For | Emily Holling

Feb 5

February 24, 2007 was the day we met our three children in Ethiopia. Due to US Visa complications, we were unable to bring our daughter home at that time. We brought our two sons home first. Two months later when our daughter’s Visa was approved, Russ returned to Ethiopia, to bring her home. In celebration we have created this slideshow.

Postscript: Following the creation of this slideshow, we completed the adoption of another daughter, whom we met and fell in love with on the same day, February 24, 2007 at our daughter’s orphanage. We returned to Ethiopia and brought her home on August 10, 2008.

Music: “And Now My Lifesong Sings” by Casting Crowns (www.castingcrowns.com), a band that daily rocks our kitchen and inspires us.

www.onethankfulmom.com

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Jan 7

Project For Awesome 2009: Stripping For Charity!

Donate to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society here!
http://bit.ly/6W2vVB

Or find a charity that resonates with you and donate your time, energy or money to them! Even if you can only spare 5 bucks, imagine if 10,000 people saw this video and donated $5! $50,000 goes a long way, folks. YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Here are the four P4A videos I linked to:

Nature Conservancy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKDtKy9_a1c

Chronic Kidney Disease
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlqV3CjpdRw

Save the Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBp1NPTXGc0

Heifer International
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fuHZvh7JU8

And FYI, the music at the beginning of this video is Brahms – Hungarian Dance No. 5.

Happy Holidays everybody!
Greg

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Jan 3

GOOSE CHARITY AUCTION: Buy ZJ’s camera!

eBay listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180449957847

http://www.youtube.com/user/HappyCabbie has also offered to make a shoutout video for the winning bidder.

Videos using this camera:
The neighborhood ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv0Ggu8a_sE )
Discover Tinley Expo 2009 ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=701-JtbVxZE )
Saugatuck & Sunset Junque Shop ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf2UeZyFzxY )
Sparklers explode ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iI4O8Nj0zU )
Reflections on belief and action ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSnx_xh1ooQ )
Art ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g5ClnjsmU4 )
“What are you?” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TEKnlEUhqY )
Dorian and Graham, the new rats ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQo1acKPK04 )

If you’d like to donate geese or other livestock directly: http://www.heifer.org/site/c.edJRKQNiFiG/b.204586/

Video transcript: http://emptv.com/videos/goose-charity-auction-buy-zjs-camera

The music is http://preview.tinyurl.com/bs63xs

http://twitter.com/ZJemptv
http://www.facebook.com/pages/ZJ/70874246213
http://myspace.com/zjemptv

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Jan 2

Project for Awesome – charity: water

DONATE HERE:
http://mycharitywater.org/p4a

After you donate, send an email to
p4awater@gmail.com
with your NAME and the AMOUNT you donated (can be any amount) and I’ll send you a link to an exclusive holiday-themed nerdfighter wallpaper by me! Preview it here:
http://karenkavett.com/xmaspreview

Questions for comments:
1. Name some crazy uses for water (water polo, ice hotels?)
2. Look up how to say water in other languages and post it below!
3. What are some other AWESOME numbers besides 42?

The music at the end is used with permission from Paul Turner. Subscribe to him!
http://youtube.com/songsfrompaul

In the interest of full disclosure, I did intern with charity: water over the summer. However, they are not paying or giving me anything to make this video – I just believe they are an absolutely fantastic organization!

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Dec 16

the september campaign 2008- a charity: water initiative

The 2008 september campaign was a birthday initiative started by charity: water, a non-profit bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations. We asked everyone born in September to give up presents and ask for donations to build wells instead. More than 800 people joined, and raised $950,000 to build wells in Ethiopia. More than 50,000 people got clean water. charitywater.org

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Dec 1

John Mertens speaks at Federation of Connecticut Taxpayers Organizations, Part 1

John Mertens, Candidate for U.S. Senate in CT in 2010 speaks at the Federation of Connecticut Taxpayers Organizations breakfast meeting on Sept. 26, 2009. Candidates Rob Simmons, Sam Caligiuri, Peter Schiff, Linda McMahon, and Tom Foley also spoke.