Month: December 2017

Public Request for Changing the Draft Welsh Language Law

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A group consisting of 14 different organisations has come together to publish an open letter to have changes made to the draft Welsh language law.

The group wishing to make changes to the Welsh language law include Wales’ own teachers’ union (Undeb Cenedlaethol Athrawon Cymru), language expert professor Colin Williams, the womens voluntary group Merched y Wawr, as well as the Friends of the Earth Cymru. The open letter was addressed to the current Heritage Minister Alum Ffred Jones.

In the letter, the group complained that the Welsh national language is facing threats from many directions. They are asking the Welsh government to make changes to the draft Welsh language law so that it delivers an unambiguous statement that the Welsh language is the official language in Wales.

The proposed new language law was published by the assembly government back in March 2010. The Welsh language law is drafted in such a way that it places certain duties on some businesses to provide their services in the Welsh language if the service is provided in Wales. Businesses most likely to be affected are telecommunication providers, gas suppliers and electricity providers. Under the new language law, these companies will face sanctions such as fines if they fail to meet the required standard of language service delivery.

The proposed law will also scrap the existing Welsh Language Board and replace it with the post of a Welsh Language Commissioner. Although the Assembly government has made clear that the law is still in its drafting stage, it has attracted a lot of criticism from local academics arguing that the Welsh language is going to be marginalised under the new rules. Their main argument stems from the fact that the proposed law does not create a clear linguistic rights or any statement that pronounces the Welsh language as the official language of Wales. Furthermore, the new post of Welsh Language Commissioner is not independent because the commissioner is accountable to the government.

The 14 organisations open letter is also hugely influenced by a series of events that have taken place over the past few years. First, the cutting of budget on S4C, the Welsh television channel that broadcasts from the capital Cardiff. Secondly, the Assembly government stopping its translation service from English to Welsh for all its record of proceedings. Thirdly, Welsh medium education in the capital city Cardiff is limited. Fourthly, Bethan Wyn Jones, a patient who was told that her consent for endoscopy was not valid because it was signed in Welsh language form. The doctor told her that she must sign the English form in order to be valid and legal. Therefore, Welsh language lobbyists are outraged by the fact that the Welsh language is perceived by doctors to be unofficial. In fact, the Welsh form is as legal as any English form would be.

The group perceives these events as a series of threats to the very survival of Welsh language. So, the Welsh Assembly now has their work cut out before them to ensure that their constituents are going to be happy on the next revision of the language law draft.

Fixing The House Or Breaking The Law The Scoop On Hiring An Illegal Maid

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An illegal immigrant is a person who has crossed a national border in any manner that violates the laws of immigration. People do this for a variety of reasons. Some feel this is their way out of poverty. They come to the United States to look for work. You may come across someone like this who seems to need your help. Perhaps you are looking for an affordable way to keep your home clean. You may consider the possibility of hiring an illegal immigrant as a maid. In that scenario, it would seem that both parties have something to gain.

Is it Wrong to Hire an Illegal Immigrant Maid?

On one hand, seeing a person in a desperate situation can naturally make a person want to help. The person may be very nice and just in a bad predicament. Your job offer could help feed this person’s family. Another reason people may wish to hire an illegal immigrant as a maid is to possibly get the labor for a lower amount than they would normally pay, because an illegal immigrant will not report them for substandard pay due to having an illegal status.

On the other hand, when considering whether or not to hire an illegal immigrant maid, it is important to remember that there are consequences that can go along with offering that help. Consider the fact that if you do, you could possibly be charged with a felony.

An alternative does exist in encouraging this person to apply for the guest worker program, which, if approved, would allow an illegal immigrant to remain legally employed without the risk of deportation. The guest worker program is a way for illegal immigrants to temporarily remain in the U.S. for employment purposes. Qualifying for the guest worker program will take away the risk of deportation.

Legalities

As mentioned on FairUS.org, knowingly encouraging or harboring an illegal alien, by assisting him or her in finding work or by providing employment, is a violation of federal law. Employment is defined as any service or labor. Is a maid considered an employee? The answer is not simple. Some may consider maid services to be domestic services.

