Archive for May 23rd, 2007
The moment a teenage girl was stoned to death for loving the wrong boy
A 17-year-old girl has been stoned to death in Iraq because she loved a teenage boy of the wrong religion. As a horrifying video of the stoning went out on the Internet, the British arm of Amnesty International condemned the death of Du’a Khalil Aswad as “an abhorrent murder” and demanded that her killers be brought to justice.
Reports from Iraq said a local security force witnessed the incident, but did nothing to try to stop it. Now her boyfriend is in hiding in fear for his life. Â
Miss Aswad, a member of a minority Kurdish religious group called Yezidi, was condemned to death as an “honour killing” by other men in her family and hardline religious leaders because of her relationship with the Sunni Muslim boy.
Full Article (Warning: Some pics of the stoning are displayed)
Art Guard
Art Guard® is a patented art security device that provides a primary defense against theft of individual pieces of hanging art. The discreet, highly reliable, battery operated device works for the smallest pieces to the largest. Tampering is met with a loud, foolproof, 120 db alarm.
Topsy-Turvy Bus
The Topsy-Turvy Bus (â€Topsyâ€) is two school buses welded together, one upside down on top of the other, that is currently touring the country to “dramatically depict America’s upside down budget prioritiesâ€. The bus was created by mega art car artist Tom Kennedy in Oakland with a team of 10 artists, who have a background working on art car and Burning Man projects.
The idea for Topsy-Turvy came from Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s and president of Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities along with artist Stefan Sagmeister. Tom and Haideen Anderson are currently driving the bus around the US, blogging about their adventures, with stops planned in New Hampshire and Iowa for the presidential primaries.
