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My children were shocked last week when I told them what I wanted for Christmas this year.
I asked for a pig. Or a goat. Or some chickens. Or maybe even a heifer. Oh, not for me, but for someone in Bangladesh or Darfur or some other impoverished country where some barnyard animals could truly change a family's life.
If you're like me and have trouble giving your children a gift suggestion that would be meaningful for them and appreciated by you, may I make a suggestion? Why not ask them to give a gift to someone else in your name?
I have been very impressed by the work being done around the world by Heifer International. You will be, too, if you go to their website here. Another organization that has earned my support is World Vision. Their motto this year says it very well: "Sponsoring a child is the greatest gift you can give this Christmas." Check them out here.
Or how about helping someone start a business? In many parts of the world a loan of just $25 or $50 can be truly transforming. And please note that I said "loan," not "gift." There are many wonderful organizations around the world that supervise such tiny loans; it's called "microfinancing," and it can also change lives. Go online, Google the word and pick a group whose mission and accomplishments you like. Then send them some money.
My friends can't say enough good things about these three microfinancing organizations: Grameen Foundation, Kiva and Project Concern International. Please check them out and, if you feel so inclined, send them a check so they can expand their marvelous work.
The numbers can be astounding: Kiva has helped loan more than $175 million to about 450,000 people in more than 100 countries around the world. Eighty-one percent of the recipients are women. And their payback rate is an astounding 98.99 percent. Grameen has made more than a million loans with similar results. I hope you will help them do even more.
For nearly 200 years, Americans have been known for their incredible generosity. We give away more of our wealth than any other nation that ever existed. And no, I am not talking here about foreign aid, our military presence or any other governmental program. I am referring to the staggering amount of time, money and goods that we contribute privately. As I said, we are the most generous, caring, giving people who have ever lived.
But unfortunately, for many reasons, our giving has declined dramatically in the past couple of years. The nation's 400 biggest charities reported an 11 percent drop in donations last year. That's the worst decline since the Chronicle of Philanthropy began keeping records 20 years ago.
Part of the decline is no doubt because of the financial crisis we have suffered; many of us simply don't have the same resources we once did. I suspect that an even bigger explanation is our worries about the future. If we believe our savings won't earn as much, our taxes will go up and our jobs are not as secure as they once were, of course we're going to become more conservative in our spending and in our giving. That just makes sense.
But as a result, some truly wonderful groups doing amazing good around the world have had to reduce their efforts. This holiday season, please give one of them some help. In fact, if you have a favorite charity that needs support, go to the comments section at the end of today's column and tell us about it.
If you still need a gift idea for someone near and dear to you, let me mention one that won't cost very much yet could yield many hours of enjoyment. It's a delightful travelogue called 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. Let me assure you, it will make a wonderful present for every armchair traveler on your list.
What sort of places can you visit vicariously in 1,000 Places? How about the world's largest oasis? It's the Okavango Delta in Botswana, southern Africa. And as author Patricia Schultz says, "If you see 10 percent of what sees you, it's an exceptional day."
Or sail the Grenadines. It's 32 islands and hundreds of tiny cays, strung like a necklace of gems across 40 miles of some of the clearest, calmest, blue-green waters in the Caribbean. Or tour the covered souks of Aleppo, Syria, where the labyrinthine streets seem straight out of A Thousand and One Nights, and frankincense and myrrh are still sold in open-air markets.
The more athletic can hike the Tasman Glacier in Mount Cook National Park on the South Island of New Zealand, or climb the Tuscan hills to one of Italy's most charming walled cities, San Gimignano.
There's a comprehensive index at the back so you can quickly look up a particular place. In addition to a general index, the publisher has very cleverly added subject-specific indexes — the best beaches, festivals and special events, culinary experiences, destination restaurants, castles and palaces and glories of nature, among others.
