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Your Guide - Volunteering Your Time

01.02.10

As I expect you know, donating your time as a volunteer allows you to make your community stronger and at the same go assist the poor. And actually, it’s significantly less hassle to volunteer when an event is pre-planned. Of course, if you volunteer as part of a larger effort with co-workers, it’s likely to be more enjoyable.

In reaction to this issue, some companies are creating initiatives helping their employees to work for the community. A leader in this field is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who also offer shopping programs including Todays Escapes to consumers.

If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of giving blood, perhaps an annual call for donations, but this is simply no longer true. To take one example, Adaptive Marketing has offered employees opportunities to help with anything from shoe recycling efforts to local tree planting weekends. In cases like these, the dates, times and locations that had been arranged were posted, making it convenient for staff members to know what to expect, and how much time it might take precisely. There should always be a choice between activities, naturally. Staff members from Adaptive Marketing choose from among a selection of programs. When looking for things to do you see so many; taking part in the education and entertainment of children, lending a hand to environmental programs, or improving the area’s look through artists among others. A volunteer who has fun is an effective volunteer, consequently, by providing so many projects Adaptive Marketing ensure that progress will be made in a great many areas. A regular addition to their schedule or a big one-off event - these are the usual ways for a business to arrange this kind of volunteer initiative, perhaps at a nearby homeless shelter or the local school. Members of staff may well say that they have no time to give, though one would be surprised if they honestly can’t find the hours to help at some smaller one-day event.

We’re sure that by now you’ve heard a number of tales of organizations giving back to the citizens of their home town. The good worksefforts of those who work at Adaptive Marketing create valuable goodwill in their home town. Helping others leaves you feeling much better about yourself - just the sort of feeling to motivate your workforce both in their daily work and their volunteer activities, too. Organizing a drive to help employees to volunteer rewards everyone involved.

Deadly Risks Associated with Yaz

11.29.09

Research executed on healthy, premenopausal women in the Netherlands determined that Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella (generic Yaz) suffered an inflated risk of venous thrombosis as compared to non-users. The risks were increased as high as fivefold with oral contraceptives. These reports were published in August 2009. This was merely the beginning of the controversy surrounding Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella and the subsequent lawsuits to come regarding Yaz side effects.

Among the other controversies surrounding Yasmin, Yaz and Ocella birth control, the drugs also contain drospirenone, a component not in other oral contraceptives. The British Medical Journal issued studies in August 2009 establishing a higher risk of venous blood clots in young women taking drospirenone as opposed to those who took other oral contraceptives. In that same month, the FDA issued an uncorrelated advisory to Bayer Pharmaceuticals, makers of Yasmin, for using low-quality batches of drospirenone from a plant in Germany. For the benefit of public interest and wellbeing, these studies have been made available free online.

Any women that have been injured as a result of taking Yaz, Yasmin or Ocella may be entitled to recompense. Many attorneys and legal aid agencies such as thelegaladvocate.com now provide assistance to anyone having side effects and health issues as a direct result of using Yaz contraception. Now that more adult females across the country are coming forward and filing suit, the legal system is moving closer to offering justice for those who were misled by the birth control manufacturers and possibly their doctors.

Mortarless Bricks: The Wavering Walls of Globalization

04.18.08

Reflections on Social Organization - Information (i.e. economic or political) and knowledge management skills are essential tools for embarking on and staying on board a course of sustainable development. Today these tools are controlled politically and used strategically by those who have the means and access to the material fruits of globalization, seen as an incoherent and hierarchical form of capiltalist reproduction.

Article at:

http://www.newtopiamagazine.net/content/issue14/features/mortarlessbricks.php

About the Author

As a social scientist and specialist in international cooperation, Glenn Brigaldino’s writing focusses on international affairs. He is a member of Canadian e-book authors and also a contributing writer to the online venture newtopiamagazine.net. Several of his e-books can be found at:
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