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I was reading this book  called " The Book    Chapter 34 Years".  my my my I'm amazed at some of the stuff she went through. In the beginning she was thought she was a regular kid.  She had a mother and a father who lived in the same house and were married.  She was the only child and life seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary.  The earliest she can remember her child hood was 2nd grade anything prior to that is unfortunately a faded memory.... ...She remembers waking up and seeing blood on the floor.  Yes the same little girl who would store her gum on her headboard with feet in her pajamas would wake up to blood on the floor.  They had been fighting again. ...She doesn't remember what she said to him, but she remembers the slap.  The slap, the slap, the slap.  He was always slapping her or saying he was going to slap her.  She vaguely remembers the first one as she thought to herself, that's my "niggar". ...they were in love and then he to

A Definitive Look at Winning the Lotto – A Matter of Life or Death Description A dollar and a dream, that all it takes to be a winner at Lotto a game of chance where everyone wants to be a winner.  With phrases like, “ You Gotta be in to Win it ” and “ All it Takes Is a Dollar and a Dream ” seem to echo in the hallways of chance catapulting one to dash off to the local convenience store and purchase a ticket when the pot increases.  Time and time again we watch the local news and they repeated run those “lotto stories” thus turning up the volume of the opportunity to become a millionaire.    What if your life or loss of life was the “give-away”?  What would you choose, would you play, what would be the driving force behind your decision?  The answer to these questions may not be so easy to make based on many factors or perhaps just one. The lottery has been around since about 1965.  In fact lotteries were illegal until 1964 according to the NGISC (National Gambling Impact

I have heard the story about Walmart and the lives lost in Bangladesh, my thoughts are how amazing folks writing the articles performed their due diligence.  Did they look up customs in India, did they have formal training on customs, doing business in India or etiquette in Bangladesh. http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/bangladesh.html http://www.bakertillyinternational.com/media/36800/doing_business_in_bangladesh-23apr08.pdf http://www.osec.ch/sites/default/files/BG_1101_E_Businessguide-Bangladesh.pdf Based on the above articles it really isn't clear the amount of input and/or the steps required to ensure oversight in India. What are your thoughts? Last week, a  fire tore through a garment factory  in Bangladesh. With the  emergency exits locked or blocked , hundreds of workers -- mostly women -- were trapped inside the nine-story factory.  112 people were killed. And in the ashes of the fire, a local community leader discovered the burne

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Let me see if I understand this correctly, after a person has served time incarcerated, that person gets "a piece" of paper that they can carry around with them that identifies them as a "SAFE CONVICT" per WTNH News Channel 8 this morning. That piece of paper indicates they are not a threat to society and they can work or get an apartment??? I'm not sure that someone should have to carry around a piece of paper that (1) identifies them as a "Safe Convict" (what is a safe convict); (2) What is the purpose of incarceration for a crime if when you're released you're still [Locked out]? In 2000 the American Society of Criminology published a White Paper that described the philosophy of incarceration and its purpose as "retribution" which mean to repay. But it appears that folks are often times "repaying" repeatedly. It also states, "More recently, a heightened fear of crime among the voting public coupled with economi