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Topic: Give a bowl of rice a day.
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Chiroptera
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Damn. I was going to brag that I was briefly at 49. (Although it was kind of a cheat -- a couple of words that came up were repeats from the last time I did it.)
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jar
Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Wow. Fifty is the top. Congratulations.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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jar
Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 18 of 42 (433495)
11-12-2007 9:32 AM
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Yesterday's totals.
Yesterday, 11 November 2007, 136,236,930 grains of rice were donated. That was enough to feed over 6,500 people yesterday. Thanks to each of you that helped. Have you given rice yet today? Edited by jar, : fix number of folk fed
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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kuresu
Member (Idle past 2534 days) Posts: 2544 From: boulder, colorado Joined: 03-24-2006
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Message 19 of 42 (433557)
11-12-2007 2:39 PM
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Reply to: Message 11 by ringo
11-11-2007 4:00 PM
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Re: Bowls of rice
Dry or wet grains? In terms of expansion, an outmeal that I like (more like cream of wheat, some swedish thing), a tablespoon of meal expands to the size of a bowl. I know that rice expands, but not by how much. That 10,000 per cup figure could very well be quite a bit of food (as in, 2-3 cups versus 1). Currently at 43 and 330 grains. Yes, I'm using a dictionary, but hell, this is fun. I'm learning what words means.
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jar
Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 20 of 42 (433561)
11-12-2007 2:55 PM
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Reply to: Message 19 by kuresu
11-12-2007 2:39 PM
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Re: Bowls of rice
dry.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Zawi
Member (Idle past 3651 days) Posts: 126 From: UK Joined: 12-02-2004
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Message 21 of 42 (433881)
11-13-2007 11:54 AM
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Can't they donate this rice without us having to do some quiz?
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Chiroptera
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Message 22 of 42 (433884)
11-13-2007 12:12 PM
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Reply to: Message 21 by Zawi
11-13-2007 11:54 AM
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They don't have any money to donate. At all. This is a gimmick to get the advertisers to donate money. You know when you go to a webpage and an ad appears? Everytime an ad appears, the advertiser pays money to the owner of the webpage. Whenever you answer a question and click the answer, new ads pop up. The advertisers then pay the website money, and this money gets donated. Answering the questions is just a gimmick to get you to click the mouse, so that new ads pop up, so that advertisers will send money to the website, and only then does the website have any money to donate.
Computers have cut-and-paste functions. So does right-wing historical memory. -- Rick Perlstein
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mike the wiz
Member Posts: 4755 From: u.k Joined: 05-24-2003
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Message 23 of 42 (433887)
11-13-2007 12:23 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by jar
11-11-2007 11:32 AM
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Well done Jarbaba.
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Hyroglyphx
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Message 24 of 42 (433928)
11-13-2007 4:30 PM
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Reply to: Message 21 by Zawi
11-13-2007 11:54 AM
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Its to make you feel special
Can't they donate this rice without us having to do some quiz? A few reasons why I think this is being handled the way it is.
In the States there is this yogurt company who makes "pink lids." Pink is supposed to be the designated color for breast cancer awareness. By saving the lids and returning them, its the equivalent of donating the specified amount. I used to ask, "Well, why don't they just give a certain amount?" The answer is, its a PR move for the company. Knowing that Yoplait makes a good product AND donates handsomely to a charity will keep you, the consumer, coming back for more.
“This life’s dim windows of the soul, distorts the heavens from pole to pole, and goads you to believe a lie, when you see with and not through the eye.” -William Blake
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Omnivorous
Member Posts: 3985 From: Adirondackia Joined: 07-21-2005 Member Rating: 7.1
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Message 25 of 42 (433964)
11-13-2007 7:35 PM
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Reply to: Message 1 by jar
11-11-2007 11:32 AM
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First go: 49 vocab level at 1000 grains. Great fun--learned some wicked Scrabble words, too.
Real things always push back.-William James
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anglagard
Member (Idle past 857 days) Posts: 2339 From: Socorro, New Mexico USA Joined: 03-18-2006
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Omni for President
Good lord, my first was 47 at 1350. No wonder I can't beat you at chess.
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza
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jar
Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 27 of 42 (434089)
11-14-2007 12:29 PM
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Last two days totals.
12 November 2007 188,987,290 enough to feed 9449 people for one day
13 November 2007 192,744,570 enough to feed 9637 people for one day Thank you!
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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Omnivorous
Member Posts: 3985 From: Adirondackia Joined: 07-21-2005 Member Rating: 7.1
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Message 28 of 42 (434111)
11-14-2007 3:15 PM
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Reply to: Message 26 by anglagard
11-13-2007 8:29 PM
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Re: Omni for President
anglagard writes: Good lord, my first was 47 at 1350. No wonder I can't beat you at chess. I made a string of lucky guesses near the end, and the words seem to increase in obscurity rather than difficulty and so mirror my zig-zag life. As to the chess: we only played a few games,Quitter. 
Real things always push back.-William James
Save lives! Click here!Join the World Community Grid with Team EvC!---------------------------------------
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jar
Member (Idle past 415 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: 04-20-2004
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Message 29 of 42 (434391)
11-15-2007 6:15 PM
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Yesterday's Total
14 November 2007 184,681,920 Enough to feed over 9200 people. Thanks.
Aslan is not a Tame Lion
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riVeRraT
Member (Idle past 437 days) Posts: 5788 From: NY USA Joined: 05-09-2004
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Message 30 of 42 (434562)
11-16-2007 10:50 AM
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LOL, spelling is my worst asset, actually it is not an asset.
I was up to 28, and 400 grains.
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