Pharmaceutical company recalls high blood pressure drugs over dangerous labelling mix-up

Pharmaceutical company recalls high blood pressure drugs over dangerous labelling mix-up

: Japan wind change to blow radiation over Pacific

: Japan wind change to blow radiation over Pacific

Are You Truly Prepared For Emergencies?

Are truly prepared for emergencies?  The Japanese earthquake and tsunami tragedy  has really hit home in the Vancouver B.C. area of Canada and many persons are rushing to stock up and emergency food rations and supplies.  A good idea!


No matter where you live our climate is changing so much and creating such unexpectedly wild weather it is good to make sure that you really are prepared.  Many of us  keep putting off even the smallest of emergency prepared such as installing a rope ladder near windows and third floor bedrooms and ending up being unable to get out when fire erupts.  Don't let this happen to you!


And don't install such things and other emergency equipment -- but put off critical practice in using them.  Just having something -- whether it is a skill or piece of equipment is not going to help if you are not skilled in its use. 


Years ago in some police officers found this out the hard way. Being mainly traffic control officers they never actually fired their weapons for years. Then when they suddenly encountered violent criminals they were practically helpless to defend themselves and others properly. I'm sure such things don't happen nowadays, but that left these officers in quit e a predicament -- one that could have cost them their lives.


Don't let things like  lack of practice with your emergency equipment or skills create dangerous situations for you. Many security officers are guilty of this. After they finish their initial self-defense training they forget all about in many cases. While many of them get away with this for years and nothing happens one day it could cost them and it takes just one person  (or emergency of some sort) after years and years of nothing happening to make you regret  lack of preparedness. 

Protect Yourself At Home

 

You take steps to protect your vehicle with alarms and other devices and insurance, but how well protected are you at home –especially if it is a condominium or apartment building that might not be in the best part of town as developers nowadays try to revitalize run-down sections of the city with new residential and commercial buildings?

Some of the things you should be looking for after a careful assessment of your neighbourhood to see what potential dangers surround is the building itself. Does it offer things such as:

• 24-hour concierge
  
• Security cameras
  
• In-suite alarm systems
  
• Protected underground parking facilities monitored by cameras and or a security guard
  
• Friendly observant staff who are concerned about your welfare who will come to your assistance in an emergency.
  

These are all good reminders from Laura Malloy writing in New Condo Guide published by home Trader.ca March 11, 2011 in Vancouver, BC.

If you are living in such a building just remember to become familiar with all of the security features, services and personnel and make good use of them to protect yourself. This includes remembering to wait until the parkade doors reclose before moving on – whether you are entering or leaving; you'd be amazed at how many people do not do this making it easy for somebody to sneak in behind you.

Another thing you can do (whether you are living in a condominium or apartment – or a single family home is to install your own security cameras at entry points (as well as the outside perimeter if your live in a single-family home).



When installing camera systems around your condo or single-family dwelling you, of course, have the option of posting a sign to warn others that you do have such a system. This can be a big deterrent in itself. Or you can have hidden cameras with lens no bigger than the end of a pencil if you want to keep your system secret.


Just remember to have either type of system mounted in a way that does not interfere with the privacy of your neighbours.   It could be a good idea to work with a professional installer so you keep everything not only effective but also legal.

 

 

Be Prepared for Sudden Violence

We live in an increasingly violent world. Never mind the revolutions in the Middle East as heart wrenching and traumatic as they may be.  People are being assaulted and  often killed on the streets of Canada and the rest of the world every minute of every day.


Many persons do not have the opportunity to learn the best ways to defend themselves but here in Canada and the ways that looks very good is found at www.streetsensesafety.ca


Click on this website to learn more about their very impressive looking self-defense courses -- based on on martial arts competitions -- but on real-life situations that you could encounter at any time. I have just discovered this site myself but it looks good.

Don't Hold a Grudge for Even a Second

Almost everyone at one time or another has said or felt something like, "Oh yeah ? If that's the way he or she wants to treat me or act just wait and see what I do to them next time!

As tempting as it is it's not only personally self-destructive to hold grudges but also responsible for much of the wars and other blood baths in the world today and in the end hurts the person planning or actually carrying out revengeful act as much as their victim.

You see examples of this everyday in the news. However one incident that really stands out in my mind is the story of two brothers who lived in an isolated fishing village on the coast of British Columbia, Canada when I was a young lad. I had met one of the brothers but the actual story was related to me by my grandfather who knew both of them very well.

He told me that for over 30 years these two brothers had argument over some rather trivial matter and hadn't spoken to each other again – although they lived in the same cabin – and worked on the same fishing boat -- a smaller gillnetter they owned and took out every day fishing.

They lived and worked together like this for years –refusing to look at or speak to each other again. It didn't matter whether one of them became ill or had some other problem. The other person would see that his brother was taken care of – but not personally.

Finally some time after 30 years one of the brothers suddenly died of a heart attack. His brother didn't attend his funeral but did sort through his brothers belongings –because secretly he was devastated the loss of his brother.

He broken down when came across a letter in which his brother expressed the heartbreak his brother had lived with as a result of the argument. He had written in this archived letter in his belongings who he loved his brother and felt sorry about his part in the dispute and how he wished the two of them could be friends again – but felt it was his brothers place to make up to him – first.

The surviving brother had felt exactly the same way about everything, but was so devastated by the fact that he had not tried to patch up their differences that he lived the rest of his life in such sadness and despair that he too died a few years after the death of his brother.

All of this actually happened and is a perfect example of the tragedy of holding grudges and seeking -- revenge-- for something somebody has done to us.

Seeking justice for some wrong done to us or somebody else is of course another matter. The two ideas are not the same.

 

 

 

Protect Yourself from Disease By Eating Sugar?

Protect your health by eating sugar?  You must be kidding !   For years we have been warned about the increasing dangers of eating sugar haven't we?


Yes we have have but now according to the folks at Angora eating a certain type of sugar can do much to protect yourself from illness and disease.


I first learned about this through an e-mail sent to me this morning alerting to a  video free over the next 24 hours explaining all of this. It looks (and sounds good).


For more information contact the publisher at: catalog@pubsvs.com or the publisher of Nutrition and Healing online.


Do it right away as it is a time-limited offer.