Sunday, December 20, 2009

First-of-its-kind Website Connects Architects & Designers with Nonprofits in Need: Corresponding Publication Advocates Pro Bono Design

Public Architecture, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates pro bono design, has launched Version 2.0 of its nationally-recognized program, "The 1%" (www.theonepercent.org). The two new apparatus of the affairs cover a "match-making" website and a book advertisement advocating pro bono design.

San Francisco, CA -- Public Architecture, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that advocates pro bono design, has launched Version 2.0 of its nationally-recognized program, "The 1%" (www.theonepercent.org). The centerpiece of the affairs is a first-of-its-kind "match-making" website that connects nonprofit organizations in charge of architecture abetment with architectonics and architecture firms accommodating to accord of their time on a pro bono basis.

"This next appearance of The 1% builds on the drive we've garnered in the program's aboriginal two years, and begins to abode the added and appropriately important ancillary of any pro bono relationship: the client," says John Cary, Executive Director of Public Architecture (www.publicarchitecture.org), which coordinates The 1% program. "Public Architecture--like abounding firms, schools, and AIA chapters--fields dozens if not hundreds of inquiries anniversary year from humans and groups gluttonous pro bono architecture assistance. Until now, there hasn't been a area of any affectionate to catalog, abundant beneath abode those needs."

This next appearance of The 1% builds on the drive we've garnered in the program's aboriginal two years, and begins to abode the added and appropriately important ancillary of any pro bono relationship: the client Public Architecture--like abounding firms, schools, and AIA chapters--fields dozens if not hundreds of inquiries anniversary year from humans and groups gluttonous pro bono architecture assistance. Until now, there hasn't been a area of any affectionate to catalog, abundant beneath abode those needs. The all-inclusive majority of the nonprofits we plan with are saddled with accessories and appointment spaces that don't reflect the accent of their mission We're talking about groups and the humans they serve who would not contrarily accept acceptance to able design. The 1% affairs has the befalling to antidote this situation. This is an awfully affective and able publication It is absolutely the affectionate of ability that can affect added pro bono architecture collaborations above the country. This next bearing of The 1% affairs website enables both nonprofits and firms to annals and analyze the kinds of casework they either charge or are accommodating to action on a pro bono basis. The seven casework currently answer on the website ambit from the assembly of basic attack abstracts to complete ability renovations.

"The all-inclusive majority of the nonprofits we plan with are saddled with accessories and appointment spaces that don't reflect the accent of their mission," says Aaron Hurst, architect and admiral of the Taproot Foundation. "We're talking about groups and the humans they serve who would not contrarily accept acceptance to able design. The 1% affairs has the befalling to antidote this situation."

In an accomplishment to acquaint the abstraction and attempt of pro bono architecture to both nonprofits as able-bodied as architectonics and architecture firms, Public Architecture is accompanying absolution a book advertisement to accord with the new website. Made accessible by a above admission from the "Ideas that Matter" affairs of Sappi Limited, the advertisement includes brief, project-specific interviews with acclaimed architectonics and nonprofit leaders, which detail how cooperation amid architects and nonprofits can actualize both alarming spaces as able-bodied as alarming stories. The book aswell includes a absolute 'how-to' section, anecdotic allowances and strategies for firms and nonprofits alike.

"This is an awfully affective and able publication," addendum RK Stewart, 2007 President of the American Institute of Architects. "It is absolutely the affectionate of ability that can affect added pro bono architecture collaborations above the country."

Launched in 2005, The 1% affairs was fabricated accessible by a admission from the National Endowment for the Arts. Version 2.0 of "The 1%" affairs website was fabricated accessible acknowledgment to the connected abutment of NEA as able-bodied as a contempo admission from The American Institute of Architects and the advancing abutment of several arch architectonics firms and foundations. To date, over 200 firms of all sizes accept active on, alignment from sole practitioners to some of the better firms in the country, including HKS and Perkins + Will.

Note to editors:

The afterward Public Architecture assembly are accessible for interviews:

John Cary, Executive Director of Public Architecture and Director of The 1% program

John Peterson, Founder & Chair of Public Architecture

Aaron Hurst, Founder & President of the Taproot Foundation

Contact Barbara Franzoia at barbara@publicarchitecture.org or by buzz at 415/291-0243.

Public Architecture
www.publicarchitecture.org

Established in 2002 by artisan John Peterson, Public Architecture is a civic nonprofit alignment based in San Francisco. Public Architecture acts as a agitator for accessible address through education, advocacy, and the architecture of accessible spaces and amenities.

The 1% Program of Public Architecture
www.theonepercent.org

"The 1%" is a civic affairs launched by Public Architecture in 2005 that challenges architectonics and architecture firms to agreement 1% of their billable hours to pro bono work. Over 200 firms accept active on to date. If every architectonics able in the U.S. committed just 20 hours annually, it would add up to 5,000,000 hours anniversary year--the agnate of 2,500-person close alive fulltime for the accessible good. The 1% affairs was launched by Public Architecture in 2005 with the abutment of a admission from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and is anon accurate by a ambit of groups, including the NEA, American Institute of Architects (AIA), Boston Society of Architects (BSA), accumulated and clandestine foundations, as able-bodied as arch firms such as Elness Swenson Graham Architects (ESG), Hammel, Green & Abrahamson (HGA), Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), HKS, McCall Design Group, Peckham & Wright Architects (PWA), and Perkins + Will.

Borden Elliott & Pierce Report On Third Quarter Executive Job Results

According to Borden Elliott & Pierce after-effects for controlling career alteration in the third division of this year shows an access over endure year of about 16%.

Orlando, FL -- Borden Elliott & Pierce, a career administration close with offices in Tampa and Orlando are absolution their third division after-effects on admiral who accept appear a acknowledged career transition.

According to Borden Elliott & Pierce the after-effects for controlling career alteration in the third division of this year shows an access over endure year of about 16%.

Borden Elliott & Pierce is not an application agency. Our job is to adviser our audience through a action of career alteration and/or improvement; which sometimes after-effects in an centralized advance with their absolute employer, or a adventitious to actualize something on their own. Borden Elliott & Pierce says that this is a acceptable sign, as the trend for this year continues to authenticate that admiral are landing jobs at an added amount over endure year. The aggregation warns however, that these after-effects alone reflect the success of admiral who accept accustomed able abetment in their search, and may not reflect the after-effects for all executives.

Borden Elliott & Pierce says these after-effects are based on the letters of admiral who accept appear accepting of a new career position or those who accept fabricated a absolute career decision, such as aperture their own business, or accepting an centralized promotion. "Borden Elliott & Pierce is not an application agency. Our job is to adviser our audience through a action of career alteration and/or improvement; which sometimes after-effects in an centralized advance with their absolute employer, or a adventitious to actualize something on their own."

According to Borden Elliott & Pierce, there is appropriately acceptable account for October as the access of absolute career alteration for admiral over endure year appears to continue. Borden Elliott & Pierce will absolution the October after-effects in aboriginal November.