According to The Boston Globe, a border protection chief is facing criminal charges for hiring illegal immigrants as maids. Perhaps a solution for him before hiring these maids could have been to encourage the illegal immigrants to apply for the guest worker program. If they had been approved, they could have been legally employed by him.

Stop Blaming And Learn How The Law Of Karma Works To Accept Responsibility

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The law of karma is very simple and has been known for thousands of years. The law of Karma is known in Christian teachings, as well as in many other cultures. It says: “Whatever you do to others will be done to you, in this or any future incarnation of your soul”.

This law is so straightforward and logical, it sometimes is hard to believe, that some persons still think they may somehow get around it. If you knock your head against a wall, it is obvious, it may damage the wall and it may hurt your head. If you knock someone by physically fighting, you may cause harm, pain, injury to the person and the law of Karma requires you to experience the same pain. This is to have you learn to behave in a way that causes but pleasant experiences to others and yourself alike.

Whatever you do, you may attract persons around you, that have a same or similar Karma than you have. If you are of a physically fighting nature, you may attract such persons again and again. Until you start to become aware of your own behavior and start to be fed up with the result of your very own actions. Until you start to strive for a more peaceful environment. The only sure method of finding one is changing your very own behavior.

The law of karma applies for individuals as much as for families, villages, nations, cultures or even entire planets.

The karma law applies for all you do toward any being including animals, nature or any beings of any nature beyond physical sphere, humans, including what some may consider “criminals” – remember: All are children of God, made out of his Holy Spirit, made to the image of God. God is Love means you too are supposed to be loving to all. All your actions, all of your words, all of your thoughts, all of your fantasies are subject to the law of karma!

If you start to analyze your past, you may easily recognize that anything painful happening to you was nothing else but what you have done in one way or another to someone else before. The way you broke up with an ex partner, the way you quit a job, the way you lied to a loved ones to obtain a favor you may have lost later on. All such painful experiences have their roots in your self created karma. Karma created in earlier days or years or karma from earlier incarnations. Karma never expires. However karma can be dissolved in love by learning from own mistakes and correcting mistakes made. A sincere remorse, a sincere feeling sorry for pain caused and a solid commitment to correct and convert to loving and happy making actions and thoughts may help to dissolve existing karma and thus save you from further pain in your own life.

All your thoughts and emotions, all your fantasy are energy and are permanently radiating like a radio station. They do permanently affect your environment and its behavior. Some may radiate thoughts and feelings of Love, thus raising the vibration of their environment and be of a healing nature to others. Others may cause a kind of mental or emotional pollution to others, like a car may be able to do, or the chemical and some other Industries may still do.

Your thoughts and emotions, no matter how secret you may consider them do affect all others around you. Your thoughts affect all around you. Thoughts affect the behavior, the action and reaction toward you from your entire environment. Your thoughts and emotions are part of your aura and may affect those dear to you, like your family and friends, even when you are thousands of kilometers apart of each others. Even family members having “died” a long time ago, may still be affected by such radiation of your aura. To create loving reactions in your environment a loving mind control is utmost helpful to avoid violent reactions toward you.

Beware of all your thoughts and emotions as well as all your words and action, because they create a reaction in your environment toward you. Be prepared to receive the kind of energy you radiate from others. Be even prepared to receive physically what you radiated in your fantasy or mind. Because a thought of violence or punishment toward any other person may hurt them even more than any physical violence and may come back as a physical reaction toward you.

Grasping the Possibilities and the Law of Attraction

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Happiness, prosperity, and abundance these things you can easily have using the Law of Attraction. Some people might disagree because not everyone is a believer of the Law of Attraction. But most of the time and this has been proven, those who believe get the most out of life.

A lot of wealthy and successful people have attained their success using the Law of Attraction. What they have attained is also a possibility for you.

What Your Mind can Conceive and Believe, It can Achieve

If you would conceive and believe that happiness, prosperity, and abundance are things that you are capable of having, then nothing can stop you from having them. You create your own reality and you are the master of your own universe.

