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		<title>Some Thoughts about Volunteers and the Companies They Work for</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 09:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Volunteering --- coming together as a community, and supporting your local needy. But how much time does it take to plan? It's a lot simpler to get involved when a volunteer event has been organized for you.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I expect you know, giving your time as a volunteer lets you make your community stronger as well as bringing help to people in need. But how much time does it take to arrange? And actually, it&#8217;s significantly less hassle to get involved when another party has planned the event. It hardly requires mention, if volunteering becomes a larger effort with colleagues, it&#8217;s likely to be far more fun.</p>
<p>This is a call for other companies to follow the lead of firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. As well as financial and shopping benefits programs including At Home Rewards intended to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity so that its employees have the time to reach out to the community.</p>
<p>Company sponsoring volunteer work now goes beyond annual donations to charity. Shoe recycling initiatives and more energetic campaigns like tree planting events &#8212; these and other activities have been scheduled by Adaptive Marketing for its workforce. With the information &#8212; location, time, date, details of event, et cetera &#8212; displayed in advance it is a simple matter for staff to set aside the time they&#8217;d volunteer and how they&#8217;d be using it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s essential to let volunteers back activities that fit their hobbies. At Adaptive Marketing, the company bringing you <a href="http://identi.ca/athomerewards">At Home Rewards</a>, staff members are given the chance to choose from a wide range of volunteer programs. Earlier projects have included work in areas as diverse as help and support for children and young adults, green awareness activities, and events related to artists. Adaptive Marketing&#8217;s employees are presented with such a choice that they&#8217;re sure to find a project they&#8217;ll enjoy participating in, making their time fun as well as effective. If businesses urge their staffers help at a local school, it tends to be during an individual event or a regular, perhaps weekly or monthly job. There may be those who claim they don&#8217;t have the time, but even they can squeeze in the public library&#8217;s used-book sale.</p>
<p>Business history is full of tales of firms supporting the people who live around them. The good worksefforts of those who work at Adaptive Marketing spread important good feeling in their hometown. Helping around your hometown makes you feel like a better person &#8212; just the sort of thing to motivate staffers in both their daily work and their volunteer activities.</p>
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		<title>Volunteer Work and Your Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I expect you know, volunteer work is a great way to help build stronger communities and at the same time assist the poor. Finding the right timeslot for this is often rather tricky, and arranging what you want to do can easily eat up free time that could be used to do some good.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As I imagine you know, donating your time as a volunteer allows you to strengthen the bonds of your community and at the same time assist the needy. Yet, organizing this kind of event is often a bit difficult, and arranging what you want to do can easily eat up free time that could be used in actually volunteering. So, some companies are making themselves into initiatives encouraging their employees to give back to the community. A leader in this field is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who also offer financial benefits programs like Passport to Fun (MVQ*PASSPRT2FUN). Company based initiatives like these were always rare, minor activities &#8211; but this has come to be seen as just the beginning. The staff of Adaptive Marketing are frequently provided with the opportunity to take part in a wide variety of community initiatives with greater and lesser time investments. By centralizing the organization individual initiatives grew into events, with specific locations, dates and times published ahead of time to make time management easy for volunteers. There should always be a choice between activities, of course. Businesses involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, (as you&#8217;d expect from the company behind <a href="http://www.MVQ-PASSPRT2FUN.com">Passport to Fun</a> (MVQ*PASSPRT2FUN)) allow their employees to select from a wide assortment of local programs to get involved with. You&#8217;ll soon see your civic-minded employees helping to promote arts, working with children and young adults, encouraging green initiatives et cetera. Adaptive Marketing&#8217;s staff members have so much to choose from that they&#8217;re certain to find something they enjoy to volunteer for, making their time enjoyable as well as effective.</p>
