The Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge is a campaign to encourage the wealthiest people in America to make a commitment to give most of their money to philanthropic causes. The campaign specifically targets billionaires and was made public in 2010 by American billionaires Warren Buffett and Bill Gates.

i was really shocked and surprised also happy of this thing, billionaires are giving away a LOT of money and i mean it when i say a lot to help people.

and as i quote from Wikipedia:

"The official website states that it "is an effort to invite the wealthiest individuals and families in America to commit to giving the majority of their wealth to philanthropy." As of December 2010, 57 billionaires in the US have joined this campaign and pledged to give 50% or more of their wealth to charity.^[1][2][3] A minimum total of at least $125 billion has been promised from the first 40 donors based on their aggregate wealth as of August 2010.^[4]"

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THE GIVING PLEDGE

1. Paul G. Allen (Co-founder of Microsoft, worth approx. $12.7b)
2. Laura and John Arnold (Former Enron trader, $4b)
3. Nicolas Berggruen (Founder of Berggruen Holdings, 2.2b)*
4. Michael R. Bloomberg (Financial services, $18b)
5. Eli and Edythe Broad (Founders of The Broad Foundations, $5.2b)
6. Warren Buffett (Investment, $45b)
7. Steve and Jean Case (Former CEO of AOL, $1.1b)*
8. Michele Chan and Patrick Soon-Shiong (CEO of Abraxis, $5.6b)
9. Lee and Toby Cooperman (Hedge funds, $1.5b)*
10. Barry Diller and Diane von Furstenberg (IAC/InterActiveCorp, $1.2b)
11. Ann and John Doerr (Venture capitalist, $1.55b)
12. Larry Ellison (Venture capitalist, $27b)
13. Ted Forstmann (CEO Oracle, $1.6b)*
14. Bill and Melinda Gates (Co-founder of Microsoft, $54b)
15. David and Barbara Green (Founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, $2.6b)*
16. Lyda Hill (Lyda Hill Foundation, unknown)*
17. Barron Hilton (Hilton hotels, $2.4b)
18. Jon and Karen Huntsman (Founder of Huntsman Corporation, $1.6b)
19. Carl Icahn (Leveraged buyouts, $11b)*
20. Joan and Irwin Jacobs (Founder Qualcomm, $1.1b)
21. George B. Kaiser (Oil, gas and banking, $9.4)
22. Sidney Kimmel (Founder Jones Apparel, $1.1b)*
23. Elaine and Ken Lagone (Investments, $1.1b)
24. Gerry and Marguerite Lenfest (Media entrepreneur, $800m)
25. Lorry I. Lokey (Founded Business Wire, unknown)
26. George Lucas (Film producer, $3.25b)
27. Duncan and Nancy MacMillan (Endowed Chair in Genetics, unknown)*
28. Alfred E. Mann (Medical devices, $1.2b)
29. Joe and Rika Mansueto (Joe and Rika Mansueto, $1.2b)*
30. Bernie and Billi Marcus (Co-founder Home Depot, $1.5b)
31. Michael and Lori Milken (Investments, $2.1b)*
32. George P. Mitchell (Founder Mitchell Energy, $2b)*
33. Thomas S. Monaghan (Founder Domino's Pizza, unknown)
34. Tashia and John Morgridge (Cisco, $1.3b)
35. Dustin Moskovitz (Co-founder Facebook, $1.6b)*
36. Pierre and Pam Omidyar (Founder eBay, $5.5b)
37. Bernard and Barbro Osher (Bernard Osher Foundation, unknown)
38. Ronald O. Perelman (Leveraged buyouts, $11b)
39. Peter G. Peterson (Blackstone Group, $2b)
40. T. Bonne Pickens (Oil and gas investments, $1.4b)
41. Julian H. Robertson Jnr. (Hedge funds, $2.2b)
42. David Rockefeller (Standard oil, banking, $2.4b)
43. David M. Rubenstein (Leveraged buyouts, $2b)
44. Herb and Marion Sandler (Golden West Financial Corporation, unknown)
45. Denny Sandford (CEO of United National Corp, $1b)*
46. Vicki amd Roger Sant (TV news presenter, unknown)
47. Walter Scott Jnr. (Construction and telecom, $1.9b)
48. Tom and Cindy Secunda (Bloomberg, $1b)*
49. Jim and Marilyn Simons (Hedge funds, $8.7b)
50. Jeff Skoll (First president of EBay, $4.2b)
51. Tom Steyer and Kat Taylor (Founder Farallon Capital Management, LLC, $1.2b)
52. Jim and Virginia Stowers (Founder of American Century Investments, unknown)
53. Ted Turner (Media mogul, $1.2b)
54. Sanford and Joan Weill (Former CEO of Citigroup, unknown)
55. Shelby White (Wife Leon Levy, £1b)
56. Charles Zegar and Merryl Snow Zegar (Co-founder of Bloomberg, unknown)*
57. Mark Zuckerberg (Co-founder Facebook, $6.9b)*

this is the official website www.givingpledge.org

to Forex or not...

boredom has no limits, that way i was looking for something that i might get benefit from, so as i say from a LOT of ads and search engine they talk about Forex and how you might get profits so i was so curios about it and that how i start reading about it, it seems that i have to deal with different currency's and their prices and all that.

but in that case i'll have to start reading and collect info's about countries and all that -_- but i don't have time for that so i don't think it'll be good for me, yeah and also you might lose all your money in no time lol this is harder that the stock market.

so i think i'll search for something else this won't work for me at all.

The Social Network

yesterday i went to see the movie "The Social Network" in Al-Fanar, the cinema was kind of empty, we were about 15 persons i think, i like going out on week days.

any how watching this movie gave me things to think about, ideas and also gave me the idea that even if you're not rich you can be if you put your mind into and work hard in it, i'm not talking about a job or a stolen idea, i'm talking about you bring up something new something creative to this world.

many people have ideas and great once, but eather no one support them or someone calls their idea stupid that would really screw things up, i mean this guy worked so hard day and night and believed in what he was doing and now look at him, he owns a "website" that costs more then $25b and did it in no time, while stupid business men do it in 30 years :P haha maybe i call them stupid cause i'm jealous they're wealthy :P.

i'm not gonna let this pass me easily, i've got to do something about it.

بشرى ساره لطلاب الجامعات الخاصه

على هالعنوان جني مبطل بقاله اهئ اهئ اهئ

المهم اول شي احب اقول حق كل الطلاب شدو حيلكم بلإمتحانات وانشالله الله يوفقكم ويوفقنا وياكم

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اعلنت وكيلة وزارة التعليم العالي الدكتورة رشا الصباح انه سيتم صرف المكافآت المالية للطلبة المشمولين بقانون المكافأة الدارسين في الجامعات الخاصة بالكويت والدارسين في الخارج سواء طلبة البعثات أو المنح أو الخاصين الدارسين على نفقتهم الخاصة بأثر رجعي منذ صدور القانون وذلك نهاية الاسبوع الجاري لمن استوفى اوراقه.واضافت انه سيتم ارسال اعلان آلية صرف المكافأة المالية للطلبة المشمولين بالقانون للصحف ووسائل الاعلام غدا لنشره الاثنين الموافق 2008/5/26 مستغربة قيام بعض الطلبة بالاعتصام اثر عدم صرف المكافأة في هذا الوقت مشيرة الى انه على الطلبة التوجه للادارة المالية بوزارة التعليم العالي لتعبئة النماذج الخاصة بصرف المكافأة عوضا عن الاعتصام موضحة ان القضية قضية مال عام وكان لزاما على الوزارة تحري الدقة في اسماء الطلبة جميعهم المشمولين في القانون سواء الدارسون في الكويت بالجامعات الخاصة أو في الخارج موضحة ان عملية احصاء شرائح الطلبة تطلبت جهودا جبارة وضخمة تولتها المكاتب الثقافية في الخارج منوهة ان الدول التي لا توجد فيها مكاتب ثقافية قامت وزارة الخارجية مشكورة بمساعدة وزارة التعليم العالي لاحصاء الطلبة عن طريق سفاراتنا في الخارج.طلبةواضافت ان الامر تطلب جهدا كون طلبتنا موزعين على اقطار العالم بفئات مختلفة منهم وفق نظام البعثات ومنهم المنح ومنهم الخاصون الدارسون على نفقتهم مشيرة الى انه الآن وبعد استيفاء جميع الاحصاءات المتعلقة بالموضوع يمكن البدء في تقدم الطلبة لملء النماذج بعد نشر الاعلان، ووجهت الشكر للمكاتب الثقافية التي قامت بدور بارز ومميز لاحصاء عدد طلبتنا وموافاة الوزارة بالاحصائيات اللازمة مشيدة بوزارة الخارجية وسفاراتنا وللادارات الفنية في وزارة التعليم العالي خاصة ادارة البعثات والادارة المالية.آلية صرف وقالت ان المكافأة ستصرف بأثر رجعي أي من 6 اشهر منذ صدور القانون وسيتم وضعها في حسابات الطلبة في الخارج مع مخصصاتهم الشهرية وفي الداخل بآلية منظمة نهاية هذا الاسبوع في حال استيفاء الطلبة للنماذج وتعبئتها مؤكدة حرص الوزارة على ابنائها الطلبة والسعي لاقرار مكتسباتهم، مشددا ان الوزارة حرصت كل الحرص ان تتحرى الدقة وان تضع آلية منظمة لضمان الصرف بسهولة وسلاسة للجميع.

المصدر: جريده الوطن تاريخ اليوم

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اهم شي انه الدكتوره مستغربه من الاعتصام يعني قانون اقرو صارله دهر ومحد شاف شي منه يعني شنو المطلوب؟ نصفق ونستانس؟ حمدالله والشكر

ومبروك لكل الطلاب, وانا عن نفسي ماراح اصدق هالخبر لي ما شوف الفلوس بعيني :P