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Manners and Etiquette: What's the best way to say "I'm sorry for your loss"?

The first thing I want to point out is that saying "I am sorry for your loss" or any other version of it (which I will get into) is really important.

I recently had a death in the family and felt that every loving word helped hold me afloat. So show up. It matters.

The best way to say "I'm sorry for your loss" is to keep it simple, honest, and if possible, personal. Such as "I am so sorry for your loss. I will always remember your father's grace and his gift for language".

Or, if the person didn't know my father "I am so sorry for your loss and am happy to swing by and give you a hug at your convenience".

If you want to offer to help, be specific. "I would love to come drop off some food" or "I will be running errands tomorrow - can I pick up something for you?"

A person grieving is a person overwhelmed by the smallest things so take something off their plate.

Finally, if your gesture does not receive a response make it not matter. It's hard to reply to everyone, even though you feel infinitely grateful for every little thing.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Manners-and-Etiquette-Whats-the-best-way-to-say-Im-sorry-for-your-loss



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That's no news. Nigerians at home are also suffering, plus other nationals in other countries. Poverty is as old as human history.


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Should I call in a noise complaint on a family with a crying baby?

Baby crying from midnight till 5am in apartment building. What's a reasonable recourse?

Most answerers think calling the cops (or CPS) would make you a complete jerk. The parents probably want the baby to sleep too, and calling a public employee on them isn't going to help. (If the baby is crying because they're neglecting it, that's a different story, but many perfectly cared-for babies cry a lot.)


Most instead recommend:

Talking to the parents sometime when the baby isn't crying; they may be able to move the baby so it impacts you less, or they may need advice on techniques to calm crying babies down (although they may already be doing those things).

Getting earplugs, headphones, a white noise generator, or even sound insulation to reduce the noise.

Simply trusting that, If you ever become a parent, you'll be thankful that your neighbours aren't calling the cops on you.

Another answer: You know who else has to deal with the crying baby?

The baby's parents.

So, while trying everything in their power to get the baby to quiet down, what they really need to deal with is some asshole who can't wear a pair of headphones or use a white noise generator causing trouble over it.

It is a baby. Not a blasting stereo or TV, not a loud party. A baby. They cry. Some of them, at some times, scream and cry inconsolably. It sucks. Believe me, it sucks a whole hell of a lot more for the parents than for you.

In Colorado, landlords are forbidden to discriminate against tenants because they have children. One of my landlords needed a stern reminder of that after getting a "noise complaint" from some jackass and sending a threatening letter. I never heard of it again.

I did know who it was (they also had a habit of pounding on the wall while I was trying to get the baby to sleep), and the next day, went over there, and told them that yes, I very goddamn well know it's not fun to have the baby up and yelling as much as she did, but that there's nothing to be done for it, and that white noise machines are available for under $20 if it bothers them. She apologized and I never heard of it from her again, either. I wasn't exactly in the best mood at that point to begin with.

People need to live somewhere. A lot of people, including those with babies, can't just drop everything and move to a detached house. There's a certain point at which noise from your neighbors becomes unreasonable in an apartment, but sometimes, you will hear them. Babies fall squarely under the "can't help it" heading, and you'll just have to live with it and block the noise as best you can.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Should-I-call-in-a-noise-complaint-on-a-family-with-a-crying-baby

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Q. What is Neteller and what are the uses for it?

A. Neteller is an electronic currency for online payments (e-currencies are exchanged on computers). Money in a Neteller account can be used to pay merchants, sent to other customers of the service, or spent at any retailer that accepts MasterCard® using the Neteller prepaid card that is a part of the account. People in over 200 countries use the Neteller service to transfer money to and from merchants, such as financial institutions, social networks, or online betting firms, and can withdraw funds directly using the Net+ card or transfer the balance to their own bank accounts. You can receive salaries and payments for services in Neteller. You can use your local currency to buy Neteller for your account or change Neteller in your account to your local currency or transfer it directly to your bank account.



WHY WE PREFER NETELLER TO OTHER E-CURRENCIES

Q: Do you buy and sell other e-currencies apart from Neteller?

A: Nope.

We buy and sell Neteller only, because it is regulated and dependable. Since Neteller is authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK, they maintain the highest standards across their business and services around the world. Their industry-leading physical and electronic security measures and Anti-Money Laundering protocols ensure their members are protected as far as possible from identity theft and fraud.

Unlike regulated e-currencies, non-regulated e-currencies, in spite of wide acceptance, can give people unexpected heartaches. Take examples of e-bullion, e-gold, Liberty Reserve, Egopay etc. Many regulated e-currencies put restrictions on Nigerians, but Neteller is an exception. Neteller is bound to become more and more popular

If you want to buy or sell any other e-currencies apart from Neteller, you have to go somewhere else.

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I stumbled upon this notice on one website:

BEWARE Of Fraudsters! There is Nothing like Omolove Agents.....Omolove Will Never Request Money From You


Omolove can never ask you to make any payment before hooking you up. Please disregard any person, call or text message requesting you to make payment to a certain account number before you will be linked up to a Sugar Mummy.

We have gotten complaints that a mischief makers are going about demanding money from people all in the name of linking them up with Sugar mummies.

Below is one of the message we got;

419 People Using the Name of Omolove to Dupe Your Clients

Sir or Madam:

Scam artists are now using your prestigious name to dupe those who left their numbers on your website. They ask them to pay money into one UBA bank, and that they would now link them to interested sugar mummies.

I wonder how many people they would dupe this way.

One of such scam phone numbers is: 08138962917.

Sadly, the UBA account number and name they sent to me has been deleted, but they can be lured into releasing such account numbers again.

If nothing is done, your business can be ruined.

Thanks.


UPDATE!!

Below is the account details of one of the scammer.....

Sir or Madam:

The 419 man was stupid enough to call me again this morning. I told him the account number was deleted from my phone without my knowledge. I also told him that if he sent me the account number again, I would pay him instantly.

He was foolish enough to send the account number again. I ran a check on the account and saw that the account name he gave me is genuine. That’s the real name of the 419 man.

His name is: NNAJIUDE NNAJIOFOR
Phone number: 08138962917
Account number is: 2078530074
Bank: UBA

I would forward his name and account number to EFFCC. I would forward his phone number to MTN. I will forward his account name and number to UBA.

If people do this, most scammers would run out of business. You can’t just ignore evil – report it.

Please share this, before more people are duped into losing their hard-earned money, and before they give your business a bad name.

Many thanks…

Please don't fall for these scammers......Be Warned!

Conclusion:
You see, this is a good lesson. Ignoring and keeping silent when a scammer calls isn’t enough. It’s OK to report them. For example, you can contact the firm/establishment/company they lie they’re working for.

Yes, report their phone numbers to the relevant service providers. SIM card registration is a beautiful thing.

