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Before us there was a choice: to move from one apartment to another, more spacious, or to move into his house outside the city. For us, the "city" to the bone, the second option seemed to be completely insane - and, oddly enough, we have chosen it.
Related article: Mansions in Kiev are more expensive than abroadBy the way, about moving since we did not regret a single minute. Of course, since the early days we were faced with some difficulties, but also immediately revealed, and all the advantages of staying in a private home.
So, the pros ... First: we finally got rid of noisy neighbors. Believe me, to be finally in peace and quiet has become a true joy for those who lived all his life on the floor below the builder of models of ships (which means day and night to hear the buzz of electric saws, if I call it) and a staircase with a merry company enthusiasts drink (with free entertainment for the whole house as a karaoke night, constant small fights and visits to police).
Secondly, we will always forget how depressing condition that causes an ominous announcement on the porch of "The following month, your house will be off the hot water for one month." For me it has always been a month of this torture.
We have now is never too hot or too cold. As in most private homes, in our house is set AOGV that allows itself to control the timing and power supply heat.
Of course, for young mothers, as, indeed, for a small child, to live in his house - a real pleasure and convenience. To begin with, that pull the carriage into the street or leave it on all day outside the house is not a big problem. I'm just scared to see how you can pull from the fifth floor, for example, wheelchair and baby. With places for walking, too, decide not difficult: only about nature, and almost no cars. And for the younger child to live in a place - just a dream. So much space where you can have fun playing with friends!
Yet we have virtually stopped going to the nature of the beach, etc. On the contrary, now all my friends drive themselves to us. Because nature - that's us! We have a yard and you can arrange a barbecue and sunbathe, but if you want to swim - but now really cheap you can buy quite a such a normal pool.
Another plus - from early autumn to late spring, I do not have to run to the store for fresh vegetables or salad. I should just go out and tear it all under his window. Very convenient. The same can be said of the berries and fruits.
I could still go on this list. I think everyone will find here their own merits.
May, of course, seem to live in his house - just one big heavenly pleasure. But it is not. Not always, at least. Because, despite the large number of advantages, in such circumstances, there are some minuses.
First and foremost, do not buy a private house, not furnished and advanced automobile. Now I am only talking about suburban homes, the real estate in the city, this paragraph does not apply. We save only that to go to the city, some ten minutes, and buses run frequently enough. Yet there are disadvantages, in particular - in such areas is not always possible to call a taxi. At least, it would cost at least twice as expensive.
Next - slightly annoying absence of any benefits of civilization, such as supermarkets, (which for us is especially important), kindergartens and schools. Of course, to go to them too, no more than ten minutes, but as the machines we do not have (see paragraph above), then this can be difficult.
In addition, the house should take care of. Problems arise here so much that living in an apartment and never dreamed of, and problems, sometimes quite unexpected and unexplained. Especially in winter - and the water in the pipes peremerzshuyu have warm, and the road from the snow several times a day to clear. The first time we have consulted with the relatives, all my life living in his house. But a couple of years to master, and now themselves can anyone give advice.
And, finally, living in a private home reveals another specific aspect - security. Most often this problem is solved institution dog.
However, despite the little difficulties, I still think that living in your home has many advantages compared to the flat. So, if someone suddenly will face the same choice that we do, I recommend a closer look at this option.
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Are insects a Vegan and vegetarian protein ?
Why an article on insects protein and vegan and vegetarian diet ?
We have been asked a lot of times if our cricket powder based protein are for Vegan and Vegetarian.
For us, yes since it is supporting the 2 main motivations (© 2017 public actif) of people who are putting out of their diet animals based proteins :
- Crualty Free (40%)
- Environment care (17%)
The cricket powder proteins is cruelty free and produce 99% less greenhouse effect than cows (UN, 2014 report)
Let me share with you my yesterday night experience ! I was at my friend Virginie house!
Veggie diner as always as she put out of her diet meat 20 years ago. I was in charge of cooking the "aperitif", and I brought an avocado cricket powder dip style with crakers, the latest recipe inpulse protein (Find it out on our insta).
Are insects a vegan and vegetarian proteins ?
Are insects protein a protein that is fitting to vegan diet ! It has been the full diner discussion ! We went through different steps before finding a friendly consensus on this natural protein.
What is the exact definition of vegan ?
We agreed on the one of the vegan society : "all forms of exploitation and cruelty to animals for food, clothing or any other purpose". It was making sense for the four of us .
Are the cricket suffering ?
Here was her next question : are the cricket suffering ? I asked myself the same question a while ago … I read a lot of articles, science report, declaration, spoke with biologists and got the same answer :
"Insects do not feel pain", (Hans Smid of Wageningen University,NL). Cricket protein is natural and is a cruality free protein ! Even though we have to keep in min that pain is a notion that scientist are still working on, and they might be other way they do feel that we don't know yet.
Why cricket powder is a cruality free protein ?
But why ? Virginie asked me about what is different with insects from others animals ? I dive into detailed explanations to conclude : "We have pain receptors which send signals to our brain. The limbic system controls the emotional response of pain, and insects lack of neurological structures responsible for translating negative simuli : they cannot feel pain. At this time, she was not so convince : "are you sure" ?
I explained the work done by "Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences" and
above all the conclusion explaining that the "neural organization of insects and observation ofbehavior does not appear to support the occurrence of insects of a pain of state."
I saw her face light up again and she moved to asking on the nutritional benefit of eating insects protein and especially cricket protein powder !
Do insect proteins answer to nutrients needs of vegan and vegetarian ?
Crickets powder a protein of quality with all the essential amino acids but what about the nutrients. Virginie shared that she was struggling to have the right intake of fiber, to find omega 6 and a source of vitamin B12. She had to go through dietary supplement (never natural) and she was in deficiency of nutrient impacting her considerably on her daily life !
Why cricket powder protein is a B12 vitamin exceptional source ?
In 13 grs of cricket powder there is more than 100% of the daily needs of B12 ! You can find B12 vitamin only in animal based products. Virginie is missing vitamin B12 (as all vegan and vegetarian).
However, it is needed to maintain in good health our nervous system and our psychological functions. But not only, it has a positive impact on our energy, on our immunitary system …
Any others nutrients ?
She asked me naturally with a little smile "Anything else ?" ! Do you have all the night ? In the cricket powder you will find iron, zinc, phosphore a good ratio omega 3 & 6, Vitamins … Everything you needs and natural.
You said all the essential amino acid in the cricket powder protein ?
She came back on my quote "Crickets powder a protein of quality with all the essential amino acids".
She make me laugh ! "When you said it is a complete protein, you mean that you do not need to calculate the ratio between the different alternatives proteins you put in your meal ?". Quick answer for me, "No need!", you have all the essential amino acid in the cricket powder protein and Inpulse design the perfect natural portion for your body and the planet !
You said the planet ? Cricket powder protein is good for the planet ?
Virginie shared her concerns about environment, the emergency to turn out the trend. Her eco- conscious concern became higher and higher with the arrival of a baby girl in the family !
Cricket protein powder and sustainable protein good for the environment ?
Crickets protein produce 99% less greenhouse effect than cows (UN, 2014 report), needs 15 000 times less water than cows ! 1kg of feed for 1 kg of cricket only (versus 10kg for 1kg of meat protein).
Cricket powder protein is just the most sustainable protein source available !
Few secs of silence, it is a lot of information to digest, I saw Virgin
ie take a crackers and spread the avocado cricket powder dip and tasted it !
She look at me and said : "On the top of that it is tasty" !
It was yesterday night and the Inpulse protein cricket based powder convince a vegan and vegetarian.
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Boyd Center's 2019 economic outlook for state projects slower growth rate
The state and national economic health is important to every enterprise, whether a start-up or an established company. With that in mind, particularly more so right now with the stock market fluctuations, we thought readers might be interested in the annual assessment issued by the Boyd Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Titled "An Economic Report to the Governor of the State of Tennessee," the assessment released yesterday suggests that: (1) Tennessee and the U.S. will see sustained economic growth in 2019, but (2) there's the potential that growth could slow as the economy confronts tightening labor markets and rising interest rates. Click here to read the full report and here for the accompanying news release.
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This was a live Q&A that Seth MacFarlane, Ann Druyan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brannon Braga, Jason Clarke and Mitchell Cannoid did for the premiere night of Cosmos.
@7:40 "Fox specializes in discomfort!"
@10:45 Neil goes in on "science versus entertainment"
@12:00 Seth and Neil describe lunching with each other. Neil steals french fries.
