Volunteering — a bridge to a stronger community, and supporting the local needy. To quote the old saying, charity begins at home. It’s a lot easier to get involved when a professional has planned the event. It hardly needs pointing out, if you volunteer as part of a group effort with colleagues, it’s likely to be far more fun. Consequently companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, whose financial benefits programs, such as Passport to Fun, help to enrich consumers, are stepping up as organizing points which co-ordinate volunteer activity and help their employees find the time to reach out. When you think of company supported charitable effort, you probably think of giving blood, perhaps an annual donation drive, but this is simply no longer true. Shoe recycling programs and more energetic campaigns like tree planting events — these and other activities have been scheduled by Adaptive Marketing for its staff. In these cases, the locations, dates and times of the events were announced, making it simple for staff to know what to expect, and how much time a given event might really require from them. It’s hardly volunteering if there’s no opportunity to select activities, of course. At Adaptive Marketing, the firm behind Passport to Fun, staff are given the chance to choose from a wide variety of activities. Staff members may find themselves encouraging environmental initiatives et cetera. A volunteer who takes pleasure in his role is an effective volunteer, consequently, through offering such a variety of programs Adaptive Marketing guarantee that their staff will make progress on all the initiatives.

When businesses urge their staff members to think about volunteering at a nearby homeless shelter, it is often to help with a specific event or a regular, perhaps weekly or monthly task. There are those who claim they don’t have the time, but even they can squeeze in a Saturday morning park clean-up. Commercial history is full of examples of firms finding ways of helping the people who live nearby. The activities of the employees at Adaptive Marketing and firms like it spread important good feeling around their home base. One thing volunteer projects are sure to do is leave your employees feeling good about themselves, which creates a motivated corporate culture. Promoting the volunteer spirit among your staffers is beneficial in some very real ways.

It would seem that summer is finally upon us. No one can really explain the uncharacteristically warm weather. We all a bit befuddled. As soon as the sun comes out, Britain goes a bit bonkers. Millions don their bikinis and trunks in order to lap up what intermittent rays of sun grace their gardens or rooftops. Whilst for those native to California, or Mexico or the Sahara desert, shudder in our moerate temperatures, grabbing what jumpers, coats and thermal socks they can, we Brits insist that it is in fact tropical outside. We are willing to suffer the goose pimples and shivers, in order to allow our lilly whit skins to catch a mere glimpse of sun. What do we think will happen? Do we think we will suddenly become bronzed beauties if we get the halter necks and hot pants out for ten minutes a day? At least we’re making the most of it I suppose.

Mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the tissues that line the person’s internal organs. Nearly two thousand brand new instances are pinpointed each year in the whole US. Out of these, around75 percent of instances concern the sac around the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In almost ten to 20 percent of cases, malignant mesothelioma might affect the tissue that surrounds abdominal organs, named the peritoneal membrane, causing what is then referred to as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Exposure to asbestos is absolutely the largest cause for this uncommon sickness. After exposure to asbestos, the delay to progression of the mesothelioma disease might be 2 to 4 decades. Due to occupational introduction, malignant mesothelioma is around 3 times more routine in men, than in females. Due to the mass of occurrences rises with your age, there are almost 10 times more cases in the males more than age 64 than in the men in their thirties.

Being diagnosed with Malignant mesothelioma is a serious ailment, that, currently, has a very bad percentage of long-term continuance. On the other hand, if it is diagnosed early, care are then in existence that will considerably lengthen the patient’s life. All new therapies continue to be and are being developed by the way of clinical trials.

Ocean explorer Gilles Fonteneau has been a long-time champion of the sea and its inhabitants. He was as a member of Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso ocean exploration team for many years before setting out on his own. On his first maritime mission in 2001, Fonteneau measured the movement of the tectonic plates of the Caribbean. With such information gathered, he was hoping it could be of use in preventing a tsunami disaster in the area, such as the one that devastated Southeast Asia in 2004. Although he was met with resistance at first, Fonteneau was able to accomplish his mission of planting GPS devices on the area.Fonteneau’s second maritime study involved the support of NASA and the Bacardi Family Foundation. His mission was to study the erosion of the coral reefs in the Caribbean waters, which produced adverse and devastating effects to the marine life all over the world. The study also proved that coral reef erosion also has its own sets of negative impacts to the economies of the surrounding Caribbean countries.The Bacardi Family Foundation has been a strong supporter of Fonteneau’s maritime research in the Caribbean waters and has heavily funded his scientific underwater expeditions. With financial aid from the Bacardi Family, Gilles Fonteneau has been able to fit his 45-foot catamaran, Prince de Vendée, with the latest technological equipment.Fonteneau’s third expedition has proven that fishes do communicate by sound and this was later confirmed by the New York Times. His findings have proven to be valuable in the field of maritime study.Fonteneau has written all his experiences as an ocean explorer in a book titled Murmurs from the Deep.Sources:With the backing of NASA and the Bacardi Family Foundation, he and his scientific crew members set out to study the erosion of coral reefs in the area, which is slowly devastating not only fish populations but all marine life, and has enormous consequences for the economies of Caribbean countries.With backing from the Bacardi Family Foundation, he outfitted a catamaran with plenty of technological equipment and, it seems, bottles of rum.

