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POPSService and Homecoming With PTSD: A Vet's Story This article is worth reading in its entirety. The honesty and vulnerability of the author is most unusual and insightful. More from the article below: " I want everyone to know that I appreciate all the support our country has given the troops. I received packages in Iraq from schools, Boy and Girl Scout troops, Rotary Clubs and other volunteer groups. I really appreciated all the effort and time that went into trying to make our lives there a little bit better. So for all the problems I have, feeling supported is not one of them and I want to thank you all for your support. Just understand that none of us came back the same as when we left."
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POPSWhy not give if you can I work at the hospital as a blood transfusion technician and every day I see people whose lives depend on our awareness, humanity and generosity. Not all of us can make this gift to others due to various health reasons but we can remind our friends that perhaps they could help. Here are some interesting facts: -1 pint of blood can save up to 3 lives -Every 2 seconds someone needs a blood transfusion -5 million patients in he US need blood every year -Less than 38 percent of the population is eligible to give blood -Blood cannot be manufactured; it can only come from volunteer donors -30 million blood components are transfused each year -Platelets, critical for cancer patients, have a shelf life of only 5 days -Adults have 10-12 pints of blood in their body - 1 pints is given during a donation -Donors can give blood every 56 days. Platelet donors can give every 3 days
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POPSI Can Find A More Worthy Charity "But think about those numbers, think about the power of the Salvation Army. It is a massive Christian evangelical organization — with a quasi-military structure and raising $2 billion a year — and it promotes discrimination against gays and lesbians in its employment policy; at local levels of government, going so far as to threaten to close soup kitchens in New York if the city enacted domestic partnership legislation; and at the national level of government, including negotiating with the Bush administration to guarantee that faith-based groups could discriminate against gays and keep their federal funding. We can find charities more deserving of our dollars and our volunteer time."
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POPSA Fearful Price "The reason it is so easy for the U.S. to declare wars, and to continue fighting year after year after year, is because so few Americans feel the actual pain of those wars. We’ve been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan longer than we fought in World Wars I and II combined. I don’t think our current way of waging war, which is pretty easy-breezy for most citizens, is what the architects of America had in mind. Here’s George Washington’s view, for example: “It must be laid down as a primary position and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal service to the defense of it.” What we are doing is indefensible and will ultimately exact a fearful price, and there will be absolutely no way for the U.S. to avoid paying it".
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POPSThe HR Futurist HR 2.0 – A workforce linked by networked individualism, demands strategically deployed collaborative infrastructure to thrive. How do we as employers adapt our environment and tap into the new social norms of conversation vs. communication in more permeable and flexible environments to capture information, identify leaders, promote innovation and reward success?
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POPS Five Years of FIREFOX How and where do we party? There should be Firefox parties all over the world. If you’re looking for one to attend, you can find and RSVP to gatherings in your area via our calendar. We've celebrated major releases with thousands of parties all over the world, so we're also looking for volunteer party hosts to celebrate our Five Years of Firefox. It's easy to sign up and we'll even send you some swag if you ask nicely Please put in your request as soon as you can " supplies are limited. Looking for a little inspiration? Add a little bit of pizazz to your party and light the world with Firefox.
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POPSInteresting shift in teen & tween attitudes & beliefs More: The survey also probed changing attitudes about drugs, sex, drinking, abortion and willingness to fight in a war - you can see all of the findings in the link above. For those of us who are working with kids, whether in our careers, volunteer work or as parents, the other thing that comes through the study is that teens want to do the right thing, but, they still struggle with knowing what that is, or how to make it happen. The study emphasizes the important role that parents, friends and an extended constellation of adults play in helping teens discover and act on their values.
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POPSDues Management AssociationForce offers an online donation management system integrated with full suite of solutions which let you to manage Software for fund raising, donor management, donation management, volunteer management
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POPSGreyhounds Need a Home Might make a dandy new family member. More from the article follows: " If you have been considering surprising your loved ones with a new pet this holiday season, there could be no better demonstration of the true spirit of giving than to adopt one of these loving animals. If you would like to adopt one of the Dairyland greyhounds, call the Dairyland Racetrack Adoption Center at 262-612-8256 for full details."
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POPSA Cartoonist visits the Troops :) "I obviously can’t speak for any of them, but I think it has to be pretty difficult to be living under the conditions they live under while many people here appear to have no awareness that they are even over there. For everyone but their immediate friends and family, the war is something that just does not impact their lives"
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POPSNew Orleans Jobs, Search Jobs in New Orleans, Louisiana, LA - NewOrleansCrossing.com: Looking for jobs careers employment in New Orleans, LA? Search New Orleans, LA county jobs careers employment job career search openings positions. Search jobs in New Orleans, LA New Orleans city area as part time sales construction opportunities summer in government employment agencies job fairs. Find all jobs in New Orleans, LA accounting clerical in retail engineering driver assistant volunteer healthcare jobs careers in legal employment. Search jobs & positions in New Orleans, LA in temporary media art management manager for hiring in paralegal in tv graphic design jobs careers & employment on NewOrleansCrossing job search powered by EmploymentCrossing.com - The most jobs - Anywhere.
