The eyes are tired and they start to play tricks on the person.  Black shapes fly in front of the eyes and make it that much harder to see what she is looking at.  The print is so small that she is squinting already and now, that black shapes are not helping as she tries to read what the book says,

Lisa is tempted to throw it in the waste can before she goes completely crazy trying to figure out what the book says.  She is interested in the topics that it is covering, but she just can’t make heads or tails on what it is saying.

Maybe if she could see, her vision would clear and she would feel better about herself.  At this point in time, Lisa was not too sure she was still a female.  Her mind felt like it was always in a fog and she just wanted to cry.  Maybe crying would help to straight up her eyesight and maybe the black shapes would slip on the wet ground.

She was, so tired and her eyes lids felt, so heavy. Maybe if she slipped off into dreamland no one would be the better off.  Maybe when she came back to face reality, she would actually feel better about herself and she would be able to see well.

The book she had been trying to read slipped from her fingers and landed as a heap on the floor by her feet.  It made a soft thud and didn’t do anything to stir Lisa out of her slip.  What she also missed was the strange hand picking up the book and taking it with them.  The mystery man smiled once and hid the book inside his jacket. He simply slipped off with it hiding and his soft chuckle was exactly that–soft enough, so that no one heard it.

Today 31st May 2012, is my birthday. It is a special day to me because today I am marking my 45th birthday anniversary. I have many reasons to celebrate. When I was born, there was this notorious wizard that came physically to my father’s house in a broad day light and appeared to my mother while she was nursing me to harm me. This was his second attempt after he had appeared at the hospital where I was born. When my mother shouted, the man disappeared but to God be all the glory that when he died in 1983, I was among the young men who dug his grave. Unfortunately for all of us that dug his grave, our hands peeled.

Another reason why I am happy and grateful to God for coming this far is that God save me from the hands of a notorious wicked witch that one of my uncles married as wife. I was born in a village setting from a peasant family. Though my father was a primary school teacher then, my mother was a complete house wife. On that faithful Sunday afternoon, as a child of about two and half years, I went to the back of the house near the bush and boo booed. This wicked woman instead calling on my mother to pack it went into her house, brought pepper poured on it and set it on fire. At that time it was sunny and from nowhere God opened the cistern of heaven and poured heavy rain when the sun was still shining to put off the fire. Her intention of putting pepper and setting fire on it was to make it pain me in my anus. However, the God that called me and set me aside for His purpose before I was born quenched her fire.

Another reason why I am so happy is because in the past eight (8) years I have undergone two Kidney Transplant Operations and One Heart Operation to replace a valve of my heart. Also I have survived an accident in 2006 with my car when I ran into the bush and hit a tree just few inches after a deep gully. Again on 2nd July, 2007, I had a terrible accident that nearly cost me my life. I ran over a big black goat that came out from nowhere with my motorcycle inside a very busy town – Umunede, Delta State Nigeria. When I ran over the goat, I fell off the motorcycle and use my face to screw on the road. When the force stop me, I was motionless and unconscious. It was the effort of one of my church members who saw me from afar that saved me. He took me to the hospital where I was given treatment both the ones I ought to take as graft recipient and the ones I ought not to take. It was one of the major causes of the failure of the first graft I had. I thank God I am alive today.

So my good people join me to thank God for preserving me these past years. There is a purpose why God has preserved me. It is yet to unfold. It is my desire and prayers that God will keep me to attain that purpose for which He called me and set me apart before my birth. I am not cutting any cake today rather I have postponed it to a later date when God will be glorified and honoured. I will tell you more about that later.

To God Almighty, the Father of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who called me into His Service and have helped me to survive all the attacks of the enemies, keeping me all these years, I give all the glory, honour, praises, thanksgiving, adoration, power, splendor, majesty and dominion forever and ever, Amen.

1. Wiley Post & Will Rogers

Wiley Post who was the first pilot to fly solo around the world and his good friend Will Rogers a famous comedian, humorist and social commentator were set out to fly around the world together.

This photo (that’s Will Rogers in the Hat and Tie, standing on the Wing) was taken on August 15, 1935 shortly before taking off from a lagoon near Point Barrow Alaska. During take off Post’s experimental Lockheed Explorer Sea Plane crashed when its engine failed killing both men.

Interesting Fact: The airport in Barrow Alaska was renamed Wiley Post – Will Rogers Memorial Airport.

