3,000 more to the main issue, yet finished the long existence of a pickup, that cost might be supported.
dodge ram vs gmc sierra 2019 Most quad-taxicab pickups will be driven as substitutes for autos, and can pull up to four grown-ups easily. There's a lot of inside space and capacity alternatives, and the discretionary calfskin cans in advance can be out and out sumptuous. We like the format and design of the 1500, in spite of the fact that the Ram isn't as lavish as upper trims of Ford or Chevy trucks.


The summer is slowly approaching, but it won't be long before the heatwave headlines are stealing the front pages of tabloids across the country.
Disappointingly these headlines hardly ever come true and what we are likely to see is a relatively unpredictable summer.
It is safe to say that it's unlikely you will be able to lounge by a pool in just a pair of swim shorts. It's more likely that you'll wish you had prepared for days when the sun is tucked away behind the clouds having a day off.
We all know that as the summer kicks in, the social events follow – BBQs, summer evenings in a beer garden, attending a festival or mooching into the city. With this comes the need for a number of varied outfits.
Planning what you are going to wear during this time of year can be difficult and to help you out we have out together some ideas to help you layer outfits throughout the summer months.
Why you should layer your outfits?
Most of us are firm believers that layering should be resigned for the winter. Think again.
Layering your clothes can have many benefits – the most obvious answer is that it will provide you with warmth when the temperature drops unexpectedly. However, layering clothes can also give your outfit a whole new look.
The contrasting fabrics, lengths, styles and textures can offer a varied look and turn just a plain t-shirt into a new outfit all together.
A lightweight rain jacket is an extremely versatile piece and in recent years we have seen them become a lot more fashionable. Obviously, the rain jacket is the superior top layer should there be any chance of a mid-summer downpour.
Rain jackets can come in two different styles – the casual sportswear jacket and the fisherman style rubber jacket. The latter will tend to suit for a slightly more formal look.
This North Face jacket looks great layered over a t shirt, paired with black jeans and some trainers.
We would describe the hoodie as exceptionally popular and stylish (whilst being extremely versatile). It has long past its association with street gangs and has entered the realms of fashion. Hoodies are also not just seen in streetwear, fashion has implanted its designs on to hoodies and they have started to become a little smarter in the process.
When choosing a hoodie, opt for a plain colour like black or khaki green and you will thank us when you're at on outdoors event and the temperature unexpectedly plummets.
The layering of a shirt and t-shirt is a timeless classic look that can be just as suitable casual as it can be for a smarter affair. Over shirts are often a little thicker than your everyday shirt- think denims and heavy cottons. These help to give you an added layer of warmth when worn over a t-shirt.
The best options for an over shirt is to pair it with a plain coloured t-shirt and either jeans, chinos or chino shorts. Another bonus with an over shirt is the option to button up the shirt midway through the night and look like you have had a full outfit change #winning.
The key things to take away here are that it is likely (in the British summer) that you are going to have days where you will have to layer. Remember that layering is not a chore and that it will provide your outfit with some contrast and texture whilst giving you some protection from the weather. There are a number of viable layering options and if you need any more inspiration check us out here.


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It happened this past long Memorial Day weekend that I lost myself in a book, a fictional book no less, which is often not what I reach for. But after lounging in my Adirondack chair and then moving to my hammock and reading until the sun put me to sleep, I awoke and moved to the sofa inside to finish a book I couldn't put down and didn't until I finished it.
For the first time in a long time, I finished a book for pure pleasure in less than an afternoon, and my thoughts are still dancing around the ideas said book presented.
To find a book and the time to devour such a book is a pure simple luxury, and something that is often more available during the summer months as we find ourselves en route to our travel destination, enjoying our travel destination without a worry of glancing at the clock or simply enjoying the beauty of our backyard without endless demands and long daylight hours.
Each summer scores of new books are released for just such occasions of enjoyment, and after perusing and reviewing many that were scattered and suggested, I found 10 books released between April 2016 and by July 2016 that I think you will mightily enjoy. If my enjoyment of the first one on the list is any indication, it is going to be a most lovely and enjoyable three full months.
Who would love this book: Anyone who believes in love, wants to believe in love, is questioning if love is possible.
Being released on June 14th, I was able to receive an early copy to review, and while I will be going into much more depth and explanation (and even offering a giveaway of a copy on June 13th episode of the podcast), order or reserve this book now. It is amazing and served as a reminder of what the true course of love requires. Shared as a fictional journey following a couple when they meet through their marriage, it also pairs insights of relationships along the way. Read this excerpt shared in The New York Times to get a taste of why you will not want to the only person not reading this book this summer.
The opportunity to travel to Paris a multitude of times over the course of ten years and a year to live in Paris with their twin daughters, authors Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoit Nadeau reveal the truth behind how to actually converse (rather than communicate) with the French in France. No matter your level of proficiency with the French language, you will read, and enjoy and be reminded of why you will want to return immediately to the City of Light.
Not being released until July 26, Jessie Burton's book looks to be a treat to read. Taking readers back to England in the 1960s and Spain in 1933, it intertwines two different narratives and reveals how one can indeed influence the other. Art, desire and mystery are skillfully contained in this book's tale.
The best-selling New York Times author comes out with her new book on June 14th. Reminding us all that the only way to truly heal is to embrace and understand what is hurting us, she guides readers through the process and reveals the power of the journey on the entirety of our lives.
Being released on July 12th, this will be a book that most likely will be on the screen soon. Following two couples that go to a small island close to Sicily, Siracusa, the drama ensues with swapping points of view telling the tale throughout the novel and allowing Delia Ephron to do what we've come to love her for, offer uncanny insight into the human perspective on living as well as relationships and travel. What a lovely combination.
