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Unlike physical abuse, emotional abuse can be harder to identify, because emotionally abusive tendencies can slowly creep into a relationship in the form of unhealthy patterns. Emotionally abusive partners seek to manipulate you. They often don’t want to hurt you, but they’re controlling nature makes them act out in a way that is mentally and emotionally harmful.

Here are some signs that you are in an emotionally abusive relationship:

* You feel that you can’t express yourself freely with your partner, or you have to walk on eggshells.

* Your partner frequently express jealousy, and keeps you from engaging in normal interactions with the opposite sex

* Your partner frequently criticizes you, humiliates you, or undermines your self esteem

* Your partner keeps you from your friends, family and support groups outside of the relationship

* You caught your partner monitoring your email or internet usage

* Your partner alludes to the possibility of harming you or your loved ones if you betrayed or left him or her

* Your partner implies that if you were to leave, he or she may commit suicide or engage in other self harm

This is by no means an exhaustive list, but simply point to some of the trends of an emotionally abusive relationship. Regarding the last bullet point threats of suicide it is an especially manipulative tactic. If your partner holds their potential suicide over their head, they are essentially trying to take you hostage. You need to bring in a third party if they resort to this or any other form of violence.

Emotional Abuse: 7 Signs That You Are in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship

If you are in an emotionally abusive relationship, you need to get help or get out, and you need to do it fast. Even if it never escalates to physical abuse, emotionally abusive relationships can be damaging, possibly leading to stress, depression, and even post traumatic stress disorder.

Everyone is entitled to a relationship where they are accepted and supported. Relationships should lift you up, not bring you down. They should be a refuge from the hardships of the world; they shouldn’t be a source of constant struggle for one or both partners.

It’s common for both women and men to be victims of emotional abuse. Often, men are not comfortable of thinking of themselves as victims – it can feel like admitting to being less of a man. Men sometimes don’t like to admit that things are out of control, or that they can’t “handle” their partner. It can be hard to a man’s ego to seek out help in the form of a counselor or relationship literature.

Often, men feel like they are the only one in the relationship who tries to do romantic things for the other person. This makes men feel unappreciated and unhappy. There are simple things you can do to make your partner more interested in you.

1. Be affectionate. All it takes is holding her hand while you shop or while you watch a movie to make a woman happy. Kiss her hello when you get home from work. When you watch television with her sit with your arm around here and play with her hair. If you are affectionate to her, she will respond with affection towards you. The more you kiss and touch her, the more she will want to do the same to you.

2. Be a lovable person. If you are funny, happy and upbeat she will enjoy spending time with you. Talk about things you both enjoy and your common interests. Be her lover and show her she matters to you.

3. Some women find certain colognes very attractive so ask your wife to help you choose one. If she helps you pick it out then you know she will want to snuggle up to you and smell your neck. Make sure you are clean and your clothes are clean and fresh as well.

4. Make the first move when it comes to affection. You can’t play games and wait for her to be affectionate to you. Unless she feels that you are interested in her, you have things in common and that you desire her she won’t want to give you affection.

5. Show your appreciation for all the little things she does. Don’t over do it or say things you don’t mean. Simply say thank you for the things she does for you and tell her she is doing a good job when she does something well. Be yourself and be honest and your relationship will improve and you will have more intimacy.

6. Give her nice little gifts when you see each other. Something like a single flower, a book you think she’ll enjoy or some chocolates tells her you were thinking of her and you appreciate her.

7. Make sure she feels like the most important person in your world and let her know she is all you need to be happy.

Things to Remember:

* If you give affection, you will get affection back.

* For the first kiss, make sure you are prepared if you try to kiss or prepared in case she tries to kiss you. You don’t want to end up avoiding her kiss and hurting her feelings.

* Don’t rush physical things. Spend time together talking and hanging out so you can get a feel for what she wants and what she is ready for. Don’t push her into something she is not ready for.

* Compliment her hair and her lips.

* Kiss her neck and see how she responds. Some girls really enjoy this and others do not. If she moves so you can kiss more of her neck you know she likes it but if she moves away or tilts her head than she doesn’t like it.

* On a first date it is important to go to a place that will make it easy to have a conversation. You can walk around the mall, go to the beach, go to a coffee house or a restaurant and that will allow you to get to know each other. The movies is not a good place for conversation.

