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• Deputy Executive Director Vacancy Re-Advertisement: Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC)

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 159
  Those who had applied previously are kindly requested to re-submit their application. The Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC) is a national non-governmental organisation with a mission to promote, protect and enhance the enjoyment of all human rights by all men and women. The vision of the KHRC is a Kenya ...
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• Regional Finance Coordinator Career Opportunity

  
  MY AFRICAN CAREER — Authority: 159
  The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) is a non-profit Quaker organization established over 90 years ago working in the US and internationally. The regional office for Africa program is based in Nairobi, Kenya. The organization includes people of various faiths who are committed to social justice, peace and ...
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• Mining company in Mindanao hires APO Hiking Society’s Danny Javier

  
  Mindanaoan | Living in Mindanao | Blog Sa Usa Ka Taga Mindanao — Authority: 128
  Yes, you read that right. A mining company operating in the Municipality of Tampakan has hired Danny Javier of the popular group APO Hiking Society. Javier is now a “strategist” for Sagittarius Mines, Inc., a gold and copper mine.As a “strategist,” Javier is reportedly supposed to help SMI develop a “better ...
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• Community Connections - ARTS NC

  
  Theatre North Carolina — Authority: 130
  ARTS North Carolina is beginning a program called Community Connections, a blitz of ARTS North Carolina activities in one location over a two or three day period of time.  We begin in Winston-Salem this week and have events planned in Fayetteville, Raleigh, Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, and ...
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• STAR Team Meets Tomorrow

  
  Carbon Trace — Authority: 122
  The STAR Team of Ozark Greenways meets tomorrow evening at 5:30 at 319 N. Main Street in the offices of Butler Rosenbury & Partners. It’s “bring a guest night,” which is our not-so-subtle way of acknowledging that to remain an effective committee we need new meat from time to time. Hmmmmm… Who should I ...
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• Are You Going? Triangle Arts Mixer!

  
  Theatre North Carolina — Authority: 130
  Triangle Arts Mixer Friday, November 20 , 2009 6PM to 9PM Building 2, The Cotton Room Free, Open to public The first-ever Triangle Arts Mixer is an evening for arts organizations, arts supporters, and artists of all disciplines to mix, mingle, and find new ways to activate and advance the Triangle ...
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• FEAT BC Autism Rally At Premier Campbells Office Friday November 13 at 12 Noon

  
  Facing Autism in New Brunswick — Authority: 423
  FEAT Rally Friday, November 13 th , 2009 12:00 Noon Premier Gordon Campbell’s Constituency Office 3615 West 4 th Ave Vancouver , BC Why should you attend? The recent tragic deaths of two Canadian children with autism, ...
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• Help Repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” This Veteran’s Day

  
  TakePart Social Action Network — Authority: 622
  sidewalk_flyings Flickr photostream/Creative Commons Efforts to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” , the law that mandates the discharge of openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) service members, has gained serious traction over the past year, and as we celebrate Veteran’s Day tomorrow, you ...
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• FDA, Social Media, and Pharma Ads

  
  Brass and Ivory — Authority: 467
  I’m looking for your thoughts and opinions on a matter which may directly impact us as patients and the manner in which we get information. This Thursday and Friday (November 12-13, 2009), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is holding a public hearing “on how pharmaceutical companies use the web and ...
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• NY Times Profiles DP Benefit Tax Provision in House Health Reform Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 453
  Check out the New York Times’ story, “Potentially One Less Tax Penalty for Gay Couples” profiling the provision we’ve told you about in the House version of health care reform that would end the unfair taxation of domestic partner health benefits (similar benefits offered to married spouses are not taxed):This ...
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• The DNC Boycott: Count Me In

  
  Box Turtle Bulletin — Authority: 677
  Frustration is boiling over concerning the Democratic Party’s ongoing neglect of LGBT issues. The latest insult to injury? The Democratic National Committee and Organizing for America set emails to Mainers urging them to vote, but didn’t ask them to vote against Question 1. In fact, the email didn’t mention ...
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• NYDOT propses rumble strips on all two-lane roads, voice your opinion

  
  Cycling Central — Authority: 467
  Westchester Cycle Club president Dave Wilson just sent this alert for action to the club. Folks, As our court case against the state on the Route 100 rumble-strips wends its way through state Supreme Court, the state DOT has now proposed making rumble strips the preferred design on all two-lane roads in New York. ...
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• HuffPo Writer Sides with Sandra Bullock & Husband in Custody Battle, Quotes Fathers & Families

  
  GlennSacks.com — Authority: 560
  "We see this all the time where the ex-wife lives with a crazy, harmful boyfriend who cant see his own kids because the court has prohibited him because he may have been convicted of drugs or abuse. Yet he can live with another fathers kid," says Glenn Sacks, the executive director of Fathers & Families. "Ive ...
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• ALA Washington Office Webinar: Get Legislators in Your Library!

  
  District Dispatch — Authority: 523
  One of the best ways to get legislators to listen (and, more important, support you) is to show them what your library does to benefit the community. Believe it or not, members of Congress still think of libraries as “those places with all the books.” The good news is that your opportunities to make a real ...
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• Designing roads just for cars is deadly for bicyclists and walkers

  
  Biking Bis - Bicycle Touring and More — Authority: 127
  Its a deadly mistake to design streets and roads with only cars in mind, especially as more commuters are turning to walking and bicycling. Thats no surprise to those of us on bikes. But its always welcome to see groups like the Transportation for America and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership reach that ...
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• Twitter Story: Advocacy

  
  Thanks For Playing — Authority: 421
  One answer to the "why" of Twitter: advocacy campaigns. This past spring, a little issue popped up. You may even have heard something about it. "Health care reform" ring any bells? Sure, we all knew it was on Obamas agenda, but we didnt realize it was FIRST on his agenda. We figured hed be busy settling in and ...
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• Memphis Animal Shelter, Two Weeks Later – VIDEO

  
  For the Love of the Dog — Authority: 429
  It’s been about two weeks since the Memphis Animal Shelter was raided after horrific animal cruelty was discovered there, what’s happened in the interim?  We know the Mayor AC Wharton formed a task force to oversee the shelter and that video cameras were installed in some of the shelter areas.You can actually ...
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• Whistleblower discloses kickbacks

  
  South Carolina Nursing Home Blog — Authority: 128
  Reuters had a brief article about a story that did not get much media attention.  Harborside Healthcare and HHC Nutrition Services will pay $1.375 million to resolve charges of taking kickbacks from a supplier, the Justice Department. The department accused Harborside, which Sun Healthcare Group (SUNH.O) bought in ...
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• BENLYSTA on Phil Media

  
  Surviving LUPUS — Authority: 137
  A blogger friend send me a message through twitter today telling me about the article she read in the bank. I followed the link she gave me and end up reading about cases of LUPUS here in the Philippines. And then an explanation of what LUPUS is from Dr. Navarra. She is a rheumatologist from UST who also happens to be ...
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• Nun Suspends Abortion-Rights Advocacy After Reprimand

  
  Information on HPV — Authority: 144
  Abortion-rights advocate Sister Donna Quinn of the Wisconsin-based Sinsinawa Dominican order announced Tuesday that she would be temporarily suspending her activities as an escort for patients outside of the ACU Health Clinic in Hinsdale, Wis., a clinic that provides abortion services, after receiving a reprimand from ...
  22 hours ago

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