Ijen Volcano in East Java, Indonesia

In one of the craters of the volcano, an unusual natural phenomenon occurs, the exit of blue volcanic gases to the surface. This phenomenon occurs due to the ignition of hydrogen sulfide at a temperature of 600 ° C, which is the reason for this color. The glow is weak, so the flame can be seen only at night. Part of the gas condenses and forms stalactites from pure sulfur, which is also extracted by local residents and offered to tourists as souvenirs.

Miss Russia 2019

Student-architect from Azov Alina Sanko is the winner of the Miss Russia 2019 beauty contest.

How do you like it?

Don't settle for bad coffee, bad friendship and bad partners.

You decide how you live, to be friends with, and whom to love.

There are always people in life who will tell you that you don’t especially take everything to heart, relax and go with the flow, taking everything as it is.

Yes, this is certainly good advice, because you will not be chasing every cloud that floats across the sky. But there are some things that in no case can not "give up": "But it will be, as it will be!" After all, our happiness and the ability to live fully depends on them.

The “counselors,” who tell you that it is necessary to live easily and not expect much from life, actually do a disservice. No one has the right to tell how you live or condemn in accordance with their standards.

The only thing you should listen to is your own heart. Only it can unmistakably suggest what will bring you happiness, and that - vice versa.

If you live, constantly listening and worrying about what other people think or say about you, then you are only expected to stress and worry.

If your passionate nature pushes away someone, and they want to leave - release. You do not need a number of people who do not match your energy. The most important thing is to be always honest with yourself: with whom you want to go through life, what do you expect from people you let into your life.

Your life should be filled with what you love and what brings happiness. Do not be afraid to say it out loud.

Naturally, you, like all people, do not shine with happiness alongside fake and mediocre people.

But if you act as if you don't care, guess what will happen? That's right, life "will give" you people who will be exactly the same - no. Here is how it works.

Of course, many things in life you can not control. It is primarily about the words and actions of other people. And you can neither change them, nor convince in something.

The only person you have control over is you. You, and only you, decide how you live, with whom to be friends and to love.

Therefore, never agree to drink bad coffee. Do not settle for bad friends who betray in difficult times. They remember you only when they need something. And never settle for a relationship with bad people. It poisons you and your life, instead of inspiring and helping to grow.

Why do poor people buy expensive cars?

Watching the streams of prestigious foreign cars passing down the street, you often ask yourself: are people really so rich that they can afford to buy such expensive cars? 

Doubts are amplified when looking at a galaxy of cars lined up in the courtyard. Elite representatives of the global automotive industry, with more than one hundred "horses" under the hood, cause admiration, envy and slight bewilderment. Where is an ordinary resident of a typical high-rise building earned money for such an expensive "toy"? And most importantly, why does a person who lives on the salary of an ordinary clerk need such a prestigious car? It is even expensive to fill it, not to mention those. maintenance and inevitable repairs.

It is also striking that more than one person has allowed himself such a purchase. Judging by the parking lot, every third inhabitant of a not very prestigious area of ​​the city has a stylish and powerful “steel horse”. Where does this massive demand for expensive cars come from? Obviously, such purchases are not affordable for the overwhelming majority!
Everything falls into place if you look at the statistics. It turns out that more than 70% of cars bought in our country over the past 10 years, purchased on credit! 
This problem is not only about cars. On rich phones and electronic equipment, stylish clothes and accessories, far from rich people are willing to spend ten times more than they earn. In order to purchase a luxury foreign car or a coveted iPhone, many take loans from a bank or buy a fashionable gadget in installments for several years.

Moreover, they are not at all embarrassed by the fact that an expensive car will often stand idle under the house due to the lack of money for refueling, and the phrase “Your account has run out of money” will sound from the phone time after time. And the owner of the expensive “toys” himself will survive on the crumbs remaining from the salary, buying cheap food and denying himself pleasures, because his income is trivially incapable of “pulling” a purchase that is not affordable. 

But this situation is familiar to almost every one of us! Why do we do this? What's the point of this? 

Status "toys" and the psychology of the poor man 

In fact, the answer lies on the surface. Our brain can be divided into two components: animal (instincts and emotions) and reasonable (mental, analytical activity).

