JAPAN: Earthquake-Tsunami: How to HELP

JAPAN:COMPLETE DEVASTATION, HORROR.

An 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit northern Japan early Friday March 11, 2011, triggering tsunamis that sent a wave filled with boats and houses toward land. It was the country's biggest earthquake ever and the seventh largest on record, according to US Geological Survey data, with the biggest being the 9.5, Chile, May 5, 1960.

I sat there in my house till almost 4am in the morning, glued to my TV watching the incredible happenings occurring in Japan. Watching the devastation from the aftermath of the earthquake, pictures, videos as it happened of buildings that have collapsed liked a row of dominoes in a matter of minutes. People frightened beyond imagination running for there lives just trying to survive. But the quake was NOT the only disaster, what followed only a half hour latter that was a giant Tsunami engulfing the Japanese eastern coast causing a wave of death,destruction and horror in it's wake. I watched cars on highways and roads trying to outrun the oncoming waters only to stop on the road realizing they were about to be swept away with everything else in it's path. Natori City, Japan - which was once home to about 74,000 people, has been wiped off the map!

HORRIFIC! 

I immediately said "WHAT CAN I DO"? What can WE do!
Below is a list of charities I've compiled that are officially setting up funds to help the people in JAPAN.

You can text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 from your cell phone, or visit RedCross.org-Japan!


Save the Children is sending emergenct teams to asist its staff in Japan. Donate now to the Japan Earthquake Tsunami Children in Emergency Fund to support Save the Children's responses to the Japanese children's ongoing and urgent needs.

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières has sent medical teams to support the government-led earthquake and tsunami response in Japan. There teams are running mobile clinics and conducting needs assessments. You can donate to Japan Earthquake Tsunami doctorswithoutborders.org/ Fund

 
GlobalGiving This project will disburse funds to organizations providing relief and emergency services to victims of the earthquake and tsunami.You can either text JAPAN to 50555 from your cell phone to donate $10 or visitJapan Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Fund

International Medical Corps is responding to the health needs of the disaster's victims. Nancy Aossey, President & CEO, said in a statement:"We are putting together relief teams, as well as supplies." You can text MED to 80888 from you cell phone to doante #10 or visit Emergency Response Team to Japan Fund

Peace Winds Japan, which currently has personnel on the ground distributing emergency relief in Japan.There are providing emergency disaster relief  through provisions emergency  shelters (balloon shelters and emergency tents) foods and materials.You can donate here to JAPAN EARTHQUAKE Relif Fund

Convoy of Hope Rescue workers in Japan following Friday’s 8.9 earthquake are facing the grim reality of mounting deaths. The best way to help is to either donate online at JAPAN EARTHQUAKE Relif Fund or text TSUNAMI to 50555 to donate $10 to Convoy of Hope's Disaster Response efforts.

 Unicef For decades, Japan has been there for the world's children in their time of need, supporting UNICEF's lifesaving work. Today, UNICEF is there for Japan's children.100% of your donation will go to Japan.Text JAPAN to 864233 to donate $10  or visit Disaster in Japan Fund

 

 Google For any who have loved ones abroad, has stepped up to help. Along with a tsunami alert posted on its front page, Google has launched the Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake to help connect people that may have been displaced due to the disaster. Google has also launched a crisis response page filled with local  resources and  emergency information.

PLEASE HELP ANYWAY YOU CAN!

winning DUH!

UPDATE:MARCH 10,2011-
LAPD raided Charlie Sheen's home on Thursday night in

search of weapons after the actor was seen holding a machete on Monday, but Charlie says it's not even his. “It wasn't even my machete, that's what's so funny about it,” Sheen told Radar Online. (Watch Police entering & Layers Statement Above)Mark Gross, Charlie’s Lawyer, told TMZ police found one rifle, from the 1800s, and “a few bullets,”at the actor’s home.
UPDATE: MARCH 9, 2011 - Three weeks have passed since Charlie Sheen first contacted "The Dan Patrick Show"radio program, launching an unexpected press tour that's included a number of radio stations, morning-show interviews, late-night talk-show appearances and his own self-produced Ustream show, "Sheen's Korner." Today he called the show again and Sheen later told Patrick, "[This] is where it all began and where it all ends, you know?"He also kissed his TV career good-bye."I'll go make some movies with some brilliant directors," he said. I guess he just wanted OUT of TV and duped us ALL! #winning

winning[win-ing]-noun The act of a person that wins.

You've heard that repeatably over the past several weeks as we continue to watch the ongoing exploits of Charlie Sheen. The now former star of the hit CBS comedy Two and a Half Men, as of today March 7, 2011 CBS, Warner Bros. and series co-creator Chuck Lorre issued this statement, “After careful consideration, Warner Bros. Television has terminated Charlie Sheen’s services on 'Two and a Half Men' effective immediately.” What is going on in Charlies mind and life is anybody's guess. He was making nearly $2-million-per-episode but decided to through that all away. Let me repeat that, $2-million per episode!

Sheen latter on Ustream March 7, 2011

I just watched the latest Sheenscorner, a Ustream show created by Charlie from as he calls his home Sober Valley Lodge. He looks terrible(photo right) which led me to ask myself are we watching the metal and physical breakdown of another famous person? Or are we watching a clever diabolical Hollywood performance to captivate us into his world that ultimately will catapult himself into an all new venture were he will make even more millions!

We all remember the countless famous personalities that have fallen off the stars, spiraling downward on destructive paths seemingly before our eyes, unfortunately ending up dead . Elvis, Michael Jackson, Corey Haim, Heath Ledger, John Belushi, Marilyn Monroe, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, River Phoenix, Chris Farley, Freddie Prinze, the list is seemingly endless. True, life is full of there stories everyday, ordinary people with ordiarry lives sucoming to life's pressures. We don't hear about those since there only famous to the ones who loved them.

Sheen earlier on March 7, 2011

But if we did, would we not try to do something to prevent the destruction of a persons life? Is it not our responsibility to try and help someone who is obviously incapable of dealing with the pressures of living. I would.
 
Why then are we all just sitting around watching Charlie Sheen follow down the same path as many a famous star before. We will sit and watch his Ustream, countless TV interviews and radio broadcast of his rambaling incohearent banter. TIGERBLOOD! TROLL! WARLOCK! WINNING! DUH! We and the media can't get enough of his antics! WHY?

I too am entrenched, so to speak, in trying to understand this train wreak we are all witnessing. As that commercial used to go, "IS IT LIVE, OR IS IT MEMOREX?" Is this real or just a hoax perpetraited by  Charlie to get out of his contract with CBS and the producers of the show. Roseanne Barr and Brett Butler also couldn't work with the producer Chuck Lorre of Two and a Half Men. Remember the late Farrah Fawcetts battle with the producers of Charlie's Angels after only one season! It's happened before, are we now witnessing it again this time in a crazy way?

Or are we truly watching a mans life disintegrating before our eyes. Spiraling out of control with destructive behavior, drugs and alcohol? His father and brother, Martin Sheen and Emilio Estevez, did come out breifly to pleed to Charlie to get help, but have been silent ever since. WHY?

Don't think the people now around Charlie Sheen will help, history has told us otherwise. All those stars I mentioned above had an entourage of yes people who would do anything the star wanted just to remain in the inner circle of money!

So what can we do? How can we help? Should we even try to help? He's rich and could care less about you or I. Do we just continue to watch until one day we find out he was kidding or worse found dead!

Late report as I write this is that Charlie Sheen has bought a Beverly Hills home for $7.5 million supposedly for his ex-wife Denise Richards according to AOL Real Estate. That sounds to me that he's sly as a fox! and WINNING! IS HE?