Are you avoiding discussing "Doom and Gloom"

It's official: we're heading for a crisis - front page of the Independent yesterday

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/official-prophecy-of-doom-global-warming-will-cause-widespread-conflict-displace-millions-of-people-and-devastate-the-global-economy-9198171.html

This information is going to take everyday people some time to comprehend - it's such a totally different way of thinking. When it does sink in, it will be devastating.

We can't expect politicians to discus it - that would be too dangerous all political parties want to convince that they have a solution. But who talks about a solution to the challenge that people will not be able to cope with the realisation that humans can do nothing about global warming : it will wipe us all out!

That's why I feel it's so important to get people talking about this so that it is taken really seriously and some proposals are put in place to make the most of the remaining years we and our grandchildren will 'enjoy' here on planet Earth.

What follows from the above article is that more than anything else we need trustworthy friends : people who will work with us to cope and come up with ways of coping with future chaos.

I'm fortunate in that I don't expect to be around for more than 30 years but I feel a responsibility to all those who have young children who will have the potential to live through most the tumultuous next 100 years in human history.

The general public are very disinclined to discuss doom and gloom. When I have done with  my friends the first reaction is to agree with me (though often sceptically) but even those that agree then walk away and carry on as 'normal' - it's an understandable psychological reaction. We have to have to repeat unusual facts to people several times before they take it in and then there's shock and panic. Take: "A gunman is coming up the road with a machine gun and he's already killed all of the Jones family , including little Tom, Jane and Jerry who happened to be going to school. The reaction is to say "What?"  and even when it's been repeated does it still doesn't penetrate.

So this is why I'm trying to find others that are a bit more forward looking. People who aren't brain washed into thinking that the future is fine. "Someone will find a solution".

There's a major problem it's referred to as Hubris and being talked about increasingly

Hubris (/ˈhjuːbrɪs/, also hybris, from ancient Greek ὕβρις),means extreme pride or self-confidence. Hubris often indicates a loss of contact with reality and an overestimation of one's own competence, accomplishments or capabilities, especially when the person exhibiting it is in a position of power.

It's being used by philosophers to describe the over confidence of humans to solve any problem that's thrown at them. Most of the problems that are tacked can be solved and very well. This leads to the faulty thinking that humans can solve anything. Even now intelligent people believe that humans (scientists) will come up with a solution to global warming. Well now it's official : they can't.

"The second of three publications by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, due to be made public at the end of this month, is the most comprehensive investigation into the impact of climate change ever undertaken. A draft of the final version seen by The Independent says the warming climate will place the world under enormous strain, forcing mass migration, especially in Asia, and increasing the risk of violent conflict.

Based on thousands of peer-reviewed studies and put together by hundreds of respected scientists,"

The situation is similar to people dying : Some people concentrate on living every minute that they are alive and are still doing amazing things until the day before they die. Others spend months and even years worrying and living in fear so that the end of their life is a misery. Books that discuss death focus on the first method of approaching it. Wereas most people these days focus on the latter.

 For me it can be the same with in end of the human race. The world will still be a beautiful place with people who we can enjoy every minute we're still alive, or it can be a misery full of worry and panic.

I believe we need a small group of people ready to talk seriously about the consequences and the talking needs to start now - not in a month or next year. There's a lot of new thinking that needs to be done!

Anyone interested?

"Blood Test Results Email" - another lying toad

Aledgedly from : National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

However, the email is not from NICE or from any other medical entity and the supposed test results are bogus. The attachment does not contain test results. Instead, it harbours an information-stealing trojan.

This nasty and underhand criminal tactic is designed to panic people into opening the attached file without due forethought. The email is professionally presented and may at first seem like a legitimate NICE message. People with existing health issues or those awaiting blood test results may be especially vulnerable to this tactic.
Recipients who open the attached .zip file as instructed will find that it contains a .exe file disguised via a double file extension to look like a harmless .pdf. Opening the .exe file can install a trojan that can harvest passwords and other sensitive data from the infected computer and relay it back to online criminals.


Please see http://www.hoax-slayer.com/blood-analysis-test-results-malware.shtml

Traffic accident with your car

If you get an email with this subject line, delete it immediately. The email body claims to be someone who's car you damaged, and they'll take legal action. Images attached.

Attached is a zip file containing a .src file, which is NOT an image, rather its a portable executable and it WILL infect your machine. I scanned the attachment with FProt, and it found nothing so it's a relatively new attack.

Delete the email, then nuke your deleted items folder.

I know it sounds harsh, but I believe people who do this ( if caught ) should be publicly executed.  

The above comment comes from this source

Spring

Every time the sun comes out, there’s a big cheer. It’s a very welcome visitor even if it only stays for an hour. It encourages us to think forward to the fact that Spring has just got to arrive soon: in March, or at the very latest in May.

Even now the daffodils in Mill Dam Park are peeping through the far beds: the beds that see the sun most. In the greenhouse one hundred specially chosen sweet peas plants are growing well with at least ten leaves: each ready for a mad burst of energy to reach ten feet up and cover the whole fencing on the right of the park – even more impressive than they did last year.

