A How-To Guide — Volunteering Your Time

The brotherhood that develops among volunteers can strengthen the local community spirit, and naturally it will support their local poor. But finding the freedom for this kind of event can be quite time consumung by itself, and arranging what you want to do will take up free time better used in actually volunteering.

Continue Reading June 15th, 2010

Cancer of the Mesothelium a Scarce Cancer

Mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the tissues that line the person’s inside organs. Around 2,000 brand new occurrences are detected each year in the whole US. Out of these, aboutthree out of four of occurrences concern the sac around the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In about 10 to twenty percent of instances, mesothelioma could involve the tissue that envelopes abdominal organs, called the peritoneal membrane, generating what is then known as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Introduction to asbestos is absolutely the main cause for this rare sickness. After exposure to asbestos, the time period to progression of the mesothelioma disease might be twenty to forty years. As a result of occupation exposure, mesothelioma is nearly 3 times more likely in men, than in females. Because the mass of occurrences goes up with age, there are nearly ten times more cases in the men over age 64 than in the men in their 30s.

Having Malignant mesothelioma is a weighty cancer, that, at the moment, has a incredibly bad degree of lasting survival. Although, if it is spotted early, regimens are then available that might seriously prolong the patient’s life. New approaches continue to be and are being tested through clinical trials.

April 30th, 2009

Bacardi Fronts Water Organization

Water is the element that brings life. The renowned spirits and liquor maker Bacardi knows this and has been on the frontline with regards to water conservation. The Bacardi Foundation has partnered with various agencies to promote efficient water use methods and advance research on water resources.This conglomerate of business and industry leaders have banded together to form the Stockholm Water Foundation, an organization that aims to expand the importance, as well as come up with the latest innovations of effective water use and treatment.Among the numerous companies that joined the Bacardi family in this common goal are DuPont, Grundfos Management, General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, ITT Flygt, Kemira Kemwater, Kaupthing Bank Sverige, KPMG, Uponor Group and Water Environment Federation (WEF).With the Stockholm Water Foundation, Bacardi Limited was able to create the Bacardi Foundation-Stockholm Foundation Professorship at MIT. The professorship is given to a professor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop teaching programs and make breakthroughs in water resources research.The Stockholm Water Foundation also recognizes the people who have toiled to provide innovative solutions to the rising problems concerning water resources. The Stockholm Water Prize is given to a person, an organization, or an institution whose findings and research have significant impacts to the water environment and to mankind as well.The Bacardi Company is a pivotal institution that continues to support the actions and efforts of the Stockholm Water Foundation. In this regard, Bacardi is a leading example of a name that prides itself in making the world a better place.Links/Sources:The Stockholm Water Foundation awarded two ecologists for their research creating sustainability by understanding how water works. The Bacardi Company, in accordance with Bacardi environmental policy is a founding member of Stockholm Water.An article discussing the new professorship in MIT which is created and funded by the Bacardi Family and Stockholm Water. The professorship was designed to teach and further improve research efforts in global water conservation.

January 9th, 2009

Is Harry Belafonte A Naive Mouthpiece For The Far Left?

In my opinion, Harry Belafonte, is a mouthpiece for the far left, however, he is not naive. I think the he was a very talented entertainer who misses the limelight and is just trying to garner publicity and notice. I don’t think he cares what he says as long as people pay attention to him. He reminds me of Howard Dean and other has beens who will do or say anything (true or not) in order to keep their names and faces in the newspapers and on television.

Harry Belafonte is not stupid and it would take a very stupid American to believe that Hugo Chavez is not a ‘petty tyrant’, a fraudulently elected ‘dictator’ and a dangerous enemy of the United States and of Latin America.

For Mr. Belafonte to make statements to Chavez like, “We respect you, admire you, and we are expressing our full solidarity with the Venezuelan people and your revolution.”, “No matter what the greatest tyrant in the world, the greatest terrorist in the world, George W. Bush says, we’re here to tell you: Not hundreds, not thousands, but millions of the American people . . . support your revolution.”, to accuse the U.S. news media of falsely painting Chavez as a “dictator,” when in fact, he said, there is democracy and citizens are “optimistic about their future.”, to call President George W. Bush “the greatest terrorist in the world”, would tend to make you think that Mr. Belafonte is indeed naive and ignorant. However, by saying the foregoing he got a huge amount of free publicity, and in ’show business’ there is a saying, “no publicity is bad publicity”. Many people who had never heard of him or did not know that he was still around, are now thinking about him. I wouldn’t be suprised if his record sales did not increase at least temporarily.

Belafonte has also stated that African-American officials in the Bush administration are “black tyrants”, that Secretary of State Colin Powell was a “house slave” and he has compared the Bush the administration to “Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany”.

Come to think of it, maybe Mr. Belafonte is not desperately seeking publicity, maybe he is just mentally deranged. Either way, somebody should put a muzzle on him in order to keep him from spewing so much hate and malice. Free speech is one thing, but hate speech is something else.

I find this whole Belafonte mess very disappointing. I would have liked to remember Harry Belafonte as the talented and brilliant entertainer that he was, not as the spiteful and hateful person that he has become.

David G. Hallstrom, Sr. is a retired private investigator and currently publishes several internet directories including www.resourcesforattorneys.com a legal and lifestyle resources directory for attorneys, lawyers and the internet public. For more lifestyle information see lifestyle.resourcesforattorneys.com, the Lifestyle directory from Resources For Attorneys.

May 31st, 2008