Archive for June, 2009

katrina cottage

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

The Katrina Cottage is a small, strong, decorous house that can be delivered at the cost of a FEMA trailer. It arise as a solution for post-disaster home during the Mississippi Renewal Forum, Along with the hundred and seventy participants, there was a dozen architects is there who designed a series of small houses, producting the plans available to the public of Mississippi. These plans are the heart of the series of Katrina Cottages obtainable here.

Several months afterwards, when a significant number of the fema trailers had been installed, it became obvious that the cost was beyond $70,000 per part and that these trailers were quasi-permanent. The Katrina Cottage board was formed to provide design that would make improved use of this funding for the current housing needs after Hurricane Katrina and for future disasters.

The state of mississippi, through the Governor’s place of work for Recovery & Renewal, took the plan to apply for a substantial grant for this purpose. This became a realism with a recently accepted pilot program for all five Gulf states, which allocates $400 million dollars for the quest of designs and skills for future hurricanes. In adding up to this program, President Bush recently sign to Baker Bill, which will allow fema to provide permanent structure after future disasters.

Katrina Leskanich

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Katrina Leskanich was born in April 10, 1960 in Topeka, Kansas is an American singer and musician.

Early life

Her father was a Colonel in the United States Air Force, and Katrina and her five siblings (four sisters and one brother) were moved from Kansas to New Mexico, and then California, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Germany and Netherlands before arriving in Norfolk, England in 1976. Katrina became a UK resident and has lived in England for the last 30 years.

Fame

In 1981 she became lead vocalist for the band Katrina and the Waves, based in the English city of Cambridge, which had several international hits, including “Walking on Sunshine” (1985), which has become a summer anthem and “Sun Street” in 1986. They also received a Grammy Nomination for Best New Artist. The hits continued with “Do You Want Crying”, “Que te Quiero”, “Rock and Roll Girl” and “That’s The Way” which reached No. 16 in the U.S.A. The band went on to win the Eurovision Song Contest 1997 for the United Kingdom with “Love Shine a Light“, which went to No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart and Katrina and The Waves performed an unprecedented four weeks running on the BBC One TV show Top of the Pops.

Recent career

After the Waves broke up in 1999, Katrina Leskanich launched a solo career, first as a DJ for BBC Radio 2 and then in 2001 she played the lead role in the musical Leader of the Pack. She released her first CD, Katrina Leskanich, through Universal Records in Britain in 2005. And the single - Leskanich’s cover of Kirsty MacColl’s “They Don’t Know” was played on Radio 2. In 2005 she also participated in the Swedish selection for the Eurovision Song Contest (Melodifestivalen 2005) with the song “As If Tomorrow Will Never Come”. In 2005 Leskanich (with Renars Kaupers) hosted Congratulations - 50 Years of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Copenhagen.

Currently Leskanich is performing in the UK, Europe and in the U.S. as a solo performer and with her new band. The Katrina Leskanich band features Darren Loveday (guitar), Elio Pace (keyboard), Jack Pollitt (drums), Andy Coughlan (bass)and Paul Newton (horns).

Katrina covered a Clash song, “Hitsville UK” for a compilation album put together by Jimmy Guterman, which is a tribute to The Clash Sandinista! album and was released on 15 May 2007 in the United States.

Katrina Leskanich performed in the 1980s show Gylne Tider which toured Norway in the early summer of 2007 and transferred to the Christiania Theatre in Oslo from October to December 2007. Katrina’s cover of “They Don’t Know” was included in the compilation Gylne Tider 2 which was released in 2007 and went platinum.

Katrina also appeared in the Countdown Spectacular 2 concert series around Australia between late August and early September 2007. She performed her hit “Walking On Sunshine”.

From 27 January 2008 to 9 March 2008, Katrina Leskanich was one of three jury members for Eurosong 2008 in Belgium, the pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest.

On 1 March 2008, she performed a remix dance version of her 1997 Eurovision winning song, “Love Shine A Light”, on the BBC Eurovision song selection show.

Katrina Kaif VS Bipasha Basu

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Katrina desde adentro

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Katrina vanden Heuvel

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

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Katrina vanden Heuvel (born October 7, 1959),   sometimes spelled Van Den Heuvel, is the editor, part-owner, and publisher of   the magazine The  Nation. She has been the magazine’s editor since 1995. She is a   frequent guest on numerous televisionprograms. Vanden Heuvel is a self-described   liberal.

