Heads up! Giv2Cure members, and its research team at NHCC, are shoooting to publish a scientific paper in the Journal of MN Academy of Science launching this 2010. We base focus on Alkaline phosphatase (ALP) inhibition by Metal ions. More news to come as the paper reaches full completion.
Spring semester will begin soon, but we will try our best to keep postings up. Thanks to all the past veiwers; please leave a comment.
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Giv2Cure
Saturday, January 30, 2010
More News on Haiti Relief ;)
Friends, I wanted to share this wonderful article with you all, concerning a young and detrmined young lad that took initiative to raise money to help out survivors in Haiti.
Please read the following:
Never underestimate the power of a boy and his bicycle.
A kid from West London, England, started out with a plan – a plan to raise money for kids in Haiti.
“I want to do a sponsored bike ride,” said 7-year-old Charlie Simpson, in a message posted on a website, “because there was a big earthquake and loads of people lost their lives. I want to make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti.
According to published reports, Charlie rode five miles around a park on Sunday.
He hoped to raise 500 British pounds.
That’s approximately 800 US dollars – a pretty good effort for any fundraiser, not to mention a 7-year-old kid.
But when people saw the message Charlie posted on the Internet, contributions started pouring in from as far away as Hong Kong and New Zealand, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
And when the British media picked up Charlie’s story, he got even more contributions.
By Monday night, the BBC reported that Charlie had raised more than 130,000 pounds.
(130,000 pounds is approximately $210,000).
He reportedly plans to donate the money to UNICEF – the United Nations agency that raises money specifically to help kids.
“The little seed – his idea – that he has planted has grown rapidly,” said David Bull, UNICEF UK’s executive director, according to CNN. “On behalf of the many children in Haiti, I thank Charlie for his effort.”
(UK stands for “United Kingdom.” The UK includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.)
According to CNN, the money Charlie has raised will help pay for water, as well as sanitation, education, nutrition and child protection programs.
Charlie’s parents say they’re overwhelmed by the generosity of the people who’ve contributed to his fundraiser.
“Charlie is so grateful to people for sponsoring him,” said his father, Dan Simpson, in an interview with the BBC. “And he is delighted his bike ride has meant UNICEF can help so many children in Haiti.”
All it took was a boy with a bicycle – and a determination to help.
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This article was retrieved from the following website:
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/nick_news/stories_daily.jhtml?pollId=470924766&wstory=0
...and was not in any part,the work of any giv2cure members; all credits should attribute to the authors within the above website.
And that about sums it. What a remarkable accomplishement for this matter. What do you know, you could be the next one to donate and help. Thanks for your time,
Giv2Cure
Please read the following:
Never underestimate the power of a boy and his bicycle.
A kid from West London, England, started out with a plan – a plan to raise money for kids in Haiti.
“I want to do a sponsored bike ride,” said 7-year-old Charlie Simpson, in a message posted on a website, “because there was a big earthquake and loads of people lost their lives. I want to make some money to buy food, water and tents for everyone in Haiti.
According to published reports, Charlie rode five miles around a park on Sunday.
He hoped to raise 500 British pounds.
That’s approximately 800 US dollars – a pretty good effort for any fundraiser, not to mention a 7-year-old kid.
But when people saw the message Charlie posted on the Internet, contributions started pouring in from as far away as Hong Kong and New Zealand, according to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
And when the British media picked up Charlie’s story, he got even more contributions.
By Monday night, the BBC reported that Charlie had raised more than 130,000 pounds.
(130,000 pounds is approximately $210,000).
He reportedly plans to donate the money to UNICEF – the United Nations agency that raises money specifically to help kids.
“The little seed – his idea – that he has planted has grown rapidly,” said David Bull, UNICEF UK’s executive director, according to CNN. “On behalf of the many children in Haiti, I thank Charlie for his effort.”
(UK stands for “United Kingdom.” The UK includes England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.)
According to CNN, the money Charlie has raised will help pay for water, as well as sanitation, education, nutrition and child protection programs.
Charlie’s parents say they’re overwhelmed by the generosity of the people who’ve contributed to his fundraiser.
“Charlie is so grateful to people for sponsoring him,” said his father, Dan Simpson, in an interview with the BBC. “And he is delighted his bike ride has meant UNICEF can help so many children in Haiti.”
