| Just unbelievable....and these things like earthquakes, cyclones, lightening, volcanoes, tsunamis, tornadoes etc.... could happen anytime, anywhere...! |
could be funneled in through him?| Let's give a great big ROUND OF APPLAUSE that we have Phil back here in the forum and that he's A-OK! |
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Over 260 UK commercial radio stations have pledged their support for UK Radio Aid and will be replacing their traditional broadcasts for 12 hours from 6am on Monday (17/01) with nationally syndicated output dedicated to raising money for the Tsunami appeal. www.ukradioaid.com Auction bids for Monday's UK Radio Aid close at Midday tomorrow (Friday) for this unprecedented event, so there is still time to get involved and make a difference. Donations have already mounted with bids from advertisers for sponsorship slots already topping £500,000. In addition £250,000 has been raised though the UK's Commercial Radio Stations donating one day's profits Significant prizes have been donated to be won by listeners across the day (for example, one advertiser has offered a week on a luxury yacht in the Caribbean with crew) . Every penny from the promotional text mechanics across the day will go to charity All the money raised will go directly to the main Disasters and Emergency Committee. The presenter line up for the day will include: * Davina McCall * Dermot O'Leary * Chris Evans * Simon Bates * Jade Goody * Frank Skinner * Zoë Ball * Shane Ritchie * Mark Goodier * Sharon Osbourne * Johnny Vaughan * Lisa Tarbuck Live sessions will be coming from Ronan Keating, Jamelia and David Gray. A whole host of fabulous celebrities will be popping on air through out the day. Including Ricky Gervais, Angelina Jolie, Kim Catrall, Kylie Minogue, Christian Slater. Monday's Schedule: * 0600 - 0800 Davina McCall and Dermot O'Leary * 0800 - 1000 Chris Evans and Kate Thornton * 1000 - 1200 Simon Bates and Jade Goody * 1200 - 1400 Zoe Ball and Shane Ritchie * 1400 - 1600 TBC and Mark Goodier * 1600 - 1800 Johnny Vaughan and Liza Tarbuck Click here to find out what stations in your area are involved with UK Radio Aid: Weblink: Participating Stations Companies are encouraged to get involved as UK Radio Aid is looking for companies who are in a position to donate a prize (or prize fund) for one of the hourly competitions and are willing to make a financial contribution to the charity. Companies will receive at least four name mentions and thanks for support and providing the prizes during their competition hour. There are 12 hours and hence 12 competitions available for companies to support in the above way. The company who gives the biggest prize plus cash donation will have first choice on which competition hour they would like to sponsor (and so on). This will be decided at Midday on Friday, when all donations have been received. All other prizes are gratefully received and will be auctioned on a dedicated Uk Radio Aid auction site on e-bay. The site will be open from Saturday and close midnight on Thursday (this could be extended on certain items). Weblink: www.ukradioaid.com |
and the Australian Govt has chipped in with a very large aid package for Indonesia, not sure how much tho
One of the items that was bid on was a tour around the Prime Minister`s residence at 10, Downing Street. 
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BANDA ACEH — Indonesia's official death toll from the earthquake and tsunami disaster skyrocketed from more than 50,000 to 166,320 after many people listed as missing were confirmed dead. The country's health ministry said 166,080 people had died in Aceh, while 240 fatalities were recorded in the neighbouring province of North Sumatra. The latest tally now appears to be reaching the numbers the United States had warned repeatedly to expect. |
These areas are going to need every penny they can get for immediate needs, and even more so for rebuilding their future.
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Originally Posted by curly
I am just beginning to find out how much the whole world has thrown themselves into this and am gratefully amazed at the sums being raised.
Myself and my partner were on Phi Phi island when it hit and are very lucky to be alive. I am currently recovering in a Hong Kong hospital, and with only recent access to the internet had not previously been able to see what was going on in the world. We are lucky that we were able to return to our own home in another country, unlike thousands of others who have literally lost everything. Curly |
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A man who sent hoax e-mails to family and friends of people missing in the tsunami disaster falsely confirming their deaths was jailed for six months yesterday. Christopher Pierson, 40, wrote e-mails to 35 victims' relatives claiming to be from the British Government. Having taken the e-mail addresses of worried relatives from the Sky News website, he wrote to "confirm" that missing people were dead. Jailing him, Judge Daphne Wickham said the hurt and pain he had put his victims through was "indescribable". Bow Street magistrates' court was told that Pierson, a father-of-three from Ruskington, Lincs, set up a bogus e-mail account on New Year's Eve and logged on to the Sky News site, where people had posted their addresses in an attempt to get information about a loved one. |
, welcome back!
