Jul 21

Are there organizations out there that help service the blind in reading through the use of audio books? Thanks.

In PA, it’s Keystone Blind Association. All states have public libraries which now offer audio cassettes and books on tape. (& c.d.s) Each state also has an Office of Vocational Rehabilitation, OVR, which provides audio books for its disables clients.

Jul 17

My friends and I raised money for animals effected by the Gulf oil spill and we were wondering what would be some good organizations to donate to. The ones we had in mind fell through and we found out they wouldn’t use the money to help in the Gulf. Thanks in Advance!

Your intention is admirable but right now money cannot buy a miracle.may i suggest for now that you donate your funds to a local bird sanctuary such as Salem or West-coast.

Jul 14

Organizations similar to Peace Corp. Specifically in the medical. I am going to become a Nurse and am looking at options for overseas work.

thanks.

Project Hope; Drs. without Borders, UNICEF…become a nurse first, then seek out opportunities. You will find them in your own community; you don’t have to go overseas to find poverty and people in need. Hope this helps.

Jul 8

By major organizations, I’m talking about International Boxing Organization, World Boxing Organization, World Boxing Association, etc.

Can a fighter challenge another fighter for an official match or are all matches already properly scheduled?

There are certain fights that are mandatory for a champion to take because of mandatory challengers in which a fighter has won title eliminators to earn a shot at the title. Not ALL championship fights are mandatories though- sometimes a fighter will opt to make an optional defense when he does not have to make a mandatory defense. A champion can defend against any fighter who is ranked in the top 25 of that particular sanctioning body but the sanctioning bodies can sometimes make exceptions for unification bouts.

The only time that the sanctioning bodies schedule matchups is when a champion must make a mandatory defense and the promoters cannot come to an agreement as to where the fight should be held or what the purse split should be- in those cases, the sanctioning body will call a purse bid in which the the promoter with the highest bid will determine where the fight is to be held and in most cases, it is customary that the champion receive 75 percent of the purse while the challenger receives 25 and in cases where the title is vacant, both fighters will receive 50 percent although there can be exceptions to these rules. In cases where a fighter moves up or down in weight to challenge for a title but already owns a title in another weight class, the fighter will have a set amount of time to determine which title he wants to keep.

An example of a non-scheduled bout would be the Foreman-Cotto bout- Foreman is making an optional defense of his junior middleweight title because Cotto is not his mandatory challenger but since Foreman’s mandatory defense is not due for a few months, he has the opportunity to take on Cotto in a big opportunity for him. An example of a mandatory would be the 2 fights in Germany this Saturday- Sebastian Sylvester is making a mandatory defense of his middleweight title against Roman Karmazin and Steve Cunningham is fighting Troy Ross for a vacant cruiserweight title. If Sylvester didn’t want to face Karmazin, he would have been stripped of his title and Karmazin would have faced the number 2 contender according to that sanctioning body for the vacant title.

Jul 7

What are some oversea volunteering organizations? Like peace corp?
I want to apply to peace corp after graduation, I’m a senior in college now. But they require a citizenship.

i’m only a permenant resident. Also, peace corps is like 27 months… any other organizations that help oversea countries?
doesn’t really matter which countries.. Probably countries that need these volunteers are third world countries.

How to volunteer abroad — web site below

Jul 5

I am doing a research about pollution in marine life and what can individuals, schools, business and organizations do to help stop harming marine animals.But I have no clue what can business and organizations do to help.

Well for one thing, plastics that take decades to bio-degrade (rot into nothing) should be replaced. Every time you choose a plastic bag for your groceries you have something that won’t go away for years. The same thing for plastic soda bottles. They last almost forever. In a study not long ago, these kinds of things were found to be the biggest pollutant of our oceans. They interfere with the natural order of everything from birds, to bacteria. There have been for years people who wanted to outlaw most plastics from our lives (the kind we use once and throw away) but the plastic industry has powerful lobbyist in places that urge law makers not to pass any kind of law that would reduce our consumption. Some cities have taken matters into their own hands and have mandated, as one example, that plastic bags be outlawed and people can only use cloth bags to go shopping with. If that could happen on a national level, just that one thing could reduce marine pollution greatly. All soda used to come in glass containers, as did milk. You turned them back in to get money when you bought more soda and milk. (it was called a deposit). All beer and wine is sold in glass containers by the way, so why can’t we go back to that? If you could get a movement going like that, go for it.

