Update - this workshop has been canceled due to low registration. I will be offering half-day workshops on close-up nature photography at the Wegerzyn Garden Center and MetroPark in Dayton, OH, on July 11 and...
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"Gaza resistance fighters have been firing deeper into the occupied territories in recent days and a spokesman for the armed wing of Hamas vowed on Tuesday rockets would be fired even further if Israel doesn't...
"Asian stock markets surge after Fed rate cut; South Korean index up 12.7 percent HONG KONG (AP) -- Asian stock markets rallied Thursday, led by a 12 percent jump in South Korea, after the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed interest rates to help revive the world's largest economy...
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"By SARAH PALIN | September 22, 2008Governor Palin, the Republican nominee for vice president, was scheduled to speak today at a rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to protest the appearance here of President Ahmadinejad of Iran. Her appearance was canceled by rally organizers...
Well we have some movement at last, showing the Russians are taking heed of the cease fire agreement. Everything of course is at a snail pace. "GORI, Georgia -- Russian troops pulled out of the Georgian city of Gori Friday in what Moscow said was compliance with a cease-fire...
"Georgia - Russian troops and paramilitaries rolled into the strategic Georgian city of Gori on Wednesday, apparently violating a truce designed to end the conflict that has uprooted tens of thousands and scarred the Georgian landscape.In Washington, President Bush said the...
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John McCain, who has had trouble convincing the religious right of his Christian credentials, went to Billy Graham's Blue Ridge mountaintop retreat in western North Carolina to meet with the powerful preacher...
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Iraq's prime minister Nouri al-Maliki vowed today to continue fighting against Shiite militias in Basra despite tens of thousands of protestors calling for an end to the violence in many deadly clashes across the...
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As Stevie Wonder once said: "Transcendental / meditation / gives you / peace of mii-iiind..." RIP Maharishi Mahesh Yogi."Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, who introduced transcendental meditation to the West and gained fame...
Perhaps Canada's 18th Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said it best during his scandal ridden reign,derided by the Lefty NDP, past, and present in the Schrieber Mulroney scandal today, Brian Mulroney once stated to...
This article in the Politico pretty much sums up what has become of the Anti-War movement, which was really a hate Bush movement. The simple reason the Anti-war movement lost was that they were 75% special...
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"MIDEAST: U.S. Seen in Policy Retreat
Analysis by Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
CAIRO, Jan 10 (IPS) - Recent months have witnessed several notable political reorientations in the Middle East, involving Iran, the Gulf states, Egypt and Lebanon. Several experts say...
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Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comic actor who created the hugely entertaining, and often ridiculously offensive characters of Borat and Ali G, has decided that he will no longer play them.Having developed a...
First Nations had a similar legend about Lake Agassiz and the rising waters around central Canada, so similar to Greeks and Turks legends about the Black sea's earthen dam separating the mediterranean breaking way...
"Canada boosts Darfur aid
GLORIA GALLOWAY
Globe and Mail Update
August 2, 2007 at 8:32 AM EDT
CHARLOTTETOWN — Canada has increased the amount of aid it will send to the warn-torn Darfur region of Sudan, an announcement that comes on the heels of a UN decision to send 26,000...