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		<title>Morals of Modern Medical Pricing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morals of Modern Medical Pricing As people, do we have any ethical or moral obligations to each other? Is that a quality that separates humanity from the other beasts that roam this planet? If a person has the ability to prevent a tragedy from occurring to another, to what degree should they be required to [...]]]></description>
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<p>As people, do we have any ethical or moral obligations to each other? Is that a quality that separates humanity from the other beasts that roam this planet? If a person has the ability to prevent a tragedy from occurring to another, to what degree should they be required to act? These are the types of philosophical questions that must be self asked and answered in order to build a better society. They are also questions that relate directly to the great health care reform debate.</p>
<p>What if we took the same attitude towards our fire department that we took with health care? If firemen come and save lives/house, should they then be entitled to thousands of dollars in payments from those who were saved. Actually, more to the point, should the fire department ask for huge fees just for trying? This is similar to the state of national health care that American society currently accepts. </p>
<p>Sometimes the danger may be less imminent, but it still boils down to making money due to tragedies of our fellow man.</p>
<p>None of this is to claim that doctors do not provide an extremely valuable service. Most people would have no problem with skilled professionals involved in all levels of health care receiving a very fair compensation. People should have to pay for the time and products that they use. However, where the differences between fair compensation levels and reckless profiteering off the misfortune of others are is a highly debatable subject. It is also a subject that is based not only in morals, but in economic realities. How long can a society continue to function when its citizens are paying an increasing portion of their disposable income towards health?</p>
<p>Modern economics due not work on the macro scale with regards to health care. </p>
<p>Free market economies work on the very basic notion of finding where supply and demand meet and pricing at that point. This works wonderfully for most goods and services because the consumer has a point where they the value of the service/product is no longer greater than or equal to the price of the item. However, when it comes to health care, the demand curve is often vertical up to a person&#8217;s total value. When the value of an item is infinite to its user, the seller can price at the user&#8217;s maximum net worth. In health care, this is even worse because the industry practices discriminant pricing (different prices for different people). With most people valuing their lives far greater than any of their other assets, health care professionals can truly price what the market will bear. That is not a set of circumstances that lends itself to an effective free market. It does work for a market based on extortion.</p>
<p>I would be remiss not to point out that increases in supply can drive down these price points to some degree, but supply will never be plentiful enough to push the overall prices for many procedures into a reasonable range.</p>
<p>In some ways, health care profiteers are helped greatly by the time frame that illness takes to create mortal danger. Fire departments have to be government funded (at some level) because of the need for response without any delays caused by purchasing decisions. If fire took months to destroy a house and kill the occupants (and fire houses were privatized), there could exist a negotiation policy that would destroy victim&#8217;s finances in exchange for life saving actions.</p>
<p>There are many legal and economic tweaks that can be made to change the system. However, at the end of the day, we really need to change our attitudes overall. What does it say about people that we have turned our own misfortune into huge profit centers? I leave it at that&#8230;for now.</p>
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		<title>Anal Beads and relaxed morals</title>
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Anal Beads and relaxed morals<br />
We live in a society a society that is becoming more and more detached from the world in which the Victorians lived; by this we means that our morals and what we talk about has become more and more loose. These means that people are more relaxed about talking about sex and their sexual preferences; including the relaxed talk about sex toys such as anal beads. The Victorians still used products like dildos but they just never talked about sex as sex was something that was only discussed in the bedroom. There are many reasons why people are becoming more and more relaxed about their sexuality and sexual preferences, one reason for this is from the aid of Television programs such as sex and the city, queer as folk and sugar rush. These programs depict the use of such sexual products like anal beads and finger vibrators. </p>
<p>This article is aimed at discussing the future of our relaxed sexual morals, the article will then conclude by informing you on where you can find more information on anal beads and finger vibrators.<br />