Believe in yourself and in the possibility that you can, be, do or have anything and everything you desire. Self-belief is one of the primary attributes that one must have in order to manifest their desires at will.

Imagine your mind as a magnet, and whatever you think of and focus on, you attract it just like how magnet attracts steel. Most of the time you only get in return what you put out.

If you are putting out sadness, you get it back. If you are putting out happiness, the feeling of being content, or just plainly the feeling of being at peace with yourself, you get that in return as well.

It Doesnt Matter Where You are From

When using the Law of Attraction, it almost does not matter where you are now or what your social standing is. Because from there, you can either choose to become lesser, or greater. If you want to have less, then go ahead and think of what you lack.

But if you want to become something great, tell that to the universe. Being great is not something that only a handful of people in this world could attain. It is something that each and everyone of us is entitled to achieve.

Confucius had said that “He who says he can, and he who says he cant, are both usually right.” So what stops you from believing? There is no reason not to believe that you have the capability of having what you want.

Other people have done it, other folks are doing it, now is the time for you to start believing that what you desire, however small or big that is, you have the power to manifest it into your reality.

Nothing is Unrealistic

If the Wright brothers had believed that throwing a piece of metal could never make you cross the ocean, they would have not invented the plane that had been the prototype of the jumbo jets that we use today.

You have to believe that something different from what has happened, in the previous years of your life, can happen. You have to be willing to accept change because it is you who are going to make that change.

Never let anyone tell you that you cant do something. They are blatantly wrong. You create your own reality, you define all the possibilities, and thats all that should matter.

Happiness, prosperity, and abundance are just a thought away if you believe in the Law of Attraction.

Create the Right Kind of Interest in Your Law Firm on the Internet

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In the pre-Internet age, it was difficult for law firms to publicize their services. State laws imposed strict limits on the way law firms were permitted to advertise, and even now, law firm websites have to publish disclaimers that they are providing marketing information only and not giving legal advice.

This gave law firms only a few options to market themselves. They could place their law firm’s name in the yellow pages or pay to be listed in the Martindale Hubbell, the famous encyclopedia of lawyers worldwide.

Law firms used to rely almost exclusively on their firm’s good reputation to draw in new business. Word of mouth recommendations by satisfied clients were key to a law firm’s survival. Famous litigators never lacked for clients because they would have newspaper or television coverage of their trials, but an average law firm with a clientele of low-profile companies would be off the radar.

Before law firms began developing their own websites, unless a potential client already knew about a particular law firm’s or a particular attorney’s expertise, they would have to consult with their friends and acquaintances, explaining the nature of their legal problem, and hope that the referral they received would be a good one. The bad news is that if a law firm neglects to create a quality website or does not bother to monitor the way its name comes up on the internet, there is a good chance that potential customers doing a web search on the law firm’s name could come up with information which may be detrimental to the client’s assessment of whether to engage the firm. If only for this reason, it’s crucial that a law firm pay attention to how they use the internet to market their services. Many law firms have links on their websites to articles about the particular legal issues that they specialize in, such as estate planning or immigration law. These articles can be the determining factor for potential clients in deciding to contact the firm.

A law firm website should list where each attorney holds their bar membership or other certifications.

Many larger law firms publish lists of representative corporate clients. In addition to demonstrating the breadth and quality of their law practice, this kind of listing also helps a potential client find out whether there might be a conflict of interest in their seeking to engage the law firm. Depending upon the kind of dispute and the size of the law firm, these conflicts often can be worked out by creating filewalls between the attorneys representing conflicting parties, but only if there is not a direct conflict.

It’s important to include information on the locations of any of the firm’s satellite offices. Potential clients who need a particular kind of legal representation will be more inclined towards a firm that has nearby offices even if the firm’s flagship office is in another state.

Law firms creating or updating their websites should highlight information that potential clients want to know, such as office locations and contact numbers, succinct information about their practice area expertise, and links to attorney biographies and informational articles about the practice.