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world piece day

I think of myself as someone who 'fights'  for peace.



For all in the past I was active in the peace organisations, I did join protest events against all kind of violence. And I still hate guns I still think people should not be able to kill other people.

But, since the most powerful weapon lobby (the true rulers of the world) disagrees, and loves to earn more money with killing, there is only a little chance that the voice of me and the many with me, are heard. And when it is heard, it is shut up with all kind of forces.

Still, I won't give up. As long as I have the songs from John Lennon in my head, I will do what I can against the violence from people, not only against each other in war, but as well in child or animal abuse, and you can fill in the rest.

Today it seems to be world piece day.  I have not investigated, but I wonder who was the person who came up with that idea.
I do not understand it!


I do understand that you want attention for peace. I do understand that you are fed up with the violenc, but what is a 'wolrd piece day'  bringing?

This morning when I opened Facebook, and it jumped to me. World Peace Day.  And the radio talked about the bombings from Russian and the Assad Regime in Syria.
What does a world peace day do for the people who are starving in Aleppo?

What does world piece day do for the endles wars in africa?  What does world piece day do for the organisations (and eventually candidates for presidentship)? How many millions are not wanting peace, and promote hate and agression?


Are they impressed with a world piece day?   Just as the symbolic peace breaks in some wars around christmas, I see this not as a help for the people in war, but as a big promotion for people and organisations who are not able to simply make peace.
And then the need to tell me that I should be nice today?   Uhmm... why today?  Because it is tomorrow the national coffee day, then there is no time anymore to promote peace?

Come on, world.  This kind of 'days'  is purely promotion for people who do not take it seriouslly with peace.
Facebook. With the Peace messages when you log in.
And at the same time giving space to organisations who spread hate, agression, who support homophobia, cihld abuse and the countless adverts for war games.

Does it make sense? Do we need to follow those leaders, do we really need to get the 'us'  feeling while they are telling us so, today?

I do not trust such messages.

I stuck with the true messengers of peace. Such as the adorable Dalai Lama, who is one of the living examples of peace.  Not only in his words, but in his life. He lives peace and he shows us how peace can be.
I try it, in my own litle world. Be nice to others. And I fail daily. As long as I fail, daily, the peace in my world needs attention, 365 days in a year, 24 hous, 7 daaysj.

maybe.. you say that I am a dreamer
but I am not the only one!


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Dear Newspaper thief

Dear newspaper thief

With this ditigal writing I will prepare you for the upcoming change in how you can gather the news.

Soon there will be no newspaper anymore in our mailbox, that, often, peaks out a bit.

That the newspaper now and then is visible for people who are passing by, is for most of them not a problem. They see it and go further, eventually buying their own copy. Yes, dear Thief, there are people that do so. Those people simply buy from their money somethng what then belongs to them. Not like you. You do work, but appearantly you not feel happy with it and are only then happy when you can steal the newspaper from another.  Every day you stole 1€20 from us, do you realize how many the total amout is?

It must be easily over 100€.  How often I told the newspaper office about it, and ask the newspaperboy (who is a girl, actually) to put the paper better in the mail box, because some softy can not keep his hands from things that not belong to him?

I suppose you are a he. He's are known to be more cowardly, and who feel more 'cool'  when they can read a news paper in a pubic place.  And?  Did it work?
Did you impress people with showing that you can read?  Was it difficult to hold the paper not upside down?
Did you feel relaxed, every time you put your stinky fingers at OUR newspaper, and read it later?  Was that bringing you more satisfaction then any other thing in your life?  I bet you are a single person, and wondering why no one wants a relation with you!

You had a relation with us, however. We know from it for years, and you have no idea how long we know it already. You also have no idea how we look like. Every time you put your stinking flaps at our news, you had to be quick, and sneaky, so that no one could catch you.
I did think about catching you, you know?  I wanted to go to stay at the other side of the street, to see how you were doing this.

But I was a coward. I did not want to stand up so early and 'just wait'  for a poor little stinker (I bet you did not grow over 1.70, huh?) to be catched.  And you know why?  Because I think you are not worth the fuzz. You are such a small miserable looser, your ego is far below zero and you never can walk up with your head in the air, enjoying life.  Am I rigth?  See?

In a way I feel sorry for you. You are such a coward, that you needed to make good days with stealing 1.20€  each day (!!), you were not even able to use your own resources for being valued!
I take it that you are one of those office workers. Going early to work, before the chiefs are there, showing that you are early there and then leaving early for home again afterwards. Stealing that hour or two from your bosses as well.  And you feel proud about it, right?

