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Undertaker001:
72min and you don de para..
you don forget Torino v verona?

84 min, its sure bros

pemoney:
If u no say u on get mind no ply Ham o.............

Bros, but how were you able to fund 1mil to ur account, I thought max per day is 50k.

pemoney:
If u no say u on get mind no ply Ham o.............

too much person, i quickly stake all my balance. Too bad i only have 5k

I don't know why we deceive our self's with these phoney stories and beliefs.

Why all these dubious stories are never heard of in the western world? Why is it only in Africa? Why can't we move past this and embrace science and technology and make life better on Earth, here and now. With all the churches everywhere promising salvation, we are still behind, oyibo way no too dey go church still best us in almost everything.

Op, nice story though...

LadyGoddiva:
I hope your girlfriend's tits are still standing gallantly on the battle field

Why you dey carry this matter for head?

Kenturkey048:
all of them just carry same nose structure

Make up?

Miss Enugu, OMG!

Lisa Quast, CONTRIBUTOR
Mar 6, 2017 4:00 AM

You attended the party of a long-time friend and ran into a lot of people from high school that you hadn’t seen in years. During chit-chat over appetizers and drinks, you could feel the friendly competition heating up.

While comparing career accomplishments, you were shocked to learn that the kid from school with the genius IQ, the one all the teachers thought would be spectacularly successful, had struggled with his career. How could this be, you wondered. This was the person everyone thought would invent something that would change the world.

It turns out that intelligence might not be the best indicator of future success. According to psychologist Angela Duckworth, the secret to outstanding achievement isn’t talent. Instead, it’s a special blend of persistence and passion that she calls “grit.”

Duckworth has spent years studying people, trying to understand what it is that makes high achievers so successful. And what she found surprised even her. It wasn’t SAT scores. It wasn’t IQ scores. It wasn’t even a degree from a top-ranking business school that turned out to be the best predictor of success. “It was this combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special,” Duckworth said. “In a word, they had grit.”

Being gritty, according to Duckworth, is the ability to persevere. It’s about being unusually resilient and hardworking, so much so that you’re willing to continue on in the face of difficulties, obstacles and even failures. It’s about being constantly driven to improve.

In addition to perseverance, being gritty is also about being passionateabout something. For the highly successful, Duckworth found that the journey was just as important as the end result. “Even if some of the things they had to do were boring, or frustrating, or even painful, they wouldn’t dream of giving up. Their passion was enduring.”

What her research demonstrated is that it wasn’t natural talent that made the biggest difference in who was highly successful and who wasn’t – it was more about effort than IQ. Duckworth even came up with two equations she uses to explain this concept:

• Talent x effort = skill
• Skill x effort = achievement


“Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them,” Duckworth explained.

As you can see from the equations, effort counts twice. That’s why IQ and SAT scores aren’t a good indicator of someone’s future success. It’s because those scores are missing the most important part of the equation – the person’s effort level or what Duckworth calls their “grittiness” factor (their level of persistence and passion).

What does that mean for you? It means that it’s OK if you aren’t the smartest person in the room or the smartest person in the job. It means the effort you expend toward your goals (perseverance) and your dedication throughout your career journey (passion) are what matter more than how you scored on your SAT or an IQ test.

Why? Because grit will always trump talent. Or as Duckworth notes, “Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”


Culled from Forbes.com

Lisa Quast, CONTRIBUTOR

Mar 6, 2017 4:00 AM 

You attended the party of a long-time friend and ran into a lot of people from high school that you hadn’t seen in years. During chit-chat over appetizers and drinks, you could feel the friendly competition heating up.

While comparing career accomplishments, you were shocked to learn that the kid from school with the genius IQ, the one all the teachers thought would be spectacularly successful, had struggled with his career. How could this be, you wondered. This was the person everyone thought would invent something that would change the world.

It turns out that intelligence might not be the best indicator of future success. According to psychologist Angela Duckworth, the secret to outstanding achievement isn’t talent. Instead, it’s a special blend of persistence and passion that she calls “grit.”

Duckworth has spent years studying people, trying to understand what it is that makes high achievers so successful. And what she found surprised even her. It wasn’t SAT scores. It wasn’t IQ scores. It wasn’t even a degree from a top-ranking business school that turned out to be the best predictor of success. “It was this combination of passion and perseverance that made high achievers special,” Duckworth said. “In a word, they had grit.”

Being gritty, according to Duckworth, is the ability to persevere. It’s about being unusually resilient and hardworking, so much so that you’re willing to continue on in the face of difficulties, obstacles and even failures. It’s about being constantly driven to improve.

