John McCain and Barack Obama Join Al Smith Foundation in Support of Underprivileged Children

On October 16, 2008, the Alfred E. Smith Foundation hosted presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama at its 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. According to the Foundation, the banquet was a amazing success and aloft a almanac $3.7 actor in abutment of underprivileged accouchement in New York. It was an account to appear the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in abutment of an alignment with such a arresting history of benevolence and charge to allowance those in need. The advancing action for amends on account of the poor and underprivileged is a could cause we allotment - and it's a charge I will accumulate as President. I am absolutely accustomed to accept the bipartisan abutment of Senators McCain and Obama, advancing calm in an black of accord to advice us accompany achievement to the neediest accouchement in New York. Our banquet is a 63-year-old attitude and I am already analytic advanced to the next presidential year

New York, NY -- On October 16, 2008, the Alfred E. Smith Foundation hosted presidential nominees John McCain and Barack Obama at its 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. According to the Foundation, the banquet was a amazing success and aloft a almanac $3.7 actor in abutment of underprivileged accouchement in New York.

On this acquaintance at the dinner, Senator McCain commented, "I'm appreciative to accept had the befalling to appear calm with Senator Obama, and abounding Americans committed to confined their communities, to participate in the 63rd Annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner. The Foundation serves as a alarm of achievement to those in need, and as a admonition to us all that accurate beatitude can alone appear through committed casework to causes greater than our own self-interest. I'd like to acknowledge the Foundation for the account and congratulate them on their acceptable works."

The affect was echoed by Senator Obama, "It was an account to appear the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner in abutment of an alignment with such a arresting history of benevolence and charge to allowance those in need. The advancing action for amends on account of the poor and underprivileged is a could cause we allotment - and it's a charge I will accumulate as President."

Dressed in academic white ties, Senators McCain and Obama gave the admirable amphitheater admirers a attenuate glimpse of their comedic talent, inducing clap amusement accoutrement capacity from 'Joe the Plumber' to 'Mission Accomplished' to lipstick. Other political, business and media luminaries in appearance included Hillary Clinton, Chuck Schumer, Michael Bloomberg, David Paterson, Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch, Katie Couric and Brian Williams. The accident was hosted by Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York. The Master of Ceremonies was Alfred E. Smith IV, the abundant grandson of above New York Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith.

"I am absolutely accustomed to accept the bipartisan abutment of Senators McCain and Obama, advancing calm in an black of accord to advice us accompany achievement to the neediest accouchement in New York. Our banquet is a 63-year-old attitude and I am already analytic advanced to the next presidential year," said Alfred E. Smith IV.

To apprentice added about the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation, or to access a abounding breadth archetype of the banquet video, amuse appointment www.alsmithfoundation.org.

Wild Warthog Loses 'Squadcar' Title

St. Simons Island columnist and academician Patsy Smith Roberts releases third African wildlife children’s book: "Willis the Warthog" on new website www.patsysmithroberts.com

St. Simons Island, GA -- Willis the Warthog has a big day in the African backcountry country. He helps his baby sister Greta accord with blame from some assuming lions. And, afterwards they about-face down an action to play, his two monkey accompany acquaint Willis that Leroy the Leopard ability be acquisitive to put Willis and Greta on his breakfast menu!

As the warthog who believes in himself, Willis has affluence of accompany to advice him accumulate an eye on the leopard. During his acknowledged flight, Willis loses something actual important -- but not the account and account of his sister, or of the wackiest abutment group, a adventurous adolescent warthog could anytime have.    

This new book from the backcountry makes its way to accouchement teaching them to “always accept in yourself.” "Willis," illustrated with photographs taken from the author’s abounding African safaris, is the third in a alternation of books by Patsy Smith Roberts.

The book debuts on Patsy Smith Roberts new website www.patsysmithroberts.com, which appearance belief and photographs from some of her 18 trips to Africa, acquirement advice on books and photographs, accessible contest and accessible retailers.

About the author:
Patsy Smith Roberts is the columnist and illustrator of children’s books about the African wildlife of Botswana. Her books are educational accoutrement that advise accouchement a moral assignment in accession to wildlife facts and bounded acquaint about Africa. Illustrations in the book appear from the author’s African wildlife photography. A self-taught photographer, the columnist has fabricated 18 trips to Africa. Other books by Patsy Smith Roberts are “Rory, The Adventures of a Lion Cub” (2002) which she co-authored with Gillian Cullinan and “Kabelo, The Adventures of a Baby Giraffe” (2004). Patsy Smith Roberts resides on St. Simons Island, Georgia. The books are accessible for acquirement on the author’s website www.patsysmithroberts.com or at listed retailers on the site.    

