Practicing etiquette is about valuing and showing respect for others and living with integrity. The majority of us do not live in bubbles and it is imperative that we learn to live peacefully amongst each other. We must teach our children that grievances are bound to come up and when they do people must be treated with dignity and respect.  The complainant is obligated to address his concerns in terms of how he feels and not what others should do to make him feel pacified.  “You hand over that melon to me now!”

Recently a situation arose that demonstrates this point precisely.  I felt compelled to write a letter to our neighborhood board of directors after an older neighbor made a rude remark, about families with children, at a community board meeting. (I have changed the names in the letter.)

Letter to the Board:

“It was with great sadness that I read the comment, “People with children would be better off choosing to live in other neighborhoods like River Trail.” printed on page 18 of The Woodbury Word May 2009 edition. The neighbor making this hurtful statement was commenting at a Board of Director’s meeting, to a young family’s request to place a swing set unobtrusively in their back yard following our development’s deed restrictions. The family is new to our neighborhood…welcome. ”

I remember the joy that my husband and I felt building our home here in Woodbury seven years ago. We chose our lot, cabinets, front door, countertops, and tile with our eight week old baby cooing in our laps trying to envision our little boy growing up in our beautiful new home. He took his first steps, spoke his first words, learned how to ride his bike and welcomed his little brother home from the hospital all here in this community that we handpicked for him.

The intolerance that this neighbor displayed is deplorable. This is not a 55+ community and unless the deed restrictions change I don’t see it becoming one soon. It is my hope that we are raising our children in a community of tolerance and respect that upholds our deed restrictions and the true spirit of community, did we make a mistake?  Imagine the outcry if someone at a board meeting spoke up and suggested that African Americans, Jews or Hispanics should be sent off to other neighborhoods?

I know that the vast majority of our neighbors are warm and loving people who only want the best for their neighbors. However it can be the mean spirited acts of a few that destroy the warmth of community for the whole. I know that my husband and I will do our best to uphold and pass on to our children the true meaning of valuing others. I hope that when we joyfully add one more baby to this community in August she will be given the dignity, respect, tolerance and acceptance that she and all of Our children deserve.

The man who made the inflammatory comment made an enormous manners gaff.  It was his expectation that the needs and rights of others should be ignored to make his life better.  His suggestion that specific home owners should pick up and leave their homes because he feels bothered, is just plain rude.  His lack of manners shows an ill regard for the basic tenets of a peaceful society.

Etiquette rules are the glue that holds a civil society together.  If we want to live in a culture of peace, tolerance, and respect, basic manners must always be practiced. Starting with the fundamentals like please and thank you and moving to civil conflict resolution prepares children to behave appropriately as adults. Children must be taught early and adults must remember that ignoring these rules is tantamount to anarchy.

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Let me once more delve into the civil society unrest so paramount in the Guinea today before corroborating it with election. It is said of recent that it is only the man with solution that can be in the position to bring about a change in the system. The dwindling state of affairs in the country in question ranging from bad governance, dictatorship, poverty, oppression and civil unrest is a resultant effect of the above saying. When the man in power is wrong or in a dictating form, every other thing will align to the same form.

Once upon a time, in December 2008 when the city of Guineans enters the state of deadlock following the assumption and enthronement of an officer of military face and colour. The man appeared to be Captain Moussa Dadis Camara as the President of the said state. My story goes through September 2007 and 2009 another level of chaos was witnessed by the State. Thus pushing this great country into a state of perfidy. Subsequently, all these atrocities are committed without recourse to the United Nations Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms by Law Enforcement officials in dispersing protesters in any country.

It is now being reported that one hundred and one of organizations condemned the mishandling of protesters in the city of Guinea. But all things being equal, Albert Einstein have once quoted and I paraphrase him as saying that evil triumph because good men do nothing to forestall evil. Let the Guineans, French and both the regional and international civil society not appear to be only talking tall without an equivalent action for eradicating evil.

Now it is being suggested and recommended as urging the two presidential candidates to walk the path of peace and enthronement of democratic values and norms into the fabric and garments of the Guineans. I think it is high time and in ongoing presidential election for the contenders and the masses especially the military to see this as birth of democracy in the country. While the past starting from the December 2008 event to date as the gestation period of democracy into their dear country. The reason being that it is only the man who have the solution must be in the position to rule. Look out for a closer article to this in my subsequent posts.

Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kingsley_Eze_O.

We all know the importance of domain names. The entire Internet is built around them. What you may not know as I didn’t until I did this Millionaire Society review, is that the number of new domain names registered each year is 47 and a half million and 42 and a half million domains are transferred to new owners. The concept of this system is to teach its members how to profit from the sale of domain names. Bye low and sell very high, a technique called flipping.

The system sells for a limited time for $97. Interestingly if you try to click away from the sales site a pop up comes up offering you a special $20 off one time deal, for a total cost of $77. You can draw your own conclusions about this over used sales technique.

