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As you all know Earth Hour is this month on the 28th at 8:30 Central Time until 9:30 PM central time. But theres something special amiss here. I have sent the following letter into the World Wildlife Fund in hopes they will publicize my website, blog, and video feed that will be coming back EXCLUSIVELY for earth hour.

The event will start at 8:00 PM, exactly 30 minutes before the actual start time. At this time, ALL non vital equipment in my room of the house (at the very least) will be powered off or switched to its battery if it is vital (laptop computer / cellular data system / respiratory maintenance equipment) All lights within the house will (hopefully) be shut off except for two emergency night lights both of which are low wattage lights. Via the cellular uplink I will be taking real time live earth hour calls via skype phone and running a live telethon on USTREAM available at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/earth-hour-live-2009 The show will actively collect money in a 50% / 50% split, 50% for benefit of Alin S Fund (not a 501 (c) 3 organization, reason: I can’t afford the registration costs along with a lawyer to handle it.) and 50% will be donated to the World Wildlife Fund (Operator of Earth Hour 2009)

All public gathering should be done on the USTREAM URL. Anyone is welcome provided they do not abuse the digital telethon facility.

All questions comments or concerns should be directed to.

Contact Name: Alin S
Contact’s Organization: Alin S Fund
Contact’s Position: Owner / Operator

I included my cell phone number, fax, and e-mail in my original letter so they can send me any forms or anything I need to fill out.

Your big question at this point is, Why suck yourself into yet another responsibility. Well the beauty of this is its simple, all I have to do at this point is advertise it a bit, and lets all get viral with this! I want to see at least 50 people in the UStream channel at any given time! Whether World Wildlife Federation supports and advertises it or not the 50% / 50% split of all donations will be used and the event will move on!

Another question may be, Why did you not do this last year. The answer is that around this time last year I was fresh out of my G-Tube surgery! I have up and coming surgery for Selective Dorsal Rhizotomies to hopefully repair my contractures in my legs but I will make sure the surgery is scheduled for after Earth Hour day.

Depending on the experience on this Earth Hour Telethon I may do telethons for other special events around the year.

The EarthHour Chicago team has not contacted me but they are following me on twitter, so the event is NOT officially sanctioned by them, yet. But I consider that a Pseudo-Official sanction.

Finalization of the event has occurred. The event will NOT be canceled unless there is an emergency.

I will keep all of you up to date on this event and its progress.