: Thanks to everyone for keeping this bulletin board such an interesting place.
: It constantly amazes me see what people are up to.

: While we are here dreaming of getting our boats out in the surf, take a
: little time to think about the people for who surf no longer sounds like
: fun. As of today, the tsunami death toll is up to 120,000. To give an idea
: on the magnitude of this number, that is 7 dead for every message we have
: posted here in the past year. A little bit of help from each of us can
: provide a lot of assistance.

: If anyone else has recommendations for organizations to help the tsunami
: victims, please let us know.

: American Red Cross https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp
: International Response Fund

: AmeriCares https://www.americaresfoundation.net/donate/default.aspx South
: Asia Earthquake Relief Fund

: Direct Relief International
: https://www.directrelief.org/sections/support_us/d_donate_now.html
: International Assistance Fund

: Médecins Sans Frontières International
: http://www.msf.org/donations/index.cfm Tsunami Emergency Appeal

: Oxfam https://secure.ga3.org/02/asia_earthquake04 Asian Earthquake &
: Tsunami Fund

: Sarvodaya http://www.sarvodaya.org/ Relief Fund for Tsunami Tragedy

: Save the Children http://savethechildren.org/radio_asia_earthquake.asp Asia
: Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Fund

: UNICEF http://www.unicefusa.org/tsunami South Asia Tsunami Relief Efforts

please also include northwest medical teams, http://www.nwmti.org/ and i would like to encourge the US gov. to donate the est. 30 million they plan on spending for the inaguration, i think we already paid for 1