As a home based business professional your daily work attire may consist of jeans and a tee shirt or even sweatpants and a favorite shirt. If you conduct the majority of your business via phone, fax, or email it is easy to forget that your physical appearance can have a bearing on how potential business partners and clients perceive you.

Whether you decide to meet with a potential client over lunch, present to a group of potential referral sources, or attend a charity fund raiser to increase your visibility in the community there will come a time in every home entrepreneur s career where they must conduct their business face to face. First impressions are lasting so make sure that you put yourself in the best position to get what you seek from a contact by dressing the part – it will allow those you meet with to focus on what you have to say not what you look like.

It is always a good idea to do some research on the dress code of the office you are visiting so you can adhere to it. If you are meeting with attorneys who routinely dress in formal business attire you will negatively stand out if you dress business casual. This may have an impact not only in how you are received, but also in how you feel. Knowing that you look the part will allow you and your contacts to focus entirely on the quality of your knowledge and presentation – which will be reflected in your overall confidence level.

Because working from home rarely requires business casual or formal attire it is easy to let your business wardrobe fall out of date. If this happens it is not necessary to spend a tremendous amount of money replenishing your professional garments. In fact purchasing a few reliable pieces and keeping them in good condition will most likely meet your needs; dark colored suits, khaki pants, white collared shirts, and well polished and professional footwear are staples that should be a part of any business wardrobe. Try to avoid anything that is too trendy, it may become dated and need to be replaced more quickly. You may also consider pieces that can be mixed and matched. Gentlemen may consider buying several ties to go with a particular suit while ladies may want to purchase a blazer that can co ordinate with a skirt and pair of slacks.

Having the right wardrobe will help you send the right signals to your contacts for those occasions when you do need to meet in person. If your wardrobe is lacking any of these pieces prioritize what is necessary and set a reasonable budget for them. Make sure that you take care of the pieces to extend their life so they are in good condition for those times that you need them. Dressing as an equal to those contacts you make when you go out into the field to meet with them allows you to command their respect and focus attention on the service you bring to the table.

Want to improve your relationship but feel that you don't have the time or resources or know where to begin? I'll show you a simple and often surprisingly speedy way to improve matters. All that you need to do is invest just 20 minutes each day.

We all know deep down how much we love the people closest to us. The problem is we don't always show it Modern life is pressured and it's all too easy to get stressed. Over time having our life partner and other family members around becomes familiar and we don't always express how much they mean to us. This is understandable but undesirable.

I am often surprised even shocked at the way people speak and act in dealing with those closest to them. It's a fact that some people show more coutesy to strangers than their family members.

When this subject arises as it often does in my workshops or email feedback from my ecourse people often tell me that they behave like this because they feel that they can get away with it at home. This suggests that they are behaving in ways that would not be tolerated at their place of work or in other interpersonal situations.

It's a sad fact that these individuals are behaving in a worse manner around their families than almost anyone else they come into contact with!

Negative behaviour is resented although it may appear to be tolerated. Over time negative behaviour damages our precious relationships. it's impossible to be on our best behaviour 24/7. We all at times say things that we don't mean?t mean to. The important thing is to show that we care so that our occasional lapses can be forgiven and forgotten. Those closest to us make lapses too of course. This helps them to understand that we are all only human and sometimes get it wrong.

Psychologists know that there are two short intervals in the day when it is particularly important for a couple or family to enjoy a warm rapport. These are when we get up in the morning and when we return home at the end of the day.

A smile, a hug, a shared joke at these times will pay dividends in keeping your close relationships happy and healthy.

Money is usually the first thing that comes into most people's minds when they hear of the law of attraction. But you can learn how to attract love as well. The same principles apply and when you think about it, finding love is just like having any other desire in your life.

Besides, money alone is not going to help make you happier with your life. Money is meant to allow you to do the things that you love with the people that you love. So, learning how to use the law of attraction to attract love is one of the things that you should think of when you are trying to manifest things and experiencees that you want in your life.

One of the primary principles of the law of attraction is that you have to give in order to receive and it is just as true with love as well. In order to receive what you want, you have to be willing to give it and project it outward.