No reason to be proud on it at all, baby. When you want to be good in stealing from other people, you should be like Trump and simiilar bandits. Who steal big money and get fucking rich with it. Because only then you might be able to compensate your miserable ego with money.
Not with stealing a newspaper, what, at the best, in a way ends in the litterbox of the cat (it is not that easy to steal those litter bags, huh, you do not even dare to, huh?)

But most likely you drop the newspaper in a bin. Most likely so, that even the people who live at the street, can not read it anymore. That, my dear newspaper thief, are the people who I care for.

So, why I am writing you this, finally, without even knowing your shitty face?  Well it is to warn you. I know you won't read this, most likely you don't even speak (or read) english.  It is also as well for me, to finally say a word to you, something that I did not dare in real life.

The newspaper goes digital, baby.  Soon you will not need your f cking hands anymore to get the paper out of the mailbox, OUR mailbox. You won't need to explain, or hide, the first pages because you do not dare to explain why they are thorn.

You will no longer read the paper at our expenses. And I am 100 per cent sure that you will not buy any paper instead. I am convinced that the thrill was not because you so desperatly needed the news. You needed the thrill, to steal 1.20€  Like when I was a kid, that I stole an applle from the grocery store. That was my game, when I was 10 years old and 'just a boy'

I do hope and pray that no one needs to share your miserable life, what most definitely is filled with small misserable bloops.

I will enjoy my digital newspaper, every day.  And when I walk along my mailbox, I shall smile.
Game over, sweetie.  Game, set and match lost.

Was bei Schwindel hilft

Schwindelgefühle machen vielen Menschen zu schaffen. Was Betroffene gegen die Anfälle tun können, wie Ärzte das Leiden behandeln

von Dr. Ralph Müller-Gesser, aktualisiert am 12.09.2016

Welt aus dem Gleichgewicht: Schwindel kann belasten

W&B/Michelle Günther, W&B/Stefan Thomas Kröger

Endrikis A. wäre ohne die stummen Helfer, die seinen Weg säumten, wohl kaum heimgekommen. "Ich hangelte mich von einem Baum zum nächsten, denn der Boden unter meinen Füßen schien zu schwanken", erinnert sich der Rentner aus Groß ­Grönau, einem Vorort Lübecks.Schwindel hatte ihn plötzlich überfallen, als er mit seiner Hündin Isabella spa­zieren ging. Breitbeinig versuchte er sich gegen die Übelkeit und das Schwanken zu wehren. Vergeblich. Eisern kämpfte er sich – von einem Baum zum anderen – nach Hause.

Schwindel: Patienten schwanken, taumeln, kippen um

Schwindel verläuft nicht immer so dramatisch wie bei Endrikis A. Doch wenn sich die Umgebung dreht, wenn man schwankt, kippt oder taumelt, sich beim Gehen unsicher fühlt oder einem schwarz vor Augen wird, ist das unangenehm und oft beängstigend.

Das Symptom Schwindel hat nicht nur viele Facetten, es kommt auch häufig vor. "Lediglich wegen Kopfschmer­zen ­gehen die Leute noch öfter zum Arzt", sagt der Neu­ro­­loge Professor Christoph Helmchen, Leiter der Schwindelambulanz in Lübeck. Nicht verwunderlich angesichts des komplexen Zusammenspiels der Körpersysteme, die für Gleichgewicht und aufrechte Haltung nötig sind. 

Fehlerhafte Informationsverarbeitung im Gehirn

"Um sich im Raum zu orientieren, benötigt das Gehirn Informationen von den Gleichgewichtsorganen im Innenohr, den Augen sowie den Rezeptoren für Tiefenwahrnehmung in Muskeln und Gelenken", sagt Professor Arneborg Ernst, Direktor der HNO-Klinik im Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin. Liefern zum Beispiel die Sinnesorgane falsche Informationen – das kann bei Fehlsichtigkeit passieren – oder leiten die Nerven Impulse nicht richtig weiter – etwa bei Schädigungen durch Diabetes –, verursacht das mitunter Schwindel.

"Darüber hinaus können Durchblutungsstörungen im Gehirn,Herzrhythmusstörungen oder Medikamente die Beschwerden auslösen", sagt Ernst. Dazu zählen etwa Anti­depressiva, harntreibende Mittel oder Blutdruckpräparate. Verbreitet ist auch der sogenannte Altersschwindel. Er entsteht durch Alterungs­prozesse von Augen, Gleichgewichts­organen und der Tiefensensibilität.

