By Fabiola Ortiz Brazil Correspondent RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (IPS) – The FIFA World Cup being played in Brazil has sounded a warning for organisations fighting exploitation of children and adolescents, during an event that has attracted 3.7 million tourists ...
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Exco Levi Headlines CHIN Picnic’s Caribbean Stage
Billed as the world’s largest free multicultural picnic, the CHIN Picnic takes place on Saturday, June 28, Sunday 29 and Tuesday, July 1, 2014. First held in 1967, one year after CHIN Radio/TV International was founded by the late Johnny ...
Read More »Gamma Creole Band Performing At Durham Caribbean Festival
Based in Toronto, Peter Sandy’s Gamma Creole Band is set to entertain Durham next Sunday, June 29, at the Durham Caribbean Festival being held at the Greenwood Conservation Area in Ajax. The festival is the highlight of Ajax Caribbean Week—as ...
Read More »No-Bake Cherry Cheesecake
3 cups sweet cherries, halved and pitted 1 cup sour cream, room temperature 1/3 cup sugar 1 2/3 cups vanilla wafer or shortbread cookies, finely ground 1/3 cup sugar ½ cup Mascarpone cheese, room temperature 2 tsp. Balsamic vinegar 2 ...
Read More »Chicken Carbonara
12 ounces linguine 4 slices bacon 12 ounces boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into ½-inch chunks ¼ tsp. salt ¼ tsp. pepper 1 medium shallot, finely chopped 2 cloves garlic, crushed with press 4 large eggs 1/3 cup freshly grated ...
Read More »Meatloaf With Chili Sauce
½ cup milk 4 slices sandwich bread, torn into pieces 1 ½ pounds ground sirloin 1 ½ pounds ground pork 2 small onions, finely chopped 6 cloves garlic, minced ½ cup chili sauce, plus ¼ cup for glaze 1 cup ...
Read More »Prevent Type 2 Diabetes In Kids
NC – One in three Canadian children born in 2000 will be diagnosed with type 1 or type 2 diabetes in his or her lifetime, according to the Canadian Diabetes Association, and the number of kids with type 2 diabetes ...
Read More »11-Year-Old Author And Black Belt Shares Tips For Kids With Big Dreams
One of every five adults are procrastinators, and college students are even worse – 70 percent of them put off tasks, according to a DePaul University study. At just 11 years old, Walter Levin knows that is not the way ...
Read More »Be Prepared When Exercising And Playing In The Heat
NC – Canadians wait so long for summer to arrive that some of us overdo it when exercising outdoors, especially during unexpected heat and humidity early in the season. It takes a while for our bodies to become acclimatized to ...
Read More »Breast Cancer And Vitamin D: A Lifeline For Patients?
It’s well known that Vitamin D has many important health benefits, and new research shows it may help the chances of surviving breast cancer. In 2007, researchers showed women who took vitamin D (1,100 IU per day) and calcium (1,400-1,500 ...
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