Borden Elliott & Pierce has offices in Tampa and Orlando Florida, with affiliated offices throughout the U.S. For added advice about them appointment their website at www.bepcflorida.com or complete their chargeless online appraisal at http://www.bepcflorida.com/assessment.html.

Larry Keim Reports on Jobs Outlook for Executives in The Third Quarter

According to Larry Keim, a sampling from career administration firms shows that controlling akin placements in the third division of this year authenticate a baby access over endure year, about 4 percent.

Houston, TX -- Larry Keim is a career industry able and follows the hiring trends of executives, professionals and managers through career management/career counseling firms.

According to Keim, a sampling from career administration firms shows that controlling akin placements in the third division of this year authenticate a baby access over endure year, about 4%.

Career administration firms are not application agencies. Their job is to adviser their audience through a action of career improvement; which sometimes after-effects in a advance or a adventitious to do something on their own. Keim says that this is a acceptable sign, as the trend for this year continues to authenticate that admiral are landing jobs at an added amount over endure year. Keim warns however, that these after-effects alone reflect the success of admiral who accept accustomed able abetment in their search, and may not reflect the after-effects for all executives.

Larry Keim gathers letters from a sampling of career administration organizations apropos the success amount of admiral who accept appear accepting of a new career position or career decision, such as aperture their own business, or affective up the accumulated ladder area they currently work. "Career administration firms are not application agencies. Their job is to adviser their audience through a action of career improvement; which sometimes after-effects in a advance or a adventitious to do something on their own."

According to Keim, the best account for now is that aboriginal after-effects for October and the third division are assuming a amazing access of absolute career alteration for admiral over endure year. "October is currently absorption an access of over 60% over endure year. This is a cogent access over endure year and a hopeful indicator that the fourth division will aftermath after-effects far advanced of endure year.

Larry Keim provides career accompanying casework to career administration / career counseling firms throughout the US. Keim will anon be absolution a new website.

E.ON UK Supports Government's Carbon Capture and Storage Project

E.ON UK, one of the country's arch activity generators, and business activity supplier, has today accepted its abutment for the Government's CCS activity and its ambition to crop allotment in the competition.

-- The aggregation is one of a drop of UK companies to accept developed both pre- and post-combustion projects, a lot of conspicuously through its affairs for carbon abduction accessible supercritical coal-fired units at Kingsnorth in Kent. And are appreciative to be one of the UKs better business gas supplier.



We accordingly abutment the Government's accommodation and are currently evaluating options for entering a column agitation activity or projects into the competition. Dr Paul Golby, Chief Executive of E.ON UK, said: "We recognise that the Government has bare time to ascertain its action objectives and appraise the accessible technology options adjoin these.

"Making the technology best now will accredit developers to focus accomplishment and amount on projects which will best accommodated those action goals and abstain added amount on those it does not.

"We accept that the best of column agitation affirmation technology adapted to a supercritical atramentous bulb is absolutely rational accustomed that the Government has set, as a key action aim, the cold of demonstrating technology that can be retrofitted in China and added countries to their new and approaching coal-fired plant.

"We accordingly abutment the Government's accommodation and are currently evaluating options for entering a column agitation activity or projects into the competition."

The aggregation which offers a advanced ambit of business activity services will adjudge on how best to access the antagonism already there is added description of the rules next month.

E.ON is aswell one of the supporters of the FutureGen activity in the US and is affianced in added analysis projects in Europe and in Canada. The aggregation is aswell continuing to investigate 'oxyfuel' battlefront as one adjustment for apple-pie atramentous bearing at its technology centre in Nottinghamshire.

The Government is currently because an appliance from E.ON to body two 800MW supercritical coal-fired units at its absolute Kingsnorth ability base in Kent.

E.ON is one of the arch blooming generators in the UK, and arch business electricity supplier with 21 wind farms amid from Cornwall to Northern Ireland. We aswell bake biomass actual alloyed with atramentous in two of our ability stations and are currently architecture the UK's better committed biomass ability base at Lockerbie. Combined, our renewable portfolio generates abundant blooming activity to ability the homes in a city-limits the admeasurement of Manchester.

Our ambition is to cut the carbon appear by anniversary kW of electricity we accomplish by 10% amid 2005-2012, accepting already bargain it by 20% back 1990.

Major business gas supplier E.ON, aswell plan to absorb £1bn on new renewables in the next 5 years, including new onshore and adopted wind, new biomass and beachcomber and flat power.

Personal Bankruptcy Lawyer, Kevin Heupel, Announces the Launch of Free Online Bankruptcy Evaluations

Heupel Law, P.C. announces the absolution of new casework including chargeless online defalcation evaluations, chargeless antecedent consultations, and transaction plans. By alms chargeless features, their audience are able to plan appear and accretion a beginning banking start. Additionally, Heupel Law is committed to answering all of a client's defalcation questions accurately.

-- Filing defalcation is a huge footfall that can be overwhelming, expensive, and time consuming. Heupel Law, P.C. announces new casework and website appearance including chargeless online defalcation evaluations, chargeless antecedent consultations, and transaction plans. Heupel Law is committed to accouterment audience with abreast and accurate answers to all of their bankruptcy questions.

Our ambition is to about-face obstacles into opportunities. We accept that there are abundant affairs that may could cause banking problems, including the access in the foreclosure market. Many humans feel that filing defalcation is the end of the road. However, defalcation isn't the end or a stigma; it's in actuality the alpha of a new, beginning banking life. We accept that humans who are advertent defalcation cannot acquiesce to pay ample advocate fees. We action a chargeless antecedent consultation, aggressive prices, and transaction affairs to acquiesce humans to accomplish an accomplished accommodation about their banking future The Heupel Law website includes several new features. The chargeless online defalcation appraisal is a quick way to get the action started. With easy-to-use applications, their website is a acceptable aboriginal footfall to the achievability of filing bankruptcy. The Heupel Law website aswell includes advice about Chapter 7 and 13 bankruptcies and new defalcation laws.

In addition, Heupel Law offers a chargeless antecedent appointment to clients. This advantage allows audience to ascertain if this is the actual aisle for them after initiating added debt. A claimed defalcation advocate will acknowledgment all of the client's questions during this able consultation.

Owner of Heupel Law, P.C., Kevin Heupel, explains, "Our ambition is to about-face obstacles into opportunities. We accept that there are abundant affairs that may could cause banking problems, including the access in the foreclosure market. Many humans feel that filing defalcation is the end of the road. However, defalcation isn't the end or a stigma; it's in actuality the alpha of a new, beginning banking life."

As an accomplished personal defalcation lawyer, Kevin Heupel has developed an affordable way to advice those in banking need. Heupel Law provides abundant acknowledged admonition on bankruptcy, which entails the planning, chargeless qualifications, and analogous the action until completion. Additionally, they action audience defalcation facts including the types of defalcation and how to acknowledge bankruptcy.

By alms chargeless admonition and consultations, Heupel Law allows audience to actuate if they should proceed. Knowledgeable with new defalcation laws, Heupel Law can acknowledgment both Chapter 7 and 13 defalcation questions accurately.

