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Are There Really More Rapes Happening?
By Rajesh Roy and Saptarishi Dutta
A number of cases of violence against women are coming to light in the wake of the Delhi bus gang rape, a phenomenon that women's groups say shows that local media and police are paying more attention to the problem – not that the incidence of violence is increasing.
The latest brutal incident to get reported: On Sunday, police in India's eastern state of Bihar recovered the body of a semi-naked woman hanging from a tree in a mango orchid. India's media screamed rape.
Such incidents often get buried in Indian newspapers, if covered at all, said Aruna Roy, a social activist. But since the death last month of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student from injuries incurred during a brutal gang rape on a Delhi bus, the media has turned its spotlight on such events.
"All this hype so far - writing on rape - has began after the Delhi incident," Ms. Roy said. "The gravity of it somehow has penetrated into the consciousness of the media."
Statistics show there were 3,000 cases of reported rape in 1973 and over 24,000 in 2011. Partly, the jump reflects the fact women feel more empowered to come forward when raped, women's groups say. But it also shows an increasing friction between a modernizing society, with women more regularly in public spaces, and a conservative culture dominated by men, they add.
Activists say police have often refused to register rape cases, which means even today the reported numbers of rapes are much lower than actual incidents. In other cases, there may be family pressure on a victim to hush up an abuse, which is seen in many communities as a source of shame.
Media attention has put pressure on police to be more efficient in dealing with rape cases, Ms. Roy said.
In the weeks after the Delhi incident, during mass protests calling for better security and harsher punishments for rapists, police officers in the capital defended their record, pointing to the quick arrest of six suspects.
Five of the suspects have been charged with her murder and could face the death penalty if found guilty. Lawyers for the five say their clients are innocent. Their next pre-trial hearing is Thursday. A sixth suspect is expected to face trial in juvenile court.
But senior police officers and government ministers also acknowledged they must tackle the rising wave of crimes against women. In Delhi, police officers have been told they must quickly deal with alleged cases of rape, according to a city police spokesman.
The central government has asked a commission headed by a former chief justice to look into how to battle the problem, including suggesting ways to clear out a backlog of thousands of rape cases that are pending in India's legal system. The commission will submit its report this month.
K.S. Anupam, senior superintendent of police for the Bhagalpur district, where the latest incident in Bihar was reported, said there were marks on the woman's neck. The police have detained a few people in connection with the murder but none have been formally charged, she said. Police is looking into whether the murder involved rape, she added. The official autopsy has not yet been completed.
The deceased woman, who hails from eastern state of West Bengal, had boarded a train to Delhi on Friday night with her 10-year-old son and other relatives. According to police, the woman jumped off the train in Bihar. It wasn't clear as to why she did so, police said.
Separately, police on Monday said they had arrested another suspect in the alleged rape of a 29-year old woman in the northwestern state of Punjab. Police earlier had arrested six suspects and said they were searching for one other person.
All the seven men are currently under police custody. They will be produced again before a local court on Jan. 16 after which they will be sent to judicial custody, according to police. Attempts to reach the men, who don't yet have lawyers and have not been officially charged, were not successful.
The incident took place Friday when the woman was traveling alone on a public bus to her village in Punjab. The driver, named by police as Daler Singh, and conductor, named only as Ravi, then allegedly drove her to a spot where they were joined by five other men. The group allegedly took her to a house and raped her, police said.
Harpal Singh, a police officer investigating the case, said the police is currently trying to identify the owner of the bus.
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Do theists have a harder time with objectivity than others?
Recently, I was interviewed at Canada's BookExpo for "You Better Believe It!", an episode of Beyond the Book, a book TV program hosted by the affable but penetrating Chris Keneally. The program airs at various times in various places.
Here are a couple of questions and my responses:
KENEALLY: When we met before the discussion, you told me about the dilemma you face, and we discussed the dilemma you face of being a journalist and a Christian, more specifically a Roman Catholic. Can you tell us what that means, and how does objectivity, or not, fit into that?
O'LEARY: Well, I'm not sure I have more of a dilemma than anybody else. Everyone works from a perspective, whether you're a materialist, Buddhist, a Christian, a village atheist, you work from a perspective. But anytime you work from any perspective you always have to remember that the people who read what you write may be operating from a different perspective.
So the challenge I have is to make sure that when I use words I make clear how I'm using them so that people are not taking away a message that I never sent.
It's the basic problem that everybody has with e-mail, right? You bang off the e-mail, and then you read in the sent mail, and you realize that the person who gets this is going to have a completely different idea of what you were trying to say, and perhaps not even a very favorable one, from what you actually intended to say.
Now, fortunately, books take a lot longer to write than e-mails, so it's not as big an issue as it could be. ... I re-read my work and ask, does this word mean to everyone what it means to me?
KENNEALLY: The other thing that you are very fervent about is independence. You mentioned that that's important to you. You're a blogger as well, and I believe that being an independent blogger is a critical element in the work you are doing. Tell us about that.
O'LEARY: Well, first off, most bloggers value independence. I didn't invent the idea. The beauty of a blog is you can do it all yourself, so if you want to say something and anybody wants to hear you, you can just blog it, say it, and then get all the angry e-mails later.
But actually the main thing that concerned me with respect to independence was that I found by experience that many major media operate according to formulas, and sometimes the formulas don't fit.
KENNEALLY: Give us an example.
O'LEARY: Well, for example, the intelligent design controversy has grown very considerably over the last ten years and has now hit the Catholic church.
KENNEALLY: Maybe you can tell us, just for those who might not recognize that, intelligent design stands for what exactly?
O'LEARY: Oh, the idea that universe shows evidence of design as well as law and chance.