Report them to EFCC or other law enforcement agencies. Report them to the bank where they’ve accounts. That’s the beauty of BVN registration.

Report them to the company which controls the email they use. Just look at the words after the symbol ‘@’ and type in a browser.

With these actions, most fools called Yahoo! Boys will be forced out of business.


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Why aren’t prophets honored in their homeland?

“My doctrines exist to rid maternity hospitals of their horror, to preserve the wife for her husband and the mother for her child.” — Ignaz Semmelweis

QUICK FACTS
In 19th-century Europe, many women died of childbed fever, a scourge with mortality rates of up to 30 percent.

Microbes had been observed under a microscope as early as 1674, but their dangers had not been fully understood. It was common practice for doctors to deliver babies right after performing autopsies, without first sterilizing their hands.

Semmelweis introduced handwashing into medical practice, thus saving countless lives. – Jw.org

Despite various publications of results where hand washing reduced mortality to below 1%, Semmelweis's observations conflicted with the established scientific and medical opinions of the time and his ideas were rejected by the medical community. Some doctors were offended at the suggestion that they should wash their hands and Semmelweis could offer no acceptable scientific explanation for his findings.

Semmelweis's practice earned widespread acceptance only years after his death, when Louis Pasteur confirmed the germ theory and Joseph Lister, acting on the French microbiologist's research, practiced and operated, using hygienic methods, with great success. In 1865, Semmelweis was committed to an asylum, where he died at age 47 of pyaemia, after being beaten by the guards, only 14 days after he was committed. – from Wikipedia

William Tyndale who translated the Bible into English. In 1611, the 54 scholars who produced the King James Bible drew significantly from Tyndale, as well as from translations that descended from his. Yet Tyndale was publicly murdered in 1536 because he work was unpopular.

He’s now rated among the greatest Britons who ever lived.

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. He has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", and the "father of science."

Galilei championed the cause that the sun is the center of the universe. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture. Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. – Wikipedia

But it is true that the sun was the center of the universe.

When great men are alive, we hate them. We don’t appreciate them until they die. There are many instances in Nigeria.

Why are prophets not honored in their homeland?

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Surprise, surprise… happy people live their lives differently. They don’t have different lives. They just do a better job at living them than those who are unhappy.

Happiness is the result of subjective interpretation of perception. Of course, what we perceive isn’t always done so by choice — life does throw things our way.

However, most of the time, we find ourselves in the situations we are in because of actions we took and decisions we made. It’s the way that you live your life that largely decides whether or not you will live happily.
They don’t bother trying to make others like them — mainly because they don’t care if they’re liked.

They like themselves and they are the only people they ever answer to. You could like them. You could hate them. You could pay them no mind whatsoever — doesn’t make a difference to them.

They do what they do because they decided to do it. They aren’t trying to gain your approval or acceptance. They don’t want to be part of your team — they’re a team of their own. They live their lives the way they see fit and if you like them for it, great. If not… then so be it.
They do things because they want to do them, not because they believe they have to do them.

They don’t believe they have to do anything. Other than pay taxes and die of course — everything else is a decision followed by deliberate action. If they are doing something, going somewhere, participating in something, it’s because that is exactly what it is that they want to be doing.

No one coerced them or tricked them into doing it because they value their opinion above everyone else’s. They do what they believe is right and don’t bother to ask for permission — they just do it.
They love their friends but don’t rely on them.

Friends are tricky because they aren’t really yours, are they? You don’t own them. They are their own people who have their own wants and needs — people who will always put themselves ahead of you and your goals. Friends are great to have, but relying on them too heavily will leave you disappointed.

Those who live happy lives have very close friends, but they keep their independence in order to avoid those moments. It’s the lack of independence and over-reliance that often comes to ruin friendships — all relationships for that matter.
When you ask them what they do, they don’t give you a job title.

They tell you about the things they are doing with their lives — the places they have visited and are planning on visiting. The projects they are starting or part of. The problems they are working towards solving and the communities they are working with to get those problems solved.

When you ask them what they do, they respond with what they do in their lives, not what work they do in order to pay for the lives they want to one day be living. The real trick is that these individuals know better than to wait to live the lives they want to live. You live life whether you accept or ignore the fact, how you live it in the moment determines how happy you are.

When you ask them where they live, they say, “At the moment…”

Happy people tend to move around a bit. Maybe it’s because traveling does the soul good. Maybe it’s because the stagnancy of staying in one place their whole lives bores them.

Maybe it’s because they love meeting new people and having new experiences. Maybe it’s because they haven’t found the right place to settle down just yet. You see, these individuals see the world as their home — no single country or city. If you ask them where they live, then they’d answer “earth” if they wouldn’t come off sounding highfalutin.

They have their own philosophies, their own religion they created and live by.

You don’t need a book to tell you how you ought to live your life. You can live your life by whatever philosophy you wish — as long as you found truths that satisfy you. They have a strong grasp of right and wrong and are their own judges.
They embrace their impermanence.

They know they’re only mortal — having this knowledge and accepting it fuels their every step. You will too. Why? Because it is inevitable. There is no way of avoiding it, only dealing with the fact.

The happiest of people don’t fear death. They don’t do their best to avoid it. They see it as the inevitability that it is in and live their lives by their terms. They may not be able to control death, but they know they sure as hell can control their own personal lives.
They see the world as their playhouse and their mind as the conductor.

They don’t believe there is a single way that the world is — a single reality that exists. Instead, they believe themselves to be the originators of their reality.

They believe they have full control over how they interpret what they perceive. They see the world the way they choose to see it because they understand the power such a skill has. We all live in a reality of our own construction. Some of us just construct our realities better than others.
They live in the moment, but dream in the future.

Happy people have hopes, dreams and goals. They have wants and aspirations, but they don’t allow themselves to get caught up and lost in them. There isn’t so much a time and place for dreaming as there is a maximum allotted amount recommended.

You can’t live life doing nothing more than looking towards the future because you’ll miss the only time that things actually matter or exist: the present. The present, the immediate moment is the only moment that you can actually live in. The rest is only an illusion.

They don’t bother changing others, but instead learn how to deal with them appropriately.

Devoting your energy to changing other people is a waste of it. People do change, but they only do so on their own accord. They have to decide to change themselves and that only happens in time — you can’t push and force because it doesn’t work.

On the contrary, it often does the opposite of what is intended. Instead of wasting time and energy trying to do the impossible, why not do the next best thing? Learn to deal with people as they are in order to get the result you desire. If you can’t change them, then guide them to do as you wish. Otherwise, let them go.

Source: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/34Tohb/:WgfIvf9z:SKXqiJ3S/elitedaily.com/life/10-things-that-the-people-who-love-their-lives-are-doing-differently/598934

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The Ten Commandments Of Con Men

I told her I would never write about her again.

