Our thoughts have a lot to do with how we feel at any given moment. If you are having any kind of negative thoughts then you will feel negative emotions. If you want to feel good and happy then focus on things that make you feel good. We have more control over our thoughts than we have been encouraged to recognize. When an unsettling thought comes to mind, just replace it with a feel good thought. If you have real concerns in life that you simply can’t conquer thinking about then find ways to fix these things and do your best to not allow them to be apart of who you are any more. Unacceptable lifestyles/behaviors start with a thought that becomes an emotion that becomes a behavior/lifestyle.

·         The important thing is to watch your thoughts as objects, and not allow them to creep up on you.

·         As you walk, you hear various sounds; if you are on a city pavement, you hear cars approach and drive away; or maybe you hear birds singing.

·         Your disposition towards your thoughts should be just like your disposition towards these sounds.

·         The sounds come and go; you do not feel those sounds are “your voice.”  Thoughts are exactly like them.

·         You will find that you are very peaceful when you are able to watch every thought (especially first-person thoughts, i.e. the ones involving “I”).

·         destroy counterproductive, stress-producing habits

·          adopt new, effective habits

·          become mentally tough, emotionally in control

·          communicate in a positive way

·         Learn to control your breathing

Scientists have developed a new cancer drug that kills aggressive and deadly tumours by altering the structure of the cancer growth protein.

Researchers from the University of San Diego have created a drug that rivals the current drug called RAF, which merely blocks the activity of the tumour. The new drug, KG5, is able to change the shape of the protein and neutralise the tumour.

The KG5 drug has only so far been tested in laboratory cell lines, animals and tissue samples from patients.

However, the findings have scientists hoping that it could help treat a wide range of the fastest growing and most aggressive cancers, in the future. They also hope that this drug will stop the common problem of cancers developing a resistance to the treatment.

Talking about how they found KG5 more efficient over the current RAF drug, professor David Cheresh from the study said, “It’s an unusual discovery, one that really challenges current dogma. In essence, we are attacking an important enzyme in a whole new way and thereby discovering new things this enzyme was intended for.”

Different variants of KG5 have already been discovered and scientists are hoping these more potent versions will soon enter clinical trials.

The radical drug will bring fresh hope to patients with aggressive and deadly tumours and could be available in as little as five years, say the scientists , who hope to deliver the it in pill form, which has very few side-effects .

A sense of humor can brighten family life.

Laughing together is a way to connect, and a good sense of humor also can make kids smarter, healthier, and better able to cope with challenges.

We tend to think of humor as part of our genetic makeup, like blue eyes or big feet. But a sense of humor actually is a learned quality that can be developed in kids, not something they’re born with.

Humor is what makes something funny; a sense of humor is the ability to recognize it. Someone with a well-developed sense of humor has the ability to recognize what’s funny in others and can amuse them as well.

A good sense of humor is a tool that kids can rely on throughout life to help them:

• see things from many perspectives other than the most obvious
• be spontaneous
• grasp unconventional ideas or ways of thinking
• see beyond the surface of things
• enjoy and participate in the playful aspects of life
• not take themselves too seriously

If you choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor.

1. First, regain your smile. A smile and a laugh aren’t the same thing, but they do live in the same neighborhood. Be sure to smile at simple pleasures — the sight of kids playing, a loved one or friend approaching, the successful completion of a task, the witnessing of something amazing or humorous. Smiles indicate that stress and the weight of the world haven’t overcome you. If your day isn’t marked by at least a few dozen, then you need to explore whether you are depressed or overly stressed.

2. Treat yourself to a comedy festival. Rent movies like Meet the Parents; Young Frankenstein; Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure; Monty Python and the Holy Grail; This Is Spinal Tap; Animal House; Blazing Saddles; Trading Places; Finding Nemo. Reward yourself frequently with the gift of laughter, Hollywood style.

3. Recall several of the most embarrassing moments in your life. Then find the humor in them. Now practice telling stories describing them in a humorous way. It might take a little exaggeration or dramatization, but that’s what good storytelling is all about. By revealing your vulnerable moments and being self-deprecating, you open yourself up much more to the humorous aspects of life.

4. Anytime something annoying and frustrating occurs, turn it on its head and find the humor. Sure, you can be angry at getting splashed with mud, stepping in dog poop, or inadvertently throwing a red towel in with the white laundry. In fact, that is probably the most normal response. But it doesn’t accomplish anything other than to put you in a sour mood. Better to find a way to laugh at life’s little annoyances. One way to do that: Think about it as if it happened to someone else, someone you like — or maybe someone you don’t. In fact, keep running through the Rolodex in your head until you find the best person you can think of to put in your current predicament. Laugh at him, then laugh at yourself!

5. Read the comics every day and cut out the ones that remind you of your life. Post them on a bulletin board or the refrigerator or anywhere else you can see them frequently.

6. Sort through family photographs and write funny captions or one-liners to go with your favorites. When you need a pick-me-up, pull out the album.

7. Every night at dinner, make family members share one funny or even embarrassing moment of their day.

8. When a person offends you or makes you angry, respond with humor rather than hostility. For instance, if someone is always late, say, “Well, I’m glad you’re not running an airline.” Life is too short to turn every personal affront into a battle. However, if you are constantly offended by someone in particular, yes, take it seriously and take appropriate action. But for occasional troubles, or if nothing you do can change the person or situation, take the humor response.

