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Don't get me wrong, I'm actually a strong supporter of Obama however I believe his plan will not solve our economic problems in the long run. To me it seems as if Obama is trying to emulate FDR's New Deal policies, which at the time were appropriate, however I believe a similar plan will do our economy no good based on the very different circumstances of both situations.
To illustrate, the current crisis is plagued with a national debt of more than 10 trillion and a massive current account deficit brought about from our tendency to import goods from China and other nations. These two factors are essentially the primary causes of this crisis, and these factors were practically nonexistent during the Great Depression.We have essentially sold off our wealth so that we can continue importing consumer goods from China, and now we're basically bankrupt.
The Obama economic recovery plan will boost the economy in the short run, as enough money will hopefully be jolted into the system so that we can go back to our consuming mannerisms for a while at lest. However, the massive spending bill won't work because:
A) It will increase our national debt even more, and not many if any of the projects will provide any monetary return
B) The jobs it will create which include improving roads, weatherizing homes, etc. are mostly temporary jobs, and are also jobs that most Americans probably don't want (would a former bank exec. want to pave roads). They also will affect other booming industries. If less energy is needed due to "going green" initiatives then the demand for coal workers will decrease and possibly forcing them out of work
(C) We also run the risk of inflating our dollar and making our currency worth next to nothing with all this money being made out of thin air
IMO the Obama administration should devise a plan that focused more on business development and not just trying to get money into our system. The U.S. HAS to become more self-dependent regarding consumer goods and everything else that we import. We essentially have to balance our current account by making our products more enticing to foreigners however the value of our currency must drop so that they can afford it. Obama's plan will essentially allow us to continue our over consumption before we face the exact same problem again in the future. There is no way in the world our economy can continue with such a large national debt and current account deficit.
A powerful and dangerous force has been unleashed on the global economy. Ita��s a new source of skilled labor that has put American workers at a competitive disadvantage a�� and no one knows just how many jobs have already been lost because of it. The U.S. is running a huge trade deficit with this force; every year wea��re spending millions more on what it produces than it spends on American goods and services. And to top it all off, this entity has built a massive currency reserve, investing large sums of it on U.S. government securities and thus enabling Americaa��s fiscal profligacy.
Why, oh why, wona��t the U.S. government do something to protect us from . . . Tiger Woods?
You thought I was talking about China, and I was. But Ia��m also talking about the modern-day golf legend. You see, China and Tiger Woods are a lot alike.
In seven out of the ten years since Woods burst onto the golf scene hea��s been the top money-earner on the PGA Tour. He has forced his best competitors into second place while pushing countless players at the bottom of the heap out of the pro game entirely. He also has nudged athletes of all stripes from the lucrative endorsements market. Hea��s the best-paid corporate mascot ever, lending his name and likeness to General Motors, General Mills, American Express, Accenture, Nike, and more.
Such success both on an off the course has paid very well. Woods cana��t possibly spend all the money he makes. (He took in $100 million from his Nike deal alone.) And what he doesna��t spend he either saves or invests, no doubt putting ample resources into U.S. government securities.
So what is Tiger Woods doing thata��s any different than what China is doing?
Both are competing successfully. Both are earning more than they are spending. And both are saving and investing their wealth. If you think of Tiger Woods as his own country, he and China are just the same. Yet not a day goes by that we dona��t read of some new political effort to throttle competition from China for the sake of the American worker and the American economy. Where are the initiatives aimed at protecting us from Tiger Woods? Think about that the next time a politician proposes protectionist legislation aimed at China.
Of course, pro golfers arena��t whining about being beaten by Woods. Rather, they know they must improve their games a�� or at the extreme, find new games to play. Competition is the lifeblood of sports, and the professionals accept this premise. At the same time, the consumers of sports a�� the rest of us who watch it on TV a�� insist on it: If there were no competition, sports wouldna��t be very interesting.
So why are American manufacturers whining about being beaten by China? And why do our politicians support these false notes?
Competition is the essence of business just as ita��s the foundation of sports. Thata��s why we have antitrust laws; theya��re an attempt to keep competition alive and well. And just as in sports, competition is good for consumers. It forces businesses to improve their products and keep prices low.
Yet there are people who understand all this in principle and still make an exception when it comes to competition from foreign nations. Why? Therea��s no fundamental difference between competing with someone across town or someone across the globe. Why the different set of rules for China and Tiger Woods, or for foreign and domestic competition?
One of the usual arguments against foreign competitors is that they are a�?unfaira�?; that they expect us to buy from them, but they wona��t buy from us. China, it is said, is cheating us by building up an enormous a�?trade surplus,a�? which now totals over $1 trillion.
But Tiger Woods doesna��t buy as much from America as America buys from Tiger Woods. In fact, Woods is no different than anyone who has ever succeeded enough in life to accumulate savings. China does just that and ita��s a problem. But ita��s no problem when Woods does it, or for that matter when you and I do it. We often hear that the a�?trade deficita�? with China means that America has gone into debt to buy Chinese goods. But thata��s no more true than saying wea��ve gone into debt in order to watch Tiger Woods play golf.
Some of the goods we import from China are paid for with exports. In fact, U.S. exports right now are running at record levels. For the rest of the goods we import from China, we pay money. But thata��s money we have earned, fair and square. Just because China sold more to us than it bought from us doesna��t mean therea��s any debt involved.
Say you bought a pair of Nikea��s because you thought that ad with Tiger Woods in it was so cool. Did you pay for your sneakers with money, or did you export something to Nike? Last I checked this isna��t a barter economy, so you probably paid money. But that doesna��t mean you went into debt for those sneakers.
The China-bashers also say that Chinaa��s investments in U.S. government securities are a�?unsustainable,a�? and they worry about what will happen to U.S. interest rates if those investments are liquidated. Well, suppose China took that money and started buying U.S. goods with it, instead of saving it. That means U.S. producers would have a lot of very profitable work to do. And that money wouldna��t disappear. It would simply change hands, and its new holders would ultimately have to invest it.
Perhaps China worries so many, and Tiger Woods doesna��t, because hea��s an American and China is, well, China. But try this thought experiment: If Woods werena��t an American, would you feel differently toward him? Would you want to slap a targeted tax or other penalty on him? Or would you restrict Americans from doing business with him? Your answer is likely a�?noa�? to each of these. You love watching him play golf. And even his competitors know that if he wins and they lose, that he has raised the level of the game and made it a better business for everyone involved.
So why do so many endorse protectionist laws against China? Dona��t these very same people love buying cheap toasters at Wal-Mart a�� toasters made in China? And dona��t the American firms which cannot compete with China understand that the ascent of this new economic force has lifted the entire global economy, ultimately making it a better game for everyone?
When you think it through therea��s only one sensible approach to trade with China: Go get a��em, Tiger!
Please read and let me know how you would analyze this article:The Water Crisis: Analysis and Proposals
By Celine Tan
Water and sanitation is the first of five priority action areas under the
WEHAB plan for the post-WSSD implementation of sustainable development.
The challenge of providing safe and clean water and sanitary conditions for
an increasing world population, in the face of rising inequities, is
phenomenal.
Forty percent of the worlda��s population, in 80 countries, currently suffer
from serious water shortages. A billion people worldwide lack access to
safe drinking water and 2.4 billion people lack access to adequate
sanitation (Global Economic Outlook 2002).
Yet, the biggest threat to universal access to clean water and adequate
sanitation is not mother nature but corporate globalisation. Privatisation
of water is aggressively exported to the developing world under the rubric
of poverty reduction and debt relief strategies, free trade and economic
development. By turning a scarce resource into an economic commodity, the
worlda��s economic leaders and policy planners claim that existing water
resources can be managed and consumed efficiently in accordance with
competitive market principles. These claims are not only misguided, they
are deceitful. There are two myths being projected: first, that placing a
price on water will encourage conservation and wise water consumption.
Secondly, that market competition will lead to more consumer choice and
better services. In reality, the water sector is monopolistic when placed
in the hands of the market. It is thus alarming that the commodification of
water resources is now heralded as the answer to the worlda��s water woes.
Monopoly and subsidies for corporations
Water is a US$400 billion global business, controlled by a handful of
European transnational companies and consortiums, namely French
multinationals Vivendi and Suez Lyonnaise, SAUR and British water companies
Thames Water, Anglia Water and United Utilities. The global drive towards
privatisation of water services is thus pursued not by a collective of
democratically elected governments acting in the interest of the worlda��s
population, but by a cartel of corporations motivated by profit and market
conquest.
To make matters worse, these companies are subsidised by their governments
(and invariably their taxpayers) through support from domestic export
credit agencies, and by multilateral development banks, such as the World
Bank and the African Development Bank. They are also subsidised by
developing countries who raise credit from international financial
institutions to upgrade their water systems prior to private takeover. This
corporate subsidy comes at the expense of consumers, most of them in
developing countries, who are made to pay for what is a necessity of life.
For the poor this means no access to water.
Additional loans to facilitate the privatisation process are raised by
developing country governments from multilateral and bilateral sources.
Often, these loans are also used to finance the creation of an a�?enabling
environmenta�� for foreign water and wastewater investors. This includes the
drafting of local investor protection legislation to guard against
re-nationalisation of the water industry and to provide for hefty
compensation for any attempt to renege (for good reasons) against the
privatisation contracts.
In many cases, corporate access to a developing countrya��s water system is
paved by a loan or debt relief conditionality requiring the poor or
indebted country to privatise its water and sanitation services. For
example, the IMF insisted that Tanzania privatise its Dar es Salaam Water
and Sewerage Authority (DAWSA) as a condition of its debt relief package
under the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative.
Fallacy of privatisation
Experience shows that the privatisation of water services cannot ensure
universal delivery of safe water and efficient sanitation. Privatisation
imposes additional financial obligations on governments. They may have to
bail out failed privatisation project, and also shoulder the costly legal
risks of rescinding a privatisation contract with a wealthy transnational,
even if the companya��s performance is unsatisfactory. Argentina, Hungary and
Bolivia have found that the legal claims for compensation by private water
companies in Tucuman, Szeged and Cochabamba respectively, have made
terminating contracts prohibitively expensive.
The dominance of foreign water companies and the liberalised investment
climate - mostly facilitated by structural adjustment, and now under trade
agreements including those under the WTO A? in developing countries will
also ensure that a large portion of profits from water privatisation will
not accrue to the countries themselves but are repatriated abroad instead.
The imposition of full-cost water pricing as a result of privatisation will
only deprive more and more people of access to clean and safe water by
forcing poor communities to seek alternative sources of water for
consumption, such as untreated well water and water from sewage-ridden
urban rivers.
Forced upon rich and poor, consumers and industrial producers, similar
rates for water use will also result in greater income disparity and deeper
social cleavages, leading to higher risks of civil unrest. In 2000, martial
law was declared in the Bolivian city of Cochabamba as a result of
city-wide riots precipitated by high water prices. A private consortium led
by International Water doubled the water prices to city residents. Water
bills went up by 35% and some, twice that. The World Bank supported
full-cost water pricing and prohibited any use of its structural adjustment
loans to subsidise water services for the poor.
Future fears and WSSD outcomes
There is no agreement on the text in the WSSD Draft Plan of Implementation
that commits governments to supporting the UN Millennium Development Goal
of halving, by 2015, the proportion of people unable to reach, or afford,
safe drinking water and access improved sanitation (paragraphs 7 and 7[alt]).
However, the most pressing concerns over universal coverage of water and
sanitation services are not expressed in these bracketed paragraphs.
Rather, they are reflected in the general lack of political will
demonstrated by developed countries to address the systemic issues leading
to a crisis of sustainable development in the south, and the alarming
emphasis placed on public-private partnership funding and implementation of
sustainable development programmes. The relinquishing of responsibility by
developed countries is marked by their reluctance to commit to specific
disbursements of ODA and by repeated references to voluntary partnerships
and initiatives as a means of financing WSSD programmatic outcomes.
In the absence of firm commitments by governments, Type II partnerships on
water and sanitation services will only increase private sector involvement
in this crucial area. The private sector is already identified as a key
implementer of the a�?Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) for All
Initiativea�� involving 28 countries, six UN agencies, the World Bank, and
the Asian and African Development Banks.
Another major threat to universal access to water and sanitation is
liberalisation under the WTOa��s rules. Although Member countries have the
right to liberalise at their own pace, and even choose not to open up a
sector under the WTOa��s General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), there
is tremendous pressure especially on developing countries to liberalise.
Thus in the ongoing negotiations at the WTO, developed countries are
submitting extensive A�requestsA� that seek access to every sector in the
developing world, including water services and sanitation.
If developing countries succumb, privatisation of water services initiated
under World Bank and IMF structural adjustment programmes could become
permanent under the binding rules of the WTO. Once a country is locked into
the GATS regime, the right of its government to regulate liberalized
service sectors will be diminished, paving the way for foreign
transnationals to enter the domestic market. Any attempt to reverse the
situation would be subject to WTO disciplines and penalties.
Any real effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goal must therefore
include commitments to review loan conditionalities that impose
privatisation and countries must not be pressured to offer water services
under GATS liberalisation. Essential services should be exempted from GATS.
Conclusion
Privatisation does not address the deeper economic and ecological issues of
water shortages. Questions of why there are water shortages in countries
not under water stress are not resolved by shifting responsibility of
service provision to private companies. Water management and water
distribution are also key factors in determining water supply and universal
coverage. Until and unless rich countries fulfil their commitment to
provide resources for developing countries to build solid, cost-effective
water delivery systems which support the needs of the worlda��s population
equitably and ecologically, the water woes of the world will not go away.