The first time I wrote about her was in 2009. I met her in a bookstore and she was drawing and I was attracted to her. I asked her what she was drawing.

She told me her whole story. And then a week later I wrote about it. That same day I got my first death threat. “I could kill you for writing about her.”

I apologized to her. We met. I asked her out. She said no. “You’re too old for me.” Which I was.

I wrote about her again a few years later. Not because of her but because of who her boss was.

He was/is a famous artist. He paints beautiful images of semi-naked women in nature.

Only… she paints them. He takes photographs of the women, blows them up poster-size, and then she would paint over the posters with oils and the painter would sign his name.

Each painting went for tens of thousands of dollars. He would sell out.

“When collectors came to visit, we would clear out, he’d put on paint-smattered clothes and pretend to be at work.”

The idea: if someone paid $50,000 for a work of art there was basically zero chance they would scrape off the paint and reveal the poster underneath. So the forgery and fraud was never discovered.

Until I first wrote about her. And then someone who was already suspicious did scrape and discover the fraud.

The artist was furious and couldn’t figure out who in his stable of forgers was the one who told me everything.

Then when I wrote about her again, she wrote me and said, “you have to stop writing this story.”

OK, I wrote back. I promise.

Who is the con man?

The artist? The girl who forged his work? The collector who discovered the fraud but didn’t reveal it to the public for fear of how the value of his art would change?

Me, who keeps writing about it?

I went to my neighbor’s boss’s office. This was around 2005. I wanted him to put money into my fund.

On the way to the office, another friend of mine called me. Later this friend would deny calling me. He said, “Try to get me into his fund. We really want to allocate money to him.”

Anyway: the boss of my neighbor gave me the tour of his offices. Then I described what I did and asked him to put money into my fund.

He said, “I have no idea what you are really doing with the money. You could be doing anything.”

I was trying to figure out a way to argue this. But there was no arguing.

The boss said, “The last thing we need here at Bernard Madoff Securities is to see our name on the front page of the Wall Street Journal.”

Maria Konnikova is brilliant. She is the author of “The Confidence Game” which explores every aspect of the science behind, and history of, being a con man.

The podcast I did with her is one of my favorites. Because so many of the techniques of a con man I see in the BS of motivational speakers and business-inspiration books and coaches and Wall Street people.

What’s the difference?

She told me, “You have to always determine intent. Sometimes the intent can be good.”

She said to me, look at the top con man in history, Victor Lustig. He’s famous for actually selling the Eiffel Tower. Twice.

She told me a story of how Victor Lustig conned Al Capone. I recommend looking up that story.

After the podcast she told me, “Since we brought up Victor Lustig I have to show you his ‘ten commandments of con men’.” So we looked it up.

Here they are:

Be a patient listener (it is this, not fast talking, that gets a con man his coups).
Never look bored.
Wait for the other person to reveal any political opinions, then agree with them.
Let the other person reveal religious views, then have the same ones.
Hint at sex talk, but don’t follow it up unless the other person shows a strong interest.
Never discuss illness, unless some special concern is shown.
Never pry into a person’s personal circumstances (they’ll tell you all eventually).
Never boast – just let your importance be quietly obvious.
Never be untidy.
Never get drunk.

Maria said, “Is someone who follows this advice a con man? Again, depends on intent.”

I looked at the list and got scared anyway. I felt like a con man.

Although I guess I pry into people’s personal circumstances. I enjoy doing that. But maybe I have to avoid writing about it afterwards. If I want to stay alive.

And I’m untidy. Even borderline dirty.

Source: http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2016/06/ten-commandments-con-men/

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Abi o. In reality, it's no-none of our business. This guy is right.


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The motive is clear: They wanted to abduct her and claim a huge ransom. This also brings another question: Are there really militants in Ogun State?


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“Illusions are always something pleasant: The only disadvantage is that they tend to burst like a bubble.” – Wolgang Kurz

“Vote the political candidate who promises the least, because he would disappoint you the least.”

A prime minster resigns because majority of his citizens go against his view. Saraki is not yet in jail in spite of his many atrocities, yet he holds a public office. A politician is a person who is professionally involved in politics, especially as a holder of an elected office. You know, they promise many things they won’t do. If people accuse them, they find economic reasons for not doing those things. Illusions are different than realities. It’s very difficult to come across a completely honest politician.

A lawyer (also called an "advocate", "attorney", "barrister", "counsel", "counsellor", or "solicitor" is someone who practices law. A lawyer has earned a degree in law, and has a license to practice law in a particular area. If people have any problem regarding the law, they can contact a lawyer for advice. In most cases, they tell professional lies to help their clients. In fact, it is said that any lawyer that doesn’t know how to tell lies can’t be successful in life.

A marketer: one that deals in a market; specifically: one that promotes or sells a product or service. A marketer can tell you the aspirin (which is repackaged) can cure diabetes, kidney failure, mental problem, fertility problems, etc. A marketer can assure you that you will make money out of nothing, by doing nothing. A marketer will tell people how to live a life free of problems, but problems increase for people. A marketer will lure you into a program or process; only for you to discover that it isn’t as easy as they claimed. A boiled corn seller would tell you that the corn was harvested today, but in reality, it was harvested 5 days ago. A trader would tell you that their profit on an article is only N50; whereas they’ve gained 50% profit from you.

Now, who is the smartest liar; the lawyer, the politician, or the marketer?



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I'm experienced. One divorce, a thousand bad relationships. Other things that go "ugh".

First off: let's assume you are asking the right question. You are asking about marriage, which wraps itself around "relationship" but is not the same thing.

So I will answer direct.

1) MARRIAGE IS A FINANCIAL TRANSACTION

This is the most common mistake people make.

People will say, "you are too cynical."

No I'm not. I love being in a long-term relationship. I live for it.

But very specifically, marriage is a legal arrangement. What it means is:

- if I die, you get to share in my estate if I have any and if I've made no other recourse.

- you can share my medical benefits, depending on where i work and what country I live in.

- you make decisions if I am injured enough that I can't represent myself.

- if we have kids and we are married, then whoever makes more will have some financial responsibility. Although just having kids is enough for that.

- depending on the state, if we are married and get divorced then each state has rules for how assets are divided.

Most of the above can be handled with contracts so that a divorce can unwind without interference from the government or a judge. Otherwise you get married not only to your spouse but to the government.

It's important, again, to recognize that "marriage" and "relationship" are not the same. This is not cynical. This is the law.

2) DON'T ASK 'WHY?'

When something bad happened in my marriage, I think I spent too much time asking, "Why did this happen?"

There are no answers. There is no truthful answer to why. And it happened. It can't be undone. Why does not make When not exist.

3) NOBODY WINS AN ARGUMENT

"But he's wrong!" "But you're wrong!"

This doesn't matter. There is no winner once a voice is raised. Knowing this is the difference between a relationship that survives until tomorrow and a relationship that dissolves tonight.

4) YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE OTHER PERSON

A good relationship depends on the relationship you have with yourself. You have to love yourself to know how to love others.

Else, fear will crop up too much. Fear that someone will leave you. Or do something you don't want them to do.

You can only change yourself in this regard by having more self-esteem.

If you try to change the other person, why were you with them in the first place? For hope that they would change? You liked some things but not others?

It's hard enough to change yourself. How can you hope to survive if you have to change both yourself and someone entirely different from you.

5) RELATIONSHIPS DON'T HAVE TO LAST FOREVER TO BE WORTH IT

I have two kids with my first wife. I love them.

I hope every relationship I am in lasts forever. I am a sucker for monogamy and commitment.

But the reality is, most relationship don't last forever. And some large percentage of marriages end in divorce.

Government, religion, culture, and family, program us to think that we fail when a marriage fails.

But many legal contracts go awry and have to be rewritten. And sometimes people grow apart.

Often growth is considered a good thing. Except when it means that a relationship might have been "out"-grown.

Don't fall for that myth.

6) IT'S OK TO GO TO SLEEP ANGRY

When I was a kid, "Tom Bradford", the father in the TV show, "Eight is Enough", gives advice to his oldest son on his son's wedding day: "Don't go to sleep angry".

For 30 years I remember this because I always thought, "huh, that sounds like good advice."

It's BS.

Often at night, for a variety of reasons, people are upset. Just like when I sometimes (often) wake up at 3 in the morning with anxiety.

When that happens I now tell myself - this anxiety is irrational, but how about we (me and me) schedule a time at 3 in the AFTERNOON the next day to discuss.

By 3 in the afternoon, I am never that anxious. There is nothing left to discuss.

Sometimes when two people who love each other are upset, it's ok if they simply wait and even sleep. Sleeping calms the body down, rejuvenates the brain, reduces the risk of illness (physical and psychological) and has many other benefits, including saving relationships.

So it's ok to fall asleep angry. And try to wake up with the son, and not with the fires of the night before.

7) ANGER IS FEAR WITH CLOTHES

When you're angry, first ask, "What am I afraid of?"

DON'T GIVE YOUR SELF-ESTEEM TO SOMEONE ELSE TO WATCH OVER

I am insecure. It's hard to hold onto my insecurity.

When someone looks at me with love, I think to myself - Finally someone who can help me feel more secure!

And I often outsource my self-esteem. Now she has to hold onto not only her self-esteem but mine as well.

This story doesn't end well.

Give everything of yourself. But keep your self-esteem. Don't give it to someone else to hold onto.

9) KIDS CHANGE EVERYTHING

First it's you and your partner. Then, it's you and your partner and a government license.

Then, it's you and your partner and a new human being.

This human being is one foot tall, doesn't speak, cries and screams all the time, and poops on the floor. And lives in your house. And will die if you don't watch it 24 hours a day.

The big mistake I made in my first marriage was not realizing how much having a kid will actually change the dynamic between my wife and me.

Because I made that mistake, I was miserable almost all the time.

All I had to do was acknowledge that this was a big change. And any change requires work to get through.

10) IF SHE TELLS ME SHE HAS CANCER TOMORROW WILL I LEAVE?

This seems like a stupid comment. But just listen to me.

It's easy: if the answer to the above is "no, of course not" then you are in love.

If you pause, it doesn't mean you're a bad person. It just probably means you shouldn't get married and you should think about ending the relationship.

By the way, the reverse holds also: "If I tell her I have cancer tomorrow, is there a chance she might leave?"

If the answer to that is "maybe" or "I don't know" or "I'm afraid of what will happen" then maybe time to pause things.

Again, I'm not being cynical - a lot of marriages and relationships end when the life goals of people change or are forced to change through illness or job change or whatever.

If your relationship can't handle massive change, that's ok. Just don't get married.

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So why should two people get married? I will be honest and say why I do.

That despite it being a government transaction, and despite having at least one divorce, and despite it having nothing to do with love, I simply like being married.

I like giving the gift that even though I know this whole thing is a sham, culturally it means I above-and-beyond love you and want you to share this gift with me.

Even if it means we are idiots. I hope we grow old together and die in each other's arms while we sleep.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Marriage/What-is-the-best-marriage-advice-you-would-give

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The more scientists look into chocolate, the more fascinating discoveries they make. Can our health and mood really benefit from chocolate? Can chocolate affect physical beauty and well being? Researchers have recently concluded that it can do a lot more.

Chocolate improves the blood flow to the brain which results in increased mental strength, agility and physical comfort. People who eat chocolate at least twice a day have improved attention, increased memorization capacity, and quick reactions.

Cocoa has the ability to improve blood circulation. A more recent research reveals that women who enjoyed chocolate every day for a period of three months had moister, softer and overall healthier-looking skin. The polyphenols contained in dark chocolate can slow down and even reverse the processes of aging.

The regular consumption of dark chocolate protects against heart diseases. Researchers have also discovered that chocolate lowers cholesterol, reduces hypertension and prevents the formation of blood cloths.

Last but not least, chocolate can improve physical and mental well being. People actively involved in sports recover quickly after periods of intense or violent exertion. Chocolate contains tryptophan and phenylethylamine. These two chemicals are largely responsible for its mood elevating qualities. The Aztecs considered cocoa beans to be a powerful aphrodisiac. Women who regularly consume three or more servings of chocolate a day experience intensified sexual desire.

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150 million emails are sent every minute on average across the Internet.

You thought YOU got too many emails? You’re not alone. 150 million emails are sent every minute on average across the Internet, according to data from consulting and technology solutions company Excelacom.

If that’s not proof the Internet is huge, for comparison, the U.S. Postal Service processes just 353,000 pieces of mail each minute — that’s about 0.2% the number of emails sent.

But beyond just email, a lot is happening on the Internet in not a lot of time. In the span of just one minute, on average:

1,389 Uber rides are booked.
347,222 tweets are tweeted.
527,760 images are snapped on Snapchat.
972,222 potential suitors are swiped on Tinder.
And many of those numbers have grown significantly over the past year. Uber saw 695 more rides booked per minute in 2016 over 2015 — a 100% year-over-year increase, and Amazon AMZN, +0.00% sales rose 70% per minute, by $83,836, to $203,596. Tinder is also growing like crazy. In just one minute, more potential suitors are swiped on Tinder than the number of people logging into Facebook FB, -0.03% And here’s one you might not guess -- more videos are viewed in one minute than Google GOOG, +0.23% search queries made.

If Snapchatting, Tindering or online shopping isn’t your thing, you could also spend that minute making your bed, holding a plank, flossing your teeth, watering your plants or even cranking out 20 burpees.

