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Led by co-chairs Arianna Huffington, Jennifer Lopez, Lynda Lopez, Elizabeth Gore, and Sharon D'Agostino, this virtual relay connects moms everywhere through the power of social media in support of the United Nation's Every Woman Every Child movement to help women and children lead healthy lives.
Thanks for helping every woman and every child lead healthy lives! From March 8 - May 8, 2013, moms and their friends in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and 154 countries connected to share their personal experiences and global causes they care about. More than 100,000 actions were taken and $500,000 raised to help moms and children around the globe.
This powerful global movement is just getting started. From now until September, we need you to continue to share the one thing you think the global community can do better to support moms everywhere. We'll share your answers with the United Nations Secretary-General during UN Week 2013. Go to www.momplussocial.org to get started.
Arianna Huffington
Huffington Post Media Group
Arianna Huffington is the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books.
In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. In 2006, and again in 2011, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
60 Days of Stories: The Global Mom Relay
Sunday is Mother's Day, one of the year's high points of gratitude. So as we honor the mothers among us (and those no longer among us), there's no better time to tap into that gratitude and draw on the qualities that make mothers such a force for good -- their generosity, their nurturing, their unconditional love -- in order to improve the lives of mothers and children around the world... READ MORE >>
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Adrianna Logalbo and Anna
March 8, 2013
Anna lives in Namanga, Kenya, very close to the border with Tanzania. At 26 years old, she has six children, the youngest of which – Lamayan – is just 9 months old. Anna spends her days in the local market, selling traditional Massai beaded necklaces. Though she is only a short 30 miles from Amboseli National Park, there is not much tourism in the area, making it difficult to sell enough beads to earn the 200 Kenyan Shillings she needs every day to buy food in the market – food like Unga (Ugali flour), Mchele (rice), and Ndizi (bananas). It's often Anna and her family eat simply porridge in the morning, and rice in the evening.
Adrianna Logalbo is leading GAIN's first global campaign to galvanize a community of support aimed at improving nutrition among mothers and young children. The campaign aims to build a constituency for global nutrition through – Future Fortified – providing innovative and easy ways for individuals, businesses and organizations to take action to address the global nutrition challenge. In its first year the Future Fortified campaign has grown a community of over 35,000 supporters.
H.R.H. Princess Laurentien of the Netherlands
March 9, 2013
Princess Laurentien has a long record of fighting against illiteracy in the Netherlands, which is now to be considered an underestimated problem. In 2009, she was designated UNESCO Special Envoy on "Literacy for Development" in recognition of her "outstanding commitment to the promotion of education and her profound dedication to the Organization's ideals and objectives.
Jerusha Hess
March 10, 2013
Jerusha Hess is a writer, producer, and director. Her directorial debut, Austenland premiered at Sundance 2013. She co-wrote the movies Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre. She is the proud mother of three, soon to be four children.
Bobbie Thomas
Style Editor
March 11, 2013
Bobbie Thomas has shared style advice in nearly 500 segments as the Style Editor for NBC's TODAY show, including her weekly 'Bobbie's Minute Buzz'. Although her television career started on the red carpet for E!, the former co-host of the Style network's Fashion Police and national columnist began her work as a rape crisis counselor. Uniquely understanding that "beauty comes from the strength within," Bobbie has worked tirelessly with major brands and organizations such as Step Up, Make a Wish, The Beauty Foundation, and more to promote positive campaigns, instill self-confidence, and encourage people to use style as powerful voice.
Lisa Belkin
Huffington Post
March 12, 2013
Lisa Belkin is the Huffington Post's Senior Columnist on Life/Work/Family. She joins HuffPost Parents after a multi-decade stint at The New York Times, where she was variously a national correspondent (based in Houston), a medical reporter, a Contributing Writer for The New York Times Magazine, and the creator of the Life's Work column and the Motherlode blog.
Melinda Gates
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
March 13, 2013
Melinda Gates is co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A critical driver of Melinda's work at the foundation is her belief in empowering women in developing countries to plan their families. When women can decide if and when to have a child, they're healthier, their children are healthier, communities are more productive, and nations prosper.
Milly Businge
Villages in Action
March 14, 2013
Pastor Milly Businge, 57 years of age, is married to Eli Businge with 8 children, 4 boys and 4 girls. Since 2004 she has served as the Local council 1 chairperson of Kikuube village in Masindi District, in Uganda. She works closely with women in the village to improve their health and economic statuses through meetings and trainings. She also worked as a health assistant for some years.
Julie Smolyansky
President and CEO, Lifeway Foods Inc.
March 15, 2013
Julie Smolyansky became the youngest female CEO of a publicly held firm when she took over her father's kefir business, in 2002 at the age of 27. Since being named CEO and director of Lifeway Foods (NASDAQ: LWAY), America's leading supplier of the cultured probiotic dairy products known as kefir and organic kefir, Julie has continued the company's growth trajectory with creative product development and marketing, bringing a Russian product into the U.S. mainstream and boosting annual company revenues to nearly $90 million by 2012. A member of the UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council and an advocate to end violence against women, in March 2013 Julie co-founded Test400K, a campaign to resolve the backlog of 400,000 untested rape kits in the U.S. and end violence against women both domestically and globally.
Rebecca Soni
2012 U.S. Olympic Swim Team
March 16, 2013
Rebecca Soni was the captain of the 2012 U.S. Olympic Swim Team, a breaststroke specialist and six-time Olympic medalist. She currently holds the world record in the 100-meter breaststroke (short course) and the 200-meter breaststroke (short and long course). She has been a champion for the United Nations Foundation's Girl Up campaign since 2010.
Anu Gupta
Johnson & Johnson
March 17, 2013
Anu Gupta is a Director in the Corporate Contributions division of Johnson & Johnson whose mission is to make life-changing long-term differences in human health by addressing the world's major health related issues. She is responsible for the preventing diseases in vulnerable populations portfolio. Dr. Gupta believes passionately that philanthropy should embrace innovation, finding and testing out-of-the-box ideas that bring creative solutions to long-standing problems. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and their two children.
Alyse Nelson
Vital Voices
March 18, 2013
Alyse Nelson is president and chief executive officer of Vital Voices Global Partnership. A cofounder of Vital Voices, Alyse has worked for the organization for 15 years, serving as vice president and senior director of programs before assuming her current role in 2009. Alyse has worked with women leaders to develop training programs and international forums in over 140 countries and has interviewed more than 200 international leaders, including Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and former presidents Mary Robinson and Bill Clinton, as well as Nobel Peace Prize laureates Aung San Suu Kyi, Wangari Maathai, and Muhammad Yunus. Under her leadership, Vital Voices has tripled in size and expanded its global reach to serve a network of over 14,000 women leaders in 144 countries.
Julia Bluhm & Izzy Labbe
March 19, 2013
Julia Bluhm, 14, is a feminist-activist from Waterville, Maine. She blogs for a girl-fueled activist group called SPARK Movement. She is passionate about girls' and women's issues. As part of a SPARK Movement action, Julia wrote a successful petition asking Seventeen Magazine to change their use of Photoshop on models. Julia is also passionate about ballet. She spends twenty hours a week training to be a professional ballet dancer, as a part of her high school program. Her involvement in ballet has opened her eyes to another issue that affects many teenagers and young adults of today—eating disorders. Julia has recently become involved with the National Eating Disorders Association, and was honored to be able to speak at their teen conference in October. Julia loves giving presentations to community groups about girl activism and how girls are portrayed in the media.
Izzy Labbe is a freshman at Waterville High School in Waterville, Maine. In eighth grade, Izzy started blogging for the feminist movement SPARK, which later led her and fellow blogger/friend Julia Bluhm to the Seventeen Petition, the cover of the Boston Globe, Katie Couric's talk show Katie, and a documentary. When Izzy is not doing activist work with SPARK, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and her school's Gay Straight Trans Alliance, she is most likely acting, writing, reading classic books, swimming, or singing in the shower.
John Gerzema & YingYing Shang
March 20, 2013
John Gerzema is a social strategist and best-selling author who uses data and in-depth reporting to help companies anticipate and adapt to new societal interests and demands. As a Fellow with the Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, he is an expert on emergent leadership strategies and executive chairman of WPP Group's BAV Consulting. His forthcoming book The Athena Doctrine examines the rise of feminine traits and values, with Pulitzer-Prize winner Michael D'Antonio. @johngerzema
YingYing Shang is a senior at Conestoga High School in Berwyn, Pennsylvania and a Teen Advisor to the United Nations Foundation campaign Girl Up that gives American girls the opportunity to become global leaders and channel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds for United Nations programs that help some of the world's hardest-to-reach adolescent girls.
