Britain’s best post-walk pub named – MorningAdvertiser.co.uk

The Grade II-listed pub in the Lake District takes the 2019 crown after being nominated by a nearby branch of outdoor clothing and equipment retailer Mountain Warehouse before winning a public vote against 11 other regional finalists.

The Golden Rule strolled to a record-breaking tally to win this years top prize ahead of an environmentally friendly pub in Bridport, Dorset; a Scottish brewery-inspired watering hole; a pink pub in Wales; and several sites with impressive nearby walking routes.

As well as taking the honour of the Britains Best Post-Walk Pint from 2018 winner the Ben Nevis Inn in Fort William in the Scottish Highlands the Golden Rule will receive an engraved tankard and a 500 bar tab to share a celebratory drink with its regulars.

Run by owners Margaret and John Lockley for 39 years, the Golden Rule is a popular post-walk retreat for ramblers embarking on The Coffin Route taking walkers from Ambleside to Grasmere and back in a day past views of Grasmere waters and the picturesque surrounding fells of Loughrigg.

Boasting an extensive range of cask beers, draught lagers, ciders, fine wines and whiskies, the Golden Rule prides itself on being free from distraction with the Robinsons pub boasting no background music, no noisy games machines, no big screen televisions and no meals according to its website.

We are all delighted at winning this prestigious award, the Golden Rules manager John Wrennall said. Thank you to all of our friends and customers from far and wide for supporting us, and finally a special thanks to all of our staff for the enthusiasm they always show.

Mountain Warehouse founder Mark Nealeadded: Its a pleasure to announce that a pub in Ambleside has won our coveted title of Britains Best Post-Walk Pint for 2019.

The Lake District feels like a spiritual home for us because, not only do we have seven stores in the area, this wonderful part of the world represents what we are all about: enjoying the British countryside and getting outdoors.

I always love visiting our stores in the Lake District and I look forward to popping into the Golden Rule for a pint on my next visit, which is very much overdue.

Scotland St Andrews Brewing Co South Street, St Andrews, Fife

Northern Ireland OHares at Hugh McCanns, Newcastle, County Down

Wales The Coach & Horses, Powys

North-east The Golden Lion, Osmotherley, North Yorkshire

Yorkshire & The Humber The Marine Hotel, Hornsea, East Yorkshire

East England The Maybush, Waldringfield, Suffolk

East Midlands The Red Lion, Bakewell, Derbyshire

West Midlands The Nags Head, Malvern, Worcestershire

Greater London The Roebuck, Richmond, south-west London

South-west The Anchor Inn, Bridport, Dorset

South-east The Huntsman, Eridge, East Sussex

Winner: North-west The Golden Rule, Ambleside, Cumbria

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How to avoid getting scammed when flat hunting in Paris – The Local France

There's no need to panic and stop trusting everyone but you need to have your wits fully about you when you are apartment hunting in Paris.

It can happen to anyone, even the French president's daughter. Flora Hollande, daughter of Franois, lost 2,400 after wiring two months' rent to a landlord in order to secure a flat she had seen online.

She arrived at the flat with her mother Segolene Royal only to find the door locked and the landlord having turned off the phone.

Sometimes the scams are so well organised that there's little the victims can do, such as the man who swindled around 10,000 out of nine different tenants for a studio in Paris.They had all visited the flat, some with their parents, spoken to the fake landlord, signed a contract and wired over the first month's rent.

These kind of scams happen with sublets, where someone already renting the apartment lets it out to someone else for a short period of time. If you sublet a flat you need to be doubly careful.

The main type of scam flat hunters in Paris and other French cities fall victim to most often sees a fake landlord ask prospective tenants to send them money to secure the flat they have advertised on a website. Once the sum has been paid, the eager renter never sees their money again and the online ad simply disappears.

Then there's the more serious scam involving identity theft which stems from handing over the infamousdossier.

READ ALSO: Ten things you need to know about apartment hunting in Paris

The dossier is the file of documents you need to put together to give to a landlord or estate agent to basically prove you will be a trustworthy and reliable tenant who will pay the rent on time.

Most agencies or property owners demand this giant folder filled with copies of IDs, bank statements, tax assessments, job contracts and lots of other fiddly documents.

It is also filled with lots of personal financial information, meaning you need to be very careful who you show it to and also how you share it.

So how can you make sure the apartment you are interested in is even real and that the person at the end of the email doesnt intend to run off to with your identity?

According to Nadge Conger, founder of Sabbaticalhomes.com, if you are coming to Paris for a short time you should be suspicious of a landlord who isn't interested in finding out who you are, why you are coming to Paris and how long you are staying.

If someone is going to rent you their home, they should want to know some facts about the person they are going to let sleep in their property.

Conger also believes you should be wary of someone who is in a hurry to get everything settled in order to receive a deposit and rent money.

If you are organising the apartment from abroad, you should try to connect with the person through video call, so you can have a virtual tour of the property. If they refuse, a giant red flag should be blinding your vision.

You want to see they have access to the property, agrees Conger. If they tell you they can't accommodate a video call or a visit because they are travelling or because of some emergency, beware!

It's a good sign if a landlord who advertises their flat on a paid site, rather than on free sites such as Le Bon Coin, experts say, but not fool proof that they're legit.

Email exchanges can give a lot away too. Watch out for emails where the French is badly written or when the language used is very formal and impersonal, because there is a chance a scammer is just copy-pasting lines from the internet to lure you in.

Here are our top tips to avoid scams:

Be suspicious

Especially if the landlord or departing tenant says they are abroad and are suddenly hard to contact, or someone else picks up the telephone on the number they gave you.

Be very suspicious if the landlord is ultra keen to rent to you. It's hard to find a flat in Paris and normally landlords are very picky, so there's no reason for them to be so keen to get you in.

If they try too much to reassure you that it's not a scam, it probably is.

The golden rule is: "If in doubt, walk out."

If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is

Sometimes, the scams are easy to spot. Websites such as Craigslist or Le Bon Coin have hosted many bogus adverts. If you see a flat for 600 a month for a three-bedroom apartment beside the Louvre, it is almost certainly not a legitimate bargain, but a scam. If the pictures look straight out an IKEA catalogue that's s probably because they are. Dream flats do exist, but they come with a price tag .

Take care to check out if the photos on the ad matches the text that goes with it. If they don't, the alarm bells should go off.

Have your wits about you

If the wording in the advert rings a fishy bell with you, it is probably a kipper. If some paragraphs are in perfect English, but others are in capital letters demanding you send your email address immediately, this is probably a fake ad. Do not send your email address. A good idea is to copy paragraphs directly into Google and you can see if they have been lifted from a real ad.

Never wire money. Never ever (unless the contracts are signed)

This is a hard and fast rule, without exceptions. If you send money through Western Union or one of the other wire services, it's probably gone forever. Forget about getting it back.

No good landlord would ask you to do this, but scammers often ask for deposit money to be wired even before you have seen the flat or signed a contract.

Check them out too

It is increasingly easy to find out if someone is real or using an anonymous email account. Google their name, if they give it to you. Try to speak to them over the telephone. Fraudulent renters often use yahoo.com and hotmail.com email addresses. Be sceptical if you cant find anything about them.

Maintain some privacy

Landlords will need to know details about you but they dont need to know everything before they meet you. Do not give out any financial information to a stranger over the internet.

Research the street

Look up other rentals in the area, compare prices. Maybe you are getting a real bargain, but landlords and owners are normally aware of property prices in the area and will set the price accordingly.

If all the other two-bed apartments in that area are being rented out for 1700, it's unlikely you 'dream rental home' for 900 is real. Also, use Google maps to check the photographs. If there is a pic of a park out through the window and you can see there is no park in the vicinity, chances are the pics are fake.

Dossier don'ts

If you are going the official dossier route, the unbreakable rule is never, ever send it by email. If you do, you run a real risk of somebody stealing your identity and destroying your credibility and financial stability.