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/one-chart-shows-everything-that-happens-on-the-internet-in-just-one-minute-2016-04-26?link=sfmw_tw

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You hear between 10 and 200 lies a day, according to a TED-Ed video recently reported by Lifehacker. Luckily, researchers have uncovered some ways to spot someone who's fibbing to you — even if their pants haven't caught fire.

For much of human history, the video points out, we've worked to create technology that catches liars based on physical cues. Tools like polygraphs, brain scans, voice stress analysis, and blood pressure monitors haven't proved entirely reliable and are also not admissible in courts in the United States.

The video suggests taking a different approach, using communication science to analyze how people talk when they're fibbing, rather than trying to catch liars by detecting changes in their bodies.

Here are four things liars say when they talk to you:

1. Liars don't use the pronoun "I."

Liars often avoid speaking about themselves directly, and instead describe other people and situations in order to distance themselves from the lie.

For instance, someone accused of cheating on their partner might say, "Nothing happened," rather than "I didn't cheat on you."

2. Liars use negative language.

According to the video, liars often express negativity because they feel subconsciously guilty about not telling the truth.

Instead of simply saying "My car broke down," they might add "It's such a hassle! European cars are so tempermental."

3. Liars avoid nuance, and instead offer simplified explanations.

When someone is lying to make a point, they often will generalize or use simple, technical terms.

A few from American politicians:

"I am not a crook," late President President Richard Nixon famously declared in a press conference about the Watergate Scandal.

“We have tremendous problems with crime and other things,” presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said at a March campaign event in North Carolina. As reporter Isaac Arnsdorf wrote on Politico, "Crime rates have declined dramatically since the 1990s and remain at historically low levels."

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman," President Bill Clinton claimed, before ultimately admitting that he had an affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

4. Liars use long sentences.

"Even though liars keep descriptions simple, they tend to use longer and more convoluted sentence structure, inserting unnecessary words and irrelevant but factual sounding details in order to pad the lie," the video points out.

Remember that time Britney Spears lied about staying a virgin until marriage?

If not, here's what she told the British tabloid the Daily Star:

"The virginity issue. It's a personal decision and it reflects how I feel right now about myself. There are so many emotions involved that I would like to be able to wait until I know I'm with the right person and I'm married."

Later, it became clear that she had decided not to wait (which, just to be clear, is totally fine!) when Justin Timberlake rudely revealed they had slept together in a 2002 interview with Barbara Walters, Bustle pointed out.

In conclusion, your friend's piece-of-crap phone that he totally hates probably didn't die while he was talking to his parents on the freeway driving to a doctor's appointment. Or maybe it did. You never know.

You can watch the full video below: http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/2i4n5T/:5pfdqe0M:Xdf!vgYf/www.attn.com/stories/9075/four-ways-to-spot-liar

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I don't know what's wrong with youths. Do you go to school to acquire knowledge or to join unwholesome organizations? Another thing is: Many students have been expelled or not listed, and they still collect fess from their parents, gambling everything away.

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I am a Calabar man…. I was a Christian by birth, and I remained a Christian for 25 years.

However I developed friendship with a very good Muslim, who lived a peaceful, exemplary, impeccable life. He was a very brilliant man who took his religion seriously. He was well liked by his neighbors.

Needless to say, this pious Muslim became my role model. And I allowed him to explain the truth about Islam to me. I was greatly convinced by I dithered in my decision.

Sadly, this generous and kind man died before his 65the birthday. He was far older than me, but he didn’t discriminate when it comes to age and tribe. Many people shared testimonies about his good deeds his funeral. I became a Muslim.

I’m currently participating in Ramadan fasting, but I’ve penchant for dog meat. I’m afraid to ask my Imam (after all, I may be eating it in the secret).

I therefore turn to you forumers: Is it a big deal if I eat dog meat during fasting?

Thanks for your answer.


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Name them, Wizkid, Pasuma, Saheed Osupa, Late Alhaji Agba, and many others sing praises of only their Moms.

Aren’t musicians passing across wrong mindset to the society?

During Mother’s Day, many people eulogize their Moms on social media like Facebook, etc. However, on Father’s Day, very few people, if any praise and thank their fathers.

Are people too shallow-sensed to know that there are useful, loving, and caring dads? Even if your dad isn’t capable of taking care of your now, have they forgotten that someone provided money for their upkeep when they were helpless?

I’ve witnessed situations in which wives poisoned their children’s hearts against their fathers because they’d misunderstand and got separated (whereas some wives also share responsibility for their marriage failure).

Have those who praise only their mothers forgotten that they would become parents or they have become parents? Don’t they think they can also offend their children in some way or the other?

If you honor your mother only, don’t you think one of your children or your children will do the same for you?

Why do Mothers take a lion share of Onje Omo (rewards from children) while dads get so little or nothing? Is this fair?

Why would women complain of childbearing pains when they willingly enjoyed that sex, even going willingly back to enjoy the sex after the pain of childbirth is over?

As there are useless dads, aren’t there wicked and useless moms?

Why?

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“I don’t view a person who lives in a shack differently than one that lives in a mansion. Everyone is on their own journey and creating their own experiences. Should you want to experience your life from a shack or mansion is completely up to you. There is no guilt or piousness in either.” - Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

“Some people see big visions their whole life and others get more clarity as they live life. Scale is not what matters, but how you live your life, whether you are true to yourself is what matters. Even then, nothing matters; things only matter based on how you interpret and rate it.” - Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

Contentment and success are different things. People mistake success with happiness and achievement. You can be the poorest person on earth and be wholly content or the richest, wealthiest person on earth and be absolutely unhappy and tormented. If you have such feelings, are you comparing yourself to anyone or to societal beliefs? - Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

I am saying that you are confused as to how you measure success. You know what makes you happy and what your mission in life is, yet it appears that instead, you are measuring success based on societal rules, not yours. The rules to your game are the only thing that matters. You need to sort all of that out or you will be continually confused. Listen to your heart. - Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

“If you think someone is mean then it is the meanness within yourself being projected onto the other person…you are seeing what is in your own heart. If you see love and kindness in the world than you are seeing your own love and kindness inside. You are your thoughts. Events of the world are neutral; it is your interpretation of the world that makes it real. So if you perceive something as wrong, then you are assigning your belief that something is right or wrong. If you claim someone is doing something wrong, you are projecting your belief of what is right or wrong onto that person.” Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

“You are what your thoughts are, and your thoughts come from your beliefs, and your beliefs make you the person you are.” - Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

“Ironically, adults teach children how to live in the world; but children are the ones that should be teaching adults on how to live in God’s world.” - Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

“The secret is that you attract and manifest the people in your life; everyone is a messenger from me. It is up to you to see and embrace the message. As in prior dialogs, you need to be thankful for not only the people who have helped you but also the ones that have scorned you or the ones that failed you; each of them brought forth a lesson for you. Remember, your thoughts not only drive your behavior and your actions, but they also signal to the Universe your intent, and the Universe will send the appropriate resources to achieve your thoughts. As such, you manifest your reality.” - Albert Lau (Dialogue with Internal Guidance)

Source: http://www.vantharp.com/Tharps-Thoughts/789_June_15_2016.html

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This Is How Much Water You Save When You Pee in the Shower

Peeing in the shower is awesome. There's no aiming! No wiping! No butt-cheek-toilet-seat contact! It's so great, a survey once found that 61% of Americans admit to doing it.