2. John and Jackie Knill

On January 13, 2005 the bodies of Canadian couple John and Jackie Knill were discovered on a Thailand beach resort. They were two of the many victims killed from the December 26 2004 Tsunami. Weeks later a Seattle man doing relief work found a damaged Camera and discarded it but kept the Memory Card in the Camera.

After downloading the images he discovered pictures of the Knill’s enjoying their vacation, as well as shots of a huge wave approaching the shore. With each picture it shows the wave getting closer and closer to shore. The last picture taken of them before the wave hit (shown below) was shot just after 8.30 am on December 26.

Interesting Fact: The Seattle man that discovered the images recognized the Knills from a missing person’s web site and contacted the couple’s two sons in Vancouver Canada. The man then drove from Seattle to Vancouver to give the sons their parent’s last images.

3. Albert Einstein

The photograph above is the last known picture of Einstein, taken in March, 1955. There are not a lot of details concerning this photo but he is probably at his home near Princeton, New Jersey. A month later on April 17, 1955, Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an aortic aneurysm, which had previously been diagnosed and reinforced.

He went to the hospital and took a draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel’s seventh anniversary with him. Unfortunately he did not live long enough to complete it. The following day Einstein died at the age of 76.

Interesting Fact: Einstein’s brain was removed within seconds of his death (without the permission of his family) in hope that future neuroscience would be able to discover what made Einstein so intelligent. Recent scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger.

4. Marilyn Monroe

Many believe Celebrity photographer George Barris took the last pictures of Marilyn Monroe. However, it was actually Life Magazine’s photographer Allan Grant. The pictures were taken July 7, 1962 during an interview at her home. Six pictures appeared in Life including the one pictured above. Just under a month later on August 5, 1962, the LAPD received a call at 4:25AM from Dr. Hyman Engelberg proclaiming that Monroe was dead at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles. The official cause of Monroe’s death was classified as “acute barbiturate poisoning”, and was also recorded as a “probable suicide. Many questions still remain unanswered about the circumstances of her death and the timeline from when Monroe’s body was found.

5. Bill Biggart

Photojournalist Bill Biggart was covering the events of September 11th and was Tragically killed as the second tower of the World Trade Center came down. Four days later Biggart’s body was recovered from the rubble and his personal effects, including his cameras were given to his wife. Biggart’s widow later handed over the camera bag to a good friend and fellow photographer. She was convinced that no pictures had survived because the falling debris had blown off the backs of the two film cameras and the lids of the film canisters had been peeled back. His friend turned his attention to the digital camera that was covered by ash. The lens had been sheared off but when he opened the chamber that held the flash card he discovered it was in pristine condition. The card contained 150 pictures including the last picture taken shown Below which is time stamped 10:28 am and 24 seconds. The time was 10:30am when the second tower came down.

Interesting Fact: When Biggart’s wife reached him on his cell phone shortly after the first tower fell. He told her not to worry and would meet her in 20 minutes at his studio. “I’m safe,” he assured her, “I’m with the firemen.” It was the last time they ever spoke. About 20 minutes later, the second tower collapsed.

6. Lady Diana

A few years before when the long-awaited inquest into Lady Diana’s death began, this picture was released that shows the last picture taken before the crash. The press competed to be the first to print it even though the last photo ended up just showing part of her hair. Unfortunately and ironically photos like this one ended up contributing to the crash that ended her life.

The photo shows the four speeding away from the Ritz Paris At around 12:20 a.m. on August 31, 1997 with Henri Paul the hotel driver, right, and Dodi Fayed’s bodyguard Trevor Rees-Jones in the passenger seat. In the rear seat is Princess Diana (looking back at the pursuing paparazzi) with Dodi Fayed sitting next to her. Seconds after this picture was taken the Mercedes entered the Place de l’Alma underpass going at an estimated speed of 105 km/h (65 mph.) The driver lost control of the car and swerved to the left before colliding head-on with one of the pillars in the tunnel. Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul both died instantly. Trevor Rees-Jones was still conscious and had suffered multiple serious injuries to the face. Diana was critically injured but died later that morning in the hospital leaving Rees-Jones the only survivor.

Interesting Fact: As the casualties lay seriously injured or dead in their wrecked car, the photographers continued to take pictures. Critically injured Diana was reported to murmur the words, “oh my God,” and after the photographers were pushed away by emergency teams, the words, “leave me alone”.

7. Elvis Presley

This last known photo of Elvis was taken on August 16 1977 at 12.28am. The picture was snapped as he is pulling into Graceland after a night out. That afternoon Presley was found on his bathroom floor by fiancée, Ginger Alden. According to the medical investigator, Presley had “stumbled or crawled several feet before he died”; he had apparently been using the bathroom at the time. Death was officially pronounced at 3:30 pm at Baptist Memorial Hospital.