The ACLU has championed many causes since it was founded in 1920 by Mr. Roger Baldwin. Some of the most notable causes or rulings the ACLU supported have to do with abortion rights, homosexual and lesbian rights and removal of prayer from the public schools. Some of its most notable positions were of lesser significance but created much more press because they bordered on the frivolous and were more a nuisance than a legitimate cause. They adopted positions against bible studies and prayer groups in public schools and the removal of manger scenes in public during the Christmas season. Can’t you hear the voices of many grateful Americans in a resounding…gee thanks?

Not to be mistaken for something that actually qualifies as the protection of our civil liberties is the new battlefield conjured up by the ACLU in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The three crosses adorning the city logo is a point of pride and history for the residents there but for the ACLU, they have given cause for it to rear its head and wield the battle axe. It has resulted in making “what ever happened to common sense” being the most oft used phrase in internet blogging history. But wait, it doesn’t stop there.

The latest fit the ACLU has begun; concerns prayer offered by the U.S. military’s chaplains. In short the ACLU thinks it should be stopped. Whew! That’s good thinking. I don’t know about you but the last thing I would want to have happen to me just before I went to battle for my country is to have my country tell me I couldn’t go to God in prayer. In particular they are trying to stop chaplains from praying in the name of Jesus Christ. In a volunteer force made up of mostly Christian men and women isn’t that an infringement of their religious freedom? In fact it is more than that.

The constitution says “Congress shall make no laws touching religion, or to infringe the rights of conscience.” What genius does it take to see that the ACLU is actually crying “unconstitutional” while they are proposing laws that are clearly unconstitutional? Don’t want to be crass but perhaps the ACLU lawyers and aides should all take a day off to watch Forrest Gump together. If I remember correctly the most often repeated line in that movie is, “stupid is, as stupid does”

Diametrically opposite the ACLU is the newly formed but no less formidable, ACLJ. The American Center for Law and Justice founded in 1990 is headed by Jay Sekulow who is the ACLJ’s Chief Counsel. He is a well respected advocate for constitutional freedoms and has argued many cases before the U.S, Supreme Court.

The Center for Law and Justice has successfully argued cases and supported positions in other cases which resulted in an impressive list of good common sense decisions and rulings. A short list of the accomplishments of the ACLJ is as follows.

• A guarantee for minors who want to be involved in the political process by protecting their free speech rights in political affairs.

• Rulings to protect the constitutional rights of religious groups to obtain equal access to public facilities.

• Protection for the free speech rights of pro-life demonstrators

• The right for public school students to form and participate in religious organizations such as Bible clubs.

The ACLJ is currently on the radio waves daily soliciting signatures for a petition to stop the ban on prayer by the military chaplains. The response is said to be very powerful at the least. Upwards of ten thousand people a day are asking to have their names added to the petitions.

It is shameful that Americans must pound away to ward off organizations like the ACLU whose agenda looks like it originated in la-la land. The constitution is under attack by those who feign that they are working to protect it. After all this is America and they have a constitutional right to mess with the constitution. Let’s not mess with their right to do that, but lets hope and pray (if they don’t stop us) that they don’t prevail.

The Bible tells the believer to respect the rulings and laws provided by the secular rulers because the powers that be, are all ordained of God. Romans 13:1. Almost all bible believing Christians take this mandate seriously and endeavor to be law abiding citizens. You would think that this respect for secular law would hold things in balance between those who believe in the Bible and revere the constitution and groups like the ACLU, but it does not. The ACLU seems bent on removing all reference and allusion to God on any level. What would the result be if they were successful in this plight? I choose to let the Bible answer that question.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Romans 1:28

Rev Bresciani has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote “Hook Line and Sinker or what has Your Church Been Teaching You,” publisher, PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book published by Xulon Press entitled “An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ.” His book is now being heralded as the clearest book on the subject of the second coming of Christ since Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” Rev Bresciani’s website is,

http://americanprophet.org