What will gone happen to him?

damn, unrealistic frog. I wonder what they were fed.

Animal Friendship

PUTTING LOVE INTO PRACTICE

The following story seen in "Sunshine Magazine" about a professor of psychology illustrates how difficult it is to love others.

Although he had no children of his own, whenever he saw a neighbor scolding a child for some wrongdoing, he would say, "You should love your boy, not punish him."

One hot summer afternoon the professor was doing some repair work on a concrete driveway leading to his garage. Tired out after several hours of work, he laid down the towel, wiped the perspiration from his forehead, and started toward the house. Just then out of the corner of his eye he saw a mischievous little boy putting his foot into the fresh cement. He rushed over, grabbed him, and was about to spank him severely when a neighbor leaned from a window and said, "Watch it, Professor! Don't you remember? You must 'love' the child!"

At this, he yelled back furiously, "I do love him in the abstract, but not in the concrete!"

That's so true. It's easy to love people "in the abstract". It's easy to talk about love and the importance of love. What's much more difficult is to love people in "concrete" ways, especially when we're dealing with people who are very unlovable, who have been unkind and irritating to us.

But love is not something for us to talk about -- it is something for us to demonstrate in some very practical ways, as John makes clear in this familiar passage:

"By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us. And we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth." (1 John 3:16-18)

How do you know if someone is using you?

They only call you when they want something.
Always ask to borrow money or things.
Often calls to complain about their lives and never ask about you.
The conversations are often one sided. (about them)
They always want to go to your place and use your things.
They only get together with you when it's convenient and you provide all the transportation.
They never call you on your birthday or offer small gifts for holidays, but expect you to buy them things and call them.
Always want to use your computer, phone, DVD player, etc.
Always on their cell phone when you are supposed to be visiting each other.
They never call you unless it's about one of the reasons above.


These are some of the most common ways to figure out if a "friend" is not being a true friend and are using you.

Apple vs HTC: The Real Purpose of Applethe announcment of the analyst of Oppenheimer, Yair Reine, the lawsuit filed by Apple not long ago against the Taiwanese company HTC, is just the culmination of a series of threats designed to struggle with competitors. According to the data, early in January of this year, Apple held a series of talks with mobile phone manufacturers, where the company had expressed “growing dissatisfaction with” the alleged violation of its rights of ownership to the ideas set in the iPhone.

Apple vs HTC: The Real Purpose of Apple

the announcment of the analyst of Oppenheimer, Yair Reine, the lawsuit filed by Apple not long ago against the Taiwanese company HTC, is just the culmination of a series of threats designed to struggle with competitors. According to the data, early in January of this year, Apple held a series of talks with mobile phone manufacturers, where the company had expressed “growing dissatisfaction with” the alleged violation of its rights of ownership to the ideas set in the iPhone.

Though these negotiations were conducted in private atmosphere, it became known that their tone was rather rude. At the same time these rivals of Apple in the market of mobile technologies, according to Reiner, mostly tried not to touch the sphere of touch technology, the use of which would really irritate Apple. After all, last year in January, the COO of Apple Tim Cook warned that the company will use all available tools in its arsenal to struggle against the violations of its patents.

For example, until recently there were virtually no mobile devices supporting multi-touch in the U.S. market , which were not produced by Apple. Palm Pre was an exception, which, according to Reiner, is not perceived as a competitor to iPhone. Recently, however, the situation began to change not in favor of Apple. Two high-quality smartphones, Motorola Droid and HTC Eris Android, have appeared in the market to compete with multi-touch technology.

Naturally, this caused Apple’s resentment, rightly fearful that the smartphone iPhone will soon lose its status of “unique” device supporting multi-touch functionality, at least in the American market. According to Reiner, the leading phone manufacturers could regard Apple’s silence as a sign of assent, and flood the market with many multi-touch devices, especially after Google also implemented similar functionality in its Android smartphone Nexus One. Many experts are inclined to believe that Apple’s lawsuit against HTC has another real purpose that is to somehow precipitate Google, whose Android operating system and smart phones based on it are becoming a real threat to the iPhone.

Popularity: 99%