Now, this doesn't necessarily mean you have to believe in God. Plato didn't believe in God, and he thought that the universe showed evidence of design. However, if design is real, then it's a factor in the universe.
Now, the Pope basically started talking recently, including in his inaugural sermon at his first mass, about that human beings are not merely random products of evolution, which is as much as saying that he plans to get involved in the intelligent design controversy on the side of design.
Now, the American media in particular responded in a very interesting way. They started quoting this obscure Vatican astronomer who was criticizing him, apparently not realizing that this person, while he has interesting ideas, and I'm glad that he was given a chance to air them, in fact has virtually no influence at the Vatican.
So that's the sort of thing I mean, that because I had studied up the issue for a while I knew who's opinion would actually be important and who would be allowed to have a say, but basically just was not a voting member so to speak.
So the advantage of being independent, like I blog and I can say what I want, is that I can present things as I know them to be from my own research. I'm not going to have an editor saying, well, you can't say that because our audience isn't going to understand it. My own response is I'm going to try and make it as simple as possible because I think they should understand it, because they're not going to have a good grasp of what's happening here if they don't.
If you like this blog, check out my book on the intelligent design controversy, By Design or by Chance?. You can read excerpts as well.
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A summary of recent opinion columns on the ID controversy
A summary of recent polls of US public opinion on the ID controversy
A summary of the Catholic Church's entry into the controversy, essentially on the side of ID.
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An ID Timeline: The ID folk seem always to win when they lose.
O'Leary's comments on Francis Beckwith, a Dembski associate, being denied tenure at Baylor.
Why origin of life is such a difficult problem.
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By Steve Horn • Sunday, November 4, 2012 - 10:16
Ohio is referred to as a "battleground state" due to its status as a "swing state" in presidential elections. But another important battle is brewing in the Buckeye State, also set to be settled in the voting booth.
This battle centers around a "Community Bill of Rights" referendum in Mansfield, OH and will be voted on in a simple "yes/no" manner. Mansfield is a city with roughly 48,000 citizens located 80 miles southwest of Cleveland and 66 miles northeast of Columbus, right in the heart of the Utica Shale basin.
Eric Belcastro, the Pennsylvania Organizer for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), explained the rationale behind the "Bill of Rights" push in a blog post:
Faced with the permitting of two 5,000 foot deep injection wells in Mansfield by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR)…[t]he amendment would drive a community Bill of Rights into Mansfield's charter and then prohibit the injection of fracking wastewater on grounds that such prohibition is necessary to secure and protect those community rights. The amendment also recognizes corporate "rights" as subordinate to the rights of the people of Mansfield, as well as recognizing the rights of residents, natural communities, and ecosystems to clean air and water.
The ODNR, in a study published in March 2012, linked the 12 earthquakes that have occured in Youngstown, Ohio to injection wells located in the city.
Though the "Bill of Rights" has the full support of the City Council and the Law Director, as well as the city's newspaper, the Mansfield News Journal, one faction in particular isn't such a big fan of the Bill of Rights: the oil and gas industry. In response to the upcoming referrendum vote, the industry has launched an 11th hour astroturf campaign to "win hearts and minds" of those voters still on the fence as it pertains to the "Bill of Rights" in the week before the election.
DeSmogBlog has obtained images of flyers distributed via a well-coordinated direct mail campaign conducted by the oil and gas industry in Mansfield, made public here for the first time in an exclusive investigation.
"Mansfielders for Jobs," Front Group, Leads Astroturf Charge
At the metaphorical 11th hour of the Mansfield referendum campaign, literally in the week before the vote is set to take place, a new group rose out of the dust called "Mansfielders for Jobs." The group isn't traceable via LexisNexis or Factiva and has only been written about by the Mansfield News Journal on three occasions.
An Oct. 30 News Journal article explains,
A group called Mansfielders for Jobs, which has not filed any campaign spending forms locally with the Richland County Board of Elections, has distributed a flyer [obtained by DeSmog] arguing the charter amendment would do nothing to improve the environment, and contains "vague wording" that would open the door for costly lawsuits that could hurt local small businesses.
Two days later, the Journal published a follow-up piece, further highlighting that Mansfielders for Jobs distributed a flyer that "lists no contact address and no campaign treasurer." That flyer obtained by DeSmog says the "Bill of Rights" will "hurt job creation in our city."
The follow-up piece offers one key hint at who the founders of the upstart "Mansfielders for Jobs" might be - it notes that Energy Citizens is another group distributing "vote no" flyers.
Energy Citizens is a front group of the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a public relations campaign dreamed up by Edelman, an outfit well-known for, among other things, working as a "merchant of doubt" on behalf of Big Tobacco. That might explain why API has also spent time and money flyering.
And then there is the API front group Energy in Depth (EID). Earthworks' Sharon Wilson, the author of the blog Texas Sharon, refers to EID as the Joe Camel of fracking, appropriate given API's Edelman ties. EID Ohio has gone on an offensive against the prospective "Bill of Rights."
"The activist organizations furthering these efforts are taking cues from out-of-state organizations that oppose the responsible development of fossil fuels at every turn," Dan Alfaro, EID Ohio's spokesman, told the Akron Beacon Journal on Sept. 8.
Roughly a month later, he told the Mansfield News Journal:
While this (charter amendment) is being marketed as a homegrown, organic movement coming from local concerned citizens, it is, in fact, a well-funded, coordinated effort being directed from a national organization opposed to the development of fossil fuels at every turn. This proposal … promotes a well-documented agenda under the guise of a local charter.
Two weeks later, EID Ohio chimed in with a blog post written by Anne Carto.