At the same time, all governments need to recognise and support the
diversity and replication of community water management systems and
practices. These have proven in many countries to be the most sustainable
approach to rural water management for rural populations. The WSSD process
and the last 10 years of the work of the CSD have called for good and best
practices in sustainable development. However, where water resources are
concerned the trend and emphasis are privatisation which has proven
destructive.
Firm commitments must be made at the WSSD to reverse the trend of corporate
takeover in the water and sanitation sector, rather than to accelerate the
process of privatisation and corporate monopoly. Undermining the sovereign
power of governments to regulate supply of water in their countries and
passing the bucket onto private transnationals to steward the worlda��s water
resources would probably be a most anti-development and anti-ecological step.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
dharma initiative
The DHARMA (Department of Heuristics And Research on Material Applications) Initiative was a scientific research project that had a large presence on the Island between the 1970s and the early 1990s. The project is represented by ...Except for maybe Guiding Light, ABC's (DIS) Lost has the largest, most complex storyline of any modern serialized drama. In just five seasons, creators Jeffrey Lieber, JJ Abrams, and Damon Lindelof.It's one of the show's signature moments: Ben Linus returns from killing his father to find the majority of the Dharma Initiative dead. There's something both beautiful and horrifying in watching the camera slowly pan over the carnage. ...... a downed Beechcraft plane from a failed drug run, the remains of an ancient statue, as well as bunkers belonging to the Dharma Initiative -- a group of scientific researchers who inhabited the island in the recent past. ...Ahhh, more Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiative. This little segment starts off with a "new series" ad for the detective show Matt Houston. This show ran from Sept 26,1982-July 19, 1985. It's about Matlock "Matt" Houston, ...Part 4 of the a�?Mysteries of the Universe: The Dharma Initiativea�? special feature was released online today. As you may remember, all 5 parts of this faux-docu are being included on the Season 5 DVD along with some extended material, ...Two days until Halloween! I got the finishing touches to my flapper costume last night; my boss got her Dharma Initiative suit in the mail yesterday; my.CBS first premiered the high-stakes reality show Survivor in 2000. Nine years later the juggernaut continues to rack up ratings and suck viewers in. But, just.Dharma Initiative A� Brad titled this one -which prompted my subsequent watching of Lost, which I had been previously ignoring. It's basically unusable for worship, but maybe some other uses will make themselves known? ...
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I'm desperate. I was wondering if anyone knew where they sold TV and movie patches in Toronto, Ontario. I'm specifically looking for a few Dharma Initiative patches. I can only find places to order them from the US but I need one ASAP. Any help immediately would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I am trying to make a Dharma Initiative (LOST tv show) costume for Halloween but I can't find plain khaki and navy coveralls. :(
websites where i can by it or shops, just where every i can by it. please.
Okay so I'm joining the Dharma Initiative for Halloween. I selected the "Swan" patch but I have to get my name and "job" sewn onto my jumpsuit. I have tried googling this to no avail. What was the official "title" sewn onto Kelvin Inman and Radzinsky's suit? Anyone.. I know there are other LOSTie nerds out there just like me but you'll have the answer I seek.
I guess if all else fails I'll have it read: Button Pusher -- World Saver with 4 8 15 16 23 42 sewn underneath it.
But I'd like the real answer. Please!
I am putting together a costume for Halloween. Titles you have seen on either blue or khaki jumpsuits are fine. So far I have Cook, Motor Pool, Workman, Physicist and Security.
The lottery numbers in Bulgaria's National Lottery have been 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42 in the last TWO drawings in a row.
The Dharma Initiative numbers from LOST are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.
How freaky is that? 4 of 6 happening not once, but twice. IN A ROW.
The simple fact of the exact same numbers happening twice in the exact same lottery. And in consecutive draws...well the odds are not exactly just coincidental to say the least. Then couple that with 4 of the 6 numbers being the numbers from LOST and it just gets weird. Yes, it is JUST a coincidence after all, but it's a really strange one at that.
I want a dharma initiative logo on my shoulder. I want to know how much they are and where they are at the fair. Please help me fellow west virginians!!
I want to hear it ALL. Your theories, your predictions, everything!
My theories include...
-Charlie (Penny and Desmond's child) Will be the man in black and Aaron will be Jacob.
-Lost is a game. A battle of good and evil. In the first episode Locke talks to Walt about a game he is playing. He says, "This is a game of one 1 piece and one black piece.And then he holds them up. When they find the mummies inside of one of the pockets are 2 rocks one black and one white. The Dharma Initiative logo is black and white.
-When we fist saw Jacob and "MIB" MIB said "Do you know how much I want to kill you?" The loop hole was that the two couldn't kill each other. They had to get some one else to do it and then they would have to take the shape of the smoke monster or other deceased characters. (Like Walt, Ana Lucia, Charlie, Boone, Eko, Yemi, etc.)
-The smoke monster will be white now because the roles are reversed. Before the "man in black" took the shape of the smoke monster.
At the very end of The Incident for the fist time EVER it showed "LOST" black on white NOT white on black.
-All of the characters are coming back. OR there will be 4 or so episodes of what it would be like if Jack's plan worked. At Comic Con 2009 Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) walked in and on his hand it said, "Am I alive?" Hmm...ALSO at Comic Con 2009 they showed a picture of ALL of the cast and it said "The Final Season" under them.
-The Black Rock is the ship in the opening scene of The Incident.
-EVERYONE on LOST is connected in some way.
-In the last season there will be a 3rd group. A good group. At Comic Con 2009 they said they will explain who dropped the food. I think a good group did.
-MIB was inside of fake Locke.
-There is something more to Vincent.
That is all I can think of. Make comments and share yours!
Where did I get this from?
-www.sl-LOST.com
-www.lostisagame.com
-www.lostpedia.com
-LOSTchatter podcast
-Comic Con 2009
-Watching LOST OVER and OVER
-Discussing LOST with my fellow Lostie Lorraine.
I am making a Weird Clan and need some help.?
If you have ever seen the T.V. Show "Lost" i want it to be like the Dharma Initiative. I have a group of friends and i am making a Clan called the Ice Cold Revenge, and we have Code Names etc. I want it to be mysterious with many secrets. What should I do? Any suggestions? Please help, i want this to be awesome. Thanks! A?
In the series Lost, who the heck is Ben? What were the Dharma Initiative up to? Whats with the frequent flashes of light that takes them back in time and bla bla... please jst give a vivid detailed explanation of the phenomena of that island. Thanks.
And please dont tell me to "find myself" cos an sick of doing so.
In the 'Lost' tv series: before the natives of the island took over, the Dharma Initiative was heavily funded from the mainland. But after that, where did Linus' people have all the money to bring food, medical supplies, maintain all facilities and repair things, not to mention running a submarine... Moreover, when Tom goes to New York he stays in a penthouse apartment plus other minor details...
In the 'Lost' tv series: before the natives of the island took over, the Dharma Initiative was heavily funded from the mainland. But after that, where did Linus' people have all the money to bring food, medical supplies, maintain all facilities and repair things, not to mention running a submarine... Moreover, when Tom goes to New York he stays in a penthouse apartment plus other minor details...
EDIT: The sub was already there, but it costs tons to maintain it. Not to mention the entire population that was supplied with commercial products, not insects and berries.
We're talking millions of dollars a year, it's not a matter of 'pulling some strings' or something like that. So the question stands!
Alright so, my best friend loves the tv show Lost. Since she is a girl and attractive, and not wanting to sound like a loser in front of her, I want to know what this show is about. Can anyone give me a run through as to what is going on, what the show is about, what the Dharma Initiative is? Honestly Wikipedia was no help and I KNOW there are some huge Lost fans here. Thanks in advance!
Spoiler alert:
I watch Lost a lot. During this season, I feel like I have been following the theme of time travel pretty well. Around the time they got into DHARMA though, someone said the show didn't make sense because none of the characters remembered being in the DHARMA initiative while they were on the island in 2004. My arguments are that Farraday said that the past is now their present, but also during the season finale, they detonated the hydrogen bomb, thus killing themselves and starting over their lives without the plane crashing. So my question is this: Does my friend still have a point?
Is it based on a real research organization? My friend, who is obsessed with Lost claims that it's real, and I think that it's made up. Who is right, evidence if you can.
I am aware the dharma initiative is some sort of scientific project. A: who is behind the dharma project? Charles whitmore finances the so-called "others"; not the dharma project. B: what is the objective; the purpose of these people who call themselves the others. C: why doesnt Richard, the old leader of the others, age at all over the years? or does he constantly go thru the time travel flashes also? D: what exactly is the smoke monster? or is that something that hasnt been revealed yet? E: is JJ abrams a great writer? or a lousy writer? His Alias series made sense in the beginning and got stupid towards the end. LOST made no sense in the beginning, and now makes sense as it comes toward the end.
Anyone who's been watching series 4/5 of lost:
you know those VW vans that the Dharma initiative use, well, I was thinking the other day that It'd amazing if i could get one of them metal dharma logos to put on the front of my VW. (Bit nerdy, I know).
Does anyone know if I could get one of these anywhere?
It truly would make my day,
Alice.
PS. I would be like Hurley when I saved the day in like the last episode of series 3 or something... that was cool. (I'd be less hairy and smaller, though)
What sort of betterment of humankind would experimenting in the Tempest bring about? What were the goals of the toxic gas experimentation in the Tempest?
I've seen every episode of Lost, yet it's just so confusing.
are you watching it right now?
Is Miles' father the guy on the orientation tapes for the Dharma Initiative??
I used to watch that show all the time like four years ago until I just gave up from frustration but I'm considering picking it up again. Are they still on the island? Is that smoke monster thing still pissing around the island? Why was a polar bear on the island? Did they ever say what the Dharma Initiative was? Is the island magic or something? Who are the others? What was the deal with that invisible guy? I've got about 500 more questions but these are just a few...Lost confused the crap out of me but I would like to know what happened
I've had my macbook for about three years, it's been dropped about two times (didn't seem to have a problem with it the two times it did drop). A few months ago it started randomly turning off and can't coup without using the battery. Also, when it turns off, I rarely can get it back on. When it does come back on, it usually works for only a few minutes before a "Dharma Initiative"-like sign pops up saying my macbook is malfunctioning. I'm thinking it's probably the motherboard, but I really have no idea.
Also, it's out of warranty, and I'm most likely not willing to pay much to get it fixed.
What do you guys think?
I'm just wondering about a few things.
A. We haven't been told as of yet exactly HOW kate managed to get aaron right, or for that matter, what she did with him just before she went over to Jacks and told him never to ask about him again.
B. We haven't found out why exactly that
the scientist doesn't seem to be a part of the dharma initiative along with Sayer et al, right....like what happened to him. Daniel Farraday i mean.
This is a serious question. Do the liberals want our society to be like that of the Dharma Initiative? It kind of seems that way to me. Jack is now a "workman" and lives in the same kind of house as Juliet and Sawyer, who are respectively a mechanic and security experts as well as Dr. Marvin Candle, who is a physicist of sorts and Horace Goodspeed who is the leader of the D.I. That does kind of seem like a utopian society in which everyone has the same quality of life no matter what they do and any one can have any job no matter what sex they are.
Dude..there is a liberal manifesto. We know how you guys are going to answer every single question. Either you are programmed or studied a book.
Note: I am not a republican.
Dude..there is a liberal manifesto. We know how you guys are going to answer every single question. Either you are programmed or studied a book.
Note: I am not a republican.
ha ha ha
joseph woody orion
I thought that Widmore had been ousted by Ben Linus and had begun the Dharma Initiative to gain access to the Island again in order to study time travel (which he found out about when the Oceanic Survivors when back in time) and the other weird stuff that happened on the Island.
He was a captain of industry, so I thought he had gone back in order to get money out of discoveries from the Island.
But in Lost 5X12 'What Happened, Happened' at the very end, Richard Alpert is asked what would Ellie and Charles (Widmore) think about taking young Ben to the Temple. So Widmore is still with the Hostiles at the same time as Ben is a child with the Dharma Initiative.
--> So......who began the Dharma?
--> How did the Hostiles/Others take over the 'operations' of the Dharma Initiative in the mainland in order to keep supplying the Island with goods and supplies still labelled "Dharma" ?
(remember, the Oceanic survivors get a food drop labelled 'Dharma' soon after they arrive)
--> Why are the Hostiles/Others bothering with the pretense that Dharma is still there?
The pretense is in keeping up Dharma food drops as well as Mikhail wearing the Dharma jumpsuit when meeting Locke, Sayid, Kate, & the French woman when they set out to retrieve Jack after he is taken to do surgery on Ben.
There are other instances I just can't remember them now.
The pretense of it still being Dharma is in the 2000s, not the past. This question has nothing to do with the time travel to the 70s.
i didn't follow the Lost Experience, i was just wondering (within the lost world.) what people on the outside world know about the dharma initiative and why it ended?
thanx!!!
IS it possible to accurately define Dharma?
Any reasonable answers are welcomed. From anyone.
Decent links gratefully accepted as well. :)
* No, I am NOT interested in definitions of "The Dharma Initiative." I have zero interest in "Lost" on ABC in the U.S. *
Thank you.
He was there when the flashes stopped. When they were with the people (Dharma Initiative) and he saw Charlotte. He was there on the first day. Now all there is is: Miles, Jack, Hurley, Sawyer, Kate, Sayid, Jin, and Juliet. Where is Faraday!!!! and OMG i know that Ben is a bad guy but still i can't believe that Sayid shot him. Oh yeah one more question. Why Did Sun, Ben, and Lapidus not get transferred to 1979 with everyone else? I feel so sorry for Sun. And i don't know why but there is something about Ben that makes me like him. I know he is manipulative but i still like him.