@14:20 Everyone runs to Neil for his response to anything Stephen Hawking says. (black holes this time)
@17:40 Seth's interest in science
@19:40 Neil calls out scientifically illiterate adults
@21:05 "Is time slowing down?" (, asks a high person.) Neil answers.
@26:30 Ann's, Seth's and Neil's favorite facts about the universe
@36:50 What Neil enjoyed about doing this
@39:20 Neil's favorite filming location (iceland)
@43:20 Seth rages at the people making too much noise in the restaurant when he met Ann
@44:50 Ann had been warned about Seth making extravagant promises....!
@46:30 Neil's HOBBIES! (theatre, old science books, ...ballroom dancing?! ...wrestling!?)
@49:20 Ann and Seth take shots from Seth's tiny flask plus a super awesome Neil Mars answer
SF Signal talks to Kara Vallow, Animation Producer for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
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Kara Vallow has been a producer on Seth MacFarlane's slate of animated shows such as Family Guy and American Dad, as well as Dilbert, Johnny Bravo, and Drawn Together. So when MacFarlane invited her to take charge of the animated segments for Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, she was uncertain if she could do justice to the material. The result was stunning narratives about historical figures such as Giordano Bruno, William Herschel, and Isaac Newton.
In this interview we discuss how her animation team developed the unique style for the segments, the lasting impact of Carl Sagan, working with Ann Druyan and Neil deGrasse Tyson, bringing the Flammarion woodcut to life, Isaac Asimov's The Last Question, and the Family Guy Star Wars specials.
Seth MacFarlane and Alan Silvestri (composer for Cosmos, FERNGULLY!!!!, Back to the Future, Mac and Me [looool], The Abyss, Forrest Gump, Serendipity and more)
Me & Alan Silvestri. I whistled the Back to the Future theme until he walked away. pic.twitter.com/ZgK8v3uINC— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) April 1, 2014
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2018October 1, sanaruko Lake after moving to, and after 3 weeks early、10/21 (Sunday) 18: from the restless the accustomed to everyday life、Friends come to our House, we held the "moving salt eyes party"!
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Is who owns the home on this day wearing flower arrangement、At the omuro style flower arrangement home is、Flower shop "flower&design SOWAKA (ソワカ)」のオーナーNagai Yuji heart (Yushin Nagai)Mr!
In the main dining room to decorate glass vase、And to fit the image of a soft impression of natural wood home、Plus the pomp of eustoma grandiflorum loveliness loveliness of wax flower and smokbush arrangement!
As a meet and greet in the hallway to hallway flowers、SOWAKA original tornado technique、Petrochemical broom、Giant nisogaram、Anthurium、The three roses、Hydrangea、Baseline、Temari grass flowers thanks for showing the best dance!
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(Wheat germ crackers、Cream cheese、Bokushi native Honey boy's honey nut 06)
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(Potato、Onion、Minced pork、Cheese、Several spices)
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The hot topic in the news related to healthcare right now is the Zika Virus. You can't turn on the news without hearing something about it. The World Health Organization has deemed it a "global health threat" and the CDC has issued travel notices for people travelling to affected countries. Those areas currently include Mexico, South America, Africa, and Asia. Since Spring Break is coming up and summer vacations are right around the corner, there are some things you need to know.
The Basics on the Zika Virus
- Zika is a virus that is spread to people through mosquito bites.
- Symptoms include: fever, rash, joint pain, and conjunctivitis (red eyes), muscle pain, headache
- Illness usually lasts several days to a week and is mild in most cases. Severe disease and hospitalization are not common.
- There is not a vaccine to prevent Zika virus disease.
- Mosquitoes that spread Zika virus bite mostly during the daytime.
- Mosquito bite prevention is the best way to prevent Zika.
- Treatment includes: rest, fluids, non-steroidal pain medication such as acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Advil).
- Zika virus usually remains in the blood for about 1 week so mosquito bite prevention is important during this time. That way other mosquitoes that bite don't become infected and then pass it to other people.
- The outbreak in Brazil led to reports of Guillian-Barre syndrome and pregnant women giving birth to babies with microcephaly and other poor pregnancy outcomes. Additional studies are needed to further understand the risks of Zika virus during pregnancy and the link to birth defects.
Tips for Preventing Mosquito Bites
- Use EPA registered insect repellents that contain DEET as recommended on the label. They are proven safe and effective, even for pregnant and breast-feeding women.
- Wear long sleeve shirts and long pants.
- Stay in places with air conditioning or window and door screens to keep mosquitos outside. If sleeping outside, use a mosquito bed net.
- Do not use insect repellent on babies younger than 2 months. Dress children/babies in clothing that covers the arms and legs and cover cribs and strollers with mosquito netting. For children's faces, adults should spray repellent onto their hands and then apply to the child's face.
- Sunscreen should be applied before insect repellent.
- Treat clothing and gear with permethrin.
Zika Virus and Pregnancy
The travel warnings issued are especially important for women who are pregnant or may become pregnant since there are reports that have linked Zika virus to microcephaly. Microcephaly is a birth defect that causes the baby's head to be smaller than expected. While some babies with microcephaly are of normal intelligence others can have developmental delays, difficulties with coordination and balance, dwarfism or short stature, facial distortions, hyperactivity, mental retardation, and /or seizures. The CDC recommends that pregnant women in any trimester should consider postponing travel to area where there is Zika virus. If they are going to travel they should strictly follow steps to avoid mosquito bites during the trip. This also includes women who may become pregnant.
Since the Zika virus remains in the blood of an infected person for about a week the virus does not appear to cause problems in a baby that is conceived after the virus has cleared from the blood. There are not enough studies to determine what trimester is most affected if a person gets Zika while pregnant. Also, we do not know if a newborn that gets Zika at birth will develop microcephaly after birth. This is why mosquito bite prevention is so important.
What is being done about the Zika Virus in the U.S.?
The White House has requested 1.8 billion dollars to fight the Zika Virus. The CDC's Emergency Operations Center has been moved to Level 1, which means the staff will work around the clock to work on a critical emergency. This is the highest level of activation. To put this in perspective, the other times Level 1 has been activated were to combat Ebola, to combat H1N1 influenza in 2009, and after Hurricane Katrina. According to the CDC, they will continue surveillance for the virus in the U.S. to identify an outbreak early on, conduct studies to further clarify the link between the virus and birth defects, work to develop different tests to diagnose people, and work on multiple fronts to stop the Zika virus.
Information will change over time as we learn more about Zika virus. You can contact any of our pharmacists at Collier's to discuss the virus and ways to protect yourself from it. Also, we can provide written information on the topic if needed.
For more information visit:
CDC website: http://www.cdc.gov/zika/
World Health Organization website: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/zika/en/


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Living the Success Principles #3
I haven't written about my journey on the success principles in three months (oh my goodness!!!), and this is a good illustration about how time passes without forward movement. In other words, a vision without any action is a dream. To be fair and honest, I am doing between one and five things every day towards my big hairy goal, and my goal is aligned with my vision. In other words, I'm not just chasing the shiny thing.
How Inimitable Leadership Can Save the Day
Last week, I was reading an article on Gallup about how President and CEO Douglas R. Conant's plan to revitalize Campbell's Soup included a decade-long effort to improve employee engagement. To give you some background, Conent took over at Cambell's about 9 years ago. Things weren't going well. Campbell's had one of the lowest engagement scores of any Fortune 500 ever.
Managewhich Tips: What is "Too Busy" Saying About You?
We're all busy. And, being busy in our culture can be a badge of honor. Busy = Important.
"Busy" is also where Managewhiches get tripped up.
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Jennifer was on the receiving end of some "unpleasant" news. Her company was cutting back on hours for its hourly employees and reorganizing some of its work, and everyone was informed that "changes were coming" via mass email. Jennifer's hours were cut in half (as she discovered by looking in the system for her schedule) and some of her duties were reassigned (as she discovered in an unfortunate incident when she showed up to work and someone else was doing her job).
Managewhich's Guide to the Annual Review
For many middle managers, it's that time of year again. Fiscal year's over and review time is upon us. I'm guessing that this is an unpleasant task for most of you, which is a shame.
Corporate America has taken one of it's better opportunities for engagement and celebration and turned it into a administrivia-laden stress-inducing B.S.-laden process that's designed to control compensation as opposed to inspire great performance. In the end, most people feel demoralized. (If your experience is different, I'd love to hear about it.)
For the Managewhich and Business Owner: Who's a Team Player?