As mentioned previously people are becoming more and more relaxed about talking about their sexual preferences along with talking about sex toys like anal beads. It is not just television that is increasing this relaxed attitude; other examples of places where people are taking more and more influences include:<br />
Celebrities and idols – these people create morale themselves and people are heavily influenced by what happens in popular culture. This will create people becoming more and more relaxed about talking about anal beads and finger vibrators.<br />
The internet – this is a very important aspect and people get heavily influenced by the internet and this is because most things are accessible for all including porn and sexy toys like anal beads.<br />
As you can see there are many places that have created this relaxed world and culture that we live in, if you would still like more information then this can be found by entering the keywords ‘anal beads’ into an internet search engine. </p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes it is not easy for people to look for great options of <a href="http://templates.motocms.com/" target="_blank">flash templates</a>. That is why I am here right now to give you a solution to solve your problems in finding the right templates for you. This solution actually comes from MotoCMS.com. This website has created a team to specially work in this field. Now this team is ready to give it outstanding presentation of interactive templates after it has worked for some time for the template creations. The template collections that are made by the team are so impressive. They are resulted from different design approaches. The presentation of the content and the structure of the site are also designed distinctively.</p>
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		<title>Attitude: The Greatest Moral Character</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong> Attitude: The Greatest Moral Character </strong></p>
<p>What is moral character? Do we need moral character to live a good and prosperous life? Moral character is a set of qualities that make somebody or something distinctive, especially somebody&#8217;s qualities of mind and feeling.</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s innate qualities that make somebody or something interesting, or attractive. When you are seeking to achieve, what you do and say, or how you display your appearance is a great part of your accomplishment. This is your public reputation that is on display to others and it will be judged by others. This will determine your intentions, and how people will judge you.</p>
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<p>The greatest character of them all is called Attitude. The right attitude will draw the right people to you.</p>
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<p>Let&#8217;s look at an attitude that is poor in spirit.</p>
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<p>Poor in spirit simply means to realize that nothing you have is more important than achieving your set goal. Knowing this, your attitude should be willing to part with anything you have if it hinders you from receiving.</p>
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<p>This is why, even Jesus said, &#8220;No one of you can be my disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.&#8221; (Luke 14:33 KJV) When you have the attitude that you are willing to give up whatever it takes to be successful, it will produce great result.</p>
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<p>It has been said that your attitude determines your altitude. Attitudes are the established ways of responding to people and situations that you would have learned, based on your belief in the values and assumptions you hold. Attitudes become manifested through your behavior.</p>
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<p>If you take that same attitude and use it towards achieving your goals, nothing could, or would be able to prevent you from your final destination. Anything that stops your progress will be deemed a hindrance.</p>
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<p>Relatives, friends, objects, idols, ideas etc, could be hindrances if it stands in your way of productivity. The most important thing is what you are willing to give up to achieve and accomplish effectively.<br />
Is it worth giving up your hindrance in obtaining what you&#8217;re seeking after? This is where you make a vital decision of which is more important to you: Your goals or your hindrances.</p>
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<p>Attitudes drive behavior! Your body language is a result of your mental attitude. Whatever you think and mediate on will eventually show up. When choosing your attitude you emit that mood and send out a message everyone understands, consciously or unconsciously. In others words your attitude is your first line of exposure to a person.</p>
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<p>Attitudes concerning moral character are a cord of ethics and a standard of conduct that everyone should live by, especially if you are a believer in living a good and prosperous life. You must keep in mind, that these attitudes contrast good values with negative values. To achieve success, positive attitudes must be used as a whole and not individually.</p>
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<p><strong>A few words of consideration concerning your attitude.</strong></p>
