That woman that was on the mattress floating around the ocean for 5 days... is having a baby.

 

quote:

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An Indonesian woman who was discovered last week after surviving for five days in the Indian Ocean is pregnant, doctors have announced.

Malawati, in her early 20s, knew she was expecting a child but had not told her rescuers because she assumed she would have lost it in her ordeal.

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-- BBC

 

 

 

for her and her child.

The San Fransico Giants are doing a whole bunch of auctions to raise funds for Tsunami victims. One of the things being auctioned is a meal for you and 3 friends with Barry Bonds.

 

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/NASApp/...ws_sf&fext=.jsp

The San Fransico Giants are doing a whole bunch of auctions to raise funds for Tsunami victims.  One of the things being auctioned is a meal for you and 3 friends with Barry Bonds.

 

http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/NASApp/...ws_sf&fext=.jsp

 

{insert baroid joke here}

Here's a nice animal related story;

 

A BABY hippopotamus, swept into the Indian Ocean by the tsunami, is finally coming out of his shell thanks to the love of a 120-year-old tortoise.

 

Owen, a 300kg, one-year-old hippo, was swept down the Sabaki River, into the ocean and then back to shore when the giant waves struck the Kenyan coast.

 

The dehydrated hippo was found by wildlife rangers and taken to the Haller Park animal facility in the port city of Mombasa.

 

Pining for his lost mother, Owen quickly befriended a giant male Aldabran tortoise named Mzee - Swahili for "old man".

 

Haller Park ecologist Paula Kahumbu said the pair were now inseparable.

 

"It is incredible. A hippo has adopted a male tortoise, about a century old, and the tortoise seems to be very happy with being a mother," Ms Kahumbu said. "The hippo follows the tortoise the way it follows its mother.

 

"The hippo was left at a very tender age. Hippos are social animals that like to stay with their mothers for four years."

 

Officials are hopeful Owen will befriend a female hippo called Cleo, also a resident at the park.

i just saw the some of the actual video and this sucks, know what happen. you see people who was clinging on and they lost their grips.

 

i feel for them.

After the quake sections of Sumatra moved upto 60 feet

 

Interesting article on plate techtonics and the future Pangea Ultima

Two weeks later, the Earth is still ringing

An Indonesian man was rescued after almost two weeks at sea.

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6806475/

Illinois Congressman Mark Kirk on being labeled "stingy" on aid for the Tsunami. I love this write up!

 

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/hearing/il1...pedtsunami.html

Indonesia wants forgein troops out now.

 

http://sg.news.yahoo.com/050112/1/3psy7.html

A document in Indonesia saids that 210,000 in that country alone are dead or missing. That could put the total tsunami death toll at 272,000

 

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington.../printstory.jsp

I just read the toll is above 175,000 and that there are "imminent" terror threats against aid workers in Indonesia....

 

Yahoo! Link

Germans give $522M

 

 

World - AFP

AFP

German private donations to tsunami victims at record 400 million euros

 

BERLIN (AFP) - In just three weeks, the German public has donated a record 400 million euros (522 million dollars) in aid for victims of the Asian tsunamis, making Germany the most generous country worldwide in helping the Indian Ocean region recover from the disaster.ctims at record 400 million euros

 

"Four hundred million euros in private donations have been collected. I am happy that German people have shown themselves to be so generous, sensitive and willing to help," Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder told a news conference of foreign journalists.

 

"This shows that Germany's international responsibility is not only being taken seriously by the politicians, but also by civil society," he added.

 

The record vaults Germany, with an additional government pledge of 500 million euros in aid, to the top of the global list of those responding to last month's catastrophic earthquake and floods.

 

One of the biggest individual contributions came from Michael Schumacher, motor racing's Formula One world champion, who donated 7.5 million euros.

 

The chancellor said the generosity was in part perhaps because the December 26 earthquake off Indonesia and the resulting tidal waves -- which have killed more than 168,000 people across 11 countries -- evoked memories among older Germans of the destruction and tens of thousands of civilian deaths during World War II.

 

In addition, he said the record was because Germans "empathized" with the Asians, the majority of them poor and many of them children, affected by the disaster.

 

The fact that so many Germans travel to southern Asia, particularly the worst-hit countries of Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, likely also played a role encouraging Germans to dig deep.

 

The previous record stood at 350 million euros in the summer of 2002, when massive flooding hit large parts of eastern and southern Germany.

