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Originally Posted by BK001
Ok Tal, I'm sure I am not the only Nothing who is a little perplexed by the above. I know you are a numbers guy so there must be some significance to the numbers.
Most people will donate in increments of $5, 10, 15 or $20. But why the strange amounts. And, why two checks of $2.24 and $6.14 rather than a total of $8.38? Inquiring minds want to know. It may be none of my business, but hey, you started it. LOL.
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$2.24 represents my birthday of 2-24 and $6.13 is for 613 my subject number in a 17 week study on stress on the unemployed conducted by the University of California, San Francisco Health Sciences Campus in late 1992-1993. I have used these two numbers 613 and 224 since late 1992 to try to get practical materials into or accessible through libraries of all kinds all over the world while enlisting writers, journalists, actors, students, religious leaders, movie directors, lawyers, social workers, teachers, psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, and many others in creating an ongoing dialog about what would be the best things to have in or accessible through libraries. I faced a lot of resistance from some librarians starting in Reno, Nevada in 1989 before even starting this but it was trial-and-error and the like for quite some time. 1989 is when I returned to Reno, Nevada in a summer convention for law librarians and where my being there triggered a lot of memories dealing with me looking for materials from late February 1976 to help myself and my fellow Earl Wooster High School students deal with the 2-24-1976 murder investigation in the slaying of Michelle Mitchell near the University of Nevada, Reno campus. Michelle was the daughter of my then Earl Wooster High School English teacher Mrs. Barbara Mitchell. NOTHING but quite dramatic.
It was karma that the law library convention in 1989 was in Reno, Nevada a few weeks after I graduated from the U of MN Law School. The next one was in Minneapolis in the Summer of 1990 then New Orleans in the Summer 1991. San Francisco in the Summer of 1992.
Most of this involves lawyer, law librarian and librarian conventions and associations of all kinds. Especially those involving victim/witness assistance providers which are located mostly in police departments. I wanted to get movie stars, movie directors,
and movie studios and the like involved in this as they are good at spotlighting problems and I needed to get creative given my limited resources.
And I think that these fellow 1989 law grads would notice what I am doing and how as I certainly talked a lot with some of them about my experiences in Reno, Nevada.
I minored in Religious Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno mainly because I was very much concerned with the ideas of why God allows things to happen to good people and the like and how to discover one's own role in stuff.