This one of a kind jewelry box is brought to you by Los Carpenteros via FRONTLINE/World . Video | PBS.
Good news for fashion lovers and designers. God bless this woman for taking on a whole army of religious nutjobs!
I found this cool video via AllanThinks. <~~ Click on the link and you'll find an even better version with the same concept.
You know, to be honest with you, at first I just got tired of the news and I guess I just got tired of same old routine. Oh it's probably a combination of a whole bunch of things.I guess when I really think about it, I got tired of politics, I got tired of religion, I got tired of political blogs, I got burnt out on the US elections, I got burnt out on hearing about Islam this, that and the other thing, I got tired of a lot of things. Altogether everything seemed to be coming at me like one big giant heap of monotonous ugliness that kept on growing bigger by the minute, with the only occasional variable perhaps the increasing level of hatred tightening the noose on reason, understanding and overall human compassion left and right, and everywhere else I looked. So instead of bitching about it, not knowing where I'd be headed, I decided to dig deeper elsewhere and try to find better, more positive ways to express myself. And before I knew it I got busy doing other things and almost forgot about blogging altogether.
I know how you feel, I get up early in the morning, feed the animals, make a cup of coffee and then sit down to read the news and the blogs. You're right, there seems to be nothing that makes sense anymore. The world seems to be spiraling downward into insanity. My brother and I often discuss this very situation. Right is wrong, left is right, good is evil. Nothing computes in our minds. There is no reasoning anymore, the whole world seems as if it is running on emotion and "feelings" alone. No one uses any common sense in any area of their lives. And the complete destruction of morals in society almost makes you want to sit down and cry sometimes. Here the world is on the brink of destruction, in the credit crunch, nuclear war, religious fanaticism and all we can focus on is Brittany Spears flashing her crotch, Miley Cyrus and her faux nude photos, and Amy Winehouse and her drunken and drugged life, who is screwing who and who is getting married for the uncounted time. WTF. Don't let it get you down, kid. You know that anytime that you start to get snowed under and are feeling a little (or a lot) blue, you can always come here and vent to me. We'll try to keep each other on an even keel and give each other a boost whenever needed. That's why we have loads of animals, whenever things start to get me down, I just sit or lay down and they come and snuggle around me and then there is peace in the world, at least my small part of it.
Like many families with the means to do so, the Ambanis wanted to build a custom home. They consulted with architecture firms Perkins + Will and Hirsch Bedner Associates, the designers behind the Mandarin Oriental, based in Dallas and Los Angeles, respectively. Plans were then drawn up for what will be the world's largest and most expensive home: a 27-story skyscraper in downtown Mumbai with a cost nearing $2 billion, says Thomas Johnson, director of marketing at Hirsch Bedner Associates. The architects and designers are creating as they go, altering floor plans, design elements and concepts as the building is constructed.
"I put my finger in," Mr Spievak says, pointing towards the propeller of a model airplane, "and that's when I sliced my finger off."
It took the end right off, down to the bone, about half an inch.
"We don't know where the piece went."
The photos of his severed finger tip are pretty graphic. You can understand why doctors said he'd lost it for good.
Today though, you wouldn't know it. Mr Spievak, who is 69 years old, shows off his finger, and it's all there, tissue, nerves, nail, skin, even his finger print.
'Pixie dust'
How? Well that's the truly remarkable part. It wasn't a transplant. Mr Spievak re-grew his finger tip. He used a powder - or pixie dust as he sometimes refers to it while telling his story.
Mr Speivak's brother Alan - who was working in the field of regenerative medicine - sent him the powder.
For ten days Mr Spievak put a little on his finger.
"The second time I put it on I already could see growth. Each day it was up further. Finally it closed up and was a finger.
"It took about four weeks before it was sealed."
Now he says he has "complete feeling, complete movement."
The "pixie dust" comes from the University of Pittsburgh, though in the lab Dr Stephen Badylak prefers to call it extra cellular matrix.
because it's clever.
No?
Take a look at the next pic and you'll see why.
Mr. Wright, the man who married Obama in his church, has gone drastically wrong....This MUST become a primary issue for Moroccans everywhere! Please don't make me state the obvious again ... why this has to rise to the forefront of Moroccan outreach.
Morocco is to pay parents to send children to schools in a system so bad that there is no drinking water in three quarters of rural establishments, the country's education minister said Saturday.
Ahmed Akhchichine told the newspaper Journal Hebdomadaire that a new government programme would tackle neglect of the education of poor children especially in rural areas, saying a similar scheme had already proved effective in Mexico.
"We are going to pay parents to send their children to school," said Akhchichine.
"At present, 75 percent of countryside schools have no drinking water and 80 percent have no toilets," he revealed.
Girls can give up going to school entirely because of the absence of toilet facilities, the minister admitted.
Moroccan school education did not meet the hopes of society, he said.
It's always great to see minorities elevate their status -- in this case a Jewish woman from the Persian Gulf. From the JTA via the Jerusalem Post:
Bahrain will name a Jewish ambassador to the United States, a report said.
