 Crime › Man Allegedly Steal Wife’s Kidney To Make Up For Unpaid Dowry by tellodds(op): 5:07am On Feb 28, 2018 |
An Indian wife has accused her husband of masterminding the removal of one of her kidneys during a surgery inorder to compensate for an unpaid dowry.
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28-year-old Rita Sarkar’s husband frequently complained about her family’s failure to pay her dowry even after their wedding.
According to reports, The young woman said that she had been the victim of domestic abuse from her husband and his family over her unpaid dowry for many years.
She had gotten used to the hostility, but what Rita didn’t know was that her husband, Biswajit Sarkar, would stop at nothing to get his hands on the money he felt he was owed.
“Around two years ago, I began suffering from acute stomach ache. My husband took me to a private nursing home in Kolkata, where he and the medical staff told me that I would be fine after removing my inflamed appendix through surgery,” Rita narrated.
The operation went well, but Rita began to feel that something was wrong when Biswajit told her that she was to talk to no one about the surgery.
Soon after returning home, she began experiencing sharp pain in her lower back, but despite begging her husband to take her to to the hospital, he flat-out refused.
The truth about Biswajit’s behavior came to light when relatives on her father’s side came to her aid and took her to a medical center.
There, an ultrasound scan revealed that the woman’s right kidney was missing.
“I was shattered,” Sarkar recounted. “I then understood why my husband implored me to keep quiet about the surgery. He sold my kidney because my family couldn’t meet his demand for dowry.”
According to Rita’s father, she and Biswajit married in 2005, and at the time, her family have the groom’s gold, silver and 180,000 Indian rupees ($2,800) in cash, but they always kept asking for more.
Rita Sarkar filed a complaint with West Bengal police, and both Bisjawit and his brother Shyamal Sarkar were taken into custody, charged with commercially trading human organs and detaining a woman with criminal intent.
During his interrogation, the husband admitted to selling Rita’s kidney to a buyer in another state, but claims that it was all legal, as she even signed a consent letter.
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| Crime › Woman Catches Thief but Invites Him For Coffee by tellodds(op): 8:20pm On Feb 26, 2018 |
A Canadian woman decided to show compassion to a purse snatcher rather than reporting him to the police.
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When Tess Aboughoushe, a professional runner heard the scream, her instinct kicked in. She chased the purse-snatcher down an alley and found him hiding behind a dumpster.
However, an hour later, she was sharing coffee with him in a nearby café.
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As shared online, Tess was walking on the street when she heard a woman screaming that a man stole her wallet. She saw the man running and decided to catch him.
“Just like in the movies I chased him down,” she said.
She said that the man then stopped and exclaimed, “I can’t do this anymore” while handing her the wallet.
The thief then repeatedly apologized over and said he had never done something like this before.
The man explained that he was in the area to visit a friend and was left stranded without money. He didn’t have anywhere to go and needed money to get back home.
Aboughoushe took a photo of the suspect holding the wallet and invited him to the Credo Coffee shop for coffee.
The caught man did file a police report but Tess did not press charges.
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| Sports › Odd Stats From Last Night’s Chelsea Vs Man Utd EPL Clash by tellodds(op): 8:07am On Feb 26, 2018 |
Manchester United bounced back into second place in the English Premier League as substitute Jesse Lingard nodded them to victory over top-four rivals Chelsea at Old Trafford. Here are the top odd statistics from the duel.
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1. Eden Hazard has been involved in nine goals in his past eight appearances for Chelsea FC in all competitions (six goals, three assists).
Chelsea lost a Premier League match in which they scored first for the first time since last April against Crystal Palace. They had won 22 games consecutively when scoring first before yesterday.
2. Lingard has scored 13 goals in all competitions for United this season – only Lukaku (22) has scored more.
3. United have won two of their past three matches against Chelsea – one more than they managed in their previous 14 combined against the Blues.
4. Chelsea have lost back-to-back away Premier League matches for the first time since November 2015, when they were managed by Mourinho.
5. Willian has scored 12 goals in all competitions this season, equalling his best tally in a season for Chelsea (also 12 in 2016-17).
6. Chelsea have only lost four of their past 55 Premier League games played on Sunday – all four defeats have been in Manchester (two against United, two against City).
