Amazing Beautiful - Wondrous Things … Animals, Kids, Inspiration, Fun : )

UPDATE: SavetheChildren.org accepts Paypal, Google Checkout and Amazon on behalf of the Haiti children. This makes donating much easier for you. : )

SavetheChildren.org has an extremely high rating with Charity Navigator. 92% goes directly to the children, only 8% for administration. Most of the other charities have higher administration and salary percentage costs.

INTERNATIONAL Person Finder - Haiti Earthquake - The following box provides search and notification links for people looking for and trying to find people in the Haiti Earthquake regions. Below the box are direct links to the most highly recommended legitimate charity links.

For US Citizens - Finding People and Notifying Status
http://www.state.gov/p/wha/ci/ha/earthquake/index.htm 

State Dept. Email Haiti-Earthquake@State.Gov 
U.S. or Canada, 888-407-4747. 
Outside U.S. and Canada, 202-501-4444. 
US Embassy's Consular Task Force 509-2229-8942, 509-2229-8089, 509-2229-8322, or 509-2229-8672.
Embassy EmailACSPaP@state.gov.

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TEXTING DONATIONS

1. Text "HAITI" to "90999" $10 donated to Red Cross to help with relief efforts, charged to cell bill.
2. Text "HAITI" to 20222 $10 donated to Clinton Foundation's Haiti Relief Fund, charged to cell bill.
3. Canadians: Text "HAITI" to 20222 $5 donated through Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative -  100% directed to Haiti relief
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LEGITIMATE CHARITIES - HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
Top Rated Best Use of Donations - Checked through Charity Navigator & Other Monitoring Services

1. American Red Cross International Response Fund
2. UNICEF
3. The International Rescue Group
4. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
5. Mercy Corps Haiti Earthquake Fund
6. Partners in Health
7. UN World Food Programme
8. InterAction

ADDITIONAL HIGHLY RATED LEGITIMATE CHARITIES

1. Message Board For Family, Friends Of Missing Persons In Haiti
2. Action Against Hunger
3. CARE
4. Beyond Borders
5. International Medical Corps
6. Oxfam International
7. Samaritan's Purse International Relief

Best way to help is with donations. Clothes and other items are extremely expensive and difficult to sort and ship over.

A visually stunning trip through the known universe by the American Museum of Natural History. You never knew how small the Earth is, how beautiful, how singular and alone.
 

Another visual stunning trip through the Universe is the introductory scene from the movie, "Contact" with Jody Foster and Matthew McConaughey. A Must Buy movie, by the way...

From Youtube:

"The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010."

"Data: Digital Universe, American Museum of Natural History
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/univ...

Visualization Software: Uniview by SCISS

Director: Carter Emmart
Curator: Ben R. Oppenheimer
Producer: Michael Hoffman
Executive Producer: Ro Kinzler
Co-Executive Producer: Martin Brauen
Manager, Digital Universe Atlas: Brian Abbott

Music: Suke Cerulo

For more information visit http://www.amnh.org
Category:  Science & Technology"

The most amazing photographs... Tanja Askani takes the most wonderful photos of animals... She loves them with her whole heart, and it shows. She is able to capture their inner and outer beauty with such artfulness. Animals love her back, dearly. It is as if they have an understanding.

Amazing and Wonderful Wolves...Wolves can love with great passion and intensity, broken hearted and inconsolable when they lose one another. They are devoted parents, uncles, aunts and grandparents to the cubs.

They can be extremely sweet to one another, playful and teasing, gentle and yet firm in their discipline. Some have observed that they excel as parents, beyond and above their human counterparts.

They hunt only when hungry, kill quickly, and will catch and eat mice if need be.

We do not know the wolf anymore. We came to fear them through fictional literature of the past.

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