One of the biggest surprises I found in 1,000 Places was how many of the 190 destinations in the United States were places I had never heard of. But thanks to good luck and lots of traveling, I can put a check mark next to many of the destinations. And I heartily concur with the inclusion of each one, from the very obscure (the Million-Dollar Highway that runs between Silverton and Durango, Co.) to the obvious (Walt Disney World in Orlando or the Bellagio in Las Vegas).
This column is taking me a long time to write, because I keep stopping to read about another marvelous destination… or two, or three… every time I pause to check something. So let me wrap up my enthusiastic description of the book by noting that 1,000 Places to See Before You Die is 974 pages long and costs $19.95 in a trade paperbound edition. At two cents per description, the book is one heck of a bargain. But stick around and I'll tell you how to get it for even less.
Book Bargains Abound
I'm sure you're already familiar with two of the best sources on the web for just about any title that's ever been published — Amazon.com and bn.com, the Barnes and Noble website. You'll find hundreds of thousands of titles, both new and used, on both. (By the way, Amazon has a special on 1,000 Places. You can get a copy for $11.97. Or just $9.99 for an e-version.)
I'm a big fan of both sites. But are you familiar with an even bigger and more addictive source for used books of every variety and description? It's called abebooks.com. And every book-lover should mark it as one of their favorites.
I first discovered AbeBooks several years ago. At the time, it consisted of several hundred used bookstores, mostly in the U.S. and Canada, and had something like 40,000 titles listed. Today AbeBooks consists of more than 10,000 used bookstores from every corner of the globe. And it brags that it has more than 50 million titles in its online inventory. What a book browsers' delight!
Out of curiosity, I just went to Abebooks.com and looked up 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. I found 381 offerings, starting at just $3.64 with free shipping. The most expensive version was $172.40 and no, it isn't printed on gold.
Among the many miracles that the Internet has produced for me, I put AbeBooks near the top of the list. It's an amazing resource. If you're a booklover too (and you must be, if you enjoy this column), go to abebooks.com and look for some titles you'd love to add to your collection. Chances are you'll be happily surprised by the number of choices you'll have… and the money you can save.
And remember, nobody ever returned a book because it didn't fit.
Until next time, keep some powder dry.
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All will be part of a three-week long Chinese and Indian Institute for area teachers presented by the UB Asian Studies Program and UB Confucius Institute. The institute is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The events described here will take place at the University at Buffalo July 5, 6 and 15 at various sites on the UB North Campus. The institute participants are 30 K-12 teachers from Western New York school districts who, for six hours a day from July 1 to 19 are following an intensive curriculum devoted to the histories, cultures, traditions, arts, literatures, governments and philosophies of the Chinese and Indian civilizations.
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DEXTER The General Brown Booster Club has done it again.
With community support, the club has saved the fall junior varsity sports program by contributing $24,000 up front. The Board of Education approved the donation, 6-0, during its monthly meeting Monday.
Really, our job is to save whats already there, said Julie A. Hulbert, club president.
The move also means more students will have an opportunity to play sports.
Until the other schools decrease their programs, theres not a lot of teams you could play just modified and varsity, Mrs. Hulbert said. With more kids you can include, its better than having them go home and play video games or sit.
The $24,000 donation is enough to cover fall JV sports. An additional $30,000 must be raised for winter and spring JV teams.
To provide the money, the Booster Club raised $15,000 over the summer, and put up $9,000 of club funds, which it hopes to recoup, Mrs. Hulbert said. But the more pressing need is to raise the money needed for winter and spring JV sports, she said.
Athletic Director David A. Ramie said the Booster Club has been an important staple to General Brown sports since the district had an austerity budget in 1996. By law, austerity budgets cannot include money for after-school activities. At that time, Mrs. Hulbert said, the club raised a total $84,000 to save all levels of sports that were cut.
While the cost of running the entire sports program which includes modified, junior varsity and varsity has surpassed $200,000 annually, the district has looked at reducing the sports budget as one of many potential cuts throughout its budget process over the past couple of years.