LOST - "He's Our You" The DHARMA Initiative struggles to discover the identity of Sayid Jarrah, while Sawyer tries to make sure that his secret remains safe.
Is young Ben Linus actually dead?
Who was responsible for the flaming Dharma bus? Do you think it was Ben?
How does Ilana know Sayid was responsible for the death of Peter Avellino? Did Ben tell her?
What kind of authority does she have to take Sayid into the plane with handcuffs? I know she posed as an air marshal, when she passed through security at LAX. But, is she really an air marshal or just a bounty hunter?
I've heard that when Locke goes into the ditch (either when he is originally shot by Ben or when he revisits with Ben and Hurley) you can see a Dharma jumpsuit with the name Lafleur on it. If this is true then that would mean Sawyer dies when Ben kills all of the Dharma Initiative.
If so, please let me know what episode and roughly what time you see lafleur in the ditch.
I am not sure how many people have noticed but in the last segment where Sun is holding the photograph of the Dharma initiative back in 1977, check the background there is a person right behind her! Check it out and tell me who do you think it is?
The last one I saw was the one where Sawyer and company get into the dharma initiative and Juliet delivers a baby, Sawyer talks to Richard, and they are waiting for Locke to return. Then at the end Jin comes back with Jack, Kate, and Hurley and then the show ends. I think I've only missed one episode, but I'm not sure. And when will a rerun of wednesday's episode be on TV?
Okay, let's see if I can phrase this right. I'm so excited that it's back on! (It was a rerun last week.) I'm watching it right now and some of these might be answered in this episode...
1. If Sawyer Jin, and Juliette are in the Dharma Initiative, does that mean they were in the original one...and didn't know? Like the scientist guy..(what's his name again? Charlotte's boyfriend...) Remember he asked someone if they were absolutely sure they had never been on the island...And Charlotte told him she had grown up on the island and he was the "scary man" who lived there. The whole time traveling thing confuses me! :)
2. Some of these new passengers--the ones on flight 316--have we seen them on any previous episodes? Some of them don't seem as horror struck as they should be after just going through a plane crash...
3. What do you think about Sawyer and Juliette? Do you think he will go back to Kate?
4. Basically, what do you think about Ben? I don't dislike him, but I don't trust him either...
5. Any other theories? What do you think about the time traveling? I think it could get a little too confusing and the producers are going to need to be careful not to go too far with it. But, the whole show could have gone a "little too far" and it hasn't (yet)...I love it!:)
Oops, forgot: Where are Rose and Bernard?! They didn't get on a boat to the freighter, and we haven't seen them since before the 'flashes' started.
My fellow Lostanians and I think the thing is a new breed of animal that the DHARMA Initiative lost control of.
Do you think they will continue will Sawyer meeting up with JACK?? Or will they jump back to LOCKE??? Will we find out some secrets of what the heck the Dharma initiative WAS...since Sawyer seems to be in charge??
What the heck happened to SUN??
A few seasons ago a van was found on the island there was a skeleton in a dharma initiative jump suit...what was the name of the person who was a part of the Dharma Initiative that had died in the van...Sawyer, Charlie and Hurley found the van and rode it down a hill...
and the week before that?
and the week before that?
man, season 5 gets better and better as each week goes by.
HOLY FUNK!
what do you think of this war Charles Widmore was talking about?
i think the Oceanic 6 and the rest of the losties have a lot more work to do like saving the Dharma Initiative from the Purge and saving Jacob from Ben.
and i can't believe they're stuck in 1970's era Dharma!
so now Jack, Kate, Hurley, James "Sawyer/LaFleur" Ford, Juliet, Miles, Horace Goodspeed, a young Benjamin Linus, a young Charlotte, Richard Alpert, Charles Widmore, Danielle Rousseau and lots of other peoples are all on the island together.
ok, and what about the friggin' four-toed statue!?
i'm doing research on egyptian gods and came across Taweret.
Very early in Egyptian history, Taweret became seen as a deity of protection in pregnancy and childbirth. Pregnant women wore amulets with her name or likeness to protect their pregnancies. And on occasion she carried an ankh, the symbol of life, or a knife, which would be used to threaten evil spirits.
The statue was holding two ankhs and Amy took ankh necklace from Paul and successfully gave birth to a baby boy.
After three years I'd have to imagine that Sawyer and the rest would get to see, or even take part in, some of the odder experiments that were happening at the Dharma Initiative (such as the one Linus's "daughter's" boyfriend was subjected to). When are they going to explain that, or are they going to ignore it (like they're doing to season 2).
And it's pretty ridiculous that the black smoke hasn't come up in 2 seasons now, I think that has something to do with Richard and those Others.
are we going to look like the Dharma Initiative? And well, we know what happened to them. Should we just try to move the island?
Y'know the show LOST? Well it's been going a while and has pretty much done everything possible to give its audience a serious mindfuck.
Some examples off the top of my head being polar bears on a tropical island, smoke monster, ship in the middle of the island, island can cure disease, the others, flash backs, flash forwards, the giant 4 toed statue, the dharma initiative, moving the island, seeing dead people, uncountable new characters all with unexplained pasts...
And now in series 5 they add time travel to the list. Possibly the single most complicated and confusing element any show can add to its story.
So I ask...can LOST do anything to be any more confusing?
I never watch Lost at all (lol) but i'm quite intriguing to know more about Dharma Initiative.
May someone summarize it for me what is the whole thing about?
and 1 more why is there a polar bear in a tropical island? 5 star + best answer for a good summary.
Thanks
these questions are not in chronological order of the T.V. show
1) what is the consequence to the person who turns the wheel in the middle of the island?
2) who were the couple that were wanted for stealing a valuable item and were buried alive? the names, the valuable item, and what happened to them.
3) who is a man who said " i am the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative:" ( he wore a eye patch)
4) what is charlie's band called? what is their most popular song.
5) who jumps off the helicopter so that the helicopter could fly longer in the sky?
6) what are the unlucky numbers. give me 3 examples of how they include it in the show.
7) what does the shirt say that Hurly buys at the liquer store when he is accused of killing 3 people?
8) what does one snowman say to the other snowman?
9) what happened to the Dharma Initiative.
10) who is Ben linus' father. what is his job?
11)who blows up from dynamite?
12) who came to the island in a yellow air plane? what did they carry?
13) what is the story of Josiah?
14) what is the Dharma Initiative station JAck is kept in called?
15) What is John Lockes favorite line? Don't ____________ do.
16) who is sayids lover on the island? what happens to her?
17) Jack's ex-wife was in a car accident with who?
18) who is Jacks dad. who is jacks sister.
19) what does Mr. Eko build with Charlie on the island?
20) what is Sawyer's original name. why did he change it. who was the original Sawyer? who was suppose to killed him on the island. what actualy happened.
if you get all the answers right, and if you want another quiz, then just tell me and i will make a new one. good luck.
The one that plays at the beginning of the orientations?
Or the Real name of it like, The Hanso foundation song or something.
I was watching the "LOST" Season 1-4 recap before the season premiere of Season 5 started. I was pretty sure that I had seen every episode until I saw a scene showing Jack and Kate living together and having an argument in the recap. They looked like they were engaged?! Did the writers make this up or did I miss an episode? If so, what season and episode was it? The Dharma Initiative thanks you! hahaha
at the end, right before locke saves juliet/sawyer, did anyone else see a face that looked like that one guy who was a part of the dharma initiative, with an eye patch, who lived on his own and operated the communication center? it was really weird and he only appeared for a few seconds, but it definitely looked like him.
i meant the second part of the first episode, "the lie". and btw it is the 2nd episode.
How did Locke wind up dead in a coffin and off the island?
Who was the white haired lady at the end?
Where did the extra people come from? The mixed couple (Rose and ?) and Neil the whiner?
How did Sun wind up married to the guy who was just then making the Dharma initiative training tapes (wasn't that in the past?)? And why was Daniel in that Dharma tunnel wearing a hard hat if he was a scientist?
How did the Scottish guy get stuck pressing a button to save the world every 108 minutes?
Who were the smoke monsters?
Why is Jeremy Bentham called Locke?
Who are the "red shirts"?
I know he has multiple names.. but i dont know what any or them are??
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I need some quick last mintue ideas for his LOST themed birthday party. He's a big fan of the series, and I've printed out a bunch of Dharma initiative symbols to stick over labels on party treats. Any other good ideas?
I have been watching the program religiously from season 1 and although many fans have jumped ship I have stuck by it. The number of unanswered questions are still immense. I don't believe there has even been an explanation to the polar bears which appeared in season 1. The weird smoke, the time warps, the strange thing with Hurleys lottery numbers, the way Desmond could predict the future, the hatch, the purpose of the Dharma initiative, the apparant super powers of Ben and many many more.
Do you have faith that all of these mysteries will be resolved in the last series which will be 2009-2010?
Hi
I'm desperate. I was wondering if anyone knew where they sold TV and movie patches in Toronto, Ontario. I'm specifically looking for a few Dharma Initiative patches. I can only find places to order them from the US but I need one ASAP. Any help immediately would be much appreciated.
Thanks!
I am trying to make a Dharma Initiative (LOST tv show) costume for Halloween but I can't find plain khaki and navy coveralls. :(
websites where i can by it or shops, just where every i can by it. please.
Okay so I'm joining the Dharma Initiative for Halloween. I selected the "Swan" patch but I have to get my name and "job" sewn onto my jumpsuit. I have tried googling this to no avail. What was the official "title" sewn onto Kelvin Inman and Radzinsky's suit? Anyone.. I know there are other LOSTie nerds out there just like me but you'll have the answer I seek.
I guess if all else fails I'll have it read: Button Pusher -- World Saver with 4 8 15 16 23 42 sewn underneath it.
But I'd like the real answer. Please!
I am putting together a costume for Halloween. Titles you have seen on either blue or khaki jumpsuits are fine. So far I have Cook, Motor Pool, Workman, Physicist and Security.
The lottery numbers in Bulgaria's National Lottery have been 4, 15, 23, 24, 35 and 42 in the last TWO drawings in a row.
The Dharma Initiative numbers from LOST are 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42.
How freaky is that? 4 of 6 happening not once, but twice. IN A ROW.
The simple fact of the exact same numbers happening twice in the exact same lottery. And in consecutive draws...well the odds are not exactly just coincidental to say the least. Then couple that with 4 of the 6 numbers being the numbers from LOST and it just gets weird. Yes, it is JUST a coincidence after all, but it's a really strange one at that.
I want a dharma initiative logo on my shoulder. I want to know how much they are and where they are at the fair. Please help me fellow west virginians!!
I want to hear it ALL. Your theories, your predictions, everything!
My theories include...
-Charlie (Penny and Desmond's child) Will be the man in black and Aaron will be Jacob.
-Lost is a game. A battle of good and evil. In the first episode Locke talks to Walt about a game he is playing. He says, "This is a game of one 1 piece and one black piece.And then he holds them up. When they find the mummies inside of one of the pockets are 2 rocks one black and one white. The Dharma Initiative logo is black and white.
-When we fist saw Jacob and "MIB" MIB said "Do you know how much I want to kill you?" The loop hole was that the two couldn't kill each other. They had to get some one else to do it and then they would have to take the shape of the smoke monster or other deceased characters. (Like Walt, Ana Lucia, Charlie, Boone, Eko, Yemi, etc.)
-The smoke monster will be white now because the roles are reversed. Before the "man in black" took the shape of the smoke monster.
At the very end of The Incident for the fist time EVER it showed "LOST" black on white NOT white on black.
-All of the characters are coming back. OR there will be 4 or so episodes of what it would be like if Jack's plan worked. At Comic Con 2009 Dominic Monaghan (Charlie) walked in and on his hand it said, "Am I alive?" Hmm...ALSO at Comic Con 2009 they showed a picture of ALL of the cast and it said "The Final Season" under them.
-The Black Rock is the ship in the opening scene of The Incident.
-EVERYONE on LOST is connected in some way.
-In the last season there will be a 3rd group. A good group. At Comic Con 2009 they said they will explain who dropped the food. I think a good group did.
-MIB was inside of fake Locke.
-There is something more to Vincent.
That is all I can think of. Make comments and share yours!
Where did I get this from?
-www.sl-LOST.com
-www.lostisagame.com
-www.lostpedia.com
-LOSTchatter podcast
-Comic Con 2009
-Watching LOST OVER and OVER
-Discussing LOST with my fellow Lostie Lorraine.
I am making a Weird Clan and need some help.?
If you have ever seen the T.V. Show "Lost" i want it to be like the Dharma Initiative. I have a group of friends and i am making a Clan called the Ice Cold Revenge, and we have Code Names etc. I want it to be mysterious with many secrets. What should I do? Any suggestions? Please help, i want this to be awesome. Thanks! A?
In the series Lost, who the heck is Ben? What were the Dharma Initiative up to? Whats with the frequent flashes of light that takes them back in time and bla bla... please jst give a vivid detailed explanation of the phenomena of that island. Thanks.
And please dont tell me to "find myself" cos an sick of doing so.
In the 'Lost' tv series: before the natives of the island took over, the Dharma Initiative was heavily funded from the mainland. But after that, where did Linus' people have all the money to bring food, medical supplies, maintain all facilities and repair things, not to mention running a submarine... Moreover, when Tom goes to New York he stays in a penthouse apartment plus other minor details...
