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Benefits Of I.D. Badges
Everyone knows that I.D. Badges are significant to the society. It is used to identify each person from his office, school, and country. But is this the only benefit the I.D. badges provide? In general, the I.D. badge serves as a function to identify the ID bearer as a person who is supposed to be in the building. The ID badge gives comfort to the people around him that he is significantly there for a reason. To establish that I.D. badges are truly essential in your daily ...
Shortage Of Radiographers Leads To Overseas Recruitment Drive
A shortage of crucial medical staff has seen an increase in the recruitment of radiography staff from abroad. The health sector seems to have consistent and sustained issues with staffing levels with increasing movement towards the private sector, the recruitment of specialist staff to both public and private sector appears to be increasingly difficult. There is an acknowledged shortage of radiographers within the UK and the NHS has gone on a drive to encourage more ...
Charity donations basics
Charity is perhaps the best feature of humanity. It is a perfect way to support the downtrodden. There are many types of natural and man-made evils in our society. So, there are variable causes for which the blessed ones can and should donate. Unlike before, nowadays there are numerous charitable institutions across the globes that are working in different areas. The main aim of a charitable organization is to help the people in need and work for their development. For instance helping in the ...
Hurricane Katrina and Accountability
Since Hurricane Katrina, people have been talking a lot about accountability, or if the finger is pointing toward you rather than away, about blame. Some have said that we are witnessing standard bureaucratic incompetence--lack of foresight, under-planning, poor coordination of efforts, misspent funds, and so on.
Toxic Dump Sites, EPA Superfund Sites, and New Orleans
As the damage assessment of New Orleans is completed it is fairly obvious that most of the original estimates were quite shallow. In fact on Think Tank puts the damage cost to the Federal Government Obligation alone at $155 Billion Dollars. Much of this money will be in rebuilding weakened sections of the levee, burning the remnants of flooded buildings and homes or building new levees on higher ground. Of course no matter what we have the makings of some pretty polluted ground water once ...
What is Really Scary!
The disastrous hurricane Katrina got me to thinking about what it is that we really should regard as scary. I mean, a hurricane is what it is. It does not think, it does not plot, and it has no “political motives”. Hurricane record keeping is relatively new. Records of hurricanes, their strength, and the damage they cause have only been kept since 1886. Whether “global warming” is causing stronger hurricanes, a.k.a. Katrina, is an untested assumption. This was simply a very nasty ...
Reverend Jesse Jackson Wouldn't Dare Use The Hurricane Katrina Disaster To Play The Race Card?
In the Early days of the Hurricane Katrina Disaster the People in New Orleans were referred to as Refugees. As the days progressed The Hurricane Katrina Disaster victims have become known as Evacuees. According to the Associated Press The Reverend Jesse Jackson has been quoted as saying
REVEALED: How To Rise From The Ashes Of Hurricane Katrina
Water. Water. Water everywhere. Did I mention there's water here. The storm is over, but the clean up has just begun. Hurricane Katrina really put the boots to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. What's leftover is a cross between a plugged toilet bowl and a straight to video tornado movie.
World War 3 | Nostradamus Prediction when shall it be
World War 3: When shall it be? World War 3 shall result owing to breaking down of the basic fabric of the society. World War 3 is not a making of a day; week or years... it has been in reckoning since long. It shall be the last folly of mankind... the last war of this era. It shall be the end of science as we know it today. World War 3 shall be different from World War I and World War 2. The earlier World Wars were fought for establishing the supremacy of one ...
Can Delta Airlines Stave Off Bankruptcy?
In a move thought by some as an attempt to stave off bankruptcy as well as to generate cash, Delta Airlines made the move on August 16, 2005, to sell one of its regional carriers, Atlantic Southeast Airlines, to Skywest, Inc. The sale comes in the face of rising fuel prices and a high debt burden that many U.S. airlines in addition to Delta are carrying.
Overconsumption: America's Guiding Principle
America is a nation based on the principle of over-consumption. We entered a pristine new world bursting with natural resources, long-drained from the old countries we had left. We plundered the hidden wealth of gold, and silver, and oil. We hunted the great herds of bison close to extinction. We dammed the great rivers, bridged the bays, polluted the seacoasts, and instantly felled tress that had taken centuries to mature.
Is the American Way of Life Getting in the Way of Life?
Whether angry American workers who go on killing rampages in the workplace have gone “ballistic” or “postal”, isn’t it terrorism by any other name? While we fear the idea of someone poisoning our water or using lethal chemicals in our public places has anyone been on a college campus lately? There our youth are blending academic pursuits with the kind of alcohol abuse that would make all the combined pubs of Ireland and brew houses of Germany glow with a blush.
Insatiable Greed is Morally Bankrupting Us
A strange phenomenon seems to be sweeping the western world. Economic rationalization and corporate greed are now paramount in the minds of governments and Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) everywhere. The almighty dollar has become king and everything else has been relegated to virtual pawn status.
Crisis And Emergency Media Management Media Plan! What Media Plan?
Recent research has shown 12 % of Australian businesses and 39 % of councils have no contingency plans to cope with an emergency or crisis event. Of those that do have plans, I wonder how many have an effective strategy to deal with the media?
Terrorism: How to End it
As human beings we have grown accustomed to dealing with problems too late. In fact we don’t even label things as “problems” until they become problematic enough to affect our lives negatively. A broken headlight is not a “problem” until it gets dark at night. A neglected child is not problematic until he commits his first crime or turns to drugs. An imbalance of national wealth is not a “problem” until very poor people steal your money so they can eat. In other words, we have become used to ...
