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Moreover, when income, education and other factors that influence charitable giving are equal, they are likelier to give than men, according to Women Give 2012, issued last week by the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
The study found that at all income levels, and regardless of the share of their permanent income they give, women born in 1964 and earlier donate 89% more to charity than their male counterparts.
Among those in the top quarter of permanent income, women give 156% more (better than 1.5 times more) than similarly situated men.
A statement accompanying the release of the study said it was among the first to examine the combined effects of age and gender on charitable giving. Researchers using data from 2003 to 2007 controlled for financial resources over the individual's lifetime and adjusted for life expectancy.
"Boomer women are transforming philanthropy through innovative new charitable organizations and new ways to engage in charitable activity," Debra Mesch, director of the Women's Philanthropy Institute, said in the statement. "Understanding their giving habits provides insights into the future of philanthropy and helps women understand the context for their own personal giving."
A previous study from the center covering all age groups found that women across the age spectrum generally give more and are more likely to give than men in the same income bracket.
Mesch said the center's previous research had found that women tend to be more altruistic than men and that their giving frequently is motivated by the desire to make a difference in peoples' lives.
"Additionally, women's strong networks may keep them more connected to both the needs of others and to opportunities to give," she said.
The Women Give series studies only households headed by single women and single men to explain gender differences in giving. Because married couples tend to pool income and make joint decisions about giving to charity, studying married couples does not allow for testing of gender differences in giving, the institute said.

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Kerri and her family thought she'd beaten Stage III breast cancer. A year later, the cancer had metastasized to her spine. Still, she's determined to prioritize the positives. "I want people to know I love them. I do things with my kids, not just for them."
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Kitty's instinct was to conceal her mBC. But, through friends and coworkers, she discovered the benefits of sharing her diagnosis. "I've learned that bad news can be shared in a positive light." Sadly, Kitty passed away from metastatic breast cancer on October 6, 2017.
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Rhonda was still a new mom when she discovered she had metastatic breast cancer. "Spending as much time as possible with my son is my purpose now."
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Tami was a happily married mom when she was dealt the devastating one-two punch of discovering she had breast cancer, then being diagnosed with mBC. Her family and friends rallied around her. "That support has helped me embrace each new day as a gift to cherish."
Tina's mBC diagnosis has given her a new outlook on life and what she can and cannot control in her future. "My life has changed, but the important things remain."
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VANCOUVER — In the end, it was as much about the game itself as it was about the gold medal.
The 2009 world champion United States added the 2010 Paralympic sledge hockey gold medal to their trophy case Saturday with a 2-0 win over a tenacious Japanese squad that finally got to the podium after three straight fifth-place finishes.
Norway took the bronze on Friday with a 2-1 win over Canada, the gold medallists in 2006, who finished fourth.
But the stunning success of this tournament and what it did to help grow the sport was as big a talking point Saturday as the final order of finish.
The game drew 5,810 fans, almost as many fans as UBC Thunderbird Arena can handle. The crowd loved the game. The players fed off the crowd. Games were televised live across Canada and NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) beamed the final back to Japan.
"The energy in the building . . . I don't think you can beat it," said American captain Andy Yohe. "All the folks in Canada love their hockey and it's just exciting to be able to come in and play in that environment.
"I wasn't in Salt Lake (2002 Games) or Nagano (1998), but I was in Turin (2006) and it wasn't even close to the intensity that was out there. We think that's awesome."
Yohe and the rest of the Americans were dominant in this tournament, out-scoring opponents 19-0. They got goals Saturday from Alexi Salamone and Taylor Lipsett and shutout goaltending from Steve Cash. Lipsett iced the victory at 13:42 of the third 15-minute period on a power play after a holding call on Noritaki Ito by Norwegian referee Petter Vojan Hegle.
The Canadians, of course, were frustrated, disappointed and ultimately forward thinking after failing to get even a corner of the podium.
They were done in Friday by an inability to score and an unlucky bounce that produced the game-winning goal with just 16 seconds left in the third period.
"It's terribly crushing," said Canadian defenceman Adam Dixon, who got Canada's lone goal Friday. "There are a couple of guys where this is their last game. Coming into today (Friday) after yesterday (a 3-1 semifinal loss to Japan) we wanted to at least walk out with our pride and a souvenir to go home with. It was a terrible bounce but we should have buried them earlier."
As many as five Canadians are likely to retire. Rosen, who's 49, defencemen Herve Lord, 42, and Jean Labonte, 40, Shawn Matheson, 37, and forward Todd Nicholson, 41, being the prime candidates.
But there will be a changing of the guard. And if this tournament doesn't make people want to play or follow the sport, nothing will.
"I feel sometimes like I was born to play sledge hockey and to be able to give back to the sport and help it grow, I believe this has been fantastic for the sport," Canadian forward Mark Bowden said.
Canadian forward Greg Westlake hopes this tournament will create interest, particularly outside of Ontario and Quebec.
"You guys see the five guys here who might retire but you don't see the young guys, the 18-year-olds, the 19-year-olds coming in," said Westlake, a native of Oakville, Ont. "I encourage everyone to keep watching us, keep following the sport.
"You look at our roster right now and we're basically a team from Ontario and Quebec. We need more players. We need our trials to be tougher, we need to make tougher cuts. If the thing that comes out of this experience is that we get more players from Western Canada then that's huge. We need all of Canada."
Yohe said it's good to see a team like Japan get silver after three straight fifth-place finishes.
"Japan played great today," he said. "It's good to see other countries coming up and developing their programs. It's good for the sport. As you see in other sports where a couple of countries dominate, it's bad for the sport. The more teams we can get at a really high level the better off everybody's going to be."
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Karan Johar enjoys role as reality show judge
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Filmmaker Karan Johar has been active on the small screen this year,
and says he enjoyed playing judge on two reality shows - "Jhalak Dikhhla
Jaa 5" and "India's Got Talent 4".
"It is great that in this avatar, I got to show my talent as a judge. So this year, there was a lot of judging and I had a lot of fun. I think lots of credit goes to the team and to the fellow judges," the 40-year-old said here Wednesday at a press meet of "India's Got Talent 4".
The show's grand finale will be telecast Nov 24 with superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Anushka Sharma and Katrina Kaif as special guests.
Karan says both the shows have been special.
"There have been two reality shows for me this year, 'Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa' and 'India's Got Talent'. Both were fun in their own special way," he said.
Besides Karan, actress Malaika Arora Khan, Kirron Kher and choreographer-director Farah Khan were the other judges on "India's Got Talent 4".


