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On top of Toyota's $5 million donation, Toyota says they'll match the donation of any employee toward the disaster relief. :applaud:
-PCM

Microsoft donated one million dollars to Hurricane Katrina relief. They also listed the names and addresses of a variety of orgaizations to donate to. I got this info from MSN.com. Here is what they had to say:

Microsoft Response to Hurricane Katrina
Published: August 31, 2005 | Updated: September 1, 2005

Every one of us at Microsoft is deeply saddened by the destruction of property and personal lives in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and our hearts go out to the hundreds of thousands of people who have been affected by the storm and its aftermath.

Our company and our employees are contributing to the relief efforts in the following ways:


Our business teams are working with local and state governments, businesses, and educational institutions to help them repair their information technology systems as quickly as possible.
We have pledged $1 million in cash to relief organizations, including the American Red Cross.
Our company is matching employee donations to nonprofit organizations. (Our employees donated more than $1.8 million following the Asian tsunami, and we matched it.)
Three of our senior technologists have been deployed to Red Cross operations in Washington, DC, to work in partnership with Intel, Cisco, and SBC Communications on a technology plan to assist the relief operation. This plan will help to support the 240 relief centers.
We have made three buses fully equipped with satellite communications systems available for use as relief operation centers.
Our employees are responding as volunteers in Red Cross relief Centers in Dallas and other locations.
We have made dedicated space available on Microsoft.com, MSN.com and other Web properties to highlight the disaster and encourage giving to the Red Cross and other relief organizations.

puffy and jd also donated 1 million dollars ..and bet is having a telethon thingy to raise some money...its so sad :shamefulcry:

TANG wrote:puffy and jd also donated 1 million dollars ..and bet is having a telethon thingy to raise some money...its so sad :shamefulcry:

Yeah, thanks TANG, was just going to write that.

Puff Daddy & Jay-Z donated $1 million and are working hard at gathering other wealthy African Americans into the disaster relief effort. :applaud:

Sadly, Puff Daddy & Jay-Z are the opposite of our automakers. GM has donated $400K. Ford and Chrysler have donated no money. Extremely disappointing effort from our American companies.

American Honda has put 20 power generators at the disposal of FEMA. :applaud:



Gambatte, :woot:
-PCM

pcmodem wrote:Ford and Chrysler have donated no money.

They've been offering employee pricing on their cars... What more do you want?? *biting sarcasm* :nut: :shakehead:

Fords losing gobs of $$, and technically Chrysler isn't american anymore. :hehe:

krim wrote:Fords losing gobs of $$, and technically Chrysler isn't american anymore. :hehe:

Ford'll be in the black once they lay off another 10K of workers, though.

Oh yeah, Chrysler-Daimler. That must explain why M-B reliability has plummeted like a collapsing building.

You guys just don't know how bad it makes me feel to hear the things that I have to hear everyday. I don't know how many people are living in the auditorium at my school right now, but there are so many. I've donated baby food, diapers, can goods, candy, just anything that I could think of that I'd probably want and need in this situation. I plan on writing a $50 dollar check today as well; that's all that I can afford, but every little bit helps.

I have lots of relatives form New Orleans that I still have yet to hear from personally, but I've heard second hand that many of them are okay. Thank goodness for that.

Our schools are packed to the max with students from the University of New Orleans, Dillard, and Xavier. There was a panic here yesterday because of some rumor saying that there will be no gas until Tuesday of next week. People rushed to the gas stations and the lines were practically in the streets. The police had to go to every gas station in the city and tell people to go home because the rumor wasn't true.

Regardless of the complete hell that many of the remaining people in New Orleans are in, we have idiots killing police officers right and left. That caused I don't know how many police officers to quit and now the national guard has to go down there and snipe people without hesitation. The fool's are shooting at the rescue planes and looting and all kind of crazy things :shakehead:. My cousin is an RN in a nursing home and she said that out of 50-55 spare rooms in the place, there are a total of 4 rooms left. She said that so many elderly people are coming there just...super sick. They don't even know what half of them have.

One of my best friends was working as a hospital admin. in the city and I haven't heard a thing from her.

And I won't even get started on the president and what it took to make him do something finally :shakehead:.

As far as the extent of the damages in New Orleans...I don't even know where to begin guys. I hear something new everyday. This situation is really starting to get to me.

I'm sorry to hear that shoujo. I've been following the news and reading the newspapers and it doesn't sound good for New Orleans. I don't know how long it will take (if ever) for people to be able to live there.

dochira wrote:I'm sorry to hear that shoujo. I've been following the news and reading the newspapers and it doesn't sound good for New Orleans. I don't know how long it will take (if ever) for people to be able to live there.

