Blockchain is a digital ledger that is distributed across a network of computers. It is a database that is decentralized, meaning it is not under the control of a single company or government. This makes it more secure than a centralized database, which can be hacked and whose records are centralized. Blockchain is most commonly associated with cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, but it can be used to store anything of value, like medical records or legal documents
How Blockchain helps with the current healthcare crisis?
Problem: Healthcare is one of the most important industries in the world, and the current system is unsustainable. In the United States, more than twice as many people die from medical errors as from gun violence. The United States spends nearly twice as much on healthcare as every other country, yet our health outcomes are worse than those of many developing nations. The current system is broken and needs to be fixed.
Solutions: Blockchain technology can be used to build trust in the healthcare ecosystem by recording medical data in a secure, decentralized way. This will allow patients to store their medical records on the blockchain and verify the authenticity of those records with their caregivers. This will help patients build greater trust in their healthcare providers and will also enable them to share their personal medical data with other patients in a more secure way. It will also enable patients to connect their medical devices to the blockchain, which will allow them to monitor and control their medical devices from a smartphone app or computer terminal.
One of the biggest problems with the healthcare industry is the lack of trust among patients and doctors. Blockchain can help to build trust in the Internet of Things by creating a transparent and secure record of medical devices and data. This will allow patients to access their own medical data from anywhere in the world and share it with their doctors. Doctors will also be able to access data about the patients they see in real-time, which will improve the quality of care and reduce medical errors. **
As often repeated in this blog, we can not talk about an African-American culture, as one should rather mention the existence of African-American cultures. Due to the great US territorial expansion, it would be totally improbable to reduce the Black American experience to the hip-hop subculture. As they have been manipulated by the standardization of “Blackness” through the overexposed Black American model, Black Europeans have been submitted to the US Black model since the first waves of African migrations to Europe, thus giving birth to horrific blends mixing the low African cultures from the capitals, to a hybrid Black American and ghetto facet inherited from the European capital they grew up in and as symbolized by the likes of Aya Nakamura.
The European elite never act out of innocence. In their disdain and racism, they always deemed the Black American heritage to have been much more acceptable than that of the African immigrants. Why? In their demise, the Black Americans were already shaped by capitalism and assimilated to an aspiration as they desired to access European elitism in arts, politics, education and social activities. As being the first minority living in the most powerful nation on earth, understand the United States, their political fate was always regarded as more important than the other diasporas. If Black Brazilians, Black Colombians, Black Puerto-Ricans or Black Cubans proved to be examples of great resilience as they fought for their rights and emancipation, their history is not promoted by the West at all. They belong to the despised southern sphere and have little to no importance. The Black Americans were promoted due to their assimilation, hence a tactique Western Europeans hoped to reproduce with their own African minorities they despised.
Due to the lack of representation and their social isolation following the 1970s massive waves of immigration to Western Europe, the Europeans of African and Afro-Caribbean descent followed the Black American model, as it represented a perfect compromise between Africanness through a cool and embraced European/White assimilation. In that regard, the international explosion of hip-hop in the mid 1990s helped millions of Euro-African men and women adapt and find their place in a racist world which was not crafted or designed for them. Most importantly, before the Nigerians made Africa interesting again with the international rise of Afro beat in the 2010s, the African-Americanization of Black European societies was also a good machine for the white elite as it went along with the dehumanization of African culture. Indeed, those who hoped to become more similar to the black Americans they deemed superior to Black Europeans as a whole, saw Africa as a desperate continent with no issue. As a consequence, instead of creating their own heritage by blending the authentic European and African cultures they belonged to, two generations of Black Europeans, beginning in the 1980s, failed to create their own culture which should have been distinct from that of the Black Americans.
As usual, the African-Americanization of these Black Europeans did not take place through elevation at all but rather through a constant dumbing down of their selves due to the constant exposure of black families to the sphere of entertainment. In reality, Black Americans have been used since the dawn of time by their white elite as the best group to dumb down the planet. A Black American poet or intellectual will be read and studied in white elitist groups while the black masses would rather listen to Beyoncé and place entertainers, hence political puppets, at the top of their worshipping altars. In a matter of fifty years, the entertainment industry has promoted Black musicians to encourage the black masses not to see beyond the prism of music and industrialized art. By worshipping celebrities they owe to turn into political figures, these Blacks are thus used to spiritual submission, for conditioned to wait for a savior,instead of standing up for their own rights and regard themselves as capable beings who can overcome obstacles. Black entertainers are promoted by the white elite for they lead their communities to a cultural void.