A debut novel set in New York City, two close friends try to navigate their friendship as they try to figure out how to pursue the life they want. Following their relationship through their twenties and thirties, the two women, Sarah and Lauren, once inseparable and sharing everything with each other, find their lives going different ways. But does that mean their friendship is over? Read to find out.
Yet another book following a group of friends from their twenties to their thirties, over the course of twenty years and now living in a handful of different places throughout Europe, the friends confront life and its adventures and disappointments.
This time it is a male protagonist that dives into the fashion elite world of New York City and sets out to see if his soul will be compromised as he pursues what he thought he always wanted. After attending a top Ivy League school, Ethan, formerly known as Élian where he grew up in Texas, offers a modern coming-of-age tale of confusion, disappointment and finding one's identity.
A satirical look at the celebrity culture in the 21st century as well as one woman's navigation during her 3os, rectifying what she thought it would be like and what it actually is. A comedic breath of fresh air and a reminder to us all to let go a little bit more.
Many of the tragic events that have come to be splashed on the top folds of newspapers around the world have involved some level of communication supported by technology. As well, the ease that social media provides us all to communicate, share and discover has as many pitfalls as it does opportunities. And while Timothy Garton Ash is a professor of European Studies at Oxford, he is also leading a major research study around the 13 language debate and free speech which came to be the foundation of his new book released on May 24th. The power of free speech is a right for all, but there is a way, he argues that one should be smart with their speech. Thought provoking, yes. A mandatory read by all? Perhaps.
~To discover more of TSLL picks, check out my Amazon book store here.
Hi Shannon, I love your blog and have enjoyed reading so many of your older posts to catch up. Would you please share the title of the book in which you were so immersed. I would love to read it too! There aren't too many books that have that kind of effect.
Jeanie, it's book #1 on the list. I think you will enjoy.


Just not in her legs.
Last time someone gave this guy a ring he dropped it into a pit of fire, I don't think he's a fan of marriage.
EDIT: The original comment was edited after I made this post, when I first made this comment, the one above it only said 'What are your views on marriage?'. I didn't steal his joke, he literally said it after my post.
I was actually wondering how you felt about this myself, seemed kind of strange that they switched you out. Glad to hear there's no bad blood.


Desc: 'A journey to the center of your mind.' 25 min.
Greensleeves, performed in a new and horrifying way.
The TED Talks are a convention of philosophers, scientists, artists, etc.
The synaesthesia stuff at the end is the coolest.
I've often wished V.S. Ramachandran was my dad.
He was also on the Radiolab episode "Who Am I?", which is also really good.


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Fostering Concerted Efforts Against Ebola Spread
March 26, 2014 - Last Updated: March 26, 2014
In the wake of the confirmation of the presence of the deadly Ebola virus in country, authorities of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare have sounded a stern warning against body contacts, including handshake and kissing. The warning followed the confirmation of a number of Ebola cases in Liberia's northern Lofa County in Voinjama, including the deaths of five persons.
While an assessment team of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and partners are currently in the region since last Friday, March 21, investigating the situation, tracing contacts, collecting blood samples and sensitizing local health authorities on the disease, awareness/sensitization among the entire population, especially those at the borders with neighboring Guinean Sierra Leone must be very vigorous and unending to prevent the spread of the disease.
By now, we had even thought that Liberia's borders with Guinea and Sierra Leone from Yekepa in the mountains of northeastern Liberia's Nimba County to Bo Waterside in Grand Cape Mount County would have been closed as part of the preventative measures to stop the spread of the deadly disease. Liberians must understand that the current situation does not only rest with the government alone, but all of us.
While the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and partners, may be exerting all of the necessary efforts against the spread of the Ebola virus, it is a very necessary condition for a holistic move in this battle. This means, as citizens and residents of Liberia, our role is to ensure adherence to the warning issued on Monday by authorities of the Health against body contacts, including handshake and avoid venturing into areas the virus is present.
Though Liberians are very appreciated of the initial proactive move by the government and partners even before the unfortunate situation became public information, the administration must continue to engage other international partners for funds and logistics as a way of capacitating the fight against the spread of this deadly disease.
At the borders with Guinea and Sierra Leone, the need for citizens' cooperation with health workers and the authorities of the ministry must be emphasized. Without these concerted efforts, the battle against Ebola is bound to undergo difficulty. As we commend the government for its immediate engagements with the situation, the momentum so far against the spread of the disease must even go beyond its current status.
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Hildebrand to Honor Gurney During 103rd Indianapolis 500
April 22, 2019 | By Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Dreyer & Reinbold Racing announced April 22 its second Indianapolis 500 entry with veteran driver J.R. Hildebrand driving the No. 48 DRR Chevrolet-powered Dallara in the 103rd Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge set for May 26, 2019.
Hildebrand, an eight-time Indy 500 starter, was the 2011 Indy 500 Rookie of the Year and has recorded four top-10 finishes at "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing." Last year, he drove the DRR Chevrolet from the 27th starting position to 11th after 200 laps.
California native Hildebrand, 31, joins Dreyer & Reinbold Racing for a second consecutive year at the world's biggest auto racing event and will drive the No. 48 car, a longtime racing number campaigned by legendary racer/car builder/team owner Dan Gurney. DRR also will field Sage Karam in the No. 24 WIX Filters Chevy during the Month of May at IMS.
Hildebrand, who lives in Boulder, Colorado, was the 2009 Indy Lights champion and also captured racing titles in the USF2000 (2006) and SCCA Formula Russell (2004) series. He made his NTT IndyCar Series debut with Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in 2010 at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course. He also drove the DRR Indy car at Sonoma Raceway that year.
"Last year, we had a great relationship with Dennis Reinbold's DRR team in our initial Indy 500 effort," Hildebrand said. "I started my IndyCar career with Dennis back in 2010 when he brought me up to the big leagues in IndyCar racing. We have always had a great rapport over the years. I have always been impressed with the speed in the race of the DRR team.
