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Engineering results this week will likely determine if the city's first residential hospice will proceed with or without a basement. Beth Ellis, executive director of the Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice, said construction crews at the site of Bob's House, a new $4.2 million hospice at Stone Church and Upper Wellington, have come across ground rock about 1.5 metres (five feet) below the surface at some spots on the property. They were hoping to dig down at least 2.7 metres (nine feet) before they begin pouring the foundation. Ms. Ellis said the higher then expected ground rock means the project may proceed without a basement if it's determined there is too much rock in the way. She noted blasting or increasing the height of the hospice is not being considered as that would add another $200,000 to the construction cost, something the non-profit organization can't afford.
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A long wait for the government compensation which has not come even after the passage of one year and the fear of fast approaching freezing winter is forcing many surviving residents in quake hit areas to resort to traditional stone constructions. Such constructions are vulnerable to quakes and according to experts are paving the way for yet another disaster, reports Shahnawaz Khan from Uri A year after a devastating earthquake shook Kashmir, most of the people in the quake zones of the state live in semi permanent shelters, provided mostly by aid groups. The need for better and permanent shelters is greater than ever as another winter approaches. While a few permanent constructions have come up, only a few affluent people have used bricks and mortar-the standard construction material.
BURLINGTON, Vt. -- Police cordoned off a home Friday a few blocks from where a missing University of Vermont student was last seen a week ago, and a backhoe was brought into the yard, where there had been recent construction work. Michelle Gardner-Quinn, a 21-year-old senior from Arlington, Va., disappeared in the area while walking from downtown toward the university early Oct. 7 after a night out drinking with friends. A man police have described as a focus of the investigation was recorded on a jewelry store surveillance camera with her at about 2:30 a.m. .
Throughout most of the twentieth century, socialism constituted the central ideological matrix for thinking about alternatives to capitalism and giving direction to anti-capitalist struggles, even where the establishment of a socialist order was not an immediate political goal. If the particular institutional arrangements historically associated with socialism are now seen as incapable of delivering on their promises, many of the traditional socialist criticisms of capitalism seem more appropriate than ever: inequality, economic polarization and job insecurity are worsening; giant corporations dominate the media and cultural production; politics is increasingly run by big money and unresponsive to those without it. The need for a vibrant alternative to capitalism is as great as ever. .
Area of Research: Modern and contemporary history of the Middle East and North Africa, with broader interests in the French colonial empire, the history of Islam since 1700, and colonial and nationalist historiography. Education: D.Phil., Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 2002. Major Publications: McDougall is the author of History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Middle East Studies 24, July 2006). He is also the editor of Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa (London and Portland, Frank Cass, History and Society in the Islamic World 6, May 2003, which was first published as Journal of North African Studies 8,1 (Spring 2003)). McDougall is currently working on a number of book projects including: Fragments of empire. Everyday forms of colonialism in France and Africa (Book-length research project in progress) with Julia A.
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