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These naija players should watch and learn how to score goals!

Hahahahaha

I really don't know if the tuber of yam in the picture is real or was created but if you came across something like this, would you be comfortable eating it?

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i know i won't oh!

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/would-you-eat-this-tuber-of-yam.html

rofemiguwa: Mr not for smallboys,where is ur own car.all u guys do is hate ,hate and hate.number one he didn't say he bought it 440k that's a figment of the poster imagination.all dem bloggers like giving price to celebrity cars.mostly just to spite them for being wasteful.that is how one said wizkids car was 50milla.did wizkid tell u dat.abeg u guys should go and hussle so that we will also hear and know ur names.instead of hating and talking trash on nairaland coz its a faceless forum.small boys indeed pickin wey neva walka dey laugh him elder bros sey he no sabi walka.mtchewwwwwwwwwwwww

oga ''i too know'' think before you talk you hear? no one was hating,he was just explaining things, these artists shouldn't pass off incorrect info....nobody say make them nor buy car but passing a cheap car for an expensive one isn't really nice na!

American Sy Perlis set the record by benching 187.2 pounds (85 kilograms) at the National Bench Push-Pull Press and Dead Lift Championships on Saturday.

The Arizona Republic reports that the World Association of Benchers and Deadlifters previous record in the 90-and-over age division was 135 pounds (61 kilograms) and had stood since 2005.

Perlis took up weightlifting when he was 60 but didn’t enter his first championship competition until five years ago.
“I got a lot of satisfaction out of it, and it made me feel good, and it was good for me,” he said.

Association President Gus Rethwisch said Perlis is an inspiration.
“We’ve had a lot of lifters in their middle 80s, late 80s and occasionally we get one 90 and over, but they’ve never inspired people (like Perlis has),” Rethwisch said.

Chhanda Dutta, chief of the Clinical Gerontology Branch of the National Institute on Aging, said it’s a common misconception that exercise is unsafe for older people.
“The risk of leading a sedentary lifestyle is much greater than anything related to exercise,” Dutta said. “I think it’s important for people to realize that age alone doesn’t determine the intensity of your workout.”

Perlis said his doctor knows he participates in the sport and has told him, “If you can do it, do it.”
His five-day-a-week training routine includes cardiovascular exercise and weightlifting.

source
http://www.sportlive.co.za/oddballs/2013/06/15/ninety-one-year-old-american-sets-weightlifting-record
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/ninety-one-year-old-sets-weightlifting.html

A Chinese man has posted photographs of him posing next to an 'alien' which he claims to have trapped after it crash landed.

The pictures of Mr Li standing next to the rather crude looking extraterrestrial have sparked a frenzy of speculation social networking sites across China.
Mr Li claims he saw a formation of UFOs buzzing across the night sky along the Yellow River in Binzhou Shangdong province.

Suddenly, one of the crafts plummeted to earth and soon afterwards Mr Li discovered the charred remains of the visitor from outta space in a rabbit trap, he claims.
Mr Li insists he took the bizarre looking creature back to be stored in a freezer at his home after the crash-landing in March.
However, the outlandish claims were quickly brought back to earth.

Police issued a statement saying the rather unconvincing figure at the bottom of a chest freezer was, in fact, not another life form but high quality rubber.
'The alien purported electrocuted and discovered by a man in Binzhou is a high quality imitation,' the Jinan Police posted on their Sina microblog. 'The body is made up of high quality rubber.'
Undeterred by the police attempts to pour scorn on the possibility the alien is real, Chinese bloggers are busy trying to connect the Shandong alien to a purported UFO siting in Hubei province.
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source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2338952/Chinese-man-reveals-pictures-alien-freezer-claiming-witnessed-UFO-crash-land-near-house.html#ixzz2VtqVgMHy
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/chinese-man-reveals-pictures-of-alien.html

This is really bad PR for him,if this lingers on he might lose all the upcoming awards to C.Ronaldo...poor dude!