"We accept that humans who are advertent defalcation cannot acquiesce to pay ample advocate fees. We action a chargeless antecedent consultation, aggressive prices, and transaction affairs to acquiesce humans to accomplish an accomplished accommodation about their banking future," explains Heupel.

To apprentice added about filing defalcation or for answers to your defalcation questions, amuse appointment CoBankruptcyHelp.com.

About Heupel Law, P.C.:
Kevin Heupel has been a accountant advocate for over ten years. He is a above Assistant Attorney General and an accomplished defalcation attorney. Heupel Law, P.C. is committed to wholly confined the association and clients. With a agreement to above account and claimed absorption from alpha to finish, Heupel Law will acknowledgment all of the client's questions and accommodate defalcation facts.

Solar Innovations Announces the Development of a New, Rolling Greenhouse Bench, Easing the Space Crunch on Horticulturalists

Solar Innovations, a custom architect of residential and bartering conservatories, greenhouses, sunrooms, folding and sliding bottle doors, walls, windows, screens, and added announces the development and absolution of a new, rolling greenhouse bench, abatement the amplitude crisis on horticulturalists.

Myerstown, PA -- Solar Innovations, a custom architect of residential and bartering conservatories, greenhouses, sunrooms, folding and sliding bottle doors, walls, windows, screens, and added announces the development and absolution of a new, rolling greenhouse bench, abatement the amplitude crisis on horticulturalists.

Solar Innovations, Inc.

By affective in either direction, the rolling affection provides a added aisle amid benches, while advancement the anatomic apparent area. As their name implies, rolling benches are advised to acquiesce the bank apparent to move on rollers to accommodate able plan amplitude with flexibility. "By affective in either direction, the rolling affection provides a added aisle amid benches, while advancement the anatomic apparent area." Solar Innovations' rolling greenhouse bank offers a quick, and calmly accessible operational across after crumbling admired growing space.

Solar Innovations offers several forms of greenhouse storage, anniversary custom advised and bogus to accommodated the customer's needs: Benches, Shelving, and Hangers. Solar Innovations' Greenhouse Benches are accessible in one and two tiered styles, and can absorb shelves beneath the bank itself to accommodate added accumulator and amplitude for growing adumbration gluttonous plants. Greenhouse benches are offered in an aluminum anatomy with a galvanized cobweb top, an aluminum anatomy with amber or western red cedar bulk top, or a UV aggressive polyethylene grid-top belvedere with a polyethylene or aluminum frame. The galvanized cobweb top and polyethylene grid-top platforms accommodate both accomplished air apportionment and arising while acceptance ablaze to canyon through to the plants below. These types of greenhouse benches are aesthetically adorable and will accommodate years of service.

Solar Innovations aswell offers three accepted types of bulb hangers. A individual bulb hanger, which is a baby annular adapter that screws into the autogenous rafters of the system. An aluminum aqueduct bulb hanger is complete of a continued aluminum rod and is abeyant above the breadth of the room. Available in unpainted versions, Solar Innovations bulb hangers can aswell be corrective to bout the autogenous décor of your structure. This blind advantage is installed on alone rafters in the greenhouse . A bandage architecture bulb hanger, accurate by the aperture frames, suspends the amplitude of the room. Hangers of this blazon accommodate added adherence to the all-embracing anatomy due to their orientation. These hangers are aswell able of acknowledging a abundant added amount of vegetation.

Greenhouse shelving selections by Solar Innovations accommodate added growing amplitude and accumulator options for any greenhouse. Solar Innovations offers a array of adorable shelving choices featuring acme complete of abstracts such as glass, wood, or metal. The admiring brackets can be accepted or adorning depending on your preference.

Several custom complete rolling greenhouse benches accept afresh been installed in a new architecture from Solar Innovations Historic Greenhouse Line: Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Designed to cycle up to eighteen inches in either administration from the axis point, Solar Innovations rolling greenhouse benches are a adjustable amplitude alterative to anchored benches.

Solar Innovations is able to accommodated about any greenhouse accent need. For added advice on Solar Innovations' greenhouses and accessories amuse acquaintance Solar at 800-618-0669.

Hocking Stuart Win Big at the Annual Real Estate Awards

Hocking Stuart won 3 awards from 6 nominations at the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) Awards, including the Corporate Promotion accolade for the additional year in a row.

-- Hocking Stuart, a arch Melbourne based absolute estate company, were awarded 3 celebrated awards at the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) Awards in backward October. Winning these awards re-affirms Hocking Stuarts abode as a baton and innovator of the industry.

October 18 at Crown's Palladium Ballroom, area for such beneficial contest as the Logies and the Brownlow Medal count, the Real Estate Institute of Victoria (REIV) captivated its anniversary awards presentation evening: REIV -- The Age Awards for Excellence.

Every bit as glamourous as either of the ahead mentioned events, the all-embracing allowance was active with the assemblage of aflame real acreage agents, all acquisitive to airing abroad with one of the abundant trophies on offer. It absolutely was a arrant affair; acreage agents apperceive how to dress up.

Whenever compere Andrew O'Keefe appear an agency as a finalist one of the abounding tables bushing the allowance would appear with cheers. There were abounding winners, both individuals and companies, but the loudest access was adored for the Residential Property Manager of the Year award.

When the words 'Hayley Mitchell from Hocking Stuart South Yarra' were appear at atomic 4 tables went berserk. It was anarchy at the Palladium.

Only moments before, Hocking Stuart had won the awful celebrated Corporate Promotion accolade for arete in advertising, business and the advance of their brand. This is a bit like the Best Picture accolade at the Oscars; it's coveted and hotly contested. Hocking Stuart aswell won in 2006, authoritative this the aboriginal time an agency has calm back-to-back awards in the category.

As accepted the acclamation was absolutely absonant if Hocking Stuart were appear the winners of the Corporate Promotion award, about that was balmy compared to the activation accession Hayley received.

Jackie Hall, Operations & Marketing Manager for Hocking Stuart appropriate a accessible acumen why: "The accumulated awards are acceptance from the industry that we're a allotment of the best absolute acreage agency networks in Victoria, which is important for us as a business. But the alone awards are personal; they're accolade for an individual's efforts, and Hayley is assuredly the
best Property Manager in Victoria."

To cap off an abnormally acknowledged night for Hocking Stuart, they aswell calm one of the endure awards for the evening: the REIV Award For Service, won by Sadhana Smiles in acceptance of her outstanding plan with Hocking Stuart and aural the broader absolute acreage community.

Not abounding absolute acreage agencies get to airing abroad from these evenings accustomed three trophies. Hayley and Sadhana -- and absolutely all at Hocking Stuart -- will be animated for a continued time yet, and their abundant perspex trophies will be a connected admonition that in 2007, they were the best in the business.

Kofi Annan Joins the Board of the United Nations Foundation

The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 24, 2007 -- The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

The United Nations Foundation

Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board. I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice. One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world “Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress,” said Ted Turner, Founder and Chairman of the UN Foundation’s Board of Directors. “He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board.”

“I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change,” said Kofi Annan. “The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice.”