All it took was a boy with a bicycle – and a determination to help.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
This article was retrieved from the following website:
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/nick_news/stories_daily.jhtml?pollId=470924766&wstory=0
...and was not in any part,the work of any giv2cure members; all credits should attribute to the authors within the above website.
And that about sums it. What a remarkable accomplishement for this matter. What do you know, you could be the next one to donate and help. Thanks for your time,
Giv2Cure
Saturday, January 23, 2010
HAITI RELIEF!!!
Hello guys,
I have been reading around and stumbled upon an interesting move to support Haiti relief. Please read the following:
All-star Haiti telethon raises $57 million, so far
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer
Sat Jan 23, 4:18 PM PST
Organizers for the all-star "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon say the event raised $57 million — and counting.
"The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with 'Hope for Haiti Now,' and the donations continue to come in," Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday. The group is helping to oversee the funds gathered from the event.
The two-hour telethon aired Friday night on the major networks and dozens of other channels, including MTV, Bravo, and PBS, and was also streamed live online. Stars like Brad Pitt, Beyonce, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and more used their presence to encourage donations for Haiti, following a Jan. 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 200,000 people.
The total released Saturday includes money raised by phone, text and the Web. It does not include donations by corporations or via iTunes, where people are able to buy performances of the event for 99 cents each, or the entire album for $7.99. Those funds also go to Haiti relief.
>>>And word from GIV2CURE, please be sure to visit the "Hope for Haiti" website at:
www.hopeforhaitinow.org
And make a difference silently by making a donation.
THANKS.
Sincerely,
Kerry Xiong
GIV2CURE Member
P.S.
The section of the article was taken from Yahoo! engine and is in no part, the work of Giv2Cure.
I have been reading around and stumbled upon an interesting move to support Haiti relief. Please read the following:
All-star Haiti telethon raises $57 million, so far
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer
Sat Jan 23, 4:18 PM PST
Organizers for the all-star "Hope for Haiti Now" telethon say the event raised $57 million — and counting.
"The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with 'Hope for Haiti Now,' and the donations continue to come in," Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday. The group is helping to oversee the funds gathered from the event.
The two-hour telethon aired Friday night on the major networks and dozens of other channels, including MTV, Bravo, and PBS, and was also streamed live online. Stars like Brad Pitt, Beyonce, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen and more used their presence to encourage donations for Haiti, following a Jan. 12 earthquake that killed an estimated 200,000 people.
The total released Saturday includes money raised by phone, text and the Web. It does not include donations by corporations or via iTunes, where people are able to buy performances of the event for 99 cents each, or the entire album for $7.99. Those funds also go to Haiti relief.
>>>And word from GIV2CURE, please be sure to visit the "Hope for Haiti" website at:
www.hopeforhaitinow.org
And make a difference silently by making a donation.
THANKS.
Sincerely,
Kerry Xiong
GIV2CURE Member
P.S.
The section of the article was taken from Yahoo! engine and is in no part, the work of Giv2Cure.
Monday, January 18, 2010
Disaster in Haiti
Hello everyone,
Giv2Cure has been quite busy, working on food orders, cooking tutorials, reading news articles and books. We wanted to mention a word on the Disaster posted upon Haiti. There have currently been over thousands of people whom have volunteered their time to help out...and you can to. If not physically, please donate to the Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti by visiting the following website:
http://www.redcrossarizona.org/site/PageServer?pagename=donate_online&src=1001haitieqhome
and clicking on :"Donate to Our International Response Fund" and make a difference silently. Please help support relief/response teams within this and other organizations; much appreciation is granted out to you all.
Please make your move now; help donate and spread the word.
In safe and responsive regards,
Giv2Cure
"where Caring and Undersatanding Reaches Everyone"
Kerry Xiong and Mainhia Xiong
Giv2Cure has been quite busy, working on food orders, cooking tutorials, reading news articles and books. We wanted to mention a word on the Disaster posted upon Haiti. There have currently been over thousands of people whom have volunteered their time to help out...and you can to. If not physically, please donate to the Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti by visiting the following website:
http://www.redcrossarizona.org/site/PageServer?pagename=donate_online&src=1001haitieqhome
and clicking on :"Donate to Our International Response Fund" and make a difference silently. Please help support relief/response teams within this and other organizations; much appreciation is granted out to you all.
