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Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you: words that are more important than ever.

Psychiatry & Society

H. Steven Moffic, MD, discusses the importance of the Golden Rule and other similar mantras to our current cultural situation.

To see the last video in this series, watch What About Love in the Workplace.

To see the latest in his column series, Psychiatry Views On The Daily News, see A Case Study of How to Prevent Burnout.

Dr Mofficis an award-winning psychiatrist who has specialized in the cultural and ethical aspects of psychiatry. A prolific writer and speaker, he received the one-time designation of Hero of Public Psychiatry from the Assembly of the American Psychiatric Association in 2002. He is an advocate for mental health issues relate to climate instability, burnout, Islamophobia, and anti-Semitism for a better world. He serves on the Editorial Board ofPsychiatric TimesTM.

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What About Love and the Golden Rule, the Platinum Rule, and the Walrus Rule - Psychiatric Times

Rabbi Michael Barclay| Special to Ventura County Star

Its a great thing for people to be passionate about their beliefs, and as Jews we are taught repeatedly of the importance of expressing our passions through words and actions.

But more importantly, we are given multiple examples of respecting the ones we disagree with to avoid societal and personal destruction. We may feel they are wrong, but they are not evil. This seems to be a teaching that has recently been lost, but must be regained if we are to again have a functional society.

The last seven months have been some of the most challenging for many people. Friends and families are being torn apart over issues of politics, immigration, economicsand especially mandatory vaccinations.

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Disagreements about how or what to do, and how and what others need to do are destroying long-term relationships as people stop viewing someone they disagree with as wrong, and now view them as evil.

If this doesnt change, then the politics and vaccinations will no longer matter as there will be no diverse society, no real sense of communityand ultimately, no unified nation, God forbid.

Nearly all cultures and faiths teach a version of The Golden Rule.Given that no one wants to be segregated and ostracized for their beliefs, it is imperative that we truly respect and honor each others beliefs and practices…as we would all want others to respect our own beliefs. To hate another and/or to segregate them for their beliefs leads to authoritarianism and a destruction of society.

There are passionate arguments on both sides of the mandatory vaccination issue. Both sides can show their scientific studies," their statistics, the potential dangers involved in vaccinating or not.

There are legitimate arguments for each individual to determine their own choice in their own life. But like all things, this pandemic will eventually pass; and we need to make sure that when it does, we have not destroyed relationships beyond repair.

I was recently asked for counsel by a man who will not vaccinate his children after evaluating the risks versus rewards for his childrens health. He is vaccinated and his wife is not, and they feel the risks for vaccinating children are too high given the low risk of the virus for children. But they have been ostracized not only from their circle of friends, but from their family.

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They have been castigated, abusedand even hated by other family members for their difficult choice. When the pandemic concern is over, how will these relationships ever be repaired?

How will he ever again be able to have a good relationship with his in-laws who have decried him as stupid," evil," and even a murderer?" How will his children ever be able to play with their cousins after those kinds of hate and degradation have been used?

Our Talmud teaches us repeatedly of how we should not inject personal vitriol into an argument. Love your neighbor as yourself;this is the great principle of Torah, Kedoshim. Matthew states ,Whatever you wish others to do to you, do also to them.

The great Rabbi Hillel taught, That which is hateful to you, do not to your fellow. That is the whole Torah, the rest is commentary."

Should we argue passionately for our beliefs? Absolutely.But if we hold hate in our hearts or attack the individual choices of others; if we segregate in any way those whom we disagree with; or if we forget the importance of long lasting relationships in favor of the short term issue, we will end up with a society of authoritarianism and divisiveness rather one of peace and joy.

May we all have the courage to stand for our beliefs, and the strength to remember the value of relationships over issues. And in these challenging times, may we all respect each others choices regarding politics, economicsand especially vaccinations never ostracizing another because they make a different choice than our own.