“One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world,” said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the UN Foundation.

Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 through 2006. He was a UN adept who took his aboriginal job with the alignment in 1962 and captivated a amount of posts, including Deputy Director to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1980-83) and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping (1995-96). In 2001, Secretary-General Annan and the United Nations were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their plan in all-around accord and cooperation. He was succeeded on January 1, 2007, by South Korean Ban Ki-moon.

Former Secretary-General Annan is a built-in of Ghana. He accelerating from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1961. He was a adolescent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management from 1971 to 1972 and accustomed a Master of Science degree.

Since abrogation the United Nations, Kofi Annan has connected to advocate for bigger behavior to accommodated the needs of the atomic and a lot of vulnerable, decidedly in Africa.

About the UN Foundation

The UN Foundation, created in 1998 with administrator and philanthropist Ted Turner’s celebrated $1 billion allowance to abutment UN causes and activities, builds and accouterments public-private partnerships that abode the world’s a lot of acute problems. Its partnerships and campaigns accept all-around reach, and cut above assorted affair areas, including: attention biodiversity and announcement acceptable development; accouterment insecticide-treated bed nets to anticipate the advance of malaria in Africa; and accretion acceptance to technology for all-embracing altruistic abatement and accessible bloom workers.

Members of the United Nations Foundation Board of Directors are: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan; Kofi Annan, above Secretary-General of the United Nations; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General Emeritus, World Health Organization; Ruth Cardoso, Chair, Comunidade Solidaria; N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited; Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice; Emma Rothschild, Professor of History at Harvard University and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge, Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics; Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General; Ted Turner (Chairman), Chairman, Turner Enterprises; Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund; Andrew Young, Chairman, Good Works International; Yuan Ming, Director of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing University; and Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.

For added advice about the United Nations Foundation, appointment www.unfoundation.org.

Contact:
Katherine Miller
Phone: +1 202 778 1622
+1 202 247 7280

RH Reality Check Wins 2007 Global Media Award

Web Site Honored for Excellence in Population Reporting

(Vocus/PRWEB ) October 31, 2007 -- RH Reality Check is the champ of the Population Institute’s 2007 Global Media Award for Best Electronic Media Forum in the across of Population Reporting. The web website has been awarded this account for its charge to advancing animal and changeable bloom and rights. RH Reality Check is a allotment of 12 recipients of the Population Institute’s 2007 Global Media Awards. The awards will be presented December 5 at a celebration in the Rayburn House of Representatives Office Building in Washington DC.

RH Reality Check

The website is an calmly accessible online ability for evidence-based information, annoying annotation and alternate dialogue RH Reality Check is a absurd site…I decidedly like that it has amplitude for all aspects of the changeable rights, health, and amends issues so by its actual accepting it delivers the holistic message. These Global Media Award recipients accept helped to actualize accessible acquaintance of citizenry issues through their committed efforts We are acquisitive that these awards will absolute much-needed absorption to the accent of abbreviation accelerated animal advance and accomplishing a apple citizenry in antithesis with a advantageous all-around environment. “The website is an calmly accessible online ability for evidence-based information, annoying annotation and alternate dialogue,” said Lawrence Smith Jr., admiral of the Population Institute.

Though RH Reality Check is alone eighteen-months old, the website has become a arch articulation in the online accelerating account mural for changeable and animal bloom account and information.

Gloria Feldt, above President of Planned Parenthood, says, “RH Reality Check is a absurd site…I decidedly like that it has amplitude for all aspects of the changeable rights, health, and amends issues so by its actual accepting it delivers the holistic message."

Scott Swenson, Editor of RH Reality Check back its inception, says, “We are so beholden to be accustomed by The Population Institute. It is awfully important that progressives absorbed in animal and changeable bloom globally accept a abode to chat and agitation our issues. This accolade is for all the RH Reality Check staff, present and past, who accept helped the website become a top caliber, interactive, online advertisement adherent to administration assorted ideas, debunking the opposition, and cogent belief that affix action with people’s lives.”

RH Reality Check is accustomed to allotment the 2007 Global Media Award acceptance with eleven added outstanding recipients including Newsweek annual science columnist Sharon Begley; Jim Motavelli, editor of E Magazine; Joel Pett, beat artist for the Lexington, KY Herald-Leader; and MelClaire Sy Delfin, television anchorman with the Philippines GMA Network, Inc.

“These Global Media Award recipients accept helped to actualize accessible acquaintance of citizenry issues through their committed efforts,” said Lawrence Smith, Jr., admiral of the Population Institute. “We are acquisitive that these awards will absolute much-needed absorption to the accent of abbreviation accelerated animal advance and accomplishing a apple citizenry in antithesis with a advantageous all-around environment.”

About RH Reality Check
Conceived and accomplished by a baby aggregation of accomplished leaders, “new media” experts and a amount of arch advancement organizations, RH Reality Check was launched in mid-2006 as a agency of harnessing new media and communications technologies to advanced empiric advice and advance new account in account of changeable bloom issues. Employing humor, appraisal and alternate features, RH Reality Check, with the abutment of the UN Foundation, provides aboriginal advertisement and annotation on a circadian basis, establishes banal advice that rebuts the “reckless rhetoric” activated by opponents of changeable rights; appearance appropriate agreeable series; and presents different perspectives from about the world.

About The Population Institute
The Population Institute (www.populationinstitute.org) is an international, educational, non-profit alignment that seeks to voluntarily abate boundless citizenry growth, through accepted acceptance to ancestors planning information, apprenticeship and services. Established in 1969, the Institute, with associates in 172 countries is headquartered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Funding for the Population Institute comes from foundations, corporations and alone gifts. The Institute does not seek or accept banking abutment from the U.S. government.

For More Information:
Amie Newman
(206) 218-6094
http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/

ReCellular Named Exclusive Cell Phone Recycling Partner for Consumer Cellular

Consumer Cellular ally with corpuscle buzz recycling baton ReCellular to barrage affairs benefiting Doernbecher Children's Hospital.

Dexter, Mich. -- ReCellular Inc., the world's foremost collector, reseller and recycler of acclimated corpuscle phones and accessories, today appear it has entered into a affiliation with Oregon-based Consumer Cellular, one of the oldest and better adaptable basic arrangement operators, to aggregate wireless handsets for recycling from their barter above the country. Proceeds from the new affairs will account Doernbecher Children's Hospital, the oldest full-service children's hospital in Oregon.

The corpuscle buzz recycling affairs appearance a different pre-paid, crop home mailer that allows Consumer Cellular barter to mail their acclimated and/or exceptionable corpuscle phones anon to ReCellular for recycling or reuse. In addition, barter can crop their acclimated corpuscle phones to Consumer Cellular for bead off in on-site accumulating boxes. Proceeds from the affairs will go anon to account the children's hospital and advice accommodated the appropriate needs of accouchement gluttonous medical attention.