A giant alarm bell should ring if anyone asks you to email these documents, no reputable landlord or agent would. You must only ever hand them over in paper format to a person you have met, and consider trustworthy. This makes it difficult to find an apartment through a French agency before you arrive in Paris, but it is a crucial step.

Don't send personal details before you have seen the flat. Fake landlords looking to con you and steal your identity might ask for bank statements, copies of ID cars, proof of address or payslips before you have even spoken to discuss a rendevous to see the flat. Don't hand over a singe sheet of paper until you are sure they're the real deal.

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Church leaders, diplomats come together to pray for work of United Nations – The Catholic Sun

United Nations diplomats and other guests gather for a prayer service Sept. 16, at Holy Family Church in New York City. The service, hosted by the Vaticans Permanent Observer Mission to the U.N., was held on the eve of the opening of the 74th session of the U.N. General Assembly. (Gregory A. Shemitz/CNS)

NEW YORK (CNS) Bishop PaulHinder, apostolic vicar of Southern Arabia, told U.N. diplomats and other attendeesat a New York prayer service Sept. 16 that all of humanity is bound by a basicfraternity grounded in the God Who has created us.

This understanding is at theheart of what he called an extraordinary declaration signed in February by PopeFrancis and Egyptian Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb, grand imam of al-Azhar, a leadingauthority for many Sunni Muslims.

Bishop Hinder was talking about the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, signed by the two religious leaders in the United Arab Emirates Feb. 4. It rejects violence and terrorism and promotes identity, dialogue and harmony.

The declaration is an appeal toall people of goodwill to put aside particular and egotistic interests, be theyindividual, national or continental, to break down the walls in our minds andto cross the borders in order to promote and build up justice and peace, thebishop said.

He made the remarks during aservice on the eve of the opening of the 74th session of the U.N. GeneralAssembly. Held at Holy Family Church in New York City, it was hosted by theVaticans Permanent Observer Mission to the U.N. and led by ArchbishopBernardito Auza, the Vaticans U.N. nuncio.

U.N. officials in attendanceincluded U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Tijjani Muhammed-Bande,president of the General Assemblys 74th session.

The document signed by the popeand the grand imam points at certain urgent topics which can be addressed onlyif religions are doing their duty properly and if the respective societies, theirgovernments and the international community as a whole are working together,Bishop Hinder said.

He told the U.N. diplomats: Thisis where your own deliberations in the coming days must lead: in makingprovisions for protecting the family as the fundamental nucleus of society andhumanity; providing right education for children, avoiding everything thatcould lead people to extremism and violence.

The document also says, henoted: We resolutely declare that religions must never incite war, hateful attitudes,hostility and extremism, nor must they incite violence or the shedding ofblood.

Bishop Hinder highlightedseveral principals in the document, including its insistence that to guaranteeequality of rights and duties, it is crucial to establish in our societies theconcept of full citizenship and reject the discriminatory use of the term minorities.

The East and West have to finda convergence of mutual collaboration on the basis of their complementaryvalues, he said, quoting the document.

The rights of women, of thefamilies and of the elderly people have to be further developed and respected,he added.

Bishop Hinder said he has seenthe document begin to bear fruit in the region where he has served for 15years, but there is still a long way to go.

I simply wish to mention thedisastrous war in Yemen, where millions of people are longing for justice andpeace. Who will have the courage to break the vicious circle of violence? headded.

He ended his reflection byinvoking the words of one of the Catholic Churchs great peacemakers: On thisvigil of the opening of the assembly, let us make a humble, joint and earnestprayer to the Father of the universe in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi: Makeme an instrument of your peace!

The previous week, Archbishop Auzareferenced the document when saying that religion can make an importantcontribution to forming a culture of peace, both to empower and transformindividuals and humanity as a whole, Sept. 13 at a high-level U.N. forum on TheCulture of Peace.

It seems vital to underline the valuable role ofreligion not the distorted forms of religious fanaticism or sectarianismwhich all too often make the headlines, but rather authentic religious beliefand teaching in promoting a culture of peace, said Archbishop BernarditoAuza, who heads the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the UnitedNations.

Archbishop Auza said thisdocument is based on the firm conviction that authentic teachings of religionsinvite us to remain rooted in the values of peace; to defend the values ofmutual understanding, human fraternity and harmonious coexistence; toreestablish wisdom, justice and love.

It also understands the need toreawaken religious awareness among young people so that future generations maybe protected from the realm of materialistic thinking and from dangerouspolicies of unbridled greed and indifference that are based on the law of forceand not on the force of law, he added.

Archbishop Auza noted that everyday at U.N. headquarters, visitors stop and admire the Rockwell Mosaic thatbrings together, through color and symbolism, the diversity of the humanfamily, expressed there through distinctive signs of different religioustraditions.

Above all, he continued, thatwork of art seeks to highlight that fundamental ethical truth that continues toresonate in the hearts of all men and women of goodwill, which is oftenreferred to as the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do toyou.

He suggested his listeners toconsider what would happen if that statement were turned around.

If it read, Do not do untoothers what you would not want them to do unto you, he said, then, perhapsattitudes would begin to change.

Our selfish tendencies wouldgive way and we would take a serious look at our choices and behavior with arenewed commitment to take greater care of this planet, our common home, and,more importantly, of all who live there, Archbishop Auza said.

He added: Akin to land that is patiently worked andcultivated, for peace to take root, to grow and indeed to flourish, it demandscommitment and unceasing effort: a truly noble and sacred task that is withinthe reach of us all.

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What agencies should know about clients (but probably don’t) – Econsultancy

Ive laughed at this cartoon for years. It was originally created by Gary Larson of The Far Side and captioned The four personality types the job titles were added later. Butthey so beautifully demonstrate the perceptions that we have about each other, clients included.

Four years client-side after a long career in creative agencies really hammered this home for me. It really surprised me on two levels how little I truly understood clients, and vice versa.

It was an eye-opener, I can tell you, and not always in the ways Id expected. I certainly gained a greater respect for the people who Id always faced across the table, and gained real insight into the pressures, big and small, that they deal with.

Please dont get me wrong I absolutely appreciate the importance of challenging clients, pushing for brilliant strategic breakthroughs and amazing creative. I learnt from some of the very best (see my fifth Golden Rule later). But as anyone who has had great food in a restaurant with terrible service will know, every aspect of the relationship is important if its to ultimately succeed.

It is a simple truth that client companies generally have a different work culture to agencies. Not a worse one, just different. Its more corporate (think grown-up). Colleagues must show mutual respect to each other, HR departments are strong, and policies and best practice must be adhered to. Of course, this can sometimes knock the edges and excitement out of a working day, but if it also prevents rudeness, sexism and discrimination, job insecurity and stress, maybe it isnt all bad. The work/life balance is much healthier, thats for certain. Stand near the exits at 4.59pm at your peril.

Lets talk about stakeholder management. I think most experienced agency people have a pretty good idea of this, and the challenges that clients face when they leave the funky agency building and return to their concrete bunker in Slough, or Staines, or somewhere. The truth is that you dont. Really, its so much tougher than you think; only when you actually have to do it does this become clear.

Seeking buy-in from a variety of senior people in an organisation should be straightforward after all, youre all on the same side, right? Unfortunately, each stakeholder will have his or her own agenda, priorities, objectives, and misunderstandings. Seeking consensus is like nailing jelly to the wall, and so clients are left with multiple, often confusing and contradictory instructions from their own people, with little idea of how to knit it all together in a constructive way. Then its time to give the agency feedback.

Above all, its commercial pressures that drive most clients. Theyre no doubt battling for customers and sales in highly competitive environments, whilst constantly managing and pushing down costs. They constantly need to be accountable. The advertising is undoubtedly an important element in the overall picture, but it is a cost that can be questioned when it is not very obviously helping drive the numbers.

