10 Ways to earn Hasanaat

1. Give a copy of Quran to someone and each time they read from it, you will gain hasanaat. 2. Donate a wheel chair to a hospital and each time a sick person uses it, you will gain hasanaat.
3. Share constructive reading material with someone.
4. Help in educating a child.
5. Teach someone to recite a dua. With each recitation, you will gain hasanaat.
6. Share a dua or Quran CD.

7. Participate in the building of a mosque.

8. Place a water cooler in a public place.
9. Plant a tree.Each time any person or an animal sits under its shade or eats from the tree, you will gain hasanaat.

10. Share this with someone. If one person applies any of the above you will receive your hasanaat until the Day of Judgment.

We call it Coincidence....

"Coincidences" are familiar to all of us. They can involve startling conjunctions of events, such as chance meetings with old friends, or coincidences of personal habits or of anniversaries. Coincidences play a larger part in out lives than we realize, they have the potential to change lives. The world is filled with astonishing occurrences of coincidence that defy explanation. Are these incredible true stories of mere chance or the hand of fate?

There is a famous quote, "A coincidence is when God preforms a miracle and decides to stay anonymous."

These are one of the most astonishing coincedences:

The stories of identical twins' nearly identical lives are often astonishing, but perhaps none more so than those of identical twins born in Ohio. The twin boys were separated at birth, being adopted by different families. Unknown to each other, both families named the boys James. And here the coincidences just begin. Both James grew up not even knowing of the other, yet both sought law-enforcement training, both had abilities in mechanical drawing and carpentry and each had married women named Linda. They both had sons whom one named James Alan and the other named James Allan. The twin brothers also divorced their wives and married other women - both named Betty. And they both owned dogs which they named Toy. Forty years after their childhood separation, the two men were reunited to share their amazingly similar lives.

In Detroit sometime in the 1930s, a young (if incredibly careless) mother must have been eternally grateful to a man named Joseph Figlock. As Figlock was walking down the street, the mother's baby fell from a high window onto Figlock. The baby's fall was broken and both man and baby were unharmed. A stroke of luck on its own, but a year later, the very same baby fell from the very same window onto poor, unsuspecting Joseph Figlock as he was again passing beneath. And again, they both survived event.

While American novelist Anne Parrish was browsing bookstores in Paris in the 1920s, she came upon a book that was one of her childhood favorites - Jack Frost and Other Stories. She picked up the old book and showed it to her husband, telling him of the book she fondly remembered as a child. Her husband took the book, opened it, and on the flyleaf found the inscription: "Anne Parrish, 209 N. Weber Street, Colorado Springs." It was Anne's very own book.

It seemed the obvious thing to do for a 10 year old. Laura Buxton was at her grandparent's golden wedding anniversary and there was a helium filled balloon going spare. So she wrote on a label her address with the message 'Please return to Laura Buxton' and released the balloon to fly off in the sky. Laura was in Staffordshire, England. Ten days passed and a farmer in Milton Lilbourne, Wiltshire pulled a balloon out of the hedge that separated his fields from his neighbour's house. He noticed the name of Laura Buxton. As this was the name of his neighbour's daughter he handed over the balloon straight away, thinking it must belong to her. But this was a different Laura Buxton, though she was also ten years old, but she lived 140 miles away from the girl who had released the balloon. Laura Buxton from Milton Lilbourne got out her pen and wrote to Laura Buxton in Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire. As this was such a coincidence their parents allowed them to meet up ... and then it got a lot more of a bizarre coincidence. The girls, both tall for their age, were the same height and both decided to wear pink sweaters and jeans for their first meeting. Their hair was brown and they both wore it in the same style ... but there's still more!Both girls had three year old black Labrador Retrievers dogs and grey pet rabbits. They also had guinea pigs, which were the same color and even had the same orange markings on their hindquarters.

Test Your Writing Skills

Try writing on any of these creative-writing topics and test your skills!

1. You gain the ability to receive everything that you think about. How do you use this newfound power to increase your money, your possessions, and your charity?

2. Write a list of 25 things you want to do in your life.


3. How old would you be if you didn't know your real age?


4. The leaves on all the trees have changed color and begun to fall all around town. How does this multi-colored landscape make you feel? Write about Autumn season.


