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Post-partum spa pampering at Trump Hotels There are good deals and bad deals. These are three that do not make me smile. Trump Hotels is now offering a special spa package for new mothers, likely designed by new mother Ivanka Trump, who just turned The Donald into a grandfather. Most new mothers I [...]  Text a charity donation to help Japan earthquake, tsunami victims. Photo courtesy CNBC The photos and video from Japan of the devastating earthquake and tsunamis, and their aftermath, are both riveting and heart-stopping. The massive humanitarian aid campaign already is underway, and you can help. Use your phone to text in a$10 donation [...] Buy travel insurance to protect you on long or distant trips. Photo of Evelyn Kanter in Luxor, Egypt by Robert Holmes. The current political turmoil in Egypt, blizzards and snowstorms that shut down airports in winter, hurricanes that shut down airports in summer and fall are all reasons to have travel insurance. Travel [...]  NYC Marathon Many of the world’s top marathons and cycling events, including the New York Marathon, include entrants who have raised money for a particular charity, usually one that has affected a close family member or friend, from breast cancer to multiple sclerosis. But the charity they are running or cycling for does not pay their airfare, hotels or other expenses to participate. They pay their own way, and the money raised goes to the charity. Here’s one charity that lets you use part of the money you raise to pay for your expenses to get to the marathon, in effect, giving you a free trip, paid for by the friends, neighbors and co-workers you hit up for donations, and the charity gets whatever is left over – The Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America is advertising now for participants in its upcoming 2011 marathons and half-marathons in Kona, on Big Island Hawaii, and in Vigrinia’s wine country. A similar fund-raising marathon event was held in Las Vegas in December. The program includes 16 weeks of training sessions with professional coaches in your hometown, to prepare you for the main event, plus clinics and parties to educate you on the ins and outs of fund-raising. The charity is legitimate, and so are the ravages of Chrohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. More than one million people in the United States are sufferers, and most sufferers develop the illnesses between the ages of 18 and 35, according to the charity’s own website. But — and this is a big but — the Chrohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America is not well regarded by charity monitoring services. It has a three-star rating from Charity Navigator, my go-to charity monitoring organization. By comparison, three other charities named by Charity Navigator as performing similar types of work in researching cures for Crohn’s disease and colitis and providing support for its sufferers, are rated higher, with four stars each. The four-star list includes the National Organization for Rare Disorders, so let’s just compare these two charities.
Before you book a hotel, check if it’s on the bedbug list at the website Bedbug Resistry.  Pack and store clothing in sealable plastic bags to avoid bringing bedbugs home from your hotel When packing for your trip, sealable plastic bags are your best protection against bedbugs.
 Protect yourself from hotel bedbugs with an anti-bedbug spray In your hotel room
More tips on how to protect yourself and your family from hotel bedbugs on the next page ………  Rock star Bono and wife produce eco-friendly products to support Africa Bono is one of the biggest rock stars on the planet. The former U2 lead musician is also an outspoken humanitarian activist on helping Africa and Africans fight poverty, illiteracy, AIDS and HIV. He’s enough of an authority to have met with world leaders to lobby for greater efforts to help Africans help themselves and write editorials in the New York Times. So why is Bono manufacturing his eco-friendly line of t-shirts and other products in South America and China, instead of giving jobs to the Africans he so loudly and proudly supports? The website Ecorazzi reports that just 15% of the Edun line launched by Bono and his wife to support Africa is manufactured in Africa. And, Ecorazzi reports Bono and his wife Ali Hewson moved much of Edun’s headquarters to The Netherlands, to reduce the taxes they have to pay. With times so tough for Africans and for the rest of us, too, I’m having a hard time feeling sorry for the multi-millionaire rock star and his jet set lifestyle. Kind of disputes the slogan on Bono’s support Africa website, Bono Street Team, that “This is our moment, this is our time, this is our chance to stand up for what is right” . |
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