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I would like to wish all my readers, on Behalf of all the Mind Soup authors, Eid Fitr Mubarak and May the guidance and blessings of God be with you and your families. Dar al Fatwa in Beirut announced on Wednesday night that Eid el Fitr will fall this year on Friday the 10th, making Ramadan this year 30 days. For more information about Eid el Fitr, you can find it here (wikipedia).

If you want something out of the ordinary when it comes to contact lenses then you might want to have a look at these special effect lenses, also known as crazy contacts or Halloween contact lenses, right from Hollywood plots. From a happy face to a soccer ball, see some of the craziest contact lenses ever worn. Mickey Mouse contact lens. ( Link ) John Galliano is taking designer branding to a new frontier: contact lenses that outline the iris in fine circles of sparkling gold or black.The Dior Eyes — currently hitting shelves in Europe. ( Link ) Nike MaxSight contact lenses are very functional, but also very weird. Each one is designed for a different sport; this one is red and is designed for cyclists to reduce the road glare from the sun. ( Link ) Cat Eye. ( Link )   Looking for an extra sparkle in your eyes? Designer Anthony Mallier from India has created ‘Sparkle' contact lenses to make your eyes “Sparkle like they've never sparkled before.” Imagin...

Today (September 22) marks the beginning of the Autumn season this year, and in Lebanon it has officially began a couple of days ago with the heavy rain we were witnessing. The first day of autumn arrives on varying dates in different years for two reasons: Our year is not exactly an even number of days; and Earth's slightly noncircular orbit, plus the gravitational tug of the other planets, constantly changes our planet's orientation to the sun from year to year. And weather-wise, Earth's seasons have shifted in the past 150 years or so, according to a study that came out earlier this year. The hottest and coldest days of the years now are occurring almost two days earlier. This year, fall starts Tuesday, because that is when the so-called autumnal equinox occurs (at 5:18 p.m. EDT). Equinoxes (which mark the onset of spring and autumn) and solstices (which mark when summer and winter begin) are points in time and space that mark a transition in our planet's ann...

Leona Lewis is set to release her second album "Echo" on November 17th and has released the 1st single. It will hit iTunes this Tuesday. I really didn't like the song. I found it to be quite boring for a lead single and while Leona's vocals are pretty good, as usual, I think the song is just too dull. Link: Leona Lewis - Happy

College has long been renowned for its atmosphere of academia, aura of intellectualism ... and courses about baseball, The Beatles, and the Bahamas?! Truly, today's college curriculum is diverse, varied, unique, and unforgettable. You can't make this stuff up. See for yourself. 1. Interpreting Halloween to Children This one-credit, fall college course is offered as part of the Recreation, Park and Tourism Management program at Penn State's nature center, Shaver's Creek (Petersburg, PA). In the course, college students learn to interpret the natural origins of Halloween to visitors attending the annual Shaver's Creek Children's Halloween Trail and Festival -- an interactive family event. 2. The Kentucky-Bahamas Connection Did you know that 450 million years ago central Kentucky was located 20 degrees south of the equator in a climate and setting very much like the Bahamas is today? In this college course for freshmen at the University of Kentucky (Lexington, K...

Today, wow, yes today. today is my birthday, today will be ending in less than 2 hours and the memory will slowly fade away of the day i turned 20. how do i feel? well honestly. its a mixture of emotions...sometimes happy other times confused...and other other times trying to understand me. i celebrated my bday hardcore yesterday, at a mexican resto then went on to end the nite with a night of hardpartyin at LCLUB...it was fun..lots of fun..bt there was heartache involved...and no i will not speak of it. for i wish to surpass it, ignore it, defeat it. but i am doubtful...why? because i am sometimes afraid of the unknown and the fact that at this moment i cannot grasp facts nor assurances wht so ever. but oh well, it is my 20th year of existence on this earth. :) and 20 long fruitful, amazing, disappointing, tutoring years have they been... i still look the same, 2 legs , 2 arms, a neck eyes nose lips...etc..the whole package..nothing has changed...so why am i so fearful wen it comes to...