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CORRECTION to recent post on CNN
Comments Off My recent blog entry on a geographical cockup by CNN’s Rick Sanchez drew a response from CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras. I have updated that blog entry to reflect that Ms. Jeras immediately corrected herself after agreeing with Sanchez that the Galapagos Islands were Hawaii. I guess I just can’t trust YouTube anymore. 
In any event, apologies to Ms. Jeras for any discomfort I caused her. As much as I hate to reinforce people for throwing around the L-word, if I made a mistake, I’m always willing to correct it.
Footer of the Day
Comments Off One of the blogs I regularly read is TJ McIntyre’s IT Law in Ireland. While I was admiring the recent face lift to the blog, I scrolled down and noticed the footer, which contains the Irish solicitor’s disclaimer:
This blog is not legal advice and the information provided is not warranted to be accurate, complete or up to date. The views expressed here are my own. May contain nuts.
That should cover everything.
7 Basics of Ethical Behavior
Comments Off Psychologist Ken Pope posted this to his mail list:
Melba Vasquez and I compiled the following list. We tried to come up with what we considered 7 of the most basic assumptions about ethics — about thinking through our ethical choices and deciding what to do.
We published the list in our first ethics book back in 1991 and have continued to present and discuss it in each edition up to the recent 3rd edition (*Ethics in Psychotherapy and Counseling: A Practical Guide*).
Here are 7 fundamental assumptions about ethics:
1) Ethical awareness is a continuous, active process that involves constant questioning and personal responsibility.
Conflicts with managed care companies, the urgency of patients’ needs, the lack of adequate support, the possibility of formal complaints, mind-deadening routines, endless paperwork, worrying about making ends meet, exhaustion, and so much else can block our personal responsiveness and dull our sense of personal responsibility. They can overwhelm us, drain us, distract us, and lull us into ethical sleep. Our work requires constant alertness and mindful awareness of the ethical implications of what we choose to do and not do.
Maintaining ethical awareness includes acknowledging and taking into account our very human lack of perfection. All of us have weaknesses, vulnerabilities, and blind spots. The dramatic differences are not so much between those who have many human imperfections and those who have few but between those who are freely open–to themselves and to others– about how their own short-comings affect their work, and those who tend to see others as inferior versions of themselves.
156 Countries Sing Together to Raise Money for AIDS in Africa
Comments Off From Starbucks, whose coffee I dislike immensely but who had a good idea here:
On December 7th, 2009 at 1:30pm GMT Starbucks invited musicians from all over the world to sing together at the same time to raise awareness for AIDS in Africa. In that one breathtaking moment, musicians from 156 countries played “All You Need is Love” together. Watch now, as musicians from all around the world come together and share a song.
Join in by lending your own voice to http://StarbucksLoveProject.com Watch streaming video from countries around the world and then join in by singing All You Need is Love yourself. For each video submitted, Starbucks will make a contribution to the Global Fund to help fight against AIDS in Africa. You can also help increase the Starbucks contribution to the Global Fund by submitting a drawing to the Love Gallery.
The global sing-along is part of our continuing efforts to help fight AIDS in Africa. In just one year in partnership with (RED)™, Starbucks has generated money equivalent to more than 7 million days of medicine to help those living with HIV in Africa.