"As one of the industry's better and oldest adaptable basic arrangement operators, Consumer Cellular is captivated to accept partnered with ReCellular to barrage a customized corpuscle buzz recycling program. From an ecology standpoint, we accept it is analytical that our barter accept an simple way to appropriately actuate of their old cellular phones. With our program, barter artlessly abode the buzz in an envelope and bead it in the mail. There is no amount and actual little accomplishment required. And the actuality that Consumer Cellular and our barter can aswell abutment such a aces could cause as Doernbecher Children's Hospital in the action is artlessly amazing," said John Marick, President, Consumer Cellular.

Companies and consumers akin are adverse added burden to abate their ecology impact. Consumer Cellular and ReCellular action a trusted, environmentally amenable advantage for administration of bare corpuscle phones. ReCellular is certified to ISO 14001 certification. Approximately bisected of the phones calm will be reused -- advised the ultimate anatomy of corpuscle buzz recycling. These phones are reconditioned and reprogrammed afore accepting awash to wholesalers from added than 40 countries. Used corpuscle phones that cannot be resold are dismantled and recycled beneath ReCellular's accumulated "zero landfill" policy.

Protect the ambiance and advice alleviate a adolescent at Doernbecher today. Recycle your acclimated corpuscle buzz at any Consumer Cellular area or appointment ConsumerCellular.com to book a pre-paid shipment label!

About Consumer Cellular:
Consumer Cellular is one of the oldest and better adaptable basic arrangement operators of cellular buzz account in the United States. Established in October 1995, the aggregation specializes in affair the underserved needs of alone consumers who are analytic for the allowances of cellular account (safety and convenience) but accept alone causal acceptance needs -- and appropriately do not ambition to pay the top account fees associated with acceptable carrier amount plans. Additionally, they are one of the few post-paid wireless providers that do not crave a abiding arrangement with their service. Everything about Consumer Cellular is advised to accomplish the account and chump acquaintance simple. Consumer Cellular's amount chump abject is complete individuals 50+ years old with casework marketed accordingly through such organizations as AARP and AAA Automobile Club. The aggregation is abreast captivated and headquartered in Portland, Oregon. To apprentice added about Consumer Cellular, appointment ConsumerCellular.com or alarm 800-686-4460.

About Doernbecher:
Doernbecher Children's Hospital, the aboriginal full-service children's hospital in Oregon, offers a full-spectrum of pediatric affliction for ailing children. Children from Oregon, Southwest Washington, and surrounding states accomplish added than 155,000 visits to Doernbecher Children's Hospital annually. Doernbecher is a admirable ability committed alone to the appropriate needs of children. From sculpted birds aerial in the antechamber to accessible courtyards with waterwheels, every detail is focused on accouchement and the humans abutting to them. Funds aloft through this affairs will advice abutment the greatest across of charge absitively by hospital staff.

About ReCellular Inc. and Cell Phone Recycling:
With offices in the United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, ReCellular Inc. is the world's foremost collector, reseller and recycler of acclimated corpuscle phones and accessories. We accommodate solutions for the collection, reclaim and recycling of acclimated claimed electronics that accomplish banking acknowledgment for our partners, above articles for our customers, allotment for alms organizations, and aegis of the environment. Corporate and broad advice is accessible at ReCellular.com. Consumer information, including the Cell Phone Data Eraser and alms fundraising information, is accessible at WirelessRecycling.com.

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Alley Cat Allies Responds to Request from Local Groups to Help Save Feral Cats at J.F.K. Airport National Organization Cites Recent Harris Survey: Americans Don't Want Feral Cats Killed in Animal Shelters

Alley Cat Allies has responded to a appeal for abetment by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and added bounded organizations to advice save the lives of beastly bodies active on the area of J.F.K. Airport. The alignment has accomplished out to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and has requested a adjournment on all accoutrement until a accommodating band-aid for the beastly cat colonies can be discussed. A contempo civic analysis conducted by Harris Group for Alley Cat Allies reveals that an cutting majority of Americans -- 81% -- believes that abrogation a devious cat alfresco to abide out his activity is added accommodating than accepting the cat bent and killed.

Bethesda, MD -- Alley Cat Allies has responded to a appeal for abetment by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals and added bounded organizations to advice save the lives of beastly bodies active on the area of J.F.K. Airport. The alignment has accomplished out to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and has requested a adjournment on all accoutrement until a accommodating band-aid for the beastly cat colonies can be discussed.

As the civic advocates for beastly cats, Alley Cat Allies has auspiciously intervened on account of threatened beastly cat colonies above the country. Last year, Alley Cat Allies adjourned with assembly from the Army Navy Club in Arlington, VA if affairs to allurement and annihilate a antecedents of beastly bodies active on the acreage were announced. The bodies were cautiously relocated to a limited across of the acreage and are vaccinated, spayed and neutered. Alley Cat Allies hopes a agnate alteration plan can be implemented for the beastly bodies active at the 5,000 acre airport.

Birds are an affair at every airport about the world It is antic to accept that artlessly removing these bodies will abate the bird citizenry at J.F.K. Trapping beastly bodies and bringing them to abominable control--where they will be killed--is not a accommodating band-aid and we apperceive that Americans are not in abutment of this atrocious practice Americans charge to accept that the killing of beastly cats, like those at J.F.K. airport, happens every day about this nation. Contacting abominable ascendancy agencies to abolish alfresco bodies is handing these animals an actual afterlife sentence U.S. Public Opinion on Humane Treatment of Stray Cats The Port Authority claims the bodies affectation a risk, because their aliment attracts birds that could fly into and accident aircraft engines. Becky Robinson, President and co-founder of Alley Cat Allies says removing the bodies is not a solution. "Birds are an affair at every airport about the world," says Robinson. "It is antic to accept that artlessly removing these bodies will abate the bird citizenry at J.F.K." Robinson credibility out that the airport is anchored on the beach next to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge.

Alley Cat Allies has appealed to the Port Authority to accede Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) as a solution. A appropriately managed beastly cat antecedents would assure that aliment is not accessible to the birds or added animals. TNR is the accustomed non-lethal adjustment of managing alfresco cat populations. With TNR, devious and beastly bodies already active outdoors are humanely trapped, vaccinated, and castrate or alter by veterinarians. Kittens and amusing bodies are adopted into acceptable homes. Healthy beastly bodies are alternate to their alfresco habitats area an organized affairs of agriculture and apartment the bodies is agitated out by volunteers.

"Trapping beastly bodies and bringing them to abominable control--where they will be killed--is not a accommodating band-aid and we apperceive that Americans are not in abutment of this atrocious practice," said Becky Robinson. A contempo civic analysis conducted by Harris Group for Alley Cat Allies reveals that an cutting majority of Americans -- 81% -- believes that abrogation a devious cat alfresco to abide out his activity is added accommodating than accepting the cat bent and killed. These after-effects acknowledge a cogent alterity amid the public's accommodating belief and the operating action of a lot of U.S. abominable pounds and shelters.

"Americans charge to accept that the killing of beastly cats, like those at J.F.K. airport, happens every day about this nation. Contacting abominable ascendancy agencies to abolish alfresco bodies is handing these animals an actual afterlife sentence," said Robinson. Feral bodies are not a blackmail to humans. They are not socialized to bodies and cannot be adopted, so a lot of shelters annihilate them. Not alone is this convenance cruel, it is aswell a decay of money and assets and is not able in abbreviation the absolute amount of bodies who abide outdoors.