9.. A sense of humor helps to keep people healthy and increases their chances of reaching retirement age. But after the age of 70, the health benefits of humor decrease, researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have found.

10. Spend 15 minutes a day having a giggling session. Here’s how you do it: You and another person (partner, kid, friend, etc.) lie on the floor with your head on her stomach, and her head on another person’s stomach and so on (the more people the better). The first person says, “Ha.” The next person says, “Ha-ha.” The third person says, “Ha-ha-ha.” And so on. We guarantee you’ll be laughing in no time.

11. Read the activity listings page in the newspaper and choose some laugh-inducing events to attend. It could be the circus, a movie, a stand-up comic, or a funny play. Sometimes it takes a professional to get you to regain your sense of humor.

12. Add an item to your daily to-do list: Find something humorous. Don’t mark it off until you do it, suggests Jeanne Robertson, a humor expert and author of several books on the topic.

13. When you run into friends or coworkers, ask them to tell you one funny thing that has happened to them in the past couple of weeks. Become known as a person who wants to hear humorous true stories as opposed to an individual who prefers to hear gossip, suggests Robertson.

14. Find a humor buddy. This is someone you can call just to tell him something funny; someone who will also call you with funny stories of things he’s seen or experienced, says Robertson.

15. Exaggerate and overstate problems. Making the situation bigger than life can help us to regain a humorous perspective, says Patty Wooten, R.N., an award-winning humorist and author of Compassionate Laughter: Jest for the Health of It. Cartoon caricatures, slapstick comedy, and clowning articles are all based on exaggeration, she notes.

16. Develop a silly routine to break a dark mood. It could be something as silly as speaking with a Swedish accent (unless you are Swedish, of course).

17. Create a humor environment. Have a ha-ha bulletin board where you only post funny sayings or signs, suggests Allen Klein, an award-winning professional speaker and author of The Healing Power of Humor. His favorite funny sign: “Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty, and the pig likes it.”

18. Experiment with jokes. Learn one simple joke each week and spread it around. One of Klein’s favorites relates to his baldness: “What do you call a line of rabbits walking backward? A receding hare line.”

19. Focus humor on yourself. “Because of my lack of hair,” Klein says, “I tell people that I’m a former expert on how to cure baldness.”

Have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter will always bring you out of unhappy situations. Even in your darkest moment, you usually can find something to laugh about if you try hard enough…

I told GOD let all my Friends be healthy & happy forever!
GOD said: But for 4 days Only!
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I said: Yes, let them be a Spring day, Autumn day, Summer day & Winter day!
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GOD said: No, 3 days!
I said: Yes, Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow!
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GOD said: No, 2 days!
I said: Yes, a Bright day (Day Time) and Dark day (Night Time)!

GOD said:No, Just 1 day!
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I said: Yes!
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GOD asked:Which day?
I said: Everyday!
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GOD said: You Really know How to Negotiate. But since you are praying & asking happiness for your friends, I can’t refuse.
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I love everyone who thinks of others 1st, so don’t you worry.
All your friends will be happy Everyday.

Generating ‘Green’ Electricity: Waste Heat Converted to Electricity Using New Alloy

The material could potentially be used to capture waste heat from a car’s exhaust that would heat the material and produce electricity for charging the battery in a hybrid car. Other possible future uses include capturing rejected heat from industrial and power plants or temperature differences in the ocean to create electricity. The research team is looking into possible commercialization of the technology.

“This research is very promising because it presents an entirely new method for energy conversion that’s never been done before,” said University of Minnesota aerospace engineering and mechanics professor Richard James, who led the research team.”It’s also the ultimate ‘green’ way to create electricity because it uses waste heat to create electricity with no carbon dioxide.”

To create the material, the research team combined elements at the atomic level to create a new multiferroic alloy, Ni₄₅Co₅Mn₄₀Sn₁₀. Multiferroic materials combine unusual elastic, magnetic and electric properties. The alloy Ni₄₅Co₅Mn₄₀Sn₁₀ achieves multiferroism by undergoing a highly reversible phase transformation where one solid turns into another solid. During this phase transformation the alloy undergoes changes in its magnetic properties that are exploited in the energy conversion device.

The elements were recognized by an international committee of chemists and physicists. For now, they are called Elements 114 and 116 — permanent names and symbols will be chosen later. Both elements were discovered by a collaboration of scientists from Livermore and Russia. They made them by smashing calcium ions into atoms of plutonium or another element, curium. Despite the number 116, the new additions bring the total number of recognized elements to 114 — Elements 113 and 115 have not been officially accepted.

For now, the elements have temporary names derived from their numbers. In recent decades, new elements have generally been named for famous scientists, producing such monikers as nobelium and einsteinium, said Peter F. Rusch, a consultant in Mountain View, Calif., who leads the American Chemical Society committee on nomenclature, terminology and symbols.

Before the two newcomers, the most recent addition to the periodic table came two years ago. Element 112 was named copernicium in honor of astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

One half of life is luck; the other half is discipline - and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with your luck. I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.