LADIES WATCH OUT

THIS IS NO JOKE
now what money you are carrying! You will see why as you read!Be sure every lady is aware of this. Share it with your wife and daughters.Know what money you are carrying. This was the first I have heard of a scheme like this.. I wanted to pass it along. Be safe! It is something very serious to pay attention to.Criminals are coming up with craftier, less threatening methods of attack,so we have to be extra cautious. Read on.I live near the Blue Mountains but I often work at North Ryde, staying with friends when I'm there. As you know from Australia's Most Wanted TV program,as well as the new media, there is a serial killer in the area.I just want to let you know about an "incident " that happened to me a few weeks ago, and could have been deadly.At first I didn't go to the police or anyone with it because I didn't realize how serious this encounter was. But since I work in a jail and I told a few people about it, it wasn't long before I was paraded into Internal Affairs to tell them my story.It was proximately 5:15 a.m. I had stayed with a friend there and was on my way to work. I stopped at the Caltex Station to get petrol. I got $10petrol and a Diet Coke. I took into the store two $5 bills and one $1 coin(just enough to get my stuff).
As I pulled away from the store, a man approached my truck from the backside of the store (an unlit area). He was an approachable-looking" man(clean cut, clean shaven, dressed well, etc.). He walked up to my window and knocked. Since I'm very paranoid and "always looking for the rapist or killer," I didn't open the window I just asked what he wanted. He raised a $5 bill to my window and said, "You dropped this."
Since I knew I had gone into the store with a certain amount of money, I knew I didn't drop it.When I told him it wasn't mine, he began hitting the window and door,screaming at me to open my door, and insisting that I had dropped the money! At that point, I just drove away as fast as I could.After talking to the Internal Affairs Department and describing the man I saw, and the way he escalated from calm and polite to angry and volatile....it was determined that I could have possibly encountered the
serial killer myself. Up to this point, it had been unclear as to how he had gained access to his victims, since there has been no evidence of forced entry into victim's homes, cars, etc. And the fact that he has been attacking in the day time,when women are less likely to have their guard up, means he is pretty BOLD.
So think about it...what gesture is nicer than returning money to someone that drop! ped it?????How many times would you have opened your window (or door) to get your money and say thank you.... because if the person is kind enough to return something to you, then he can't really be a threat....can he???? Please be cautious! This might not have been the serial killer... but any one
that gets that angry over someone not accepting money from them, can't have honourable intentions. The most important thing to note is that his reaction
was! NOT WHAT I EXPECTED! A total surprise! But what might have happened if I had opened my door? I shudder to think!
Forward this to everyone you know...maybe they can be as fortunate as I was!P.S. Ladies, really DO forward this to EVERYONE you know Even if this wasn't a serial killer, he looked nice, he seemed polite, he was apparently doing an act of kindness, but HE WAS NOT A NICE PERSON!!! Men send it to all the women in your life. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it.Make it a good one! Please forward to anyone you think might benefit from this story.

ATEF

One of my husbands friends from France has just released an Album
his name is Atef, he is a Baha'i from the south of France, and was discovered while playing in monacco, this amazing artist performed for the famous charity ball hosted by Elton john in England and the rest is well history
its so exciting not only for him, but that he's a Baha'i
check him out


]http://www.atefmusic.com/

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and i thought plastic surgery was supposed to improve your look...........

Birth of Baha'u'llah

In this grim setting, the rarest and most cherished of religious events was once again played out: mortal man, outwardly human in other respects, was summoned by God to bring to humanity a new religious revelation.
The year was 1852, and the man was a Persian nobleman, known today as Bahá'u'lláh. During His imprisonment, as He sat with his feet in stocks and a 100-pound iron chain around his neck, Bahá'u'lláh received a vision of God's will for humanity.
The event is comparable to those great moments of the ancient past when God revealed Himself to His earlier Messengers: when Moses stood before the Burning Bush; when the Buddha received enlightenment under the Bodhi tree; when the Holy Spirit, in the form of a dove, descended upon Jesus; or when the archangel Gabriel appeared to Muhammad.

Bahá'u'lláh, whose name means "The Glory of God" in Arabic, was born on 12 November 1817 in Tehran. The son of a wealthy government minister, Mirza Buzurg-i-Nuri, His given name was Husayn-`Ali and His family could trace its ancestry back to the great dynasties of Iran's imperial past. Bahá'u'lláh led a princely life as a young man, receiving an education that focused largely on horsemanship, swordsmanship, calligraphy and classic poetry.

this link takes you to an amazing presentation created by the Baha'i community in the USA

its amazing

http://www.nybahai.org/bahaullah/birthofbahaullah.html

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looking for something to procrastinate with
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RELIGION

As last semester i decided to do a religions course just out of interest to learn more about how the wider community views there religion, and hoping to gain some insight so i can better teach friends of other religions
during the course of the semester we had to give presentations on different religions. during a tutorial on Islam, one of the students made a comment about one of the sects of Islam, and the lecturer made the comment OH thank God i thought you were going to say something about the Bahai's. So i thought hang on, as a Professor of religion surely you would know that the Baha'i faith isn't a division of Islam. so i decided to say something. and i made the comment that he should include the Baha'i faith in the curriculum for next years group. since the course is about world religions .

he looked shocked that someone had challenged him, and that i had corrected his misconception.
so he said since he knew i was doing the follow up course the following semester to do a presentation to the whole lecture group on the Baha'i faith
so last Wednesday, i had the bounty of speaking to a lecture room of university students of what the Baha'i faith was, and i had a very good response from the group with almost everyone asking me questions, from what bahai believe in the after life, do you have to be bahai to go to heaven, reincarnation, how progressive revelation works, whats the difference between a social teaching and a spiritual one. why Israel, whats the significance
it really was amazing to see such a positive response, especially since except one individual no one had heard of the faith.

i never thought i would have had such an opportunity and i probably would never have been given it if i didn't take the religions course and speak up when the lecturer was misleading the class about the faith.

so if you too are a uni student, consider taking a religion course, and who knows what opportunities you too will have to teach the faith..

"Blessed is he who in the prime of his youth and the heyday of his life arise to serve the cause of his Lord in the beginning and in the end adorn his heart with His love. The manifestation of such a grace is greater than then creation of the heavens and earth. Blessed are the steadfast and well is it with those who are firm"