7. Jesse Lingard secured a win for his club with his 75th-minute header after a 39th minute header from Lukaku cancelled out Willian’s opener.
The victory means Chelsea slip to fifth and United are six points clear of the London club in the race to secure a Champions League place.
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| Sports › Thirsty Goalkeeper Scored Against While Having A Drink by tellodds(op): 8:06pm On Feb 24, 2018 |
A thirsty goalkeeper chose the wrong time to have a drink during a second-tier soccer game in Germany on Saturday.
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Duisburg’s Dutch goalkeeper Mark Flekken had picked up a water bottle behind his own goal line and was not even watching the game against Ingolstadt when the inevitable happened in the 18th minute.
After hosts Duisburg had seen a goal harshly disallowed, Ingolstadt quickly moved the ball up the field. Duisburg defender Gerrit Nauber headed back to his goalkeeper, not realizing that Flekken was still behind the line with his back to the ball. Stefan Kutschke ran in to score unchallenged as Flekken turned round too late.
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“I heard the goal jingle and thought we were leading 2-0,” Flekken told Sky TV. “Of course the lads love such moments. I’m going to have to take a lot of flak from my teammates over the next weeks. I’ll take the drinking bottle home and burn it somewhere in the garden.”
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In the end Flekken did have something to drink again to – Duisburg won 2-1 and rose to fourth in the second division. |
| Pets › Elephant Living With Herd Of Bufallos For 46 Years by tellodds(op): 7:52pm On Feb 24, 2018*. Modified: 8:13pm On Feb 24, 2018 |
A visitor to a wildlife park in Zimbabwe filmed a bufallo herd with a strange family member – an elephant that has been living with the animals for nearly 50 years.
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Sipke Vink posted a video to YouTube showing the animals graze at Zimbabwe’s Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservation. The fellows obviously didn’t get the fuss made out of their unusual mingling.
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Vink said park rangers told him the elephant has been living with the buffalo herd for about 46 years, since it was a baby.
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| Sports › Ghana Batters Djibouti 19:0 To Qualify For Women's World Cup by tellodds(op): 1:12pm On Feb 24, 2018 |
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| Foreign Affairs › Crime Rate So Low In Singapore That Many Shops Don’t Lock Up by tellodds(op): 9:07am On Feb 24, 2018 |
Many businesses simply place a sign at the door to indicate closure for the day.
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According to Economist Intelligence Unit’s Safe Cities Index for 2017, Singapore ranks the second safest city in the world, just behind Tokyo the Japanese capital.
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In 2016, the island country’s police recorded 135 total days without any reported crimes including snatch-theft, house break-ins and robbery.
According to CNBC , the low crime rate means many small businesses enjoy little concern about shoplifting or burglary.
In fact, many local businesses take few precautions when closing shop at night.
For instance, in a certain business district, many ground shops don’t have windows, locks — or even doors.
A Starbucks located in Raffles Place, one of Singapore’s busiest underground train stations has no formal doors. Rather, a small rope when tied across the door, indicates when the store is closed with displayed merchandise still intact.
However, surveillance is highly prevalent with about 100,000 cctv street installations in the city-state, which has a population of about 5.5 million people.
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| Investment › How Oil-rich Norway Have So Far Avoided The Dutch Disease by tellodds(op): 6:13am On Feb 24, 2018 |
The term, Dutch Disease, was coined by economists after the Netherlands suffered a decline in manufacturing following the discovery and quick shift to major petroleum riches.
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Some other countries have fared worse.
In Venezuela, Angola, Nigeria and even Gabon, discovery of the black gold and the reliance on its tax revenue for public expenditure has depressed productivity and income.
Catching the Dutch disease has long been a concern in Norway, western Europe’s biggest oil and gas producer.
However, according to Bloomberg , after almost five decades of production and no major symptoms in sight, researchers at the Norwegian central bank are ready to give the Western-Europe country of 5.3 million people the all clear.
In fact, the discovery of oil has actually increased productivity across the Nordic economy, according to a new 39-page Norges Bank working paper by economists Hilde Bjornland, Leif Anders Thorsrud and Ragnar Torvik.
The “value-added" per worker in the economy increased with the oil boom, as there’s learning by doing in the oil service industries that spills over to the other industries,” the economists said.
