Unless you live under a rock you have no doubt heard about AIG and most recently the bonuses that are being issued to the company’s top brass. Yes ladies and gentlemen the same guys that caused the problem are now being rewarded with more money than the average American can possibly appreciate. The same Americans [...]
Unfortunately, violence against women is a centuries old reality.
According to Bureau of Justice statistics 17 percent of women can expect to be raped in their lifetime. In 2004 for every 1000 people there is one rape or sexual assault, two assaults with injury and 2 robberies-that’s a one in five chance that you are going [...]
Today there is a new kind of bully. Yes, the days of the big Pete on the playground has expanded. I have dealt with a new bully, cyber bullies. This is the last story I wrote to them. Because, what we control is our actions, our thoughts. As for this dreamer, I will only dream, [...]
Marilyn is a pretty girl, who works long hours and lives alone. She has a nice apartment above a restaurant in a busy section of the downtown area in a major city. She walks three blocks to get home, when she finishes work each night around nine or ten o’clock.
Now, Marilyn is not really afraid [...]
Pepper spray has become one of the most popular non lethal self defense weapons today because it works, it is cost effective and it is easy to carry.
Pepper spray uses Oleoresin Capsicum (OC) which comes from cayenne pepper. It is approximately 8 times hotter than a habanero pepper considered by many to be the hottest [...]
What makes a neighborhood walkable? Streets and roads that are accessible for everyone; and have wheelchair ramps, lots of benches with shade and sidewalks on all streets.
Walkable neighborhoods have well designed streets that everyone can use, including bicyclists, pedestrians of all ages and abilities, people getting on and off transit vehicles.
Another thing to [...]
The effect of the information technology boom in Vietnam seems to be an infinite topic for many people to discuss. However, it would be a very noticeable shortcoming if we do not mention the disadvantages of information technology. One of them, which is becoming a very serious problem day by day, is the bad effect [...]
It was only 5:00 PM on a cold night when she left the department store at the other end of the mall from where she had parked her car. It was dark outside already.
As she leisurely made her way thru the mall, half window shopping half thinking about her date with her new boyfriend, she [...]
As the economy becomes more challenging and the recession gets worse, many of us are facing lower incomes as our services or products are not selling as well as they did a few months ago. In these times we have the unique opportunity to work on our self esteem, which for many of us is [...]
A violent crime occurs every 19 seconds and an assault every 29 seconds. With economic conditions they way they are now in 2009, crime is on the rise in almost every category from assaults to home burglary.
Yet a lot of folks are lulled into sense of complacency after they get their non lethal self defense [...]
