Anton Pilipa, a Canadian citizen, went missing in 2012 and was wandering the Amazon rainforest for 5 years, until he was found safe and alive.

Amazingly as it may sound, Anton Pilipa (39), was reported as missing in 2012, when his family set up a page GoFundMe and reported his disappearance, they clearly stated that after struggling with his mental health condition, he suddenly went missing and they lost track of him.

His brother, Stefan, took care of all the paperwork and money raise for his safe returning to Canada, however they went through a hard time during this search and luckily, the struggle and hardships passed after five years.

After his family activated the social media, they have received a call announcing that Anton was noticed in the north of Brazil, looking as a homeless person and he was wandering the highway and later was thought to be a 10,500 km walk from Ontario, Canada to South America.

The amazing fact is that Anton has made it alive through these dangerous and hazardous areas in Brazil.

Bearing in mind his mental condition, specifically schizophrenia, his family is more than pleased to state that the quest ended positively and with a happy ending.

When his brother received the news of his showing up, he immediately started taking care of the paperwork- passport and identification and regulating everything to get Anton back safely and as quickly as possible.

The officer, Helenice Vidigal was responsible for the social media campaign, being among the few people who can communicate in English and identify Anton at the Brazilian Police Department in Porto Velho.

So, after his brother received the news of the appearance of his brother, he immediately started to arrange and raise money for his returning.

Even though Anton tried to escape, the police had successfully managed to return Anton home, right after Christmas in 2016.

The quest for Anton was not only hard for the family emotionally, but as well financially. Sadly, they needed a great amount of money which was only possible to get, if they asked for help from people through their page.

On their page GoFundMe, Stefan managed to successfully raise $12,500. He used the money to help his brother recover and get back home safely.

Anton is now working on his recovery, with the help of his brother in Toronto, so Anton can continue with his life as he was once a known member of radical communities and anti-poverty activist.

This heartbreaking story is a true inspiration and testifies for the humanity in people and the greatness of moving mountains if joined together.

Many people have helped Stefan in his struggle and by doing so, they helped a man in need. With all the help now Anton can have a proper life and put all of his hardships behind him.

Everyone deserves a second chance, and luckily Anton got one, thanks to his family’s faith in humanity and believing in the impossible.

Source:
http://livetheorganicdream.com/

“Change is inevitable”. This thought provoking statement is driven every time when there is change in life. But what if the whole lifestyle of humans changes? Has it really happened? The answer to the question is Yes. The Humans back in 80s or 90s and the humans of today are poles apart. Blame the Digitalisation.

The Digital world has its own boon and banes but it has entirely changed the Human world, literally. Right from waking up to sleeping, the smart phone has taken place of a human being. More deeply, the applications in the phone have become the comrade than human beings.

How Apps Have Changed Our lifestyle?

How many kms running and jogging is needed? how many calories of food intake required? How is the weather outside? or for that sake how is your mood? all can be known by a particular app in your mobile phones. These useful apps have taken over everything, humans used to do on their own.

Connecting your long distance friend or relative was simply not possible but Facebook made it possible. Currently there are more than 2 billion users of Facebook. Similarly you can watch movies, TV shows, documentaries etc via Live TV and video apps.

Based upon the usage, we tried to categorize the kind of apps people like to use.

1. Social Apps (Like Facebook, Twitter, Quora)

Among the most common app used by the people at large are the social apps. Apps like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram are a source of medium to connect to the masses.  In fact people can even raise their opinion, share their views, feelings on this app. Social apps let you socialise digitally with the people, and you need not meet them personally.

 To make these apps more fun and interesting various types of filters, features are added. They are like the daily dose of protein in human body. After waking up the first thing human would do is checking Facebook, Insta or Whatsapp messages etc. 

2. Streaming Apps (Sports, Movies, News)

The Video On demand services has garnered a huge fame in recent years. The market was tapped owning to the increase in use of Mobile phones and internet connection. There are plenty of free movie apps such as TubiTV, Snagfilms, Netflix, Hulu, Hotstar let you enjoy your favourite TV shows and stream movies online.

Gone are the days where you used to wait for your favourite show episode to air on TV at a fixed time. Now you simply can stream or download the episodes and watch when you are free. Same in the case of movies or sports for that sake.

3. Shopping Apps (Like Amazon, Ebay)

Ever wondered Humans could have shopped sitting at their sofa/couch watching TV? Yes this was made possible with shopping apps like Flipkart, Amazon, Infibeam, Ebay etc. Majority of the population now shop online. Be it clothes, gadgets, gifts, grocery or any other thing, shopping is possible sitting at your home/office delivering at your desired location.