Team Player is one of those phrases that we all assume we have the same definition for. It's one of the performance management buzz-phrases that shows on reviews and on job descriptions. And, we all think we know what it means, but do we?
Tips for the Managewhich: Is My Staff Doing Anything Resume-Worthy?
One of the more obvious clues that your group is on the chopping block is when you can't figure out what real value your group adds. That's even more true when the company is reorganizing people into that group in ways that don't make sense. It's a good thing for the managewhich to recognize this trend, and start managing up immediately, even if it seems like it is too late.
Manage Which? Up or Down (Part 3)
In the saga of Breeze and Hoover, so far Breeze has been able to minimize the number of times her team is derailed by Hoover's ad hoc requests. We set up three circumstances for which she'll will accept the mission.
First, she has to fully understand how the ad hoc report or spreadsheet will be used. This forces Hoover to be clear about what he wants, and it also allows Breeze some input into how it's produced. This minimized rework when Hoover has asked for something that actually won't give him what he wants, and sometimes Hoover realizes that he doesn't need the work done at all.
Woo Hoo Woo Hoo, Making My Radio Debut
In case you couldn't tell, I'm very excited to have been invited as a guest on the "Business Networking Brunch" this Sunday. We're going to be on the air from 9am – 11am Central time on 1360 am in Dallas.
Managewiches, I am there to beat the drum for the cause. Some of the topics I plan to hit:
- Why middle managers are integral to execution
- Why leadership is important in all levels of the organization
The Omniscient Managewich
I have a question for the sandwich generation of managers, middle managers or owner managers, stuck in the middle of competing priorities and agendas:
Why is it so hard to know what someone else really wants or believes, and yet, how is it that we know others' intentions just by looking at their body language or actions?
Paradoxical, yes?
Investing in People Pays 600% Dividend
I need a picture of me on a soapbox. Anyone know where I can find one?
Engaging employees pays off more than fear. Most of us know this because we desperately want to be engaged and fulfilled ourselves, and we know that when we're connected with what we do, we go the extra mile gladly. However, knowing it in our heart of hearts doesn't work for some.


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Wellesley College Government President Speaks About Civic Engagement on Campus
On October 23, College Government President Diana Lam '20 joins the Board of Trustees' Wellesley in the World Committee, which stewards Wellesley's profile, interactions, and reputation. Lam has thought through how she will approach her role as a committee member: "Be confident in yourself and know that you deserve this seat. But at the same time, also be cognizant of what you assert, because what you say will be construed as the opinion of two thousand and some students."
Lam is no stranger to committee work at Wellesley. Two years ago, she was a student representative on the Admissions and Financial Aid committee, a part of Academic Council. "I was definitely nervous about it," Lam said. "But I think that nervousness came, not only because I was a student rep, but because I was young."
Now, as College Government president, Lam deals with senior administrators all the time. "Being able to face that nervousness early on, I think, has made me more confident as a person, and in turn, has made this an even more valuable learning experience. Because at the end of the day, that's what all these leadership experiences are supposed to be, right?"
Lam's early exposure to administrative committees helped her during her recent summer 2019 internship in finance, during which she was required to present a stock pitch every three weeks to members of the firm. "It was not just first-year analysts, but also managing directors, people who have been in the financial services industry for 20-plus years," she said. She found the first presentation daunting and felt what many people feel as they face a room full of executives: imposter syndrome.
But then she thought back to her time as a student representative sitting among members of senior leadership, including Piper Orton, vice president for finance and administration, and Andy Shennan, provost and dean of the College. "If I could sit in those rooms, why can't I sit in this room right now?" she asked herself.
"These committees give you the sense of what it feels like to be at the table, so that when you do graduate, you don't dream of being at the table," she said. "You expect that you'll be at the table. And when you get to the table, you know what it's like to conduct yourself."
Lam said serving on committees gives students interested in community development a chance to participate in that space on campus. "We think of social justice and community work, and community engagement, as outside of the community that you're in. But for me, I've always thought that the best civic engagement has always been here, [at Wellesley]."
Lam is excited for what opportunities lie ahead now that she is a part of the Wellesley in the World Committee, and she can't wait to serve on it with chair Sue Wagner '82, co-founder and director of BlackRock. "Sue Wagner is definitely a name that you know on the street, and to be able to sit in the same room as her, and to know the impact she has had on Wellesley, that has in turn impacted my own personal experience is… It's a lot to process," Lam said.
Lam ultimately sees the committee as a space for people who care about the College to come together. "We all come from the same kind of home right? Wellesley."
Photo: Before a College Government senate meeeting, Diana Lam '20 (center) sits with her cabinet members in Wellesley's Academic Council Room.


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Deceased Donation
The deceased donation program focuses on evolving the quality and safety of national organ donation services in Canada, which will result in continued improvement for access to lifesaving organs and transplants for all Canadians. Work in this area includes initiatives that provide the requisite knowledge, training and skills to healthcare professionals and shift the culture of organ donation to ensure that performance is measured, monitored and that additional system accountabilities to support progress in this area are in place. The deceased donation program also supports public education through engagement and awareness.
- ECPR for OHCA in Canada: Planning the Research (April 2017) PDF
- Opportunities and Barriers for ECPR in Canada (May 2016) English PDF
- Ethics Guide for Donation Physicians (November 2015) PDF
- Environmental Scan of Professional Education for Donation (March 2017)
- Report on the consultation: "Donation Physicians in a Coordinated OTDT System" (February 2011)
- Report on the ethics consultation (January 2011)
CAEP Position Statement - Management of devastating brain injuries in the emergency department: Enhancing neuroprognostication and maintaining the opportunity for organ and tissue donation (June 2020) Healey A, Leeies M, Hrymak C, Chochinov A, Grunau B, Paunovic B, Teitelbaum J, Wilson L, Shemie S
Determination of Brain Death/Death by Neurologic CriteriaThe World Brain Death Project (August 2020) Greer, D; D. Shemie, S.; Lewis, A.; Torrance, S; et al open access link
Click here to learn more about the implications of the World Brain Death Project on Canadian death determination practices
- Maintaining the permanence principle for death during in situ normothermic regional perfusion for donation after circulatory death organ recovery: A United Kingdom and Canadian proposal (January 2020); Manara A, Shemie S, Large S, Healey A, Baker A, Badiwala M, Berman M, Butler A, Chaudhury P, Dark J, Forsythe J, Freed D, Gardiner D, Harvey D, Hornby L, MacLean J, Messer S, Oniscu G, Simpson C, Teitelbaum J, Torrance S, Wilson L, Watson C. open access link
- Survey of Canadian intensivists on physician non-referral and family override of deceased organ donation (November 2019); Weiss M, English S, D'Aragon F, Lauzier F, Turgeon A, Dhanani S, McIntyre L, Shemie S, Knoll G, Fergusson D, Anthony S, Haj-Moustafa A, Hartell D, Mohr J, Chassé M. open access link
- Ethical Challenges and the Donation Physician Specialist: A Scoping Review. MacDonald SI, Shemie SD. open access link
- Barriers and opportunities related to extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Canada: A report from the first meeting of the Canadian ECPR Research Working Group (July 2018) open access link
- Ethics Guide Recommendations for Organ-Donation–Focused Physicians Endorsed by the Canadian Medical Association Shemie SD, Simpson C, Blackmer J,MacDonald S,Dhanani S,Torrance S,Byrne P, and on behalf of the Donation Physician Ethics Guide Meeting Participants. open access link
- Development of a national minimum data set to monitor deceased organ donation performance in Canada (June 2016); Hornby K, Shemie SD, Appleby A, Dodd N, Gill J, Kim J, Kramer A, Kutsogiannis DJ, Lahaie N, MacLean J, Rehel L, Webster G, Wu J, Scales DC open access link


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washington alcohol server training
AACEA Washington: Washington Alcohol Training – What is a MAST Permit & Why Might I Need One?
Several U.S. states require some form of Alcohol Server + Seller Education for anyone and everyone who serves, mixes, or sells alcohol. Washington State officially made this a requirement in 1995 when legislature passed a law requiring that everyone who served alcoholic beverages needed to complete a state certified Mandatory Alcohol Server Training (MAST) course and receive a MAST Permit.
The WSLCB (Washington State Liquor Cannabis Board, formerly known as the Washington State Liquor Control Board), facilitates the MAST program, but private companies (like yours truly) provide the MAST Course and issue MAST Permits to those who need them. Becoming certified as a Washington State MAST Program Provider requires a stamp of approval from the WSLCB which only happens after the WSLCB reviews a course and confirms that it has met each of the MAST Program requirements.