Early life

Vanden   Hevel was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of Jean   Stein, a best-selling author and editor, and William vanden Heuvel, an attorney,   former diplomat, businessman and author. Her maternal grandparents were Music   Corporation of America founder Jules C. Stein and Doris Babbette Jones (originally Jonas). Through her maternal grandmother, vanden Heuvel is a distant   cousin of actor/comedian George Jessel.

Vanden Heuvel graduated from Trinity School in 1977.Vanden Heuvel studied politics   and history at Princeton University, writing her senior thesis   on McCarthyism and serving as editor-in-chief of The Nassau Weekly. She graduated   summa cum laude from Princeton in 1981.

Career

Vanden Heuvel worked as a production assistant at ABC Television. According   to a Princeton alumni publication, during her junior year, she had already worked   “as a The Nation intern for nine months after taking the ‘Politics and   the Press’ course taught by Blair Clark, the magazine’s editor from   1976 to 1978″ and “returned to The Nation in 1984 as assistant editor for foreign   affairs”.[citation needed]

Vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation magazine. She is also an   owner of The Nation, being one of a handful of investors brought together in   1995 by then-editor Victor Navasky in a for-profit partnership to buy the magazine   - then losing US$500,000 a year more - from investment banker   Arthur Carter. This group of investors included, among others, former Corporation   for Public Broadcasting Chairman Alan Sagner, novelist E.L. Doctorow, actor   Paul Newman, and Peter Norton, creator of the Norton Utilities software.

In 1989, vanden Heuvel was promoted to The Nation’s editor-at-large position,   responsible for its coverage of the USSR. In 1990, she co-founded Vyi i Myi   (”You and We”), a quarterly feminist journal linking American and Russian women.   She also did reporting for the Moscow News. In 1995, vanden Heuvel was made   editor of The Nation. She and Navasky moved aggressively to expand The   Nation via radio, the Internet, books, and other synergistic opportunities.

Vanden   Heuvel’s latest book is Taking Back America: And Taking Down the Radical   Rightkatrina (co-authored with The Nation’s Contributing Editor Robert L. Borosage,   co-director of the Campaign for America’s Future). It is published by Nation   Books.

Vanden Heuvel and her husband, New York University’s Russian Studies Professor   Stephen F. Cohen, are co-editors of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews   with Gorbachev’s Reformers (Norton, 1989) and editor of The Nation: 1865-1990,   and the collection A Just Response: The Nation on Terrorism, Democracy and September   11, 2001.

Vanden Heuvel is a frequent commentator on American and international politics   on MSNBC, CNN, PBS, and ABC, as well as a weekly guest pundit on the John   Batchelor Show, heard on WABC New York and KFI Los Angeles. Her articles   have appeared in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, and   Boston Globe.

Personal life

In 1988, vanden Heuvel married New York University’s Russian Studies Professor   Stephen F. Cohen, an expert on the Soviet Union. They have one daughter Nicola,   born in 1991. The family resides in the Upper West Side section of the Manhattan   borough of New York City

Awards

Vanden Heuvel is a recipient of Planned Parenthood’s Maggie Award for her article, “Right-to-Lifers Hit Russia”. The special issue she conceived   and edited, “Gorbachev’s Soviet Union”, was awarded New York University’s 1988   Olive Branch Award. Vanden Heuvel was also co-editor of Vyi i Myi, a Russian-language   feminist newsletter.

Vanden Heuvel has received awards for public service from numerous groups, including   the Liberty Hill Foundation, the Correctional Association and the Association   for American-Russian Women. In 2003, she received the New York Civil Liberties   Union’s Callaway Prize for the Defense of the Right of Privacy. She was the   recipient of the American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee’s 2003 “Voices   of Peace” award. Vanden Heuvel is a member of the Council on Foreign   Relations. She also serves on the board of the Institute for Women’s Policy   Research, the Institute for Policy Studies, the World Policy Institute, the
Correctional Association of New York, and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt   Institute.

Katrina Bowden

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Introduction

Katrina Bowden is an American actress mainly notable for her task as scantily clad intern Cerie from the NBC sitcom 30 Rock. It has develop into a running gag on 30 Rock to dress her up in next to nothing wear much the to dismay of boss Liz.. She also recently caused fairly a stir as the delectable Ms. Tasty in the sex romp film Sex Drive.

Life Story

Born on Sept. 19, 1988, Bowden was raised in Wyckoff, NJ. She was discovered at the age of 14, when a family companion, whose own brood had modeling careers, suggested that Bowden’s parents send pictures of their daughter to a talent manager. The manager, who previously guided the careers of child stars Christina Ricci and Keshia Knight Pulliam, recognized Bowden’s potential and set about groom her for future stardom by send her off to acting lessons. She soon graduate to appear in music videos for Jewel and Fall Out Boy.

Career

As the benevolently clueless receptionist, Cerie, on the comedy hit “30 Rock” (NBC, 2006- ), actress Katrina Bowden start on a career based on a exclusive basis for a beautiful actress – playing a personality whose potent physical attractiveness is played for laughs. Whether it was developed men gazing at her as she walks by, or her own unwittingly revealing wardrobe choice, Bowden’s personality represented a comedic step up from most screen sirens. she appear to serious have no idea of the effect she was having on the lascivious men and jealous women in her workplace. The result of Bowden’s single take on an old caricature paved the wave for the youthful actress to have a good career as a talented comedic actress.

The effects of Hurricane Katrina

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the gulf coast of the United States, east of New Orleans,

1. With the storm’s eye passing within 10 to 15 miles of the city. The effect on New Orleans, as well as on the entire coastal region, was devastating.

In the aftermath of the storm, about 80 percent of the city  was flooded. A recent article estimated damages in excess of $200 billion, making Katrina one of the most economically costly hurricanes ever to strike the United States

2 Reacting to the widespread destruction, the 109th Congress enacted two supplementary appropriation bills totaling $62.3 billion for emergency response and recovery needs.

3 The death toll has been estimated at more than 1,200.

4 In addition, tens of thousands of citizens were evacuated to other parts of the Nation.

Besides taking its toll on the human, social, and psychological fabric of the city, the storm had a notable effect on the city’s economy, its labor market dynamics, and its individual businesses. Just what these effects were has been the subject of some discussion. This article joins the discussion in its analysis of employment and wage data.

In what follows, trends in employment and wage patterns based on data provided by the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, the Bureau) are compared before and after the storm to measure the extent of the losses during the first 10 months (September 2005 to June 2006) following Katrina.

katrina kaif biography

Friday, June 19th, 2009
  1. she is an half Indian and half British.
  2. she has a six sisters and one brother.
  3. she born in Hong Kong and then moved to Hawaii till she was about 14, and then she moved to London. Presently, she lives in Mumbai.
  4. Unlike further artiste from foreign lands, Katrina did not experience any difficulties in getting a visa nor of getting it extended in India.
  5. She was discovered at age fourteen as a model for a jewelry campaign.
  6. When moving to India, she work for photographer Atul Kasbekar and did commercials for Fevicol, Lakme and Veet among others.
  7. She is very fussy about her clothes which she wears a bold outfit on screen or for ads, but she feels more comfortable in not-so-revealing clothes in individual life. And the another thing is she hates the make up.
  8. She refuse to tell about her personal life in the media.
  9. Katrina doesn’t do ramp shows anymore.
  10. She was selected as the face of the year for the Lakme India Fashion Week (2005).
  11. Her much loved Indian designers are Rina Dhaka, Tarun Tahiliani, Rocky S.
  12. Armani, Miu Miu, Prada, Versace are the favorite international designers for katrina.
  13. Her Favorite actor is Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Shahrukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan. Favorite actresses are Kajol and Madhuri Dixit.
  14. Favorite Indian foodstuff is dahi (sour yoghurt) and rice.
  15. Her lovable movies are Umrao Jaan (1981), Casablanca (1942), and Gone with the Wind (1939).
  16. she preferred the Gucci Rush perfume.
  17. She enjoys to modeling, acting, dancing, playing chess, watching movies, painting, resting, cooking, goin g to spas, going to the gym, meeting new people, and hanging out with her friends.
  18. famous Rs. 2 lakh ($4,814) worth silver dress she flaunts in the movie Welcome (2007/I) was presented to her b y Emilio Pucci.

filmography of katrina kaif

2009

Rajneeti (upcoming), De Dhana Dhan (upcoming) ,Rave Party (upcoming) , Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani (upcoming), Blue (upcoming), New York (upcoming)

2008

Yuvvraaj Hello…, Singh Is Kinng Race

2007

Welcome, Nanhe Jaisalmer, Partner, Apne, Namastey London

2006 Balram vs Tharadas (Malayalam) ,Humko Deewana Kar Gaye
2005 Allari Pidugu (Telugu), Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya?, Sarkar 2004 Malliswari (Telugu)
2003 Boom