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Translated roughly:

UPS Spain plan an Employee Regulation Action to lay off 216 employees. The regulation presented by UPS will affect 216 of the 1100 employees of their Spanish workforce. The company claims that these layoffs are due to organizational reasons and deny any relation with the economic crisis. The trade unions have already rejected the cuts.

Cuts like these have an impact on the global economy, with jobs gone, services also go, then more jobs, retail gets hit further and so on… it is like a spiral of negative economies that scares people and puts even more of us into unemployment.

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Please help end this mess!

After watching dispatches tonight I could not help but try and create some kind of change… this is something that has to end, now!

The organisation stepping stones web site should tell you a bit more about what they do, but just after the story was on the web I was unable to get on the site, probably so many people on looking at the site I would imagine… the programme was very good and really made me want to learn more about it all and help make some change happen…

www.steppingstonesnigeria.org/

Stepping Stones Nigeria are working with children who have been branded by their family and community as being witches… the children are tortured and forced to confess using methods that would make me admit to anything just would make them stop, never mind a defenceless child… The main cause are so called ‘religious’ prophets who are spreading word that children are witches when any form of bad fortune comes around… like people in the family passing away, illness, food turning etc…

so they tell parents of these families that they are to torture the child until they confess… this may sound absolutely mental, but it is happening.

Please, if you care to! write to your MP, councilor and anyone in power anywhere in the world to try and stop this! I will stick links to this on social media sites etc to try and get anyone who gives a toss to read it and maybe just some people will do something that will make the difference.

some linked stories…

Dispatches

Telegraph

My vision for this is that the legislation will protect children, the police will arrest all of the perpetrators, and the education of non religious centred learning opportunities will be available for all of these communities and its children.

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I used to try and stay quiet about issues that may come back at me at a later stage… but you may just have an interest in hearing this story…

on the 7th September 2004, I was picked up by my partner from my work as a youth worker after an average night working with young people in one of the community areas that I had been brought up in as well as spent some time hanging around in my earlier youth…

http://kiddsdistribution.co.uk/petition.html

I was excited about the new prospect of going to university to study community education after thinking that I would never even consider it for the last ten years or so… I piled loads of borrowed books from a friend into the back seat of my girl friends car and jumped into the front passenger seat…

I for some strange reason did not put my seat belt on at the start of the journey… in fact looking back on it there were a few strange things that I done that night… one being that when my manager asked me ‘are you in a hurry to get out of here (as in work)’ I truly felt an urge to stay in work and did not really want to go home, even though I was tired and usually would be out of the door as fast as the rest of them after a fair nights good slog working in youth work…

wo drove about 400 yards and remember slowly pulling my seat belt over me, clink… then less than 100 yards along the road… there was a strange swerve in the car in our lane way ahead in the road in front of me… there seemed to be something of a hazard up ahead… but we were travelling at or under the speed limit as she was always a careful driver… ’so we should be OK’ i thought…

NEXT THING… a pair of high beamed head lights at a strange angle hurtled around the bend at the top of the road… “They are flying” I kind of busted out, I knew there was a real problem strait away… milliseconds later “They are hitting us” I shouted in a very scared and child like voice… I then for a very short but scary time in my life thought that I was staring death in the face… this car was really speeding close to us… “its coming right at us… FU**”… the car hit their side of the road on the curb then skidded towards our side, hit our curb and skelped us head on… slightly to my passenger side…

I thought that it was all over… amazing sounds travel through my system, even now while writing this… the tremendous banging of the vehicle we were in leaving the tarmac and spinning in the air, I lifted my knees to my chest and tried to cover my face, just from fear if nothing else… BANG then another… then a strange pause.. silence… maybe for a millionth of a second, but it felt like a long time as I tried to get my bearings,as though I had taken a shot to the chest…

The car was smokey, the smell of gun powder hit me from me as a reminder from my childhood as the airbag had went off… I could not work out the last seconds, did not quite understand where I was or what had happened to me, or… well anything for that short space of time…

