Every year over 21 million shipping pallets end up in a landfill. Used worldwide to ship goods of all kinds in mass quantities, a Brooklyn-based design firm looked past the intended use of a pallet and saw a versatile, recyclable, sustainable and inexpensive building material that could be used to a... Read more...
I dont want to sway your opinion with mine so I'll let Margel tell his story & let the music speak for itself... 985. Here is my Classical, Jazz, Gospel, Hip Hop, Electronic, Soul, Alternative, etc, music influences in one place. Latest tracks by Margel Sophant Read more...
On January 13, 2010 Pat Robertson, founder and chairman of the Christian Broadcasting Network, stated that Haiti “swore a pact to the devil.” This was one day after a 7.0 earthquake rocked the island nation resulting in massive loss of life. The “pact” Robertson so confidently ment... Read more...
Children in Haiti are being sold for as little as 76 pence each (pennies) by traffickers taking advantage of the chaos from last year's earthquake, new figures from Unicef show. Some youngsters are ending up in the care of well meaning but ignorant European families, while others are being forced... Read more...
Distressing reports came in at 12:00am, election day, March 20 2011, that hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean had been shot and was at a hospital seeking treatment. Earlier reports claimed that Jean was passing through Delmas #65 at 11:00pm in Port-au-Prince when a hail of gunfire was showered into th... Read more...
[vodpod id=Video.5742188&w=425&h=350&fv=%26rel%3D0%26border%3D0%26] A ferocious tsunami spawned by one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded slammed Japan's eastern coast Friday, killing at least 60 people as it swept away boats, cars and homes while widespread fires burned out o... Read more...

Makeshift shanties pass as homes in Haiti at least for those fortunate enough to have them. Little has changed in the island nation, which was already overtystricken and troubled before it was torn apart by an earthquake a year ago. More than 800 thousand live in disease-ridden makeshift camps ... Read more...

Popular morning show jock DJ Cipha Sounds has been suspended from New York radio station Hot 97 indefinitely, over on-air comments made about Haitians. It is not known when Cipha Sounds will return to co-host the "Cipha Sounds and Paul Rosenberg Morning Show," where the comments were made. A... Read more...
The United Nations has warned that the cholera epidemic in Haiti could affect many more people than previously believed. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that health officials now estimated that 650,000 people could become infected over the next six months. He also said that the UN believ... Read more...