More cool QF stuff.
(e:Jenks) mentioned a tid bit of this in one of her recent posts. I found the article which details the donation. I thought it was 2.5 million, which I thought was pretty cool. However, it was actually 60 million, which is amazing! I'm just going to post it in here because you have to have membership to read the article at it's original site.
Qatar Gives Money to Katrina Victims
From the issue dated May 12, 2006: Chronicle of Higher Education
By PAULA WASLEY
Last week the oil-rich emirate of Qatar announced the allocation of $60-million to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. More than half of the money will go to three universities in Louisiana.
Xavier University of Louisiana, the country's only historically black Roman Catholic university, will receive $12.5-million to expand its College of Pharmacy in order to increase enrollment, and to hire staff members for clinics in low-income neighborhoods of New Orleans. An additional $5-million will go to a Qatar Scholarship Fund, to provide full scholarships to Xavier students affected by the hurricane.
Tulane University was promised $10-million for scholarships for both new and returning students from Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi who were affected by Katrina. Qatar also pledged $3.3-million to Louisiana State University for a fund to provide help with tuition, room, and board for 1,249 students.
The announcement detailed the distribution of a portion of $100-million in hurricane-relief funds pledged in September by Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, emir of Qatar. The country's embassy plans to allocate the remaining $40-million in pledged contributions in the next several weeks.
In a written statement, Scott S. Cowen, Tulane's president, called the donation "an extremely generous gift."
The beneficiaries were chosen by Qatar's ambassador to the United States, Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa, with assistance from an advisory committee comprising James A. Baker III, a former U.S. secretary of state; Laura D'Andrea Tyson, dean of the business school at the University of California at Berkeley; John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University; and Lee R. Raymond, recently retired chief executive of the Exxon Mobil Corporation.
"Hurricane Katrina was very devastating," said the ambassador, "and the world is becoming a village. In today's world, we are one world. ... People wanted to help."
The three universities were chosen, he said, because each one had a large population of students coming from the areas most affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Qatar chose to donate money directly to the institutions rather than to intermediary organizations, such as the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund or the American Red Cross, so as to ensure transparency and accountability, he said.
Speaking of MinPins, apparently, our soon to be new neighbours have one. I will not miss our soon to be former neighbour's dog Daisey's early morning barks, but she was a cute lil mix breed. I look forward to meeting the new neighbour dog. :)
She's a miniature pincher lib.
Your cookie was so cute!
And those wedding gifts are sweet!
Is that a Basenji?
I do like that cookie. I'm glad you explained what that was cause it looked kinda like some type of crop or paddle. In terms of what happend? Here is my thoery that when someone works on improving them sleves parts of them get better but in so doing other things change and they change so that can effect other things. In my case for example if I became mr supersocial and went out to bars every night that would be a social improvement but health wise I would get sick all the time I would be tired and tell people at work to go fuck themsleves. I also think that to make progress in one way sometimes leads to a downside someplace else. Or maybe I'm just a little down cause I'm listening to 30 seconds... It does do that sometimes, as much as I like them. I have faith that you can get back to where you want to be.
A 1gb jump drive in a leather case. That is the craziest wedding favor ever.