TAKE HOLD OF EVERY MOMENT

A friend of mine opened his wife's underwear drawer and picked up a silk paper wrapped package:

"This, - he said - isn't any ordinary package."
He unwrapped the box and stared at both the silk paper and the box.

"She got this the first time we went to New York, 8 or 9 years ago. She has never put it on. Was saving it for a special occasion.Well, I guess this is it. He got near the bed and placed the gift box next to the other clothings he was taking to the funeral house, his wife had just died. He turned to me and said:
"Never save something for a special occasion. Every day in your life is a special occasion".I still think those words changed my life.
Now I read more and clean less.
I sit on the porch without worrying about anything.
I spend more time with my family, and less at work. I understood that life should be a source of experience to be lived up to, not survived through. I no longer keep anything. I use crystal glasses every day. I'll wear new clothes to go to the supermarket, if i feel like it.
I don't save my special perfume for special occasions, I use it whenever I want to. The words "Someday..." and "One Day..." are fading away from my dictionary. If it's worth seeing, listening or doing, I want to see, listen or do it now. I don't know what my friend's wife would have done if she knew she wouldn't be there the next morning, this nobody can tell. I think she might have called her relatives and closest friends.She might call old friends to make peace over past quarrels. I'd like to think she would go out for Chinese, her favourite food. It's these small things that I would regret not doing, if I knew my time had come.I would regret it, because I would no longer see the friends I would meet, letters... letters that i wanted to write "One of this days".I would regret and feel sad, because I didn't say to my brothers and sons, not times enough at least, how much I love them.Now, I try not to delay, postpone or keep anything that could bring laughter and joy into our lives.And, on each morning, I say to myself that this could be a special day.Each day, each hour, each minute, is special.If you got this, it's because someone cares for you and because, probably, there's someone you care about.

Prayer by Rick Ross

I heard this song about a year ago and the more I heard it the more I could feel what was being said. Rick Ross pulled my coat just how deep he is. I included his song with the lyrics so you can feel where he came from...




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Top 10 Biggest Interview Mistakes

Rosemary Haefner, vice president of human resources, CareerBuilder.com
Hiring managers don't want to hear a lot of things during an interview confessions of a violent past, a cell phone ring, a toilet flush. Yet job seekers have committed these interview gaffes and worse, according to CareerBuilder.com's annual survey of the worst interview mistakes.
Odd behavior isn't the only way to ruin your chances of landing a job. When hiring managers were asked to name the most common and damaging interview mistakes a candidate can make:

51 percent listed dressing inappropriately.

49 percent cited badmouthing a former boss as the worst offense.

48 percent said appearing disinterested.

44 percent Arrogance.

30 percent insufficient answers.

29 percent not asking good questions.

To ensure your interview is smooth and error-free, follow these five tips.

1.Do some research: When you walk into a job interview, knowledge of the company's history, goals and current activity proves to the interviewer that you are not only prepared for the interview, but also that you want to be a part of the organization.

2.Don't lie: If the conversation drifts to a topic you're not knowledgeable about, admit you don't know the answer and then explain how you would go about finding a solution. Displaying your problem-solving skills is better than babbling about something you don't understand.
Keep it professional: Although interviewers often try to create a comfortable setting to ease the job seeker's nerves, business decorum shouldn't disappear.

3.Know what to expect: Expect to hear staple interview questions: "What's your biggest weakness?" "Why do you want to work here?" "Tell me about yourself." "Why did you leave your last job?" These open-ended questions are harder to answer than they sound, so think about your responses before the interview.

4.Put on a happy face: The interview is not the time to air your grievances about being wronged by a past boss. How you speak about a previous employer gives the hiring manager an idea of how you'll speak about him or her once you've moved on.
Unfortunately, many job seekers are not only ignoring these tips, they're making mistakes that leave unforgettable impressions for all the wrong reasons.

5.Avoid offering personal details: that can be controversial or have no relevance to the position, such as political and religious beliefs or stories about a recent break-up.

Here are 10 real-life examples from this year's survey:

1. Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a "private" conversation.

2. Applicant told the interviewer he wouldn't be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died and his uncle wasn't "looking too good."

3. The job seeker asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

4. Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was "classified."

5. Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.

6. When the applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn't want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.

