101 Easy Ways You Can Make The World A Better Place

1. Play, genuinely play, with a little kid.
2. Tell someone you love them.
3. Donate unused computer time to cancer research (and other types of research) with BOINC
4. Use your blinker when you turn.
5. Pick a stretch of highway. Walk along and pick up all the trash you can. (It gets you exercise, money from recycling, and it makes the world a better place!)
6. Smile at someone. Just smile. Saying “Hello” often brightens a day too.
7. Round up a few loose coins. Put them in the next charity box you see.
8. Do something unexpected and artistic that will inspire people and shake them out of the sad mentality of the daily grind.
9. Plant flowers.
10. Search through your cabinets for a few cans of food you’ll probably never use. Donate them.
11. Hold the door for someone.
12. Pay a random stranger a compliment.
13. If you have a car, give people rides.
14. Volunteer your time to a suicide hotline
15. ...or volunteer your time as a mentor!
16. Return your shopping cart to the corral or to the store instead of leaving it loose or propped on a planter in the lot.
17. Offer someone a mint or a piece of gum or candy.
18. Park your car further from the store and walk the short extra distance. This frees up spots closer for people who may need them more than you, and gives you additional exercise too!
19. Take a child to the park or pool.
20. Kiss someone you love.
21. Donate things you don’t use to your local thrift store.
22. Donate time or materials to Habitat for Humanity
23. Bake cookies for someone.
24. Bring donuts to work one morning. (It costs next to nothing and makes everyone happy)
25. Clean house for someone you know who is too busy to keep on top of it.
26. Babysit for couples or single parents who don’t get out much so they can have some time alone.
27. If you see a piece of trash on the ground, pick it up.
28. Take a risk and do something major instead, like adopting a child.
29. Knit, quilt or crochet a blanket and send it to Project Linus
30. Instead of buying new batteries, buy rechargeables.
31. Make breakfast in bed for someone you love.
32. Find something you’re good at and use it to help someone else.
33. Learn a new language, and then volunteer as an interpreter.
34. Know someone who is sad and single? Find someone to hook them up with!
35. Bring coffee or baked goods to city workers who might appreciate it.
36. Help someone with a heavy load.
37. Adopt a pet from the humane society.
38. Boost the morale of someone close to you by telling them what you love about them.
39. Hug a teacher; let them know how important they are. (Without them, you wouldn’t be reading this... or anything else, for that matter.)
40. Look for ways to save a few extra bucks a month. Donate it.
41. Remember to splurge a little on yourself once in a while. You’ll feel better.
42. Shop at your local charity thrift store. The money you spend there helps others.
43. Send a gift or a thank you card to the troops in Iraq. Support them even if you don’t support the war.
44. Spend a few clicks of your time at Free Rice
45. Leave an encouraging or positive comment on a stranger’s webpage.
46. If someone is tailgating you, let them pass and wish them well, without the anger.
47. If there’s been an accident or a potentially hazardous situation presents itself on the road (i.e. you see a cow on the wrong side of the fence) dial 911 and tell them about it. Your phone call could save a life.
48. If someone you love really likes something (a meal, a favor, etc.) give it to them when they least expect it.
49. Learn a new skill, and then teach it to someone else.
50. Wave to your neighbors.
51. Spend less time watching T.V.
52. Open car doors for your driver or passengers.
53. Give blood.
54. Become an organ donor.
55. Buy books for a library, daycare center or school.
56. Slip a $20 bill anonymously to someone you know who is having financial difficulty.
57. Dance with someone.
58. Organize volunteers to make a bigger difference.
59. Create a public art contest for children.
60. Put a jar full of rocks in your toilet tank to reduce the amount of water wasted with each flush.
61. Support activists and people on strike.
62. Share family recipes.
63. Help someone with their homework.
64. Grow your hair out, and then donate it to Locks of Love
65. Put a quarter in someone else’s parking meter.
66. Click ads on blogs or articles published by relatively unknown authors. It costs nothing, and even one click will brighten their day. :)
67. Gather up your used batteries and electronics. Donate them.
68. Volunteer some time to cheering people up at your local retirement home.
69. Replace the bulbs in your home with energy saving bulbs. Invest in solar, if you can.
70. If the person ahead of you or behind you in line at the store has only a few items, buy them for him or her.
71. ...or, if you don’t have much money and the person behind you has only a few items, let them go before you.
72. Donate to a cause that helps families in third world countries (consider– the amount of money the average family spends on a birthday in a first world country could feed a family of six for a year in many third world countries)
73. Buy organic food from local farmers (Start by going to your local farmer’s market!)
74. Opt in for electronic billing, statements, etc. and save paper!
75. Drop off your old glasses at your local lenscrafters as a donation to the Gift of Sight program.
76. Don’t smoke near others.
77. Turn the other cheek.
78. Generate money for the charity of your choice by searching with Good Search
79. Make a list of birthdays for people you know. Surprise them with a happy birthday email, card, text, or anything else that lets them know you remembered. It might be the only one they get!
80. Be there for someone. Listen to their troubles.
81. Grow some of your own vegetables, even if only out of a pot indoors.
82. If you have land, invest in livestock. Chickens are a great place to start, and they make great pets, even if you don’t eat them.
83. Stop for a person waiting to cross the street or merge into traffic.
84. Pay the toll for someone behind you.
85. Encourage a friend to reach for their dreams and shoot for the farthest goal.
86. Tape coins to a payphone with a note saying they’re for whoever needs them.
87. Donate cereal box tops to your local school, even if you don’t have kids.
88. Support independent artists by purchasing books by unknown authors from publishers that aren’t in the mainstream.
89. ...and if you enjoyed the book, write the author a note telling them how much you loved it.
90. Cut up the plastic rings on six pack holders so animals don’t get caught in them.
91. Use a clothesline to dry clothes instead of using an electric or gas dryer.
92. Offer free hugs to complete strangers.
93. Forgive a debt
94. Adopt a soldier, inmate or someone who is down on their luck as a pen pal.
95. When you are waiting for service at a deli counter, swap call numbers with someone who is in a hurry.
96. Become a master of setting clocks on electronic devices. Set every one you pass to the correct time.
97. Write a poem, good or bad, and then read it at an open microphone event.
98. Write a nice note to or about your waiter or waitress on the back of your bill.
99. On a hot day, buy someone something cold to drink– on a cold day, get them something warm.
100. Recommend people to friends who might appreciate their services.
101. Look for new and better ways every day to make the world a better, happier, and more pleasant place to live for everyone. If we all did just one thing every day, we could really begin
to make a positive difference worldwide.