The researchers say that Dutch Disease and so-called Learning by Doing theory have been paying too much attention to the spending effect which features a rapid rise in inflation and real exchange rate after a huge revenue increase due to oil income.
The oil sector is Norway’s biggest export and makes up 14% of the economy.
While the country needed foreign expertise to discover oil in the late 1960s, it has since transformed large parts of its industry to become a global supplier of oil and gas technology, replacing less productive sectors.
As the study puts it: “shipyards workers who used to be welders are today experienced in complex deep sea technology.”
Norway has also helped shield the economy from the spending effect by channeling a huge chunk of its oil cash into a sovereign wealth fund, which is now worth over $1 trillion.
The fund serves as a piggy bank for future generations and as a cushion in difficult times. The government made a debit on the fund for the first time in 2016 after the country was hit by an oil price shock.
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| Pets › World’s Rarest Chimpanzee Discovered In National Park by tellodds(op): 12:27pm On Feb 23, 2018 |
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| Crime › Police Arrests Goat For Eating Grass In Judge’s Garden by tellodds(op): 6:50am On Feb 23, 2018 |
A man in India was surprised to learn that police arrested his goat because it ate grass on a judge’s lawn.
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Chhattisgarh Police said that they have arrested the goat and its owner, Abdul Hassan, because the animal damaged the garden of district Judge Hemant Ratre.
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The goat has been charged with criminal damage, a charge that carries a prison sentence of up to 7 years and a fine.
Hassan, the animals owner has been charged with criminal trespassing and mischief causing damage.
According to police, Hassan lives near Judge Ratre, who has a mansion along with a large garden with different vegetable plants.
One day, Ratre noticed a goat jumping over his fence to eat grass from his lawn.
He followed the goat to his neighbor and warned Hassan to keep the animal locked up.
However, the goal continued to roam unrestricted.
On another occasion, the judge saw the goat eating the vegetables growing in his garden.Ratre called the police who arrested the goat.
When Hassan came looking for his animal, police arrested him too and charged both to court.
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| Christianity Etc › Remembering Billy Graham: Life And Times Of The World's First Televangelist by tellodds(op): 7:00am On Feb 22, 2018 |
Mr Graham who passed on yesterday, has preached the gospel to more number people in live audiences than anyone else in the world, about 215 million people worldwide have once listened to him.
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Here are other Interesting Facts about Billy Graham (1918 – 2018)
His formal name was William Franklin Graham Jr. Born November 7, 1918, he grew up on his family’s dairy farm near Charlotte, North Carolina.
Graham said he grew up dreaming of becoming a professional baseball player but “The talent for baseball obviously was not there.”
The later famous preacher was turned down for membership in a local youth group because he was considered “too worldly”
Aged 14 in 1933 during the end of alcohol prohibition in the United States, Graham’s father forced him and his sister Katherine to drink beer until they got sick This created such an aversion that both avoided alcohol and drugs for the rest of their lives.
At the age of 15, a young Graham made a personal commitment to Christ at a tent revival meeting featuring traveling evangelist Mordecai Ham.
Billy Graham held his first citywide crusade in 1947 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The mass meetings attracted thousands of people in one venue to hear Graham speak. He popularized the use of the term ‘crusade’ for his meetings named after the Christian crusaders who captured Jerusalem.
In 1954 aged 36, Graham held the biggest crusade London has ever seen. On March 1, about 120,000 people trooped into Wembley to hear Graham speak.
The stadium administrator for the first time, allowed people to stand on the pitch. Up to 1 million people in total attended the crusade over the coming days.
Graham preached to live audiences of nearly 215 million people in more than 185 countries and territories throughout his 80-year ministry and reached even more via mass media.
In his six decades of television, the televangelist was principally known for hosting the annual Billy Graham Crusades , which he began in 1947, until he concluded in 2005, at the time of his retirement.
During his crusades, he was known to always announce an ‘altar call’ for new converts, frequently along with the hymn, ” Just As I Am.” He was also popular for his holding the bible in one hand, waving it and and exclaiming over the mic,“the bible says…”
Graham’s role as a counselor to American presidents was widely known. But perhaps most extraordinary is just how many presidents he has advised. Graham has met with every occupant of the Oval Office since 1950, starting with Harry Truman, which amounts to 12 of the 43 men who have ever served as President.