In addition to perseverance, being gritty is also about being passionateabout something. For the highly successful, Duckworth found that the journey was just as important as the end result. “Even if some of the things they had to do were boring, or frustrating, or even painful, they wouldn’t dream of giving up. Their passion was enduring.”

What her research demonstrated is that it wasn’t natural talent that made the biggest difference in who was highly successful and who wasn’t – it was more about effort than IQ. Duckworth even came up with two equations she uses to explain this concept:

• Talent x effort = skill

• Skill x effort = achievement

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“Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them,” Duckworth explained.

As you can see from the equations, effort counts twice. That’s why IQ and SAT scores aren’t a good indicator of someone’s future success. It’s because those scores are missing the most important part of the equation – the person’s effort level or what Duckworth calls their “grittiness” factor (their level of persistence and passion).

What does that mean for you? It means that it’s OK if you aren’t the smartest person in the room or the smartest person in the job. It means the effort you expend toward your goals (perseverance) and your dedication throughout your career journey (passion) are what matter more than how you scored on your SAT or an IQ test.

Why? Because grit will always trump talent. Or as Duckworth notes, “Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”

Culled from Forbes.com

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By Ryan Whitwam on July 7, 2017

China is known as the home of the endangered and adorable panda, and now there’s a new panda that could be spreading to the whole world. Only this one doesn’t eat bamboo — it eats sunlight. A company called Panda Green Energy has built a solar panel array that looks like a giant panda. It’s the cutest power plant you’ve ever seen, and the company wants to start building them in other parts of the world.

The grid is located in Datong, a city in the northern province of Shanxi. It covers about 248 acres (1 square kilometer), making it a respectably large solar power facility. There are plenty larger ones, including the Tengger Desert Solar plant, which has a size of 43 square kilometers. The largest one in the US is just 13 square kilometers in area. The power generation capacity of the panda array is 100MW, about what you’d expect from a solar power farm of this size. That’s enough juice to power more than 8,000 homes. The creators hope it will generate 3.2 billion kWh of power in the next 25 years. That’s the equivalent of burning more than one million tons of coal.

As for how it was made to look like a panda, that’s thanks to the clever use of two different solar panel technologies. The lighter panels are thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells, and the darker ones are monocrystalline silicon PV cells. The result is a happy panda sitting on a plateau.

The solar power farm was built with the help of the United Nation Development Program (UNDP), which has focused heavily on promoting renewable energy to China’s youth. The nation’s rapid industrialization in recent decades has led to severe environmental consequences. In fact, the UNDP and Panda Green Energy will run a summer camp in August for Chinese teenagers.

Panda Green Energy is currently working on building a second panda solar array at the same site, but it also wants to expand to other locations. Early plans are in place to deploy panda solar arrays in Fiji and the Philippines. It aims to build 100 such solar power facilities around the world in the next five years. Of course, not all areas are suitable for solar power because of climate and lack of infrastructure. Solar power doesn’t always get as much support as traditional forms of energy. But really, who can object to such a cute power plant?

Culled from www.extremetech.com/

[quote author=ihedioramma post=58081537][/quote]Let's do d math,

principal, P=5,000,000
assumed interest, I=15%
add 200,000k yearly.
for 20 years

200,000k is 200,000/5,000,000=0.04 of P

=5,000,000*(1+0.15+0.04)^20
=162,147,117.3

for 10 years

=5,000,000*(1+0.15+0.04)^10
=28,473,418.9

ihedioramma:
Ok . One million in ten years at 15% =8,248,427.41 , did i got it ? .

for compound interest,

1,000,000 * (1+15%)^10=4,045,557.7

break down,

assuming u get same 15% yearly, that's 1+0.15 of your principal, P.
2 years would be (1+0.15)(1+0.15) of P
10 years would be (1+0.15)^10 of P

Keld Jensen, CONTRIBUTOR


Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. Kennedy’s was only 119, but as it turns out, your IQ score pales in comparison with your EQ, MQ, and BQ scores when it comes to predicting your success and professional achievement.

IQ tests are used as an indicator of logical reasoning ability and technical intelligence. A high IQ is often a prerequisite for rising to the top ranks of business today. It is necessary, but it is not adequate to predict executive competence and corporate success. By itself, a high IQ does not guarantee that you will stand out and rise above everyone else.

Research carried out by the Carnegie Institute of Technology shows that 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “human engineering,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge. Additionally, Nobel Prize winning Israeli-American psychologist, Daniel Kahneman, found that people would rather do business with a person they like and trust rather than someone they don’t, even if the likeable person is offering a lower quality product or service at a higher price.