Generating positive audience engagement and building long-term brand image is all well and good, but will it sell a shedload of my widgets this week? All smart agency people know this of course, but rarely do they demonstrate to their clients that they understand how these pressures can so fundamentally affect their decisions. Which is why you may not always command their full and immediate attention when you show up with 12 adaptations of the Summer Sizzler response ad for discussion.

Ive been involved in very many agency/client relationships, assessments and reviews over the years, on both sides of the fence. And whats remarkable is that there are two themes which consistently spring up responsiveness and proactivity. Theyre two sides of the same coin, and you cant have a truly successful agency/client relationship without them both.

Clients expect their agency teams to respond to their requests, their briefs, and generally to their long and short-term needs accurately, professionally, enthusiastically, and on time. If you think about it, this is the absolute baseline, the most basic fundamental requirement of any supplier (even if they like to be thought of as a partner. So I find it incredible that this comes up as an issue all the time. Surely its the simplest thing in the world listen to and understand what a client requires, and then deliver it well, and on time.

In my time client-side I came to realise just how professional most clients are. Its simply expected in the way they behave and the quality of the work they do. The perception of clients being slow may in reality simply be them taking the time to think it through, and check it through! (Dont even get me started on attention to detail and the correct use of apostrophes).

Indeed, over the years Ive heard many disparaging things said amongst agency people about their clients. Sometimes, complaints can be justified if the clients inconsistent, impolite, gives poor briefs or feedback, for example. But criticising clients, even in the privacy of your own agency, cannot be good. It surely wont rally the agency team to pull together in creating the best possible work for that client, to the benefit of everybody. I remember my old boss Mike Greenlees once responding to a colleague who was effing and blinding about his clients; they may be bastards said Mike, but theyre our bastards.

With apologies to Hyperbole and a Half.

Heres an interesting little exercise that pretty much sums up the general negativity with which agencies regard clients. Type dumb things agencies say into Google, and pretty much all the results are about dumb clients.

Now thats not to say there arent terrible clients who just arent interested in great work. There are. But blaming the clients for not understanding never leads to better results in the future.

Your client is not just there for the fun of it. Their job is on the line. Theyve been in boring meetings all day. Their boss is in the room. Theyre frightened of what you might say. Because the more youve done your job of being innovative and groundbreaking, the more they feel their security threatened. If your work does well, you and your agency get the credit. If your work does poorly, they get the blame from their stakeholders, supervisors, etc. So cut them some slack.

The ultimate way to delight the client is to be proactive, think ahead and provide clients with things of value that they have not asked for (or asked for yet). I remember reading about police driver training. They are taught to always focus on the car ahead of the one immediately in front of them. It allows them to anticipate events and plan/respond just that little bit faster.

To be honest, this is quite rare, but it can transform relationships. Give clients an insight into customer trends that could affect their business. Vox pop their competitors customers and suggest how you might alter their attitudes and win them over. Or simply send them a regular update on projects without being asked. I promise you, clients appreciate these things more than you realise and the benefits are disproportionately positive.

So what should agency people do? Here are my five golden rules (all no-brainers):

And remember, if your clients ask for a cheeseburger, make sure they get a sensational cheeseburger!

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Bob Rule, star center for expansion Sonics team, dies at 75 – The Seattle Times

Bob Rule, one of the original Sonics whose promising NBA career was cut by short by a devastating Achilles injury, died last week.

Rule, who lived in Menifee, Calif., passed away in his sleep on Sept. 5 at his sister Sherry Randles home in nearby Riverside. He was 75 years old.

Bob was a private man and he died much like he lived his life, which was in quiet, said Rules brother Gary Randle. We knew his family what he did in the NBA, but unless you really go back and look it up, you may not know how good he was. Bob was a special player, but he was also a really good man.

Before the Seahawks and Mariners, Rule became one of Seattles first professional superstar athletes after he was taken in the second round of the 1967 NBA draft by the expansion Sonics.

Rule, a 6-foot-9 center who had an unstoppable left-handed hook shot, was a bright spot during the teams first season when it finished 23-59.

His rookie scoring average of 18.1 points was a franchise rookie record that stood for 40 years until it was eclipsed by Kevin Durant in 2007-08.

I admired people like Wilt (Chamberlain) and Bill Russell and Nate Thurmond and those guys, but I was not afraid of them, Rule said in a 2011 interview with the Press-Enterprise in Riverside, Calif. My initial experience in the NBA was to have Nate Thurmond block six of my first seven shots in the first half.

I go to the locker room and the coach (Al Bianchi) says, Keep putting em up. He cant block em all. And I said, Yeah, well if I hadnt made that layup it would have been all of em.

The expansion Sonics didnt get many wins during Rules rookie season, but No. 45 in the green and gold jersey who garnered the nickname The Golden Rule gave Seattle fans many amazing performances. He put on a show at the Seattle Center Coliseum on Nov. 21, 1967 with a 47-point spectacle against Los Angeles Lakers great Elgin Baylor during a 137-132 win.

The 47-point outburst is still a rookie team record.

Paired with Hall of Famer Lenny Wilkens, Rule rose to stardom over the next two seasons and might have become the greatest player in franchise history if he hadnt gotten injured.

He had a chance to become an outstanding player, Wilkens said. Great touch around the basket (and) hook shot. He could run the floor and get up and down the court for his size. Tremendous potential.

He could also go outside. He could move. He wouldnt stay on one spot. That made a difference. Back then, centers didnt like to guard centers away from the basket.

In his second year, Rule averaged 24.0 points and 11.5 rebounds during the 1968-69 season and established himself as one of the most prolific low-post players in the NBA at a time when big men ruled the league.

On Nov. 8, 1968, Rule exploded for 37 points on 14-for-28 shooting to topple Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics 114-112.

Bob could score, no question about that, Wilkens said. We tried to help Bob, because he was such a good offensive player. We set little screens to free him. He had tremendous hands; he could grip the ball like a grapefruit.

During the 1969-70 season, Rule gained national prominence while averaging 24.6 points and 10.6 rebounds. He garnered a spot in the 1970 NBA All-Star Game and became the third Sonics All-Star, following Walt Hazzard (1968) and Wilkens (1969).

Four games into the 1970-71 season, Rules season ended after he tore his Achilles tendon and he was never the same again. He averaged 29.8 points that season.

It was tough, Wilkens said. He certainly wanted to recover, he knew he had a good future. I never saw him healthy again.

Rule averaged just 7.1 points and 3.4 rebounds in 16 games for the Sonics in 1971-72 before the team traded him to the Philadelphia 76ers. He averaged 17.3 points and 8.0 rebounds in 60 games that season for the Sixers.

Rule spent one more season with Philadelphia before playing two years (1972-74) in Cleveland where he averaged 4.3 points and 2.8 rebounds.

Following a one-game stint in Milwaukee during the 1974-75 season, Rule retired at age 30.

Rule, who was born June, 29, 1944 in Riverside, Calif., played basketball at Riverside Poly High School. He starred for two seasons at Riverside Community College under Jerry Tarkanian before transferring to Colorado State.

Rule is survived by two sons Randall and Russell Rule; siblings Charlene Marcus, Sherry and Gary Randle, and Eloise Talbert; three grandchildren and his partner for over 40 years Alayne Harris.

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Let’s Talk About McGill’s Sexual Assault Policy…Again – The Bull and Bear

I wrote my first article forThe Bull & Bear last fall on the administrations sexual assault policy. Specifically, I tackled inappropriate student-faculty relationships. At that point in time, I was fresh-off Frosh, with little idea of what McGill life would bring. A lot has changed since then, both for me personally and within the McGill community. McGills administration announced that it will be replacing the Redmen name, the Y-intersection and Leacock have finally fallen prey to Montreals rampant construction, and I moved into my first apartment. However, McGills policy on sexual relations between students and faculty appears virtually untouched.

Issues like sexual misconduct on our campusproblems that are so pertinent and damaging to student lifecannot merely dissipate by being ignored. Instead, concrete policy must address these issues head on.