YingYing is a Girl Scout of seven years and serves as Girl Advisor to the Board of Directors at Girl Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania, and is the first to ever be elected to a second term. She is an activist and blogger for SPARK a Movement, an international activist movement demanding an end to the sexualization of women and girls in media.
Queen Rania of Jordan & Lynda Lopez
March 21, 2013
As a board member of the United Nations Foundation (UNF) and as UNICEF's Eminent Advocate for Children and Honorary Chair for the UN Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI), Queen Rania is a staunch defender of children's right to education. In August 2009, Her Majesty launched 1GOAL, a campaign to promote global education, in partnership with FIFA World Cup 2010 and the Global Campaign for Education. In September 2010, Her Majesty joined the UNF's Girl UP Campaign as a global advocate, to raise awareness about issues facing girls today.
At home, Queen Rania works to improve the quality of Jordan's education system. In 2008, Her Majesty launched "Madrasati" ("My School"), a public-private initiative to refurbish Jordan's public schools. The Jordan Education Initiative has upgraded local schools with computers, while the Queen Rania Teachers Academy and Queen Rania Teachers' Award for Excellence in Education are modernizing Jordan's teaching methods and setting higher standards in the teaching profession. In addition to championing cross-cultural and inter-faith dialogue, Her Majesty's interests include encouraging sustainability throughout the public and private sectors and tackling issues affecting youth.
Lynda Lopez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and mother. Five years ago, Lynda and her sister Jennifer Lopez became moms. As mothers, both Jennifer and Lynda have a deep rooted passion and determination to help create a healthier, happier environment for others. That is why they founded the Lopez Family Foundation to increase the availability of quality health care and health education for women and children.
Kathy Calvin & Radha Muthiah
United Nations Foundation
March 22, 2013
Kathy Calvin is President and Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Foundation. Her career has spanned work in the public, private and nonprofit sectors. She is a passionate advocate for multi-sector problem-solving, U.S. leadership on global issues, and the inclusion of women at all levels and in all sectors.
Radha Muthiah is Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, where she leads efforts to save lives, improve livelihoods, empower women and protect the environment by creating a thriving global market for clean and efficient household cooking solutions.
Reema Nanavaty & Anna Ingwe
March 23, 2013
As General Secretary of India's SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association), Reema expanded SEWA membership to 530,000 strong, making it the single largest union of informal sector workers in India. She manages SEWA economic activities through a federation of 100 cooperatives, nine district associations of artisans, salt farmers and forestry workers, and a direct outlet of 12,000 artisans. And area of focus is to expand SEWA's Trade Facilitation Centre into a global network of initiatives and individuals aimed at making women's voices and contributions central to world trade decisions.
Anna Ingwe is the Head of the Stove Component for GIZ EnDev Kenya.
Ruth Riley
March 24, 2013
Ruth Riley is an American professional basketball player (a center) for the Chicago Sky in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Her Notre Dame team won the NCAA women's championship in 2001, and her Detroit Shock team won the WNBA championship in 2003 and 2006. Riley was the Most Valuable Player in the 2001 and 2003 championship series, becoming the first person to win the MVP awards in both the NCAA and the WNBA championships. She has also played on teams that won the National Women's Basketball League (NWBL) championship, the gold medal at the Olympic Games, and the 2010 EuroCup Championship. She has been a spokesperson for the Nothing But Nets campaign since 2006.
Maryam Zar
Women Found
March 25, 2013
Maryam is an Iranian-born American who grew up in New Jersey. She moved back to Iran in the 1990s for four years and became an editor at Tehran Times, an English-language daily newspaper in Iran, as well as a writer/correspondent for Gulf Marketing Review (GMR) and Middle East Economic Digest (MEED), published in London.
In 2010, Maryam Founded Womenfound, a nonprofit dedicated to raising awareness and funds for charities and foundations that help women around the world. She is currently the Editor of the English section of Rahavard Journal of Persian Studies, and the former Director of Women's Programs at Omid for Iran Foundation, an organization with a mission to promote democracy in Iran. She appears as a guest on several Persian-language programs discussing women and women's issues, and speaks at events addressing the concerns of women in her community.
Mary Robinson
March 26, 2013
Mary Robinson was the first woman President of Ireland (1990-1997), former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (1997-2002), and founder and President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. The recipient of numerous honours and awards throughout the world including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Obama, Mary Robinson is a member of the Elders, former Chair of the Council of Women World Leaders and a member of the Club of Madrid. She serves on several boards including the European Climate Foundation, the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, the American Philosophical Society and is a member of the Leadership Council of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
Cindi Leive, Glamour
March 27, 2013
Cindi Leive is the editor-in-chief of Glamour magazine and glamour.com, which together reach more than 17 million readers each month. Under her stewardship, the magazine has launched a monthly digital edition, popular special editions, apps and books—including two New York Times best-sellers—and received a record number of National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Year, honoring print and digital excellence.
Paula & Jamie Deen
March 28, 2013
Paula Deen hosts two Food Network shows, "Paula's Best Dishes," which debuted in 2008 and the long running "Paula's Home Cooking." A two-time Emmy Award winner, in addition, Paula is the author of 14 cookbooks that have sold more than 8,000,000 copies and her bimonthly magazine Cooking with Paula Deen has a circulation of nearly 1,000,000 today. When Paula tours the country making personal appearance to talk about life, family and cooking, thousands of people come to participate. Paula is a member of the board of the Bethesda Home for Boys, works tirelessly for America's Second Harvest and partners with Smithfield Foods Helping Hungry Homes™ which has donated protein for more than 10,000,000 meals for America's hungry.
Jamie Deen is an entrepreneur, businessman, author, and son of American cooking and lifestyle icon Paula Deen. He recently shot his first solo pilot "Home For Dinner with Jamie Deen" for The Food Network. Jamie and his brother Bobby began making regular appearances on their mom's cooking shows on the Food Network, and later launched their own show on the network, "Road Tasted." Jamie and his brother Bobby are also accomplished authors, and have published four books: Jamie lives with his wife Brooke and their two children in Savannah. He serves on the boards of the Bethesda Home for Boys and the Coastal America's Second Harvest, and is a sought after speaker at small business conferences, schools and community outreach programs.
Leah Speer
March 29, 2013
Leah Speer is co-author of Must. Have. Wine. A Toast to Motherhood. When she isn't wondering when her housekeeper is going to show up (she is still in denial that she doesn't actually have one), she is working or shouting out to her two young sons Luke, 4, and Zealand, 3, "get off of him" or "not so loud!" She works in Community Sponsorship for BabyCenter and loves every minute of interacting with BabyCenter members who can all relate to this zany world that is mommyhood. She enjoys movies, running, playing golf, cooking, Girls Night Out, and a nice glass of Chianti, her true delight.
Elizabeth Gore
United Nations Foundation
March 30, 2013
Elizabeth Gore is the first ever Resident Entrepreneur at the United Nations Foundation bringing innovation into the United Nations and chairing the UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. Ms. Gore previously served as Vice President of Global Partnerships at the UN Foundation, and founded strategic grassroots efforts such as Nothing But Nets, Girl Up, and the Shot@Life global vaccines campaign.
Ms. Gore was named by People as one of the top 100 Extraordinary Women and has been featured on multiple media outlets including: ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fast Company, Fortune, Glamour, The New York Times, People, and Time. She is a World Champion Equestrian, and in 2010 joined Summit on the Summit and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness for the global clean water crisis on behalf of the United Nations.
John Nunes
Lutheran World Relief (LWR)
March 31, 2013
John Nunes serves as president and CEO of Lutheran World Relief (LWR), a $49 million global organization. With a passion for service and deep commitment to LWR's core values, John leads staff in 17 countries in working to end poverty, injustice and human suffering worldwide. Prior to joining LWR, John served on the faculty of Concordia University Chicago as a professor of theology. He has also served as a management consultant, and as an urban parish pastor and community organizer in Dallas, Texas and Detroit, Michigan.