Another benefit to peeing in the shower? It saves water.

Flushing the toilet accounts for around 27% of Americans' water usage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Standard toilets use 1.6 gallons of water per flush, while older toilets use between 3.5 and 7 gallons.

Those saved gallons of water add up over time — especially when everyone gets on board.

In 2014, students at England's University of East Anglia campaigned for their school's 15,000 pupils "to take their first wee of the day while having their morning shower," according to the BBC. Over the course of a year, the school would save enough water to fill 26 Olympic-sized swimming pools, according to the students' calculations.

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Philosophy is a fascinating branch of wisdom. However these esoteric ideas are sometimes difficult to translate into practical application. What are all of those thoughts, suppositions and theories actually good for? How can an understanding of philosophy ultimately help you lead a better life?

Today I want to examine with you four philosophical ideas that have influenced my life in a very positive way. With the right twists I’ll be able to show you that they are indeed empowering. Let’s go!


1) Friedrich Nietzsche – Eternal Recurrence
The Idea

Several times throughout his works, Nietzsche talks about the thought experiment of eternal recurrence. Aphorism 341 of The Gay Science goes like this:

“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: “This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence—even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust! Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: “You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.” If this thought gained possession of you, it would change you as you are or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “Do you desire this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?”

Does the idea of eternal recurrence – that every moment of your life will repeat itself into eternity – leave you shivering with fear or with joy; whether you are living life fully everyday or just waiting for better times to come. Let us take a look at the possible consequences of Nietzsche’s idea.


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If Bill Gates bought up as many countries as he could afford, what would his empire look like?

According to Bloomberg, the estimated net worth of Bill Gates is around 85.6$ billion, as of June 2016.

Let’s assume a country’s worth is counted by its produced GDP, which is the monetary measure of the value of all final goods and services produced by a country in a year, as there is no real way to know how much a country is really worth since no one’s ever bought a country in recent times with hard cash.

If he would start buying up countries starting with the lowest GDP, it would look something like this:

Data from the International Monetary Fund (2015)

Rank - Country - GDP (Millions of Int$)

156 - Burundi - 7,711

157 - Timor-Leste - 6,570

158 - Bhutan - 6,385

159 - Lesotho - 5,770

160 - Guyana - 5,759

161 - Maldives - 5,191

162 - Barbados - 4,636

163 - Liberia - 3,749

164 - Cabo Verde - 3,423

165 - The Gambia - 3,261

166 - Djibouti - 3,094

167 - Belize - 3,049

168 - Central African Republic - 3,018

169 - Guinea-Bissau - 2,680

170 - Seychelles - 2,417

171 - Antigua and Barbuda - 2,097

172 - St. Lucia - 2,030

173 - San Marino - 1,982

174 - Grenada - 1,401

175 - St. Kitts and Nevis - 1,379

176 - Comoros - 1,214

177 - St. Vincent and the Grenadines - 1,205

178 - Solomon Islands - 1,146

179 - Samoa - 1,000

180 - Dominica - 763

181 - Vanuatu - 685

182 - São Tomé and Príncipe - 658

Source: https://www.quora.com/If-Bill-Gates-bought-up-as-many-countries-as-he-could-afford-what-would-his-empire-look-like

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The only problem is the controversy surrounding her marriage. I wish her a peaceful relationship. Love you movies, Toyin!

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Aliko Dangote GCON (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian billionaire, who owns the Dangote Group, which has interests in commodities. The company operates in Nigeria and other African countries, including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Togo, Tanzania, and Zambia. As of January 2015, he had an estimated net worth of US$18.6 billion.

Dangote is ranked by Forbes magazine as the 67th richest person in the world and the richest in Africa; he peaked on the list as the 23rd richest person in the world in 2014. He surpassed Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi in 2013 by over $2.6 billion to become the world's richest person of African descent. (Source: Wikipedia)

I think Nigeria would be better if those who stole public money could establish great industries here, instead of lodging the money abroad. Dangote employs many people and pay them salaries. He’s done many things that might reduce our dependency on some foreign products. He’s now building some refineries.

Some people see Dangote as a blessing to Nigeria. Some people see him as a scourge. For example, they complain when some of his trucks have accidents. They think there are bad things about him which members of the public don’t know. Which thought is correct?

Do you think the blame people place on Dangote is justified? What could be the reasons for such blame?


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Boko Haram is evil. It’s cost Nigeria so many things: lives of innocent citizens, lives of our soldiers and huge property, financial burden and defamation.

Our hearts go to those who’ve suffered from this evil called Boko Haram. We also commend the Federal Government for their relentless effort in making sure that this evil is exterminated from our territory.

However, there is one good thing in Boko Haram. IT HAS AWAKENED THE NIGERIAN ARMY FROM THEIR SLUMBER.

Nigerian Army used to be very strong. Several years ago, they were weak, corrupt and irresponsible. But as a result of Boko Haram issues, the Army has undergone major reforms, attention and radical rehabilitation. Our Army are now stronger than they used to be several years ago.

This is a harsh remind to those who want to join the Army simply because of unemployment, because of salaries and not because they really want to serve their fatherland selflessly. BEING IN THE MILITARY IS NO PICNIC.


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Is Donald Trump a business genius?

Let's look at the 11 business markets Trump has entered.

The Successful Businesses:
1) Real Estate transactions
2) The Apprentice television show

The Failed Businesses:
1) Trump Airlines - After 4 years (1988-1992) of no profits, it was broken apart in bankruptcy court to pay his creditors.
2) Trump Vodka - After 5 years (2006-2011) of lackluster sales, the company was dissolved.
3) Trump Casinos - Three casinos in Atlantic City all filed for bankruptcy in 2014 (fourth time for them).
4) Trump The Game & The Apprentice - Two board games designed by Donald that were discontinued.
5) Trump Magazine - Lasted a year and a half before ceasing publication.
6) Trump Steaks - Closed in 2012 for multiple health code violations.
7) GoTrump.com - A travel website that only lasted a year.
Trump University - A non-accredited for-profit 'university' accused of defrauding students by the New York Attorney General ($40 million damages).
9) Trump Mortgage - Failed after a year and a half.