 

The Asian disaster has claimed at least 60 German lives, and left 678 officially missing.

 

Donors in other countries -- such as Sweden, Australia, the United States, Canada, France, Britain and Italy -- have also offered tens, sometimes more than a hundreds millions dollars in private donations.

 

Only in the richest nation, the United States did the public, along with top stars of Hollywood and the music industry help US private donations reach 350 million dollars.

 

The Australians have also been generous, contributing at least 118 million dollars through various events, including a telethon and an international cricket match.

 

The British public has given 190 million dollars so far and more money is likely to flow in, with British pop and rock stars to play a concert later this month in aid of victims.

 

In all, private donations from all the world's countries add up to close to 2.3 billion dollars, according to an AFP tally.

They just upped the count of dead in Indonesia by 50,000, putting the toll at 225,000 plus... wow.

That's like 8x as many people dead as live in my hometown. Wow....

Also over 600,000 still estimated homeless in Indonesia

Italian PM is donating $5 million Euro's (about $6.5 million) to Tsunami Aid.

 

http://au.news.yahoo.com/050121/19/sozo.html

Jay Leno's Harley is now up for auction. Right now the highest approved bid is $25,100.

 

http://members.ebay.com/ws2/eBayISAPI.dll?...=JayLeno-Harley

"We are the World" is going to be revived for Tsunami Aid.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/2...reut/index.html

Almost 300,000 now.

 

Death toll in Asian tsunami disaster tops 295,000

 

JAKARTA (AFP) - The number of people believed killed in December's tsunami disaster topped 295,000, six weeks after the catastrophe, as Indonesia again increased its number of dead.

 

Indonesia was hardest-hit by the December 26 quake and tsunamis, with a total of 242,347 people listed as dead or missing, the health ministry said in its latest figures.

 

The ministry said the number of people confirmed dead had risen to 114,573 while the number of people missing and almost certainly dead remained at 127,774.

 

Thailand's toll remained at 5,393 confirmed dead. A further 3,071 people were listed as missing, more than 1,000 of them foreigners.

 

The toll in Sri Lanka, which was second hardest hit by the catastrophe, stood at 30,957, according to the Centre for National Operations.

 

The number of people listed as missing was 5,637, but many were expected to be among those never formally identified, hurriedly buried and included in the confirmed death toll.

 

In neighbouring India, the official death toll was 10,749 with 5,640 still reported missing and feared dead.

 

The government was soon expected to draw up final casualty figures in which the missing were declared dead.

 

Myanmar has said 61 people were killed in the tsunamis.

 

At least 82 people were killed and another 26 were missing in the Maldives.

 

Sixty-eight people were dead in Malaysia, most of them in Penang, according to police, while Bangladesh reported two deaths.

 

On the east coast of Africa, 298 people were declared dead in Somalia, 10 in Tanzania and one in Kenya. Relief workers have said they believe the figure for Somali fatalities to be exaggerated.

 

The US Geological Survey said the earthquake west of the Indonesian island of Sumatra measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, making it the largest quake worldwide in four decades.

 

Death toll

 

Indonesia: 242,347

Sri Lanka: 30,957

India: 16,389

Thailand: 5,393

Maldives: 82

Malaysia: 68

Myanmar: 61

Bangladesh: 2

Somalia: 298

Tanzania: 10

Kenya: 1

Total: 295,608

The figures include 127,774 listed as missing in Indonesia and 5,640 in India.

 

In addition, 3,071 people are listed as missing in Thailand and 5,637 in Sri Lanka but not included in the toll because of possible double counting.

I am not quite sure what to make of this, but according to the author the tsunami has been good economically for Sri Lanka

 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...my_050208034722

I am not quite sure what to make of this, but according to the author the tsunami has been good economically for Sri Lanka

 

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/a...my_050208034722

How you can put a positive spin on the effects of this tsunami is literally quite insane.

How you can put a positive spin on the effects of this tsunami is literally quite insane.

 

That is pretty much what I was thinking.... I am sure that 31,000 people don't think it was that beneficial.

That is pretty much what I was thinking....  I am sure that 31,000 people don't think it was that beneficial.

I know. Tell that to those victims who lost family members, who are trying to rebuild their lives and the community they live in over there.

I believe its economically good because now all the businesses have to rebuild and there is a lot of money being poured into the effort. So lots of businesses are reaping the rewards for this...not saying its a good thing but it seems to be the way of things..like the old saying "Destruction breeds creation".