Some maths tricks.

10 Easy Math Tricks You Probably Don't Know

Many people are terrified of math, but even if you let out a great big sigh of relief when you got out of school (so you wouldn’t have to think about any more arithmetic), you probably soon realized that math was still necessary in the “real world.” Whether you love math, or despise it, the following tricks can turn you into a math whiz -- or at least will help to speed up some of the calculations you need to do in your head. I’ve included five of my favorites here (the link below has the entire list). 1. Quick Square If you need to square a 2-digit number ending in 5, multiply the first digit by itself plus 1, and put 25 on the end. That’s all! 252 = (2x(2+1)) & 25 2 x 3 = 6 625 2. Multiplying by 9 To multiply any number between 1 and 9 by 9, hold both hands in front of your face, with fingers extended. Now drop the finger that corresponds to the number you are multiplying (for example, for 9 x 3, drop your third finger). Now count the fingers before the dropped finger (in the case of 9 x 3 it is 2) -- that's your first digit. Then, count the fingers after (again in this case, it’s 7). The answer is 27. 3. Dividing by 5 To divide a large number by five, all you need to do is multiply by 2 and move the decimal point one space to the left: 195 / 5 Step 1: 195 x 2 = 390 Step 2: Move the decimal left; 39.0, or just 39 2978 / 5 Step 1: 2978 x 2 = 5956 Step 2: 595.6 4. Subtracting from 1,000 To subtract a large number from 1,000, subtract all but the last number from 9, then subtract the last number from 10: 1000 – 648 = ? Step 1: subtract 6 from 9 = 3 Step 2: subtract 4 from 9 = 5 Step 3: subtract 8 from 10 = 2 Answer: 352 5. Calculate a Tip If you need to leave a 15% tip, here is the easy way to do it. Work out 10% (divide the number by 10), then add that number to half its value and you have your answer: 15% of $25 = (10% of 25) + ((10% of 25) / 2) $2.50 + $1.25 = $3.75

Happiness.

How to Bring Happiness in Your Life

• Improve your relationships with friends and family
• Be an optimist
• Develop a genuine smile and laugh a lot - Act happy
• Pray - Become religious or spiritual
• Be generous and share with others
• Treat time as a friend
• Exercise your mind
• Work your body
• Have fun in life
• Pursue achievable goals.
• Have high confidence in yourself.
• Respect the disadvantaged.
• Age gracefully.
• Give compliments
• Be honest
• Keep an open mind
• Treat difficulties as challenges

Signs before the day of judgment.

The Minor Signs:

· The disappearance of knowledge and the appearance of ignorance (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)

· Books/writing will be widespread and (religious) knowledge will be low (Ahmad)

· Adultery and fornication will be prevalent (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this has never happened without new diseases befalling the people, which their ancestors had not known.) (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Al-Haythami)

· When fornication becomes widespread among your leaders (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that this will happen when the people stop forbidding evil) (Ibn Majah)

· Adultery and fornication will be performed in the open

· The consumption of intoxicants will be widespread (Bukhari & Muslim)

· Women will outnumber men......eventually 50:1 (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)

· Killing, killing, killing (Bukhari, Muslim, Ibn Majah, & Ahmad)

· The nations of the earth will gather against the Muslims like hungry people going to sit down to a table full of food. This will occur when the Muslims are large in number, but "like the foam of the sea".

· People will beat others with whips like the tails of oxen (Muslim) ?The Slave Trade

· The children will be filled with rage (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)

· Children will be foul (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)

· Women will conspire (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)

· Rain will be acidic or burning (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)

· Children of fornication will become widespread or prevalent (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)

· When a trust becomes a means of making a profit (at-Tirmidhi, Al-Haythami)

· Gains will be shared out only among the rich, with no benefit to the poor (at-Tirmidhi)

· Paying zakat becomes a burden and miserliness becomes widespread; charity is given reluctantly (at-Tirmidhi & Al-Haythami)

· Miserliness will be thrown into the hearts of people (Bukhari)

· Episodes of sudden death will become widespread (Ahmad)

· There will be people who will be brethren in public but enemies in secret (He was asked how that would come about and replied, "Because they will have ulterior motives in their mutual dealings and at the same time will fear one another.") (at-Tirmidhi)

· When a man obeys his wife and disobeys his mother; and treats his friend kindly while shunning his father (at-Tirmidhi)