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<p>Ø   Consider acting respectfully at all times. This will allow you to achieve success faster and more easily.<br />
Ø   Using greater inner power and strength to be honest towards all people an important priority.<br />
Ø   The abuse of your power and privilege has no place in your attitude. Use the ability to inspire and motivate yourself and others<br />
Ø   Avoid causing anybody harm, instead actively seek to do good. This will result in fewer difficulties you encounter along the way</p>
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<p>It&#8217;s not what happens to you that counts; it is how you react to what happened to you, especially with any unexpected problem. What you have to do is get an attitude to learn and master powerful strategies that can be used to keep yourself thinking and acting positively and creatively.</p>
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<p>Carl Mathis: author of &#8220;Life is what you make it – seven steps to moving forward.&#8221;  Allow Carl Mathis to motivate/inspire you with his Christian words of encouragement. Go here now and find out about the new book, <strong>INTERCOURSE &#8211; Do you Really know the Person Sleeping in your Bed?</strong><a rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.carlmathis.com/">http://www.carlmathis.com</a></p>
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<p>A statement by a political candidate who is in the news a lot currently: It&#8217;s a misconception that you &#8220;can&#8217;t legislate morality.&#8221;</p>
<p>People have been trying to legislate morality from long before even the ten commandments and the more than six-hundred laws of the Law of Moses were penned. Way back to Hammurabi&#8217;s ancient law code, from about 3790 years ago in ancient Babylon, people have been legislating morality.</p>
<p>It has never worked for long. Why? Because the idea is fundamentally flawed.</p>
<p>In some countries today you can be stoned to death if you don&#8217;t abide by the moral code the &#8220;authorities&#8221; have legislated for everybody else. Yet people still flout the law, even at risk of execution.</p>
<p>This particular political candidate went on to say that &#8220;if you don&#8217;t legislate one morality then you are legislating somebody else&#8217;s morality. </p>
<p>So you can&#8217;t get around legislating morality.&#8221;</p>
<p>But is this really true?</p>
<p>Legislating that something has to be a certain way isn&#8217;t at all the same as allowingsomething to be a certain way.</p>
<p>For instance if you legislate that no one can have sex outside of marriage, you are forcing a particular idea on people. But if you simply allow, then a person is free to have sex outside of marriage or not to have sex outside of marriage.</p>
<p>When we allow, we give people a choice. Individuals then decide their own morality according to their conscience, within the parameter that they cannot hurt anybody else by what they do.</p>
<p>This is fundamentally different from making you do what they do.</p>
<p>If someone is in a gay relationship, allowing this isn&#8217;t at all the same as legislating that someone has to be in a gay relationship.</p>
<p>Allowing means there can be multiple moralities all at the same time. We can only ever be uncomfortable with this if we are into controlling others, which is the opposite oflove—and love is the very lynchpin of any morality.</p>
<p>So the real issue isn&#8217;t morality, but control. People who are insecure in themselves are threatened when others do things they themselves don&#8217;t do.</p>
<p>In other words, such people aren&#8217;t capable of loving others for who they really are, as free moral agents. They can only &#8220;love&#8221; their neighbor if their neighbor conforms,which isn&#8217;t love at all. It&#8217;s control.</p>
<p>Suppose you don&#8217;t believe in sex outside of marriage, as is perhaps the case with this particular candidate. Should you legislate what your neighbor can do? And who is to decide what the standard should be?</p>
<p>Or perhaps you aren&#8217;t gay and you oppose gay people forming intimate relationships. Should you get to decide their morality?</p>
<p>If we go back to ancient societies, whether Islam and the Koran, or the Israelites and what&#8217;s widely referred to as the Old Testament, there is a track record of people legislating morality but utterly failing to get people to abide by their rules. The whole reason for what&#8217;s known as the New Testament, which seeks to awaken us to on our inner being grounded in divine consciousness, is because the old didn&#8217;t work.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t have to go back that far. Prohibition in the United States is a classic example of how you can&#8217;t force people to abide by your idea of what&#8217;s moral.</p>
<p>An even more current and poignant example is that of another political personage, also very much in the news, who was publically a proponent of abstinence from sex before marriage. Yet this politician&#8217;s own teen couldn&#8217;t live by such a standard and became pregnant. What chance to legislate morality for a whole nation, let alone a world, if you can&#8217;t make it work in your own home?</p>
<p>Legislating morality has never worked.</p>