You also have to feel a healthy amount of love for yourself as well. Feeling desperate for money repels it away from you and the same is true with love if that is what you seek.

You don't have to just use the law of attraction to gain more material possessions and make yoruself wealthy. You can use it to make yourself happier and that includes finding the love that you desire.

One must understand whether "what is love" can be a question which can be answered? Love cannot be a question. For, if it is a question then an answer should be there. If the answer is there, where is it? This question is ancient and an answer should have been found by now! If the answer has been found, the question would have disappeared.

But the question still remains, meaning the answer has not been found. If it has not been found as yet, then what is the certainty that it will be found? Maybe the mind can never find the answer! A single answer, which will please all minds, is not possible for each mind has its own ideas of love. Hence a universal answer is an illusion.

Individual answers are there for love and for this very reason there are arguments about love for each mind will contradict the answer of another mind. This contradiction is normal for each mind lives in a different point in time. Hence "what is love" is an illusionary question, which has no answer!

The word love appears in many contexts: there's maternal love, familial love, romantic love, sexual love, a wider love for fellow humans and religious love for God, to name but a few. Some cultures have ten or more words for different forms of love, and poets and songwriters always find myriad aspects of love to celebrate.

The science of love is still in its infancy. Yet scientists are beginning to get early insights into the nature and origin of love. We can now look inside human brains to view changing patterns of activity and biochemical changes that take place during love, explore diverse human experiences of love, study how we select mates and woo lovers, and look for the evolutionary roots of love.

Is there anything universal behind all this diversity? As Pope Benedict recently asked in his first encyclical letter: "Are all the forms of love basically one, so that love, in its many and varied manifestations, is ultimately a single reality?"

Love represents a range of human emotions and experiences related to the senses of affection and sexual attraction. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure to intense interpersonal attraction. This diversity of meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, even compared to other emotional states.

As an abstract concept love usually refers to a strong, ineffable feeling towards another person. Even this limited conception of love, however, encompasses a wealth of different feelings, from the passionate desire and intimacy of romantic love to the nonsexual. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

The English word love can have a variety of related but distinct meanings in different contexts. Often, other languages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts which English relies mainly on love to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Greek words for "love". Cultural differences in conceptualizing love thus make it doubly difficult to establish any universal definition.

Although the nature or essence of love is a subject of frequent debate, different aspects of the word can be clarified by determining what isn't "love". As a general expression of positive sentiment (a stronger form of like), love is commonly contrasted with hate (or neutral apathy); as a less sexual and more emotionally intimate form of romantic attachment, love is commonly contrasted with lust; and as an interpersonal relationship with romantic overtones, love is commonly contrasted with friendship, though other definitions of the word love may be applied to close friendships in certain contexts. When discussed in the abstract, love usually refers to interpersonal love, an experience felt by a person for another person. Love often involves caring for or identifying with a person or thing, including oneself.

And there are a number of common proverbs regarding love, from Virgil's "Love conquers all" to The Beatles' "All you need is love". Bertrand Russell describes love as a condition of "absolute value", as opposed to relative value.

Peck maintains that love is a combination of the "concern for the spiritual growth of another", and simple narcissism. In combination, love is an activity, not simply a feeling.

Biological models of love tend to see it as a mammalian drive, similar to hunger or thirst. Psychology sees love as more of a social and cultural phenomenon. There are probably elements of truth in both views — certainly love is influenced by hormones, and how people think and behave in love is influenced by their conceptions of love. The conventional view in biology is that there are two major drives in love — sexual attraction and attachment. Attachment between adults is presumed to work on the same principles that lead an infant to become attached to its mother. The traditional psychological view sees love as being a combination of companionate love and passionate love. Passionate love is intense longing, and is often accompanied by physiological arousal (shortness of breath, rapid heart rate). Companionate love is affection and a feeling of intimacy not accompanied by physiological arousal.

Studies have shown that brain scans of those infatuated by love display a resemblance to those with a mental illness. Love creates activity in the same area of the brain that hunger, thirst, and drug cravings create activity in. New love, therefore, could possibly be more physical than emotional. Over time, this reaction to love mellows, and different areas of the brain are activated, primarily ones involving long-term commitments. To love is so similar to that of drugs because without love, humanity would die out.

How do you define love?

