miércoles 23 de septiembre de 2009

Anger...

"I hate when people try to take advantage of me. I'm NOT stupid you know?"
- Nicole Bardales -
Today's topic is very real... I could bet that most of the readers have gone through a stage of anger somewhere in their lives.

My Personal Opinion on Anger
What can I say? Anger is a normal emotion. And sometimes we just have to let it out (peacefully of course, don't hurt others, just express your mind). What better than words to express anger in a peaceful way? If you don't feel that words work for you, you can always draw, break a pencil or talk to someone you trust about how you feel. I am writing this topic based on the fact that I am angry right now. But instead of killing somebody, I write. I express what I feel and let my emotions flow.
Whenever you feel angry and want to keep it for you, remember that anger is like a poison, it can eat you without you noticing it. So express yourself in a pacific way, and let others know that you are angry and what makes you angry. Don't let others silence you. YOUR WORD COUNTS!

What is Anger? (According to Wikipedia)
Anger is an emotion. The physical effects of anger include increased heart rate, blood pressure, and levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline. Some view anger as part of the fight or flight brain response to the perceived threat of harm. Anger becomes the predominant feeling behaviorally, cognitively, and physiologically when a person makes the conscious choice to take action to immediately stop the threatening behavior of another outside force. The English term originally comes from the term angr of Old Norse language. Anger can lead to many things physically and mentally.

The external expression of anger can be found in facial expressions, body language, physiological responses, and at times in public acts of aggression. Humans and non-human animals for example make loud sounds, attempt to look physically larger, bare their teeth, and stare. Anger is a behavioral pattern designed to warn aggressors to stop their threatening behavior. Rarely does a physical altercation occur without the prior expression of anger by at least one of the participants. hile most of those who experience anger explain its arousal as a result of "what has happened to them," psychologists point out that an angry person can be very well mistaken because anger causes a loss in self-monitoring capacity and objective observability.

Modern psychologists view anger as a primary, natural, and mature emotion experienced by all humans at times, and as something that has functional value for survival. Anger can mobilize psychological resources for corrective action. Uncontrolled anger can, however, negatively affect personal or social. While many philosophers and writers have warned against the spontaneous and uncontrolled fits of anger, there has been disagreement over the intrinsic value of anger. Dealing with anger has been addressed in the writings of earliest philosophers up to modern times. Modern psychologists, in contrast to the earlier writers, have also pointed out the possible harmful effects of suppression of anger. Displays of anger can be used as a manipulation strategy for social influence.

One Last Thing: But even if you're really angry remember to be happy, no one has the right to make you angry. And always remember: You are much better than the person that made you angry.

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"He who angers you conquers you."
~Elizabeth Kenny
"Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one"  
~ Benjamin Franklin

lunes 21 de septiembre de 2009

Día Mundial del Alzheimer - Global Alzheimer Day

Hoy se celebra el Día Mundial del alzheimer, una enfermedad que afectará a 35 millones de personas en el 2010. En España cada 15 minutos se diagnostica un nuevo caso, aunque se cree que existe un 30 por ciento de personas que la sufren y aún no están diagnosticadas. Desde las asociaciones de afectados y familiares se piden el desarrollo de la Ley de Dependencia.

El Mal de Alzheimer o simplemente alzhéimer: es una enfermedad neurodegenerativa, que se manifiesta como deterioro cognitivo y trastornos conductuales. Se caracteriza en su forma típica por una pérdida progresiva de la memoria y de otras capacidades mentales, a medida que las células nerviosas (neuronas) mueren y diferentes zonas del cerebro se atrofian. La enfermedad suele tener una duración media aproximada de 10-12 años, aunque esto puede variar.

