FreeRice (II) New Year's Donation Challenge - 2,748,460 Grains!
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Luke  Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0 
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 Welcome all! To the FreeRice (II) New Year's Challenge! Due to the astounding success of the first challenge, a new one was envisioned for the New Year since the accede the first. What you are viewing is it here. The challenge will run for 2 weeks, from 5 January 2009 20:00 to the 19th January 2009 20:00 New Zealand Daylight Time (UTC+1300). I would also like to proudly announce that Uli is working with me to provide the daily statistics and helping me with the logistics of this thread in general. Give her the full credit for the statistics that will be provided. A link to FreeRice is here. The above and below images are also linked directly to FreeRice, clicking on the images or the link preceding will take you directly to FreeRice. Other options to donate, excluding English vocabulary also exist, such as: French German Italian Spanish Plus many other non-language options. With the astounding success with the first thread, in which we together donated 1,207,980 grains of FreeRice! I want to up the ante and have a goal of 2,000,000 grains! Starting from scratch. ------------------------------------- To keep people motivated, there will be 5 stars available and up for grabs, here they are:  - Platinum Contributor. 500,000 grains. - Diamond Contributor. 250,000 grains. - Gold Contributor. 100,000 grains. - Enhanced Contributor. 50,000 grains. - Contributor of the day. Awarded to the most deserving.I'm not expecting anyone to reach that milestone of 500,000 grains, but, who knows! ------------------------------------- This thread replaces: FreeRice (I) Donation Challenge - 1,207,980 grains donated. I would to myself pledge a guaranteed 50,000 grains, with an extra 25,000 if we reach the milestone of 2,000,000. Plus 10,000 for every 100,000 after that. To start off, I have already donated 5,000 grains. I hope to see you here and donating! (Remember if you have donated, please, please tell us how much you donated by posting in this thread! I do not accept PM's on the basis of false statistics and accusations of cheating.) ------------------------------------- I would like to leave you tonight with this old legend: ...When the creator of the game chess showed his invention to the ruler of the country, the ruler was so pleased that he gave the inventor the right to name his prize for the invention. The man, who was very wise, asked the king this: that for the first square of the chess board, he would receive one grain of rice, two for the second one, four on the third one and so forth, doubling the amount each time. The ruler, who was not strong in math, quickly accepted the inventor's offer, even getting offended by his perceived notion that the inventor was asking for such a low price, and ordered the treasurer to count and hand over the wheat to the inventor. However, when the treasurer took more than a week to calculate the amount of wheat, the ruler asked him for a reason for his tardiness. The treasurer then gave him the result of the calculation, and explained that it would be impossible to give the inventor the reward. The ruler then, to get back at the inventor who tried to outsmart him, told the inventor that in order for him to receive his reward, he was to count every single grain that was given to him, in order to make sure that the ruler was not stealing from him...Sum up: Note the fact that the first "half" of the chessboard contains 4,294,967,295 grains of rice, while the 64th square contains an astounding 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 grains of rice, or more than a billion times as much on the entire first half of the chessboard. In total, on the entire chessboard there would be exactly 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 grains of rice. I hope to see every single person that views this thread donate. Please... remember the fact that the total amount of money needed to stop world poverty is estimated at US$200,000,000,000 a year. Donating rice is free... Kind Regards & Thank You to all contributors that will be, Luke. - Luke. ID: 849580 ·  |
 Uli  Send message Joined: 6 Feb 00 Posts: 10923 Credit: 5,996,015 RAC: 1 
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Ok, I will match you the first 5000 grains, either before I go to work or shortly there after. Pluto will always be a planet to me.  Seti Ambassador Not to late to order an Anni Shirt ID: 849582 · |
Monday     Send message Joined: 24 Sep 05 Posts: 9676 Credit: 20,067,888 RAC: 12 
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1000 from me. :) ID: 849592 · |
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Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0
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1000 from me. :) Thanks Monday! I am making and exception to this rule that I stated earlier: ...I do not accept PM's on the basis of false statistics and accusations of cheating... candorchasma gave me a message with a donation of 6,060 grains inside... Thanks candor! - Luke. ID: 849596 · |
MarkJ  Send message Joined: 17 Feb 08 Posts: 1139 Credit: 80,854,192 RAC: 5
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Got to 1020 grains. Level 55 of 60. MarkJ ID: 849631 · |
the silver surfer  Send message Joined: 24 Feb 01 Posts: 131 Credit: 3,739,307 RAC: 0 
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2500 grains. Regards Kurt  ID: 849638 · |
Stealth Eagle*  Send message Joined: 7 Sep 00 Posts: 5971 Credit: 367,640 RAC: 0 
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500 from me. What you do today you will have to live with tonight ID: 849655 · |
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Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0
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Another 5,000 from me. To reach our goal of 2 Million we need to donate nearly 143,000 grains a day. Right now I don't see this happening... Total: 26,080 out of 142,860 grains for the first day. - Luke. ID: 849739 · |
Dirk Villarreal Wittich  Send message Joined: 25 Apr 00 Posts: 2098 Credit: 434,834 RAC: 0 
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2k for me!   
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kittyman  Send message Joined: 9 Jul 00 Posts: 51527 Credit: 1,018,363,574 RAC: 1,004
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From the kitties before going to work.... You have now donated 1000 grains of rice. "Time is simply the mechanism that keeps everything from happening all at once." 
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speedimic  Send message Joined: 28 Sep 02 Posts: 362 Credit: 16,590,653 RAC: 0
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another 2k from here... mic. 
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Gonad the Destroyer®©™  Send message Joined: 6 Aug 99 Posts: 204 Credit: 12,463,705 RAC: 0
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31000 here.... Multiplication Table makes things go fast...heh  ID: 849900 · |
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Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0
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31000 here.... Wow! Thanks GTD... I hope to see more donations like that today from all! - Luke. ID: 849906 · |
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popandbob Send message Joined: 19 Mar 05 Posts: 551 Credit: 4,673,015 RAC: 0 
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[Off Topic] For those who are interested... A couple other click to donate sites... The Hunger Site Ripple.org Care2 [/Off Topic] 10,000 Grains from me!  Do you Good Search for Seti@Home? http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=888957 Or Good Shop? http://www.goodshop.com/?charityid=888957 ID: 849910 · |
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Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0
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[Off Topic] For those who are interested... A couple other click to donate sites... popandbob - Your links you provided are not off topic... :) - Thanks for your donation! Another 5,000 from me brings us to 77,080 grains out of 142,860 that we need to donate daily to reach our goal. 53.9% for the daily goal. - Luke. ID: 849913 · |
DaveSun  Send message Joined: 17 Jun 00 Posts: 110 Credit: 13,713,289 RAC: 2
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6500 for my efforts today ID: 849917 · |
Dr. C.E.T.I.  Send message Joined: 29 Feb 00 Posts: 16019 Credit: 794,685 RAC: 0
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You have now donated 400 grains of rice. just before makin' dinner - ciao  BOINC Wiki . . .Science Status Page . . . ID: 849918 · |
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Stealth Eagle* Send message Joined: 7 Sep 00 Posts: 5971 Credit: 367,640 RAC: 0
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You have now donated 3000 grains of rice. What you do today you will have to live with tonight ID: 849973 · |
Crunch3r  Send message Joined: 15 Apr 99 Posts: 1546 Credit: 3,438,823 RAC: 0
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Luke Send message Joined: 31 Dec 06 Posts: 2546 Credit: 817,560 RAC: 0
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Thank you both Stealth & Crunch3r... Hope to see more donations like this before the stats! A quick 500 grains from me. - Luke. ID: 849979 · |
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