The charity that I have selected this month is the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in response to the floods that have affected some 20 million people now in Pakistan.

This is Pakistan’s worst flooding in 80 years with millions of people losing their homes, crops and livestock in this disaster. What is the IRC doing? The IRC is delivering the necessities like blankets, clean water, shelter, sanitation, health care to the people in need. Another very important thing that the IRC is doing is working on preventing the outbreak of waterborne diseases.

Who We Are
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster.

At work today in over 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home. – Who We Are http://www.theirc.org/about

Our commitment
When an emergency arises, the IRC arrives on the scene within 72 hours with urgently needed supplies and expertise that protect people caught in the midst of chaos. We commit to stay as long as we are needed, helping survivors to heal, recover and rebuild their communities to be stronger, more stable and more democratic. In the United States, the IRC has helped hundreds of thousands of refugees thrive in the country that gave them sanctuary and a new beginning. – Our Commitment http://www.theirc.org/irc-a-glance

Learn more about the IRC and find out how you can the help Pakistan >>

For other charities and ways to help see Yahoo’s News Blog Pakistan Floods: How to help

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Do you have Technotrash (obsolete computer accessories and electronic media)  that you don’t know how to get rid of responsibly? GreenDisk is the answer to your problems.

After doing some cleaning this year I found a bunch of VHS tapes that were utterly useless to me that I wanted to dispose of responsibly. I was hoping to find a local place to take care of it but without any luck. Then I found GreenDisk which took care of my VHS and CD trash for a very reasonable price. It sucks that you have to pay for it but I like to believe that these little things I do, do make a difference. I purchased the Technotrash Pack-IT where you can ship up to 20lbs of Technotrash to GreenDisk to dispose of responsibly.  See the full list of everything that GreenDisk can help you dispose of here.

Technotrash is an ever growing problem these day as more and more electronics become obsolete.  It is important to recycle and dispose of Technotrash responsibly to keep electronic waste out of our landfills. This is also important because some electronics contain hazardous waste that can be dangerous to our environment. On top of disposing electronic waste responsibly, GreenDisk also safely destroys your data on floppy disks, hard drives, CDs and etc. to keep your privacy.

Electronic waste is another problem that our world faces and it’s our responsibility to do what we can do to preserve our environment. If you can’t get rid of your Technotrash responsibly locally, check out GreenDisk.com for a complete list of products and services they offer.

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Here’s a recap of my recent trip to China with lots of pictures in a simple list format.

• 3 hour drive to JFK
• 16 hour flight to Hong Kong
• 3 hour flight to Beijing
• First tour bus and 1 hotel for 3 days
  • Forbidden City
    

    

    

  • Tienanmen Square
    
  • Temple of Heaven
    
  • Birds Nest Olympic Stadium
    
  • Great Wall
    

    

    

  • Summer Palace
    

    

• 2 hour flight to Xian
• Second Tour Bus and 1 hotel for 2 days
• Xian Bell Tower
  
• Big Wild Goose Pagoda
  
• Xian City Wall
  

  

• Terra Cotta Warrior Pits
  

  

• Hua Qin Hot Springs
  
• 3.5 hour flight to Shanghai
• Third Tour Bus and 3 Hotels for 4 days
  • Wuxi Tai Lake
    

    

  • City of Suzhou
    
  • Suzhou Grand Canal and Water Village
    

    

  • Humble Administrator’s Garden Suzhou
    

    

  • Hangzhou
    
  • Yue Fei Tomb
    
  • Taste of Hangzhou dragon tea
    

    

  • Boat cruise of West Lake
    
• Shanghai
  • Shanghai Bund overlooking the Oriental Pearl Tower on the western bank of the Hanpu River
    
  • Nanjing Road
    
  • Shanghai Old Town
    

    

  • Hanpu River Boat Tour
    
  • Xian Tin De bar street
    
  • Maglev Train to Shanghai Pudong Airport
    
• End of the tour of China
• 3 hour flight to Hong Kong
  • Sai Kung Seafood Market
    

    

  • Tsim Sha Tsui Harbour City
    

    

  • Avenue of Stars
    

    

• 2 hour bus ride back to the mainland China
  • OCT Park Tea Stream Valley
    

    

  • Tai Pang City
    
• 2 hour bus ride back to Hong Kong
• 1 hour ferry to Macau
  • Macau tower
    
  • Macau Casinos
    
• 1 hour ferry back to Hong Kong
  • Lan Kwai Fong bar street
    

    

  • Wan Tai Sin Temple
    
  • Victoria Peak by Tram
    
• 16 hour flight to JFK
  
• 3 hour drive back to home sweet home Albany

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The new and improved Detailed Image homepage has arrived. It wasn’t too long ago since our last homepage design but after taking a few steps backwards in that design we started a new homepage to return to our roots as an ecommerce site with a design that is up to par with the rest of the site.

Hover over the image below to see some of the key features in the design

Using the CSS image swap I posted about back in February you can hover over the above image to see some of the key design features we implemented. Some highlights of the new design include CSS3 @font-face and drop shadows which was nice because we had the opportunity to try CSS3. Ultimately the new design should convert better with the focus on selling products then content.

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There’s still a lot of work to be done for the Gulf oil spill clean up, so the charity that I have selected for this month is Oceana to follow up my June 2010 Monthly Charity featuring 13 organizations aiding the clean up efforts. Founded in 2001, Oceana is protecting the world’s oceans and it is ever so important while there’s still oil in the ocean. Oceana campaigns for changes like the ending offshore drilling to prevent disasters like the Gulf oil spill.

Oceana, founded in 2001, is the largest international organization focused solely on ocean conservation. Our offices in North America, Central America, South America and Europe work together on a limited number of strategic, directed campaigns to achieve measurable outcomes that will help return our oceans to former levels of abundance. We believe in the importance of science in identifying problems and solutions. Our scientists work closely with our teams of economists, lawyers and advocates to achieve tangible results for the oceans.

– What We Do http://na.oceana.org/en/about-us/what-we-do

Oceana seeks to make our oceans as rich, healthy and abundant as they once were.

– Our Vision http://na.oceana.org/en/about-us/what-we-do/our-vision

Our ecosystem is becoming more and more fragile and we as a world need to make changes. Oceana is taking on the problems with our oceans head on by fighting for change to preserve our oceans. Oceana works on stopping ocean pollution, promoting responsible fishing, protecting marine wildlife, climate and energy and preserving special places to hopefully fulfill their vision of returning our oceans as they once were.

Visit Oceana.org to see you how you can help our precious oceans.

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I found this fantastic icon library at IconFinder.com.  This is a very useful site for web designers like myself.  Targeting web designers and developers IconFinder provides an easy to use icon search engine with high quality icons.

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