Across the US, Alcohol Consumption is Up.
Consumption of alcohol hit a 25-year high in 2010, when 67% of Americans reported drinking alcoholic beverages, according to a Gallup poll. That's a level unseen since the late 1970s, when 71% of Americans said they drank.It's interesting to note:
Americans drank more wine than ever last year, 2.3 gallons apiece. That's up 35% since 1994. Spirits climbed 18% to 1.5 gallons per person for the same period, while beer intake dropped 7% to 20.7 gallons, says the Beer Institute.What does the increase in alcohol consumption mean for certified alcohol servers? 1. Your establishment may be busier! Due to economic downturn, many people are looking for ways to blow off steam, or to get some valuable socialization time if they've been recently laid off. This might translate to an increase in customers who are looking for a cheap drink. 2. You may see an increase in intoxicated customers. Americans are consuming more alcohol on a whole - and more alcohol generally means more intoxication. It's important to have tactics for dealing with intoxicated customers and it's important to know when to say no. 3. You may see an increase in attempts at underage drinking. It's best to scrutinize scenarios in which you think your patron may be underage. It helps to familiarize yourself with local drivers' licenses and to adopt a policy for dealing with underage drinking. If you're looking to become a certified alcohol server and take online alcohol certification classes to get your Washington Server Permit or your Oregon server's permit, visit www.aacea.com. Each month, we raffle off $100 to a lucky student - put your name in the hat today by signing up for your mandatory alcohol server training with America's Alcohol Certified Education Association.
Alcohol Content in Wine
"So, what's too high? And what's wrong with high-alcohol wines anyway? "When a wine finishes with a burning sensation — that's too high. When the alcohol level is such that it must be masked by winemaking tricks such as massive amounts of new oak, or unwanted residual sugar — that's too high. When a wine loses all traces of varietal character or the more subtle elements that contribute to its aroma, complexity, texture and balance — that's too high. "Worst of all, when a wine reaches such ridiculous levels of alcohol that one glass makes you punch drunk — dry zinfandels pinning the meter at over 17 percent — that's waaay too high. "...When unfortified wines climb above 15.5 percent, they almost always lose subtlety and finesse. Nuances are gone, replaced by the dynamic trio of alcohol, fruit jam and lumber. Apart from the bludgeoning such wines give the palate, they are almost impossible to match with food."In general, we've found the following to be a helpful guide: Table wine: 8 – 14% Sparkling wine: 8 – 12% Fortified wine: 17 – 22% Part of Responsible Alcohol Service is knowing how much punch a drink packs. It's important to pay attention to alcohol levels in various wines and liquors to avoid over-serving. AACEAprovides alcohol server training which promotes responsible service and sales of alcohol. To get your alcohol servers permit in Washington visit www.aacea.com If you're working in the Hospitality industry and are currently enrolled or enrolling in college, tell us what it means to you to be the first line of defense in drunk driving and you may win a scholarship for $500 through the Len Riggs and AACEA Scholarship to Save Lives Contest. Entries will be accepted until July 1st.
Be the Best Server You Can Be and Provide Responsible Alcohol Service
- Learn your guests' names and use them
- Anticipate their needs and be there when you are needed
- Remove plates, glasses and other used items promptly
- Learn your wines and know what to offer with each menu item
Become a Better Bartender: Know Your Customers
Glass Shapes Confuse Even Experienced Bartenders
Increased Menu Prices Could Mean More Money In Your Pocket
Inspections in Indiana Find Fewer Sales to Minors
New Food Service Requirements for Restaurants That Serve Alcohol
While food service violations are not among the most common violations, restaurants should be aware of the food service requirements for their liquor license type.
The WSLCB this fall adopted new food requirements for spirits, beer and wine restaurants. Highlights: * Expanded items that are considered an entrée to include hamburgers, salads, sandwiches, pizza and breakfast items as long as they include a side dish. * Entrees do not include snack items, menu items which consist solely of precooked frozen food that is reheated, or carry-out items obtained from other businesses. * Increased the number of complete meals required from four to eight. A complete meal is an entrée (steak, fish, pasta, etc.) and at least one side dish (soup, vegetables, salad, potatoes, french fries, rice, fruit, and bread). * Restaurants must serve complete meals for five hours a day, five days a week between the hours of 8 a.m. and 11 p.m. Previously, the hours were between 11 a.m. and 11 p.m.
Restaurants having problems meeting their food service requirement should look into the new spirits, beer and wine nightclub liquor license, which is for businesses that primarily provide live entertainment and serve alcohol with main hours between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The license does not have a food requirement.
Available resources Restaurants should take advantage of the following resources: * Written business policies that describe expectations and how to handle various situations should be developed, and regularly shared with employees. * Mandatory Alcohol Server Training (MAST) is required by law for managers, bartenders and other employees who serve or supervise the sale of alcohol for on-premises consumption. * WSLCB Responsible Alcohol and Tobacco Sales classes are offered regularly around the state by WSLCB enforcement officers. Class schedules. * WSLCB website has information on selling responsibly and public safety laws, educational videos and more. * WSLCB enforcement officers are available to help you understand liquor laws. Enforcement Customer Service: (360) 664-9878
In conclusion, restaurants can contribute to public safety and keep their customers safe by carrying out their work in a way that supports Washington's liquor laws.
AACEAprovides alcohol server training which promotes responsible service and sales of alcohol. To get your alcohol servers permit in Washington visit www.aacea.com
Recipe: Use Your St Germain
Studies Link Socioeconomic Status and Alcohol Consumption
The Impact of Alcohol on Aggressiveness
There's still a chance to win $500 through the AACEA Scholarship to Save Lives!
We're giving everybody an extension, and a second chance to win $500!
Are you working in the Hospitality industry and currently enrolled or enrolling in college? Tell us what it means to you to be the first line of defense in drunk driving and you may win $500 through the Len Riggs and AACEA Scholarship to Save Lives Contest. Entries will be accepted until July 1st.
To enter: Like the AACEA Facebook page and read the complete contest rules (find them here). Submit an essay, poem, song, or other piece of creative writing explaining what it means to you as a hospitality worker, to be the first line of defense in keeping drunk drivers off our roads. Send your submissions via email to email@example.com.
Need an example? Here's a Sample Entry From Len Riggs, founder of AACEA:
"As I began my quest I found myself digging deeper into the culture of alcohol service and could see where I could make a difference by teaching those in my class with more than just enough information to pass the test and get their permit.
"When I teach a class or when I train a trainer for AACEA / LRAST, I do my best to get the fact across that they (the student) can make a difference and save lives. Many times I have been contacted by past students who either went through a class that I taught, or through one of our trainers to thank us for teaching us what we taught."
What is a Mamie Taylor?
When Enough is Enough
Bartenders across the country face the same challenges all the time. Whenever a person is in a car accident, especially a fatal one, it is natural for family and friends to want to point fingers, and police typically investigate the bartender to see if anyone was selling to an openly drunk customer. "We often get the question of what should bartenders do," Sgt. Wayne Bush of the Pennsylvania State Police Bureau of Liquor Control Enforcement says. "First, don't serve a person to that point — shut them off. If they slur their words, stand and are wobbly, hold on to the bar, are nodding off or have trouble getting money out of their wallet, they've had enough. Don't wait for them to puke on the floor or to pick a fight. That's too late." In the case of more experienced drinkers however, it isn't that easy. "The bartender and wait staff have the obligation not to serve someone who is visibly intoxicated," Bush said. "What they have to realize is that someone can be drinking and not appear to be intoxicated because the last drinks haven't hit his system. It all depends on the person; someone who is a regular drinker will be able to drink more." To make things more difficult, some people won't take no for an answer. Someone who is cut off from a bartender can easily go to a table of strangers and beg a drink from them.When dealing with experienced drinkers, it can be difficult to tell when to stop serving. You might be tipped off by either excessively loud or excessively withdrawn behavior. Your customer may not be able to completely focus on the task at hand, or may lose a little hand-eye coordination. You may be able to tell by rambling conversation or offensive language. Part of being a good bartender is knowing your clientele and being able to quickly spot those who may be under the influence. AACEAprovides alcohol server training which promotes responsible service and sales of alcohol. AACEAis hosting a raffle for students enrolled in our alcohol server training classes – sign up today and you're eligible to win $100 from AACEA and Len Riggs. To get your alcohol servers permit in Washington visit www.aacea.com.


