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Photo-A-Day

Hope for a Cure

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Hope for a Cure
Photo-A-Day #1526

Today Allison, Eva and I participated in the Relay for Life at our local High School. We had a really nice time. Eva enjoyed running around the track, stopping and looking at all the luminarias and spending time with her Memere. I had a great time taking photos all over the place and I even did a video, I’ll do more tomorrow and put it all together too.

While making the videos there were four teen girls who followed me for much of the shot. I didn’t know they were there until I got back to our tents. It is pretty funny, can’t wait to shot you the video. For now here are some shots I took.

Family Photo
The family in front of our team’s sign. Notice that we are all wearing our custom "BenSpark is Blogging This" T-shirts from Market Leverage. We love these shirts and they got a lot of attention.

Dadda is blogging this
Eva at the Relay for Life sporting her custom "Benspark is Blogging This" shirt from Market Leverage

Dadda is Blogging this
Eav and I modeling the "Benspark is Blogging This" shirts from Market Leverage

Running Momma
Eva running down the track with Allison following.

Lions
Eva so these luminarias with lions on them and had to stop

Eva hydrating
Having a little sippy sip (been watching too much of the Thundershow) before going back on the track.

Rainbow at Relay for Life
It was raining when we started the relay but the sun came out and so did a full rainbow, it was so big I could not get it all in the shot.

So many great people helped us out with donations and we raised $375 here at BenSpark.com. Our Team The Sacred Heart Stewards raised over $9,000 – So Awesome!

More donations can still be received, only $125 away from our $500 goal!!

Contest

16GB iPod Touch Winner

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In conjunction with Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs 2 I received a sponsorship prize from Market Leverage so that I could offer an online contest for the online fans of the Speed of Thought Players as well as for fans of Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs 2. Market Leverage supplied me with a Generation 2 16GB iPod Touch (I don’t even have one of those, what a sweet prize). I ran the contest and gave participants tons of ways to literally earn limitless entries. However, in the end it just comes down to random luck, although you could certainly have improved your odds of that luck being yours. I had a number of people who entered the contest and among them there were 404 total entries. So I listed out everyone’s entries. For each entry I put their name on a list that gave me my initial list of 404.

Then I tweeted out

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To which I received a response from @joetech who said the number 24. I responded in a tweet

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So I went to Random.org and ran my list of 404 names through the list randomizer 24 times. I stopped at 12 to tweet again just to get a little excitement building.

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I resumed my randomizing and so I continued on to randomize the list the full 24 times.

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I took my list and then ran the random integer generator and it gave me 237 as the winning number.

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Well 237 was the winning number so I tweeted that out for all to see.

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Okay I’ll stop stringing you along, the winner of the 16GB iPod Touch is….

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That’s right Andrew Beard was the winner of the 16GB iPod Touch. He goes by @anoo on Twitter.

I want to thank Dina Riccobono of Market Leverage for getting me the 16GB iPod Touch as a prize. I also want to thank everyone who took the time to comment contest on my two posts about Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs II. Being Responsible and Blogs, Brews 2 Recap. I also want to thank IZEA for being the sponsor of Blogs, Brews and Belly Laughs 2 when the original sponsor drop ped out.