5. Write about Coincidence


6. Write about Destiny


7. Write about Mystery


8. Write about Snowflakes


9. Write about the Sun


10. Your favorite pet is very ill. The vet says that he could survive up to one more year but in increasingly worse pain. He suggests putting the pet down. Describe what you do.


11. In a “Freaky Friday” situation, you have switched bodies with your mother or father. Describe your next 24 hours.


12. In a detailed manner, write about the day of and the day after your little brother or sister was born.


13. Your best friend in the world calls you and tells you a secret that changes your friendship forever. Describe the conversation and the aftermath.


14. You wake up to find yourself in your five-year-old body and back in time. How do you spend your first 24 hours in this situation?


15. While organizing your bookshelf, you notice a book called, “The Story of You.” You open it to find a description of your own life up to this point. As you flip farther, it details your existence until death. What do you do?


16. Pick the person you most want to see in the world right now. Write a monologue or a letter to that person and then continue the story.


17. Write a story from the perspective of your favorite childhood pet. Make sure to include details about how the pet sees you and your family.


18. It's hot. Sticky hot. You are sitting in your house or apartment with broken air conditioning and an outside temperature of 100 degrees F. Describe your day.


19. You are standing on the edge of the sand right before your feet are hitting the water. You stare out into the ocean. Write a story about the many thoughts going through your head.


20. You are standing on the edge of the sand right before your feet are hitting the water. You stare out into the ocean. Write a story about the many thoughts going through your head.

Tanganyika laughter epidemic

The laughter epidemic began on January 30, 1962 at a mission-run boarding school for girls in Kashasha. The laughter started with three girls and spread haphazardly throughout the school, affecting 95 of the 159 pupils, aged 12 – 18.[2][3] Symptoms lasted from a few hours to 16 days in those affected. The teaching staff were not affected but reported that students were unable to concentrate on their lessons. The school was forced to close down on March 18, 1962.



After the school was closed and the students were sent home, the epidemic spread to Nshamba, a village that was home to several of the girls. In April and May, 217 people had laughing attacks in the village, most of them being school children and young adults. The Kashasha school was reopened on May 21, only to be closed again at the end of June. In June, the laughing epidemic spread to Ramashenye girls’ middle school, near Bukoba, affecting 48 girls. Another outbreak occurred in Kanyangereka and two nearby boys schools were closed.

The Tanganyika laughter epidemic is sometimes understood as implying that thousands of people were continuously laughing for months. However this may not have been the case. Other reports tell that the epidemic consisted of occasional attacks of laughter among groups of people, occurring throughout the vicinity of the village of Kashasha at irregular intervals. According to reports, the laughter was incapacitating when it struck.[citation needed] Scientists have confirmed that laughter can be contagious.[4]


The school from which the epidemic sprang was sued; the children and parents transmitted it to the surrounding area. Other schools, Kashasha itself, and another village, comprising thousands of people, were all affected to some degree. Six to eighteen months after it started, the phenomenon died off. The following symptoms were reported on an equally massive scale as the reports of the laughter itself: pain, fainting, respiratory problems, rashes, attacks of crying, random screaming. In total 14 schools were shut down and 1000 people were affected.

Ages of Prophets

Hazrat Adam (Alayhimus salaam): One-thousand (1000) years



Hadhrat Idrees (Alayhimus salaam): Three-hundred and fifty-six (356) years


Hadhrat Nooh (Alayhimus salaam): Nine-hundred and fifty (950) years


Hadhrat Hud (Alayhimus salaam): Two-hundred and sixy-five (265) years


Hadhrat Saaleh (Alayhimus salaam): Five-hundred and eighty-six (586) years


Hadhrat Ayyoob (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and forty-six (146) years


Hadhrat Shoayb (Alayhimus salaam):Eight-hundred and eighty-two (882) years


Hadhrat Ibraaheem (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and ninety-five (195) years


Hadhrat Sulaimaan (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and fifty (150) years


Hadhrat Zakariyya (Alayhimus salaam): Two-hundred and seven (207) years


Hadhrat Ya’qoob (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and thirty-nine (139) years


Hadhrat Moosa (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and twenty-five (125) years


Hadhrat Ishaaq (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and twenty (120) years


Hadhrat Haaroon (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and nineteen (119) years


Hadhrat Ismaaéel (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and thirty-seven (137) years


Hadhrat Yuusuf (Alayhimus salaam): One-hundred and ten (110) years


Hadhrat Yahya (Alayhimus salaam): Ninety-five (95) years


Hadhrat Muhammad (Sallallaahu Alayhi Wasallam): Sixty-three (63) years

The Video of our school made by someone

In Our Dreams...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How old is your cat?