Jul 4

I already know about IJM, but I can’t find any other organizations which actually investigate traffickers. I am interested in an internship or a job working with such an organization.

FBI

Jul 2

I want to act NOW to raise money for the organizations helping clean and protect the animals endangered by the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Living all the way up in the MidWest, physical help isn’t an option for my friends and I, so we’re planning a fund raiser, but what organization or company should we donate the money to?????

National Wildlife Foundation.

http://www.nwf.org/

http://www.nwf.org/How-to-Help.aspx

http://www.nwf.org/Kids/Ranger-Rick/People-and-Places/Ranger-Rick-on-The-Big-Oil-Spill.aspx

Dawn dishwashing detergent also has an easy program:

http://dawn-dish.com/en_US/savingwildlife.do

They use Dawn to clean the animals. Perhaps you could run a donation drive for people to buy Dawn, and then collect them to donate to various shelters (homeless, battered women, etc).

Jun 29

How many political organizations(secretive political organizations) exert control over the U.S. Government?

I’ve read that there are 12 levels of government that have almost total control over the operations of our government. The CIA, CFR, Tri-lateral comission, and Military-Industrial complex are just a few of these organizations.

What do you think?

America is controlled not by politicians but by corporations, bankers and Israel. This is it in a nutshell and the same for every government in the western civilisation. People’s apathy in voting tied in with disinterest of politics has meant that politicians are no longer politicians per se, but mere puppets of the aforementioned industry. This has all been carefully planned in instituted over a period of time. People’s disinterest in politics is not by chance, as our political elite has purposefully created a situation where no one cares anymore what they do, giving them even more power and less resistance to do whatever they so desire.

It’s ironic to think that people don’t care abut politics when politics controls everything and plays a massive part in everyone’s life.
I will agree with you that the names you’ve mentioned do play a part in the controlling of the USA, but it’s the Bankers and Corporations who own the USA, of course with the Zionists, incredibly powerful people, a small minority with a massive disproportionate amount of wealth and power compared to their size.

Mar 5

Summers emerge with warmth and hot season and also bring sweats for the workers, soothing flee on sun-beamed seashore and observing the vista or views of remote clime would perhaps be far-flung of distance more famous in natives or individuals wits than the method to direct or control their finance when in overseas in America. If you do not map or choose further, but, you would discover or obtain own self with robust or heavy credit cards imbursements on your fiscal institutions testimonial the subsequent months.

Here are a number of lists and solutions to aid and assist you accumulate and hoard notes when in overseas, enable or allocate you to overlook of the imbursements and hub or put attention on the carnival.

First, the mainly suitable and the best law you must memorize in intellect as you loom or ask any notes position overseas in America is that retreating notes in overseas would release or show you up to not just 1, but 3 diverse and numerous imbursements. Not just is there the financial institutions substitute rates or rebate to feel of, but also the overseas barter imbursement and an ATM fine and imbursements of amid or hub of 2 and 3 notes.

These overseas barter cards can be utilized in the United States of America or in Europe and would operate or behave as a debits cards when you are in overseas. And if you sprint or thrown out of notes you would tranquil at the pinnacle and renew the cards up when you are at overseas, either by telephone or telecommunication or through the online process, creating it a expedient and best method to control your expends when you are on vacation.

If you do settle on or plan to utilize any cards in overseas, it is a nice and enhanced thought to bring lesser but bigger drawings. This method, you would possibly acquire low sum of imbursements since financial institutions frequently fines or rebates one points five percent of the sum drawn, with a lowest or lesser fines of ? one point five and a utmost imbursements of ? five. Then, it is sensible and nice to be assured that you have the full knowledge of the tenure and regulations that be here and is customary with yours cards, since many financial institutions do not put an upper limit on the imbursements.

Though there is pessimism and disputes to utilizing credit cards in overseas, there are clear-cut in support of this method of reimbursements too. If it’s not “as described and understood ” or flawed, it is doable and elucidation to obtain the notes returned from the vendor or the cards supplier, but with debits cards fiscal institutions would mull over the point saying a protest or dispute but there would be no guarantee.

When you carry on your cards in overseas, it’s a nice scheme to memorize to take detail and information of your cards suppliers and allow the cards organizations be acquainted with and recognize that you are going to overseas, or else they would percept or assume that your cards had been robbed.

Thanakit K.
http://www.articlesbase.com/finance-articles/how-to-use-your-credit-card-oversea-697187.html

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