Posted by Duane On November - 21 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
(floridatoday.com) Gov. Jeb Bush announced Friday that Florida has allocated $1 million to help Haiti as it seeks to rebuild its economy and infrastructure. The money, approved by the Florida Legislature, will be used to help implement a series of recommendations provided last year by the governor’s Haitian Advisory Group. The state will work with a local nonprofit group to channel the money toward professional and technical exchange programs, as well ...More
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Posted by Duane On November - 21 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
Seniors strut their stuff for Nets to hip-hop beat (northjersey.com) They came from all backgrounds -- teachers, secretaries, even strippers -- and from all areas of New York and New Jersey. But the wannabe dancers at the Nets' East Rutherford practice facility Monday night had two things in common: They're over 60 and they love to get down. [B.I. says "60 year old strippers?????!!!!????"] [...] More than 30 women and one man came ...More
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Posted by Duane On November - 21 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
Make sure to leave the cookies and milk out as well. New 5-Point Plan To Reduce Black AIDS Rate (BET) The country's leading African-American health experts, lawmakers and civil rights leaders are calling on the government to adopt a new five-point plan to address the African-American AIDS crisis. Among the plan’s key provisions are that America find ways to reduce the Black housing crisis and astronomical incarceration rate; expand AIDS education, drug treatment, ...More
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Posted by Duane On November - 21 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
(seattletimes.nwsource.com) "Over the past few years, there has been an outcry from the public for some kind of control to the mess in many big city public school systems. While this proves the point that sinking billions of dollars in these institutions has not worked, asking the mayor of that city to take some level of control over the mess isn't really a smart solution as well. Seattle has become ...More
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Posted by Duane On November - 21 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
(atlanta.bizjournals.com) "No American metro area attracts more of the most-sought demographic of young professionals than metro Atlanta, according to Portland, Ore., economist Joe Cortright of Impresa Consulting. The study, which was released Nov. 20 by the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, shows Atlanta leads the nation in luring highly educated 25- to 34-year-olds, a group demographers call the "Young and Restless." From 1990 to 2000, the metro area increased its young ...More
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Posted by Duane On November - 21 - 2006ADD COMMENTS
The blog DarkStar Spouts Off expresses my exact sentiments regarding "Kramer" (Charater on the show Seinfeld ). "Kramer" is just one in the line of thousands that should be slapped. Unfortunately my hand is getting too tired. PS: I never watched Sienfeld More
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