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Cute work! Looking forward to future updates.
Latest update is and Joshua's facial expressions always kill me. Can't wait for the next update, keep it up c:
Love how the "Greed" skill uses a vacuum cleaner! I hope these comics are getting some love on social media too.
That quiz was kind of brutal! :c One of them was maybe a trick question? Either way, it was enjoyable~ Thanks for the great series, and I hope to see more neat comics from you in the future!


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On Saturday Night Live, there was a skit in which Greek god Poseidon said that he took the form of a dolphin and raped his daughter. Do we have literary or other evidence for such a myth?
It might have been a joke, I know there's plenty of myths about Zeus having sex in the form of an animal and I think a similar myth about Poseidon could exist.


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Happy New Year to all!!
I hope I still have a few readers. Even if I don't, I need to write regularly, and so this blog will probably be part journal, part genealogy discoveries, and part "cousin bait" for the future.
I'm back to blogging; I hope regularly.
I'm back to genealogy; I hope regularly.
I'm back to presenting and teaching; I hope regularly.
This is a New Year.
So, I'm putting the past behind me. I'm starting over with ALL of my family research. Yes, I had computer problems. Yes, I had been saving my files to an external hard drive. Unfortunately, I didn't realize that my genealogy program files weren't in my documents or someplace that I was actually backing up. No, I didn't have a cloud backup or anything that allowed me to sync with other devices. So when my computer "crashed", even specialists couldn't recover my lost files. That's now in the past.
What have I learned? What am I going to do differently?
Before I assume that everything is backed up, I am going to make sure that all of the different parts. Backing up isn't helpful if I can't retrieve the files.
I'm going to get cloud storage and use it regularly. Again I'm going to make sure I can retrieve the files.
I have a new tablet and I'm going to get a new laptop. (I'm using one of my husband's old ones temporarily.) I will make sure that the tablet and laptop "communicate" with each other, particularly with regards to genealogy files.
My new family files will have sources for facts as I input the information. This will take me longer, but I won't have to spend hours, days, months, going back and adding sources. Hopefully some of it will be quicker because of my experiences and improved skills.
I am going to return to making presentations at FHSA chapter meetings and giving free beginning classes (5-6 hours) at public libraries in order to share the joy, excitement and wonder of family discovery with others.
Lastly, for now, I'm going to try to put the fun back into genealogy as many have been discussing on other social media outlets.
Again, Happy New Year to all and I hope we find at least one brick wall crumbling down.