Respondents to the Harris analysis were aswell asked to accede the a lot of accommodating aftereffect if they were to accept the devious bodies would be hit and dead by a car in two years; 72 percent said it was still added accommodating to let the cat abide out his accustomed life.

The Alley Cat Allies analysis aswell begin that added than two in 5 Americans accept put out aliment or baptize for a devious cat, with added than one in 5 respondents advertisement to accept done so in the accomplished year.

For a abounding archetype of after-effects from the Harris survey, "U.S. Public Opinion on Humane Treatment of Stray Cats" appointment alleycat.org/PublicOpinionPoll.

About Alley Cat Allies
The mission of Alley Cat Allies is to assure the lives and advance the wellbeing of our nation's citizenry of devious and beastly cats, and to end the killing of bodies in abominable ascendancy pounds and shelters - the amount one accurate could cause of cat afterlife in the United States. Since 1990, Alley Cat Allies and its 150,000 supporters and volunteers accept pursued this mission civic through educational and beat programs. Alley Cat Allies aswell advocates for the use of Trap-Neuter-Return programs to ascendancy reproduction of cats. Visit Alley Cat Allies on the Internet at www.alleycat.org.

New Book of Quotes Sets Straight the Founding Fathers' Positions on Religion, War & Peace, Liberty, Taxes & Debt, Honesty & Responsibility

"Founders v. Bush brings the acumen and ability of the Founding Fathers aback to the people, while apprehension the counterfeit PR apparatus that is allurement their words and burglary our legacy."-- Jim Hightower, Best affairs author, radio analyst and editor of The Hightower Lowdown

Los Angeles, CA -- In his new book, Founders v. Bush: a Comparison in Quotations of the Policies and Politics of the Founding Fathers and George W. Bush, columnist Steve Coffman asks one axiological catechism and lets the Founding Fathers acknowledgment it for us all.

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Founders v. Bush brings the acumen and ability of the Founding Fathers aback to the people, while apprehension the counterfeit PR apparatus that is allurement their words and burglary our legacy. What would the Founding Fathers accept anticipation of George W. Bush? Power consistently thinks it has a abundant body and all-inclusive angle above the apperception of the weak; and that it is accomplishing God's account if it is actionable all His laws. By oft repeating an untruth, men appear to accept it themselves. Perhaps it is a accepted accuracy that the accident of alternative at home is to be answerable to accoutrement adjoin danger, absolute or pretended, from abroad. Being apprenticed is not such a abashment as accepting afraid to learn. Founders v. Bush brings the acumen and ability of the Founding Fathers aback to the people, while apprehension the counterfeit PR apparatus that is allurement their words and burglary our legacy. As Thomas Jefferson prophetically said, 'The alone abiding guarantees of our liberties are the people.' Especially now, that requires the humans alive why they are Americans. And this book Founders v. Bush is an anecdotic alpha of that capital knowledge. An basal advertence for the adventurous editorialist, blogger, or bar-room firebrand. A blithely put calm book. This book should appropriate account for everybody. "What would the Founding Fathers accept anticipation of George W. Bush?"

George Washington: "Beware of pretend patriotism." -- Farewell Address, 1796

John Adams: "Power consistently thinks it has a abundant body and all-inclusive angle above the apperception of the weak; and that it is accomplishing God's account if it is actionable all His laws." -- letter to Jefferson, 1816

Thomas Jefferson: "By oft repeating an untruth, men appear to accept it themselves." -- letter to John Melish, 1813

James Madison: "Perhaps it is a accepted accuracy that the accident of alternative at home is to be answerable to accoutrement adjoin danger, absolute or pretended, from abroad." -- letter to Jefferson, 1798

Benjamin Franklin: "Being apprenticed is not such a abashment as accepting afraid to learn." -- Poor Richard's Almanac, 1758

What they are adage about Founders v. Bush:

"Founders v. Bush brings the acumen and ability of the Founding Fathers aback to the people, while apprehension the counterfeit PR apparatus that is allurement their words and burglary our legacy."
-- Jim Hightower, Best affairs author, radio analyst and editor of The Hightower Lowdown

"As Thomas Jefferson prophetically said, 'The alone abiding guarantees of our liberties are the people.' Especially now, that requires the humans alive why they are Americans. And this book Founders v. Bush is an anecdotic alpha of that capital knowledge."
-- Nat Hentoff, The Village Voice

"An basal advertence for the adventurous editorialist, blogger, or bar-room firebrand." -- David Essex, Flak Magazine read the review

"A blithely put calm book." -- David Swanson, democraticunderground.com

"This book should appropriate account for everybody." -- John Keeble, columnist of Noctournal America

Book Details:
Title: Founders v. Bush: a Comparison in Quotations of the Policies and Politics of the Founding Fathers and George W. Bush
Compiled by: Steve Coffman
Edited by: Zack Coffman and Scott Di Lalla
Designed by: Jerry Miller
Price: $14.95
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: One World Studios Ltd.; 1st copy (10/2007)
ISBN-13: 978-0979727207

Founders V. Bush is accessible at: Amazon.com, as able-bodied as Powells.com, Baker & Taylor, Bookstream, and Quality Books.
It can aswell be purchased anon from the columnist at: foundersvbush.com.

Synopsis:
Founders v. Bush is a allegory in quotations of the behavior and backroom of the Founding Fathers and the administering of George W. Bush. See what the Founders absolutely anticipation about the Constitution, Liberty, Patriotism, Religion, War, Truth, Lies, Wealth, and more...in their own words. 621 sourced quotes.

Author's statement:
Founders v. Bush is a allegory in quotations of the behavior and backroom of the Founding Fathers and those of George W. Bush; a sourced accumulation in their own words on issues of War & Peace, Religion & Liberty, Taxes & Debt, Honesty & Responsibility ---a tragicomic bond of mind-numbing NewSpeak and around-the-clock eloquence.

This book contrasts the statements of George W. Bush and his admiral with accordant words from Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison and Hamilton. While it is not a book of Bush gaffes and malapropisms, it is hardly accessible to analyze Bush's simplistic pre-chewed belie to the elegance, wit and bookishness of our defining spokesmen after wincing in dismay. However, the purpose actuality is not to portray Bush as a antic prince. "Bushisms" tend to avert us from the issues and, in fact, abounding of the comatose statements and malapropisms a lot of generally attributed to Bush are fakes or were in actuality said by Dan Quayle or were spoutings of some late-night actor or acerbic Anon.

As to George W. Bush, I don't acceptation to apperceive annihilation about him above his accessible angel and pronouncements. I don't apperceive if he absolutely eschews advanced discussion, ignores abominable affirmation and acumen or if he is a adept abecedarian who has created a acceptable persona of the "artificial aristocrat" that Jefferson warned us of; I don't apperceive if he is apprenticed and abstract or alone adept poseur---but that he is a complacent agitator and biggy cheat is above all doubt. ~ Steve Coffman, Founders v. Bush

About the author:
Steve Coffman grew up in South Bend, Indiana area he wrote his chief chic play. At the University of Michigan he won three Avery Hopwood artistic autograph awards and has back had several plays produced, including productions at University of Detroit, Norfolk State College, Bowie State College, The Smithsonian Institution, and by the Dundee Players.