A person whose animal instincts prevail over reason, more acutely than others, is subject to the instinct of domination. He wants to stand out from the crowd, be higher, more importantly, more importantly, to gain influence and status. 

If the mental component of such an individual prevailed over emotions, he would understand that the main function of the phone is to keep in touch with the right people, hours - to show time, and the car - to deliver a person from point A to point B. - protect your feet. And the main criterion for these things is reliability.

Moreover, an intelligent person who wants to stand out from the crowd, wants to dominate or demonstrate his potential to the world, chooses reasonable ways to do this. He is improving in the case, which he sincerely loves, tries to be realized in the chosen profession or to receive recognition of his creativity. And some even devote their lives to helping other people, receiving public recognition in return. 

But in a man of scanty mind, whose instincts prevail over reason, some other criteria come to the fore. He wants to look better than others, wants to be admired and envied. This way he enhances his own self-esteem. 

The weak economy is to blame

According to psychologists, this problem is characteristic of poor countries, where, in fact, there is no middle class. The inhabitants of these countries are divided into very rich people (oligarchs), and frankly poor people who are trying to survive on meager wages. 

This impoverished stratum of the population is very much in its condition and is trying in every way to get out of poverty. It succeeds only in units, and all the rest, who have no chance of becoming rich, try to at least seem so. Having bought expensive watches or a smart car for the last money, they consider this to be a confirmation of their own success, although in reality they are only plunging into debt!

It should also be said that in countries with a weak economy, the population is not socially protected, and therefore people are trying to at least somehow save their money, which flows like water through our fingers. The population does not trust the banks, and only a few are able to buy real estate. In this case, the preservation of funds is limited to the purchase of currency, jewelery or the purchase of a car, and then on the last funds or on credit. But considering the car can at any time get into an accident, and the phone - trite to break, such investments look extremely dubious.

In developed countries, particularly in Western Europe, the cult of economy predominates. People live within their means, wear inexpensive but comfortable clothes, and often move around the city by subway or bicycle. Because it is more convenient! Moreover, even members of the government move on bicycles around the city. But to buy an expensive car, when you do not have the funds for its maintenance, it will not even occur to anyone. This is just stupid! 

This problem is clearly visible when buying clothes. Have you ever noticed that tourists visiting our country do not shock the local population with haute couture outfits? How many of them travel around the world in clothes that many of us are embarrassed to wear even to the store for bread? And they are representatives of the UK, France, USA, Japan and other developed countries.

In contrast, our people have a real cult of clothing. Clothing must be expensive, from the eminent fashion designer, so that at one glance at a person it would be immediately noticeable - he is fabulously rich. Men with the last money acquire expensive suits and watches of famous Swiss manufacturers, and women are ready even to flaunt in heels of cold in heels and short sable fur coats. And let them have an empty refrigerator at home, and tomorrow they will get to work by shuttle bus, today they want to surprise their clothes, they want to be jealous of them.

What is interesting, having come out in an expensive robe, a person tries to show that he has no money “pecking”. An expensive restaurant is best suited to showcase its “possibilities”. Flooding his eyes, the poor man orders a bottle of expensive wine, which costs three of his salary, and all sorts of exotic dishes that he doesn’t even know how to eat. Such profligacy on the part of a frankly non-rich person, for the sake of demonstrating a non-existent status, cannot be called stupidity. 

What does such a madness to the poor 

?

What is all this for? Just imagining himself to be secured, a person experiences an attack of happiness. Flaunting in a luxurious outfit or sitting in an expensive car, he notices admiring and envious glances. And this causes inner satisfaction. He begins to think that he is on top of the world.

In addition to improving self-esteem, expensive things are also a means of dominance. Just think, to whom would a nice girl turn her eyes ¬na guy from a bus or a young man who drove up on an elite foreign car? It is obvious that the second representative of the stronger sex has more chances to win the heart of the young person. Thanks to the car, he catches himself admiring glances, but more importantly, he gives the impression of a secure and reliable person with whom you can build a joint future. And let their relationship end a week later, thanks to the status car, the girl chose him, which means he became the winner in this dispute. 