The system includes:

* An intensive 7 module online video training program.
* Access to over 43 professional training videos.
* Access to support staff.
* Free updates for life.
* Access to Macks roller Dex and all his contacts.
* Priority access to MS and custom built proprietary software and automated tools.

After doing my Millionaire Society review I’ve concluded that this is a legitimate business opportunity. If you were to learn all the material contained in the 7 training modules, you should have an in-depth understanding of how to make money flipping domain names. The problem is most people are not willing to put the time into learning things such as domain flipping.

If you are the type of person that will put consistent persistent effort into learning new tasks such as domain flipping or Internet marketing in general, sky is the limit for the success you can achieve.

Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Evan_DuChene

It seems like 2008 is becoming the year of global crisis. First we were faced with the worldwide food crisis, swiftly followed by, what now seems to be, a collapse of major financial institutions.

But it might not stop here. As FAO, the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, calculated the cost to deal with the current food crisis at US$30 billion per year, donors stepped up their financial support.

But that was before the current financial crisis. At this moment, the governments worldwide concentrate their financial resources in keeping their banks and financial institutions afloat:

* The Belgian, French and Luxembourg governments put in US$9 billion to keep Dexia afloat.
* Previously Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg put up US$16.1 billion to save the Fortis bank.
* Britain is working on a US$87.7 billion bank recapitalization concentrating on Barclays, HSBC and the Bank of Scotland.
* Spain announced a US$40.9 billion fund to buy up bank assets and maintain liquidity
* Sweden is given Iceland’s biggest bank, Kaupthing, an emergency loan worth up US$702 million) to help keep it afloat.
* Germany has thrown a US$50 billion lifeline to struggling lender Hypo Real Estate.
* Italy is about to set up a rescue fund close to US$30 billion for the banking industry.
* Canada gave a US$25 billion “backstop” for there banks.
* Russia pledged to boost liquidity by more than US$100bn, on top of a US$5.4 billion loan to Iceland
* And of course we all know about the $700 billion monster US bailout

Apart from the fact that economists doubt the effectiveness of bailouts, we might be facing the early beginning from a real 1930’s style recession. If the consumers’ confidence in the banks is not restored, governments can bailout all they want, up to the level where they bankrupt themselves. Like in Iceland, where the country declared anything short of a national bankruptcy…

Any money left for international aid?

The end balance? During the food crisis, donor countries already stepped up their extra-budgetary funds to come to the rescue of aid organisations “on the occasion of the food crisis”, but now are faced with the a massive cash drain bailing out their own financial institutions.

At the same time, poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America, which are already dealing with a surge in food and energy prices, are now finding it harder to sell goods abroad and encourage investment in their own economies.

The question now is: how much money will be left for international aid?

This week, amidst the financial turmoil, world leaders met to review the progress of the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). These are intended to reduce extreme global poverty and, improve health and education. It was stressed that development aid needed to increase by $18 billion each year towards fulfilling the goals. At the end of the event, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that an additional US$16 billion had been pledged by governments to meet the targets of the MDGs. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in his address to the UN, went on to say that the financial crisis should not be an excuse to cut aid.

The “Humanitarian Doomsday scenario” – the first signs

Many of us, in the aid organisations, are not that optimistic as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon:

Journalist Andrew Stroehlein, the Director of Media and Information for the International Crisis Group, states it bluntly: “I might as well just pack up and go on holiday for a few months. With the global financial crisis continuing, no one wants to hear about violent conflict and mass atrocities around the world”.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, just wrapped up its annual refugee conference and it is concerned its needs may not be met because of the global financial crisis.

“The financial turmoil rippling across the globe will set back efforts to fight climate change, drying up capital that could help poorer countries upgrade to clean energy technology”, said Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the U.N. climate secretariat, adding: “You can’t pick an empty pocket”.

Will the global financial crisis also cause a global humanitarian crisis? Time will tell, but it looks like it. As history showed, the poorest of the world always pick the shortest straw.

Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Peter_Casier

This intermediate value is then divided by (community population divided by 100) to gain a monthly ‘adjusted celiac search’ value. That is, assuming that that the average celiac rate is approximately 1 in 100 people (diagnosed and undiagnosed), this hypothetical value estimates on average, if all celiacs searched for gf products, how many times they searched for them each month. Note that as diagnosis in advanced countries may be as low as 20%, the actual number of times internet using celiacs currently search may be five times as much as the estimates predict!

To assist analysis, gluten related search terms were divided into seven groups as shown below. Only the top 50 terms were used for detailed statistical analysis, but in most cases, these fifty terms represent 95% of all terms.

