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Welcome to www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com!*  The essence of this e-bulletin board is summarized in a quote by Emily Dickinson (from PEACE Quotes offered by Living Compassion:  transforming lives, ending suffering at www.LivingCompassion.org):  Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.  Watch “ecstasy” in action via a kitten’s vivid imagination:  www.castanet.net/news/Offbeat/62184/Pitbull-vs-kitten  And listen to the greatness in you, as you:  www.angelfire.com/ak2/intelligencerreport/stethoscope.html  Saving cats’ & dogs’ lives (5-min. video with inspiring vocal music & photos of precious cats & dogs):  www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCCaQuytYYk  

Thank you for doing your part to make ours a wonderful world:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rooyt3ptNco&feature=email   … even including a 3-dimensional printer:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZboxMsSz5Aw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Given the exponential speed of change & population shifts (www.YouTube.com/Watch?v=cL9Wu2kWwSY), I hope you will find at least one opportunity or re$ource (by selecting categories in the right-hand menu) that may be helpful to you, your colleagues, friends, family, faith-community or neighborhood.

Favorite Web links:  point the Hubble Space Telescope to a seemingly blank patch of sky — to go to the edge of the universe:  www.flixxy.com/hubble-ultra-deep-field-3d.htm … more beauty, color, life:  www.greatdanepro.com/Just%20Colors/index.htm & kaleidoscope (put your mouse onto the picture & move around the mouse. Moving the mouse very slowly is the most beautiful):  http://inoyan.narod.ru/kaleidoskop.swf  Video of four weeks in a robin-family‘s lives:  http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9479342&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1    Hilarious & endearing antics of a cat & owl playing:  www.wimp.com/catowl  Enjoy Texas’ pride:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM2y5GlnyJ8  Thank-you dance of a young, hump-backed whale — freed from nylon fishing net:   www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBYPlcSD490  Let your imagination & spirit soar:  http://sciencedemonstrations.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k16940&pageid=icb.page80863&pageContentId=icb.pagecontent341734&state=maximize&view=view.do&viewParam_name=indepth.html#a_icb_pagecontent341734

Your life is your choice  www.YouTube.com/watch?v=42E2fAWM6rA – one-minute, 44-second, award-winning palindrome video by a 20-year-old.  The presentation reads & means the exact opposite backwards, as forward.  How much of the Earth will we choose to eat by 2050?  www.FastCoDesign.com/1665453/InfoGraphic-How-much-of-the-earth-will-we-eat-by-2050

And speaking of “choices,” my life-transforming book recommendation is “Redemption:   The Myth of Pet Overpopulation & the No-Kill Revolution in America” by Nathan J. Winograd, 2007; ISBN 13:978-0-9790743-1-8.  “No Kill nation is inevitable.”  … “No Kill nation we can immediately achieve.”  … “No Kill is the only legitimate standard for animal sheltering.”  11 proven-effective, No-Kill strategies:  [1] hire a compassionate shelter director who believes in & fully implements:  [2] an open-admission animal-control shelter; [3] the number of people adopting or redeeming their lost dogs or cats; [4] partnerships with rescue groups; [5] public relations/buy-in/public-friendly community involvement;  [6] the recruitment, training, retaining & celebration of an active volunteer base; [7] a comprehensive adoption program; [8] increasing the number of foster homes; [9] providing medical rehabilitation for hurt/sick/young animals & behavior-socialization training for pet owners — to encourage pet retention; [10] high-volume, low-cost spay/neuter & [11] Trap/Neuter/Release of feral cats ….”  Thank you, All, for helping precious animals – by doing your part every day (e.g., by e-forwarding pet messages, adopting, fostering, rescuing, sheltering, advocating, transporting, providing pet-wellness & veterinary services, donating, volunteering with Trap/Neuter/Release of feral cats & caring) – that will help get us more quickly to a No Kill Nation.  Creative way to encourage pet adoptions:  www.RSPCA.org.UK/media/news/story/-/article/EM_Cats_rehomed_thanks_to_Christmas_carol_video_Jan12 (& then scroll downward to click the arrow in the middle of the page to start the video).