source: http://hubpages.com/hub/101-Easy-Ways-You-Can-Make-The-World-A-Better-Place

48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

* Law 1 Never outshine the master
* Law 2 Never put too much trust in friends, learn how to use enemies
* Law 3 Conceal your intentions
* Law 4 Always say less than necessary
* Law 5 So much depends on reputation. Guard it with your life
* Law 6 Court attention at all cost
* Law 7 Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit
* Law 8 Make other people come to you, use bait if necessary
* Law 9 Win through your actions, never through argument
* Law 10 Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky
* Law 11 Learn to keep people dependent on you
* Law 12 Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim
* Law 13 When asking for help, appeal to people's self-interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
* Law 14 Pose as a friend, work as a spy
* Law 15 Crush your enemy totally
* Law 16 Use absence to increase respect and honor
* Law 17 Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability
* Law 18 Do not build fortresses to protect yourself. Isolation is dangerous
* Law 19 Know who you're dealing with, do not offend the wrong person
* Law 20 Do not commit to anyone
* Law 21 Play a sucker to catch a sucker: play dumber than your mark
* Law 22 Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power
* Law 23 Concentrate your forces
* Law 24 Play the perfect courtier
* Law 25 Re-create yourself
* Law 26 Keep your hands clean
* Law 27 Play on people's need to believe to create a cultlike following
* Law 28 Enter action with boldness
* Law 29 Plan all the way to the end
* Law 30 Make your accomplishments seem effortless
* Law 31 Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal
* Law 32 Play to people's fantasies
* Law 33 Discover each man's thumbscrew
* Law 34 Be royal in your fashion: act like a king to be treated like one
* Law 35 Master the art of timing
* Law 36 Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best revenge
* Law 37 Create compelling spectacles
* Law 38 Think as you like but behave like others
* Law 39 Stir up waters to catch fish
* Law 40 Despise the free lunch
* Law 41 Avoid stepping into a great man's shoes
* Law 42 Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter
* Law 43 Work on the hearts and minds of others
* Law 44 Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect
* Law 45 Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at Once
* Law 46 Never appear perfect
* Law 47 Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop
* Law 48 Assume formlessness