So Spring is certainly going to give us a lift. It may however come from people rather than the weather. Soon  in early May the Flags will be out all over the town. These lively creatures have a lovely cheeky will of their own, responding to the slightest breeze and only just restrained in high wind. A video on Youtube “Here comes the sun” says it all. These flags put spring into our step: visitors from all over the UK come to rediscover Ulverston and its surrounding area with the internationally renown Printfest in the Coro at the beginning of May.

The Flags are just one of the things introduced into the town by John Fox and Sue Gill.  We’ve now accepted the idea of putting flags up for a fortnight for no reason other than we like it. Another activity they introduced was the Lantern Procession. Why do we like it? Because we all create it ourselves, some rather madly in our front or back rooms – in some case the whole house is dominated and the final ‘work of art’ takes shape the afternoon of the parade. Our kids proudly march around the streets with their creations as do the bigger kids that have made something particularly wild, large and unusual.

The Ulverston Super Saturday Markets have been a big success with the encouragement of local bands, drummers and performers who bring other creative forms of local entertainment to our town scene. Even our local business communities, shops like Loopy and Unique Image have brought their creative thinking to encourage people from a wide area to visit Ulverston to explore the expression of their craft skills in their own homes.

Art also breaks out in the form of pottery made, often in the spring, by children and adults who discover, as they did making Lanterns, that actually they are both creative and artistic. The pottery on Gill Banks railings still raises a smile on walkers both local and Cumbria Way destined. Should we not join the people like those in Hackney that put energy into livening up their own streets and public places. Time perhaps to attract visitors this Spring not only because of our outgoing friendship, but because our creativity produces so many things that once again give us all a lift?

Flags, Lanterns, Music, Dance, Pottery and Crafts have a very special ingredient – many say it’s something useless and can be done without - Creative Art. However it encourages vital human characteristics; self esteem and proactivity. It is a wonderful alternative to frustration and depression.

Thank God for thinking friends

I've just been on the phone to two of them and they're a real tonic.

Each in the own, very different way, are thinkers.

More remote maybe, are the people from the past like the great guy Tony Benn who many respect and made us all stop and think. Then in town here we had Dr Brian Redhead who was seen as a crank because he tried to get others to think when he went into a pub.

It's sad to find there aren't many like them in this town. Were can you go and have a really good discussion. In most places I find it's frowned upon: it's not 'polite'. What goes along with this attitude is a lot of backbiting and cliquey narrow thinking that lead to factions rather the alternative to good hard talk along rational lines driven by passion were 'politeness' is thrown out the window. My French background coming out strong.

Many will see the above as contradictory rubbish - others think the opposite and see this kind of thinking as containing pearls of wisdom.

Excuse the reference to God whom I see as a convenient way of expressing a strong feeling - alternatives are most welcome!

Perhaps Johnno and I can agree

Could it be that the NHS is being shown to be in the hands of big business again? Like so many other parts of our daily life?

My amazingly quick recovery from an outbreak of severe Arthritis on Wednesday night when I was immobilised by pain in my bed, to someone who could dance a full hour at Friday lunch time, with no remaining symptoms, by a change in diet, makes me sit up and question "What's going on?"

Could it not be that the effect of diet is not scientifically researched and that the NHS acts along very narrow lines of reasoning: treat illnesses either by drugs (with research carried by the drug companies anxious to sell them) or by surgery (with surgeons anxious to develop their skills of manipulating the human body)?

My recent experience suggests that I never needed a hip replacement in the first place: diet may have been an alternative method of treatment - very successful alternative.

In 2002 onwards, whilst living in London having just retired from a stressful carrier in teaching, Arthritis in my left hip became a major problem. We moved back to Ulverston in 2004 with the pain increasing rapidly. In May 2005 I had the hip replacement with a dramatic improvement but not a full recovery in that the weakened muscle coping with lack of use because of the pain now had to cope with the scar tissue resulting from the operation. Sadly physiotherapy to get this muscle back in good running order was never suggested and that muscle is causing considerable problems now.

At the same time in January 2005 the X-Rays of both hips not only revealed a problem in my left hip but the prediction that I would shortly need a hip replacement in my second hip. This week, 9 years later, was the first time this hip has caused problems : one that was immediately rectified by an immediate change in diet.

The question that arises:

Did the move here and a possible change in diet and certainly life style prevent Arthritis developing in my second hip, a deterioration predicted by doctors. Secondly could diet have prevented the onset of Arthritis  in both hips in the first place.

In all my dealings with doctors, diet was never mentioned. Could this not be that this has never been properly researched within the NHS? When you stop and think : who would pay for reliable accredited research to be undertaken? We know that drug companies like Glaxo will pay for research to show that their drugs are effective: that's how they make money. But who pays for diet research? No one. So it ends up as a body of opinion and hearsay with little credibility and a massive muddle with what seem to be religious fanatics on the one hand and dour sceptics of the lot on the other.

Once again are we not being manipulated by people at the top in the form of the NHS to only think along their lines with the alternative medicines having to struggle and being prone to the "bad science" that discredits it?