Sensorsystem im Innenohr: Das Gleichgewichtsorgan erfasst über seine Bogengänge Drehbewegungen und mit den Otolithen Beschleunigung. So können wir uns im Raum orientieren

W&B/Michelle Günther

Endrikis A. schaffte es bis in die Nähe seines Grundstücks, dann konnte er nicht mehr. Erschöpft lehnte er sich an einen Baum. Sein Hemd klebte am Körper – schweißnass. Eine Nachbarin verständigte den Notarzt.

Zuerst schlossen die Ärzte in der Uniklinik Lübeck schwere Erkrankungen wie einen Schlaganfall aus, dann untersuchten sie das Gleichgewichtsorgan. Da A. von einem starken Linksdrall berichtete, vermuteten sie, dass der Sensor im linken Ohr Probleme bereitete. "Wenn die Informationen eines Gleichgewichtsorgans plötzlich ausbleiben, dreht sich alles, und die ­­Patienten kippen auf die betroffene Seite", sagt Experte Helmchen.

Test mit geschlossenen Augen

Ärzte testen das, indem sie Patienten bitten, mit geschlossenen Augenauf der Stelle zu treten. Fehlen die Reize einer Seite, glaubt das Gehirn die Position im Raum zu halten, veranlasst aber gleichzeitig, dass die Person sich zur betroffenen Seite dreht. Als A. diesen Test mach­te, wendete er sich um 90 Grad nach links: "Ich war überrascht. Die Drehung hatte ich nicht bemerkt."

Solche einseitigen Ausfälle des Gleichgewichtsorgans sind häufig die Ursache für anhaltenden, akuten Schwindel. "Manchmal hatten die Betroffenen einige Wochen zuvor eine Virusinfektion der Atemwege", sagt Ernst. Aber nicht nur Entzündungen können das Organ lahmlegen, auch Durchblutungsstörungen oder gar Tumore können hinter den Beschwerden stecken.

Gymnastik und Kortison helfen

"Ein Drittel der Patienten erholt sich innerhalb von Wochen", sagt Helmchen. Behandelt werden sie mit Kortison. Bei weiteren 30 Prozent dauert es länger als ein paar Wochen, bis ­alles wieder funktioniert. Und bei ­einem Drittel der Patienten erholt sich das Gleichgewichtsorgan nicht mehr. "Das Gehirn muss lernen, die abgeschwächten Informationen des ­erkrankten Gleichgewichtsnervs zu verstärken." Damit das Leiden rasch und folgenlos ausheilt, rät Helmchen, frühzeitig mit Krankengymnastik zu beginnen.

Endrikis A. ging es bereits nach drei Tagen deutlich besser. Heute ist die Geschichte für ihn abgeschlossen: "Anfangs hatte ich Angst, dass mir das Gleiche noch mal passiert. Deshalb bin ich nicht in den Wald gegangen." Doch inzwischen sind seine Hündin Isabella und er wieder unterwegs. Die Ärzte gaben Entwarnung: Die Erkrankung werde wahrscheinlich nicht wiederkehren.

Wie sehr es Arite K. erleichtert hätte, wären ihre Beschwerden auch so schnell abgeklungen. Die Inhaberin einer Modeboutique in Malchin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern lebte acht Jahre lang mit Schwindel. "Zuletzt verging kaum ein Tag, an dem ich keine Attacke hatte." Mal geschah es, wenn sie den Geschirrspüler ausräumte, mal, wenn sie Vögel beobachtete. Die Anfälle dauerten zwar nur Sekunden, aber sie zermürbten K. Ein sogenannter gutartiger Lagerungsschwindel plagte sie.

Störende Steinchen im Gleichgewichtsorgan

"Attacken erleiden viele im Bett, wenn sie sich auf die andere Seite drehen", sagt Ernst. Winzige Kalzium-Kristalle des Gleichgewichts­organs verursachen die Beschwerden. "Lösen sich Steinchen und gelangen in die Bogengänge, irritiert das das System. Dreht man den Kopf schnell, entsteht Schwindel", erklärt der Experte. Manchmal lösen sich die Kristalle bei Prellungen des Kopfes. Möglicherweise besteht ein Zusammenhang zu Knochenschwund. Meist bleibt ­jedoch unklar, warum die Steinchen das Sensorensystem sabotieren.

Die Anfälle wiederholen sich bei bestimmten Kopfbewegungen, ei­nem Blick ins Bücherregal zum Beispiel oder beim Vögel-Beobachten wie bei Arite K. Für eine gesicherte Diagnose versuchen Ärzte die Schwindelattacken mit speziellen Lagerungsmanövern hervorzurufen: Die Patienten drehen und wenden den Kopf in vorgegebener Abfolge, legen sich auf den Rücken und setzen sich wieder auf. Treten daraufhin die Beschwerden ein, gilt ein gutarti­­ger Lagerungsschwindel als sicher.

