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Oregon`s 13th Annual Bites for Rights is Tomorrow

BRO’s most delicious fundraiser of the year is held at 115 spots across Oregon.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - More than 100 restaurants, coffee shops, carts, bars and bakeries around the state will support equality tomorrow by donating a portion of their day’s proceeds to Basic Rights Oregon.

Oregon Coast Aquarium Invites Divers to Dive with Sharks

If you've been waiting for a chance to swim with the sharks...here you go!

(NEWPORT, Ore.) - Passionate divers may join a pilot "guest dive" program at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.

They will dive with Aquarium sharks and other fishes under the supervision of Aquarium dive guides, and explore the simulated shipwreck in the Halibut Flats exhibit, swim through the kelp and become a part of the Aquarium dive show as visitors in the tunnel watch them and take photos.

Life Behind Wheel Propels Human Relations Roadmap

Maintenance is the key to management. Sloppy oversight reaps negative results.

(SALEM) - This writer was raised in suburban New York City and did not actually get a drivers license until I reached age 40. Thus I became a late bloomer behind the wheel.

Looking back, there are many invisible lessons to be gleaned. When we drive a car, yes indeed, we are interacting with an assortment of very diverse human beings out there.

Traveling the World... For Free

The series is now airing on SCAN-TV Silverton.

(BERLIN, Germany) - In 2010, Wigge zigzagged across 4 continents and 11 countries in 150 days without a cent to his name, but resourcefulness to spare.

His adventures are chronicled in the upcoming television series "How to Travel the World For Free", which starts airing in late April on public and local access television stations in 70 markets across the U.S..

PAKISTAN: Housewife Prevented from Leaving Country to Meet Her Husband

Salem-News.com Eye on the World report.

(DHAKA- Bangladesh) - The illegal and uncalled misuse of the Exit Control List in Pakistan, is being used to stop ordinary citizens, even housewives, from travelling abroad for family unification.

Ms. Zaibul Nigar was stopped by officials at Islamabad Airport and banned from flight without any justifiable reason, because her husband chairs the Balawaristan National Front.

Sri Lanka denies visa to European Parliament group

In the meantime, I will continue to highlight and speak out against what I consider to be war crimes of the Rajapakse regime and to defend the right to self determination by the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

(LONDON Sri Lanka Guardian) - I was meant to travel to Sri Lanka this week as part of an official delegation from the GUE/NGL (Left group in European Parliament). The idea to travel to Sri Lanka came from the meeting I hosted in the Parliament a few months ago about the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

My wish to go was strengthened by the many meetings I have had with the Tamil Diaspora, and others active on the issue of Tamil rights, in the recent period.

Kudos to Timothy Kalyegira who Speaks Truth to any Power

A lesson on Google's fat envelopes for poor souls from the Sub-Saharan Africa.

(JOHANNESBURG ) - George Orwell condemned the sending of poor children from downtrodden parentage to a school for rich kids from affluent family. If memory serves me right, he dubbed it as the worst crime that can be inflicted on a child.

Southern Living, The First Lady of Tennessee, Caramel Cake & CoCo

THE GOOD STUFF with Coco McCain

(CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.) - Spring in the South is glorious and Spring Break is even better! We’ve had a marvelous break—but it’s great to be back ...and there’s a lot to catch up on!

Here’s what we’ve been up to this Spring Break - in as much of a chronological order as I can remember. (More on each event later!)

Corban Students and Staff Band Together to Help Terminally Ill Student Graduate

A few credits short, Corban’s Academic Council voted to award Sara Swenson her the Bachelor of Communication degree.

(SALEM, Ore.) - At the Corban University Homecoming celebration in October, Corban senior Sara Swenson gave a personal testimony about her battle with cancer that gave glory to God and moved many to tears.

Swenson was diagnosed with various forms of cancer in June 2009 following her junior year at Corban.

Tourist Town at a Crossroads

Today's story is a general update on the situation in the town of Zihuatanejo on Mexico's Pacific Coast.

(ZIHUATANEJO Guerrero, Mexico) - Flanked by multi-colored palm trees sparkling in lights of psychedelia, a group of top-hatted singers entertains a crowd of locals and tourists with a rendition of Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York."

Later, backed by a bass-thumping band, 17-year old high school student Elida Salbasa belts out her version of Tejana legend Selena's "Like a Flower."