John is the author of Voices from the City: Issues and Images of Urban Preaching and, with his wife Monique, the children's book Little Things Make Big Differences: A Story about Malaria.
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Laura Turner Seydel
Captain Planet Foundation
April 1, 2013
Laura Turner Seydel is an international environmental advocate and eco-living expert dedicated to creating a healthy and sustainable future for our children. Laura is chairperson of the Captain Planet Foundation, which supports hands-on environmental education projects worldwide. She works with the Environmental Working Group to limit the toxic chemicals in food, air, water and consumer products. She co-founded Mothers and Others for Clean Air, which focuses on the link between bad outdoor air quality and the high rates of childhood asthma. She also co-founded Chattahoochee Riverkeeper and serves on the board of Waterkeeper Alliance, the consortium of 200 river, bay and sound keepers from around the world.
Rocky Dawuni
Musician and Ghanian star
April 2, 2013
Ghanaian international music star Rocky Dawuni has leveraged his popularity across the African continent to bring his unique Afro Roots sound to global audiences and champion social causes. Over the course of his career, and the release of five albums, his infectious grooves and dance-inducing anthems have consistently excited fans, including some of music's biggest stars with whom he's performed and collaborated. Having appeared at many of the biggest World and Reggae music events, Dawuni has worked alongside Stevie Wonder, Peter Gabriel, Jason Mraz, Sharon Jones, Janelle Monae, as well many others. His eloquence, passion and successful melding of celebrity with humanitarian action led him to be appointed the country's Tourism Ambassador and "World Music Ambassador for MUSIGA (Musician's Union of Ghana)." These efforts join his ongoing involvement with Product (RED), UNICEF, the Carter Center & the UN Global Fund.
Gro Harlem Brundtland
April 3, 2013
A medical doctor and Master of Public Health (MPH), Gro Harlem Brundtland spent 10 years as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system. For more than 20 years she was in public office, 10 of them as prime minister. In the 1980s she gained international recognition, championing the principle of sustainable development as the chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission).
Tina Wells
CEO and founder of Buzz Marketing Group
April 4, 2013
Tina Wells, CEO and founder of Buzz Marketing Group, earned her B.A. in Communication Arts graduating with honors from Hood College in 2002. Currently a Wharton School of Business student for marketing management, Tina continues to create innovative marketing strategies for numerous clients within the beauty, entertainment, fashion, financial, and lifestyle sectors. Tina has worked with clients including: Dell, Girl Scouts of the USA, Maidenform, SonyBMG, PBS, Sesame Workshop, and American Eagle Outfitters. Tina's long list of honors include Essence's 40 Under 40, Billboard's 30 Under 30 , and Inc's 30 Under 30, just to name a few. She is the author of the tween series Mackenzie Blue, published by HarperCollins Children's Books, and the youth marketing handbook Chasing Youth Culture And Getting It Right. Tina is also a celebrated blogger on The Huffington Post and Blackenterprise.com. She serves on the board of directors of The Philadelphia Orchestra Association, The Franklin Institute, and The Young Entrepreneur Council. Tina is also a member of the United Nations Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. She resides in Southern New Jersey with her vast collection of shoes.
Linda Murray
April 5, 2013
Linda J. Murray is the Senior Vice President of Editorial and Global Editor in Chief of BabyCenter, the Web's #1 global interactive parenting network, reaching 29 million moms each month. Linda and her editorial teams around the world provide the modern mom with a personalized, stage-based, rich blend of expert advice and mom-to-mom wisdom they can't get anywhere else.
Panashe Chipikiri
South African Mother
April 6, 2013
Panashe Chipikiri, 23, mother of a three-month old baby girl, uses MAMA mobile messages to better care for herself and her baby. Panashe signed up to receive messages, that informed her about what supplies she needed, provided warning signs, and helped her throughout her pregnancy. "Sometimes we waste money for transport to go to the clinics but if you receive these messages it will be easy for you. And (you can learn) some of the things you can do for yourself in your house."
Tina Sharkey
April 7, 2013
Tina is currently serves on the Board of Directors of HomeAway and Women@NBCU's digital committee. Previously, Tina was Chairman and Global President of BabyCenter LLC for Johnson & Johnson, where she built the #1 global parenting and pregnancy destination, reaching 30 million unique visitors each month across 22 markets worldwide. In 2011, Tina led Johnson & Johnson's initiative with the U.S. State Department and the United Nations Foundation for the Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA).
Tina is one of the pioneers in the evolution of new media, from the introduction of HDTV to the mass-market adoption of the web and mobile platforms. Prior to joining BabyCenter, Tina worked at Time Warner, where she led AOL's programming and social media initiatives. Before AOL, she co-founded iVillage, built Sesame Street online, and helped create a new home shopping channel for QVC.
Denise Love
Co-founder Life Options, Cambodia
April 8, 2013
Denise Love is an Australian who's been working in Asia for over 18 years. She is an internationally recognised educator, teaching safe antenatal, birthing, neonatal, breastfeeding and family planning practices. She is a registered nurse with a Masters Degree in Nursing and is based in Cambodia. She runs Women's Health Cambodia in the Takeo province, working closely with the Cambodian Department of Health focused on the health of women and children.
Barbara Bush & Maimunat Temitope Alex-Adeomi
April 9, 2013
Barbara Bush is CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps. Before joining Global Health Corps' founding team in 2008, Barbara worked in Educational Programming at the Smithsonian Institution's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, where she supported design thinking programs for high school students and faculty in Louisiana, Texas, Minnesota, and New York. Previously, she worked for Red Cross Children's Hospital in Capetown, South Africa, and interned for UNICEF in Botswana. She has traveled with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment.
Barbara is a member of UNICEF's Next Generation Steering Committee and is one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Shapers as well as a member of the United Nations Foundation's Global Entrepreneur's Council.
Maimunat Temitope Alex-Adeomi is a Nigerian physician and served as a Monitoring and Evaluation/ Implementation Assistant with PACT in Boston, Massachusetts. She is currently serving as Director of Clinical Affairs at Sanford World Clinics in Ghana. She trained as a medical doctor at University of Ilorin in Nigeria. Maimunat's passion is in managing inequalities in healthcare and improving health outcomes in developing countries. This led her to pursue a postgraduate degree in International Healthcare Management at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Maimunat has served in various healthcare capacities at UILTH, Emel Hospital, and with Afrikids – an NGO with affiliations in the UK.Maimunat is married and has a son.
Jennifer Borget
April 10, 2013
By day, Jennifer Borget is a news reporter and anchor; which a couple of years ago meant chasing down school district leaders and trying to get the scoop on the latest story. These days it means letting parents know the coolest places in town to take their kids, finding homes for foster children, and highlighting do-gooders in her community. By night, Jennifer is a wannabe domestic diva, and she pretends like she knows how to sew and cook… but really just hides her sewing mistakes under her daughter's big bows, and discards the frozen dinner boxes her food came from. In both worlds she's trying to find out if it's possible to have her cake and eat it too. She documents her journey through making and raising babies on BabyMakingMachine.com.
Actress Jennifer Lopez & Journalist Lynda Lopez
Lopez Family Foundation
April 11, 2013
Jennifer Lopez is an actress, music artist, tv and film producer, fashion designer, entrepreneur, philanthropist and mother.
Lynda Lopez is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and mother.
Sisters, Jennifer and Lynda became moms around the same time, five years ago. As mothers, both Jennifer and Lynda have a deep routed passion and determination to help create a healthier, happier environment for others. That is why they founded the Lopez Family Foundation to dramatically increase the availability of quality health care and health education for women and children, regardless of their ability to pay.
Asha Rani
Mother in Bangladesh
April 12, 2013
Asha Rani, a mother living in the slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, signed up to receive MAMA mobile messages after the birth of her son. Asha, her husband and mother-in-law rely on the messages to better care for her baby. She learned about the importance of making eye contact with her baby, immunization, and food to feed her baby.
World Moms Blog
April 13, 2013
World Moms Blog is a collaborative international website which writes from over 20 countries on the topics of motherhood, culture, human rights and social good. In 2012 the global site was listed by Forbes Woman in their "Top 100 Websites for Women."