<p>Each time there&#8217;s some kind of moral reformation, in no time at all things have drifted back to where they were. Then a new moral reformation gets underway by a fresh set of zealots who somehow imagine they can make their version of morality work this time.</p>
<p>Whether we turn to Buddhism, the Hindu faith, Judaism, Islam, or Christianity, within each of these paths there are outstanding spiritual figures who have repeatedly emphasized for us that morality only ever works when it flows from the heart.</p>
<p>If the Thought Police ride their trucks through the streets of cities like Tehran, Iran, unsuccessfully trying to enforce laws against women wearing certain kinds of clothing or even makeup, what chance do we honestly have of legislating morality in the West?</p>
<p>And again, who gets to decide what&#8217;s moral?</p>
<p>The compassionate approach is to allow instead of resisting.</p>
<p>Then, as spiritual giants like Jesus and the Buddha advocated, we need to get control of our own judgmentalism which sees us as better than others—and learn to love our neighbor just as if they were our very own selves, according them the freedom to choose that&#8217;s our God-given right.</p>
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<p>David Robert Ord is author of <em>Your Forgotten Self Mirrored in Jesus the Christ</em> and the audio book <em>Lessons in Loving&#8211;A Journey into the Heart</em>, both from Namaste Publishing, publishers of Eckhart Tolle and other transformational authors. He writes The Compassionate Eye daily, together with his daily author blog The Sunday Blog, at www.namastepublishing.com</p>
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		<title>Indian Education System and Morality</title>
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<p><b>Falling Morality</b></p>
<p>Since independence, there has been a drastic fall in the standards of our moral conduct, right form the top leadership to the layman. The cadre of the leaders that we saw during our struggle for independence comprised selfless, visionary men, who sacrificed personal interests for the betterment of the society. Sixty years have passed; we find rampant corruption taking roots into almost every sphere and section of the society.<br />
 <br /><b>Education and Morality</b></p>
<p>A civilized society requires continuous influx of young citizens having strong base of moral character which enshrines values that bring out empathy for the society as a whole.</p>
<p>Education has a pivotal role to play in this process. Parents and teachers are the main components of any education system. Parents are primarily responsible for the education and morality of their children since they have given birth to them. </p>
<p>But, this does not obliterate the necessity of an education system in place to take care of the moral education of its budding citizens. It is, for best results, a two pronged approach and, often, in the absence of any one of them the other can outdo to compensate the absent one.</p>
<p><b>Indian Education System</b></p>
<p>Like our parliamentary and judiciary systems, we inherited our educational system from the West, which was purely secular in its nature. Later on, it also got influenced by the leftist inclinations of the Establishment. Whereas, prior to that, religion was an integral part of the Indian education system and it was inherently capable to indoctrinate the young minds with the moral values and virtues that were the part and parcel of the religion.</p>
<p><b>Where the Malady Lies?</b></p>
<p>Our compulsion to adopt the secular western education system was rooted in our choice of a secular and democratic polity to govern a religiously and culturally diverse India. </p>
<p>But, in the process, we failed to take cognizance of the fabric of our society. The new education system that we provided deprived the society of its moral character. It was the same moral character which gave birth to legendary visionaries like Mahatma Gandhi and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad that we were deprived of. Even the Christian missionary schools that taught Moral Science as a subject some 25 years ago have, mostly, discontinued doing so.<br />
 <br /><b>Possible Solution!</b></p>
<p>India is a home to almost all the religions of the world. Moral values and character that form the basis of a morally healthy society are, fortunately, common across all the religions. Courtesy, loving one&#8217;s neighbors, wishing good for all, honesty, truthfulness and such virtues are tenaciously upheld and taught by all religions.</p>
<p>The need of the hour is to devise a course encompassing all these basic tenets common to all religions and start teaching them as a compulsory subject, at least till secondary school (Class 10) level. However, every care should be taken to formulate the course in such a way that it does not even seem to have a skew towards any religion; so that no one can argue that a particular religion is being promoted by the State. Thus, a balance has to be maintained; without compromising with its secular character, the State&#8217;s education system should fill this vacuum of providing moral education to all.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wealth and Morality In the years after WWII, a remarkable shift occurred in American economic life. For the first time in history, we reached a stage of prosperous development in which we could produce far more goods and services than anyone needed. Various factors combined to create this new situation, including advanced industrial technology, wartime [...]]]></description>