7. An applicant said she was a "people person" not a "numbers person" in her interview for an accounting position.

8. During a phone interview the candidate flushed the toilet while talking to hiring manager.

9.The applicant took out a hair brush and brushed her hair.

10. The applicant smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.

How Hurricane Bertha developed from a tropical storm

During hurricane season, thunderstorms form over Africa and travel west across the Atlantic, The Atlantic hurricanes usually start as weak tropical disturbances off the West African coast and intensify into rotating storms with weak winds, called tropical depressions. Once the winds exceed 35 miles per hour, the system, now called a "tropical storm," gets an alphabetical name. where some develop into tropical cyclones. Bertha developed from a tropical wave that emerged off the coast of Africa on July 1. Bertha continued to gain strength from warm ocean water, high humidity and favorable atmospheric and upward spiraling wind patterns off the ocean surface. and became the first hurricane of the season on July 7.
The storm now has the circular structure of a hurricane, Bertha strengthened into a Category 3 hurricane that feeds on herself to gain strength. In their energy flow, hurricanes resemble large thunderstorms. But while thunderstorms can start over land or water, hurricanes only start over water. Hurricanes also last much longer, carry far greater energy, and cause much greater destruction. Due to the Coriolis effect, the lower levels of a tropical cyclone start rotating counter-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, but clockwise in the Southern. Eyeball the eye wall Hurricane winds whirl around the bizarrely calm "eye," a circular region with little wind, no rain and often a blue sky. The placid eye is surrounded by a circular "eye wall" of furious, thunderstorm-type clouds and the fiercest winds.

The force of the release is tremendous—the amount of heat energy released by an average hurricane is equivalent to the amount of electric energy produced by the U.S. in an entire year. A small portion of the energy released actually warms what has become the inner core of the storm. As the temperature of the air in the inner core rises, its pressure drops, increasing the speed and intensity of the winds swirling around it. These stronger winds bring more warm, moist air to the clouds surrounding the inner core of the storm further fueling its energy. When the swirling winds reach a speed of 74 miles per hour or more, the tropical storm becomes a hurricane. Once a storm officially becomes a hurricane, it receives an intensity rating based on its wind speed and potential to cause damage. As a hurricane develops, its intensity rating often changes.

I Category Once hurricanes have wind speeds between 74 and 95 miles per hour and are expected to cause minimal damage to buildings and homes. Trees, shrubbery and mobile homes tend to bear the brunt of the damage caused by Category One hurricanes.

With wind speeds reaching 100 miles per hour, this is typical of a Category Two storm.

Category Three and Four hurricanes are characterized by even stronger winds and much more damage to homes, buildings and trees.

The most intense classification of a storm is the Category Five hurricane. A Category Five storm will have sustained winds of 155 miles per hour or more and is capable of extensive damage. The inner core of the hurricane is known as the eye of the storm—a calm, often clear-skied patch where winds are lightest and pressure is lowest.

Surrounding the paradoxically calm region of the hurricane is a ring of clouds called the eye wall. The eye wall clouds are thunderstorm clouds, and it is in this region of the hurricane where the heaviest rains and winds originate. The outermost ring of the hurricane is made up of bands of heavy rains that swirl inward toward the storm's center, called spiral rain bands. While the clouds and rain bands are forming in the sky above, the weather on the land below the hurricane turns nasty. The spiraling winds that accompany hurricanes can extend even further beyond the eye of the storm. Typically, hurricanes are about 300 miles wide, so they can affect fairly large areas at one time. Unfortunately for those in its path, a hurricane's speed of travel is hard to predict and varies greatly from storm to storm. Weather experts have calculated that hurricanes move forward at an average speed of 15-20 miles per hour, but a big storm also has the potential to linger over one area for a while, causing torrential rains, or move so quickly that there is no time to prepare for its arrival. Eventually, a hurricane's energy begins to dissipate and the storm weakens. Weather experts have identified several factors that contribute to a hurricane's demise, including the storm's movement over cooler water or drier areas. Even when a hurricane appears to have blown over, however, it can potentially re intensify if it hits weather conditions that are favorable for its development. Every year between June 1 and November 30 (commonly called hurricane season), hurricanes threaten the ­eastern and gulf coasts of the United States, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. In other parts of the world, the same types of storms are called typhoons or cyclones. Hurricanes wreak havoc when they make landfall, and they can kill thousands of people and cause billions of dollars of property damage when they hit heavily ­populated areas.