Rabbi Michael Barclay is the Spiritual Leader of Temple Ner Simcha and can be reached at Rabbi@NerSimcha.org. The Conejo Valley Interfaith Association meets monthly and welcomes clergy and representatives of all faiths.

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Interfaith: The Golden Rule and vaccinations - VC Star

There are bottlenecks everywhere. Chip shortages, missing workers, clogged ports, rising commodity prices, and yes (still), Covid-19. Theyre all disrupting or threatening to disrupt supply chains. For compliance officers, its a perfect storm.

Thats because shortages trigger bribery risks.

Since I started writing the FCPA Blog in 2007, Ive noticed this: Compliance problems often spring from industries that deal in scarce commodities whatever those happen to be. Everything from lumber to energy, from telecommunications licenses to access to hospital patients, and so on. Today, its logistics, raw materials, labor, and more.

Wherever buyers are scrambling for supply, sellers have opportunities to squeeze them. When energy prices rise, for example, corrupt oil-producing countries exert more leverage over foreign buyers. That scenario plays out in similar ways, in different industries, again and again.

After the 2008 market disruption (the credit crunch), a commodity in short supply was cash. Sovereign wealth funds had it, and banks needed it. Some of the banks succumbed to market pressures. They abandoned compliance to save their balance sheets. Just as the DOJ had predicted, a string of investigations resulted, and some enforcement actions.

How big a problem are todays supply chain disruptions? According to Bank of America, during this years Q3 earnings calls, mentions of supply chain issues were up 412 percent year-on-year.

CEOs are worried about chip shortages, cargo vessel bookings, clogged ports, energy prices, commodity supplies and pricing especially wood, paper, metals, food, and more. Theyre also concerned that Covid-19 will continue causing trouble for commerce.

During market disruptions like these, the golden rule is in effect. Those who have the gold (or, in this case, the wood, paper, metals, food, ships, energy, etc.) will make the rules. Or try to. Thats going to mean more demands for bribes.

Will companies pressured by supply chain disruptions give in and pay bribes? If history is a guide, some will.

That means whats most at risk of disruption is compliance itself.

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Nov 8th 2021

by Tom Nuttall: Berlin bureau chief, The Economist, Berlin

EUROPE RESPONDED to its financial crisis of 2010-12 with endless missteps. The euro zone agreed on punishing austerity as the price for rescue packages, and the European Central Bank raised rates at the worst possible moment. The result was a double-dip recession, drastic cuts in investment and, in some countries, sky-high unemployment, especially among the young. This time the reaction has been smarter. When covid-19 struck, the ECB ramped up its bond-buying and the EU suspended its fiscal rules, allowing governments to spend freely on furlough and other schemes.

The coming year will test just how much has changed. The first part of 2022 will see a bruising battle between EU governments over the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP), the EUs fiscal rulebook. Even before covid-19 the constraints of the SGP, drawn up in the 1990s, looked a poor fit for a world of low interest rates and pressing investment needs. Endless amendments had left a legal tangle only experts could understand. Now countries like Italy are shouldering debt burdens close to 160% of GDP. The existing rules, due to snap back in 2023, would theoretically oblige Italy to run primary budget surpluses worth five percentage points a yeara punishing form of austerity that defies common sense.

But governments must find common ground, and SGP reform is divisive. Opening the EU treaties to amend the pacts benchmark figures, which aim to limit governments fiscal deficits and debt stocks to 3% and 60% of GDP respectively, is unlikely. Countries like Italy and France will urge tweaks that could, for instance, ease the adjustment path for indebted countriesperhaps by giving governments a say in defining it themselves. To help meet the EUs Fit for 55 climate goals, some governments will push for a golden rule to exclude green spending from the deficit calculation.

The unanimity needed to change the EUs tax rules has often proved elusive

The EUs sluggish legislative procedures will not kick into gear in time to change the rules for 2023. In the meantime governments will need a steer from Brussels on whether their proposed budgets for that year will pass muster. The commission in turn will need to know that northern governments will not cry foul if it agrees to wink at rule-flouters. But several have already signalled they will play hardball. Nor will Germanys new coalition be minded to align with Europes south.

