Jonathan and Laurie at the State Fair
More video footage from the fair. Laurie had a great time feeding the animals at the Children’s Medical Center Animal Farm.
Month: October 2006
$4 Drugs
In case you missed the news, Wal-Mart has extended their $4 generic drug plan to Texas. The new pricing went into effect for 314 generic drugs in Texas yesterday.
The cost for the drugs is a flat $4, regardless of insurance, Medicaid or other health care plans.
So far, Target is the only pharmacy that has agreed to match price with Wal-Mart.
Laurie and I at the Fair
Laurie and I at the Fair
Laurie and enjoyed some good jazz at the State Fair of Texas last night. I’m definitely enjoying my new Pure Digital Camera. Thanks Rob!
Google profits doubled
Hope you’re still holding on to that Google stock.
From the BBC:
Internet search giant Google has confirmed its ongoing market domination by announcing that its third quarter profits have almost doubled.
During the three months until the end of September, its net income was $733m (£390m), a 92% increase on the $381m it made in the same time last year.
With advertising sales soaring, Google’s revenues rose 70% from a year ago to $2.7bn.
The figures comes a week after Google bought YouTube for $1.65bn.
Nigerian desert growing
The BBC reports that do to drought in the sub-Saharan Africa, about 2,000 sq km in Nigeria is becoming desert each year. We didn’t see a lot of drought while we were there. It was the end of the rainy season and we might have welcomed drought, especially while we were stuck in the mud so many times.
Over $380 billion missing in Nigeria
From the BBC:
More than $380bn has either been stolen or wasted by Nigerian governments since independence in 1960, the chief corruption fighter has said.
Nuhu Ribadu told the BBC that Nigeria has “nothing much” to show for the missing money.
He said the worst period for corruption was the 1980s and ’90s, but currently two-thirds of governors are being investigated by Mr Ribadu’s agency.
Nigeria is Africa’s biggest oil exporter but most people are poor.
The country is regularly ranked as one of the most corrupt by graft watchdog transparency International.
President Olusegun Obasanjo declared a state of emergency in Ekiti State on Thursday after the governor was found guilty of siphoning state funds into personal bank accounts and receiving kickbacks.