There are many times that we find ourselves on a whole different path. Our life is never the same ever again. There is no going back. It is important to acknowledge these significant times. As many cultures do...
" As many as 20,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked to India every year, according to Siddharth Kara’s 2008 book, “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery.” They’re taken across the border,...
On my way to work this week, I noticed several people holding signs with messages like "I have a home", "I feel loved", and "I have hope". They were just standing there all along West Georgia smiling at people and...
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I was sixteen when I first indulged in what has been described as ‘Earth centered parochialism’. In simple terms, I was arguing for the existence of flying saucers and alien civilizations visiting our planet. Now some five decades on I find myself more than a little...
A yellow, hairy spider that lives in the rainforests of Malaysia has been named after singer David Bowie. The spider was discovered by spider specialist Peter Jaeger, who has found over 200 new species of spider in the last ten years - most of them endangered. Jaeger named...
CUE Center for Missing Persons 2009 Road To Remember Tour will stop in Myrtle Beach, SC to honor the memory of Alice Donovan whose remains were found January, 2009, after being missing for over six years. Hosted by her daughters, Angie Gilchrist and Jennifer Warner. Also at...
created by Delilah | 13 wks ago | updated 13 wks ago 304 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
" Like coffee beans, cocoa beans are grown around the world and are a major commodity, highly prized in wealthy countries. West Africa accounts for 70 percent of the world's output, with the rest grown either...
You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...
opinion by dysamoria | 21 wks ago | updated 21 wks ago 219 views | 12 recommendations | 7 comments
World Environment Day is celebrated every year on June 5, and the theme for this year is 'Your Planet Needs You-UNite to Combat Climate Change'. Started in 1972 by the UN General Assembly, it marked the opening of...
created by Amy Judd | 25 wks ago | updated 25 wks ago 2300 views | 42 recommendations | 12 comments
More than 1,200 walkers and volunteers will gather at Mall C in downtown Cleveland for the Annual Walk to Empower. This is the third one to be held in Cleveland.The goal of this event is to raise $175,000, as well as breast cancer awareness.This event will be held...
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If you have a site or a blog and you really want to help educate your readers about this new strain of the Swine Flu virus, no worries the United States Dept of Health & Human Services and Center for Disease...
opinion by BPB1 | 30 wks ago | updated 30 wks ago 467 views | 32 recommendations | 1 comment
I've never understood how anyone could sell or give their child away. How anyone could prostitute their child or sell a child for the means of prostitution. What I can't understand is when the Iraqi...
These two women wrote a story that I've never read before. Stats don't put this out.Melissa Dimore edited the Encyclopedia of Prostitution and Sex Work. She is also the inaugural Chair of the Advisory Board of...
" Author, Connie McLeodDoes this headline make you angry…it should. And if you are righteously angry about children being raped over and over, night after night, for a profit of 9.5 billion a year, making human...
"Amber Alert Awareness Day Tuesday, Jan 13, 2009 It was a story that captured the national spotlight just months ago."Without the amber alert going out i probably would not have made it back," said Paige Alley.For nine days Lathrop teens...