RSSAruba, How About Some Defensive Driving Classes? Fourth Traffic Fatality in One Week
Safety on vacation. Now vacationers have to worry about the care-free, no 
responsibility attitude of life in the fast lane on Aruban roads. 17 deaths in 2007 already? Seems like a pretty high amount when factoring the number of actual drivers. Can people just take some responsibility when they are behind the wheel?
What is happening on the roads in Aruba? They now have had 4 traffic fatalities in one week. In 2007 Aruba has already had 17 traffic deaths as compared to 14 deaths in traffic in 2006. Such news really makes one want to rent a car if one actually decides to go on vacation to Aruba.
This is just another aspect of safety issues that seem to get glossed over. One would think that you would always need to educate drivers as to the rules of the road, not just when traffic fatalities go through the roof.
“We need to educate the road-users to change their driving behavior and enter cooperation with other organizations.”
Spokesperson John Larmonie warned the public again this morning to make sure that there will not be more casualties in traffic, not to speed, and to comply with the right-of-way rules.”
Amigoe; October 29, 2007: Fourth death in traffic within one week
A 37-year old man died in a frontal collision near Malmok on Sunday.
Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary – Tuesday, October 30, 2007 – Why Do Arsonists Do What They Do?
- Dana comments on the tendencies of arsonists, and our need to expose them for the sake of public safety.
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The GAP Using Child Labor in Indian Sweatshop?
Child labor in clothing sweat shops? This is never good PR for The GAP or good in 
general. The Observer reported that “Indian ‘slave’ children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap.” Child labor in such working conditions has been a long time issue within the clothes making industry. One has to wonder how often this practice goes on and just how often it is actually reported. The comment from a Gap spokesperson was as follows:
“At Gap, we firmly believe that under no circumstances is it acceptable for children to produce or work on garments,” the spokesman was quoted as saying. “It is clear that one of our vendors violated this agreement, and a full investigation is under way.”
Gap Stores Using Child Labor in Indian Sweatshop, British Newspaper Reports
LONDON — A British newspaper reported Sunday that it found children as young as 10 making clothes in a sweatshop in New Delhi, India, that the Gap fashion chain planned to sell in the West.
The Observer quoted the children as saying they had been sold to the sweatshop by their families in Indian states such as Bihar and West Bengal and would not be allowed to leave until they had repaid that fee.
Some, working as long as 16 hours a day to hand-sew clothing, said they were not being paid at the unidentified Gap supplier because their employer said they were still trainees.
The Observer quoted one boy identified only as Jivaj as saying that child employees who cried or did not work hard enough were hit with a rubber pipe or had oily cloths stuffed into their mouths.
The paper said the sweatshop, or “derelict industrial unit,” that it found during its investigation in New Delhi was “smeared in filth, the corridors flowing with excrement from a flooded toilet. (FOX News)
Boston Red Sox Win World Series in Sweep over Colorado Rockies
The Boston Red Sox dominated the Colorado Rockies in ever facet of the game 
during the 2007 World Series on their way to a four game sweep. Red Sox nation did not have to wait another 86 years this time to win another World Series. Following the 2004 Red Sox Series win, it just took 3 years this time.
They are the lovable losers no longer … in fact the Boston Red Sox are the model team in MLB with the perfect combination of veterans and youth, speed and power. During the World Series the Red Sox won with their bats, they won with their starting pitching, they won with their closer and they even won playing National League ball with stolen bases, pitchers hitting and pinch hit home runs. Forget the talk of the eight game Rockie layoff, the better team won.
The Red Sox outhit Colorado, .333 to .218. They rolled up the second-highest World Series batting average of all time. They batted .419 with runners in scoring position — while holding the team they were playing to a .167 average in the same spots. They trailed at the end of just three innings in the entire World Series (by one run early in Game 2) — and never were behind at any point over the final 23 innings. (ESPN)
The best: A new era dawns and it’s twice as nice
Five thousand feet above sea level and 1,800 miles from Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox last night won their second World Series in four seasons, beating the Colorado Rockies, 4-3, to complete a four-game sweep of the 103d Fall Classic. Frustrated for the final eight decades of the 20th century, the Sox have emerged as hardball monsters of the new millennium.
Scared Monkeys Radio Daily Commentary – Monday, October 29, 2007 – Dana’s Take on Paparazzi
- Dana discusses some recent run-ins with Paparazzi. From Jessica Biel to Britney, there needs to be a better way.
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