Finding Time to Volunteer
Volunteering — building a community bond, and assisting your local needy. Traditionally, however, making arrangements to be free to volunteer often wastes some of that valuable free time. Obviously, if you volunteer as part of a larger effort with co-workers, it’s likely to be more enjoyable.
The obvious step, then, is for other companies to take a cue from firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to programs including Leisure Exclusives designed to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity so that its employees have more time to help the local community.
Initiatives like these were always rare events — in today’s world, so much more can be achieved. Looking at a specific company, Adaptive Marketing has offered employees a chance to take part in everything from athletic shoe recycling campaigns to local tree replanting events. In these cases, the times, locations and dates of the events were announced, ensuring that employees knew what to expect, and how much time each event might specifically require from them. It is essential to let volunteers support activities according to their own preferences. At Adaptive Marketing, the company behind Leisure Exclusives, staff members are presented with the chance to choose from a diverse list of volunteer events. You’ll soon see your members of staff helping to promote culture, working with children, encouraging environmental initiatives etc. Often, the more they enjoy it, the more gets done, and as a result by providing so many projects Adaptive Marketing can be certain that progress will be made in as many projects as possible.
Usually a company sponsored charity project — fundraising with a homeless shelter or helping out at a local school — is either done on a regular schedule or as a one-off event. Even staff who say they don’t have time to volunteer may be able to arrange for the public library’s sale of used books or a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park. It’s common practice for firms to assist the people living around their base of operations. The good worksefforts of the staffers at companies like Adaptive Marketing spread valuable good feeling around their home base. Something that volunteer work is certain to do is leave your staff feeling good about themselves, creating a motivated company. We hope that by now the positives of a company sponsored volunteer initiative for everyone involved are ought to be quite clear for everyone.
Volunteer Work and Your Business
The sense of camaraderie that develops among volunteers can tie their community together more closely, and naturally it will fulfill the volunteers’ goal of assisting their local poor. Doing it yourself, however, freeing up the time to volunteer may easily waste very time that could really be put to so much better use elsewhere. And don’t you agree that with your friends from work active alongside you, you’d all enjoy yourselves more while volunteering?
Accordingly, a number of companies are creating initiatives encouraging their employees to support the community through volunteer activities. One of the leaders in this is Adaptive Marketing LLC who also offer financial and shopping benefits programs like BusinessMax.
If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, maybe a Christmas donation drive, but that’s simply not true in the modern day. The staff of Adaptive Marketing are regularly provided with opportunities to take part in community initiatives with greater and lesser time investments. In these cases, the times, locations and dates that had been arranged were published well in advance, ensuring that employees knew what to expect, and how much time each event might really require from them.
Naturally, it’s important to let volunteers support activities that fit their strengths. At Adaptive Marketing, the firm bringing you BusinessMax, staffers can pick and choose from a diverse list of events. You’ll soon see your civic-minded employees green initiatives et cetera. In many cases, the more the volunteer enjoys it, the more productive they are, so through offering such a variety of programs Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their members of staff will make progress on as many as possible.
Usually a company sponsored charity initiative — fundraising with a local school, say, or helping out at a homeless shelter — is done either as a one-off event or on a regular schedule in pursuit of a bigger goal. Even staff who say they haven’t the time can usually commit to a Saturday morning park clean-up. We’re sure you know a number of examples of companies supporting the citizens of their hometown. Community goodwill is created by the projects undertaken by Adaptive Marketing’s employees through these company supported programs. The real bonus is, one of the benefits of helping others is feeling better about yourself — a positive feeling that enriches the entire corporation. Putting the opportunities out there to help employees set aside the time to volunteer is nothing but positive.
Waste, Recycling and Reuse
The world cannot continue to use raw material and produce waste at the current rates. As standards of living increase, people can afford to buy consumer goods such as cars, fridges, mobile phones and televisions. The manufacture of these goods is using up the planet’s resources faster than they are being produced which means that supplies will run out. Furthermore, computers for example, cannot easily be recycled because they contain harmful chemicals.
