Do Unto Others Day

 

People don't think that one individual can make a difference in the world, but the truth is, one can make a difference...you just have to try.

Today is do unto others day. The golden rule should be followed to the letter today. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Simple, sweet, and right to the point. In other words, be kind to people. Smile when you pass someone in the street, even if they don't smile back. Hold a door open for someone else, even if they don't have packages in their hands. Allow someone to go ahead of you in line at the supermarket or at the movie theater when you're standing in line to buy tickets.

Say hello to the next person you see, even if you have no idea who that person is. In the Bible it is written that sometimes we entertain angels unawares, so it is possible that the last person you acted ornery with could have been an angel in disguise. Be nice to everyone today, even if they are not particularly nice to you, because you are laying up treasures in Heaven when you do these things.

Say, “God bless you” when someone sneezes, and watch the smile form on his or her face. Give someone else your seat on the subway, or let them share your seat on the bus. If someone attacks you verbally today, just shrug and walk away, and let them rant and rave to thin air. Don't attack back because this just keeps the argument going and solves nothing. Be helpful to others, give gentle advice when it is needed and requested. Above all, just treat everyone else you meet today as you would have them treat you.

I wonder how many world problems we could solve in just one day's time, if the whole world tried its best to be kind to everyone else on the planet? Do you have a pen pal you speak to on the internet who lives in another region of the world from your own? Send lovely greetings to that person, and light up his or her day. That person in turn will feel good and will pass on the sentiment to someone else, and on and on it goes. You don't think one person can change the world? Try it sometime.

One person can change the world, and make a huge difference in society simply by being the kind of person that everyone should be. This sort of thing tends to spread itself around you know. The old expression, “what goes around, comes around” is a very truthful sentiment, as is, “you reap what you sow”. If you sow goodness, forgiveness and joy around the world, it will come back to you a thousand-fold. By contrast, if you sow misery and discontent, hatred and anger around the world, that will come back to you as well.

If somebody drops something today, you pick it up for them, if someone in a wheelchair cannot reach a product on the shelf in the supermarket, you reach it for them. If someone trips and falls, you run to his or her aid if possible. Put your shopping cart where it belongs instead of leaving it in the parking lot where it can roll right into someone else's car. Try not to hit someone else's car door with your door when you open it, and be polite, waiting your turn patiently in all things even when you don't feel so patient inside.

Yes, it is do unto others day today, and tomorrow too, and the day after that. Make it a habit that you want to get into rather than a bad habit you want to get out of. Spread a little sunshine around today and the host of Heaven will rejoice , which just might cheer you up a little bit too. In closing, I have just one tiny thing left to say…..Have a wonderful day!….And smile.

Mother or Slave?

 

Read this awareness article on how we treat mother earth today!

Do we really mean what we say and pretend? We burden the earth by growing vegetables and fruits in different seasons than in which they grow. We try to change their natural color, their actual size, we try to make them grow fast, and we try to make them sweeter e.t.c. We pollute the air, throw garbage without even caring!

We dig and scrape the earth. We put artificial nutrients as if making up a false ugly face. We take away its clothes and cover of plants, trees and foliage and make buildings, roads and flyovers. We choke it with garbage, plastic and toxins and expect it to breathe and provide us fresh air

Would we ever treat our real mothers like this? These acts are not exploitation but molestation of Mother Earth. We have changed the actual earth into a weak, female slave, expecting it to sacrifice itself for our comforts and needs.

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The Behike Equals Most Expensive Cigar on the Planet

If you have a liking for cigars then this smoke is for you.

Launched in late October the Cohiba brand Behike cigar retails for a hefty $440 each and only comes in boxes of 40 which cost $18,860 (£9,897).

The Behike has been produced to honour 40 years of the Cohiba brand and created with a unique blend which was tested by a group of tasters before the cigar went into hand-made production.

The cigars are entirely hand made by one lady Norma Fernandez, the “torcedora” or cigar-roller from the El Laguito factory in Havana,

Recently launched in Spain by Altadis (the exclusive importer of Cuban cigars to Spain) these cigars are only a limited edition of 4000 examples. So hurry up and buy some before they all go up in smoke!

Billionaire Couture Cocktail Jacket

Being a billionaire almost certainly means that you’re going to be invited to lots of cocktail parties. Therefore, you’re going to need something like this sleek and slimming Billionaire Couture, polka dot silk cocktail jacket.  Beautiful styling and tailoring which includes seams sewn and cropped by hand, exuberant lapels measuring 5 inches and diagonally cut button holes. Price tag of £2,200 ($4,070).