· When voices are raised in the mosques (at-Tirmidhi)

· People will walk in the marketplace with their thighs exposed

· Great distances will be traversed in short spans of time

· The people of Iraq will recieve no food and no money due to oppression by the Romans (Europeans) (Muslim)

· People will hop between the clouds and the earth

· A tribulation will enter everyone�s home (Ahmad)

· The leader of a people will be the worst of them (at-Tirmidhi)

· Leaders of people will be oppressors (Al-Haythami)

· People will treat a man with respect out of fear for some evil he might do (at-Tirmidhi)

· Men will begin to wear silk (at-Tirmidhi)

· Female singers and musical instruments will become popular (at-Tirmidhi)

· When singers become common (Al-Haythami)

· People will dance late into the night

· When the last ones of the Ummah begin to curse the first ones (at-Tirmidhi)

· People will claim to follow the Qur'an but will reject hadith & sunnah (Abu Dawood)

· People will believe in the stars (Al-Haythami)

· People will reject al-Qadr (the Divine Decree of Destiny) (Al-Haythami)

· Time will pass rapidly (Bukhari, Muslim, & Ahmad)

· Good deeds will decrease (Bukhari)

· Smog will appear over cities because of the evil that they are doing

· People will be carrying on with their trade, but their will only be a few trustworthy persons

· Wealth will increase so much so that if a man were given 10,000, he would not be content with it (Ahmad & Bukhari)

· A man will pass by a grave and wish that he was in their place (Bukhari)

· Earthquakes will increase (Bukhari & Muslim)

· There will be attempts to make the deserts green

· The appearance of false messengers (30 dajjals) (Bukhari)

· Women will be naked in spite of being dressed, these women will be led astray & will lead others astray (Muslim)

· The conquest of Constantinople by the Muslims (Ahmad)

· The conquest of India by the Muslims, just prior to the return of Jesus, son of Mary (peace be upon both of them)(Ahmad, an-Nisa'i, at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)

· When people begin to compete with others in the construction of taller buildings (Bukhari)

· There will be a special greeting for the people of distinction (Ahmad)

· The Euphrates will disclose a treasure (The Prophet, peace be upon him, said that whoever is present should not take anything from it) (Bukhari & Muslim)

· Two large groups, adhering to the same religious teaching will fight each other with large numbers of casualties (Bukhari & Muslim)

· Wild animals will be able to talk to humans (Ahmad)

· A man will leave his home and his thigh or hip will tell him what is happening back at his home (Ahmad)

· Years of deceit in which the truthful person will not be believed and the liar will be believed (Ahmad)

· Bearing false witness will become widespread (Al-Haythami & Ahmad)

· When men lie with men and women lie with women (Al-Haythami)

· Trade will become so widespread that a woman will be forced to help her husband in business (Ahmad)

· A woman will enter the workforce out of love for this world (Ahmad)

· Arrogance will increase in the earth (at-Tabarani, al-Hakim)

· Family ties will be cut (Ahmad)

· There will be many women of child-bearing age who will no longer give birth.

· There will be an abundance of food, much of which has no blessing in it.

· People will refuse when offerred food.

· Men will begin to look like women and women will begin to look like men

The Major Signs:

Although they appear here in no particular order, it is important to point out that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said that these last, major signs will follow each other like pearls falling off of a necklace...

· Masih ad-Dajjal (The AntiChrist)

· The Mahdi

· The appearance of Masih al-�Isa (Jesus Christ), the son of Mary (peace be upon him)

· Ya�juj and Ma�juj (Gog and Magog)

· The destruction of the Ka�bah and the recovery of its treasure

· Emergence of the Beast

· The smoke

· Three major landslides (one in the East, one in the West, and one on the Arabian peninsula)

· The wind will take the souls of the believers

· The rising of the sun from the west

· The fire will drive the people to their final gathering place

· Three blasts of the trumpet (fear & terror, death, resurrection)

The black girl.

I am the girl.
who sits in the back of the room
waiting for someone to talk to her
the one who doesnt have 'pefect'hair
'perfect' makeup
or a 'perfect' face
I am the girl
that sits and wonders
where her life will lead
I am the girl
who wonders who will talk to her next.
I am the girl..that walks the hallways
who feels like she's invisible.
I am the girl
that cries everynight wondering
when it will end.
I am that girl
who wishes that she had a lot of friends
and wishes she fit in
I am that girl.
I am me.
Accept me.