The 1990s would be the shift which marked the beginning of the end of the depth of black American culture as the singers and performers became much more interested in the idea of capitalism and power than other.
The dumbing down of the “black experience” by the forced African-Americanization is also due to one other major problem: African immigration. Most immigrants who moved massively to Western Europe in the 1970s were exploited as workers in poor industries. To the eyes of the European leaders of that time, these poor immigrants were nothing less than arms. Thus, by accepting them, the European elite clearly knew that decades would be needed to eradicate the systemic rooted poverty as the latter is reinforced by the lack of projection in the future. These African immigrants were used to serve, only and be dependent upon state’s money. As a consequence, few African parents taught their children how to own, build and possess. This explains the great lateness of the African French community with “political” figures such as Assa Traoré, Rokhaya Diallo or the collective SOS Racisme whose ideas are not only plain and late but truly lack intellectual stimulation. The arrival of the Africans in the 1970s was a trap they fell into dangerously as the European political clique knew their descendants would fall behind for unable to see ahead of time due to the lack of intellectual stimulation from their working and exploited parents.
The glory is always attributed to low Blacks, especially in the world of entertainment. Why? The Black communities living in the Western sphere do not realise that they have been under study for 400 years. Their constant exposure to easy money and capitalism helps their white leaders keep them behind. As they have been abused for hundred of years, the black communities never had access to the material goods unlike the prosperous Whites. After the revolution of the 1960s, the Black Americans were trapped again and granted the right to massively consume goods to take away their attention from the real black fight. As a consequence, the 1970s and 1980s saw the rise of a political hybridity where mass consumerism was mixed with a fraudulent political consciousness. Products such as Beyoncé are the prime example. And unfortunately, the real black American fighters who have been carrying the political struggle of their forefathers are silently being assassinated, as the case of Darren Seals from Ferguson proved it.
When it comes to dumbing down individuals or bring in political chaos, Blacks are always used by the elite to do the dirty job. If one dares to criticize it or question it, one would scream about sexism or racism. The oversexualization of the black female body which is similar to that of the enslaved African women under slavery and colonialism as illustrated by products such as Nicki Minaj, Meg The Stallion or Cardi B is one example. This constant dehumanization of the black group by black people themselves who remain blinded by the destructive concept of massive capitalism has been applied to the Black Europeans too.
In reality, the latter always had a feeling of inferiority towards their American counterparts when they were originally much more wealthy in terms of culture. They not only know their roots in Africa as they were lucky enough to have kept their lineages, but they also live in European countries with rich cultures. Despite their cruel colonial pasts, France, the UK, Germany, Spain or Italy have a rich intellectual, cultural, spiritual patrimony which deserved to be embraced, studied, read and appreciated. Way too often, the European cultures were rejected as a response to the social isolation and racism experienced by the Black Europeans themselves. But such reaction was wrong. Politicians exploit conditions for their own strategy but culture and arts can not always be politicized. What have Aleksander Pushkin, Fyodor Dovtoiesky, Alexandre Dumas, François-René de Chateaubriand to do with racial political strategies?
Plus, the European elite in their racism always claimed that the recent African waves of migration to Europe were a modern concept which did not exist before and that the immigrants are all desperate beings attracted to the Western wealth. In reality, history proved way too many times during Antiquity, that Black Africans were not only always present in Europe but also one of the main racial and cultural foundations of the continent. In ancient Greek mythology, the goddess Europa whose continent was named after, descended from a black Egyptian/Canaanite branch thus indicating that ancient Europeans knew that Europeans were originally mixed race. Africans also contributed to the creation of legendary musical styles such as Fado in Portugal, Flamenco in Spain, among others.