In the 'Lost' tv series: before the natives of the island took over, the Dharma Initiative was heavily funded from the mainland. But after that, where did Linus' people have all the money to bring food, medical supplies, maintain all facilities and repair things, not to mention running a submarine... Moreover, when Tom goes to New York he stays in a penthouse apartment plus other minor details...
EDIT: The sub was already there, but it costs tons to maintain it. Not to mention the entire population that was supplied with commercial products, not insects and berries.
We're talking millions of dollars a year, it's not a matter of 'pulling some strings' or something like that. So the question stands!
Alright so, my best friend loves the tv show Lost. Since she is a girl and attractive, and not wanting to sound like a loser in front of her, I want to know what this show is about. Can anyone give me a run through as to what is going on, what the show is about, what the Dharma Initiative is? Honestly Wikipedia was no help and I KNOW there are some huge Lost fans here. Thanks in advance!
Spoiler alert:
I watch Lost a lot. During this season, I feel like I have been following the theme of time travel pretty well. Around the time they got into DHARMA though, someone said the show didn't make sense because none of the characters remembered being in the DHARMA initiative while they were on the island in 2004. My arguments are that Farraday said that the past is now their present, but also during the season finale, they detonated the hydrogen bomb, thus killing themselves and starting over their lives without the plane crashing. So my question is this: Does my friend still have a point?
Is it based on a real research organization? My friend, who is obsessed with Lost claims that it's real, and I think that it's made up. Who is right, evidence if you can.
I am aware the dharma initiative is some sort of scientific project. A: who is behind the dharma project? Charles whitmore finances the so-called "others"; not the dharma project. B: what is the objective; the purpose of these people who call themselves the others. C: why doesnt Richard, the old leader of the others, age at all over the years? or does he constantly go thru the time travel flashes also? D: what exactly is the smoke monster? or is that something that hasnt been revealed yet? E: is JJ abrams a great writer? or a lousy writer? His Alias series made sense in the beginning and got stupid towards the end. LOST made no sense in the beginning, and now makes sense as it comes toward the end.
Anyone who's been watching series 4/5 of lost:
you know those VW vans that the Dharma initiative use, well, I was thinking the other day that It'd amazing if i could get one of them metal dharma logos to put on the front of my VW. (Bit nerdy, I know).
Does anyone know if I could get one of these anywhere?
It truly would make my day,
Alice.
PS. I would be like Hurley when I saved the day in like the last episode of series 3 or something... that was cool. (I'd be less hairy and smaller, though)
What sort of betterment of humankind would experimenting in the Tempest bring about? What were the goals of the toxic gas experimentation in the Tempest?
I've seen every episode of Lost, yet it's just so confusing.
are you watching it right now?
Is Miles' father the guy on the orientation tapes for the Dharma Initiative??
I used to watch that show all the time like four years ago until I just gave up from frustration but I'm considering picking it up again. Are they still on the island? Is that smoke monster thing still pissing around the island? Why was a polar bear on the island? Did they ever say what the Dharma Initiative was? Is the island magic or something? Who are the others? What was the deal with that invisible guy? I've got about 500 more questions but these are just a few...Lost confused the crap out of me but I would like to know what happened
I've had my macbook for about three years, it's been dropped about two times (didn't seem to have a problem with it the two times it did drop). A few months ago it started randomly turning off and can't coup without using the battery. Also, when it turns off, I rarely can get it back on. When it does come back on, it usually works for only a few minutes before a "Dharma Initiative"-like sign pops up saying my macbook is malfunctioning. I'm thinking it's probably the motherboard, but I really have no idea.
Also, it's out of warranty, and I'm most likely not willing to pay much to get it fixed.
What do you guys think?
I'm just wondering about a few things.
A. We haven't been told as of yet exactly HOW kate managed to get aaron right, or for that matter, what she did with him just before she went over to Jacks and told him never to ask about him again.
B. We haven't found out why exactly that
the scientist doesn't seem to be a part of the dharma initiative along with Sayer et al, right....like what happened to him. Daniel Farraday i mean.
This is a serious question. Do the liberals want our society to be like that of the Dharma Initiative? It kind of seems that way to me. Jack is now a "workman" and lives in the same kind of house as Juliet and Sawyer, who are respectively a mechanic and security experts as well as Dr. Marvin Candle, who is a physicist of sorts and Horace Goodspeed who is the leader of the D.I. That does kind of seem like a utopian society in which everyone has the same quality of life no matter what they do and any one can have any job no matter what sex they are.
Dude..there is a liberal manifesto. We know how you guys are going to answer every single question. Either you are programmed or studied a book.
Note: I am not a republican.
Dude..there is a liberal manifesto. We know how you guys are going to answer every single question. Either you are programmed or studied a book.
Note: I am not a republican.
ha ha ha
joseph woody orion
I thought that Widmore had been ousted by Ben Linus and had begun the Dharma Initiative to gain access to the Island again in order to study time travel (which he found out about when the Oceanic Survivors when back in time) and the other weird stuff that happened on the Island.
He was a captain of industry, so I thought he had gone back in order to get money out of discoveries from the Island.
But in Lost 5X12 'What Happened, Happened' at the very end, Richard Alpert is asked what would Ellie and Charles (Widmore) think about taking young Ben to the Temple. So Widmore is still with the Hostiles at the same time as Ben is a child with the Dharma Initiative.
--> So......who began the Dharma?
--> How did the Hostiles/Others take over the 'operations' of the Dharma Initiative in the mainland in order to keep supplying the Island with goods and supplies still labelled "Dharma" ?
(remember, the Oceanic survivors get a food drop labelled 'Dharma' soon after they arrive)
--> Why are the Hostiles/Others bothering with the pretense that Dharma is still there?
The pretense is in keeping up Dharma food drops as well as Mikhail wearing the Dharma jumpsuit when meeting Locke, Sayid, Kate, & the French woman when they set out to retrieve Jack after he is taken to do surgery on Ben.
There are other instances I just can't remember them now.
The pretense of it still being Dharma is in the 2000s, not the past. This question has nothing to do with the time travel to the 70s.
i didn't follow the Lost Experience, i was just wondering (within the lost world.) what people on the outside world know about the dharma initiative and why it ended?
thanx!!!
IS it possible to accurately define Dharma?
Any reasonable answers are welcomed. From anyone.
Decent links gratefully accepted as well. :)
* No, I am NOT interested in definitions of "The Dharma Initiative." I have zero interest in "Lost" on ABC in the U.S. *
Thank you.
He was there when the flashes stopped. When they were with the people (Dharma Initiative) and he saw Charlotte. He was there on the first day. Now all there is is: Miles, Jack, Hurley, Sawyer, Kate, Sayid, Jin, and Juliet. Where is Faraday!!!! and OMG i know that Ben is a bad guy but still i can't believe that Sayid shot him. Oh yeah one more question. Why Did Sun, Ben, and Lapidus not get transferred to 1979 with everyone else? I feel so sorry for Sun. And i don't know why but there is something about Ben that makes me like him. I know he is manipulative but i still like him.
LOST - "He's Our You" The DHARMA Initiative struggles to discover the identity of Sayid Jarrah, while Sawyer tries to make sure that his secret remains safe.
Is young Ben Linus actually dead?
Who was responsible for the flaming Dharma bus? Do you think it was Ben?
How does Ilana know Sayid was responsible for the death of Peter Avellino? Did Ben tell her?
What kind of authority does she have to take Sayid into the plane with handcuffs? I know she posed as an air marshal, when she passed through security at LAX. But, is she really an air marshal or just a bounty hunter?
I've heard that when Locke goes into the ditch (either when he is originally shot by Ben or when he revisits with Ben and Hurley) you can see a Dharma jumpsuit with the name Lafleur on it. If this is true then that would mean Sawyer dies when Ben kills all of the Dharma Initiative.
If so, please let me know what episode and roughly what time you see lafleur in the ditch.
I am not sure how many people have noticed but in the last segment where Sun is holding the photograph of the Dharma initiative back in 1977, check the background there is a person right behind her! Check it out and tell me who do you think it is?
The last one I saw was the one where Sawyer and company get into the dharma initiative and Juliet delivers a baby, Sawyer talks to Richard, and they are waiting for Locke to return. Then at the end Jin comes back with Jack, Kate, and Hurley and then the show ends. I think I've only missed one episode, but I'm not sure. And when will a rerun of wednesday's episode be on TV?
Okay, let's see if I can phrase this right. I'm so excited that it's back on! (It was a rerun last week.) I'm watching it right now and some of these might be answered in this episode...
1. If Sawyer Jin, and Juliette are in the Dharma Initiative, does that mean they were in the original one...and didn't know? Like the scientist guy..(what's his name again? Charlotte's boyfriend...) Remember he asked someone if they were absolutely sure they had never been on the island...And Charlotte told him she had grown up on the island and he was the "scary man" who lived there. The whole time traveling thing confuses me! :)
2. Some of these new passengers--the ones on flight 316--have we seen them on any previous episodes? Some of them don't seem as horror struck as they should be after just going through a plane crash...
3. What do you think about Sawyer and Juliette? Do you think he will go back to Kate?
4. Basically, what do you think about Ben? I don't dislike him, but I don't trust him either...
5. Any other theories? What do you think about the time traveling? I think it could get a little too confusing and the producers are going to need to be careful not to go too far with it. But, the whole show could have gone a "little too far" and it hasn't (yet)...I love it!:)
Oops, forgot: Where are Rose and Bernard?! They didn't get on a boat to the freighter, and we haven't seen them since before the 'flashes' started.
My fellow Lostanians and I think the thing is a new breed of animal that the DHARMA Initiative lost control of.
Do you think they will continue will Sawyer meeting up with JACK?? Or will they jump back to LOCKE??? Will we find out some secrets of what the heck the Dharma initiative WAS...since Sawyer seems to be in charge??
What the heck happened to SUN??
A few seasons ago a van was found on the island there was a skeleton in a dharma initiative jump suit...what was the name of the person who was a part of the Dharma Initiative that had died in the van...Sawyer, Charlie and Hurley found the van and rode it down a hill...
and the week before that?
and the week before that?
man, season 5 gets better and better as each week goes by.
HOLY FUNK!
what do you think of this war Charles Widmore was talking about?
i think the Oceanic 6 and the rest of the losties have a lot more work to do like saving the Dharma Initiative from the Purge and saving Jacob from Ben.
and i can't believe they're stuck in 1970's era Dharma!
so now Jack, Kate, Hurley, James "Sawyer/LaFleur" Ford, Juliet, Miles, Horace Goodspeed, a young Benjamin Linus, a young Charlotte, Richard Alpert, Charles Widmore, Danielle Rousseau and lots of other peoples are all on the island together.
ok, and what about the friggin' four-toed statue!?
i'm doing research on egyptian gods and came across Taweret.
Very early in Egyptian history, Taweret became seen as a deity of protection in pregnancy and childbirth. Pregnant women wore amulets with her name or likeness to protect their pregnancies. And on occasion she carried an ankh, the symbol of life, or a knife, which would be used to threaten evil spirits.
The statue was holding two ankhs and Amy took ankh necklace from Paul and successfully gave birth to a baby boy.
After three years I'd have to imagine that Sawyer and the rest would get to see, or even take part in, some of the odder experiments that were happening at the Dharma Initiative (such as the one Linus's "daughter's" boyfriend was subjected to). When are they going to explain that, or are they going to ignore it (like they're doing to season 2).
And it's pretty ridiculous that the black smoke hasn't come up in 2 seasons now, I think that has something to do with Richard and those Others.
are we going to look like the Dharma Initiative? And well, we know what happened to them. Should we just try to move the island?
Y'know the show LOST? Well it's been going a while and has pretty much done everything possible to give its audience a serious mindfuck.
Some examples off the top of my head being polar bears on a tropical island, smoke monster, ship in the middle of the island, island can cure disease, the others, flash backs, flash forwards, the giant 4 toed statue, the dharma initiative, moving the island, seeing dead people, uncountable new characters all with unexplained pasts...
And now in series 5 they add time travel to the list. Possibly the single most complicated and confusing element any show can add to its story.
So I ask...can LOST do anything to be any more confusing?
I never watch Lost at all (lol) but i'm quite intriguing to know more about Dharma Initiative.
May someone summarize it for me what is the whole thing about?
and 1 more why is there a polar bear in a tropical island? 5 star + best answer for a good summary.
Thanks
these questions are not in chronological order of the T.V. show
1) what is the consequence to the person who turns the wheel in the middle of the island?
2) who were the couple that were wanted for stealing a valuable item and were buried alive? the names, the valuable item, and what happened to them.
3) who is a man who said " i am the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative:" ( he wore a eye patch)
4) what is charlie's band called? what is their most popular song.
5) who jumps off the helicopter so that the helicopter could fly longer in the sky?
6) what are the unlucky numbers. give me 3 examples of how they include it in the show.
7) what does the shirt say that Hurly buys at the liquer store when he is accused of killing 3 people?
8) what does one snowman say to the other snowman?
9) what happened to the Dharma Initiative.
10) who is Ben linus' father. what is his job?
11)who blows up from dynamite?
12) who came to the island in a yellow air plane? what did they carry?
13) what is the story of Josiah?
14) what is the Dharma Initiative station JAck is kept in called?
15) What is John Lockes favorite line? Don't ____________ do.
16) who is sayids lover on the island? what happens to her?
17) Jack's ex-wife was in a car accident with who?
18) who is Jacks dad. who is jacks sister.
19) what does Mr. Eko build with Charlie on the island?