Tagged an informal Pastor to Presidents Graham was credited with helping George W. Bush stop drinking. The first time the pair met, Bush, who was much younger at the time, was drunk after having several beers and glasses of wine, he told CNN. His father, George H.W. Bush, invited the preacher to the family’s compound in Maine. The pair spoke about religion, which helped start a turning point in young Bush’s life.
In the summer of 1957, Graham preached nightly for 16 consecutive weeks in New York’s Madison Square Garden to a packed audience. He shared the lessons of Sodom and Gomorrah from the Bible, substituting “New York” for the names of the cities of sin, according to the New York Times.
Graham was a friend to civil rights legend, Martin Luther King and in 1963, he posted bail for King to be released from jail during the Birmingham campaign .
He became a target of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s after planning an integrated crusade in Birmingham, Alabama in the aftermath of a church bombing that killed several black children. The clan repeatedly knocked down his meeting bill-posts and he had to use police protection during his travels and meetings.
He repeatedly refused to visit Apartheid South Africa. When he did during his first crusade there in 1973, he openly denounced apartheid . Graham also corresponded with imprisoned South African leader Nelson Mandela during the latter’s 27-year prison sentence.
Hour of Decision, his weekly radio program broadcast around the world for more than 50 years.
Graham received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1989, the only Faith preacher to do so.
He won Good Housekeeping’s Most Admired Men Poll, in 1997. He became No. 1 for five years in a row and was 16 times in top 10.
The preacher regarded as one of the most influential men of the 20th century, was repeatedly on Gallup’s list of most admired men and women . He appeared on the list 60 times since 1955, more than any other person in the world.
In 2001, Queen Elizabeth II awarded him an honorary knighthood, Honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).
Billy and Ruth Graham
To eliminate the suspicion of infidelity, Graham vowed never to meet, travel or eat alone with any woman other than his wife.
His wife, Ruth Graham died on June 14, 2007, at the age of 87. The Grahams were married for almost 64 years.
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At the time of Ruth Graham’s death, it was announced that they would be buried at the Billy Graham library site.
Graham suffered from Parkinson’s disease since 1992. He said his planned retirement in 2005 was because of his failing health.
Even when he stopped preaching was still writing books, granting interviews and also maintained his newspaper advice column ‘Graham’s My Answer’ which appeared in newspapers for more than 60 years as of 2017.
Graham died on February 21, 2018 at his home in Montreat, North Carolina at the age of 99.
His son, Franklin Graham Jr. is now the leader of his evangelistic ministry and head of several foundations including the charity, Samaritans Purse.
Full Article: https://tellodds.com/remembering-billy-graham/ |
| Sports › Odd Stats From Last Night’s Barcelona 1-1 Champions League Draw At Chelsea by tellodds(op): 7:01am On Feb 21, 2018*. Modified: 8:47am On Feb 21, 2018 |
Lionel Messi broke his goal duck against Chelsea by giving Barcelona a vital away goal to earn a draw in their last-16 first leg tie at Stamford Bridge.
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The result at Stamford Bridge still retains the current season record that none of the English teams have lost in their last-16 first-leg ties so far.
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A second half corner taken by Eden Hazard spotted an unmarked Willian who took a touch before arrowing a low shot beyond Ter Stegen to score a Chelsea opener in the 62nd minute.
However, Barcelona hit back with 15 minutes remaining, when Iniesta took advantage of a wrongly taken pass by Christensen and cut the ball to Messi who put in the 75th minute equalizer.
Here are other interesting stats from the match:
Messi had been denied a goal in his last 29 efforts against Chelsea but he eventually scored on number 30.
Barcelona's possession stats were touching the 80 percent mark during the first half hour, but they were yet to challenge Chelsea goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois
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Six of Willian’s nine Champions League goals for Chelsea have come from outside the box (67%).
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| Agriculture › Re: Cow Flees From Farm Just Before Trip To Abattoir by tellodds(op): 7:46pm On Feb 19, 2018 |
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| Agriculture › Cow Flees From Farm Just Before Trip To Abattoir by tellodds(op): 7:03pm On Feb 19, 2018 |
The Cow evaded a trip to the Abattoir, fought recapture, smashed through a metal fence and swam to a nearby island for safety.