THE Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has directed banks and other financial institutions that have business relationship with the outlawed Islamic sect, Boko Haram, to report to it.

According to the letter entitled: “Terrorism prevention, proscription order notice 2013, signed by the Acting Director, Financial Policy and Regulation Department (CBN), Mr I. T Nwaohe and addressed to all banks and financial institutions operating in the country, the apex bank said the directive was in line with the recent Federal Government’s official declaration of both Jamaatu Ahlis-Sunna Liddaawati Wal Jihad (Boko Haram) and a similar group, the Jama’atu Ansarul Muslimina Fi Biladis Sudan, as terrorist organisations.

The banking watchdog directed banks and other financial institutions to check their data base for the two terrorist organisations and that of their associates and report to it, adding that “where no account or business relationship are maintained for any of the proscribed names or their associates, a nil return should be rendered.”
It will be recalled President Goodluck Jonathan recently approved the proscription of Boko Haram and authorised the gazetting of an order declaring its activities as illegal and as acts of terrorism.

Approved by President Jonathan, pursuant to Section 2 of the Terrorism Prevention Act, 2011 (as amended), it officially brings the activities of both groups within the purview of the Terrorism Prevention Act and any person associated with the two groups can now be legally prosecuted and sentenced to penalties specified in the act.
“The proscription order warns the general public that any person participating in any form of activities involving or concerning the collective intentions of the said groups will be violating the provisions of the Terrorism Prevention Act,” Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicty, Dr Reuben Abati, announced in a statement.

Section 5 (1) of the act prescribes a term of imprisonment of not less than 20 years for any person who knowingly, in any manner, directly or indirectly, solicits or renders support to the commission of an act of terrorism or to a terrorist group.
“Support in Subsection (1) of the section is defined as “incitement to commit a terrorist act through the internet or any electronic means or through the use of printed materials or through the dissemination of terrorist information,” “receipt or provision of material assistance, weapons including biological, chemical or nuclear weapons, explosives, training, transportation, false documentation or identification to terrorists or terrorist groups,” “receipt or provision of information or moral assistance, including invitation to adhere to a terrorist or terrorist group,” “entering or remaining in a country for the benefit of, or at the direction of or in association with a terrorist group,” or “providing or making available, such financial or other related services prohibited under this Act or as may be prescribed by regulations made pursuant to this act.”

source http://tribune.com.ng/news2013/en/news/item/14248-cbn-asks-bank-to-report-business-dealings-with-boko-haram.html
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/banks-mandated-to-report-business.html

really shocking

According to reports, The Economic Crime Unit of Barcelona has accused Argentine superstar Lionel Messi, and his father, of tax fraud between 2007 and 2009, which could potentially land them in jail.

The prosecution says, Messi’s father, who is also his manager and agent, created shell corporations in tax havens in Belize and Uruguay and then transferred his son’s imaging rights between 2007 and 2009, only to sign further deals with other shell-corporations to avoid paying taxes on €4.165 million ($5.53 million) in income.

The idea, the prosecution said, was to channel funds from the countries in which sponsors or firms were paying Messi to the shell-corporations without being subject to taxation, and with “total opacity” in the face of the Spanish tax authorities as to who was truly receiving those papers, who was “none other than the accused, Lionel Messi,” in the words of the prosecutor.

Relevant facts were also “omitted” from other tax documents in order to hide from Spain’s tax authorities that these rights were being ceded to corporations domiciled elsewhere.

Messi and his father are accused of three counts of tax evasion. According to Spanish law, if found guilty they could face between two and six years behind bars, and a fine worth more than $1 million.

Messi in response to the allegation said, ''We are surprised about this news because we have never committed any infringement," the striker said in an English-language statement released on his Facebook account.
"We have always fulfilled all our tax obligations, following the advice of our tax consultants who will take care of clarifying this situation,".