"Clearly, Mansfield needs to be shown facts before making a decision to deter business from coming to the area," she opined. "As EID has covered before, Mansfield, Ohio is not in a position to create regulations that will hurt its chance for a better economy."
Alfaro, according to his LinkedIn profile, formerly served as head of Ballot Access and as Field Representative for Republican John McCain's presidential run in 2008 in Ohio. His colleague Anne Carto, according to her LinkedIn, served as a Petitition Circulator in Ohio in the early days of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's run for President.
Barbara Walter and the Tea Party Patriots
The most recent story about the "Bill of Rights" in the Mansfield News Journal revealed that Barbara Walter, head of the Richland County Republican Party, is the head of "Mansfielders for Jobs." Walter formerly was an organizer for the Mansfield Tea Party Patriots, a stint she held until being offered the Richland County GOP Chair position.
On January 30, the Mansfield Tea Party Patriots hosted a forum titled, "Fracking and Injection Wells What Do We Really Know?," touting the so-called "benefits" of brine injection.
The three featured speakers were David Hill, the Secretary/Treasurer of the Ohio Oil and Gas Association; Michael Chadsey of Energy in Depth Ohio and Rebecca Heimlich of the American Petroleum Institute. Chadsney and Heimlich spoke at a forum on the same topic in April hosted by the New American Patriots in Ashland, OH, a 20-minute drive from Mansfield.
Mansfield Tea Party Patriots and New American Patriots are both local-level branches of the national-level Tea Party Patriots, a right wing front group started by FreedomWorks in the summer of 2009, according to a Sept. 2009 investigative report titled "The Lie Machine" by Rolling Stone's Tim Dickinson.
Dickinson, in explaining Tea Party Patriot's origins, wrote,
After FreedomWorks orchestrated the original Tea Party protests last April, it ostensibly handed over the reins of the movement to a third group, called the Tea Party Patriots. But internal correspondence from the group's private listserv obtained by Rolling Stone makes clear that FreedomWorks is still calling the shots.
An offshoot of Citizens for a Sound Economy, FreedomWorks is the sister of another offshoot, Americans for Prosperity (AFP). What was once known as Citizens for a Sound Economy was heavily funded by the Koch Brothers and today AFP is still funded by the Kochs. Frank Rich, former columnist for The New York Times wrote that "FreedomWorks received $12 million of its own from Koch family foundations" in an August 2010 article.
It's unsurprising then, that before her current stint at API, Heimlich served as AFP's Ohio Director from December 2009-November 2011.
When asked in an interview with DeSmogBlog where the idea and money for "Mansfielders for Jobs" originated from and whether or not it was an actual grassroots organization, Walter would not comment, only stating, "I don't know the exact date [of origin of the group], but my husband and I just feel strongly that this is bad legislation."
Walter gave $6,025 to Republican Gov. John Kasich in the run-up to his 2010 electoral victory, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics' campaign finance database. Kasich, a formative member of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and former Fox News show host, received over $332,000 from the oil and gas industry during his 2010 race.
History Repeating Itself
This isn't the first time the oil and gas industry has deployed its astroturf batallion to fight back against a local ordinance at the 11th hour.
One year ago, Consumer Energy Alliance (CEA) waged an astroturf campaign to defeat the hotly contested fracking ban ordinance in Peters Township, PA. CEA - an oil and gas industry front group - came out on the winning side of this one, a testimony to the effectiveness of its slick public relations campaigns.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette summarized the situation in Peters Township a November 2011 story:
Right up to Election Day, Peters residents were receiving sleek fliers in the mail encouraging them to vote against a referendum to ban gas drilling in the Washington County community.
The mailers weren't coming from local opposition, but from Houston-based industry group Consumer Energy Alliance.
CEA's 2012 annual report lists the 2012 victory in Peters Township as one of its chief accomplishments.
A High Stakes, Life-or-Death Game in Mansfield
The stakes are higher than most would imagine in Mansfield.
ProPublica's Abrahm Lustgarten pointed out in a June 2012 investigation titled, "Injection Wells: The Poison Beneath Us," that injection wells are a public health hazard in-the-making of epic proportions that hardly anyone is talking about. There are a staggering 150,000 injection wells in 33 states and 10 trillion gallons of toxic fluid have been dumped in them, according to ProPublica.
"In 10 to 100 years we are going to find out that most of our groundwater is polluted," Mario Salazar, an engineer who worked for 25 years at the EPA's underground injection program told ProPublica. "A lot of people are going to get sick, and a lot of people may die."
The battle in Mansfield - literally one of life and death - is on between corporate profits and scientific integrity.
Photo Credit: Eric Belcastro | Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
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That's bogus. There's no jobs.
Go to small town Alberta man. Oil and gas does not create jobs out there.
All the jobs are in the (big) cities and we export our workers wherever and whenever necessary. All the workers here are transient.
The only thing left behind is your trashed land when they pull out the pipes.
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Vote for our planet
We've let big industry pollute for too long in the name of jobs. I'm glad to see the people of Mansfield making a stand to protect the only planet we've got. Anyone not in Mansfield still has a choice tomorrow at the polls. They can choose to vote for politicians who will protect our planet for future generations.


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Houston family seeks justice in case of alleged police brutality
An attorney for a Houston family who claims Harris County deputy
constables used excessive force while arresting them vowed Saturday
night to seek justice in their case.
"The reason we are having
this press conference is to raise awareness," said civil rights attorney
Randall Kallinen, who filed a federal law suit on behalf of the Scherz
On Sept. 10, 2011, David
Braxton Scherz Jr., 26, was stopped outside his home by Harris County
Deputy Precinct 4 Constables who alleged that he ran a stop sign. Patrol
car footage showed Schderz being kicked by one deputy as another held
him down.
