The keynote speaker at one seminar I attended made this statement - "We all wear masks". As I pondered on what possible meanings that statement might have, I realised that this is a general summation of humanity. Regardless of whom we are and at diff ...
Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 1:31PM
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"The time to relax is when you don't have time for it." Author Unkown >>>
Relaxation is not something everyone can afford these days. With all the demands of life—career, social and personal—it is hard to find time for ourselves to truly relax. Ju ...
Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 1:23PM
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Armstrong considers herself a family woman. She says she's been without a partner for "many years, and that's a choice" - deciding to put her energies into her work and her familyl; She even moved to Australia to be closer to them. Unbeknownst to ...
Posted Monday, August 1st 2011 at 11:35AM
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A financial consultant says she was kicked off her JetBlue flight after a supervisor demanded to know if she was wearing underwear, then allegedly stuck his walkie-talkie between her legs. Malinda Knowles, 27, is now suing JetBlue, the supervisor and ...
Posted Friday, July 29th 2011 at 12:03AM
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Here we go again with another SCANDAL! Rememeber when former NY Attorney Gen Andrew Coumo broke the news back in 2007 that revealed widespread unethical relationships between schools and lenders, with colleges and universities accepting gifts and ot ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 8:45PM
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(CNN) -- Every morning before school, nine-year-old Terisia Techu would undergo a painful procedure. Her mother would take a burning hot pestle straight out of a fire and use it to press her breasts. With tears in her eyes as she recalls what it was ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 8:38PM
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A former top Maori Language Commission executive has been arrested in Argentina, accused of smuggling cocaine out of the country in a bottomless suitcase. Wellington woman Sharon Armstrong was on her way to visit a man she met on a dating website an ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 3:23PM
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Kissing Outside the Lines, actress Diane Farr gives us a broader window into these relationships. Diane Farr, who is known for award-winning TV series like “Numb3rs,” “Rescue Me” and “Californication,” is Italian American and she married a Korean Ame ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 2:39PM
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If there’s any good to come out of the verdict in the Casey Anthony murder trial, it might be this: Maybe now, white Americans can get past the verdict in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial. I teach a writing class at Johns Hopkins University in ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 11:09AM
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(EURweb) It seems that Ray Metoyer, a Atlanta based TV producer and blogger has a bone to pick with CNN and Piers Morgan, reports Journal-isms. Recently, Metoyer, who’s also a blogger for Cascade Patch, wrote how he doesn’t normally watch Morgan on C ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 10:58AM
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I had an interesting conversation with another Black Woman the other day. We were talking about her observation at work and how while working on Post Partum, she observes how many Black women are there having babies without the father present but st ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 10:53AM
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I know I'm late, but I was on holiday when this story first happened, but what is up with SOME men these days? Dallas Cowboys safety Roy E. Williams got upset recently when he asked Miss Texas USA, Brooke Daniels, for her hand in marriage with a $76 ...
Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 10:35AM
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Posted Thursday, July 28th 2011 at 10:10AM
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When New Jersey massage therapist Ericka Randall first met Patrick Evans, she was in a bad mood. She was turning 30, and all her friends had forgotten her birthday. She connected with Evans, now 42, on a music social networking site. He had no photo ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 11:19PM
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The first African-American Playboy Playmate of the Month was Jennifer Jackson (featured blog pik), who appeared in the March 1965 issue. According to The Playmate Book, she is now a social worker who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband. S ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 6:45PM
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Brokenhearted not, Hugh Hefner is having a little fun after getting jilted by fiancée Crystal Harris. Hefner, 85, Tweeted Wednesday that July's Playboy cover featuring Harris, 25, will be affixed with a sticker that reads, "Runaway bride in this issu ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 6:00PM
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New York (CNN) -- Thirty designers, three days and one all-important catwalk -- welcome to Africa Fashion Week in New York. Now in its second year, the show, is already an established event. Between July 11 and July 17, fashion elites from across th ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 5:32PM
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Lord,
We pray for optimum health, mental clarity and political prosperity for President Barack H. Obama. We pray that as he reaches this milestone (50th Birthday) in his life that you would continue to grant him peace, prosperity, and many happy r ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 5:15PM
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Interview:
Jen Fad is a Christian Working Mom (CWM); a trained registered nurse by profession who has been married for 10 years and has a child entering first grade. Jen shares the following joys in being a CWM:
~ I have the opportunity to balanc ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 3:00PM
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NEW YORK (AP) — The biggest evidence yet that investors are concerned about keeping their money safe: they're selling stocks of small companies. Those stocks usually fall much more than large-company stocks if the economy slows down or the stock mar ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 2:28PM
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A Super Bladder–Able to hold all bodily functions for at least 14 hours (without pain!).
“Vein” Ray Vision–No more palpating! No more multiple sticks! My super eyes can see the best vein on the first try!
Cloning–the ability to actually be in m ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 2:13PM
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Nationwide -- As the fall season approaches, WomenScholarships.org continues to give away a $10,000 monthly scholarship award to a female who is 18 years of age or older. The scholarship award is designed to help women and moms, who make up nearly tw ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 10:53AM
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In America at this time of year we talk a lot about freedom, and that's only appropriate. The French writer Alexis de Toqueville once called America "the most enlightened and free nation of the earth." The Bible also talks about freedom. It says, "Th ...
Posted Wednesday, July 27th 2011 at 9:58AM
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