With this in mind, instead of exclusively focusing on your conventional intelligence quotient, you should make an investment in strengthening your EQ (Emotional Intelligence), MQ (Moral Intelligence), and BQ (Body Intelligence). These concepts may be elusive and difficult to measure, but their significance is far greater than IQ.

Emotional Intelligence

EQ is the most well known of the three, and in brief it is about: being aware of your own feelings and those of others, regulating these feelings in yourself and others, using emotions that are appropriate to the situation, self-motivation,  and building relationships.

Top Tip for Improvement: First, become aware of your inner dialogue. It helps to keep a journal of what thoughts fill your mind during the day. Stress can be a huge killer of emotional intelligence, so you also need to develop healthy coping techniques that can effectively and quickly reduce stress in a volatile situation.

Moral Intelligence

MQ directly follows EQ as it deals with your integrity, responsibility, sympathy, and forgiveness. The way you treat yourself is the way other people will treat you. Keeping commitments, maintaining your integrity, and being honest are crucial to moral intelligence.

Top Tip for Improvement: Make fewer excuses and take responsibility for your actions. Avoid little white lies. Show sympathy and communicate respect to others. Practice acceptance and show tolerance of other people’s shortcomings. Forgiveness is not just about how we relate to others; it’s also how you relate to and feel about yourself.

Body Intelligence

Lastly, there is your BQ, or body intelligence, which reflects what you know about your body, how you feel about it, and take care of it. Your body is constantly telling you things; are you listening to the signals or ignoring them? Are you eating energy-giving or energy-draining foods on a daily basis? Are you getting enough rest? Do you exercise and take care of your body? It may seem like these matters are unrelated to business performance, but your body intelligence absolutely affects your work because it largely determines your feelings, thoughts, self-confidence, state of mind, and energy level.

Top Tip For Improvement: At least once a day, listen to the messages your body is sending you about your health. Actively monitor these signals instead of going on autopilot. Good nutrition, regular exercise, and adequate rest are all key aspects of having a high BQ. Monitoring your weight, practicing moderation with alcohol, and making sure you have down time can dramatically benefit the functioning of your brain and the way you perform at work.

What You Really Need To Succeed

It doesn’t matter if you did not receive the best academic training from a top university. A person with less education who has fully developed their EQ, MQ, and BQ can be far more successful than a person with an impressive education who falls short in these other categories.

Yes, it is certainly good to be an intelligent, rational thinker and have a high IQ; this is an important asset. But you must realize that it is not enough. Your IQ will help you personally, but EQ, MQ, and BQ will benefit everyone around you as well. If you can master the complexities of these unique and often under-rated forms of intelligence, research tells us you will achieve greater success and be regarded as more professionally competent and capable.

culled from forbes.com

Darkness falls across the land
The midnite hour is close at hand

Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'awl's neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller

hahahaha haha hahaha!!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DFpOEN93LX-E&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwilw8zZsd7UAhVIuhoKHVVMA-AQyCkIEDAA&usg=AFQjCNE-vJM9LBxA-x4gAWuac0rXN-RJgQ


Laura Pausini Lyrics

"La Solitudine"

Marco se n'è andato e non ritorna più
Il treno delle sette e trenta senza lui
È un cuore di metallo senza l'anima
Nel freddo del matino grigio di città

A scuola il banco è vuoto, Marco è dentro me
È dolce il suo respiro fra i pensieri miei
Distanze enormi sembrano dividerci
Ma il cuore batte forte dentro me

Chissà se tu mi penserai
Se con i tuoi non parli mai
Se ti nascondi come me
Sfuggi gli sguardi e te ne stai
Rinchiuso in camera e non vuoi mangiare
Stringi forte al te il cuscino
Piangi non lo sai

Quanto altro male ti farà la solitudine
Marco nel mio diario ho una fotografia
Hai occhi d'un bambino un poco timido
La stringo forte al cuore e sento che ci sei
Fra i compiti d'inglese e matematica
Tuo padre e i suoi consigli che monotonia
Lui con il suo lavoro ti ha portato via
Di certo il tuo parere non l'ha chiesto mai
Ha detto: "un giorno tu mi capirai"

Chissà se tu mi penserai
Se con gli amici parlerai
Per non soffrire più per me
Ma non è facile lo sai
A scuola non me posso più
E i pomeriggi senza te
Studiare è inutile tutte le idee
Si affollano su te
Non è possibile dividere
La vita di noi due
Ti prego aspettami amore mio

Ma illuderti non so
La solitudine fra noi
Questo silenzio dentro me
è l'inquietudine di vivere
La vita senza te
Ti prego aspettami perché
Non posso stare senza te
Non è possibile dividere

La storia di noi due
La solitudine fra noi
Questo silenzio dentro me
è l'inquietudine di vivere
La vita senza te
Ti prego aspettami perché
Non posso stare senza te
Non è possibile dividere
La storia di noi due
La solitudine

sisisioge:
Oya Osita, move your azzz to the diary section.