<p>A regularly scheduled day or a one-off event &#8211; these are the usual ways for a company to organize this kind of volunteer initiative, often at a nearby homeless shelter or the local school. Even those who say they don&#8217;t have time may be able to squeeze in the public library&#8217;s used book sale. You&#8217;ll find plenty of tales of firms finding ways to help the citizens of their home town. Like many other businesses, Adaptive Marketing supports volunteer activities in part to spread goodwill through its home community by the actions of its staff. Another upside is, the benefits of volunteer work include a sense of generosity and accomplishment &#8211; an upbeat feeling that can enrich the entire business. Promoting volunteering among your staff creates other benefits than the obvious.</p>
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		<title>Serious Malignant Mesothelioma Is Difficult to Diagnose, as Many Indicators Are Associated with Other Diseases</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 04:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mesothelioma is a rare and fast moving tumor where no helpful therapy has been discovered in spite of the finding of quite a few potential molecular and genetic targets. The late stage of MPM diagnosis and the long period of time that exists between exposures and diagnosis have made it difficult to completely study the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mesothelioma is a rare and fast moving tumor where no helpful therapy has been discovered in spite of the finding of quite a few potential molecular and genetic targets. The late stage of MPM diagnosis and the long period of time that exists between exposures and diagnosis have made it difficult to completely study the role of risk factors and the insuing molecular effects.</p>
<p>Quite a few health centres are witnessing increasing numbers of patients that have <a href="http://www.availusa.org/">pleural mesothelioma</a>. This gives pathologists diagnosing the patient many problems, that are broken up into those encountered in finding the differences between malignant mesothelioma and benign changes and those discovered in differentiating mesotheliomas from other forms of e-cadherin and tissue tumors that connect. Immunohistochemistry is a major factor in helping to make the diagnosis, but it should be understood with regards to the scientific setting and radiological characteristics, and taking into consideration the  broad morphological variations  existing in malignant mesothelioma.</p>
<p>Malignant mesothelioma is a cancer directly affecting the serosal cavities, an anatomic area that also gets affected frequently by metastatic disease, mostly from primary carcinomas of the lung, breast, and ovary. Progression in immunohistochemistry have lead to improved diagnostic sensitivity and mesothelioma in both cytological and histological material. As of late, the researchers employed a high level of throughput technology to the identification of new flags that might assist in being able to tell the difference between malignant mesothelioma from ovarian and peritoneal serous carcinoma, tumors cells that contain closely related histogenesis and antigenic profile. In addition to the improved medical devices available for cancer of the serosa diagnosis, understanding the biology of malignant mesothelioma has been accruing in recent years.</p>
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		<title>Graffiti Techniques: the Stencil</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In effect, the method of stencilling involves applying paint across a stencil to form an image on a surface underneath. It's also feasible to apply multiple layers of stencils to produce an illusion of depth or even add colours.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stencilling has actually  been around for 25 years, even though many people think Banksy contrived it. You can apply cardboard, paper or other types of surfaces (such as plastics) to create templated imagery and text.  You merely cut out the shapes from your paper/cardboard/other surface, place said surface onto a wall (example), then spray or roll-on paint.</p>
<p>In effect, the method of stencilling involves applying paint across a stencil to form an image on a surface underneath. It&#8217;s also feasible to apply multiple layers of stencils to produce an illusion of depth or even add colours.</p>
<p>There are countless reasons for being a stencil graffiti artist. For some, it is a great platform to communicate a political message. Many stencil artists value the PR that their artwork can obtain. Some merely wish their art to be seen. Because the stencil stays unchanged throughout its use, it is far easier for an artist to promptly copy what could be a complex artwork at a very quick rate, when compared to other prescribed tagging methods, so without doubt, there is also a persuasive self-promoting reason to prefer stencilling.</p>
<p>Banksy has applied stencilling as a method to make a point, often quite succinctly, leaving the viewer to work out that very point in their head.  This is often why people love his work so much, as they make the viewer think.  <a href="http://www.canvastown.com/">Banksy</a> artwork is now being reproduced on posters, t-shirts and canvas, such is the popularity of Banksy. </p>