Theyve become more and more important to our sports budget, Mr. Ramie said. The Booster Club also has always been good about providing for equipment.
That includes ordering 14 football helmets, for a total of $2,000. The club also split the $2,000 cost of new volleyball nets and poles at Dexter Elementary with that schools Parent-Teacher Organization. Other assistance is provided for assistant coach stipends and training. Mr. Ramie said the clubs support is essential to the districts sports programs survival because he couldnt justify going to the superintendent for the smallest of equipment requests.
Mrs. Hulbert said those small requests add up, and that is why the club hosts many fundraisers throughout the year. The club also has encouraged families to buy a $20 club membership, which includes free entrance to some games.
Other fundraisers include bottle and can drives, an account set up at Griffs Redemption, 507 Factory St., Watertown, and a chicken barbecue and 5k Tie-Dye run, both to be held at 2 p.m. Sept. 21 at the junior-senior high school, 17643 Cemetery Road. The run will follow Cemetery Road toward Mullin Road and back. It will cost $25 to participate in the run, and $9 for the dinner.
Other events will be held throughout the fall and winter. More information can be found on the groups Facebook page by searching General Brown Booster Club at www.facebook.com.
Saving a sports program is also what the club did in 2011 when the board cut modified sports from its budget. The club, with the communitys support, raised $24,000 to save the entire modified program.
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Accidents occurs every day and every where in the world. Driving is the number one accident that occur everyday and everyone has experienced it. Buying a significant car that provides airbags would be nice right? But trusting a car company isn't the best idea after all.
My sister drives a Toyota Yaris 2007 in a perfect condition for 2 years now, till January 7 2011; around 10pm. As she FULLY stopped her car and going about 5mph; turning left on the yield light, a car unsuspectedly appeared right upon her eyes going straight towards her. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM! My sister's head instantly hits the steering wheel violently, and the seat belts pulls her fatigue 100 pounds body back, the car is definitely destroyed still NO AIRBAG as appeared. Now, your thinking she isn't dead just got her leg scratched and a bleeding head/nose but an airbag would be HELPFUL at the moment; better than none. She was on the International Blvd (or known as pac hwy) which the speed limits goes around 30-40 mph but what IF it was on a Freeway? The speed limits on the freeway goes around 60-80 mph! Will i loose my sister..., forever? This isn't safe for ANYONE to experience this situation, EVER. Could you trust Toyota for airbag safety?
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Get an overview of this hotelNear downtown with wireless Internet and free shuttles to Union Square/Fisherman's Wharf
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Located in San Francisco's Theater District, this hotel is 7 blocks from Union Square and 12 blocks from the Chinatown entrance.
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COVA Hotel provides complimentary breakfast, newspapers, coffee, and wireless Internet access, as well as San Francisco city views from a rooftop terrace.
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The COVA Hotel is located in San Francisco's Theater District and is 7 blocks from Union Square. Several city attractions are accessible via the Civic Center BART/MUNI transportation centers 5 blocks from the hotel. The hotel features a complimentary hourly shuttle to Union Square, Fisherman's Wharf, and Moscone Center from 10 AM to 8 PM.
In addition to a rooftop terrace, hotel amenities include complimentary wireless Internet access throughout, as well as free newspapers in the lobby. The hotel's bistro, mrCrave, offers a bar and serves Californian cuisine. A complimentary continental breakfast is served each morning. Meeting rooms with audio-visual equipment are available for small groups, and event catering can be arranged. Guests have complimentary access to a 24-hour business center, a conference center, and a 24-hour fitness facility.
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JERUSALEM (MarketWatch) – With its stock down more than 90% to less than 14 shekels ($3.63) from 152 shekels in winter 2010, pushing down its market cap to 620 million shekels from 5.74 billion shekels, Israeli corporate giant IDB Holding reported its latest financial results wrapped in a going-concern warning.
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The sprawling holding company's second-quarter net loss of 1.27 billion shekels followed a 36% drop in total assets to 35 billion euros in 2011 from 55 billion euros in 2010.
