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A BLONDE GOES ON WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE

Posted by DONHADLEY GIRLAND {WEBYARNER} on March 24, 2009 at 9:31am

Regis: "Barbara, you've done very well so far - $500,000 and one lifeline left -- phone a friend.The next question will give you the top prize of One Million dollars if you get it right ... but if you get it wrong you will drop back to $32,000 -- are you ready?"Barbara: "Sure, I'll have a go!"Regis: "Which of the following birds does not build it's own nest?Is it........A-RobinB-SparrowC-CuckooD-ThrushRemember Barbara its worth 1 Million dollars.""I think I know who it..but I'm not 100%...No, I haven't got a clue. I'd like to phone a friend Regis, just to be sure.Regis: "Yes, who, Barbara, do you want to phone?Barbara: "I'll phone my friend Maggie back home in Birmingham."(ringing)Maggie (also a blonde): "Hello..."Regis: "Hello Maggie, its Regis here from Who Wants to be a Millionaire-I have Barbara here and she is doing really well on $500,000, but needs your help to be a Million.The next voice you hear will be Barbara's and she'll read you the question.There are 4 possible answers and 1 correct answer and you have 30 seconds to answer -- fire away Barbara."Barbara: "Maggie, which of the following birds does not build it's own nest? Is it:A-RobinB-SparrowC-CuckooD-Thrush"Maggie: "Oh Gees, Barbara that's simple.....It's a Cuckoo."Barbara: "You think?"Maggie: "I'm sure."Barbara: " Thanks Maggie." (hangs up)Regis: "Well, do you want to stick on $500,000 or play on for the Million, Barbara?"Barbara: "I want to play, I'll go with C-Cuckoo"Regis: "Is that your final answer?"Barbara: "It is."Regis: "Are you confident?"Barbara: "Yes fairly, Maggie's a sound bet."Regis: "Barbara.....you had $500,000 and you said C-Cuckoo ...you're right! - You have just won ONE MILLION DOLLARS.Here is your check. You have been a great contestant and a real gambler. Audience please put your hands together for Barbara."(clapping)That night Barbara calls round to Maggie and brings her down to a local bar for a celebration drink and, as they are sipping their Champagne, Barbara turns to Maggie and asks "Tell me Maggie, How in God's name did you know that it was the Cuckoo that does not build its own nest?Maggie: "Listen Barbara, everybody knows that a Cuckoo lives in a clock."

Ekiti Re-Run elections saga

Posted by Akin Osunlaja WebLagosian on March 24, 2009 at 4:01am

Ekiti Re-Run Elections Saga: “Rig and Roast” With the Verdict of the Court of Appeal sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday, 17 February, 2009 the mandate given to Engineer Segun Adebayo Oni as governor of Ekiti State (by INEC) after elections of 14 April 2007 was nullified by a unanimous decision of the court.