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/why-messi-might-go-to-jail.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2013/06/12/lionel-messi-accused-of-hiding-5m-from-spanish-tax-authorities-barca-star-could-face-jail-time/

for celebrities and non-celebrities alike

Lacking in Stimulating Thoughts: Do you know? Thinking is the best way to train your brain, so think more, write more, explore more all this will help you to keep your brain fresh. Lacking in the brain stimulation, may cause brain shrinkage.

Over Eating: This is most usual cause, most of the times we find tasty food and start eating more that what our body requires. This cause hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

No Breakfast: Due to our busy schedule, we normally forget to take the breakfast. People who do not take breakfast are most probable to have a low blood sugar level. Thus leads to insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing degeneration.

Smoking: I never smoke, but I put this in the list as a message to those who smoke “PLEASE STOP SMOKING” because it causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease in later life.

Sleep Deprivation: I work up to the late hours to achieve my goals, so there was no rest for my brain. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells. Oh! more cells dead, more loss of memory.

Head Covered while Sleeping: Sleeping with the covered head increases the concentration of Carbon Dioxide and decreases
concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

High Sugar Consumption: Extra Sweets! can interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interface in brain development.

Air Pollution: This is the common problem, wherever you go, you are welcome with the polluted air, that’s pathetic. As the brain is the largest oxygen consumer of the body, and inhaling the polluted air will decrease the supply of oxygen to the brain, thus there will be a have damage to the brain. So try to be away from the polluted air.

Working your brain during Illness: Giving the stress to the brain when sick my lead to decrease effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

Talking Rarely: Intellectual conversation promote efficiency of the brain. So be active participants in the meetings and get-togethers. I always talk more then required so no problem.

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/top-10-biggest-brain-damaging-habits.html
http://www.medicalopedia.org/295/top-10-brain-damaging-habits/

hahahahahaha....na who we go ask?

A bill with the aim of simplifying the procedure for impeaching the country’s President and Vice-president passed second reading at the House of Representatives on Tuesday 4th June 2013.

The bill seeks to amend Section 143 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended) “to remove the ambiguities in the process of removal of the President and the Vice-President from office on allegations of gross misconduct and to provide for a more transparent and democratic procedure for impeachment…”

http://www.punchng.com/news/reps-move-to-simplify-impeachmen%E2%80%8Bt-of-president/
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/house-of-reps-move-to-simplify.html

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A 23-year-old woman has given birth to quintuplets in the Czech Republic, officials say, a first for the country.

Alexandra Kinova had four boys and a girl by caesarean section on Sunday, they say.
The births took place "without any complications", according to doctors at Prague's Institute for the Care of Mother and Child.


The mother and babies were placed in an intensive care unit but are believed to be in a good condition.


The Czech Republic's first quintuplets, who were conceived naturally without IVF, have a 95% chance of growing up healthy, the Associated Press quoted Zbynek Stranak, chief doctor at the neonatal section of the institute, as saying.


The boys' names are reportedly Deniel, Michael, Alex and Martin, while the girl is called Terezka. Their mother, who is from the town of Milovice, about 20km (12 miles) north-east of the capital, Prague, already had one son.

She originally believed she was pregnant with twins, but in March doctors upped it to four - and then five in April.

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/06/woman-gives-birth-to-first-set-of.html#

In the last couple of months we have seen almost all the female celebrities post their makeup free faces online
just wondering if there is an ongoing competition on who looks better without makeup or something??

...someone please enlighten me

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/female-celebrities-and-their-make-up.html

Australia has been ranked as the world's happiest nation among
developed economies for the third year running.

Australia won the top position, due to the overall strength of its
economy, in the Better Life Index compiled by the Organization for
Economic Cooperation and Development.

Sweden, Canada, Norway and Switzerland also made it to the top five.
The survey ranked more than 30 countries on criteria such as income
levels, health, safety and housing, reports the BBC.

