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The togetherness that volunteers experience can unite their community, and naturally it will aid their local needy. But how do you actually schedule this? You’ll also discover that it’s simpler to get involved when a volunteer event has been organized for you.

Companies like Adaptive Marketing LLC, a firm from Connecticut that developed financial benefits programs including Credit Diagnosis (MVQ*CRDIAGNOSIS), are making themselves the organizing points which co-ordinate volunteer activity and help their employees make time for reaching out.

Such initiatives were always rare activities — in today’s world, so much more can be achieved. The employees of Adaptive Marketing have been given opportunities to get involved in a full range of community initiatives. Through central organization individual initiatives blossomed into larger events, with specific locations, times and dates made public early to help volunteers with their time management. Giving volunteers their say in what initiatives are available is also important. Companies providing this kind of service to their community like Adaptive Marketing, the developers of the membership program Credit Diagnosis (MVQ*CRDIAGNOSIS), offer their staffers a wide range of local events. There’s so much to be done; working with children and young adults, lending a hand to environmental programs, or improving the area’s aesthetic through arts and culture to name but a few. Adaptive Marketing’s staff members have so much to choose from that they’re sure to find a project they’ll enjoy participating in, making their time fun as well as effective. A regular addition to their schedule or a one-off event — these are the most likely ways for a business to organize this kind of volunteer initiative, possibly at a local school or the homeless shelter in town. What this means is if you’ve merely got enough time on hand to lend a hand with the public library’s used-book sale, it’s still possible to make a difference.

Business history is full of tales of companies finding ways of helping the people who live around them. The activities of those who work at Adaptive Marketing spread valuable good feeling in their home community. Something that volunteer drives are guaranteed to do is leave your workforce feeling good about themselves, which leads to a motivated firm. Organizing a drive to help employees become volunteers is beneficial to everyone involved.

Hair Drug Testing

Myths vs. Fact

Case Open: Hair drug testing is efficient, but not a popular variety of drug testing, because it is therefore pricy.

Case Closed: drug tests are so far more pricey rather than a commonurinalysis–we’re talking dollar bills to cents here–and is a younger form of drug testing, so most employers choose for a standard urine drug test. Psychemedics, the companythat creates hair drug tests in the United States, has been rather successful at depressing the cost and increasing cognisance, but a whole shift from urine to hairhas a long road in front of it.

Open: There is small difference of opinion between a urine drug test, and hair drug testing.

Case Closed: Quite untrue. A urine drug test is cleaner, cheaper, available, and at this place, an accepted course of drug testing. Hair drug testing is not as invasive–inducing it perfect for restricted areas of testing, such as student drug tests–than its counterpart.

Myths: Hair drug testing can find drug metabolite vulnerability and/or illicit drug use frommany ages past.

Reality: Indeed, hair drug testing will expose drug “use”–direct andindirect exposure–for up to seven years. The hair strand is analyzed akin tomeasuring the years of a tree by its internal ring structure. Body hair is likea Velcro for all things ingested from your diet, the air you breathe, and yes, to any banned substances. This is a great benefit of hair drug testing, butalso poses a greater intellectual dilemma: is vulnerability actual “use”?

Open: Hair drug testing can be overcome by trimming your head.

Truth: While continuing vacant of hair may seem to make good sense when posed witha drug test that utilizes hair as its specimen, alas for you, no, it won’t work.I mean, it’s not like you can go out, purchase a , shave your head, and pass hair drug testprotocols simply because your bald! The examiner will justclip body hair. There is no way to shave your way out of a hair drug test.

If the group Move America Forward has its way, come June 25th, you will not be able to see Michael Moore’s new film, Fahrenheit 9/11.

Why? Well, the main reason seems to be…we do not like what Michael Moore has to say about America. And, being freedom-loving Americans, we want to pressure movie theater chains not to screen the film.

Another question that comes to mind is, what the hell is Move America Forward? I know, I hadn’t heard of them, either, until recently. As I looked over their web site, the first thought that popped into my mind was: right-wing fascist nut cases. But that’s not fair. I’m not a psychologist or psychiatrist, so I’m not qualified to make judgments on the mental health of Move America Forward’s board of directors and staff.