In general, people living in cities produce twice as much waste as those in the country, mostly due to their dependence on pre-packed goods. As 2/3 of the world’s population live in cities and this number is growing, the waste problem will get worse. The answer to this is to use the world’s resources in a sustainable way.
Many raw materials used come from un-sustainable sources while the waste may take many years to break down, and may even produce toxic by-prducts. Landfill sites are filling up. It is paramount therefore that we reduce, reuse and recycle all waste.
Different solutions can be applied. For instance, manufacturers can work together so the waste product of one manufacturer become the raw materials of another, known as zero waste. Another way forward it to make greater use of sustainable sources for making materials, such as plastic which can be made from the plant oil seed rape. People should be encouraged not to replace possessions such as phones or computers every few years. Taxes could be introduced on materials that cannot be recycled. A sensible alternative to buying a new computer could be to buy a second hand mac or pc, which means that technically it is being recycled. Government could make suppliers meet higher environmental standards, such as hybrid vehicles to reduce fossil fuels. At home we can help by having a compost heap in the garden, using energy efficient light bulbs, insulating roofs and recycling glass, metal, plastic and paper. At the shops we can decline a plastic bag. When making decisions between 2 similar items, we can look to see if there is information about the recycled content and avoid products with excess packaging.
Introduction to Mesothelioma Cancer
Malignant mesothelioma is a infrequent cancer of the tissue that lines the body’s inside organs. Nearly two thousand brand new occurrences are detected every year in the whole US. From this group, almostthree out of four of occurrences concern the sac around the lungs, referred to as the pleura. Also known as pleural mesothelioma. In almost ten to twenty percent of cases, mesothelioma cancer may involve the tissue that encloses visceral organs, referred to as the peritoneal membrane, resulting in what is then known as peritoneal mesothelioma.
Being introduced to asbestos is absolutely the primary cause for this uncommon disease. After asbestos exposure, the time period to progression of the mesothelioma disease could be twenty to forty years. Due to work related introduction, malignant mesothelioma is nearly three times more common in men, than in women. Because the number of cases moves upward with age, there are about ten times more instances in the men over age 64 than in the males in their thirties.
Developing Cancer of the mesothelium is a grave ailment, which, currently, has a incredibly poor rate of long-term survival. Although, if it is pinpointed early, care are then available that can seriously stretch the patient’s life. New approaches continue to be and are being developed through the use of clinical trials.
Censorship, Our Enemy
Censorship, Our Enemy
By Punkerslut
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell
people what they do not want to hear.” — George Orwell, Notes
on Nationalism
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death
your right to say it.” — Evelyn Beatrice Hall, The Friends of
Voltaire (1906)
“It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an
equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on
themselves.” — Thomas Paine, On First Principles of Government
(1795)
“Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human
beings.” — Heinrich Heine, Almansor (1821)
“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.” –
John Morley, On Compromise (1874)
If we want to know if someone believes in freedom and liberty,
the prophets of creativity and passion, we may simply tell them,
“When I told a person my opinion, they resorted to threats and
physical violence.” If the person we are telling this to
believes in freedom, they will express their absolute horror at
such a situation, but if the person does not believe in freedom,
then they will ask, “What was the opinion?” As true liberty and
freedom does not have borders or restrictions, unless another’s
liberty is at risk. If a man becomes the chorus of freedom and
sings the songs of happiness, but states it ought to be illegal
to express some opinion they believe to be heinous or ghastly or
an abomination, then this man is nothing but a hypocrit and a
traitor to the advancement of civilization. When a leader says,
“You can say anything you want, but you may not say this or this
or this,” then it is the beginning of Censorship and the
devaluation of opinion. And as they make it illegal for us to
open our mouths, they make it illegal for everyone else to open
their minds. Shackles attached to the strings of the heart as
much as they are bondaged to the sentiments of the mind, and
civilization, and its institutions of art and love and community
and peace and freedom, as Censorship advances, civilization
becomes crippled and debilitated. When we can no longer sing the
song which has enchanted our hearts, unless we are rigidly
following the notation of a biased authority, then we are no
longer living in freedom, but in the foul chambers of Censorship.
