Society & Culture

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• Riversimple: getting from A to Z in the 21st Century

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 553
  This is a fascinating story about sustainable mobility in the UK – hidden from view seemingly… in Herefordshire. And links in directly with the story of Local Motors ( here ) and c.mm,n , This business is called Riversimple . Riversimple explain The Riversimple approach has five key elements: A ...
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• Liam Adams worked with young people in West Belfast: 1998-2003…

  
  Slugger O'Toole — Authority: 152
  That’s according to today’s front page story today… in Clonard Youth Centre Liam Adams had been cleared at the time to work with young children… This at a time when his brother had been working very closely with Alex Reid at the Monastery… How on earth did he NOT know his brother was working with children ...
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• A bizarre human rights appointment

  
  frogblog — Authority: 544
  Last Friday Justice Minister Simon Power announced nine new appointments to the Human Rights Review Tribunal . Among them was former National Party MP Brian Neeson .  A typical political appointment? Well, no!  Neeson was dumped from the Helensville electorate by the National Party in 2002 in favour of the ...
  16 hours ago

• End of a shameful year for pay equity

  
  frogblog — Authority: 544
  As the holidays approach and people start to finish work for the year, I’m reminded of the fact that New Zealand women have effectively been working for free since mid-November thanks to the 12 percent average pay-gap between men and women in this country. It’s a disgrace that the gender pay gap is still so ...
  17 hours ago

• Why This Conservative Wants To Be Like Al Gore

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Warner Todd HustonI have to admit it. I am jealous of former Vice President Al Gore. I want what he’s got, at least in a generalized way. It isn’t that I envy him for having been vice president. The number two spot has traditionally been one not well regarded and only a few VPs [...]
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• At This Point It’s About Defining the “Win”

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Frank SalvatoDoes anyone remember back to when the current healthcare reform initiative began? What were the goals? What were the reasons for the subject even being broached? Progressives and Democrats insisted that the healthcare system was broken because there were millions of people (figures varied, but ...
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• Alice Taylor a Doer speaks @ Do

  
  SMLXL - Engagement Marketing and Communication principles from Alan Moore — Authority: 553
  Alice Taylor commissions cross-platform educational content for 14-19 year olds, aiming to get useful, life-helpful information to teens via their most favoured platforms and formats. She specializes in videogames and virtual worlds, and Channel 4 Education’s 2009 slate includes Routes, a cross-platform game ...
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• Kerawl, Krismas Kerawl

  
  mi(sual).com — Authority: 492
  Zan dar 10 a pel deuh awrh a, kan khua, thingtlang angah chuan zanlai dar 12 tluk ani ta. Thlasik khawvawt tak hnuaiah chuan sikul bula hmeithai, Pi Biaki ui bauh lauh lauh bak hriat tur a awm lo, a reh hian a reh tlawk tlawk ani ber. Tleirawl thisen lum rual lek mah ni ila bang awng kar atanga thli vawt tak rawn thaw ...
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• Migrant Workers: Exploited Heroes

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 594
  Nisha Varia, senior researcher in the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch, says, “Governments seem to forget that when men, women, and children migrate, they don’t leave their rights at home. Instead of protecting people who already are at special risk of abuse, many governments further marginalize ...
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• One Again Teachers Union Shows Kids Don’t Matter

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Warner Todd HustonA recalcitrant teachers union in Florida once again shows that reform for the sake of the kids doesn’t interest it. A federal program called Race to the Top bestows federal money on any district that institutes merit pay and reforms its schools. Guess who hates the idea. Yep, you guessed it: ...
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• Closing the Barn Door

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Thomas E. BrewtonProcrustean regulation of banks and other financial institutions, passed by the House and pending in the Senate, will not prevent the next credit debacle and economic recession. The House of Representatives has just passed a bill, primarily the brain child of Congressman Barney Frank, that expands ...
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• Copenhagen 10: Goodbye, Therese

  
  frogblog — Authority: 544
  We never really gave up on each other, Therese and I. I came ‘home’ early the other night – at 11.30 p.m.  I sidled to the bathroom for my nocturnal peripheral pass by her bedroom.  The light was on under her door.   I hesitated, and moved on.   This would have been our first ‘face-to-face’.  And ...
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• Jim Dodge Beats Out Topinka For Another Endorsement

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  From the Dodge for Comptroller campaign:The Ford County Republican Organization voted Thursday night to endorse Jim Dodge, Republican candidate for Illinois Comptroller in the February 2, 2010 Republican Primary.“I believe he has the intellect and the confidence to do the job and the ambition and integrity to follow ...
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• Copenhagen 9: Let Us Refuse to Acknowledge ‘Defeat’

  
  frogblog — Authority: 544
  It is Friday at 1500 hours.  My wife will be sleeping in our Ilam home in Christchurch.  It is cold up here, in the streets of this Nordic city that is ironically being buffeted by driving snow and biting wind.  I miss Marilyn – her warmth and her untiring common-sense, qualities I rely upon in equal proportion ...
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• Obama Administration Sets The Stage For Bogus Asylum Seekers To Take America By Storm

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Ann “Babe” Huggett It’s such a little AP notice; hardly more than a blip on the news ticker but, as of January 4, 2010, Immigration and Customs Enforcement will no longer detain asylum seekers to the US if they can prove a credible fear of persecution in their home countries. ICE Director, John Morton, ...
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• Supporting the rapist and scapegoating the victim…

  
  Slugger O'Toole — Authority: 152
  Mark Coughlan (one of the sharpest writers in the Irish blogosphere) has this extraordinary precedent to the story from Listowel yesterday only this time rather just express sympathy with the perpetrator local people actually appeared to turn on a rape victim from five years ago in the nearby village of Duagh. Mark ...
  3 days ago

• Subject: Re:Full guide: Review Some Useful Tools For iPod/iPhone - by: Merries007

  
  Rich Dad Poor Dad Blog — Authority: 150
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• 2nd District: Isaac Hayes Adds Phylicia Lyons as School Adviser

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Warner Todd Huston Republican south-sider Isaac Hayes has a tall order on his hands; face and defeat Chicago machine favorite and incumbent Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. But Hayes has added a new education adviser to his campaign staff that shows that he is serious in his effort to defeat Jackson and offer the ...
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• Ten Ways to Stop Illinois Corruption

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Warner Todd Huston Jerry Agar is a Chicago area radio host and a member of the Illinois Policy Institute, a free-market centric policy center. Agar also has a column on the IPI website often centered around a list of one type of another. Today’s piece is titled, “ 10 Ways to Stop Political Corruption in ...
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• Fugedaboutit: Healthcare Bill Not Socialist Enough for This Union

  
  Publius Forum — Authority: 549
  -By Warner Todd Huston This is momentous news, harrowing news if you are a Democrat that wants Obamacare passed at all costs. The powerful and very rich Service Employees International Union (SEIU), is wavering in its until now stated support of Obamacare. The Hill is reporting that the SEIU just backed out of an ...
  4 days ago

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