To the removed governor and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) the judgment was a rude shock more so as the verdict of the lower electoral tribunal had ( in a unanimous decision) in December 2008 declared Segun Oni as duly elected. To the Action Congress (AC) and its governorship candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi who was petitioner/appellant in the legal battle that lasted more than twenty months, the verdict was a welcome development and a thumb-up for the rule of law. Huhuonline.com checks reveals that to the ordinary citizen of Ekiti State , the verdict was a call for apprehension because of the pervasive air of uncertainty that surrounds the re-run election in some 64 wards spread across ten out of sixteen local governments in the state. The perceived apprehension is not misplaced after all in view of certain developments in the state since the April 2007 elections. Our investigation revealed that the two parties contending for supremacy exhibit almost equal strength in all the political manoeuvrability displayed so far. The 26-member house of assembly consist 13 PDP and 13 Ac legislators. The level of strength accounts for lots of tension within the house and between the house and the executive arm of government. Most decisions of the executive arm of government, for example the appointment of commissioners, had been carried out in a controversial manner. The appointment of the commissioners was presented by the former Governor Segun Oni to the old house assembly before the current house was inaugurated. Another controversial issue is the appointment of State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) which is still an issue before an Ado-Ekiti High Court following a suit file by the AC in which the ruling party was alleged to have violated due process. The local government election that was conducted in December 2008 by the contested SIEC was boycotted by the AC. These are a few instances of the index of tension in governance in Ekiti State . Following the verdict of the Court of Appeal, the Speaker of the house (a PDP legislator) Rt. Honorable Olatunji Odeyemi was sworn-in as Acting Governor, while the Deputy Speaker- Hon. Saliu Adeoti (AC) became the Acting Speaker. The tension between the House and the Executive arm of government seem to have increased since. While the house wanted all political appointees of Engineer Segun Oni to be relieved of their position, the PDP has resisted and the acting governor has merely suspended Segun Oni`s commissioners while other political appointees are still in place with government machineries at their disposal as a possible threat to level playing ground in the re-run election. The two parties (PDP & AC) appear desperate to have a hold on government machinery through the re-run elections. Electioneering campaigns so far have been marred with violence leading to death of at least one person (at Oye local government) and destruction of property and injuries to many people at Oye and Ise-Orun local governments. There are various postals around town with horrific captions like rig and roast. The position of the police command of Ekiti State does not appear neutral as there are numerous complaints of complicity between the police and the PDP. To worsen the charged atmosphere is the crisis between a faction of PDP led by a former governor of the state Mr. Ayo Fayose and the main-stream of the PDP led by Segun Oni. Attempts to reconcile the two factions by Abuja have failed. Fayose has come out openly canvassing for the populace that Segun Oni does not return to the State House in Ado-Ekiti. And whatever anybody feels, Fayose is an ardent grass-rooter with a large following: in any event whether peaceful or otherwise, Fayose would be a factor to contend with. As the re-run election draws near, it would require an objective steps on the part of the Independent Electoral Commission (INEC), the police, community leaders (such as traditional rulers) to avert a catastrophe that could lead to another state of emergency in Ekiti. This is obvious in view of the desperation of PDP and AC and their almost equal strength. While PDP is basking in euphoria of being in control of Federal Government and implicit control of INEC and the security apparatus; AC relies heavily on the populace and the fact that it had the higher votes in the remaining legitimate votes in the disputed elections of 2007 as contained in the verdict of the Court of Appeal.

AGE QUOTES

Posted by DONHADLEY GIRLAND {WEBYARNER} on March 23, 2009 at 12:33pm

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.Bob HopeAs you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...Sir Norman WisdomYes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.Mike TysonYou know you're getting fat when you can pinch an inch on your forehead.John MendozaAs we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.Robert QuillenPeople say that age is just a state of mind. I say it's more about the state of your body.Geoffrey Parfitt

BRIDE TELLS HER HUSBAND

Posted by DONHADLEY GIRLAND {WEBYARNER} on March 23, 2009 at 12:08pm

The bride tells her husband, "Honey, you know I'm a virgin and I don't knowanything about sex. Can you explain it to me first?""OK, Sweetheart. Putting it simply, we will call your private place 'theprison' and call my private thing 'the prisoner'. So what we do is: put theprisoner in the prison.And then they made love for the first time.Afterwards, the guy is lying face up on the bed, smiling with satisfaction.Nudging him, his bride giggles, "Honey the prisoner seems to have escaped."Turning on his side, he smiles. "Then we will have to re-imprison him."After the second time they spent, the guy reaches for his cigarettes butthe girl, thoroughly enjoying the new experience of making love, gives hima suggestive smile, "Honey, the prisoner is out again!"The man rises to the occasion, but with the unsteady legs of a recentlyborn foal.Afterwards, he lays back on the bed, totally exhausted.She nudges him and says, "Honey, the prisoner escaped again."Limply turning his head, He YELLS at her, "Hey, its not a life sentence,OKAY!

