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Following ThinkProgress’ report yesterday that Fox News had recycled old file footage of Sarah Palin rallies to assert that she is currently getting huge turnouts on her book tour, the network issued an on-air apology this afternoon. Fox’s Happening Now co-host Jane Skinner said it was mistake, but didn’t explain how it happened:
In the tease before the segment — the tease to commercial — we told you how those people were already lining up to meet Palin. The problem is, we didn’t actually show you the video we were referencing. Instead, we mistakenly aired what’s called file tape of Sarah Palin. We didn’t mean to mislead anybody in that tease. It was a mistake. And for that, we apologize.
PeaceKeeper’s campaign, “Make-Up Artists For Peace” asked some of the countries leading celebrity make-up artists to donate their favorite make-up tip in support of PeaceKeeper’s work to end violence against women. Recently, we asked Sam Fine, celebrity make-up artist for women like Tyra Banks, Brandy, Aretha Franklin, Halle Berry, Alek Wek, Naomi Campbell, Destiny’s Child, and more. Here is what he suggests:
Use foundation to achieve a second skin appearance
After applying foundation (either liquid or cream), take a facial tissue and separate each layer. Using one layer, gently blot, removing any excess oil. What you're left with is skin that looks perfect without the mask-like appearance of foundation.
Use two foundation formulas – liquid and crème – to achieve a flawless complexion
Using liquid foundation and tinted moisturizer is great, but they don't have the ability to cover dark marks or heavy discoloration. Fine suggests using a stick foundation along with your existing foundation in select areas where more coverage is needed. Now you'll be able to hide blemishes without feeling like you're wearing a face full of foundation!
Build beautiful lashes
Begin by wiping the excess off the wand/brush and applying a thin coat of waterproof mascara. Go on to do something else - get dressed or make a cup of coffee. Because waterproof mascara dries quicker, when you return to apply your second coat, you'll notice each lash stands out and attracts mascara like never before!
Create the perfect brow
Fine suggests using two pencils to create the perfect brow; one in a shade lighter than the natural brow color and one a bit darker than the natural brow color. First, using the lighter pencil to softly define and fill, serving as a guideline for shape, then return with the darker pencil to deepen the color and define the shape. This helps to insure that you'll have a beautiful brow that doesn't look drawn on or fake.
Last week, Jon Stewart and The Daily Show caught Fox News' Sean Hannity running old footage of September Tea Party crowds in an attempt to make Michele Bachmann's smaller November Tea Party shindig appear to be more well-attended than it was.
Is Fox News up to the same tricks today? Faiz Shakir at ThinkProgress thinks so, and he pulls a segment that seems to tout the crowds that greeted Sarah Palin on the stump during the 2008 campaign as throngs that are gathering to purchase Sarah Palin's book, 'Going Rogue.'
In the clip above, watch as Fox News anchor Gregg Jarrett describes "pictures just coming into us" as "huge crowds" that have amassed while Palin is "promoting her new book." The pictures that are supposedly "just coming in" are actually year-old video from the presidential campaign. Palin's book signing stop in Michigan drew 1,500 people.
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
Published: November 17, 2009
The anti-sweatshop movement at dozens of American universities, from Georgetown to U.C.L.A., has had plenty of idealism and energy, but not many victories.
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In August, members of United Students Against Sweatshops picketed a Target store in Washington, to pressure the retailer to stop selling products made by Russell Athletic.
Until now.
The often raucous student movement announced on Tuesday that it had achieved its biggest victory by far. Its pressure tactics persuaded one of the nation’s leading sportswear companies, Russell Athletic, to agree to rehire 1,200 workers in Honduras who lost their jobs when Russell closed their factory soon after the workers had unionized.
From the time Russell shut the factory last January, the anti-sweatshop coalition orchestrated a nationwide campaign against the company. Most important, the coalition, United Students Against Sweatshops, persuaded the administrations of Boston College, Columbia, Harvard, New York University, Stanford, Michigan, North Carolina and 89 other colleges and universities to sever or suspend their licensing agreements with Russell. The agreements — some yielding more than $1 million in sales — allowed Russell to put university logos on T-shirts, sweatshirts and fleeces.