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<p>In the years after WWII, a remarkable shift occurred in American economic life. For the first time in history, we reached a stage of prosperous development in which we could produce far more goods and services than anyone needed. Various factors combined to create this new situation, including advanced industrial technology, wartime expansion of the economy, the destruction of Europe&#8217;s industrial base while our own remained unscathed, and women added to the workforce.</p>
<p>To sustain all this growth, to continue paying wages and continue expanding profits, it was necessary to excessively stimulate our habits of consumption, to artificially increase the public&#8217;s appetite for what was being produced. No longer were manufacturers content with simply determining what people wanted and needed. Thenceforward, to a degree never witnessed before, it became necessary to learn effective ways of persuading people that they wanted and needed all sorts of things that they had never wanted or needed before. </p>
<p>As a result, the public was soon being bombarded with non-stop messages to fall into line and do what we were being told: the duty of Americans, it became clear, was to go shopping.</p>
<p>Just as advertisers were beginning to seek out scientific advice to help them develop more effective procedures for what was casually dubbed &#8220;engineering consent&#8221;, television appeared on the scene. Soon the nation became practically catatonic. Consumers became targets rather than individuals, and the professional persuaders began using heavy artillery. Rather than explaining a product&#8217;s quality or usefulness, they concentrated on ways to manipulate our suggestibility, our fears, our least becoming motivations. Using every technique they could garner from science, advertisers soon computerized vast amounts of information about our personal lives and buying habits as discerned from focus groups, psychological interviewing, brain-wave measurements, etc. But it continued to become increasingly difficult to reach people amidst of the exploding carnival of marketing and promotion, so as consumers became more jaded the marketers became more aggressive. To accommodate the ever-increasing number of things to be sold, advertisements had to become briefer and briefer. The effect of this was to shorten the public&#8217;s already meager attention span: the image had to hit home deeply and instantly or it would never be noticed. It soon became apparent that this is best accomplished by evoking negative emotions such as anxiety, fear and envy &#8211; a far cry from simply distributing useful information about products, which required time and thoughtfulness. The goal was clear: consumers needed to think less and buy more.</p>
<p>With the general public virtually hypnotized into supporting these trends, more and more wealth was accumulating into fewer and fewer hands, giving big American business immense power to determine conditions here and abroad. This awesome financial power linked up with exuberant postwar feelings of patriotism and manifest destiny, and soon the American public was convinced that anything that interfered with the expansion of American corporate power was un-American, and thus began the incessant and peculiar identification of Capitalism with Freedom.</p>
<p>To maintain this fantastic public support for corporate America, public relations experts were brought in. The public needed to receive the appropriate messages, not just from advertising, but from the arts, entertainment, government, schools, museums, libraries &#8211; in short, from all avenues of modern culture. Now, in consequence, our lives are immersed in a steady stream of repetitive, continuous propaganda, perpetuating the various myths of economics, politics and science, and steadily eroding our individuality.</p>
<p>Propaganda is not concerned with what is best in men and women, it is not concerned with noble feelings or admirable goals. &#8220;Propaganda&#8221;, writes Jacques Ellul, &#8220;does not aim to elevate man, but to make him serve.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It must therefore utilize the most common feelings, the most widespread ideas, the crudest patterns, and in so doing place itself on a very low level with regard to what it wants men to do and to what end. Hate, hunger, and pride make better levers of propaganda than do love or impartiality.&#8221;</p>
<p>For these and many other reasons, we now live in a culture in which style has achieved primacy over substance. Although the original conception of democracy meant that social equality was more important than a social elite, and therefore the symbols of an elite were rejected, we now take the contorted alternative view that the symbols and styles of elites should be mass produced and made available to everyone! Of course, mass production implies mass standardization, and thus any genuine uniqueness which was available when production meant handicraft has now been replaced by the &#8216;sameness&#8217; of what is available to us all. In response to this, there are always some people whose need to be noticed causes them to present themselves in a manner so bizarre as to stand out in the crowd. This never lasts long, however, since whatever stands out in the crowd typically becomes the next trend, the next standardized fashion.</p>