20) what is Sawyer's original name. why did he change it. who was the original Sawyer? who was suppose to killed him on the island. what actualy happened.
if you get all the answers right, and if you want another quiz, then just tell me and i will make a new one. good luck.
The one that plays at the beginning of the orientations?
Or the Real name of it like, The Hanso foundation song or something.
I was watching the "LOST" Season 1-4 recap before the season premiere of Season 5 started. I was pretty sure that I had seen every episode until I saw a scene showing Jack and Kate living together and having an argument in the recap. They looked like they were engaged?! Did the writers make this up or did I miss an episode? If so, what season and episode was it? The Dharma Initiative thanks you! hahaha
at the end, right before locke saves juliet/sawyer, did anyone else see a face that looked like that one guy who was a part of the dharma initiative, with an eye patch, who lived on his own and operated the communication center? it was really weird and he only appeared for a few seconds, but it definitely looked like him.
i meant the second part of the first episode, "the lie". and btw it is the 2nd episode.
How did Locke wind up dead in a coffin and off the island?
Who was the white haired lady at the end?
Where did the extra people come from? The mixed couple (Rose and ?) and Neil the whiner?
How did Sun wind up married to the guy who was just then making the Dharma initiative training tapes (wasn't that in the past?)? And why was Daniel in that Dharma tunnel wearing a hard hat if he was a scientist?
How did the Scottish guy get stuck pressing a button to save the world every 108 minutes?
Who were the smoke monsters?
Why is Jeremy Bentham called Locke?
Who are the "red shirts"?
I know he has multiple names.. but i dont know what any or them are??
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I need some quick last mintue ideas for his LOST themed birthday party. He's a big fan of the series, and I've printed out a bunch of Dharma initiative symbols to stick over labels on party treats. Any other good ideas?
I have been watching the program religiously from season 1 and although many fans have jumped ship I have stuck by it. The number of unanswered questions are still immense. I don't believe there has even been an explanation to the polar bears which appeared in season 1. The weird smoke, the time warps, the strange thing with Hurleys lottery numbers, the way Desmond could predict the future, the hatch, the purpose of the Dharma initiative, the apparant super powers of Ben and many many more.
Do you have faith that all of these mysteries will be resolved in the last series which will be 2009-2010?
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PA Choose Life is one of 232 specialty plates PennDOT makes available for vehicle owners to buy so they can show support for nonprofit organizations. ... Anti-abortion activists promote life through messages on Pa. license plates. By Tony LaRussa, TRIBUNE-REVIEW Wednesday, October 21, 2009. Photos. click to enlarge. Helen Cindrich Sidney Davis/Tribune-Review. Online. For a list of available specialty license plates and how to apply for one, visit this Web site. ...Helpful Parrot Adoption Organizations. Feathered Friends Forever Rescue/Refuge is a nonprofit avian rescue/refuge that offers a adoptions and other valuable avian adoption resources. They were established in 1998 and are known as one of the best places to find parrots for ... Parrot Education and Adoption Center (PEAC) is an adoption center ran out of San Diego, CA in the United States but also has chapters in Chicago, IL, Anchorage, AK, Cleveland, OH, and Pittsburgh, PA. ..."PA Choose Life" is one of 232 specialty plates PennDOT makes available. Vehicle owners can buy plates to show support for nonprofit organizations such as universities, civic organizations and police and firefighter groups. PennDOT has sold 814 PA Choose Life plates ... 6. PA Breast Cancer Coalition a�� 2793. 7. University of Pittsburgh a�� 2119. 8. U.S. Armed Forces Retired a�� 1947 (no longer available). 9. Emergency Medical Services a�� 1569. 10. Veterans of Vietnam War a�� 1434 ...Their mission is "to establish Pittsburgh as a city that is increasingly safe, accessible and friendly to bicycle transportation." The non-profit, member-driven group sponsors Bike Fest every summer and publishes a free Pittsburgh bike map and ... The group sponsors Great Outdoors Week every year, publishes a guide to more than 170 area outdoor recreation outfitters, clubs and organizations, and it promotes outdoor activities as a cornerstone of sustainable development. ...In Sarasota County, citizens, local government and organizations jointly host the Summit for Environmental Action. The goal of the day is to reach consensus on a few community issues to move forward on with action. ... Fiona Cheong a�� Pittsburgh, PA To help revitalize Pittsburgh's historic Hill District, an area now often stigmatized by negative media reports, Re-Imagining Our City will involve a diverse group of local teenagers as full partners in exploring how to design ...The Pittsburgh Foundation launched a website to make it easier for individuals to donate to their favorite non-profit organizations. Want to make your donations go even further? This year, the Pittsburgh Foundation will match your donations on a Day of Giving. ... PittsburghGives.org from anywhere to support your favorite non-profit. Their list of participating organizations covers everything from the arts to the zoo with lots of interesting stops along the way. ...Today, the river is recovering from degradation because many people from local industry, government and nonprofit organizations have been working together to restore it for all to enjoy. The main-stem Clarion River's most recovered portion is in its middle section, from the area of Hallton to just above the Piney Dam impoundment near ... Contact Info: Western Pennsylvania Conservancy 800 Waterfront Drive Pittsburgh, PA 15222 phone: 412-288-2777 toll-free: 1-866-564-6972 ...Online Fundraising Growing in 2009 a�� Which City Will Top List at Year End? Through the first half of 2009, the nonprofit organizations using Convio online fundraising software had processed more than $422 million in online donations; ... Austin, TX at number 7 and Pittsburgh, PA at number 10 have jumped into the top 10 for 2009 after finishing 14th and 12th respectively in 2008. In the small city category, Paramus, NJ jumped from 364th to the number one spot giving more ...Businesses and non-profit organizations of any size may borrow up to $2 million to repair or replace damaged or destroyed real estate, machinery and equipment, inventory and other business assets. The SBA also offers mitigation funds to ...Scores of tax credits, deductions, exemptions and exclusions make up the list. The total exceeds $30 billion a year a�� more than Pennsylvanians spend to keep their state government operating. Among the tax breaks that each allow $1 billion or more to ... more in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh a�� on the price of admission to performing arts, museums, historical sites, zoos and parks has provoked outsized opposition from advocates for thousands of nonprofit organizations and the ...
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Ten-Seven Habaneros Aficionados Club is a non-profit corporation, of a select group of law enforcement officers, active, retired, military LE, firefighters, and profesional associates (civilian) members who enjoy the camaraderie of ... 10-7 Habaneros Aficionados Club: I'm very happy and pleased to be able to bring to all cigar enthusiasts, civilians, and in law enforcement(State & Federal), military, and firefighters a source and resources for information about cigars, ...by Las Vegas Veteran's Memorial, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation. The Las Vegas Arts Commission and an evaluation committee will select a finalist that will work with the Las Vegas Veteran's Memorial in preparing a design. ...Founders of to-be-formed nonprofit corporations may be confused about selecting an appropriate state of incorporation. The general rule of thumb is to incorporate in the state in which the nonprofit will operate.As an example, a now very successful photographer in the North-west funded 10 of his photographic trips by asking individuals to contribute to his anticipated trip expenses in exchange for the right to select a print from images taken on the trip. The donation for each print was ... However, if you have donors who contribute to your project with-out receiving anything in return, their gift will be tax deductible only if they make that donation to a registered nonprofit. ...A percentage of sales will be donated to Hinsdale Elementary School District 181 Foundation which is an independent, community based nonprofit corporation dedicated to supplementing and enriching the educational experience for students ...In the year-old e-mail, CEO Dennis Bakke tells his employees they should control who stays on the board, select those who will "go along with Imagine," and ask board members to submit undated letters of resignation "that can be acted on by us at any time." Such philosophies break a primary tenet of the charter school movement a�� that schools should be independently governed by local leaders a�� and conflict with both nonprofit law and state charter school statutes. ...Chevron & Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership for developing learning centers in five countries; CVS Caremark Corporation & Boundless Playgrounds Inc. for building inclusive playgrounds so all children, including those with ...Chevron & Discovery Channel Global Education Partnership for developing learning centers in five countries; CVS Caremark Corporation & Boundless Playgrounds Inc. for building inclusive playgrounds so all children, including those with disabilities, ... a�?BCLC's intent with the Partnership Award is to create awareness of and good will toward some of the best business-nonprofit partnerships taking place across the globe,a�? said BCLC Online and Editorial Advisor Kitty Taylor. ...CREW is a non-profit corporation, organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal. Revenue code. CREW is committed to protecting the public's right to be aware of the activities of government officials and to ensuring the integrity of those ... To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser. "I am under a lot of pressure to not diagnose PTSD". A secret recording reveals the Army may be pushing its medical staff not to diagnose post-traumatic ...You will have to compile articles of incorporation (sometimes called articles of organization, certificate of incorporation, charter, or certification of formation) and the document with the state department of corporations or secretary of state. ... As with any corporation, your non-profit will have engage in corporate formalities to complete the process. This will require you to do the following: develop corporate bylaws; select a board of directors; conduct your first ...
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ABA CLE on Director Liability. The Business Law Section of the ABA will hold a teleconference and live audio webcast on Wednesday, August 12, 2009, 1:00 Eastern time, titled: Responsibilities and Duties of Directors of Nonprofits: How ...The Labor and Employment Law Section of The Bar Association of San Francisco presents. 2008 International Employment Conference. May 30, 2008: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. MCLE Credits - 7 H. Past Event: This information is about a past event. View current Events Calendar. EMPLOYMENT LAW GOES GLOBAL: FOCUS on ASIA and THE PACIFIC RIM With the enormous investment of capital and the expansion of U.S. ... Student, $45.00. Government, $100.00. Nonprofit, $100.00. BASF Member, $325.00 ...Presented by the CLE in Colorado, Inc., the nonprofit education arm of the Colorado Bar Association. Includes sessions on estate planning challenges for clients with disabilities, what advisors should know about charitable giving, ...Attorneys working in nonprofit organizations and legal service organizations as well as those involved in pro bono practice in law firms and corporate legal departments. Special Bonus to all Registrants ...The training method combines a balance of lecture, interactive exercises and the use of mock case files to demonstrate application of the law. An application for Ohio CLE credit is pending. Who should take this training? The training is intended for the staff of ... $245 per person for staff of 501(c)(3) non-profit programs; $735 office location cap ($50 fee per person for more than 3 attendees from same office) $375 per person for private attorneys and their staff ...For instance, our firm is the proud premier sponsor of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association's Annual CLE Expo, which advances diversity in the community's workforce by providing relevant and timely CLE sessions. The goal is to help advance the ... Several serve on nonprofit or charitable boards or serve as their volunteer executives, too. Lawyering, then, is more than a job, even more than a profession. It is an avocation. It is about commitment and self-sacrifice. ...... Program from 1:30pm-5pm Where: At facilities generously donated by: Southwestern Law School 3050 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90005 Classroom: W511 (Westmoreland Building) MCLE Credit:3 Registration Fees: $ 35 Non-Profit ...Currently, 40 States and jurisdictions mandate continuing legal education (CLE). Many law schools and State and local bar associations provide continuing education courses that help lawyers stay abreast of recent developments. The practice of law ... About 3 out of 4 lawyers practiced privately, either in law firms or in solo practices. Most of the remaining lawyers held positions in government and with corporations and nonprofit organizations. (Source: www.bls.gov) ...Who Should Comply With the MCLE Rule;. Exemptions From Mandatory CLE Compliance. All licensed New Jersey attorneys, both plenary and limited license in-house, should comply with the CLE requirements, including judges, law school ... a�? approved service providera�? status from the MCLE regulator: local, state, and specialty bar associations; for profit and non-profit legal education providers; Inns of Court; educational institutions, including but not limited to accredited law ...Lawyers held about 695000 jobs in 2002. About 3 out of 4 lawyers practiced privately either in law firms or in solo practices. Mostof the remaining lawyers held positions in government and with businesses and nonprofit organizations. ...
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By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO a�� 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON a�� An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.
The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, or one in six, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.
The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.
For example:
_ A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.
_ A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.
_ A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.
There's no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report. But administration officials seized on the 30,000 figure as evidence that the stimulus program was on its way toward fulfilling the president's promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.
The reporting problem could be magnified Friday when a much larger round of reports is expected to show hundreds of thousands of jobs repairing public housing, building schools, repaving highways and keeping teachers on local payrolls.
But the White House promises many problems will be corrected in Friday's report.
"I think you'll see a pretty good degree of accuracy," said Ed DeSeve, an Obama adviser helping to oversee the stimulus program.
DeSeve said the administration is aware of problems with the early data. Agencies have been working with businesses that received the money to correct mistakes. Other errors discovered by the public also will be corrected, he said.
"If there's an error that was made, let's get it fixed," DeSeve said.
The White House released a statement early Thursday responding to the AP review, arguing what the administration said are the "real facts" about how jobs were counted in the stimulus data distributed two weeks ago. It said for the first time Thursday that release had been a test run of a small subset of data that had been subjected only to three days of reviews, that it had already corrected "virtually all" the mistakes identified by the AP and that the discovery of mistakes "does not provide a statistically significant indication of the quality of the full reporting that will come on Friday."
The data partially reviewed by the AP for errors included all the data presently available, representing all known federal contracts awarded to businesses under the stimulus program. The figures being released Friday include different categories of stimulus spending by state governments, housing authorities, nonprofit groups and other organizations.
As of early Thursday, on its recovery.org Web site, the government was still citing 30,383 as the actual number of jobs linked so far to stimulus spending, despite the mistakes the White House has now acknowledged and said were being corrected.