While you are providing your service to people & places wherever you work, worship, volunteer, learn, play &/or thrive, please remember to

1.  Click daily to support worthy causes:  www.FreeKibble.com  Automatically donate pet food whenever you take informative quizzes  on both, color-coded dog & cat portals.     www.AnimalRescueSite.com  Pay for food & care for some of the 8M companion animals relinquished to US shelters annually & watch for the next voting opportunity to vote 1 x/day for your favorite Lubbock-area animal shelter.     www.TheHungerSite.com  100% of fees from Web site sponsorships goes to hunger  relief:  1.1 cups of food to the hungry everytime you click.  Another way to donate food:  www.FreeRice.com;     www.TheLiteracySite.com  Click to provide books for children:  1+M free books since 2004.  Choose even more causes you believe in:  www.ClickToGive.com  (e.g., animal care, feed the poor, stop child abuse, shelter homeless, fight cancer:  all monies created by your clicking is sent directly from the advertising network to the listed charity.  Give to causes when you shop:  www.GreaterGood.org  Support causes you care about at no cost to you.   www.GiftsThatGiveMore.com Provides charity royalty of 5% to 30% paid on every item purchased from online stores with 4,500+ products.   www.GlobalGirlFriend.com:  Purchase eco-friendly apparel & accessories hand-made by women & communities in need).   Make Breedlove among the top-rated food & shelter nonprofits in the US:  http://greatnonprofits.org/reviews/breedlove-foods-inc  Rotarians,  click daily for almost-instant e-training:  www.Rotary.org/en/Members/Training/ForAllRotarians

2.  Refer friends, families & neighbors to www.211Texas.org (& select “Search for Services” in the middle of the page & then fill in two blanks about your needs & your location … & voila!  – a list of places/organizations that have what you need.  Or call 2-1-1 for referrals to resources you need.  2-1-1 helps first-generation families succeed in college through childcare, transportation, food, housing, domestic-violence prevention & more referrals.  Financial aid for college?  In Texas:  1-888-311-8881 (easy-to-remember phone number:  almost identical forwards & backwards).  www.LapTop.org  One laptop per child:  give a laptop.  Change the world.  www.BoostUp.org  Do your good deed for the day in 15 seconds:  e-encourage a high school student to stay in school.  Everyday nearly 7,000 students drop out of high school:  help make it 6,999 by your e-boost of encouragement.  Reasons to boost:  a high school diploma looks good on any wall; compared to non-graduates of high school:  high school graduates are less likely to live in poverty or to be on public assistance; 7 times more likely to own a home; are in better health; 8 times less likely to go to jail.  E-boosting is good karma:  you’ve probably done something bad that you need to make up for, plus:  the children ARE our future.

Many thanks to all who are [1] posting www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com onto your Web sites or including my blog link in your communications; [2] e-sharing your opportunities & resources with me for this e-bulletin board & [3] referring your friends & family directly to me at or 806-785-2331.

I invite you to visit www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com every month or two in order to discover or re-discover new, date-sensitive & perpetual opportunities & resources — within recent & older entries throughout my e-bulletin board.

With friendship, appreciation & my very best wishes to you!     Alice

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* Adaptation of Robert Burns’ Auld Lang Syne, written & sung by Charles Osgood on “CBS Sunday Morning,” Jan. 3, 2010:     And now we’re in a different year     We’ve only just begun     A hundred fifty billion miles     As we loop around the sun.     We ended one trip Thursday night     And here we go again     It’s quite a flight, so hang on tight     In the year two thousand ten!     Two thousand nine is Auld Lang Syne     It’s part of times gone by     Two thousand ten is here & now     As through each day we fly.     Yes, time does fly     And years go by     And what will happen then?     We cannot say     But we’re on our way     In the year two thousand ten!