Scherz's father, mother,
sister and aunt were also arrested after they came outside the house.
The felony and misdemeanor charges against the five family members were
dismissed last year after prosecutors determined there was not
sufficient evidence.
Kallinen showed about 50
people at the press conference photographs of Scherz's bruises and
broken ribs, as well as injuries the relatives allegedly suffered at the
hands of the deputy constables. He said he who will escalate the case
to the U.S. Attorney General's Office, if needed.
"None of them have ever been convicted of a crime in their lives," he said.
Scherz has brought a federal
civil rights suit against Harris County and the three deputy constables
who arrested him. The family has also filed complaints against the
deputies with the Precinct 4 Constable Ron Hickman.
"You wouldn't think this
would happen to people like us," said Scherz's mother, Yvonne, a
57-year-old petroleum engineer. "But it did."
Source: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Houston-family-seeks-justice-in-case-of-alleged-4778737.php?t=a8246ab9dd


text: Muldoon's 26th Annual Irish Dickens Christmas is a must during the Holidays! Each day from Friday, December 13th through Chirtstmas Eve Supper we wear vintage attire, we decorate everywhere and we serve festive specialties like Black Bush Stew and Roast Duck. Our Holiday drinks put you in the Holiday spirit ~ Muldoon's Wassail, a traditional Yuletide mulled wine, and our famous Maker's Mark egg nog called Bog Nog. Come enjoy!


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Are Shippers Responsible for Legality of Goods They Transport?
U.S. Case Against FedEx Involves Controlled Substances
A key test of how much responsibility shippers like FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service Inc. bear for the contents of the packages they deliver will begin this week in federal court.
The Justice Department indicted FedEx earlier this month, charging conspiracy to distribute controlled substances because of the shipper's alleged role in transporting painkillers and other prescription drugs that had been sold illegally. FedEx is scheduled to be arraigned in the proceeding Tuesday morning in San Francisco....


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Reader Jess commented on the Illamasqua video I posted, and said:
I need to shake up my makeup! I always feel a bit scared of the counter and everyone has such dramatic make up I feel too much like a wall flower to go there
Jess is not alone – I am a hardened make up counter visitee, so very few counters intimidate me. However, many, many women are intimidated by counters – my mother point blank refused to go to the Creme De La Mer counter for my Christmas present and many of my friends grab my arm when we wonder through the make up floor in Harvey Nichols in a 'can we go now' gesture.
Here are the top few reasons why people hate going to make up counters:
1. Scary looking staff
Looking like a scary transvestite-monster-beast thing when you work on a make up counter can be somewhat counter productive. Its either that or a luminous orange beast with long scary fake lashes in a white overcoat…you get my drift.
My less beauty obsessed friends find it (I quote) "scary" and "dodgy". Just because you work in make up doesn't mean you should slap in fifty thick layers and a sprinkle of glitter on top for the sake of it. It frightens me, it definitely will frighten your average woman who just wants a nice lipstick and blush and it gives small children nightmares.
Of course, make up artists are there to make things creative and innovative, but it should always be pretty or sexy as well, right? Dramatic-Pretty. Glittery-Pretty. Not just Dramatic-Terrifying-Is that a woman or not?
2. Rude staff
Appearances aside, rude staff make buying things quite difficult. Rude staff are usually quite ignorant and have better things to do, like talk to their colleagues and try to push you out of the way so they can rearrange the displays.
I have met all kinds of nutty staff in my time and there is really no guarantee that just because you had a nice experience on one counter or with on member of staff that you will always get the same level of service on other counters. If anything I find it quite inconsistent – I have yet to find a brand that I think has amazing staff regardless of the counter you go to – that's my truthful experience.
My favourite experience was with an Estee Lauder lady who refused to refund a bronzer which had a built in brush that leaked like mad. I took it in to show her and she wouldn't have it even though when she clicked it shut, there was a fine cloud of brown particles floating in the air. Eventually she changed it but there is always that moment when you wonder if you look like a mad woman, and you other half has backed out so much that he's halfway towards the car park, trying to disassociate himself with you.
3. The Hard sell
When I was a child, I went to Hong Kong with my mother where I cooed over an Ulitma II lipstick in a beige (I was only about 14).
Within seconds, a number of vultures had swarmed about my mother and her pasty flesh, ready to make a killing. They got about £250 smackers from her, and if you think thats a lot now, think how much it was back then. Although I think make up counters are much better than they used to be with the hard sell, there are still instances of where you are made to feel awful if you don't buy a number of items.
My last worst experience was on Trish McEvoy, where the lady was a little older and tried to make me buy a bag for and some eyeshadows when all I wanted was a plastic case for storing some Shu Uemura eyeshadows. I kept telling her all I wanted was the case and she kept insisting I take the pink zip up case with it and it was the last one in stock. In the end I had had enough and walked away buying nothing.
Have I ever been back to Trish? Nope.
4. Horrid makeovers
I have perched my butt on many make up chairs and if I don't look like coco the clown at the end of it, I am normally quite grateful.
Heavy handed SA's, that gritted smile you give at the end – its not easy having someone paint on your face. I always have faith when an SA is enthusiastic but I really have had some scary make overs, which result in my rubbing everything off liked a crazed monkey once I have left the building.
Here's a tip – don't have a impromptu makeover first thing in the morning when you are going to spend all day shopping; don't do it before a big do, and don't do it before a date, or on your lunchbreak at work unless you have 1. make up remover wipes handy and 2. a little make up bag to re-do your maquillage.
