THE BIG QUESTION!!!!!! WILL IT LAST?

           7 SIMPLE  Ways to Tell If Your Love Will Last Forever

It's a new year, which means it's time for new goals, new resolutions, a new you. But hopefully the one thing you won't be trading in this new year is your relationship. I'm getting to the age where most of my peers are walking down the aisle, where I'm witness to new and blossoming love. And admittedly, as a married woman who just celebrated her sixth wedding anniversary (by working at the hospital for a 12-hour shift, woohoo!), I am starting to feel a little jaded about love. I know the truth about marriage. That the shiny new presents, the grandiose party, and the blissful honeymoon suite with the in-room hot tub does not a happy marriage make. Relationships take on all sorts of different shapes and sizes these days, with couples choosing not to marry yet live together, or to forge non-traditional family units. So just what is the key to a lifelong, lasting union? Check out these 6 signs your relationship will last a lifetime!

1. Trust your gut
Apparently, the real test of a relationship's longevity is actually incredibly simple. Time reports that a group of scientists measured how happy couples were by simply showing them pictures and asking them to rate them as either "happy" or "sad" after first asking them to look at pictures of their spouses. The couples who took a long time ranking the "sad" pictures had happier unions, while those who quickly identified the sad pictures ending up breaking up. The reason? At some unconscious level, unhappy couples who looked at pictures of their spouses were already in a "sad" mood, and thus could easily and quickly pinpoint the sad pictures.

2. You are a better person with your partner than you are without
I can honestly say that my relationship with my husband has made me a better person. When we first started dating, I was a miserably moody, unconfident, and insecure person and I took out a lot of my feelings on him. These days, I still struggle with those issues, but he has helped me to learn how to "fight fair," and he has been the rock that I know will never leave.
3. You don't depend on each other for happiness

 

 

While I don't think this is meant to be confused with the fact that marriage can make people happier, I also fell trap to the thinking early on in my marriage that my title as a "Mrs." was also my ticket to happiness. I thought for sure that having a husband who loved me would make me the confident, skinny, happy person I longed to be, but lo and behold - that didn't happen. Marriage is a source of happiness no doubt, but marriage alone cannot make you happy.
4. You don't believe in soul mates

 

There's an inherent and underlying danger to the premise of soul mates when you really think about it. After all, if it's true that we have soul mates, then who are we to take an active part in our relationship? If you're destined to be, you will be, right? Well, no. Unlike the concept of effortless love that soul mates can portray, choosing a relationship is an entirely different matter. Personally, I love how blogger Hannah puts it, when she declared to the world in a post gone viral that her husband was not her soulmate: "... I delight in choosing to love him every day. I like it better this way, with the pressure on me and not on fate, cosmos, or divinity. I will not fall out of love, cannot fall out of love, because I willingly dived in and I'm choosing daily to stay in. This is my joyous task, my daily decision."

5. You have realistic expectations  Glamour Magazine reported that one of the easiest and best ways to tell if a relationship will last is if a couple displays realistic images and portrayals about each other and their relationship - meaning, no unrealistic expectations about a life of pure bliss and toilet paper rolls that change themselves. This also means really grasping the concept that people don't change, and it's pretty much always a recipe for disaster if you go into a relationship expecting your partner to change for you.

6. You dream about the future together  Not in a way that keeps you from enjoying the present together, of course, but in a way that ensures that you will have a future together. Setting goals together, making plans for the kind of life you want to live with your partner, and checking in along the way helps to keep you connected as you dream together.

7. THE GOD FACTOR... Certainly not the least or last but putting God first in any relationship goes a long way Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
                       

 

INCREDIBLE!!!! THE APP THAT PARKS YOUR CAR

There is no one inside the Range Rover in a Las Vegas parking lot. But it still guides its way to a parking place, after what looks like some hesitation.
The self-parking is directed by an app which controls the vehicle, detects an available space and maneuvers into it.
The “automated parking valet” created by the French equipment maker Valeo is among the technology innovations for the sector on display at this week’s Consumer Electronics Show.
While the idea of a fully autonomous car is a dream for some, this is a step which promises to alleviate at least some of the tedium facing motorists.
The system allows drivers to leave their car at the entrance of a parking lot and let it find a space to park itself. Drivers activate the feature from their smartphone, and can also use it to summon the car to pick them up.
"It’s like a brain," said Guillaume Devauchelle, a Valeo vice president presenting the prototype system at the huge electronics expo.
"It acts step by step, with a certain latitude, to be able to adapt to the situation," Devauchelle told AFP.
"If it is put in the same position for a second time, it won’t react the same way."

The system does not require garages or parking lots to have special equipment, the executive said. It relies on the kinds of sensors some cars already use, with some extra electronics.
Devauchelle said the system may require a camera to recognize and avoid spaces designated for the handicapped or unusual features in a garage.
He said the system was designed to be as simple as possible so that it would not be only for luxury vehicles.
"We would like to make this available to the largest number of people," he said.
Even as automakers work on self-driving vehicles, a number of improvements can be made along the way, Devauchelle said, indicating the parking valet is not simply a matter of convenience.
It can help avoid the kinds of accidents frequent in parking areas and allow elderly people who find it difficult to make parking maneuvers to use their cars more often.
"As you age, turning your head becomes harder, so parallel parking is very difficult," the Valeo executive said.
"Parking maneuvers, in our estimation, are the most difficult for motorists."
Valeo said three million cars already have its semi-automatic system, which can perform parallel parking but require the driver to remain at the wheel.
The company said it has also sold a system that uses remote control but requires the driver to remain in view of the car or the smartphone screen as a safety precaution.
Devauchelle said the automated parking valet is adapted well for rental car fleets but added that regulations about driver requirements “from the horse and buggy era” need to be reviewed.

...........................................................Courtesy Yahoo news

HOW TO CLEAN YOUR LAPTOP

1. Start by turning your machine off. Unplug it, disconnect it and remove any USB wires or memory sticks.

2. For simple cleaning, tilt your laptop forward. Bang the back and hopefully anything lodged between the keys will fall out!

3. Take the end of a teaspoon and wrap it in a wet-wipe. Drag the tea spoon along all the edges of the keys and keyboard. This will pick up any dust and dirt.

4. Take a vacuum cleaner and run it over the keys. This will rid your laptop of any more dirt. Alternatively, you can use a hair-dryer to blow it away but ensure you repeat step 2

5. If you are still having problems, remove your laptop keys. So far, we have avoided doing this because it is timely, annoying and easy to get wrong.

1. Research your laptops brand name and see if you do have keys that can actually be taken off
2. Simply pop them off and store them somewhere safe.
3. Run your wet-wipes over the bare key-board. Q-tips also work well with this, after soaking them in anything that evaporates (rubbing alcohol and hydrogen peroxide) so that you do not get moisture under the keyboard.
4. Pop the keys back on. There will occasionally be keys with metal "stands" on the back - these are easy to slide back into their rails. Other keys will simply require you to depress the corners.
5. You can also wash the keys, but this makes losing keys easier.
   
6. Done......

Retrieving Deleted Photo From Your Memory Card

1. Don't write anything else into your memory card once you realize that your photos are deleted or lost.
2. Download a demo of memory card recovery software and install it on your computer.
3. Connect the memory card to your computer with a card reader and make sure it has been detected.
4. Run memory card photo recovery, select the memory card drive letter, then press "Start Scan" button to scan for deleted photos on memory card.
5. After a while, you will see a list of recoverable photos. Preview them and select all the images you want to retrieve.