Christy Turlington Burns
Founder, Every Mother Counts; Director/Producer, "No Woman, No Cry"
April 14, 2013
Christy Turlington Burns is the founder of Every Mother Counts, a campaign to end preventable deaths caused by pregnancy and childbirth around the world. Every Mother Counts informs, engages, and mobilizes new audiences to take action to improve the health and well-being of girls and women worldwide. In 2010, Christy directed and produced "No Woman, No Cry", a documentary film about the global state of maternal health. Christy is also an avid yogi and merged her love of the practice and writing to author her first book, Living Yoga: Creating A Life Practice (Hyperion 2002). She also founded two successful lifestyle brands; Sundãri, an Ayurvedic skincare line and nuala, a yoga inspired apparel and accessories line.
Christy is an advisor to the Harvard Medical School Global Health Council and the Harvard School of Public Health Board of Dean's Advisors, Mother's Day Every Day and the White Ribbon Alliance. Christy has a BA from NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Studies and is currently pursuing a MPH at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health in New York City, where she lives with her husband - filmmaker Edward Burns - and their two children.
Carolyn Miles
Save the Children
April 15, 2013
Carolyn S. Miles is President & Chief Executive Officer for Save the Children, the leading independent organization creating lasting change in the lives of more than 70 million children in need in the United States and 120 countries around the world. She has traveled to Save the Children's field operations in nearly 50 countries, and during her tenure as COO Save the Children doubled the number of children it reaches with food, educational, and other programs, and helped grow the organization's budget – 90 percent of which goes directly to programs serving children – from $140 million to more than $550 million.
Jill Sheffield and Jennifer James
April 16, 2013
Jill Sheffield is a global educator and advocate who has worked to promote women's health and rights around the world for more than three decades. Sheffield is the founder and President of Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization working to generate political commitment and financial investment for fulfilling Millennium Development Goal 5 – to reduce maternal mortality and achieve universal access to reproductive health. Sheffield is also the founder of Family Care International (FCI), a distinguished non-governmental organization and is a winner of the 2008 United Nations Population Award for outstanding work in sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Jennifer James is an early pioneer of the mom blogging movement and founder of Mom Bloggers for Social Good, a global coalition of 1000-plus mom bloggers who use social media and blogging for good.
Recently named a Fast Company Most Generous Social Media Maven and a Blogger Changing the World by Babble, James routinely travels to middle and low-income countries sharing stories about women and children and the NGOs that are improving their lives. She has traveled to Kenya with ONE, Ethiopia with Save the Children, and will spend two weeks in India this year with Water for People.
James currently writes for the Gates Foundation blog, Impatient Optimists, as well as for Babble Cares and speaks to audiences about effective ways to harness social media for good causes.
Kate Grant
CEO of The Fistula Foundation
April 17, 2013
Kate Grant is CEO of The Fistula Foundation, a nonprofit that works to end the suffering caused by the childbirth injury of obstetric fistula. While eradicated in the United States over 100 years ago through advances in emergency obstetric care, fistula still ruins the lives of too many women in developing countries today, who are horribly injured and rendered incontinent because they did not have access to timely medical help during labor. The Fistula Foundation funds fistula repair treatment that transforms women's lives. Under Kate's leadership, the organization has grown from supporting one institution in one country, to its current global reach across 38 sites and 19 countries throughout sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia – because no woman should suffer a life of misery and isolation simply for trying to bring a child into the world.
Sharon D'Agostino
Johnson & Johnson
April 18, 2013
Sharon is Vice President, Corporate Citizenship at Johnson & Johnson. She and her team were instrumental in developing the company's five-year commitment to the United Nations Secretary General's Every Woman Every Child Campaign. Sharon's personal passion is to help ensure that the voices of girls, women and children everywhere are heard and their stories are told.
She can be found on Twitter: @SharonDAgostino
Amanda Peet
Mother, Actor, and an Every Child by Two Vaccine Ambassador to the Shot@Life campaign
April 19, 2013
Amanda Peet has been a passionate advocate of vaccines for children for years. "It's proven- vaccines are life-saving. I can't imagine my daughters not reaching major milestones because of a preventable disease like pneumonia, diarrhea, measles or polio. No mother should have to imagine that," said Peet. "We know vaccines work and for only $20, we can help protect a child from these four diseases. All children should have the opportunity to lead healthy lives and experience all of life's priceless moments."
Amy Graff
April 20, 2013
Amy Graff, mother of two, blogs about parenting for Hearst Media news sites, including the San Francisco Chronicle, and BabyCenter, the #1 online resource for parents. Passionate about global health issues, Amy traveled to Africa with the advocacy group ONE to increase awareness about the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease in Africa. She's also helping spread the word about the United Nation Foundation's Shot@Life campaign.
Tania Ratu
Mother, New Zealand
April 21, 2013
Tania Ratu is a mother of four living in New Zealand. She and her husband lived in Taiwan for seven years where they taught English had two children. After returning to NZ in 2007, their parenting journey took a challenging turn when their third child, Mareko, was born with liver cancer and started chemotherapy at 10 days old. He is now 5 and healthy.
Dennis Ogbe
Paralympian athlete, polio survivor
April 22, 2013
Originally from Nigeria, Dennis contracted polio at three years old when he was taken to a clinic to receive treatment for malaria. A nurse broke a needle in his back, and as a result of the medical error, he was in a coma for three days. He pulled through the coma, but with a weakened immune system, he contracted polio while still in the hospital. The debilitating disease left him completely paralyzed from the waist down. Instead of encouraging his son to use his disability to beg for money, Dennis' father was adamant about giving him more opportunities.
By saving up his money, Dennis' father made sure Dennis and his eleven other siblings went to school as he fought for a better future for them. Thanks to his father's hard work, a close supportive friend, Masai Ujiri, and his positive attitude, sheer determination and practice, Dennis was able to regain full mobility in his right leg. He is now able to walk without a wheelchair or crutches.
Today, Dennis is a world-class U.S. Paralympian. Decorated with gold and silver medals, Dennis is an inspiration and a testimony that nothing is impossible. He truly believes that no child should have to overcome disability from polio.
Jennifer "JJ" Davis
Executive Director, Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network
Global Communications, Dell
April 23, 2013
Jennifer "JJ" Davis joined Dell in Dec. 2000 and currently leads external communications for Dell Global Consumer, Small Business and Brand. JJ also leads the Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network founded in 2009 to support women entrepreneurs' success worldwide. She started her public relations and public affairs career at the Arkansas Office of the Governor and has held various communications leadership roles for both corporations and agencies nationwide.
JJ lives in Austin with her husband David, second generation entrepreneur and CEO of Provencal Home, and three young sons. She is active in her boys' sports and the family foundation, The Aimee Melissa Davis Memorial Scholarship, supporting graduating seniors with Juvenile Diabetes.
Ann Curry
NBC News National and International Correspondent/Anchor
April 24, 2013
Ann Curry is the NBC News National and International Correspondent/Anchor, for all the platforms of NBC News including "NBC Nightly News," "Rock Center," "Today," "Dateline," and all digital properties. Curry is also anchor of multiple NBC News primetime specials and chief substitute anchor for "NBC Nightly News." She has distinguished herself in global humanitarian reporting, frequently traveling to remote areas of the world for under-reported stories. She has traveled six times to Sudan and neighboring Chad, to report on the violence and ethnic cleansing taking place in Darfur. She has broadcast live from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to report on war crimes against women and children. She has revealed deplorable conditions of Serbia's mental institutions and was the first network news anchor to report on the humanitarian refugee crisis caused by the genocide in Kosovo, reporting for NBC News from Albania and Macedonia.
She was named Twitter's #1 in its list of top 10 most powerful tweets of 2010, for a 50-character message asking the Air Force to allow physicians to land in Haiti to administer aid to the injured and dying.
In 2011, she was named in Forbes magazine's 100 most powerful women in the world.
Her awards include seven Emmy Awards, four Golden Mikes, several Associated Press Certificates of Excellence, three Gracie Awards, a Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications, and an award for Excellence in Reporting from the NAACP.
Kristin van Ogtrop
Managing Editor, Real Simple magazine
April 25, 2013
Kristin van Ogtrop is Managing Editor of Time Inc.'s award-winning lifestyle brand Real Simple. In addition to leading the monthly magazine, van Ogtrop oversees all brand extensions, which have grown to include a robust website with unique, daily content; tablet editions; popular special issues, including Real Simple Family and Real Simple Weddings; books; licensed products; and mobile apps.
