X-Spam-Status: No -- Hits: -2.599 Required: 5 X-Spam-Summary: BAYES_00 Sender: -2.599 (spamval) -- NONE Return-Path: Received: from smtp.eecs.umich.edu (smtp.eecs.umich.edu [141.213.4.43]) by boston.eecs.umich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB9Gf5he008209 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:41:05 -0500 Received: from escape.mr.itd.umich.edu (escape.mr.itd.umich.edu [141.211.14.71]) by smtp.eecs.umich.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id iB9GevLt031172; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:40:57 -0500 Received: FROM boston.eecs.umich.edu (boston.eecs.umich.edu [141.213.4.61]) BY escape.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 41B87E4E.66725.31819 ; 9 Dec 2004 11:33:18 -0500 Received: from boston.eecs.umich.edu (localhost.eecs.umich.edu [127.0.0.1]) by boston.eecs.umich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iB9GXHhe008057 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:33:17 -0500 Received: from localhost (dreeves Æ localhost) by boston.eecs.umich.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id iB9GXG0M008054 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:33:17 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: boston.eecs.umich.edu: dreeves owned process doing -bs X-X-Sender: dreeves Æ boston.eecs.umich.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 141.213.4.43 Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2004 11:33:16 -0500 (EST) To: improvetheworld Æ umich.edu From: Daniel Reeves Subject: Buy Blue Current Campaign (fwd) (and a nice skating story) Status: O X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 38 Useful email from Tony (feel free to argue about this, Cam!). I'm also appending a touching skating story. See below. --Danny ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:13:03 -0500 From: anthony nicholson Subject: Buy Blue Current Campaign Here's a page which helps you vote with your wallet when doing Christmas shopping. Who knew that Borders gave 100% of its political donations to the Democrats? Guess it makes sense, given that store #1 is in Ann Arbor. Maybe they're not such an evil corporation after all. ----- SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Polish man traveled more than 3,000 miles on rollerblades to Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters to ask Chairman Bill Gates pay the medical costs of two disabled Polish girls, the company said on Tuesday. Krzysztof Dzienniak, 24, rolled into Microsoft's Redmond, Washington campus on Monday after setting off from New York in late August to raise money for 7 year-old Monika Mosur, who was born with hydrocephalus, and Patrycja Bialkowska, a 10 year-old who lost a foot in an accident. Although Dzienniak did not get to meet with Gates, who was out of town, he did convince Microsoft executives to set up a special employee-contribution fund for the girls, with donations matched dollar-for-dollar by Microsoft. Gates kicked off the fund, established in association with the charity group SOS Children's Villages, with a $1,000 personal contribution and encouraged Microsoft's employees to donate as well. "We do respond to needs like this... and hope that we will be able to raise the money necessary for the girls' treatment," a Microsoft spokeswoman said. Dzienniak, who lives in Warsaw and read about the girls' plight, decided to make the trip after Gates visited Poland in 2003. He said he was inspired to make the trip by the movie "Forrest Gump." Dzienniak wore out three pairs of rollerblades, or inline skates, and traveled about 32 miles a day.