| An Exchange of Souls
How many people have died in Iraq per dollar of profit made? I don't know why all of a sudden he's shocked, shocked to find that in a capitalist system human life is a commodity, and a cheap one at that. As far as I'm concerned, Lee Iococca tried to kill my Dad. The Ford Motor company made a cost/benefit analysis of the price of fixing the Pinto, and decided that it was cheaper to pay death benefits than to fix the car. He no more knew who he was going to kill then the Tylenol killer of around the same time, but the corporate media treated the 7 deaths of the Tylenol killer as the most outrageous depravity possible, and the Pinto killer as a businessman, later lionized when he obtained tax dollars to keep Chrysler out of bankruptcy. Luckily, no one rearended my Dad, and he's still alive today, but no thanks to corporate morality.
FEATURE: No holiday for many domestics
In Chinese societies, the most important festival is the Lunar New Year, when families reunite in a holiday atmosphere. Many migrant workers in Taiwan, however, do not have the luxury of a holiday. Lunar New Year's day falls this year on Thursday and most people have six days off, although many workers from Southeast Asia will see their workloads increased, particularly the 160,000 domestic workers and caregivers who make up almost half of the 360,000 foreign laborers in Taiwan. Such is the case for Mary, a young Indonesian who came to Taiwan one-and-a-half years ago. Working as a domestic helper, she starts her day at 6am by preparing breakfast, then goes to market, cleans the house and takes out the garbage. She doesn't get to call it a day until after 11pm. Ostensibly hired to take care of an elderly member of her bosses family, in reality that is only a small portion of her strenuous workload.
RBS takes prize for biggest takeover deal of the year
Another Edinburgh institution that found new owners was Radio Forth, with former owner Emap flogging it for £1.14bn as part of a sale of its consumer magazine and radio assets to German media group Bauer.In October, Cairn Energy, the Edinburgh-based oil and gas explorer, announced a surprise sale of its Bangladeshi operations in a deal worth up to £34m, as part of its focus on its core exploration activities. Smaller Edinburgh firms also struck deals, with JRG Financial sold to the national Cavanagh Group for £5.3m. Sir David Murray sold his Apollo Metals arm to German giant ThyssemKrupp for an undisclosed fee.However, it was RBS that grabbed the takeover limelight in 2007. Apart from raking in £4.2bn from the sale of Southern Water to a joint venture between JP Morgan and Australian infrastructure fund Challenger, the bank saw off intense competition from Barclays in a six-month battle for the flagship takeover of 2007: the £49.1bn consortium buyout of Dutch bank ABN Amro by RBS, Santander and Fortis.The triumph by RBS chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin marked the world's biggest banking takeover, and easily the largest completed deal of the year.Sir Fred was accused of overpaying for ABN.
Viewer Comments On Snowmobiling Safety
We go appropriate speeds and very slow when getting on and off trails. With any sport it can be safe if the right safety precautions are taken. Many people die going over lakes also if you check the record. Why are the lakes not checked in the morning and closed off if not safe. Read those statistics. Really sad. Another issue with the people who are drinking and driving the sleds is that you have to remember the cold feels like it sobers you up. So although they maybe drunk as soon as the cold air hits them they think they can do anything. We only snowmobile in Michigan. I do think the law where they can attach the DUI penalty to your drivers license has helped. I do wish they would do more. It is a great sport. --DonnaFirst let me first express my condolences to all of you who worked with Randy Salerno, it always hard to loose a co-worker and friend in thier prime of life.
TCC seeking bonds, tax hike
Tulsa Community College is asking the average Tulsa County home-owner to pay about $50 more a year to back a $76 million capital bond issue and finance a property tax increase of 1.7 mills.
The two requests will go before voters May 13.
"This is really about growth of the college," President Tom McKeon said.
Academic programs have waiting lists, the college needs more professors, and it needs more money for operations, he said. The extra income would go toward associate-degree programs that prepare students to immediately enter the work force.
TCC wants to accommodate a student body that has grown 18 percent in the past nine years and expand programs that prepare students for in-demand professions, such as health care, McKeon said.
Brady carries coaches on back
Now it's Thomas Dimitroff's turn to join those who should blow kisses toward the primary reason they've become highly favored in the NFL. Tom Brady. "Quarterbacks probably have made everybody in this league successful," Ken Herock said Thursday. He served as an accomplished NFL general manager for more than three decades after drafting the likes of Steve Young, Doug Williams and Brett Favre. Added Herock, who still lives in the Atlanta area after his stint with the Falcons: "Your whole franchise's success is based on the quarterback. Even when I was back with the Raiders [in the 1970s], we had Ken Stabler. I went on to other places. So did Ron Wolf [another noted GM]. The coaches went on. It just happens when you have a great quarterback." Yeah, but never like this.
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