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I do not receive housing assistance or welfare.Everything I have, I worked for. Without my van, I can't take my daughter to school and I can't drive to work. If there was a medical emergency with my children, how would I get them to a doctor?I work as a certified nurse's aide for a staffing agency. I am required to travel to various towns to earn a living. If I can't drive to work, how will I pay my rent and utility bills? I can't even purchase a new vehicle until I receive my tax refund. I won't even be getting paid for working this week because my timecard is in my van. My daughter's car seats were in my van. Some of their favorite travel toys are in my van. I am living an absolute nightmare.Do car thieves even realize the hardship they cause people when they steal? Do they realize that stealing is illegal? Why would any sane person risk jail time over a 1994 Plymouth Voyager with a broken radio and bad transmission? I just can't grasp what would make a person do something so stupid.
Coalition hopes to bridge gaps between refugees, natives
The group is hoping to open a dialogue with members of the Somali community and get them organized so they can reach out to the rest of Bedford County, develop leadership and participate in the community more effectively. TIRRC is made up of a coalition of immigrants, refugees and their American-based supporters who work to "improve the rights and the public's perception of Tennessee's rapidly growing foreign-born population." Among participants in the meeting were David Lubell, director of TIRRC; Ahmed Dahir, civil liberties organizer for the group; Catalina Nieto, public awareness coordinator for TIRRC; Imam Haji Yousuf, the spiritual leader of the Somali Muslim community in Shelbyville; and Salaad A. Nur, outreach coordinator with the Somali Community Center of Nashville.
Eddie Bauer Reports Third Quarter and Year-To-Date 2007 Results
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Eddie Bauer Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EBHI) today reported financial results for the third quarter and the first nine months of fiscal year 2007. For the third quarter ended September 29, 2007, total revenues were $211.0 million compared to $211.3 million in the third quarter of 2006. Comparable stores sales rose 3.4 percent, while revenues from the Company's direct channel, which includes sales from its catalog and websites, declined by 0.7%. Comparable store sales include net sales from retail and outlet stores that have been open for one complete fiscal year. Operating loss improved from a $134.1 million loss during the year-ago third quarter to a $26.5 million loss for the third quarter of this year. The third quarter operating loss of the prior year quarter included a $117.6 million asset impairment charge related to the writedown of the Company's goodwill.
Maxcom Telecomunicaciones Third Quarter 2007 Unaudited Results
The number of voice lines in service at the end of 3Q07 increased 26% to 321,003 lines, from 255,174 lines at the end of 3Q06, and 7% when compared to 299,744 lines in service at the end of 2Q07. During 3Q07, 29,306 new voice lines were installed, 3% above the 28,551 lines installed during 3Q06. When compared to 2Q07, the number of installations decreased 3% from 30,343 lines. During the quarter, the monthly churn rate for voice lines was 1.7%, above the 1.6% monthly average churn experienced during 3Q06 and 2Q07. Data equivalent lines (at 64Kbps) increased 226% to 125,960 at the end of 3Q07 from 38,640 at the end of 3Q06, and 105% when compared to 61,586 equivalent lines at the end of 2Q07. The increase was mainly driven by installations to residential customers.
Copying goes hi-tech
The age-old parchi system which used to do the trick during the examination season is now a thing of the past. Enter the low cost hi-tech Chinese pens which students are using to take them through the examinations. Though education minister Upinder Jit Kaur has said no instance of copying will be tolerated during the board exams and the erring officials will be dealt with strictly, a Chinese pen, costing around Rs 20 has come in handy for the inventive students who have added this invisible-writing pen to their cheating devices. Sources in the education department said after it decided to go strict with instances of cheating and the staff on examination duty become vigilant no paper slips or chits were being allowed in the examination centre. The sources said during one such frisking exercise during the exam of the plus-two science stream a few days ago, a teacher found that some of the students had pasted white-blank papers on their clip boards.
Luxury suites, and laser treatment for pets on the menu
The menu has a New Orleans, Italian and French flair, while staying true to some of Beauregard's favorites, Hoffner said. "What I love most about being a chef is making people happy," he said in a news release. "Whether they desire fried chicken or foie gras, I love to see my customers smile," he said. Hoffner began his restaurant career at age 9 when he washed dishes in a Texas restaurant. "It's been in my blood ever since." Hoffner and Rashleigh met through a waitress at Beauregard's after Hoffner and his family moved to Wellington. Information: 568-4065. > Laser therapy is available for pets to help with pain management, wound healing and rehab. Local veterinarian Bobby Cawthron of Aspen Grove Veterinary Care said Aspen Grove is the first in Fort Collins to offer laser therapy for animals.
Breast Cancer On the Rise Among Young Women
And, she says, it was risky, because she had to undergo a mastectomy and chemotherapy during her pregnancy.
"I really didn't want to. I was begging my doctor to wait until the baby was born, but it was aggressive enough that we needed to get started," she says. "Then in the day after my last treatment, my son was born. He was healthy."
Johnson is a breast cancer survivor, and so is her friend, Kim Carlos. She was diagnosed with the disease at age 30 while she was planning her son's second birthday party. "When I was diagnosed, the first thing I obviously thought of was my son," she says. "He was just turning 2 and I wanted to be here to see him grow up."
During their treatment journey, Carlos and Johnson formed a support group with two other friends.
Chalk One Up For The Armchair Economists
Mike Arrington, over at TechCrunch, has written up a post about "The Inevitable March of Recorded Music Towards Free" which will sound mighty familiar if you're a Techdirt reader. It's pretty much the same thing I've been saying for almost a dozen years at this point, pointing out the economics and inevitable trends facing the music industry -- and also noting why that isn't necessarily a bad thing. While he's dealing with emotional responses in the comments (again, that'll sound familiar...), it's more interesting to watch an "industry analyst" trash Arrington as an "armchair economist" without backing it up... and then getting his own economics totally screwed up. In this case, we need to chalk one up for the "armchair economists." The analyst, David Card of Jupiter Research (the same analyst who incorrectly said that Radiohead's new offering would only work because the band was well known), dismisses Arrington's economics as "oversimplified analysis," but doesn't explain why it's actually wrong -- and that's because it's not.
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