Lurking behind this shrinkage were failures to detect market mayhem abroad, social discontent at home, and a mixture of financial adventurism and corporate isolationism in IDB's own boardroom.
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IDB Holding IL:IDBH has been at the heart of the Jewish state's economy. The company has held controlling stakes in Israel's top cellphone company, leading supermarket chain, biggest insurance firm and sole cement manufacturer, in addition to real-estate developer Property & Building Corp., PTBL, -0.87% agrichemicals giant Makhteshim-Agan, and high-tech gems like Given Imaging Ltd. US:GIVN and Elron Electronic Industries Ltd. ELRNF, +2.89%
Even so, while the Israeli economy and most of IDB's subsidiaries performed well, the parent company sank in 2 billion shekels of debt, of which 1.6 billion is owed to holders of bonds whose yields have soared to 220%.
Staring into bankruptcy's abyss, the company began swallowing a symptomatic treatment's bitter pills.
Over the summer it sold a 49.9% stake in subsidiary Clal Industries IL:CII for $300 million to Russian-American businessman Leonid Blavatnik's Access Industries. And last month Argentina's biggest real-estate tycoon, Eduardo Elshtein, in a personal deal with IDB Chairman Nochi Dankner, paid $25 million for a 10% stake in a company through which Dankner controls IDB Holdings.
Now, as IDB's lawyers seek formulas to reschedule some of its mounting debt, and as more assets are likely to be spun off, the question is what caused the conglomerate's crisis and what lessons investors should draw from it.
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Befitting IDB's size, reach and pretensions, some of its troubles reflected global crises rather than managerial mistakes.
In 2007 IDB and Israeli real estate developer Elad Group teamed up to build a $7 billion hotel complex in Las Vegas, a joint venture for which they bought land for $1.2 billion. With the 2008 meltdown only several months away, IDB executives boasted that the project would create 15,000 jobs.
In the aftermath of the meltdown the entire project was canceled and the purchased real estate's value plunged.
This part of IDB's tribulations has therefore been excused by some, who argue that an Israeli holding company could not be expected to predict the American housing-market crash better than Alan Greenspan, who also didn't see it coming.


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Users of the XF305 Professional Camcorder have full manual control of all camera functions to adapt to both technical and artistic challenges when shooting. For maximum customization, users have access to Custom Picture Settings, Custom Functions and Custom Display Options to tailor the camera to match their creative and production needs. Any combination of these items can be saved to an SD memory card for easy setup and matching of multiple XF305 and XF300 camcorders.
Custom Picture Settings
You can manually set an extensive variety of image quality adjustments and store them as 9 different presets. The adjustments include: Gamma, Black Level, Black Gamma, Low Key Saturation, Knee, Sharpness, Noise Reduction, Skin Detail, Selective Noise Reduction, Color Matrix, White Balance, Color Correction and Setup Level.
Custom Functions
The XF305's operation can be further fine-tuned through the use of Custom Functions. This allows the camcorder to truly match your shooting style. A total of 12 unique items can be adjusted including: Shockless Gain, Shockless White Balance, AE Response, Iris Limit, Iris Ring Direction, Focus Ring Control and Character Record.
As well, for quick access to commonly used functions, the XF305 features 13 customizable control buttons.
Custom Display
The Custom Display function lets you set 32 display items to create a custom LCD/EVF to suit your specific needs. Items that can be selected include: Zoom Position, Audio Level, Remaining Record Time, Exposure, Object Distance, Time Code and more.
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Top Prospects Selected to Team Canada
Tonight Team Canada announced their final roster for the 2013 World Junior Championship that will commence in Russia later this month. The WJC are a showcase for the world's best U20 players and among the players making the cut for Canada are two Islanders first round picks, Ryan Strome and Griffin Reinhart. 2012 third round pick Adam Pelech was also invited to training camp but was cut yesterday.


