Archive for July, 2011

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Preserve the History of the Places That Matter

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

Research the history of your clubhouse, a local library founded by your club, or any community structure of significance to women’s history.

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Disaster Relief Funds

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

GFWC is united in concern and grief for those who have been affected by the earthquakes and ongoing devastation in Japan.

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Don’t Teach, Don’t Tell? District Gay Policy Questioned

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

Late at night, long after class is dismissed, middle school teacher Jefferson Fietek logs on for his night shift: answering the texts and Facebook posts of suicidal teens.

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Landslide in western Indonesia kills 4 children

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

A landslide triggered by torrential rain has killed four children who were playing under a cliff in western Indonesia.

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Extremists flocking to Facebook for recruits

Friday, July 29th, 2011

When the English Defense League sprang to life two years ago, it had fewer than 50 members — a rough-and-tumble bunch of mostly white guys shouting from a street corner about what they viewed as uncontrolled Muslim immigration.

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Island House Key West Marks 35th Anniversary with 1976 Prices

Friday, July 29th, 2011

Island House Key West, the longest continuously operated gay guesthouse in the world, recently announced its 35th anniversary in business and its 10th anniversary under its current owners, Jon Allen and Martin Kay, who transformed it into a leader among the world’s premier gay guesthouses.

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Yahoo, Facebook,Google to IETF: Where are the IPv6 users

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Carolyn Duffy Marsan 28 July, 2011 05:51 Where are the users? That’s what popular websites including Yahoo, Google and Facebook are asking the Internet engineering community when they are questioned about their long-range plans to deploy IPv6 .

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McDonald’s Courts Mom Bloggers When Changing The Menu

Thursday, July 28th, 2011

Allison Aubrey McDonald’s Facebook page on July 27. When McDonald’s announced plans Tuesday to overhaul the Happy Meal - downsizing French fries and adding apples to to every kids’ meal - the company’s top brass used every communication trick they know to get the message out: Twitter, Facebook, and more.

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Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ Album Cover Removed from Facebook

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

The social networking site said the band’s 1991 cover art of a naked baby boy floating in a pool violated its Terms of Use.

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DiManno: Weep for the flower of Norway’s youth

Wednesday, July 27th, 2011

Their faces glow, bright as the future that beckoned. Broad smiles and lively eyes: The beauty of youth in bloom.

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Police: Facebook Post Tip Averted Fayette County Suicide 42min

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

Police believe they were able to prevent a southwestern Pennsylvania man’s suicide after the man’s friend in California alerted police about a distraught Facebook posting.

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Dear Abby: Unhappy woman ponders how to smile for Facebook friends

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

The Salem News has a real-name policy for commenting. Users may sign in using the Facebook Connect tool above the comments field.

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Facebook campaign to revive drive-in theater meets roadblocks

Monday, July 25th, 2011

The Waynesville Drive-In movie theater, which was closed in the 90s, has been the subject of a recent Facebook campaign to try to revive it.

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Man charged with felony Dui in fatal SC I-26 crash

Monday, July 25th, 2011

Police say a man has been charged with felony DUI after driving the wrong way on the interstate near downtown Charleston and causing a fatal crash.

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Friends say Ralph Bell feared his alleged killer

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

Ralph Bell of Burlington appears in a photograph posted to his MySpace page in 2007, according to the social networking site.