Going beyond their campuses, student activists picketed the N.B.A. finals in Orlando and Los Angeles this year to protest the league’s licensing agreement with Russell. They distributed fliers inside Sports Authority sporting goods stores and sent Twitter messages to customers of Dick’s Sporting Goods to urge them to boycott Russell products.
The students even sent activists to knock on Warren Buffett’s door in Omaha because his company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns Fruit of the Loom, Russell’s parent company.
“It’s a very important breakthrough,” said Mel Tenen, who oversees licensing agreements for the University of Miami, the first school to sever ties with Russell. “It’s not often that a major licensee will take such a necessary and drastic step to correct the injustices that affected its workers. This paves the way for us to seriously consider reopening our agreement with Russell.”
Other colleges are expected to do the same. Analysts say the college market occupies a significant part of Russell’s business. Because Fruit of the Loom does not detail Russell’s sales, it is not known how large a part.
In its agreement, not only did Russell agree to reinstate the dismissed workers and open a new plant in Honduras as a unionized factory, it also pledged not to fight unionization at its seven existing factories there.
Mike Powers, a Cornell official who is on the board of the Worker Rights Consortium, said Cornell had canceled its licensing agreement because it viewed Russell’s closing of the Honduras factory as a flagrant violation of the university’s code of conduct, which calls for honoring workers’ freedom of association. He applauded Russell’s agreement, which was reached with the consortium and union leaders in Honduras over the weekend.
“This is a landmark event in the history of workers’ rights and the codes of conduct that we expect our licensees to follow,” Mr. Powers said. “My hat is off to Russell.”
John Shivel, a spokesman for Russell and Fruit of the Loom, said, “We are very pleased with the agreement between Russell Athletic and the Workers Rights Consortium, and look forward to its implementation.”
He declined to discuss why Russell had adopted a friendlier attitude toward unionization after years of aggressively fighting unions.
In a statement Russell released jointly with the apparel workers’ union in Honduras, the company said the agreement was “intended to foster workers’ rights in Honduras and establish a harmonious” relationship.
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I have seen a few articles floating around about whether or not President Obama is keeping his promises to us. I would say according to his Politifact scorecard he's doing a great job.
The Copenhagen summit on climate change, expected in December, would be a historic opportunity to stop global warming, now that the United States under the Obama presidency have a much greater sensitivity than in previous years and even China seems ready to do something. The negotiations, however, proceed very slowly: in Barcelona have just finished the last preparatory meetings, with little results. http://www.inaltreparole.net/en/nature/climatechange071109.htmlThe Copenhagen summit on climate change, expected in December, would be a historic... more
Despite the chatter from the punditry, yesterday was a big day for Millennials. While they focus on two races with candidates that ignored the youth vote and wonder why turnout did not match 2008's all time high, a number of young people won local elections throughout the country.
In New York, Young Democrats of America Democratic National Committeewoman Stephanie Hausner was the highest vote getter in her election to the Clarkstown Town Council. Former NYSYD National Committeeman David Carlucci won re-election as Clarkstown Town Clerk. Two former New York Young Democrats local chapter leaders, Dan French and David Fried, won local elections as well.
In New Hampshire, state Young Democrats President Garth Corriveau was elected Alderman in Manchester as was fellow NHYD Patrick Arnold.
In Washington, Kim Cole was elected to the Lynnwood City Council, Andy Ryder to the Lacey City Council, Amy Ockerlander to the Duvall City Council.
Over Twitter I've been told of a recent high school graduate that was elected to a school board in Michigan, as well as a number of other Millennial candidates that were giving victory speeches last night.
Gucci bring us a feast of sunshine and sensuality in latest Ad campaign for the Gucci 2010 Cruise Collection, the ads feature models Ryan Kennedy, Natasha Poly, and Snejana Onopka.Photography was done by Mert Atlas and Marcus Piggott.Gucci bring us a feast of sunshine and sensuality in latest Ad campaign for the Gucci... more
The October 2009 CIRCLE report has been released about college students and voting. Here are some of the findings:
* Students can be diligent voters with high turnout, both by absentee ballot and in local voting.