To be completely transparent, I nearly forgot about this underlying problem during my first year at McGill. Neither I, nor anyone close to me, had any uncomfortable encounters with faculty members. I also personally did not hear of any new stories of sexual assault on campus involving faculty.

Although the issue seems to have disappeared from both my immediate and peripheral vision, the problem of sexual misconduct among both students and faculty on campus still persists. Issues like sexual misconduct on our campusproblems that are so pertinent and damaging to student lifecannot merely dissipate by being ignored. Instead, concrete policy must address these issues head on.

At the end of this past school year, McGills administration launched a new, mandatory online course for both students and faculty as part of Quebecs requirements on sexual violence prevention and consent. The course even includes a segment on power dynamics between faculty and students: a nod to multiple allegations against McGill professors that have emerged in the past few years.

For those unfamiliar with McGills ongoing, faculty-inflicted sexual assault, these allegations include unwanted sexual advances and instructors holding office hours in bars. These persistent allegations prompted SSMU (Student Society of McGill University) and various faculty members to send an open letter to McGills administration demanding action on the matter.

In April, 2018, SSMU organized a walkout alongside Concordia students to demonstrate the magnitude of the issue. Despite these efforts, McGills administration maintained their loose sexual misconduct policies and flooded students emails with somewhat empty promises and buzzwords in order to quell unrest.

While this new online course represents a much-needed acknowledgement that action must be taken, it also brings a new set of failures on the part of the administration. For one, returning students are to complete the online course by November, whereas faculty members do not have to complete it until January, 2020.

The underlying hypocrisy of this new program is that while it acknowledges the power dynamic that makes student-faculty relationships dangerous, McGill continues to allow for these relationships with shockingly few restrictions.

The later deadline for faculty members implies that students are held to a different standard than faculty members when it comes to incidences of sexual assault, and that the administration does not see the issue of faculty-inflicted sexual assault as urgent enough for the course to be completed at the beginning of the year.

This program certainly provides a promising outlook on McGills handling of sexual assault. However, student-faculty relationships are still permitted on campus as long as they are disclosed. The underlying hypocrisy of this new program is that while it acknowledges the power dynamic that makes student-faculty relationships dangerous, McGill continues to allow for these relationships with shockingly few restrictions.

Teaching about the issue is a decent first step, but action eventually must be taken in order to put an end to sexual misconduct at McGill. Student-faculty relationships inevitably involve a power disbalance that eliminates the possibility of consent and creates an unsafe environment for students.

Our administration is adamant about the golden rule during Frosh (which rightly prohibits relationships between Frosh leaders and Froshies), and they prohibit actions as miniscule as students tattooing Suzanne Fortiers signature for a scavenger hunt. Our school must therefore also take the issue of faculty-inflicted sexual assaultan issue with far graver consequences than a tasteless tattoojust as seriously.

McGill fails to take proper action on this issue by explicitly banning student-faculty relationships while promptly adding gratuitous rules for students. Until the administration changes their approach, they will continue to punish students while absolving professors of their inappropriate behaviour.

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Chennai unwrapped: why the city is the great international gateway to South India – The National

Theres an old Tamil proverb that goes something like this: He drinks mind-milk thinking that he can rule the world. Mind-milk is any foolish hope, a bit like the one that crosses my mind one afternoon as I sip strong South Indian coffee from a steel tumbler at an earthy Triplicane cafe.

Here in one of Chennais oldest neighbourhoods, Im enjoying the distinctive taste of the local coffea arabica, as its called its ground beans typically mixed with chicory, and the thick dark mixture added to boiled milk rather than water. Gazing out at the bewildering swirl of endless traffic, my foolish hope is simply to cross the road and make for the gleaming sands of Marina Beach, where crowds slurp ice cream and nurse chargrilled corncobs.

But there is one golden, even cautionary, rule for tackling traffic in Chennai, if not India generally: everyone has the right of way all of the time. So after gauging the frantic ebb and flow of honking buses, lorries, cars, auto-rickshaws, bicycles and handcarts over another coffee, I decide only braver, possibly foolish, souls would attempt to cross on foot. Hailing a tuk-tuk, I join the tide for a half-kilometre ride to the beach.

Chennai is the great international gateway to South India. For businesses, especially those in the IT and automotive sectors, it is a vital thriving hub, while other visitors may well be here as medical tourists, tapping into the reputation and expertise of Chennais doctors and consultants.

Regular travellers typically see it as a staging post; not quite an utter chore but hardly a worthy destination either. Aided and abetted by a fine hotel, Taj Connemara, I was keen to give it a try.

Officially called Chennai since 1996, for centuries it was known as Madras. That name probably derived from a small fishing village near a slender strip of land that became one of Britains first toeholds in the subcontinent. The British strictly the East India Company yearned for a port on the Coromandel Coast and eventually acquired one in 1639. Within five years, the growing trading outpost was strengthened and named Fort St George. Around its walls sprung White Town, a British and European enclave beyond which sprouted the colloquially named Black Town, where locals lived. Everyone knew where they stood, stayed and slept.

Dotted with a cornucopia of mainly Raj-era heritage buildings (in India only Kolkata has more), modern Chennai could be a prodigious architectural depository, but for the vagaries of their preservation. Consider the fire and storm-damaged Indo-Gothic General Post Office and weep; another fire in 2014 seriously damaged the magnificent State Bank of India building nearby. Stalled renovation of the Romanesque Victoria Public Hall (where the citys first films were screened in the late 1800s) now looks dreadful. The list goes on.

Yet many of these buildings are still used and some are virtually pristine. Stubbornly avoiding the new and expanding metro (which clearly moderates the average Chennaites commute), I brave the seething traffic to pound the streets.

From the handsome Indo-Gothic edifice of Egmore Railway Station and the almost unnatural calm of St Andrews Kirk (modelled on Londons St Martin-in-the-Fields), I head on past the dazzling white Ripon Building, its Italianate facade capped with an elegant clock tower. Almost alongside it stands Chennai Central, a magnificent Gothic Revival masterpiece that is used by more than half a million people every day. In 2005, plans to lighten its colour from red brick to pale brown led to protests and railway authorities stuck to the colour that had adorned the station since construction in 1873.

Tucked away behind Parrys Corner, the domes and cupolas of the Madras High Court are among the citys best examples of East-meets-West architecture. This court complex is 50 metres tall, with a central tower that was designed to be visible even way out at sea.

For those looking to gain a clearer sense of how modern Chennai came to be, Fort St George lends shape and substance. Now a large and leafy complex of government and naval buildings (plus Indias oldest Anglican church, St Marys Church), its main entrance still stands alongside a sea-facing bastion and flagstaff resembling the prow of a ship. Aptly enough, security is tight and bags are checked.

Once an officers mess, Fort Museum is the prime draw here. Amid the displays of weaponry, uniforms, medals and porcelain, I make a bee-line for the ground-floor galleries. Models and plans sketch the forts development from a modest square structure with fin-like corners to a huge compound with strangely angular walls and chevron-shaped bastions. Upstairs are galleries that feature romantic aquatints by Thomas and William Daniell. These artists undertook extraordinary journeys across late 18th-century India and their exotic depictions of mosques, temples, palaces and pastoral scenes whetted the appetites of many a budding soldier-sahib.

Tracking these Raj-era highlights, it seems apt that I am staying at one of South Indias oldest hotels. Reopened last autumn after extensive renovations, the Connemara has long been an institution for the citys great and good. What began as a cosy retreat in palace gardens owned by a nawab, became the Imperial Hotel in 1854 and the Connemara in 1890. Named after Lord Connemara, who was governor of the city in the late 1880s, or possibly his wife at the time, who stayed here for months as their marriage fell apart, its a property that elegantly merges nostalgia with Art Deco sensibilities. Famous Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawas remodelling of its public areas in the 1970s remains virtually untouched.

