July Birthday Round Up 2012

Very happy birthdays to the following people on my flist! Hope you have great days and good times on your special days!

06: mirien - mirien
06: rhapsody11 - Rhapsody the Bard
06: musingsinthesky - musingsinthesky
06: tuxedo_elf - Tuxedo Elf
09: winged_embrace - ~*~ Renee ~*~
12: chaotic_binky - !!! Binky, the evil one! !!!
16: arthvaineth - Lady Arthvaineth
19: rainbow1907 - Rena
21: gad21 - Gad
21: aschicca - aschicca
24: nienna_weeper - Nienna

Laughing is worth the pain...

It still hurts and it hurts to laugh but I laughed today so that is good I guess. I have to laugh carefully, I suppose but that does not really work. Still recovering here today but I had a nice day and got out some. I had brisket and mashed potatoes for lunch and dessert (cheese cake and SF silk pie). I also bought bling rings and a nice silver bracelet. I am really exhausted from going out so I think I am still recovering. I think this wisdom tooth stuff is harder to get over when you are older. If I was in my 20s, this might be easier or a teenager, but I am a middle aged person and this is ugh. The pain is less by a factor and the wound area itches some so that tells me it is healing. So I just have to recover.

Anyhoo. Weekend, yays! Hope you all had a good week and have some fun plans for the weekend. I don't know what I am doing yet.

Cheers!

78/100 Anderson Cooper 360 (news program)

Anderson Cooper 360 (2012)
Tonight's segment on non-profit fundraising and organizations that do not deliver on their promises.

Summary:
Anderson Cooper exposes Veteran's fundraising groups for fraudulent fundraising.

Short commentary post here on the level of reporting on Anderson Cooper's 360 program tonight. This was excellent reporting on these non profit groups and the disbursal of funds. Basically they followed the money and showed how little of the funds raised were going to the veterans. I work in fundraising and was very interested in the program and could not conceive of fundraising working this way. All of our funds go to students but in this program - most of the funds go to this third party, private company that the organizations pay to fundraise for them. The money is not going to the populations they are fundraising for! It was balanced though and they did show some groups that do good work.

khylea told me about a website which rates non-profits so you can check an organization before you make a donation to see how effective they are. Here is the link:
http://www.charitynavigator.org/

But this show was an eye opener for me and hats off to Anderson Cooper (who also stated he is gay this week and proud to be.).



Overall rating:
Well done news program.

Recommend:
Good reporting!

Warnings:
Nothing. News program.

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