The debate will run amid risks to the recovery, including continuing supply-chain disruptions, to which countries with large manufacturing sectors like Germany are vulnerable. Pandemic-related travel and contact restrictions could curb growth further. Meanwhile the ECB will wind down parts of its stimulus in 2022.

Next Generation EU (NGEU), the EUs 800bn ($930bn) debt-funded investment plan, will pick up part of the strain. In 2022 the commission will disburse around 55bn in grants, with especially large sums channelled to Italy and Spain. More will come in 2023 and 2024. To repay the debt, governments will consider increasing the EUs own resources (common taxes), perhaps via levies on imports from countries without carbon pricing, or amendments to the EUs own emissions-trading scheme. But the unanimity needed to make such changes has generally proved elusive. That debate will kick off in earnest in 2022.

So will another. Brussels has long struggled to respond to member governments it thinks subvert the EUs legal order, such as Hungary and Poland. In 2022 it will raise the stakes by delaying payments from the NGEU or even the EUs regular budget. That will irritate governments who see Brussels Eurocrats as bullies and worry leaders who fret about EU unitybut reassure taxpayers elsewhere that they are not paying to undermine the club from within.

Tom Nuttall: Berlin bureau chief, The Economist, Berlin

This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition of The World Ahead 2022 under the headline Following the money

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Zions Bank Press Release

Theres likely no other banker in Castle Country whos helped more people with their banking needs or is more widely recognized than Erroll Holt.

When the long-time manager of Zions Bank in Price retires on Nov. 24, he will mark 45 years with Zions Bank all of it spent in Carbon and Emery counties. In his banking career, Holt has managed the Price, Castle Dale and Huntington branches. Hes also been an area president. And, for the past 21 years, hes supervised the Price office.

A public open house to celebrate Holts career will be held on Thursday, Nov. 18, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Zions Banks Price branch, 45 South Carbon Ave.

Holt joined Zions Bank in 1976. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in Okinawa, Japan, during the Vietnam War and then spending two years on a religious mission to the Navajo Nation, he had intended to study electrical engineering. But, with only $150 to his name, he didnt have the means to return to school. A friend from the Air Force connected Holt with a bookkeeping job at Zions Bank. The Pennsylvania native never looked back.

Among Zions Banks nearly 1,500 employees in Utah and Idaho, only two other bankers can claim the longevity of Holts career. He remembers a time when branch employees would hand stuff paper bank statements, when a chartered plane would pick up paperwork each night from the Price branch to bring back to Salt Lake City, and when the Huntington branch was housed in single-wide trailer. During the period when power plants were being built in the area, the Price branch got so busy that cars would line up for blocks up down the street.

Every Friday it was a mad house. People would call to see if there was a run on the bank, Holt recalled.

While technology has vastly changed the banking world, Holts approach to banking has remained the same.

You have to embrace the technology and at the same time maintain that philosophy of community banking and relationship-building throughout the process, he said.

Hes anchored his management in the golden rule treating others the way you would want to be treated and in Zions Code of Ethics, which calls not only for doing things right correctly, accurately, appropriately and within the law, but also doing the right thing.

Holt said the most rewarding part of his job has been the people, both the colleagues and clients, hes worked with over the years.

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Nose for News by Sarah Stultz

I have come across two things on social media this week that have been disappointing concerning our area youth.

The first was a social media account created to make fun of students of a political party and the second was a video of a student being physically assaulted and bullied in a bathroom at one of the schools.

I was saddened in both situations to see that students found bullying of their peers acceptable and that not just one, but many, were bystanders at minimum.

The social media account contained not a handful but 82 students who followed the user. The user asked the followers to submit people to post about.

With the incident in the bathroom, there were other students looking on watching and at least one person who was recording.

I am saddened that this type of behavior is happening amongst the youth in our community.

