| Parents search for answers about daughter's killing
Her parents called her Aggie.She had her troubles, Agnes McFedries Kennedy. But there was a whole lot more to her than an addiction to crack cocaine."When she died, some people looked at her as just another woman on the street," Jean McFedries said of her daughter, who was found murdered in Davenport three days before Christmas. "She wasn’t just another woman on the street. She was special. She was loved. She was ours."McFedries Kennedy’s father, Scotty McFedries, remembers the police knocking on his door at 2 a.m. The rest is a blur.When the news of their daughter’s death hit their homes, Jean and Scotty called their other children, along with McFedries Kennedy’s four kids. The family broke down together."All I remember is that it was snowing like blazes, and then there was absolute turmoil," Jean said.
A co-worker calls this Norfolk help-desk guy the king of chocolate
Hard-working staff members at the Norfolk office of Vandeventer Black LLP know whom to call when they're struggling with installation of new computers or the day-to-day-glitches that interfere with their work. It's Kerry O'Neill, the help-desk guy. But during his 15 years with the international firm, O'Neill has earned a reputation for another kind of troubleshooting. "He's the man we rely on to keep the chocolate monster at bay in our offices," said Cammie Halley, a paralegal with the firm. "He's not only a great guy, but he keeps our spirits up with his wonderful desserts." Halley said O'Neill's co-workers have nicknamed him "Theobromine" for the phytochemical found in the cocoa bean. O'Neill didn't begin with a big interest in food or cooking. "I grew up eating meat and potatoes, and always enjoyed our meals, but didn't pay much attention," O'Neill said.
Group Names Jones Beach One of 'Seven to Save'
Robert Moses considered it his crown jewel. Now two preservation groups want to ensure that Jones Beach State Park is preserved as the storied architect envisioned it a miles-long public oceanfront with the amenities of a private resort. To that end, the Preservation League of New York yesterday named Jones Beach to its list of "Seven to Save" most threatened historic resources, hoping to call attention to its historic and cultural importance. "It's a model for all state parks," Alexandra Wolfe of the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities said. The society sought to get the park on the list. Built in 1929, Jones Beach draws some 6 million people annually to its 6.5 miles of ocean beach and two-mile boardwalk on the south shore of Long Island. Just 33 miles from Manhattan, the park offers landscaped gardens, swimming pools, basketball courts, paddle tennis, shuffleboard, miniature golf, softball fields, volleyball courts, bathhouses, and boat basins.
Japan trade deficit widens in January as exports slow, amid concerns ...
Japan's trade deficit widened to 79.3 billion yen (US$734 million; euro501 million) in January from a year earlier, the government said Thursday, suggesting exports face a slowdown amid global uncertainties over U.S. subprime woes. The data showed the deficit jumped more than 20 times in January from last year's 3.5 billion yen (US$32 million; euro22 million). The results, announced by the Finance Ministry, marked the first deficit in a year and far worse than the 5.6 billion yen (US$52 million; euro35 million) deficit estimate by economists polled by Dow Jones and Nikkei. Japan's trade surplus with the U.S. declined 4.8 percent to 540.7 billion yen (US$5 billion; euro3.4 billion), marking the fifth straight month of decline, the ministry said. .
minazione e resistenza irakena
Energy Department now talks of "liquids" rather than just oil. Water is not yet among the the US 'unconventional needs. Soon - it is happening already - water, like oil, will be spoken of as a "commodity".
Water can be envisioned as the reason for the NEXT resource war. There is already tension between some American states; already different American states are having 'water wars. One person has been murdered because of a water dispute.
Is water to be defined as a public good and should it be managed by national governments, or is it merchandise, to be run as a private sector investment? Alejo lvez at the Latin America Press discusses this issue.
Meanwhile, legislation representing the federal governments power grab over water is quietly moving forward.
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