"I'm thrilled to have Salesforce back on our race car and also honoring the great Dan Gurney with the No. 48 this year. Dan was one of my racing heroes, by saluting him in this year's Indy 500 and campaigning his famed No. 48. Dan's No. 48 won the 1975 Indy 500 with Bobby Unser driving. Now, we'll celebrate Dan's great racing achievements with the No. 48 car."
Another longtime Indy 500 legacy comes with the Dreyer & Reinbold families at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, dating back to 1927 with DRR team owner Dennis Reinbold's grandfather Floyd "Pop" Dreyer serving as a mechanic in the 1927 Indy 500. Dreyer, a famed motorcycle racer before building and owning racing cars, built a variety of Indy 500 entries, sprint cars and midgets from the 1930s to 1950s.
"I'm very pleased to bring back JR to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway again this year," Reinbold said. "Last year, we expanded to two cars with JR and Sage, and the combination worked very well. JR's experience at Indy brings our team a lot of background to develop the cars quickly in practice and prepare for qualifying. With JR and Sage, we have two very talented young drivers who can compete for the win on May 26. Plus, running the No. 48 in honor of Dan Gurney is exciting for me and our team. Dan was one of my heroes as a kid, and it will be great to have the No. 48 back at IMS."
The Gurney legacy, with many Eagle cars competing at the Indy 500, is well-known at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway with race wins and record qualifying performances.
"We are very much looking forward to another exciting Indy 500 in 2019," said Alex Gurney, Dan Gurney's son. "The number 48 is special to our family as my dad took that number to second place in both '68 and '69 as well as a win for AAR as a team and manufacturer in 1975. This is a great tribute to my dad. JR Hildebrand is a special person as well as a fantastic driver, and he seems always to be in contention for the win at Indy. I hope he can put the 48 up front in the big race."
Hildebrand will begin Indy 500 practice laps in the No. 48 DRR Chevrolet Dallara on Tuesday, May 14, when practice rounds open on the historic 2.5-mile oval.
Qualifying for the 103rd Running of the Indianapolis 500 is set for Saturday, May 18, and Sunday, May 19. The start for this year's Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. ET on Sunday, May 26.
Hildebrand to Honor Gurney During 103rd Indianapolis 500 Dreyer & Reinbold Racing announced April 22 its second Indianapolis 500 entry with veteran driver J.R. Hildebrand driving the No. 48 DRR Chevrolet-powered Dallara in the 103rd Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge set for May 26, 2019. Read More April 22, 2019 Indianapolis Motor Speedway


Today's the day! HFR is 5 years old today. I'm going to get the typical parent cliche out of the way here first by announcing I can't believe she's five, it feels like just yesterday when she was born, where does the time go, etc. These are all true statements that run through my head on a regular basis, and at every birthday she's ever had.
Today was HFR's luau birthday party. It was kind of a trip.
She was not into the leis.
…despite the fact that it snowed today!
I finally picked an invitation design for H's first birthday last weekend, and I'm really happy with it. After narrowing down the choices, I went with this design from Eclectic Note Cards. It was amazingly affordable ($8!), Adam liked it, and it came with an entire suite of very cute options for thank you notes, labels, and signs. I also found this Cricut cartridge at a great price the other day, so I can add to the decor with some more die cut goodies.


Today, the burden of online criminal investigations falls on private sector actors for phishing, malware distribution, counterfeit goods, identity theft or other fraudulent acts.
Online cybercrimes exhibit characteristics that make them particularly challenging to mitigate or defeat: the activities that collectively comprise online criminal acts are conducted transnationally; the perpetrators operate from many countries, often with temporary relationships; and the acts themselves are not universally recognized as crimes in all jurisdictions where the actors or their criminal assets reside. These characteristics make apprehension or prosecution of the perpetrators exceedingly difficult. Perhaps the most difficult challenges security interveners or law enforcement officers must overcome when they combat cybercrime are to be duly diligent or to satisfy due process quickly enough – in Internet time – to contain the harm or minimize the number of victims affected by a given criminal attack.
In this article, we consider private sector frameworks that provide effective, rapid response to criminal activity while maintaining public confidence. We discuss how the successes of these frameworks can serve as the basis for public-private partnerships. We identify challenges that such public-private partnerships face. And we examine and how such partnerships might bring us closer to multinational or international agreements where due process of law is served through a universally recognized judicial system.
Today, the burden of online criminal investigations falls on private sector actors for phishing, malware distribution, counterfeit goods, identity theft or other fraudulent acts. Figure 1 illustrates a representative timeline for a phishing attack, from the onset of the attack through response or remediation, to the point where a law enforcement officer presents sufficient evidence to obtain a court order in a single jurisdiction.
Figure 2 illustrates a representative timeline for a more sophisticated criminal activity. Here, one or more criminal actors first build an online crime-enabling infrastructure by combining hundreds, thousands or even millions of infected computer systems in multiple jurisdictions into a botnet. These criminal actors then lease this infrastructure through an underground marketplace to other criminal actors who use the botnet to conduct phishing, distributed denials of service (DDoS) or other criminal attacks.
These figures illustrate that criminal activities – in particular, those that operate on crime-enabling botnet infrastructures – proceed seemingly unabated. Harm or loss from botnets often exhibits what data analysts call a long tail: a large portion of the harm or loss associated with a crime occurs near the onset of the criminal attack, but the damage can continue for weeks, months or even years.
Private sector and law enforcement investigators can match or surpass the tactics of criminal actors. They have access to comparable technology, including sophisticated detection or mitigation software. As Figures 1 and 2 illustrate, they are technologically able to mitigate or contain attacks in Internet time. However, the ability to collect and share sufficient evidence to identify, apprehend and prosecute criminal actors is a decidedly different story.
A framework that strips criminals of the advantages they currently enjoy should exhibit the following characteristics: rapid response, effective action and an accelerated process that weathers public scrutiny.
