If you find yourself a Target of one of the high school bullies you have to realize a couple of key points

Firstly most Bullies whether at school, or outside of school target kids they think won’t fight back and they, the bully don’t have much chance of getting hurt themselves. In fact this is one of the key points of any bully they themselves are cowardly which is why they pick on people they deem “an easy target”

So if you find yourself being a victim to a school bully you have a couple of choices that you can make to stop this happening. Lets look at some of your choices now:

1) Tell a Teacher. While this may seem like good advice very often there is not much a teacher can do to protect you – indeed most schools now have a policy where all a teacher can do is tell the bully to stop hitting you and they themselves are not allowed to touch the bully. Great help that is to you when the bully is pounding on your head! I am sure too, that some teachers will even lose respect for you for not being able to stick up for yourself as well – which isn’t exactly much help

2) Another option is to tell you parents. Most parents (Bless them!) will then have the natural instinct to protect you and rush to contact the bullies parents who will probably deny there child would ever do such a thing or think its funny. Besides once the bully tells everyone at school then you will be labeled a snitch and that just makes even less kids at school have respect for you!

So what can you do? One of the best things you can do in my opinion is to purchase a Boxing Punching bag – these days they are very affordable and you don’t need much room to hang one in your garage or basement.

The great thing about owning your own Boxing Bag is that not only does it improve your punching power but it also improves your overall strength. Even after a couple of weeks working on your punches you will notice your arms, shoulders, back and chest muscles start to  build and toughen up.

Another benefit to a Punching bag is it helps your co-ordination with your footwork (as the bag swings back and forth) and your over all endurance. When I first started to hit a punching bag I was out of breath in minutes – I certainly don’t have those problems anymore!

Finally owning a punching bag will bring you plenty of self confidence, knowing that you can hit hard and fast and lets not forget building a muscular hard body helps your esteem too!  You will find that most school bullies will now steer clear of you even without you even having to lay a finger on them!

Disney is famous for producing movies that are suitable for children. Parents are carefree and do not have to worry about their children watching anything on the channel that would prove harmful; including graphic language, racy dialogue, violence, etc. High S. Musical 2 definitely falls in this category. High School Musical 2 is the sequel to the High School Musical and was released on August 17, 2007on the US Disney channel.

The movie has been written by Peter Barsocchini and directed by Kenny Ortega. It has a simple plot but still manages to hold the viewers attention. Stressing the importance of friendship, the movie covers the journey of the protagonists and how they win a talent contest organized by the local country club without compromising their values. With the clout and influence that Disney network has, especially with children under 14; it is not surprising that the “High School Musical 2″ has gone on to become such a huge hit. It has also developed a large adolescent fan following for the two lead actors of the movie, Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. Surprisingly, Zac Efron does not get his songs dubbed in this sequel like he did in the previous movie. Rather he has sung all his songs himself.

This is a fantastic sequel with some superb music. However, the middle of the movie sees a dearth of songs as the focus shifts to moving the story ahead. It has the distinction of being the most-watched made-for-cable movie ever. It averaged 17.2 million viewers when it was first aired on 17 August. The first broadcast of the film broke records.

It is interesting to note the fact that the movie was released when school was about to start up again, while the Online movie’s plot involved the gang going on summer vacation. Ironic, but this fact did not come in the way of its success.

The outside recognition could make you believe in something what you are actually not. Great examples are gang members, belonging to a certain group just because my friends go there, church, party goers etc. You can have positive feedback from them, you can pretend to feel happy among them, but if those feelings and experiences do not match with your beliefs you would not have healthy high self-esteem.

Having healthy high self-esteem is a learned process. Everybody, I mean everybody can build it. You just have to decide to do that.

Her are some tips to help you out:

1. FOCUS: Every single cell of your body and your mental capacity has to concentrate on 1 single thing whatever you do.

Focus itself can create success. Concentration is an indispensable part of high self-esteem. It will teach you how to ignore obstructions and guide your thoughts toward the chosen subject.