PANAWAGAN NG BUKLURAN: HUSTISYA PARA SA MGA BIKTIMA NG EDSA BUS BOMBING!

Binalot ng matinding takot ang buong Kamaynilaan sa pagsabog ng isang pampasaherong bus (Newman Goldliner) sa Epifanio De los Santos Avenue (EDSA), Buendia noong Martes, ika-25 ng Enero. Limang (5) sibilyan ang nasawi habang labing-apat (14) naman ang nasugatan. Ayon sa imbestigasyon at mga ulat mula sa ilang international intelligence units ang nasabing serye ng pagsabog ay ini-uugnay sa grupong Abu Sayyaf. Kaugnay nito, nakatanggap din ang kapulisan ng mga banta ng terorismo sa buong Metro Manila isang bagay na nagdulot ng matinding takot at pangamba sa mga mamamayan.

Isa sa limang nasawi sa nasabing trahedya ay si IRISH TENIOLA, taong 2009 nang magtapos siya sa Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila sa kursong Business Administration. Nakilala si Irish bilang isang masipag na estudyante na nagsumikap upang maitaguyod at masuportahan ang kanyang mga magulang at tatlong kapatid. Ngunit sa isang iglap nawala ang isang mabuti at responsableng tao dahil lang sa mga grupong makasarili, halang ang kaluluwa at may baluktot na pananaw at ideolohiya.

Dahil sa karumal-dumal na pangyayari, na isinabay pa sa paggunita ng kaarawan ni dating Pangulong Corazon C. Aquino, ang Pilipinas ay pangwalo na sa mga bansang pinakamapanganib sa buong mundo [Somalia (1), Pakistan (2), Iraq (3), Afghanistan (4), Palestinian territories (5), Colombia (6), Thailand (7), Yemen (9) at Russia (10)]. Malaki ang epekto nito hindi lamang sa pambansang seguridad kundi maging sa ekonomiya at turismo ng ating bansa. Tila wala na ngang ligtas na lugar sa bansa, maging sa bahay man o sa mga pampublikong lugar, palaging may krimeng naka-amba.

Ang naturang pangyayari, akto man siya ng terorismo o isang simpleng taktika upang ilihis ang publiko sa iba pang malaking isyu gaya ng carnapping, ay mariing kinokondena ng Bukluran. Kami ay nananawagan sa administrasyong Aquino para sa mabilis at epektibong aksyon upang mabigyan ng sapat na hustisya ang mga biktima at pamilya ng mga ito. Samantala, matinding pag-iingat ang dapat na gawin ng publiko upang maiwasan at mapigilan ang anumang klase ng krimen at pag-abuso sa karapatang pantao. Sa mga tagapagtaguyod ng kaayusan at kapayapaan sa bansa nararapat na paigtingin pa ang seguridad upang masupil ang lahat ng uri ng krimen.

by Noliver Falguera Barrido on Friday, January 28, 2011 at 12:08pm (Posted at facebook)