Shocker: Facebookers Not Happy With Redesign

Posted by 9jabook.com on March 22, 2009 at 8:37pm

CEO fixes unbroken social network Here’s your scenario: You’re the CEO of an immensely popular social network with 175 million registered users, or just shy of the population of Brazil. Your users are passionate and tend to protest over the slightest changes. Just recently they got really mad about a terms of service change—so mad it was on the evening news and you had to change them back. Despite those numbers, despite rabid user loyalty, you’re losing money, so much money you got delisted from Forbes’ Masters of the Universe Billionaires list. At the same time another social network, much smaller than yours with less functionality and more questionable future, is gaining a lot of buzz and membership. What do you do? Do you: Old Facebook Now A. Don’t fix something that’s not broken. And by not broken, it means that meteoric growth over the past year led your site to trounce MySpace and every sensitive person on the site is relatively happy in their social networking habitat. B. Ignore that a growing number of people seem to like an incomprehensible platform much like a feature you already offer. Remember that you have 175 million and growing members, and that Twitter does not, and show that you have plenty of confidence in your product. After all Google didn’t just become a portal because some people didn’t get the spare interface. C. A and B, and focus on Job 1, which is figure out a way to monetize so that you can rejoin the Masters of the Universe at Davos next year. D. None of the above. Instead, hold a press conference. Announce you’re making the website more democratic if that’s what everybody wants and call for a vote. While everybody’s busy voting on that, change everything. If you picked D, congratulations, you’re thinking like Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. At the end of last month, Zuckerberg laid down what resembled the Magna Carta for Facebook, noting that future changes would be made via a more democratic process in “virtual town halls.” Voting on that set of new principles and user rights and responsibilities would be in effect until March 29, and only required 52 million votes to ensure they took effect. Over that month, said Zuckerberg, Facebook would be making “hundreds of changes.” Presumably before anybody could stop him. Maybe we’re seeing the grooming of a future politician. On March 13, Facebook radically redesigned the site to make it more Twitter-esque and less traditionally Facebook-y. How did the Facebook masses respond? Hard to gauge really. Yesterday, an update on the Facebook blog about the new Town Hall voting on the new governance plan was met with a barrage of comments about how much they hated new Facebook and wanted the old one back. But comment threads get ugly sometimes, right? You can't let a minority of protestors beat you back. Just how many protestors are there, anyway? The number against the changes are even harder to gauge because there are too many separate factions of new Facebook haters. A couple of groups appear to have around 400,000 members, one has 2.7 million, another around 50,000, and several others just have hundreds. We’ll round up and call it a cool 4 million, well shy of the 30 percent of Facebook needed to vote down changes under the new governance that has yet to take effect. Groups rallying to keep or save the new Facebook exist as well. One of them even has 76 members. Chris William at the HuffingtonPost does a pretty good job of summing up what appear to be the most unpopular changes. They include: --No more automatically updating “live feed” with updates on everything. One critic called the live feed a “TV alternative.” --Data is fully integrated into the new status updates. Users used to be able to separate out by category: wall posts, status updates, links, photos, etc. --The feed no longer tells you when friends add new friends. This was a popular way of expanding one’s own friends list. --Now users get updated with every photo posted in a separate post. 30 new pictures posted. 30 new posts in the feed. --Gone is the ability to just see less of an individual’s posts. Now it’s all posts or no posts from a person. The complaints go on for a while at different sources. The least that can be said is there are a lot of people out there wondering why unbroken Facebook needed to be fixed, and why anyone with a user base so change-averse to begin with would think hundreds of changes over a short period of time—no testing, no asking—would go over well.