What threatens the expensive purchase of the poor

You must admit that the advantages of such behavior are extremely doubtful, and they bring satisfaction to the moment. But the life of expensive purchases complicate thorough! 

If the purchase is made on credit, such “pseudomagors” are expected to be years of monthly payments. A person simply works for a car that after a while does not bring its former satisfaction. But buying a status car is still half the battle. It needs to be constantly serviced, not to mention regularly refueling, because some even have problems with it. As a result, the person becomes a slave to the acquired thing.

This happens literally with any acquisition, which can be described by the phrase “Not according to Senka hat”. The phone may break, fall and break. And a poor man has not yet paid a loan on him. And even there are no means to change the cracked screen. 

Or elegant repair in the apartment. Many invest unthinkable funds in the decoration of their own homes, and all in order to surprise and make admire guests of his house. But this pleasure is momentary. A month passes, another, and the owner himself ceases to notice the beauty. She loses meaning to him. This means only one thing - the money was spent in vain. To the satisfaction of his own vanity.
Is it possible to fix something? 

First of all, it is important to understand that it is pointless to spend money on things that are designed to confirm the alleged status of a person. If he doesn’t represent anything as a person, if he hasn’t achieved anything in life, things will not make him important and meaningful. Such a person will cause only ridicule of others, and suffer from lack of money and the inability to maintain an expensive purchase.

We must learn to see the essence of things so that they work for us, not we for them. The story here is very indicative, which was described in his book by the current President of the United States, Donald Trump. To organize the event, he, a successful businessman, needed to purchase 150 chairs. An assistant told Trump that he had found the right pieces of furniture for $ 1500 apiece. A businessman could easily swipe a check for a quarter of a million dollars, but he would not have been a famous financial tycoon if he had not been able to save! 

After canceling the purchase, Trump personally started looking for chairs, and literally after a couple of hours, he found what he needed. And at a price of $ 90 apiece! The most interesting thing is that none of the senior persons even noticed the difference!

What am I leading to? And besides, if an item performs its basic functions, and if there is no difference, you don’t need to overpay for it! You can find dozens of computers that are no worse than an Apple Mac, or choose a phone that is not inferior to the latest iPhone. No need to overpay for imaginary prestige. 

Poor people do not understand this. They are therefore poor, because they can neither earn, nor save, nor invest in development! Conclusion: each of us needs to learn financial literacy. These may be training courses or suitable literature. If you wish, you can find rational grains everywhere that will guide you along the right path.

Understand a simple thing: foolish to spend money on things that you can not afford. It is much more correct to invest them in your business, which in the future will help you receive passive or active income. Or travel on them around the world. Or spend to help those who live worse than you. You just need to live a real life. To live, not to seem!

Scandinavian houses with grass on the roofs

Scandinavian houses with grass on the roofs.

Features of the Chinese. 7 random facts.

1. In the summer, men go with a bare belly.

As soon as it gets hot in Chinese cities, the men lift up their T-shirts and present their sweaty hot belly to the court of others.

If a Chinese is wearing a T-shirt or T-shirt, he will definitely pull it up and open his stomach. And he will walk to stroke and scratch him. I saw many times that shirts were also bullied. Why then do not remove the shirt completely? Well pizhzhe, apparently.

Moreover, a Chinese friend can come to me, see that I am not wearing a T-shirt, say something like “let me help you”, lift up my T-shirt and make a happy face - “now, now it's order, it's hot, why are you?”

2. Eat everything - only bones remain.

When my wife in Guangzhou dragged me to a very famous Chinese cafe to eat "seafood", I could not imagine that their signature dish was fish skin. It is thanks to this dish that they became famous. Fried fish skin with onions.

Duck heads. Uhhh fuck, how not to crunch a duck head, but with a beak, but with brains and eyes. Some of them just eat them completely, with bones.

Stomach. They especially like to look at the pattern of a cow stomach turned inside out - it is beautifully considered. Color: white - from mixed feed, black - from meadow grass - there is a pancake, gourmets.

Guts, brains, chicken paws (kids love to crunch, are sold in individual packages), fat, eyes, lungs, skin from the head of a cow. When I eat in China, it seems to me that the unfortunate animal was just blown to hell, they collected all the scraps and made an “awesome” dish of them.