Today, private sector investigators collect and share information that they can reliably associate with criminal activity through ad hoc trust networks or vetted, trust-based communities. When they cannot obtain court orders, they use the shared or accumulated information to identify acceptable use policy, trademark or copyright infringement, or other policy violations. Identifying such violations gives a service provider the justification to disrupt criminal activity by removing content, suspending website operation, or terminating name resolution of domain names associated with online criminal activity. Similarly, domain name registrar or registry operators may voluntarily suspend an Internet domain name when investigators present evidence that the name(s) have been used to lure victims to sites hosting illicit content or to support criminal botnet infrastructures.
The operative word here is voluntary. The operator will act after reviewing the evidence that an investigator presents, and after considering any business risk (liability) that the operator has determined it would assume by removing content or suspending an Internet domain name registration without a court order. These recourses are effective with operators who are vigilant about criminal activity or believe that managing abuse is a service differentiator.
Some operators and private investigators facilitate such interventions through voluntary collaboration in ad hoc trust relationships at business or even individual levels. By contrast, some operators insist strictly on a court order. Yet other operators adopt business models that facilitate criminal hosting, and thus have no incentive to volunteer.
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has developed a service that attempts to formalize voluntary intervention. APWG's Accelerated Malicious Domain Suspension process (AMDoS) was launched in 2012 with 12 top-level domains. Through attestations, AMDoS 2.0 can direct requests for domain suspensions to registrars of record. AMDoS employs a trusted introducer model whereby accredited interveners submit suspected malicious domain names for investigation and suspension by sponsoring registrars. The process is characterized in the following scenario.
An authority has processed the registration for exxxample.com. The authority has voluntarily enrolled in the AMDoS program and agrees to review attestations from trusted interveners in an accelerated manner. Through their participation, authorities agree to trust the program, and hence have confidence in the reporting parties.
An accredited intervener submits a phishing abuse complaint through a web submission form. This is a formal attestation that an Internet domain name is associated with a criminal activity; specifically, the attestation would provide evidence that criminal actors have used an Internet domain name to steal identities and commit fraud. For example, an investigator might provide evidence demonstrating that victims have clicked on a hyperlink in an email, http://www. exxxample.com/login.html, believing that they are visiting http://www.example. com/login.html. This malicious hyperlink takes them to a fake login page run by the criminals. On this site, the victim unwittingly discloses account credentials to the criminal actors.
Attestations, designed by subject matter experts and authority representatives, are the means to share sufficient evidence for a domain registry operator or registrar to make a decision to suspend the domain to prevent further harm. This shutdown occurs within hours (eventually, perhaps faster) of the time an intervener discovers a phishing email that is abusing the Internet domain name.
The AMDoS process improves on the collaboration between investigators and registry or registrar operators in several ways.
• The formal vetting process provides a level playing field for interveners. APWG governs the accreditation process for interveners. Candidate interveners must work for an enterprise relevant to the management and investigation of cybercrime. An expert committee prescreens each candidate's technical qualifications, relevant intervener history and reputation to establish eligibility for enrollment.
• Attestations and responses by authorities are auditable, providing the accountability and review necessary to build confidence in the system.
• The AMDoS can be used only for cases involving financial fraud and where there is no dispute over the legitimacy of content.
These practices satisfy the requirements for scalability (large numbers of operators and interveners), accountability (audits and reviews), and public confidence (by establishing a formal vetted process and by not asserting the process as a substitute for legal course of action to resolve disputes over intellectual property or copyrights).
Voluntary action through AMDoS or similar processes only partly fills a void. In particular, where legal rather than voluntary actions are necessary, the processes involving multiple jurisdictions, court orders or mutual legal assistance treaties take too much time to be effective. As a result, information cannot be shared and action cannot be taken against online criminal activities that are global in scale, and in many cases, affect thousands of victims or millions in global currencies.
Cross-border frameworks should consider certain processes that private sector frameworks employ for circumstances where law enforcement must collaborate to identify or prosecute criminal conduct.
Law enforcement's most reliable process today for requesting access to data is through mutual legal assistance (MLA). The process is based on international treaties that are "bilateral, multilateral, or regional agreements detailing how and what kinds of data foreign governments may request." The MLA workflow is a time-consuming process by which cross-border requests for access to data are communicated through formal correspondence. Law enforcement passes requests through its local central authority to the central authority for the receiving jurisdiction in a format specified in the applicable treaty. The receiving central authority reviews the request to determine whether disclosing the requested data complies with the local law and local standards of data protection. If the request complies with local laws, the receiving central authority processes the request.
Solutions to combatting cybercrime must not compromise the public's confidence and trust in international legal systems. These critical changes are worth exploring further, as they would enable law enforcement to operate in Internet time, and at the same time preserve due process.
We can nullify criminal advantages in technology and expertise by dramatically improving cybersecurity practices, by building capacity among law enforcement, and by harmonizing international criminal law. In addition, private sector frameworks for data sharing demonstrably mitigate or contain certain cybercrimes, but they are only triage measures. What is required is an international cooperative framework for data sharing that incorporates the positive aspects of private sector frameworks so we can methodically strip cybercriminals of their cross-border advantages.
David Piscitello is Vice President of Security and ICT Coordinator at ICANN. Dr. Stephen Crocker is Chair of the ICANN Board of Directors. The views expressed here are those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the views of ICANN. The recommendations included here are intended for the entire Internet community, and are not completely within ICANN's sphere of responsibility.


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Nayagarh/Bhubaneswar, February 16
Maoists yesterday killed 15 persons, including 14 policemen, and took away a huge quantity of arms and ammunition in a planned attack on three police stations, an outpost, a police training school and armoury in Orissa's Nayagarh district.