"Australia performs exceptionally well in measures of well-being, as
shown by the fact that it ranks among the top countries in a large
number of topics in the Better Life Index," the OECD said on its
website.

More than 73% of Australia's 23 million people aged 15 to 64 hold a
paid job, which is above the OECD average.
Life expectancy at birth is also higher, at almost 82 years.

Economic strength
Australia's economy has posted more than two decades of straight
growth due to demand for its natural resources.

The nation also managed to sidestep the worst of the financial crisis
and was the only major developed nation to avoid the global recession
in 2009.

The country's economic strength has been reflected in the Australian
dollar, which is currently trading close to 30 year highs.
However, the government is starting to see challenges to growth as the
mining boom tapers off, including rising unemployment.

As a result, Australia's Labour government is now looking to move the
economy away from its dependence on mining towards sectors such as
construction and manufacturing.

Another challenge they face is a widening income gap. According to the
OECD, the top 20% of Australia's population earn six times more than the bottom 20%.

The World's Happiest Countries are
Australia
Sweden
Canada
Norway
Switzerland
United States
Denmark
The Netherlands
Iceland
United Kingdom

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/the-worlds-happiest-countries.html

Another message from Kanu

G'morning lovely people. I hope you're as excited about today as I am. Don't forget to be on time for my online hangout which will kick-off at 5pm (WAT). The final invite for you to join would be sent out a 15 minutes before the kick-off time.

If you cannot make it into the hangout, feel free to tweet at me using #askkanu and I respond to your questions or comments. Look forward to meeting with you all. God bless.

Ok i got a google+ Hangout invite from the King of Football Himself KING KANU

Here is the message below

Join me for my 1st Google+ Hangout on Tuesday, May 28 as I talk Football, the Kanu Heart Foundation and my work as the Super Eagles Ambassador. You can send your questions beforehand using #askkanu

its going to be Today, May 28 at 5:00 PM on google+

Enjoy folks!

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/hangout-with-kanu-nwankwo.html

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Each day we hear news of Nigerians doing great things in different parts of the world, writing their names in history....but most times we only celebrate the actors and actresses....do you know anyone you think should be celebrated? then write down their names and what they do...

i am Rabboni and i write for blogs in brief (a Nigerian info blog) and yes i am a proud Nigerian!

Will Smith has revealed his son Jaden wants to move into a house of his own for his 15th birthday.

The teen plans to become emancipated - and wants to be allowed to live independently from his parents.

Smith explained: 'He says, "Dad, I want to be emancipated," I know if we do this, he can be an emancipated minor, because he really wants to have his own place.'

In an interview with The Sun newspaper Smith explained that he and wife Jada Pinkett Smith are eager to teach Jaden and sister Willow, 12, the rights and wrongs of life by allowing them to make their own mistakes instead of using traditional disciplines such as sending them to their room and taking away their luxuries for the day.

He told the Sun newspaper: 'We generally don't believe in punishment. From the time Jaden was five or six we would sit him down, and all he has to do is be able to explain why what he did was the right thing for his life.'

Will - who also has 19-year-old son, Trey, from his previous marriage with Sheree Zampino - wants his children to take responsibility for their own lives.

The Men in Black 3 star's own father Willard - who ran a refrigeration installation business in Philadelphia after leaving the US Air Force - was a very strict parent who believed his son should be seen and not heard so Will was keen for his own offspring have a completely different upbringing to him.


In naija this pikin for enter beta trouble....no b only house!
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/will-smith-reveals-son-jaden-has-asked.html

Glad she's ok and all...she reports it in a funny way

Popular Nigerian singer/songwriter and recording artiste Bukola Elemide “Aṣa” was involved in road accident today in Nashville, Tennessee in the U.S.A.

See her tweets on how the accident occurred below

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http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/bukola-elemide-aka-asa-involved-in-road.html

As Lagos State government moves to further strengthen the Road Traffic Law, commercial bus drivers and conductors will soon begin to wear uniform and badges.

