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Passers by in Passing Words

If we had never defined borders and nationalities, would we live and leave more peaceful lives for the seventh child of the seventh child? Perhaps not so why not try to live better with each other despite our boundaries?

Timeline of the Current Turmoil in Turkey

Nervana

Erdogan photo( Turkish PM Erdogan)

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Egypt’s Animals Find a Home in Luxor

Egyptian Streets

Who said donkeys couldn't be cute? This is felix, one of ACE's residents. Who said donkeys couldn’t be cute? This is felix, one of ACE’s residents.

By Helen Collins, a volunteer at Animal Care Egyp

ACE, an independent UK and Egyptian charity, seeks to promote animal welfare through healthcare and education initiatives. The founders, Kim Taylor and Julie Wartenburg, were inspired to create ACE while visiting Luxor during a holiday from the UK in the 1990s.

The source of their inspiration was the very poor conditions of the working horses and donkeys they encountered on their visit. They believed that improved education in animal husbandry and better facilities for animal care would improve the animals’ quality of life.

Everyone needs a home. Everyone needs a home.

They started by renting a small plot of land and set up a washing area for people to bring their animals to be cleaned. After this initial step, ACE was registered as a charity in the UK and Egypt. As…

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Lay off the women in running tutus (and that includes you, SELF)

Fit and Feminist

You’ve probably all seen that list of the top ten professions that attract psychopaths going around by now, right?  I’ve seen it a few times, mainly because I run in circles with journalists and TV news people, and those professions both cracked the top ten.  As much as I want to lodge a protest on behalf of my profession and say that we aren’t all heartless jerks who view people as little more than fodder to fill our various news holes/magazine spaces/on-air times, sometimes I see a decision made by a media outlet that is so heartless, so cruel that I cannot help but think that the psychopath-career list is more accurate than I am comfortable with.

One of those instances just happened with SELF magazine.  SELF is getting called out in a big way because, well, here:

Monika Allen says she was excited to receive an email from…

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Pro-gay marriage and a Firefox user? You may want to change web browser

Pride's Purge

(not satire!)

New Firefox CEO donated to anti-gay marriage campaign

If you’re pro-equal marriage and a Firefox user you might want to think about changing your choice of web browser.

Mozilla’s new CEO is Brendan Eich – who has a history of donating to anti-gay marriage campaigns such as California’s notorious Proposition 8, a campaign to ban same-sex marriage.

The Mozilla Foundation finances Firefox:

LGBT Developers Boycott Firefox After Anti-Gay CEO Takes Office

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