Most indoor cats live to be 12 to 14 years of age,though some cats have exceeded 20 years of age. This table shows your cat's age, and the equivalent human age.

Cat's Age Equivalent Human Age


6 months 14 years


1 year 16 years


3 years 20 years


6 years 30 years


8 years 40 years


9 years 50 years


10 years 60 years


13 years 70 years


16 years 80 years


20 years 90 years

Alchemy

Alchemy which comes from the Arabic word called al-kimia which means, 'Egyptian art'. Before Chimestry, there was Alchemy. Alchemyis both a philosophy and an ancient practice which is focused on the attempt to change ordinary metals into gold, and achieving ultimate wisdom, involving the improvement of the alchemist as well as the making of several substances described as possessing unusual properties. Alchemy is a blend of pseudoscience, magic, and mystical philosophy. Some alchemists were only fakes. But others were learned people who had more philosophical goals. They felt that if they learned how to make gold from lesser metals, they could also perfect other things. They considered gold the perfect metal because of its beautiful luster and its resistance to rusting. They also tried to find the elixir of life (a substance that would cure disease and lengthen life). They failed to find it, but their work in preparing and studying chemical substances helped the science of chemistry develop. Astrology is concerned with man's relationship to "the stars" (including the members of the solar system); alchemy, with terrestrial nature. It was considered that god/dess did not desire that man as a whole know the secrets of alchemy, but that the alchemist must leave behind at least one pupil that knew the secrets. Many books on alchemy began with "my dear son" in the hopes that the alchemists son could somehow decode what he had said. Alchemists that had no son, considered their pupils their sons.

Alchemy has been practiced in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), India, Persia (mordern Iran, China, Japan, Korea, the classical Greco-Roman world and the medieval Islamic world, and then medieval Europe up to the 20th and 21st centuries.

Some alchemy was practiced in China and Islam. But it developed into a major system in Egypt during the next 300 years. The Greek-speaking scholars of Alexandria used it in trying to explain how Egyptian artisans made things. Greek-Egyptian alchemy spread through Syria and Persia to the Arabs. It spread to Western Europe during the 1100’s and 1200’s.

Lead (atomic number 82) and gold (atomic number 79) are defined as elements by the number of protons they possess. Changing the element requires changing the atomic (proton) number. The number of protons cannot be altered by any chemical means. However, physics may be used to add or remove protons and thereby change one element into another. Because lead is stable, forcing it to release three protons requires a vast input of energy, such that the cost of transmuting it greatly surpasses the value of the resulting gold. Transmutation of lead into gold isn't just theoretically possible - it has been achieved! There are reports that Glenn Seaborg, 1951 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, succeeded in transmuting a minute quantity of lead (possibly en route from bismuth, in 1980) into gold. There is an earlier report (1972) in which Soviet physicists at a nuclear research facility near Lake Baikal in Siberia accidentally discovered a reaction for turning lead into gold when they found the lead shielding of an experimental reactor had changed to gold.

The most famous alchemical text is the Emerald Tablet, written around 500BC and attributed to the mythical Egyptian figure of Hermes Trismegistus. Among its twelve lines are the essential words - “as above, so below". They capture the essence of alchemy, that the heavens mirror the earth and that all things correspond to one another. Alchemy was taken up by some of the most extraordinary people in our intellectual development, including Roger Bacon, Paracelsus, the father of chemistry, Robert Boyle, and, most famously, Isaac Newton, who wrote more about alchemy than he did about physics. It is now contended that it was Newton’s studies into alchemy which gave him the fundamental insight into the famous three laws of motion and gravity.

Alchemists drew their theories of matter from the ancient Greeks. They believed that all matter was made up of a single, formless substance. Alchemists thought this substance became the four elements–earth, air, fire, and water–when combined with hot or cold and wet or dry. They thought they could change one substance into another merely by changing the balance of these elements, a process called transmutation. This theory led them to try producing gold from other metals. In the early 1500’s, Swiss scientist Paracelsus tried to substitute sulfur, mercury, and salt for earth, air, fire, and water. Alchemists also searched for the philosopher’s stone (a magical substance that was supposedly able to make the transmutation process easier).