With gratitude to Life (including gratitude to the TTU System for having moved me to Lubbock, TX, USA, in Nov. '04):  in various year(s) since 2005, I have been volunteering with 14 non-profit/community-service organizations.  I currently serve on board/committee &/or in an officer/ officer-like capacity &/or participate daily/weekly:  www.PhiBetaKappa.org PBK Association of West Texas & Eastern New Mexico:  '12 & '13 Outreach Vice President, '08 & '09 president; founder of two $75K endowments [2 @$50K + $25K matching money from The CH Foundation), '09 & '10, for High School Academic Excellence Award program & personalized keys for Lambda of TX members & president, '08 & '09; '12-'14:  $30K pledge for $30K match for Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association Academic Achievement Scholarship endowment; www.Depts.TTU.edu/Honors (CEO Roundtable communications liaison since Jan. '09; Roundtable funds two $100K endowed scholarships for Honors College including $12.5K matching money from the Adolph Hanslik Estate; '12-'14 $30K pledge for $30K match) since Dec. '06; $10K Kelley Pitts endowment for www.KTXT.org '11 & '12; www.Breedlove.org  '09-'; www.LubbockRotary.org  member since 12-'06 of 142-member, 93-year-old  club:  Lubbock Rotary Club Foundation, Vice Chair, '11-'12; Rotary/South Plains Food Bank:  Diekemper luncheon chair, '11 & '12 & '07 Golf Tournament committee; newsletter editor, '07-'10; board member '07-'11; one-week hostess for Group Study Exchange visitor from Australia, '08; & Paul Harris Fellow & $10K Major Donor, '09 &  '12-'14 pledge of $13K/yr. Major Donor 3rd-level ; liaison among then-four Rotary Clubs in Lubbock -- for '07 Shrimp Bowl fund-raiser; www.RIDistrict5730.org  Rotary District 5730's triennial Paul Harris representative:  '11-'14; triennial Foundation Chair, '12 or '13-'16; & TX Immunization Partnership, '12; www.HSWT.WordPress.com:  [a] volunteer or oversee volunteers who care for 11 TTU feral-cat feeding stations across campus, ’07-’11:  TV interviews with basic information about feral cats:  www.KittiCo.org & select “In the News” from the left-hand menu & then click on a title above the video screen ; [b] e-connect 4+ hrs./day with animal lovers to locate foster, rescue, adoption &/or transport for dogs, cats & other beloved animals; [c] post animal e-messages onto this blog; [d] foster 74 kittens & cats since Oct. ’10 (with 56 placements); www.ClosingTheGaps.org:  recruit, oversee & proactively e-connect with 810 GO Centers (Education:  GO Get It!); www.AliceWhite.WordPress.com:  update this blog that receives 35+ daily visits; www.SouthPlainsCollege.edu ’09- SPC Foundation Board member (’10 founder of two Phi Theta Kappa scholarship endowments @$10+K in honor of Lambda of Texas/TTU Phi Beta Kappa chapter & the PBK Alumni Association of W. TX & E. NM; ’11 Pacesetter award); & with 20 additional current/previous affiliations/ service/ collaboration:  www.TexasAviation.org Vice Chair, ’11-’12:  www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjPmmCtHmfE; & www.AAUW.org Branch Secretary, 2nd half of ’11 & Scholarship Endowment Campaign committee, ’12; www.Depts.TTU.edu/PhiBetaKappa ’07 founding member; ’09 & ’10 Historian; Wheatley Elementary School COPC, ’09 &’10;  