One morning over breakfast, I briefly chat to a middle-aged British couple touring Tamil Nadu and adjoining Kerala. They are also on something of an ancestral quest; a great-grandmother was born in Chennai and through some old letters they hope to locate addresses and homes to reconnect with an exotic fragment of family history. Its harder than we thought, admits the husband. Street names have changed, addresses are confusing

We get a few guests here on the ancestral trail, just like in my own home city of Lucknow, says general manager Ahmar Siddiqui. They are significant cities in the story of British India.

I dont wish to obsess over the Rajs illustrious ghosts. Connemara often arranges tours for guests to explore other facets of the city, from street food and jewellery to its dense bazaars, on foot. The next morning, I hover outside the soaring gateway of the imposing Kapaleeshwarar Temple awaiting my guide, Lakshmi Shankar. Here in the citys Mylapore district, Shankars tour started with an anatomy of a temple walk. As we repeatedly orbit its large courtyard, she explains some of Hinduisms complex rituals and beliefs.

Just beyond its secondary entrance is one of the states largest temple tanks, a pool of water lined with masonry steps traditionally used for ritual bathing and ceremonies. Shankar explains that about two centuries earlier the land for this tank was given as a gift to the ancient temple by the Nawab of Arcot (a relatively short-lived but influential dynasty that can be traced back to the second Caliph, Omar ibn Al Khattab, in the seventh century). There was one condition: the citys Muslims could also use it for rituals during Muharram. For a day or two each year, Muslims and Hindus can stand side by side observing their faiths, a heartening tradition of tolerance that has more-or-less endured since the 1800s.

We move on to nearby San Thome Cathedral that, despite the name (reflecting its 16th-century Portuguese origins), was rebuilt by the British in the 1890s. The whitewashed Neo-Gothic facade is all very well, but Shankar says that it is also one of only three churches in the world to be built over the tomb of an apostle. St Thomas landed in Kerala in the 1st century and eventually made his way towards the Coromandel Coast. He was killed on a hill (now called St Thomas Mount) in the southern suburbs near Chennais airport but was buried in Mylapore.

Pausing for (yet more) coffee in a local cafe, Shankar urges me to visit the Government Museum, a huge and seemingly motley complex of buildings dominated by the circular Museum Theatre. If you only see one gallery, it should be the one devoted to Chola bronzes, an astonishing collection of 8th to 12th-century sculpture made using the lost wax (or cire perdue) technique of casting with bees wax and clay moulds. The dancing gods and goddess might not be to everyones tastes, but the sheer artistry and skill is admirable.

Later, dawdling in a gallery devoted to South Indias almost forgotten tribal groups, I stumble across one of the strangest exhibits Ive seen in an Indian museum. Displayed almost as an afterthought in a dark corner are two large gnarled and tapering wooden beams, the upright beam running through the horizontal one. Used by tribal Gonds to help propitiate the gods and safeguard the tribes prized turmeric cultivation, hapless human offerings were stupefied with liquor, lashed to the horizontal beam and spun vigorously until death. The last meriah sacrifice occurred in 1852 and a label notes that when the device was exhibited in 1906 during a visit of the prince of Wales, Gond groups became visibly excited.

For a more engaging window into the regions mainstream heritage, I head out of the city. About 25km south, beside the Bay of Bengal, is Dakshinachitra. Described as a heritage centre with craft workshops, exhibitions and cultural performances, for most visitors its main attraction is the charming array of traditional homes representing some of South Indias varied vernacular architecture.

Be it a Muslim traders house from Karnataka, a weavers abode from Andhra Pradesh or a Syrian Christian home from Kerala, all were saved from demolition, carefully dismantled and painstakingly rebuilt on-site. Its too neat to resemble even an idealised village, but perhaps the most striking aspect is the economical beauty of these homes and a sense that their occupants lived well, if not always wealthily.

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Morgan Atha brings out fresh baked rolls before opening to the public at Golden Corral in the Town of Poughkeepsie on November 13, 2018. Atha, an Idaho native is part of Golden Corral's A-Team and travels to new locations to help train staff. (Photo: Patrick Oehler/Poughkeepsie Journal)

Polly Campbell finally went and reviewedOlive Garden after 23 years as a food critic. You all couldn't get enough of it. Someone on Twitter even suggested that next week she should review Golden Corral. Turns out, she already did. In 1999. Here's what she wrote:

Friday, June 18, 1999

It's anall-you-can eat chain buffet, but it's pretty good.

Last weekend, my family and I had dinner at the Golden Corral, an all-you-can-eat "grill buffet" in Fairfield. The four of us had complete dinners, including two steaks, and we certainly left feeling filled. The bill: $27.

Now that's the price of just one person's dinner - heck, one entree - at many restaurants where they don't serve seconds. I felt I had wandered into an alternative economic universe where the rule is the more you eat, the less you pay.

It doesn't make sense to me, but I'm sure there is a solid business explanation for this paradox that makes such a format a sure-fire moneymaker. Frisch's must think so; they have an agreement with Golden Corral to open 23 of the restaurants in Greater Cincinnati, Dayton and Louisville over the next seven years. The Fairfield location opened in January. Four will open in 1999: Eastgate, West Hamilton, Turfway Park area of Florence and Fort Wright.

(Find a currentGolden Corral location near you.)

Of course, one way all-you-can-eat buffets make money is by serving cheap food. But Golden Corral aims fairly high, as buffets go, and offers some quality amid the quantity.

There's certainly plenty of choice, including a varied and fresh salad bar, and evidence that not everything is simply dumped from a can onto a steam table.

You'll be familiar with the format from Ponderosa or similar steak places. You order a steak or chicken or shrimp dinner, add on the buffet if you want, or get just the buffet. Pay up and then proceed to a table where a server picks up your order and brings your drinks. (Another mystery: If you're helping yourself to mashed potatoes, why not to Pepsi?)

You might as well skip the steak dinner. The sirloin's OK, but on the chewy side. Country-fried steak is cheap meat encased in a hard crust, with gravy. Chicken breast filets are just chicken fingers. They have roast beef and fried chicken on the buffet line, so why pay for a dinner?

Food ready to serve at Golden Corral in the Town of Poughkeepsie on November 13, 2018.(Photo: Patrick Oehler/Poughkeepsie Journal)

The salad bar's the best part of the buffet. You could make a respectable chef's salad, with lettuce, julienned turkey and ham, pepperoni, peppers, olives and a wide variety of raw vegetables. Or a spinach salad, with bacon and hard-boiled eggs. There's a dressed Caesar salad, plus a couple of nice mixed salads, like cherry tomato and mushroom or fresh broccoli with bacon. You could do a cottage cheese and mixed fruit salad. Some of the fruit is fresh, such as strawberries. If you're into healthy, you could quit there or add a baked potato and have had your money's worth.

Right.

Most people are eating like they think the food pyramid refers to the best way to stack a burger, pizza, fried chicken and steamed carrots on one small plate.

Most people are eating like they think the food pyramid refers to the best way to stack a burger, pizza, fried chicken and steamed carrots on one small plate.

I tried as much as I could. Soup (high-quality prefabricated). Chips with chili (fine.) Roast beef (a little tough) and mashed potatoes (surprisingly good) with gravy (amazingly salty). Barbecued chicken (thumbs down). Thick, doughy-crusted pizza (thumbs up). Meat loaf (quite good). Fresh yeast rolls (too sweet, but nice and fresh).

I didn't manage the spaghetti and meat sauce, rotisserie chicken, fried fish, baked fish, pinto beans or turkey in gravy. I skipped the greasy-looking hamburgers and hot dogs on the grill.

The buffet line is set up with much of the working area in full view. People are prepping salads and cutting cakes while you watch. The buffet line is attractively laid out, lit and labeled, though of course it gets messy. A nice decorating feature is the stacks of raw materials, such as fruit, vegetables, boxes of onions and potatoes. This is less effective by the bakery, where dessert mixes are decoratively stacked. I guess "from a mix" now counts as "homemade."