3. Do not greet the hand.

I'll tell you right away how a foreigner will shake your hand. But among themselves it is simply not customary to greet the hand. People come to the office, they won't even say hello to their colleagues, they just started working.

Generally speaking “nihao” is usually accepted by a person who has not been seen for a long time, or to unfamiliar people. And say goodbye - only if you obviously do not see each other for a long time. If you left work in the evening, and come back in the morning, is it considered that you have not gone anywhere, what are you doing? Idiot, or what? See each other yesterday.

4. Friends don't say thank you.

It is not accepted to thank the person whom you consider to be a friend. Especially for insignificant requests. It can even be offended - like what are you doing, thanks to me, I said, I am not your friend, is it?

To make it easier to understand, it’s all the same when suddenly they started to turn to their friend on “you” in full earnest - it would be strange to look. He thinks you have a mess, or are you kidding me, or the joke is so stupid. That's the same thing to say "thank you" to a Chinese friend.

I'm on the machine thanks sometimes say. One time my friend invited me to dinner, and it turns out that she too often said thanks. At dinner, there was a long and serious conversation - what happened, why did you constantly, systematically and obviously expressly say “thank you” to me? Are you offended by me? We are not friends?

5. Business cards and money are served with two hands.

In deference, a business card will be served with two hands. And money (change, for example) - too. Papers, bills, and so on, too. If at the meeting the Chinese give the Chinese their business card with one hand, it can be perceived as disrespect.

This does not apply to the money that you give on the surrender in small shops and eateries.

6. Attitude to small denominations

Only the largest denomination is respected - 100 yuan. All the rest is such garbage practically, candy wrappers. In a small shop in the area, money is kept in a basin or box - they are simply thrown there, not counting. In small cafes the same.

So he will get a couple of dozen crumpled bills out of a wash from the basin, he will find a dozen out there, as if pulled out of an ass, and just throw on the counter, like on, take your trifle.

Many of them do not even keep them in their wallets - they shove them into their pockets, crumple them up, get a bunch of them, choose the right one. I repeat once again - a bill of 100 yuan will be neatly folded and stored separately and neatly.

7. In small stores there are no price tags.

Going into a small store "at home", where drinks, cigarettes, chocolates - you will not see the price tags. The seller simply remembers the price of all goods. He also thinks usually in the mind. Yes, and buyers remember how much it costs. I took a can of cola - it costs 2.5-3 yuan for three years, the price does not change, why do you need a price tag, ale?

On cigarettes, price tags are almost everywhere. Larger stores have all the price tags, as a rule.

Ass world

It was a long time ago. I didn’t have a family then, but I had enough foolishness.

And brought me hard through India to the Andaman Islands. Yes, yes, the very islands that A. Conan Doyle mentions in his novel The Sign of Four. 
At first, the trip promised to be completely carefree - landing at the airport of the capital of the islands, Port Blair, visiting the island, and then moving every few days between several of the largest islands on a sea-going boat. Already during the Calcutta-Port Blair flight, it became clear that something would go wrong. A sudden cyclone, atypical for these places at that time of year, shook the poor airplane so that it seemed to want to shake the passengers out of it. There was a storm at sea, the boats did not go, and in Port Blair we were stuck for an unknown period, reading the weather forecast, and hoping for the same sudden disappearance of the cyclone.

For several days we managed to memorize a simple, but invariably thermonuclear Indian menu at local restaurants, change several hotels, travel around the island by car rickshaws, look at Andaman prison, get under tropical rain, and the cyclone never thought to leave. Once we were allowed to go out to sea on a boat, but it swayed and wore on the waves, that the captain gave the order to return to the port.
The hotels were crammed with the same stuck tourists as we are. We got acquainted with each other, and we ended up with a rather motley company from Ukrainian, Armenian, Latvian, Hindu, French and German. Ukrainian, Latvian and Armenian perfectly communicated in Russian, Hindu with everyone - in English, the Frenchwoman lopotala only in her own way, but she was understood by the Ukrainian, and the German woman expressed herself in English. Universal gathering turned into a real bird market.

