How to give a sign that your guy friend likes you. There are three strategies you can follow.This trick, as reported from Sheknows.

1. More Attention
Give small concerns, such as a sudden you send short messages to cell phone, asking had eaten or not. Chances are he will be confused and ask why you send back a message like this. Just answer, you’re eating, his favorite food and then remember it.

Another way you can do is stroking her hair or shoulders. If he refuses and be cool, do not be sad and desperate, he’s probably confused by your attitude. Find another way.

2. Frequently asked her to go
Subtle way of showing you’re interested in your male friend is a frequently asked her out.Of course you do not blatantly ask her out. Say you request accompanied to the bookstore or you’re bored at home and need a friend for refreshing. At the meeting, talk about fun stuff, tuck praise him and tell me your love life. This could be a way to give your signal like it.

3. Honest Says
Telling the truth may be the only way to tell that you like it. But it takes great courage and readiness to express your heart’s content. Said frankly is more risky, although it is more comforting than you should keep it to myself.

It would be very nice, when you find out if the he had the same feeling. But you need to prepare myself, if it turns out he thinks you are just ordinary friends, maybe you would feel ashamed to see him again. However, telling the truth is the best way. For that, look for the best time to say it.

Source

Berk, L. E. (2008). Infants, Children, and Adolescents. Washington D.C.: Allyn & Bacon.

Just another copy and paste status, I thought, just ignore it. And there’s nothing wrong with writing a Facebook status that most of your friends list will ignore – everyone does it. 

But then I made the mistake of really reading the status. 

There are so many problems with it. Firstly, it conflates people of different religious beliefs with immigrants. There are plenty of “English citizens” who do not celebrate Christmas. And a very small minority, if any, would take offence to you calling your tree a “Christmas tree.” They’re probably just going to keep themselves to themselves. Christmas and being an “English” citizen do not go hand in hand. And while I’m at it, an “English” citizen? Surely you mean British?

I could go on. But the main question is this: why do people encourage others to copy and paste Facebook statuses that do nothing but spread hate? Following this status there was a comment which included the famous words “I’m not racist, but…” which of course always signal that the person is about to make an extremely racist comment.

The problem isn’t limited to statuses like these. There are the “girls only” breast cancer statuses that give people the impression they’re doing some good, when really they’re just ignoring all the hundreds of other cancers, and the ways they could actually help: donating, volunteering, spreading the word through something more impressive than a convoluted status.

Many of the copied statuses that I put up with on my News Feed daily relate to immigration. Immigration is a complicated issue, and it cannot be addressed by someone’s status. If you want to comment on such a grand issue, there’s a time and a place, and Facebook is rarely, if ever, going to be it.

The problem with these statuses are that they spread ignorance. And we don’t need any more of that in the world. It only breeds hate, and racism, and confusion. Next time you have something to share, think about what it might be saying. Think about the source and what it suggests. And think about what you REALLY want to say. Because copying and pasting something someone else has said is rarely what you should really be doing, and posting your limited world view all over a social networking site isn’t either. 

Because of one TRIOND friend making a special donation to my paypal account, this total jumps to $10.47. Dreamy777, also known as phillies, gave me a $5.00 donation for the Klein family. I thank you so much for your kind generosity.

Other members of TRIOND, paulc488, KittyK, tenraj, and beingwell have been helping on a daily basis or as much as possible.

I know many of you are still viewing my work a lot this month and I can’t thank you enough for all the support and all the prayers you are bestowing upon the Klein family. I am trying my best to return the favor by viewing articles of those who have viewed mine.  If I have missed anyone, please send me a message and I will gladly start viewing your articles as well.  I appreciate all the effort the TRIOND community is doing to help the Klein family this month.

I have not gotten an updated status on Shannon lately.  The continued prayers are very welcome for this family.

I do have a paypal account if any one else would like to send a donation.  I know I myself still have all my TRIOND payments in my paypal account and I have decided it is all going to the Klein family.  That total is $25.35.  That makes our donation total to the TRIOND family now $35.82.

Someone had mentioned me putting a button on my status article for people to make donations to the Klein family.  Unfortunately, I don’t know how to do this.  But if you do wish to make a donation, it is welcome and you can contact me for my paypal account information.  I understand that many cannot do this and that is fine, the prayers are more important.

On behalf of the Klein family, I thank you.

God Bless!

