Archive for Political Activism
02.17.10
Posted in Great Health Tips, Legal Help, Political Activism at 7:16 pm by admin
Many of women have taken Yaz oral contraceptive, also referred to Yasmin or Ocella it’s generic name, as their oral contraceptive and subsequently are now paying dearly for that decision. Yaz side effects have become extensively reported, some are troublesome, some even deadly. While all ontraceptive pills have some variety of risks affiliated with them, the side effects exhibited with Yasmin seem to be a little more extreme. There are so many distinct Yaz side effects that one really should examine any health problems that are experienced to distinguish if it is someway related to the usage of this oral contraceptive.
Plenty adult females have endured Yaz side effects. Yaz side effects extend from seizures, organ failure, and the ultimate side effect, death. For ladies that have been effected from taking Yaz birth control pill or know someone who has, you may be suitable to retribution for pain and suffering. Due to incorrect claims and not revealing the full possible risks, the producers of Yasmin led various of young women to believe Yasmin contraceptive pill were the clear solution for their contraceptive method only to be subjugated to side effects that could possibly have killed them.
The trouble with the Yaz side effects is that some adult females did not know that the possible side effects were so critical before taking the contraceptive pill. These side effects, extreme or moderate, could happen to anyone. With so many other types of oral contraceptives on the market, women would have at least had a choice to use something different if they saw what possibilities that were ahead with the use of Yaz. Since the introduction of Yaz as an birth control pill, some women all over the world have been using it and having serious or life-threatening medical problems.
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02.10.10
Posted in Political Activism, Your Business at 9:40 am by admin
As I imagine you know, volunteer work is a great way to help build stronger communities as well as helping the needy. Finding the room for this kind of event can be fairly tricky in its own right, and before you know it you don’t have half as long left to actually do some good. Obviously, if volunteering becomes a larger effort with co-workers, it’s likely to be more enjoyable. This is a call for companies to take a cue from firms like Adaptive Marketing LLC. As well as shopping and financial benefits programs like SavingsAce designed to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity so that its employees have the time to reach out to the local community. If you were asked for examples of company-backed volunteer work, you’d most likely talk in terms of blood drives, perhaps an annual call for donations, and no more, but that’s simply no longer true. Shoe recycling programs and more energetic efforts like tree planting days — these and other activities have been scheduled by Adaptive Marketing for its workforce. In these cases, the times, locations and dates of the events were published well in advance, which made it easy for employees to know what to expect, and the specific amount of time a given event might specifically require from them. Making sure volunteers have a say in which programs the company sponsors is essential. Staff from Adaptive Marketing select from among many volunteer programs. You’ll soon see your employees community projects in arts, helping out youth activities, encouraging environmental initiatives and so on. In many cases, the more the volunteer enjoys it, the more productive they are, consequently, by providing so many programs Adaptive Marketing ensure that progress will be made in as many projects as possible. Usually a company sponsored charity program — fundraising with a local school or helping out at a homeless shelter — is either for a one-off event or on a regular schedule in pursuit of a bigger goal. This means that if you can only find some hours for the public library’s sale of used books or a Saturday morning park clean-up, you’ve still got plenty of time to contribute.
We’re sure that by now you’ve heard a number of examples of organizations finding ways to help the people who live around them. Like many other companies, Adaptive Marketing sponsors volunteer projects in part to spread goodwill through its home community by the activities of its employees. Assisting others leaves you feeling much better about yourself — exactly what you need, of course, to motivate staff members in both their regular work and their volunteer activities.