Some say it's mysterious, magical, complex, difficult, imaginary, thought-provoking, inspirational, intuitional, joyous, immeasurable, ecstasy, and undefinable. Perhaps.

In one of Dr. John Gray's audio cassettes he defines love as follows: "Love is a feeling directed at someone who acknowledges their goodness."

On the same cassette, he refers to the definition by M. Scott Peck: "The willful intent to serve the well being of another."

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, and it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, and always perseveres.

My favorite is by Paramahansa Yogananda: "To describe love is very difficult, for the same reason that words cannot fully describe the flavor of an orange. You have to taste the fruit to know its flavor. So with love."

Love itself is a universal experience. Yet, every individual occurrence - while perhaps bound by a common thread - seems absolutely unique. Love is what love is! To everyone it expresses itself differently.

love is the answer to "all" questions!

It is important to stand in Love, not fall into it.

Could it be that Love is a story that can never be fully expressed?

Love is a bond or connection between two people that results in trust, intimacy, and an interdependence that enhances both partners. It is the ability and willingness to allow those you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Making Love is the highest level and the most loving way we can physically express or demonstrates our love for our love partner. Everyone knows that the sexual experience can be the single most loving, most exciting, most powerful, most exhilarating, most renewing, most energizing, most affirming, most intimate, most uniting, most stress-relieving, most recreative physical experience of which humans are capable.

When you tell someone something bad about yourself and you're scared they won't Love you anymore. But then you get surprised because not only do they still Love you, they Love you even more.

Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day. -

Logic says everything in this world has a cause and an effect. True Love is the only feeling which is its own cause and its own effect. It is something illogical and yet above all logic. I Love her because I Love her, and I Love her so I Love her.

Love is comforting someone in need of Love and having them know that somebody cares. It is looking past imperfections in your partner and seeing the beautiful person inside. True love seeks the happiness and well being of your partner. Love expresses itself in the mutual respect you demonstrate to your partner.

To demonstrate Love. . . say, "I Love you" - out loud - at least once each day to someone you love. There is magic in these three little words. Saying "I love you" is the most beautiful gift you can give to your partner. These words are the most treasured a person can hear. To be different, say, "I Love you" in a foreign language.

Washington, June 4 : The day may not be far when the batteries of your mobile phones will get automatically charged while you walk, thanks to a device being developed by Canadian researchers.

The Bionic Energy Harvester will attach to a knee brace, and capture energy with each step.

It is reckoned that one minute of walking will be enough to generate 10 minutes of talk time on a cellular phone.

"It would surprise a lot of people to know that there is a lot of power available from the knee joint during walking. We're taking advantage of energy that's already being produced and wasted," the Christian Science Monitor quoted Max Donelan, a professor of biomedical physiology and kinesiology at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, as saying.

The researcher has revealed that the mechanism works much like the regenerative braking found in some hybrid cars, which capture kinetic energy that would otherwise dissipate as heat to drive a generator.

"Walking is a lot like stop-and-go driving," said Dr. Donelan.

While testing the device during a study, his team found that the subjects on a treadmill didn't notice using any extra exertion when it was turned on.

The researchers, however, were surprised to find that when the mechanism was turned off, the subjects did notice and in fact missed the assistance.

"For three or four strides they swung their legs a little faster (than normal)," Dr. Donelan said.

The researcher team at Bionic Power, a company he set up to develop and sell the device, expect to double the energy generated per step.

Donelan declined to say how much he thought the device would eventually cost.

And even though he knew that his device provided just a small fraction of the energy humans consume, he was upbeat that it might still be helpful.

London, June 8 : Spotting a liar may not be difficult for you any longer, for here is a guide that can enable you to catch such behaviour clues as can help determine whether or not someone is trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

An article published by the Daily Express says that liars, generally, can give themselves away by saying the wrong thing or having a particular tone or body language.

The writer says that one can't take one signal as definitive proof of lying, but if someone shows a few of the signs, and the observer's intuition tells that something is not right, there are good grounds to question that person's honesty.

The author further talks about how vocal tone can come in handy for catching a liar.

The report says that liars can't help feeling a bit nervous when telling a lie, and to hide this nervousness, they will try to keep their vocal tone very stable and their voice can come out as a monotone.