By the way, its a problem being stuck in the past...the future is a bigger land to explore.

why?

I am not crazy, maybe a little. My point, is never Abuse your kids, it's bad, it messes them up inside.

Does someone just have to carry this weight?
How can I stop leaving in the past?

somuch land traveled, so little sense made of it, I like to take of into the woods and get my head cleared for a while.

memory movements, bleached white buildings, sabato al circo, Italia uno, rai 1, canale cinque.

Another from The Bravery, Time won't let me go.

"Whenever I look back on the best days of my life I think I saw them all on T.V. I am so homesick now for someone that I never knew. I am so homesick now for someplace I will never be
Time won't let me go. If I could do it all again
I'd go back and change everything, but time won't let me go I never had a 'Summer of 69'
Never had a date of my own. All these precious moments you promised me would come in time.
So where was I when I missed mine?
Time won't let me go. If you gave me back those years I'd do it all better I swear
Time won't let me go.

Ba ba ba ba ba...
If I could go back once again, I would change everything, yeah. If I could go back once again I'd do it all so much better.
Time won't let me go.
Time won't let me go.
If I could do it all again.
I'd go back and change everything.
But you won't ever let me go."

Hi, it's remarkable how these lyrics by The Bravery define my current state of mind, you can see for your selves.

"Sometimes I feel like I wanna leave this place for good, under the ground. I'll live down there without a sound, and never hear these hissing voices all the same. I'll disappear cause living makes me feel ashamed.

I must believe, there's more above us and below
I must believe, stranded with this bitch called hope, it keeps me here when all I wanna do is go.
It keeps me here when all I wanna do is disappear

if this is it, all we have and ever will.
If this is it, time is running out and I am standing still, i'll leave today cause there's nothing left to keep me here, I'll fade away, I'll turn my back and disappear."

It's a recurring theme since I set foot here in nija, since I was a teen. I am much older now and it's the same thing. How can you explain a grown ass man longing for his preteen years, who enjoy listening to themes from my all-time favorite cartoons; rensi la strega, sasuke un piccolo guerriero, l'uomo tigre, occhi di ghatto, Ken il guerriero, i cavalieri dello zodiaco, vultus cinque, l'ape magga and so many others, I am past 30...

Hi, how do I turn off auto updates on Windows 10, I noticed whenever I hook up to the internet it starts downloading windows updates. last time, it used up my data before I finished what I wanted to do, to connect to my phone sub they fear me now.

SamReinvented:
If Nigeria disintegrates peacefully (through talks/referendum), your money is safe. The resulting countries will figure out how to share the debts and pay them. If it is by war, "you have no money", regardless of where you put it...whether it's in treasury bills, or savings account, or buried underground; whatever happens to "Naira", as a result of the war will affect your money.

You are right, but I don't see Nigeria disintegrate peacefully. As it is now their are a set of people who benefit the most, this guys will never let Nigeria disintegrate, not peacefully at least.

Bennycollins:
Yes, if the world ends, I end but if Nigeria disintegrate I would possibly remain.

Bros, if Nigeria disintegrates​ you still loose the ones in ur account, cos naira may seize to have value , that is my guess o. You can either convert your money in dollars and burry or buy gold and wear it on your person at all times.

Afonjas stop this madness, who money rituals help, you people will never change.

Youroba folks can like rape, with their tiny apparatuses. SMH.

MasterChen:
Just another TD board head mofo from the land of the rising potopoto....See his ugly face like unswept kitchen

[img]https://africameme.files./2016/08/igbohead.jpeg[/img]

Potopoto people sha want to kill us with developmenthttps://i.imgsafe.org/182572583e.png

All this hungry afonjas sef.

Ajewealth123:
nobody go talk about him tribe now o but if na Yoruba person,we no go hear word again

U bi confirm anu ohia.

anitank:
Hi, please did first bank debit all your bids and paid the interest later.....or they debited just the difference and left your interest.

Hi, they will debit your bid the day they receive ur instruction, and balance the interest on the bidding date.

zamirikpo:
you must be very poor in Maths and English ur understanding and calculation is way off the mark.

U got 18% instead of expected 18.5% or so.
So, approximately, 0.5% of ur investment, X, is 75k.
Therefore, 0.5/100 of X is 75k.
X is 75k by 100/0.5
=15mil

Why are u vexing?