Motivational Tip: If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Health Tip: Eat foods that are high in fiber. A high fiber diet improves your digestive tract, absorbs excess cholesterol and ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2011 at 2:25PM
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March 11, 2011
ALERT: Massive Quake, Tsunami Hit Japan, Hawaii and US Pacific on Tsunami Alert
Please pray with us this day for those in Japan. We, at the Elijah List, have family right now in Japan who have been reported safe, but some stran ...
Posted Friday, March 11th 2011 at 9:24AM
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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will bring together Americans from across the country affected by bullying. On Thursday, the Obamas will welcome students, parents and teachers to the White House for a conference on bullying prev ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2011 at 3:23PM
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Seventeen-year-old Olympic boxing hopeful Ronald “Roc” Gibbs was anointed “the Roc of Upton Boxing.” And it was a title he carried with grace and honor.
But last weekend, his promising life was snuffed out as he attempted to defend his old ...
Posted Thursday, March 10th 2011 at 3:15PM
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The reality of life is that we sometimes have to work with people that we don’t like. Worse then that, sometimes we end up working with people that we absolutely hate and wish more than anything that we could vaporize them into oblivion. Although m ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 7:50PM
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Are you interested in strengthening your expertise in Positive Discipline? I think you'll love Cheryl Erwin, our next teleconference presenter. Her topic is: Keeping Your Adlerian Sanity In A Medical Model World! Cheryl's presentations are clear, in ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 7:17PM
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We've partnered with Google to offer our entire 65-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It's an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 7:15PM
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House Republicans voted to cut $83 million from President Obama’s request for the Legal Services Corporation, the federally financed nonprofit program that provides civil legal help to low-income Americans.
The corporation supports 136 programs ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 2:13PM
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BRONXVILLE, N.Y. — This wealthy New York suburb prides itself on its public schools. Class sizes are small. Students can choose from an array of subjects not offered everywhere. Teacher pay ranks among the nation’s highest. And voters long approv ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 2:11PM
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Motivational Tip: 99% of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. Excuses have no place among the ranks of the successful. Replace excuses with personal accountability, and you're sure to win!!!
Health Tip: Ban trans-fa ...
Posted Wednesday, March 9th 2011 at 2:01PM
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In celebration of Women’s History Month, we thought it would be fitting to uplift those African-American women who have strived for our betterment and worked tirelessly to bring love and strength to the Black community.
In 'We Rise: Speeches by ...
Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 11:38PM
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Jennifer Hudson says she prepared for her role as Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie in an upcoming biopic by confining herself to an African prison cell for five days after learning Winnie served more than 500 days in solitary confinement.
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Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 11:32PM
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TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Students at the Bialik-Rogozin school in a rundown Tel Aviv neighborhood have survived genocide, war and famine. But they were all smiles on Monday after learning that a documentary about their plight had won an Academy Awar ...
Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 11:24PM
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Everyday in America thousands of women and teenagers seek medically induced abortions. Often the women and teenagers who seek to have an abortion have been deceived to believe that their pregnancy is little more than a mass of tissue, a non-living bl ...
Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 11:08PM
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There are many topics I could talk about when the subject of abortion and its harmful effects on women and men and most certainly the deadly effects on the children it victimizes is mentioned.
But I am going to share briefly about the historical ...
Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 10:58PM
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Here's an interesting comment I read on a blog by a blogger in regards to the above question, 'Should All Abortions Be Illegal?'
The way unwanted children were dealt with BERORE abortion was legalized, was through adoption. Unwed mothers today ar ...
Posted Tuesday, March 8th 2011 at 3:10PM
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Jennifer Hudson has truly traveled the distance of a lifetime in 29 years. From the Chicago churches that nurtured her budding talent, to Hollywood stages, where she picked up award after award culminating in Oscar triumph for “Dreamgirls,” Hudso ...
Posted Monday, March 7th 2011 at 11:18PM
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The nation's employers added a net 192,000 jobs in February,
the Labor Department reported on Friday. That was close to
economists' expectations of 196,000 jobs. The change for January was meanwhile revised to a gain of 63,000 from an initially rep ...
Posted Monday, March 7th 2011 at 11:11PM
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You’re probably wondering why you need to know what vitamins are best for you because you already take a multivitamin. Use this list, which includes the top 10 vitamins African American women need and the recommended intake. Vitamin A
The recomme ...
Posted Monday, March 7th 2011 at 11:07PM
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Motivational Tip: Take the attitude of a student; never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new. There's no limit to how far you can go when you are committed to learning something new every day!!
Health Tip: Drink ...
Posted Monday, March 7th 2011 at 3:07PM
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March 4, 2011 Twenty-seven percent of young men and 29 percent of young women ages 15-24 have never had any kind of sex, according to a study by the National Center for Health Statistics. That’s up from the 2005 report, in which the numbers were ...
Posted Sunday, March 6th 2011 at 9:13PM
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DOYLESTOWN, Pa. — Alone with his psychiatrist, the patient confided that his newborn had serious health problems, his distraught wife was screaming at him and he had started drinking again. With his life and second marriage falling apart, the man s ...
Posted Sunday, March 6th 2011 at 7:10PM
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MIAMI (AP) — The side door to the newly refurbished gym opened, a blast of sunlight splashed into the darkened corner, and 100 children began shrieking in unison. LeBron James was thrilled. "It never gets old," James said. That was the reception W ...
Posted Friday, March 4th 2011 at 12:50AM
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Thanks for your concern, Life Always, but there are other places to put your energy. The big billboard in New York City’s Soho District blared the offense: “The most dangerous place for an African-American child is in the womb.” Thus, in one f ...
Posted Friday, March 4th 2011 at 12:34AM
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