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Fazenda da Esperança is a therapeutic community that has been working since 1983 in the recovery process of people who seek the release of their addictions, especially alcohol and drugs. Its reception method contemplates three determining aspects: the Work as a pedagogical process; Coexistence in family; and the Spirituality to find the meaning of life.
The farm has its doors open in all Brazilian states to welcome men and women weakened by drug use, turning pain into joy. The number of communities in the world has already surpassed one hundred structured units in countries of Asia, Africa, America and Europe, under continuous growth due to the globalization of the serious social problems that plague mankind.
People who identify with the charism of the Farm can find their vocation in the Church by being part of the Hope Family - an International Private Association of the Faithful, recognized by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, whose mission is to to bring Hope, Jesus Christ, to the greatest number of young people worldwideaccording to the words of Pope Benedict XVI.
Cheese Ambassador of Hope anywhere in the world, bringing joy and peace to all those around you, through community life, work and living the Gospel. To transmit the certainty that God is love and that it is possible to build a civilization of love and against all negativity and uncertainty.
To be disseminated throughout the world as a transforming influence of society.
Familia: Rescuing fraternal bonds through acceptance.
Job: Return the person's dignity.
Spirituality: Give the deeper meaning of life.
Love: It is expressed through work to others.
Unity: Add the diversity of races, cultures and peoples.
The German Friar Hans Stapel, Franciscan of the Order of Friars Minor, OFM, in June 1979, takes office as parish priest of Our Lady of Glory Parish in Guaratinguetá / SP. When you arrive at the parish you will find Our Lady of Glory Social Work in full swing since 1970. In his new mission land, he transmits the presence of Jesus, in the midst of his community, living the Gospel.
A group is born to meditate on the Word, share experiences with one another, and live concrete acts of love, such as visiting the poor and the sick. Nelson Giovanelli Rosendo dos Santos and Iraci da Silva Leite are also part of this growing group led by Friar Hans in Our Lady of Glory Parish.
After cycling several times around a corner of the Pedregulho neighborhood, in Guaratinguetá / SP, Nelson Giovanelli, who wanted to live the Gospel concretely, decided to approach a group of twenty young people who were taking drugs there. From this courageous step, the young man wins the confidence of the little brothers and happens to meet with them often.
One user decides to borrow Nelson's bike to sell it to buy drugs. Nelson readily surrenders it, seeing in this attitude an opportunity to love concretely. In fact, the little brothers da Esquina also chose to do an act of love: they returned the clean and repaired bike!
One of the corner boys and drug users, known as Tê, is surprised by a cake to celebrate his birthday, brought by Nelson and his sister, who had made it. According to Nelson, At that moment an inexplicable mood was created. There was an atmosphere of indescribable respect and unity... I came to realize that this was precisely the moment when Jesus came to this corner. Fruit of the mutual love between my sister and me, and subsequently of the mutual love between them and us.
After living the concrete love, came the call for help from Antonio Eleutério to get out of the drug world. The Farm of Hope was born.
Other young people join Antonio Eleutério and wish to recover from drug addiction and live the Gospel, inspired by Nelson Giovanelli. Friar Hans accompanies and guides those involved in this new experience of common life in a rented house near the parish. He gives the group a lawn-mower as a source of income through work.
Friar Hans asks the people of the city of Guaratinguetá / SP to offer an area for the recovering people to deepen their new lifestyle. The land is donated in the Santa Edwiges neighborhood, near the Serra da Mantiqueira: a large swamp with a small house. The first unit of the Farm of Hope is born, where today is the Centro Masculina.
Nelson and his companions, during an international seminar in Salvador, outline the first outline of minimum rules for little brothers. From this meeting many norms of everyday life are considered obligatory, such as presence in daily meditation.
In July, 1987 was born in the municipality of Coroatá, Maranhão, amid the babassu forest, the first farm outside Guaratinguetá, named Santo Agostinho. From her birth she has been guided by Father Paulo Stapel, the twin brother of Friar Hans.
José Júlio da Silva, known as Julião, is the first inmate recovering to stay at the farm in Guaratinguetá / SP after his release permit, certainly because he found in the therapeutic community the meaning of life and a new family. It is also the first to be given the responsibility of coordinating a host group within the farm. Regrettably, on July 12 of July 1989, Julião went to work with the tractor, but during the execution of the work, the machine did not resist the traction and turned, taking his life. His memory is still alive in the house named after him at Fazenda São Libório, in Guaratinguetá / SP.
Iraci Leite and Lucilene Rosendo, known as Luci, begin in Guaratinguetá / SP, the work of welcoming women. They leave everything to follow the example of young Nelson Giovanelli.
Nelson Giovanelli takes the private vows of poverty, obedience e chastity as a consecrated lay person in the presence of Friar Hans, to live totally at God's disposal in working with the young people welcomed on the farm.
Gradually Friar Hans feels inwardly that God gives him a special vocation. The Church realizes that God's hand leads the Farm of Hope. Friar Hans receives the liberation to devote himself entirely to the work that, at this point in history, already has one more unit in Lagarto, Sergipe State.
The first nuns arrive in Guaratinguetá / SP to help in the spiritual accompaniment of the recovering. The arrival of the Congregation of German origin, Franciscans of Siessen, marks the beginning of an alliance between Charisma of Hope and other charisms of the Church; It is from this partnership that comes the prayer repeated in the meditation of the rosary in all Farms: renew your covenant between us.
Many other young people like Nelson Giovanelli, including former dependents, are touched by God and donate at the Farm of Hope. A new family of consecrated persons begins.
1998 appears in July, the first unit of the Farm of Hope outside Brazil, in Berlin, Germany.
The Poor Clares arrive at Centro Centro Farm on 12 on October 1998 to spiritually assist the welcome and closely monitor the construction of the new monastery, which will soon open on 11 August 2000.
During the Eucharistic celebration at the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida, members of the Family of Hope receive from the Archbishop of Aparecida, Cardinal Dom Aloísio Lorscheider, diocesan approval as Hope Family Faithful Association.
Start of groups of Es who meet regularly (Es - first letters of the word Hope - so those who recover on the farm are called). The term Hope alive It emerges as the most concrete inspiration for the support groups for those who underwent recovery on the Farm, as well as people who began to live the experience of the Gospel, the same as those on the Farm of Hope.
Monsignor Bernardino Marchió, a bishop affectionately called farmer bishop, proposes that the members of the Family of Hope make the vote of Hope, present in the General Statutes as a virtue that makes contemplate beyond the wounds of humanity, the victory of the Risen.
In November of 2006, the Fazenda da Esperança, in Guaratinguetá / SP, receives the unexpected visit of the president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Bishop Dom Stanislaw Rylko.
On 12 May 2007, the Farm of Hope St. Liborius - Pedrinhas, Guaratinguetá / SP, had the grace to receive the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. At the meeting, 6,000 people were received, including 2,000 young people recovering from farms around the world.
On 24 May, the members of the Family of Hope receive from Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko the pontifical recognition as Private Association of Faithful, of an international character.
On April 15 of 2014, the Farm of Hope São Libório - Pedrinhas, in Guaratinguetá / SP, receives the visit of Maria Voce and Giancarlo Faletti, president and co-chair of the Focolare Movement, respectively, for a remarkable moment between the two charisms. linked by the spirituality of the unity of Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement. The visit was attended by more than 600 young people from the Farm and several participants via internet.
The Farms of Hope of the cities of Manaus / AM, São Joaquim do Monte / PE and Sobral / CE were appointed by their bishops as a place of indulgence on the occasion of the Extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy 2015, with the opening of the Holy Door in its chapels.
On the morning of 24 July 2015, Sister Odete, from the Congregation of the Franciscans of Siessen, is murdered, the victim of a robbery inside. There were 65 years of life dedicated to God, six of them lived on the Farm of Hope, together with catechesis and spiritual accompaniment of those received.
On the afternoon of January 30, at a solemn Mass, the Church of Santo Antonio de Sant'Anna Galvão and Santa Crescência, located at Fazenda São Libório, in Guaratinguetá / SP, is elevated by Cardinal Archbishop of Aparecida, Dom Raymundo Damasceno Thus, the Sanctuary of Hope. That same day, the Holy Door of the Shrine of Hope opened.