* Students who can vote in their home state or their college state are strongly influenced in that choice by the closeness of the presidential election.
* Even in the internet era, in-person voter drives reach many students who would not otherwise vote.
The report was based on a peer-to-peer voter drive done at Northwestern University during the 2008 election. During this voting drive, campaigners encouraged students from Presidential swing states to register back home as opposed to in Illinois. Students contacted by the campaign chose to register back home and vote absentee instead of locally by an 8:1 ratio. Of the students that registered through the drive, 80% voted.
I have mixed feelings about encouraging students to vote absentee over locally. For most students, the political decisions that are going to have the greatest effect on their lives will be made at the state and local level in their college district. State legislatures decide university funding, and that in turn determines tuition increases.The October 2009 CIRCLE report has been released about college students and voting.... more
When you register someone to vote at a concert, you really have no idea if he or she will actually make it to the polls on Election Day. Let’s face it, over the years we’ve registered a fair number of people who never thought much about politics until a musician said something from stage. And more than a few people we registered were probably a little tipsy.
So when we started getting data back regarding precisely how many people we registered actually voted, we were pretty thrilled to learn that about three quarters of you indeed pulled the lever on Nov. 3rd 2008. We were even more excited when an independent organization studied the voter registration work of 25 different organizations, and HeadCount had some of the best stats in all the key measurements.
Yeah, our report card arrived. And it looks like we got A’s. The study, prepared by the Washington, D.C.-based New Organizing Institute, won’t be public until next month, but the preliminary data in a draft version showed the following:
- 92% of the people we registered made it onto the voter rolls. We were number one in this category, (compared to about 25 other groups in this study, who averaged 80% in aggregate).
- 85% of our registrations were considered “impactful,” meaning the registration was unique and that the person was not already registered at the same address. This was the second best percentage for any group in the study.
- 72% of the people we successfully registered in the “field” (at concerts) voted, compared to a national average of 59%. In this category, we had the third best totals of any group.When you register someone to vote at a concert, you really have no idea if he or she... more
Seventh Generation, the nation’s leading brand of non-toxic and environmentally-safe household and personal care products, announced today a new partnership with noted advocate Erin Brockovich and Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Together they’re launching the Million Baby Crawl, a grassroots effort to raise awareness about the nation’s badly outdated chemical laws and encourage parents and others everywhere to ask Congress to pass new stronger regulations that will protect the health of all Americans.
Synthetic chemicals are currently regulated by the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), a decades-old law that experts say has utterly failed to keep the nation’s environment and its citizens safe from materials that cause cancer and a host of other serious illnesses. Under the outdated TCSA, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) does not have the authority to demand the information it needs to evaluate a chemical’s risk, and neither manufacturers nor the agency are required to prove a chemical’s safety before it can be used. In fact, in the 33 years since the TCSA was enacted, the EPA has required testing on only 200 of the more than 80,000 chemical compounds now in use.
“It’s time for commonsense limits on toxic chemicals in our homes, workplaces, and in the products we use,” said Andy Igrejas of the Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families coalition. “We must act together to see that new legislation is passed and families are protected from unsafe products. The Million Baby Crawl will take much more than baby steps toward making these things happen.”
Congress is writing a new proposal to reform TSCA, updating last year’s Kid-Safe Chemicals Act. Scheduled for a Fall 2009 introduction, the policy will address these and many other deficiencies by establishing tough new safety standards for each chemical on the market and requiring manufacturers to prove that their chemicals meet these standards before they can be used in the products people buy. The bill would give the EPA new authority to restrict any substances that fail to pass the test.
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On Today's Corporate Social Responsible Video Podcast: Ceres and Clean Economy Network's Jobs Day; CauseMedia's "NameYourCause" campaignOn Today's Corporate Social Responsible Video Podcast: Ceres and Clean Economy... more
European Commission rolls out a killer cartoon as part of an anti-smoking campaign targeting youth. The video shows how cigarets literally kill cartoon characters. The initiative aims to raise awareness among young people about tobacco-related issues.European Commission rolls out a killer cartoon as part of an anti-smoking campaign... more
This is kind of a cheap post, but I always like to include this when I blog. You’re looking at a world map presented in Jack Kirby’s Kamandi. It’s the kind of thing that as a reader, going back into the troves of past generations, I can’t get enough of. It’s a great tie in for me as a gamer, too. But really, at the end of the day, it’s a plug for my favorite comic podcast, Funnybook Babylon. I’ll let them take it from here.