It's not clear just how far off the 30,000 claim was. The AP's review was not an exhaustive accounting of all 9,000 contracts, but homed in on the most obvious cases where there were indications of duplications or misinterpretations.
While the thousands of overstated jobs represent a tiny sliver of the overall economy, they represent a significant percentage of the initial employment count credited to the stimulus program.
Tom Gavin, a spokesman for the White House budget office, attributed the errors to officials as well as recipients having to conduct such reporting for the first time.
In fact, the AP review shows some businesses undercounted the number of jobs funded under the stimulus program by not reporting jobs saved.
Here are some of the findings:
_ Colorado-based Teletech Government Solutions on a $28.3 million contract with the Federal Communications Commission for creation of a call center, reported creating 4,231 jobs, although 3,000 of those workers were paid for five weeks or less.
"We all felt it was an appropriate way to represent the data at the time" and the reporting error has been corrected, said company president Mariano Tan.
_ The Toledo, Ohio-based Koring Group received two FCC contracts, again for call centers. It reported hiring 26 people for each contract, or a total of 52 jobs, but cited the same workers for both contracts. The jobs only lasted about two months.
I'm 17 and I desperately want to start a local nonprofit organization. I just really want to know any suggestions on what it can be about, you know? I know that I want it to be for young kids, I know I want to get them started on volunteering, and I know that I want to start an out of the country pen pal project. What I don't know is what could be the overall goal for it. Maybe for young kids dealing with personal issues? I'm not sure. So any suggestions would be nice.
If my question is hard to comprehend, I want any suggestions about the purpose of an organization. Like there's the optimist club, key club, HOSA, ect...
It says on the TWLOHA website that it's nonprofit, yet its ".com" which means that it's commercial. Can anyone clear this up?(and preferably show me a source from how you know TWLOHA is or is not non-profit)
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I am trying to raise money for a group that i have created, but the group is not a nonprofit organization.
My group is to raise community awareness of sex education in the US... If that makes a difference at all.
Am I legally allowed to raise money or ask for donations if I am not a nonprofit?
I want to start a nonprofit organization that helps new immigrants to America. I would provide English lessons, legal advice, help with accommodation, etc. to new immigrants. Can I start this on my own?
Is grant money only for nonprofit entities, or can a private person apply and receive money, if they qualify for the criteria?
for example, what are the advantages and disadvantages of both(non profit and profit organizatio) and then state my poin which one is better of the 2 of them
In order to take possession of real estate as an officer of a nonprofit organization, does the nonprofit association actually have to be organized? Would it be fraud to accept the property? Would it be a criminal case or civil matter? This is a nonprofit unincorporated association.
ICANN: U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington said Wednesday that it would give other governments and the private sector a greater oversight role in an organization that oversees the Internet.
The move follows criticism from European regulators and others that the American government could wield too much influence over a system used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Those critics have complained, among other things, about the slow rollout of Internet addresses in languages other than English.
Washington, however, stopped short Wednesday of cutting ties with the organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann. The government agreed instead to establish advisory panels made up of government and private-sector representatives around the world.
The panels will review how open are the decisions made by Icann, whether they reflect the public interest, ensure stability and promote competition for domain names, like those ending in a�?.coma�? and other suffixes. Icann decisions could influence what domain names are available, what languages they are in and how much they cost.
a�?The Internet is on a long-term arch from being 100 percent American to being 100 percent global,a�? said Rod Beckstrom, the former U.S. cybersecurity chief who joined Icann in July as chief executive. a�?This is a significant step along that arch to becoming more global.a�?
Icann has had oversight over domain names under a series of loose agreements with the U.S. government, which financed much of the Interneta��s development. The latest expired Wednesday.
Many critics of Icann and its American oversight, including the European Uniona��s Internet chief, Viviane Reding, saw the expiration as an opportunity to revamp Internet governance.
Ms. Reding praised the new framework in a statement, and said the governments that now have more of a say in Icann should take advantage of the opportunity.
The Commerce Department has a guaranteed seat on only one of those panels, with the remaining representatives to be picked by leaders from Icann and its advisory committee of government officials.
But the panelsa�� recommendations will not be binding on Icann, and the Commerce Department retains oversight through a separate contract for Icann to handle the nuts-and-bolts of domain name administration. That contract runs through 2011; the new one taking effect Thursday covers Icanna��s broader role in setting guidelines and policies.
Icann also agreed to remain a nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States, with offices around the world.
Mr. Beckstrom said some critics abroad might take that to mean Internet governance still is not truly global. But he said the arrangement should ultimately bolster Icanna��s standing internationally.
a�?The U.S. government is saying, a�?O.K., you have become a multistakeholder body. Congratulations. Now on to the next set of challenges,a�?a�� Mr. Beckstrom said.
I am thinking abotu starting my own nonprofit organization for cancer patients. My idea was to make pillows for the patients, and to call it PillowsForPatients, however that is taken. But then, I thought of also making decorated journals, chemo hats, and stuffed animals for them too. Can you help me come up with a name? I want it to be something that flows...like PillowsForPatients would. Thank you so much!
I want to incorporate as 501(c)(3) nonprofit intended to raise money for a speicific medical condition. If i raise money can I distibute funds/ make grants to speicfic individual doctors or research organizations and still retain my 501(c)(3) status. Any advice would be greatly appriciated!!
Please help me out with this problem!!
An ISP offers three subscription packages to its customers, plus a discount for nonprofit organizations:
Package A 10 hours of access for $9.95 per month. Additional hours are $2/hour. Package B 20 hours of access for $14.95 per month. Additional hours are $1/hour. Package C Unlimited access for $19.95 per month. Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations receive a 20% discount on all packages.
I need to write a program that will allow the user to enter a package (A, B, or C), nonprofit status (true/false, y/n, etc), and the total number of hours used. The program should then compute and
display the total charges factoring in any additional hours of access and nonprofit status.
THIS IS WHAT I've DONE SO FAR (after making 3 radio buttons, 2 checkboxes):
Private Sub btnCompute_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCompute.Click
Dim monthlyCostA, hourCostA, extraCostA, totalCostA As Double
Dim monthlyCostB, hourCostB, extraCostB, totalCostB As Double
Dim fmtStr As String = "{0, -10}{1, 15:C2}" 'Text position is fixed and a currency sign is introduced'
If RadioButton1.Checked = True Then
hourCostA = CDbl(txtHour.Text)
If CDbl(txtHour.Text) <= 10 Then
hourCostA = 9.95
monthlyCostA = 9.95 * 10
extraCostA = 0
totalCostA = monthlyCostA + 0
Else
monthlyCostA = 9.95 * CDbl(txtHour.Text)
extraCostA = (CDbl(txtHour.Text) - 10) * 2
totalCostA = monthlyCostA + extraCostA
End If
ElseIf RadioButton2.Checked = True Then
hourCostB = CDbl(txtHour.Text)
If CDbl(txtHour.Text) <= 20 Then
hourCostB = 14.95
monthlyCostB = 14.95 * 20
extraCostB = 0
totalCostB = monthlyCostB + 0
Else
monthlyCostB = 14.95 * CDbl(txtHour.Text)
extraCostB = (CDbl(txtHour.Text) - 20) * 2
totalCostB = monthlyCostB + extraCostB
End If
End If
'Calculation Results will be showed in the Listbox'
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Detail", "Cost"))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "--------------------------", "--------------------"))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Base Usage Cost", monthlyCostA))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Extra Usage Cost", extraCostA))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Total Usage Cost", totalCostA))
End Sub
I am a founder of a nonprofit that is 1 year old. I use my own money to keep the organization running for a year, does that count as donations for tax purpose on my personal tax?
help?
I was excited to read about the Assistant Program Coordinator job opening with your organization. I have several years of experience working in a variety of fields including nonprofit organizations and mental health field.
For the past five years, I have worked as a case manager and counselor for children and families from diverse backgrounds. My main job tasks included providing one to one counseling and resource referrals to help them with family stabilization and self-efficiency. I am committed to serving the needs of my clients and community.
In addition, to my extensive mental health experience, I also have strong communication, office, and administration skills. I currently work for a nonprofit organization in an administration role. I provide assistance to multiple departments. My main responsibilities included compiling information and preparing monthly and quarterly reports for departments. During my time with the organization, I was awarded with the Change Leader Award by diligently serving the needs of my clients. I believe that my knowledge with community resources, leadership abilities, and fluency in Spanish would make me a good asset for your organization.
I look forward to hearing from you soon so that I can further discuss with your organization in a interview how my skills and qualifications match your requirements. Thank you for consideration of this position.
Sincerely,
Rebekkah Williams
I'm the co-chair of a student-run organization called "Performers for Progress." We have a website, and we'd like to add the possibility of "online donations" to the site. Does Paypal offer a free way for people to donate? We don't have a tax-exempt status because we're so small and it takes forever to file non-profit status.
How can I set up a free Paypal donation button (or similar) on my site?
Ugandan refugee turns hotel soap to hope
Nearly two decades after he arrived in this country, Ugandan Derreck Kayongo is still bowled over by one subtle display of American wealth: the endless array of soaps available in stores.
In his African homeland, the cost of soap is out of reach for many, often with tragic consequences. In 2004, the World Health Organization found roughly 15 percent of deaths among Ugandan children under age 5 resulted from diarrheal diseases, many of which could be prevented through hand sanitation.
Now America's bountiful soap bars have prompted Kayongo to launch the Global Soap Project, an effort to help his country's poorest - one used bar of hotel soap at a time.
An Atlanta-based anti-poverty advocate, Kayongo has collected several tons of lightly used soap bars under a plan to melt them down, sterilize them and reshape the soap for shipment to refugees in Uganda to help curb disease.
For Uganda's destitute, soap is a luxury. "Most people find it very hard to spend money on something like soap which could actually help them prevent diseases," Kayongo said. A bar of soap can run 500 Ugandan shillings - about 10 American cents - on a continent where many refugees have a dollar to live on daily.
Cleaning up with used soap sounds, well, dirty.
But Kayongo said soaps will be separated by hotel brand and gently washed to remove makeup and other surface dirt. Next, bars will go into a high-temperature oven where they will melt and transform into a soapy, sterile, slurry. Kayongo said the mixture will go into molds to harden and emerge as large bars of soap. "All it needs is just cleaning and re-melting and remolding," he said.
Soap for charity
Each day, in millions of American hotel rooms, the cleaning staff replaces soap and other toiletries.
Patrick Maher, a consultant to the American Hotel & Lodging Association, said hotels usually throw away used soap. But he said nonprofits have begun stepping up to recycle soap for charitable purposes.
"It's one of the new things this year," Maher said.
One such charity, Florida-based Clean the World, says it has collected about 17,000 pounds of used soap since February for distribution in impoverished countries worldwide.
For the Global Soap Project, Kayongo says he has gathered 10,000 pounds of used hotel soap from 60 hotels in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Hotels collect lightly used bars which they place in bins. One of Kayongo's 10 volunteers takes the bars to a donated warehouse near Atlanta that he's using.
Kayongo's own family had once thrived off his father's business making soaps and running a printing press in Uganda. But Kayongo said they went from being members of the middle class to refugees, losing everything under the harsh rule of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
The family fled to Kenya, where Kayongo said life without basics became the norm.
Now Kayongo wants to give other refugees a small item that can make a big difference. He plans to send off his first shipment in late October.
Kayongo, a senior advocacy field coordinator for CARE International, has committed about $5,000 of his own money toward the $13,000 cost to send the soap and is seeking donations to make up the rest. CARE International, a global anti-poverty group, is not sponsoring the project.
The luxury of soap
Since June, just one Ritz-Carlton hotel in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood has turned over 3,000 pounds of soap which otherwise would have gone into the trash.
"When I heard Derreck speak about it, I thought it sounded really easy and why haven't we been doing this all along?" said Olivia Brown, a manager at the hotel.
Kayongo got the idea back in the mid '90s. He'd recently arrived in America and when he settled into his hotel, Kayongo was surprised to find packages of soap.
He used the bars, but was confused the next day when he found they'd been replaced.
"This went on for two or three days," said Kayongo, who finally called his father back in Africa and chuckled about it.
The men talked about how the soap could be melted down and reused. Kayongo sat on the idea for a few years, until his father recently brought it back up.
"If you live on a dollar a day," Kayongo said, "what are the chances you spend even one cent of that dollar on buying a luxury like soap?"
Lockerby Bomber in comfort as he waits to die?
Thanks Obama...............
You see there signs everywhere when in town on the side of city roadways. Lions Club, Masons, Moose Lodge, How do other nonprofits go about doing the same.
1. A Web site is most likely to provide reliable information if its URL ends in___________.
* .com
* .gov
* .org
2. Why is it important to evaluate information carefully when reading a Web site created by a nonprofit organization?
* Nonprofit organizations often post outdated information.
* A nonprofit organization may be biased in the information it presents.
* Web sites created by nonprofit organizations are no more reliable than commerical Web sites.
3. Choose the correct form of the verb to complete the following sentence: The sun __________ at 6:35 this morning.
* rise
* rose
* rised
* risen
Answer as thoroughly as possible, I appreciate it. Its for my intro to business class and ill use your answers or opinions to write my paper on. its kinda a response paper
1. No economic system has been able to respond quickly to the devastation caused by war or major natural disasters. Why is the free market system more likely to respond faster? What advantages might a socialist system have in responding to the needs of the poor?
2. What could the government do to better coordinate the efforts of churches, other nonprofit organizations, government agencies, businesses, and individual citizens when emergencies strike? What factors have hindered such coordination in the past?
