I am appalled by the marketing tactics used by most of the ‘brand name’ manufacturers. It matters not that brand, if you recognize the name on the front of the box, you are in for an adventure. Sure the price sounds good, and the young kid in your favorite mega-mart extolled the virtues, ‘This is [...]

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Earlier I wrote an update article about little 4 year old Marc Anthony Bookal  missing from Newburgh, New York after he walked out the opened door of his family’s apartment. His mother’s boyfriend was getting ready to take Marc to a friend’s house when Marc apparently walked out alone and he hasn’t been seen since [...]

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I have to adit that I am not much of a materialist, this is probably a good thing based on the amount of money I make. The one thing I have discovered over the years is that it does not take much to amuse me. I have a large library of books, DVD’s and CD’s, [...]

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A few days ago I got an email from one of our readers that has been following the cases of the abused and murdered children that we report on here at BNN since just about the beginning started with the Caylee Anthony case. PAW69 has become a friend of mine throughout all these months as [...]

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One of the delightful aspects of being a reviewer is being on the inside track on upcoming projects. Often they are months away, some never even make it to fruition. Or if they do, the timing is not right for release. Movies, even ones with large budgets can find themselves on the shelf for months [...]

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December 14, 2009 had to be a really sad day for the mother and father of Marc Anthony Bookal. While the mother was gone, her boyfriend was getting ready to take Marc with him to go visit a relative but while her boyfriend was getting ready little 4 year old Marc walked out of their [...]

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The Wicomico County, Md. Sheriff’s office have arrested a 30 year old Salisbury man and charged him with the disappearance of an 11 year old girl, Sarah Haley Foxwell although the girl is still missing. Sheriff Mike Lewis said last night they have in custody, Thomas James Leggs, a family acquaintance who happens to be [...]

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It was a relief to learn that the health reform bill will not be signed into law until some time in February. There has been so much confusion and misrepresentation that I imagine that the vast majority of us don’t know what the bill’s various forms entail. The hassle over having it is now over [...]

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It looks as though we might be making some progress towards joining our fellow industrialized democracies (several dozen) which offer their people — citizens and visitors — free medical care. Four members of my own family have been beneficiaries of such care in two European countries. Actually my daughter studying for a semester in Italy [...]

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Jan and I want to wish you all the very best this holiday season. I read a book yesterday about celebrating Christmas, it was written from a Christian position, and essentially said that while this time of year is a joyous occasion it is also a time of refection. Coming on the heels of the [...]

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Corporate Governance is an important responsibility of top management in any listed  corporate entity in India. An offshoot of this responsibility is the written commitment given by the Management in the annual report. This written commitment commits the Chairman as well as the Independent Directors besides the executive directors. Normally while signing the annual report, [...]

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Blogging from Phoenix—In a display of political rehabilitation surpassing even Richard Nixon’s return to power, the John Birch society has been invited back into the big tent of the Grand old party. For those unfamiliar with the John Birch society, it was a post war conservative tea party movement on steroids. Birchers were so rabidly [...]

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