Dead leaf butterfly

Transparent butterfly

It comes from central America and is found from Mexico to Panama. It is quite common in its zone, but it not easy to find because of its transparent wings, which is a natural camouflage mechanism.

Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Ithomiinae
Common name: The Glasswing

Quotes regarding life.....:)

Each day is a little life.

-Schopenhauer
He is happiest who finds peace in his home.
-Goethe
We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
-Martha Grimes
Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have.
-Doris Mortman
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
-Sophocles
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
-James Barrie
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
-Martha Washington
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
-Anne Frank
When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.
-Dr. Joyce Brothers
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
-Theodore Roosevelt
Life is like a mirror, we get the best results when we smile at it.
-Unknown
The natural state of a human being is dignity.
- Robert F. Kennedy
You may live longer than I do, but I will live more.
-James McConnell
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
-Unknown
My life is my message.
-Ghandi
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
-Indian Proverb
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures
and go on to the next challenge. It's OK. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
-H. Stanley Judd
We can believe what we choose. We ae answerable for what we choose to believe.
-Cardinal Newman
Happiness is a direction, not a place.
-Syndey J. Harris
Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is meant to be lived.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Adopt the pace of nature; her secret is patience.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
-Lady Bird Johnson
I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.
-Franklin Delanor Roosevelt
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.
-Sheldon Kopp
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
-Chief Joseph
People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after.
-Goldsmith
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
-Samuel Johnson
Success must be continually practiced or it will take wings and fly away.
-Kenneth Harmon
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
-Henry Ward Beecher
Integrity is one of several paths, it distinguishes itself from the others because it is the right path,
and the only one upon which you will never get lost.
-M. H. McKee
Believe the best of everybody.
-Rudyard Kipling
As a man thinketh so is he, and as a man chooseth, so is he.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
-Bart Forbes
Commitment is a line you must cross....it is the difference between dreaming and doing.
-Bernie Fuchs
The same fence that shuts others out shuts you in.
-Bill Copeland
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
-John Keats
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
-Marcus Aurelius
These are the times that try men's souls.
-Thomas Paine
If you believe in the Lord, He will do half the work: the last half.
-Cyrus Curtis
Ruthlessly compete with your own best self.
-Apollo 13 engineers
Five great enemies of peace inhabit us: avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.
-Abigail Adams
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing on one's own sunshine.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alter your life by altering your attitudes.
-William James
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
-Alfred North Whitehead
There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
-Shakespeare
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
-Chinese Proverb
No man walks with dignity whose step is rushed.
-Anonymous
Write on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Three Rules of Work: 1. Out of clutter, find simplicity. 2. From discord, find harmony.
3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-Albert Einstein
Never take away hope from any human being.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The mere sense of living is joy enough.
-Emily Dickinson
In life, you can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
The cost of a thing is the amount of life that must be exchanged for it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Life is painting a picture, not creating a sum.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
-Christopher Morley
And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.
-Leo Tolstoy
Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
If man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
-Henry David Thoreau
Go - not knowing where. Bring - not knowing what. The path is long, the way unknown.
-Russian Fairy Tale
Try not to be a man of success, but rather try to be a man of value.
-Albert Einstein
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
-John Greenleaf Whittier
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every day is a good day.
-Yun-Men
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
-Goethe
A child educated only at school is an undereducated child.
-George Santayana
The reason for idleness and crime is the deferring of our hopes.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
-Tom Stoppard
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
-Coco Chanel
No man is a failure who is enjoying life.
-William Feather
Alas for those who never sing, but die with their music still in them.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Into each life some rain must fall. Some days must be dark and dreary.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Only those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.
-Robert Kennedy
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination.
-Tommy Lasorda
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.
-Shunryu Suzuki
Think you can, think you can't; either way you'll be right.
-Henry Ford
Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of subversions.
- William O. Douglas
Fear always springs from ignorance.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When you get into a tight place, and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and time that the tide will turn. -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

FACTS ABOUT WORLD

• Population 6,326,005,560 (October 2003 est)

• 267 nations, dependent areas, and misc. areas

• Total Area: 510,072,000 sq km

• Land: 148,940,000 sq km - 29.2%

• Water: 361,132,000 sq km - 70.8%

• Average GDP $7,200 (2000)
• Average Life Expectancy 63.79 years

INVENTIONS.............