Since 1972, Steve and his wife Bobbie accept lived on a asleep acreage at the end of a clay alley on one of the accomplished hills in rural Yates County, area they accept aloft two children, abounding flowers and vegetables, casual cows, horses, pigs, chickens and abounding acreage of august trees.

His move to a rural affairs gradually acquired Coffman's autograph to move against fiction and artistic nonfiction. He has had belief appear in "The Little Magazine" and "Nantucket Review" and four in "Redbook" (including "Freshening" which was aswell anthologized in Redbook's Famous Fiction, Vol. II.)
   
Apart from Founders v. Bush (One World Studios, 2007) his appear album includes two political memoirs, Peace Meal and Messy Freedom (Foothills Publishing, 2005 and 2006), and the country account How To Walk A Pig (Lyons & Burford, 1995 - out of print) which was broadcast and re-released as Chicken Justice (Hearst, 2006.)
   
Coffman has accomplished autograph at the University of Iowa, University of Michigan, and for Keuka College in the Elmira Correctional Facility, area he accomplished and counseled for seven years. For ten years after he ran a arbitration affairs in Yates County Family Court and still works for the affairs as a advance mediator. For twenty years he was aswell a axle affiliate for the Keuka Housing Council, which provides and improves apartment for low and low-low assets people. He is currently breath in the Finger Lakes Progressives and Yates County Progressives. His assorted writings still run the area from country account to biking memoir, from fiction to political writing.

He has accustomed readings from Madison CT to Seattle WA, including dozens aural New York State. He has led NYS autograph workshops in Dundee, Penn Yan, Indian Lake, Finger Lakes Community College, Canastota, Tupper Lake, North Creek and Attica Correctional Facility.

About the publisher:
One World Studios Ltd. is an absolute media aggregation based in Los Angeles.

Founders v. Bush is their aboriginal appellation as book publisher, but One World is no drifter to the absolute media arena. Having formed their cocky financed, produced, and broadcast affection film, the award-winning biker documentary Choppertown: the Sinners (2005) into a acknowledged counter-culture media franchise, principals Zack Coffman and Scott DiLalla set their architect on publishing by accepting the rights to Zack's ancestor Steve Coffman's out-of-print account How to Walk a Pig and repackaging it for re-release as Chicken Justice by Hearst in 2006. Encouraged by the success of Chicken Justice, One World formed carefully with Coffman on the alertness and absolution of Founders v. Bush. They are currently in the alteration stages of their third film, the vintage British motorcycle documentary Brittown and alive with Steve Coffman on his accessible book projects.

Zack Coffman, President
Editor and Publisher of Founders v. Bush.
Producer/Director of the award-winning biker documentaries Choppertown: the Sinners, Choppertown: From the Vault, and the anon to be appear Brittown.

Founder of One World Studios Ltd.; a affection blur assembly and distribution, music and book publishing corporation.
Resided in Seoul, Korea from 1992-2000. Education: UCLA (World Arts & Cultures), Yonsei University Korean Language Institute.

Scott Di Lalla, CEO
Editor and Publisher of Founders v. Bush.
Producer/Director of the award-winning biker documentaries Choppertown: the Sinners, Choppertown: From the Vault, and the anon to be appear Brittown.

Founder of One World Studios Ltd.; a affection blur assembly and distribution, music and book publishing corporation.
Resided in Seoul, Korea from 1996-1997. Education: Rutgers University (Korean Language and East Asian Studies), Yonsei University Korean Language Institute.

Donate Cell Phones to Help U.S. Troops in Honor of Veterans Day

Cell Phones for Soldiers urges consumers to accord corpuscle phones to its Veterans Day drive. Proceeds will be acclimated to accommodate calling cards to American troops overseas.

Norwell, Mass. -- More than 150,000 troops are confined across abroad from their families. Cell Phones for Soldiers is calling on all Americans to abutment these adventurous men and women by altruistic your retired corpuscle phones to advice our troops alarm home. With your help, Cell Phones for Soldiers hopes to aggregate over 50,000 corpuscle phones to advice accumulate troops affiliated with their families. The phones are recycled or resold and gain are acclimated to acquirement calling cards that are beatific to troops overseas. Each donated buzz provides an hour of allocution time on a calling agenda for soldiers abroad.

Veterans Day, is Nov. 11, 2007. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs "of the 25 actor veterans currently alive, about three of every four served during a war or an official aeon of hostility. About a division of the nation's citizenry -- about 70 actor humans -- are potentially acceptable for VA allowances and casework because they are veterans, ancestors associates or survivors of veterans."

of the 25 actor veterans currently alive, about three of every four served during a war or an official aeon of hostility. About a division of the nation's citizenry -- about 70 actor humans -- are potentially acceptable for VA allowances and casework because they are veterans, ancestors associates or survivors of veterans. For the admired ones of soldiers confined abroad, Veterans Day is a day to account those who accept served in the accomplished and adequate all the freedoms we adore in the present We're allurement Americans to accomplish a baby cede of abutment by altruistic their bare corpuscle phones, accouterment families with a much-needed affiliation to their admired ones overseas. We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty. Support our Veterans and our troops. Donate your corpuscle phones today.

"For the admired ones of soldiers confined abroad, Veterans Day is a day to account those who accept served in the accomplished and adequate all the freedoms we adore in the present," says Brittany Bergquist, Cell Phones for Soldiers co-founder. "We're allurement Americans to accomplish a baby cede of abutment by altruistic their bare corpuscle phones, accouterment families with a much-needed affiliation to their admired ones overseas."

For advice on how to accord corpuscle phones to the Veterans Day Drive, appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

Cell Phones for Soldiers was founded by teenagers Robbie and Brittany Bergquist from Norwell, Mass., with $21 of their own money. Since then, the registered 501c3 non-profit alignment has aloft about $1 actor in donations and broadcast added than 500,000 prepaid calling cards to soldiers confined overseas.

"We accept been afflicted by the acceptable abutment of bags of Americans who accept helped our troops allege with their admired ones," says the teens' father, Bob Bergquist. "However the charge for abutment keeps growing as added soldiers are beatific to the Middle East or are asked to serve continued tours of duty."

Through added fundraising efforts, the Bergquist ancestors hopes to accession added than $9 actor in the next 5 years to armamentarium new programs, such as accouterment video phones and prepaid account to acquiesce soldiers abroad to see their families on a approved basis.

Phones donated to Cell Phones for Soldiers are beatific to Michigan-based ReCellular area they are recycled.

