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09Feb2010

Big Giving in America Drops Substantially in 2009

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 9:25AM

GivingTracker| The Chronicle of Philanthropy has published its list of America’s top 50 givers. In 2009, last spot on the list went for $16.9 milliion versus $39 million in 2007. Donors interests have shifted away from buildings to business ethics, environmental and energy concerns and an overall more pragmatic approach to giving. Read on Chronicle of Philanthropy | America’s 50 Top Givers.

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Tuesday

09Feb2010

Burj Khalifa Observation Deck Scheduled to Reopen Feb 14

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 7:07AM

Global Futures| Officials in Dubai insist that the closing of the observation tower on the Burj Khalifa is a minor incident, and the tower will be reopened on Sunday, Feb 14.

No one was injured, as about 60 tourists heard a ‘really loud noise’ and what looked like smoke or dust coming out from one of the elevator doors. Michael Timms, a 31-year-old telecommunications engineer from the US said: “Civil Defence, paramedics and the police all arrived on the scene. One of the elevators had not reached all the way to the 124th floor and I saw some people climbing a ladder from the elevator up on to the observation deck.” Timms said they were given an offer to return for free. via Gulf News

14 people were trapped in one of the elevators for over an hour last month.

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Tuesday

09Feb2010

Expectations Low for WH Health Care 'Summit'

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6:45AM

Updated: On Health Bill, GOP’s Road is a New Map NYTimes (details of Republican ideas)

HopeTracker| While President Obama calls the upcoming Feb 25 half-day, health care meeting a ‘summit’, the participants don’t appear to have a positive view of what can be accomplished. All major media are reporting that Republicans say ‘great idea, we’re interested in working with Democrats, as long as we scrap everything and start over. Democrats say ‘not a chance.’

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Tuesday

09Feb2010

Bees Able to Distinguish Human Faces

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6:31AM

GreenTracker| Bees have never been regarded as man’s best friend, even i they can look deep into our eyes. And what do they see when staring into our faces? Giant flowers. Like most behavioral training in life, a reward is involved in the bee’s behavior. In this case, the prize was sugar.

Scientists published research that bees can ‘learn’ to distinguish between simple face-like images, at least when sugar was the prize.

The bees were shown five pairs of different images, where one image was always a face and the other a pattern of dots and dashes. Bees were always rewarded with sugar when they visited the face while nothing was offered by the non-face pattern.

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Tuesday

09Feb2010

Sugared Soft Drinks Linked to Pancratic Cancer

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6:18AM

Love to Eat | The health profiles of people who consumer sugared soft drinks already has statistical risk of increased obesity and serious disease. Researchers now report results of a small but statistically very relevant study on pancratic cancer, among the deadliest of cancers. Only 5 percent of people diagnosed with pancratic cancer are alive five years later. Thankfully, the cancer remains comparatively rare.

Paticipants in the study who consumed two or more soft drinks per week (averaging five per week) had an 87 percent increased risk compared with individuals who did not.

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Tuesday

09Feb2010

Global Orphanages Under Spotlight

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 6:03AM

GivingTracker | People have a vision of orphanages as a place of safe haven for poor children. One of the sidebar stories of the Haitian earthquake is not only the the details concerning the 10 American missionaries, led by Laura Silsby, who are held in Haitian jails for trying to take Haitian to ‘safe haven’.

Reality is that many orphanages in Haiti and elsewhere in the world are almost inhabitable, with no real means of educating children or providing basic medical care. Many children become hostages in schemes that enslave them as servants of sex workers.

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Tuesday

09Feb2010

Afghan General Says Former Foes Now Brothers

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 5:52AM

Love Peace | The Afghanistan National Army’s chief of staff, Gen. Bismullah Khan Mohammadi previously fought hard against American values and style of fighting a war. Like so many of the newly-created leaders of the ANA, the officers of ANA army were foes of the US two decades ago.

Numbering just over 100,000 soldiers, the ANA is slated to grow to 172,000 by the autumn of 2011. Turning it into a serious fighting force is a priority for the Obama administration—offering the only exit strategy for the U.S.-led coalition as Western public opinion sours on the Afghan war.