Let's look closer at his two successful businesses.
1) Real Estate: 4 of his properties (individually incorporated on the good advice of his legal team) failed because Trump's "brilliant" strategy was to over-leverage his properties. This worked very well in a bull market, but almost lost him everything in a bear market. His attorneys did a great job in bankruptcy court and his creditors took the fall for his bad decisions. He isn't a horrible real estate developer, but neither is he a great one.

2) Reality Television: Trump really shines here. The average viewer is greatly entertained by the drama between the contestants and enjoys watching Trump insult people with over-sized egos.

So, in conclusion, Trump is an excellent entertainer, a mediocre talent at the business he inherited, and a failure in everything else he's laid a hand to. Business schools don't do case studies of Donald Trump. They look at people like Jack Welch, Sam Walton, Warren Buffet, Carlos Slim, Herbert Dow, etc. People who are famous because others talk about what they did, not because they talk about themselves.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Is-Donald-Trump-a-business-genius

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IF SOMEONE FROM THE 1950S OR EARLIER SUDDENLY APPEARED TODAY, WHAT WOULD BE THE MOST DIFFICULT THING TO EXPLAIN TO THEM ABOUT LIFE TODAY?

There are many things that might be hard for a 1950s person to accept, such as gay marriage, the end of the Cold War, a black president, female presidential candidates, fears about Global Warming, the fate of the USSR, CGI, nudity on television, modern theories about nutrition, the Human Genome Project, and the many sanctions against smoking.

But none of those things would be extremely hard to explain to a relatively intelligent person with 1950's-level knowledge. I couldn't give such a person a deep understanding of the Human Genome Project, but I couldn't do that for a contemporary person, either, because (alas), my knowledge of it isn't all that deep. I'm pretty sure that, given a day, I could bring Mr. 1950 up-to-speed (intellectually) on most of those topics—up to the speed of a contemporary non-specialist.

Teaching him to use a modern computer interface would be a much bigger challenge. I'm trying and failing to come up with other contemporary things that would be as hard to teach. I was born back when all telephones had rotary dials, but I didn't find it hard to learn touch-tone ones. Most kitchen devices are pretty unchanged; driving a car hasn't changed all that much; DVD players would be surprising, but they're pretty simple devices to operate. Windows-based computers, though...

We're talking about people have never touched a mouse, who have never opened a folder, who have never saved a file, who have never started up an application, who have never run multiple applications at once, who have never seen a cursor, who have never typed continuously without pressing a carriage-return at the end of each line, who have never clicked "B" to make text bold, who have never copied and pasted, who have never scrolled, who have never selected text, etc.

I'm sure a smart 50s person could learn to do all those things, but it would take a long time and he'd have to overcome a ton of both physical and mental confusion. Most of our UIs, no matter how obvious they seem to us, assume experience with similar UIs.

Back in the mid-90s, my job was teaching non-tech-savvy adults how to use the web, and it was very hard for most of them. I'm talking about smart people—experts in their fields—who had simply never touched a computer before.

And now the gap is widening, because we have a generation of people who have never not touched a computer before. Using a mouse is, for them, like using a doorknob is to previous generations. (Consider that we're born with an understanding of neither. We have to learn how to use doorknobs, but none of us remember learning it.)

One smart student of mine got totally confused by files and folders. It took me a while to understand what was hanging him up, and it turned out my insistence on the metaphor—computer files and folders are like physical files and folders—was making things worse. His brain was trying to take me literally, but he knew that, in real life, folders rarely including nesting.

In a windows system, it's trivial to put a folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder inside a folder. If you see that in an actual filing cabinet, it's some sort of mistake.

Nesting is a deeply unnatural idea to many people, even to many people today, though most young people have a more intuitive grasp of it than older folks, simply due to their familiarity with computer-based file systems.

When I used to teach programming and I got to subjects like recursion, which involves many levels of nesting, many people got confused. And I realized that we almost never have to deal with deep levels of nesting in everyday life. We may occasionally see a box inside a box, but we rarely run into boxes inside boxes inside boxes inside boxes ... and when we do, we can usually ignore the nesting, worrying only about the box we're in and maybe one other box, inside it or outside it.

A person from the 50s would be challenged by ../../../../../mydir/myfile.txt, which might also confuse some people, today, but I doubt they'd be as confused. (It means go up five directories from the current one, then go into the subdirectory called mydir, and then open the file called myfile.txt.)

Source: https://www.quora.com/If-someone-from-the-1950s-or-earlier-suddenly-appeared-today-what-would-be-the-most-difficult-thing-to-explain-to-them-about-life-today

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I was shot in the head, mid frontal, just above the eyes and the first/last thing I remember before blacking out, was the thought of someone hitting me on the back of my neck/skull with a sledge hammer. Then sometime later in the operating room, I remember the surgeons debriding the gaping wound in my skull, the poking and stinging. Then sometime later, my heart started to convulse because of blood loss, the pain was unbearable, so I left my body behind and crossed into an unconscious realm of peace and warmth.

I get emotional when describing that experience, so I will stop for now. For more detail, please read: https://www.quora.com/Do-people-who-are-shot-in-the-head-experience-any-pain-before-death

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Assuming the sun vanishes tomorrow; what ways can we survive without the sun?

If the sun was just turned off, any preparedness would be about fighting for days. The earth would start to cool towards about -240 C that is the stable surface temperature caused by the heat in earths core. This equilibrium would take a long time to reach, but within weeks it would already be colder on average than the coldest temperatures ever measured on earth. Plants would die instantly, and animals further down would follow suit quite fast (with the exception perhaps for some small ecosystems near volcanic outlets or similar). The last human would probably die within a year or two, perhaps in a submarine (the water would cool slower) or in some location rich in geothermal energy, like Iceland or Hawaii.

But I guess a submarine full of fuel and canned food would be a pretty good preparedness. Of course you'd quickly run into the problem of not having an air hole to come up through with your submarine because all seas would freeze over with hundreds of meters thick ice sheets (although some nuke subs have the energy and means to produce oxygen from water, but this is probably outside your budget). Perhaps there would be a suitable spot to park the submarine next to some underwater volcano, and make sure to bring enough fissile uranium.

A cheaper alternative would be to stake out in some deep mine, where the temperature from the earths mantle becomes considerable. The deepest operational mine today is in south africa, and it has to be cooled in order for the miners not to die from the heat of almost 60 C that to a large extent comes from the mantle. In the described scenario it might become quite crowded, and getting oxygen down there would of course also be an issue.

But would living in a dark submarine or mine for a couple of years eating canned food really be worth the effort?

Answer is based on some data from Marshak's portrait of a planet, googlings and some rough guesses and back of the envelope calculations.

Source: https://www.quora.com/Assuming-the-sun-vanishes-tomorrow-what-ways-can-we-survive-without-the-sun

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What Steve Jobs can teach you about overcoming business challenges?