--------Its been Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay tooooooo long for me to remember,...but this is still the D.C. universe,.......but something "REALLY BAD" happened to poor ol' Gea,...the eco system has dun gone "STRANGE"......"Damn filthy apes!" are the LEAST of the problems.This is kind of a cheap post, but I always like to include this when I blog. You’re... more
Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank partnership is celebrating collecting, banking and conserving 10% of the world’s wild plant species by banking its 24,200th plant species.
I think this is a pretty amazing achievement!
They're also inviting people 'us lot' to help them save more plant life for the future. Looks like they focus efforts on saving plants around the world that are most at risk - as a result of climate change and human impact stuff like the over use/exploitation of particular plant species.Kew’s Millennium Seed Bank partnership is celebrating collecting, banking and... more
"It's time to raise the bar in the fight against poverty. Last year, 116 million people got involved. This year, make sure your voice counts too."
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"Trust me, it feels good. I've marched for fair trade with farmers in rural Kenya, and then visited their farms when the event was over. There's no feeling in the world like standing in solidarity with people that till the land for crops we eat and depend on. (In my case in Kenya, it was coffee, so technically not a necessity, but... I can't say I don't depend on it.)
If you're near Seattle, for example, support the launch of the Global Center for Women's Land Rights. In Chicago, join a video conference with Paul Farmer, or help out the local Girl Scouts in collecting peanut butter and jelly. (Point is, the options, and locations, are endless.) In Kenya? Join the woman standing up against sexual harassment and fighting for maternal health."
A lot of tips and info at the link like planting trees for your community,clean ups, buying fair trade etc.
"There's no feeling in the world like standing in solidarity with people", it's so true,
we are one believe it or not!
So how effective is your current high priced marketing campaign? Whats the trick to create a zero budget marketing campaign? What exactly does the client want? What is creative public relations (PR)?So how effective is your current high priced marketing campaign? Whats the trick to... more
"Though he wore a red clown's nose while boarding the rocket, Guy Laliberte, the billionaire founder of Cirque du Soleil, did not travel into space simply to bring laughs to the International Space Station. Instead, the "first clown to go into orbit" is doing so to draw attention to an environmental crisis.
During his 12 days aboard the space station, Laliberte will file dispatches and give a live broadcast to raise awareness of water issues. His foundation, One Drop, has the goal of "changing and influencing how safe water is shared and made accessible around the world." Close friend and CEO of Cirque du Soleil, Daniel Lamarre, explained that Laliberte has spent his life "creating unique artistic content and helping change the world."
The water crisis is certainly an important issue, but is traveling to space an effective way to help the cause?"
Trying to raise awareness about this extreme important issue is admirable, I am not sure though if this is the right move.
Let's take into account the $35 millions spent for this journey.
I can only hope now it will work and change things."Though he wore a red clown's nose while boarding the rocket, Guy Laliberte, the... more
Would you like to own a record of the most successful grassroots campaign in presidential election history? A sprawling collection of art from the historic campaign, "Designing Obama" features over one hundred artists whose works contributed to a nationwide branding effort that helped inspire a nation.
With collaboration from Scott Thomas, the Design Director for the Obama campaign, and featuring forewords by Steven Heller and Michael Beirut, the 360-page, hardbound full-color book is being printed on demand. Like the Obama campaign itself, publication of "Designing Obama" rests upon the contributions of its supporters. The team joined funding platform KickStarter, to collect pre-order donations in hopes that the book will meet its minimum print run, a $65,000 goal. Judging by the initial response since the site launched yesterday, the book looks to be a shoe-in.
Follow the progress and making of the book on Twitter, and pre-order a standard copy for $50 from Kickstarter.Would you like to own a record of the most successful grassroots campaign in... more
