How Self-Confident Are You

There are a number of countries around the world that have a general election every few years; that is, of course, unless a snap election takes place. When an election take place, the general public will have the chance to vote for part that they believe will lead the country in the right way. Nowadays, it is easier than ever before for someone to find out about what each party stands for, and this is primarily due to the internet. In the past, one would have had to read a paper, watch TV, or to listen to the radio, for instance.


But through being able to go online, it is no longer necessary for them rely on these sources of information.youtube.com The only thing they will need is a device and from here, they can browse the web for all of the information that they need. Nonetheless, this doesn’t mean that this approach will work for everyone, as there are going to be people who still prefer the old way of doing things. What this can come down to is that they might not know where to go online, or they could end up being overwhelmed by so much information. Thus, through listening to the radio or reading a paper, for instance, everything will be laid out for them.


This will be a lot easier for them to handle, and they won’t have to worry about if they are being exposed to ‘fake news’. Yet, while this can be easier, this can cause them to miss out on a lot of information. One way of looking at this would be to say that these sources can’t cover everything, and that they only have time to talk about the things that are important. Another way of looking at this would be to say that these sources are biased, and this then defines what they do or don’t cover. It can then appear as though they are simply presenting the facts, but this is going to be nothing more than an illusion.


Naturally, there are going to be people who are only too aware of how the mainstream media works, and this will be the reason why they look towards other sources. This is going to mean that they will need to look into things for themselves and this will take more energy, but it is likely to give them a better understanding of what is going on. It could be said that this is the difference between buying food from an organic farm and buying it from a supermarket. The supermarket could be closer and it might be cheaper, but there is also the chance that a lot of what they buy won’t be as healthy.


In the short-term, it will take more effort, but it will be worth it in the long-term. And through having so much information available, it can be easy for someone to end up being consumed by what is taking place. As far as they are concerned, this could be seen as an opportunity for them to have an effect on the direction that their country will take. Through having this outlook, they might do everything they can do to make sure that the people around them also vote. This could a far as they will go, or they might share their views on social media.


One could end up telling their ‘friends’ to vote for a certain party, or they could just tell them to make the most of this opportunity. But regardless of whether they talk about this on social media or not, this is likely to show that one has a clear idea of who they are going to vote for. The party they are voting for could just be seen as being slightly better than the others, or one could be amazed by what one party will do if they get into power. When one is not caught up in what is taking place and believes that one party is marginally better than the others, it could show that one has listened to the mainstream media and the alternative media.


In addition to this, they might be only too aware of what has taken place after previous elections. It will then be clear to that there is what these politicians say and then there is what actually takes place if they are elected. Ultimately, their memory is going to be too good for them to fall for what these people come out with. This is not to say that one will believe that everything these politicians say won’t happen, as they might see that it is not this black and white. In their eyes, it could be as if people are promised a full course meal, but they end up being given a few crumbs instead.


So while it would be inaccurate to say that they don’t keep any of their promises, it would be just as inaccurate to say that they keep all of them. One may have heard that the only reason people are allowed to vote is because it doesn’t have an effect; if it did, they wouldn’t be able to do it. When one is caught up with what is taking place, it can show that they have only just got into politics; perhaps they were not old enough to vote before. One is then wide open and they can believe just about everything they hear.


This could also show that one only pays attention to the mainstream media, and the people around them may have also had an effect on what they believe. At the same time, one might have voted on a number of occasions in the past. If one has only just got into politics, it might only be a matter of time before they realise that politicians have the tendency to tell people what they want to hear. Thus, when the next election takes place, they might not get too caught up in it. Out of their need to avoid how they feel, one will have stopped themselves from being able to think critically. This will allow them to feel good for short while and then they will have to face up to the fact that they can’t rely on anyone else to change their life.


In order for one to change their life, it will be essential for them to embrace their own power as opposed to giving it to other people. Ultimately, this is the only way that their life will change for the better. Voting is not a complete waste of time as certain things can take place through this approach. But if one expects these politicians to completely change their life, they are likely to be in for a big shock. Author's Bio: Prolific writer, author, and coach, Oliver JR Cooper, hails from England. His insightful commentary and analysis covers all aspects of human transformation, including love, partnership, self-love, and inner awareness.


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I talked to his family today and I told them you have another family in Turkey and America," Irmak said. While Ben-Yehuda said he plans to return to Israel in another week or so, where his hand will be treated, Irmak said he must remain in Nepal until he can get his bicycle out of house arrest. While the authorities initially granted him a permit to take the bike up to 7,900 m., once he arrived at base camp they changed their minds and "arrested" his bike. This was around the time he met Ben- Yehuda, who was the first person to arrive at the base camp after the Turkish cyclist. Irmak is not only determined to climb a mountain again, but he is determined to do it with Ben-Yehuda.