Nayagarh SP Rajesh Kumar said while 10 policemen were shot dead by the Maoists at the police training school, a civilian died after being caught in the crossfire at the Daspalla police station.
The two other police casualties occurred when the Maoists, retreating after attacking the Mahipur police outpost shot them dead, the SP said.
A group of nearly 100 Maoists, including women cadres, armed with guns and bombs launched simultaneous attacks at 11:00 pm yesterday.
However, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who came here to assess the situation, later told reporters in Bhubaneswar that the Maoists numbered 500.
They carried out simultaneous attacks on the Nayagarh, Dasapalla and Nuagaon police stations, the Mahipur outpost, the police training school and the district armoury, he said.
Around 60 policemen were outgunned after resisting the attackers for two hours.
Patnaik said the Maoists blasted the Daspalla police station and torched and ransacked the Nayagarh Town and Nuagaon police stations and the Mahipur police station.
The Maoists took away all arms in the district armoury and the police training school in a truck and a hijacked bus. Land mines planted by them while retreating at Majuriapali, near here, injured one person.
Frightened people shut themselves indoors. Even today the streets wore a deserted look as shops remained closed along with several other financial and educational institutions.
This was the first attack in coastal Orissa and a return of the March 2006 attack on a sub-jail in R Udaygiri in Gajapati district and looting of an armoury in Koraput town earlier in February 2004.
Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, along with home secretary Tarun Kanti Mishra, today air dashed to Nayagarh to assess the situation.
The Chief Minister announced Rs 10 lakh and an additional ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh to each to the families of the 13 policemen killed and Rs 2 lakh to that of the civilian.
A job would be provided to a member of the civilian's family, he said.
Patnaik said he had briefed Union home minister Shivraj Patil on the attack and sought more Central forces, including the elite Greyhounds.
Six hundred personnel of the Special Operations group and the CRPF had launched an operation to track the Maoists, he said.
An unconfirmed report said an encounter was taking place between the Maoists and the police in neighbouring Kandhamal district in Nidhibarena and Gosama forests.
Meanwhile, security at important places across the state, including the state Assembly where the Budget session was in progress and the secretariat building, was beefed up. Vehicles were thoroughly checked in the state capital and adjoining Cuttack city where the police maintained vigil at vital installations and monitored traffic movement.
A massive combing operation was launched to track down the Naxalites, while the police in neighbouring states were also contacted for necessary follow up action.
The Opposition in the Orissa Assembly today demanded the resignation of the Chief Minister in the wake of the killing. They raised the demand as soon as the House assembled for the day to take up Question Hour.
Leader of Opposition J.B. Patnaik demanded Chief Minister's resignation, saying he had 'failed' to protect the lives of the people.
New Delhi (TNS): Six companies of the CRPF have been rushed to Orissa following killings in Nayagarh on Friday.
According to union home ministry sources, Orissa's border with Chhattisgarh, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Jharkhand has been sealed and the Andhra Pradesh government has sent some personnel of its elite anti-Naxal force 'Greyhounds' to Orissa.
A high level team of officers from the MHA, para-military forces and other central security agencies has been sent to Orissa to review the situation and hold detailed discussions with the state government with regard to further action.
The team is led by special secretary (internal security) in the ministry of home affairs M.L. Kumawat.
Meanwhile, Union home minister Shivraj Patil on Saturday condemned Naxal killings at Nayagarh. He said the state government had been asked to utilise the Central forces available with them to take immediate and strong action against the culprits.
In a statement here, Patil mourned the death of 13 policemen and a civilian in the incident and conveyed his sympathies to the kin of the deceased and prayed for speedy recovery of the injured.
"The Union home ministry is in touch with the Orissa Government. The state government has been asked to utilise our forces, which are already available with them, for taking immediate and strong action against the culprits," he said.
"Necessary instructions have also been given to the CRPF. Helicopters have been provided to the Orissa government to assist in search operations," Patil said exuding confidence that the culprits would be nabbed soon.


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I left my Japanese base camp full of chocolate & banana milkshake and promises to return when I'm done with my current task. It was raining so I borrowed an umbrella and thus regained much of the pack weight I had sent up to Sapporo. Thanks to nearly three days of gorging and resting I had that new leg feeling and was sure I'd get far today.
The rain didn't last long but I've held onto the umbrella for now. It is the season for it apparently. Progress seemed much slower than normal today. It took so long to leave Nagoya and for green hills to return. Mostly I was in commercial areas but I did stumble upon a small shrine with loads of those bright red gates leading to it. I took the opportunity to lie down and soon found myself falling asleep, unfortunately I was trying to listen to another Japanese lesson at the time.
Just after 5 I passed a monastery and thought I'd try my luck asking if I could put up my tent in their massive garden, hoping for an invite inside. But alas they were too busy chanting out the back (yes I heard them) to come see me so I've come to Kokei Park which a guy at the local 'Working Youth's Home' said had a shelter and drinkable water. He offered me coffee too but I'm ready for another nap soon.


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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Two large caches of bombs, explosives and ammunition, intended for use in "terrorist operations" in public areas, have been found in eastern and western Iran, the Islamic Republic's ministry of intelligence said on Wednesday.
The cache found in eastern Iran consisted of 23 remote controlled bombs which were alleged to have been brought across the eastern border with the help of "Saudi intelligence services", a statement, quoted by state media, said.
There was no immediate reaction from Riyadh.
Last June, Islamic State carried out attacks at the Iranian parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, south of the capital, which killed at least 18 people.
Iran blamed Saudi Arabia for the attacks, a charge Riyadh denied.
The second cache was found in the town of Marivan in the Kurdish region of western Iran. The cache consisted of TNT, explosives kits, electronic detonators, grenades, ammunition clips for AK-47 machine guns and four rocket propelled grenades, the statement said.
A "terrorist group" brought the material from the Kurdish region of Iraq across the border into Iran, the intelligence ministry statement said, without elaborating.