On the morning of June 23, after the Eucharistic celebration presided over by the Custodian of the Holy Land, Friar Francisco Paton, OFM, the stained glass window that represents the Church of the Annunciation is installed. Mary's Yes, from the vitralist Lorenz Heilmair, an occasion that marked the 35 years of the founding of the Farm of Hope; The four founders of the Work, in the company of Mons. Mario Rino Silvieri, Bishop Emeritus of the Diocese of Propriá / SE, and pilgrims of the International Missionary School were present.
In November of 2018, the Farm of Hope celebrated the 30 years of women. The celebration was held at the Women's Center Mother of Hope, Guaratinguetá-SP. On the morning of November 10, Friar Hans, founder of the Farm, presided over the Eucharistic celebration for approximately 1500 people. At night the attraction was on the Solo Show of Hope. On November 11 Archbishop Orlando Brandes, Aparecida, celebrated the closing Mass.
On the afternoon of 11 on November 2018, Friar Hans, founder of the Farm of Hope, received the International Golden Dove of Peace Award. Father Marcelino Pungulimue and the Sol Foundation delegation of the Archdiocese of Huambo in Angola presented the honor. This is the second largest peace prize worldwide, given to people and organizations that through their actions express the desire and the pursuit of peace and serenity.
The Farm of Hope welcomes people between 18 and 59 years who freely wish to recover from drugs, alcohol and many other types of addictions. It is necessary to enter into a pedagogical process of 12 months duration. Anyone who intends to meet this challenge takes the first step through a letter written in his own hand, expressing the reasons for his desire to seek new life. Anyone interested in a vacancy should send their request for help to the community nearest to their place of residence.
Thus, it allows his relatives to visit him from the third month, when relationships are resumed, in order to overcome together the problems generated by drugs and alcohol. The candidate receives an explanation of the procedures and rules to be followed to recover in one of the Fazenda da Esperança communities. On the day of the interview, documents, medical examinations and sobriety are required. The reception is made by the local coordination team and mainly depends on the personal disposition and willingness to become a "new man", demonstrated by the candidate.
The great differential of the Farm is to welcome pregnant women and mothers with their children, unlike other communities and recovery clinics. The female part considers it important for the mother to have her children around and not to distance herself during the 12 month period. These women go through an accompanying path where love transforms so many lives and the family gains even greater meaning.
To locate the Hope Farm nearest you, in Brazil or abroad and for other information access the profiles of each unit by selecting the country, state and city in the table below:
|Download in English
|The Farm of Hope and the rehabilitation of young drug addicts: reinventing the gender of ...
|Eduardo Bertoche Gryzagoridis
|The Farm of Hope and the Recovery of Drug Addicts in the Light of the Church's Social Doctrine
|Eduardo Augusto Zanom
|Fundraising and Management in the Third Sector
|Raissa Miranda
|Demographic and diagnostic characteristics of Bark Farm
|Ricardo Wainer, Neri Mauritius Piccoloto
|Christliche Jugendsozialarbeit mit drogenabhängigen Jugendlichen
|Prof. Dr. Josef Freise


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The Slovak Banking Association (SBA) has said it believes that the proposal to levy a new tax on selected liabilities of banks is a short-sighted step that could have a negative impact on the banking sector and its clients. Moreover, they warn that if the proposal is translated into law, the resulting tax would be the highest in the European Union, the TASR reported on Tuesday, October 18.
The SBA is most afraid that parliament will approve a proposal by opposition party Smer to set such a tax at 0.7 percent. Smer says that the bank tax proposal, which is currently being tabled by the Finance Ministry, was originally its idea.
"As banks may not be able to create enough profits and thereby the extra capital needed for the impending economic difficulties, the higher bank levy rate could lead to the destabilisation of the banking sector," SBA chair Igor Vida said, as quoted by TASR, adding that this destabilisation would be increased if companies transferred their deposits to countries with lower bank levies.
The SBA is proposing that the bank levy rate should be set by the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS), the country's central bank, and the Finance Ministry in order to reduce the negative impact on the banking sector and clients of financial institutions.
One possible alternative to a bank levy could be an increase in VAT, Vida said, arguing that it is a fairer tool that applies to everyone in accordance with how much they consume.
"The Finance Ministry came up with a 0.2-percent bank levy that was later increased to twice as much by a consensus reached among all the coalition parties," said Finance Ministry spokesperson Martin Jaroš, as quoted by TASR. "The matter is now in the hands of MPs."
Parliament is due to discuss the legislation on Wednesday, October 19, in a fast-tracked legislative procedure.
Source: TASR
Compiled by Radka Minarechová from press reports
The Slovak Spectator cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information presented in its Flash News postings.
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The Law by Frederic Bastiat: Summary
The Law by Frederic Bastiat
"Law is the collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense"
Law is organized justice by force. We have a right to defend our person, our property, and our liberty. All people are born with these natural rights because they are God-given before man-made law existed.
The State should not interfere with the private affairs of free men. But today the law is perverted to deprive one group to benefit another by allowing legal plunder. Some wish to traffic the property of others and make plunder a right. Some want to live at the expense of others by using politics to seize the productions of the faculties of his fellow man. Plunder prevails everywhere it is less burdensome than work. Plunder ceases when it becomes more burdensome than work.
There should not be any government subsidies, government schools, government welfare, or any government involvement whatsoever with labor. Big government does not encourage producing goods and services for the marketplace but using politics to plunder your fellow citizens.
Business spends massive amounts of money and time lobbying instead of investing money and time in production.
Corrupt Uses of the Law by Immoral States
Charity is love. Government corrupts charity because true charity is given from the heart not from the barrel of a gun. Forced equality of wealth and pervasive regulation are the enemies of liberty. They exaggerate the importance of politics and come from a sick and compulsive desire to rule over others.
When law and morality contradict, the citizen has the cruel alternative of losing his moral sense or losing respect for the law.
It is theft to take property away from the person it belongs to and give it to another person to whom it does not belong. If the government takes from one to give to another, what would be the crime if the recipient did it himself? Is it not theft? This sows disunity and reprisals. Socialism is simply legalized theft.
There is no right to free assistance, unearned wages, free education, or free health care. The only thing guaranteed a citizen should be the free exercise of his faculties. You cannot be free and not free at the same time.
The Law as Umpire: Not Picking Sides
The law should not be involved with religion, art, education, industry, commerce, agriculture, charity or labor.
Socialism pretends to realize the general good by general theft.
The law should only use force to impose on men that they do no harm to others. The law is to prevent injustice. If you force a man to work he is not free and if you force a man to surrender the fruits of his work—his property—he is not free.
Forced, imposed association or organization is bad; free natural association or organization is good. The Devil says if you oppose State education you oppose education—that is a lie. The Devil says if you oppose equality at the barrel of a gun you are against the poor—that is a lie.
Socialists see Mankind as a subject for social experiments— the State as potter and the People as clay in its hands to mold as it sees fit—as if the State were God.
The progressive is the ultimate elitist, placing himself and his intellectual ideas above others; claiming the right to rearrange the human race; willing to enslave others to achieve their fanciful vision; the great savior who won't leave us alone, who violates liberty of conscience, freedom of association, freedom of exchange; to make me be what he wishes me to be. People are nothing more than raw material. They think so little of mankind and so much of themselves.
If the human race is so bad that it needs a leviathan state to rule over every aspect of it, how can the ruling elite be so good? Are they not part of the human race?
We are training people to be incapable of raising themselves by their own choices and energies to well-being by having them expect everything from the State.
The Law vs. Liberty
Every regulation deprives industry of its liberty.
Is there not a grievance in the nation that government does not act to solve?
It is not the mission of the law to regulate our consciences and ideas. Its mission is to protect people and their property—not to plunder. A multitude of forced utopias compete to take charge of the forces of the law. Legislation becomes the battlefield for everybody's dreams and covetousness.
Do you truly believe that if the government does not tell us what to think; how and when we may talk about or honor God; when and where we may get together and with whom; how children must be educated, where and by whom; how and when we may work and what our wages must be; who can sell what and where; and how charity must be distributed: that our whole world will collapse?
A society that is free, safe, stable, and responsible is the one in which a virtuous man will attain his fullness with dignity. The law should not interfere with private activity; regulation should be sparse and simple, taxes light; transactions, meetings, and clubs should be no business of the government.
Wealth, labor, and production should be unaffected by government. T
he thought of God should prevail over the inventions of men. Liberty is an act of faith in man and God.
I don't know that such polarization can ever be resolved peacefully. The one side wants individual freedom and rights while the other wants a massive nanny state to see to all our needs. The former argues with reason and logic while the latter uses never-ending emotional appeals.