Therefore, Africans always had a place in European history and development even during slavery. Alexandre Dumas, the direct descendant of an enslaved African Haitian woman was acclaimed by white French people and regarded as one of the best authors of all time. Though racist, the same French people were also welcoming to the African-Americans who fled persecution in the 1920s to settle in Paris. While Africans were exposed in zoos, white French accepted the Black Americans.
The complex of inferiority displayed towards Europe and the lateness of Latin European countries whose leaders refused to integrate and accept their minorities to protect their old and dying white institutions contributed to a stagnation of the Black Europeans but also to a disinterest for European cultures. The varied, diverse African backgrounds of the immigrants should have forced the latter to spend their time exploring their selves rather than copying the black Americans.
The respect towards the Black American achievement is understandable and can not be condemned, but it should have never lasted as long, as it contributed to the cultural loss of our own. And judging by how the Black Americans have been presented as the only model of success, they proved to be a tremendous failure in everything, as they betrayed the fight of their ancestors for the joy of capitalism reinforced by their great desire to be embraced by the white elite.
It is, therefore, more than important to understand that, in our present cycle, a mark has been sealed forever as the Black populations either living in Western Europe or the US now belong to another category, whether they accept it or not. Indeed, the distanciation from Africa has been made and the groups became something else, belonging to an inbetweeness they will not be able to stay away from.
I used to accept any role, now I’m selective — Bimbo Ademoye
Actress, Bimbo Ademoye, has said when she first got into the movie industry, she usually accepted any role that came her way. But now, she carefully selects which roles she accepts to play.
Speaking as a guest on Meet and Greet, a show put together by Inkblot Productions, she said, “Make sure you know the craft (before joining the industry). Don’t just come in because you are pretty, have long hair or a good shape. I came in with my ‘bow legs’ (knock knees), saying, ‘This is me’. My dad has a lot of connections but for some reasons, he did not ‘know people’ in the movie industry. I came in all by myself knowing full well that this is what I want to do. Back then, I used to take any movie roles (that came my way). Now, I am quite selective. Someone once got offended because I said, ‘No’. I told the person it was a beautiful story but I did not see myself playing it, and she got offended.”
Recounting one of her craziest moments on the set of a movie, Ademoye said, “On one occasion, we were filming upstairs in a building and I was going downstairs. However, someone had put a cup of hot water on the rails upstairs, and for some reason, when I got downstairs, it poured on me. Thankfully, I did not have any burns but the sting was painful. I screamed and went into the bathroom. But, the production manager said, ‘We are waiting for you’.
“All the curse words that could come out of my mouth came out and it took so much for me not to punch him, even though I knew he could beat me up. The director then came downstairs and said to me, ‘Bimbo sorry, he is only doing his job’. That has to be the craziest experience I’ve had on a movie set.”
The second black box has been recovered from last week’s deadly China Eastern plane crash, officials said Sunday, and could help solve the mystery of the jet’s breakneck descent.
The Boeing 737-800 was flying between the cities of Kunming and Guangzhou on Monday when it nosedived into a mountainside, disintegrating on impact and killing all 132 people on board.
The cause of the disaster, China’s deadliest plane crash in more than 30 years, is not yet known.
An “orange cylindrical object was unearthed” Sunday morning, Zhu Tao, director of safety at China’s Civil Aviation Administration (CAAC), told reporters.
“Investigators on site have confirmed… it is the storage unit of the flight data recorder.”
The plane was equipped with two flight recorders: a cockpit voice recorder and one in the rear passenger cabin tracking flight data.
The former was found on Wednesday and sent to Beijing for analysis, which is expected to take several more days.
second black box contains crucial information such as the speed of the aircraft, its altitude and heading.
“While other parts of the recorder were seriously damaged, the data storage unit appears relatively intact” and “has been sent to a professional lab to be decoded”, Zhu said.
Hundreds of people, including firefighters, doctors and investigators — some dressed in full-body protective suits — remained at the scene of the tragedy on Sunday recovering human remains and the wreckage of the plane.
Earthmovers assisted in the operation on the mountainside, which is covered in dense vegetation.
Early recovery efforts were hampered by heavy rain, forcing a temporary pause due to what state media called “the small risk of landslides” in the large pit that was bored out by the impact of the aircraft.
-Pilots ‘not under suspicion’-On Sunday, China Eastern said the plane’s captain and two co-pilots were not under suspicion
preliminary investigation had shown the three men to have “excellent service records”, the airline said, adding that their home situations hinted at no evidence of trouble
The captain had more than 6,700 hours of flight experience while the first co-pilot had over 31,000 hours of flight time and the second more than 550 hours, officials said previously.
The aircraft went down near Wuzhou in southern China on Monday afternoon after losing contact with air traffic control.
Tracking website FlightRadar24 showed the jet sharply dropped from an altitude of 29,100 to 7,850 feet (about 8,900 to 2,400 metres) in just over a minute.
After a brief upswing, it dropped again to 3,225 feet, the tracker said. There is no data for the flight after 2:22 pm.
-Compensation process under way-The CAAC on Saturday evening said all of the people on board the aircraft had died, and that almost all their identities had been confirmed through DNA testing.
All 123 passengers and nine crew members were Chinese nationals.
Liu Xiaodong, China Eastern’s director of communications, on Sunday was quoted by Chinese media as saying the process of compensating the families of the victims was already under way.
The disaster provoked a swift public response from President Xi Jinping, who ordered a probe into its cause as aviation authorities vowed an extensive two-week check-up of China’s vast passenger fleet.
China Eastern also grounded all 223 of its Boeing 737-800 aeroplanes for checks.
The crash is a major setback for the return for Boeing’s 737 MAX in China, the last big market where the US planemaker is still awaiting approval to resume flying following crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia that killed a combined 346 people in 2018 and 2019.
If you have dealt with them, you probably know they can be relentless in their pursuit of you. I had one woman in particular stalk me on social media about 4 years ago, and without a doubt, I know who it is.
I’m not one to complain or to have a victim mentality. And I won’t stress out over it because I have enough people who know me well enough not to get hoodwinked by smears.
I know that being afraid is exactly what she wanted, and I didn’t give her the satisfaction. However, I was a little concerned. Who wouldn’t be? Being cyber-stalked isn’t fun.
This woman needed help. She sent me nasty messages and stalked all of my social media pages. And at different times in the last four years- several times in 2018, she’s returned again since. She’s one of those stalkers that attacks you, disappears for a while, then comes back again with more hatred.
This is all because I deleted her from my friend’s list for making offhand comments and sarcastic remarks to some of my posts.
I’ve blocked her. However, she has had her sister, her son, and a few others stalk me and even stalk my husband and kids. We have since blocked all of them.
It just goes to show that she’s a coward and doesn’t have much going for her. Because if she did, she wouldn’t resort to any of this.
Her latest act is stalking me on a few other pages such as Amazon and Google books.
She was at her craziest in 2018 when she threatened to look up my address, then get on a bus and come pay me a visit (She lives out of state now).
I’m glad she thought I was worth the travel expenses! (Hee-hee!)
Understand that with someone as sick-minded as she, all threats should be taken seriously, And I put a few friends on alert just in case she tries anything with them.
When you have a cyber-stalker, do respond. But never react!
2. Never stay silent about it but put the word out to family and friends who love you because it can make all the difference in whether or not your attacker is caught should they take it to the next level and try to hunt you down.
3. At the same time, keep an eye on all your business online and be aware of your surroundings when you’re out.
4. Do your best to walk confidently and look like someone a criminal would think twice about messing with.
Do these things, and you’ll surely feel better, be better able to relax and enjoy life.
This movement is one of the most obvious movements that shows that you are bored with the environment you are in.
Never say to your boss, “I don’t understand what you’re saying, but I have to listen to you!”
You don’t say it, but remember that you have a body that says it in front of you!
2. Exaggerated Gestures
Exaggerated gestures will also make the other person think that you are misrepresenting the truth or that you are exaggerating more than necessary.
To avoid this, choosing more controlled and small gestures will show that you are conveying the truth completely to the other person.
3. Checking the Clock
Checking your watch while talking to someone will be perceived as one of the most disrespectful things to do.
This gesture will show the other person that you have more important things to do than talk to them or that you can’t wait to finish talking to them.
4. Looking Away
During a conversation or meeting, being busy with other things instead of taking care of the speaker is also one action that can make you lose credibility.
Instead of a move that will make you lose your credit, turning towards the person speaking in a way that shows that you are listening and not being interested in other things will make you successful.
5. Clasping Your Arms
Even if you’re laughing while listening to someone, crossing your arms or legs is a body language gesture that will show you don’t agree with what they are saying.
Even if it makes you comfortable, it will be important to clearly position yourself for this move.
6. Inconsistency
The inconsistency between what you say and what you do is also among the factors that will keep you away from success.
Using body language that supports what you say will make you profitable, especially at bargaining tables.
7. Exaggerated Confirmation
Nodding is somewhat comforting;
But when it comes to exaggerating this affirmation, things change.
With this exaggerated act, he will draw the conclusion that you actually do not approve.
8. Playing With Hair Too Much
Playing with your hair too much will make you feel nervous or too energetic.
Or people will think you care more about your physical appearance than your career.
To prevent this, it is necessary not to overdo it when playing with your hair.
9. Avoiding Eye Contact
Averting your eyes indicates that you are hiding something or suspecting something.
It is also an important body language mistake that can create the perception of low self-esteem.
Maintaining enough eye contact will also give the impression that you are interested and self-confident.
10. Making Too Much Eye Contact
Avoiding eye contact can lead to false results, and exaggerating eye contact can lead to false results.
The perception of this by the other person is the impression of someone trying to be aggressive and dominant.
11. Taking Care of Your Environment too Much
Listening with whirling eyes will constitute a disrespectful gesture.
Instead, it will always be healthier to make more controlled eye contact.
12. Getting Angry
Remember that you will look angry to the other person when your eyebrows are frowning.
However, smiling makes the other person feel that you are an open and reliable person.
13. Weak Handshake
A weak handshake is indicative of weak self-confidence and weak authority.
A strong handshake is always ideal, depending on the situation, as too much will obviously be harmful.
14. Clenched Fists
Clenched fists show a defensive position, just as your arms and feet are clenched.
15. Getting Too Close
Standing too close to someone is a gesture that shows you don’t respect their personal space. No closer than a step and a half will often be a good signal.
To sum it all up, avoiding these moves will help you build more successful relationships in both your personal and professional life.
For most people Friday is the day before the weekend and is a day spent thinking “woohoo! Two days off coming up”. As I work Saturdays Friday is less of a great day for me. I miss not having a weekend. Having a day off then going back in the next day and then having Sunday off is not the same as two days back to back.
But well…it is what it is.
I know there are people out there who would say I’m lucky to have a job and ought to be grateful but these are the same people who think work is the be-all and end-all. And it isn’t or shouldn’t be.
The other day people at work were discussing the lottery. It is the dream of most, isn’t it? To suddenly find themselves with a good chunk of money to do with as they please. Workers discuss what they’d do given such money.
“Would you go back to work the next day if you won the lottery?”
“Would you tell your boss to shove it?”
“Would you leave the country and go live somewhere else?”
I’ve heard such questions being posed everywhere and I’ve heard people say that they’d still go back to work even if they won a million quid. But would they, really?
And what does that say about people if they would?
I’ve heard people interviewed on the lottery programme in the past – middle-aged cleaning ladies who said they were planning on going back to work despite their wins because they loved their job and all their mates were there.
I’m guessing that if they did go back to work the next day they’d have given it a week or so before changing their minds and quitting. How soon before their so-called mates discovered their win and started coming to them cap-in-hand?
Would I return to work the day after I’d won the lottery?
Quitting or carrying on with my job would depend on how much money I’d won. Less than a million and it probably wouldn’t be doable. A reasonable house in this country can cost upwards of a quarter mil and then you have to think about bills and extras. For me it would have to be a million at least to quit. I don’t have expensive tastes. I wouldn’t be going mad with my money, buying fur coats, diamond necklaces and fancy cars that I can’t drive. A nice house would be my biggest investment. I reckon I could get a perfectly reasonable one for up to half a mil and then the rest of the money I’d live on for the rest of my life.
If I won such money I wouldn’t quit my job immediately. I don’t think that sensible and being a suspicious person I would not believe I had actually won until I saw the money in my account and had actually used it to buy something. Only then would I quit. And despite the temptation to do so with flair, flouncing out while telling my boss to shove his job where the sun don’t shine, I wouldn’t. If I’d still been in a previous job I would have enjoyed that as the job had become hell on earth, but my current job is, for the moment ok, and my boss is quite a nice chap.
As nice as he is and as much as I quite enjoy having a laugh and a chat with my colleagues I wouldn’t continue in this job if I won a hefty chunk of dosh.
When I hear ordinary working people say they would remain in their jobs I tend to think several things.
One: I’m sure that is laudable. You like your job, your colleagues and you believe in working hard. We live in a country where those who work are considered somehow morally better than those who don’t. Or rather that those people are better than those who are on benefits. We don’t seem to have a problem with the non-working rich. It’s the non-working poor that seem to disgust this nation.
Two: That’s sad. You have so little in your life besides your job that you’d rather keep working even when you don’t have to.
Three: That’s so selfish. Yes, selfish. Unless you are doing a truly important job – you’re a life-saving doctor, fireman, nurse etc then remaining in your job is a form of greed in my book. If you are working in an ordinary job, something that, let’s face it, anyone could do with the minimum of training, you should not be holding onto that position. There are people out there in desperate need of a job and you are keeping one from them that you don’t need. You should give up that job to someone who truly needs it. To keep holding onto it because you want somewhere to go each day and you’d miss chatting with your mates is just selfish. If those people are truly your friends surely they’d still be so if you left the job? In fact more so if they knew you’d won the lottery. You’d find yourself with more friends than you could handle if you revealed that little nugget. You want somewhere to go each day, something to give you purpose, to keep you active and social? There’s all kinds of places you could go, groups you could join. You don’t need to go to work to get that.
As far as I’m concerned if you’re working in an ordinary job and you win the lottery you have a duty to relinquish your role to someone who needs it more than you now do. Heck, buy the company if you really want to remain connected to it and the people. You could be the one who hires those needful people.
If I won the lottery right now, while in this particular job, I wouldn’t quit until I was certain I actually did have that money and then I’d give in my notice. I wouldn’t just quit. I would give my boss a chance to find someone else to replace me, stay long enough to help train them up if asked and then I’d leave and do so resisting the urge to flounce out. It wouldn’t be sensible to burn a bridge that way. What if in a few years time I lost all that money and the nice house and had to go back?
All this is just musings and an interesting topic of discussion. I don’t actually think I’ll win the lottery. People like me never win stuff like that. I’m the kind of person that wins a tenner on the lottery and that for me is my biggest win! I’m not sure what I’d actually do or think or feel if I was suddenly told I’d won a million or ten or fifty! A million I could cope with. It would be exciting while being a “normal” sort of number, something that could be handled. Not too overwhelming. I’ve spent my life being poor. If I won fifty million I’m not sure what I would do with that, how I’d handle it. I have no experience of those types of numbers.
A million would be an easy number to cope with.
There are people out there for whom a million quid would be nothing, chicken feed, pocket money, yet they would begrudge someone like me that cash. Rich people think all the money in the world should be theirs. It sits in their bank accounts achieving nothing. What does it do for Musk to have an extra million in his account? He wouldn’t even notice it. He could give half of his fortune away and wouldn’t even notice that it was gone. It’s not as though he even has that money, physically speaking. He’s not swimming around in it like Scrooge McDuck. It’s not paper and coins that he can touch and smell and roll about in naked! It’s all ones and zeros on a computer screen and most of it he’ll not live long enough to spend so why not spread it about to people who might actually appreciate it?
Because the little guy doesn’t deserve it?
Does the big guy?
No one deserves that money. No one in this world actually deserves anything. People just get what they get, and mostly it is down to luck, being in the right place at the right time and having the right set of circumstances coming together.
Think about the people who win the lottery – the big winners. Do they “deserve” that win? Did they do something to earn it? Was it their good characters that made them worthy? The god of good fortune saw them buying a ticket and went “oh yes, Mrs Smith is a fine lady, volunteers at the WI and bakes cookies for orphans”, “Mr Brown is a member of the Salvation Army and worked as a plumber for forty years so he deserves a win”.
I remember the year that a convicted rapist won big on the lottery. Did he “deserve” that? Lots of people at the time thought “aw, hell no!” But was he deserving? Who decides: me, you, society…God?
Am I deserving of winning the lottery? If not why not?
People on benefits have won the lottery and others begrudged that. “How dare they!”, “they don’t deserve it”, “they didn’t earn that money.”
Urm, it’s the lottery. No one “earns” a lottery win. You buy a ticket and if you’re lucky your numbers come up. The idea that the hard working man “deserves” that win more than the unemployed man is just ridiculous. The lottery isn’t a job. You don’t work hard to deserve that win. You handed a quid over to the shopkeeper. That’s all you did.
And if the unemployed man wins the lottery isn’t that to everyone’s benefit? He can now get off the dole so the taxes of the hard working man are now no longer being used to “prop” him up.
Isn’t it really just mean-spirited jealousy that leads to people hating the poor for getting anything nice? Saying they don’t deserve it is just stupid. They no more or less deserve it than you do. Than anyone does.
I “deserve” or don’t deserve a win as much or as less as the next guy. And, of course, I’d love that win. I’d prefer though to earn that money through my writing. I would consider that a reward for all my hard work and would feel like more of an achievement than simply winning it. Though I wouldn’t say no if I did win it rather than earn it.
And whether I earned it or won it my response would be the same. Buy house, quit day job, live quietly and contentedly continuing to write my books.
My life would not change in a vast way. Sure, I’d buy a few nice trinkets and take a few holidays, see something of the world and try to broaden my horizons but essentially my life would go on the same as it has been. I’d write and read. I’d do the garden on weekends. Only now, I’d have a nice garden to tend and not some strip of crappy council grass out the back. I wouldn’t be roaring down the street in a Lamborghini and having wild drug parties in a twenty-bed mansion or hanging out with celebs. Money or not that isn’t me. I’d still buy stuff from second-hand shops and go in Iceland for my cheese! Unless they do the same brand in M&S I see no reason go on there. Though maybe I’d buy that cheese direct from the dairy instead. Urm, there’s a thought. If I won more than a million maybe I’d buy the dairy. Maybe I’d buy the factory where they make Pringles and find out what they’ve done to ruin my once favourite cheese and onion flavour and get them to undo it! Ha.
Results come through regular and consistent activity. Stick to your programme and avoid frequent stops and starts.
2.TOO MUCH TOO SOON
Do not increase the amount of exercise you do too soon. Increase what you’re doing by no more than 10% per week.
3.ACCEPT FEELINGS OF DISCOMFORT
When you first start exercising you’ll experience feelings of discomfort such as shortness of breath, sweating and aching muscles after exercising. Don’t worry, this is completely normal and everyone feels like this when they’re first starting out.
4.TRAIN WITH A FRIEND
Training with a friend not only keeps you motivated during the sessions themselves but will also make you less likely to miss a planned session as you’re unlikely to want to let down your friend.
5.WARM UP
Not warming up is a mistake many beginners make. Before any session ensure that you warm up thoroughly and mobilise the areas that you will be using during the workout. Furthermore, failure to warm up properly may increase the risk of injury.
6.TIME OF DAY
We are all different. Some of us rise early and some of us go to bed late. Exercise at the time when you feel that you have most energy.
7.WILL POWER
Don’t give up. All beginners have set backs on the way to achieving their goals. Accept them and use them to re-motivate yourself.
8. Water
Ensure you drink plenty of water, before, during and after exercise, particularly if you are exercising in warm conditions or for long periods. Dehydration will result in a drop in performance and severe dehydration can be dangerous too.
Keep things interesting by trying new exercises, workouts and activities to keep your programme fresh, keep challenging your body and preventing boredom.
couple of days ago, my mom and I got into it. She and I bicker every now and then, but full-on arguing is a bit of a rarity between her and me, so when it happens, it ain’t pretty.