• It was Swiss chemist Jacques Edwin Brandenberger who invented cellophane, back in 1908
• James Ramsey invented a steam-driven motorboat in 1784. He ran it on the Potomac River, and the event was witnessed by George Washington.
• The paper clip was patented by Norwegian inventor Johan Vaaler in 1899. Because Norway had no patent law at the time, he had to travel to Germany where he received his patent in 1900. His U.S. Patent was granted in 1901.
• The pop top can was invented in Kettering, Ohio by Ermal Fraze.
• Phone service was established at the White House one year after its invention. President Rutherford B. Hayes was the first to have phone service (1877-81).
• The Chinese invented eyeglasses. Marco Polo reported seeing many pairs worn by the Chinese as early as 1275, 500 years before lens grinding became an art in the West.
• The hypodermic needle was invented in 1853. It was initially used for giving injections of morphine as a painkiller. Physicians mistakenly believed that morphine would not be addictive if it by-passed the digestive tract.
• Thomas Edison’s first major invention was the quadruplex telegraph. Unlike other telegraphs at the time, it could send four messages at the same time over one wire.

Suna hy mosam bdlta hay
Phir ye kaisa mosam hay
Jo
Na chat’ta hy na dhalta hy
Ye tehra hy bus unhi na kat’ta hy
Ye mosam kaisa mosam hy………..
Hansi jis sy darti hy gham hans k milta hy
Dukhoon ki barish barasti hy
Sukhoon ka qehat parta hy
Ye mosam kaisa mosam hy….
Abi bdlay ga ye mosam!
Aisa koi keh jai
Nai khnay sy kuch hoga aisa koi kar jai k mosam ko hata dy
Ghata ko chata dy
In dou roti ankhoon ko zara hansna sikha dy
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Phir wo na keh paeyn
Ye mosam kaisa mosam hy……………..

by sobia yousafi

One out of three Pakistanis have kidney Disease: Experts

KARACHI: Chronic kidney disease, a common medical problem is estimated to affect significant number of population of Pakistan where one in every three in the age group of 40 plus citizens is inflicted with one or the other kidney disease.Consultant Nephrologist at Aga Khan University (AKU) Dr. Waqar Kashif, in his presentation at a session organised by the University on Thursday said available studies identify diabetes and high blood pressure as the two commonest causes of chronic kidney disease.The programme organised as part of World Kidney Day, is observed for the last three years on every third Thursday of March, he said.Highlighting severity of the ailment, he said “If left unchecked, patients would ultimately need to undergo dialysis up to three times a week to stay alive.” Dr. Kashif called for widespread screening of those sections of society that are at risk of kidney disease, emphasising that it is essential to create awareness among physicians as well as the public. He said studies have shown that early detection and treatment can delay and possibly prevent kidney failure in most patients.Identifying key strategies, he advised strict control of blood pressure and blood glucose levels, the use of certain classes of blood pressure medicines, avoiding drugs that may cause further kidney damage (especially some pain killers), a low salt diet and cardiovascular risk reduction. AKU Consultant Urologist, Dr. Raziuddin Biyabani discussing renal stone disease in Pakistan said it was a significant preventable cause of chronic kidney disease.He said since Pakistan lies in the “Stone Belt,” hospital-based figures reflect up to 200 cases per 100,000 people in the southern regions. To prevent stones recurring, Dr. Biyabani advised treating and preventing urinary infection, increasing fluid intake, decreasing protein intake and eating in moderation.He also referred to varied treatments available for the problem and specially mentioned of endoscopy which is used to treat stones in the urethra and urinary bladder. Larger stones in the kidney can be removed with a procedure “PCNL” which involves approaching the stones through a small hole in the skin, he said.
Diagnosis of urinary tract infection in children was said to be important for the early detection and prevention of chronic kidney disease in children.Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist at AKU, Professor Iqtidar Khan, spoke of early warning signs of kidney disease in children, which include high blood pressure, pain in back, puffy eyes, swollen hands and feet and passage of blood through urine. He stressed the importance of early investigation, on any suspicion of kidney disease or infection. Consultant Nephrologist at AKU, Professor Tazeen Jafar, spoke on key aspects of high blood pressure and kidney disease.●