www.ClosingTheGaps.org secretary ’08-’10; board member through ’11 & matching-grant donor in ’08; ’08-’11; TTU College of Education Advisory Board:  www.Educ.TTU.edu ’07-’09; founder of one endowed graduate scholarship @$10K in honor of Dean Sheryl Santos, Morgan Mercer, Jill Binder, Irene Cox & Liz Hall-Burns; Texas Tech Foundation for three community-college transfer scholarship endowments in honor of [1] The Floris Jean & Martin Hampton Family @$20K;  [2] Sheryl Cooke Epperson @$20K; & [3] the Humane Society of West Texas:  Mary V. Hatfield, Dr. Maggie Durham & Ms. Jennifer Timmer @$32.8K;  http://AgriLifeExtension.TAMU.edu ’09-’11, statewide Human Sciences advisory board; Understand Our World, ’09 & ’10; TX Nonprofit Management Network ’10-’11;  www.SPICE.TTU.edu ’10-’11 (founder of $10K ’11, PBK Lambda of TX & PBK Assoc. of W. TX & E. NM/SPICE endowment); South Plains Tech Prep Board member, ’07-’11; www.LubbockLions.org ’08-  ($250/yr. Century Club-member to benefit TX Lions Camp since ‘11); www.TexasTechAlumni.org (member since ’05 & founder of two $10K EASI endowed scholarships in honor of Rich Baker, Cory Powell, Eric Strong & other friends); www.Depts.TTU.edu/UWC since ’05; www.RaidersRojos.org (Honorary Charter member since ’07 & annual scholarship donor); www.LubbockAreaFoundation.org (founder of four endowments:  Dog & Cat Welfare, Lubbock Animal Services @$130+K with $50K matching money from The CH Foundation; AVW Dog & Cat Endowment @$100K & two on behalf of the Phi Beta Kappa Association of W. TX & E. NM); www.TexasTech.edu (member, Chancellor’s Council since ’05; member, Enrollment Taskforces:  African American, Hispanic & International Students ’07-’09; founder of two $10K endowed scholarships with $1-to-$1 matching money from the LaMunyon Family:  in honor of D. Lynn Denton & in honor of Janie Landin Ramirez);  www.Orgs.TTU.edu/SigmaDeltaPi/AboutSigmaDeltaPi.html (elected into membership of national collegiate Hispanic Honor Society’s Alpha Phi Chapter/TTU, ’09);  www.PDKIntl.org/about/index.htm (elected into membership of the Llano Estacado Chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, international, professional education society, ’10);  www.ARCSFoundation.org (Lubbock Chapter lifetime, ’11/member since ’08);  www.orgs.TTU.edu/LHFSA/mission.htm (member since ’05; Community Champion Award, ’11); www.TexasPHA.org (Texas Public Health Assoc. Life/Fellow since ’05 & member since 1994);  initiated into lifetime membership in ’65 into the Lambda Chapter at the University of Kansas:  www.ChiOmega.com;lifetime member, Austin Chi O alumnae; member, Lubbock Chi Omega Alumnae.  Lead, Serve, Give.   $10K endowment to support Chi O collegians & alumnae who volunteer with TTU Feral Cat Program.  Resources for students, parents, family, alumnae & media:  leadership development, risk-management workshops, educational speakers, educational grants, emergency financial help for alumnae & prevention information at www.GreekLifeEdu.org  From HeresAThought@Ragan.com:  Don’t undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others.  It is because we are different that each of us is special.  Brian Dyson   Also, more inspiration at www.EFTUniverse.com thanks to www.SharonOSmith.com & www.InnerHealing.com