I started to take a panic attack… the first time in my life I had ever experienced anything like it… I realised that I had to get out of this car, I turned to my partner in realisation that I was not alone… she was not moving, not a whimper… what sprung to mind (funnily enough) was an advert for road safety, where the couple are in an accident and the boy lifts his partners burst head from the steering wheel to reveal a mangled reck of a face)… I really at this point nearly ended myself… I thought my life was over… I thought I had witnessed the death of my girl…

I had lost all my sense of direction, did not know where I was, and for a split second did not know what had happened to us.  Eventually I realied that we had to get out of the car fast, the smell of fuel was overwhelming, and I knew that we were in danger of going up in smoke… My door hjad been budged back from the force and would not open.  I was still in the fetal position that I put myself in on impact, I tried to put my feet down on the foor of the car but my floor pan had come in a bit towards me and I did not have any room.

Sarah was still out cold and I started to panick, I shouted at the boys who were scrambling away from the green Ford Mondeo… I was very angry with them, especially because they had ran away not knowing if we were ok or even alive.

It was hard to tell how many were in the other car, turns out that there were three of them, known car theifs from paisley (Carma will get them in the end). They had also been assisted out of thier car by a youth, who decided not to be a witness, I can totally understand why he would not be up for going to court against anyone, but I was disapointed in him for not being brave enough.

One of the boys was left in the other car by his so called mates, he soon got moving when I started shouting my head off when I eventually managed to get out sarah’s door.  She came round and was weeping, scared and hurt.

By the time we sat at the back of the car we were pretty shaken up, loads of people had gathered, but again, not one person had to guts to go as a witness out of the people who seen the boys.

To be continued … soon!

Please sign the KDS Brake road safety petition….click here!

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Chi Kung - A practice for true well-being

I learned Tai Chi - Chi Kung about 5 years ago and I sometimes forget how much it has helped my focus and change aspects of my health and wellness over the last few years.

Chi kung helps the body balance out its own energy system and reduces the bodies stress levels while increasing the minds ability to chemically cope with emotions, injury and fatigue.

There are a number of schools of thought when it comes to practicing Tai Chi and which exercises and forms are better for different people.  I learned 18 exercises of Tai Chi - Chi King which I practice now and then as well as meditation and relaxation practices that help me sleep like a baby and relax on demand.

I also find that the Chi Kung really helps get rid of my back pain too, which in turn gives my more energy and makes me enjoy my day more.

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Meditation for success

you can use simple meditation exercises to improve your life, create balance and achieve your goals.

Preparation

Get yourself in a place and a position where you can relax with no interruption (don’t do any of these exercises while driving a vehicle or operating machinery… you would be surprised!).

Sit comfortably and close your eye’s and only take these exercises to the point where it is comfortable, do not force it if you have any bother… also see your GP if you recognise any problems or are in any doubt about your health.

Breathing

Breath in and out through your nose for this exercise.

Take a deep breath in and slowly out.

Repeat this deep breathing at least three times (up to 11 repetitions of deep breathing).

The minds eye - the meditation bit

In your mind imagine yourself standing in a peaceful countryside scene with beautiful blue skies and rolling hills.

Feel the nice comfortable warm air on your face, hands and feet.

Notice the sounds of the stream close by, the sound of the peaceful countryside around you.

Imaging yourself placing your fingers in the stream, with a feeling of warmth and cleansing.

Take all of your fears, any self doubt and negative thoughts and let the stream wash them all away off the tips of your fingers and far down steam.

take your hands out to dry in the suns warms glow, feel the energy of the sun on your hands as it fills you with confidence, energy and success.

Imagine the suns warms over your whole body all the way from your finders to your arms, from the top of your head down your body, heating your legs and energising your feet and toes.

Take this energy into your day and long into the future.

You will soon walk back to the countryside scene where you first began, with the warm air and the rolling hills, the warm clear blue sky and the long meadow grass reached to your fingers.

Think of having an energised day ahead or a restful sleep that night depending on what time of day it is and what you feel you need most from the exercise.

Bring your attention back into the room you are in, to the sounds and feelings around you, take a stretch and open your eyes when you are ready.

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Neuro Linguistic Programming - Tools for success and development

NLP came from the study of how successful people differ from the rest… how they feel about things, what they say to themselves, how they feel things, how they think and the way they carry themselves in any situation.