<p>We see the powerful mesmerizing effects of advertising, public relations, and fashion, in the pursuit of the perfect car, the perfect body, the perfect house, the perfect mate. We see it in our participation in certain activities, and our passive adherence to certain beliefs, that make us acceptable to whatever crowd we wish to join. We continue to speak sentimentally of our great respect for &#8216;rugged individualism&#8217;, but large-scale contemporary production, trade, and consumption require centralized authority, massive planning, and a willingness of so-called individuals to become cogs in the economic machine. A community of genuine individuals, held together by love, is thus transformed into an efficient ant hill, held together by money and power.</p>
<p>The responsibility for all of this does not lie with Madison Avenue or the lords of corporate power. The responsibility lies with us, with our own &#8216;suggestibility&#8217;, the astonishing ease with which we abandon all efforts to think and reason for ourselves, and believe whatever we are told. This is all a consequence of an inverted soul: the demanding Body is in charge, making acquisitiveness the only goal of life; the Mind remains passive and aloof, benumbed by all the images and messages; and the Heart is shut down, the victim of pornography and brutality. As a result, the appetites have taken control of our souls rather than supporting our sousl, and Plato&#8217;s &#8216;Merchants&#8217; have likewise become the usurping rulers of our political and cultural life, while the &#8216;Guardians&#8217; remain silent and asleep.</p>
<p>This is not how a soul is supposed to be governed, and it is not how an economy is supposed to be conducted.</p>
<p>As Jacob learned from Laban, and as Christ taught in his parables, it is good to increase material wealth and abundance (to be &#8216;fruitful and multiply&#8217;), it is necessary and honorable to learn how to take care of ourselves, our families, our neighbors, our posterity. But the impulse to do this cannot come from what is lowest in ourselves, it cannot come from meaningless greed. The impulse has to come from &#8216;Above&#8217;, from the creative Mind, from the Spirit.</p>
<p>When massive corporations seek only to maintain their own power by artificially stimulating consumer demand and then stuffing the consumer&#8217;s face with everything they now imagine they want (while nickle-and-diming them at every turn), our souls and our civilization continue to devolve and decay. But when entrepreneurs, through shrewdness and innovation, create wealth by benefiting others as well as themselves, this increased prosperity improves all of life and serves both human and divine purpose. This is why the Master in Christ&#8217;s parable welcomed the slave who had turned five talents into ten back into His joy, but threw the slave who merely maintained the status quo back into the outer darkness.</p>
<p>Prosperity is the goal of economics. But for society as a whole, economic prosperity is a means to an end &#8211; and we have perverted this ideal by making the accumulation of wealth an end in itself, by making it the cold relentless motive for all the decisions we make as a nation and as individuals. The result of this is the emptiness and drudgery of the human ant hill, increased poverty and misery, and ever more violence in our cities and across the world, rather than the magnificent cultural flowering of Beauty, Wisdom, and Spirit, that was the dream of the American Founders.</p>
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<p>Dr. Andrew Cort, D.C., J.D., is a Teacher, an Attorney, and a Doctor of Chiropractic. His books include &#8220;Return to Meaning: The American Psyche in Search of its Soul&#8221; (this article is an excerpt), &#8220;The Song of Songs: A Lover&#8217;s Poetic Dialogue&#8221;, and &#8220;From Joshua to Jesus&#8221;. Read Free Excerpts, order books, and find out about Talks and Seminars. Click on <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.andrewcort.com/">http://www.andrewcort.com</a>. Dr. Cort lives in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marketing with morality In today&#8217;s market with all the doubts occurred, joint with the persistent mentality of &#8220;what&#8217;s in it for me&#8221;, most of the people all over the world losses their trust in businesses and organizations. To guarantee a large customer base the marketing strategies increased by most protagonist, in which are no longer [...]]]></description>
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<p>In today&#8217;s market with all the doubts occurred, joint with the persistent mentality of &#8220;what&#8217;s in it for me&#8221;, most of the people all over the world losses their trust in businesses and organizations. To guarantee a large customer base the marketing strategies increased by most protagonist, in which are no longer relevant. For others, long-term success will be created by operating from integrity and respect for others.</p>
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<p>There are businesses that are crumbling from within. We&#8217;ve seen CEO&#8217;s have been under arrest and organization have been into accounts of scam and illegal insiders trading. Deception may occur in an organization that reveals and expose the companies&#8217; core of dysfunction and levels. These things show the power of greed, and because of this, competition and lack of integrity has occurred in companies. What are things we can learn from this?</p>