In 1955, my self-chosen American Indian name in Camp Fire Girls was “Ta Wa Ca, “that means ”Happy Flower.”  To happily e-create your own field of flowers, please click (or drag your mouse over the page)  www.ProCreo.JP/labo/flower_garden.swf

View the US’ state flowers & wait to the end for the entire American bouquet:   www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1221321706636&source=jl999

17 Presentations to Rotary Clubs/Districts  [35 hr.; 1,700 mi. in '11]

Austin, TX/Texas Immunization Partnership:  Rotary & Public Health, March 15, 2012

Levelland/Noon, TX, Rotary Club:  Congratulations to 100% Paul Harris Club presentation, November 1, 2011

Dalhart, TX, Rotary Club:  Paul Harris Fellowships & 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club presentation, October 13, 2011

Dumas, TX, Rotary Club:  Paul Harris Fellowships & 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club presentation, October 12, 2011 

Perryton, TX, Rotary Club:  Paul Harris Fellowships & 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club presentation, October 6, 2011

Spearman, TX, Rotary Club:  Congratulations to 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club presentation, September 19, 2011

Post, TX, Rotary Club:  Paul Harris Fellowships & 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club presentation, August 16, 2011

Muleshoe, TX, Rotary Club:  Paul Harris Fellowships & 100% Paul Harris Fellow Club presentation, July 26, 2011

Levelland, TX, Rotary District 5730:  Paul Harris Fellowships & 100% Paul Harris Fellow Clubs, July 9, 2011

Lamesa, TX, Rotary Club:  Education:  GO Get It! / GO Center presentation, May 2010

Breakfast Levelland & Noon Levelland, TX, Rotary Clubs:  Education:  GO Get It! /Wiley’s Way book-give-away for all 4th & 5th graders & their teachers, circa January 2010

Sweetwater, TX, Rotary Club:  Education:  GO Get It! /GO Center presentation, April 2010

Southwest Rotary Club, Lubbock, TX:  Education:  GO Get It! /GO Center, circa January 2009

Lubbock, TX, Metropolitan Club-initiated meetings:  to discuss the feasibility of a 5th Rotary Club in the Wolfforth/SW area of town, circa Fall 2008.

The Rotary Club of Lubbock, TX:  new-member, self-introduction, Dec. 2006

a NW Austin, TX, Rotary Club:  Shots Across Texas:  Immunize Your Little Texan by Two presentation, circa 1994

Corpus Christi, TX, District 5930 meeting:  Shots Across Texas:  Immunize Your Little Texan by Two presentation, August 1993

 Best practices that I have admired from my visits:  [1] truly living our 4-Way Test/making Rotary “a way of life” by instantly offering me & each other:  sincere friendship, good will, hospitality, generosity of spirit & resources; hope, encouragement, creativity, significant accomplishments, jovial interactions among members, gratitude for being a Rotary member & willingness to be of significant service; [2] giving guest speakers the honor of signing book/plates for books that will be donated to a young reader/young readers’ library in a local school; a 4-Way Test coin; a certificate to honor the speaker & place the speaker’s name on a Wall of Honor for a designated charity, a US atlas with Rotary-branded, blue-colored, vinyl cover, Rotary-branded office supplies (e.g., classy pen, hard-cover sticky-note pads); [3] including, introducing & encouraging a different female/male outstanding high school-student pair each month — in weekly Rotary meetings; [4] donating a few hundred Foundation Recognition Points/FRPs as (a) welcome/“start-up”/new-member orientation FRPs for new members — to encourage them to start donating their own money to the Rotary Foundation/PH Fellow-eligible causes [e.g., Polio PLUS, international grants & Annual Fund/eligible for 50% refund to Rotary District after 3 yr.] or (b) as a thank-you gesture to:  the out-going club president in gratitude for leadership service; committee chairs for their Rotary &/or community service; the visiting District Governor during  club Foundation events; [5] “matchng” FRPs from the club or from individual members — for other members’ cash contributions &/or members’ community service hours; [6] awarding a Paul Harris Fellowship to non-Rotarian, outstanding community leaders &/or beloved family members; [7]  loaning FRPs to other clubs to help them become 100% Paul Harris Fellow Clubs; & wife-husband Rotarian/donors who are trading FRPs with each other to become multiple PH Fellows & create a family legacy of giving;  [8] donating Glad Dollars during the meeting – for donors to earn the opportunity to share a minute of gratitude about a personal, family, community or other event; [9] wide variety of fun, community, fund-raising events:  pancake breakfast with Rotarian cooks & wait staff, yard/business display of US flags for holidays; target-practice “turkey shoot” with frozen-turkeys & cash prizes for top winners: family fun for all ages & skill levels; etc.;  money “pot” where a raffle ticket decides what percentage the winner gets each week; [10] wide variety of community or international purposes for fund-raising:  raising money for college scholarships for local students & for school-district projects; [11] cheerful, uplifting, fast-paced, results-focused & friend-bonding, complimentary lunches with Rotarians who are ever-inspiring, generous, kind-hearted, friendly, hilarious, happy-go-lucky community leaders … & more!

P.S. #1:  Bottom line:  Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.        Will Durant, Historian

P.S. #2:  22,000 blog visits in 2011:  http://alicewhite.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post-new.php?yib=2011