Lagerungs-Übungen zur Therapie

Die Manöver dienen auch der Behandlung. Zwei haben sich als besonders wirkungsvoll erwiesen. "Das Semont-Manöver benutzen wir in der Klinik", berichtet Helmchen. Das Epley-Manöver, empfehlen Experten Patienten für zu Hause. Beiden Methoden liegt dieselbe Idee zugrunde: Die Bewegungen sollen die Kristalle dorthin zurücklenken, wo sie hingehören.

Das Epley-Manöver gegen gutartigen Lagerungsschwindel können Sie nach Absprache mit dem Arzt zu Hause durchführen.

So fuktioniert das Epley-Manöver

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  Setzen Sie sich aufs Bett, und drehen Sie den Kopf um 45 Grad zur betroffenen Seite.
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  Jetzt legen Sie sich auf den Rücken. Der Kopf sollte leicht überstreckt sein. Nehmen Sie ein Kissen zur Hilfe.
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  Nach 30 Sekunden drehen Sie den Kopf um 90 Grad auf die andere Seite.
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  Nach weiteren 30 Sekunden rollen Sie sich um 90 Grad in dieselbe Richtung, sodass Sie sich nun in Seitenlage befinden.
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  Richten Sie sich aus dieser Position auf, und bleiben Sie noch ein wenig sitzen.
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"Erfolg stellt sich meist in wenigen Tagen ein", so Helmchen. Zunächst fühlen sich Patienten oft noch wacklig auf den Beinen. Dann verschwinden die Beschwerden. Bei hartnäckigem Schwindel rät Helmchen, die Manöver zu wiederholen – nach zwei bis vier Wochen jenes in der Klinik und täglich das Epley-Manöver.

Arite K. halfen die täg­lichen Übungen zunächst nicht. Mittlerweile weiß sie, warum. "Ich habe mich am Ende des Manövers auf­gesetzt und nicht noch zur anderen Seite gedreht." Das muss man aber, damit das Ganze funktioniert. Seitdem sie alles richtig macht, bleibt der Schwin­del aus. Der Schlusspunkt unter acht Jahre Leiden? "Ich wünsche es mir so sehr", sagt K. "Für mich gibt es nichts Schöneres als ein Leben ohne Schwindel."

Footies

Let's talk about football, that is how we name Soccer in Europe :)



The wounds are not yet healed fully from the European Championship, and the countries are already starting to prepare for the next event, the world championship in Russia.

Now I can talk a few pages full about corruption and so more, but that is a bit boring, I leave that to the newspapers, they are better in that kind of things, what not really intrests me, I want to see the ball rolling at the grass (REAL grass, please!) and I want to see the best team win. :)

Good, back to  where it is about, Football.  I love it from as young as I can remember. I have been to many matches, standing behind the fence.  Of course first I dreamt to play at the other side, but my carreer came not further then a B team in our local football club, and in the end I was more injured then that I was playing. So, my smart decission was to leave the ball to the people who know how to play it without getting hurt too much. Or, who had a good medical team around 

I mean, mom did do her best, but it was differentt then having a team of specialists to take care of you when you drop down while the grass is a bit high.

Being part of the audience confrontated me with another phenonema, and that were the comments.
I remember some old men, smoking their cigars, hat at the head, analyzing the match even before it started.  -I realize those men probably were younger then that I am now.... -.

I can't imagine that (trainer name)  chooses van Duivenbode (player)  in the defense, that is NEVER going to work, that boy needs to learn to walk first..
Oh, wow... they passed the penalty area....  Maybe we shall tell them that they can shoot now?
Man, man, what a match,  EXIT  Trainer NOW!

And, when the corner ball was taken (I always stood close to the corner, because that was the place where you could see the players the best, yes, we STOOD 2 hours, and there was NO rooof above us, when it was raining we were as wet as the players :) )
And the old men took the possibilitiy then to give the advices.
PIET,  the number 4 is free, kick the ball to him...
or ... Frans, ask your trainer for a substitute!

The trainers were standig at my side of the fennce it seemed, and if you saw that for the first time, you could be impressed by the knowledge of those old stomps.
When you came regurarily, you noticed that the analyzes were just halfway. It was never good, what was done at the field, the trainer was always to blame, and when the team wan (it happened!!) then it was only because the opponent did fail.
Funny enough those men all had season tickets and never missed a match, no matter how bad it was in their opinion.

