| Orlando Premium Outlets' owner buys Dixie Stampede
The mystery buyer of Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede is little more than a stone's throw from the now-shuttered dinner attraction on Interstate 4 near Walt Disney World.
The parent company of the Orlando Premium Outlets shopping center confirmed Tuesday that it holds the contract to buy the property at 8251 Vineland Ave. The company, Chelsea Property Group, is a division of Simon Property Group, the nation's biggest shopping-mall owner and operator.
Chelsea officials wouldn't elaborate on their plans for the 13-acre site, which is across Vineland Avenue from Orlando Premium Outlets.
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Oxfam partners assess Katrina’s impact on rural communities
Hattiesburg, Mississippi—Burkett's hometown—was among the team's stops. It lay directly in the path of the storm. "At the moment, rural Mississippi is faced with an almost total loss of phones and electricity, and gas is in very short supply," said Kenny Rae, an Oxfam program officer. "The Oxfam team spent hours yesterday queuing up with Mississippians to fill their tanks. There are gas lines everywhere. It's like '74." In rural communities all around Hattiesburg, Katrina's fury was evident. "There was a lot of tree damage," said Rae. "In some locations, every third pine tree had been blown down." Two trees had crashed onto Burkett's house, leaving it open to the rain. The wind felled hundreds of others across his tree farm. With electric power lines down, some farmers were facing severe consequences.
Paco Underhill knows why you shop 'til you drop at this time of year
A: I am the chief executive officer of a research and consulting firm that looks at the interaction between people and spaces, people and products and people and places. My second job is writing international best-selling books. And my third job is doing motivational speaking.Q: You have made your name by studying consumers and their behavior. It's almost like you've studied them as though they are a unique tribe in their own environment? How did you approach that?A: I am an observational researcher. Our work is based on the act of physically watching people as they move and interact. Over a typical year, we follow through a store, a bank, a museum, a train station, an airport, a hospital somewhere between 60,000 and 70,000 people. We follow them anonymously, meaning that we aren't interested in what their names are or where they come from.
On Books: The many benefits of "Eat, Pray, Love"
I ordered on the first day after seeing Jeff Bezos talk about it on the Charlie Rose show on Nov. 16th, but missed out on the initial production, but still got my Kindle on Dec. 4th. I absolutely love my Kindle -- it goes everywhere I go, including to the john, my bed, and literally everywhere, and when I have a moment free, I read on it, which is much better than reading a paper book, and much less tiring on my eyes. And frankly I would be ashamed for people to see me reading Elizabeth Gilbert's obviously fine book in hard cover, but nobody knows what I am reading on my Kindle, where I can buy the same book. So I'm going to order it right now, and will have my copy in less than one minute! Now that's service. Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif. .
Corey caught on film fighting
PARTY pest Corey Worthington has been caught on camera taking part in a "pre-arranged" fight with a group of teenagers near a Melbourne shopping centre. The Narre Warren teen was filmed on a mobile phone camera trading blows with other teenagers at a park near Fountain Gate shopping centre on Monday afternoon. "Chris, give it to him," one onlooker is heard to say on the footage shown on Channel 9's A Current Affair last night. An unnamed witness said a fight broke out and Chris started hitting Corey in the face. Video: Corey fights in a Melbourne park "The fight broke out when I got to the oval. Chris started like hitting him in the face, kneeing him in the face," he said. "The group didn't like him. "Corey walked past the group that didn't like him. "It was a sort of planned fight.
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