Hurricane Electric Achieves IPv6 Milestone
The News Review:
- Hurricane Electric Achieves IPv6 Milestone
- FEMA extends deadline to ask for hurricane help
- Weather watches & warnings: Tornado watch canceled for Big Bend
- Tornado Watch Issued For Central Florida
- NAACP Sues Bush Administration Over Diverted Hurricane Funds
- Lemper’s photo show gives voice to Hurricane Katrina survivors
- Hurricane Katrina Left a Mark on George W. Bush’s Presidency
Hurricane Electric Achieves IPv6 Milestone
MarketWatch
Dec 11 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Hurricane Electric an international IPv4 and IPv6 Internet backbone has become the first network in the world to connect over 300 IPv6 networks. IPv4 addresses will run out by 2011. Hurricane Electric has been working diligently to move IPv6 into the forefront so this fact won’t become a crisis. As part of this forward thinking push Hurricane Electric has been running dual-stack IPv6 and IPv4 at all its locations worldwide. Hurricane Electric has been working on more than just network growth. Services like IPv6 Self Certification and the free IPv6 tunnel broker service located at.
FEMA extends deadline to ask for hurricane help
Houston Chronicle United States
html AUSTIN — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is giving Texas victims of Hurricane Ike an extra 29 days to ask for financial help. FEMA on Thursday extended the application deadline for homeowners renters and business owners to Jan. FEMA officials said the aid can include grants for temporary housing vital home repairs or other storm-related expenses that aren’t covered by insurance. They said they acted in response to a request from state officials.
Weather watches & warnings: Tornado watch canceled for Big Bend
Tallahassee Democrat FL
Otherwise it will be clear with a low around 33. Check back with Tallahassee. com for weather updates.
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Tornado Watch Issued For Central Florida
Central Florida News 13| FL
which is northwest of Birmingham. which is northwest of Birmingham.
NAACP Sues Bush Administration Over Diverted Hurricane Funds
Bloomberg
11 (Bloomberg) — The Bush administration broke thelaw when it opted to divert $570 million of federal hurricanerecovery funds from housing programs to finance expansion of thePort of Gulfport Mississippi the NAACP said in a lawsuit. The Department of Housing and Urban Development should havedone a more thorough review into how the switch would affectlow- and moderate-income housing in the state according to thecomplaint filed yesterday in federal court in Washington. Congress approved $5. 48 billion in disaster relief grantsfor Mississippi following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005with much of the money intended to address housing shortages. Diverting funds is contrary to this purpose and the needs of theCommunity Development Block Grant program the NAACP said.
Lemper’s photo show gives voice to Hurricane Katrina survivors
Contra Costa Times CA
Lemper traveled to New Orleans in February and May 2006 and March 2007 to “witness the state of the city” and to photograph what she saw. Lemper was deeply affected by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. She says the purpose of her photographs is “to give voice to those who have lost lives family members friends pets homes neighborhoods livelihoods and the city they love. “A fine-art photographer Lemper uses a Hasselblad camera. In addition to 10 black-and-white photographs the show consists of six color photos printed at 35 inches by 35 inches “so the viewer could feel a part of the space. “Her first trip to New Orleans was “completely overwhelming emotionally” she recalls.
Hurricane Katrina Left a Mark on George W. Bush’s Presidency
U.S. News & World Report DC
It was a disaster at every level. But in political terms the government’s failure to respond effectively to Hurricane Katrina in the late summer of 2005 was Bush’s biggest setback at home. "Katrina showed he is incompetent" says Howard Dean outgoing chairman of the Democratic National Committee. "Before Katrina everyone including America’s friends and enemies believed if something awful happened in the world you could call in the Americans and they’d fix it. " The government response to the hurricane which devastated New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast ruined that reputation Dean argues. Bush seemed slow off the mark as millions of people suffered and he created a lasting image of isolation when the White House released photos of him a solitary figure in his cushy seat looking out a window on Marine One at the hurricane devastation far below.