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Jon Loew discusses the Good Samaritan LAW…

Austin Tang — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 18:29:51 +0000

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Here is some background on the Good Samaritan Law from Wikipedia.

Good Samaritan laws offer legal protection to people who give reasonable assistance to those who are, or whom they believe to be, injured, ill, in peril, or otherwise incapacitated.[1] The protection is intended to reduce bystanders’ hesitation to assist, for fear of being sued or prosecuted for unintentional injury or wrongful death. An example of such a law in common-law areas of Canada: a good Samaritan doctrine is a legal principle that prevents a rescuer who has voluntarily helped a victim in distress from being successfully sued for wrongdoing. Its purpose is to keep people from being reluctant to help a stranger in need for fear of legal repercussions should they make some mistake in treatment.[2] By contrast, a duty to rescue law requires people to offer assistance and holds those who fail to do so liable.
Good Samaritan laws may vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, as do their interactions with various other legal principles, such as consent, parental rights and the right to refuse treatment. Most such laws do not apply to medical professionals’ or career emergency responders’ on-the-job conduct, but some extend protection to professional rescuers when they are acting in a volunteer capacity.
The principles contained in good Samaritan laws more typically operate in countries in which the foundation of the legal system is English common law, such as Australia.[3] In many countries that use civil law as the foundation for their legal systems, the same legal effect is more typically achieved using a principle of duty to rescue. There is more on Wikipedia.

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Jon Loew discusses the Good Samaritan LAW and being a Volunteer Fireman…

Austin Tang — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 17:29:21 +0000

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Jon Loew is a man who sees a need that must get filled for the betterment of society and jumps in. We hear about his Volunteer Firefighter pursuit and an IMPORTANT GOOD SAMARITAN LAW FOR ALL.

Note: Please consider becoming a volunteer fireman/firewomen in your community.

Here is some background on the Good Samaritan Law from Wikipedia.

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Dear Friends,

admin — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 15:09:59 +0000

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ALL the Best,

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Your Pot Habit Is Contributing to a Guacamole Crisis

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2015 21:45:08 +0000

As California faces severe water shortages and farmers let their groves go fallow, a study finds that marijuana growers are sucking streams dry.
News on Wednesday that California’s snowpack has hit a record low of just 6 percent of normal means next-to-no spring runoff will flow into streams and reservoirs that supply water to the cities and farmers who feed much of the nation.
But before you light up a (legal) marijuana cigarette to take your mind off impending doom, consider this: With every puff you take, you could be making the epic drought even worse.
A new study finds that pot growers in the Northern California weed belt are diverting 100 percent of the water in some streams to irrigate their cash crops.
“Last summer, we went out and picked a handful of streams in the study area, and we looked at real-time stream flow,” said Scott Bauer, an environmental scientist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Four out of those five streams went dry.”
A Humboldt County, California, pot farm.
That means no water for endangered salmon and other wildlife, not to mention people. Some avocado growers, for instance, are letting their groves go dry because of water shortages and the high price of irrigation. In other words, kiss your guacamole goodbye.
Agency scientists focused on illegal pot operations in Humboldt County, the epicenter of California’s marijuana industry. Greenhouses dot the hillsides, and the pot plants inside are thirsty: Each uses about six gallons of water per day, compared with the 3.3 gallons wine grapes consume.
Wildlife officials started receiving calls about stream diversion in 2009, said Bauer, who is based in the Humboldt town of Eureka. “A number of us started going out with game wardens called out to grow sites and our focus was to document the environmental damage,” he said.
The scientists noticed significant problems—stream diversion, hillsides graded to make level growing fields, and dirt being dumped into waterways.
“We started to realize this was a real problem,” said Bauer.
In 2012, as the drought began to take hold, the researchers used Google Earth to count all the plants and figure out how many are in greenhouses, and to compare the number of plants with stream flow data.
They chose four areas, all surrounded by forests, and all with streams containing endangered salmon. The scientists estimated that the growing operations were using between 138,200 and 191,265 gallons of water a day. People in Northern California, for comparison, use an average 172 gallons of water per day per person.
Marijuana growers were taking 100 percent from three of the streams studied and 25 percent of a fourth stream.
Those streams aren’t just picturesque—they’re critical to the survival of the coho and Chinook salmon and steelhead trout.
Will there be a movement for sustainably grown pot?
“I think if people understand what’s going on, hopefully they’ll asking questions about how green is their product,” Bauer said. “If they’re concerned about our state’s natural resources, they should be asking those questions. Is this something that isn’t harming California’s resources?”

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Peter Friedman, Social Media Handbook

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 19:10:04 +0000

• How to Respond to Negative Social Commentary…without Pissing More People Off
• How to Become the Starbucks of the Internet:A Guide to Great Social Content: In social media, customer relationships are built and culture evolves through brand-guided content, conversation, and moderation.
• Wargaming: How to Protect Yourself from Unexpected Blowback When You Launch Your Next Social Campaign
• The Five Questions You Should Answer Before Responding Publicly to a Social Media Crisis
• The Art of the “Pause Post”: Rescue Your Brand from Social Media Crisis
• Socializing the Brand: Introducing the Socialized Brand, which builds brand experience (and loyalty) through guided social conversations with customers, thereby requiring a mindset shift from control to collaboration.
• Legal and Privacy Issues: Social media brings new opportunities, but also new risks. We lay out the issues so that you can make informed decisions and mitigate risk.

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