Apparently, Move America Forward was created by the public relations firm Russo, Marsh and Rogers a month ago. The group’s web site says they are non-partisan, but a look through the names of the board of directors shows a group lacking anyone who is a Democrat or liberal. Among the members of the board are: Chairman Howard Kaloogian, Republican and former member of the California assembly; Conservative radio talk-show host Melanie Morgan, vice-chairman; and Executive Director Siobhan Guiney, described as “a legislative advocate fighting for the people against liberal corruption.” That sounds non-partisan.

I’m guessing Move America Forward’s definition of non-partisan is something along the lines of “all of us here are conservatives.”

Melanie Morgan appeared on the June 16 “Crossfire” to argue her group’s case against Michael Moore’s film. Which, by the way, she has not seen. There’s nothing like a good old-fashioned boycott based on not knowing anything about the source material.

Questioned by “Crossfire” co-host James Carville on not seeing the film, Morgan explained, “…I haven’t seen the film yet. And the reason I haven’t seen it yet is because the majority of America has not seen the movie, and the reason why the majority of America hasn’t seen the movie is because it’s only been screened for a handful of Hollywood liberals and elite media. But I have been able to discern from the footage and from the information that is available by transcript on the Internet what the true intentions of Michael Moore are.”

In addition to being conservative,
Morgan is also, apparently, psychic.

Move America Forward is employing an e-mail campaign to get people to contact the executives at movie chains and urge them not to show the movie. How come conservative groups are so quick to silence voices that speak out against the government? Shouldn’t the free market decide the success or failure of Moore’s film? Frankly, I do not need “non-partisan” conservatives deciding for me whether or not to see the film.

And what’s the compelling reason for the movie theaters not to show the movie? Melanie Morgan explained to James Carville: “What we are doing is trying to make sure that there is an alternative voice to Michael Moore. He has received millions of dollars and free publicity over the last free weeks about this movie, on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, you name it, he’s been everywhere…But not one single ordinary American has been able to stand up and say, ‘Hey, we don’t appreciate that crap that is being aimed at our troops because we support our troops, we love our troops, they’re friends, families, brothers and sisters, and we’re going to be there for them.’”

A pretty amazing analysis based on nothing, since Morgan has not seen the film, but has read articles in newspapers to really zero in on Michael Moore’s “true” intentions.

Also, does a movie really need an “alternative voice”? Isn’t that voice going to be provided by conservative talk radio, in conservative newspapers, and on conservative web sites, like World Net Daily or Free Republic? Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity combined have millions of listeners. Surely they will offer up that all-important alternative Morgan is complaining about. Also, why wouldn’t “ordinary” Americans be able to say they don’t like a movie they haven’t seen, or will see? You know they’re going to show up at the movie theaters with their signs and their rage at the “Bash America” filmmaker, Michael Moore, getting in the way of movie theater patrons who will use the power of their own brains to decide if Moore’s message is valid.

And Mike, well, I’ll bet he’s having a good chuckle over all of this attention, especially since Move America Forward’s efforts will result in increased ticket sales. There’s nothing like a good, pointless boycott of a film you’ve never seen that will result in more people seeing the movie than if there had been no boycott.

I know I’ll be there, joining up with my fellow “Blame America First” liberals, while Michael Moore laughs all the way to the bank. Well, Move America Forward, there’s always lots of books to boycott at the local public library, if the Michael Moore boycott doesn’t work out.

About the author: Scott C. Smith is a writer from Beaverton, Oregon. His column has appeared weekly at the Democratic Underground and other progressive web sites. In addition to his column, Scott writes for his web site, What’s In Scott’s Head, at www.scottcsmith.net. Scott is a proud member of the Blame America First crowd.

About the Author

Scott C. Smith is a writer from Beaverton, Oregon. His columns have appeared weekly at the Democratic Underground and other progressive web sites. In addition to his column, Scott writes for his web site, What’s In Scott’s Head, at www.scottcsmith.net. Scott is a proud member of the Blame America First crowd.