Huda Azar Nunu, a Jewish woman who is a lawmaker in Bahrain's upper house, will be named to the Washington position, according to a report this week in A Sharq al-Awsat, a Saudi-owned pan-Arab daily published in London.
"The sources denied that the appointment of Nunu as a woman and a Jew is a public relations campaign by Bahrain in the West, emphasizing that Huda Nunu has proven her qualifications, whether through her membership in the Consultative Council or through her work in human rights associations, of which she is an active participant in Bahrain," the newspaper said.
Bahrain, a Persian Gulf state sandwiched between Iran and Saudi Arabia, has a tiny Jewish population dating back to Talmudic times. Nunu is descended from Iraqi Jews who migrated to the port of Manama in the late 19th century. Jews in Bahrain have kept a low profile but generally have been treated well.
A fashion show of a women’s collection of clothes made in accordance with Islamic traditions took place in Istanbul, international and local media reported.
The collection for the spring/summer 2008 season was presented by Tekbir, one of Turkey's leading religious dress labels, and contained more than 100 models.
The event took place a few days ago. Here are some photos from Yahoo:
It is despicable to abuse and/or murder women for not doing what they are told. (How sad that I actually need to state the obvious.) Although it goes generally unspoken, the fact of the matter is that women are by far the largest victims of hate crimes across the globe. We see brutality against women and girls occur for so many reasons ... and I don't see why it is still relatively tolerated in a cross-section of societies, whether through silence or even outward support.
For whatever it's worth, you may be interested to know that Abby Ferber from the University of Colorado, has written a book called, Homegrown Hate: Gender and Organized Racism, in which she demonstrates that male anxiety toward women drive racist and bigoted tendencies. It's a rather interesting concept. I don't want to do her research misjustice by boiling it down to a cheap soundbyte, but essentially she stipulates that anxiety towards women creates internal hostilities in some men, which come out against "the other," in dysfunctional ways. Read it yourself and make up your own mind.
This latest stint comes from Irin News:
Residents of a western Baghdad neighbourhood have said militant groups in the area are hunting down women and killing them, and have appealed to parliament to do something, a member of parliament (MP) said on 22 April.
"Over the past six months 15 women were killed in al-Salam neighbourhood for religious reasons or because they had criticised the militants, or because of their previous affiliation to the Baath Party [disbanded party of ousted President Saddam Hussein]," MP Safia al-Suhail told IRIN.
Al-Suhail, who is also a woman activist, said the latest incident occurred in the past 10 days when gunmen shot dead a woman in front of her house because she had criticised the militants.
The next day, when her husband erected a huge tent near his house to receive mourners, the gunmen ordered the husband not to hold funeral rites, and torched the tent, al-Suhail said.
Yeah, there's more to the story. Read it here.
From YnetNews
A Dutch school director preparing an exhibition on Anne Frank found a Christmas postcard signed by the Jewish teenage diarist, the Anne Frank Museum in Amsterdam said Wednesday.
Maatje Mostard, of the museum, said the card was sent in 1937 and addressed to Samme Ledermann, one of Frank's best friends. It was postmarked from Aachen, a town just across the Dutch border in Germany.
The postcard, with a picture on the front of a Christmas-decorated bell in the foreground and a snow-covered field behind it, was signed 'Anne Frank' with no other handwritten message. Mostard said it was the second such card the museum had seen. "We know it's an original," she said.
The teacher, Paul van den Heuvel, found the Christmas greeting in a box of cards in the antique store owned by his father in the town of Naarden, 15 kilometers east of Amsterdam. Van den Heuvel was gathering material on Anne Frank for his school to mark Liberation Day, the May 5 anniversary of the end of German occupation, when he came across the card.
The museum was informed of the find Tuesday by a journalist. "I don't know what he will do with it. We hope we can get it for our collection," Mostard said.
The museum, which encompasses the small Amsterdam apartment where the Frank family hid from the Nazis for 25 months, has the largest collection of documents and papers on Anne Frank, whose diary is the most widely read book relating to the Holocaust.
Anne, her parents and sister and four other Jews hiding in the apartment were arrested in August 1944 and deported to Auschwitz. The sisters were later sent to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where Anne died of typhus in March 1945, two weeks before the camp was liberated. She was 15.
It happened in Woodstock and in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's bed. When used for democratic purposes, music is a universal language that can negotiate peace.
So hopes Aaron Shneyer a Georgetown University graduate from America. Armed with a BA in Anthropology, the 24 year-old musician and songwriter has traveled to Jerusalem on a year long MTV and Fulbright scholarship to help make music in the Middle East.
His ambitious plan is to unite Israeli and Palestinian high school youth and turn them into a recording and performing band through his project Heartbeat:Jerusalem.
Today there are 12 Muslim, Christian and Jewish high school students in the band. Despite the ongoing conflicts in Jerusalem, they meet once a week in a professional studio in the city where they jam, write songs together and share each other's unique musical heritage.
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