I tried peanut cream pie (weird), warm cherry cobbler (not bad), thin lemon bars (bad) and the expected soft-serve ice cream. This is where the kids got creative. I never had seen a candy corn-gummi bear-Oreo sundae.

Golden Corral exterior.(Photo: File photo)

The gimmick in the bakery is that a brass bell rings every time something fresh is put out. I never heard the bell. I think they were so busy putting out food for the crowded house that they would have been ringing it constantly.

It was astounding how busy the place was on a Friday. People were lined up when we got there at 7 p.m., and as we left an hour and a half later.

It seems to me that one of the most important things a buffet restaurant can do is make it easy to get in and out of your chair, and Golden Corral flunks that test. The place is so packed with tables and chairs that you can barely lift your elbow, let alone push back your chair.

It's a good thing most of the food is self-serve because the restaurant service is inept. I think it was our young server's first night, because he didn't know the answer to anything.

While Golden Corral is a remarkable bargain, I wonder how many people leave an all-you-can-eat experience feeling the same as I do: I would have paid more to eat less.

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Distinct from the concept of a golden ruile argument, an improper suggestion made to a jury (see Legal Definition of Golden RUle Argument).

In the British case Grey v. Pearson, 6ER 60 (1857), quoted with approval in Bilawchuk v Blomberg, 2000ABQB 824, the golden rule was defined as follows:

"In construing all written instruments, the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words is to be adhered to, unless that would lead to some absurdity, or some repugnance or inconsistence with the rest of the instrument, in which case the grammatical and ordinary sense of the words may be modified, so as to avoid that absurdity and inconsistency, but no further."

Another case often cited in support of the golden rule is River Wear Commissioners v Adamson in which Justice Blackburn used these words:

"I believe that is it not disputed that what Lord Wensleydale used to call the golden rule is right, vis, that we are to take the whole statute together, and construe it all together, giving the words their ordinary signification, unless when so applied they produce an inconsistency, or an absurdity or inconvenience so great as to convince the Court that the intention could not have been to use them in their ordinary signification, which though less proper, is one which the Court thinks the words will bear."

As the British Columbia Court of Appeal wrote in 1991, Krusel v Firth:

"(T)he golden rule ... is most often applied so as to resolve ambiguity in statutory language in favour of that meaning which will best achieve the intention of the legislature revealed by the statute as a whole.

"The rule requires also that words having only one meaning on a logical reading of the statute - language, that is to say, which gives rise to no ambiguity - shall nevertheless not be given that natural meaning where the result would be unjust or absurd or would contradict the plain purpose or intent of the statute, as discovered from a reading of the whole and from the character which, in the absence of contrary words, the law ascribes to statutes of that sort."

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Versions of the Golden Rule in dozens of religions and …

Amplified Bible:So then, in everything treat others the same way you want them to treat you,for this is [the essence of] the Law and the [writings of the] Prophets.King James Version: "Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you,do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."

New International Version:So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you,for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.

Living Bible:Do for others what you want them to do for you.This is the teaching of the laws of Moses in a nutshell. 1

(Words in bold are not in the original Bible translations.)

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This bus image was altered to display "The Golden Rule" on its front.The side of the bus was photoshopped to contain the upper part of Scarboro Missions' Golden Rule poster, which is shown below

Linking the Golden Rule to the "Sheep and Goats" passage, Matthew 25:32-46

A statement by Gautama Buddha:He was the founder of Buddhism, which is the fifth largest religion after Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Chinese traditional religion:

"Resolve to be tender with the young,compassionate with the aged,sympatheitic with the striving.and tolerant with the weak and wrong.Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these." 3

Statement by the Dalai Lama:

The core beliefs of every religion

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The Ethic of Reciprocity -- often called the Golden Rule -- simply states that all of us are to treat other people as we would wish other people to treat us in return.

On April 5 each year, the International Golden Rule Day is observed as a global virtual celebration. Before 2018's celebration, the web site https:www.goldenruleday.org announced:

"Join us on Thursday, April 5, for a 24-hour global virtual celebration of the Golden Rule; a universal principle shared by nearly all cultural, spiritual, religious, and secular traditions on Earth.

Over the course of 24 hours, people from many corners of the world will address Why the Golden Rule Matters Now as they share how people, organizations and governments can use this Common Principle to create a better world for everyone.

Join us and experience conversations, music, stories, and art inspired by the Golden Rule. Learn new ways to apply the Golden Rule in your life and community."5

Almost all organized religions, philosophical systems, and secular systems of morality include such an ethic. It is normally intended to apply to the entire human race. Unfortunately, it is too often applied by some people only to believers in the same religion or even to others in the same denomination, of the same gender, the same sexual orientation, etc.

Marriott International, Inc. is a leading global lodging company with more than 6,500 properties across 127 countries and territories. They promote the Golden Rule on their website, saying:

"We live by the #GoldenRule: Treating others like wed like to be treated. It has always been our guiding principle."

Their web site includes stories of "GoldenRule moments."6 They are well worth reading. One example is below.

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Transition Probabilities and Fermi’s Golden Rule

One of the prominent failures of the Bohr model for atomic spectra was that it couldn't predict that one spectral line would be brighter than another. From the quantum theory came an explanation in terms of wavefunctions, and for situations where the transition probability is constant in time, it is usually expressed in a relationship called Fermi's golden rule.

In general conceptual terms, a transition rate depends upon the strength of the coupling between the initial and final state of a system and upon the number of ways the transition can happen (i.e., the density of the final states). In many physical situations the transition probability is of the form

The transition probability l is also called the decay probability and is related to the mean lifetime t of the state by l = 1/t. The general form of Fermi's golden rule can apply to atomic transitions, nuclear decay, scattering ... a large variety of physical transitions.

A transition will proceed more rapidly if the coupling between the initial and final states is stronger. This coupling term is traditionally called the "matrix element" for the transition: this term comes from an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics in terms of matrices rather than the differential equations of the Schrodinger approach. The matrix element can be placed in the form of an integral where the interaction which causes the transition is expressed as a potential V which operates on the initial state wavefunction. The transition probability is proportional to the square of the integral of this interaction over all of the space appropriate to the problem.

This kind of integral approach using the wavefunctions is of the same general form as that used to find the "expectation value" or expected average value of any physical variable in quantum mechanics. But in the case of an expectation value for a property like the system energy, the integral has the wavefunction representing the eigenstate of the system in both places in the integral.

The transition probability is also proportional to the density of final states rf. It is reasonably common for the final state to be composed of several states with the same energy - such states are said to be "degenerate" states. This degeneracy is sometimes expressed as a "statistical weight" which will appear as a factor in the transition probability. In many cases there will be a continuum of final states, so that this density of final states is expressed as a function of energy.

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A photoshopped "Golden Rule Bus"

This bus image was altered to display "The Golden Rule" on its front.The side of the bus was photoshopped to contain the upper part of Scarboro Missions' Golden Rule poster, which is shown below

Linking the Golden Rule to the "Sheep and Goats" passage, Matthew 25:32-46

A statement by Gautama Buddha:He was the founder of Buddhism, which is the fifth largest religion after Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Chinese traditional religion:

"Resolve to be tender with the young,compassionate with the aged,sympatheitic with the striving.and tolerant with the weak and wrong.Sometime in your life, you will have been all of these." 2

Statement by the Dalai Lama:

The core beliefs of every religion

3

Sponsored link

The Ethic of Reciprocity -- often called the Golden Rule -- simply states that all of us are to treat other people as we would wish other people to treat us in return.

On April 5 each year, the International Golden Rule Day will be observed as a global virtual celebration. Before 2018's celebration the web site https:www.goldenruleday.org announced:

"Join us on Thursday, April 5, for a 24-hour global virtual celebration of the Golden Rule; a universal principle shared by nearly all cultural, spiritual, religious, and secular traditions on Earth.

