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Jim Brinling

Darfur Conflict - 0 views

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ce09 darfur UDHR

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    Jim Brinling on 12 Oct 09
     
    Current events.
Jim Brinling

Human Rights - 0 views

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current events UDHR GLITS

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    Jim Brinling on 03 Feb 09
     
    Universal Declaration of Human Rights in understandable "plain" language. This makes reading the UDHR easier
Jim Brinling

Topics - 0 views

www.amnestyusa.org/...page.do

Current Events UDHR GLITS

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  • Jim Brinling
    Jim Brinling on 12 Oct 09
     
    Using the Amnesty International website, identify one human rights violation or watch in the world.
    1. Summarize the issues and details of the situation.
    2. Describe how it is a violation of the UDHR by naming the article it violates by number.
    3. Be prepared to describe your findings to the class.
    4. Use diigo to bookmark you resources, TAG using "human rights" and share bookmarks with the group.
Pamela Stevens

Official Google Docs Blog: New Features in Forms - 0 views

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Google Google_Forms polls surveys googledocs

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  • Pamela Stevens
    Pamela Stevens on 12 Sep 09
     
    You can now quickly gather responses for a group of similar questions in a new, compact grid format. The new grid question type allows you to label a few columns and create as many rows as you like.
Pamela Stevens

Back to School: 15 Essential Web Tools for Students - 0 views

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web2.0 technology school tools

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  • Pamela Stevens
    Pamela Stevens on 12 Sep 09
     
    Back to School: 15 Essential Web Tools for Students
    Evernote, Notely, Backpack, StudyRails, Diigo, Delicious, Mindmeister, Google Docs, EtherPad, SlideRocket, WikiDot, CiteMe, EasyBib, Zotero
Cullison J

The Genocide in Darfur - Briefing Paper |Save Darfur - 0 views

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darfur

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  • Humanitarian assistance in Darfur continues to be at risk of collapse, in part
    because of sustained harassment by the Sudanese government, and in part because
    of the government’s militia allies and common criminals
  • September 2006, the United Nations estimated that such a collapse would cause up
    to 100,000 civilian deaths every month.(2) Troublesome developments suggest that such a failure is
    becoming more likely: the World Food Program’s Humanitarian Air Service received
    no funding in the first three months of 2008.(3) Last-minute donations totaling six million dollars funded
    it through the beginning of May.
    (4
  • In the second half of 2007, the Sudanese government’s divide-and-conquer
    strategy, described by Human Rights Watch as “chaos by design,”(5) caused an increasingly frenzied free-for-all
    in Darfur. Rebel groups fragmented further and criminal activity as well as
    intertribal fighting increased exponentially.(6) Still, the effects of tribal fighting should not be
    overemphasized. Of the eight largest displacements between January and November
    2007, seven resulted from government or Janjaweed attacks. Only one was
    the result of intertribal fighting.(7) In early 2008, deaths and displacements from military
    operations by the government, its allied militias and rebels were even more
    common relative to those caused by tribal conflicts.
  • Maio J
    Maio J on 31 Mar 09
     
    sudan/darfur
Matthew K

Historic vote underway across America - Los Angeles Times - 0 views

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Blog Post..final

shared by Matthew K on 01 Jun 09 - Snapshot

  • Obama, 47, voted early in his Chicago precinct, arriving with his wife,
    Michelle, and their two daughters soon after the polls opened. The Obamas filled
    out their ballots in adjoining booths, with daughters Malia and Sasha standing
    between them and sometimes yawning.


    For almost everyone else, election day 2008

  • Matthew K
    Matthew K on 01 Jun 09
     
    Barack Obama
Matthew K

Barack Obama Biography - Biography.com - 0 views

www.biography.com/...Barack-Obama-12782369

Blog post..final

shared by Matthew K on 31 May 09 - Snapshot
  • Barack Hussein Obama was born Aug. 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His
    father, Barack Obama, Sr., was born of Luo ethnicity in Nyanza
    Province, Kenya. He grew up herding goats with his own father, who was
    a domestic servant to the British. Although reared among Muslims,
    Obama, Sr., became an atheist at some point.
  • President Barack Obama nominated Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday (May 26, 2009) to replace retiring Justice David Souter. Supreme Court justices serve for life, but their nomination must be approved by the U.S. Senate, where Obama's fellow Democrats have a majority. If approved, the 54-year-old Sotomayor could become the court's first Latino Supreme Court Justice.
  • Ann Dunham, grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Her father worked on oil
    rigs during the Depression. After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
    he signed up for service in World War II and marched across
    Europe in Patton’s army. Dunham’s mother went to work
    on a bomber assembly line. After the war, they studied on the
    G. I. Bill, bought a house through the Federal Housing Program,
    and moved to Hawaii.
  • Matthew K
    Matthew K on 01 Jun 09
     