Van Ogtrop is author of the popular blog Adventures in Chaos on realsimple.com as well as the critically-acclaimed book Just Let Me Lie Down: Necessary Terms for the Half-Insane Working Mom, published by Little, Brown in April 2010.
Randi Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg Media
April 26, 2013
Randi Zuckerberg is the founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media. As one of the first ten employees at Facebook, Randi created and ran the social media pioneer's marketing program. She led the company's U.S. election and international politics strategy and created Facebook's livestreaming capability through media partnerships during the 2008 Presidential Inauguration. Randi was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2011 for her innovative coverage of the 2010 mid-term elections that integrated online and TV coverage in unique formats. Randi was recently appointed to the United Nations Global Entrepreneurs Council, the World Economic Forum's Global Council on Social Media and the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors Commission on Innovation.
Mei-Leng Wong
BabyCenter Malaysia
April 27, 2013
Mei Leng Wong is the editor of BabyCenter Malaysia and also has a regional role supporting BabyCenter sites in Asia and Australia. She has extensive experience writing about women's and parenting issues. The mother of two has also worked as a newspaper reporter and has contributed to a host of national and regional titles.
Miss Universe & Miss USA
April 28, 2013
Olivia Culpo, Miss Universe Olivia Culpo went from a Boston University student, to winning the title of Miss Rhode Island USA, Miss USA and, finally, the most coveted title of them all - Miss Universe 2012 -- in just over a year. The 20-year old Cranston, Rhode Island native became the 8th American to capture the Miss Universe crown, bringing the title back to the United States after 15 years. She is an accomplished cellist, participating in various orchestras including the Rhode Island All-State Orchestra. Olivia won a seat in the Boston Symphony Hall, Boston; performed in Carnegie Hall, New York City; and toured England in 2010. Until recently, Olivia was performing with the Boston Accompanietta.
Nana Meriwether, Miss USA As first runner-up of the 2012 MISS USA® Competition, Nana Meriwether assumed the title of Miss USA when Olivia Culpo became Miss Universe. Nana was born in South Africa while her Father was there as a medical missionary and lived her first years in rural villages. She is a graduate of UCLA in Political Science, where she was a member of the Women's Volleyball team and helped lead them to the NCAA Final Four. She was also a two-time NCAA All American. She completed post graduate premedical sciences studies at USC in their Post Baccalaureate Program.
Liz Lange
April 29, 2013
Designer and entrepreneur Liz Lange pioneered "maternity chic" by creating stylish, body-conscious clothes for pregnant women. After working at Vogue magazine, Liz tried her hand as a designer and developed the idea for a sophisticated and slim-fitting collection of maternity clothing. In 2002 she partnered with Target to launch an exclusive collection of affordable maternity pieces, from flattering jeans and T-shirts to on-trend dresses and swimsuits.
Dr. Harvey Karp
April 30, 2013
Dr. Harvey Karp is a nationally renowned pediatrician and creator of the DVDs/books, The Happiest Baby On The Block, The Happiest Toddler On The Block and The Happiest Baby Guide To Great Sleep: Birth to 5 Years. His landmark work teaches simple steps to boost sleep, stop colic, reduce postpartum depression, shorten tantrums and quickly increase patience and cooperation in children 8 months-5 years of age.
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Sasha Alexander
May 1, 2013
A talented and versatile actress in both film and television, Sasha Alexander currently can be seen playing Dr. Maura Isles on TNT's hit drama Rizzoli & Isles. Alexander is well-known for her role as Special Agent Caitlin Todd in the first two seasons of NCIS. On the big screen, Alexander can also be seen in such films as He's Just Not That Into You, Yes Man, Mission: Impossible III, Tenure, and Love Happens. This year, Alexander can be seen in Michel Compte's "The Girl from Nagasaki," a modern adaptation of "Madame Butterfly." Ms. Alexander resides in Los Angeles with her husband, film director, Edoardo Ponti and her two children.
Anne Geddes
World Renowned Photographer and Global Advocate, Shot@Life
May 2, 2013
One of the world's most respected and successful professional photographers, Anne has captured the imagination and hearts of people around the globe. Her distinctive, award-winning images of children have become classic icons celebrating life and birth. They grace greeting cards, calendars, books, stationery, photo albums, and an array of other fine products, and are currently published in over 83 countries, spanning North America, Europe, the British Isles, Australia, New Zealand, South America, and Asia. More than 13 million books plus many more millions of other non-book products have been sold worldwide.
In May 2011, the Geddes Philanthropic Trust was presented with the prestigious Award of Founder by the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children to honor the significant impact the Trust continues to have on the lives of children with serious illnesses, and for donations to the Westmead Children's Hospital through the Geddes Fellowship Program started in 1999. Anne and husband Kel are now adding to the Trust's scope by assisting in maternal welfare in the many countries where childbirth is still a major issue regarding the health and wellbeing of both mother and child.
Guy Kawasaki
May 3, 2013
Guy Kawasaki is the co-founder of Alltop.com, an "online magazine rack" of popular topics on the web, and a founding partner at Garage Technology Ventures. Previously, he was the chief evangelist of Apple. Kawasaki is the author of ten books including Enchantment, Reality Check, The Art of the Start, Rules for Revolutionaries, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, Selling the Dream, and The Macintosh Way. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from UCLA as well as an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
Pilar Guzman
Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, Martha Stewart Living
May 4, 2013
Pilar Guzmán was named VP Editor-in-Chief of Martha Stewart Living magazine in March 2011. In this role, she is responsible for the iconic, award-winning lifestyle magazine's editorial direction.
A highly accomplished, visionary editor, Ms. Guzmán was founding Editor-In-Chief of Cookie, a groundbreaking, award-winning magazine for modern parents that ceased publication in late 2009. Prior to joining Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Ms. Guzmán co-founded the parenting website Momfilter.com. Before founding Cookie, she was senior editor at Real Simple and executive editor of One, an architecture and design magazine.
Ms. Guzmán has also been a contributor to a number of different publications, including The New York Times House & Home and Dining sections, I.D., Metropolis, Wallpaper, and Marie Claire, and was the design and architecture editor and columnist at City magazine. In addition, she has been interviewed extensively by national broadcast and print media, including Good Morning America, The Today Show, Entertainment Tonight, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Associated Press. Ms. Guzmán launched her career in journalism writing a travel guide to Italy before working as a food critic and lifestyle writer for the New York Daily News.
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Ms. Guzmán is the author of Time for Dinner, a family dinner cookbook published by Chronicle Books. In 2008, she was one of Crain's "Top 40 Under 40" and The New York Post included her on its list of "New York's 50 Most Powerful Women."
Carly Fiorina
May 5, 2013
Named Fortune's Most Powerful Woman in Business for six consecutive years, Carly Fiorina was the first woman to lead a Fortune 20 company, serving as the Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard from 1999 to 2005. As the founder of the One Woman Initiative and a Global Ambassador for Opportunity International, she supports women entrepreneurs in developing countries around the world.
Mrs. Ban Soon-taek
Spouse of the UN Secretary-General
May 6, 2013
Madame Ban Soon-taek (Yoo Soon-taek) was born in Goesan, North Chungcheong Province, Korea, on 10 January 1945.
In 1962, she graduated Chungju Girls' High School with honours and as President of her class. Madame Ban furthered her academic studies at ChungAng University in Seoul, Korea, where she majored in Library and Information Science. After graduation, Madame Ban worked as a Librarian at ChungAng University.
Madame Ban and Ban Ki-moon wed on 20 March 1971 in Seoul, Korea.
The couple took up their first Foreign Service assignment in India in 1972 where they served until 1975, and where their first child was born. Their two other children were born in Seoul.
Madame Ban has been involved in activities over the past forty years to advance the cause of children, women and senior citizens. Madame Ban also helped launch the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)/Avon Products public/private partnership project. The project's goal is to promote women's empowerment and end violence against women.
She is actively involved in the "Women for Peace" initiative which raises funds to support one young woman from each of the five continents to attend a graduate programme at the University of Peace in Costa Rica. The event was launched in the General Assembly Hall in March 2008.
Madame Ban's special interests include children's education and welfare, autism research, and issues concerning women's development and health.