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		<title>12,000,000 Illegal Aliens! When Did That Happen?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 20:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next time I hear some congress person or some senator or some loud mouth talk radio moron express outrage about the 12,000,000 undocumented/illegal aliens we have in this country, I think I&#8217;ll shove a red hot poker in my eye or push a cattle prod through my ears. It would give me something more [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The next time I hear some congress person or some senator or some loud mouth talk radio moron express outrage about the 12,000,000 undocumented/illegal aliens we have in this country, I think I&#8217;ll shove a red hot poker in my eye or push a cattle prod through my ears. It would give me something more important to focus on, rather than the idiotic babble that creases my brow and knots my neck. These knuckleheads act as if the immigrant laborers arrived suddenly under the cloak of night. It&#8217;s like that joke by heavyweight comedian Louie Anderson about being grotesquely fat, &#8220;do you think I woke up one day, walked by a mirror and in shock asked, &#8216;Oh! When did that happen?&#8217;&#8221;.</p>
<p>For decades, through all combinations of Washington political power, this blister of cheap labor has festered. The same people doing the high octane complaining now, along with yours truly, all had a piece in this action. If you had a house built, if you had your lawn cut, if you had your home cleaned, if you had your car washed, if you had your hair washed, if you ate a breakfast, lunch or dinner at a restaurant, if you bought vegetables or fruits or cheeses or milk from a grocery store, if you had a nanny for your darlings, if you participated in any of these without regard to whoever provided the labor then you have given cause in part for these immigrants.</p>
<p>You knew it. I knew it. Now we really know it.</p>
<p>And today the troubled troubadours of outrage want to call them all law breakers. They exclaim, &#8220;I&#8217;m not against immigrants. I&#8217;m against illegal immigrants.&#8221; Well were they against illegal immigrants when their new house was roofed? Were they against illegal immigrants when their restaurant table was cleared of plates? Are they against illegal immigrants every time they saut&#233; onions? Are they against illegal immigrants when their hotel rooms are cleaned up? If they are so against illegal immigrants, why don&#8217;t they boycott all those businesses and purge themselves of those services that are a part of the economic machine that creates the jobs and illegal wages that entice folks from neighboring poor countries to risk everything to do better for their families while maintaining cheaper services and goods for the savvy American consumer. But in the unlikelihood these empty headed complainers will give up their free market ways, I have a better idea: shut up!</p>
<p>We knowingly fed this 12,000,000 pound elephant for years, and now the usual suspects are shocked at the size of the poop. The arrogance and shallowness of their words leave me shaking my head. I can only surmise that somewhere along the way each of these poor saps obtained a head injury, possibly atrophying the portion of the brain used for thinking while enlarging the portion used for speech.</p>
<p>Do we have problems? We sure do. In a post 9/11 America, our borders need to be secured, something that should be done already. In fact, it sounds like a great job for the &#8220;National Guard&#8221;, if they weren&#8217;t holed up in Iraq birthing democracy or taking it to the terrorists or babysitting a civil war or whatever the reason de jour is. In addition to disrupting terrorist movement, tighter border security will put a temporary lid on the labor migration, buying us time to figure out what to do with those undocumented workers already here; you know, the 12,000,000.</p>
<p>I almost never agree with the President, but he has it right on this, as does the McCain Kennedy Bill he supports. It seems reasonable to document those here and offer some kind of assimilation plan. &#8220;How&#8221; to document and &#8220;how&#8221; to assimilate is no easy proposition and will take some creative, imaginative thinking, which, given our current band of political brothers, is almost non-existant. As far as those numskulls who want to yell &#8220;No Amnesty&#8221;, again, shut up; you are complicit in this mess. You want &#8220;no amnesty&#8221;? How about &#8220;no amnesty&#8221; to businesses who continue to pay illegal low wages to their workers? We need to move the lowest wages to a level where the poorest Americans can compete for jobs. If this means increasing the minimum wage, do it. I know that translates into higher prices for houses, food, and services. So be it. To not do it avoids fixing the underlying inequity which feeds the revolving door of workers from poorer nations who come here, earn dollars and return home where the dollars go a lot further.</p>
<p>With a system as broken as this, what did we expect?</p>
<p>The party is over. It&#8217;s time to ante up and pay the piper for decades of looking the other way. And anyone who wraps the flag around &#8220;feel good&#8221; illegal alien rhetoric needs to take a look in the mirror. Ask Louie Anderson, we didn&#8217;t gain 12,000,000 pounds overnight.</p>
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<p>This article was written by humorist Robert Crane. Please visit his popular website for more politics, humor and hysterical short stories about his lame uninformative years as he navigated the Sixties. <a href="http://www.cranelegs.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cranelegs.com</a></p>
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