| Oxfam partners assess Katrina’s impact on rural communities
Hattiesburg, Mississippi—Burkett's hometown—was among the team's stops. It lay directly in the path of the storm. "At the moment, rural Mississippi is faced with an almost total loss of phones and electricity, and gas is in very short supply," said Kenny Rae, an Oxfam program officer. "The Oxfam team spent hours yesterday queuing up with Mississippians to fill their tanks. There are gas lines everywhere. It's like '74." In rural communities all around Hattiesburg, Katrina's fury was evident. "There was a lot of tree damage," said Rae. "In some locations, every third pine tree had been blown down." Two trees had crashed onto Burkett's house, leaving it open to the rain. The wind felled hundreds of others across his tree farm. With electric power lines down, some farmers were facing severe consequences.
A Not-so-Civil War
The walls were spotless white. The bed could double as a an engineer's square. The lines on the paper went just so, in an unbroken rhythm of pale green, all the way down and all the way across the page.
I couldn't go back. For one thing, I found true love. But there is a part of me that wants to go back, that remembers the perfect order, the lack of distraction, the sense of self-satisfaction that came with zealous self-denial. That part scares me. Mara5525 detects a possible gender bias in our attitudes toward calorie restriction: I can't help wondering if the fact that most (but not all) Anorexia sufferers are female, [and] many who practice Calorie Restriction are male (but not all), might not impact on how these two are treated by doctors and researchers.
Centra Point deal set Final two buildings sold for $29 million
Washington Capital Management, a Seattle-based pension fund adviser, bought the final two buildings at Centra Point office park in the southwestern Las Vegas Valley for $29 million, a Colliers International executive said Monday. The December transaction completes Washington Capital's $126.4 million acquisition of all eight buildings at Centra Point, a business park developed by Centra Properties at the Beltway and Durango Drive. The first six buildings were bought in September. The purchase price breaks down to about $325 a square foot, substantially higher than the market average of $225 a square foot. "Investors recognize that there's a consistent demand for office space in Las Vegas due to the massive growth experienced in the last five years," said Tom Stilley, senior vice president of Colliers in Las Vegas.
Crashing the Subprime Party
To begin examining those packets for illegal pictures of Britney Spears would be a nuisance, at best, and a threat to the whole Internet, at worst. Imagine if FedEx were forced to examine every parcel for drug paraphernalia: Next-day delivery would soon go up in smoke. Even China's Internet, whose performance suffers greatly from its filtering, doesn't go as far as what AT&T is proposing. If this idea looks amazingly bad for AT&T, does the firm have an ingenious rationale for blocking content? "It's about," said AT&T last week, "making more content available to more people in more ways going forward." Huh? That's like saying that the goal of a mousetrap is producing more mice. If the quote makes any sense it all, perhaps it means that AT&T, the phone company, has aspirations to itself provide Internet content.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Did Wayne Really Get Boo'd? No New Girl...
But if it is true, its not oh so surprising. You never know whats real whats fake these days.
I can see Hov fans tho like, "Hov would never do that. Its the ROC fa life. Haters can die slow." (Meanwhile they got their ROC sign up with the bootleg and two real copies of his album).
R Kelly get weirded and weirded with time. I aint really been checking for homie since like '05 so whateva.
That kid might be Fonzworth Bentley son, thats the only dude I can think that dont rapper or sing but be around everybody.
Cam thought picking up a couple big jawns should make you tube huh?
couple verses on his mixtape was aight, I aint listen to the whole thing. But I see he still got a little bit of that Cam flow (least he got his own flow Ill give em that).
'Whose Company Is It?' New Insights into the Debate over Shareholders ...
These employee board members have all the rights and duties of other board members. The situation differs somewhat in France. French firms with more than 50 workers have employee representatives at board meetings, but they do not have the right to vote. More conventional co-determination systems exist for former public-sector French firms that have been privatized; these systemscan be introduced voluntarily by companies. In Finland, companies can also voluntarily adopt employee representatives on the board. Across the European Union as a whole, another type of worker participation in decision making is the works council, a group that has a say in such issues as layoffs and plant closures. A corporation with at least 1,000 employees, of which there are 150 or more in at least two EU countries, must have a "European Works Council." The situation in Japanese firms also differs from that of the United States and United Kingdom.
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