Sophie Blackall
May 7, 2013
Sophie Blackall is a Brooklyn-based Australian artist who has illustrated over twenty books for children, including the Ezra Jack Keats Award-winning Ruby's Wish, Meet Wild Boars, which won a Founder's Award from the Society of Illustrators and a BCCB Blue Ribbon Award, Big Red Lollipop, which was a New York Times Top Ten Picture Book for 2010, Pecan Pie Baby, which won a Horn Book honor in 2011, and the New York Times bestselling series, Ivy and Bean.
Her editorial illustrations have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, TIME, and many others. Her poster commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit program can currently be seen in subway cars all over New York City. She is honored to be collaborating with The Measles and Rubella Initiative on a series of illustrations to promote the elimination of measles through immunization.
Arianna Huffington
Huffington Post Media Group
May 08 - 18, 2013
Arianna Huffington is the chair, president, and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group, a nationally syndicated columnist, and author of thirteen books.
In May 2005, she launched The Huffington Post, a news and blog site that quickly became one of the most widely-read, linked to, and frequently-cited media brands on the Internet. In 2012, the site won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. In 2006, and again in 2011, she was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the world's 100 most influential people.
Jeanne Shaheen
US Senator for New Hampshire
May 09 - 09, 2013
The only woman in U.S. history to be elected both a Governor and a United States Senator, Jeanne Shaheen has been committed to serving the citizens of New Hampshire for decades and is known for her common-sense leadership, hard work and dedication to improving the lives of the middle class. She has served in the United States Senate since 2009 and is a member of the Senate Committees on Armed Services, Foreign Relations, Appropriations, and Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
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TISHOMINGO – Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby said the opening of the Chickasaw Nation Tishomingo Health Clinic marks another great stride in improving health care for all Native Americans.
Anoatubby was joined by dozens of tribal and local officials, area residents and other guests Monday morning at a ribbon-cutting ceremony to unveil the new 53,000-square-foot medical clinic.
Located at 815 E. 6th St, in the historic capital city of the Chickasaw Nation, the new facility is more than four times the size of the previous clinic which opened more than 40 years ago.
"The opening of this new clinic marks a significant milestone in our ongoing mission to continually improve health services for Chickasaws and all Native Americans we serve," Anoatubby said. "We are excited about these new and expanded services in Tishomingo. Our health care team works diligently to offer the high-quality health care so vital to the overall quality of life. This new clinic is designed and equipped to empower our staff with the best tools available."
Features of the new clinic include:
21 exam rooms12 dental chairsDrive-through pharmacy servicesUltrasound examsMammogramsBone density scansHearing exams.
Oklahoma Optical will also provide its services at the new clinic, and a full-time behavioral health specialist will be on-site.
The unique design and decor of the building reflects the tribe's traditions and culture.
The Medical Center will add about 25 new jobs to the Tishomingo area, including doctors, nurses and support staff, thanks to the unique joint venture partnership with Indian Health Service. Under the program, the Chickasaw Nation funds construction of the clinic and the Indian Health Service offers additional funds for staffing and operation for 20 years.
Anoatubby said the joint venture program provides a "great return" on the tribe's investment.
"This program benefits everyone involved. This plan provides a state-of-the-art facility for our patients without requiring a large initial budget expenditure from the Indian Health Service. It also provides a higher level of funding for staffing over time, which will be a great benefit to our patients," he said.
To ask questions about the Tishomingo Health Clinic visit www.chickasaw.net, or call (877) 240-2720.

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Nina Gwen Bowen, 86 - November 12, 2008
Nina Gwen Stevens Bowen, 86, long time Palo Alto, CA, resident, died Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008.
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Nov. 23, at 2 p.m. at the All Saint's Episcopal Church in Palo Alto, located at 555 Waverly Ave. At a later date, her cremains will be scattered on the land of her beloved Nebraska ranch in Lincoln County.
Bowen was born on Sept. 1, 1922, to Everett L. and Lillian Hunt Stevens, at Dwight.
She grew up on a cattle ranch near Ingham, and no matter where she went or traveled, she was always a Nebraskan, according to family members.
Bowen attended Ingham High School, graduating in 1940, with a plan to design dresses, said family members. She then went to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln for two years and taught elementary school in Farnam from 1942-43.
She was united in marriage to Charlie Bowen, a naval aviator, when he returned from the Pacific during World War II. To this union, three children were born—David, Richard Lee and Hugh Bowen. David preceded her in death in 1992 and Richard Lee, the middle son, a few days after his birth.
Bowen had helped manage the housing office at Stanford Linear Accelerator, finding houses for visiting physicists.
During her lifetime, she was a great adventurer, according to family members, and traveled around the world making multiple trips to China and India.
She was also a great reader, leaving 1,000 books, especially enjoying anything on India, mountain climbing and the west, said family members. She especially enjoyed Willa Cather and the English, whether based in the beautiful home counties or the far flung places.
Bowen loved her family, and was a loving soul with friends around the world and around the block, according to family members.
She was a long-time member of the All Saint's Episcopal Church of Palo Alto.
Also preceding her in death was a grandson, Michael David, in 1998.
Survivors include: her son, Hugh; her brother, Kenneth Stevens of Farnam; nieces and nephews—Nancy, Betsy and Sara, her sister Dorothy's children—Chris, and Ann, Denessa, Patty, Susie and Robert; two granddaughters—Kimberly and Jennifer.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the Christian Children's Fund that she had supported, or another charity of donor's choice.
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We will be hearing and reading a lot about the Fiscal Cliff between now and the end of the year. Much of the reporting alarms more than informs. For a better understanding of how household taxes will increase starting Jan. 1, I recommend going to the Tax Policy Centers web address: www.taxpolicycenter.org and reading Toppling off the fiscal cliff: Whose taxes rise and how much? by Roberton Williams, Eric Toder, Donald Marron and Hang Nguyen of the Urban Institute and Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center.
This report may be the source of the claim that taxes would rise an average of almost $3,500 per household. Their analysis considers not only that almost all of the temporary tax-code changes since 2001 would expire, but adds in ending the payroll tax holiday and the high-income tax increase of the Affordable Care Act.
But what happens if the administration, the House and the Senate cannot come to some agreement on the controversial 2001 and 2003 (Bush) temporary tax cuts and only they expire? If my reading is accurate and my math is correct, the Tax Policy Centers analysis indicates that those households with income less than $20,133 would see an average tax increase of $255; those households with incomes between $20,133 and $39,790, an average increase of $746; between $39,790 and $64,484 $961; between $64,484 and $108,266 $1,479; between $108,266 and $143,373 $2,934; between $143,373 and $204,296 $4,852; between $204,296 and $506,210 $9,207; and finally, the top 1 percent of households with income up to $2,655,675 would pay an average of $87,134 more in taxes in 2013.
It would be painful to those us in the 80 percent of households with incomes of $108,266 or less, but tax burdens for all income groups would seem a little more fair.
Charles Lee Kirby


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My husband's been away most of the week. I've had the typical dose of solo parenting challenges (and a nasty head cold). He'll be back later tonight. This afternoon, we went to the beach for a bit of autumn sunshine.
It was really windy though. Really windy. And the sand was blowing right at preschooler height, and it stung! My daughter said she didn't like the wind so we switched directions and climbed up to the pavilion. I figured we'd look at the view and salvage the trip, but when we got there, we realized an empty off-season pavilion is just begging to be run on.
And so we did, all of us. Into the wind, and with the winds at our back. "Put out your flying arms," directed my daughter, and I did. A half hour of running back and forth, with the ocean in sight on all sides.


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The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) program at Golden West College is designed to provide formal training for individuals who seek entry into the Energy Efficiency Assessment Service field. Students will learn to conduct energy audits, and to establish energy efficiency benchmarks for physical infrastructures to help utilize resources more efficiently and reduce cooling and energy consumption in buildings and processes. Students will also learn to provide analyses and recommendations to help efficiently upgrade and expand the power, cooling, and space to support new equipment or design a new facility.
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Although my family originally comes from a small town in central Mexico, I was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where I spent much of my childhood playing soccer with my two brothers and developing interests in dinosaurs and natural disasters. Ultimately, I found dinosaur extinction theories to be far more interesting than any other aspect of paleontology. I distinctly remember searching my elementary schools library for information on asteroids when I came across a book named Black Holes. I was surprised to find it in the nonfiction section, as I had always assumed black holes were not real. That book sparked my interest in the moon, the stars, and other objects in the night sky.