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01.17.10
Posted in Political Activism, Social Portal, Your Business at 3:05 pm by admin
I expect you know that volunteer work can strengthen community bonds as well as aiding the poor. Traditionally, however, making arrangements to be free to volunteer often actually wastes some of that very same free time. And don’t you agree that with your colleagues working alongside you, you’d all have a better time while volunteering? In response, a number of companies are creating points of organization to help their employees give back to the community through volunteer activities. One of the leaders in this is Adaptive Marketing LLC who also offer financial and shopping benefits programs such as Credit Diagnosis. Company supported volunteer work is more than annual charitable giving. Shoe recycling initiatives and more energetic campaigns like tree planting weekends — these are among the activities that have been made possible for its employees by Adaptive Marketing. By centralizing the organization the initiatives blossomed into events, with specific times, dates, and locations made public early to make time management easy for those signing up. It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no opportunity to select projects, of course. Staff from Adaptive Marketing select from among many volunteer events. Once you start looking for things to do you see so many, after all; taking part in the entertainment and education of children and young adults, lending a hand to environmental programs, or supporting local arts and culture to list just a few that have already been tried. A volunteer who takes pleasure in his task is an effective volunteer, and as a result by providing so many projects Adaptive Marketing ensure that progress can be made in a great many areas. When businesses urge their staffers to get involved at schools, it is frequently during a single event or a regular, perhaps weekly or monthly job. No matter how short the time you can spare, we’d expect you can still find some activity you can take part in, which makes time no block against charitable work.
Taking the time to lend a helping hand is a practice with a long pedigree at many businesses. Like many other businesses, Adaptive Marketing maintains volunteer programs in part to generate goodwill within the local community by the actions of its employees. Helping others leaves you feeling like a better person — exactly what you need, of course, to leave stafrf motivated in both their daily work and their volunteer activities.
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11.29.09
Posted in Great Health Tips, Legal Help, Political Activism at 5:55 am by admin
Studies executed on healthy, premenopausal women in the Netherlands determined that Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella (generic Yaz) suffered an enhanced risk of venous thrombosis as compared to non-users. The risks were increased as high as fivefold with birth control pills. These reports were published in August 2009. This was merely the beginning of the contention surrounding Yaz, Yasmin, and Ocella and the consequent lawsuits to come regarding Yaz side effects.
Questions were asked when women in their 20s and 30s were suddenly falling victim to ischemic stroke and heart attack after being put on Ocella. Young, healthy women who were on this brand of contraception for as little as a few months were exhibiting symptoms of major side effects and serious health risks. Cardiovascular injury, organ failure, and blood clots are just some of the serious Yaz side effects allegedly experienced by the young ladies put on this oral contraceptive.
Any women that have been hurt as a result of taking Yaz, Yasmin or Ocella may be eligible to compensation. Many attorneys and legal aid agencies such as thelegaladvocate.com now provide assistance to anyone feeling side effects and health issues as a direct result of using Yaz contraception. Now that more women across the U.S. are coming forward and filing suit, the legal system is moving closer to rendering justice for those who were misinformed by the birth control manufacturers and possibly their doctors.
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11.22.09
Posted in Political Activism at 4:38 pm by admin
As I expect you know, giving your time as a volunteer lets you strengthen the bonds of your community as well as bringing help to the needy. Traditionally, however, adjusting your workload so that you’re free to volunteer can consume very time that could readily be put to much better use elsewhere. On the other hand volunteering can be more fun when your colleagues are getting involved by your side.
This is a call, then, for companies to follow the lead of firms like Connecticut’s Adaptive Marketing LLC. In addition to programs such as DealMax (MVQ*DLMAX) intended to benefit consumers, Adaptive Marketing organizes local volunteer activity to give its employees the time to give back to the community. Initiatives like these were always rare occasions - but this has come to be seen as just the beginning. To go back to our earlier example, Adaptive Marketing has provided its staff members with a chance to help with anything from tennis shoe recycling campaigns to tree replanting days. For events like these, the dates, times and locations that had been arranged were posted, making sure that staff knew what to expect, and the precise amount of time each event might specifically require.
It’s essential to let volunteers back activities according to their own preferences. At Adaptive Marketing, the company bringing you DealMax (MVQ*DLMAX), employees are given the chance to choose from a wide range of programs in their local area. These may include encouraging environmental initiatives et cetera. In many cases, the more the volunteer enjoys it, the more gets done, so by offering so many programs Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their staff members will make progress on as many as possible. A single big event or a regularly scheduled day - these are the most likely ways for a business to arrange volunteer initiatives like these, perhaps at a nearby homeless shelter or the local school. Even staff who claim they haven’t time may be able to arrange for a Saturday morning spent litter picking in the park.