Over the course of 24 hours, people from many corners of the world will address Why the Golden Rule Matters Now as they share how people, organizations and governments can use this Common Principle to create a better world for everyone.

Join us and experience conversations, music, stories, and art inspired by the Golden Rule. Learn new ways to apply the Golden Rule in your life and community."4

Almost all organized religions, philosophical systems, and secular systems of morality include such an ethic. It is normally intended to apply to the entire human race. Unfortunately, it is too often applied by some people only to believers in the same religion or even to others in the same denomination, of the same gender, the same sexual orientation, etc.

Marriott International, Inc. is a leading global lodging company with more than 6,500 properties across 127 countries and territories. They promote the Golden Rule on their website, saying:

"We live by the #GoldenRule: Treating others like wed like to be treated. It has always been our guiding principle."

Their web site includes stories of "GoldenRule moments."5 They are well worth reading. One example is below.

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The Louisiana Hospital-Based Physician Disclosure List is for informational purposes only and contains the names and location of certain hospital-based physicians located in the State of Louisiana as reported to UnitedHealthcare. It is provided in accordance with the Louisiana Consumer Health Care Provider Network Disclosure Act. It is not part of UnitedHealthcare's directory of Network Providers and the physicians on this list may not be contracted with UnitedHealthcare and includes Network and Non-Network Providers.

Health care services may be provided to you at a network health care facility by facility-based physicians who are not in your health plan. You may be responsible for payment of all or part of the fees for those out-of-network services, in addition to applicable amounts due for copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, and non-covered services. Specific information about in-network and out-of-network facility-based physicians can be found by clicking on the link above or by calling the customer service telephone number on the back of your ID card.

North Dakota:

Click here for North Dakota Grievance Procedures.

Texas:

A facility-based physician or health care practitioner may not be a member of your health benefit plan's provider network, even though the physician or health care practitioner provides health care services at an in-network health care facility. If the physician or health care practitioner is not a member of your health benefit plan's provider network, you may be responsible for payment of the physicians or practitioners fees not paid by your health benefit plan.

Click here for a list of UnitedHealthcare in-network health care facilities that may staff facility-based physicians or health care practitioners which may not participate in your health benefit plan's provider network.

Click herefor additional Information for Texas Insureds.

Wisconsin:

You are strongly encouraged to contact us to verify the status of the providers involved in your care including, for example, the anesthesiologist, radiologist, pathologist, facility, clinic or laboratory, when scheduling appointments or elective procedures to determine whether each provider is a participating or nonparticipating provider. Such information may assist in your selection of provider(s) and will likely affect the level of co-payment, deductible and amount of co-insurance applicable to care you receive. The information contained in this directory may change during your plan year. Please call the Customer Service phone number on your ID card to learn more about the participating providers in your network and the implications, including financial, if you decide to receive your care from nonparticipating providers.

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Golden Rule Insurance Review & Complaints | Healthcare

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Golden Rule Insurance was founded in 1940 in Indianapolis, Indiana, and became a part of UnitedHealthCare in 2003. Their products are sold under the UnitedHealthOne banner, which is the branding used for individual products that are underwritten by a variety of subsidiary companies owned by United.

Golden Rules product lineup is centered on individual health insurance plans. The company has a history of political support for candidates pushing the increased use of HSAs in health care reform. Our research, however, did not show any products from Golden Rule that utilize an HSA this may be due to the states in which we looked or a change in their offerings.

Golden Rule underwrites a variety of products under the UnitedHealthCare name. These include dental, vision, short-term medical, supplemental health, and prescription drug plans. Currently, there does not appear to be any major medical plans offered by Golden Rule (although other UnitedHealth companies do offer this type of plan).

Golden Rule continues to operate out of Indianapolis and offers their products in 40 states as well as the District of Columbia.

Which of the companies under the UnitedHealthOne brand will underwrite the insurance depends on the state of residence; for example, when we attempted to get product information for California we found only dental, critical illness, vision, and prescription discount plans available. Hospital and medical indemnity coverage is offered in the state by a different UnitedHealth subsidiary.

Because of the long list of products and the various versions of those products make it difficult to provide details, we have tried to give an overview of each of the products Golden Rule writes. We drew from both California and Indiana to get a look at the products not offered in one single state.

Short Term Medical

Golden Rule has a variety of short-term medical plans designed to provide catastrophic coverage for those that are in between major medical plans for a variety of reasons, including job changes.

The plans we saw in Indiana range from 60/40 coinsurance up to 80/20 coinsurance. Deductibles are either $10,000 or $12,500. These are high because this type of plan is meant to be in place to protect against catastrophic medical bills, and not for regular ongoing medical care.

Hospital and Doctor Insurance

Golden Rules Hospital and Doctor insurance plans pay a flat rate per day to cover fees for inpatient hospital care that are not paid for under major medical insurance.

The plans listed for Indiana start at coverage of $1,000 a day and go up by $1,000 increments to $5,000 a day.

Dental

In both states we looked at, Golden Rule has six different dental insurance plans available. These plans all offer similar basic coverage but differ in terms of copays and coinsurance amounts. Some plans include coverage for major dental service, while others cover only basics. None of the plans we looked at include orthodontia coverage.

Vision

There are two plans available in both states we looked at. The vision plans all include annual exams and benefits for eyeglasses and contacts. These plans can be bundled with the dental plans.

Critical Illness

Golden Rules Critical Illness insurance plans pay a flat rate benefit upon diagnosis with any of the covered critical illnesses.

The payout benefits start at $10,000 and go up to $50,000.

Accident

Golden Rule offers three different accident insurance plans in Indiana. Each of the three plans offers an increasing level of benefits to pay for medical costs arising from an accident. Coverage pays for doctor visits but does not provide any benefits for prescription drugs.

Discount Card

In both of our sample states Golden Rule offers a discount program that provides discounted services for both medical care and for prescription drugs.

Term Life

In Indiana, Golden Rule writes 10 or 20-year term life insurance plans with death benefit amounts going up to $200,000. An optional Critical Illness rider can be added to the plans.

We looked at the rates for a 30-year-old male, which are readily available and easy to locate on the UnitedHealthOne site. Since there are so many different plans, we are listing some of the more common options.

Short-term medical starts at $44.40 (in Indiana, as this coverage is not available in California) and goes up to $64.20.

Dental insurance plans start at $27.95 in California and go up to $76.90 a month. Rates in Indiana are a bit lower which is not surprising and start at $21.03

Hospital and Doctor insurance is not underwritten by Golden Rule in California. The Indiana rates start at $52.59 a month for this product.

The last rates we gathered are for term life insurance. A 10-year term policy with a death benefit of $25,000 came in at $6.81 a month. A 20-year-term policy at $200,000 has a monthly rate of $56.33.

We did not find much in the way of claims information on the companys website. Although most health insurance plans handle claims directly with the provider, some of the policies that are underwritten by Golden Rule will require the filing of claims directly by the insured.

On the contact page, there is both a mailing address and a fax number for claims. A phone number is not listed, but United does have a main customer service line where claims questions can likely be directed. There is also a member portal where existing customers can check on existing claims.

Golden Rule Insurance Company has an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau (BBB). They have been accredited since 1985 and have a total of 17 complaints on file in the past three years. There are five negative reviews on the BBB page citing issues of claims denial and long wait times on hold with the company.

There are 85 reviews of Golden Rule on Consumer Affairs and an overall one-star rating. The complaints on this site are much the same, including billing issues and claims issues. There are also multiple complaints about the difficulty of getting a person on the phone.

The complaint volume for Golden Rule is not high for the size of the company, and the type of complaints are fairly common to this sort of insurance company. It does seem like there is an issue with hold times for customer service, which is a problem that Golden Rule needs to address, but this is often common to large insurance companies that have outgrown their staff.

Golden Rules branding under UnitedHealthOne is a bit confusing, and the other companies under the same brand add to that confusion, but the brand does provide name recognition. They have a long list of products that differ from state to state and may be a good value depending on your needs.