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There are things which we know and feel but which do not result from our own study. We have a consciousness that there is some supreme power over us, and we are conscious of a certain responsibility to, and a dependence upon, this higher power. Reading the Bible and reasoning may give us clearer ideas of this power and our relations to it, but we have the consciousness of its existence without being taught.
This is never more clearly seen than in the case of the man who denies the existence of a personal God. As surely as he rejects the God of the bible, he sets up something else in His place, and though he may call it by some other name than God, he will, nevertheless attribute to it the powers and actions that belong to God. These intuitions by which we know without being conscious of how we know are given us by God for our perfection and safety, and we ought to give careful heed to their testimony.
Sometimes our reason sees no harm in a thing, but we do not feel just right about it. A doctrine may look ever so plausible and be ever so interesting; but if we feel an inward uneasiness after consideration of it, there is a reason why we should be careful. Our intuition will often detect something wrong when our reason has not yet done so. These intuitions are not to be disregarded. They are God's means of warning us against unseen dangers.
Sometimes when we come in contact with people, we see nothing outwardly wrong, but we have an inward feeling that all is not well. We feel that there is something wrong somewhere, even though we may be at a loss to know what it is. Sometimes we come in contact with a company of people and at once feel a strange something that we cannot analyze; but we cannot always trust our feelings. There are many things that influence us, and it is very easy to misinterpret them. Nor should we conclude that there is something very badly wrong with anyone merely because we have peculiar feeling when in his presence. There may be something wrong, however, and it behooves us to be on our guard. Sometimes it happens that such feelings arise when we are in the presence of people who are deeply tried, or discouraged, or suffering under the assaults of Satan.
There are many evil spirits at work in these days among professors of religion, and especially is this true among the various holiness factions. Have you ever gone into a meeting and felt that some way you did not "fit" there? The worshipers may have seemed joyful and may have said many good things, but all the while you felt an inward uneasiness. There was some reason for this, and whether the reason was spiritual or merely human, it was wise to exercise carefulness. It is usually best to refrain from trying to make yourself blend with anything when you have that internal sense of protest against it.
Fellowship is natural and spontaneous. It cannot be forced. If you are straight and true and your heart is open and unprejudiced, you will usually have fellowship with whatever is of God. Most sectarian holiness people are so broad that they can take in almost anything and call it good. Beware of this spirit. God's Spirit accepts only the good. If you have ease and freedom with the true, established, spiritual people of God, and are free in meetings where the whole truth is preached and the Spirit of God works freely, and then when you come in contact with other professors you fail to have that freedom, do not accuse yourself nor try to force yourself to have fellowship with them.
A preacher once came into a certain community and began to preach. He was quite enthusiastic; he praised the Lord and shouted. He preached much truth and professed to be out clean for God. It was afterwards discovered that he was very crooked and wholly unworthy of confidence. I asked a number of the congregation later how it came that they received him. Their answer was that, as he came recommended by some good brethren and preached so much truth, when they did not feel right about him they came to the conclusion that they must be wrong and he right. So they accused themselves and went on through the meeting suffering under a heavy burden. They knew that they had no such feelings when other ministers came into their midst, nor did they feel that way in their own ordinary meetings. But in spite of this, they took the wrong course, and the result was that the congregation received much harm both spiritually and financially. The same thing happened with this preacher in other places, till at length he came to a place where some refused to ignore their feelings or to accuse themselves of being in the wrong. Instead, they sent at once for two well-established ministers, and as soon as they came into the community, the crooked preacher fled and was seen no more in those parts.
Sometimes some one will come around making a high profession, and while we can see nothing wrong, we do not feel free with him, or, in other words, we have a sense of uneasiness. We feel at home with other saints, but not with this person. Beware. If you are in fellowship with those whom you know to be true saints, look out for those with whom you do not have inward harmony. Do not blame yourself nor disregard the warning. Isolated Christians naturally become hungry for spiritual association. Sometimes they go to meetings where, while they find some good things, they also see other things and feel things that grate upon their spiritual sense of propriety. In such cases one should be guarded and should not try to "fit" with these things. To blend with them you must become like them; and if you become like them when they are not right, you will find that when you come into an assembly where the truth and Spirit have freedom, you will not blend there. If you ignore those inner warnings and accept something contrary to them, you will soon find yourself out of harmony with God's church and without the liberty you used to have among the children of God.
Do not follow your intuitions blindly, but do not go contrary to them. Let your reason find out the way of action before you act, so that you may act wisely. But when that inward sense says to us, "Stop, look, listen," we shall do well to heed its warning.


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A film and video programme "HUMAN. MATERIAL. MACHINE." curated by Lukas Brasiskis and Leo Goldsmith
CAC CINEMA 5–16 AUGUST 2015
"I am kino-eye, I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, show you the world as only I can see it. [. . .] free of the limits of time and space, I put together any given points in the universe . [. . .] My path leads to the creation of a fresh perception of the world." —Dziga Vertov
Since its inception, cinema has mediated between the human and the material: on the one hand, offering a new machinic vision for comprehending the material universe, and, on the other, providing a new optics to liberate or fundamentally reorient the human sensorium. The recent emergence of new materialist philosophies is only the latest in a series of reconsiderations of the perennial triangulation between the human, the material, and the machine, a state of affairs and set of hierarchies that are ever in flux.
Selecting both contemporary and historical works—from the Russian avant-garde to sensory ethnography, structuralist/materialist cinema, video art, and computer animation—this program foregrounds changes in the nature of the cinematic apparatus itself and the alteration it brings forth in the experience of the real and the material on screen. Here, we explore both cinema's pretense of becoming a perfect machine that decentralizes the figure of the human and the dialectical relationship between materialist cinema and the viewer's body and mind. Emphasizing the phenomenological, political, and speculative impact of media technologies, these moving-image works seek to understand how audiovisual media renegotiate the balance between the human and the material, the anthropogenic and the elemental.
