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The ethics of buying a fake doctors excuse is a hot topic of debate these days. Although opinion varies, the fact is that thousands of people each day buy fake doctors notes to miss work or delay a test at school. This is not surprising when you think that most of us have told a “little white lie” at one time in our lives. Many would say that small lies are so common from politicians to used car salesmen that we often take them for granted. Clearly, we all have our own set of ethics we follow and the buying of doctor’s excuses is an individual choice that is not for me to judge.

What about the ethics of those who sell fake doctors notes? Considering the hundreds of companies that sell doctors excuses on the Internet the demand for them must be high. However, this should not be surprising. For hundreds of years the main focus of business was to provide products and services that others wanted. On most of these sites it is obvious the doctors excuse is not real; they often provide disclaimers attesting to that. These companies are not interested in judging consumers, just providing what they want. What is my advice to consumers? – If you are going to by a doctor’s note, make sure is a good one.

One of the areas that may be effecting the purchase of fake doctors notes may be health care. You have only to read a newspaper or watch TV to see that the Health Insurance problem in the U.S. is a crisis. Perhaps that is part of the reason thousands of workers and students buy a doctors excuse online everyday. With millions uninsured and the cost of health care rising access to doctors for a visit is growing more difficult. As more and more products and services move online it may not be long before many things done in a traditional doctors office are done on line. At least for now, this seems to include fake doctors notes.

Some have asked about the legality of fake doctors excuses. As far as I know they are perfectly legal in most cases to by and sell. Many see them as more of an ethical issue than a legal one. If you think you can “put one over” on your boss or professor with a fake doctor’s excuse you buy, more power to you.

In 1907, Maria Montessori founded the first Montessori school in Rome. Its overall purpose was to give four to seven year old children from low-income families a full-day educational program.

The idea quickly developed and grew in popularity and thus more Montessori schools were formed in Europe and India. It did not take long for the school method to cross over to the United States of America.

In fact, Montessori’s teaching methods created great interest in the United States from 1910 through 1920. Unfortunately, Montessori’s methods seem to be largely forgotten in the United States until the late 1950s.

It was around that time when a second Montessori movement started in America. This time, the main focus was on a set of private schools that served an almost entirely middle-class population.

The Montessori educational system struggled with it’s own success when it started having trouble finding enough teachers. In fact, it took that teacher shortage to start the creation of free-standing private Montessori teacher training centers. Each of these centers were not associated with any college or university and taught the Montessori teaching methods to aspiring educators.

In the late 1960s, some parents started to call for the public schools in their local areas to offer the Montessori education model for their elementary school children who had graduated from private Montessori pre-schools.

The public’s rush of support was given a boost by government funds being made available for new Montessori programs starting up in public school areas. Today, over one hundred U.S. school districts have some type of Montessori program.

But just why has Montessori become so popular ? Many believe it is due to the program’s ability to overcome three major problems that the public school systems are still faced with. While the public school system has been put into a state of upheaval, the Montessori school systems have flourished.

Using their unique teaching methods, Montessori students have demonstrated a consistently high level of reading comprehension and academic performance. In the book “Montessori Parents Guide”, we dive deeper into how a Montessori program is powerfully unique and sets itself aside from current teaching methods.

The Hotel and Leisure industry uses an exorbitant amount of water and electricity. The large amount of toilets, showers, wash basins, swimming pools, lights, heaters, televisions and other appliances consume massive amounts of resources and add to pollution through the toxic emissions and radioactive waste emitted from power plants. More energy and water is wasted because of guests leaving appliances on and being careless with water usage. The hotel and leisure industry ultimately poses a large threat to the environment, and alternate water and energy conservation methods are needed to combat this problem.

Various hotels and gyms have gone ‘green’ and begun to enforce water and energy saving systems to assist efforts to help the environment and to protect the earth’s natural resources. Recycling has also been instituted to reduce pollution and reduce waste material.

Saving energy in the hotel and leisure industry

Minor and major changes have been made to hotels and gyms to assist in decreasing the amount of power used in establishments. Small changes such as energy saving light bulbs, timers which turn off lights at times of day when they are needed least and the raising of awareness amongst guests and clients about the importance of conserving energy.

Larger changes include smart lighting, passive infra-red sensors, solar panels for energy creation and heat recovery systems.

Smart lighting is a system which adapts the strength of indoor lighting according to the weather. When the weather is dark and gloomy, the indoor lighting increases but when the weather is bright and sunny, less lighting is required inside and the indoor lighting is dimmed.

Passive infra-red sensors detect movement, and when rooms or certain areas in a large room such as a gym studio are empty and the sensors do not detect movement, all electrical appliances are turned off.

Solar panels generate energy through the absorption of sunlight. This avoids pollution as the energy is created from sunlight only and does not require the burning of fuels to create power. Solar power also lowers costs as the panels create their own power and do not need to use energy created in power plants.

Heat recovery systems are especially effective in gyms. Excess energy from the air conditioning system can be used to create power for heating shower water and swimming pools, as can solar power.

Water-wise campaigns for saving water

Water is a precious resource which is running out. On a daily basis, billion of litres of water are wasted by carelessness and frivolity, especially in the hotel and leisure industry. Water conservation efforts have become a priority to many establishments as to prevent the depletion of the planet’s limited water resources.

Bathroom and kitchen fittings have been replaced with ones which are more economical in terms of water use. Aerated taps and water saving shower heads use far less water and amount annually to massive savings. Proximity sensors have also been introduced to reduce water waste as they detect when people are within close distance to the taps which automatically turn off if there is nobody close-by.

Two way flush systems have also been installed to save water. A two way flush allows for light and heavy flushing according to what is needed, instead of the old flush systems which all used a large amount of water for flushing.

The use of recycled grey-water has been instrumental in saving large quantities of fresh drinking water which would have otherwise been used to flush toilets and irrigate the plant life in gardens surrounding hotels and gyms. Grey-water is used water from showers, wash basins and washing machines which is then recycled and used for flushing and irrigation. Previously, grey-water was cleaned with harmful chemicals before its second use, however recent water recycling systems use an ultra violet cleaning device which is not harmful to the environment but highly effective in killing bacteria.

Hotels have begun to ask guests to place any towels in the bath-tub which they would like washed. This saves water because normally, all towels are washed each day, using far more water than when only dirty towels are washed.

The hotel and leisure industry has also introduced water saving practices in their gardens. As well as the use of grey-water to irrigate plant life, the removal of alien vegetation helps to conserve water as these plants consume so much of it. Borehole water is now used by many hotel and leisure establishments to save water.

The millions of hotels and leisure establishments worldwide can make a significant difference to stop the depletion of water and electric resources. Through conserving water and electricity with the use of water-wise bathroom systems and behaviour, the amount of water and energy wastage and pollution can be reduced.