Besides, owners of such buses will have their identities aboard the vehicles. This is part of the revelations by the state Commissioner for Transportation, Mr. Kayode Opeifa, while briefing journalists on the activities of the ministry in the last 365 days.

He said, “The transport unions have agreed on the type of uniform and the badges they will give to the commercial bus drivers and their conductors. The identities of the owners (owners’ cards) of the commercial buses will also be aboard these buses.”

Again, the commercial bus drivers must be re-certified by attending the drivers’ institute, where they will undergo comprehensive tests - including vision and driving tests.

The Chairman, National Union of Road Transport Workers, Lagos State branch, Mr. Tajudeen Agbede, reacting to this development, said the union would always support the government in its efforts to actualise the contents of the Road Traffic Law, which, he noted, aim at saving lives and ensuring sanity on Lagos roads.

He stated, “We are always in support of government by making sure our members obey the Road Traffic Law. It is for the good of everyone in the state.”

culled from Punch
http://www.punchng.com/feature/lagos-pulse/commercial-bus-drivers-conductors-to-wear-uniform/

They should bring this to Abuja too!the bus drivers here need to be tested!
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/lagos-commercial-bus-drivers-conductors.html

Following the release of results for the just-written Jamb UTME exams, these are the cut-off marks for the various tertiary institutions across the country.

=> University of Port Harcourt, UNIPORT: 200 and above for Dentistry,Pharmacy, Engineering (except Civil & Environmental Engineering), Management Sciences,Medicine, Nursing and Social Sciences; 180 and above for others are invited to a Screening Exercise First Choice and Second Choice.

=> Nnamdi Azikiwe University, NAU/UNIZIK: 180 Arts (except Departments of English & History )and Education 200 for others

=> Federal University of Technology Owerri, FUTO: 180 First and Second Choice.

=> University of Ibadan UI: 200 First and Second Choice Most preferred

=> University of Lagos Unilag: 200 all courses, First Choice only

=> University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN: 200 all courses; first and second Choice.

=> Obafemi Awolowo University OAU: 200; first and second choice =

> Nnamdi Azikiwe University,NAU/ UNIZIK: 180 Arts (except Departments of English & History)and Education and 200 for others; first choice only.

=> University of Ilorin, Unilorin: – (i) 200 UTME for courses other than those listed in (5) O level Credits at not more than two sittings. (ii) 220 UTME for Accounting, Biochemistry, Business Administration, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Science, Common Law, Economics, English, Electrical Engineering, Finance, Geology, Industrial Chemistry, Mass Communication, Mechanical Engineering, Microbiology, Pharmacy and Veterinary Medicine & (5) O level Credits at not more than two sittings. (iii) MB;BS candidates who obtained: (a) 240 marks in the UTME and (b) Credit Passes at one sitting only in the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination or its equivalence in each of the following subjects: English Language, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Biology.

=> University of Ado- Ekiti: 200;First and second choice

=> University of Benin, UNIBEN 200; first choice only

=> Ahmadu Bello University (ABU),Zaria: 180 for Science based courses and 190 for Arts, Social Science, Law and Administration; first choice only

=> Usmanu Danfodiyo University,Soko to: 180; First and second choice

=> Federal University of Technology, Akure FUTA: 200; first and second choice

=> University of Uyo, Uniuyo: 180;first choice only

=> University of Calabar Unical:180 for some courses and 200for others

=> University of Agriculture, Abeokuta UNAAB – 180

=> University of Jos UNIJOS: 180;first and second choice

=> Lagos State University LASU:200; first and second choice

=> Niger Delta University NDU: 180;first choice only

=> TAI Solarin University of Education TASUED: 180 first choice only and change of course

=> Federal University of Technology (FUT), Minna: (i) 220 for School of Engineering and Engineering Technology and Environmental Technology (ii) 200 for School of Environmental Technology and School of Science and Science Education (iii) 190 for School of Agriculture and Agricultural Technology and School of Science and Science Education.