Yellow

Yellow is a colour associated with sun, warmth, happiness, fun, friendship, caution, intelligence, lemons, bananas, electricity, hope and curiosity.



Yellow is a primary colour, along with red and blue. The word yellow comes from the Old English word geolu.


In Japan, yellow is the colour of courage.


In Egypt, it is the colour of mourning.


In American slang, a coward can be said to be yellow or yellow-bellied.


Yellow is a colour that is easily visible, this is why it is commonly used to indicate caution, for example, on a set of traffic lights, yellow divides the red light and green light, meaning drivers can go, but be cautious.


In some countries, taxi's are commonly yellow. This practice began in Chicago, where taxi entrepreneur John D. Hertz painted his taxi's yellow based on a University of Chicago study alleging that yellow is the color most easily seen at a distance. This idea has also been used with school buses and road warning signs.

Yellow is an appropriate colour for a room used for studying because it has a stimulating effect on the mind.


There is a type of woodpecker called the Yellow-shafted Flicker (Colaptes auratus). They have yellow shafts on their wing and tail feathers – also they have a rather funny name :)


Yellowtail is the general name for loads of different species of fish that have yellow tails or a yellow body.


Coldplay achieved worldwide fame with their 2000 single "Yellow". It is a song that associates things the singer sees with the color yellow.


Yellow cards are shown by a referee in football/soccer to indicate that a player has been officially cautioned because they have committed a foul or have wasted time.

Why were Post-it Notes originally yellow?

A person managed to get an answer from the creators of post-it notes via mail, here's their answer:

"We were in the labs and if you imagine, this is my lab here, and then there's a corridor, and then there’s another lab. They happened to have some scrap yellow paper – laughs – it's absolutely true."

"They had some scrap yellow paper – that's why they were yellow; and when we went back and said 'hey guys, you got any more scrap yellow paper?' they said 'you want any more go buy it yourself', and that's what we did, and that's why they were yellow."

"To me it was another one of those incredible accidents. It was not thought out; nobody said they'd better be yellow rather than white because they would blend in - it was a pure accident."

Rainbows

Rainbows are beautiful multicoloured arcs of light in the sky. They appear when it is raining in one part of the sky and sunny in another. Most people think the only colors of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. This is normally memorized by mnemonics for example “Roy G. Biv” – each letter represents the first letter of the main seven colours of the rainbow.

 Rainbows occur when it's both raining and the sun is shining simultaneously. To see a rainbow, you must stand with your back to the sun, otherwise it will not be visible. When you see a rainbow it is after rain. The sun is always behind you and the rain in front of you when a rainbow appears, so the center of the rainbow's arc is directly opposite the sun.  Most people think the only colors of a rainbow are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet, but a rainbow is actually made up of an entire continuum of colors—even colors the eye can't see!

“It was Sir Isaac Newton who discovered that sunlight falling upon a prism could split into its component colours. Newton named the component colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Most of these are easy to distinguish except for indigo. Legend has it that Newton included indigo because he felt that there should be seven rather than six colours in a rainbow due to his strong religious beliefs.”


We are able to see the colors of a rainbow because light of different colors is refracted when it travels from one medium, such as air, and into another- -in this case, the water of the raindrops. When all the colors that make up sunlight are combined, they look white, but once they are refracted, the colors break up into the ones we see in a rainbow.

People have been asking questions about rainbows since the beginning of time. One question frequently asked is, how far away is that rainbow? That is a tough one. How far away are the raindrops that produce it? It is hard to judge how far away a rain cloud is; especially if it's moving. The rainbow's distance extends from the nearest to the farthest raindrops that contribute any part of the colored light. The closest of these raindrops may be miles away. In the case of water spray from a lawn sprinkler in which a rainbow appears, you can reach right in and "touch it"....or so it seems. Many questions are unique to one's cultural history. Where is that pot of gold? That is a good question too.