In fact these apps do provide you with various offers and discounts on MRP. They are genuine, safe and secure medium to shop. Shopping is no more tiresome and time consuming all thanks to these apps.

Bottom Line

It is clear that Apps are predominant in all areas. Some of the apps even pay you money for downloading. Imagine what not can you get from these apps. You simply need a smart phone and an internet connection to use such apps and you are sorted. It takes whole day of yours and you still not get enough time to cover them all. 

The apps have broken the ice between vendors and customers. Almost all the businesses are upgrading themselves to digital medium all thanks to growing acceptance of these apps.

Mindful living is more and more present in the recent years, mostly because of the countless scientific proofs of its benefits.

Actually, this practice has been present for hundreds of years and it is all thanks to the spiritual guidance of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism.

The mindfulness is all about knowing or sensing what is happening at the moment, without any negative feelings towards it or wishing for something else. The mindfulness lifestyle offers many benefits, and you need to continuously practice it in order to see them.

In this article we’ll show you 11 laws of mindfulness that you can implement in your lifestyle and make them your routine.

1. The only reality is now – the present.

The quote perfectly defines the principle. Indeed, the past is only a memory or a sort of fiction, we cannot influence it. The future is not here yet and if we want to have some control over it we have to be aware of the present.

2. Negative thinking is dangerous only if believe in it.

Negative and positive thoughts come and go away continuously. It is normal to have negative thoughts sometimes because that is simply in our nature. The important thing is that the thoughts don’t mean anything in real life, they don’t define us – only our actions do.

3. You will not be punished for your anger, it is the anger that will punish you.

People get angry often, and sometimes it is for a valid reason. But reacting to that anger really gives positive results. It is not hard to get angry, but you have to be really wise to get something positive of that. All you need to do is realize that the present moment is what we have and what we control, and then it will become obvious that life is too short to be angry.

“The best fighter is never angry” –  Lao Tzu.

4. The peace within is to know how to belong to yourselves.

Don’t get obsessed with the opinion of the others.  No matter what they think of you, you should never look up to them and become like them. The truth is, we are who we are and no one can truly change that. Osho gives some guidance on how not to care about other people’s opinion of you.

“Nobody can say anything about you. Whatsoever people say is about themselves. But you become very shaky, because you are still clinging to a false center. That false center depends on others, so you are always looking to what people are saying about you. And you are always following other people, you are always trying to satisfy them. You are always trying to be respectable, you are always trying to decorate your ego. This is suicidal. Rather than being disturbed by what others say, you should start looking inside yourself…”

If you truly know who you are, then you will not have a problem with this.

5. All things are created twice, first in your mind and later in your life.

Our brain is the chief creator of the picture of the world around us. People don’t act unless their brain knows what it wants. That’s why we need to have an idea of what we want and our goals, and act accordingly.

“The future depends on what you do today” – Mahatma Gandhi.

6. Nobody can walk our path for us

Life itself is a set of challenges, for some people they are bigger and for others they are smaller, but the only thing we can have control of is how much effort we put in overcoming these challenges. We can’t credit outside objects for our success and happiness – it is all inside us.

7. If you don’t get something you believe in, it is not what you honestly want. 

Never back down on what you want to be, because of society. Never change your personality so that others accept you better. Stay unique and stand for what you believe in and you will never be fooled by others.

8. The hard path is sometimes the right path

At some point of life we all understand that the struggles from the pas have made us stronger. Every difficulty we encounter is important. If something is difficult, do not avoid it. It will take you right where you want to go.

9. Everything comes with a price, and you need to know what you are paying.

If you are searching your passion, maybe it is a good time to ask yourself the next question: What is worth suffering for? If something is worth suffering for, you must be passionate for it.

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.”  – Eckhart Tolle

10. Overthinking and overworking are the complete opposites of the principles for mindful life

Don’t overbook your day. Don’t make long lists of what you need to do today or the next day. It is not the busyness that counts. Try focusing on one thing only, and do it well. Peaceful life is a true mindful life. Stay organized and find the time to rest.

“You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” – Steve Marboli.

11. Don’t try to control everything – that way you enjoy nothing

People usually have the need for control over things. But what is the truth, really? Are we in control of everything? The truth is that we are never in control. We are only stressing ourselves while we are trying to stay in control. We believe that this way we will stay in our comfort one. But the sooner we learn to go with the flow, the sooner the things will improve.  

