CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (June 26) – A millionaire who inflicted years of abuse on two Indonesian housekeepers held as virtual slaves in her Long Island mansion was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison. Varsha Sabhnani, 46, was convicted with her husband in December on a 12-count federal indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary […]
2008 Top Hotel and Restaurant Trends To Watch
San Francisco, CA | Today, Andrew Freeman & Co. (AF&&Co.), a leading hospitality and restaurant consulting firm, released its 2008 Trend Watch list. Tapping into the pulse of the hospitality and restaurant marketplace for the coming year, the Trend Watch lists the top restaurant/bar and top hotel trends to expect in the New Year. […]
Hunger Striker Hospitalized, Others Rally on Capitol Hill
by Mike Hall This morning, Christopher Glory, in the eighth day of a water-onlyhunger strike to demand the U.S. government put an end to the abuses in a visa program that workers’ rights advocates liken to human trafficking, was rushed to a Washington, D.C., hospital for strike-related health problems. A spokesman for the New Orleans Workers’ Center for […]
Part 21: El Camino de Santiago
JAMES Camino Day 21 Buenos Dias Los Amigos, Today took us from Porto Marin to some other place that I can’t remember the name of at this precise moment, (Palas del Rei-Larry) approximately 65 kms from the Holy Grail at Santiago. Today did not start, as on many other occasions, well! It is difficult enough to […]
Part 10: El Camino de Santiago
A new alberque and 2 to Burgos In some of my notes home I found the following: We´re in Ages´ after a good day of discovering who I am. James and I hadn’t walked together but he said it was the same kind of day for him. I´ll tell him to put it in his […]
Quench Earth’s Thirst ‘All about pollution’ (2)
Land is the symbol and status for the nobles in manors or the king in the Middle Ages, but water has been becoming the most important symbol of wealth in the modern times. Speaking economically, development is every thing when talking about water. From petrol to clothing, poultries to flour, everything is made up […]
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