REBRANDING NIGERIA

Posted by Odofin Caleb on March 20, 2009 at 10:45am

So many controversies has erupted on this issue of rebranding Nigeria Project by the new information minister, Prof. Dora Akunyili. Many have said it is a mere waste of money, many said, it is a wrong thing to do now, many said it is a move to discredit all the good works done by the minister while she was the DG of NAFDAC. Amidst all these, allegations, comments and complaint, the Rebranding Nigeria Project has been launched today, 17th of March, 2009 and a total sum of N150M has been set aside for this project. The new brand is “NIGERIA, GOOD PEOPLE, GREAT NATION”.Before I continue, I will just like you to know what branding and rebranding is. A brand is simply something that has become an identity of a particular product or service or company in simple language. When you think about a particular characteristic, you remember that company, for example when you think about yellow, you remember MTN, when you think about noodles, in fact you call it Indomie, talk of washing up detergent, we call it Omo, when you think about inconsistency, we remember NEPA, when you talk about NEWS, we remember Channels TV or CNN (thinking globally), when we talk about entertainment TV in Nigeria, STV comes to mind. This is a simple explanation of branding.Rebranding is now a situation where a particular company or entity wants to change what it stands for in the mind of people and many things are set in place to do this, it could be a simple change of Colour, Change of Logo (Like intercontinental bank did), change of use ( Omo rebrands with “dirt is good”). These changes are advertised until the new brand is impressed in the heart of the populace.The Brand Nigeria has been known for scam, fraudulence, unsafe business terraine, power problem and so on. This has made Nigeria to be disadvantaged in so many area globally. A Nigerian will not be allowed to arrive a country without a thorough security search which will even follow him about till he leaves that country; Nigerians will not be accepted by Paypal or Clickbank, the largest Payment processor and Digital Product bank respectively on the internet. Nigerians have been branded as corrupt and dangerous.Prof. Akunyili now decided to initiate Rebranding Nigeria Project which is aimed at branding Nigeria with a positive image. Many Nigerians have kicked against this move saying that, it is out of place for now, that concentration should be more on prevailing on the government to intensify its power project, intensify its fight against corruption, develop the economy and provide employment for the youths and food for the masses.I want to say, all what the people are clamouring for is correct and also the Rebranding Nigeria Project is also not out of place. Rebranding Nigeria Project is an external affair program, while development and fight against corruption is internal.The question we should ask ourselves as Nigerians is:Are there no honest people in Nigeria ? There are honest people in Nigeria.Are there no places in Nigeria that is safe for business? There are plenty of places in Nigeria that is safe for businessAre there no honest Nigerian Internet marketers and Information marketers? In fact, we are many!Are we not good people in Nigeria? We are good people in Nigeria.Are there no other countries that are having corruption problems in high places? Most nations do!Should we continue to be discriminated and deprived globally? No, we shouldn’t.This is the work of the Information minister to do, she will not be the one to fight corruption, she will not be the one to threat the power problem.I encourage Nigerians especially youths to support the Rebranding Nigeria Project. I believe in Nigeria, I believe in a new Nigeria. We are beginning to see it unfold. When it becomes good, we need a global acceptance to make Nigeria reach its full potential. So, let us REBRAND NIGERIA. To Non- Nigerians reading this post, if you have not met honest Nigerians, it means you are looking in the wrong places. You have at least met one here on this site.NIGERIA IS BEAUTIFUL!!!NIGERIA, GOOD PEOPLE, GREAT NATIONCheersOdofin Caleb www.youthsbusiness.com

Nigeria: Court Orders Arrest of Ex-Beauty Queen

Posted by Akin Osunlaja WebLagosian on March 19, 2009 at 11:10pm

Justice Deborah Oluwayemi of the Lagos High Court, Igbosere, yesterday ordered for the immediate arrest of Nollywood actress and ex-beauty queen, Ibinabo Fiberesima. The order of the court was sequel to the absence of the ex-beauty queen in court yesterday when the matter was mentioned in court. Her lawyer, Kemasuode Wodu, told the court that he had filed a stay of execution of the judgement of the court. Following this, Justice Oluwayemi asked, "Where is the convict?" Mr. Wodu answered that she was sick and currently recuperating at the BMH Hospital in Port Harcourt, The lawyer tendered a medical certificate which read: "To Whom It May Concern". But this was rejected on the grounds that it was not addressed to the court. Justice Oluwayemi frowned at the absence of the convict, adding that the application for the stay of execution of the judgement would not be heard until she was produced in court. The judge cited the cases of some convicts who are currently in prison, like Rev. King, to buttress her point. The former beauty queen was last month sentenced to five years imprisonment for dangerous and reckless driving which led to the death of one Dr. Giwa Suraj.

Obey your dreams because dreamers are the saviours of the world!