Please make your move now; help donate and spread the word.
In safe and responsive regards,
Giv2Cure
"where Caring and Undersatanding Reaches Everyone"
Kerry Xiong and Mainhia Xiong
Sunday, January 10, 2010
How to Cook? Anyone?
Hello to all the visiters and those who have ordered food from Giv2Cure in the past. We woul like to inform all that we are currently setting up cooking videos/tutorials that will aid those interested in the steps in which we cook Giv2Cure foods. We have received lots of requests for directions and we hope the videos will help.
Regards,
Giv2Cure
Regards,
Giv2Cure
Sunday, January 3, 2010
This is the cover of the book just in case any of you are interested. Pick it up, it'll really help steer your life into the desired path. Wait till I finish it, I'll give you all more insight.
Sincerely,
Kerry Xiong
Giv2Cure
P.S. Thanks to google images for this wonderful image, found at http://www.wesleyan.org/wph/assets/dev_pics/ReThinkYourLifeCVR%20Frnt.jpg
Thanks all.
ReThink YOUR Life
Hello Guys,
In fulflling the goal of Giv2Cure, I feel the need to step back and Rethink my life. This step backwards will enable me to better serve my community and families that call for help; the ones in need of assistence.
"Rethink Your Life" by Stan Toler is a book that I recently picked up from Half Priced Books, in Crystal, MN. It first introduces the wills of a christain and goes quite in depth into, what I interpret as, humanity's goal; a person's focus; what one was put on this earth to do.
Think about this and tell me, have you ever thought of the reason why your reside in this very planet? Why were we really placed in this world?; what is our purpose in life?, how do we find happiness?, why does suffering exist?, what accounts for the occurences that do occur in the very day?, why doesn't God fix everything; fix innocent suffering?
Lastly, where do reason arise from?
My response to these is quite simple. We (I) are/am put into this world to justify this corrupted earth; though God created the earth and heavens and saw that it was good, it all has come out of proportion, hasn't it?
To make a long argument short, I would agree with the famous philosopher, Dostoevsky and to some of his arguments given by his short story, The Russain Monk:
God: Some arguments for this position.
1.Free will outweighs anytype of suffering.
2.All part of God's convenant, everything will be shown to be right and just at the end when Jesus comes dpown and sends some to heaven and some to hell (those who deserve it).
3.Future Harmony outwieghs suffering. The suffering now will finally or ultimately lead to FUTURE HARMONY.
4. Suffering builds character; suffering is simply the contrast to helps us understand happiness.
5. Adam ate the apple, the fall of men inhereted sin, inhereted sin is what causes the suffering and we cannot do anyting about that.
Ivan: Some counterarguments for the above arguments.
1. If this (innocent suffering) is the meaning of freewill then God, I don't want it ! take it away and releive us of this innocent suffering, because FREEWILL DOES NOT OUTWIEGH SUFFERING!
2. Jesus will explain everything to me, if God came down and tells me that the tortured little girl was just and good, my rational mind could not possibly grasp of that information. There is not a way that my mind could understand of this explanation, how can it be justified? I can't, I just can't understand it; my rational mind could not take that into understanding, and if this was the case, I now am clueless of the meaning of GOOD and BAD.
3. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs? Well don't break the egg then because I don't want the omelet.
4. Cannot be forgiving because what about the littleboy that got torn apart?! How did he build his character; how could he build his character, He's Dead!! Maybe his mother could build character from this, but man! that's just CRUEL! What the heck is this! This is crazy! How can one build character on another's suffering.
5. Ridiculous, this is!How can I inheret this from something that happened so lon ago? I wasn;t even around when this happened! How can this be? Adam ate the apple, why blame me for that!!!
Please ask questions if you donot understand. I learned these from my philosophy course, at UST.
Sincerely,
Kerry Xiong
Giv2Cure
In fulflling the goal of Giv2Cure, I feel the need to step back and Rethink my life. This step backwards will enable me to better serve my community and families that call for help; the ones in need of assistence.
"Rethink Your Life" by Stan Toler is a book that I recently picked up from Half Priced Books, in Crystal, MN. It first introduces the wills of a christain and goes quite in depth into, what I interpret as, humanity's goal; a person's focus; what one was put on this earth to do.