Your Child is Missing
If your child is missing, time is of the essence! Take a deep breath and try to remember the last place you saw your child. If your child is missing from home, search the house quickly, check the closets, basement, and laundry, under beds, where ever else you think your child may crawl or hide. Check the doors and windows, do you see any way somebody got in. Yell out their name. Remember all this must be acted on as fast as possible! I can’t stress that enough!
Civil Rights March in Forsyth County
In Forsyth County, Georgia the major industry is poultry farming. Forsyth County is about 40 miles from Atlanta. If you are an African-American you can cross those county lines during daylight hours but not during the night. No non-whites were permitted to live in Forsyth in 1987…did you think this was before the 60’s? It was 1987, can you believe it? Only 18 years ago.
Patented, Secret Technology May be at Risk To Spies
WASHINGTON -- The security of classified military and defense secrets that are patented or patent-pending is at risk to espionage in the very repository entrusted with safekeeping and preserving the best and most- advanced technology in the world, accord-ing to a source who asked to remain anonymous.
Space Travel Is Prohibited! Man's Goals Will Never be Realized
Space Is For God’s Pleasure And Control, While The Earth Is For Man’s Work. From the onset of recorded history, man has always had the desire to ‘become like God’ (his Creator) — to know all things and to take charge of his own circumstances. Even after man is shown God’s ways and has been given God’s Laws, in every instance and in every Period, man neglects God’s ways and he transgresses. Man’s nature is to seek happiness in the things that he sees (carnal things) rather ...
For Goodness Sake, Are You Drunk?
The Samurai are known for been one of the most respected and respectable class of citizens of ancient Japan. Such status had the samurai they could do things such as dismember people who offended them without having to answer for themselves. This was the power the samurai wielded, a power unheard of almost today in any so called civilised society. One may even argue that if such people as the samurai were to walk among us today, society may well be a much more respectful place to live out of ...
Media & Children
The increasing violence in the media is a cause for concern, but we cannot blame the media alone for polluting the young minds, with violence.
You're Wrong
Isn’t it amazing how often you’re wrong? I mean that you, as a person, have no idea how to live and haven’t got the foggiest clue how to make your own decisions. I know, it’s kind of hard to swallow when put right in your face like that, but the fact is that you swallow exactly that every single day of your life.
The Day Newsweek Bungled
More than 16 deaths were reported and dozens injured following violent protests from Afghanistan to Pakistan, Indonesia, Gaza and even to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and the Arab League. So much loss of life and sufferings all on account of one article that may or may not even be true. And would you believe that article came from--Newsweek? The magazine we all grew up with and have always held to be truthful and reliable?
The Fourth World
The Fourth World or Help! I need an Economist. Each time I go into a petrol station I am confronted by a different bargain next to the till at a price at which it would be impossible to buy even the raw materials in Europe. Yet we are presented daily with Penknives, Binoculars, Sunglasses, Torches, Garden Furniture, Clocks, Radio’s, Toolkits, Road Maps etc. On the surface it appears to be a harmless way to spend money on trinkets. Underneath, it could be the ...
Keeping Private Information Private
Identity theft, a vicious crime based on impersonating someone else, is becoming more and more prevalent. Recently, there has been a run of news items on this topic in the national media almost daily. One of the most disturbing aspects is that often these crimes are inside jobs¯ occurring at banks, mortgage companies, and similar places where sensitive personal information is housed. In these instances, where the crimes are large scale and well organized, there is not much the individual can ...
Friggin Lawyers
A Texas Lawyer filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of a semi truck trailer maker. It appears that some illegal aliens smuggled themselves across the border in the thing. The truck driver got scared and parked the truck and left. The refrigerated “reefer” trailer had very little ventilation and did not have a way to open it from the inside? Well, of course not, it is made to haul food products not people. Crossing the border or being smuggled into this country is illegal, since when is ...
Is Eliminating Parking Meters on Sundays Merely a Political Ploy or Will it Help New Yorkers?
Much has been in made in the last week of the bill passed by the New York City Council that would eliminate the need to feed parking meters on Sundays. Mayor Bloomberg has been against this from the beginning and has vowed to veto the legislation, but mayoral aides acknowledge that they would likely not have the necessary votes to defeat an almost certain override. The vote in favor of the bill was 41 to 3.
Budweiser Wants You to Croak While You Boat
Budweiser wants to be the sum of your summer. Their summer billboard ads encouraging us to drink while boating are the latest installment in their reckless promotion that every recreational activity is more fun with beer. If you don’t believe that boating and boozing is a problem, type in “boating and alcohol deaths” in Googles News Search; today, I found 51 articles. The Oregon State Marine Board reports that alcohol is involved in about 30 percent of boating fatalities in Oregon each ...
Sell All Catholic Owned Artwork to Museums to Feed the World
Over the last 2000 years the Catholic Church has accumulated much of the world’s greatest artwork. Much of this artwork today remains in special vaults away from view. Some say it contains secrets to the true past. Of course some people say a lot. But whatever the case the treasures and artwork accumulated thru theft or fencing of stolen works is quite valuable. Some estimate that Museums and private collectors would pay over 85 Billion Dollars for all of it and with that amount of money ...
1000 Die in India Monsoon Floods
Over 1,000 now dead in India, so much for flood control in the recent Monsoon flooding. We know all about Monsoons in the United States, each year they wreck havoc in Arizona. Each year they get a little more intense? But why all the wacky weather from the hippie dippie weatherman? Well, there are many reasons, one is the urban heat from the paved city raising the surface temps more than 5-8 degrees over the already hot desert, a desert which is naturally prone to intense Monsoons. Last year ...