The Hindu was also a supporter, and got an appointment with the Minister of Tourism of the Andaman Islands himself. He promised that the cyclone was left to rage just a couple of days, so you should not leave their luxurious islands. In the meantime, the boat does not go, you need to use a wonderful comfortable bus, which literally for some 11 hours of travel through the island jungle will take you to the north of the islands, where you will enjoy all the delights of this region. Moreover, tourists rarely get there, and practically virgin tropical land is at your complete disposal. In our imagination, he painted wondrous, enticing pictures: the uninhabited Ross and Smith Islands, interconnected by a thin isthmus of the earth ... absolutely virgin jungle ... overgrown mangrove trees ... deserted sandy beaches with golden palm trees hanging over the sand ...

The name of the end point of our path - Diglipur - I remembered for a lifetime. 11 hours of shaking in an old bus without depreciation and hard benches instead of seats turned my ass into a chop. The minister did not lie - there were no tourists even at the stage of boarding the bus. Only local intelligentsia. 
The jungle was really incredibly colorful, wild, untouched.

The only thing that said about civilization is the road through them for the local bus. We rode, accompanied by police on motorcycles, as the path lay through the island, forbidden to visit by tourists. There still remains a tribe that wears loincloths, uses spears to hunt, and is afraid of cameras in panic. Directing the camera at them is absolutely impossible - overwhelmed by their superstitions, they become very aggressive, attack the bus, and at the same time can rip jewelry and for some reason clothes of red color. We saw them. Several people came out of the forest, and stood looking at our bus, with spears in their hands, flashing with small evil eyes. It was some kind of surreal spectacle. It is as if a documentary film is being shown outside the bus window. As a result, there were no excesses.

Twice the bus had to be ferried. All passengers disembarked, and the old rusty ferry barely creeping along the bay transported the bus first, and then returned for the passengers, since it was equivalent to killing everyone at once.

In one of these crossings, I wanted to go to the toilet, and I, as a shy girl, and already just ofied with the indiscretions of the Indians (the locals were staring, pointing with fingers and discussing something constantly), rushed to the only structure in my field of vision. Its architecture left no doubt as to why it was erected, and I anticipated a couple of minutes of solitude.

And in the very center of the Andaman jungle, surrounded by island Indians and mangroves, I experienced (as Mikhail Zadornov said) a feeling of PRIDE for our people!

On the wall of the toilet in Russian in huge block letters with chalk it was deduced: ASS OF THE WORLD

Five stages of the adoption of the 8th season of "Game of Thrones"

From observations of the reaction of fans after the release of the last season's series, Kubler-Ross distinguished five stages: 
1. Negation. The fan can not believe that such shit was really removed. 
2. Anger. Perturbation of the work of screenwriters, hatred for them. 
3. Bargaining. Attempting to make a deal with HBO. Fans are making a petition on Change.org and are hoping that 1,000,000 signatures will really force the HBO to redo the season. 
4. Depression. Despair and horror, loss of interest in life. 
5. Acceptance. “It was a good show. Let the ending and did not meet my expectations, but I am glad that I watched the Game of Thrones.

A link is established between marijuana use and the risk of psychosis

Europe wondered how frivolous the attitude to the free use of marijuana would be a fair hobby.

According to a new study by scientists from Europe and America , people who use cannabis daily can be at increased risk of developing psychosis .

The study analyzed information on more than 1,200 people not suffering from psychosis in 10 European cities and one city in Brazil, and compared them with data from 900 people living in the same cities but who were diagnosed with psychosis for the first time. (Psychosis means that a person experiences a loss of connection with reality).

The researchers found that people who used marijuana daily were three times more likely to have a diagnosis of psychosis, compared with people who reported that they had never used a drug. Moreover, those who daily consumed marijuana daily, were five times more likely to get a diagnosis of psychosis of the first episode, compared with those who have never tried it.

This study is the first and there is an assumption that the scale of cannabis use in this region may contribute to the growth of psychosis among the population. For example, in Amsterdam, where cannabis is widely distributed with high activity.

Those who used cannabis daily with high activity had a nine times higher risk of developing psychosis than those who didn’t use marijuana (in the US).

Highly active marijuana is also more common today than a few decades ago.