3. When disasters hit an area, the cost of everything seems to go up immediately: food, water, housing, gas, and so forth. explain why this phenomenon may be a good thing, using the laws of supply and demand to explain your answer. What would happen if prices did not go up?
I keep receiving charity messages about people who need money for operations from friends ,they say that certain people have made a deal trough an non profit organization with Yahoo! and AOL and for every message sent to the ID's in a persons list the person in need gets 0.01cents per message. I know it can't be truth ,but I need more clarification .Thank you.
Is there a technique or format, for applying for a National Nonprofit Public Service Organization U S Coast Guard Grant?
My friend and I have started an organization called Ride Against Cancer. On bicycles, we travel to different parts of the country while interacting with and encouraging people to help support the battle against cancer by donating to the American Cancer Society.
Currently, we're stuck on determining exactly HOW we can raise money more effectively. Right now our site basically contains a link that redirects you to the American Cancer Society donations page.
Do you have any better ideas on how we can help?
Our site is:
www.Ride-Against-Cancer.org
Thanks, 10 points to the best answer.
I am a senior at CSUFullerton, getting a BA in public administration. I was wondering should i go into law school or get a masters in public administration? I always wanted to become a lawyer , but after doing some research it sounds kind of boring , you get into so much debt to pay for it, and when you graduate if you dont go to a top school your salary will be low. I admid that public administration is not excited either, but i am doing an internship for a non profit and i like it so i think that a masters in public administration could get me into a nonprofit organization. What do you think? my masters would coust me ;7,000 per year law school 30,000. My goal is to get a job that can give me enough money to save some spare money to be able to accomplish my dream, that is owning my own bussiness, it does not matter what kind of business.
I graduated from college in May (yay) and I was able to get a job for a nonprofit organization. I know I am very lucky to have this job, but I am miserable. I cannot go on working there. The atmosphere is terrible and depressing. I have three different supervisors and they are all fighting for power over me. A friend of mine from schools lives in a different state and I want to move there. I love the state and the people and the way of life. I know I cannot move without a job, I have tried to explain to my parents the situation at work. They understand how miserable I am and they want me to get another job as well, however, they do not want me to move to another state. How do I explain to them that I will be much happier there. I had no intention of staying in the state once I graduated college, but I worry that they will be mad or upset or not willing to help. Any advice??
How do I record donations like a TV that get auctioned as a fund raiser item? I have been told several concepts and they do not seem to be correct can you help?
I am pro-say in a lawsuit against the city of Austin, and public access community television. The actions of management or just any legal, selling city property. Spending thousands of dollars for equipment no one else use the management. This is a nonprofit organization squandering money. I asked for open records from the city of Austin, and was denied access to public records.
I private corporation will own the non profit organization and most business by the non profit will be done by the holding company.
Are you for or against prosecuting all who aid and abet illegal aliens?
Would prosecuting these who aid and abet, would this stop some of the incentives of coming here or remaining here, if they received no help?
Should advocate groups and churches be charged with aiding and abetting as well?
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Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
"Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his or her work authorization status is guilty of a misdemeanor. Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.
IT IS ILLEGAL FOR NONPROFIT OR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS to knowingly assist an employer to violate employment sanctions, REGARDLESS OF CLAIMS THAT THEIR CONVICTIONS REQUIRE THEM TO ASSIST ALIENS. Harboring or aiding illegal aliens is not protected by the First Amendment. It is a felony to establish a commercial enterprise for the purpose of evading any provision of federal immigration law. Violators may be fined or imprisoned for up to five years.
Advocate groups and churches are encouraging illegal aliens to remain, live and work here, clearly against the law.
the law states:
knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions. So it does make it illegal. read the laws.
I am starting up a company of which each product we sell supports a different organization, and a percentage of the sales will go back to that organization. I am wondering, if I donate 50% of the proceeds (proceeds = sale amt - cost of expenses), will I still turn a profit? I am worried about being taxed on the donated amount (albeit marginally if we're donating to a nonprofit) so much so that we don't turn much of a profit at all.
Is there another way to set up my sales so that we won't be taxed on that amount (for example, money from the sale would bypass our company and go directly to the organization)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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The Kenedy County Sheriff Posse a nonprofit organization involved with assisting the Sheriff in Search and Rescue and surveillance in an extemely rural area with high numbers of illegal aliens being trafficked through the area and on a major narcotics trafficking corridor.
As a fundraising drive a nonprofit sets up a raffle that promise to pay the winner of a drawing $1000 per year for 10 years. The organization will sell an unlimited number of $1.00 tickets and draw one winning ticket from all tickets sold. If the first payout begins one year from the date of drawing, how many tickets must be sold to break even ? Suppose instead that the first payout occurs on the day of the drawing, how will this change your answer ?
I think I heard from soneone that I have to use the PV formula used in finance. Can anyone please help me with this question?
I do not yet have any incorporation. I don't want to pay for incorporation. I want to set u pa paypal account to benefit a non profit organization that I am starting.
I regret that the responders must assume that I am starting a 501(c)3 illegally. I cannot vote for a best answer due to the baseless allegations loaded within.
I was specifically asking about starting a paypal account for an existing 501(c)3 charity that is unincorporated.
I appreciate tha bit of information found within.
I just graduated with my BA in Psych. I want to work in social services and/or the nonprofit sector. I seem to be having difficulty getting interviews and finding out about opportunities. I have a year exp working with individuals with developmental disabilities and a couple semesters with different types of organizations.
Could anyone give me some advice on how to improve my resume or any orgs with entry level positions?
(I'm in the Chicago area)
By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO a�� 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON a�� An early progress report on President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.
The government's first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, or one in six, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.
The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.
For example:
_ A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.
_ A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.
_ A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.
There's no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report. But administration officials seized on the 30,000 figure as evidence that the stimulus program was on its way toward fulfilling the president's promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.
The reporting problem could be magnified Friday when a much larger round of reports is expected to show hundreds of thousands of jobs repairing public housing, building schools, repaving highways and keeping teachers on local payrolls.
But the White House promises many problems will be corrected in Friday's report.
"I think you'll see a pretty good degree of accuracy," said Ed DeSeve, an Obama adviser helping to oversee the stimulus program.
DeSeve said the administration is aware of problems with the early data. Agencies have been working with businesses that received the money to correct mistakes. Other errors discovered by the public also will be corrected, he said.
"If there's an error that was made, let's get it fixed," DeSeve said.
The White House released a statement early Thursday responding to the AP review, arguing what the administration said are the "real facts" about how jobs were counted in the stimulus data distributed two weeks ago. It said for the first time Thursday that release had been a test run of a small subset of data that had been subjected only to three days of reviews, that it had already corrected "virtually all" the mistakes identified by the AP and that the discovery of mistakes "does not provide a statistically significant indication of the quality of the full reporting that will come on Friday."
The data partially reviewed by the AP for errors included all the data presently available, representing all known federal contracts awarded to businesses under the stimulus program. The figures being released Friday include different categories of stimulus spending by state governments, housing authorities, nonprofit groups and other organizations.
As of early Thursday, on its recovery.org Web site, the government was still citing 30,383 as the actual number of jobs linked so far to stimulus spending, despite the mistakes the White House has now acknowledged and said were being corrected.
It's not clear just how far off the 30,000 claim was. The AP's review was not an exhaustive accounting of all 9,000 contracts, but homed in on the most obvious cases where there were indications of duplications or misinterpretations.
While the thousands of overstated jobs represent a tiny sliver of the overall economy, they represent a significant percentage of the initial employment count credited to the stimulus program.
Tom Gavin, a spokesman for the White House budget office, attributed the errors to officials as well as recipients having to conduct such reporting for the first time.
In fact, the AP review shows some businesses undercounted the number of jobs funded under the stimulus program by not reporting jobs saved.
Here are some of the findings:
_ Colorado-based Teletech Government Solutions on a $28.3 million contract with the Federal Communications Commission for creation of a call center, reported creating 4,231 jobs, although 3,000 of those workers were paid for five weeks or less.
"We all felt it was an appropriate way to represent the data at the time" and the reporting error has been corrected, said company president Mariano Tan.
_ The Toledo, Ohio-based Koring Group received two FCC contracts, again for call centers. It reported hiring 26 people for each contract, or a total of 52 jobs, but cited the same workers for both contracts. The jobs only lasted about two months.
I'm 17 and I desperately want to start a local nonprofit organization. I just really want to know any suggestions on what it can be about, you know? I know that I want it to be for young kids, I know I want to get them started on volunteering, and I know that I want to start an out of the country pen pal project. What I don't know is what could be the overall goal for it. Maybe for young kids dealing with personal issues? I'm not sure. So any suggestions would be nice.
If my question is hard to comprehend, I want any suggestions about the purpose of an organization. Like there's the optimist club, key club, HOSA, ect...
It says on the TWLOHA website that it's nonprofit, yet its ".com" which means that it's commercial. Can anyone clear this up?(and preferably show me a source from how you know TWLOHA is or is not non-profit)
the TWLOHA website is:
twloha.com
I am trying to raise money for a group that i have created, but the group is not a nonprofit organization.
My group is to raise community awareness of sex education in the US... If that makes a difference at all.
Am I legally allowed to raise money or ask for donations if I am not a nonprofit?
I want to start a nonprofit organization that helps new immigrants to America. I would provide English lessons, legal advice, help with accommodation, etc. to new immigrants. Can I start this on my own?
Is grant money only for nonprofit entities, or can a private person apply and receive money, if they qualify for the criteria?
for example, what are the advantages and disadvantages of both(non profit and profit organizatio) and then state my poin which one is better of the 2 of them
In order to take possession of real estate as an officer of a nonprofit organization, does the nonprofit association actually have to be organized? Would it be fraud to accept the property? Would it be a criminal case or civil matter? This is a nonprofit unincorporated association.
ICANN: U.S. Moves to Lessen Its Oversight of Internet
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Washington said Wednesday that it would give other governments and the private sector a greater oversight role in an organization that oversees the Internet.
The move follows criticism from European regulators and others that the American government could wield too much influence over a system used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Those critics have complained, among other things, about the slow rollout of Internet addresses in languages other than English.
Washington, however, stopped short Wednesday of cutting ties with the organization, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann. The government agreed instead to establish advisory panels made up of government and private-sector representatives around the world.
The panels will review how open are the decisions made by Icann, whether they reflect the public interest, ensure stability and promote competition for domain names, like those ending in a�?.coma�? and other suffixes. Icann decisions could influence what domain names are available, what languages they are in and how much they cost.
a�?The Internet is on a long-term arch from being 100 percent American to being 100 percent global,a�? said Rod Beckstrom, the former U.S. cybersecurity chief who joined Icann in July as chief executive. a�?This is a significant step along that arch to becoming more global.a�?
Icann has had oversight over domain names under a series of loose agreements with the U.S. government, which financed much of the Interneta��s development. The latest expired Wednesday.
Many critics of Icann and its American oversight, including the European Uniona��s Internet chief, Viviane Reding, saw the expiration as an opportunity to revamp Internet governance.
Ms. Reding praised the new framework in a statement, and said the governments that now have more of a say in Icann should take advantage of the opportunity.
The Commerce Department has a guaranteed seat on only one of those panels, with the remaining representatives to be picked by leaders from Icann and its advisory committee of government officials.
But the panelsa�� recommendations will not be binding on Icann, and the Commerce Department retains oversight through a separate contract for Icann to handle the nuts-and-bolts of domain name administration. That contract runs through 2011; the new one taking effect Thursday covers Icanna��s broader role in setting guidelines and policies.
Icann also agreed to remain a nonprofit organization headquartered in the United States, with offices around the world.
Mr. Beckstrom said some critics abroad might take that to mean Internet governance still is not truly global. But he said the arrangement should ultimately bolster Icanna��s standing internationally.
a�?The U.S. government is saying, a�?O.K., you have become a multistakeholder body. Congratulations. Now on to the next set of challenges,a�?a�� Mr. Beckstrom said.
I am thinking abotu starting my own nonprofit organization for cancer patients. My idea was to make pillows for the patients, and to call it PillowsForPatients, however that is taken. But then, I thought of also making decorated journals, chemo hats, and stuffed animals for them too. Can you help me come up with a name? I want it to be something that flows...like PillowsForPatients would. Thank you so much!
I want to incorporate as 501(c)(3) nonprofit intended to raise money for a speicific medical condition. If i raise money can I distibute funds/ make grants to speicfic individual doctors or research organizations and still retain my 501(c)(3) status. Any advice would be greatly appriciated!!
Please help me out with this problem!!
An ISP offers three subscription packages to its customers, plus a discount for nonprofit organizations:
Package A 10 hours of access for $9.95 per month. Additional hours are $2/hour. Package B 20 hours of access for $14.95 per month. Additional hours are $1/hour. Package C Unlimited access for $19.95 per month. Nonprofits Nonprofit organizations receive a 20% discount on all packages.
I need to write a program that will allow the user to enter a package (A, B, or C), nonprofit status (true/false, y/n, etc), and the total number of hours used. The program should then compute and
display the total charges factoring in any additional hours of access and nonprofit status.