NLP is a number of techniques and tools that can help you reach your potential. Many business people and sports men and woman use NLP and similar techniques to achieve success and great results.

Tony Robbins the motivational and personal development speaker and guru also uses NLP and promotes the techniques used in NLP.

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Message to all you social entrepreneurs out there!

The Melting Pot in Edinburgh is having open day events! 10 June 2008 and 10 July 2008 from 9am till 9pm.

You could pop in and work from the melting pot for a day or pop in and have a look around.

Are you:

• Self employed and missing a sense of structure within your working life?
• Looking to benefit from improving your network of like minded contacts?
• Looking for a socially aware space to use for meetings and events?
• Aiming to broaden your horizons and get exposure for your ideas?
• Looking for a professional space in the city centre location within Edinburgh?
• Looking for a green or eco space to work out of to compliment your business or enterprise?

If you answer yes to any of the above you should head along to the open day at The Melting Pot and find out more about what is going on…

Contact Information for: The Melting Pot

5 Rose Street,

Edinburgh,

Scotland.

EH2 2PR

Telephone: 0131 243 2626

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Please let The Melting Pot know you seen them on sdenterprise.co.uk

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What makes you happy?

…and would make you want to jump out of bed in the morning?

One of the key things that people who succeed in life seem to have a grasp of is making sure they identify what makes them tick, what will drive them to success, Why do they want to achieve that something?

So how do you find out what makes you happy?

• Try new things!
• Look at what you have enjoyed in life in the past.
• What did you get excited about in childhood, teenage years or early adulthood?
• What things in life get you really passionate, is it injustice, is it people, is it working with animals, are you really keen on helping others?
• If you can’t get anywhere with the above questions, just keep looking and asking, what makes me happy in life just now or in the future?

If you look at identifying what you get most out of in life you can really make a shift towards a life of abundance and true riches (happy, contentment, successful.

Also, it makes sense to define what you do like about life at present, in the recent past, and in the near future as well as dreaming about the long term possibilities in life.

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‘I am the greatest’ Mohammed Ali

If you want to achieve something extraordinary then you have to dream something extraordinary, imagine, see yourself getting what you really want, feel as though you are living it, smell what you would smell, hear what you might hear.

You simply are aiming to leave your subconscious believing that the vivid day dreams are actually real and exist in the ‘real world’.

I listened to one of Jack Blacks CD’s today, a Motivational and development speaker from Glasgow in Scotland. The CD has three tracks on it and the 3rd track is great, I was impressed because I could really relate to the ideas he presented as well as the people that he used as analogies. I have listened to hundreds of personal development and motivational CD’s but this one really struck a note with me.

One key thing that I got from the Mindstore CD is that you should not do as many motivational and management materials preach, by only dreaming of achieving things that are ‘achieveble’ and ‘atainable’. I feel free to dream of achieving things that may be a far off dream to others even if they are extremely difficult for people to achieve.

Dream big! Achieve loads and be the greatest!

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Achieve success and realise your dreams

When studying how successful people in business, life and relationships get to where they are in life the one thing that really stands out is that they all set goals and targets to what they want to achieve in the short, medium and longer term.

They tend to base the goals on principles and values that help drive them towards achieving their desired outcome and keep on going, they take action to achieve what they want!

What are goals?

They are just something to work towards, something that you want in life, they may fall under one or a few of the following headings. Relationships, career, financial, family, health and life. There are other headings that goals can fall into, but this gives you an idea of where you may want to start.

Your Role in Life!

It helps to take a look at two main things in life. Firstly, what are your long term dreams and goals that may be seen by other as just a dream… or pie in the sky stuff!

secondly, define the things in life that really motivate you, do you like helping people, do you want to make a difference in the world, what could you achieve if there was nothing holding you back, what will make you happy?

Setting Your Goals!

• Define your goal! (set out on paper, what you want to achieve clearly and simply).
• When will you aim to archive your goal by? (make all goals time sensitive).
• Be optimistic and aim high, but don’t go into a fantasy land. (still aim for dreams though).
• You may want to define how and when you will know that you have achieved your goal.
• To achieve a large or long term goal you may want to set out a number of small goals to get there (you can eat a whole big fat elephant, but only if you do it in wee bits).

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