Both stories concern the effect consumerism and bran snobbery is having on children and how childhood is being commercialized, sexualized and imposing the completely false values of the advertising industry prematurely on malleable young minds. I wrote then: 

One good thing that might possibly come out of the report published this week by UNICEF on the health and well-being of children in developed countries is that the embarrassment of being rated as in the bottom two places might help rid our governments two most populous Anglo Saxon nations, the U.K. and U.S.A. of their obsession with statistics and economic growth. The other thing we should hope for  is a return to common sense and rejection of untested and untestable theories posited by social scientists.  That will however at the very  best be a long time coming.

The United States of America and the United Kingdom are the two nations that have championed globalisation, free market economics and the selfish society. Nowhere, not in the third world, not in the social democracies of northern Europe, have the family unit and traditional communities come under sustained attack as they have in Britain and the U.S.A. Governments of different political persuasions allowed themselves to be led by academics and self appointed experts to enact policies formulated by people who have spent their whole careers cocooned and cossetted in the protected environment of universities. Such people are always big on book learning, statistics and theory and pathetically short of life experience. Their theories which look great on paper but cannot be tested other than on real people who have real lives often result in social catastrophe.

It should be no surprise then that the nations most in thrall to practitioners of pseudo – science in the field of child psychology are respectively second from bottom and bottom of the list. Thus we are see once more that the economic policies of the post industrial era era have not only failed and destroyed lives, communities and cultures in the third world,  but also the continuation down this road to the lunacy of managed societies’ is destroying the souls and communities of nations that claim to have been successful exponents of the technological boom and post industrial economic planning.

Well that was then, this is now and we seem to have gone backwards instead of forwards. Putting aside the bursting boil that was last month’s outbreak of rioting we still have sink estates (municipal housing projects gone horribly wrong) become ghettoes of lawlessness, drug and alcohol abuse and dysfunction, effectively no go areas for law enforecment and emergency services. We have single mothers with several children all by different fathers, absentee fathers happy to “put one in the oven” then take no further interest in their offspring. We have cities where in a third of households no resident has ever held a job of any kind; claiming benefits has become a profession. We have Prime Minister David Cameron talking about a broken society even as his government seeks advice from the same “experts” who gave us the social engineering experiments that broke it.    

Forget democratic values, family values, Victorian values, middle class values, Christian values, Liberal values and all the other platitudes politicians have embraced, the two leading members of the English Speaking Axis have become nations whose populations know  the price of everything and the value of nothing. So many people  know about their rights but are ignorant of and totally disinterested in the responsibilities that go with their roles, as member of a community, parents, sons and daughters, employees.

It is not junk food, booze, drugs and too much TV that destroy the quality of life for our children, the whole structure of our money obsessed society is out of kilter. Many moons ago when this writer was young, optimistic and positive and squadrons of flying pigs passed overhead every day I commented on The New Apartheid which was increasingly segregating people in developed societies by age.

Sectors of the media whose make stupendous profits from the business of selling young stuff to young people and old stuff to old people must take a large share of the blame but politicians have been too quick to jump on band wagons without thinking what direction they werre heading in too. 

The world is changing very quickly, requiring modern society to adapt much faster than any civilised society previously and we have not yet even understood the changes let alone begun to adapt to them. Technological advance has meant the system no longer requires masses of people be born into lives of poverty, ignorance and drudgery just to service the needs of the elite. Everybody can have a decent crack at making a fulfilling life for themselves. Yet at the same time society is engineered to deny most people just that.

We are increasingly herded, controlled, manipulated and find our options are narrowed to one or two possible lifestyle choices. We allow ourselves to be channelled into a career or accept a succession of dead end jobs with long periods as professional benefit claimants in between.

Education systems have lost sight of the life enhancing aspects of education. Schools now merely provide training and conditioning for a lifetime of mortgage slavery while promoting an intense competitiveness that will result in many pupils being written off as losers by the time they are ten, abandoned to dead end jobs where their resentment will fester.

We abandoned the unfairness of selective education only to replace it with uniform mediocrity. The best pupils with the most supportive parents will rise to the top of the heap of course, but without help from the system. People are encouraged to form the idea that seeking the instant gratification of impulses is as a personal goal on a par with aspiring to a deeper fulfillment.  

The majority of children are turned into greedy and obsessive little consumers by the time that enter secondary education.  They have been brainwashed into believing their status and worth among their peers can only be measured by what they possess. So the ones whose parents, both working long hours to simply to service their debts, provide neither a loving and supportive home nor the material compensations that modern society accepts as substitutes really have little chance to develop emotional survival skills.

The issue the UNICEF report raises is one of human rights. Do children have a right to be equipped for adulthood in a complex, confusing and dangerous world? Do parents have a right to choose a non materialistic lifestyle, safe in the knowledge that schools will protect their children from the bullying and peer pressure that being different attracts? Or is everybody required to conform to a stereotype?