It says that when the pitch of a person's voice rises higher than usual while answering any questions, this signals that the vocal chords are constricting under the pressure of telling the lie, and that the liar has forgotten to keep the vocal tone stable.

A choking or catching sound in the voice may also serve as a telltale sign of anxiety, and a signal that a person is literally choking on their words because they are uncomfortable saying them.

If they start using an angry tone and are being evasive, one can bet that they are getting fed up with being caught out on dangerous ground.

People may also take help from the vocal content when it comes to catching a fib, for liars tend to tell a story that is overloaded with detail.

The writer suggests that people better take note whether the person telling them something is giving far more detail than one usually would.

However, a skilled liar would know that giving too much detail in a story can be a giveaway, and thus give the least possible detail in an explanation. Be

Body language may also provide important clues about liars. A liar doesn't want to appear evasive so take note if they make eye contact for longer than is natural.

An inexperienced liar avoids eye contact so also watch for their eyes constantly flicking away.

The article also advises people to take notice whether a person covers his/her mouth while speaking, as this is a defensive gesture typical of liars.

Other defensive body language could be crossing arms behind the neck and leaning away from someone.

London, June 4 : Fat people are a threat to the planet as they are contributing to climate change, believes Sir Jonathan Porritt, the Government's chief green adviser.

In a lecture to representatives of the food industry, Sir Jonathan, Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission, said, "fat is a climate change issue", reports The Telegraph.

The ex-Green Party politician, who earlier caused controversy by suggesting that people should not have more than two kids to prevent over-population, pinpointed that overweight people eat more protein-rich food such as beef or lamb.

Such intake is responsible for giving rise to greenhouse gases because of the toxic methane livestock emits.

He also said obese people are more likely to use cars rather than walk or cycle, therefore producing more carbon emissions.

"The World Health Organisation recently published some data showing that each overweight person causes an additional one tonne of CO2 to be emitted every year," he said.

Feng Shui has the potential to transform unhappy lives into happy ones by creating harmony in relationships. These relationships may be those you enjoy with your immediate family - your spouse, parents, children or siblings - or with close friends, colleagues and acquaintances. CURES:

1 Place a pair of mandarin ducks for a great love life.

2 Never have a large mirror directly facing or reflecting

the bed.

3 Having a television in the bedroom is not

encouraged.

4 Do not sleep with a large overhead beam cutting the bed into two.

5 Do not have a toilet above you, as negative Ch'i shoots down causing problem for young couples.

6 Do not sleep on a double bed with two single mattresses.

7 Check your personal romance direction based on your Kua number and arrange your sleeping position in the suitable direction.

8 Hang a small crystal chandelier in the southwest part of your bedroom and keep the light on for three to four hours every evening.

9 Keep a minimum of two pillows on your bed and try to keep things in your bedroom in pairs.

10 Play soft, calm and soothing music in your house. This will cleanse and clear negativity while

promoting peace and harmony.

11 Never sleep on a round and unstable bed.

12 Sleeping between two doors makes you quarrel a lot with your spouse and sleeping between two pillars makes you irritable and stressed.

Humans are a social animal and as such it’s important that our personal hygiene is kept in order so that the people we want to socialize with don’t mind if we stand near them. No-one wants to talk face to face with a smelly so and so! So what is sweat and how can we make sure that we aren’t committing the most pungent of social faux pas.

Sweat itself does not smell unpleasant, and a lot of people actually find the smell of fresh sweat appealing. But when it has been on the skin for more than a few hours then the body’s natural bacteria begins to cause the sweat to decompose which is the actual cause of the familiar body odour (BO) smell.

Most body smells would simply evaporate naturally if exposed to the fresh air, but our modesty, convention and the weather all contribute to causing the majority of us to wear clothes. Unfortunately the body’s bacteria thrive in such damp warm conditions, especially in areas where clothes cling to the skin particularly where synthetic fabrics are preventing air from circulating.

Regular washing is the absolute best way of removing sweat before it starts to smell unpleasant. In addition, change your clothes and clean them regularly. If you want extra protection use a deodorant or antiperspirant.

Antiperspirants dehydrate sweat glands so that they produce less sweat. Deodorants don’t prevent sweating – they just stop it from smelling. Unless you sweat heavily, a deodorant is probably all you need. But don’t worry if you prefer to use an antiperspirant – sweat is lost all over the skin and a little less under the arms won’t do any damage.

