Saturday, June 04, 2011

Please help the Root Center feed those in need





































My son Robin has a non-profit that grows food for the local food banks. He and three others are doing all of this without pay, in addition to their day jobs. Last year they grew 3000 lbs of produce and it was all taken home by needy families within 24 hours of harvest. This year they are growing 25,000 lbs of produce because the National Gardening Association has granted them a half acre of its land, for gardening. They would like to set up a greenhouse dome at the center of the garden and thereby grow fresh food year round for the food banks! They have a chance to be awarded enough money to bring this dream to reality. But they need our help. Please consider voting for their idea here:

http://www.refresheverything.com/the-root-center

You can vote TODAY, and once every day until June 30th! That $50k could kickstart a never-ending supply of organic food for at-risk populations! Just click the link here or text 107045 to Pepsi (73774)

Thanks! For more information about their work:
http://www.therootcenter.org/

16 comments:

  1. Who's on First? Howard Dean!

    This little lass (age 10) is First also! What a voice!
    http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/blog/ball_dont_lie/post/Video-10-year-old-wows-NBA-Finals-crowd-with-so?urn=nba-wp4339

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  2. Hi puddle (and others!). OK here, just busy as the dickens. I was suposed to have a job in San Francisco today and another in a neighboring county Monday morning, and pull a 40-hour shift at the hospital at the other end of the county over the weekend. Definitely too much. So I arranged to cut my weekend shift back to 24 hours (4PM Sat. to 4PM Sunday). Friday job was cancelled (possibly at least in part because the other side heard I was coming and decided to settle). But the Monday job is on, and another popped up Monday evening and Tuesday morning! Both are going to be demanding [read: pissing matches], so I am very glad to keep the shortened weekend shift. It will be an opportunity to try out what I had planned to start from October 2012.

    Weather here looks like some rain on the way...

    Sorry to hear about your store keeper having to give up his dream. My folks had a general store out in the boondocks when I was very young (1946-1952); it did well, but they sold out because they couldn't get reliable help and were working themselves to death. Things kind of dried up around there anyway, in the following years. The economics have changed a lot since then; the little guy/gal is at a greater disadvantage than ever, I'm afraid. But that doesn't make it hurt any the less. Give him my good wishes.

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  3. Everybody out gardening? Skiing? Partying? Subverting the government? Well, enjoying, I hope. Off to Salt Mine No. 2 shortly.

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  4. Bill Thomasson6/04/2011 05:50:00 PM

    Shaking head. I never realized San Francisco was that dry. I knew Southern California was semi-desert, but the Bay Area??

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  5. Bill Thomasson6/04/2011 05:52:00 PM

    Mid-80s again today, but much more humid. Ideal thunderstorm weather, and we had one. Fiarly mild around here, though. Didn't even have to close the windows.

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  6. Hi guys!

    Can't imagine why, but I'm exhaustified. So much so that I can't think straight to solve a problem that, I'm sure, has a straightforward solution. Ordinarily, when you restore or resize your prowser window, everything in the window resizes, scales accordingly. Well, I have a pate I'm working on. The table containing the form scales correctly when the browser window gets resized, but the photo doesn't. Since last night I've been trying to think of how to make the photo scale as the window gets resize, but not only can't I remember, I can't even figure out how to google for the answer. So, I'm feeling very stupid.

    Other than that, everything's OK here. Today's weather has been pleasant, which is always a help.

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  7. Washing clothes more than gardening, grin. SUCH a pleasure!! Hope you make it through the upcoming busyness.

    My bird population is down to a couple of Buntings and an occasional gentleman Cardinal.

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  8. Tried to post ages ago, but it never took.]

    It turned out to be a very simple solution after all, just a matter of adding the "width" attribute to the "img" tag. Guess it's been too long since I've done this sort of work. Harumph!

    Found a book and CDROM that I think will allow me to add authentication capability - username and password and such, and possibly some other useful functionality. Still haven't worked out how to upload photos and then display them, but after a good supper and the relief of finding the PERL/CGI book, am feeling, if not exactly more optimistic, at least a fair bit less miserable.

    BTW this is all in aid of creating a new Engelbert fan site, since in my discussion group we're all agreed that the new official site is abysmal.

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  9. Hi Alan. I would like to have been subverting. ;-)

    I went to work 10:00am to 2:00pm, zoomed home, baked a cake, cleaned house, ran out to the store for ice cream and balloons, zipped home, frosted the cake, and made heaps of kabobs. The party was a nice family party for our eldest's 36th birthday! :-)

    Plus I got to show the Bride & Groom-To-Be my dress.

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  10. California has [had?] a mediterranean climate from Point Conception (a little north of Los Angeles) to Cape Mendocino (well north of San Francisco), i.e. no rain in the summer. The rainy season is generally considered to be November through March, although the first rains often come in September and an occasional minor rainstorm in April isn't surprising. There are old stories about easterners coming out here, planting their crops in the spring and waiting for the summer rains which never came... Without irrigation winter wheat was the major crop.

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  11. Whew!

    I seem to be a nonymous for the non...

    --Alan

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  12. Guest is me...

    --Alan

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  13. Make that a Guest.

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  14. Dang! Program ate my earlier response. This gets OLD!

    Looks like a have a pretty good chance of becoming a puppy mom. Friend in Alabama saved a Great Pyrenees puppy, with the hope he'd become their goat/chicken guard dog. But great brouhaha amongst him and the two hounds they already have. I half joked that if it didn't work, I'd come get him. Had a Pyr and they're lovely animals, and I miss mine. She messaged tonight that it was being krezzy and was I serious. Said yes.

    She's a long time dog breeder/trainer/person, so they may work this out. I'm just praying for the perfect solution for everyone, human and animal. . . .

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  15. Probably a nonymous, and maybe it's just as well?--Alan

    Here's a slide show from this year's Kinetic Sculpture Race [it seems the name has been upgraded]:

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/g/a/2011/06/02/43rd_Annual_Kinetic_Grand_Championship.DTL&object=%2Fc%2Fpictures%2F2011%2F06%2F02%2Fba-Kinetic_Sculp_0503562267.jpg

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  16. Oh gosh, Alan, I just saw the article about the 12 year old in Circus Smirkus.
    It's a GREAT little troupe! :-)

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