“Since the legal status of cannabis is changing in many countries and states, and since we are considering the therapeutic properties of some cannabis that are vital to public health, it is also important to take into account the potentially adverse effects associated with the daily use of cannabis, especially highly active varieties” - says lead author of the study, Dr. Martha Di Forti, from the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurobiology, King's College, London.

However, it is important to note that the study found only an association and there can be no evidence that the use of marijuana actually causes psychosis. The study was published March 19 in The Lancet Psychiatry .

Marijuana and psychosis

Previous studies have already shown a link between marijuana use and an increased risk of developing psychosis. But these studies could not determine how this relationship affected the level of psychosis among the general population. In a new study, it was found that about 30 percent of patients with psychosis reported daily use of marijuana, compared with just 7 percent of controls (people without psychosis); and 37 percent of patients reported using high-level marijuana, compared with 19 percent of controls.

The study showed the level of cannabis use among controls at a given location was related to the level of psychosis at that location. So, the more highly-active marijuana will be consumed, the higher the level of psychosis will be. Researchers estimate that about one in five new cases (20 percent) of psychosis in 11 cities of the study may be associated with the daily use of marijuana; and one in 10 new cases of psychosis (12 percent) may be associated with the use of highly active marijuana.

Further research

The new study "is consistent with many studies conducted over the past few years and showing the link between cannabis use ... and the onset of psychotic illness," said Dr. David Roen, chairman of psychiatry at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, who was not associated with this study. “It is becoming increasingly clear that this is a risk factor for the onset of psychosis,” Roan said in an interview with Live Science.

However, a new study cannot rule out “reverse causality,” that is, it may happen that people with psychosis use marijuana more often, according to a commentary on Suzanne Gage's article from the Faculty of Psychological Sciences, Liverpool University.

Although people who were diagnosed with the first episode of psychosis were included in the study, they may have experienced less serious symptoms before their diagnosis. Future research should be aimed at identifying people whose use of marijuana may expose them to a particularly high risk of psychosis.

Only 3 ways to help you become a confident person

Why is our self-esteem formed and is there any way to increase it simply?

There are only three ways to help you correct your low self-esteem and become a more confident person.

Ways

1. Refuse to communicate (minimize) with toxic people.

Who is in this category:

- Whiners complaining about the life of the moans (“I didn’t draw the card through life!”)

- Those who do not believe in you and do not respect your ambitious impulses, saying: “You can’t jump over your head”, “But where did you go, accelerate!”, Or “You are not at that age”

- Alcoholics, meetings with which end only terrible drunkenness

- Irresponsible people who forever justify their meaningless existence and shift the blame on external factors or people.

These people will do their best to keep you in their former positions. It will be very hard for them to see your progress. They do not want your development, because they themselves can not fix anything in their lives.

2. Fight your inner neurotic.

If you realize that you often choose a depressive film or literature, you like to tickle your nerves and cry over the tragic scenes, just stop making that choice.

Neurotics recorded this procedure from early childhood - they are used to suffering. Maybe their parents punished them or they watched the drunkenness and beatings in the family.

But now you are an adult. It's time to stop living this pattern of behavior.

Instead of reaching for a new portion of suffering, choosing a film about the Second World War, look at Woody Allen.

3. Adequate self-esteem is ALWAYS formed on the basis of human actions. Do, act, try.

You can talk for hours with you in a mirror image, using affermatsii: "I am beautiful", "I love myself", "I look like a confident person." But this is unlikely to help. So you stumble upon internal rejection.

Or in order for this hypnosis to work, they need to be engaged for years.

What can drastically change our self-esteem?

Actions.

Surround yourself with real deeds.

Have you always been a little jealous when people spoke English or French?

Sign up for courses. Start making tiny little steps in order to feel closer to the goal.

Maybe you always liked people who drive a car, but you didn't have any rights. Start learning. Save money. You can set a goal and make very small advances.

When after a year, two, five years you will absorb innovations -

learn how to dance samba

take a trip to 10 countries

learn what scrapbooking is and even create your own notebooks,

try to be vegan or syroed,

jump with bungee,

meet new friends, self-esteem will begin to be corrected.

You will clearly see everything you have achieved, how much knowledge you have invested in yourself, how much you have seen and learned. This all forms self-esteem.

You need to literally fill yourself and your life.