So that's the bad stuff. Here are some tips for coping on make up counters if you find it all traumatic….
5 Tips for coping on make up counters
1. Know thyself
Not all SA's are monsters of course, but it is always good to know what you want from the end of the session and know your budget, and what you don't want on your face.
If you say to the SA, I absolutely, positively do not want grey eyeshadow on because it reminds me of the fur of my dead rabbit, but they use it anyway, clearly they don't deserve to make a sale.
Also don't be afraid to question the SA/MUA if you are not sure if they are talking rubbish. I was unsure of a foundation I bought but the SA argued with me that it was the right colour – it really wasn't and I had to fight for a refund. I have also been sold numerous things as Limited Edition when they weren't – my point is that you are always free to check up on things when unsure. Taking a friend helps, an honest one who can be bought for the price of a cappuccino.
2. Take a photo
If you have a look in mind, take it in to show the SA/MUA. They may make a disaster out of it, but at least you had some kind of guidelines, and you will know not to ask them to do your bridal look.
3. Buy only what you want to
If you are happy with the make over, buying say a lipstick is usually polite. If you want to buy more then that's great but don't feel pressured too. It's a horrid feeling to feel like you have been forced into buying something and in the UK its near impossible to return a cosmetic item just because you've changed your mind.
I have been here and ended up spending much more than I wanted too because the SA ended up telling me how vile my skin was and how much I needed this expensive skincare (I won't say which brand, but you would be surprised, it's not one of the ones I usually moan about).
Be firm if you need to be, it really is your own hard earned money (or it may not be, in which case, spend away!).
4. Take a break
After your makeover, you can always go for a walk, take a look outside or ask a friend before deciding. Especially with foundation; only very recently I bought one what was WAY to white for me because I didn't go outside to check. Take a nice long walk and tell the SA you will be back once you've had a think about it.
5. Get a feel for the brand and the SA's
Every counter is different and there are good and bad SA's on every one. It could be a good idea to visit counters that emulate a look or feel you like and if you are finding it hard just to get a MUA's attention, just walk away – there are plenty of counters to spend your hard earned money, right?
Some suggestions for counters you may prefer depending on what looks you like: (obviously, Bobbi Brown could put together a funky look for you, Illamasqua could do a natural look for you but I feel that certain brands have a greater selection of cosmetics to create the looks their brand image stands for)
For natural beauties: Bobbi Brown, Laura Mercier, Chanel
For funky looks: MAC, Illamasqua, Urban Decay
Soft, sparkly goodness: Givenchy, RMK, Dior
Good all rounders: Shu Uemura, Armani, YSL,
6. Keep in touch with good members of staff
If you find a make up artist who is talented, doesn't do the hard sell on you, and makes the whole experience fun and makes you look amazing, don't let go! (One was a girl called Vicki Booth who worked for Shu Uemura a few years ago – Wow to her natural eye make up and super, amazing curled lashes! Alas, I wish I got her number as I no longer know where in the world *sniff* she is. )
I find most counters have staff that are either completely sales people only, or have been trained on a make up course prior to the role, or have done a little trained with the company. Artists with natural, god given flair are hard to find, and these the ones that won't freak out because you don't have a crease or have downward facing lashes.
Jess?! Are you still there?! Hopefully this would have been for some help. I suggest a bag of make up, some simple face wipes, and a Saturday dedicated to sampling some make up counters and seeing what they come up with. I will be your chaperone! 😀
You can send reader questions by the way, about make up, skincare, products, haircare – and if I don't know I will try to find an expert who does to answer it for you! Email – rowena AT cosmetic-candy.com


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Heidi Montag's plastic surgeon has addressed claims by the reality star that she almost died following her surgery.
In a new interview with Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson, Dr. Frank Ryan said Heidi's comments to Access' Billy Bush – that she almost died in recovery – aren't correct.
"I almost died after my procedure," Heidi told Billy on Monday. "I had too much Demerol like Michael Jackson did and my breathing was five breaths per minute which is like almost dead. [I was] in an aftercare center, there were nurses that were supposed to be tending to me at all times."
But that isn't how her doctor remembers it.
"That didn't happen as far as I know," he told Shaun on Tuesday.
"Where would she get that information from?" Shaun asked.
"I don't know," Dr. Ryan said.
Heidi also claimed in her interview with Billy that medical personnel, "had to put oxygen on my face and call my plastic surgeon to come in for an emergency."
"So Heidi got that information wrong?" Shaun asked the doctor.
"Yeah," Dr. Ryan replies.
Heidi told Billy on Monday that, despite some claims, she is not addicted to plastic surgery.
"I do love it and I appreciate it and I appreciate the science behind it," she explained. "How incredible… we [are] blessed to even have this surgery that we have. We're so advanced. If Cleopatra were alive now, I'm sure she'd have triple D's… there's always been a struggle between pain and beauty. I feel like since the beginning of time."
And Dr. Ryan too, refutes the claim or criticism he should not have operated on the star.
"I knew going in, one of the angles was the 'addiction angle,' which is a media-driven sort of angle. That's just not true," he said. "I was like, 'Are you kidding me?'"
"But you do not think Heidi is addicted to plastic surgery?" Shaun asked.
"Oh, it's not that I don't think, I know [she's not]," he said. "I mean again I do not, would never in a million years, and did not and would not operate on someone who's addicted to plastic surgery."
"Were you concerned about your own reputation?" Shaun asked.
"Yeah, that's exactly why I'm doing these interviews," he said. "It's just not true. Heidi just wanted to improve her image. She's a savvy business woman."
When asked about criticisms by some – that 10 surgeries at one time signals some type of addiction, Dr. Ryan revealed Heidi had more procedures than was revealed.
