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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....also_on_reuters PORT BLAIR, India (Reuters) - A group of children clamber curiously over their new toy, a power tiller that sits otherwise unused by the side of a dirt road in a coconut palm-fringed village. Hundreds of power tillers, sometimes known as walking tractors, have been sent to India's remote Andaman and Nicobar islands in the wake of the 2004 Asian tsunami. But tribal leaders, farmers and activists say the Indian government has simply been wasting its money as they don't know what to do with the machines, including the one that has become a plaything in Malacca village in Car Nicobar. In the southern Nicobar group of islands, which lie much closer to Indonesia than to India, tribes have maintained coconut plantations for generations and have no tradition of cultivation. "This relief package for agriculture is a surprise for us, as most of our people don't know how to use a power tiller or how to do cultivation," said Martin Luther, a member of the tribal council on Car Nicobar island, who lives by Malacca village. "Very few of us are making use of it, and in most cases in Car Nicobar these tillers are either used for carrying goods or simply kept unused," he said. More than 300 tillers, each costing nearly 100,000 Indian rupees ($2,150) were sent to the Nicobar islands. Thomas Philip, secretary of the tribal council on Car Nicobar, says 106 were sent to his island when just one or two would have been enough. It does not surprise Samir Acharya of the Society for Andaman and Nicobar Ecology, who says he has seen tsunami relief often mis-spent in the archipelago, some 1,200 km (750 miles) off India's eastern coast. "It seems there were funds available for tsunami relief and there was pressure to invest them, so without proper survey of tsunami-hit farmers these power tillers were purchased," he said. "They are now laying unused in the Nicobar islands." more at link These types of stories seem all too familar. The UN sucks at this. People get nervous about donating to private charities. There has to be a better way so people are helped and money isn't wasted, thoughts??

Sounds like a great deal. I've stopped taking out extended warranties a long time ago, and IIRC, I've probably saved a couple thousand dollars and haven't had a consumer electronics item that failed where the extended warranty would have helped. Laptops would be the one exception I can think of. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/persona...ranty/index.htm

QUOTE(BobDylan @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 02:14 PM) I before E except after C. E before I except after Y Spring back, Fall forward Feed a fever, starve a cold

All of our food is unsafe to some degree. The more we process it, the more we manufacture meat, the less safe it is. I've just read the mercury warnings, and don't forget aluminum cookware may be linked to Alzheimers.

QUOTE(southsider2k5 @ Aug 31, 2006 -> 07:42 AM) Not to mention their employees act like comissioned scumbags That's because they are commisioned employees.

I keep forgetting the city is above that now. The trucking fiasco was probably the final straw.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/sox/cst-spt-sside31.html some great Oz quotes

Damn, damn, damn. On the other hand, it is hard to argue with a property owner that wishes to use his property in a legal manner. Unless the owner is looking to sell the building as condos, I think it's a bad business decision. But, like others have said, another place will have a hard time of it for the first year. I use to believe places like this can not be replaced, but time has proven they can be. Dye takes over for Maggs, Thome takes over for Thomas, Another bar takes over for Jimbo's. Time marches on. Another thought, Chicago being Chicago and the city I love, Jimbo's friends downtown could mention the difficulties in passing inspections that *could* happen if Jimbo's wasn't there. Not that anything like that would ever happen in the city.

QUOTE(IlliniKrush @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 10:11 PM) Pretty stupid. Who are the White Sox and/or Freddy to decide how Young needs to be punished? The goal is to win the world series. How hitting Delmon Young contributes to winning the world series, i'll never know. All it could do is hurt our chances, after one of our guys gets hit and injured or there's a brawl. It was stupid. I agree with you and also am glad Freddy made the pitch. It was wrong and it was right.

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 04:48 PM) It should be to the point, business, and professional. What's wrong with that? If I am reading Steff's post correctly she is agreeing with you. The first line was at Radio Shack. Also, go back and read the article, this was a lay-off. If ever there was a time to show some compassion it is when someone is let go because of declining sales that they did not have a direct influence.

QUOTE(witesoxfan @ Aug 29, 2006 -> 08:39 PM) Be it right or wrong, I basically lump 1Bman an dDH into the same category when comparing them in the MVP. Can't be right or wrong, this is straight opinion, yours is as right as mine. Looking at the "Value" component of the DH, a 1st baseman can move and DH, the reverse isn't always true.

Remember on Cheers when Norm's job was to fire people . . . Why would a company want to terminate someone in a decent manner? Perhaps to show the other employees that it is a good company to work for. That they will be treated like decent human beings. Let's also remember that these people were not being fired for cause, they were being laid off because people were not walking in the stores to buy stuff. This isn't some incompetent person who got caught having sex in the copier room (do you miss them Steff?)

QUOTE(Balta1701 @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 03:05 PM) Remember, this is a game in New York, which means that tickets can be sold and money made for both games. You just need the time to empty the stadium between games. I see it's the ESPN game tonight as well. I forget which Yankee it was but he talked about the rock star like surroundings the Yankees have and how it can get tiring.

Is Game two of the Tiger double header really scheduled for 7:05?? That seems stupid. Even if it is a double rain out thing.

Isn't technology grand. I think a text message would have been nicer. But I'm a sentimental fool. I will now boycott Radio Shack, unless they have a really good sale

Scoreboard watching as officially begun for me. I watched the last of the Yankee's game on Gamecast. September could be a long and exciting month. Let's hope the Yankees stay on a roll . . .

QUOTE(kapkomet @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 02:08 PM) Good. Nice to see you're going to be dead by the end of the day from asphyxiation. It's a new twist on running for President, the I didn't exhale story . . .

QUOTE(beautox @ Aug 30, 2006 -> 10:49 AM) The Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia, has twice as many bathrooms as is necessary. When it was built in the 1940s, the state of Virginia still had segregation laws requiring separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites. Can there ever really be enough bathrooms?

Didn't McMahon take a leak at a golf outing while miked?

What we are talking about here is maintaining discipline and safety in the school. Eliminating gang colors and dress, telling kids not to show off their ass and breasts. Avoiding advertisements for illegal at that age products. Am I to take it seriously that Lennon would have been less of a songwriter if he couldn't wear a Miller Lite T-shirt, show off his ass crack, and wear a sombrero in class? GMAB Can parents set limits, or would that destroy the next Picasso also? Suzy doesn't want to wear a bra and enjoys the freedom of expression that comes with exposing her nipples, I'd tell her to change, but I don't want to make a social judgement.

Like a menu at a bad restaurant . . .

I would love to have him. He would be a great addition to the team's playoff chances. Wait, this is futuresox.com and we're talking for the Knights aren't we? No way. Pass. Let some NL team have him,

67 year old luxembourgeoise grandma living with 24 cats in Toronto.

http://www.wikihow.com/Dress-Like-an-Indiv...th-a-Dress-Code More at link

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews....xml&src=rss SYDNEY (Reuters) - Hot and bothered by rising pump prices? Australian brothels are offering clients discounts based on their gas bills. Brothel owners claim the system works much the same way as supermarkets which offer shoppers discounted gas prices by presenting their grocery bills when they fill up their tanks. "If you come in and spend time with one of our lovely ladies, we'll give you a discount of 20 cents a liter," Kerry, manager of Sydney brothel The Site, told Reuters Wednesday.