Jen Fad,
My son Sergio and his friend Julio spent almost a year in prison for a crime they didn't commit. Last week, for the first time in 10 months, I saw my son Sergio and his best friend Julio outside of a prison wall. After more than 195,000 ...
Posted Thursday, September 12th 2013 at 12:28PM
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Birth rates for US women in their teens and 20s dropped to new lows in 2012, according to preliminary data published online September 6 in the National Vital Statistics Reports, published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National C ...
Posted Tuesday, September 10th 2013 at 11:46AM
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Here at American Baby, we usually get it right -- but we can't stop laughing at our biggest bloopers from the past 75 years. Yikes.
THEN: There is no necessity for trying to entertain a baby. You will only tire him out and spoil his day. June 1946 ...
Posted Monday, September 9th 2013 at 2:23PM
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Many parents wonder if their child really needs the chickenpox vaccine. This is what the experts say.
We often think of chickenpox as a harmless, if annoying, rite of childhood. And while it often is mild, the disease can also be very serious and ...
Posted Saturday, September 7th 2013 at 1:40PM
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A message from America's Mayors: Parents Send Congress Back to School on Background Checks -- Every day in America, seven kids are murdered with guns. That's why this week, supporters across the country are delivering seven backpacks filled with peti ...
Posted Saturday, September 7th 2013 at 1:24PM
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Miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy in the first 20 weeks. (In medical articles, you may see the term "spontaneous abortion" used in place of miscarriage.) About 10 to 20 percent of known pregnancies end in miscarriage, and more than 80 percent of ...
Posted Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 at 9:06PM
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Major discoveries in the cancer world are pointing toward more personalized methods for treating cancer, giving a better explanation and solution as to why only a small percentage of people respond satisfactorily to chemotherapy treatments. In this a ...
Posted Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 at 10:11AM
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Everyone knows that higher education in Canada requires a significant cash outlay for tuition alone, but the size of that outlay depends on what you’re studying. From medicine to math, Brighter Life compares the average cost of one year’s tuition in ...
Posted Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 at 10:01AM
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Liberia, a war-torn nation in Africa, has an educational system their politicians are not proud of. In fact, the nation’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, called it “a mess.” According to a University of Liberia consultant, James Dorbor Jallah, most ...
Posted Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 at 10:00AM
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Please STOP it already! You are as tired and as lame as Ole Irma with these rant filled blogs. No one on these Connect Platform sites cares to follow you to Hell.
Repent and be ye healed in the Name of The Lord Jesus, the Christ- The Anointed ...
Posted Tuesday, September 3rd 2013 at 9:20AM
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In spite of escalating turmoil in our world, there still remains one last great outpouring of mercy before the time of the end (see Matthew 24:14; Acts 2:17). This supernatural season is not something for which we must beg God. No, its coming has bee ...
Posted Sunday, September 1st 2013 at 2:31PM
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Johannesburg (CNN) -- Nelson Mandela has been discharged from the Pretoria hospital where he had been receiving treatment since June, the South African president's office said Sunday. He will continue his recovery at home. "Madiba's condition remai ...
Posted Sunday, September 1st 2013 at 2:10PM
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I don't know about ya'll, but I have been praying that our Military not be called to go to intervene in Syria but rather the International Community decide together. It seems to me that our Military has been slaughtered enough at the expense of thei ...
Posted Saturday, August 31st 2013 at 3:47PM
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Wednesday, 28 Aug 2013 One of the most common responses to the patient with a set of complaints that do not fall into a well-known medical syndrome pattern is to assume the person is suffering from “mental problems.”
Time and time again I hear st ...
Posted Saturday, August 31st 2013 at 10:35AM
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Date: Sat, 1600-08-26; This date celebrates Gullah, an African-American language, mainly spoken along the Southeastern coast of the United States, especially on the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina.
The word is also used for people who ...
Posted Saturday, August 31st 2013 at 10:33AM
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A leading human rights group has called on Dunkin’ Donuts to withdraw a “bizarre and racist” advertisement for chocolate donuts that shows a smiling woman in blackface makeup.
The Dunkin’ Donuts franchise in Thailand launched a campaign earlier th ...
Posted Saturday, August 31st 2013 at 12:28AM
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Throughout my life I've come to realize that serving the Lord is often full of twists and turns and sometimes even turbulence—and that how we serve him is multidimensional.
After seminary, I served on the staff of a church in Texas in a variety of m ...
Posted Friday, August 30th 2013 at 11:36PM
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Being considerate is the antidote to the two most common mistakes that we make in relationships. The first mistake we make is reacting to what people say while ignoring how people feel. We pay too much attention to someone’s words and not enough att ...
Posted Friday, August 30th 2013 at 10:55PM
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According to research and advisory firm, Spyglass Consulting Group, 69 percent of hospitals interviewed in a survey released last year had nursing staff using mobile devices on the job to improve patient care and keep up with changes in the medical f ...
Posted Friday, August 30th 2013 at 10:47PM
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You may breathe a huge sigh of relief when your job interview is over. All the prep work, the nervous anticipation, and the stress of the face-to-face interview is finally over and it is out of your hands, you think. Before you relax too much, rememb ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 10:14PM
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An eight-year-old boy killed his grandmother last weekend after playing the violent video game Grand Theft Auto IV. Marie Smothers, 87, was shot in the back of the head as she watched television in her mobile home. She was pronounced dead at the sc ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 9:31AM
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During a recent press conference, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson said that he is “on the verge of dying, because I’m a vicious alcoholic.” “I’m a bad guy sometimes. I did a lot of bad things, and I want to be forgiven,” said the 47-ye ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 1:53AM
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Irma,
Please don't keep doing this! Staying up past your bedtime, littering this good site. Don't you have any volunteer work you have to get up early in the morning to do? Aren't you suppose to sleep early due to your illness? How is that you ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 1:46AM
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Nursing is a microcosm of the larger healthcare industry. As such, it is common to encounter issues in nursing that you would encounter in any other major industry. Of course, different regions and institutions have different experiences. Some place ...
Posted Tuesday, August 27th 2013 at 1:11AM
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Over the years, the mission of the NAACP has strayed from its founding values. More and more black Americans are realizing that the NAACP no longer serves our entire community, but has dedicated itself to silencing those of us unwilling to toe the po ...
Posted Monday, August 26th 2013 at 11:06PM
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