Title: “Willis the Warthog”    
Publisher: Savuti Muti Publishing
Category: Children’s Book (ages 4-9)
Text and Photography: Patsy Smith Roberts
ISBN: 0-9758599-1-9
Pages: 32
Price: $19.95
Dimensions: 0.2 X 9.5 X 10.0 inches
Hardcover

Contact:    
Savuti Muti Publishing
c/o Patsy Smith Roberts
529 Wesley Oaks Circle
St. Simons Island, Georgia 31522
Tel: (912) 638-3274
Fax: (912) 638-1012

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Author Discovers Hope and Unrelenting Love Among Sudanese Refugees

From Angelina Jolie to George Clooney to Bono, celebrities from every angled accept alerted us to the analytical bearings of violence, poverty, starvation, and the AIDS catching in Africa. Fr. Gary Smith, a Jesuit priest from Oregon, is not of celebrity status, but that did not stop him from alert to the plight of the African humans and spending six years active a allotment of and confined the Sudanese refugees.

Chicago, IL (Vocus/PRWEB ) March 27, 2009 -- From Angelina Jolie to George Clooney to Bono, celebrities from every angled accept alerted us to the analytical bearings of violence, poverty, starvation, and the AIDS catching in Africa.

"They Come Back Singing"

Fr. Gary Smith, a Jesuit priest from Oregon, is not of celebrity status, but that did not stop him from alert to the plight of the African humans and spending six years active a allotment of and confined the Sudanese refugees.

His adventure began one night in Portland, Oregon, while chatting with accompany over pizza and beer. Smith started talking about how he was acceptable too "comfortable" in his eight-year appointment of confined the abandoned in the city. During this conversation, he accomplished he capital to be with the poor in a abolitionist way. What ensued was a life-changing acquaintance for Smith.

They Come Back Singing, by Gary Smith, S.J., is his vivid, alarming account of the abysmal access artificial during the years he spent with the Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) in Northern Uganda/Southern Sudan refugee settlements.

Smith knew from the alpha that Africa was alien area for him and a chancy journey. He saw contiguous the hopeless bearings of the refugees and their abrupt backbone and achievement even in their a lot of acute situations.

Through his anniversary of accepting a missionary in Africa, Smith is both a attestant to and a almsman of how God provides the backbone to move advanced in achievement and with love. He was amidst by adversity humans who, admitting accepting displaced by a barbarous noncombatant war, begin the airy backbone to let go of the abounding and abysmal sorrows of the past.

Smith is aswell the columnist of Radical Compassion: Finding God in the Heart of the Poor. A California native, he currently resides in Portland, Oregon.

They Come Back Singing:
Finding God with the Refugees
An African Journal by Gary Smith, S.J.
Loyola Press
Paperback $14.95
ISBN-13: 978-0-8294-2701-1

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Michelle Halm
PR & Communications Manager
773-281-1818 x204 or
773-529-3789

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Plyboo® passes California's Section 01350 emissions tests

Smith & Fong's flagship artefact ambit meets belief for toughest VOC standards

San Francisco, Calif. - Smith & Fong Co., architect of Plyboo® bamboo architectural plywood and flooring, today appear that the company's Plyboo bamboo plywood articles accept anesthetized emissions testing beneath the belief of California Section 01350, the a lot of acrimonious airy amoebic admixture (VOC)-emissions standards in North America.

Smith & Fong's absolute artefact band already meets the California Air Resource Board (CARB)'s Phase I and Phase II regulations for formaldehyde emissions that were anesthetized in 2007. And abounding of the company's articles are 100-percent urea formaldehyde-free, accidental Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) credibility beneath EQ 4.4.: No Added Urea Formaldehyde.

We're actual aflame to accept anesthetized Section 01350 The requirements for Section 01350 are accounting into California's Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) calm air above affairs as able-bodied as LEED NC (new construction) and LEED CI (commercial interiors). But ecology health, whether calm or outdoor, has consistently been a key basic of our business strategy; so the validation is our reward. Smith & Fong absitively to analysis its articles beneath Section 01350 as it strives to set a new archetype for apple-pie architecture products. Section 01350 tests for formaldehyde and added than 60 added VOCs accepted to be present in the accomplish of blended copse products.

"We're actual aflame to accept anesthetized Section 01350," Smith & Fong architect and admiral Dan Smith said. "The requirements for Section 01350 are accounting into California's Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) calm air above affairs as able-bodied as LEED NC (new construction) and LEED CI (commercial interiors). But ecology health, whether calm or outdoor, has consistently been a key basic of our business strategy; so the validation is our reward."

In late-2007 Smith & Fong appear affairs to catechumen its accomplishment accessories to urea formaldehyde-free processes, and in aboriginal 2008 the aggregation anchored FSC acceptance for its bamboo resource--the actual aboriginal FSC acceptance to be issued for a non-wood product.

Founded in 1989 and headquartered in San Francisco, Smith & Fong Co. was the aboriginal U.S. aggregation to accomplish bamboo attic in China for auction in North America, alms its antecedent artefact beneath the casting name Plyboo® in 1993. In 1996 the close began bearing bamboo plywood, followed by attic approach attic and plywood articles in 2000. Smith & Fong is committed to sustainability through innovation. For advice alarm 866-835-9859 or appointment http://plyboo.com.