Posted by Dan WebNutritionist/Motivator on March 19, 2009 at 7:39am

I was heading home from work last night and strangely the words of James Allen kept ringing in my head, " the dreamers are the saviours of the world".I couldnt shake the words off.They lingered on till i went to bed.I woke up in the morning to the melodious chorus of Michael Jackson's Human nature playing like a marathon in my mind.It's been at least two decades since i first heard that song and yet its influence is just as powerful as the memory of a first kiss.My imagination immediately went to work directing a video featuring R&B icons Mario and Alicia Keys, performing a Grammy-styled rendition of Human Nature.I could just picture Alicia Keys magically fingering the piano while singing back up,with Mario's soulful lead, masterfully capturing the nostalgic mood of the song in vocal crescendos and diminuendos.My my my.....the memory of it is still sooooooooo refreshing.It got me thinking though.What if my Michael Jackson talked himself out of his dreams.We probably would never have heard Human Nature sung,at least not with such perfection.What if the eleven year old Quincy Jones decided not to pursue his musical interests? Michael Jackson's Thriller album may never have existed as the Hottest selling album in history.And Quincy Jones would probably have died from his regular diet of fried rats.What if Christopher Columbus never believed in his vision of a rich and fertile land across the seas? America would not exist today.What if Mary Slessor decided to be quiet about twin infant killings? I would not be alive to share these words today.What if Martin Luther King Jr and Barack Obama refused to commit themselves to a vision of a better future for their nation but instead chose to give in to the present crisis? America would have been caught in a cycle of baseless conflicts,hopelessness and economic despair.What if Nelson Mandela never believed in the power of a vision? Apartheid probably would still have a strong hold on South Africa.What if Berry Gordy had chosen the path of least resistant by sticking to a 9 to 5 job? There would have been no Motown Records, no Diana Ross & the Supremes, no Jackson 5, no Marvin Gaye.What if Winston Churchill broke his commitment to defeating Hitler and his allies? There would have been a genocide on a greater scale than was originally recorded during Hitlers rule.There probably would have been monumental abattoirs littered all over the world flowing with the blood of innocent Jews and Africans.What if Ted Turner thought that having an office couch for a bed for ten years was too high a price to pay for the success of CNN ? We would not have had CNN today and probably no Aljazeera.Imagine Thomas Edison giving up on his dream of inventing a light bulb after the nine hundred and ninety ninth trial.Do you have any idea the number of houses that would have been razed to the ground and lives lost through the use of candles and naked flames?What if Sir Alexander Flemming never pursued his vision of finding an antibiotic? He would never have stumbled on the legendary accident that brought about the discovery of penicillin.I think by now you know what i am driving at.Its become obvious that dreamers are truly the saviors of the world.Through them God gave us hope, music, TV, radio, ships, houses, medicines, books, leadership, deliverance, the Gospel and many other blessings.We enjoyed the benefits of their commitment to their dreams.My question is, Will our generation and the generations to come benefit from the realization our dreams? Or do we chose to ignore them and settle for an empty , slavish life of living to pay the bills till the day we die?I believe dream-killing is a crime against humanity.We deprive the world of the blessings of God when we shelve our dreams.We must commit to our God-given vision and leave a legacy for others to enjoy or else we'll never truly live.My advice to you is ,Obey your dreams and be the saviour you were meant to be!- Dan Abia

Why Is Facebook Trying To Be Twitter?

Posted by 9jabook.com on March 18, 2009 at 3:29pm

Facebook is driving me crazy. Only a few days after I made a post talking about how Facebook differs from Twitter and why I was changing how I use the Facebook service that Facebook decides to make major changes and become more like Twitter. The gist of my previous post was that Facebook was meant more for connecting with personal friends and family while services like Twitter and LinkedIn led themselves more to networking. That is why Facebook has the privacy controls and the limit as to the number of friends you can have. I also talked about how the seemingly proper way to network with the newly overhauled Facebook ‘pages’ where you can setup a Facebook presence for your business, project or personal brand and through participation in Facebook groups. Not soon afterwords I noticed how Facebook changed their homepage to become more Twitter like. Now today I see that Facebook is loosening privacy controls making it easier for a users personal data to be viewable to search engines and to other Facebook users. This is starting to piss me off, especially after deleting over 200 Facebook contacts, which it really did pain me to do, in order to align myself better with the spirit of their service. I began reserving my Facebook personal profile for family and close personal friends only with a promise to set up a Facebook ‘page’ so that I could communicate with my FB social media contacts, colleagues and co-workers. At this point I am sticking to that plan, but I really wish that Facebook would make up it’s fucking mind and stay true to the spirit of their service that made them one of the fastest growing websites on the planet. Why change to emulate Twitter when supposedly Facebook grows a Twitter’s worth of new users every week? Is it just me or is Facebook so scared of ‘the next big thing’ that they have forgotten that they are the big social network on campus, which they are….for now. Please leave a comment telling me what you think. I’d love to hear how you feel about Facebook’s recent changes.

sleep

Posted by A. F. Oesten on March 17, 2009 at 6:16pm

For more information visit my sleep news, articles and reviews site.