Both deodorants and antiperspirants come in a choice of applicators, including sprays, roll-ons, creams and sticks. Roll-ons, creams and sticks are more accurate in their application than sprays, but sprays dry faster. If you prefer a spray, be sure to choose an environmentally friendly one that won’t damage the world’s ozone layer!

Do not use a deodorant or antiperspirant on inflamed or broken skin. Most products should not be used immediately after shaving your underarms, though a few brands claim that they have no ill effects. If you get any adverse reaction, wash the product off with clean water, discontinue use straightaway and change to another brand.

People think that with the arrival of the digital camera, it is easy to take good photographs.

What is easy, is for us to delete the bad ones. It is still tricky to take a good photograph.

The best thing you can do is relax and not be in too much of a hurry to take a photograph. Really take time to compose your shot and make sure everything looks right before you press that shutter. Even though it easy to just delete the picture with digital, it is good practice to slow down, otherwise you could end up with 50 quickly taken photos and not a decent shot among them.

There are many ways that even the average snapper, with a few pointers, can take photographs that will actually make them money.
If you are trying to sell your work to magazines or other publications, the following tips will help you with some of the techniques needed to take a photograph that will sell.


1) Always use a tripod or monopod when shooting in bad light or when usinga slow speed. If you haven't room for either, pack a small beanbag to steady the camera.

2) To avoid camera shake, hold the camera in a comfortable position before you take the shot, squeeze the shutter gently and tuck elbows into the body to avoid camera shake.

3) Try and fill the camera frame with your subject for greater impact (unless your photois for a magazine cover in which case you need to leave room at the top for the title).

4) Look ALL AROUND the viewfinder before you press the shutter to avoid any clutter spoiling the photo or any stray branches sticking out of a subjects head!

5) When photographing kids, try to shoot them when playing and having fun for more spontaneous pictures. Don't forget to get down to their level otherwise you will end up with shots of the top of their head.

6) When taking photographs, especially landscapes, always turn around and look BEHIND you.There has been many an instance of the best photo of a shoot lurking there.

I hope these points will help you take better photos. Have fun with your camera.

Are you thinking about taking up the hobby of photography? Many who have already discovered this exciting and fulfilling hobby can tell you the top ten reasons why photography is so great. Maybe you will be captivated by this compelling and diverse art as well.

1. The Challenge of Getting the Perfect Picture
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Sometimes a hundred shots have to be taken and you have to try for several days to get just the picture you want. An individual must have patience, but at the end of the day a great sense of accomplishment is felt from capturing the best part.

2. Tell A Story
From beginning to end of a snowball fight, with people throwing their first snowball and eventually rolling in the snow and then dusting off, you can see the event and it tells the story of friendship, fun and joy of life. Looking at pictures of an old family farm from its humble beginnings to the growth and increase over a hundred years it tells a story of family, hard work and sacrifice. Everyone has a story, photos can share that story and bring it to life.

3. Express Individuality
A photographer subject matter will reflect their interests, likes and preferences. A photo can also reflect the individuality of a subject. The clothes they choose to wear and the location they want the pictures shot all show who they are and their personality.

4. Joy and Laughter Increase
Anyone who looks at their first grade picture can attest to this fact. What is more fun than looking back at your younger years or seeing the awkwardness of adolescence? In your later years of life, seeing a picture of your family working or playing together warms your heart and lets you remember good times and better health. A photo lets us travel over the decades and brings back moments that make us laugh and carries us through the hard times.

5. See Things Truly As They Are
Somethings are so perfect- the petals of a flower, the height of a Redwood, the still calm of the lake at dawn. They draw you in to the grace of nature and life in purity and simplicity. The sweet smile of a child reflects the goodness of life and all the hope for what we can become and achieve. This is what life is and who we are in it.

6. Solitude of the Dark Room
The magical atmosphere of the dark room leads you to discover the potential of the photograph. Lightness, darkness, shadows all are in the control of the photographer. It is a work done alone with your ideas and skills combined to bring out the story of the photo before you.