This 10-program series includes films by Chris Marker, Basma Alsharif, Harun Farocki, Peggy Ahwesh, Hollis Frampton, Lis Rhodes, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jesse McLean, Dziga Vertov, The Otolith Group, Paul Sharits, Jean Painlevé, and others.
Subjects for thematic programs include: Vision Machines; Presence + Interface; Materiality and the Virtual Body; Light Machine; Labor, Material, and Time; Cinematic Apparatus and the Extended Vision; Materialities of the Image; Liquid Aesthetics; the Posthuman Body; and a special screening of Chris Marker's Level Five.
Thanks to: LUX (London), EAI (New York), VDB (Chicago), Light Cone (Paris), Harun Farocki GbR (Berlin), Filmmakers Coop. (New York), Kick The Machine (Bangkok), French Institute in Vilnius, Goethe Institute, and the filmmakers.
About the curators:
Lukas Brasiskis is a film theorist and lecturer currently enrolled in a PhD program in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University. He has taught film theory and film history related courses in Vilnius Academy of Arts and in Lithuanian Academy of Music, Theater and Film from 2011 till 2014. He is a co-author of the collective monograph Film and Philosophy (Kinas ir Filosofija, ed. by Nerijus Milerius, Vilnius University Press, 2013) and A Short Film History (Trumpa kino istorija, ed. Aukse Kancereviciute, 2014). Starting from 2005, Lukas has curated and moderated a number of film events in Lithuania, including Nathaniel Dorsky's retrospective at CAC Cinema in July, 2014.
Leo Goldsmith is a writer and curator based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the co-editor of the film section of The Brooklyn Rail (www.brooklynrail.org), a monthly arts and politics newspaper. His writing on film and media has most recently appeared in art-agenda, Artforum, Cinema Scope, and Reverse Shot, and he is the co-author (with Robert Stam and Richard Porton) of Keywords in Subversive Film/Media Aesthetics (Wiley, 2015). He has organized exhibitions and film series for the Museum of the Moving Image, UnionDocs, 92Y Tribeca, and Heliopolis Project Space. With Gregory Zinman, he is the curator of the traveling film series "Computer Age: Early Computer Movies, 1952-1987." He is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, where he is completing a dissertation on found footage and image circulation.
Programme of "HUMAN. MATERIAL. MACHINE.":
Wednesday, 5 August /Light Machine /60 min.
The Handeye (Bone Ghosts) (Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy [OJOBOCA], Germany, 2012, 16mm, 7 min)
Light Reading (Lis Rhodes, UK, 1978, 16mm, 20 min)
T.O.U.C.H.I.N.G. (Paul Sharits, USA, 1968, 16mm, 12 min)
Ashes (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, 2012, digital, 20 min)
Cinema as light machine, as dream factory, as an apparatus for hypnosis, fragmentation of the senses, for the summoning "ancient memories." This introductory program functions as a point of entry in which OJOBOCA restages a paraphysical encounter between Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil, and Frans Anton Mesmer (deceased); Lis Rhodes offers a cryptic dismantling of language, cinematic imagery, and narrative; Paul Sharits induces in us an experience of synesthesia via violent color and stroboscopy; and Apichatpong Weerasethakul and his camera find an oneiric meeting point between light, world, and mind. Say hello.
Thursday, 6 August / Presence + Interface / 75 min
Document (Public Records) (Coleen Fitzgibbon, USA, 1976/2011, digital, 9 min)
Tilt (George Barber, UK, 1983, digital, 6 min)
The Invisible World (Jesse McLean, USA, 2012, digital, 21 min)
Deep Sleep (Basma Alsharif, Greece / Malta / Palestinian Territory, 2013, digital, 13 min)
Four works that explore cinema as an interface for material and bodily presence. Coleen Fitzgibbon's film, a transposition of microfilm to 16mm to digital, mines archives of bank documents, checks, and warrants to form a work of rigorous abstraction. Barber's euphoric video explores the materialities of the video image to find new spaces and bodily rhythms. McLean collages YouTube "hoarder" and "unboxing" videos with sci-fi films and ELO to explore the world of objects as material carriers of information. Finally, Alsharif's Deep Sleep transforms the cinema into a space for metaphysical bilocation beyond borders.
Friday, 7 August / Vision Machines / 77 min
Reckoning 3 (Kent Lambert, USA, 2014, digital, 12 min)
Eye/Machine I, II, III (Harun Farocki, Germany, 2012, digital, 65 min)
"Once we are definitively removed from the realm of direct or indirect observation of synthetic images created by the machine for the machine, instrumental virtual images will be for us the equivalent of what a foreigner's mental pictures already represent: an enigma."—Paul Virilio, The Vision Machine
A set of works about the processing of visual information by humans and machines and the use of technology in the training of the human sensorium for production and war. Farocki and Lambert imagine the relationship between visuality and technology as a set of distances and proximities: the interaction of virtual and real spaces, and even the replacement of the former upon the latter.
Saturday, 8 August / Cinematic Apparatus and the Extended Vision / 79 min
Lettre à Freddy Buache (Jean-Luc Godard, France, 1982, 35mm, 11 min)
A Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1929, Blu-ray, 68 min)
The search for a 'truthful' interaction between the cinematic apparatus and the material world, as well as a novel representation of a city by means of self-reflexive aesthetics, are the concerns shared by the two films presented in this subprogram. In his short film, Godard reflects on the technology and the montage methods he uses in the film as well as acknowledges the crucial differences between shooting people and shooting matter. Similarly, Dziga Vertov expresses his belief in the transformative power of the camera's vision and employs new montage strategies for a technological extension of the human senses. Through this Vertov is determined to separate his film from the narrative-based language of theater and literature, hence the name he assigns to the film: "kino-eye experiment."
