| Water tank hopes spring a leak
The Jim's Water Tanks debacle, stranding about 5500 Queenslanders sweating on rainwater tank deposits between $300 and $500 paid as far back as April, has unravelled even further. After a nine-month wait for the first batch of the much-vaunted, half-moon rainwater tanks to arrive from China, the Ipswich plastics experts enlisted to assemble the 88 tanks away from public view have abandoned the task after concerns about poor-quality products. Staff at Plastic Mend have spent the past four days struggling to assemble only about 15 tanks – described by Jim's Water Tanks as akin to a Ferrari – as they wrestled with large gaps in joins that didn't fit. Echoing concerns from tank suppliers about poor-quality, Chinese-made products, Plastic Mend owner Mark Kelly yesterday said the materials were so bad his three-person team could not weld some parts together.
LANGFORD: How to 'uninvite' tiny visitors
Unwanted visitors may have entered your home with this season's gift plants. It's also common to find abundant "live-ins" on your own houseplants brought in from outside in the fall. Pesky bugs can come in through open doors or windows, too, so there's no reason to believe your plants are pure. The most common of these pests can be controlled with the steps listed below, or you can apply insecticidal soaps. This soap spray has been approved by the EPA for use on both edible and nonedible plants. These soaps contain fatty acids that penetrate the bugs and kiss them goodbye. Insecticidal soaps have no bad effects on birds, pets or people, so they're safe to use indoors and out. The soap must be sprayed directly on the insect, so be sure to get the undersides of the leaves.
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In 2008 you will also find political candidates are all over websites like MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube. So, today's question: what's the correlation? Which came first? Are young people into politics because candidates have finally figured out the web or does it start with the kids, and is just reflected in their websites? Obama Backers Go Into Overdrive Posted by Ethan Harp at 11:48 a.m.
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