7. Understand the Emotions of Others
As you look over the events of history and witness the faces of those who endured the depression or see victims of the Holocaust you can see in their eyes what they have endured. Their faces portray their hearts and hurts and although you were not there, you understand what they carry with them a little more.

8. A Gift to Others of Their Most Precious Moments
After the couple returns from the honeymoon one of the first priorities is to get the wedding photos. One of the happiest days of their lives is recorded forever. When someone does something for you that you can't do for yourself you feel indebted and forever grateful. It is a special gift to give someone their special memories and most cherished events.

9. Once You Capture a Moment You Can Display it
From the famous to the personal, photographs reveal lives of people. Some are placed in history books, some on the walls of a museum and some in the home. When they are displayed they are able to reach into the lives of others and stir emotion and thought. Photos are meant to be shared and seen.

10. The Only Way You Can Freeze Time
A photo is a moment frozen in time for a person to enjoy and remember whenever they want. The look, the expression, the emotion only happen for an instant. Although someone might carry it in their heart, with time the memory fades. If a photo is taken a child is able to see the happiness of their parents on their wedding day, a parent can see how small their child was the day they brought them home for the first time and all the years after as they grew to adulthood. All the birthdays, first days of school, vacations and friends can be captured and with you always. Time and space do not take a loved one from us when we can see them and the moments we share together, always.

Who will refuse a gift, if presented with a genuine feeling of warmth and love? Birthday gifts include blessings, and feelings in the genuine case. While blessings are always there all through the year, little ones or say everyone want loads of gifts to feel blessed and cared for.

Different age-groups expect different type of gifts for them. Considering toddlers in the first case, they want toys, and toys, and only toys for themselves. Only a few of them will pay heap to dresses. This is because toddlers are exposed to play and hence they derive pleasure from the games and toys. Gifting teddies, stuffed toys, or play-stations can also be a part of the gift-list.

While kids grow up they develop a varying choice. They feel delighted by games which can be manual or hi-tech, or both. Small boys prefer toy-cars, airplanes, trucks, etc and little girls derive pleasure from dolls, Barbie-dolls, etc. These girls want a lot of accessories that come along-with.

As the kids grow-up, birthday-gifts which will suit their age-group include smart costumes, along with their accessories, computer games, designer stationary, variety of chocolates, small Jewellery items, watches, etc.

One can also gift the items related to hobbies of their children. For example, if your child has a hobby of collecting coins, then gifts some of the exotic, antique coins which are not available easily and cost exorbitantly. Different pens, stamps, key-chains, are some of the collections that teenagers want to possess. It may take an effort to find something exotic antiques, but they are readily available at shopping portals like naaptol.com.

Lovers have completely different expectations from their counterparts. On birthdays, lovers expect Gifts like bouquets of flowers, basket of chocolates, designer dress, exotic ring, music album, collection of favorites, mobile phone, or a day filled with adventure and love.

Fashion has been with us in one form another since the beginnings of time. It's interesting to look back through history and see how fashion trends have changed. While many people might think fashion to be frivolous, it's really a mirror of what our society wants to portray at any particular time. Here are some strange little facts about fashion that you might not know:

The function of buttons on jacket sleeves

Have you ever asked yourself why there are buttons on the ends of jacket sleeves? According to information passed down through the ages, none other than Napoleon Bonaparte dictated that buttons be attached to jacket sleeves to stop the annoying habit soldiers had of wiping their runny noses on their jacket sleeves.

What makes an item vintage?

A clothing item is considered vintage if it dates from 1920 to 1960. After that date, an item is considered to be retro, not vintage.

The invention of the bra

Would you believe the bra wasn't patented until 1914? The bra was created by a young New York socialite named Mary Phelps who grew weary of having her camisole show when she wore a lace blouse. Using handkerchiefs, she designed the first rudimentary bra, which she eventually had patented in 1914. Women everywhere loved Mary's new design and the first bra took off in a big way. It was later that a woman named Ida Rosenthal started designing bras with different cup sizes.

The history of the skirt

Did you know the skirt is the second oldest women's garment in history? It's preceded only by the loin cloth in age. In Egyptian times, the skirt was worn by both men and women, which can be verified by looking at drawings from ancient times.