Interesting Fact: Elvis had visited his dentist on August 15th to have a temporary crown put in and has been suggested that the codeine the dentist gave him that day resulted in an anaphylactic shock that assisted in his death because he had suffered allergic reactions to the drug previously.

8. Adolf Hitler

This last know picture of Hitler was taken approximately two days prior to his death as he stands outside his Berlin bunker entrance surveying the devastating bomb damage. With Germany lying in ruins after six years of war, and with defeat imminent, Hitler decided to take his own life. But before doing so, he married Eva Braun and then penned his last will and testament. The next day in the afternoon on April 30, 1945 Braun and Hitler’ entered his living room to end their lives. Later that afternoon the remaining members of the bunker community found Hitler slumped over, and blood spilled over the arm of the couch. Eva was sitting at the other end. Hitler had killed himself by biting down on a cyanide capsule while shooting him self in the head. Eva only used the cyanide capsule.

Interesting Fact: When Hitler asked his physician to recommend a reliable method of suicide his doctor suggested combining a dose of cyanide with a gunshot to the head.

9. Anne Frank

This is believed to be the last known photo of Anne Frank with her sister Margot taken in early to mid 1942. Later that year In July her sister Margot would be among the first to receive notice that she was to be sent to Nazi Germany ordering her to report for relocation to a work camp. Anne was then told by her father that the family would go into hiding. The Frank family was discovered and arrested on the morning of August 4th 1944. Having been arrested in hiding, they were considered criminals and were sent to the Punishment Barracks for hard labor. In March 1945, a typhus epidemic spread through the camp and killed approximately 17,000 prisoners. Witnesses later testified that Margot fell from her bunk in her weakened state and was killed by the shock, and that a few days later Anne Frank died.

Interesting Fact: In April 1945 just weeks after Anne Frank’s death, the camp was liberated by British troops.

10. Abraham Lincoln

There is some controversy as to which photograph is the last picture of Abraham Lincoln taken before he was assassinated. I ran across three different photos on the Internet that claim last picture. However from information recently discovered the general consensus is the photo pictured above is the one. It was taken by Henry J. Warren during a photo session around the time of his inauguration. Mr. Warren took some candid photographs of crowd scenes on March 4th and two day later on March 6th Warren took this picture out on the White House Balcony.

A little over a month after this picture was taken on April 14, 1865 Lincoln attended a play at Ford’s Theater. John Wilkes Booth a well-known actor and a Confederate spy from Maryland crept up behind the President’s box and waited for the funniest line of the play, hoping the laughter would cover the noise of the gunshot. When the laughter came Booth jumped into the box with the President and aimed a single-shot, round-slug .44 caliber Derringer at his head, firing at point-blank range.

Interesting Fact: As mentioned above many Internet sites claim a different last picture taken of Lincoln claiming a date of April 10, 1865. (Just 4 days before the assassination) New evidence indicates what they thought was the last photo was used to paint a portrait. That particular portrait was painted February 5th 1865. This being the case, the Warren photo suddenly became the last picture taken of Lincoln alive.

As our children get older, it is important to teach them about responsibility and independence. Do you guide them towards decisions, or let them charge on independently? I believe it is important to give your child some independence. Let them try and make decisions on their own, as long as they are not harmed in the process. If they make the wrong decisions, it is a lesson that they learn and the next time hopefully will make the right decisions. Yes we are the adults, but if we don’t let our children learn, they will not grow into responsible adults. They will be reckless teenagers, and destructive adults.

A child in this day and age have had advantages that we never had. My child at 10 years old can soar through the computer, playing games that boggle my mind and cause my eyes to glass over. And this is something that she sat down and taught herself. My role as a parent is to make sure that the information she is getting off the computer will not harm her. So instead of refusing to let her use the computer, I talk to her about the dangers of “perverts” and “weirdos” that pray on gullibility of young children. Unfortunately in our society these people are everywhere, waiting for their chance to stalk our children and harm them. We can ignore this issue, or talk to our children so they will know how to handle theirselves when situations arise.

A little independence gives your child a sense of power. It gives them pride in their accomplishments. They are able to sit back and say, “hey! I did that on my own”. We must remember that each situation is different. You have to hope that you raise your child to make the right decisions and to come to you when they have to struggle with what is right or wrong. Its all a part of growing up. I know that we never want to let go and let our children grow up. It is a fact of life that they will.