“Tension is who you thing you should be. Relaxation is who you are” – Chinese Proverb.

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Last year was very harsh, a lot of famous people left this world. One of these famous people who passed away was the British musician George Michael. He ironically celebrated his last Christmas (the title of his famous hit ‘Last Christmas’) and passed away on December 25^th, 2016.

Only after his death we learned how generous he was. George Michael had spent milions in order to help those in need: orphans, the homeless, the sick and evern strangers who experienced some kind of misfortune.

A selection of stories about his incredible generosity has been put together. The stories come from those who bore witness to his actions of kindness or  personally know the singer.

George Michael worked anonymously at a homeless shelter I was volunteering at. I’ve never told anyone, he asked we didn’t. That’s who he was

— EMILYNE MONDO (@EmilyneMondo) December 26, 2016

A lady from a children’s charity once told me they were only still afloat because of George Michael ❤ https://t.co/W0vs3QxN1E

— Kate Waugh (@katewaugh) December 26, 2016

Every Easter at Capital when I was on air with chris Tarrant for help a london child George would call in at 3.30pm with a £100.000 donation

— Mick Brown (@djmickbrown) December 25, 2016

@richardosman he gave a stranger in a cafe £25k as she was crying over debt. Told the waitress to give her the cheque after he left.

— VectorVictoria (@V3ct0rv1ct0r) December 26, 2016

George Michael once gave free concert for NHS nurses as a thank you for looking after his late mother #MerryXmasNHS https://t.co/JxLsBR20yN

— Andrew (@wisecur) December 26, 2016

I wrote in a piece ages ago about a celeb I’d worked with tipping a barmaid £5k because she was a student nurse in debt. Was George Michael.

— Sali Hughes (@salihughes) December 26, 2016

George Michael was also the only star on HWTBAMillionaire who, when gambling all the charity’s cash, said “if I lose it, I’ll just pay it”.

— Sali Hughes (@salihughes) December 26, 2016

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

Science never ceases to amaze us. With each passing day, there are discoveries that hold the potential to change the way we live and think. Some of these discoveries are the result of years of research, others come about completely by accident. Whichever the case, these innovations are a great leap towards a better future for all mankind.

Researchers from the University of California-Irvine have managed to develop a battery that could last up to 400 times longer than any other battery available on the market.

The weird thing is: the discovery was completely accidental. The researchers were trying to find an alternative to lithium, whose liquid state helps conduct charge but is, at the same time, highly combustible and sensitive to temperature.

Their nanowire-based battery material can be recharged hundreds of thousands of times, which means we are one step closer to having batteries that would never require replacement. Awsome, right?

By using gold nanowires to store electricity, the scientists found that their newly developed system could cycle through 200,000 recharges without any significant corrosion or decline. These results are jaw-dropping even thought the research is still in its early stages and a lot more needs to be done.

What is most astounding, is the fact that they bassically stumbled upon this amazing discovery. What they wanted to make in the first place was a solid-state battery that uses electrolyte gel instead of liquid to help it hold charge.

According to study leader, UCI doctoral candidate Mya Le Thai, they coated a gold nanowire in a manganese dioxide shell and encased the assembly in an electrolyte made of a Plexiglas-like gel.

“Mya was playing around, and she coated this whole thing with a very thin gel layer and started to cycle it,” said Penner, chair of UCI’s chemistry department.

“She discovered that just by using this gel, she could cycle it hundreds of thousands of times without losing any capacity.”

“That was crazy,” he added, “because these things typically die in dramatic fashion after 5,000 or 6,000 or 7,000 cycles at most.”

“The coated electrode holds its shape much better, making it a more reliable option,” Thai said.

“This research proves that a nanowire-based battery electrode can have a long lifetime and that we can make these kinds of batteries a reality.” 

In a nutshell, this new design allowed batteries to have 97% capacity after 1.000 cycles of charging and discharging. However, due to the high price of gold, the scientists state that nickel could be the perfect substitute for gold for mass production.

The discovery could lead to the development of batteries that could last forever so you never have to worry about recharging your laptops, phones and anything else that requires batteries to run.

According to the official announcement, the study was conducted in coordination with the Nanostructures for Electrical Energy Storage Energy Frontier Research Center at the University of Maryland, with funding from the Basic Energy Sciences division of the U.S. Department of Energy.