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Fourteen Benefits of Preschool Education.

This article is for parents who are arying to weigh the risk to benefit ratio of preschool education.

Preschool education refers to education of toddlers from the ages of three to five years. A lot of research has been done around this issue. The benefits of quality preschool education are now clear. Many parents are convinced of the benefits of preschool education. This article is aimed at those who are still uncertain of the benefits of preschool education. World wide, the number of children attending preschool classes is increasing. In some countries, close to 100% of children attend preschool. One example of such a country is France. In the US about 80 % of children attend preschool.

Reason One: Children who attend preschool usually turn out to be successful students. Preschool education increases their chances of success at school, college and university level. It is the writer’s opinion that this is a major reason why we should send our children to preschool. These finding are based on long term gains – longitudinal studies. About five studies have demonstrated this trend convincingly.

Reason Two: This is another educational gain. Children who attended quality preschool did much better on standardized tests. The outcomes were consistent over numerous tests. Michigan fourth graders who had attended preschool passed their state's literacy and math assessment tests at higher rates than their peers who did not attend preschool when they were three to five years old.

Reason Three: Many children do badly in school as they progress chronologically, by failing in grades which have to be repeated. Repeating a grade is bad for all concerned - the child, the family, the school and the economy. It labels the child as a failure. The child’s feelings are hurt, other children often refer to this child as, “the failure”. Parents often end up saying to the child that he failed. This reinforces the “fail” mentality. The long term result is that the period of useful employment is reduced by at least one year. If more grades have to be repeated the losses are much more. Yale University’s Child Study Centre has reported this benefit.

Reason four: Many children who are not able to perform satisfactorily in regular class get placed in special education classes. Special Education is both costly and demotivating, in the long run, both to the child and the parents. Quality preschool education has the effect of reducing the need for placing children in special education. This saves money for the state, family and the school district.

Reason Five: Adults who participated in preschool education when they were three to five years committed fewer crimes when they grew up. The crimes these preschooled adults committed were less severe than those committed by adults who did not participate in preschool. Crimes cost the state, community and individuals lots of money. In short, preschool education reduces crime and delinquency.

Reason Six: Adults who participated in preschool education had rates of teen pregnancy when compared with adults who did not participate in preschool. This is significant because teenage pregnancy is associated with poor educational outcomes for the next generation. These studies were done in North Carolina, USA. (26 percent vs. 45 percent).

Reason Seven: Adults who participated in quality preschool education early in life ended up with a greater opportunity of employment and higher wages. Forty-year-old adults in Michigan who attended preschool education when they were young children were more likely to be employed and had a 33 percent higher average income than their peers who did not participate in preschool.

Reason Eight: Adults who were sent to preschool when they were young contributed and participated more to stable families. They also had more stable married lives. The divorce rate among preschooled parents is lower too. These types of benefits were not even thought of by the founders of preschool education. These findings are based on forty-year-old adults in Michigan who attended preschool education as children.

Reason Nine: Good return on investment. For every $1 invested in educating a child through the preschool system saves taxpayers up to $10.00. The savings are in the reduced need for remedial and special education, welfare, and criminal justice services, according to a number of studies. These savings have been reported by several sources

Reason Ten: Quality preschool education improves the efficiency and productivity in the classroom. Children who participated in preschool education when they were young had more advanced skills in areas such as following directions, problem-solving, and joining in activities, all of which allow teachers to spend more time working directly with children and less on classroom management.

Reason Eleven: Sarjeet S. Gill, a researcher with Charles Darwin University, is investigating the effects of preschool education on the subjective wellbeing of such children. He is postulating the preschool education affects the SWB and makes them more ready to attend school.

Reason Twelve: Sarjeet S. Gill, a researcher with the Charles Darwin Univeristy’s School of Social Policy research, is also postulating that the benefits of half day education are just half of those of full day preschool education.

Reason Thirteen: Mothers can go to work and bring much needed resources to the family.

Reason Fourteen: When a child is sent to preschool education during the day, he/she appreciates being with parents, just a little bit more.

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Why Men Won't Commit

There are many reasons why men won’t commit. Some say they haven’t found the perfect woman; some say they want to wait until they can afford the perfect woman; and some say “I already have the perfect woman, why bother to marry her?

If you're wondering if your boyfriend ever plans to settle down and have a kids, the answer is probably “Yes, but not in the near future.”