It has been said that human rights is simply a matter of common sense. But common sense involves thinking for oneself and that is just what the governments of the developed nations are discouraging us from.

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These three countries in Southern Europe plus the Emerald Isle in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean make up part of the EU anf the four of them are in the Euro Zone.

 Portugal are neighbouring with Spain. Bathed by the Atlantic Ocean, like Ireland, it´s as good a country as any other, despite its poverty. Yet, no country is really poor, unless a colonial power or a dictatorship set their foot on it. To anyone who loves history and a stunning place I’d recommend Sintra or Lisbon. One shouldn’t bother with street maps and stuff, but one should stroll at its own pace to discover every hidden jewel on its way.

The Emerald Isle is known as Ireland because of the English. They probably found it difficult to pronounce the other Irish names of Celtic origin and replaced it to suit themselves as they have always done wherever they have been. Ever since I went to Eire, I fell in love with the land. I love the green bathed by the deep blue of the Ocean. I am a true urban person, but I seldom miss the hustle of a city, strolling about this land. Nothing can beat to to a good night out as taking part in a trad session, national anthem included. Eire could have a much better gastronomy if it weren’t for the English influence It´s an agricultural and fishing country. Cows and sheep graze as they please in the green. It could be a more advanced one, though. But eight hundred years of British domination that condemned its population to hunger and emigration has taken its toll.

  I have to admit that I have never been to the cradle of civilization and democracy, that is, Greece. But it is never too late. Chances are that one day or another I´ll get on board on whatever means of transport to explore it. I always got along well with the Greeks whom I find are humorous people. Their famed dance is enough to cheer me up and to make me daydream with this land full of ancient and outstanding stones that tell us about times past.

 Spain, the forth of the so called piggy countries, is quite an unknown one, although, it only takes a couple of hours to fly in. Spaniards love their pigs to the extend of making the best ham in the world. Bit pricey, I´d say, but a sheer delight to palate with any of their excellent wines. Out of the pig there’s nothing to waste, but a lot to enjoy, Spaniards exclaim. It’s also a land full of outstanding  stones that will tell the traveller (not to holiday maker) thousands of tales and stories too.

The financial markets may think of us as the PIGS countries. Yet, we are proud to retain some of the best things in life and of history.

They may call us PIGS. But at least, they grant us with a status.  It’s something!

There is talk everywhere about team building, working as a team, but few understand what it means to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team. He belongs to a team means to feel part of something bigger than yourself. It matters very much to understand the mission or the organization you are part of the objective.

In a teamwork-oriented environment, contribute to the overall success of the organization. Even if you have a certain job and you belong to a specific department, you are with the other members of the organization to achieve the main goal. The picture will lead activities, your function exists to serve the bigger picture.

You need to make the difference between the general feeling of teamwork and the task of building an effective team, intact, to achieve a certain goal.

Many people confuse these two things and this is why many seminars, meetings and team building activities fail miserably. Bosses fail to define the kind of team they want to consolidate. Developing general feeling of working in a team is different from developing an effective team, focus, when you think about approaching a team-building methods.

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 12 rules for team building  

Directors, managers and members of the organization always looking to improve business results and profitability. Many see a horizontal structural organization based on teams as the best way to involve all employees in creating a successful business.

No matter what name your efforts to improve door team will strive to improve results for clients. However, there are few organizations that are happy with the results given by efforts to improve the team. If our efforts to improve the team is not up to expectations, this list will help you discover why. A successful team building, creating a focused and efficient team, needs to carefully follow all these rules.

