Indian gov bans bulk texts as workers flee Bangalore The Indian government has been forced to ban the sending of bulk SMS text messages over concerns migrant workers from the nation's north-east will be targeted by Muslims. Violent clashes in the state of Assam between the indigenous Bodo community and Muslim settlers from Bangladesh have left scores dead and displaced hundreds …
Think microFinance, not £250,000 mortgage-style credit. The point of microCredit schemes is that they allow the very poor to access small amounts of credit which they CAN afford (and advice as well), and which can make amazing differences to their lives. microFinance is for those people who want/need $20/$50/$100, far less then a traditional bank is interested in, and helps them avoid the extortion of the village moneylender. There have been some problems with it in India with scumbags moving in and ripping off the poor, but in many countries it's very succesful - have a look at http://www.kiva.org - and perhaps even lend $25 to a fisherman in Kenya or a coffee grower in Honduras.
IT is referring to their ability to do bench-presses at work.
The cause of this was a mis-translation some years ago when management thought all call centre staff should be given training on dealing with customers who have been left waiting for wait a long time - the subsequent 'wait training' initiative has been incorrectly implemented as 'weight training' ever since.
Obvious when you think about it.
I think possibly you are being a little coy about the "indoor toilet" part, unless of course, you mean "the outdoors" as the de-facto alternative, somewhat akin to Gardy-Loo era Blighty, but of course us Brits were "posh" and used a basin or suchlike before shouting the required warning and flinging it out a window ;)
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