=> Federal University Dutsin-Ma,Katsi na: 180; first choice only

=> Federal University Oye-Ekiti:180; first and second choice => Federal University of Wukari,Taraba State: 180 in theSciences and 190 in the hmanities and Social Sciences; first and second choice.

=> Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State: 180; first and second choice. => Ebonyi State University EBSU:180; first and second choice

=> Osun State University (UNIOSUN): 180 for Agriculture,Edu cation and Arts (Humanities and Culture) and 200 for the rest; First and second choice.

=> Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun: 180; first and second choice

=> Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike; 180; first and second choice. => Anambra State University; 180;first and second choice.

=> Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma: 180; first choice only

=> Kwara State University KWASU:200; first and second choice and changing of courses.

=> Afe Babalola University (ABUAD): No official cut-off mark.

=> Benson Idahosa University: No official cut- off mark.

=> Bells University of Technology,Ota: No cut- off mark, as long as you chose or wish to change course.

=> Kaduna State University, KASU:180 UTME cutoff (first choice only)

=> Imo State University IMSU: now Evan Enwerem University EEU : 180

=> Enugu State University of Science Tech – 180

=> Adekunle Ajasin University: 200

=> Rivers State University of Science and Technology,RSUS T:180 (1st choice only)

=> Delta State University, Abraka,DELSU: 180

=> Abia State University, Uturu,ABSUU: 180

=> University of Maiduguri, UniMaid: 180

=> Kogi State University, KSU: 180

=>Polytechnics and Colleges of Education 2012/2013 JAMB-UTME Cut-off mark List

=> Yaba College of Technology,Yaba Tech: 160

=> Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi: 180;most preferred, more preferred or preferred

=> Polytechnic Ibadan: No cut-off mark

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/jamb-cut-off-marks-for-various-tertiary.html

Best of luck!

A New York City start-up is peddling a men's button-down wool shirt that the company says never needs washing and won't smell, even after 100 days of continuous use, including after a sweaty 5-mile run.

Cutting-edge clothiers Wool&Prince says it has put the wool used in this 'no wash' shirt (still in the prototype phase) through a special process that makes it soft to the touch, resistant to wrinkles and odour-repellent.

PIC
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/shirt-that-never-needs-washing-and-wont.html

Microsoft's Hotmail, the free webmail service used by hundreds of millions of people around the world, was phased out Friday, as the US tech giant completed a rebranding to Outlook.com.

"We're excited to announce that we've completed upgrading all Hotmail customers to Outlook.com," Microsoft's Dick Craddock said in a blog post late Thursday.

"Coupled with the growing organic excitement for Outlook.com, this has pushed us to over 400 million active Outlook.com accounts."

The transition began in February, when Microsoft began a test of moving users to the new Outlook.com services.

"Hotmail was still one of the most widely used services, with over 300 million active accounts," Craddock said.

"This made the magnitude of the process incredible, maybe even unprecedented. This meant communicating with hundreds of millions of people, upgrading all their mailboxes, equaling more than 150 million gigabytes of data, and making sure that every person's mail, calendar, contacts, folders and personal preferences were preserved in the upgrade."

Outlook.com addresses will be better synched to other Microsoft services, such as its Bing search engine and Skydrive, the cloud storage system.

-AFP

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/hotmail-phased-out.html

Benedict XVI moved back to the Vatican on Thursday, opening an uncertain era in Catholic Church history where an "emeritus pope" and a ruling pontiff will live as neighbours for the first time.

Benedict, the first pope to abdicate in 600 years, will live out his retirement in a restored convent in the Vatican gardens with a view of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica and just a short walk from the residence of his successor, Francis.

Benedict, 86 and in frail health, arrived by helicopter from Castel Gandolfo, the papal summer residence south of Rome, where he had been staying since February 28 while the convent was being restored, reports Reuters.
Francis, 76, was due to greet Benedict later in front of the convent, the first time they have met since March 23, when Francis visited Benedict at Castel Gandolfo and Benedict renewed a pledge of "unconditional reverence and obedience" to Francis.