2. PERSISTENCE: This is the key to live a happy life. Many people can start something, but really few would finish it. You can find those who complete the job among the most successful and/or the wealthiest people in the world.

The reason I use and/or, because to be successful you do not necessarily have to be rich in financial terms.

Mahatma Gandhi – the Great Soul of India – started fasting and the British Empire left India. He had probably no high value assets or bank accounts. He had an enormous mental and spiritual power to show people around the world, that you can achieve what you want without aggression if you are determined enough. His persistence was peaceful and “soft”. That is how he became a legend.

3. TRIAL & ERROR: We all try and make mistakes. This is inevitable for our personal growth. The more you fail the more you learn.

Think of Thomas Edison who was asked after trying to create a light bulb 10000 times unsuccessfully:

“- Mr. Edison, how did it feel to fail 10000 times?”

“- I did not fail. I found 10000 ways that won’t work. – he replied.”

That’s the spirit. You do not fail, you just learn how not to do it.

You have to start the healing process for developing high self-esteem as soon as possible. Educate yourself, read, listen and talk to people, but please remember that at the final moment you have to make the decision. You are your own “healer”. You are the one who will choose pleasure instead of pain. Self-discovery, self-creation is a wonderful journey so

ENJOY THE JOURNEY MY FRIEND

The high blood pressure can stimulate various other health related issues, some of which may be life threatening. The examples of such life threatening issues are heart strokes and heart attacks. If you also suffer from high blood pressure problem, it is important for you to know different treatment options available for your problem. One latest studied option is infrared light therapy.

When somebody suffers from hypertension it means the force with which the blood is being circulated throughout the body is higher against the walls of vessels. The heart of the person that is suffering from high blood pressure has to work much harder, so the blood can be properly circulated throughout the body.

There are different causes that results in hypertension. It can be caused because of the high-level of stress, excessive smoking, being overweight, increased alcohol consumption, genetics, physical inactivity and many other medical conditions. Infrared light therapy is a treatment that lightens the effects of elevated blood pressure.

The light therapy for the increased levels of blood pressure helps in such a way that circulation to different parts of the body is increased. Because of this increased circulation the heart do not have to work harder any more to pump the blood to make it reach appropriately to all the body parts.

There are number of people who have successfully recovered from the high blood pressure issue by using this treatment of infrared light therapy. Infrared therapy is one of the safest ways of curing from high blood pressure. Now you can get advantage from this therapy. It is the safest and most effective mean of bringing the blood pressure to normal. Different medical facilities are available that offer infrared light therapy boxes.

Regular use of lasuna also  gives you relief in the pain and swelling of the affected joints. Lasuna helps your body to fight against any  probable infection. It makes your immune system  really strong and increases the production of white blood cells although  to prevent the infection.

Lasuna is even an effective remedy for skin diseases. Lasuna is a wonderful herbal remedy for various skin diseases  for such as acne, eczema, psoriasis, etc.  It acts as an antibiotic and  also prevents the invasion of harmful organisms in your body. You prepare  a paste of lasuna and this paste can be applied on the affected areas. Lasuna helps to treat the  more chronic skin problems. Lasuna removes the scar of the pimples if  present any.

Lasuna is even though a very good remedy for your respiratory system. It helps to control the chronic cough and is an effective or valuable product for treatment of  asthma. Lasuna works as a  wonderful drug for war infections due to the accumulation of the mucus in the ear. It produces as an indispensable herbal product for whooping cough. It helps to take out the mucus as expected. It  greatly helps in the healing of the wound very easily and quickly. In ancient time people was  used to tie some cloves of lasuna on the wound for early healing and to prevent any infection.

Lasuna has been used since ancient time in almost  every Indian home as a food. If you are taking regularly lasuna in your diet  then you may not get the heart diseases. It is such  a wonderful ingredient of the Ayurvedic products that are made to prevent heart diseases and as blood pressure remedies. It also acts upon your nervous system and so  it helps your mind to keep cool.  It gives a better soothing effect to your brain and gives you a good sleep. .