This is four years later, Jimmy, and look at how angry the left has become after the voters rejected their progressive-liberal, big government point of view. Can there any longer be any doubt as to the real reasons for disarming the citizens?
Thanks Brother James,
It is eventually a work and book that I would call the Constitution the way it should have been if the fourth individual right of property had been properly included into the Declaration and the Constitution and wasn't compromised on the account of Slavery. That was the worst compromise ever in the history of man kind. All the wrongs and trampling upon the rights of others is because of the lack of the right to property being clearly defined and it is what has allowed the Government to reach tyrannical levels. You don't have a right to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness if doesn't belong to you.
Thus, the entire idea of the book is a rewriting of the Constitution a bit, not major changes, but just fixing it so to speak with the above as well as some other issues.
Here goes a brief outline, it would be in book form so I could show both the changes and then explain why these points were included.
Article 1: Individual Rights:
Section I: Definition and Moral Basis for Individual Rights
Section II: What Equality and Individual Rights Don't Mean:
Article 2: Individual Entity Rights:
Article 3: Bill of Rights(same as they are now just not added to the end like they are now)
Article 4: The Purpose of Government
Then what is currently in the constitution, some slight changes in these would be made, like the commerce clause.
Article 8: Separation of Religion and State:
Article 9: Separation of Market and State:
Article 10: Department of Charity:(the compromise so to speak, this would be setup for two purposes. The first is as a place for people to contact to find charities. It would keep an updated list of all charities and their function. The next would be that people can donate to the department and it is this money that can then be used for such things as natural disaster relief and the like. NO TAX MONEY Goes into this though, only charity)
Article 11: Term Limits:
It has been shown that during the course of Human Events that once men obtain some Position of Power and Authority over other men that such power begins to corrupt men and the systems of Government upon which they have Governance. Thus, to ensure that such Corruption doesn't take place, or is severely limited, and that those in Governance don't become accustomed to the Power of their Stations no Man shall be able to serve for more than 12 years in any of the Branches of Governments as outlined in this Constitution nor shall any Amendments to this Constitution be allowed extending or changing this number of years. Furthermore, no body assigned through the Branches of Government to any Department created by the Government can be appointed to a longer term and number of years than that of the Elected officials by the people.
Thank you James, I had read this article, Loved it. I meant to say, I have not read the book by Frederic Bastiat, but i will!
If you don't mind, one of the matters I am working on to be published hopefully in book form eventually. The time for new founder's is almost upon us.
Ethical Capitalism and Separation of Market and State
What is Ethical Capitalism?
Natural law states that in order to survive problems need to be solved and while alone these problems must be solved by the individual alone. This includes such problems as finding out where the next meal will come from and how to acquire that meal, how to protect and cloth oneself from the elements, and to ensure a supply of water. This is why early in history Man formed societies near sources of water, it resolved almost all the problems of Man. Thus, as Man and societies grew more advance it allowed Man to solve bigger problems due to the fact that more individuals were free to specialize and think on other problems besides providing for the initial three, by other men solving other problems this allowed society to continue to advance and solve even bigger problems. This is the definition of Capitalism. It is the process of Individuals, Capitalist, working to solve problems and then offering the solutions to those problems as products or services that other Individuals, Capitalist themselves, value and thus find as an incentive to their own life and their own pursuit of happiness. Capital is then freely exchanged to the other individual for the product or service provided.
From this largesse that comes from obtaining capital the individual then if so moved with compassion and through his own free will is able to give to other men who are either free to accept or reject this giving. This is called charity. Charity is only viable if man is compelled to give of himself freely, and is perverted when man is some how coerced or otherwise forced to give his wealth away to another. Yet it is the combination of Capitalism, the free association of men trying to solve the problems of other men for profit, and this compassion of men then to freely give of themselves the bounty that they accumulated that creates the system of Ethical Capitalism.
Separation of Market and State
1. Neither The Legislative Branch nor the Executive Branch nor any Committee, Department or Agency setup by these Branches shall have the power to grant loans or grants to businesses or institutions of any type for any reason that the market will not support.
2. Neither The Legislative Branch nor the Executive Branch nor any Committee, Department or Agency setup by these Branches shall have the power to setup or otherwise take over businesses that the market will not support.
3. Neither The Legislative Branch nor the Executive Branch nor any Committee, Department or Agency set up by these Branches shall have the power to force or otherwise steer a market or businesses into a course of action that the market will not support. Nor shall it be allowed to level any hidden arbitrary mandates that will cause such an effect to take hold. The market itself will eventually force such changes upon that market or business through competition, time, and market forces.
4. Neither The Legislative Branch nor the Executive Branch nor any Committee, Department or Agency set up by these Branches shall have the power to offer subsidies in any form to any business or any parts of the market for any reason.
5. Neither The Legislative nor the Executive Branch nor any Committee, Department, or Agency set up by these Branches shall have the power to force punitive regulations on an entire market in the economy. If any business or individuals with in that business have broken any laws then the fullest extent and rule of law will be used to punish these individuals as set forth by the laws of the Legislative Branch. Businesses will be giving the same protections as individuals, because of their standing as an individual entity, and no measures shall henceforth be done to punish a group of businesses due to the action of a few within any given market.
6. Neither The Legislative Branch nor the Executive Branch shall have the power to set prices of any type, including wage prices and interest rates, that set prices arbitrarily for whatever reason that ignore market forces and the principles of supply and demand.
7. No Member of the Legislative Branch nor the Executive Branch, nor appointees to personal members of staff and direct relations, shall be able to participate within the private stock market while serving their terms in the Public Sector. Any members caught doing such activities will be removed from office, prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, and will be barred from holding public office for such activities.
James, I have not read this but you can bet I will be soon. The statement "There should not be any government subsidies, government schools, government welfare, or any government involvement whatsoever with labor. Big government does not encourage producing goods and services for the marketplace but using politics to plunder your fellow citizens" is so right on. They have their fingers in every facet of society, it is insidious, demoralizing and just plain wrong.
Hey James,
I liked Thomas Jefferson on Facebook and they have some great quotes by him.
"It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny." --Thomas Jefferson: Diffusion of Knowledge Bill, 1779. FE 2:220, Papers 2:526
"I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses nor pursue measures by which they may profit and then profit by their measures." --Thomas Jefferson to Edward Rutledge, 1796. ME 9:355
"There [is a measure] which if not taken we are undone...[It is] to cease borrowing money and to pay off the national debt. If this cannot be done without dismissing the army and putting the ships out of commission, haul them up high and dry and reduce the army to the lowest point at which it was ever established. There does not exist an engine so corruptive of the government and so demoralizing of the nation as a public debt. It will bring on us more ruin at home than all the enemies from abroad against whom this army and navy are to protect us." --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1821. (*) FE 10:193
There is no right to free assistance, unearned wages, free education, or free health care. The only thing guaranteed a citizen should be the free exercise of his faculties. You cannot be free and not free at the same time.
One nation under God............ period.
We assist those in need because it's the right thing to do, not because it's the required thing to do......... we need to take the time to look back at what the words family and neighbor mean. I don't believe in entitlements...... no one is entitled to anything.
"Charity is love," and it comes from love........ not expectation.
This was fantastic.................. LYAAF YK
"How can we say that no man is entitled to free health care? or education?" I believe the first One who said that is God. At least a dozen Scriptures( verses) command us to not steal from others. We are not "entitled" to break God's commandments. If taxes were not so high for businesses and individuals, there would be more money for various charities. Citizens who obey God are also generous. A nation with citizens who generally believe that God does not know what He is talking about will most definitely need help with heath care and education because God's blessing will not be upon that nation.
Furthermore, there is inherent corruption with governmental largess. Everyone has their greedy hands in the pie to get their "share", and the bureaucratic cost is enormous.
Bastiat brings up a similar point in The Law James, he brings up the point what good is an education if a person/family is going hungry. This of course leads us then to the Government programs that have become an incentive to actually continually have kids, not out of love, but out of the incentive of the Government hand out that gets received.
One of the reasons I am so adamant about education is looking back at my own education and how I wasn't properly prepared to face the challenges of the advance economic society we live in and to understand the importance of finance and economics. Everybody wants to say that Virtues, Values, Civility, and these matters about Economics and Finance should be taught at home, and indeed they should be strengthened at home. Yet, they have to be taught at the place a child spends most of his time from the age of 7 till the age of 18, though I am one for reducing the age of adult hood to 16 especially if people are going to go around and start having sex at that age or earlier. If people want to start doing an adult act, the most responsible act required of a person since it can bring new life, then trying to continually deflect the truth that somehow these people are still children is just anathema to me. In the sick and corrupted idea that protecting the " value innocence" of a child all that we have done, and reality bears this out, is continually prolong the childhood process to the point that the maturity level of twenty year old or even thirty year old people is that still of a child. When you have grown men at the age of 39 who are still living at home and have never once left the house, there is something inherently wrong.