Prescription sleep aids are widely available, but they are only meant for short term use. Many people (and even doctors) seem to forget that these sleep aids have dependency and addiction issues, and were never meant to be taken in the long term. Taking prescription sleep aids for more than a few weeks puts you at risk of having to rely on them to get to sleep. Once you stop using prescription sleep aids at this point the rebound insomnia and other withdrawal symptoms can be excruciating. It is best not to start using prescription sleep aids if possible, and instead use herbal remedies to get to sleep. There are rarely any negative effects to taking herbal sleep remedies over prescription sleep aids, and they will not lead to dependency or addiction. For the best results I recommend looking for something with Valerian root and/or St John's Wort, the most effective herbal sedatives.

If you are suffering from insomnia you can get to sleep without the negative side effects of pharmaceutical drugs with a natural sleep aid. Not only is a natural sleep aid much safer, usually they are cheaper as well. While a prescription drug will leave you groggy and drowsy the next day, a natural sleep aid provides natural sleep, and allows you to awaken refreshed the next morning. Your natural sleep aid will also not expose you to the risk of addiction and dependency, and will not result in a strong rebound of insomnia if you discontinue use. They should always be used before considering prescription drugs; pharmaceutical sleeping pills should only be used in the most severe cases, and then it is not recommended to use them for long periods of time. Insomnia affects millions of people and the severity can range from something that is an annoyance to completely debilitating sleep deprivation, under these circumstances people use prescription drugs because it is the quickest fix; though as I demonstrated above, it is not the healthiest solution. So try a natural sleep aid and get the sleep you need without the side effects you don't.

Lorazepam has shown moderate effectiveness in controlling anxiety and some effectiveness in the treatment of insomnia. Many people however find that Lorazepam stops working for them after a week or two while conversely another group of people use Lorazepam for long periods of time recreationally. This is because Lorazepam, like most benzodiazepines, produces a very pleasant and euphoric feeling that lends itself to addiction. Also to be taken into account is the fact that one can easily form a dependence on Lorazepam for dealing with anxiety or sleep. These problems will become amplified if one stops taking Lorazepam. Psychiatric science is in its infancy compared to other realms of science, and in the future hopefully there will be much more effective and side effect free drugs than Lorazepam; for now it is best to avoid using prescription anti anxiety drugs if possible and instead look for help in milder forms of treatment such as therapy, introspection as well as natural remedies. St John's Wort and other herbs have been used clinically all over the world and are quite effective in treating anxiety and insomnia. In my opinion, Lorazepam should only be used to correct severe chemical imbalances.

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The best ways to plan your day

Posted by Dare Ayodele on March 17, 2009 at 5:12pm

To be very successful and go through each day without stress, it is very important to plan your day. Maintaining the practice of having a daily plan can help you stay focused on the priorities of that particular day. You are more likely to get things accomplished if you pencil down your plans for the day.Before you go to sleep, plan out the following day. Personal Development Expert, Brian Tracy, states that one minute of planning will save you 10 minutes in executed action. If you wait until the next day to plan, you might run in to too many distractions and interruptions which will prevent you from staying focused on your plan. Also by planning the night before, you allow your subconscious mind to work with those tasks over night and in the morning you will know what your commitments are for that day, rather than trying to figure out your plans that morning. By having plan already prepared, you can cross-check any opportunities that come up during the day with your prior commitments and objectives. To achieve this, you have to have a must do list. Your must-do list should comprise of all the tasks that are of the highest priority for you and carry either positive or negative consequences. Spend some time carefully creating this list because once a ask goes into your must-do list-it must be, done that day. Don’t postpone or reschedule tasks on your must-do list unless absolutely necessary, because this will reinforce a bad habit of not holding true to your priorities-a habit which will eventually lead to idleness and not meeting your goals on time. Your must- do list should be relatively short in nature and should not be more than six items, this will enable you accomplish your set goals. It is very important for you to tackle these items first before moving on to other things.Keep track of appointments. These are the set times during the day that are dedicated for certain event. When you book an appointment, place it onto your main calendar and then transfer those appointments onto your daily planner each day. This will help you to keep your appointments.Delegate tasks if your work is too much. Always look at your to-do lists with an eye for delegation. You cannot do everything yourself so look at your to-do lists and ask yourself which of those activities you can hand over to other people to complete. This is a crucial aspect of maximizing your time.Make a should-do list. This is a list of the things that you should get done during the day, but are not crucial or necessary enough to warrant being on your must-do list. Your should-do tasks should be completed at your discretion only after all the items on your must-do list have been completed. Though this might not be necessary, but could save some time. Try not to postpone too much as three reschedules could put you out. If you find yourself moving uncompleted tasks over into the following day and over and over again then you must determine why that task is on your list in the first place and what value it has in your life. Make it a rule not to transfer a task more than three times if not you will be out in no time.In trying to plan ahead for the day, make sure you try to strike a balance with all aspects of your life. Do not give more priorities to others, thereby allowing other important aspects of your life to be neglected. If you implement these strategies for your day, you can successfully increase your personal and professional productivity and achieve your dreams and goals much more efficiently. Just give it a try and experience an amazing result.