Health Benefits of Garlic

“? It is tremendously effective in the treatment of high cholesterol and other heart related problems.
“? It is useful in the secretions of digestive enzymes.
“? Garlic works as s  natural antibiotic by decrease bacterial infection and its growth.
“? It also helps in reducing infections for  on open and bleeding wounds and also promotes healing.
“? It is useful in nervous disorders live paralysis as it  effectively suppresses vata, which is one of  main cause of nervine disorders.
“? It also helpful in better improving sexual health and works as aphrodisiac.
“? It works as rasayan that is the substance and  which helps in getting better health with long life.
“? Garlic has been used since ages as natural dewormer in children.
“? It is also very helpful to cancer patients as it better  inhibits growth of cancerous cell.

A List of Natural Herbs for High Blood Pressure

Turmeric: Curcumin found in turmeric is beneficial to check cholesterol level in body and unblock blood vessels while improving blood circulation. Turmeric strengthens blood vessels and is good for liver.

Ginkgo Biloba: The herb aids widening of arteries to reduce pressure of blood. Ginkgo Biloba is too good for mental health also.

Hawthorn: Famous with the name of mayflower, Hawthorn makes heart strong, open coronary arteries, and helps reduce hardening of arteries. With a strong heart blood is better pumped to the rest of body.

Maitake: Maitake is a Chinese mushroom with effects to check hypertension and cholesterol levels.

Ginger: Frequently used in cooking, ginger is ideal for blood circulation improvement. It is also beneficial in conditions of general uneasiness and digestive problems.

Olive Oil: Massage with olive oil is a proven remedy for lowering blood tension and regularizing heart beat.

In addition to herbs for high blood pressure Potassium, Magnesium, Coenzyme Q10, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, and Folic acid are extremely helpful in combating this dangerous condition. Fresh fruits, unprocessed foods, and vegetables provide extra strength to human body to keep blood flowing at an even pace without any disturbance in pressure. Important thing to know is that any treatment should be used only after consulting an expert otherwise herbal potential can be dangerous if the right proportion is altered.

By Michael Webster: Investigative Reporter May 7, 2008, 2:00 PM PDT

In a recent drug bust at the San Diego State University Federal agents and SDSU police culminated a yearlong investigation into drug dealing around campus and found it to be more sophisticated, more pervasive and more dangerous and far reaching than they expected or have seen before. These arrests coincided with the first anniversary of a female student freshman’s cocaine-related death.

According to local newspaper reports ninety-six suspects, including 75 SDSU students, have been arrested on drug-related charges as a result of the undercover operation, launched after Jenny Poliakoff, 19, was found dead in her off-campus apartment after a night of celebration.

One of the main suspects in this international drug investigation is Omar Castaneda, a gang member from Pomona with ties to the Mexican Tijuana drug cartels, officials said.

Castaneda, 36, after his arrest he was arraigned in San Diego Superior Court on charges of possession of cocaine for sale. He is suspected of being a major link between drugs flowing into California from Tijuana and sales at SDSU and other California campuses.

The violent Tijuana drug cartel also known as the Arellano-Felix organization (AFO) has a firm and deadly hold on all drug trafficking activities in Baja and San Diego California. Their reach controls drug smuggling in Sinaloa, Jalisco, Michoacan, Chiapas and Baja, and has strong links to San Diego, California. The AFO dispenses an estimated $1 million weekly in bribes to Mexican officials, police and Mexican army officers and maintains its own-well armed, trained, paramilitary security force. The DEA considers the AFO the most violent and aggressive of the Mexican border cartels. Here is the DEA’s background profile on the AFO and its leaders. Click on or google: Dangerous Mexican Cartel Gangs

The SDSU Police Department approached the DEA and county narcotics task-force officials for assistance in December of 07, when it became clear that the drug trafficking on campus was widespread and involved Mexican organized crime drug cartels and their gang members and they feared that it far out striped their ability to handle a potentially very complicated international drug trafficking investigation.

“We were coming in contact with more types of narcotics,” SDSU Police Chief John Browning said. “If you’re serious about this, you have to go to someone who has the resources to take it to the next level.”