I won’t disclose the topic that prompted the argument, but at one point I said something to my mom that I shouldn’t have, and I regretted it immediately. It was untrue, unnecessary, and it came from a place of anger.
My mom and I typically make amends shortly after we have an argument, and this instance was no exception. I apologized to my mom and explained to her that what I said was entirely fueled by a short temper and rage. She told me she realized that, forgave me, and reminded me that I’m only human, so it isn’t exactly a secret that my mom is a forgiving and understanding person.
God, I love my mom.
Afterwards, I was reflecting on the matter and, once again, became angry. Except, this time, the anger was entirely directed at me; I was frustrated with myself for saying what I did to my mom, and it prompted me to contemplate how to refrain from speaking from a place of anger when in an argument. I’m no expert on the matter, but I thought I would offer some insight in hopes of helping out anyone else struggling with this.
Easier said than done, but an effective way to avoid speaking from a place of rage in an argument is to keep your emotions in check. This may not seem like something feasible when you’re tempted to literally throttle the person you’re quarrelling with, but the message remains; allowing emotion to overtake us when we are upset commonly provokes us to speak from a place of madness and rage.
Another tactic to try and implement in an attempt to avoid speaking from a place of anger is to not speak at all. If you’re not confident that your retort to the person you’re having an issue with will be constructive, or helpful, it’s likely best not to say shit.
Something else that may help avoid this issue is to take some deep breaths before responding. You may appear to be having some sort of internal crisis or perhaps indigestion in doing so, but it’s better than saying something you will regret.
There can be respect without like. However, there can never be like without respect. Put more straightforward, a person doesn’t have to like you to respect you, but they do have to respect you to like you.
Respect and like are different in that like is based on commonalities, and good feelings shared between people. When you like someone, you enjoy their company and the positivity they bring to your life. On the other hand, respect is regard for another person’s safety, space, freedom, privacy, property, and individuality.
When you respect someone, you may not necessarily like the person, but you see them as having the same rights and considerations as you and everyone else.
To not like somebody means you have nothing in common or just don’t want to be around the person. That’s perfectly okay because not everybody is alike and shares the same beliefs, feelings, ideas, or backgrounds. Like is subjective.
But to not respect someone means that you have no regard for their safety, space, freedom, privacy, property, or individuality. In other words, if you have no respect for a specific individual, you don’t see them as having the same human rights and considerations as you and everyone else. And when you don’t respect someone, you will think it’s perfectly okay to violate that person because they somehow deserve to be violated.
right not to have their boundaries crossed. When you disrespect someone, you won’t acknowledge that person’s boundaries, and you are more likely to trample their dignity and human rights.
In your mind, the person either doesn’t or shouldn’t have the same human rights or dignity as you and everyone else. You may wish the person harm or ill will. You may not want to breathe the same air as the person.
Signs of Dislike
1. Nothing in common with the person. You wish them well, but you’d prefer not to go on long trips with them. You have no problem coexisting.
You see them as having the same human rights and you and anyone else, and you won’t bully them nor place them in danger. You only don’t have anything in common with the person.
Signs of Disrespect
1. Lack of regard for the person’s freedom- this could include belittling their opinions and ideas, taking away their freedom to speak by talking over them when they are speaking, getting angry with them if they would rather spend time with family than with you or the group.
2. Lack of regard for the person’s safety- you bully them or put them in danger of being physically hurt. You don’t want to coexist.
If you are a victim of bullying, you must distinguish between the two and act appropriately. Disrespect is much worse than dislike. Dislike is a part of life and much easier to deal with. Disrespect, on the other hand, is harmful.
The people who dislike you won’t necessarily try to hurt you but act neutral around you. They might even say a few words to you to be polite. They just won’t be buddy-buddy with you.
On the other hand, people who disrespect you will violate you. They will shame you, humiliate you, try to sabotage you, and physically assault you.
the people around you dislike you, it’s their loss, and you can still be around them if you must.
However, if they disrespect you, then it’s time to either walk away from them or send them packing, one of the two. People who regard you with disrespect don’t deserve a place in your life!
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