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<p>Sadly, in today&#8217;s management what is dominating is what we call &#8220;ego- driven&#8221; leadership. </p>
<p>Most people don&#8217;t actually know that those ego-driven leaders are dealing from insecurity and fear, as well as those at the top. Those leaders may think that they are powerful but the truth is there not.  They actually put border on the potential of the employees.</p>
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<p>It is the desire of a leader to create wealth and power, with the expense of others, ultimately, schemes, does not work as the recent fiasco illustrates. Leaders who are working this &#8220;artificial power&#8221; will never attain a lifelong success.</p>
<p>In order to market with integrity one should incorporate the following steps:</p>
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<p>1. Listen and create opportunities for your employees</p>
<p>2. Treat employees with honesty and respect.</p>
<p>3. </p>
<p>Make decisions that benefit all those people not just on top.</p>
<p>4. Provide training for marketing, communications, management and most of all customer service.</p>
<p>5. Make commitments to employees, customers and prospects; and keeping them.</p>
<p>6. Know the real source of self-esteem, and take charge to untie them.</p>
<p>7. Find out the self ambitious managers that could deplete the limit of creativity.</p>
<p>8. Look for a way to diminish the cliques, gossip, and personal agendas.</p>
<p>9. Show to your employees that you&#8217;re open for some new ideas, and that you&#8217;re willing to make changes.</p>
<p>10.  Allow your employees at all levels to show their potentials.</p>
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<p>Marketing with a high moral well always start at each individual by honoring themselves and others. But the money and time that you invested will surely comes back in triple. As what Mother Teresa have said, the greatest disease is not any physical ailment, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for meaningless reason.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sourcing Moral Silver Jewelry As a society we have a tendency to&#8217;re finally listening to the message regarding the importance of recycling. Dispatching waste to land fill is not extremely an appropriate follow and we are beginning to seek out ways that of re-using perfectly sensible materials when the first product is now not of [...]]]></description>
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 As a society we have a tendency to&#8217;re finally listening to the message regarding the importance of recycling. Dispatching waste to land fill is not extremely an appropriate follow and we are beginning to seek out ways that of re-using perfectly sensible materials when the first product is now not of any use. The same can be said for silver jewellery. The availability of recycled silver jewellery is growing and as interest in all things recycling does too, the merchandise vary will steadily increase.</p>
<p>How moral is recycled silver jewelry?<br />
Will recycled silver jewelry itself ever be really moral if we tend to&#8217;re unclear regarding the original source? Well, as a metal, silver is moral in that it&#8217;s rarely thrown away since the silver business has invariably recycled. Silver will be successfully melted down and used again several times over and consequently it&#8217;s deemed ethical by the business as a result of of this. The &#8216;moral silver&#8217; discussion so moves to the procedure for obtaining the metal out of the ground initially.</p>
<p>Shut to at least one third of all silver comes from silver mines though the majority is as a byproduct of mining different precious metals like copper, gold and zinc. This sort of mining is one in every of the planet&#8217;s most environmentally harmful industrial sectors using around 10 per cent of world energy, not to say all the harmful emissions, landscape damage and human rights issues.</p>
<p>Locating ethical sources for silver could be a heap more difficult than with diamonds or gold. The supply channels are rare if almost non-existent. Eighty per cent of gold mined annually will become jewelry that makes it a fascinating target for moral shopper campaigns. Not therefore with silver. Only twenty five% of silver turns into jewellery or silverware, the rest is utilized in electrical products such as plasma screens and X-ray equipment or the fabrication of solar cells.</p>
<p>Till certification is introduced and mines and producers satisfy criteria for the accountable sourcing of silver, what are we in a position to try to to in our endeavours to be &#8216;moral&#8217; concerning getting silver jewelry?</p>
<p>Purchase UK made recycled silver jewelry<br />
While the campaigns for ethical mining gain traction, as customers, one among the best efforts we have a tendency to can build would be to buy jewellery from a vary created using recycled silver from unwanted silver items that are melted down.</p>
<p>We have a tendency to can also purchase from UK suppliers that have sourced recycled silver pendants, earrings and necklaces that are hand crafted in this country. During this approach, we reduce the environmental effect of manufacturing and transportation and we have a tendency to conjointly place less emphasis on requiring new silver from the mining method, that subsequently puts pressure on the silver trade to mine in an ethical and responsible way.</p>