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Nikola Tesla was widely known as the father of the modern age. He is most famous for his  inventions of the alternating current (AC), wireless technology, television and the radio, and robotics, among other important things.

Tesla was born to a Serbian family in Yugoslavia, in the now Croatian village of Smiljan. He moved to the United States at the age of 28 with only a few pennies in his pockets and managed to become one of the most influential scientists in the world.

Tesla managed to create a lot of inventions and he invested the money he earned from those inventions in creating new ones. He didn’t really care much about money, he lived in hotels in New York and he died poor and alone. He once said that he didn’t have anything against people claiming his inventions as their own as long as they served for the good of humanity.

There are a lot of stories surrounding his life and work, but these 10 things are something you probably haven’t heard of before.

1. Tesla cared a lot about the environment

Tesla was concerned about people’s dependency on natural resources that were not renewable, such as coal, oil and the most dangerous one – nuclear power. He saw the destructiveness in the process as not only being unsustainable resource-wise, but also destructive to the environment. That was the main reason why he was trying to perfect the use of the abundant natural resources, such as air, water and the electricity of the Earth that was abundant and untouched.

You can read his article, Our Future Motive Power, which talks a lot about it.

2. Tesla was born during a summer lightning storm

Tesla was born “at the stroke of midnight” during a summer lightning storm. The midwife made a comment that he would be “a child of the storm”, to which his mother replied “No, of light”. They were both right.

3. Tesla was a humanist

He believed in improving the quality of life through better education and living conditions. He saw ignorance, insanity and religious fanaticism as the “frictional forces which impede progress”. He was also a strong opponent of the countries’ tendencies to spend more on war than on education. This inspired him to take a stand against war with his invention that would end all war – ‘the Teleforce’.

In short, he saw all the unnecessary investments in destructive power as enemies to humanity.

4. Tesla thought of smartphone technology in 1901!

Tesla was able to envision the 21^st century long before it began. In fact, he talked of a system that could collect information, encode it and broadcast it to a hand-held device. This idea came to him while developing the transantlantic radio and it is very similar to today’s mobile internet on our phones.

5. He had his own mind lab

Tesla had a very strong and precise eidetic memory. Not only could he recall whole books in great detail, but he could also create whole designs and constructions in his mind, which he later used to develop his new inventions. The results he got in his mind while imagining the inventions were incredibly accurate. This meant a lot less physical efforts in achieving results!

6. The US Government seized and classified Tesla’s stuff after his death

When Tesla died, the Office of Alien Property seized all of Tesla’s documents and schematics and kept them classified. While most of his possessions were later returned to his family or donated to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, some are still missing, as they remain classified to this day.

7. Tesla may have had insomnia and OCD

Tesla claimed that he needed only “about one and one-half hours a night” of sleep. He said that “Time spent in sleep is lost time”. He said that there were so many things to do, he didn’t want to spend time sleeping needlessly. This, though, might point to insomnia.

Tesla was also obsessed with the number 3, or in fact with the numbers 3, 6 and 9. He once said: “If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe.”

Of course, this does not point to any kind of OCD, but he was obsessed with any number dividable by 3. For example, he cleaned his dining room with 18 napkins before eating his dinner. He also detested jewelry, especially pearls, round objects and touching hair.

8. Tesla and Edison were not enemies

Despite the popular claim that Edison was Tesla’s arch nemesis, the fact is that they had worked together in designing direct current generators before Tesla left Edison to pursue his dream of the alternating current induction motor.

That’s when they became rivals. Edison made a lot of efforts to put a halt to Tesla’s alternating current, and these involved traveling shows in which he electrocuted elephants with Tesla’s AC.

9. Tesla made Mark Twain crap his white suit

One of the popular anecdotes about Nikola Tesla was about when he made Mark Twain leave a remarkable stain on his white suit. As all other men who wanted to brag with their ‘new toys’, Tesla was no exception.

After Mark Twain’s complaints about his “recurring bouts of constipation”, Tesla offered him to try out his newest “vibrating humming oscillating metal disc” which he claimed to have “imparted vitality.”

Although the sensation was amazing for Twain, Tesla warned him to step off the platform at a given moment, which he ignored – the following went into history as Mark Twain’s crapped white suit.

10. You can get free WiFI from Tesla

The Tesla Statue in the Silicon Valley was an idea which originated with Northern Imagination and was backed by 722 people. It was unveiled on December 7, 2013 and it is famous for two things:
– It provides free WiFi signal and
– It contains a time capsule to be opened on January 7, 2043.