It’s hardly an unusual practice for businesses to help out the people living around their base of operations. Like many other businesses, Adaptive Marketing maintains volunteer programs to help others and to spread positive feeling through the local community by the activities of its staffers. The real bonus is, one of the benefits of volunteer work is feeling better about yourself - a positive feeling that enriches the entire firm.
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07.26.09
Posted in Animal Center, Political Activism, The Sciences at 6:11 pm by admin
Gouldian Finches are approximately 130″140 mm long. Both sexes are brightly colored with black, green, yellow, red and other colors. The female Gouldian Finch tends to be less brightly colored. One major difference between the sexes is that the male’s chest is purple, while the female’s is a lighter mauve color.
Gouldian Finches’ heads may be red, black, or yellow. People used to think they were 3 different kinds of finches, but now it is acknowledged that they are color variants that exist in the wild. Selective breeding has also produced mutations (blue, yellow and silver instead of green back) in body color and breast color.
This bird is found in northern Australia: the Cape York Peninsula through north-west Queensland and the northern Northern Territory to the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Their habitat is tropical savanna woodlands. Their nomadic within a comparatively tiny region approx 40 sq kilometers and only move when water or food grows scarce.
The Lady Gouldian Finch is declining in numbers rapid through the last 100 years with no mare than 2,500 mature adults found in thier natural habitat landing them on the endangered species list. Current efforts are underway to help bring back natural wild populations in remote parts of Australia. However, efforts to re-introduce the Gouldian Finch in the wild have been unsucessfull to this point.
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04.25.09
Posted in Great Health Tips, Medical Stuff, Political Activism at 2:44 am by admin
Mesothelioma is a scarce cancer of the tissue that lines the body’s inner organs. Around 2,000 new instances are recognized each year in the whole US. From these, aboutthree fourths of instances involve the sac around the lungs, called the pleura. Also known as pleural mesothelioma. In around ten to 20 percent of cases, mesothelioma cancer could involve the tissue that envelopes abdominal organs, named the peritoneal membrane, resulting in what is then acknowledged as peritoneal mesothelioma.
Being exposed to asbestos is positively the overwhelming influencing factor for this uncommon disease. After asbestos exposure, the time period to development of the mesothelioma disease may be twenty to forty years. Because of job related introduction, malignant mesothelioma is around three times more routine in men, than in women. Because the amount of cases rises with your age, there are almost ten times more occurrences in the men more than age 64 than in the men in their 30s.
Being diagnosed with Mesothelioma is a grave ailment, which, currently, has a incredibly bad degree of lasting continuance. Nonetheless, if it is spotted early, regimens are then at hand that might seriously prolong the patient’s life. Cutting edge approaches continue to be and are being tested through the use of clinical trials.
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04.28.08
Posted in Political Activism at 1:24 pm by admin
The violence that paralyzed Sao Paulo from May 12 until May 19 revealed the raw power of the First Capital Command (P.C.C.), considered one of the most powerful organized criminal factions in Brazil. Prison riots that erupted in nearly 100 prisons led to over 150 murders, destroyed city buses, and terrorized millions of citizens, propelling Brazil onto the world stage. Yet a more deeply-rooted system run by the P.C.C. reveals how powerful this gang has become.
On May 10, just two days before the riots began, two members of the Sao Paulo Department of Investigation of Organized Crime, Godofredo Bittencourt Filho and Ruy Ferraz Fontes, testified before the Brazilian Government Inquiry Commission on the Traffic of Illegal Weapons about their understanding of the true power of the P.C.C.
Bittencourt and Ferraz testified that the P.C.C. is a very serious problem that is only growing. They blamed Sao Paulo authorities for separating and sending to other Brazilian states various leaders of the P.C.C. by pointing out that because of this separation, the P.C.C. now has a strong presence on a national level in Matto Grosso do Sul, Parana, Bahia, Rio Grande do Sul, and Brasilia.
According to Bittencourt and Ferraz, the P.C.C. controls over 140,000 prisoners in the state of Sao Paulo alone. Another 500,000 individuals support the organization outside the prison system. This group helps enforce some 100 cases of extortion organized by the P.C.C. on a daily basis, representing some 70 percent of kidnapping cases in Brazil’s financial capital of Sao Paulo.