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POPSSaudi Columnist: Obama Will Be President of the 'United Collapse of America' Well...there ya' go. While I would not agree that Abbas is an ally of the US I can understand why he would consider his efforts for the Palestinian cause null & void. FTA: "Its political collapse in its war on terror, together with its economic collapse, have made the entire world sink into a political and economic quagmire." There. That's how the rest of the world perceives us and perception is reality. Hello!? Can we 'change' this and is there any 'hope'? This Administration has brought about our complete collapse in a matter of months!!! Those who deny it are willfully blind or partners.
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POPSModern Day "Caveman" Lives Without $$ Daniel Suelo lives in a cave. Unlike the average American—wallowing in credit-card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office—he isn't worried about the economic crisis. That's because he figured out that the best way to stay solvent is to never be solvent in the first place. Nine years ago, in the autumn of 2000, Suelo decided to stop using money. He just quit it, like a bad drug habit. His dwelling, hidden high in a canyon lined with waterfalls, is an hour by foot from the desert town of Moab, Utah, where people who know him are of two minds: He's either a latter-day prophet or an irredeemable hobo. Suelo's blog, which he maintains free at the Moab Public Library, suggests that he's both. "When I lived with money, I was always lacking," he writes. "Money represents lack. Money represents things in the past (debt) and things in the future (credit), but money never represents what is present.
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POPSGifts For Kids provides Christmas for kids who would have nothing this year. For 19 years this successful charity works to find and assign shoppers to specific children to provide them a full bag of gifts when there would otherwise be none. Always amazing to find nearly 1000 children and single, young mothers who need simple gifts of clothing and supplies in the affluent-appearing towns south of Boston!
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POPSCountdown Goes To Free Clinic: 'Hard To Believe I Was In America' Eighty-three percent of the patients they see are employed, they are not accepting other government help on a large scale, not "welfare queens" as some would like to have us believe. They are tax-paying, good, upstanding citizens who are trying to make it and give their kids a better life just like you and me. Ninety percent of the patients who came through Saturday's clinic had two or more diagnoses. Eighty-two percent had a life-threatening condition such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, or hypertension. They are victims of a system built with corporate profits at its center, which long ago forgot the moral imperative that should drive us to show compassion to our fellow men and women.
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POPSMedia: Enabler of Government Lies President Bill Clinton benefited from a press corps that often treated his falsehoods as nonevents — or even petty triumphs. Newsweek White House correspondent Howard Fineman commented that Clinton’s “great strength is his insincerity.... I’ve decided Bill Clinton is at his most genuine when he’s the most phony.... We know he doesn’t mean what he says.”
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POPSArlington VA Jobs Search jobs in Arlington, VA Virginia area as part time administrative assistant manager sales customer service marketing medical receptionist health resources jobs in accounting department summer data entry level security volunteer schools.
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POPSLadies of Arlington Never Miss Final Salute I HOPE YOU CAN TAKE THE TIME TO READ THIS. This story pulled at my heart strings. What a wonderful organization with such great and meaningful values to devote their time and to show respect to our fallen solders. The Arlington Ladies stand a silent vigil at funerals attended by dozens of mourners and at funerals where a Soldier has no next of kin - no friends present to render a final salute. In fact, that is the very reason they attend funerals. Since 1973, the Arlington Ladies have ensured that no Soldier - old or young - is ever buried alone.
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POPSKeeping Extremisms Out of the U.S. Military
Consider the growing infiltration of neo-Nazi groups within the armed services. In 2006 and again in 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group which monitors racist and right-wing militia groups, concluded: A decade after the Pentagon declared a zero-tolerance policy for racist hate groups, recruiting shortfalls caused by the war in Iraq have allowed "large numbers of neo-Nazis and skinhead extremists" to infiltrate the military, according to a watchdog organization... The report quotes Scott Barfield, a Defense Department investigator, saying, "Recruiters are knowingly allowing neo-Nazis and white supremacists to join the armed forces, and commanders don't remove them from the military even after we positively identify them as extremists or gang members." That zero-tolerance policy was put in place in the aftermath of the devastating Oklahoma City bombing which killed 168 Americans, the largest death toll from a terrorist attack on the U.S. homeland before 9/11.
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POPScleft lip At Operation Smile, we measure ourselves by the joy we see on children's faces. We're more than a charity. More than an NGO. We're a mobilized force of medical professionals and caring hearts who provide safe, effective reconstructive surgery for children born with facial deformities such as cleft lip and cleft palate.
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