The idea that a pot of gold can be found at the rainbow's end originated somewhere in old Europe. In Silesia, an obscure area of eastern Europe, it was said that the angels put the gold there

Can you go under a rainbow's arch and come out the other side? Not according to the laws of physics. A rainbow is all light and water. It is always in front of you while your back is to the sun.

Do two people ever see the same rainbow? No. As the eyes of two people cannot occupy the same place in space at the same time, each observer sees a different rainbow. Why? Well, because the raindrops are constantly in motion so its appearance is always changing. Each time you see a rainbow, it is unique in its own spectacular way! Many people consider rainbows to be an omen of some kind. It is an ancient desire rooted in our cultural mythologies.

The legends of many cultures see the rainbow as a kind of bridge between heaven and earth. One of the most beautiful sights in nature, the rainbow has become in western culture a symbol of renewed hope; something lucky to look upon. To Iranian Moslems, even the brilliance of the colors in a rainbow have significance. A prominent green means abundance, red means war, and yellow brings death. The Arawak Indians of South America recognize the rainbow as a fortunate sign if it seen over the ocean, while tribes in northeastern Siberia see it as the tongue of the sun. The North American Catawba Indians of the Southeast and the Tlingit of the Northwest both regard it as the bridge between the living and the dead.

Rainbows can also be seen during night time! Moonlight can produce enough light to create a rainbow at night. “This is a lunar rainbow or 'moonbow'. Moonbows are rare because moonlight is not very bright. A bright moon near to full is needed, it must be raining opposite the moon, the sky must be dark and the moon must be less than 42º high. Put all these together and you do not get to see a moonbow very often! To the unaided eye they usually appear without colour because their light is not bright enough to activate the cone colour receptors in our eyes. Nonetheless colours have been reported and might be seen when the moon is bright.”

When view from the ground, a rainbow appears as all or part of a great arc of colour. When viewed from a plane it is possible to see an entire circle as you can look down on raindrops as well as up to them!

The rainbow further has a place in legend owing to its beauty. In Greek mythology, the rainbow was considered to be a path made by a messenger between Earth and Heaven. In Chinese mythology, the rainbow was a slit in the sky sealed by goddess Nüwa using stones of five different colors. In Hindu mythology, the rainbow is called Indradhanush, meaning "the bow of Indra", the god of lightning, thunder and rain. Rainbows have held great fascination throughout the journey of humanity.

I would like to end this essay with a quote, 'A rainbow is born of the shower and coloured by the sun'.

Poem: Goodbye Friend

The hardest part of any friendship

is when it is time to say goodbye,

and even though I wished I could make you stay,

I know I got to let you spread your wings and fly.

For life is a journey that needs to be travelled

and I am certain you'd make it through,

I just want you to know and never forget

that I will surely miss you.

S0 follow your heart and never give up,

as dreams and wishes do come true,

for I know that someday we'll meet again,

so never forget I will be praying for you.

“Why does it take a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye?” Saying goodbye was never easy, but it becomes all the more difficult in case of friends. They are only ones, apart from your family members, who understand you the best. They have been with you through thick and thin.


The hardest part of any friendship is when it's time to say goodbye. As much as we might like things to stay the same, change is an inevitable part of life. The universe may seem huge and the rift between friends on opposite side of the world may seem a great distance. There are many tools available with which we can communicate, but even without these tools there is a secret that only real friends know, and it is this. All the mountains and valleys in the world cannot separate friends whose hearts are as one.

“We part, only to meet again!” So, make sure that you say goodbye to your old friends in the best way, so that the joy of meeting again gets doubled. If you don’t know how to do it, make use of the tips given below.


Saying Goodbye to Your Best Friend


First of all, let the news sink in. Accept the fact that it is not necessary that best friends stay together forever. Goodbyes are the harsh realities of life.


If your friend is moving out because his dad found a new job or his mum needs to shift, do not end up blaming them. It is possible that your friend is also doing the same, so don’t aggravate the problem.


If you feel like crying, indulge in it as much as you want. Pain, if nor released in the form of tears, might give way to bitterness or even anger.


Spend as much time with your friend, as possible, and cherish the moments together. You will remember them when you friend is not there with you.


Make a card for your friend. Write all your feelings in the card, how much you love him/her, what he/she means to you and the fact that he/she will remain your friend forever.


Give a nice, thoughtful present to your friend. One of the best gifts is a photo frame, fitted with a picture of both of you together.