"If the opportunity comes I will go again. I am not scared of anything. Ben-Yehuda too, who actually won a stair-climbing competition in Ramat Aviv two months ago, is determined to continue with his climbing. While he would like to return to Mount Everest at some point, he said that this mountain was never specifically his lifelong dream, like it is to many other climbers. "It’s not like a dream or something," he said. "It’s a really interesting mountain and it’s the highest altitude. For now, he will keep visiting the hospital in Nepal every morning for check-ups on his hand until he returns home, where he said he will definitely stay in touch with Irmak. "If you get me a passport to Pakistan I would go to K2," he added, laughing. That is just amazing.


Last Sunday I took some flowers from our church to an 87-year-old lady in a hospital ward for women with dementia. She wept. "I don’t know why I’m here," she said. "I’m fed up. I want to go home. I’ve got my own house. Yesterday I visited a 92-year-old lady in a care home. She’s in full possession of her mind, but has various physical ailments which make it impossible for her live any longer on her own.euppublishing.com "I’m bored," she said. I could quite understand their point of view. I wouldn’t like my life to be like theirs. When I got home, Mr Life was transferring some family videos on to DVD.


We watched one for a bit. There was 5-year-old Daughter 1, the future archivist, deep in a book; and 3-year-old Daughter 2, the future architect, drawing - both of them frequently talking non-stop in that way children do. "This is my seal. I call him Flipper. Do you like him? He likes to swim in the sea. There was their little brother, the future doctor, a wobbly-headed baby giving that sudden, huge beaming smile that all babies produce with the thrilled gasping "Aahh! " laugh. And look: Mr Life, young and raven haired. And me, at 34, slim with glossy dark hair, my every waking moment consumed by these lovely, never-stopping children. Yesterday evening we went to see Scottish Ballet performing "Sleeping Beauty" - lots of impossibly lithe young people leaping around in the prime of their strength, raising legs effortlessly skywards and bending in unlikely directions. Surely they’ll never get old and creaky? It’s all made me a bit thoughtful. My thoughts are totally unoriginal. Time flies. Where does it go? Life is short. What’s the meaning of it all?


The Kiki challenge is based on a song by "Drake". Drake happens to be Jewish. His father is Afruican American and his mother is Jewish, so he is Jewish. His real name is Aubrey Drake Graham. Drake is a singer-rapper and his song "Kiki" became a big hit and this challenge developed around it. To me the challenge looks stupid and I don't get it. Basically, someone gets out of the car with the song playing and while the car continues to drive slowly the passenger gets out and leaves his door open and dances to the song moving with the car. I guess this has been such a big hit that the rabbis felt the need to weigh in on it. Rav Aryeh Stern, Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem, said that this is not appropriate and is also dangerous.


We need to try to be similar to God, not to the non-Jews. Chief Rabbi of Israel Rav Dovid Lau said there is no allowance for putting lives in danger, even if it looks like a phenomenon that is not dangerous and even possibly positive. Safety is the most important. Rav Yaakov Nechimovski, the Chabadnik in the video above, says that he is not ashamed of the openness and style by which he lives his life, as he always has. A rav needs to be connected to the people to the maximum allowed within the framework of possibilities, as long as there is really nothing wrong..


Recently, a friend of mine, who is also a neonatologist, posted this article on Facebook regarding childhood vaccines. I would encourage you to read it, as I find some of the statistics and information regarding the link between vaccines and Autism fascinating. The basic premise is that because some parents are choosing to delay or refuse certain childhood vaccines, some of these childhood diseases are reappearing after being gone for so many years. This article focuses mostly on Measles, since there is currently an outbreak in the U.S., but alludes to several other diseases as well. Being the mother to a child with a compromised immune system, I have a hard time with the idea of not getting vaccinations.


My feeling is that people are putting my child at risk, and that's not fair. Sure, I can keep Abby from going out in public, but what about Caleb? Abby. I can't very well keep him out of our home, now can I? Not to mention the fact that I'm a teacher who comes into contact with countless germs (shutter). I can't wear a mask for the rest of my life when I'm around Abby. Those who make the choice to delay or deny vaccinations for their children can expose my children to deadly diseases. I also feel like I owe it to my children to protect them from the things I can control.


I can keep her from getting the Measles! Not to mention the fact that some of these diseases are deadly! If your child does make it, he or she could have life-long problems as a result. I have friends on both sides of the fence, and I am not looking for a fight. I'm a researcher too and thought long and hard before giving Caleb the Pertussis vaccine (I had a severe reaction as a baby and nearly died). Thankfully, he has been perfectly fine with all of his vaccines, and so has Abby. I choose to vaccinate to protect my children and others! Remember, I'm not looking for a fight! I'd love to have a polite discussion about it though.