<p>There are many things that are potential at a click nowadays, due to the services of the internet. But together with this, there are a variety of risks and crimes connected to the net that have currently increased and one amongst the most serious ones is hacking.</p>
<p>Hacking refers to entering laptop systems of firms in order to urge information. This is illegal and dangerous to the company and all the data that is kept with the corporate records. In order to forestall such an intrusion, corporations are now appointing professionals who are consultants in preventing hacking and these professionals are called white hat hackers or moral hackers. This can be why hacker training is becoming thus popular.</p>
<p>Significance of programming in developing certified ethical hacker coaching skills<br />
The most functionality expected out of a one who is undergoing ethical hacker training is to check the data system of an organization to test if there are any flaws in the system and conjointly to check if there are any viruses. The certified professional is also expected to seek out solutions and make necessary changes thus that penetration into the system isn&#8217;t possible by any unauthorized person. So as to be a successful moral hacker the person taking the ethical hacker coaching wants to have some skills.</p>
<p>One among the foremost vital skills is the data of programming skills. A one that aims at getting certified ethical hacker coaching needs to have data of programming languages like Java, C++, Perl, Python and Lisp. If you simply starting afresh, then it&#8217;s a smart option to find out Python initial as a result of it is straightforward to find out and simpler compared to the opposite programs. After you learn this program you&#8217;ll be able to go on to be told Lisp, Perl, Java and C.</p>
<p>Other needed skills<br />
Aside from the above mentioned skills there are some other skills that need to be picked up as a half of honing imparted certified ethical hacker training skills. One in all them is learning and understanding UNIX. This can be terribly vital as a result of it&#8217;s the very basis of the internet and while not learning this operating system, rewriting and modifications aren&#8217;t possible. The best manner of learning it&#8217;s by practicing on the Linux or UNIX that&#8217;s on your own computer. The following ability is to be told HTML that is very important in ethical hacker training.</p>
<p>If you would like to own hacker coaching the information of how to write down HTML programs may be a necessity. In order to perceive all this and to form the ethical hacking training effective it&#8217;s necessary to be fluent in English too. This is as a result of all the resources that are offered during this regard are accessible in English and if you are not fluent within the language then no quantity of training will build you an expert. Also you need to develop a habit of reading and gathering information from the web as a result of the additional informed you are the better. There are various institutes that train people however a ton of labor and analysis desires to be done on your own. </p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Moral Political Debate I am struck at the lack of substantive issues being put forth in the debates and on the campaign trail. Oh, yes, they are talking about the economy, terrorism and tax policy. But where is the discussion of moral politics? The difference is so clear between these two candidates when we examine [...]]]></description>
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<p>I am struck at the lack of substantive issues being put forth in the debates and on the campaign trail. Oh, yes, they are talking about the economy, terrorism and tax policy. But where is the discussion of moral politics? The difference is so clear between these two candidates when we examine the heart issues, Take abortion. McCain is pro-life. Obama is not only pro-choice (above his pay grade) , but would kill a human being born alive on a botched abortion. That is murder. And Obama stands by partial birth abortion, again, murder. And how about the judges each will appoint. This is perhaps the greatest legacy any president leaves. So, do we want Ginsbergs and Souters or Roberts and Alitos? Finally, we need to know that our president knows right and wrong, good and evil. McCain has no trouble defining and seeing either. Obama stutters around these heart issues. </p>
<p>On what basis does each candidate decide these issues, absolute truth or relativism?</p>
<p>The economy is in shambles, to be sure. But, the question is: Who has the moral underpinnings to lead us? We are on a precipice. It will take a person with proven moral integrity to stand on the edge and keep us from going over. We cannot turn our backs on the moral issues as we face an uncertain world in chaos. In times of chaos people want strong, clear, moral courage and leadership. Why did the churches fill up after 911? And in Bush&#8217;s finest hour, he showed the moral compass and courage our nation needed. We are here again.</p>
<p>The lines are clear, the real issues at hand, but no one will speak them forth. Please, John and Sarah, turn the campaign to these issues and highlight the line drawn in the sand. America is looking for moral leadership in uncertain economic times. Please!</p>
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