About Cell Phones for Soldiers:
Cell Phones for Soldiers was created by Brittany & Robbie Bergquist of Norwell MA. After account a adventure about a soldier who ran up a huge buzz bill calling home from Iraq, these two teenagers absitively to advice out. They started by aperture an anniversary with $21.00 of their own money. They are accession banknote donations and old corpuscle phones. The corpuscle phones are recycled for banknote and the gain are acclimated to buy prepaid calling cards for our soldiers confined in the Middle East. Cell Phones for Soldiers is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Their efforts accept motivated humans and businesses about the country to accord to this aces cause. Their ambition is to accommodate every US soldier with a way to alarm home for free. For added information, amuse appointment cellphonesforsoldiers.com.

About ReCellular Inc.:
With offices in the United States, Hong Kong, and Brazil, ReCellular Inc. is the world's foremost collector, reseller and recycler of acclimated wireless phones and accessories. We accommodate solutions for the collection, reclaim and recycling of acclimated claimed electronics that accomplish banking acknowledgment for our partners, above articles for our customers, allotment for alms organizations, and aegis of the environment. Corporate and broad advice is accessible at ReCellular.com. Consumer information, including the Cell Phone Data Eraser, alms fundraising programs, and advice on how to donate corpuscle phones, is accessible at WirelessRecycling.com.

White House Hosts Oklahoma Centennial Delegation

The White House hosted an official Oklahoma Centennial appointment which included aldermanic assembly and admiral from the Oklahoma Centennial Commission. A announcement active by President Bush was apprehend at the event.

Washington, D.C. -- Today, an Oklahoma Delegation was hosted by The White House in anniversary of Oklahoma's Centennial. A announcement active by President George W. Bush in account of Oklahoma's Centennial was presented on his behalf.

Oklahoma Centennial White House Celebration

Oklahoma is the State of Excellence for the 21st Century. Our accompaniment is traveling to abide to accomplish a all-around appulse throughout the years ahead. It is abundant to be a allotment of this accident and to be an Oklahoman! Blake Wade, Executive Director of the Oklahoma Centennial Commission, served as adept of ceremonies and Mark A. Stansberry served as accident chairman.

Congressman Tom Cole, Frank Lucas, and Congresswoman Mary Fallin fabricated remarks. Staff associates were present from all of Oklahoma's Congressional Delegation.

"Oklahoma is the State of Excellence for the 21st Century. Our accompaniment is traveling to abide to accomplish a all-around appulse throughout the years ahead. It is abundant to be a allotment of this accident and to be an Oklahoman!" declared Stansberry, accident chair.

The Proclamation from the President reads as follows:

"I forward greetings to those adulatory the Centennial of Oklahoma's Statehood.

The State of Oklahoma took appearance as abounding in our Nation looked to the borderland of the American West for new opportunities. These adventuresome antecedents helped ascertain the spirit of Oklahoma and the abundant appearance of our country: athletic and honest, and as hopeful as the breach of day. People of all backgrounds accept been appreciative to alarm Oklahoma their home, and they accept contributed to its affluent heritage. The harder work, innovation, and backbone of these accomplished Americans has helped to ensure that their State continues to be a abode of befalling and progress.

For generations, Oklahomans accept approved the actual best of our Nation and accept helped body a brighter approaching for all Americans. This anniversary is a appropriate time to bless the history of Oklahoma and the arresting achievements of its citizens. November 16, 1907, is a appreciative moment for the humans of Oklahoma and for our Nation.

Laura and I forward our best wishes on this celebrated occasion. May God absolve the humans of the abundant State of Oklahoma, may God absolve America."

The ceremony, abounding by about 100, bankrupt with the singing of "Oklahoma!" and the acid of a block which apprehend "Happy Birthday Oklahoma!"

This America Recycles Day Help Law Enforcement by Donating Your Old Cell Phone

Hundreds of Law Enforcement agencies above the country are allurement you to accord your retired corpuscle buzz this America Recycles Day to advice their citizens active in at accident situations.

Ocala, FL -- - Hundreds of law administration and victim casework agencies civic accomplish emergency corpuscle buzz programs which accommodate emergency adaptable communications to chief citizens and victims of abuse.

Senior citizens are abnormally anxious about abrogation their homes as the winter rolls in A corpuscle buzz can accommodate them with an added akin of security. The 911 Cell Phone Bank has been a abundant partner Having this ability accessible enables law administration to focus on confined the association and lets communities accord aback in a baby but allusive way. Through their affiliation with the 911 Cell Phone Bank these agencies accept emergency corpuscle phones as needed, alternating with banknote which assists them in allotment association based programs aimed at allowance seniors and victims of abuse.

Agencies aggregate corpuscle phones from their association and forward them to the 911 Cell Phone Bank area they are candy and valued. The banknote amount of the donated corpuscle phones is again paid to the agency and emergency corpuscle phones are fabricated accessible on an as bare basis.

As the acclimate worsens in abundant of the country the charge for emergency corpuscle phones rises. "Senior citizens are abnormally anxious about abrogation their homes as the winter rolls in," said James Mosieur a Director of the 911 Cell Phone Bank. "A corpuscle buzz can accommodate them with an added akin of security."

Over 11 actor corpuscle phones are retired anniversary ages in the US and a lot of can calmly accomplish it to your bounded decay stream. This division millions of humans will advancement their old corpuscle buzz or accept one as a allowance abacus to the problem. Donating them to your bounded Sheriff or Police Department can advice humans in your association and the environment.

The National Association of Triads, a accessory of the National Sheriffs' Association, is a civic accomplice of the 911 Cell Phone Bank. They animate all law administration and victim casework agencies to get complex with the 911 Cell Phone Bank.

"The 911 Cell Phone Bank has been a abundant partner," said Edward Hutchison the Executive Director of NATI. "Having this ability accessible enables law administration to focus on confined the association and lets communities accord aback in a baby but allusive way."

All citizens are encouraged to donate their corpuscle phone at their bounded Sheriff's Office or Police Department. You can aswell accord your buzz to abutment the affairs accepted armamentarium by press off a chargeless shipment characterization and sending your buzz anon to the 911 Cell Phone Bank. For a account of accommodating agencies and instructions or to book a chargeless shipment label, appointment www.911CellPhoneBank.com. This chargeless affairs is accessible to all law administration and non-profit victim casework agencies.

About the National Association of Triads
Triad is a affiliation of three organizations - law enforcement, chief citizens, and association groups. The sole purpose of Triad is to advance chief assurance and to abate the baseless abhorrence of abomination that seniors generally experience. The National Association of Triads, Inc. assists law administration in acclimation bounded Triad programs by accouterment ideas, programs, and training abstracts to apparatus in communities nationwide.

About the 911 Cell Phone Bank
The 911 Cell Phone Bank is an action of The RMS Foundation a 501c3 awaiting organization. It was created to accommodate an advancing and readily accessible antecedent of 911 corpuscle phones and funds to accommodated abrupt and burning needs of accommodating law administration and affiliated victim casework agencies. Since its inception, the 911 Cell Phone Bank has generated hundreds of bags of dollars and tens of bags of corpuscle phones for victim casework organizations nationwide. It is a civic affairs advised to aerate association corpuscle buzz donations. To apprentice added appointment www.911CellPhoneBank.com.