As I have thought about these two incidents, it makes me question whether we do a good enough job of teaching our children about the impact of their actions. I also question where these youth are learning this type of behavior and why they think it is acceptable.

Whatever happened to the Golden Rule?

I also reflected on the youth who are standing by as this behavior is happening. We must empower our youth to know that they can stand up for what is right and that if they are too afraid to do that themselves, that they should reach out to a trusted adult for intervention.

While I know that this problem does not apply to all of our youth there are many youth out there who are good examples of standing up for their peers and being inclusive for all it does seem to be an issue that needs to be addressed.

I hope that parents in our community will take a few minutes and talk about these two instances with their children. Use this as a teaching moment a chance for them to learn critical life lessons.

They must learn, if they dont already know, that this is not acceptable.

Sarah Stultz is the managing editor of the Tribune. Her column appears every Wednesday.

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Weve all been there before, bearing the brunt of a lack of boundaries at work. Youll clock out of a long shift, drive home via the drive-through for a good takeaway and assemble yourself in a nest of blankets. Finally, relaxation. Only to be interrupted by your phone buzzing on the table. Its your boss texting. How did the shift go? Did you put an order in for more stock before you left? Can you do this random task for me tomorrow that I definitely didnt need to message you about right now?

Suddenly, youre mentally back at work. And eventually, you notice that youre pretty much always there. Clocking off doesnt mean our brains switch off from the responsibilities of our workplace. Its easy to leave the building, but its difficult to stop thinking about work, whether its something we left half-done today, or what the workload will look like tomorrow.

And bosses texting you in the evenings and on your days off only reinforces that inability to properly escape.

It seems the pandemic only smudged the already blurred lines between work and home even more. The Office for National Statistics says during the first UK lockdown, 46.6% of people who were still employed (unfortunately, not everyone was so lucky) transitioned to remote working. Of those people, 86% did so as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving only 14% with prior, regular work-from-home experience.

Ive worked from home for the best part of four years, going from a full-time remote position to becoming a sole trader. I know the golden rules, the dos and the donts that make work from home life successful. But for those who had little more than a week to transition from full-time office boss to remotely trying to manage workers, a lot of guesswork (and serious trial and error) was involved. The pandemic took away the inherent control of having your employees work under your literal supervision. The result: everyone struggling with defining boundaries with their bosses.

Well, Portugal is the first country to put a stop to this serious lack of work-to-life balance, and the boundaries employers are so often missing.

Now, the government in Portugal has passed a law preventing too much communication between bosses and employees. The new regulation bans employers from texting employees after they sign off from work. If a boss does contact employees outside work hours, they could face a financial penalty, from a hefty fine to increased gas and electricity bills, according to Portugal's Socialist Party government.

Speaking at a tech conference in Lisbon last week, Ana Mendes, Portugals Minister of Labour and Social Security, said The pandemic has accelerated the need to regulate what needs to be regulated. The Portuguese government wants to encourage more remote teleworkers and theyve recognised the boundaries that employers of these jobs often lack.

Telework can be a 'game changer' if we profit from the advantages and reduce the disadvantages. We consider Portugal one of the best places in the world for these digital nomads and remote workers to choose to live in, we want to attract them to Portugal.

Not all of their proposals were passed through parliament, though. Campaigners had originally proposed a right to disconnect, meaning workers would be able to switch off their work devices when necessary. This particular rule was not approved.

But despite that shortfall, Portugal has done a great job of starting off regulations that allow employees important freedom. Additional rules are also set to be introduced. One is planned to offset loneliness, making face-to-face meetings mandatory every few months. Another assists workers who are the parents of young children. All workers will have the right to work from home without arranging it with their employer in advance if their kids are up to eight years old.

The conversation around placing boundaries at work has been popular for a few years now but was certainly reignited by the pandemic. With 77% of people surveyed in one report expressing dissatisfaction with their work-life balance and experiencing burnout, this is unsurprising. A quick scroll through LinkedIn or even Instagram reveals an abundance of posts recommending routines and methods for conjuring and maintaining a great work-life balance. But bosses can basically do whatever they like in regards to when employees start work, how they work, and when they leave.