The preliminary estimates are several years. :sweat:

Bingo. There are portions of New Orleans that will not be restored. That's pretty much already been decided.

a group of people i board with signed up with the red cross and are leaving for houston tomorrow morning.

everyone do what you can!

shoujo22 wrote:Bingo. There are portions of New Orleans that will not be restored. That's pretty much already been decided.

That's like the '92 riots in L.A.: 13 years on and some places are still just rubble. :sweat: :shakehead:

shoujo22 wrote:Bingo. There are portions of New Orleans that will not be restored. That's pretty much already been decided.

would i tbe a better idea to rebuilt another city and just abandon whats left of N.O.? not trying to be mean and all, but since the city is basically underwater, and with news that Baton Rouge has become Louisiana's most-populous city...

BATON ROUGE, La. - In the span of a week, Baton Rouge has become Louisiana's most-populous city \ at least temporarily \ and a big chunk of that growth is likely to be permanent, officials say.

Evacuees from the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans area have poured into East Baton Rouge Parish, along with rescue personnel using the city as a home.

"Baton Rouge is now the largest city in Louisiana and it's going to be for quite a while, if not permanently," said Walter Monsour, the top administrator to the president of the city-parish government.

Before the hurricane hit, Baton Rouge already had such long-running problems as traffic congestion and jail overcrowding. Those problems figure to grow exponentially, Monsour said.

"Is there going to be chaos in the city? No. Is this going to mean a different way of life here? Absolutely," Monsour said.

A number of companies are relocating their offices from the New Orleans area to Baton Rouge and many are buying homes and entire apartment complexes to house their employees, Monsour said. Monsour said that with the New Orleans airport closed, air traffic at Baton Rouge's Metro Airport could easily from 700,000 passengers to 3 million passengers per year, he said.

"All those air carriers that we have been courting for years are suddenly asking to come in," Monsour said.

Metro Council member Wayne Carter said many of the companies that are relocating to Baton Rouge will likely stay.

"Did you know that Galveston and Houston were the same size before Galveston got hit by a storm?" Carter said.

and being that it will take just as much fund to rebuild a place that doesn't guarantee that this may happen again, i think it's best served to use the funds to help those relocate to baton rouge.

sorry shoujo if this seems insensitive, but these are just things on my mind, as empty as it may be. i hope that you do get word from families as soon as they restore the lines of communication.

- niko

I completely understand what you mean and I understand that you're not trying to be mean. However, you never once heard me say that they need to restore the city. You're asking me a question that I've been hearing for the last 6 years. Before the hurricane even hit we'd been presented with the question of what to do (or not to do) about the fact that the city was sinking anyway. We talk about it every school year and outside of school from time to time. In some ways I feel that they city should be restored. Partly because I'm a Louisiana resident and partly because I have to see these people face to face everyday; and its just sad that they have nothing to go back to. This includes 50-60% of my dad's side of the family. Lucky for them they have somewhere to go for the time being. But pretty soon helping them find somewhere to live is going to be yet another problem. Part of me also knows that New Orleans was Bound for destruction anyway. Right now, my focus isn't on the reconstruction of New Orleans, but on its residents and the people who are still trapped there. Its reconstruction is the least of my worries right now.

As far as the whole New Orleans --> Baton Rouge conversion...we'll have to see how that works. Seeing as how Louisiana has so many other problems that still have yet to be worked out.

I didn't take offense to anything that you said so don't get the wrong idea. I'm just pretty torn right now. Its easy to think with a straight head when you're not directly affected by something. But apparently I am so I really don't know what to think right now.

@ shoujo22:

My heart goes out to you and your family, friends and neighbors shoujo22. I will keep you in my positive thoughts and prayers. :)

What a paper can do??

One sheet of square paper can make the whole world, everything you can see with your very eyes and everything you can think of, just one piece of paper, no cut, no paste.


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(Lion designed by Komatsu Hideo, one square no cut no paste)

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I'm thinkin' WRONG THREAD... :grumble:

Bujin, you can't disappoint us now. You should show us how to do these pieces. We want detailed step-by-step instructions. ;)

Wow...you guys are talking about pretty serious stuff. Is it okay for me to barge in with something a little more self-serving? Seeing that the topic kinda mean that we can post about anything we wanna say...

Just want to say that I've put up my poems in my blog finally and come and visit anytime you want.

Okay...please continue with the discussion :sweat: