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Some of you will know I rarely, if ever, use photoshop on my pictures.

However, I am very interested to know how it works so I am practicing on my friend in this post. Sorry for the group of pictures. This is only a temporary post. 

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How Billionaires Control Our Lives

Keren Blankfeld

The wealthiest control what you eat, what you wear and how you listen to music. 

Here's an example of some of the wealthiest Americans influence on one fictional New Yorker.

Why should we care about the rich? Besides the obvious interest in their lavish lifestyles, everyone should care about the super wealthy because, in many respects, they control almost every thing we do, every hour of the day.

Don't believe it? Follow Alex, a fictional yuppie New Yorker who is admittedly lazy and a bit of a lush.

How Billionaires Control Our Lives:

It's Monday morning, exactly 6 a.m. Alex wakes up in her apartment at Donald Trump's West Side Trump Place with a slight headache--the residual reminder of a Patron tequila-induced hangover (thanks, John Paul DeJoria) from a reckless Sunday night with friends. Her iPhone jingles, playing the latest iTunes download, courtesy of Steve Jobs. An hour later, Alex drags herself out of bed.

She steps onto her Sierra Pacific Industries hardwood floors (Archie Emmerson). In a daze, Alex gets ready for work. She showers using Kohler fixtures (Herbert Kohler), purchased last month at Home Depot ( HD - news - people ) (Arthur Blank, Bernard Marcus).

Alex tosses on some mascara and lip gloss (Ronald and Leonard Lauder), then throws on some lingerie from Victoria's Secret (Leslie Wexner), a pair of slacks and a cute button-down shirt and sweater set she'd gotten with her mom at the Gap ( GPS - news - people ) (Fisher family) last fall.

Breakfast is always a crisis of conscience: should she sit down at home and enjoy a honeydew melon and banana from Dole Foods (David Murdock)? Or hurry to work, grabbing a coffee and a Boston cream doughnut from Dunkin' Donuts (Tom Lee, David Rubenstein, Daniel D'Aniello, William Conway) on the way? Since it's Monday and her head is still throbbing, Alex decides on the latter.

Alex is the rare New York driver who avoids public transportation at all costs--any cost. After a silly mishap with her own car over the weekend, she's forced to drive a rented Enterprise sedan (Jack Taylor). She squints at the bright sunlight outside and slips on her Oakley ( OO - news - people) sunglasses (James Jannard).

When Alex finally arrives at her Times Square office (Leon Charney), she has copies of the Daily News (Mort Zuckerman), New York Post and The Wall Street Journal(Rupert Murdoch) waiting for her on her desk. She turns on her Dell ( DELL - news - people ) computer (Michael Dell), which runs with an Intel ( INTC - news - people ) processor (Gordon Moore).

Alex is almost through the Page Six gossip column when her overbearing boss pokes his head in, asking her to generate a spreadsheet on Microsoft Excel (Bill Gates). Alex rolls her eyes, but it's 11 a.m. and she might as well start working. She calls a client on her cellphone, run on technology developed byQualcomm ( QCOM - news - people ) (Irwin Jacobs).

By 11:30 a.m., Alex is hungry and bored. She searches onGoogle ( GOOG - news - people ) for a new restaurant while watching a hilarious puppy video on YouTube (Sergey Brin, Larry Page). After much ado, she decides to order pizza with her co-workers. Loaded on top: mozzarella cheese from Leprino Foods (James Leprino).

Feeling a bit lethargic after lunch, and not really in the mood for number-crunching or clients, Alex posts pictures of that embarrassing (though funny) Saturday morning car mishap on her Facebook page (Mark Zuckerberg). The digital pics were loaded on a memory card from Kingston Technologies (David Sun and John Tu).

It's 3 p.m. and her boss has gone off to a client meeting. Alex slips a (thin) issue of Vogue (SI Newhouse) from her purse and flips through it.

Later, after checking several stocks on the office Bloomberg terminal (Michael Bloomberg), Alex calls her Schwab broker to make a few trades (Charles Schwab). Great timing: The mailman delivers her paycheck from Paychex ( PAYX - news -people ) (B. Thomas Golisano).

Before getting off the phone with her broker, Alex has spent half her paycheck on self-help books and fitness DVDs onAmazon.com ( AMZN - news - people ) (Jeff Bezos). She considers spending the remainder at WalMart.com (the Walton family), but manages to restrain herself.

Finally, it's 6 p.m.--time to clock out. Alex stops at a gas station (George Kaiser) to refuel her rental car. Before heading home, though, she makes good on her New Year's resolution and goes for a quick jog in Central Park, sporting her brand newNike ( NKE - news - people ) gear (Philip Knight).

When she gets home, Alex turns on CNN to catch up on the day's news (Ted Turner). A football junkie, she heads to the neighborhood bar to watch the Dallas Cowboys (Jerry Jones) take on the New England Patriots (Robert Kraft) on Monday Night Football. After the game, she watches The Daily Showand Colbert Report (Sumner Redstone). The cable service is provided by Cablevision ( CVC - news - people ) (Charles Dolan).

By midnight, Alex is ready to go to sleep. But as soon as her head hits the pillow she starts worrying about her performance review Tuesday, which she didn't prepare for at all. After much tossing and turning, she goes to sleep with the help of a generic sleeping pill bought at a pharmacy serviced by Kinray (Stewart Rahr).

