








Trace’s 6-year old daughter had a severe, life-threatening reaction to peanut butter when she was just 18 months old, an experience Trace called “terrifying.” His daughter also suffers from allergies to eggs and milk. Trace feels that research could lead to greater understanding of food allergies, and perhaps someday a cure. Vision and MissionPiers Morgans connection to Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund :
- The Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) was established in 1991. FAAN’s membership now stands at close to 30,000 worldwide and includes families, dietitians, nurses, physicians, school staff, and representatives from government agencies and the food and pharmaceutical industries. FAAN serves as the communication link between the patient and others.
- To be a world leader in food allergy and anaphylaxis awareness and the issues surrounding this disease. To raise public awareness, to provide advocacy and education, and to advance research on behalf of all those affected by food allergies and anaphylaxis. FAAN works to build public awareness of food allergy through the media and through education, advocacy, and research efforts.
- FAAN staff conducts seminars and training sessions on food allergy and anaphylaxis for patients, school staff, government officials, health professionals, restaurant and industry leaders, and other policy makers.
- FAAN works with policy makers on federal, state, and local initiatives in such areas as food labeling, epinephrine availability, and management of food allergy in school, camps, airlines, and restaurants. FAAN supports and participates in research studies focusing on the epidemiology of food allergy. FAAN publishes several newsletters and provides books, booklets, videos, and other products designed to educate about food allergy.
This charity particularly resonates with him because his brother has fought in 2 tours of duty in Iraq and his brother-in-law has fought in 2 tours of duty in Afghanistan. They both have lost several friends and comrades and Piers feels that this is a great charity to play for. Vision and Mission The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund is a leader in supporting the men and women of the Armed Forces and their families. From 2000 to 2005 the Fund provided close to $20 million to families of United States military personnel lost in performance of their duty, mostly in service in Iraq and Afghanistan. In January 2007, the Fund completed construction of a $40 million world-class state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation center at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. Click here for more information on the opening.. The “Center for the Intrepid” serves military personnel who have been catastrophically disabled in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, and veterans severely injured in other operations and in the normal performance of their duties. The 60,000 square foot Center provides ample space and facilities for the rehabilitation needs of the patients and their caregivers. It includes state-of-the-art physical rehabilitation equipment and extensive indoor and outdoor facilities.The helping doesn’t stop there, you can help on these causes by going here. Now go on and help donate ^_^
I love the new look. Very clean neat and its now prettified. lol
And reason for the change well probably cause now WordPress is out with their latest WordPress v2.5 Ooooh be that means upgrading time for me too. Hopefully no complications in the process. Go here to download WordPress 2.5 it now. Wonder if there any changes too for the wordpress.com blog profiles. Will have a looksie laters.
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This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information.
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Description: It is an ideal tool for developing blogs and though it is chiefly used for blogging, it can also be used as a complete CMS with very little effort. Its versality and ease of use has attracted a large, enthusiastic, and helpful community of users. If you want to create powerful, fully-featured blogs in no time, this book is for you. This book will help you explore WordPress showing you what it offers and how to go about building your blog with the system. You will be introduced to the main aspects of a blog – users, communities, posts, comments, news feeds – and learn how to manage them using WordPress. You will develop the skills and confidence to manage all types of content, be it text or images, on your blog, and also understand how users interact with the blog.
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In this book, a team of renowned web designers take you through the ins and outs of putting together great blogs. They waste no time harking on about the philosophy of blogs, or the community behind them. Instead, they get straight to the practical details, showing how to set up a basic blog in some of the world’s most popular blogging engines – Movable Type, ExpressionEngine, WordPress, and Textpattern. With your blog set up, they then show you how to build great looking, usable layouts for your blog. The last chapter even shows you how to build your very own PHP/MySQL-based blog engine!
With this book in hand, you’ll have found your way to blog heaven in no time!
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Blogging Tips
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by Lorelle VanFossenReturning to the basics, Lorelle VanFossen has put together hundreds of the tips you need to know before you start blogging.
For those who are always seeking to build a better theme, like myself, I’m still working at it. Maybe this book WordPress Themes by John Godley can help you out.
Description: Building Online Communities with Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress is authored by a team of experts. Robert T. Douglass recently created the Drupal-powered blog site NowPublic.com. Mike Little is a founder and contributing developer of the WordPress project. And Jared W. Smith has been a longtime support team member of phpBBHacks.com and has been building sites with phpBB since the first beta releases. ReviewDescription:
Content management, blogs, and online forums are among the most significant online trends today, and Drupal, phpBB, and WordPress are three of the most popular open source applications facilitating these trends.
Drupal is a full content management system that allows you to create any type of website you desire, from an e-commerce to a community-based site. phpBB enables you to set up a bulletin board or forum. And WordPress is the software of choice for the exploding blog community. All three technologies are based on PHP and MySQL.
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Includes coverage of WordPress MU community software
Create a hosted, self-hosted, or multi-user blog, explore plugins, and more.
WordPress is powerful software known for helping bloggers share their thoughts online. Whether you want to set up a blog in the WordPress community, add a blog in the WordPress community, add a blog to another site, or build your own blogging community, this book shows how WordPress can help. With this book, you’ll soon be navigating WordPress templates plugins, and themes with no problem.
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Description: Optiniche is a superb package if you’re interested in using WordPress to set up niche sites, or if you’re a blogger looking to make some income from your blogging.
The key to using WordPress for niche websites is to make your sites search engine friendly. The same goes for getting more search engine visitors to your blog.
No more searching far and wide for WordPress tips and tricks to get your niche site optimized. In my guide to optimize WordPress for niche websites, you’ll discover:
I’ve packed all of this information into a 25 page ebook, but don’t let the size fool you – it was intentional. Your time (ink and paper) is valuable, so I trimmed the fat and jumped straight to the chase. I want to provide you with a document that you can print and use as a reference to get you started the same day.
Review: by adventuresinnetmarketing.com and details by optiniche.comFor the girls who are too girly but do want to get into blogging here is a book written intentionally for the ladies.
Description: Inside you will find the need-to-know info to get your blog noticed: How to choose the right blogging platform or content management tool, select a web host, dress up your blog, manage blog content and keep your privates private! When you are ready for more, The Moxie Girls will treat you to insider dish on blog etiquette, analyzing blog traffic, blogging for business, creating podcasts and adding bling to your blog with plugins, add-ons and more. Throw in the refreshing cocktails, beauty tips and gossip with the Girls at the end of each chapter and you’ll be Blogging with Moxie in no time. So, what are you waiting for?
The IT Girl’s Guide to Blogging With Moxie is packed with the content you need wrapped in casual, engaging dialog and a cheeky, bite-sized format.
This book is very niche and I found it intriguing that it is especially made for Real Estate people. Pretty cool, just goes to show how serious people can be by using WordPress or blogging platforms for the business modes.
Description: With the majority of today’s home buyers and sellers going online to shop and sell, real estate agents are learning that technology can be their friend! This easy-to-understand guide provides a step-by-step approach for agents to build a real estate blog. There ya go my list for now ^_^Linora Low or rather Linora from Red.FM, is the Radio Jock who hosts the RedFM Late Night Love Songs, which airs every Sunday to Friday at 10pm-1am.
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