No one has to tell you that when you become a father, you life is forever changed. When a man is embracing his little baby in his arms for the first time, his entire life is turned upside down. Obviously, things will never be the same again as they used to be.

Apart from the emotional Giant Dipper, he now has an enormous responsibility to look after the life of a newborn human being, and he doesn’t often know how to do it and how to deal with it. No one said that being a good father was going to be easy.

But, a good father never gives up. He manages to do all the things needed. The following photos prove this delightful, convincing truth: dads can do it!

Dad picks up his baby for the first time.

Dad embraces his child to keep it warm
while the baby’s mom recuperates after the birth.

Daddy shows his kindhearted love.

Dad performs a VIP concert exclusively for his baby.

Dad doesn’t feel embarrassed. Why would he feel?

Dad lets his baby play with whatever the baby wants.

Dad knows what a real fun is and he is not afraid to be laughed at.

Dad will do anything to make his kid have fun.

Dad knows how to get his baby to sleep.

And dad can do it anywhere, and any time.

If necessary, he can do it even while working.

Dad can teach the best, by being an example.

Dad knows that to be the best dad in the world
you don’t have to be the child’s genetic father.

Dad simply knows how to make his baby smile.

Dad will let his son do anything that makes him happy.

Literally, anything at all!

Dad knows how much his baby is waiting for him
to come back home from work.So he always tries to get back as early as possible.And at the end, a real dad is never ever afraid to utter, I love you!.

Last day I created with another youngster who is bombarding in school since he doesn’t complete his work. He sat over the work zone from me in my office and uncovered to me he consumes through seven hours a day in school and feels he’s “contribute his vitality.”

Homework is an uncalled for weight to drive on top of his troublesome day in school, he says. Or, then again potentially he uncovered to me he has the best of points each day when he returns home from school anyway he can’t constrain himself to open his books.

Or, then again, since this is a composite picture and it’s not just young fellows I work with, perhaps it was a young woman who revealed to me that she’s too much gotten up to speed with completing things partners and doesn’t see the hugeness of homework.

Or, on the other hand maybe she has an occupation after school, which gives her both satisfaction and consuming through money yet forsakes her little time to spend on schoolwork.

Or, then again perhaps the young lives in a family where guideline is not regarded, or where it’s censured, or where the understudy is required to help with kid care or housekeeping and, afresh, has no time for homework.

Failure to do homework drives understudies to crash and burn classes, fizzle assessments, and in the end to drop out of school. I might need to propose a clear response for the homework issue.

Here’s the way it would work. We know most auxiliary schools in the Bound together States track understudies: They offer proficient tracks, school preparatory tracks, general preparing tracks, and regards tracks.

A couple of schools even track inside tracks (by offering high and low school prep classes, for example). I propose we incorporate one more track: a no-homework track. For assistance with assignment for architecture, use this site /architecture-help.html to do his homework.

In this track, understudies would not be alloted homework. In order to pass their classes, they basically would need to go to them reliably and finish the in-class assignments. In case they required help with those assignments, the teacher – or distinctive understudies – would be there to help them.

Evidently, classes without homework would not have the ability to cover a comparative measure of material in a comparative measure of time.

That issue could be grasped by adding greater chance to the no-homework track, either by adding a fifth year to optional school or by having no-homework-track understudies go to summer school for each late spring they’re in auxiliary school.

What are the upsides of this game plan? Here are a couple:

⦁              It would end the homework wars. Watchmen could never again need to fight with their adolescents about completing their work. To be sure, gatekeepers could request that their youngsters be placed in the no-homework track as a way to deal with keep up a key separation from those battles perfect from the start.

⦁              Teachers could never again need to pooch understudies about homework. If homework issues twisted up perceptibly perpetual, teachers could basically propose to understudies that they were set in the wrong track and welcome them to make a meeting with the course educator to request a trade.

A no-homework track would similarly free understudies from the heaviness of concocting novel explanations behind what happened to their homework and why they fail to hand it in.

⦁              Teachers could more eagerly deal with the understudies’ getting of capacities. They could similarly give elective learning or execution techniques. They could fuse examination aptitudes with classes before exams and show kids particular ways to deal with consider.

For understudies who encounter trouble sitting down and scrutinizing a book, they could have them tune into the books on tapes or have them examined parts of books and after that watch movies. For understudies who require help with forming papers, the assistance would be there.

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