New "Move Over" Traffic Law for Californian

According to California Department of Transportation:

Sacramento –Caltrans wants the public to know about a new law signed by the governor that requires motorists to move over or slow down when they see a Caltrans vehicle flashing warning lights.

The new law, Senate Bill 240 (State Senator Roderick Wright), adds Caltrans vehicles displaying flashing amber warning lights to the list of vehicles for which motorists must slow down and, if safe, move over to a lane not immediately adjacent to the stationary vehicle.

Read the copy of passed California Senate Bill 240 in PDF

Other related info: Move Over, America

Haiti Update: CRS response continues. We need your help

Here is the email I received from Catholic Relief Services today:

Haiti Update: CRS response continues...we need your help

January 16, 2010

Dear Viet,

We wanted to update you on the situation in Haiti and how Catholic Relief Services is responding. Almost immediately following the earthquake, CRS began delivering lifesaving supplies, including food and water, to desperate survivors. The supplies were already in place in CRS' Port-au-Prince warehouse.

"We are fortunate to have had water in our warehouse," says Karel Zelenka, country representative for CRS Haiti. "We also trucked in family food kits from Les Cayes."

CRS has a staff of 313 on the ground, with more personnel arriving daily. CRS Haiti's headquarters building was damaged but did not collapse. Until its structural integrity is assured, aid workers are working and sleeping outside in tents or cars.

Additional food will arrive soon. "Fifteen hundred metric tons of wheat and oil will arrive in port shortly," says Schuyler Thorup, Regional Director for CRS Latin America. "We will distribute it immediately."

In the neighboring Dominican Republic, CRS is preparing food packages to feed 50,000 people. The packages are five-gallon buckets loaded with ready-to-eat foods that don’t need to be cooked. CRS is also readying water storage containers, water purification tablets, hygiene kits, cookware and plastic sheeting in Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

But we can’t do this without your help. We are asking you to please support our efforts to feed and shelter the earthquake victims in Haiti. Your help is urgently needed. Please donate now.

If you have already given, we thank you so much for your generosity and ask that you consider deepening your support for the people of Haiti with a second gift.

God bless you,
Ken Hackett
President
Catholic Relief Services


How to help the Victim of Haiti Earthquake

Donate via phone: 1-877-HELP-CRS
Donate via mobile device: Text RELIEF to 30644 and follow the instructions
Donate online: www.crs.org
Write a check:

Catholic Relief Services
P.O. Box 17090
Baltimore, Maryland 21203-7090
Memo portion of check: Haiti Earthquake

Merry Christmas

Kính chúc tất cả tràn đầy niềm vui và ơn Thánh nhân ngày lể Thiên Chúa giáng trần.

Vinh danh Thiên Chúa trên trời
Bình an dưới thế, cho người thiện tâm.

The Blind Girl

I received this story by email. I post it here instead of forward to others. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'II f I could only see the world, I will marry you.'

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her,'Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?' The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying: 'Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours, they were mine.'

This is how the human brain often works when our status changes. Only a very few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.

Make 600K in a month by iPhone Apps

Wow! This iPhone developer make 37K a day with his iPhone App. The story below inspires me.

Coder's Half-Million-Dollar Baby Proves iPhone Gold Rush Is Still On (http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/02/shoot-is-iphone/)

Stanford CS193P iPhone Application Programming

Study iPhone application programming at Stanford at no cost :) The lectures is on iTune U. Vist here for more info.

School Loop

Among of three web services that our school district using: Webgrade,Edline and SchoolLoop, I like SchoolLoop most. Second is Edline. The school district made a right choice when choose SchoolLoop as a web tool for all schools in district.Using SchoolLoop, the parent like me can help the student and teacher. SchoolLoop is a great communication tool for school and parent.