The Silver Bot

We all know that donating your time as a volunteer lets you strengthen the bonds of your community and in the same stride assist those in need. But organizing this kind of event isn’t actually as straightforward as you would hope, and before you know it you don’t have nearly as long at your disposal to actually do some good. Moreover, if volunteering becomes a group effort with friends from work, it’s likely to be more enjoyable.

As a result companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, whose shopping programs, including Todays Escapes (MVQ*TRAVELMEMBER), bring value to customers, have stepped up as the organizing points for volunteer activities and helping employees make time for reaching out.

Initiatives like these used to be annual, minor occasions — in today’s world, so much more can be achieved. The staff of Adaptive Marketing are regularly given the chance to participate in community initiatives with more and less effort required. Once all the pertinent information — location, time, date, type, etc — had been displayed in advance it is a simple matter for staff to set aside the time for volunteering and what program they’d join.

The spirit of volunteering means a opportunity to select projects, naturally. Employees of Adaptive Marketing select from among many drives. Previous projects have included work in areas as diverse as help and support for children and young adults, green projects, and events cultivating the area’s performance art. The result is that Adaptive Marketing volunteers have opportunities to use their time in meaningful, important ways and love joining in the process.

A regular addition to their schedule or a big one-off event — this is how a firm usually arranges this kind of volunteer initiative, perhaps at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. Staff members may well claim that they have no time to give, though it would be surprising if they honestly can’t set aside the hours to help at some smaller one-day event.

You’ll find plenty of examples of companies supporting the citizens of their hometown. Adaptive Marketing sponsors volunteer initiatives in part to spread positive feeling through the local community by the activities of its employees. Helping around your hometown can make you feel like a better person — just the sort of feeling to get staffers motivated both in their daily work and their volunteer activities, too.

As you know, donating your time as a volunteer lets you make your community stronger and at the same go assist the poor. The obvious problem is that freeing up the time to volunteer can squander time that could readily be put to so much better use elsewhere. And don’t you think that with your co-workers active alongside you, you’d all have a better time while volunteering?

Responding to this problem, some socially-conscious firms are integrating points of organization encouraging their employees to give back to the community through volunteer activities. A leader in this field is Adaptive Marketing LLC of Connecticut who also offer shopping programs like BusinessMax (MVQ*BIZMAX) to consumers. When you think of company sponsored charitable effort, you probably think of blood drives, maybe an annual donation drive, and no more, but that’s simply no longer true. The staff of Adaptive Marketing are regularly provided with the opportunity to get involved in community initiatives with more and less effort required. Once all the relevant information — date, location, time, specifics, etc — had been displayed in advance it is a simple matter for employees to set aside the time for volunteering and how they’d be using it.

Of course, it’s essential to let volunteers choose programs that fit their hobbies. Firms involved in this like Adaptive Marketing, (who offer to the public programs like BusinessMax (MVQ*BIZMAX)) offer their staffers a wide assortment of activities in their community. There’s so much to be done; working with children, helping with green activities, or improving the area’s aesthetic through arts and culture among others. Adaptive Marketing’s employees are presented with such a choice that they’re sure to choose something they enjoy, making their time fun as well as effective.

A regular addition to their schedule or a big one-off event — this is how a company typically organizes this kind of volunteer initiative, perhaps at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. Even staff who say they haven’t the time can usually commit to a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park. We’re sure that by now you know a number of tales of firms supporting the people who live around them. The good worksefforts of the staffers at Adaptive Marketing and other firms spread valuable good feeling in their hometown. One thing volunteer work is sure to do is leave your staff feeling good about themselves, generating a motivated company.

Cancer of the mesothelium is a uncommon cancer of the tissues that line people’s inside organs. Nearly two thousand new instances are detected each year in the whole United States. From this group, about75 percent of occurrences involve the sac that protects the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In almost 10 to 20 percent of occurrences, mesothelioma cancer could concern the tissue that envelopes visceral organs, referred to as the peritoneal membrane, causing what is then referred to as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Introduction to asbestos is absolutely the primary influencing factor for this rare cancer. After exposure to asbestos, the time to progression of the mesothelioma disease could be 20 to 40 years. Because of occupation exposure, malignant mesothelioma is nearly three times more common in males, than in women. Due to the amount of occurrences goes up with your age, there are nearly ten times more occurrences in the males over age 64 than in the men in their thirties.

Getting Mesothelioma is a weighty disease, that, at the moment, has a incredibly bad rate of lasting endurance. Nonetheless, if it is pinpointed early, care are then at hand that might significantly stretch the patient’s life. Cutting edge approaches continue to be and are being promoted by the way of clinical trials.

Slobodan Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president who was currently being tried for war crimes, has been found dead in his prison cell. The 64 year old was being held at a detention center outside The Hague, and initial reports suggest that he died of natural causes. He had a history of illnesses and heart problems leading up to his death on Saturday. The International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia has issued a statement saying that a full investigation is underway.

