I found this blurb elsewhere on another blog (http://soundingcircle.com/newslog2.php/__show_article/_a000195-000574.htm):

Controlling the Outcome ( Read more... )

ZERO HOUR ( Read more... )

How did 100,000,000 women disappear?

Jun 06, 2009 04:30 AM, NICOLE BAUTE, STAFF REPORTER

In India, China and sub-Saharan Africa, millions upon millions of women are missing. They are not lost, but dead: victims of violence, discrimination and neglect ( Read more... )

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One of the best tracks I have "discovered" on the interweb is a live, acoustic version of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" by Pearl Jam. Quickie research tells me the performance took place at "Gorge '06" -- somehow, 2006 shouldn't feel so long ago but it does. The song in the original is great (the delivery of the chorus, especially), but I love ( Read more... )

One of the best tracks I have "discovered" on the interweb is a live, acoustic version of Tom Petty's "I Won't Back Down" by Pearl Jam. Quickie research tells me the performance took place at "Gorge '06" -- somehow, 2006 shouldn't feel so long ago but it does. The song in the original is great (the delivery of the chorus, especially), but I love ( Read more... )

All things are well
And all things are well
And all manner of things are well.

-- 14th century prayer

Toronto-based dentist wins torturous desert race

PHINJO GOMBU
STAFF REPORTER
A Toronto-based Canadian Forces dentist has won a gruelling weeklong, 250 kilometre footrace across Chile’s Atacama Desert beating out more experienced runners from more than two dozen countries including several Olympians ( Read more... )

Toronto-based dentist wins torturous desert race

PHINJO GOMBU
STAFF REPORTER
A Toronto-based Canadian Forces dentist has won a gruelling weeklong, 250 kilometre footrace across Chile’s Atacama Desert beating out more experienced runners from more than two dozen countries including several Olympians ( Read more... )

The Guardian editorial,from Saturday, Feb. 7

Ill-advised remarks by a new senatorSenator Mike Duffy's remarks do little to advance the interests of Islanders ( Read more... )