So when you see the New Testament heaping scorn on Jewish people, please do not take that scorn as divine truth. It isn’t. It is rather the centuries old anger of small communities of people who were angry at larger Jewish communities from which they were being excluded because of their confession of Jesus as the Messiah. Jesus never heaped scorn on Jewish people. He was one of them. Their faith was his faith. Their scripture was his scripture. He wanted to reform Judaism not destroy it. Judaism and Christianity developed into separate religions, but Judaism is still our mother faith. It always has been. It always will be. We are grounded in it. Christianity is impossible without it. My Hebrew scripture professor in seminary was fond of saying "Christianity is one way of being Jewish, but it isn’t the only way." He was right about that. Israel’s God is our God, the one and only true God.


Have you upper grades teachers been brave enough to embark on a study of the Holocaust? This year, we decided to use the Holocaust as our topic for our Historical Fiction reading unit, which includes student book clubs. Stars were new to me). I had seen snippets of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas movie, but had not read the book. Of course, we were concerned about age appropriateness. Although I don't think I would embark on this study with lower than 5th graders, I felt all of the books were very appropriate and held students attention the whole time.


The Boy in the Striped Pajamas was an easy read. If you have not read it, Bruno and his family move from Berlin to Auschwitz because Bruno's father is a high-ranking general. They live right outside of the concentration camp, and through exploration, Bruno meets Shmuel (a young Jewish boy, ironically born on the same exact day as Bruno) who lives on the other side of the fence. In this unit, we have created double-timelines (using the top half for what is happening in the character's life and the bottom half to record the historical information we learn from the book).


Students launched their book clubs by creating club names and club norms that they hold themselves accountable for following. My goal is that students read two books from the unit in their book clubs so that we can focus on making rich text-text connections and compare and contrast the characters, setting, and the author's handling of the material. I have uploaded the letter to my teacherspayteachers store as a freebie. It is a word doc so that you can modify it however you like for your own use. I hope to have more time to write about this unit and share some of our minilessons. 9 more school days until our FALL BREAK!


Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman and the prestigious Author’s Guild as well as many best-selling authors have pretty much painted Amazon as super villain and enemy of freedom and democracy. Krugman made the point in a recent column that Amazon is not playing fair with Hatchette, the last of the big American publishers and that this endangers the American way of life. I’m a fan of Krugman, the Guild and many of the anti-Amazon authors, most of whom are gigantic businesses themselves. I have no doubt Amazon is playing hardball and, as is the case in all major battles, folks get hurt.


It wasn’t long ago that Borders and Barnes and Noble decimated independent bookstores through predatory location practices getting better deals from big publisher and therefore offering discounts not possible for the independents to offer. The marketplace changes, technology evolves, reader habits respond to the environment. But let’s look at some facts and put them in perspective. Hachette isn’t an American publisher. The other song being sung to shame Amazon is that the master on-line retailer considers books to be "products." I deeply empathize. Books are special in my eyes. They are not widgets. However different folks look at what we do in different ways.


Not only do we create "products," we create "content" in some minds, however abhorrent those words are to us. Do the publishers hold the book to be as sacred as writers do? Do they hold it in higher regard than Amazon? I remember reading that publishers like Random House and Scribners used to keep money aside for talented writers to keep them afloat when the writer’s books didn’t sell. The company took a loss for the sake of art and because they considered books more than widgets. I was lucky enough to visit the great Scribner & Sons Book Store on Fifth Avenue in New York before its various metamorphoses.


These were hallowed grounds, books as a religion. There was no doubt the publisher held books in high regard. So when I hear authors use the product argument, but only against Amazon, I’m more than wary especially in the age of author James Patterson’s factory-produced novels and Stephen King, who has a new book out every five minutes. Bless him. He is tremendously successful because he is tremendously talented; but his one-sided criticism of Amazon, if not self-serving, rings false to me. And independent booksellers: No doubt Amazon is making life difficult, but have you forgotten how the big publishers treated you when the big box bookstores roamed the earth? I’m not about to suggest the Vatican start the saint-making process for Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. If nothing else, he’s been called on to address a few unpleasant workplace issues. I am saying that we are seeing the dirty business of big business messing around in the book business. With only five publishers dominating the world market, should we be surprised? Seems to me the only entity holding a genuine reverence for books are public libraries, which have been singled out for severe budget cuts all across the country.


Warren Buffett is an intelligent man. I don't respect how he got rich, which relied a lot upon the government. Nor do I think he's all that wise, especially when it comes to politics, where he seems to be out to enrich himself more than improve the country. That said, he just said something I find to be very interesting. He was asked what question he would ask all the presidential candidates. "I would like to ask a candidate: What are you for that majority of your followers are against?urbandictionary.com That's an interesting question to say the least. In this age of armchair hyper-purists and our foaming at the mouth us versus them political class, whose views are essentially "I hate everything the other side wants," this seems to be an invitation to cut your own throat. In a more intelligent political atmosphere, this would be a fantastic question.