"I really call it 30 surgeries because if we're gonna count Botox injections we should count every single injection, and both breasts, not just you know so it's two surgeries," he said. "Why say 10 surgeries? It sells magazines."
Heidi told Billy she might want more surgeries, but Dr. Ryan said no.
"I mean, come on. What does she need? She's a beautiful girl," he said.
"You're not ruling it out though?" Shaun asked.
"Yeah, I'm ruling it out. I can't imagine what she would possibly want," he responded.
But Dr. Ryan said another Montag may want to go under the knife.
"Her mother on the other hand, saw the pictures and called Heidi right away and said, 'Heidi, I want him to do a mommy makeover for me.. Can you arrange that?'" he added.
And he claimed Heidi's mother wants the surgery soon.
"For Valentine's Day," Dr. Ryan claimed. "Heidi may buy it for her for Valentine's Day."
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Leading Iraqi lawmaker killed, officials fear spread of violence
BAGHDAD — Iraq's leading Sunni lawmaker was assassinated Friday after he finished delivering prayers at a mosque in western Baghdad.
A 15-year old boy approached Harith al Obaidi in the al Shawaf mosque in the Yarmouk neighborhood and shot him several times, Iraqi police said.
A gun battle ensued, killing the teenage gunman. Three others died in the attack and 12 people were wounded, police said.
Accounts vary as to whether the gunman entered the mosque and shot Obaidi there, or whether the shooting began just outside the building. There were also unconfirmed reports that a grenade exploded during the attack.
A spokesman for Obaidi's political party, the Accordance Front, blamed Sunni extremists affiliated with al Qaida in Iraq for the assassination. The group has a long history of targeting fellow Sunnis who join the government.
The attack occurred in an upscale neighborhood that was home to many high-ranking officers from former dictator Saddam Hussein's regime, and after the U.S. led invasion of 2003 became an insurgent stronghold.
Most Sunni leaders boycotted national elections in 2005 following the overthrow of Saddam, who was a Sunni. Since then, moderates like Obaidi have re-entered the political process.
Obaidi, an Islamic scholar, built a reputation for tolerance by campaigning for the rights of men detained by security forces. He was deputy chair of Iraq's Human Rights Committee and had recently become head of the largest Sunni bloc in Parliament.
The assassination, just days after a car bomb killed 35 in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood just outside the city of Nasariya, adds to growing fears that sectarian violence will escalate as U.S. combat troops pull out of big cities by the end of this month.
At a security conference in Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki blamed the Nasariya attack on Sunni insurgents trying to reignite the sectarian bloodshed that engulfed Iraq from 2005 until 2007.
Maliki warned that violence could increase as the American forces withdraw and insurgents test the Iraqi army, but he vowed the relative stability gained during the last year and a half would hold.
After news of Obaidi's assassination flashed across television screens, Iraqi President Jalal Talibani urged calm.
"I call on the Iraqi people to close ranks and enhance national unity in the face of powers that seek to provoke strife and destabilize the country," he said.
The 47-year Obaidi, a former college professor, was married and the father of eight children, said Shatha al Obusi, a fellow member of the Human Rights Committee.
She said he was a fun-loving man with an easy smile who succeeded in Iraq's fractious political arena because he accepted people from all sects.
"I believe that he was targeted for these qualities by people who would not have him succeed," Obusi said. "He was, and will continue to be, a role model to us regarding the issue of human rights and defending those who have fallen under injustice."
(Issa and Hammoudi are McClatchy special correspondents. Jack Dolan of the Miami Herald contributed.)
Car bomb kills 25 in southern Iraqi town
Obama invites world's Muslims to seek a 'new beginning'
Iraq halts clearing landmines even as huge toll keeps rising
Iraq would need 'an army' to remove all land mines


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Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Hawaii #2
It seems most of the worthwhile Nut-Shops in Hawaii are on either Oahu or the Big Island. Unfortunately we spent our vacation on Kauai and Maui. Poor planning. I mean, shouldn't all itineraries be based on the acquisition of quality Nuts?
Friday afternoon: A quick glance through the Kauai phonebook reveals two donut shops: Big Wheel Donuts and Daylight Donuts. I dial up Big Wheel but a robot-lady tells me the number's been disconnected. I call Daylight and get the answering machine – they're only open from 6:30 AM to 10:30 AM. Early the next morning we hop in our rental car and five minutes later we see the (Day) light. Hidden behind an ACE Hardware in a dilapidated old plaza in which all the buildings are paneled with blue-painted wood, Daylight feels very Hawaiian.
We walk in to what appears to be a family of locals reading the newspaper and throwing back coffee in plastic Styrofoam cups. An older gentlemen slowly rises and follows us to the counter to take our order. He seems super-friendly but we can't understand a word he says due to his thick Hawaiian accent. With considerable difficulty we are able to communicate and are saddened to hear that Daylight doesn't make malasadas. I wanted to ask where I could find some but the results of such an inquiry probably would have wasted another two hours. So I order a plain-glazed and a vanilla glazed, which the Hawaiian Donut-Man gently bags. Mrs. Blognut then orders a maple-glazed – Donut-Man pulls out a chocolate frosted and puts it in the bag. Whatever. We happily pay for our Nuts and wish the locals farewell (I drop an "Aloha" while flashing the hang loose symbol back at a youth on the way out). Oh yeah, we also snagged a Daylight coffee mug with a porcelain Nut on the bottom to lift the spirits once the java's all gone.