• Clear Expectations 
  The company will clearly communicated its expectations about team work and results? Team members understand why the company was founded? The organization demonstrates that it is constant in terms of supporting the team’s goals with people, time and money? Get enough teamwork important in terms of time, discussion, attention and interest from senior executives?
• Context 
  Team members understand what part of this team? I know how to use team strategy helps the organization to achieve business goals communicated? Can team members define their team’s importance in the organization’s goals? Understand team where their work fits in the total context of the goals, principles, vision and organizational values?
• Involvement
  I want to work in team members? Team members perceive as important mission team? Are team members involved in reaching goals and achieving expected results? Team members perceive their service as a value added organization and personal career?Anticipate recognition for their contribution? It is expected that knowledge and their ability to grow and develop within the team? I am excited by the challenge and opportunity to abort the team?
• Competence
  The team believes that properly trained people participate? The team believes that the members have the knowledge, skills and capacity necessary to deal with problems for which the team was formed? If not, the team is able to satisfy their needs? The team believes it has resources, strategy and support needed to accomplish the mission?
• Status
  Team has established its own area of ​​responsibility and mission, vision and strategy to accomplish the mission?
  And the team defined and communicated goals, results and expected contributions, timelines and how they will measure both outcomes and process the team followed to accomplish the task? Surveillance team or other coordinating group says the team?
• Control
  Team has enough freedom and discretion to feel in control of the situation to achieve their status? At the same time team members know the limits? How far can the team members to achieve their goals? There are limits (monetary and time resources) defined at the beginning of the project before the team may face difficulties and take work from scratch?
  Relationships and responsibilities are understood by each team member? A defined organization responsibility for the team to make recommendations to and implement the plan? There is a consultation process so that both the team and align the organization towards achieving its purpose? Team members are considered responsible for deadlines, commitment and results? Organization has a plan to increase opportunities for self-management among organization members?

• Collaboration
  Team understand team and group processes? Members understand the stages of group development? Team members work effectively interpersonally? All team members understand the roles and responsibilities of other members? Heads? Observers? Perhaps his team dealing with solving problems, improving processes, setting targets and measurements? Team members cooperate to accomplish the team goal? Were established group norms or rules of conduct in areas such as conflict resolution, consensus and meeting management? Use an appropriate strategy team to accomplish the action plan?
• Communication
  They are clearly the priorities of their task team members? There is no established method for teams to be able to comment and receive a fair comment on performance? Organization provides important information on a regular business? Teams understand the full context of their existence? Team members communicate clearly and honestly with each other? He shows the team members opinions? Conflicts are resolved?
• Innovation and creativity
  Is the organization truly interested in change? Put value on creative thinking, unique solutions and new ideas? Reward people who take reasonable risks to make improvements? Or reward those who do not stand out and maintain the status quo? Provides training, education, access to books and movies, trips necessary to stimulate thinking?
• Consequences
  The team members feel responsible for team results? They are rewarded and recognized successes? Is reasonable risk respected and encouraged? The team members fear reprisal? Team membersspend more time blaming each other than solving problems?Recognition results of the team, but the individual? Organization planning to share gains and increased profitability with team and individual who contributed? Can those who have contributed individually to see their impact on the success of the organization?
• Coordination
  Are teams coordinated by a central management team to help teams get what they need to be successful? Priorities and resources have been planned in each department? I understand the concept of internal customer teams – the next process, anyone who provides a product or service? There are teams with multiple functions in different departments to work together effectively? Develop customer-oriented organization and process and away from traditional thinking based on the departments?
• Cultural Change
  Organization recognize that the future organizational culture based on teamwork, collaborative, on empowerment, the current organizational culture is different from traditional hierarchies based on? Does the organization plans to change how they reward, recognize, hire, develop, plan, motivate and lead their employees?
  Organization plans to use failure to learn and support reasonable risk?Help the organization recognize that as more of its teams, has even more to gain from the work of these teams?

Watch carefully and patiently each of these 12 rules to ensure that your teams work more efficiently to ensure your business success

Your team members will appreciate the business will grow and stakeholders will be responsible for their work process. Maybe your work to become better than this?

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I gave up in the end after repeated trials for two days. Facebook kept giving the same response. You are temporarily blocked and while block will be removed after some time, be careful to invite only the people you know and who know you well. So, that was that. Being a systematic person and normally not the one to send a connect invitation to anyone not known to me, I sat down to think.

Voila! There it was. A very small incident when a fellow writer had visited my office a few days ago. He claimed to be making hordes of money and was too willing to share his secret. He attributed the secret of his success to the large number of friends on Facebook. He had over 2300 friends against my small list of 23. To make a long story short, he laughed heartily and then in his usual overbearing manner made me log into facebook and use its friend finder to send invitations.

I do have a huge list of mail contacts. Many of them I do not even know the real names of as the contact developed through copies of communications marked by some mutual friend and even though we mutually share an occasional internet joke. I always send them a link to my quarterly news letter Astro-Finance clearly mentioning that should they choose to unsubscribe they will never be sent such links or mails again.

But that day in the heat of moment and pressure of my overbearing colleague all reason left me. Using facebook’s very helpful utility friend finder I went on clicking and sent invitations to every one I could. Some or one of them must have reported abuse in response to the invitation. That is how I must have got blocked by facebook.

In conclusion it is fine to update and share your status with other users daily, hourly or by the minute. But while trying to develop new friends and inviting people you need to be careful else run the risk of getting blocked like me.