Steve Jobs had a vision beyond our understanding. His idea right from the beginning was to change everything. During his life he changed at least 4 things that most of the population in the world uses every day – he developed the PC, the iPod, the iPhone, and iPad.

From his early years it was clear that Steve Jobs had no grand plan in the beginning. His search for himself took Jobs through India, Buddhism, psychedelic use, attempts to become an astronaut and start a computer company in the Soviet Union. However winding his path at time, Jobs did find inspiration and creativity in himself at certain periods of his life.

Here’s a great infographic put together by Anna Vital about Steve Jobs life timeline: https://www./what-steve-jobs-can-teach-you-overcoming-business-vlad-ninov-mba?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-recommended_articles-67-null&midToken=AQF1ZKDGT9_qmg&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=28FsRX9wOKtTg1



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What happens when you don't put your phone on airplane mode on an airplane?

And if you use the wifi?

Do you get a ticket? Can they know, can they do something if you don't care or if you forgot ?

I am not an electrical engineer, but I am an airline pilot.

I'm going to blow the mind of every frequent flyer out there and say this: cell phones can and do interfere with airplanes. Transmitting cell phones can cause audible interference on the aircraft's radios. You've probably heard this interference yourself when a phone is set near a speaker. It sounds like a "dit-dit-dit-dit" tone and it's pretty annoying. Anyone who has had to track down audio interference in a sound system understands.

So, if cell phones actually DO interfere why haven't I heard about it?
First of all, it's fairly rare. The interference doesn't happen every time a phone is on inside an airplane. I hear it maybe once or twice a month, and I fly about 50 flights every month. So it's rare, but I'm guessing 2-3% of the flights is a lot more common than the "once in a million" or "never" that most people guess. It's usually spurious. It happens once or twice and that's it. Here are a few of the factors that determine whether or not a phone is going to blast the pilot's ear:
1. Timing. Most of the time, the phone has to be actively transmitting at high power to cause the audible interference. That means it needs to be sending or receiving a call at the edge of cell reception, which is usually around 5,000 to 10,000 feet. On the ground with good reception it's rare to hear the interference (but not impossible) and for most of the flight above 10,000' you don't have reception and your phone is just blissfully draining its battery in peace.
2. The phone. Some models are worse than others, with GSM phones being some of the worst offenders. And as time goes on, I'm hearing it less and less as phone technology advances.
3. The airplane. My personal opinion is that size is more of a factor than age here. Most of my flight experience over the past decade has been in smaller regional jets. An electrical engineer will be able to give you equations about field strength and dropoff over distance. I'm not an electrical engineer, so I'll sum it up and say that you have to be pretty close to the radio equipment for your phone to interfere. So in a 767 with a wide fuselage and a galley between the cockpit and first class there might not be any passenger seat close enough to radio equipment for a cell phone to interfere. On a RJ, the first few seats can be within ten feet of the pilots' radios.
All of these have to coincide for a phone to cause audible interference.

Secondly, and in the interest of full disclosure...it's usually a crewmember's phone. As I said, distance is a key factor and the pilots and forward flight attendants sit closest to the radios. When we hear the "dit-dit-dit-dit" over the radio the conversation usually goes like this:
Pilot 1 <sing-song voice>: Some-body left their phone on.
Pilot 2: Not it.
Pilot 1: Probably the flight attendant's.
(There's a 30% chance it WAS Pilot 2.)

In any case, it's not worth making an announcement to the passengers when it's probably only going to happen once. It's definitely not worth doing extra paperwork by reporting it to the FAA.

But wait! If airplanes can be affected by my cell phone why allow them on the plane at all?
If you ask me if phones interfere, I'll say yes. If you ask if they're dangerous...eh, not really. It's annoying, but the practical result of this interference is that the radio frequency is blocked for a few seconds. Pilots train regularly to deal with an engine failing right as they're taking off. They train for fires, for flight control failures, for losing their instrument readouts, for having their instruments suddenly go wonky, for recovering from wake turbulence that rolls the aircraft wings-vertical, for losing the hydraulics, for losing all electrical power. They know procedures for losing all onboard navigation. There are procedures for losing all onboard radios that they learn early on in flight training. If you ask an airline pilot to name one thing that could cause an airliner to crash out of the clear blue sky besides a bomb or missile, they're going to be thinking for a while before they say "Oh, yeah! Geese." They're definitely not going to say, "Well, having a radio frequency blocked for two seconds would do it." The same practical effect happens when two people speak at once on the frequency and that is happening somewhere in the world at this very moment. Since the actual danger posed to the aircraft by an interfering cell phone is much lower than...well, any one of a hundred things that regularly exist on an average flight there's no point in banning phones from airplanes.

Would I get in trouble if I accidentally leave my phone on and it interferes?
Probably not, for all the reasons I mentioned above. It's just not worth it generally for the crew to hunt down a phone that generates a bit of noise on the radio. And pilots are allergic to paperwork, so it really wouldn't be worth it to report a passenger to the FAA. That's technically possible, but practically speaking it's not going to happen unless the passenger refuses to stop texting when they're asked to put their airplane mode on.

What's the worst that could happen from this interference?
There are older reports about phones causing navigation needles to jump around, but I've never seen that effect myself and I'm guessing that those were all back in the past when electronic shielding was not as good as today.

The most serious case I experienced was a few years ago when a passenger at the front of my small regional jet was holding a long text conversation on his GSM phone as we were being vectored for approach below 10,000' on a very busy radio frequency. It was the perfect storm of cell phone interference. Every time he sent a text we'd get the "dit-dit-dit-dit" on the radio. From our end, it just meant that the typically spurious interference was not spurious this time and it was making us miss radio calls. The second time we missed a radio call ATC started using their exasperated "talking to a small child" voice.
"JetWeasel 1234, Des-cend to FOUR thou-sand. And listen up."
We called the flight attendant, who assured us her phone was off and then noticed 2A was surreptitiously texting on his phone and trying to hide it. She told him it was interfering with the cockpit and he quickly turned it off. The interference stopped. Did he get in trouble? No, what would be the point? Like every other passenger he thought that the "interference" thing was a myth. He turned it off when asked, so no big deal.

But...a few weeks ago at Chicago Midway two aircraft with very similar-sounding callsigns were lined up on crossing runways waiting to take off. And when one was cleared to go, they both thought the call was for them and started to take off at the same time right at each other. Fortunately, Midway Tower ATC noticed right away and yelled for them to abort the takeoff. That would have been a very bad two seconds for a pilot's radio to be blocked.

In conclusion: it's not really dangerous to forget to put your phone into airplane mode and you're not going to get fined by the FAA as long as you don't argue about it. But it can be quite annoying to the pilots and it's going to drain your batteries. So please turn your airplane mode on, sit back, relax, and enjoy your flight.


Source: https://www.quora.com/What-happens-when-you-dont-put-your-phone-on-airplane-mode-on-an-airplane


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