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Missed a few...some of those words are sorta obscure...made it to 300 grains and a score of 42  

Got bored at 43... got all the words though   

sorta?   

Stopped at 440 grains.

Heh not spam.  

I stopped at 370 grains and a score of 50. Thanks for the great link Night Train. I missed one word because I didn't think carefully enough. And, I have to thank gef for his great search objects without which I wouldn't have scored 50 and it would have taken me a much longer time to assist in donating 370 grains of rice. And, oh ya, thanks dictionary.com.  

Just fired off 700 grains! Got 2 wrong!

Great link, NT, thank you!!!

Added a few more grains to the sack ......

Edit:

This is one of those weird things, where it's hard to feel good about anything .... it's just that once on the site, you're left with the option of making a very small effort for a very small gain, or moving on without bothering to contribute. There is something very in your face about dealing with such small amounts.

Night Train, Thank You so much for such a great worth while link. I was so into it and yes I missed a few. (did NOT use a dictionary) I got into it because I really wanted to help people less fortunate than myself. I set a goal and reached it. I donated 5000 grains of rice and feel better knowing it.

Makes you wonder who they get to count out my 300 grains.



A worthy cause. I also like the tie into education. My wife and I home school, so my son has an hour of this as an assignment today. Thanks NT

Hehe, I think I meant that the small amounts bring it down to the personal scale.

There's somewhere between 7,000 & 8,000 grains of rice in a cup. I've done the maths a couple of different ways, using a couple of different approaches, including using the average weight of a cup of rice, and both times the outcome is approx the same. There are in the region of 2.5 million grains of long grained white rice per 50Kg sack.

Choose your figures from where you will, one report states that in 2007, nearly 854 million people are starving. That’s 17 per cent of the world’s population. The figure includes 11 million in the industrialised countries, 30 million in countries in transition and 799 million in the developing world.

Another report says more than 852 million people -- about 13 percent of the world population -- do not have enough food each day to sustain a healthy life, according to the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organisation. Of this, about 815 million people live in developing countries, 28 million in "transition" countries of the former Eastern Europe and ex-Soviet republics, and about nine million in the industrialised world.

That's why I said it was hard to come away feeling good when faced with the larger scale.

On the other hand, when faced with the personal scale as expressed below, once at the site, not to contribute isn't an option:-

Give me three grains of corn, Mother,
Only three grains of corn;
It will keep the little life I have
Till the coming of the morn.
I am dying of hunger and cold, Mother,
Dying of hunger and cold;
And half the agony of such a death
My lips have never told.
I dreamed of bread in my sleep, Mother,
And the sight was heaven to see;
I awoke with an eager, famishing lip,
But you had no bread for me.

Amelia Blanford Edwards

Edit: additional, to put the 50kg bag in some sort of context. Taken from Lao in 2006 where rice farmers had lost their crops. It was costing them approx $20.00 for a 50kg bag which along with whatever else they had, was expected to last 15 days with 8 people in the family.

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Don't thank me, I'm just the messenger. I say that cause when it goes bad, your not supposed to shoot the messenger.

Stopped at 1840.   

...its been known to happen!!