With Zoom fatigue and workaholic becoming buzzwords and the great resignation (one in four workers quit their jobs this year) signifying basically everyone being sick and tired of their jobs, its clear the British population are more than a little burned out.

Unfortunately, not everyone who desires a work-life balance or time away from their bosss clutches necessarily has the autonomy to make it happen, so is it time the government stepped in to make it possible for everyone? Perhaps we should impose similar regulations in the UK.

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The International Network of Humanist Educators presented the book Hay Futuro todava. Experiences in the construction of a nonviolent humanising education in times of crisis, a collective work that brings together twenty-eight stories with multiple voices from more than ten cities and corners of Peru, Ecuador and Argentina, interwoven with drawings and paintings by Peruvian children and adolescents.

There is still a future! is still a Latin American cry launched from the shock, uncertainty, loss and isolation in the pandemic period and, at the same time, the living testimony of multiple responses of good treatment, active listening, effective dialogue, mutual help, patient and supportive teaching.

The General Coordinator of the Latin American Campaign for the Right to Education (CLADE), Nelsy Lizarazo, highlights in the foreword: each story is a gift of certainty, hope and affection made into daily practice. The human intentionality that transforms makes its way and advances steadily in the determined action of teachers, parents, children and adolescents who, convinced of the centrality of learning relationships, of the need for encounter and dialogue, of the unstoppable search for the link with others, deployed ingenuity, creativity and commitment. A sample of that resolve is in this book.

It tells in a simple way how it was possible to overcome confinement (stay at home) in the midst of the abyss opened up by economic inequalities and educational exclusion in times of virtual education. It shows how people come together, reflect and organise themselves in different spaces and scenarios: the womens circle in the Amazon in Ecuador, the Classroom Assembly and the march of families in Rimac in Lima, the videos for families and students in the Sierra del Cusco in Peru, the Train in Movement in Santa Elena on the Ecuadorian coast, or the learning for affectivity in an Institute of Higher Education in Mendoza, Argentina.

The Humanist Educators Network is an initiative that emerged in 2016, which is part of multiple expressions promoted by the Humanist Movement worldwide. This work closes the second international call, launched in 2020, and marks the beginning of the 3rd international call in 2021, aimed at promoting and collecting transformative humanist actions, inspired by the golden rule I treat others as I would like to be treated.

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Reuters.

By Anna Beatriz Bartolo

Investing.com Inflation is back on investors radar, with data released in Brazil and the United States. At 9:34 am, it is down 0.22%, while it is rising 0.30% to R$5.5160.

In the US, futures were down 0.16%, while 100, 0.46% and 0.26% were down, respectively. Country application numbers will be released today due to the Veterans Day holiday on Thursday.

On Tuesday, Brazil recorded 183 new deaths from the Covid-19 virus, bringing the total number of victims of the deadly disease in the country to 609,756, the Ministry of Health reported. 10,948 new cases of infection. Corona VirusThe volume added that the total number of confirmed infections in the country rose to 2,1897.025.

In the second round, the Chamber of Deputies approved, by 323 votes in favor and 172 against, the PEC dos Precatrios, which authorizes the government to pay installments for judicial debts and change the spending cap rule. If the measure is also approved in the Senate, it will make room in the budget for Bolsonaros government to spend nearly R$100 billion next year.

One of the main changes that the text brings is setting an annual limit for court orders, taking into account the amount paid in 2016 as well as the adjustment for inflation, which totals R$44 billion in 2022. Another important change is the revision of the spending cap rule that will now use the period Between January and December to limit budget adjustments, when previous forecasts between July and June were used.

But MPs opposed the amendment that made the golden rule more flexible, which prevents the government from entering into debt to pay off recurring debts, such as employee salaries. Today, the government needs congressional approval to break this rule, but the executives suggestion was that this was already foreseen in the annual budget.