We have been coddling people for far too long overall, deflecting reality and not truly getting people prepared through the school system in society as a whole. Hell, the last 12 years of my life has been to go through a self education process to learn as far as I am concerned to learn what I should have learned in school. If I had learned what I know now, I may not be in such financial difficulty if I had gain the understanding of finances and economic principles that I now know. This is how you also help the poor actually since the poor are the ones who aren't getting this important financial understanding to truly affect there lives, like what I could have done if I had been taught better myself.
This brings us to the question why this isn't done in our school system. The sinister answer, and the only one that makes any type of sense, is for control, as you brought up with Hitler. It is far easier to promise gifts to the people with the Public's Money, bribe them, and to lie about economics and use fancy "statistics" and other matters to an almost ignorant population on the most important matter while living in an economic based society, economics.
Because Reality dictates that there is no such thing as a free lunch. Remove Society and the Advancements made and it comes down to one simple fact, if you wish to continue to live in the world it must be earned from reality. Any of the so called entitlements and the matters that the state gets involved in is trying to change and deflect reality, usually ending in collapse and anarchy eventually.
Interesting but in my opinion a dangerous extremist view. How can we say that no man is entitled to free heath care? or education? Why can't the state have a role? History has shown that the extremist views never quite work out- communism, fascism etc. I think that over the pond we would have great difficulty "swallowing this"
However it was very well written and I will probably call back to read it again, even if I disagree with the majority of the sentiments expressed.
I too had several articles up about the problems with schools and education, yet was not satisfied with them. One of the reasons being because I realized I was taking the wrong angle. I hadn't cut and reduced education down and its purpose to its relation to reality. I began philosophizing in midstream as it were.
I'll send you a message via facebook with the beginnings of this article. As far as what the matter concerning a New Age of Enlightenment and a New Renaissance, well, that can only take place if people are willing to reclaim what has been taking. In essence, basically, and hopefully, a non violent Glorious Revolution so to speak needs to occur. I have pin pointed everything down to education as the place to start, it is that simple. It is why instead of trying to focus on fiction, what I would like to do but perhaps wasn't meant to do, I am focusing on non fiction and my first work being a philosophical theory to show many complex matters and try to make it easier to understand for people. After hopefully, I get this work published and perhaps another one concerning the imperfections in our constitution and presenting a document that fixes the biggest error and compromise regarding the constitution, the exclusion of property rights due to slavery. That my next step will be to hopefully get together with some prominent like minded people I have encountered in my readings to start a Classical School System in place from K all the way through College and fight the Governments control on Education and reclaim and allow people once more the control of how children get educated. Once hopefully I get this established, this franchise of a school system because I want people, communities, or who ever to be able to buy into the school so they can open there own schools if need be following the system and standards set down by the business plan, that I will then return back to my own writings as well.
This clarity of this vision so to speak struck me recently as far as what needs to be done. The problem is that people have grown so dependent upon the Government in its perverted role, that a progress of weening people off of the Government dependency needs to happen. This can only take place if people are properly taught matters concerning survival in an advanced economic based society. This is what isn't being taught, what needs to change.
My main concern like yours is that it may be too late, that we may be heading for another Dark Ages like after Rome fell. If that happens, then the goals I am working towards is to affect the change of what takes place if that occurs.
I follow the Federalist Papers Page on Facebook where they post various quotes from either the Founder's or from like minded thinkers of the Founders. One of the matters I hear in the comments section at times is where are the Founding Fathers now.
I look in the mirror. We are reaching the point where it has reached that I fear. A rebirth needs to take place and a New Age of Enlightenment and A New Renaissance needs to happen. Education needs to be reclaimed from the hands of the State that keep people ignorant, so that they can be manipulated and controlled.
Thanks, yeah, he mentioned it during the Primaries on a Mike Huckabee Forum thing that he did. Found a PDF file of it that night and sat back and read it, and was like wow.
I originally called the Hub The Most Important Moment of the 2012 Elections, but now renamed it Bastiat's the Law and the 2012 Elections.
It is one of those books that should be taught in schools, well, there is a lot that needs to be taught in schools that isn't being taught, such as economics. I was working on an article, that I may or may not complete and finish, that goes to the heart of the matter of education and why it sucks in America. The number one reason, the Public School system doesn't get people properly prepared to live in an advanced economic based society anymore, by teaching the subjects that would help, economics and finance. It is far easier to fool people and to get them to believe what they want about the economy and the rich, demonize them, if you have a population that is pretty much ignorant when it comes to economics and finance.
James, every time I think your writing and articles can not get any better you prove me wrong once again. In this corrupted-thinking society this hub is a sparkling diamond shinning its truth for all to ponder.
Unfortunately, James, our rejection of Truth will be our demise. The Bible teaches that none of us are independent thinkers. We are servants to whom we choose to obey. If we obey God, we will think righteously, and the result of such thought is evident in this hub. If we obey Satan, then we will think as a socialist, which is represented as the antithesis of this hub.
This hub is revolutionary to Americans now because we are becoming so depraved; nevertheless, I see hope for America since I've been here at Hubpages because of such outstanding individuals as yourself and so many others.
Three books revolutionized my political views many years ago: Human Action by Von Mises; Economics in One Lesson by Hazlitt, and this one, The Law. The Mainspring of Human Progress was another. I assume my memory is serving me accurately on the titles and authors.
Good article on the book James, I did my own article on The Law a few months back. Ron Paul mentioned the book as that book every American needs to read, and this is the slant of my article. I couldn't agree with him more.
Another interesting, thought provoking and informative hub. I do believe in today's world everyone has pretty much got law mixed up with all the wrong things and all anyone wants to do is scream I'm gonna sue but sue who? So thanks for setting things straight and for the introduction to Frederic Bastiat. Passing this on.
An interesting article on Frederic Bastiat. I have never heard of him until reading your hub. You have penned it well. It does also make me question things in general. I feel that our privacy is no longer so, because we are all on some kind of data base! Lots of queries within your words. Well done and voted up!
Good post on this top. Wow, very detailed and well done.
Hi James, great well written and interesting hub, i have not heard of Frederic Bastiat before thanks for helping learn more about this great subject within this awesome hub ! I am never disappointed when i stop by and read anything you have written !
Vote up and more !!! SHARING !
A very intense, informative, and thought provoking hub. A job well done.
James this is a great hub, voted up interesting and awesome. I intend to read more Bastiat. Reagan said it well: "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction." Loss of freedom is seldom a sudden cataclysm, but rather the drip by drip oppression of those who don't think that free people should be left to their own devices. Well done
Another excellent in depth review, of which you should be justly proud. I am sure your interpretation makes the book much more understandable to the ordinary citizen.
Great hub here James. Makes you think too because the opposite of law is anarchy and without laws in our society then the weak will be oppressed or enslaved. I do think the world as we know it now would indeed collapse without government. It is in human nature to be social and to commingle and to survive. Survival is the ultimate motivation for governments. A government gives certain guarantees that resources will be pooled and shared. The societies we live in determine how it is shared and in any society it is the strongest that make the rules. With total anarchy it is still the strongest that make th rules. There is no win or lose, it is what it is.
"The thought of God should prevail over the inventions of men...liberty is an act of faith in man and God" in my opinion that says it all.
I have not heard of Frederick Bastiat. I love the pics of him and the quotes that accompanied this very thought provoking hub.
This is one reason I love Hub Pages. I feel as if I am getting an education, all the time, on so many various topics.
With the way things are in our world today, if I had children, I would probably home school them. Mine are now grown...things were so different when my kids were little.
THANK you for this great write. I know you will get many, many positive comments.
Voted up, useful and interesting. Blessings, Sparklea :)
Thank you, James, for the wisdom I found in your presentation.
Hi James - This hub is thought provoking and right on the money! Very well written and timely. I have to wonder, "are we really free?" I seem to disagree with certain laws which makes me then question my own judgement.
This line so well written, is my "take-away." "A society that is free, safe, stable, and responsible is the one in which a virtuous man will attain his fullness with dignity "
Well done, my friend. I will pass this along as I share and give my vote as Up and across. You're the best!