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3yr old Charmaine has been diagnosed with neuroblastoma (cancer) & needs your help. When I first learnt of her plight, little was known to directly help Charmaine. It is heartening to know that there are still on-going efforts to raise funds for her.

I am not in any way affiliated with Bak2U, but I believe this is a sincere & worthy effort as 100% of sales proceeds will go into funding Charmaine’s expensive ($350,000 USD) overseas treatment.

In case, you have concerns with the legitimacy of this effort: Bak2U is a innovative local brand with proven technology used by users all over the world to protect devices & laptops. It was founded by Mr Paddy Tan (twitter link), who is also the Honorary Secretary of Singapore Mobile Alliance.

This is a win-win arrangement; help Charmaine & protect your investments at the same time! Visit http://bak2u.com/singapore.php

Please help spread the word through your own blogs, facebook, twitter & other online social media!

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    Please help save Ivan, son of Andrii Nikitin (MySQL Support Engineer), who needs a bone marrow transplant. Andrii’s message is below:

    “My family got bad news – doctors said allogenic bone marrow transplantation is the only chance for my son Ivan.

    “8 months of heavy and expensive immune suppression brought some positive results so we hoped that recovering is just question of time.

    “Ivan is very brave boy – not every human meets so much suffering during whole life, like Ivan already met in his 2,5 years. But long road is still in front of us to get full recover – we are ready to come it through.

    “Ukrainian clinics have no technical possibility to do such complex operation, so we need 150-250K EUR for Israel or European or US clinic. The final decision will be made considering amount we able to find. Perhaps my family is able to get ~60% of that by selling the flat where parents leave and some other goods, but we still require external help.”

    – Andrii Nikitin, MySQL Engineer

    For donation: Donation can be made through PayPal (via MySQL/Sun website)

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      Below is a touching email from a father to the Opensource guys/gals…

      Price of a refurbished AMD computer: $184

      The joy of a parent who installed a free Operating System to help her child learn: PRICELESS!

      https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2008-May/004196.html

      Robert Azinger roboghast at yahoo.com
      Sun May 11 05:38:23 BST 2008


      This post is for all of you out there
      who have developed or contributed to Linux/Ubuntu projects and all of the open
      source coders who read this.I do not know where to send a post like this so I hope this one email will find its way in the sea of posts out there.
      
      I thank you to the point of tears.
      
      Earlier this week I installed Kubuntu
      on a refurbished AMD computer I purchased for $184 from a discount
      online vendor, it came with no OS. It now runs like a champ.
      
      We cant afford much and this was my 14
      year old daughter's birthday present this past week. She is
      overjoyed. And she is already trying to tackle Adept Manager and
      exploring Linux; adding bling and her music, of course.
      
      I cant tell you how much I appreciate
      the work you all have done. Its a work of art. If I could thank each and every one of
      you I would.
      
      You have given her the world to learn and explore.
      
      So if you get frustrated or tired in
      your work for Open Source/Free Software, just remember that somewhere in Missouri
      there is a 14 year-old girl named Hope, an A-student who runs on the track team,
      who is now your biggest fan and one of the newest users of
      Linux/Ubuntu.
      
      Thanks most sincerely,
      
      R.B.A.
      Missouri
      
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      Robert. B. Azinger
      roboghast at yahoo.com
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