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This summer, on June 29-July 1, former ex-gays and their allies will have an unprecedented opportunity to meet, share resources, and add their voices to a growing social movement. The Ex-gay Survivor's Conference, which will take place on the University of California's Irvine campus, is co-sponsored by Soulforce, beyondexgay.com, and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center at the University of California, Irvine.

Women all over the world may now experience "The Wonder, The Wisdom, The Power of Women," featuring leaders of the women's spirituality movement, right in their own homes. The Beltane Papers: A Journal of Women's Mysteries, a magazine of women's spirituality for over 20 years, is presenting the first ever Women's Spirituality Tele-Festival May 14 through the 18th, 2007.

When signing up for an account on MySpace, a popular social networking site, and filling out the "Background and Lifestyle" area of your profile, if you are a gay male MySpace doesn't list that as a possible sexual orientation.

Candy Feuer has developed a new design for a greenhouse on Mars. Her fellow students are working on lunar outposts and space exploration transfer vehicles as well as designs for other structures that would be habitable on the Martian surface.

Carvings on the 600 hundred year old Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland represent a coded form of a musical score, the father-and-son team of Tommy J. Mitchell, 75 and Stuart Mitchell, 41, say.

"Rosslyn Chapel holds a musical mystery in its architecture and design. At one end of the chapel, on the ceiling are 4 cross-sections of arches containing elaborate symbolic designs on each array of cubes (in actual fact they are rectangles mostly). The 'cubes' are attached to the arches in a musically sequential way. And to confirm this, at the ends of each arch there is an angel playing a musical instrument of a different kind. After 27 years of study and research by [Stuart's father Thomas J. Mitchell], we believe he has found the pitches and tonality that match the symbols on each cube, revealing its melodic and harmonic progressions," said T. Mitchell on a statement posted on his website.

In late March a dog and cat food recall distressed pet lovers across the country as 60 million containers of food, distributed by 95 brands of food were swept from the shelves across the United States and Canada in a preemptive effort to save the lives of pets. Since that time, more brands have been added now representing over 130 recalled.

San Francisco is the most humane city in America, according to a study carried out by The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and released today. Seattle came in second and Portland third. According to the survey, The San Francisco metro area (San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont) is twice as humane as the average large metropolitan area.

Northern Michigan residents turned in tens of thousands of pills plus narcotics with an estimated street value of half a million dollars during the third annual Earth Keeper Clean Sweep. Superior Watershed Partnership Director Carl Lindquist said over one ton of medicines and personal care products were turned in by the public during the 2006 Pharmaceutical Clean Sweep. Organizers said the collected narcotics have an estimated street value of $500,000.

(Wikinews) At least 45 people are reported to have eaten pork from a hog farm in Ceres, California where pigs were fed feed which has been recalled because of contamination with the chemical melamine.

New reports have emerged detailing the extent of the efforts by the Iranian government to purge Western cultural influences in Iran that are deemed un-Islamic. Based on Iran's Islamic Sharia law, non-compliance results in legal punishment, because the state sees itself responsible in executing punishment for Islamic theological sins.