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In the past year, the NLRB has seen an increase in the number of charges related to social media and has filed several complaints against employers who discharged employees for social media postings in which the employees complained about workplace conditions. Visit link: NLRB Judge Finds Firings Based on Facebook Posting Unlawful

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In a recent story out of Michigan, Jeremy Hoven, a pharmacist at a Benton Harbor Walgreens, was fired after he shot an armed suspect who attempted to rob the drug store at 4:30 a.m. Though Hoven has a concealed carry permit and utilized his own gun, Walgreens determined that his actions violated the company's "non-escalation policy." Do you...

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%excerpt% Excerpt from: NWTF Texas to Invest $154,000 in State Projects in 2011

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Even supporters of the death penalty used to consider execution a solemn state responsibility, not an occasion for celebration. But the crowd of Republicans who gathered at the Reagan Library last week to watch their presidential candidates debate actually applauded and cheered when a moderator noted that Texas had executed 234 inmates under Gov. Rick Perry, by far...

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Documents seen by the paper appear to confirm that hundreds of errors were made in analyses of DNA samples found at crime scenes. In 1.3 percent of investigations errors were discovered, some of which were irreparable and led to a loss of essential data. The errors include contamination of suspects’ DNA with that of…[For full story: http://www.rnw.nl/english/bulletin/series-dna-mix-ups-dutch-court-research ]...

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To become 'becalmed' when sailing could be considered a curse, or is at very least an inconvenience. After eight days and 1500 kilometres of rough seas north of Hawaii to be becalmed was all I could dream for. See the original post here: The Great Garbage Patch exposed

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MONTREAL, Canada, Sep 11, 2011 (IPS) - Civil society leaders meeting here for the 2011 CIVICUS World Assembly are looking ahead toward next year's Rio+20 summit - a milestone anniversary of the 1992 Rio Earth Summit, and a crucial meeting of U.N. member states and non-governmental organisations to work towards a greener future. Read the rest here: Citizen...

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TORONTO - Elected president of the Maldives after spending 20 years leading a pro-democracy movement against a cruel dictatorship, Mohammed Nasheed believes it will have all been for naught if his nation of 1,200 islands is swallowed up by the ocean. See original here: Documentary a fight against climate change

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Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges provides a much needed survey reflecting upon recent institutional experience yielding analysis that concludes that there exists financially rigorous rationale to justify conservation of biodiversity for economic reasons, above and beyond the usual rationale of conservation only for biodiversity, spiritual or ethical reasons. Read more: Conserving...

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Microscopic algae and the nearly invisible animals that eat them do more than just drift along the ocean surface. See the original post here: Secret Lives of Plankton Revealed in Microscopic Glory