    Barack Obama
Matthew K

Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Rescue Plan for the Middle Class - 0 views

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Blog Post..final

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  • Matthew K
    Matthew K on 01 Jun 09
     
    Barack Obama
Matthew K

President-elect Barack Obama lays out key parts of Economic Recovery Plan | Change.gov: The... - 0 views

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Blog Post..final

shared by Matthew K on 01 Jun 09 - Snapshot

  • Yesterday we learned that our economy has lost 2 million jobs since the
    recession began 11 months ago.


    That's why, in today's weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama explains
    the key parts of his Economic Recovery Plan -- which will save or create 2.5
    million jobs in the next two years.


    Watch Your Weekly Address now -- then send us your
    questions or ideas     about how to fix the economy:

  • Yesterday, we received another painful reminder of the serious economic
    challenge our country is facing when we learned that 533,000 jobs were lost in
    November alone, the single worst month of job loss in over three decades. That
    puts the total number of jobs lost in this recession at nearly 2 million
  • But we need action – and action now. That is why I have asked my economic team
    to develop an economic recovery plan for both Wall Street and Main Street that
    will help save or create at least two and a half million jobs, while rebuilding
    our infrastructure, improving our schools, reducing our dependence on oil, and
    saving billions of dollars.
  • Matthew K
    Matthew K on 01 Jun 09
     
    Barack Obama
Rainey K

Peter Zezel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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zezel

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    Rainey K on 01 Jun 09
     
    Peter Zezel info for final blogpost.
Rainey K

Former NHL forward Peter Zezel dies at age 44 - Yahoo! News - 0 views

news.yahoo.com/...hkn_obit_zezel

blogpost

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    Rainey K on 01 Jun 09
     
    Peter Zezel death info
Demchak N

US economy: Fuel prices | Business | The Observer - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...useconomy.usa1

current events Erie

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  • With the price of crude oil soaring towards $105 a barrel, the average price of
    diesel fuel reached a record high of $4.037 a gallon in the US last week,
    according to the AAA motor club - a 45 per cent price increase in 12 months
  • Every 5 cent fuel price hike increases a trucker's annual expenses by about
    $1,000, says the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA), the
    trade group that represents 160,000 self-employed US truckers
  • Donald Nolen, a 39-year-old independent driver from Rhome, Texas, spends $2,000
    a week on diesel. 'This time a year ago, I guess it would have cost $1,500,' he
    says.
Demchak N

FOXNews.com - Truckers to Strike Over Record Diesel Prices, Some Paying Up to $1,200 to Fil... - 0 views

www.foxnews.com/...0,2933,344170,00.html

current events Erie

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  • Diesel this week was at an average of more
    than $4 a gallon in Oregon and Washington and nearly $4.12 in California,
    according to the American Trucking Association. If a trucker is filling up a
    300-gallon semi, that bill could top $1,200.

  • Mike Card, president of Combined Transport in Medford, has 388 tractor-trailers
    in the company. He says the company is spending $2 million a month on fuel
  • More than 100 truckers and others rallied on the steps of the Pennsylvania
    Capitol in Harrisburg Monday, asking lawmakers to cut state taxes on their fuel.
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  • Prices for diesel fuel have been lifted in the last few months
    by a wave of higher crude oil prices. Although oil has dropped from its March 13
    closing high of $109.17, it is still trading above $100 per barrel and keeping
    gasoline and diesel prices at or near record levels.


    The U.S. retail price for gasoline set a new
    high of $3.29 a gallon after rising 3.1 cents over the last week, the federal
    Energy Information Administration said on Monday.