Things changed.  The old men are gone, I am their replacement, but I won't go to the stadium anymore. Paying too much for a seat so far from the field that you hardly can see the ball rolling, having to buy over prized sausages of what I should be ashamed to serve them at home.
In times of football tournaments  people gather together for large screens to watch, and to comment the same way as in earlier days, next to the line.

And,and there we go again to the theme,  the internet helped as well.  We can watch collectively the same games and comment from our armchair to what is happening. That is what is happening, and guess what I see for comments?

Comeo on (home team) beat those FF ing (opponents)  and send them home.
The referee has nooooo idea what he is doing!
Amd at the end of the match the team of the 'sub trainer'  at the PC is similar to that of the old men with their cigars.  A change of the trainer, anoter position for the defender...

I smile at those comments. Sometimes they are really rude and even tending to provocate  other teams more then in a friendly way.
Such as yesterday. When Sweden played against the Netherlands.  And someone really went bad, before the match, that his team has to beat the dutch...
Instead of joining the confrontation, I reacted like, welll, the Dutch are not good at the moment, so do not over rate when your country wins ...

You can imagine the smile at my face, when I saw his comment, at the end of the match, with was simply telling 1 - 1.  :)  It will be a long road to Moscow for some countries :)

in the shower

Let's talk about telephones!

I am from a generation that remembers how the telephone was hanging in the hall, and when you had to make phone calls you had to leave your comfortable seat and walk to that thing.

With a bit of luck you could sit next to it, but at our home the most comfort you could get was when you sat at the stairs, hoping that the cord was long enough to get not broken.

Yea grandson, that is how grandpa grew up.  We could not take the phone with us.  And, guess what, we used the telephone to communicate with eachother in spoken words.  There was no display on it, there was a disk with 10 holes, every hole according to one digit.  With dialing the number the telefone made klicks and the combination of clicks did lead to the proper number.  Analog area.

Nowadays telephones are something different. They can still make phone calls, but the main communication forms are (short) messages, typed or spoken, or in small clips. There are tools with what you can even have a video  conference with someone where ever in the world. As long as there is an inter-nerd connection.

Main use for telephones seem to be playing games, however.  That is also a way to contact with others (co-players)  and it has the advantage that you can play it at the moment that you like it, without that you need to wait for the other side to pick up.  There is always someone on line, world wide.
You can connect them 24/7, and that is great.

The other way around works as well.  There are no limits anymore, long ago (yes grandson, long ago, lol)  we knew that after 11 pm no one should try to contact another, because the other was sleeping.  Nowadays we cannot be sure, because, in other continents are other time zones. And of course your neighbor can play with people in other time zones as well and being awake too. So, a message is easily typed.

Or, you tell at the social media that you cannot sleep. I gurantee you that there is always someone else awke who responds (I know it from my own experience).

Smartphones are mobile. That is, when their batteries are filled, you can go everywhere that you like to go and then connect to someone else. Apart from the fact that the phones need to be recharged, almost at a daily base, the difference with the fixed phone out of the 60s is not that much. It is smaller and (they say), smarter while it can do so much more.

Things need to be soled, so, every few months a new type of 'smatphone'  is coming at the market. 300 Euro is a pretty normal price  for that thing and you must add a contract with a provider to it, else you cannot use it of course.

New features are always introduced. Cameras get more and more advanced, new 'smart phones'  include wide angle and stereo photography And the latest trend is that the (kind of) smart phones are getting water resistent.

So far, so good. I can understand the advantages of a water resistent Smart Phone, when you are in the rain and need a taxi. Or, if you need to inform the soccial media that it is raining :)
Marketing makers, however, have found a much smarter arguement to sell their product.

The new generation of smartphones....... hold on....  can be used ... drum rolls....
under the shower.

 
Yes!!!! 

The last place that we were until now not able to use those things is finally conquered!  No excuses anymore, that you could not get at the phone because you were under the shower, from now on you can take that thing with you.

I am waiting desperately for the next generation of smart phones. I fear that they will include a digital soap pad.  Heaven saves us  that we can use it as toilet paper, but.. when I can think of it, the inventors long have found a way to do it, right?

Oh, I have to stop writing. My phone is ringing.  Ringing, grandson, is what the phone did in the 60s. There was a ring in it, that woke up the entire street with its loudness. And it sounded a bit better then your digital hiphop ring tone what has nothing to do with ringing at all!

By the way, you smell fresh, you have a new deo?   Oh... no... don't say that you have an app for it!!!