This interest accompanied me into middle school, where I remember reading about Betelgeuse and other giant stars. I learned of quasars, gamma-ray bursts, dark matter & energy, and famous astrophysicists. Early in my high school career, I had the good fortune of attending a lecture on the origin of the universe by Stephen Hawking. While in high school, I took physics classes both in school and at summer programs at Carnegie Mellon and MIT. I have also developed interests in chemistry and math, and am currently working in a laboratory at Rice University researching protein crystallization. I am a graduate of DeBakey High School, and this fall will be attending Harvard University, where I will major in physics and math and dabble a bit in chemistry and sociology. As of now, I would like to go into academia and have a successful career as a physics researcher and teacher, but my goals may change in the future. Outside of science, I enjoy running, reading, and watching Houston Texans football.


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Top Ten New Year's Babes
A lot of famous people were born on New Year's day; people like Paul Revere and J. Edgar Hoover for instance. But January 1st is supposed to be a time for us to throw out the old ugly stuff like yesterday's Christmas leftovers and ring in the new year with some beautiful women. To this end we present you with the ten hottest babes ever born on New Year's Day.
10) Catalina Guirado
We have no idea if Catalina has any children, but if she does she would definitely qualify as a M.I.L.F. The English actress was giving young men everywhere things to think about in magazines as a model before making her way into T.V. and music.
9) Julie Henderson
Julie is a model who was "discovered" while in modeling school. To us this is like saying you "discovered" food while at a grocery store but we won't hold it against her.
8) Bobbi Luther
Is there anything hotter than chicks with guy's names? No? Is it just us? That is besides the point, which is that the former host of Junk Yard Wars is hot enough to create a war in our junk yard.
7) Elin Nordegren
That's right, the former Mrs. Tiger Woods, was a New Year's baby. We have no idea what Tiger was thinking to be straying away from such hotness. All we know is that she can play with our woods any time.
6) Soni Malaj
Soni is an Albanian singer and while we are bigger fans of Lithuanian music than Albanian we'll make an exception in her case . With her exotic look we don't even care if her songs contain lyrics as painful as: "If we are not alive anymore, write me even underground, I am yours". Although we admit something might have gotten lost in the translation from Albanian.
5) Kelly Wenham
Kelly is a British actress who has appeared on British T.V. She tried acting school for a few months but decided it probably wasn't really necessary after landing a regular role on a show. We've never seen the show but we imagine her character was a hot bartender or hot nurse, or hot flight attendant, something along those lines.
4) Teresa De Klerk
Teresa is a professional model from South Africa. Amazingly, this was pretty much all we were able to find out about her. This means she is basically known for being really awesome to look at. Works for us.
3) Tanya Robinson
Tanya is a model from England who recently branched out into music. She was on FHM's Top 100 hottest girls on the planet list a few times. Now that she has made our list, all those prior awards are pretty much meaningless.
2) Fernanda Motta
Fernanda is a Brazilian model who was discovered on a beach when she was 16 by a model scout, which is apparently a license to oogle underage girls. She was also named one of the 25 hottest models in the world by models.com which means people who spend all day looking at hot women for a living think that she is something special.
1) Siobhan Parekh
Siobhan is an Australian model who won FHM's "Girl next Door" contest. We think this is total B.S., not because she is not hot but because because no one this awesome has ever lived next door to any of us.


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text: Dr. King based this sermon on unfulfilled hopes and dreams. He focused on the story of the Apostle Paul and his wish to journey to Spain. Paul did eventually go to Spain but "as a prisoner and not as a free man." Dr. King told his congregation that they all faced unfulfilled dreams at some point in their lives.


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A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain wise counsel. —Proverbs 1:5
When a very young minister, I asked the famous holiness preacher, Joseph H. Smith, whether he would recommend that I read widely in the secular field. He replied, "Young man, a bee can find nectar in the weed as well as in the flower." I took his advice (or, to be frank, I sought confirmation of my own instincts rather than advice) and I am not sorry that I did.
John Wesley told the young ministers of the Wesleyan Societies to read or get out of the ministry, and he himself read science and history with a book propped against his saddle pommel as he rode from one engagement to another. Andy Dolbow, the American Indian preacher of considerable note, was a man of little education, but I once heard him exhort his hearers to improve their minds for the honor of God. "When you are chopping wood," he explained, "and you have a dull axe you must work all the harder to cut the log. A sharp axe makes easy work. So sharpen your axe all you can." The Size of the Soul, 33.
"In the busyness of life, Lord, help me to always guard time to sharpen my axe. Amen."
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Scott Bakula Will Star in NCIS Spinoff
Call your grandma. She is going to be so pumped.
Scott Bakula will star in CBS's upcoming New Orleans–set spinoff of NCIS, according to multiple outlets. He'll play Special Agent Pride, a man who "embodies New Orleans … [and is] driven by the need to do what's right and does it all with warmth, passion, strength and humor," per CBS's description. The network has already spun off NCIS into NCIS: LA, and last year tried to spin off NCIS: Red, which would have starred Kim Raver and John Corbett. (There was a backdoor pilot, but CBS didn't pick up the show to series.) Bakula's currently on HBO's Looking, and between that, Behind the Candelabra, and his work on the late great Men of a Certain Age, this seems like a megadowngrade.


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Value added grants offered to farmers
Farmers and producers are urged to apply for $18 million in grants to help them add value to the commodities they produce. The funding is made available through USDA Rural Development's Value Added Producer Grant program.
The national application period for the program closes on Nov. 30. For more information on how to apply, producers should visit the Web or see page 45165 of the Sept.1 Federal Register.
USDA plans to award planning grants of up to $100,000 and working capital grants of up to $300,000 to successful applicants. Applicants are encouraged to propose projects that use existing agricultural products in non-traditional ways or merge agricultural products with technology in creative ways. Businesses of all sizes may apply, but priority will be given to operators of small to medium-sized farms operating as a family farm - those with average annual gross sales of less than $700,000.
Applicants must provide matching funds equal to the amount of the grant requested. Ten percent of the funding being made available is reserved for beginning and socially disadvantaged farmers or ranchers. An additional 10 percent is reserved for projects involving local and regional supply networks that link independent producers with businesses, and cooperatives that market value-added products.
If a project is located in Nebraska, a paper application must be submitted to the Rural Development State Office, Attn. Joan Scheel, Rm. 152 Federal Building, 100 Centennial Mall North Lincoln, Neb. 68508. Electronic applications must be submitted through the Web.
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By 2011, the Muslim population of England and Wales was 2,706,066 – representing 4.8 per cent of the overall number. As the ONS noted, this represented a 75 per cent jump in the space of a decade. In 1991 it stood at just under one million – 950,000 – representing only 1.9 per cent of the total. At the time of the next Census a decade later, there were 1,546,626 Muslims in the country – three per cent of the total. See recent Muslim immigrants news


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PARIS (AP) — Economic growth is gaining momentum in the United States, Europe and other advanced countries despite temporary setbacks, a leading international organization said Tuesday.
Smaller government spending cuts and fewer tax increases this year should boost growth in most developed countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Households and businesses are also in better financial shape and can capitalize on still-low interest rates, it said.
Yet growth will likely slow in developing countries, which now account for more than half of global growth. Countries such as India and Brazil are struggling with higher inflation and falling currencies. Investors have pulled money from those countries as the U.S. Federal Reserve has begun to scale back its bond purchases.
The Fed's bond buying lowered long-term U.S. rates and sent investors into emerging markets in search of higher returns. Now that U.S. rates may be poised to rise, some money is flowing back out, pressuring developing countries' currencies and financial markets.
The OECD, a think tank for the world's most developed countries, forecasts global growth of 3.6 percent this year, up from an estimated 2.7 percent in 2013. That's similar to estimates from other global organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund.
In the advanced economies, temporary factors will likely weaken growth early this year, including harsh winter weather in the United States and Canada and an impending sales tax increase in Japan, the OECD said. But growth in most developed economies should then rebound by the second half of the year.
One sign of underlying strength is that global trade has rebounded and last fall began to grow as quickly as it did before the recession, the OECD said, "after an extended period of unusually sluggish growth."
The organization warned that while the European Union's economy seems to be improving, "so far it is doing so later and at a slower pace than in the other major economies."
