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Originally recorded January 29, 2006
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Nearly 3 billion people – half the world’s population – live on less than $2 a day.
The World Bank Group Annual Report 2004
1.1 billion people live on less than $1 per day.
UNDP 2004 Human Development Report
Every day, over 29,000 children die from preventable diseases (such as malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infections), totaling 10.6 million children per year.
UNICEF State of the World’s Children 2005
More than 852 million people in the world are malnourished – 815 million of them are in developing countries.
FAO State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004
300 million children around the world suffer from hunger.
UNICEF 2005
In developing countries, one child in 10 dies before his or her fifth birthday. By comparison, in the U.S. one child in 165 will die before turning five years old.
Bread for the World Hunger Basics 2004
Children who are moderately underweight are more than four times more likely to die from infectious diseases than are well-nourished children.
UNDP Human Development Report 2005
Each year more than 20 million low birth weight babies are born in the developing world. Low birth weight babies face increased risk of dying in infancy and of stunted physical and cognitive growth during childhood. As adults their capacity and earnings may decrease, and women are at risk of giving birth to low birth weight babies themselves.
FAO State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004
The number of food crises around the world has risen since 1980, from an average of 15 per year to 30 per year. Man-made food crises have more than doubled since 1992 from about 15 percent to more than 35 percent.
FAO State of Food Insecurity in the World 2004
World Vision’s* 30 Hour Famine is coming up again. The 30 Hour Famine is a way to get people involved with coming up with a solution for world hunger. As you can see from the above facts, the need is great. My youth group and I will be taking part in the 30 Hour Famine. For 30 hours we will not anything to help raise money for the less fortunate.
Wanna help? There are several ways you can:
If you make a donation and you would like a charitable receipt, e-mail me and I will get that out in the mail to you. All funds given through this PayPal link will go to the Famine. I will also link to the websites of any contributers
*World Vision is a Christian relief and development organization dedicated to helping children and their communities worldwide reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty. They serve the world’s poor— regardless of a person’s religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.
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Last Tuesday morning, the teacher I team teach with came up to my classroom before school started and told me that she had received an e-mail from the principal saying that she needed to speak the my team teacher first thing in the morning. Something about one of my students and prayer.
“That should be a fun conversation. What is that all about?” I hadn’t heard anything about this.
“I have no idea,” she said.
Naturally, my curiosity was peaked.
She didn’t come back to my room before school started so I decided to question the student. Interestingly enough, the student came to me first thing in the morning.
“I have to go see the principal.”
“Why?” I asked.
“She wants to talk to me.”
“About what?” He didn’t want to talk to me about this.
“My Dad called the school and he said that she was going to talk to me.”
“I think she will call for you when she is ready. She is a very busy person you know.” The student completely avoided the question. This was odd. “So what is she going to talk to you about?”
“A thing that happened in science class.” Finally giving up info.
“What happened in science class?”
The student sighed realizing that I wasn’t going to give up. (Sometimes the kids call me Tenacious D. Well, not really.) “Well we were doing that thing about friction in science class and I said something about us praying and she said that we can’t pray in school.”
“Are you sure that is what she said?”
“Well, I think so.”
“As a matter of fact you can pray in school. You can pray just about anytime that you want to in school. However, a teacher can’t lead anyone in prayer at school.”
“Oh.” Something seemed fishy about this but I let it go.
At my first opportunity, I went to see what the principal had said.
She told me a different story than I had heard earlier. “The student’s father was irate when he called the school. It seems that the student told his Dad that they were somewhere in the school, I really didn’t understand where, and he and some other students were evidently sitting in a circle holding hands and I came in and asked them what they were doing. The student said that they were praying and I supposedly told them that they can’t pray at school. Oddly enough I don’t have any memory of this.”
“That’s not the story that I heard this morning from the student. Sounds like he has changed his tune.” I shared the version of the story that I had heard.
“I didn’t say that then either and that happened months ago!”
“He is a little story teller, AKA a liar.”
Unfortunately I haven’t really had an opportunity to follow up on this story so you will just have to deal with an open-ended story. Sleep tight.
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The song samples from my iTunes signature are as follows:
Title
Artist (if available)
Album (if available)
Start time
End time
What is with all the buying and merging going on in the entertainment industry. Some pretty big things have happened.
First Disney tries to make sure that it can have some descent animated movies in the coming year by buying Pixar. Let’s hope this will not decrease the quality of movies from Pixar. The deal makes Steve Jobs richer. Of course he only gets $1 a year from Apple last I heard. Poor guy. As long as Disney doesn’t mess with Pixar the $7.4 billion is well spent.
Now I read about the death of not one but two TV networks. In September The WB and UPN will be no more. Huh? But from the ashes rises The CW. Huh? The CW? They can’t use my initials like that. I think I should get some kind of licensing fee for that. I would settle for $7.4 billion dollars. CBS (which owns UPN) and WB will go in halvesies on the new network that would combine the best of CBS and WB programing. I don’t care as long as Veronica Mars survives the shuffle.
If anyone is inspired by all this money flying around in the entertainment industry, I would just like to remind those people throwing all that money around, this blog is for sale.
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From Andrew, what is your iTunes signature?
Don’t have one? Well I do and later in the article I will share with you how you to can have an iTunes signature.
Let’s have a listen to my signature. I have it in two formats for your listening pleasure. First, I have a 40 second MP3 file weighing in at 356 KB. Or if your highly sensitive ears can’t stand that much compression, you can listen to the same file as a 7 MB wav file.
Now a few notes about this, the signature creation program took a look at the play count and I assume chose songs with the higher play counts. Since the Christmas season has just passed, the holiday season so the Christmas songs had an inflated play count since I listen to my Christmas playlist during half of November and all of December. I might post a different one here that isn’t as polluted by Christmas songs.
So can you identify any songs in there? List them in the comments, there might be some WITty points in it for you.
So you want to make your own iTunes signature? It is easy. Go to this website and follow the direction there. Simple as that. If you post your own iTunes Signature, let me know about it in the comments.
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At Doug’s suggestion, I checked out a WordPress template called Kiwi. Kiwi is more than just a template but it also lets me really control the front page to make it more of a place to see the latest stuff rather than just being a list of the most recent posts. The template works in conjunction with several WordPress plugins. It really helps with what I was trying to get with my last website mock-up.
In order for me to play around with the theme it has to be active. So even though it is far from being ready for prime time it is the active template. If you have another theme as your default you won’t see it.
Several items I just haven’t figured out yet. I really want to use Kiwi’s Featured article feature but goodness knows I haven’t figured it out yet. It seems there should be some kind of interface for that function but I can’t find it. Saddness.
I will also have to play around with some new banners since Kiwi comes with a rotating banner feature installed. True story.
I just have to have time to figure all this out. In the meantime, thank you for your patience.
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