Go for a day-trip together. It will give you pleasant memories for the time when you are not together and also bring you closer.


Include your friend in your orkut list, messenger list, facebook list, mail address book, and so on (if you have not done so already). This will help you stay in touch, despite the distance.


Last, but not the least, remember that “distance only makes the heart grow fonder”. Goodbye does not mean that you are losing your friend. He/she will still be there for you. Only the physical distance has increased, but your hearts are as close as ever.

What do u call a male ladybird?

What does waka waka mean?

Waka Waka is a popular song sung by Shakira. The song is in a Cameroonian language. Zaminamina means 'come'. Waka waka means 'Do it' - as in perform a task. In Nigerian Pidgin Waka Waka means 'walk'. Zaminamina zangalewa means 'who asked you to come?' Wana means ‘it is mine'. Zambo means 'wait'

Reasons Why I Hate Karachi

1. Social niceties have gone out the window. The shock on people’s faces when you say ‘thank you’ and ‘please’

2. Traffic in any large city is dreadful, but in Karachi it is laced with sadism. Buses hate four-wheel-drive owners, who in turn hate sedans, car drivers hate rickshaws, rickshaw drivers hate motorcyclists and motorcyclists hate pedestrians. Pedestrians are the lowest in the chain. They are perpetually spat on, harassed and name-called for making the mistake of stepping on to the street.

3. The obsession with the bridges that has turned a city of 15 odd million into a polarised little group. People living on either side of the Clifton and Kala Pul bridges have built up an entire world of stereotypes about the ‘other side’ and you can expect to be ostracised for not belonging TO the ‘right side of the bridge’.

4. For years, the trump card in the Lahore vs Karachi debate was “but we have the beach”. But Seaview — Karachi’s most well-known public beach — is also its biggest dumping ground; a mix of sewage, garbage, animal faeces and rotting fish.

5. The rain. Every year without fail, thanks to a mix of global warming and bad urban planning, the city turns into the set of Waterworld. There are no emergency services you can call to ask for help while your house floods, KESC refuses to answer phone calls and car owners delight in splashing pedestrians.

6. Everyone is out to get you. The sense of paranoia and outlandish rumours in Karachi have rendered this city into a psychotic mess where every year the number of people with depression increases.

7. Directions in Karachi go something along the lines of ‘Turn by the ice-box man’s shop, past Bano Aunty’s third daughter in-laws’ house, take another left, get into the smallest lane, and it’s the house with a big chicken on top and two cats outside.’ Is there a house number? No.

8. Karachiites adore fads. The Farhat Hashmi fad had hundreds of rich, bored housewives donning burqas and issuing edicts such as ‘laughing is a waste of time’, Espresso opening up made everyone and their five-year-old son into cappuccino addicts and red bowling shoes were the hottest accessory when Area 51 opened up.

Rainbow CupCakes

This is simple to do by dividing the batter equally among six small bowls- I used yellow cake mix for deeper hues. Color each bowl of batter a different color. Make- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.


Layer colored batter in the order of a rainbow's colors into cupcake liners and bake according to the package directions. Remember the order? ROY G. BIV: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

Lessons to Learn in life

Health:

• Drink plenty of water.
• Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is
• manufactured in plants.
• Make time to meditate.
• (Breathe)
•  Read more books
• Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
• Sleep for 7 hours.
• Take a 10-30 minute walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

• Comparing our lives to others is fruitless. We have no idea what their journey is about.
• Replace negative thoughts with positive ones especially about things out of our control. Invest energy in the positive present moment.
• Try not to over do. Understand limits.
• Why take ourselves so seriously. No one else does.
• Gossip drains precious energy.
• Dream more while we are awake.
• Envy is a waste of time. We already have all we need.
• Forget issues of the past. Let go of our partners mistakes of the past. Focus on our present/future happiness.
• Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
• Make peace with our past so it won’t spoil the present.
• No one is in charge of our happiness except us.
• Realize that life is a school and we are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons we learn will last a lifetime.
• Smile and laugh more.
• We don’t have to win arguments. It’s ok to agree to disagree.

Society:

• Call your family often.
• Each day give something good to others.
• Forgive everyone for everything.
• Spend time with people over the age of 70 and under the age of 6.
• Try to make at least three people smile each day.
• What other people think of you is insignificant compared to what you think of yourself.
• Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends & family will. Stay in touch.