Sunday, 9 August / Materiality and the Virtual Body / 51 min
Sweet Dreams (Jeanne Liotta, USA, 2010, digital, 4 min)
Maxwell's Demon (Hollis Frampton, USA, 1968, 16mm, 4 min)
Anthem (Bill Viola, UK, 1983, digital, 12 min)
Q (Oliver Husain, Canada/Germany, 2002, digital, 16 min)
She Puppet (Peggy Ahwesh, USA, 2001, digital, 15 min)
Films in this subprogram reflect on various visual representations of the body within the virtual worlds of the moving image. From the affective juxtaposition between the images of the vulnerable and finite human body and its industrial prosthesis in films by Bill Viola and Hollis Frampton, to the exploration of cyberspace that challenges natural definitions of gender and social space in films by Jeanne Liotta, Peggy Ahwesh, and Oliver Husain, the subprogram brings up the questions of the human body's relation to the machine, and how virtual worlds should be approached by cinema in a digital age.
Wednesday, 12 August / Materialities of the Image / 65 min
Littoral Zones (Sabrina Ratté, Canada, digital, 6 min)
Parallele I-IV (Harun Farocki, Germany, 2014, digital, 44 min)
Suchy Pion (Dry Standpipe) (Wojciech Bąkowski, Poland, 2012, digital, 13 min)
Digital simulations of architectural space, nature, and the real enable access to virtual worlds via entryways to planes, corridors, monuments, land and seascapes. While Ratté and Bąkowski sculpt the video image into new forms and spaces, Farocki – in his last completed work – charts a history of verisimilitude in computer animation, one that brings a parallel digital world into closer proximity with our own.
Thursday, 13 August / The Posthuman Body / 68 min
The Incredible Machine (Bell Labs/AT&T, USA, 1968, digital, 15 min)
The Love Life of the Octopus (Jean Painlevé, France, 1967, 35mm, 14 min)
Scratch Free State (George Barber, UK, 1982, digital, 6 min)
The Third Body (Peggy Ahwesh, USA, 2008, digital, 9 min)
Former Models (Benjamin Pearson, USA, 2013, digital, 20 min)
"... transgressed boundaries, potent fusions, and dangerous possibilities ..."—Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto"
Painlevé intraterrestrial science fiction emerges at the same moment as Bell Labs' promotional film, narrated by Orson Welles, announces the birth of a computer voice (which, anticipating Kubrick's HAL, learns to sing "Daisy Bell [A Bicycle Built For Two]"). Scratch Free State is a wildly exultant vision of the body transformed through the aesthetic of Scratch Video, a video-synthesis of animal, machine, human, and video-game character, which rhymes with the "thirdness" that Ahwesh proposes, using found footage to imagine us on the verge of a new Garden of Eden. Finally, Pearson's speculative biography reimagines Milli Vanilli's Rob Pilatus as a corporate clone in an age of planned obsolescence for pop culture and humanity alike.
Friday, 14 August / Liquid Aesthetics / 52 min
Cristaux Liquides (Jean Painlevé, France, 1978, 16mm, 6 min)
Anathema (The Otolith Group, UK, 2011, digital, 37 min)
Landfill 16 (Jennifer Reeves, USA, 16mm, 9 min)
"The image of water is the perfect environment in which movement can be abstracted from the thing moved, or mobility from movement itself."—Gilles Deleuze, Cinema 1: Movement-Image.
Each of the three different films selected to this subprogram offers a rare glance toward processes that take part in worlds unseen to the human eye. While Jean Painlevé employs microscopic optics to document how changes in pressure and temperature affect the appearance of liquid crystals, The Otolith Group re-imagines the human tactile relation with the liquid crystals embedded within touch-screens that are converted into abstractions of entrancing turbulence of communicative capitalism. Landfill 16 by Jennifer Reeves presents a gradual demise of the 16mm film fragments buried in the landfill, dug up, painted over, and played at different speeds. Non-directly referring to such topics as resistance to the acceleration of digital capital, object-oriented ecology, and the non-human assemblages, all three works are situated between political, scientific, and fictional realms of often understated aesthetics of materiality in flux.
Saturday, 15 August / Labor, Material, and Time / 60 min
Factory (Sergei Loznitsa, Russia, 2004, Digi Beta SP, 30 min)
Capitalism: Child Labor (Ken Jacobs, USA, 2007, digital, 14 min)
Single Stream (Toby Lee, Pawel Wojtasik & Ernst Karel, USA, 2015, Blu-ray, 16 min)
Starting with Lumières' Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895), representations of the working class and the conditions of the labor have a long tradition in cinema's history. In this subprogram Sergei Loznitsa's and Ken Jacob's films draw attention to the exploitation of workers, though they do it in fundamentally different ways. The former invites the spectator to observe attentively Russian workers devoting their time to their daily duties in the archaic post-Soviet metal factory; the latter employs the extreme effects of stroboscopic light to digitally reanimate a stereoscopic photograph of a factory floor in late 19th century New York, crowded with machinery and child workers. Single Stream, a meditative and abstract documentary filmed in a recycling plant in the US, for its part, establishes an a-centric point of view that captures the process of both human and non-human agents at work in the spirit of new materialism and object-oriented ecology.
Closing night
Sunday, 16 August / Level Five / 106 min
Level Five (Chris Marker, France, 1997, Blu-Ray, 106 min)
Chris Marker's Level Five features a story of a woman distressed by the loss of her lover while working on programming a video game about the Battle of Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. Oscillating between essay film, documentary, and science fiction, Marker's film is a philosophical rumination on traumatic memory, the crisis of identity, and early digital culture. Combining scientific and futuristic computer-generated imagery, the film examines the functioning of early digital information, specifically the construction and organization of data to make meaning of the past, the tensions between the medium and the content as well as the complex relation between human and computer.


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