HICP In the economic sphere, the Expanded National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) rose 1.25% in October, after rising by 1.16% the previous month, according to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). This is the highest score for the month in 20 years. In the 12 months to October, the IPCA is up 10.67%. In September, the index was 10.25%.

5G Auction The companies that won the 26GHz stakes in the 5G auction entered into an agreement this Tuesday, 09,. According to the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel), which mediated the negotiations, the changes serve to provide a more technically efficient arrangement of services.

Jair Bolsonaro meeting with Senator Luis Carlos Haynes (PP/RS), Vice President of the Senate Peoples Party; Meeting with Pedro Cesar Souza, Deputy Head of Legal Affairs at the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic. Seriously consolidate the framework for the regulation of illegal work.

Paulo Geddes There are currently no scheduled appointments.

Campos Neto Participate in the Climate Risk Disclosure Private Sector Commissioning event, promoted by the Climate Disclosure Standards Council at COP26; Participates in the opening event Program Learning Value ENEF Week; Lunch with Pedro Duarte Guimares, President of Caixa Econmica Federal.

Iguatemi (SA Mall operator Iguatemi generated R$57.9 million in the third quarter of 2021.

Braskem (SA Braskem reversed a loss of R$1.413 billion in the third quarter of 2020 with a loss of R$3.537 billion in the third quarter of 2021. Compared to the second quarter of 2021, there was a decrease of 52%.

Santos Brazil (SA Santos Brasil Participaes (SA:) recorded R$66.6 million in the third quarter of 2021, reversing a loss of R$5.45 million in the same period in 2020.

Locate (SA Localisa registered R$671.4 million in the third quarter of this year, an increase of 106.3% over the same period last year.

Raya Drogacil (SA Raya Drogazil reported an adjusted amount of R$173.6 million in the third quarter of 2021, an increase of 0.40% over the same period the previous year.

C&A (SA C&A will pay R$415 million to Bradesco (SA to resume providing financial services and products that the bank had until then explored exclusively in chain stores. C&A will launch C&A Pay next month, a solution that promises a complete digital experience, and is fast and easy for a customer to contract.

Carrefour (SA The value of the Carrefour adjustment amounted to R$621 million in the third quarter of 2021, a decrease of 18% compared to the same period last year. Adjusted Ebitda, in turn, was R$1.4 billion, an increase of 10.9% over the previous 12 months. The groups total sales amounted to R$20.7 billion, an increase of 7.7%.

itash Ita Unibanco (SA will allow mortgage customers to skip up to two loan installments every 12 months. The new service, called Pula Parcela, will be available to customers who already have financing and updated in installments, as well as for new contracts. The amount of deferred premiums, plus interest and fees, will be mitigated in others.

Betz (SA Petz, which is expected to be priced November 18. Given the closing price of R$20.83 per share on Tuesday, the total value of the follow-up could reach R$854 million.

MRV (SA MRV . has grown

Ethernet (SA Net income grew 143.5% in Q321 year-over-year, to R$98 million. Net revenue increased by 37.2% to R$ 275.9 million.

cell phone (to me:) Mobly reported R$25.7 million in Q321, reflecting a profit of R$1.9 million in the same period in 2020. Ebitda was negative R$9.6 million, exacerbated by 35.2% compared to the negative result of R$7.1 million in same period. year 2020.

Volcapras (SA Vulcabras reported income of R$126.5 million in Q321, an increase of 191.5% over Q3 of 2020 and the highest result in history for this quarter. Ebitda was valued at R$138.9 million, an increase of 109.8%.

Taurus (SA:) Taurus achieved a 63% increase in the third quarter of 21 compared to the previous year, valued at R$166.4 million.

Petrobras (SA According to Valor Econmico, executive director of reservoirs at the state-owned company, Tiago Homem, he advocated that alternating water and gas injection into pre-salt fields could increase the recoverable volume of water in some fields by 25% to 30%, when compared to water injection Only in these cabinets.

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