Life:

• Do the right thing!
• Be more towards your relegion
• Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
• (Higher powers) heal everything.
• However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
• No matter how we feel, get up, dress up, and show up.
• The best is yet to come.
• When we awake alive in the morning, be thankful.
• Our Inner most is always happy. Release your “Inner Happy” on the world every day!

Studying Eyes

What Are Your Eyes Giving Away?

References are made to our eyes in everyday conversation such as ‘don’t give me those puppy dog eyes’, ‘giving me the evil eye’ and many more such phrases.Your eyes can tell a lot about you and tell others even more simply by the way you use them.  Eye communication is a great skill to have and eye contact is a great tool to master.  We all use it and we all give away vital clues as to what we are thinking with our eyes.

If you can learn the skill of reading eye signals and mastering the art of using eye contact it can make a huge difference in your personal and business life.

The Pupils

Your pupils and the size of them will give away a lot of secrets, and it’s something we can’t do much about. The pupils will either constrict or dilate depending on our state of mind. If we are aroused by something, or someone, our pupils will dilate and if we are turned off by something or someone our pupils will constrict.

Skilled street traders across the world look for the size of the pupils when bartering with their customers. If a customer sees an object and their pupils are fully dilated, then the trader knows they can keep the price of the item at the higher end.

When we are excited, our pupils will dilate, and when we are in the company of someone we don’t like, our pupils will constrict.

Wandering Eyes
Have you ever noticed when you are talking to someone that their eyes are looking everywhere and not at you. This in itself is an obvious sign of distraction or boredom however, it also means that the person is looking for a way to get out of your space. Looking out a window when someone is talking to you could mean they would rather be outside.

If you do this, be careful of the signals you are giving to the other person, unless you specifically want them to know you don’t want to be with them.

The Angry Eyes

When we are angry our eyes become narrower, brows are furrowed and our pupils constrict. It’s quite easy to tell if someone is angry when they have all of the above. what if they don’t show the above body language signals? Well, we have to look for other body language clues such as constriction of the lips, flared nostrils, staring, clenching of the jaw etc.
When you are speaking to someone who is displaying signs of anger you can either back down or stand up for yourself, depending on what the situation warrants.
If you stand up for yourself you should be holding eye gaze and not break it. This shows the other person that you are not intimidated by them. If you are the one to break eye contact in a heated argument you have all but lost the argument.

Your Gaze

When we are talking to our friends and in social situations, and are looking and talking with another person for some time we unconsciously gaze at the persons face in a controlled manner. However, if we have lost confidence or we are not yet socially adept we can lose this ability.  Here is a quick guide on where to focus your gaze when talking to someone.

Social Gazing

When you are speaking in a social setting you don’t want to stare into someone’s eyes as this is a bit strange for someone to do, and a bit off-putting for the talker. To get over this, use a triangle approach. First look at one eye of the talker, then look at their mouth, briefly, and then move onto their other eye. This shows you are still interested in what they have to say as you have not looked away from their face.

The Controlling Gaze

If you are looking to intimidate someone when you are talking to them, or are trying to control the conversation look at the area known as ‘the third eye’ which is the spot just between the eyebrows.

 

Can you tell if someone is lying with their eye movements?

Short answer to that is no. However, by looking at other body language signals and looking at their eyes you can get a good idea if someone is lying or not.

With the work of Bandler and Grinder and their excellent work on NLP we have an idea of how our eye movements relate to how we access information from the brain, which can help to tell is someone is lying or not.

Visual Accessing Cues

(VC) Visual Construction : Looking up and to the left.  The person is accessing information from their imagination and might possibly be making it up.  For example, if you asked someone what their dream home would look like they would, more than likely, look up and to their left.

If someone is lying about something and making stories up they might be using this eye movement.

(VR) Visual Remembering : Looking up and to the right.  This is when we are actually accessing a memory and picturing it in our heads.  It is more than likely that this is a memory that actually happened.  Ask your friend what they had for dinner yesterday and they will most likely look up and to the right.

(AC) Auditory Construction : Looking middle and to the left. This is where our eyes might go if we were constructing a sound in our mind.  For example if you asked a friend to think of what their voice will sound like when they are 80 years old, they would more than likely look in this direction.