THIS IS WHAT I've DONE SO FAR (after making 3 radio buttons, 2 checkboxes):
Private Sub btnCompute_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnCompute.Click
Dim monthlyCostA, hourCostA, extraCostA, totalCostA As Double
Dim monthlyCostB, hourCostB, extraCostB, totalCostB As Double
Dim fmtStr As String = "{0, -10}{1, 15:C2}" 'Text position is fixed and a currency sign is introduced'
If RadioButton1.Checked = True Then
hourCostA = CDbl(txtHour.Text)
If CDbl(txtHour.Text) <= 10 Then
hourCostA = 9.95
monthlyCostA = 9.95 * 10
extraCostA = 0
totalCostA = monthlyCostA + 0
Else
monthlyCostA = 9.95 * CDbl(txtHour.Text)
extraCostA = (CDbl(txtHour.Text) - 10) * 2
totalCostA = monthlyCostA + extraCostA
End If
ElseIf RadioButton2.Checked = True Then
hourCostB = CDbl(txtHour.Text)
If CDbl(txtHour.Text) <= 20 Then
hourCostB = 14.95
monthlyCostB = 14.95 * 20
extraCostB = 0
totalCostB = monthlyCostB + 0
Else
monthlyCostB = 14.95 * CDbl(txtHour.Text)
extraCostB = (CDbl(txtHour.Text) - 20) * 2
totalCostB = monthlyCostB + extraCostB
End If
End If
'Calculation Results will be showed in the Listbox'
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Detail", "Cost"))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "--------------------------", "--------------------"))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Base Usage Cost", monthlyCostA))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Extra Usage Cost", extraCostA))
lstOutput.Items.Add(String.Format(fmtStr, "Total Usage Cost", totalCostA))
End Sub
I am a founder of a nonprofit that is 1 year old. I use my own money to keep the organization running for a year, does that count as donations for tax purpose on my personal tax?
help?
I was excited to read about the Assistant Program Coordinator job opening with your organization. I have several years of experience working in a variety of fields including nonprofit organizations and mental health field.
For the past five years, I have worked as a case manager and counselor for children and families from diverse backgrounds. My main job tasks included providing one to one counseling and resource referrals to help them with family stabilization and self-efficiency. I am committed to serving the needs of my clients and community.
In addition, to my extensive mental health experience, I also have strong communication, office, and administration skills. I currently work for a nonprofit organization in an administration role. I provide assistance to multiple departments. My main responsibilities included compiling information and preparing monthly and quarterly reports for departments. During my time with the organization, I was awarded with the Change Leader Award by diligently serving the needs of my clients. I believe that my knowledge with community resources, leadership abilities, and fluency in Spanish would make me a good asset for your organization.
I look forward to hearing from you soon so that I can further discuss with your organization in a interview how my skills and qualifications match your requirements. Thank you for consideration of this position.
Sincerely,
Rebekkah Williams
I'm the co-chair of a student-run organization called "Performers for Progress." We have a website, and we'd like to add the possibility of "online donations" to the site. Does Paypal offer a free way for people to donate? We don't have a tax-exempt status because we're so small and it takes forever to file non-profit status.
How can I set up a free Paypal donation button (or similar) on my site?
Ugandan refugee turns hotel soap to hope
Nearly two decades after he arrived in this country, Ugandan Derreck Kayongo is still bowled over by one subtle display of American wealth: the endless array of soaps available in stores.
In his African homeland, the cost of soap is out of reach for many, often with tragic consequences. In 2004, the World Health Organization found roughly 15 percent of deaths among Ugandan children under age 5 resulted from diarrheal diseases, many of which could be prevented through hand sanitation.
Now America's bountiful soap bars have prompted Kayongo to launch the Global Soap Project, an effort to help his country's poorest - one used bar of hotel soap at a time.
An Atlanta-based anti-poverty advocate, Kayongo has collected several tons of lightly used soap bars under a plan to melt them down, sterilize them and reshape the soap for shipment to refugees in Uganda to help curb disease.
For Uganda's destitute, soap is a luxury. "Most people find it very hard to spend money on something like soap which could actually help them prevent diseases," Kayongo said. A bar of soap can run 500 Ugandan shillings - about 10 American cents - on a continent where many refugees have a dollar to live on daily.
Cleaning up with used soap sounds, well, dirty.
But Kayongo said soaps will be separated by hotel brand and gently washed to remove makeup and other surface dirt. Next, bars will go into a high-temperature oven where they will melt and transform into a soapy, sterile, slurry. Kayongo said the mixture will go into molds to harden and emerge as large bars of soap. "All it needs is just cleaning and re-melting and remolding," he said.
Soap for charity
Each day, in millions of American hotel rooms, the cleaning staff replaces soap and other toiletries.
Patrick Maher, a consultant to the American Hotel & Lodging Association, said hotels usually throw away used soap. But he said nonprofits have begun stepping up to recycle soap for charitable purposes.
"It's one of the new things this year," Maher said.
One such charity, Florida-based Clean the World, says it has collected about 17,000 pounds of used soap since February for distribution in impoverished countries worldwide.
For the Global Soap Project, Kayongo says he has gathered 10,000 pounds of used hotel soap from 60 hotels in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee. Hotels collect lightly used bars which they place in bins. One of Kayongo's 10 volunteers takes the bars to a donated warehouse near Atlanta that he's using.
Kayongo's own family had once thrived off his father's business making soaps and running a printing press in Uganda. But Kayongo said they went from being members of the middle class to refugees, losing everything under the harsh rule of former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.
The family fled to Kenya, where Kayongo said life without basics became the norm.
Now Kayongo wants to give other refugees a small item that can make a big difference. He plans to send off his first shipment in late October.
Kayongo, a senior advocacy field coordinator for CARE International, has committed about $5,000 of his own money toward the $13,000 cost to send the soap and is seeking donations to make up the rest. CARE International, a global anti-poverty group, is not sponsoring the project.
The luxury of soap
Since June, just one Ritz-Carlton hotel in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood has turned over 3,000 pounds of soap which otherwise would have gone into the trash.
"When I heard Derreck speak about it, I thought it sounded really easy and why haven't we been doing this all along?" said Olivia Brown, a manager at the hotel.
Kayongo got the idea back in the mid '90s. He'd recently arrived in America and when he settled into his hotel, Kayongo was surprised to find packages of soap.
He used the bars, but was confused the next day when he found they'd been replaced.
"This went on for two or three days," said Kayongo, who finally called his father back in Africa and chuckled about it.
The men talked about how the soap could be melted down and reused. Kayongo sat on the idea for a few years, until his father recently brought it back up.
"If you live on a dollar a day," Kayongo said, "what are the chances you spend even one cent of that dollar on buying a luxury like soap?"
Lockerby Bomber in comfort as he waits to die?
Thanks Obama...............
You see there signs everywhere when in town on the side of city roadways. Lions Club, Masons, Moose Lodge, How do other nonprofits go about doing the same.
1. A Web site is most likely to provide reliable information if its URL ends in___________.
* .com
* .gov
* .org
2. Why is it important to evaluate information carefully when reading a Web site created by a nonprofit organization?
* Nonprofit organizations often post outdated information.
* A nonprofit organization may be biased in the information it presents.
* Web sites created by nonprofit organizations are no more reliable than commerical Web sites.
3. Choose the correct form of the verb to complete the following sentence: The sun __________ at 6:35 this morning.
* rise
* rose
* rised
* risen
Answer as thoroughly as possible, I appreciate it. Its for my intro to business class and ill use your answers or opinions to write my paper on. its kinda a response paper
1. No economic system has been able to respond quickly to the devastation caused by war or major natural disasters. Why is the free market system more likely to respond faster? What advantages might a socialist system have in responding to the needs of the poor?
2. What could the government do to better coordinate the efforts of churches, other nonprofit organizations, government agencies, businesses, and individual citizens when emergencies strike? What factors have hindered such coordination in the past?
3. When disasters hit an area, the cost of everything seems to go up immediately: food, water, housing, gas, and so forth. explain why this phenomenon may be a good thing, using the laws of supply and demand to explain your answer. What would happen if prices did not go up?
I keep receiving charity messages about people who need money for operations from friends ,they say that certain people have made a deal trough an non profit organization with Yahoo! and AOL and for every message sent to the ID's in a persons list the person in need gets 0.01cents per message. I know it can't be truth ,but I need more clarification .Thank you.
Is there a technique or format, for applying for a National Nonprofit Public Service Organization U S Coast Guard Grant?
My friend and I have started an organization called Ride Against Cancer. On bicycles, we travel to different parts of the country while interacting with and encouraging people to help support the battle against cancer by donating to the American Cancer Society.
Currently, we're stuck on determining exactly HOW we can raise money more effectively. Right now our site basically contains a link that redirects you to the American Cancer Society donations page.
Do you have any better ideas on how we can help?
Our site is:
www.Ride-Against-Cancer.org
Thanks, 10 points to the best answer.
I am a senior at CSUFullerton, getting a BA in public administration. I was wondering should i go into law school or get a masters in public administration? I always wanted to become a lawyer , but after doing some research it sounds kind of boring , you get into so much debt to pay for it, and when you graduate if you dont go to a top school your salary will be low. I admid that public administration is not excited either, but i am doing an internship for a non profit and i like it so i think that a masters in public administration could get me into a nonprofit organization. What do you think? my masters would coust me ;7,000 per year law school 30,000. My goal is to get a job that can give me enough money to save some spare money to be able to accomplish my dream, that is owning my own bussiness, it does not matter what kind of business.
I graduated from college in May (yay) and I was able to get a job for a nonprofit organization. I know I am very lucky to have this job, but I am miserable. I cannot go on working there. The atmosphere is terrible and depressing. I have three different supervisors and they are all fighting for power over me. A friend of mine from schools lives in a different state and I want to move there. I love the state and the people and the way of life. I know I cannot move without a job, I have tried to explain to my parents the situation at work. They understand how miserable I am and they want me to get another job as well, however, they do not want me to move to another state. How do I explain to them that I will be much happier there. I had no intention of staying in the state once I graduated college, but I worry that they will be mad or upset or not willing to help. Any advice??
How do I record donations like a TV that get auctioned as a fund raiser item? I have been told several concepts and they do not seem to be correct can you help?
I am pro-say in a lawsuit against the city of Austin, and public access community television. The actions of management or just any legal, selling city property. Spending thousands of dollars for equipment no one else use the management. This is a nonprofit organization squandering money. I asked for open records from the city of Austin, and was denied access to public records.
I private corporation will own the non profit organization and most business by the non profit will be done by the holding company.
Are you for or against prosecuting all who aid and abet illegal aliens?
Would prosecuting these who aid and abet, would this stop some of the incentives of coming here or remaining here, if they received no help?
Should advocate groups and churches be charged with aiding and abetting as well?
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Federal Immigration and Nationality Act
Section 8 USC 1324(a)(1)(A)(iv)(b)(iii)
"Any person who . . . encourages or induces an alien to . . . reside . . . knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such . . . residence is . . . in violation of law, shall be punished as provided . . . for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs . . . fined under title 18 . . . imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both."
Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A):
A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Penalties upon conviction include criminal fines, imprisonment, and forfeiture of vehicles and real property used to commit the crime. Anyone employing or contracting with an illegal alien without verifying his or her work authorization status is guilty of a misdemeanor. Aliens and employers violating immigration laws are subject to arrest, detention, and seizure of their vehicles or property. In addition, individuals or entities who engage in racketeering enterprises that commit (or conspire to commit) immigration-related felonies are subject to private civil suits for treble damages and injunctive relief.
IT IS ILLEGAL FOR NONPROFIT OR RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS to knowingly assist an employer to violate employment sanctions, REGARDLESS OF CLAIMS THAT THEIR CONVICTIONS REQUIRE THEM TO ASSIST ALIENS. Harboring or aiding illegal aliens is not protected by the First Amendment. It is a felony to establish a commercial enterprise for the purpose of evading any provision of federal immigration law. Violators may be fined or imprisoned for up to five years.
Advocate groups and churches are encouraging illegal aliens to remain, live and work here, clearly against the law.
the law states:
knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions. So it does make it illegal. read the laws.
I am starting up a company of which each product we sell supports a different organization, and a percentage of the sales will go back to that organization. I am wondering, if I donate 50% of the proceeds (proceeds = sale amt - cost of expenses), will I still turn a profit? I am worried about being taxed on the donated amount (albeit marginally if we're donating to a nonprofit) so much so that we don't turn much of a profit at all.
Is there another way to set up my sales so that we won't be taxed on that amount (for example, money from the sale would bypass our company and go directly to the organization)?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
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The Kenedy County Sheriff Posse a nonprofit organization involved with assisting the Sheriff in Search and Rescue and surveillance in an extemely rural area with high numbers of illegal aliens being trafficked through the area and on a major narcotics trafficking corridor.
As a fundraising drive a nonprofit sets up a raffle that promise to pay the winner of a drawing $1000 per year for 10 years. The organization will sell an unlimited number of $1.00 tickets and draw one winning ticket from all tickets sold. If the first payout begins one year from the date of drawing, how many tickets must be sold to break even ? Suppose instead that the first payout occurs on the day of the drawing, how will this change your answer ?
I think I heard from soneone that I have to use the PV formula used in finance. Can anyone please help me with this question?
I do not yet have any incorporation. I don't want to pay for incorporation. I want to set u pa paypal account to benefit a non profit organization that I am starting.
I regret that the responders must assume that I am starting a 501(c)3 illegally. I cannot vote for a best answer due to the baseless allegations loaded within.
I was specifically asking about starting a paypal account for an existing 501(c)3 charity that is unincorporated.
I appreciate tha bit of information found within.
I just graduated with my BA in Psych. I want to work in social services and/or the nonprofit sector. I seem to be having difficulty getting interviews and finding out about opportunities. I have a year exp working with individuals with developmental disabilities and a couple semesters with different types of organizations.
Could anyone give me some advice on how to improve my resume or any orgs with entry level positions?
(I'm in the Chicago area)
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