It also warned that the dip in growth in the United States over the winter could have longer-lasting repercussions. "If the recent economic weakness were to durably depress confidence, it could undermine the recovery," the OECD said.
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Greenfield woman cited for hitting Port Washington student
PORT WASHINGTON, Wis. —
A Greenfield woman, 36, was cited for hitting a Port Washington student.
The 15-year-old student was struck while crossing West Grand Avenue at about 7:15 a.m. Wednesday.
Witnesses gave police a description of a company logo on the minivan that hit the girl and police contacted the driver Thursday.
Police issued her traffic citations for failure to yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian in an uncontrolled intersection and failure to notify police of an accident.


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For me, these are the things I only go to PS to nowadays. I'd also like something I'll call 'color stacking', for situations where part of your image has a warm and another a cool color temp [like a mountain valley partially in shadow].
Speaking of blue sky stuff, I can't think of an easier and thus better metaphor for "layers and masks". Why do we need to throw out this concept simply because it has been around for a long time in the imaging industry? It is brilliant, so IMHO, any truly competent image editor needs to have it. I'm aware of OnOne Perfect layers, but LR without layers and mask sophistication on a par with PS makes it incomplete and insufficient for my needs. Its absence in LR is the only reason I have to keep returning to PS. While on the subject of "tried and true" image editing features like layers and masks , I can think of a parallel debate going on currently with computer OS software designers. It has to do with "files and folders". Many OS designers now say the files and folders concept is an antiquated metaphor and confusing to the young generation of smart phone users. New mobile OS's for smartphones and tablets are increasingly being designed by software teams that feel we should dispense with this time honored analogy to paper filing cabinets for records management. Seriously? The files and folders paradigm works, and it ported very well to digital records management. Why throw it away and hide where our files are kept so that each individual application has to outsmart us to find our files? Stupid, stupid, stupid. This movement to do away with the files and folders concept will cause all sorts of file migration (and migraine) headaches for digital librarians and archivists in the near future. Hence, a personal plea to all the software engineers following this thread.... KEEP both the "boringly conventional" files/folders and layers/masks concepts solidly in place on whatever new image editing software program you choose to give us.
I (and you?) tend to focus on the processing pipeline, the image processing mathematics and such. This tends to make up a surprising small percentage of the people, resources and codelines in a commercially successful application. There are umpteen factors that affect peoples happiness with a product.
Current graphics cards have >1GB of memory, I don't think that buffer storage is the issue.
I'd be afraid that some sort of Photoshop replacement would require learning a new language so to speak. The tools in Photoshop have become second nature to most of us.
Hi Josh...good to see you here...With regards to the above, I don't think you would be a candidate for a Photoshop alternative because, well, you need Photoshop and you fall into the category; professional digital imaging/retouching/prepress that needs the full Photoshop package. However, many digital photographers (pros, non-pros) do not. So, that's kinda the issue...people who use Lightroom only need a portion of Photoshop on a subset of images and don't need everything Photoshop has to offer. That's what we're trying to arrive at, what besides Lightroom would users need for the relatively few trips to Photoshop people need.
By Jove they've done it! These features are needed in any enhanced/new app for photos:http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HPTc79Qw2g4
Very much agree. People using a lot of Photoshop functionallity or prefering Photoshop instead of Lightroom allready have a good option. Or Adobe could just offer Photoshop light version with some functionallity removed. The big gap is for Lightroom users.
Well it seems Lightroom writes a copy in the format (jpeg/tiff) of choice chosen in LR Preferences of the Raw image whenever THE RAW ENGINES OF PS's ACR AND LIGHTROOM DON'T MATCH!
That's as expected and designed. If the LR/ACR engine don't match LR must first render the image, save it and then pass it off to Photoshop. That's the only way to process the LR settings. If ACR & LR match, LR can simply pass the image to ACR for rendering. That's the way it's been since the beginning and unlikely to be changed in the future.
Photoshop CS2 is still a free download from Adobe's site.
As an example just for clarity let's say those that stick with CS6 and don't go CC subscription for further upgrades to Photoshop (when upgrading LR that may have a newer Raw Engine) would now require CS6's ACR engine to be upgraded as well or else deal with the duplicated file scenario and any other potential workflow snags in the future with newer versions of LR.
I understand that, Jeff. I just didn't know the result was an unwanted automatic duplication of the file.


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Ticos ready to tackle consistent Greek side
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil — An English journalist phoned the Toronto Sun before the World Cup in an effort to reach TFC striker Jermain Defoe, who at that time was still very much on England's World Cup bubble.
A 20-minute conversation eventually rolled over into World Cup talk, including England's chances of getting out of Group D, containing Italy, Uruguay and some other team nobody cared about.
"Costa Rica is going to surprise someone in that group," I told him, naming a few players he should watch out for.
By surprise, I meant the tiny Central American nation might steal a draw against one of the aforementioned three sides. Not emerge top of a group containing three former world champs.
Now, that same Costa Rican side that before the tournament was just a speck is set to battle for a place in the World Cup quarterfinals against Greece on Sunday in Recife.
Any way you slice it, one of these teams is about to venture into the last eight at a World Cup for the first time in history.
"We have to think realistically, but we have to think big," Costa Rica manager Jorge Luis Pinto said, according to FIFA. "But first things first, let's concentrate on Greece first and try to win that."
Greece, on the other hand, is just lucky to be here. After being blown out by Colombia in its Group C opener, all appeared lost.
And, until the last minute against the Ivory Coast last week, the Greeks were toast. That's when their African opponents gifted them a late penalty that saw Georgios Samaras send Greece through from the spot.
With just two goals scored, and a minus-2 goal difference, Greece managed to advance.
It also didn't do much to dispel rumours that the former European champs are solely focused on defending.
"I can but laugh as it is a joke," Greece bench boss Fernando Santos said, according to FIFA. "In football one attacks and one defends. We know how to defend well and we are very good on the counter-attack."
In the end, this is a Greek team that's going to fight to win. They're experts at grinding out results even when they don't deserve to advance.
It's a side that is consistently inside the top 20 in the world, in terms of the FIFA rankings, yet are still considered pushovers despite showing they can compete with anyone.
While the stigma attached to this Greece side holds some weight, the objective is to win, not to impress fans who prefer to be entertained.
And if there's one thing Greece understands, it's to never underestimate a team that's rarely picked to win.
"We have to pay a lot of attention to this game, (Costa Rica) came out top in the 'Group of Death,' Pinto told FIFA here in Brazil."As a result, we cannot allow ourself to underestimate them."
Anyone inside CONCACAF understands the dangerous players the Ticos possess.
Costa Rica beat both the U.S. and Mexico during qualifying before going unbeaten in Group D.
A big part of its team is the man who pulls the strings in attacking midfield, Bryan Ruiz. Speedy forward Joel Campbell is also having a breakout tournament and currently plays his club ball in Greece.
The coastal city of Recife — hot and sticky — is also an environment the Central Americans thrive in, which could tip this match between fairly even sides in one direction.
"I've watched around 30 football matches from Greece, not just (Greece against) Colombia or Ivory Coast," Pinto said in a release. "We've done our homework into how they play and we have a wealth of information on the team and its players."
In what could be his last major tournament, Greek legend Giorgos Karagounis and the rest of his side will be flying into every tackle before looking to break out through Samaras.
The Costa Ricans have already insisted it's crucial to score first on Sunday in an effort to open Greece up.
If the Ticos concede, look for Greece to drop numbers back in an effort to hold the fort.
This very well could simply come down to whether or not Costa Rica has any more surprises left in a locker room that has shocked the entire world, especially a few guys from England.
Canadian assistant referee Joe Fletcher has been awarded another match at the FIFA World Cup following a pair of clean showings with his U.S.-based crew.
The World Cup's organizing committee announced Saturday that American MLS referee Mark Geiger will be in charge of France-Nigeria in a second-round match in Brasilia on Monday.
Fletcher and American assistant referee Sean Hurd will each be on a line with Iranian fourth official Alireza Faghani between the benches.
Fletcher, a Niagara Falls, Ont. native, was solid in his first two matches at this tournament, a Group C opener between Colombia and Greece followed by a Group B match between Spain and Chile.
Referees that perform well at the World Cup are typically awarded more high-profile matches.
Those that don't often don't receive games later in the tournament, or are sent him following a poor performance.