Slobodan Milosevic had been in custody since his extradition from former Yugoslavia in 2001. He faced several charges of genocide and war crimes for his role in the Balkan conflict during the 1990’s. His trial has been a bumpy ride, with legal and political turmoil. He refused to acknowledge the authority of the tribunal in The Hague, and chose to conduct his own defense. The former president’s ill health had slowed the legal process down considerably, especially since 2004. Statisticians said the actual trial proceedings had lasted barely one year in terms of court time, since 2001.

Reactions to his death seem to be focused on a sense of injustice. Ben Bot, the Dutch foreign minister, interviewed by Dutch media at an EU meeting in Salzburg, Austria, said: “It is sad for his victims … and for the fact that the process cannot be completed. It would have been better, also from the perspective of history, if the law had run its course.”

A few reactions have come in the form of criticism for the tribunal process. Milica Pesic, a former Serbian television news presenter, told CNN: “People here are asking if they took his health problems seriously enough.”

Milosevic had recently requested the tribunal to allow him to go to Moscow for medical treatment. Lord Ashdown, the British politician and former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina who gave evidence against Milosevic, said he suspected that was a “politically motivated” move.

Lord Ashdown described Milosevic as “charismatic and intelligent” but said, “He had an amazing capacity to tell a lie with a straight face.”

Milosevic was born August 20, 1941. He served as President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997 and then President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000. He was one of the key figures in the Yugoslav wars and became the first sitting head of state to be indicted for alleged war crimes. He is survived by his wife Mirjana, his son Marko, and his daughter Marija.

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First the European Observer reported that “Palestine aid cut would be ‘brutal’, EU diplomats say,” rejecting a European Commission proposal to suspend direct aid to the PA (Palestinian Authority), saying it would be “too brutal.”

“The Financial Times reports that diplomats from all EU member states stuck together on the decision, despite the fact the new government is led by Hamas - a militant group on the EU’s own terrorist list…

The EU is the biggest donor to the Palestinian Authority, with member states and the European Commission putting aside around 500 million a year since 2003….” (emphasis mine)

Why in the world did the European Union and the United States ever start sending WELFARE CHECKS TO SWORN ARAB ENEMIES? Why have we continued to aid and abet those who reject Israel in word (they have never changed their calls for genocide against the Jews or the destruction of Israel) and in murderous deed? Why are we enabling them to continue their terror?

What American taxpayer wants one red cent to go to those brute beasts who routinely burn our flag and dance in the streets when disaster befalls us? Haven’t the prickly “Palestinians” sent a loud and clear message to the world, in effect thumbing their nose at civilization, with their election of Hamas? Why should we care that such a demented people wallow in their own mire, conditions created by their elected leaders and people?

As I write, the European Observer reports the EU does an about face: “EU freezes aid to Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.” However, EU leaders have stated they are willing to work with any “Palestinian” government committed to peace, based upon three fundamental principles:

“Hamas must recognise the right of Israel to exist, renounce violence and commit itself to the peace process. “

In other words, same old, same old. Didn’t Herr Arafat say yes to all of the above while continuing to work against the Jewish homeland? How naive, how utterly stupid can the Americans and Europeans be? Can the leopard change its spots?

Instead of refusing to face harsh reality, speaking pretty platitudes and engaging in wishful thinking and la-la-land mirages that will never materialize in the real world, it’s past time ISRAEL, the United States and Europe acknowledge that Israel remains at war, even a war of attrition with intransigent Arabs.

Israel must utterly defeat their sworn Arab enemies and impose PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH. There is no other solution, and this politico-military solution is a solution, despite the brayings of those with who dare expose their woeful ignorance of the Middle East or their CFR bought and paid for silence, their complicity with controlled chaos.

God sent the biblical solution to Israel through Israeli Parliament Member and rabbi, Meir Kahane (Malachi 4:4). Kahane was right about such sworn Arab enemies: They Must Go!

Israel must finish the EXCHANGE OF POPULATIONS the Ishmaelites started.

The Arabs in Eretz Israel cannot be trusted, as they’ve proven time and again. Israel must remove the stranger in thy midst - not expel Jews!

If the foolish United States and European Union choose to continue to aid and abet sworn enemies of Israel and the Israelite West (remember, the “Palestinians” on Western welfare exercised their rights and voted in Hamas, blowing up democracy in your face President Bush and criminal European company), rather than inform the oil-rich Arab countries to support their dysfunctional Arab family, the United States and European Union will shamefully continue to reward terrorism, fearing instability and bribing the “Palestinian Authority,” vainly seeking to appease and pacify them. At least assist Israel in relocating such self-afflicted folk to the Western Sahara or their many Arab countries of origin and pay them, if you please, to get settled in there.

Instead of following this biblical and historical logic to a reasonable conclusion, the world will permit the Arab-Israeli situation to fester, especially the bleeding wound of Gaza (that should have been cauterized years ago), so the increasingly fascist EU can send in treacherous “peacekeepers.”

Watch for the Bavarian pope and his political puppets to demand international enforcement of the accursed UN Resolution 181 causing all “hell” to break loose.

David Ben-Ariel is a Christian-Zionist writer and author of Beyond Babylon: Europe’s Rise and Fall. With a focus on the Middle East and Jerusalem, his analytical articles help others improve their understanding of that troubled region. Check out the Beyond Babylon blog.