As the investigation was unfolding, the campus dealt with another drug-related death. An autopsy showed that Mesa College student Kurt Baker died Feb. 24 at an SDSU fraternity from oxycodone and alcohol poisoning.

“We know there’s drug use in college . . . but when you have an organization that’s actually based out of a college area, that’s a whole different thing,” said Garrison Courtney of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. “You just don’t see that.”

Research indicates that lucrative university and high school campuses are fertile markets for drug dealers. Mexican drug cartels have known this for years and are believed to have infiltrated many of America’s school campuses through cartel gang members. Federal authorities point to the Mexican drug cartels who are ultimately responsible for border violence by having cemented ties to street and prison gangs like Barrio Azteca on the U.S. side. Azteca and other U.S. gangs retail drugs that they get from Mexican cartels and Mexican gangs. Mexican gangs run their own distribution networks in the United States, and they produce most of the methamphetamine used north of the border. They have even bypassed the Colombians several times to buy cocaine directly from producers in Bolivia, Peru and even Afghanistan. These same gangs often work as cartel surrogates or enforcers on the U.S. side of the border. Intelligence suggests Los Zetas . Click on or google: They’re known as “Los Zetas have hired members of various gangs at different times including, El Paso gang Barrio Azteca, Mexican Mafia, Texas Syndicate, MS-13, and Hermanos Pistoleros Latinos to further their criminal endeavors.  Authorities on both sides of the border believe many of these gang members and other surrogates of the powerful Mexican drug cartels have infiltrated and operate openly on many American school campuses particularly in states bordering Mexico including Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.

One suspect, Phi Kappa Psi member Michael Montoya, worked as a community-service officer on campus and would have earned a master’s degree in homeland security next month. Another student arrested on suspicion of possessing 500 grams of cocaine and two guns was a criminal-justice major.

Authorities identified 22 SDSU students as drug dealers who sold to undercover agents. At least 17 others allegedly supplied the drugs. The rest of the suspects apparently bought or possessed illegal drugs.

Authorities said students from seven fraternities were involved in the drug ring, which operated openly across campus.

Evidence showed that “most of the members were aware of organized drug dealing occurring from the fraternity houses,” officials said. Drug agents confirmed that “a hierarchy existed for the purposes of selling drugs for money.”

Authorities singled out the Theta Chi fraternity as a hub of cocaine dealing.

One alleged dealer, Theta Chi member Kenneth Ciaccio, sent text messages to his “faithful customers” announcing that cocaine sales would be suspended over an upcoming weekend because he and his “associates” planned to be in Las Vegas, authorities said.

The same message posted “sale” prices on cocaine if transactions were completed before the dealers left San Diego.

Until yesterday, Ciaccio was featured on SDSU’s Web site promoting the Compact for Success program, which guarantees certain Sweetwater Union High School District students admission to the university if they maintain a B average.

SDSU President Stephen Weber said that even when campus police decided to ask for help from other authorities, “it wasn’t clear that we were going to end up at the point where we were today.”

Ramon Mosler, chief of the narcotics division of the District Attorney’s Office in San Diego California, said the investigation could have happened on any college campus in America. Mosler said his unit joined in because the university took the unusual step of asking for help.

“Oftentimes administrations don’t want us to do this stuff, and that’s unfortunate,” Mosler said. “I think it’s important to do this every now and then to wake people up. It raises everyone’s awareness to the dangers of drugs.”

According to the search-warrant affidavit, Thomas Watanapun sold $400 worth of cocaine to undercover agents from a Lexus sedan registered to his father in Los Angeles.

Authorities said some of the suspects made little effort to conceal their activities.

Dealers “weren’t picky about who they sold to,” Mosler said.

Also arraigned was Patrick Hawley, 20, who was arrested on suspicion of armed robbery and selling cocaine near the campus, officials said.

According to a 2007 study by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, nearly half of the nation’s 5.4 million full-time college students abuse drugs or alcohol at least once a month.