Think about this and tell me, have you ever thought of the reason why your reside in this very planet? Why were we really placed in this world?; what is our purpose in life?, how do we find happiness?, why does suffering exist?, what accounts for the occurences that do occur in the very day?, why doesn't God fix everything; fix innocent suffering?
Lastly, where do reason arise from?
My response to these is quite simple. We (I) are/am put into this world to justify this corrupted earth; though God created the earth and heavens and saw that it was good, it all has come out of proportion, hasn't it?
To make a long argument short, I would agree with the famous philosopher, Dostoevsky and to some of his arguments given by his short story, The Russain Monk:
God: Some arguments for this position.
1.Free will outweighs anytype of suffering.
2.All part of God's convenant, everything will be shown to be right and just at the end when Jesus comes dpown and sends some to heaven and some to hell (those who deserve it).
3.Future Harmony outwieghs suffering. The suffering now will finally or ultimately lead to FUTURE HARMONY.
4. Suffering builds character; suffering is simply the contrast to helps us understand happiness.
5. Adam ate the apple, the fall of men inhereted sin, inhereted sin is what causes the suffering and we cannot do anyting about that.
Ivan: Some counterarguments for the above arguments.
1. If this (innocent suffering) is the meaning of freewill then God, I don't want it ! take it away and releive us of this innocent suffering, because FREEWILL DOES NOT OUTWIEGH SUFFERING!
2. Jesus will explain everything to me, if God came down and tells me that the tortured little girl was just and good, my rational mind could not possibly grasp of that information. There is not a way that my mind could understand of this explanation, how can it be justified? I can't, I just can't understand it; my rational mind could not take that into understanding, and if this was the case, I now am clueless of the meaning of GOOD and BAD.
3. You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs? Well don't break the egg then because I don't want the omelet.
4. Cannot be forgiving because what about the littleboy that got torn apart?! How did he build his character; how could he build his character, He's Dead!! Maybe his mother could build character from this, but man! that's just CRUEL! What the heck is this! This is crazy! How can one build character on another's suffering.
5. Ridiculous, this is!How can I inheret this from something that happened so lon ago? I wasn;t even around when this happened! How can this be? Adam ate the apple, why blame me for that!!!
Please ask questions if you donot understand. I learned these from my philosophy course, at UST.
Sincerely,
Kerry Xiong
Giv2Cure
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Hello Guys,
Just wanted to shoot out a post. We (Mainhia and Kerry) have been quite busy. If had no been mentioned earlier, we attend University of St. Thomas, and before Christmas, we were currently on winter break. Since we are commuters, we had the opportunity to spend much time with our family during the holiday. To give an update of what we have been up to, we have continued with the eggroll business during Christmas, (and sorry to those who did not receive a "reply" email message; our shedule was pretty tight), and have help support various families by using a portion of the proceedings to purchase presents and meal money for a four children through a program for volunteers (we will provide the name of this at a latter time). This was a wonderful experience and we will keep on finding ways to spark joy in people's lives by doing such acts with all the proceedings earned in the future, along with keeping this blog up and running. Thanks for your time in reading this.
New plans for this new year, 2010, we will strive to earn more money and help out more organizations that funds money for families in need, is in regards to cancer research or funds cure(s), and strives to change lives: just as our goal sets out.
Thanks to eveyone for your support.
See you next time. Leave a comment.
Kerry and Mainhia Xiong
Just wanted to shoot out a post. We (Mainhia and Kerry) have been quite busy. If had no been mentioned earlier, we attend University of St. Thomas, and before Christmas, we were currently on winter break. Since we are commuters, we had the opportunity to spend much time with our family during the holiday. To give an update of what we have been up to, we have continued with the eggroll business during Christmas, (and sorry to those who did not receive a "reply" email message; our shedule was pretty tight), and have help support various families by using a portion of the proceedings to purchase presents and meal money for a four children through a program for volunteers (we will provide the name of this at a latter time). This was a wonderful experience and we will keep on finding ways to spark joy in people's lives by doing such acts with all the proceedings earned in the future, along with keeping this blog up and running. Thanks for your time in reading this.
New plans for this new year, 2010, we will strive to earn more money and help out more organizations that funds money for families in need, is in regards to cancer research or funds cure(s), and strives to change lives: just as our goal sets out.
Thanks to eveyone for your support.
See you next time. Leave a comment.
Kerry and Mainhia Xiong
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