The small building includes a chapel, a library for the former theology professor, quarters for his aides and a guest room for his older brother, Georg, a monsignor.
While the presence of a reigning pope and a former one is a new situation, experts say it would only cause difficulties if Benedict tried to influence Pope Francis's decisions, something he has promised not to do.
Shortly before his resignation, Benedict said he would be "withdrawing into prayer" and would live out his remaining days "hidden from the world".

Still, some Church scholars say that in the event that Francis undoes some of Benedict's policies while he is still alive, the former pope could become a lightning rod for conservatives and polarize the Church.
"Benedict almost certainly will be a point of reference for critics of Francis, especially in conservative circles. You can easily imagine them saying, ‘Benedict wouldn't have done it this way,'" said John Allen, author of several books on the Church and correspondent for the National Catholic reporter.

"That criticism will circulate on blogs, in journals, and in the pews, no matter where he's physically located, and Benedict himself won't be a party to it. If anything, being behind Vatican walls will make it more difficult for the opposition to reach him and claim some sort of blessing," Allen said.
Vatican officials have said the men, both of whom wear slightly different white vestments, would likely meet occasionally and perhaps confer on Church matters but that Francis is his own man.

"On a human level, it's hard to imagine that Pope Francis would treat the retired pope as some sort of 'untouchable.' I think they can certainly spend time together and exchange views without causing any crisis in the Church," said John Thavis, author of "The Vatican Diaries".

Benedict's two months away have allowed everyone to get used to the idea that he is no longer on the Vatican stage, said Father John Paul Wauck, professor at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. .

"It was a healthy hiatus during which Francis had the freedom to establish himself as the new successor of St. Peter," Wauck said, adding that he would be surprised if Benedict tried to influence Church decisions.

When the two met in March, Benedict looked exceptionally frail. But the Vatican says he suffers only from normal ailments of old age and has no serious illness.

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/former-pope-benedict-xvi-moves-back-to.html

Here is a list of actors and actresses who died of drug overdoses.

Marilyn Monroe – Her death, due to an overdose of sleeping pills, was ruled as a “possible” suicide.

John Belushi – Died in 1982 after injecting a speedball – a mixture of cocaine and heroin.

River Phoenix – Died of a heroin overdose while in the presence of his younger brother Joaquin in front of the trendy Viper Room.

Heath Ledger – Died of an accidental prescription pill overdose.

Christopher Pettiet – You know him as Zach, the budding chef in “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead.” He died of an accidental overdose in 2000.

Mary Anissa Jones – Better known as Buffy from “Family Affair.” Drugs found in her system at the time of her death include Seconal, PCP, methaqualone and cocaine.

Lani O’Grady – You remember her as the brainy and practical Mary on “Eight is Enough,” Lani died in 2001 at the age of 46 of “drug intoxication.” Found in her system at the time of her death wereVicodin and Prozac.

Chris Farley – Overdosed in 1997 after taking a speedball.

Judy Garland – Died in 1969 of an overdose of barbiturates.

Anna Nicole Smith – Died in 2007 of “combined drug intoxication.”

Elvis Presley – Found dead in his bathroom in 1977 after overdosing on prescription drugs.

Rodney Harvey – On the verge of being taken very seriously as an actor, Harvey died of a heroin overdose in 1998.

Nick Adams – Died of a drug overdose in 1968.

Nick Cantor – The Dirty Dancing actor died after injecting a shot of pure heroin in 1991.

Montgomery Clift – Died in 1966 at the age of 45 – the combined effects of drugs and alcohol.

Dorothy Dandridge – Died at age 46 of an antidepressant overdose.

W.C. Fields – Died as the result of a shot liver due to excessive alcohol abuse.

