faith & culture

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• versatile ladies of style

  
  dangerblond.org — Authority: 419
  I was lucky enough to go Sunday second-lining with Lisa Palumbo today. Damn, that woman is a pro second liner. She somehow manages to stay right by the band, where you can hear the music and nothing else. We alternated marching with the Free Agents and Rebirth. Each band had a dancing group marching in front of ...
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• Festival celebrates Indian holiday

  
  The Kentucky Kernel — Authority: 624
  By Cassidy Herrington The Student Center Grand Ballroom transformed into an Indian oasis with smells of spices and sights of dazzling saris. The Indian Student Association hosted a dinner and talent show Saturday night, celebrating Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. Diwali, one of the largest festivals of ...
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• Irans culture officials question actors high pay

  
  CBC | Topics from the CBC Archives Website — Authority: 766
  Irans Culture Ministry is threatening a tax crackdown on actors salaries after it was revealed one of the countrys top actors was paid almost $100,000 for three days of work.
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• 7Tune Travel: Thailand

  
  Your online JDM magazine JDM Performance cars, Drift Events, Feature Cars, News and Rumors — Authority: 543
  Adam Zillin goes to Thailand for a break and comes away impressed not only by the country but by the car culture there as well.If you’ve never been to Thailand you really owe it to yourself to visit at least once. It’s a perfect holiday destination packed with everything a vacationer could possibly want and [...]
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• Fort Hood tragedy rocks military as it grapples with mental health issues

  
  L.A. Times - California | Local News — Authority: 837
  Psychological problems are rampant, leaders admit. The Iraq and Afghanistan wars have been long, and repeat deployments are highly stressful. Doctors, too, fall prey to mental illness. The U.S. militarys culture of silence about ...
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• What is your ward doing about swine flu?

  
  By Common Consent, a Mormon Blog — Authority: 501
  Mormons are often reluctant, whether through zeal or sense of duty, to miss Sunday services.  And yet this commendable trait can turn into a public health problem when people attend church with colds or flues in tow.  Picture if you will sacrament trays being passed through hands of sick, coughing people, nurseries ...
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• Precision Machine opening plant in Sturgis, SD

  
  SFGate Sports: Oakland Raiders — Authority: 707
  As many as 30 new jobs are coming to the South Dakota town of Sturgis. California-based Bar-Sto Precision Machine Co. has announced plans to open a new facility on the south end of the Sturgis industrial park. The Bar-Sto plant will manufacture precision gun... South Dakota - United States ...
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• Innovating in infrastructure in a research organization

  
  Christina's LIS Rant — Authority: 463
  How do you balance robust enterprise IT services with computer science as a research area? This post has been floating around in my head for a while - I even had this started but lost the draft in a tragic overnight OIT loaner laptop reboot. I cant actually answer this question, and trying to has left this draft in ...
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• What’s the greatest college town?

  
  Lonely Planet blog — Authority: 121
  There are the big hitters – the New York s, Boston s, Seattle s, New Orleans …umm…es. Then there are the secondary towns – Athens, Georgia ; Gainesville, Florida ; Berkeley, California . And there are the tiny towns with names like College Station, Texas . They all have one thing in common: great ...
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• The perils of railroading in MMOs

  
  Massively — Authority: 682
  If your gaming origins consist of old-school tabletop gaming, you most likely know and fear the term railroading . Its used to describe an innocent-enough formulation that begins in a large number of games, usually run by younger players, wherein players are more or less forced along a preset path no matter what ...
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• A Transformation Story

  
  shmula — Authority:
  This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Turnaround, Transformation, and Change Management We all love stories.  Stories have characters that we relate to or hate, there’s drama, heroes and villains, and the best stories stir the emotion.  The same goes for companies and their stories – all companies have a ...
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• Iacobucci: Recognizing History of Residential Schools a “Necessary Step”

  
  Law is Cool — Authority: 539
  Notes from a keynote speech by Justice Iacobucci at the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (FACL) Fall Conference . Grew up in the East End of Vancouver, where there was lots of diversity of people from many backgrounds.  Justice Iacobucci noted that he entered the law exactly 50 years ago, in 1959, ...
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• Dutch NGO funds "No Jews allowed" event in the name of "Peace"

  
  Israel News — Authority: 480
  This is quite difficult for theoretical advocates of "dialogue" to comprehend - that foreign "peace" NGOs will go along with and perhaps encourage a "No Jews need apply" policy in a "peace" event.   It is all very well to preach about dialogue, but the reality is quite a different matter. Where are the ...
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• Honourable Frank Iacobucci on Residential Schools

  
  Slaw — Authority: 607
  Notes from a keynote speech by Justice Iacobucci at the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (FACL) Fall Conference . Grew up in the East End of Vancouver, where there was lots of diversity of people from many backgrounds.  Justice Iacobucci noted that he entered the law exactly 50 years ago, in 1959, when he ...
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• Facebook Allowed Pro-Rape Group To Stay Online

  
  News America Now — Authority: 118
  “A group of students, both past and present, of the all-male St. Paul’s College at Sydney University, decided to create a pro-rape Facebook page called “Define Statutory” that reportedly was allowed to stay up on the site for several months. The site, which went up in August, was shut down recently, but ...
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• Goodnight and Good Luck! The Body Electric Signs Off.

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 141
  Dear Friends: My time with you has come to an end. From the Man Pad to the G20; from RadioLab to the baby binary; from  the amazing Stu Rasmussen to my (apparently controversial) exploration of transphobia; from interviews with artists to profiles of beautiful tattoos--its been a fantastic journey. My goal was to ...
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• Jason Patent Blog: Chinas Business Culture

  
  China Law Blog — Authority: 572
  I recently became a regular reader of the Jason Patent blog . Patent is a PhD linguist with a ton of teaching and writing experience regarding Chinese culture. Patent now offers coaching and consulting services, mostly relating to Chinese business culture and that is what he usually writes about on his blog as ...
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• The jabbing finger

  
  Splintered Sunrise — Authority: 464
  The other day, as I was making my breakfast, I turned on GMTV. Usually I don’t register breakfast telly all that much – at that time in the morning, my brain can just about process Hi-5 or Elmo’s World – but this time I was brought up short. Who should be sitting on the sofa holding forth but this blog’s ...
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• How Are Convicted Felons Like the Japanese?

  
  Chicago Boyz — Authority: 632
  Citizens of Japan, with very few exceptions, are barred from even touching a single round of ammunition. Defy the law and they could end up in jail for five years . Convicted felons in the United States, or people who received a Dishonorable Discharge from the armed forces, are pretty much operating under the same ...
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• Burka not offensive to the Archbishop (Contribution)

  
  Clerical Whispers — Authority: 529
  Trust the politicians to play to the gallery and make a big to-do to keep attention away from more relevant topics. Locally, Labour Party leader Joseph Muscat pipped the Nationalists (most associated with the Church, being a Christian Democratic Party) to the post by jumping ahead to defend one of the Catholic ...
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