Conditions in Iran are exposed to dangerous computer virus attacks, continue to be anticipated that the virus attacks can be disabled.

Virus type malware attacks targeting the Iranian oil industry, becoming an important issue, and became the country’s agenda in an effort to deal with the virus attack.

Iran party has tried 43 anti virus world-famous, but has not been able to overcome the virus.

Maher center, a computer center in Iran to make efforts to overcome the problem of virus attacks on iran.

Because virus type malware attacks targeting the Iranian oil industry, can interfere with activities in the country.

With a hard struggle, Maher Center is able to overcome virus type malware that targets the oil industry in iran. This condition is openly attack the virus using a computer.

Spanish countries experiencing economic problems, will have even bigger problems, if not able to deal with this situation.

Spanish conditions that are considered not able to master the economic sector to the impression for the country in europe. In fact, it would weaken the Spanish in the financial data.

Problems faced by Spanish will be difficult, because the organization in Spain began to talk about it, and disclose information that the Spanish economy in crisis situations.

Workforce issues, bad debts, weakening the bank, making it difficult Spanish situation.

Circumstances that occurred in Spain would be bad for the economy in that country, and this is not good.

The challenge of preparing for employment, to reduce unemployment is also a significant problem in Spain.

Color choices are an important part in making decisions, because the color influence the atmosphere.

The color of clothes, pants, or dress to an event, can greatly affect one’s appearance. If you wear a color, then you will look different, and will give a different impression.

Clothes that you wear a special color, like red, green, or black, will give a different impression. The color combination is very important, because it can provide meaning and a different understanding.

Many prefer a special color, favorite color, then they will adjust to the color. Someone will look more beautiful, more charming, when it has a matching color of clothing.

Determine the color of the dress, is an important action, because these are themselves personally.

There are people out there, in terrible moods, every day, that don’t care what they say or do to another human being.  They don’t care if they stomp all over your feelings.  So what do you do when you find yourself pushed in a corner.  The normal reaction is to bite back.  No one wants to look like they are a pushover.   No one wants to deal with someone’s mood day after day.  You have your own problems to deal with.  You don’t walk around blaming the world and being rude and offensive.

Then you have the bully’s at school, that pick on undeserving victims.   What would you tell your child to do if he or she was that unfortunate one?  My parents told me it is better to stand up for yourself than look like a coward.  If you look like a coward most likely you’re gonna be that bullies target for quite a while until they get bored with you and move on to someone else.   There is a quote by George S. Patton – Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.  I agree.  In some situations you have to step up and stand up for yourself.  It gives you a feeling of pride that  you didn’t let someone run over you.

The Bible states that you are to forgive your enemies.  I am all for that.  But you have to gauge each situation as it arises.  Yes, you should do the christian thing.  Forgive and Forget.  However, it takes a disciplined person to live like that.  There are always going to be situations that arise that will make you sit back and ponder, did I do the right thing?  The right thing is an individual decision.  You may think it is right, where on the other hand someone would think you handled it totally wrong.  

There is a show on television called “What Would You Do?”.   This show will make you sit back and think.  They put people in all kinds of situations and you wonder to yourself, What would I really do?  Would I sit back and not say anything while someone is being harassed.  Is that the kind of environment that you want to live in, and to have your kids live in?  Or do you want to be responsible and step up and speak your mind, when necessary?

You would like to believe that we live in a world where everyone is nice and kind and caring.  Unfortunately that is not true, this day and age.  We are constantly having to tell our children that there are bad people in the world, because we want them to be protected.  We want them to be aware of all that is going on around them.

I personally try and go out of my way to be kind.  I would hope that people in return would treat me that way back.  That is not always the case.  There is no perfect answer here.  There is no perfect person, and we do not live in a perfect world.  It all boils down to you and how you want the world to look at you.  Think about it though, it might be a perfect world if everyone went out of their way to be kind and caring.  I guess we will never know, until we try

Parties to the UN to conditions in Iraq, as an important part in carrying out their duties.

The last condition in Iraq has become the world’s attention, and a central information for the United Nations, even the United Nations to make efforts in dealing with Iraq.

The UN mission in Iraq, the law enforcement sector, the legal provisions that are taking place in Iraq to the UN mission, in order to achieve a sense of justice.

Another mission of the UN is concerned of terror, violence, women’s rights, and other issues of human presence.

Position that Iraq is still in the unsafe zone, a concern for the UN to deal with.

Freedom in the information sector also joined the UN mission in Iraq.