Clinton supporters not on Obama band wagon yet

WASHINGTON: In an ominous sign for Democratic nominee Barack Obama's campaign, a new survey has found that Hillary Clinton's supporters may not cast their ballot for the African American candidate in the November presidential election. A week after Clinton made a public show of unity with Obama after being trounced in a racially devisive contest for the party ticket, the survey suggests supporters of the New York senator are increasingly less likely to follow her lead. A growing number of Clinton supporters say they may stay home in November instead of casting their ballot for Obama, who hopes to be the first black-American president, a clear sign the party has yet to coalesce around the Illinois senator four weeks after the most prolonged, bitter primary race in modern American history came to a close. The number of Clinton supporters who plan to defect to John McCain's camp is down from one month ago, but in what could be an ominous sign for Obama as he seeks to unify the party, a growing number of them say they may not vote at all, according to a new survey from CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation. In a CNN/ORC survey conducted in early June, entirely before the New York senator officially ended her White House bid, 22 per cent of Clinton supporters said they would not vote at all if Obama was the party's nominee. Now close to a third say they will stay home. In all, only 54 per cent of Clinton backers say they plan on voting for Obama.

Obama's flip flopping

This recognition of flip flopping is nothing new to the world, many have practiced this craft. They say one thing but have to make a change in the program because at one point in time it becomes unrealistic. Every four years we receive promises from mayors, governors, senators congress men and woman and presidents on how they will make a change. George Bush snow balled the world with promises and for some reason he thinks that he will go down in history as one of the best presidents ever. Lets face it president Bush, you will go down in history, but as the worst. Barack Obama flip-flop on his policy regarding the Iraq war. For months now, Senator Obama has been insisting he would have all U. S. troops home within 16 months of being sworn in as president. Even if this were a realistic timetable for bringing Iraq to the point where it can police itself -- which it isn't -- it is foolish to announce it to the world. The point in this war is its not our fight! When we started this war vengence was are goal, now we the people are asking the question of what are we fighting for? The american econmy has hit rock bottom. Gas before the war was $1.40, 6 years later $ 4.50 a gallon and its still rising. Record forclosures, unemployment sky rocketing and we are pretending that everything is alright, but is it? The terror groups are going to always exist, like gangs, hate groups, mobsters. So can we live on if and an's? I think not.
Were it not for Mr. Obama's restrictive definition of "long-term," he is actually onto something here. Iraq has become much safer over the last year. Coalition casualties there have fallen by 75% since their peak in early 2007. And, most importantly, violence against innocent Iraqis -- suicide attacks, market and mosque bombings and sniping -- has declined by half or more. (In Afghanistan, by contrast, attacks on NATO forces are up 40% in the first six months of this year over the same period in 2007. The recent jailbreak by 800 Taliban, too, shows Afghan forces are not yet as prepared to patrol on their own as their Iraqi counterparts.) But all of that progress has come about precisely because of the stable security situation created with the help of the U. S. military. Why would Mr. Obama want to pull the rug out from Iraq's nation-building at such a crucial juncture? Its nice that Iraq has become a much safer place to live, but we don't live their... Why is it the US problem to always step in? Iraq should share the wealth and pay us with oil for the help that we have given them... Except that is not going to be the case, what we will get is "thank you very much". We spend million and billions climbing to trillions of dollars on a war that will not benefit us, don't you think that it is time that we cut our losses before it gets to late? Really their is no end in the near future if we don't innitiate it!

The life behind bars

The life behind bars is something that I hope you never experience. Loosing seconds, minutes, hours, days weeks, months and years that you can never regain is such a waste. Without strength and perserverance the average person breaks under pressure.

I was locked up for 8 years and to be honest where I was locked up it was called little Vietnam, it was a young gladiator school. Everything that you saw on the streets existed behind those bars. Gangs, drugs, prostitution, rape and murder. I saw men come in one day and were girls the next. The Shaw Shank Redemption was a close portray of prison life. When you get locked up while you are locked up, that means you don't follow rules good. I meet one guy that was in the hole for 8 years and had 8 more years left just to get back in the prison population, he was that violent! For the time I was locked up my time was utilized, I went to school and I made it a point to learn. I made a promise to myself that I was never going to get caught up in the system again. So now its been 18 years now that I have been free in my mind, body and soul I am achieving peace within...