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jar
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11-11-2007 11:32 AM

Help feed the hungry. Go to Free Rice dot Com and help. The ads that show up help pay for rice. So far enough rice has been donated to feed almost 100,000 people for one day.
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So far:
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Date          	Grains of Rice
7 October 2007 	               830
8 October 2007 	             5,670
9 October 2007 	            76,020
10 October 2007 	   287,960
11 October 2007 	 4,584,100
12 October 2007 	 3,541,350
13 October 2007 	 3,194,630
14 October 2007 	 4,343,350
15 October 2007 	 6,403,920
16 October 2007 	 6,645,520
17 October 2007 	12,157,010
18 October 2007 	26,703,160
19 October 2007 	40,373,060
20 October 2007 	16,175,550
21 October 2007 	13,276,900
22 October 2007 	26,881,930
23 October 2007 	30,423,770
24 October 2007 	37,670,700
25 October 2007 	30,819,620
26 October 2007 	29,607,480
27 October 2007 	37,056,070
28 October 2007 	42,153,550
29 October 2007 	48,720,340
30 October 2007 	56,893,100
31 October 2007 	59,167,790
1 November 2007 	52,142,290
2 November 2007 	45,925,390
3 November 2007 	45,760,870
4 November 2007 	48,038,530
5 November 2007 	53,847,080
6 November 2007 	73,566,480
7 November 2007 	75,201,580
8 November 2007 	77,126,310
9 November 2007 	63,253,810
10 November 2007       122,377,240
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1,194,402,960
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jar
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11-11-2007 12:37 PM 		Reply to: Message 2 by Hyroglyphx
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Re: Bowls of rice
Thanks.
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Now if we can get the active folk at EvC to each give a bowl a day it will be wonderful.
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11-11-2007 3:27 PM 		Reply to: Message 4 by cavediver
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Re: Bowls of rice
Thank you sir. I've reached 48 a few times BUT never made it above that.
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But it is fun.
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11-11-2007 3:29 PM 		Reply to: Message 5 by ringo
11-11-2007 2:29 PM

Re: Bowls of rice
Thank you. I wonder how many grains of rice == a cup?
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11-11-2007 3:42 PM 		Reply to: Message 8 by cavediver
11-11-2007 3:33 PM

Re: Bowls of rice
Say not gauntlet, but rather mitten, velvet glove; but less, a mere sock puppet.
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11-11-2007 4:22 PM 		Reply to: Message 11 by ringo
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Re: Bowls of rice
That works out well. The site claimed when they reached the first billion grains that it fed 50,000 people for one day. Working backwards that would mean about two cups of rice per person.
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But it also gives us an idea of what some folk in the world face in terms of hunger.
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Please consider what living on two cups of rice a day means.
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11-11-2007 8:25 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by Wounded King
11-11-2007 7:40 PM

Wow.
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Fifty is the top.
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Congratulations.
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Message 18 of 42 (433495)
11-12-2007 9:32 AM

Yesterday's totals.
Yesterday, 11 November 2007, 136,236,930 grains of rice were donated.
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That was enough to feed over 6,500 people yesterday.
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Thanks to each of you that helped.
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Have you given rice yet today?
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Edited by jar, : fix number of folk fed
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11-12-2007 2:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 19 by kuresu
11-12-2007 2:39 PM

Re: Bowls of rice
dry.
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Message 27 of 42 (434089)
11-14-2007 12:29 PM

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
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Thank you!
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11-15-2007 6:15 PM

Yesterday's Total
14 November 2007 184,681,920 Enough to feed over 9200 people.
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Thanks.
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11-16-2007 1:11 PM 		Reply to: Message 30 by riVeRraT
11-16-2007 10:50 AM

Every grain counts. Thanks.
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11-16-2007 3:29 PM

Yesterday's totals
15 November 2007 201,226,610 grains, enough to feed over 10,000 people yesterday.
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Congratulations and thanks.
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Message 33 of 42 (434804)
11-17-2007 1:12 PM

Friday's Totals
16 November 2007 198,342,510 grains. That is enough to feed 9917 people yesterday.
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Thanks to all who are helping.
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Just a reminder, it takes 20,000 grains to feed one person for one day. Can EvC commit to doing that much? If we each only contributed 1000 grains a day, how well could we do?
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Will any of you who contribute 1000 grains post a message so I can thank you personally?
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11-17-2007 1:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 34 by Ben!
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Re: Friday's Totals
Great point.
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And thanks for every grain.
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