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Night of the Living Dead
1968. USA. George A. Romero. 96 min.
Friday, May 9, 2014, 1:30 p.m.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Night of the Living Dead
1968. USA. Directed by George A. Romero. With Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Russell Steiner, Karl Hardman. Romero had been making 8mm shorts as a teenager in Pittsburgh, but this was his first feature. Working on no discernible budget, Romero accomplished (in the words of critic Robin Wood) "a feat of imagination and audacity carried through with exemplary courage and conviction." Although cinematic zombies had been around for decades, Romero lent them a staggering panache that informs cable's most popular show today. Attendees are reminded: NO BITING IN THE AUDIENCE. 96 min.
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Review of Elizabeth Arden Sunscreen Stick
Found: A Sunscreen Stick That Won't Break You Out
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Miraculously, I also haven't broken out while using it, which is only true of one other sunscreen, Suntegrity, which is my usual daily-wear sunblock.
The stick is also water- and sweat-resistant, so although you'll still have to reapply after a swim or an arduous hike, it doesn't just melt off of you the way most sunscreens do. My only quibble is with the price. I know good sunscreen isn't cheap, but for such a small size, it would be nice to see the price a tad bit less expensive. However, a little goes a long way; I've been using it all over my face a couple times a day for a week, and I don't think I've even managed to make a dent in it. That's why this stick will be sticking around my beauty bag this season.


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Want more? Choose from other designs or create a personalized Skin with your photos!
Service was great, item was received in good condition and with full instructions as to how to install the skin. Item was exactly as described and the wallpaper attached to the order was high resolution and looks great on my phone. Addicted to matching wallpapers and skins now. Thanks!LC Quek, Singapore


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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Remains in Hospital Following Cancer Operation
A man cleans a picture of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a... NachrichtenfotoCaracas,Erwachsene Person,Horizontal,Hugo Chavez,Männer,Politik,Radiostudio,Regierung,Reinigen,Slum,Teilen,Venezuela,VertikalPhotographer RAUL ARBOLEDACollection: AFP 2013 AFPA man cleans a picture of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez at a communal radio station in '23 de Enero' slum in Caracas on January 7, 2013. The church weighed in with four days to go before President Hugo Chavez, who is in Cuba recovering from cancer surgery, is supposed to be sworn in to a new six year term. Venezuela's Catholic church warned the government Monday it would be 'morally unacceptable' to override the constitution amid an intensifying crisis over Chavez's health. His vice president has argued that the swearing in can be delayed indefinitely, calling it a 'formality,' and that Chavez's current administration can continue in office until a new one can be sworn in. AFP PHOTO/Raul ARBOLEDA (Photo credit should read RAUL ARBOLEDA/AFP/Getty Images)


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Lymphatic System
When it comes to the body's most important fluids, sometimes you just have to go with the flow. In this BrainPOP movie, Tim and Moby go in-depth to explain the workings of the lymphatic system. Learn how a special network of vessels, nodes, and organs returns plasma to your bloodstream and transports nutrients throughout your body. See how waste materials from your cells get hauled off for processing. Explore what really happens to the fats you eat. And discover why the lymphatic system is one of the immune system's most important allies in the fight against infections and diseases!
Learn More:What does the lymphatic system do?How does the lymphatic system stop me from getting sick?How is the lymphatic system different than the circulatory system?
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I want to share my paintings of nuts and have thought of a few puns related to them:
Painting nuts got me "out of my shell" and I tried not to "crack up." All those details made me "nuts."
My paintings were commissioned assignments of illustrations that were used on labels. The smaller almonds were for a liqueur label, the peanut butter and mixed nut medleys were for a supermarket brand and the rest were created for a company named Azar Nuts.
I have a blog where I describe my technique and have a lot more information. It is at:
© 2013 by Judy Unger, http://www.myjourneysinsight.com and 20 Lines A Day. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog's author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Judy Unger with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.