The invention of the thong

The thong has an interesting history. It was supposedly invented after the New York Mayor LaGuardia became enraged that the city's nude dancers were exposing too much flesh. The thong was developed to keep the New York City dancers covered enough to placate the mayor.

Invention of the Bermuda shorts

Back in the 1930's, women in Bermuda were forbidden to show their thighs in public. Female visitors and local residents wanted to wear shorts so they simply lengthened the length of their shorts to the knee to cover their thighs.

These are just some of the many amusing facts about fashion that have helped to shape our culture and sense of style. No matter where history should lead us, fashion will always be a part of who we are.

Making fitness part of your life should be a priority in everyone’s life — it should become a daily habit, the same as brushing your teeth or taking a shower. Setting aside one hour of your day isn’t much to ask when you take into account all the positive things you achieve just by being physically fit.

Apart from looking and feeling good, working out can benefit you in the following areas as well:

• Help to relieve stress, depression and anxiety
• Increase your ability to concentrate, think faster and become more sharp
• Help reduce blood pressure
• Lower the risk of developing colon cancer
• Keep your heart healthy and reduce the risk of heart disease
• Help with gaining muscle, which can build and maintain strong bones
• Increase flexibility, which can help prevent injury and help with muscular tension.

So next time you put off going to the gym, stop and think about all the benefits you’re missing out on. Just 30 minutes to an hour of physical fitness a day can be a major health investment. And remember you don’t have to be in a gym to be fit. You can enjoy fitness with your kids, your spouse, family or friends by coming up with fun, physical activities such as going for walks, swimming, mountain biking, hiking or playing golf to mention a few.

Get a plan
There are many great fitness plans out there that can help you get into shape and enjoy fitness, but there are also many scams that promise you the world and don’t deliver. If you have spare cash on hand, get in touch with a personal trainer at your gym and take up a few sessions or visit a biokinetisist who will help you with your goals. You can also browse the Internet for reputable sites for information.

Kick start your fitness plan
If you’re a beginner into the world of fitness, ease into a routine by starting off slowly and gradually increase your endurance level. If you go all out on the first day, chances are you’ll burn out and overwork yourself to the extent that you’ll be put off fitness forever. If you’re a newbie, also remember that it takes time to get into a fitness routine and the only way to reach your ideal level is be consistent and stick with the program.

Make time
The best way to ensure that you avoid the excuses-zone is to make a habit of getting your workouts done first thing in the morning. Set your alarm to wake up an hour earlier, get to the gym and from there, you can shower and head for work. By doing your workout in the morning you are more likely to put it off later due to tiredness (or laziness), plus research has shown that you burn more fat if you do your cardio sessions first thing in the morning on an empty stomach.

How can the individual identify the clear signs of attraction?

There are many probable actions that might suggest attraction. However, the real signs include but not limited to the following:

1. Visual contact

This is when both a man and a woman gazed upon each other and instantly prolonged the moment as they look at each other longer than the typical glance.

Both are completely immersed on each other's anecdote, and every word will impress them both. All eyes are glued to each other that send a message that they are drawn to each other.

2. Preen

Preening means to adorn oneself carefully or to groom oneself with particular attention to details. Hence, attraction sets in when both would try to instantly make a quick fix and conquer each other's space.

3. Flirting

Teasing could have been the more appropriate term for it. This is when both sexes converse in a relaxed manner, with bodily actions associated to their thoughts and feelings, where, most often than not, sexual tensions and arousal are the primary upshots.

4. Physical contact

This is when a woman leans to wards the man and places a modest hand on his hand or arm. In this way, the woman is trying to tell the other person that she is attracted to him and that she is open to possibilities that involve the concerned person.

All of these things are boiled down to the fact that the asymmetry of the correlation among beauty, attraction, and sexuality that tells both men and women lies on how they both perceive each other's physical attributes. This is inevitable because the lack of it will definitely keep them sexually estranged.

Attraction is generally focused on imagery that is exclusively on the physical attributes of both men and women, where the society has created a very important role. This goes to show that the signs of attraction indicate the clear identification of desirability.

Given all that, both men and women should make the choice, by and large, to take each other as human beings first and not just mere sexual objects.

It should be well noted that these signs of attraction may be well confined on the premise that both men and women send out these signs as a ticket to conquer each other's space so as to start the "getting-to-know-each-other" stage.