As Alex falls into a deep slumber, hundreds of miles away, her Saturday night dinner is being prepared. Crops and meats are being processed in Ohio. (The Cargill and MacMillan families). Helping them grow faster, larger and stronger: fertilizer produced by Koch Industries (Charles & David Koch).

Meanwhile, documents she sent earlier in the day are being flown to London via FedEx ( FDX - news - people ) (Frederick Smith). Her local grocery store is being restocked with food brought in on trucks owned by Schneider National (Donald Schneider).

In an hour, the cycle will begin again. This time, for breakfast, Alex will choose to enjoy the fresh fruit. And after the disastrous performance review, she'll decide she needs to spend more time working and less time fooling around.

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Notable

Clinton charities 

*****

Who's pledged what

Some notable donations to the Clinton Foundation:

$10-million to $25-million- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 
- Frank Giustra,
- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

$5-million to $10-million
- Government of Norway, 
- Michael Schumacher

$1-million to $5-million- Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative,
- Victor Dahdaleh,
- Robert Disbrow,
- Lukas Lundin,
- Friends of Saudi Arabia,
- Lakshmi N. Mittal,
- Victor Pinchuk,
- Paul Reynolds,
- State of Kuwait,
- State of Qatar,
- Government of Brunei

$500,000 to $1-million 

- Magna International Inc.,
- Soros Foundation,
- Steven Spielberg,
- Thomson Reuters

$250,000 to $500,000 

- AIG Inc.,
- Michael Cooper (CEO of Dundee REIT)

Andy Hoffman

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Down time

Ashley Hughes

How to read this blog

Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Buddha

Always leave them wanting more.

"She's a mysterious girl and I think that ladies like her who have a mystery – where there's something hiding beneath the surface – are the really interesting ones."

There can be no prestige without mystery, for familiarity breeds contempt. 

Ashley Hughes, Ashley Hughes Vancouver, Lady Ashley Hughes, Lady Ashley Hughes Vancouver, 

Marg Helgenberger to co-host our Fundraiser October 20, 2012 in Vancouver

Ashley Hughes and Marg Helgenberger 

On October 20th, 2012 Fraser Riverkeepers host their 5th anniversary fundraising gala with co-host Marg Helgenberger.

From vancitybuzz:

Fans of the original CSI series get a rare chance to meet the show’s star Marg Helgenberger in Vancouver this weekend as she co-hosts a fundraiser for Fraser Riverkeeper (FRK). The fundraising gala kicks off a renewed campaign to bring Fraser River conservation into the mainstream.
“In the Lower Mainland, we live at the gateway to the Fraser River, which supports more salmon runs than any other river in the world,” says executive director Lauren Hornor. “We are the gatekeepers of the river, all of us who live in Vancouver to Hope. How we treat the Fraser here affects not only fish but hundreds of thousands of people throughout BC. The fundraiser is one fun way people can support our work to help protect it.”

The fundraiser takes place on October 20^th and will feature sustainable seafood, local wines, a swimwear fashion show, music, and a silent auction featuring local artists and designers.
The issue of clean water is a passion for Helgenberger, who supports the FRK’s initiatives. “I grew up fishing, swimming and boating the Platte River in Nebraska with my father,” says Emmy-winning Helgenberger. “Those are treasured memories for me, and I believe we have to all fight for the clean waters we love. I’m a huge fan of the work Fraser Riverkeeper and other Waterkeeper Alliance groups are doing for swimmable, drinkable, fishable waters across North America.”

Among their projects, the FRK has initiated legal challenges, removed garbage from the Fraser near Chilliwack, and most recently launched a free smartphone app, Swim Guide, that gives users up-to-date data on water quality at their favourite beaches.

The Fraser Riverkeeper group wants to restore the Fraser River the same way their sister group, Hudson Riverkeeper, was able to do in New York State. “This event is a chance for Vancouverites to give back and support a cleaner, healthier Fraser River by having a good time, “ says Hornor. “It’s going to be an incredible evening thanks to Marg Helgenberger and all the talented artists, business-people and organizations that have donated their time and resources.”

The Fraser Riverkeeper an autonomous Canadian member of the Waterkeeper Alliance, an international organization founded in 1999 by Robert Kennedy Jr.

What: Fraser Riverkeeper’s 5^th Anniversary Fundraising Gala
When: October 20, 2012, 7:00 p.m.- 10 p.m.
Where: The Arthur Erickson Waterfall Building, 1540 West 2^nd Avenue, Vancouver
Tickets: $125 (include admission to BarNone after party)
For more information, please visit fraserriverkeeper.eventbrite.ca

Event committee: Ashley Hughes, Lauren Hornor, Ms Evans, Victoria Mackie and Lesley Mapstone.

FRK: Lauren Hornor, Tyee Bridges and Cassie Beecham

Fraser Riverkeepers

Photos from FRK Fraser Riverkeepers 5th anniversary fundraiser.

FRK Fraser Riverkeeper's Fundraiser (Vancouver - October 20, 2012)

Dear friends of clean water:

In the past five years, FRK has joined forces with hundreds of volunteers to clean over 30 tons of garbage from sensitive salmon-spawning riverbeds and took legal action against Metro Vancouver to stop them from dumping raw sewage into the waters we drink, swim, fish and play in.

Now they need your help.

On October 20th, 2012 Fraser Riverkeepers are hosting their 5th anniversary fundraising gala with co-host Marg Helgenberger.

For tickets, click here

Fraser Riverkeepers

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