Advocacy

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• Monday Morning Music Mix -Education News From All Over ~11-16-2009

  
  Music, Technology and Education: Mustech.net — Authority: 111
    Today’s Monday Morning Music Mix (grab your favorite heated beverage and “take five”): Monday’s Music Quote, John Coltrane: “You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere”. The Morning Music News Follows Directly, Standby: 6 Ways for Teachers to Stay Current : Quick and ...
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• Law & Social Change: The True Significance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 157
  Pauline Park On a solemn occasion such as this, when we remember those we have lost to violence and hate, it is important to understand precisely what legislation and law can and cannot do. Non-discrimination laws – such as the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) and the Dignity for All Students Act ...
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• Are We Racially Color Blind Yet?

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 607
  In a politically correct world, we’re supposed to pretend that we don’t notice differences between people. But in our effort to make everyone feel good about how racially-sensitive they are toward others, we delude ourselves in thinking that race doesn’t matter any more. Sadly, the research suggests otherwise. ...
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• The Arab and Western Media Responses to Darfur

  
  Making Sense of Darfur — Authority: 127
  It is frequently heard that Arabs/Muslims and their media were silent, unmoved or without opinion over Darfur. These suppositions tend to contain a measure of moral equivalence and finger-pointing, suggesting that responding as a Westerner — regardless of the quality, timing or efficacy of response — is the most ...
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• Oreo’s Survival Ends With Euthanization

  
  Animal Blawg — Authority: 463
  Tiffany Gallo On June 18, 2009 New Yorkers were outraged and saddened to hear that a one-year old pit bull mix was beaten and thrown off the roof of a six floor building in Brooklyn.  Oreo suffered two broken legs and a fractured ribcage, but miraculously survived the fall. After months of rehabilitation, the ...
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• How To Become A Successful Call Center Professional With A Fast-Paced Career Progress

  
  Education & Careers — Authority: 133
  The contact center environment presents a tough and demanding but enjoyable and fast-paced career for people with endowment and purpose. This is the only industry I know where people can reach 2nd level positions within a year and 3rd or 4th level ranks within as quick as 5 years. In nearly all other industries, ...
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• Betavine Social Exchange Needs Your Help!

  
  MobileActive.org - A global network of people using mobile technology for social impact. — Authority: 131
  Would you give 15 minutes of your time for a really good cause (and a chance to win a prize)? Vodafone has recently launched a new version of Betavine, the open mobile application community. This new version encompasses a pilot project called "Social Exchange" , which aims to foster the creation of mobile ...
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• Religious Left Emerges, Religious Right Erodes

  
  Cocking A Snook! — Authority: 125
  From my hometown newspaper this morning at the heart of Gator Nation and in the South — even though it’s something I can be proud of this time rather than apologize for, like what passes for good communal citizenship just down the road from UF in a giant corporate enclave of relatively wealthy and self-serving ...
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• m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 2— unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2060)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 131
  Pesticides & Politics, Part 2 the second of two guest blogs concerning medical cannabis safety by M. Backes November 11, 2009 The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office found 5.25% of the cannabis samples tested from purchases made at Los Angeles dispensaries (3 out of 52 samples) to contain pesticide ...
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• m. backes, about medical marijuana: part 1—unraveling LA city atty’s pesticide story (2059)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 131
  Pesticides & Politics, part 1 (This is a guest blog by M. Backes, responding to allegations by City Attorney Carmen Trutanich about pesticides on medical cannabis.) October 15, 2009 LA City Attorney, Carmen “Nuch” Trutanich, has been all over the media trying to convince Los Angeles that a ...
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• Autism Hearts hosts first-ever International Autism Conference in Manila

  
  Marriage and Beyond — Authority: 126
  Around the world, the number of children identified with ASD has nearly reached epidemic proportions. In United States, the rate is now one in every 91 children and still rising, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the Philippines, it is estimated that about 500,000 people in the country ...
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• Bicycle Trailers: Who Needs A Car?

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 607
  Sure, you love riding your bicycle, but when you need to lug something heavy across town, that little basket on our handle bars is not going to help much.  So, rather than reaching for your car keys, why not get yourself a bicycle trailer to help you carry your groceries or whatever else you need to transport, and ...
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• World Diabetes Day.

  
  Six Until Me. — Authority: 574
  Happy World Diabetes Day to my friends in the diabetes community!!!
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• john hoeffel, latimes: AMA jumps into medical cannabis fray (2058)

  
  aids-write.org — Authority: 131
  Medical marijuana gets a boost from major doctors group The American Medical Assn. changes its policy to promote clinical research and development of cannabis-based medicines and alternative delivery methods. By John Hoeffel November 11, 2009 The American Medical Assn. on Tuesday urged the federal ...
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• Focussed work-hours, and the Studio Manifesto

  
  T=Machine — Authority: 458
  David Sirlin’s just done a writeup of Flashbang studios recent experiment with work hours : “The first part of their theory is that we really only get about 2 hours of seriously focused, amazing-quality work per day–if we’re lucky. Maybe you can get 2.5 or 3 sometimes, but that’s pushing it. There are so ...
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• The Art of The Bacon Strip

  
  Bike Carson — Authority: 420
  Ride: Bike Art by Brian Raszka How would you like to have this painting all to yourself, and support northern Nevada art and cycling at the same time? Here’s the deal from Team Bacon Strip: I’d like to introduce Brian Raszka, local artist, commercial illustrator, web designer and cyclist. He’s a mountain ...
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• My Helmet-Wearing Criteria

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 123
  Disclaimer: While I definitely have opinions about bicycle riding, everything I write on Carbon Trace should be read as my telling you about what I do and not my telling you what you should do. Further, this site is about utility bicycling (including short-distance commuting), not sport bicycling. I am most ...
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• Free Gas USA

  
  Specialgathering's Weblog — Authority: 127
  With funds being cut from the State of Florida, I occasionally hear of people who are really hurting.  Perhaps this would be a way to help off-set some of your expenses if yours or your child’s transportation funding has been cut. Subject: Free Gas USA Dear Friends, We would like to let you know about an ...
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• November 14th of every year is World Diabetes Day

  
  So far, so good — Authority: 114
  As a physician and having had very close family members currently surviving the challenge of this disease, I have seen first hand the personal, social, and economic cost of diabetes. To put things in a bigger perspective, the campaigners of the international celebration of World Diabetes Day put together this set of ...
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• downtown INDOOR bike parking?

  
  Bike Providence — Authority: 417
  According to this post at GCPVD , the renovated Mercantile Block (an AS220 building on Washington St) will include 20 indoor bicycle parking spaces.  Does anyone reading this know more?  Will these spaces be reserved only for residents of the building, or will some be made available to downtown bike commuters who ...
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