Back at the hotel we whip out our Nuts. Clearly putting her own needs before those of devout Blognut readers, Mrs. Blognut eats her Chocolate Frosted right away, so we're unable to photograph it. "It was good," she says, but offers no additional commentary on the Nut. The glazed is pretty solid. It's smaller than a Dunkin glazed, and similar in flavor, with the exception of a prolonged, slightly-sugary after taste that gives the Nut a nice finish. The consistency is so soft and delicate that it nearly melts in our mouth before we've had the chance to chew. The
vanilla is nearly identical - but with a barely recognizable hint vanilla flavor. We are pleased with both.
I have only shown the vanilla-glazed as the plain-glazed looked exactly the same and Blognut does not want to bore with redundant Nuts.
Though we briefly got to hang with the locals and scarf a few decent donuts, our Daylight experience just wasn't going to cut it – we needed to find a malasada.
The next day we end up at this burger shack called Barefoot Burger. While the teenaged cashier looks more like someone who can point me in the direction of gnarly swells and Billabong vendors than donuts, I take the chance:
Blognut: "Do you know where I can get a malasada?"
Surfer Girl: "Yes – you have to go to K-Mart."
Blognut: "K-Mart? Really?"
Surfer Girl: "Yep. There's a lady who runs a Malasada stand outside of K-Mart - she makes them fresh every morning."
Blognut: "Thanks."
So the next morning we did something we never thought we'd being doing on our trip to Hawaii - we drove to K-Mart. It was easy to find since there's only one K-Mart on Kauai in Lihue, the island's only "large" city. We arrive at K-Mart and, just like the surfer chick promised, are at last face to face with the much anticipated malasada. A small, wooden stand with a banner advertising "Fresh Kaua'i Malasadas" sits adjacent to the K-Mart entrance.
A smiley Hawaiian women stands behind the counter busily managing a large pot of boiling oil housing a bushel of bobbing malasadas. A sign behind the counter reads "Wuz Here" in mailbox letters and is surrounded by polaroids of Nut-Lovers who have visited the stand. The donuts come in either cinnamon or sugar and are nicely priced at 3 for $1.25, 6 for $2.50, and so on in multiples of three up until 18. We order 6, 3 cinnamon and 3 sugar. The Hawaiian Donut-Lady rescues our order from the pot, coats them with the appropriate topping and stuffs them into a brown paper bag.
Initially, Blognut was skeptical of the malasada for fear of yet another disappointing international Nut (I know, technically this isn't an international Nut seeing as were in the States, but it's close enough given that Hawaii is further away from our New York home then just about everywhere in Europe). But all doubts are put to rest with one bite of these delicious balls of dough. Roughly the size of a lemon, our malasadas are piping hot and perfectly soft. The Sugar variety is caked in heaps of granulated sugar, half of which ends up on the floor of our rental car, while the Cinnamon-Nut is covered in nearly as much sugar mixed with loads of cinnamon. They are almost too good to evaluate and before we know it, we've polished off all 6 and are now covered in sugar ourselves. Basically just think of them as the best donut hole you've ever had!
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I really enjoyed your story. I sent it to some friends who are leaving for Hawaii tomorrow. I have heard about those wonderful donuts too!
- iSlappy said...
We had these in Kauai and I can't say enough about how chewy and moist they were. Me and the kids plowed through a dozen of these suckers. lol We were supposed to bring back some to share with the rest of the group, but decided to let them fend for themselves. heheh
- Judson said...
You are true to your word. These Malasada's are the best of the best. We tried some other malasada's on the island, but none compared. I usually eat about 15 in one sitting. Then I commence to roll myself out to the car and go into a coma. Wish I could get these babies out in Colorado.
- Sal R san jose said...
We have travelled to Kauai every January for 40 yrs. We always include several visits to the Malasada lady at KMART in KukuiGrove Shopping Center. Now it's very convenient with Costco closeby. These are the BEST! Worth driving from Princeville to get some.
We could not agree more. The malasada stand at the Lihue Kmart is a must visit for us every trip. Going back in October--can't wait!
If you're visiting Oahu, you MUST go and get a malasada from Leonard's on Kapahulu.
THE BEST!!! We learned about them when we were on the same quest in '05. The Lady is friendly and efficient, and boy what a recipe! Her malasadas are far better than Leonard's on Oahu and Tex's Drive-In on the Big Island. Get there early!!! The first morning we went she was sold out already.
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Preventing Mass Atrocities: Lessons Learned from Rwanda
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Date and Time
- Thursday, April 24, 2014 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Theatre
This reception and panel discussion served as the opening event for a photography exhibit produced by University of San Diego's University Galleries and Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies.
- Dida Nibagwire, a Rwandan genocide survivor who is now an actress in Rwanda
- Daniel Bekele, Executive Director of the Africa Division of Human Rights Watch
- Philip Lancaster, aide to General Romeo Dallaire in Rwanda during the genocide
- Paige Stoyer, a photographer who has been working in Rwanda with Global Press Institute to train women journalists
- Eugene Gatari, a USD alumnus of the master's program in peace and justice studies from Rwanda, now a fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School for Public Policy
Moderated by Dustin Sharp, JD, assistant professor at Kroc School of Peace Studies.
Co-sponsored by USD's Department of Political Science and International Relations, Center for Christian Spirituality and Center for Community Service Learning.