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Monday

08Feb2010

Baci Lingerie Spring 2010

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:03PM

Private Studio| Baci Lingerie is located in Miami, Fla and does a magnificent job of interpreting angelic lingerie for saucy ladies. View the website and more photos.

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Monday

08Feb2010

Sen Barrasso Asks Dr Rajendra Pachauri To Resign

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 12:26PM

Rajendra PachauriGreenTracker| Republican Sen John Barrasso of Wyoming has called for the independent investigation of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and dor Dr Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Geneva-based panel to resign.

Dr. Barrasso said that “new scandals” emerge “every day” about the “so-called ‘facts’” in the panel’s reports. “The integrity of the data and the integrity of the science have been compromised.…It is time to conduct an independent investigation into the conduct of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.The scientific data behind these policies must be independently verified,” he said. via Wall Street Journal

For recent posts on climate change, read GreenTracker

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Monday

08Feb2010

Televised Congressional Health Care Meeting on Feb 25.

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 10:04AM

HopeTracker| President Obama has invited Republican and Democratic lawmakers to exchange their ideas on health care at a half-day, televised sitdown on Feb 25. The early words from both parties are polite affirmation of the idea with a quick reminder that the American people want the other’s plan.

Meanwhile, few Americans know what is the actual proposed health care plan from either party. We have no reconciliation from the Democrats around a unified vision that meshes the Senate and House plans. In terms of the Republicans, at least this writer has no idea what the Republican plan is, although the party insists they have one. As for President Obama, we have no idea what his preferred plan is either. via Wall Street Journal

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Monday

08Feb2010

Laura Chinchilla Elected President of Costa Rica

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 9:20AM

RedTracker| Laura Chinchilla, former vice president of Costa Rica has claimed victory as the country’s new president and the 5th woman president in Latin America. Chinchilla’s victory was decisive, with 47-48% of the vote. It was unclear if her National Liberation Party would gain a majority in congress.

‘Analyst Heather Berkman of the Eurasia Group said coalition building without a majority would likely delay or derail controversial fiscal reforms to shore up government finances and energy deregulation.’ via Huffington Post

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Monday

08Feb2010

Shakira Joins Architecture for Humanity to Build Haitian School

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8:48AM

GivingTracker| Shakira’s Barefoot Foundation will join Architecture for Humanity and the Howard Buffett Foundation in building a school in Haiti.

The Barefoot Haiti School will be modeled after the work of the Fundación Pies Descalzos, the Colombia-based Foundation Shakira founded which provides education, nutrition and psychological support to over six thousand Colombian children displaced by violence.

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Monday

08Feb2010

Humans In Pursuit of Happiness

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 8:04AM

DolceTracker| What makes a man happy? Is it the same for women? Much of the world is obsessed with how to be happy, especially in America where we regard happiness with a sense of entitlement. Much global research confirms that people are happier in less developed countries, although the reasons aren’t clearly understood. BTW, what IS happiness?

The London Times weighs in on the subject with two men thinkers on happiness: Lord Layard, the UK’s leading happiness economist and author of ‘Happiness: Lessons from a New Science’; and Buddhist monk the Venerable Matthieu Ricard, author of ‘The Art of Meditation’.

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Monday

08Feb2010

Leila Ghannam New Governor of Ramallah

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:49AM

Love| Peace In a little noticed news bullet, Leila Ghannam, 35, who has a doctorate in psychoogy but rose to be a captain in the Palestinian intelligence service, has become the first woman to be appointed governor of Ramallah, the unofficial capital of the West Bank.

Ghannam, who wears a hijab (headscarf) and comes from a religious family, is charged by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas with insuring that Hammas doesn’t seize power on the West Bank, as they did in Gaza.

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Monday

08Feb2010

President Obama | Expert Scolder

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 7:21AM

AnneTracker| Drinking my morning coffee, I just chuckled reading Politico’s headline piece President Obama the scold, given my reaction listening to Presdient Obama over the weekend.

I used the word ‘scold’ to a friend, saying ‘I wish he would stop scolding us and lead’, adding ‘I’m starting to really not like this guy’.

I was thrilled that the country elected President Obama and accepted graciously my defeat as a Clinton supporter.

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