Gluten Group Composition:

* Generic GF Product: This group of search terms all involve the word gluten and are generic in nature, such a gluten, gluten free, gluten free products, gluten free meals. This group is also segmented into core and non-core terms. Core terms are those shown above, while non core terms are those such as: gf breakfast, gf snacks, gf desserts, gf gifts.
* Diet: These are terms that are related to the specifics of gluten free diets such as: gluten free diets, celiac diet.
* Recipe: Terms such as recipes, baking, wheat free baking
* Celiac related: These are terms related to information on the disease such as: celiac, celiac disease, gluten intolerance, allergies
* Wheat free: Terms such as: wheat free, wheat gluten, wheat allergy
* Locations: gluten free stores, shopping, restaurant
* Specific Foods:bread, pizza, cakes, muffins

A summary of the ‘adjusted celiac searches per month’ ratings of specific communities for Dec 2008 were:

4.2 Australia 2.7 USA 1.9 China English speaking 4.9 China Traditional 2.0 China Simplified 1.6 India English 1.0 India Hindu 5.5 Indonesia English 1.0 Indonesia Indonesian speaking 1.3 Japan English 1.4 Japan Japanese speaking 6.7 Singapore English speaking

GFP Matrix ASIA SUMMARY

Overall, the control groups, USA and Australia, remained higher search countries than the highest ‘raw searches per population’ countries of the Asian countries analysed, except for the Singapore English speaking community. Singapore has one of the best telecommunication systems in Asia and its internet penetration is similar to the US and Australia. It is believed that of those people who do search on the internet in Singapore, they search long and hard for what they want. With this high search level, the searches conformed to GFP Matrix conditions that suggest that high raw search communities have a high proportion of generic searches. In this case, 65% of all searches were in the generic group of which 85% were core searches. As per the GFP Matrix trend, the ‘celiac’ group was also high. Its eleven terms and 8% of top 50 searches was only 2% behind the second highest group ‘diet’.

In statistical terms, China traditional language, and Indonesia English speaking communities are called ‘outliers’. That is, most other data points fit a linear relationship between raw searches and adjusted celiac searches, except for these two communities. The common trait of these two communities is that they have very large populations and very low internet penetration and low Gross Domestic Product per person (associated with low wage and lower standards of living). This might typically suggest that these communities would have a low celiac diagnosis rate – however it is likely that any English speaking community in any under developed country, is likely to have more affluence and access to better medical facilities than the main population. If we assume that the resulting high celiac searches are correct, then clues to why this is so can be found in detailed analysis of the communities.

China (Traditional Chinese speaking) had a massive 2.6 million searches. This is similar to the US but China has a much lower internet penetration, resulting in a higher celiac search estimate. The typical high celiac search community has a high generic gluten search proportion of the top 50, whereas ‘China traditional’ has only 38% of volumes. However, it does follow the trend of having the ‘celiac group’ as the second highest search group (30%). So it would appear that ‘China traditional’ genuinely has a high celiac search community. The rise of the Chinese economy, particularly in the large cities is likely to have spawned a community hungry for information and funds to seek medical facilities and buy gluten free products.

The ‘Indonesia English speaking’ community had a relatively low search volume of 325 thousand terms, however with only an 11% internet penetration this gives the community a celiac search rating of 5.5 searches by celiacs per month. The search group profile is non typical of high search countries. A relatively low generic group and the highest group ‘celiac’ used non-standard search terms. ‘Wheat free’ was also non-typically very high (16%). With ‘gluten free pizza’ being the highest specific food search, it appears that this community is more affluent than the indigenous community and has higher searchers. But they also use non-standard search terms as the Indonesian gluten online supply side is likely to be quite undeveloped.

All of the other Asian communities analysed were found in the very low search are of 1 to 2 adjusted celiac searches. Surprisingly Japan, (English and Japanese speaking) communities, were also found here. While they have slightly one of the larger raw gluten search volume values compared to all other Asian communities, their adjusted celiac search values are still only around 60% of the US and less than half of Australia’s. This could be caused by their predilection towards rice dishes and fish foods that don’t involve gluten. Japan English speaking had a low 100 terms and 187 thousand searches with the top four groups having similar search volumes around 18%. The very high searches for ‘gluten free restaurants’, and high ranking for the ‘celiac group’ suggests that there is an even spread between new diagnosed and sophisticated searchers.

Specific food terms of cakes, corn and muffins rather than food staples also suggest that Japan’s Japanese speaking people have risen above the need to find or make food staples such as bread. While the Japanese speaking community had double the searches of the English speaking community, they were located in virtually the same spot on the GFP matrix. The main difference was that its search profile was completely different. The Japanese speaking searchers spent 43% of their 391 thousand searches looking for specific gluten free foods. The top specific searches were: cake, pizza, casein, cookies, chocolate and beer. Again, these are the hallmarks of sophisticated searchers in an affluent society.

The lowest ranking communities were India (English and Hindu), Indonesia (Indonesian speaking), and China (English and Simplified Chinese language). These countries all share the similarity of being very large, having a low economic status and being predominantly non English speaking with low internet penetration.

Specific information is provided on these communities in the individual community analysis. However it might just be that like Japan, these countries have a low amount of gluten in their diet and this may also be a reason for low or non-triggering of celiac disease issues. That is aligned to the theory that it is an continued ‘overdose’ of high gluten foods that triggers celiac disease in the first place in many developed nations peoples.

Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Bruce_Dwyer