Rwanda, 1994-2014: Seven Photographers, April 24 - June 6, 2014
RWANDA, 1994 - 2014 brings together more than two dozen works by leading photographers and conceptual artists who were in Rwanda at the time of the genocide or else who have visited the nation since. Powerful images in black and white by Fazal Sheikh and Robert Lyons suggest insights into a broad spectrum of concerns from the 1990s: from representations of human cruelty, to images attesting to individuals' determination to survive amidst scarcity, to acts of retribution and justice. Alfredo Jaar's installation Six Seconds deploys a single photograph taken in Rwanda to create a highly impactful experience. Other photographers who have returned to Rwanda in the two decades since 1994 form yet another critical dimension of this project. Large color prints by Paige Stoyer, Michal Safdie, Riccardo Gangale, and Vanessa Vick provide a nuanced view of the changes still taking place in Rwanda. Taken together, the photographic imagery displayed at USD reminds us of the significance of this humanitarian crisis, as well as its painful aftermath, and causes us to ponder the peacetime solutions at work within the region.
"The shameful legacy of Rwandan genocide" by Dustin Sharp and Derrick Cartwright, UT San Diego
"Rwanda, 20 years later -- in photos and memories" by Peter Rowe, UT San Diego
"Revisiting Rwanda 20 Years Later" by Kristen Darling '15, Inside USD
Genocide in Rwanda: 1994, Copley Library- an exhibit of books and media about the genocide—including photographer Michele Zousmer's recent images of Rwanda and its people. Learn more from the library's subject guide. The exhibit will continue through June 16, 2014.
Photographs of current day Rwanda by John Rowe exhibited in the Hoehn Print Study Room, Founders 102, though June 6, 2014. For more information on the Hoehn Print Study Room, a University Galleries space, go to www.sandiego.edu/galleries/collections/hoehn-print-study-room/index.php.


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text: Project Runway: Priest Edition Posted on February 21, 2013 | by Nechama Tamler Last week, we read in some detail about the building of the Ohel Mo'ed, the Tent of Meeting, aka the Miskhan, aka the Dwelling Place of the Divine. In this week's parasha, called Tetzaveh, we read the elaborate descriptions of the clothing that the priests must wear when they serve God. Our storyteller from G-dcast comments that the Torah is often sketchy about details we would like to know more about. But here, in describing the clothes of the priests, "the Torah goes into OCD mode" — there are so many precise and detailed descriptions, one might think that God was instructing Ralph Lauren on his new fall fashion line. Besides the ephod and the breastplate of decision (see Exodus chapter 28 verses 6-21), where gorgeous precious stones are enumerated (carnelian, chrysolite, emerald, turquoise, sapphire, amethyst, jacinth, agate, crystal, beryl, lapis lazuli, and jasper), I love the description of the hem of the priests' robes (verses 33-35).Jackie Hoffman, in her 'Shavuot' song. Click the image to listen. (Note: lyrics aren't fully PG-friendly.) The yarns to be used are blue, crimson and purple; the design specifies embroidered pomegranates, and they are to be placed all the way around the bottom hem. And then, in between each pomegranate, there is to be a golden bell attached, a real bell, which will produce sound as the priest moves. Sounds exquisite, on par with the clothes the women of Downton Abbey wear when they visit their cousins' castle in Scotland! In our own times, the highest ranking priests of the Catholic Church wear sacral vestments that are in the tradition of these ornate, highly decorative and expensive garments. This leads us to ask some questions about both the Torah's descriptions and why so many religious traditions dictate the exact kind of clothing to be worn when one is serving God. Why is it so important to know about the sash, the turban, the robed tunic, the exact colors, and what fabrics need to be part of the clothing? And further, why should God care so much about what the Priests wear when they perform the ritual sacrifices on behalf of the people? When a Catholic worshipper of today goes to church and witnesses the Mass performed by richly garbed cardinals (or even the Pope), how does the clothing worn by the priests impact the experience of the worshipper?Anglican Archbishop and the Catholic Pope know what to wear! As we approach the next book of the Torah, the book of Leviticus, we will see that many prescribed rituals fall into the "OCD" mode, as the video's storyteller says. Look at the instructions for the sacrifices in Exodus 29 verses 19-21. This is what the priests, in their finery, must do: they must "…slaughter the ram and take some of its blood and put it on the ridge of Aaron's right ear and on the ridges of his sons' right ears and on the thumbs of their right hands and on the big toes of their right feet; and dash the rest of the blood against every side of the alter round about." Wow! Talk about precise instructions that are pretty inscrutable. Here we have it in abundance. Even though Jews no longer offer animal sacrifices, we still have laws that are considered puzzling and have no obvious purpose. Those laws are known as "hukkim" as opposed to laws which make some common sense, which are known as "mishpatim." A mishpat (single form of mishpatim) is something like "don't steal" or "don't kill." The sorts of laws in the category of hukkim are like the laws of kashrut, dietary restrictions for keeping kosher. We just do them (if we want to be observant) because they were commanded, not because they necessarily make sense or make society work any better. Before we leave the parasha of Tetzaveh, with its opening focus on the clothing of the priests, I also want to acknowledge the lovely coincidence that the Torah reading points to the holiday that comes on its heels — the joyous holiday of Purim, which falls on the 14th of Adar, which is the evening of February 23 through the 24th this year. Parashat Tetzaveh and Purim both have clothing and costumes interwoven in them. One of the fun aspects of the Purim festivities is dressing up in costumes and disguises. This is our topsy-turvy festival where nothing is what it seems. In Hebrew, the word for clothing is beg'ed, the root, b.g.d. This root also forms the word bag'ad, to betray or lie. Think of it this way: when we wear clothes, we cover-up our bodies and a "cover-up" is also used to describe hiding something, not being transparent, maybe even betraying someone's trust. On the holiday of Purim, we masquerade; we put on costumes to appear to be someone other than ourselves. What is it about covering up or hiding oneself that is so central to this festival? And what is it that the clothing of the priests is covering up, if anything? Wishing you a very merry Purim!! About Nechama Tamler View all posts by Nechama Tamler →