For a list of companies that we recommend, visit our Best Insurance Companies page.

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Reviewer

Eric Stauffer

Review Date

2018-10-31

Reviewed

Golden Rule

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The Golden Rule – Think Humanism

Humanists try to embrace the moral principle known as the Golden Rule, otherwise known as the ethic of reciprocity, which means we believe that people should aim to treat each other as they would like to be treated themselves with tolerance, consideration and compassion.

Humanists like the Golden Rule because of its universality, because it is derived from human feelings and experience and because it requires people to think about others and try to imagine how they might think and feel. It is a simple and clear default position for moral decision-making.

Sometimes people argue that the Golden Rule is imperfect because it makes the assumption that everyone has the same tastes and opinions and wants to be treated the same in every situation. But the Golden Rule is a general moral principle, not a hard and fast rule to be applied to every detail of life. Treating other people as we would wish to be treated ourselves does not mean making the assumption that others feel exactly as we do about everything. The treatment we all want is recognition that we are individuals, each with our own opinions and feelings and for these opinions and feelings to be afforded respect and consideration. The Golden Rule is not an injunction to impose ones will on someone else!

Trying to live according to the Golden Rule means trying to empathise with other people, including those who may be very different from us. Empathy is at the root of kindness, compassion, understanding and respect qualities that we all appreciate being shown, whoever we are, whatever we think and wherever we come from. And although it isnt possible to know what it really feels like to be a different person or live in different circumstances and have different life experiences, it isnt difficult for most of us to imagine what would cause us suffering and to try to avoid causing suffering to others. For this reason, many people find the Golden Rules corollary do not treat people in a way you would not wish to be treated yourself more pragmatic.

The Golden Rule cannot be claimed for any one philosophy or religion; indeed, the successful evolution of communities has depended on its use as a standard through which conflict can be resolved. Throughout the ages, many individual thinkers and spiritual traditions have promoted one or other version of it. Here are some examples of the different ways it has been expressed:

Maria MacLachlanOctober 2007

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Golden Rule Plumbing Heating & Cooling – Official Site

Golden Rule Plumbing, Heating & Cooling has proudly served Des Moines, IA and the rest of the Des Moines area for more than two decades. We attribute our success to our firm belief that the customer always comes first no matter what. When you contact us for plumbing services, repairs for your air conditioning or heating system, or a new installation for a water heater (and these are only a few of our many services), you can count on work from skilled professionals who use the best current technology to see that every job is done rightand done right the first time.

Our services cover an immense range of types of work: plumbing, drain and sewer line cleaning, HVAC services, geothermal installation and repair, plus plumbing and HVAC for commercial buildings and properties. We back up our work with a 100% satisfaction guarantee, and our upfront pricing ensures that youll always know the cost before we start any job. You can reach us 24 hours a day when you need emergency services.

We offer a full range of residential plumbing services in Des Moines, IA. This includes everything from a simple drain unclogging to a large wholehouse repiping. Your household plumbing is vital for everyday convenience and comfort, and youll only want to trust plumbers with the experience necessary to ensure an excellent job each time. We have the plumbing professionals who can deliver!

Des Moines experiences extremes in weather over the year, so its imperative that homes have heating and air conditioning systems able to handle the temperature swings. When you rely on an HVAC contractor with more than 20 years of experience in Des Moines, you can relax knowing that whatever heating and AC services you require will be done right. We install a wide variety of systems, as well as provide repairs, replacements, and maintenance.

We take pride that one of our specialties is work with geothermal systems. You might think using geothermal heating and cooling is out of reach for your house, but our experienced professionals would love to show you otherwise! We want to help more homes enjoy the energysaving and environmentallyfriendly benefits of using geothermal power. Our team installs, replaces, maintains, and repairs geothermal heat pumps in the area. Call to find out more.

When plumbing problems occur at a business, its a bigger emergency than when they occur in a residential building. Many people depend on the plumbing, and the bottom line can be affected if the trouble isnt solved fast. Golden Rule Plumbing, Heating & Cooling offers commercial plumbing work in Des Moines, IA to repair any problem, and we also install and maintain commercial plumbing equipment. We have you covered for commercial HVAC services as well!

Our motto is"We Obey the Rules to Live By!".

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No individual applying for health coverage through the individual Marketplace will be discouraged from applying for benefits, turned down for coverage, or charged more premium because of health status, medical condition, mental illness claims experience, medical history, genetic information or health disability. In addition, no individual will be denied coverage based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, personal appearance, political affiliation or source of income.

References to UnitedHealthcare pertain to each individual company or other UnitedHealthcare affiliated companies.Dental and Vision products are administrated by related companies.Each company is a separate entity and is not responsible for another's financial or contractual obligations.Administrative services are provided by United HealthCare Services, Inc.

Products and services offered are underwritten by Golden Rule Insurance Company, Oxford Health Insurance, Inc., UnitedHealthcare Life Insurance Company andUnitedHealthcare Insurance Company. In New Mexico, products and services offered are only underwritten by Golden Rule Insurance Company.

All products require separate applications. Separate policies or certificates are issued. Golden Rule Short Term Medical plans are medically underwritten. Related insuranceproducts offered by either company may be medically underwritten see the product brochures and applications. HealthiestYou by Teladoc is not insurance and is not associated with any other insurance product for which you are applying. HealthiestYou by Teladoc and UnitedHealthcare are not affiliated and each entity is responsible for its own contractual and financial obligations. Travel Health Insurance, Property & Casualty, Final Expense Whole Life Insurance and Pet Insurance are underwritten by different companies that are not related to the UnitedHealthcare family of companies. Product availability varies by state.

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Plumber & HVAC Des Moines IA | Golden Rule Plumbing …

Golden Rule Plumbing, Heating & Cooling has proudly served Des Moines, IA and the rest of the Des Moines area for more than two decades. We attribute our success to our firm belief that the customer always comes first no matter what. When you contact us for plumbing services, repairs for your air conditioning or heating system, or a new installation for a water heater (and these are only a few of our many services), you can count on work from skilled professionals who use the best current technology to see that every job is done rightand done right the first time.

Our services cover an immense range of types of work: plumbing, drain and sewer line cleaning, HVAC services, geothermal installation and repair, plus plumbing and HVAC for commercial buildings and properties. We back up our work with a 100% satisfaction guarantee, and our upfront pricing ensures that youll always know the cost before we start any job. You can reach us 24 hours a day when you need emergency services.

We offer a full range of residential plumbing services in Des Moines, IA. This includes everything from a simple drain unclogging to a large wholehouse repiping. Your household plumbing is vital for everyday convenience and comfort, and youll only want to trust plumbers with the experience necessary to ensure an excellent job each time. We have the plumbing professionals who can deliver!

Des Moines experiences extremes in weather over the year, so its imperative that homes have heating and air conditioning systems able to handle the temperature swings. When you rely on an HVAC contractor with more than 20 years of experience in Des Moines, you can relax knowing that whatever heating and AC services you require will be done right. We install a wide variety of systems, as well as provide repairs, replacements, and maintenance.

We take pride that one of our specialties is work with geothermal systems. You might think using geothermal heating and cooling is out of reach for your house, but our experienced professionals would love to show you otherwise! We want to help more homes enjoy the energysaving and environmentallyfriendly benefits of using geothermal power. Our team installs, replaces, maintains, and repairs geothermal heat pumps in the area. Call to find out more.

When plumbing problems occur at a business, its a bigger emergency than when they occur in a residential building. Many people depend on the plumbing, and the bottom line can be affected if the trouble isnt solved fast. Golden Rule Plumbing, Heating & Cooling offers commercial plumbing work in Des Moines, IA to repair any problem, and we also install and maintain commercial plumbing equipment. We have you covered for commercial HVAC services as well!

Our motto is"We Obey the Rules to Live By!".

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