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Former United States presidents George H W Bush and Bill Clinton today visited a dusty fishing village that was devastated by the Indian Ocean earthquake-triggered tsunami on Boxing Day. The two men hope that their visit to the region will remind the world that Asia’s survivors desperately need help nearly two months after the calamity. Bush and Clinton, stewards of the American relief effort, stood in intense tropical heat as two children who lost family members in the flood presented them with drawings of the disaster. One showed a giant wave and a rescue helicopter overhead, and the other depicted floodwaters sweeping away people, cars and boats. The two men, sent by American President George W. Bush, visited Thailand on the first leg of a trip to several Asian countries battered by the earthquake and giant waves. “I don’t think there’s ever been a tragedy that affected the heartbeat of the American people as much as this tsunami has done,” the senior Bush said in the shattered village of Ban Nam Khem. “I don’t think you can put a limit on it. It’s so devastating. They’re still finding wreckage, still actually some bodies being recovered.” After arriving on the Thai resort island of Phuket on Saturday, the two men made their way by US military helicopter and then motorcade to Ban Nam Khem. The former political adversaries said their old differences were irrelevant to the task of providing relief. “On issues about which there can be no debate, there should be no problems,” Clinton said as Bush stood nearby. Clinton said estimates showed that one-third of American households had made contributions to tsunami relief, with more than half of those done on the internet. “When it comes to helping people, politics is aside,” Bush said. “I’ve enjoyed working with President Clinton. We were political adversaries. The current president and he don’t always see eye to eye on issues. But that is not what’s important here.” A crowd of several hundred villagers and journalists greeted them from behind barriers and a group of Thai school children in red caps and white shirts waved paper American flags. One banner in the crowd read: “Bill, let’s talk please.” A military commander told the two former leaders that 2,000 people – about a third of those killed by the tsunami in Thailand – died in the village and surrounding area about 400 miles southwest of Bangkok. Many of those killed in Thailand were foreign tourists staying in the resort area of Khao Lak. Clinton praised Thailand’s response to the calamity and said he and Bush hoped they could learn more about how to help. “I think it’s appropriate to say how grateful we are for the extraordinary leadership of the Thai government and the military forces,” he said. Soon after the disaster, the current US president named Clinton and former President Bush – his father – to head a nationwide private fund-raising effort to help countries devastated by the deadly wall of water. The two have come as a US delegation to inspect conditions in tsunami-hit countries including Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives on a trip which is due to end on Monday. Much of the rubble has been cleared in Ban Nam Khem, but many buildings in the area stand vacant and damaged. Hundreds of Thai soldiers have poured concrete into foundations for new homes, and fishermen have received fibreglass boats funded by the US government. The official tsunami death toll ranges from 169,070 to 178,118. The number of missing is believed to be as high as 128,426, with most presumed dead. Clinton attributed the global outpouring of support to the ”staggering” scale of the disaster. He also praised the media for focusing attention on the tragedy. “The international media has done the best job covering this story that I have ever seen, describing the loss, describing the nature of the problem, describing what’s being done about it,” he said. “We don’t want to let it go too far from the headlines so that people forget about it.” |
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Former England one-day captain Adam Hollioake took a hat-trick to spur the International XI to a six-wicket win over the Asian XI in their Twenty20 Tsunami relief match. Hollioake marked his return to The Oval, where he was a popular and innovative captain of English county Surrey, with the wickets of Rahul Dravid, Chaminda Vaas and Anil Kumble from successive deliveries. Former Australia batsman Greg Blewett took the International XI past the Asian team's 157 with 91 not out from 61 balls. Organisers added more than STG1 million ($A2.36 million) to the relief fund for the tsunami, which struck off the Indonesian coast on December 26 last year. Two other cricket fund-raising matches have been staged in Melbourne and at Lord's. |