There is nothing more obscene when the cry is made that
literature is obscene in nature and should be censored. What can
honestly be said of a person when they say we are not allowed to
think a certain way, or to express our opinions in a way they
dislike? What can be said when a Conservative states all Liberal
texts should be banned, or when a Christian states all heretical
texts should be banned, or when a person states that a radical
opinion should be supressed and not heard? If a person wishes to
prove that a theory is correct, they should do so openly and
using evidence. To silence your opponent and not allow them to
argue their case is to disable the advancement of truth and
liberty. Those who are desirious of learning the truth and
expanding their knowledge of both sides will be disheartened to
find that they cannot find a text of anyone who opposes one
theory. The government which approves of Censorship does a
disservice to society.
The crime stipulated by Censorship is not one of action, but
one of knowledge. It is in knowing that we become criminals. And
in all of the Totalitarian nations where Censorship is in full
force, artists and writers and comedians and musicians and
thinkers, or any individual that is part of a creating class,
will find themselves to be criminals. Not criminalized because
they are the source of some evil, or that they cause misery or
distress, but solely because they hold opinions, that they have
thoughts, that they are capable of judgments. The members of the
criminal class then are not only the poor who have no means of
production, but the thinkers, the geniuses, the researchers, the
scientists. And as Censorship masquerades as protection, as it
continues its love affair with ignorance, all classes of men who
find themselves allured to liberty, will detest Censorship
against any group, in any form.
There have been thousands who have been persecuted for holding
an opinion, let alone expressing the opinion. The church has
been notorious for killing heretics all the way into the 20th
century, with the death of Francisco Ferrer. The Red Scare and
Senator McCarthy spent his political career by destroying
others. And there came to be no more smug and cruel an
institution as the Unamerican Activities Committee in our modern
world. Lives were destroyed and futures were crushed, as the
persecutors gained in fame, glory, and wealth. As the bog-god,
terrorist machine of government crushed more souls into
consumerist fodder for its never-ending goal of control and
oppression, the world was thrown into a madenned craze. Even
investigation of theories of Communism was tantamount to being
recognized as a Communist in the eyes of the government.
What have our lives come to, when there are laws and
regulations that say we cannot read certain things, that we
cannot think certain things, that we may not question and
understand certain things? Can there be any ideology, any belief
system, any religion, or philosophy that is so taboo or foreign,
that we must not permit anyone to know about it? The idea that
is so dangerous that it must be banned from the mind is the idea
that does not exist. Censorpship of an idea proves nothing. It
only proves that someone must resort to physical force to put
down their opponents. When someone cannot disprove their
opponent with argumentation and evidence, they will resort to
Censorship. And it is true that the censor-morons have been
responsible for Censorship in all its forms, whether it is the
destruction of the printing presses or killing those who hold an
opinion.
The gluttonous beast of tyranny will do all in its power to
disable and handicap the progression of civilization. It may try
to crush our hearts, destroy our desires, and fill us with the
idea that hope is vanity, truth is vice, and lust is sin. But
before the cruel servants of brutality do anything — before
they construct their prisons, before they enforce compulsary
education, before they force us to work in dangerous factories,
before they tax us so they can support their luxurious
lifestyles, before they massacre us in the streets — before the
cyclopse of iniquity raises his fist to take a blow at
civilization, the first thing he will do is to put a clamp on
our lips and our minds. He will burn our libraries, control all
means of communication, and will make it punishable to hold or
express a taboo opinion. And once Censorship is in place, all
sorts of injustices and unfairness may be committed upon the
tender flesh of innocense, upon the crying infant of life.