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The incident which happened at a farm in South Poland resulted in a broken arm for one of the workers sent to recapture the fleeing beast.
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According to a Polish news show, the animal apparently sensing a doomed fate should it be sent to the butcher, quickly made a dash for safety as soon as she saw the lorry heading for the abattoir being prepared for loading.
Instead of boarding the lorry, it took off, rammed the farm’s metal fence before heading to the nearby Lake Nysa.
After the cow’s owner, known only as Mr Lukasz, dispatched workers to get back the cow, they only ended up trying as the animal broke one of the worker’s arms.
Taking the well fought escape further, the brave beast went seaborne. The owner reportedly saw the mammal dive underwater, swimming to one of the islands at the middle of the lake.
When firefighters sailed to the island in pursuit, the cow went back into the water, swimming about 50 metres to a nearby peninsula.
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After a week of unsuccessful attempts to get the cow back, Mr Lukasz gave up and began providing her with just enough food to stay alive.
A vet called in to tranquillise the frightened animal told Mr Lukasz he was out on gas cartridges, and would take several days to requisite.
The cow which never gave up its bid to live finally attracted the attention of a local politician who offered to pay the owner in exchange for leaving it free and undisturbed on the island.
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| Crime › Re: Zimbabwean University VC Arrested Over Grace Mugabe’s Fake Phd by tellodds(op): 6:54am On Feb 19, 2018 |
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| Sports › Football Match Abandoned After 10 Red And 8 Yellow Cards by tellodds(op): 6:08am On Feb 19, 2018*. Modified: 7:06am On Feb 19, 2018 |
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| Business › Re: Colleagues Work 3,300 Extra Hours For Staff With Ill Son by tellodds(op): 5:19am On Feb 19, 2018 |
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The question is would these same people have done same for a black person with same problem? This was done more on an employer-employee basis. Many of the donating staff didn't know what he looked like |
| Business › Colleagues Work 3,300 Extra Hours For Staff With Ill Son by tellodds(op): 5:23pm On Feb 18, 2018*. Modified: 7:04am On Feb 19, 2018 |
Workers at German company donated a cumulative of almost 3,300 hours in overtime so a colleague could look after his son, diagnosed with leukemia.
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Single dad Andreas Graff has taken almost a year off from his job as an assembly worker at a design company in Hesse.
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After his four-year-old son Julius’s cancer diagnosis, nearly a thousand colleagues responded to a manager’s appeal.
“Without this great support, I would be unemployed,” the grateful father told a local paper.
When doctors told Mr Graff in January 2017 that Julius had leukaemia, a cancer of the blood cells, he quickly took all his allowed holiday leave.
The first nine weeks of Julius’ treatment had the then three-year-old confined to a bed.
Mr Graff, 36, was afraid he’d lose his job once he finished his unpaid leave.
However, a HR manager intervened and with the approval of management and support of the workers union, Manager Pia Meier called on employees of the company Seidel and a subsidiary in central Germany to contribute to an overtime fundraiser.
“The reaction of our employees was incredible,” she said.
Within a fortnight of posting sign-up sheets, a total of 3,264.5 hours were donated.
Overwhelmed by the generosity of fellow staff, including trainees who had never seen him, Mr Graff wept with joy upon realizing that he could take more than 12 months off his job to take care of Julius.
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| Crime › Zimbabwean University VC Arrested Over Grace Mugabe’s Fake Phd by tellodds(op): 5:11pm On Feb 18, 2018*. Modified: 6:53am On Feb 19, 2018 |
University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor, Professor Levi Nyagura was taken into custody yesterday on allegations of abuse of office involving an award of a Doctor of Philosophy degree to former First Lady Grace Mugabe.
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Spokeswoman for the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) Phyllis Chikundura confirmed the arrest in the capital Harare,
“Yes, he has been arrested on allegations of abuse of office over the doctorate of former First Lady Grace Mugabe,” she said, adding that he has been charged to court.
Prof Nyagura is being accused of awarding the PhD without due process and the approval of both the University Council and the Senate Committee.
In a recent interview on demands by 10 lecturers for the university to revoke Mrs Mugabe’s PhD, Prof Nyagura said PhD students were supervised by the post-graduate centre and not by a teaching department calling the protesting lecturers ‘ignorant Messrs and Doctors’.