Yo Amo América (I Love América)


Yo Amo América es una nueva campaña de comunicación del Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo (BID), en asociación con otras entidades, en la que diversas celebridades con trayectoria de compromiso social no solamente se convierten en portavoces de un mensaje, sino en verdaderos agentes de cambio en América Latina y el Caribe.
La campaña pretende promover políticas e inversiones en áreas estratégicas para que la población de bajos ingresos pueda acceder a más y mejores servicios. Son áreas como el registro civil, la atención integral a la infancia y el acceso a los servicios financieros en las que el BID está realizando inversiones importantes para transformar la calidad de vida de millones de personas en la región.
Yo Amo América incluye una campaña mediática a nivel regional (radio, televisión y medios electrónicos) para crear conciencia entre autoridades y líderes de opinión sobre cómo reducir la pobreza de nuestra región con un enfoque más estratégico. A nivel nacional, los artistas participarán en una campaña impresa para promover el acceso a servicios específicos que brinden nuevas oportunidades a la mayoría de la población.
YO AMO AMÉRICA ¿Y TÚ?

sábado 19 de septiembre de 2009

Copyright Notice

Creative Commons License
Nicole Bardales by Nicole Bardales is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Since the first post I mentioned that I might post designs or links to designs created by me, of course. Well... I'll start soon but just wanted to let you all know that you may redistribute all the designs you like, use them as backgrounds and whatever you wish but please do not alter them.
It took me much dedication and patience to do many of them and I would really appreciate if you distribute them without taking credit. I'm not asking for publicity, but if you are going to say you did it, don't say anything.

Of course I am not watching you and many of you might say you did them anyway, but please: "Don't do it!"

Sincerely,
.::. Nicole Bardales.::.

Wix. Wix? Wix!

I believe many of you might be in the same situation when you read this: Wix. Wix? Wix!
Normally I don't like to promote stuff but I found this and realized I cannot be so selfish and keep this great site for myself! Wow I mean, it's great, easy, pro-looking and FREE!

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So... what do you say? I say "On your marks, Get set, WIX!"

Sincerely,

.::.Nicole Bardales.::.

jueves 17 de septiembre de 2009

Real España vs. Comunicaciones =(

¡Es por amor a la camiseta, al equipo!

Ok, I have to admit it, my team's performance was not as good as it normally is.
I am really sad for this result, I really thought we could win, but we have to move on and maybe they finally take Ramón Maradiaga off from there, he hasn't done things right, he hasn't teamed the players correctly... augh, I'm tired of him, I think he wants Real España to lose because he is Motagüense, but again, that is just my opinion.
Well, just hope we play better next time and that they fire Mr. Maradiaga, 'cuz I know that he's "no good".

But I'm ¡Españolista! ¡Megalocos! No matter if we win, or if we lose! ¡Real España hasta el final!


Sincerely,
.:♥:.Nicole Bardales.:♥:.

Health Care on Anderson Cooper 360°

Today I stayed away from my computer just to see Deepak Chopra con TV (Official Twitter) on Anderson Cooper 360° (Official Twitter).
The first topic to be debated was Obama´s Health Care plan, found shocking how people can change what you say or misunderstand what you do. Obama even said: "You can ask the people against the plan and they got all wrong what it's about."
My opinion? Well, he isn't racist, of that I'm sure, but with this health care reform, the most benefited will be latins and black people -this is why he might been marked as racist- and it is true, if you feel your people have not been treated the right way, you try to make justice.
I don't like to get too much into politics because some people always get us wrong and change our words. Anyway, my opinion, he is not a racist, but the health care plan is "racist" inclined and shows a communist influence too.

About the Yale student, what a sad thing, I'm not sure if Ray Clark is guilty, innocent or whatever, but he looks suspicious, he is hiding something. I just hope they get to find the person responsible for this tragedy.

As for the Garrido case, such a sad story, never heard of it before, though, but the word "Garrido" sounds pretty familiar. My hope goes to her family and I will pray for her to be a healthy 30-year old than bones in Garrido's backyard. Blessings and be strong, God is with us.

Oh, and I can't just leave without talking about those millions of dollars that are being wasted on that border line. Why wasted? I don't see where they could be, do you? The guy even sat in the middle of the road in the middle of the day, and... no cars! All the money that is being wasted there could be used in Obama's health care reform. So, in my opinion, Obama supervise and re-check you may be amazed at what you find.

So, this is it guys, this is what I saw, they started talking about finances and it really didn't get me much interested but I know economy is getting better, let's just hope it stays that way.

Blessings to all my friends.

Sincerely,

.::.Nicole Bardales.:♥:.