Make any sense Johnno?

We are lost

We are lost and we don't know which way to go.

But this a very natural thing, a very healthy thing.


Haruki Murakami,

Tokyo, January 2003



How is our health?

Revelation - Arthritis hits, then gets 'cured'

I've just had a shock and discovered that I can't eat anything I like!

Yesterday and last night was the clearest signal that what I eat can have an immediate effect on the Arthritis in my right hip - causing it to flare up so that the joint became inflamed and extremely painful.

A quick search on Google took me to this site:

Here I'm told that I should  -

Eat Less

• Dairy foods

• Meat

• Citrus fruit

• Processed foods

• White flour

• White rice

• Potatoes

• Tomatoes

• Peppers

• Aubergines

• Sugar & Salt

Coffee

Of these I had eaten nothing but,  in the last few days. The most telling being the under ripe tomatoes.

I staggered around town and bought:

Oily fish - Sardines; nuts; porridge; and figs and together with  Seven Seas JointCare. The combined effect was my joint has suddenly got better. In severe pain on Thursday morning and problem gone by 12:30pm when i started dancing vigorously for an hour

Because it says:

Eat more

• Oily fish

• Green leafy vegetables

• Vegetable oils

• Whole grain products

• Oats

• Figs

• Pumpkin, sunflower and sesame seeds

• Kidney beans

• Pineapple, papaya, mango and guava

Impressive I'm nearly back to my usual agile self!

Horrendous back up on A590 again - "it's not a police matter"

Here's someone else's attempt to get some sense see below:

I've contacted County Councillor James Airey with the emails below and await his response

I've also talked extensively for about thirty minutes to Cumbria Police followed by the officer at Ulverston Police Station and both state that this is not a police matter but the responsibility of the Cumbria Highways Department whose head is Andrew Moss.

The police recommend that we all contact him : Andrew.Moss@cumbria.gov.uk

The persons to talk to him that have clout are our two County Cllrs, so please write to them  as well

 James Airey -  James.Airey@cumbria.gov.uk  and
Mark Wilson - mark.wilson@southlakeland.gov.uk

Do nothing and we can expect more of the same.

For my part I will report on their action/inaction.

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	Fwd: Roadworks Traffic Control A590 Ulverston
Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 17:50:17 +0000
From:	local person
To:	ha_info@highways.gsi.gov.uk

11th March 2014
    re my email below ,once again some kind of roadworks outside Ulverston has jammed up the town. At 5pm I was/am unable to get from my house on the East side of town to the health centre on the West. The ONLY route is via Tank Square.
Why can't the contractors use their common sense and get traffic out of Ulverston ?
A parallel question is - why don't you supervise them more closely ?

-------- Original Message --------

Subject:	Roadworks Traffic Control A590 Ulverston
Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2014 17:00:30 +0000
From:

    Every time there is traffic control of road works on the A590 near 
Ulverston ,congestion is caused on the Tank Square and Booths roundabouts .
    Today ,for example ,roadworks at Newlands less than 1 mile North of 
the town caused long queues to form which soon reached Booths roundabout 
and then Tank Square. When this roundabout stops ,the whole town becomes 
gridlocked ,it is impossible to get from one side of town to the other.
    I queued for 25 minutes to get from Ulverston to Greenodd and there 
was no queue at all in the opposite direction. On my return 20 minutes 
later I came straight through into Ulverton where the A590 was backed up 
to Three Bridges.
     A child could tell you that traffic going out of Ulverston should 
be given priority over  incoming traffic . Your contractors' traffic 
control people are fully aware of this I am sure,  but it is apparent 
they couldn't care less.
    We all know traffic control is needed to protect the workforce but 
it needs more supervision from your dept. Operation of signals should 
take into account tidal flow of traffic and the effect of build-up on 
nearby junctions.
Please take this into account when giving contractors licence to control 
traffic.

signed local person

Scams get cleverer and cleverer

As I believe I've said before!

Each time I almost get convinced and tempted to open the zip file.

However I don't on principle ever open attached zip files.

REMINDER NOTICE DO NOT IGNORE

Your vehicle was recorded parked on our Clients Private Property at Katherine Road
driveways from 12.13.23PM to 14.40.36PM on the 11.02.2014 and remained on site for 2 hour 27 min.
A notice was sent to you on 6.03.2014 which gives 28 days to pay full PARKING CHARGE or challenge the issue.

The amount of £70.00 is now due If payment not received within 28 days, an additional 40.00 administration
charge will be incurred. Failure to pay the full outstanding balance within 14 days of the date of this notice could result
in the outstanding balance being registered as a debt against you. You will also become liable for additional costs and
interest invoiced. Your ability to obtain credit in the future could be affected. 

We are holding photographic evidence on file to support this claim.
YOU CAN FIND COPIES OF PHOTOGRAPHIC EVIDENCE AND FORMS
FOR MAKING PAYMENT IN ATTACHMENT BELOW.

Instead we Googled the address given "Katherine Road" only to be warned off a scam

and we got this

"Alert: Beware of Justice.gov.uk scam parking fine emails"