(caribbeanworldnews.com) Guyana’s first president, Arthur Raymond Chung, has died. He was 90 years old. A statement from Guyana’s Office of the President said he had been ‘ailing for some weeks now.’ Chung, a former high court judge, served as president from 1970 to 1980, when the office changed from one that was largely ceremonial to [...]
(via boingboing.net) “It’s too early to tell whether increasing dietary curcumin [through turmeric] intake in obese people with diabetes will show a similar benefit,” Dr. Tortoriello said. “Although the daily intake of curcumin one might have to consume as a primary diabetes treatment is likely impractical, it is entirely possible that lower dosages of curcumin [...]
Most hard-core web users have either seen or used sites like Digg and Reddit at one time or another. These popular news aggregation services use the vote-to-promote model to push interesting user submitted links to the front of their pages. Users then vote on these submissions and the links with the most votes float to [...]
I received this note, it’ll help you figure out how to vote from abroad in a US election – Â I came across a website today that made it really easy for me to register to vote by absentee ballot for the US General Elections in November 2008. I thought it might be useful for those [...]
QUEENS, NY- The 2nd Annual Friends & RPCVs of Guyana Fundraiser, (http://guyfrog.org) will be held on Friday, July 18th at 8:00 pm to Midnight. The fundraiser will be hosted at Liberty Express Restaurant & Bar, 120-12 Liberty Ave, South Richmond Hill, Queens, NY. A raffle will be held during the event, which will include prizes [...]
The RPCV Mentoring Program is now online and both potential mentors and mentees are signing up! Read through this email to learn more and to find out how your group can benefit and participate. Background The RPCV Mentoring program was started in 2007 with a fundamental goal in mind: to connect recently returned Peace Corps [...]
Recently I was reminded of an article by activist and author George Monbiot from a year ago. He argued that “green consumerism” is pointless when trying to affect environmental and social change but that political participation is the most effective course of action. If [green consumerism] merely swapped the damaging goods we buy for less [...]
You can read more about it here and here. Why a Free Month? So that anyone, anywhere can try Idealist at no cost. Usually, job postings on Idealist cost only $60, but this month we are inviting all nonprofit organizations, as well as vendors and consultants who serve the nonprofit sector, to post all their [...]
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