Robert Pastorelli – The Murphy Brown actor died of a drug overdose in 2004 at the age of 50.

Dana Plato – Died of a drug overdose in 1999 after taking Vicodin and Vanadam.

Edie Sedgwick – Died in 1971 after mixing alcohol and barbiturates.

Brad Renfro – Died of a heroin overdose in 2008.

Drug abuse is always dangerous, and it’s important to seek help before the worst happens.


http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/05/celebrities-who-died-of-drug-overdoses.html

please add those who are not on this list

"According to the Italian news agency ANSA, a team of archeologists working
in the ancient Phrygian city of Hierapolis in southwestern Turkey claims to have located the Plutonium, or Pluto's Gate -- an ancient pilgrim site considered the entryway to the underworld. A small cave near the temple of Apollo, the Plutonium grew in association with death from deadly gases it emitted.

Francesco D'Andria of the University of Salento announced the discovery during a press conference in Turkey in mid-March, according to La Gazzetta Del Mezzogiorno."

http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/04/gate-to-hell-found.html

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X99NUc0pLuQ"
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/04/obasanjo-dances-gangnam-style.html

In June 2009, The Atlantic published a cover story on the Grant Study, one of the longest-running longitudinal studies of human development.

The project, which began in 1938, has followed 268 Harvard undergraduate men for 75 years, measuring an astonishing range of psychological, anthropological, and physical traits—from personality type to IQ to drinking habits to family relationships to “hanging length of his scrotum”—in an effort to determine what factors contribute most strongly to human flourishing.

Recently, George Vaillant, who directed the study for more than three decades, published Triumphs of Experience, a summation of the insights the study has yielded. Among them:
“Alcoholism is a disorder of great destructive power.” Alcoholism was the main cause of divorce between the Grant Study men and their wives; it was strongly correlated with neurosis and depression (which tended to follow alcohol abuse, rather than precede it); and—together with associated cigarette smoking—it was the single greatest contributor to their early morbidity and death. Above a certain level, intelligence doesn't matter.

There was no significant difference in maximum income earned by men with IQs in the 110–115 range and men with IQs higher than 150. Aging liberals have more sex. Political ideology had no bearing on life satisfaction—but the most-conservative men ceased intimate relations at an average age of 68, while the most-liberal men had active sex lives into their 80s. “I have consulted urologists about this,” Vaillant writes. “They have no idea why it might be so.”

But the factor Vaillant returns to most insistently is the powerful correlation between the warmth of your relationships and your health and happiness in old age. After The Atlantic’s 2009 article was published, critics questioned the strength of this correlation. Vaillant revisited the data he had been studying since the 1960s for his book, an experience that further convinced him that what matters most in life are relationships.

For instance, the 58 men who scored highest on measurements of “warm relationships” earned an average of $141,000 a year more at their peak salaries (usually between ages 55 and 60) than the 31 men who scored lowest; the former were also three times more likely to have achieved professional success worthy of inclusion in Who’s Who.

And, in a conclusion that surely would have pleased Freud, the findings suggest that the warmth of your relationship with Mommy matters long into adulthood. Specifically:

Men who had “warm” childhood relationships with their mothers earned an average of $87,000 more a year than men whose mothers were uncaring.

Men who had poor childhood relationships with their mothers were much more likely to develop dementia when old.
Late in their professional lives, the men’s boyhood relationships with their mothers—but not with their fathers—were associated with effectiveness at work.

On the other hand, warm childhood relations with fathers correlated with lower rates of adult anxiety, greater enjoyment of vacations, and increased “life satisfaction” at age 75—whereas the warmth of childhood relationships with mothers had no significant bearing on life satisfaction at 75.

Vaillant’s key takeaway, in his own words: “The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points … to a straightforward five-word conclusion: ‘Happiness is love. Full stop.’ ”


cuddled from businessinsider
http://blogsinbrief..com/2013/04/what-it-takes-to-live-happy-life.html