A recent study named The State of Our Unions conducted face-to-face interviews with 60 single, heterosexual men aged 25 - 33, and came up with this conclusion: Single men DO want to have their own home, wife and kids - but not until they're older. Here are some of the reasons they gave, in no particular order:

1. Men no longer need to get married to get sex.

   It's easy nowadays to meet women - in bars, at work, through the Internet - and apparently, many of them will sleep with you without marriage, or even a commitment. So, as far as these men are concerned, if sex is all they want, they look for a sex partner, not a wife.

2. Men no longer need to get married to have a wife.

   For many men, cohabitation is a great way of having their cake and eating it too. They get all the benefits of having a wife without giving a commitment in exchange. If you're the type of girl who is fine with this, then good for you. If you're the type who is hoping for marriage in exchange for your devotion, then you should have listened to your mother when she said that “He won't buy the cow if he already gets the milk for free.” Crass? Absolutely - but true, unfortunately.

3. Men are afraid of divorce - and of alimony.

   So who likes divorce? It's not only hard on your emotions, it's also hard on your pocketbook.

   Well, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that one great way to avoid divorce is by not getting married in the first place. I'm not saying it's the best way, but it's one of the easiest ways, and some of us are lazier than others.

4. Men want to wait until they are financially stable.

   Not unreasonable. Admirable, even, in certain situations. A man who knows the responsibilities he has for his wife and kids, and wants to make sure he is fit to carry them before taking them on, is a good man. Now, if you and your boyfriend have very different definitions of what “financially stable” means, then you must seriously consider compatibility issues that will haunt you even after you are married.

5. Men are afraid of the changes that marriage will make on their lives.

   Less freedom, more responsibilities: That's how many men see marriage. In truth, marriage can be so much more rewarding than that. But with such bad advertising, who can blame them if they're not so eager to buy?

6. Men are waiting for the perfect soulmate.

   Well, so are women. Now, in case you are wondering what their definition of “perfect soulmate” is, it means “the woman who will accept me as I am and will not try to change me.” So if you don't like something about your man, either you learn to accept it or keep looking. (If it's a major issue, I'd say keep looking.) On our part, we don't want a man who will consider us his life project either, do we?

The million dollar laptop by Luvaglio

March 07 saw the launch of the world’s most exclusive laptop by Luvaglio. Full spec details have not yet ben released but we know it has a 17” widescreen LED lit screen with a specially designed anti-reflective glare coating for clear and brighter image, 128GB of Solid State Disk space and a slot loading Blue-Ray drive. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification.

Rohan Sinclair, CEO of Luvaglio said: “Unlike many of the highly priced products being released, we took our time to develop something out of the ordinary with real attention to detail. “

“I didn’t want us to simply re-house a laptop into a diamond studded casing, or diamond encrust the entire thing simply to make it expensive. We’ve put thought in from the keyboard down to the power charger. There is an integrated screen cleaning device and a very rare coloured diamond piece of jewellery that doubles up as the power button when placed into the laptop and also acts as security identification. We have used diamonds elsewhere but have given them purpose.”

According to Luvaglio, “the brand is committed to re-defining luxury in a few sectors, technology being one of them.

“Many claim to produce luxury goods but we believe that the true element of luxury is having something that says “YOU”, that money can’t buy.

“At present and from our previous luxury work, our initial clients will be chosen from this selection as we have already established trust.

“The range to be released shortly would allow the owner to become the creator and visit our showroom at two or three well known upmarket stores we are in discussion with, whereby our selection of materials, finishes and accessories will be available to view and a choice selected.

“The choice will be based on our selection but of course other colours and finishes can be done on request. We have access to diamonds that are simply rare and near impossible to get hold of, so are able to offer a very embodied choice.

“The presentation boxes are of course supplied and finished in the choice that is selected by the client. Exact figures I am unable to provide at present due to negotiations but will certainly be more obtainable then our master piece.”

The first such masterpiece will sell for more than US$1,000,000.

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Football’s Richest Soccer Players

According to the BBC, Britain’s Soccer / Football players are awash with money.

Unsurprisingly, the ubiquitous David Beckham tops the list with Wayne Rooney predicted to rapidly over take him in years to come.

1. David Beckham £87m ($169m)

2. Michael Owen £32m ($62m)

3. Robbie Fowler £28m ($54m)

4. Sol Campbell £27m ($52m)

5. Rio Ferdinand £22m ($43m)

6. Ryan Giggs £22m ($43m)

7. Andriy Shevchenko £22m ($43m)

8. Thierry Henry £21m ($41m)

9. Wayne Rooney £20m ($39m)

10. Michael Ballack £18m ($35m)

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