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• A Troubled Reorganization at the Department for the Aging

  
  Public Advocate's Corner — Authority: 119
  MANHATTAN— A 2008 redesign of casemanagement services at the Department for the Aging (DFTA), launched toaccommodate a growing and increasingly diverse older population, left many casemanagement agencies with insufficient funding and large numbers of seniorswithout services. According to a survey released today by ...
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• Biden Appeals to Left on Afghan Policy: ‘Clean Break’ from Bush

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Biden Appeals to Left on Afghan Policy: ‘Clean Break’ from Bush By Peter Wallsten Liberals are angry over President Barack Obama’s new Afghanistan strategy. But the White House apparently feels it can soften the blow of its 30,000-troop surge with the one sentiment that can still unite the left: dislike of George ...
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• Comparing Wine Advocate, Spectator, and Enthusiast: Part III

  
  Washington Wine Report — Authority: 128
  Reminder that nominations for the 2009 Reader Survey Wine of the Year and 2010 Wine to Watch are due by Monday 12/7 at 9pm. Read about the survey here . Last month I wrote two posts comparing how the major publications review Washington wine. In the first, I compared the breadth of coverage of Washington wines ...
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• Meredith Baxter Comes Clear On Her Hitherto Closeted Lesbian Identity

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Meena kar Dec.03 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Actress Meredith Baxter, lovingly called Sitcom Mom has revealed her hitherto closeted Lesbian orientation. She came out in an interview given to the Advocate and followed it up with a special appearance on “Today” show on Wednesday. This has come quite surprising to many of ...
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• DAoS: There are only two kinds of atheist

  
  Thinkers' Podium — Authority: 119
  The truth is not for everyone and the truth can be elusive. If you find this all too stressful, look away now . Atheist dichotomies. Hard-Soft. Weak-Strong. Militant-Tolerant. Bright-Stupid. Nones-Somes. All complete and utter crap. There are only two kinds of atheist. Nevers and evers. Are you an atheist and ...
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• A new kind of blog post – Devil’s Advocate on Steroids

  
  Thinkers' Podium — Authority: 119
  I’ve been known to speak my mind from time to time, and then some. To hyperbolise. But I don’t hyperbolise like a crazy person. When I exaggerate, I know I’m exaggerating . And I’m not exaggerating with the expectation that you’ll take the exaggeration entirely too seriously. If I told you I don’t earn ...
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• U.K. Government Launches Consultation on Role of New Consumer’s Champion

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 451
  Consumer Minister Kevin Brennan has launched a public consultation on the role and powers that will be given to a new champion of consumer rights, the ‘Consumer Advocate’, who will be tasked with ensuring UK consumers get a fairer deal in the future. This is the latest of a series of announcements by the ...
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• Driver who killed teens loses appeal

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A motorist who killed six teenage pedestrians in a crash near Mildura in north-west Victoria in 2006 has lost his application for leave to appeal against his jail term. Thomas Graham Towle was sentenced to 10 years jail with a minimum of seven over the crash at Cardross in which six teenagers died and four others ...
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• Buffalo Trace Ups The Ante.

  
  The Chuck Cowdery Blog — Authority: 123
  The new issue of Malt Advocate is out (Volume 18, Number 4) and it contains a story by me entitled "Buffalo Trace Ups The Ante," starting on page 52. You can go to the web site and read it online, but if youre a whiskey fan you really should subscribe. I started to bug Angela Traver, who runs the PR shop at ...
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• N.Y. Senate rejects gay marriage bill

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York lawmakers rejected a bill Wednesday that would have made their state the sixth to allow gay marriage, disheartening advocates already stung by a similar decision by Maine voters last month. The New York measure failed by a wider-than-expected margin, falling 12 votes short in a 24-38 decision ...
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• Clark Art Institute takes patrons on a virtual tour of 19th-century Rome – Advocate Weekly

  
  Art Institute — Authority: 164
  Clark Art Institute takes patrons on a virtual tour of 19th-century Rome Advocate Weekly Courtesy Clark Art Institute The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, by A.
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• A Deeply Disappointing Outcome

  
  Public Advocate's Corner — Authority: 119
  Iam deeply disappointed that the State Senate today rejected a bill for marriageequality, denying a basic civil right to such a large population of New York residents.Senators Duane and Schneiderman must be applauded for their success in bringingthis bill to the floor—and everyone who voted ‘Yes’, in particular ...
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• Art stories in the New Haven Advocate

  
  Connecticut Art Scene — Authority: 126
  Im doing some freelance writing on visual arts again for the New Haven Advocate . A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about an exhibit at Yales Bein ecke Rare Books Library on the collision of post-World War II avant-garde art and radical politics in "The Revolution Is Curated:" Were the revolutions of the 1960s — ...
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• Bihar court issues non-bailable warrant against Raj Thackeray

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Patna, Dec 2 (IANS) A Bihar court Wednesday issued a non-bailable warrant against Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray in connection with a writ petition filed against him for allegedly making “hate speeches” against Biharis.Muzaffarpur Judicial Magistrate Saheb Kausher asked the Mumbai Police ...
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• Meredith Baxter Comes Out Of The Closet

  
  Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business — Authority: 661
  Congrats and love goes out to Meredith Baxter (formerly Birney ), the actress who famously played Elyse Keaton for many years on the 80’s sitcom Family Ties , who has decided to come out of the closet and reveal herself as a gay mom in the pages of the new issue of People magazine: Most people know ...
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• Newly outed lesbian: Meredith Baxter – a.k.a. the “Family Ties” mom

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 525
  The thrice-married mother of five outed herself in The Advocate today after being noticed on an all-lesbian cruise. Guess Michael Gross wasn’t doing it for her. SOURCE
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• Delhi village to get school, power

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  New Delhi, Dec 2 (IANS) The Delhi government Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that a school will soon be started in Badarpur Khadar village and it will also be provided electricity.Submitting an action plan before Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice S. Muralidhar, Delhi government counsel Nazmi Wazhiri ...
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• Pak government claims back Swiss court evidence regarding NRO beneficiaries

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Geneva, Dec.2 (ANI): The Pakistan government has finally claimed back evidence of the cases filed in the Swiss court against many influential personalities, who were benefited from the National Reconciliation Ordinace (NRO).The files, which were stacked inside a lawyer’s office here, have been removed and are likely ...
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• Search Engine Strategies (SES) London 2010 Conference & Expo Announces New Keynote Speaker

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 480
  Avinash Kaushik, Author of Web Analytics 2.0, Co-Founder of Market Motive Inc and Analytics Evangelist for Google, Announced as Keynote Speaker at Search Engine Strategies London 2010LONDON – Incisive Media announced that Avinash Kaushik, author of Web Analytics 2.0, co-founder of Market Motive Inc and analytics ...
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• Media Roundup: Jimmy Jellinek Becomes God, Fangoria Previews Stephen King, & More

  
  WEIMAR WORLD SERVICE — Authority: 134
  The latest and maybe greatest: Fangoria features an excerpt/preview of the exclusive article by Stephen King slated to run over its next two issues: "Whats Scary." You can read the preview . Or come on, dont be a chump. Buy the mag ! New York-based media dude Andrew Fox is claiming to be bidding on ...
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