Today, on March 29, 2008 at 8 pm for an hour, let’s join million others around the world to combat the climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund. The event was created in Sydney in 2007 and has since grown into a world wide [...]

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We’ve read about them in the news before; fundraising dinners with certain politicians, or with the president, or the governor, etc; and it costs a lot of money. A few thousand dollars a person to attend a fundraising dinner is common. The more important the campaign, the more expensive it will cost. Fundraising is unavoidable [...]

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I just got news today that a friend of mine from college has an ovarian cancer. I am absolutely devastated. Penny was first diagnosed with Adeno Carcinoma (Ovarian Cancer) in December 2005; and since then she has gone through multiple surgeries and chemotherapies. Multiple tumors were found during this time and were removed; only for [...]

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I am finally home in San Francisco after a 3-month trip to Indonesia, Singapore, and Australia. As fun as it was, what I want to talk about here is not the fun and the wonderful people I met during this trip but about the mishap that happened to me in the past one month at [...]

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digg_url = ‘http://www.joefiro.com/bear-sterns-the-aftermath/’;I’ve been checking the Bear Sterns Yahoo Finance Message Board and everyone seems to be talking about what Jim Cramer said on CNBC last week. If you don’t know who Jim Cramer is, he was a former fund manager who currently has his own segment on CNBC called Mad Money. This is what [...]

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