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East End Eats: Caviar, Russian Old World and American New World
Old habits die hard, especially when it comes to holiday foods. So, despite international treaties to restrict the selling of eggs from beleaguered wild sturgeon and possible Russian mafia involvement in getting questionable caviar to market, my mother presented our family with her signature black Russian malossol tin at Christmas. The contents emitted a fishy scent that nearly turned the stomach of one pregnant guest. The eggs were soft on the tongue, lacking that refreshing pop. It mostly went uneaten.
Fortunately, my mother always buys in duplicate—or triplicate—for just these sorts of situations. When the traditional Russian stuff failed, she presented jars of hackleback, paddlefish and salmon roe, all made in the U.S. and all impeccably fresh, based on the subtle scent and firm texture.
Most seafood shops on the East End have given up stocking the dubious—and impossibly pricey—Old World stuff, but now offer American roe year round. Stuart's Seafood in Amagansett sells paddlefish and salmon roe, while Cavaniola's Gourmet offers hackleback, paddlefish and salmon roe. The American Hotel in Sag Harbor offers a caviar plate that proprietor Ted Conklin calls "a little overkill," including chopped egg whites, chopped egg yolks, capers, lemon, blinis, and toast to accompany the royal ossetra caviar from Petrossian, the importer than nimbly shifted from hawking the Old World stuff to being a major investor in American farm-raised sturgeon and sturgeon caviar.
Conklin, a founder of the local Slow Food convivium, who has watched food trends wax and wane, suggested that high-ticket items like imported caviar may be a bit "déclassé" given the current global economic and ecological situation.
American hackleback is a cousin of the European sturgeon and native to the Missouri-Mississippi River system, while American paddlefish is a sturgeon-like fish with a long spatula-like snouts also native to the same river system. American fish farmers are also raising several European sturgeon species as well as White sturgeon, another American native sometimes called Pacific sturgeon, Oregon sturgeon, Columbia sturgeon, Sacramento sturgeon, and California white sturgeon.
For those East Enders who do some of their provisioning west of the Shinnecock Canal, Russ & Daughters offers an array of American caviars, including mild California-raised Caspian-style sturgeon caviar, wild Alaskan salmon roe, and even Caribbean flying fish roe with wasabi (of the Super Heeb sandwich fame). Like the Russian product that Russ & Daughters used to sell, tins of American caviar are tasted and a fair number are rejected before being hand-packed into smaller containers. "It's all good enough to enjoy with just a spoon and some vodka," said fourth generation costermonger Josh Russ Tupper.
Uptown, Zabar's reigns as perhaps the city's biggest seller of caviar, having won the caviar price wars of the 1980s. "Salmon caviar, which I think is as delicious, if not more delicious, than all the sturgeon caviars, is renewable and it's cheap," said Saul Zabar. Salmon roe sells for $38 a pound at Zabar's website, compared to their highest priced Azerbaijan Wild Osetra Caviar, which retails for $260 for 1¾ ounces.)
Way back in 2003, a prescient Julia Moskin sung the praises of salmon roe—the big red fish eggs which the Japanese import from us en masse and consider superior to the little black beads.
Moskin offers a recipe for fried potatoes and salmon caviar that is sure to make you salivate. And for a bit of literary inspiration, check out this short, personal memoir by Carmel Berman Reingold about the life-lessons her parents taught her through caviar:
"I NO longer remember if the taste pleased me, but I remember the event, and my father's advice: 'Never put caviar on a cracker. Terrible. Dark bread is good, or toast, and spread it on as thickly as you can. Better one piece of bread with all the caviar you have instead of many slices with just a few grains.'"
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Tôt ou tard, il reviendrait à la pompe à eau. Premier épisode de surchauffe a été déterminée à raison d'un radiateur tête bouchon défectueux du réservoir. Qui a été remplacé et aucune autre Surchauffe pendant plusieurs semaines. Puis, en surchauffe - La suite , we had to stop on the side of the road and call for a AAA tow.
So we decided, based on the behavior we saw in the second episode, to have the cooling system flushed and the thermostat changed. We had already tested the twin radiator fans and found them to be working properly (easily done, just turn on the A/C.) We were thinking that the cap was where the leak was still occurring.
Upon dropping off the car at the shop, I noticed a trail of fluid on the pavement from where Kim had driven in then backed into parking space. I had her release the hood and I took a look. No leakage from the cap area, cependant, there was a growing pool of coolant at my feet... "This isn't going to be good.", I thought.
Sure enough, the shop called and said that the O-ring for the water pump was leaking. So we had them replace that too.
We picked Piggy up this morning and her temps did fine and no leaks thus far. We'll just have to keep an eye on her. Such are the joys of driving a 15 year year old car.. along with other, and true, joys such as no car payments and no costly full coverage insurance.
Oh yeah, we'll keep our AAA membership in force and pray we always have cell signal when we need it!