Mrs Mugabe controversially graduated with the Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Social Studies in September 2014.
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Her thesis, according to the Zimbabwean Herald , was ‘The changing social structure and functions of the family’.
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The protesting lecturers said they were surprised to hear that Mrs Mugabe had been awarded a doctorate degree from their department when they never saw her degree application, acceptance letter, supervision and even the degree award.
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Grace was once a secretary in Robert Mugabe’s office but was thrust into the spotlight when it emerged that she had conceived a baby for the president while his first wife, Sally, lay bedridden due to a kidney ailment.
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| Culture › (PHOTOS) See Pictures From Yesterday's Chinese New Year Celebrations by tellodds(op): 5:47am On Feb 17, 2018 |
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| Science/Technology › Facebook Can Now Automatically Tag Your Face by tellodds(op): 5:23am On Feb 17, 2018 |
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| Science/Technology › 1 Million+ Snapchat Users Sign Petition to Reject New App Design by tellodds(op): 6:42pm On Feb 16, 2018*. Modified: 5:12am On Feb 17, 2018 |
More than one million people have signed a petition requesting Snapchat to reverse its latest redesign.
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The controversial new design was rolled out by the social media company last month to ‘separate the social from the media’.
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However, a Change.org petition, started last month by Nic Ramsey, a Snapchat user from Australia called for an immediate roll back of the interface alleging that users were now resorting to ‘risky methods to reverse the update and reinstall an older app version.
“With the release of the new Snapchat update, many users have found that it has not made the app easier to use, but has in fact made many features more difficult,” a section of the statement read.
The changes, according to the company were intended to separate interaction with friends from brand content – including that of celebrities and influencers.
Formerly, Snapchat users were able to swipe left from the app home screen to check their inbox, or right to see the 24-hour posts by friends, celebrities and brands they followed.
They could also swipe right a second time to see a Discover page that had categorized content from media sites.
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The new design however combine stories and messages from friends on the left screen. Collated stories from brands and celebrities and brands including curated media content are all in a panel on the right.
Snapchat founder Evan Spiegel insisted that combining posts from friends and celebrities blurred the two and ‘had contributed to the rise of fake news’.
The redesign has been so unpopular who complain it complicates navigating desired content and some got fed up that they considered deleting the app to reinstall an earlier version.
“…your friends aren’t content, they are relationships. We are separating the social from the media and reorganizing Snapchat around your relationships to make it more personal,” the 27 year old founder wrote.
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| Politics › Nigerian Twitter Reacts To 'Next Level' Promise By President Buhari by tellodds(op): 7:36am On Feb 16, 2018*. Modified: 8:07am On Feb 16, 2018 |
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| Celebrities › Re: Prince Who Always Wanted To Be King Dies At 83 by tellodds(op): 5:38pm On Feb 15, 2018 |
newyorks:
let him king on the other side of life. there's no injustice there Lol |
| Sports › Odd Stats From Last Night’s Real Madrid Champions League R-16 Win Over PSG by tellodds(op): 3:31pm On Feb 15, 2018*. Modified: 5:36pm On Feb 15, 2018 |
Cristiano Ronaldo has scored more Champions League goals as a player than 87% of all teams to have ever played in the competition.
Here are the top odd stats from last night’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid performance that saw the 5-time Ballon d’Or winner cancel out PSG’s opening goal from the spot and luckily guide in a second to help secure a 3 : 1 win for the Spanish club in the 2nd leg Round of 16 game.
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1. Ronaldo’s first goal of the night from a brilliant penalty ensured he became the first player in Champions League history to score 100 goals for the same club.
2. The 33 year old now has 101 Champions League goals for Real Madrid, 4 more than Barcelona’s Lionel Messi’s 97. Raul comes in a distant third with 66 champions league goals for Real Madrid during his career.
3. Adding the 15 Champions League goals he scored for Manchester United before moving to Real Madrid, Ronaldo now has a total Champions League goal tally of 116.
His count is 19 more than any other player (Lionel Messi in second place) and more than the total goal tally of 118 of the 137 teams that have ever participated in the UEFA Champions League.