Apart from a proven ability to organize simultaneous, widespread prison riots and destabilize public security, the organization has constructed a network of informants, lawyers, blue collar workers, gun and drug dealers, and bankers to do its bidding. This network is held together by a criminal financial system that finances education, facilitates crime and engages in killings. Bittencourt was quoted as saying, “to be [associated] with the P.C.C. is good business.”
Membership fees are the bread and butter of the P.C.C. For prisoners, a fee of 50 reales (US$25) is charged every month. Individuals on the outside pay a fee of 550 reales ($225). Given these fees and the high membership numbers both inside and outside the prison system, it is possible that the P.C.C. organization earns millions of dollars a month from fees alone.
Criminal finance is another revenue stream. If a group needs $10,000 to mount a bank robbery, they can go to the P.C.C. In this case, the P.C.C. acts as a black market bank to finance and facilitate criminal activities.
To distribute weapons, the P.C.C. uses Sedex, a Brazilian courier system known for reliability and timely delivery. Weapons as large as assault rifles have allegedly been delivered by Sedex to the waiting hands of criminals.
The P.C.C.’s weakest link is its legal team. Currently 18 lawyers serve the P.C.C. leadership, according to Bittencourt. They oversee dozens of legal cases against P.C.C. members and make regular visits to P.C.C. leaders imprisoned around the country. Brazilian law protects the lawyer-client relationship to extremes. Prison authorities are not allowed to search lawyers when they enter the prison to visit their clients. Many believe that the lawyers bring cell phones, two-way radios, laptops, and other critical tools the P.C.C. needs to keep its criminal system running.
Reaching beyond its current legal team, the P.C.C. supports law students, paying full tuition in exchange for services once they have a law degree. The P.C.C.’s educational funding extends to future politicians and other individuals who indicate an interest in entering Brazil’s political world. The group also facilitates the path for students who want to enter public security. These efforts and more act as a well-planned insurance policy to ensure the continued existence of the P.C.C. through the manipulation of Brazil’s judicial, political, and security systems.
It was the manipulation of Brazil’s political system that led to the purchase of the testimony Bittencourt and Ferraz prepared for their audience. For some $100, the PCC purchased the testimony from an employee of a company contracted to record and transcribe congressional hearings. The material was allegedly purchased by a P.C.C. lawyer, who delivered the information to the P.C.C. leadership.
Also documented in this material was Bittencourt’s decision to move on May 12 P.C.C. leaders to more secure prisons to prevent what they had learned would be widespread prison rioting on May 14. The P.C.C. once again proved their superior intelligence networks when they began the riots two days early, leading to a week long struggle to bring peace and rule of law back to Sao Paulo.
As a criminal enterprise, the P.C.C. took life inside a Sao Paulo prison in 1993 when prisoners grouped together to force the improvement of their living conditions. Since then, many prisoners, their family members, and other poor Brazilians idolize the P.C.C. as an armed faction of Brazil’s extreme left political flank, working to improve the rights and lives of impoverished Brazilians. For this reason, the P.C.C. draws many of its young recruits from the shantytowns surrounding Sao Paulo.
Many of the people in these communities believe the P.C.C. speaks for them when it fights against what they perceive as a deeply corrupt political organization, beleaguered by broken judicial and penitentiary systems that support an oppressive security structure.
A great irony is many Brazilians believe the P.C.C. fights for them against a government that they consider the true oppressor. At the same time, the P.C.C. has demonstrated a level of power that can only be achieved by taking advantage of the loopholes and cracks in various democratic institutions that today in Brazil appear to facilitate organized crime more than protect and serve Brazilian citizens. What happened in the second week of May 2006 is a minor showing of the true power the P.C.C. holds. It is a level of sophistication and organization that the international media have not been able to elucidate and that people in Brazil would rather not talk about.
Sam Logan (http://www.samuellogan.com) is an investigative journalist who has reported on security, energy, politics, economics, organized crime, terrorism, and black markets in Latin America since 1999. He is currently completing his work on Nice Guys Die First, a forthcoming non-fiction narrative about organized crime in Brazil.
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