(AR) Auditory Remembering : Looking middle and to the right.  This is where our eyes might go if you were remembering a sound that you have heard before. 

(K) Kinesthetic :Looking down and to the left.  This is the direction your eyes might go if you were accessing your actual feelings about something. 

(AD) Auditory Digital : Looking down and to the right.  This is the direction our eyes might go when we are talking to ourselves.  We do this all the time and it is called self talk. 

The information above represents the majority of people, but it may be different for some.  However, it is still possible to work out a persons representational system by observing them when you ask them questions.

6 Utterly loyal dogs

Faithful, loyal, devoted, steadfast—that’s a good dog. It’s part of what they are. Here are six who give a new meaning to the word loyalty.

1. Hachiko

In the article 7 Heroic Dogs, we met Hachiko, an Akita who waited for his master every day for ten years, even though the man died at work. Hachiko is honored as a paragon of loyalty, but he is not the only dog who became known for extreme faithfulness to his master.

2. Ruswarp

Graham Nuttall and his border collie Ruswarp were an inseparable pair. Ruswarp was 14 years old when he and Nuttall went on a hike in the Welsh Mountains in January of 1990. They did not return as scheduled. 11 weeks later, another hiker found Nuttall’s body, and a cold and starving Ruswarp standing guard. The dog had to be carried off the mountain, and was cared for by a vet paid by the RSPCA. Ruswarp survived long enough to attend Nuttall’s funeral. Graham Nuttall was an activist involved with saving the scenic British railway line from Settle to Carlisle. The Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line (FoSCL) raised money for a memorial to Ruswarp. A bronze statue of the dog will be installed at the Garsdale Station in North Yorkshire in early 2009.

3. Dorado

Omar Eduardo Rivera worked on the 71st floor of the World Trade Center until September 11, 2001. On that day, Rivera, who is blind, was at his job as a computer technician with his dog Doradounder his desk. When two hijacked planes hit the towers, Rivera knew it would take him a long time to evacuate the building.
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“I thought I was lost forever—the noise and the heat were terrifying—but I had to give Dorado the chance of escape.  So I unclipped his lead, ruffled his head, gave him a nudge and ordered Dorado to go.”*
The dog was swept downstairs by the crowd of people. A few minutes later, Rivera felt the dog nuzzling his legs. He had come back up the staircase! Dorado and a co-worker helped Rivera climb down 70 flights, a trip that took an hour. Shortly after they emerged at ground level, the building collapsed. Rivera declared he owes his life to his companion and best friend, Dorado.

4. Cash

25-year-old Jake Baysinger was reported missing in Colorado on June 28, 2008. His body was found six weeks later in the Pawnee National Grassland by a rancher who was checking out a strange dog. The dog was Baysinger’s German shepherd Cash. Cash kept running between Baysinger’s body and his pickup truck, giving the rancher the idea that the dog was eager to show someone what had happened. Baysinger’s death was ruled a suicide, and Cash was reunited with Baysinger’s wife and young son. Investigators believe Cash survived by eating small animals and kept coyotes away from his master’s body. Cash was later honored with a gift basket of treats from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Image credit: Sara Loven/Greeley Tribune.

5. Greyfriars Bobby

Greyfriars Bobby became famous as a symbol of loyalty in Britain. He was a Skye terrier devoted to his owner, John Gray. When Gray died in 1858, he was buried without a gravestone. Still, Bobby found the spot and stayed there, guarding the grave and leaving only for food, for 14 years. Greyfriars Bobby himself died in 1872. A granite fountain was erected in 1873 to honor his loyalty, commissioned by a countess and paid for by the RSPCA. John Gray eventually got a headstone, paid for by Bobby’s fans. And Bobby received a headstone for his grave in 1981.

6. The Frontier Sheepdog

In the 1870s, a sheep rancher in New Mexico died alone in his remote home. Two years later, his death was discovered by visitors. Yet his flock of sheep were doing just fine, and had actually increased in number! The rancher’s dog had taken responsibility for the sheep, and had taken them out to pasture daily as he had always done, then herded them back home at night. In 1879, the New Mexico legislature voted to award a pension to the hard-working (but nameless) sheep dog. There are no pictures of this dog. The photo illustration is from Flickr user ingirogiro.