4. The Real Madrid player has also led Champions League annual goal scoring charts on the most occasions – 6 times.
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5. He is also the only player ever to score 10 or more goals in six different Champions League seasons. No other player has done so in more than two.
6. Ronaldo’s 11 goals in the 2015-16 Champions League season remains the record for the highest number of goals scored by a single player within the UCL group stage in a season.
7. The Portuguese forward also holds record as the player with most goals scored in a single Champions League season with 17 goals in 2013-14
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8. Ronaldo became the first player to score in all group stage games within a single Champions League season (9 goals in 2017-18).
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| Celebrities › Prince Who Always Wanted To Be King Dies At 83 by tellodds(op): 5:13am On Feb 15, 2018 |
Prince Henrik of Denmark, the French-born husband of Queen Margrethe II who was popular for publicly expressing his sadness at never being named king, has died, aged 83.
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“He passed away Tuesday night, surrounded by his wife and their two sons,” the palace announced.
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The controversial royal had been hospitalized last year with diagnosis of a lung infection and also had dementia.
His flamboyant lifestyle was both loved and frowned at by Danes.
Born Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat on 11 June 1934 in France, Prince Henrik married the then-crown princess Margrethe in 1967. They met while he was a diplomat, stationed in London.
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The prince moved to Denmark just before his wedding in 1967, changed his name to Henrik and converted from Catholicism to protestanism as a mark of respect.
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When his wife became queen in 1972, Henrik didn’t mince words to the media while expressing his frustration at still retaining his title of a Prince. His request to be called King didn’t endear him to his subjects.
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Instead, many Danes considered him arrogant with a thirst for recognition.
Prince Henrik was outraged when in 2002, his son, Crown Prince Frederik was chosen to represent Queen Margrethe at a New Year’s ceremony instead of him.
The shocked Henrik dramatically flew to France seeking a moment to ‘reflect on his life’ and stayed there for almost a month.
He later told a Danish tabloid that royal staff had pushed him into “third place in the royal hierarchy”.
He expressed being ‘humiliated’ and ‘destroyed’.
“For many years I have been Denmark’s number two,”
he complained.
“I’ve been satisfied with that role, but I don’t want to be relegated to number three,”
the embittered Prince added.
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In April 2015, the Prince strangely cancelled coming to Margrethe’s 75th birthday celebrations citing ill health; he suprisingly showed up in Venice, chilling at a tourist-packed square less than two days later.
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| Car Talk › Re: The 1901 Car Race That Made Ford by tellodds(op): 8:35am On Feb 14, 2018 |
Winton as usual was confident and his car, the “Bullet,” with about 70 horsepower, and a line of winning records gave him enough reasons to be so.
Henry Ford meanwhile had never raced before and his car produced just 26 hp. He was the undisputed underdog and the 8,000 spectators with the enthusiastic news media were almost certain who the winner will be.
It looked as though Winton would have a cheap win. He pulled away at the start and opened up a lead of as much as a fifth of a mile. Ford trailed by almost 300 yards. His inexperience was obvious; letting off the gas into the turns, while his opponent drove through turns with speed.
However, Ford improved his driving and slowly began to close the gap after 5 laps. On lap seven, Winton’s car suddenly developed fault and slowed down with sputter and smoke..
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| Christianity Etc › Valentine Meets Ash Wednesday by tellodds(op): 6:11am On Feb 14, 2018*. Modified: 8:45am On Feb 14, 2018 |
Love or Penance? For catholic christians, today is St. Valentines’ day and is also Ash Wednesday.
For the first time since 1945, Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day falls on the same day.
A similar co-incidence happened 1934, 1923, and 1877, and will repeat in 2029.
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The Feast of St. Valentine is celebrated annually by catholics on February 14, in honor of an early saint, St. Valentine of Rome.
Ash Wednesday, observed by many western christians including catholics, is the first fasting day of Lent before Easter. The 40 days Lent period mirrors Christ’s 40 days fasting in the wilderness.
It’s a case of love in Lent or as some may point out, an ‘appropriate way’ to start Lent.
To some others, it might be a mix-up, one that clashes a joyful and romantic annual affair with a pensive and moody ritual.
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“With Lent itself, it’s a constant reminder of how God has been good to us,” Catholic priest Rev. Benjamin Butler says. “But also how in our individual lives, we’re called to love God and grow in that love even more,” he added.