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Earlier this week we shared vivid photos of red-tailed hawks engaged in a dogfight with two ravens that were interested in the raptors' nest and babies.
The image atop this post might be even more incredible—or at least unique. It shows a red-winged blackbird standing on the back of a red-tailed hawk, looking as if it's catching a ride to another destination.
The series of images were captured recently by photographer Eric Dugan at Napa-Sonoma Marshes Wildlife Area in Northern California. They first appeared in a San Francisco Chronicle story written by outdoors columnist Tom Stienstra.
Dugan described the event:
"I was exploring the wildlife refuge and heard the screech of a red-tailed hawk, loud and repeated. I scanned the sky but didn't see anything at first. Then, in the distance, I saw a young red-tailed hawk sitting on a telephone pole and the red-winged blackbirds were jumping on and off its back and head, apparently to drive it away from a nesting area.
"I immediately stopped, changed to my long lens, and set up my camera in anticipation for the show. As I walked closer, I anticipated that the hawk would take flight and the blackbirds would pursue it, to drive it out of their territory. I raised the camera and the blackbird actually landed on the hawk multiple times.
"The small bird was so far more maneuverable in flight that all the hawk could do was tolerate it and fly away."
Dugan stated via email that the photos "are 100 percent legit" and that his only edits were exposure- and shadow-related since lighting was harsh at certain points because of the bright sunshine.
"I went back to the same spot a few days later hoping lightning would strike twice," Dugan said. "But the red-tailed hawks were hunting way off in the distance."
His final remark: "Red-winged blackbirds are fearless."
—Dugan's photos can be viewed on his Flickr page
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Feathers: Not Just for Flying is a Maryland Black Eyed Susan Award nominee for 2016.
Recommended Grades: 3-5
Feathers aren't just for flying. . . In this scrapbook-like nonfiction picture book, Stewart introduces sixteen types of birds and compares their feathers to everyday objects teaching readers just how practical their feathers can be.
Lesson Idea:
Mentor Text: Writer's Craft: Before sharing Feathers: Not Just for Flying as a mentor text, read aloud the author's note. In it, Stewart shares how she researches for her books and develops the concepts that make her books more engaging. Encourage students to use Feathers: Not Just for Flying as a model text when they are researching and writing their own informational texts. Consider both the scrap-book and the comparison models as possible mentors for students.
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Earlier this week I had an opportunity to learn from an organization that has a lot to teach California public library staff about their comunities. WhileHealthyCity primarily focuses on public health related matters concerning communities who are frequently untapped as information resources (and underserved by bureaucracies), both their tools and methodologies have much to offer us as information facilitators. Currently HealthyCity is providing onground–and free!–training around the state; their website, however, has a deep and wide suite of practical guidance for those who can't leave home or work.
One of the huge take aways I have from the in person training is a set of new skills for working collaboratively with community specialists. Nope, I don't mean reps from other community serving agencies. The trainers made the (correct) assumption that those of us gathered felt comfortable collabrating across agencies: librarians with social workers, child caseworkers with nutrition advocates, community organizers with civic government. Instead, they offered modelling of inclusive collaboration with the very community experts so many librarians aren't sure how to approach, let alone might forget that they have essential and pertinent insights we can't conduct true community research without. Instead of taking expertise to the community–and expecting it to be recognized–we learned how to allow community members to share their onground wisdom of community assets and disconnects. We can sit inside the library and see that there is a large park on the map of the community. We can go to the regional park website and read about the park's amenities. However, by asking those who live near the park to join us there to take a walk and record what we see and then ask questions of the locals gives us a more expert and honest view: the basketball hoops aren't used because the court is littered with glass that the park service cleans only weekly; the kids' playground has excellent water fountains–but it's the only point in the park where the plumbing works reliably; there are picnic benches in attractive areas, all noting "No alcohol," but the only stores on the edge of the park are liquor stores….that's a scenario, but you can see from it, I think, how much more we have to learn from the community as experts than we do from our own library-vetted resources.
To get a better idea of the technical learning that came out of the onground training, you can scanInfotweets for remarks. Or you can jump right into the video tutorials on the HealthyCity site. Just one caveat: approach community expert research humbly. As library folk we know how to find out just about anything. Yes, we are a community asset. And yet, we don't necessarily live the experiences of the community where we work; the community's members are the experts about that.


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Sasha Obama is about to become a teenager, and photos from her trip to China with her mom prove she is about to become the ultimate teenager, the teenager-in-chief, shall we say.
Sasha turns 13 in June. But she's been barely concealing her disdain for basically everything for a while now. She was so over the turkey pardon. She yawned at the inauguration. Now she's taking her famous sass on the road. Cue the McKayla Maroney references. (Thanks, New York Post.)
See, for instance, how she shoots a glance almost directly at a camera as she and her mother and sister are met by Chinese President Xi Jinping.
She gives a Terracotta Warrior some serious side-eye.
In the following picture, there is no way she's not thinking, "stop, mom."
Here she is watching a folk dance, according to Reuters. She probably wants to go back to the hotel room and read Rookie and watch My So-Called Life.
But even teen champions can't stay sullen for too long.
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