Law enforcement officials in San Diego say street gangs here continue to have strong ties to organized crime groups in Tijuana. A gunman killed recently in an attack in Tijuana is believed to belong to both a gang in Barrio Logan and the Arellano Felix Drug Cartel. KPBS Reporter Amy Isackson reported.

For years, Mexican drug trafficking groups have recruited U.S. gang members to do everything from smuggle drugs to murder. Tijuana’s Arellano Felix Drug Cartel and a gang from San Diego’s Barrio Logan neighborhood go back at least 15 years.

Many students enrolled in American schools are believed members of gangs many are now coming from the U.S. Military as they rotate out of the services. Many are veterans who where encouraged to join the U.S Military for combat training by Mexican cartels and gang leaders.

The cartels are confronting police and the army on a regular bases in Mexico and hope that these same tactics will soon pay off and enable them to confront the U.S Police in a much more professional, effective and dangerous ways.

Richard Valdemar, a 30-year-veteran of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, travels the country lecturing and teaching police about military-trained gang members. Valdemar and other gang experts say gangs are encouraging members to join the military for training to learn urban warfare and learn the latest weaponry.

The military’s current emphasis on urban warfare plays into the street-fighting mentality of gangs, experts say.

“When individuals go into the military, they are taught how to use weapons, defensive tactics, and the use of a lot of sophisticated techniques,” said LaRae Quy, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “They take that back on the streets with them. This is a legitimate concern for law enforcement.”

Valdemar cites former Camp Pendleton Marine Sgt. Jesse Quintanilla as just one high-profile example. A military court sentenced Quintanilla to death in 1996 for killing his executive officer and wounding his commanding officer.

When interrogators asked Quintanilla why he committed the crimes, Quintanilla said it was for “his brown brothers,” according to Valdemar. Quintanilla showed them a tattoo on his chest with the word “Sureno,” a reference to a California gang, according to court documents.

Army recruiting headquarters in Washington, D.C., dismiss the claims as urban myth. An Army spokesman said army background checks are extensive and weed out gang members.

The ARELLANO-Felix Organization (AFO), often referred to as the Tijuana Cartel, is one of the most powerful and aggressive drug trafficking organizations operating from Mexico; it is undeniably the most violent. More than any other major trafficking organization from Mexico, this organization extends its tentacles directly from high-echelon figures in the law enforcement and judicial systems in Mexico to street-level individuals in United States cities. The AFO is responsible for the transportation, importation and distribution of multi-ton quantities of cocaine, marijuana, as well as large quantities of heroin and methamphetamine, into the United States from Mexico. The AFO operates primarily in the Mexican states of Sinaloa (their birth place), Jalisco, Michoacan, Chiapas, and Baja California South and North.

From Baja, the drugs enter California, the primary point of embarkation into the United States distribution network.

The ARELLANO family,  composed of seven brothers and four sisters, inherited the organization from Miguel Angel FELIX-Gallardo upon his incarceration in Mexico in 1989 for his complicity in the murder of DEA Special Agent Enrique Camarena. Alberto Benjamin ARELLANO-Felix assumed leadership of the family structured criminal enterprise and provides a businessman’s approach to the management of drug trafficking operations.

The AFO also maintains complex communications centers in several major cities in Mexico and the U.S. to conduct electronic espionage and counter surveillance measures against law enforcement entities. The organization employs radio scanners and equipment capable of intercepting both hard line, radio and cellular phones to ensure the security of AFO operations. In addition to technical equipment, the AFO maintains caches of sophisticated automatic weaponry secured from a variety of international sources. Click on or google: Mexican drug cartels and terrorist are recruiting for more fighters to train as soldiers

A Joint Task Force composed of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been established in San Diego, California to target the AFO; the Task Force is investigating AFO operations in southern California and related regional investigations which track drug transportation, distribution and money laundering activities of the AFO throughout the United States. Click on or google:  Dangerous Mexican/U.S. Criminal Enterprises Operating Along the Mexican border

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DEA

FBI

San Diego sheriff’s office

San Diego Trubune