Last year, Valentine day shoppers spent $18.2 billion in the U.S, one of the few countries keeping Valentine’s day sales statistics.
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Consumers are expected to spend $19.7bn and $528m on Valentine presents and treats this year in U.S and Australia respectively.
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| Car Talk › The 1901 Car Race That Made Ford by tellodds(op): 4:32am On Feb 14, 2018 |
After his first auto business failed, Henry Ford turned to racing to restore his reputation. The 1901 ‘sweepstakes race’ was not just Mr Ford’s first, it became the race that restored his credibility and encouraged lenders to back him in his next venture, The Henry Ford Company.
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The 1901 Sweepstakes at The Ford Museum
In the summer of 1901, Henry Ford (38) was in hard times. His first car venture, the Detroit Automobile Company, had shut down after producing only about 20 vehicles in 2 years.
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His financial partners had begun to to question his skill as an engineer and prowess as a businessman. Mr Ford reasoned that building a fast and reliable race car will re-establish his credibility and his day came on October 10, 1901.
His one and only race at Grosse Pointe, Michigan against top racer Alexander Winton became a world changer by paving the way for an eventual establishment of The Ford Motor Company.
Ford had a strong backroom team. His lead designer was Oliver Barthel. Ed “Spider” Huff worked on the electrical system, Ed Verlinden and George Wettrick did the lathe jobs, and Charlie Mitchell was the blacksmith.
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The car they produced was ahead of its day. The induction system was a crude form of mechanical fuel injection, patented by Ford. The spark plugs may have been the world’s first to use porcelain insulators which Ford had a Detroit dentist make for him. The insulators were to reduce inconsistent sparks which causes misfiring, a common problem for the early cars.
Ford also had a vision for the automobile as a mass-produced, inexpensive, reliable vehicle. At the time, that the automobile was a luxury machine for the rich and far beyond the reach of the average worker.
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Henry Ford poses with a later model of his car
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Total U.S car production then was about 4,000 from more than 50 automobile companies. The industry had no clear direction and the major source of motor power was steam.
Mr Ford was certain that someone will enlarge the industry to the mass-automobile market he envisioned. He was eager to be the one who did it.
That’s why Ford and his team built their race car and named it “Sweepstakes” though it co-incidentally bore the same name with the race.
Automobile manufacturers had already started using racing to demonstrate the worth and superiority of their products.
Mr Ford entered Sweepstakes in the race event promoted by the Detroit Driving Club, to be run on the afternoon of Thursday October 10, 1901 on the club’s one-mile dirt oval in Grosse Pointe Michigan, just east of Detroit.
According to the published entry list, 13 of the race drivers were from Detroit. Others were from as far away as Buffalo, Pittsburgh and New York, but the favorite was Alexander Winton, from Cleveland.
An established, automobile builder, Winton was said to be the most famous and successful racer in the United States at the time.
The 10-lap race had a cut glass bowl trophy plus $1,000 prize for the winner.
The media and over 8,000 spectators were ready and so was Henry Ford and his ‘Sweepstakes.’
With an estimate of 26 horsepower, Ford and Barthel claimed the car peaked 72 mph (115.87 kmph) during its road tests. As at 1901, the official worldwide top speed for automobiles was 65.79 mph (105.88 kmph).
Many of the race cars had multiple issues; one even developed a mechanical fault on the start line. Soon the contestants had dwindled down to two.
The race was now between Henry Ford and Alexander Winton...
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| Business › Re: Villagers Still In Wait For Share Of $6.5 Million Diamond by tellodds(op): 7:34pm On Feb 12, 2018 |
Wristler:
Oh my my.... The way mother nature works the earth... Diamonds in the dirt of the poor, poverty in the dirt of the weak. Diamond on the neck of the rich, Riches in the pocket of the strong. Reminds of the movie 'Blood Diamonds' |
| TV/Movies › Re: Remember These Early MTN Tv Commercials? by tellodds(op): 6:47am On Feb 12, 2018 |
hahn:
Back then when sim cards cost N40,000
Chai e don tey wey MTN dey scam us  Some folks with money only enough for a sim card bought one and carefully wrapped it in A4 paper or in a cello taped pack in wait for a phone |