    The national price for regular, self-service
    gasoline is up 58 cents from a year ago as expensive crude oil continued to be
    passed on to consumers at the pump, the Energy Department's analytical arm said
    in its weekly survey of service stations.


    In the EIA's latest weekly survey, gasoline
    was the most expensive on the West Coast at $3.52 a gallon, up 0.6 cent. San
    Francisco had the highest city price at $3.65, down a penny.


    The Gulf Coast states had the cheapest
    regional price at $3.21 a gallon, up 4 cents. Boston had the lowest city price,
    up 0.7 cent to $3.11.

Garrett Sanko

Obama elected 44th president - Decision '08- msnbc.com - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/27531033

final blog obama elected

shared by Garrett Sanko on 20 May 09 - Snapshot

  • Barack Obama, a 47-year-old
    first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history
    Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president of the
    United States.

  • A crowd of nearly a quarter-million jammed Grant Park and the surrounding area
    in Chicago, where Obama addressed the nation for the first time as its
    president-elect at midnight ET.
  • Obama congratulated his opponent, Republican Sen. John
    McCain     of Arizona, for his “unimaginable” service to the United States,
    first as a prisoner of war for 5½ years in North Vietnam and then for nearly
    three decades in Congress.
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  • Obama beat McCain by 52 percent to 46 percent, and he could realistically claim
    a mandate with nearly two-thirds of the Electoral College. As of Wednesday
    afternoon, he had 349 electoral votes compared to 173 for McCain, with only
    North Carolina and Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District left to declare.
Demchak N

Truckers 'going broke' and threatening to strike - 0 views

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threatening strike trucker broke'

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  • Dan Little, the owner/operator of a livestock hauling company in Carrollton,
    Mo., estimated Tuesday that at least 1,000 other truckers from across the United
    States have committed so far to joining him in a strike on April 1
  • “The fuel is too high, and there’s no reason for it
  • At issue is the rising cost of diesel fuel, which has reached or exceeded $4 per
    gallon in at least 17 states. But Little does not expect his strike to bring
    down the per-gallon price of gas, nor does he expect to have any effect on the
    oil companies
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  • The average owner/operator is paying $600 to $800 a month for truck insurance.
    It’s based on personal credit, which means the monthly cost is going up for a
    lot of truckers because their credit is going down
  • Everything in the world is going up (in price), except for what we do. I lose
    money if I start my truck, and that truck is paid for — free and clear.”
  • Hills then removed his wristwatch, using it to explain his point of view: “Every
    piece of this watch was trucked from somewhere. If you can’t keep up with the
    trucks, we’re all screwed — not just this country, but the world.”
Garrett Sanko

Obama elected nation's 44th president - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...president.htm

final blog obama president

shared by Garrett Sanko on 20 May 09 - No snapshot
  • Democrat Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States on
    Tuesday, becoming the first African American to win the post and completing a
    stunningly rapid rise from state senator to the White House.
  • Democrat Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of
    the United States on Tuesday, becoming the first African American to win the
    post and completing a stunningly rapid rise from state senator to the White
    House.
  • A win in California put Obama over the top, giving him 55 electoral votes
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  • to surpass the 270 needed to defeat Republican John McCain and claim the
    presidency.
  • By early Wednesday, the AP projected Obama had 349 electoral votes. McCain had
    147.

  • The popular vote was significantly closer than the
    electoral vote. With 83% of precincts reporting, Obama led McCain nationally,
    51.7% to 47.1%.

  • Many votes had been cast for days. Though the overall number of early votes was
    unknown, there were more than 29 million ballots cast in 30 states, suggesting
    an advantage for Obama.
Demchak N

Trucker strike on April 1? Or April 3? Or not at all? | Third Party Logistics News - 3PL wi... - 0 views

www.3plwire.com/...ril-1-or-april-3-or-not-at-all

trucker strike 3pl

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  • common complaint is the spiraling costs of diesel fuel, which has spiked to $4 a
    gallon in some parts of the country. Truckers who drive as part of company
    fleets have all their fuel costs covered by their employer, but independent
    drivers get reimbursed for their gas costs through a fuel surcharge
  • But the truckers have their complaints. Besides the fuel costs, the credit
    crunch is putting pressure on insurance companies to increase their premiums.
    Bad credit makes a trucker a higher risk for insurers
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