Can it not easily be predicted that these with enough brazen
attitude will be met with healtfelt sorrow when they discover
tha their questions are illegal? What kind of country would we
be living in if questions and their answers are illegal? There
may be those in full support of Censorship who will claim that
we should remove obscenities from books, and allow only material
to be published that respects sacredness. There can be nothing
more sacred than liberty and freedom, the mother of inquiry and
justice. Among the cruelty of the Censor-morons, there is the
villification of the human body. The Fig-Leaf Campaign is
notorious for this. In their never-ending quest to destroy
freedom and creativity, only the greatest artists, be they
Renassaince men or pornographers, have been persecuted. And by
what writ can they claim that our bodies are obscene? Of all
things, it is the least obscene! We are all born into this body,
this bundle of loosely connected nerves, given the hormones of
lust, allowed thought and contemplation. Such a magnificent
machine and such a wonderful experience, but upon inspection of
this spectable, the Censor-morons claim it is an obscenity!
There is no expression more sincere in its cruelty and outright
ignorance, when it claims that we are obscene, disgusting, vile,
terrible, horrible, based on the way our bodies look to others.
Perhaps if it were humanly possible, they would pass laws making
it ilegal to see our own nudity.
The question really presented to us is this: can any idea,
based on how radical or altrenitave, be so dangerous that we
must silence it? If our means of communication and thought are
free, then the journey to truth is only given permission to
pass. When we can question everything, present ideas, and
express evidence, only then will we have a free nad clear view
of everything. The just courts of the world will not supress
evidence. By what writ can a just society supress a view? It is
not a question as to who is right or wrong. Many who censor
Racists may say it is because they cannot be right. But if it is
true that Racism is wrong, then allow it to be observed and
investigated. If it is untrue, it’s publication will be
detrimental to its cause. But to supress the opinion, disallow
investigation of any opinion, is slavery off thought and
destructive to truth.
As the noose around our mind tightens, with government
regulation, we will find that our liberties in all areas of our
lives are degrading. With excessive harshness, trying to govern
what we are allowed to think and what we are allowed to say, we
will become indoctrinated into a drone-like trance, without
humanity, with creativity, with love or hate. Becoming mindless
fools following a set path determined by an unjust power, the
ability to carry out justice and fairness will be severly
debilitated. Deviation will be punishable. As the crimson sky of
vitality and knowledge darkens to a lifeless, breathless mass –
as it becomes illegal to investigate and pose questions — as
the book fires reach further and further towards the skies and
the condition of life sinks lower and lower — and as
intelligence becomes a sign of criminality, we wil discover that
our lives are without freedom, our minds full of barriers, and
the never-ending journey of education has turned into a
slug-race. Censorship is our enemy, so much as ignorance,
cruelty, and brutality are our enemies.
For Life, Punkerslut
Nobody is Above the Law He Said; but Him of Course
I once sat quietly in the audience and listened to an employee of the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer protection division say that; No one is above the law. Later I found out he coaxed false declarations from 7 declarants and filed them in a secret court in order to win his case.
Indeed rather disturbing for a Prosecutor in a little agency under the Justice Department whose motto is; “Truth Justice and the American Way!” And although is sexual preference is irrelevant theoretically; this outcaste from society is an out right Homosexual and far left-leaning liberal from hell.
Why is it that we allow our Justice Department to be infiltrated by such folks? Well, it is because some people in our civilization are above the law, they run it and well they know they are above the law. Until we take care of this problem there can never be Truth, Justice or the American Way, whatever that is? Sounds more like a Ferry Tale in hindsight, like the story of Santa Clause or this Biblical Story everyone is running around and purporting as truth.
Although most Americans so very much wish to believe that our justice department is about truth and fairness it is indeed a farce from the district attorneys who use their jobs to propel political careers to the judges who are lawyers (liars) sitting on the bench due to a political event or appointment.
Catch a clue, there is no justice in the United States of American and there are people above the law. You perhaps simply do not recognize this, because you either are not observing fact or you are not one of them. It is all a lie and that is a shame really or perhaps a Shame without the; E on the end, you decide. Consider this in 2006.
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