Movember — Did you donate already?

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I decid­ed to par­tic­i­pate in the dona­tion activ­i­ty Movem­ber. The name is a mix of Mus­tache, Men and Novem­ber. The dona­tion activ­i­ty is col­lect­ing mon­ey for fight­ing typ­i­cal male ill­ness­es, such as prostate can­cer and tes­tic­u­lar can­cer, as well as fur­ther­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal health and sui­cide pre­ven­tion. A very good cause. Vis­it my dona­tion page by read­ing the QR code or click­ing the QR code image.

We stand for:

  • Pre­vent­ing sui­cide in men
    Our fathers, broth­ers, sons and friends are dying by sui­cide, every minute of every day.
    We won’t accept this. To make change hap­pen, Movem­ber views men­tal health through a male lens. We focus on ear­ly inter­ven­tion, engag­ing men and work­ing to their strengths. By 2030, we aim to reduce the rate of male sui­cide by 25%.
  • Improv­ing the qual­i­ty of life
    Men with prostate can­cer and tes­tic­u­lar can­cer face an uphill bat­tle before, dur­ing and after treat­ment. But with use­ful tools and straight-shoot­ing advice, we aim to light­en their load so these men can live life to the fullest.
  • Help­ing men take action
    Glob­al­ly, men die on aver­age 6 years ear­li­er than women, and for large­ly pre­ventable reasons.
    So we’re shin­ing a light on the health risks men need to know about, increas­ing aware­ness to stop men dying too young.
  • Team­ing up with great minds
    A cri­sis this size calls for big ideas from the bright­est minds. Movem­ber brings togeth­er the best researchers and experts from across the globe, reduc­ing research over­lap to max­imise brain­pow­er and accel­er­ate progress.

Having an everlasting impact on the face of men’s health.

How can you contribute?

Here a few pic­ture, cur­rent­ly with­out a mus­tache. The mus­tache is only grow­ing in november… 🙂
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The Positive Impact of Human CO₂ Emissions on the Survival of Life on Earth

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This study looks at the pos­i­tive envi­ron­men­tal effects of car­bon diox­ide (CO2) emis­sions, a top­ic which has been well estab­lished in the sci­en­tif­ic lit­er­a­ture but which is far too often ignored in the cur­rent dis­cus­sions about cli­mate change policy.

All life is car­bon based and the pri­ma­ry source of this car­bon is the CO2 in the glob­al atmosphere.

As recent­ly as 18,000 years ago, at the height of the most recent major glacia­tion, CO2 dipped to its low­est lev­el in record­ed his­to­ry at 180 ppm, low enough to stunt plant growth. This is only 30 ppm above a lev­el that would result in the death of plants due to CO2 starvation.

It is cal­cu­lat­ed that if the decline in CO2 lev­els were to con­tin­ue at the same rate as it has over the past 140 mil­lion years, life on Earth would begin to die as soon as two mil­lion years from now and would slow­ly per­ish almost entire­ly as car­bon con­tin­ued to be lost to the deep ocean sediments.

The com­bus­tion of fos­sil fuels for ener­gy to pow­er human civ­i­liza­tion has reversed the down­ward trend in CO2 and promis­es to bring it back to lev­els that are like­ly to fos­ter a con­sid­er­able increase in the growth rate and bio­mass of plants, includ­ing food crops and trees.

Human emis­sions of CO2 have restored a bal­ance to the glob­al car­bon cycle, there­by ensur­ing the long-term con­tin­u­a­tion of life on Earth.

This extreme­ly pos­i­tive aspect of human CO2 emis­sions must be weighed against the unproven hypoth­e­sis that human CO2emis­sions will cause a cat­a­stroph­ic warm­ing of the cli­mate in com­ing years.

The one-sided polit­i­cal treat­ment of CO2 as a pol­lu­tant that should be rad­i­cal­ly reduced must be cor­rect­ed in light of the indis­putable sci­en­tif­ic evi­dence that it is essen­tial to life on Earth.

PS185 – Moore-Positive-Impact-of-Human-CO2-Emissions_CF1

25 Funny things my mother taught me

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Found at Wattpad.com, post­ed by brownielover1

  1. My moth­er taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
    “If you’re going to kill each oth­er, do it out­side. I just fin­ished cleaning.”
  2. My moth­er taught me RELIGION.
    “You bet­ter pray that will come out of the carpet.”
  3. My moth­er taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
    “If you don’t straight­en up, I’m going to knock you into the mid­dle of next week!”
  4. My moth­er taught me LOGIC.
    “Because I said so, that’s why.”
  5. My moth­er taught me MORE LOGIC.
    ‘If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you’re not going to the store with me.”
  6. My moth­er taught me FORESIGHT.
    “Make sure you wear clean under­wear, in case you’re in an accident.”
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Suicide or murder?

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At the 1994 annu­al awards din­ner giv­en by the Amer­i­can Asso­ci­a­tion for Foren­sic Sci­ence, AAFS Pres­i­dent Don Harp­er Mills astound­ed his audi­ence in San Diego with the legal com­pli­ca­tions of a bizarre death. Here is the story.

“On 23 March 1994, the med­ical exam­in­er viewed the body of Ronald Opus and con­clud­ed that he died from a shot­gun wound of the head. The dece­dent had jumped from the top of a ten-sto­ry build­ing intend­ing to com­mit sui­cide (he left a note indi­cat­ing his despon­den­cy). As he fell past the ninth floor, his life was inter­rupt­ed by a shot­gun blast through a win­dow, which killed him instant­ly. Nei­ther the shoot­er nor the dece­dent was aware that a safe­ty net had been erect­ed at the eighth floor lev­el to pro­tect some win­dow wash­ers and that Opus would not have been able to com­plete his sui­cide any­way because of this.”

“Ordi­nar­i­ly,” Dr. Mills con­tin­ued, “a per­son who sets out to com­mit sui­cide ulti­mate­ly suc­ceeds, even though the mech­a­nism might not be what he intended.”

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Three-step process for personal behavioural change

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I want to briefly describe a process that I suc­cess­ful­ly applied to myself on sev­er­al occa­sions when I want­ed to change a dis­turb­ing behav­ior of myself. I devel­oped a three-step process for this purpose.

Prin­ci­ple: You are not your reac­tion. If peo­ple hurt you and you react hurt­ing them, then this is first and fore­most a reac­tion to your own injury. We do not actu­al­ly mean the per­son we are fac­ing, but real­ly only want to defend our­selves. There­fore: You are not your reac­tion. Your reac­tion is learned behav­ior. There are oth­er pos­si­bil­i­ties than to com­pen­sate in this way. These only have to be learned.

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