5 tips for a women

Posted by lorrie on March 16, 2009 at 3:03am

1. It is important that a man helps you around the house and has a job.2. It is important that a man makes you laugh.3. It is important to find a man you can count on and doesn’t lie to you.4. It is important that a man loves you and spoils you.5. It is important that these four men don’t know each other.Drug Intervention New Hampshire

The color of car speaks about your character

Posted by alex on March 16, 2009 at 2:59am

The color of car speaks about your characterEvery person chooses colors that best fit his character. It relates to almost all spheres of our life.Thus you may find out some steaks of your admirer judging by the color of his car (of course if he has the latter).White color is chosen by idealists, classics lovers, admirers of eternal love. It's a capital aesthete, a modest factory worker, a taciturn fan of reading books at leisure who may drive a white car. When on road these people are, as a rule, neat, following road laws. If one day you will see a white car owner driving reckless, be sure he has a sound ground for it!Those who prefer yellow color cars are big optimists. They wait for happiness to fall upon them unexpectedly. Such people like to live by tomorrow, they are not interested in the past, neither in the present. That's why they may seem a bit out-of-body. Keep aloof from yellow cars on road, they may not notice you.People, choosing blue color cars, are psychologically mature.Drug Intervention New Hampshire

WORDS

Posted by Dare Ayodele on March 14, 2009 at 9:16am

THE MOST SELFISH ONE LETTER WORD.........."I"AVOID IT.THE MOST SATISFYING TWO-LETTER WORD.........."WE"USE IT.THE MOST USED FOUR-LETTER WORD................" LOVE"VALUE IT.THE FASTEST SPREADING SIX-LETTER WORD..........."RUMOUR"IGNOR IT.THE HARDEST WORKING SEVE-LETTER WORD........."SUCCESS"ACHIEVE IT.THE MOST ENVIABLE EIGHT-LETTER WORD............."JEALOUSY"DISTANCE IT.THE MOST POWERFUL NINE-LETTER WORD............"KNOWLEDGE"ACQUIRE IT.THE MOST ESSENTIAL TEN-LETTER WORD............."CONFIDENCE"TRUST IT.

IF YOU.............

Posted by Dare Ayodele on March 14, 2009 at 6:55am

If you're mad with someone and nobody's there to fix the situation... You fix it. Maybe today, that person still wants to be your friend.. And if u doesn't, tomorrow can be too late.If you're in love with somebody, but that person doesn't know... tell her/him. Maybe today, that person is also in love with you. And if you don't say it, tomorrow can be too late.If you still love a person that you think has forgotten you...tell her/him. Maybe that person has always loved you. And if you don't tell her/him today, tomorrow can be too late.If you need a hug of a friend... ask her/him for it.Maybe they need it more than you do. And if you don't ask for it today, tomorrow can be too late.If you really have friends who you appreciate... tell them. Maybe they appreciate you as well. That if you don't and they leave or go far away today, tomorrow can be too late.If you love your parents, and never had the chance to show them.... do it. Maybe you have them there to show them how you feel. That if you don't and they leave today, and then tomorrow can be too late.

Nigeria's economy the multiple Rape of A nation by itself ! Economist article

Posted by 9jabook.com on March 14, 2009 at 6:28am

A double strike Mar 12th 2009 | LAGOS From The Economist print edition Africa’s second-largest economy has home-grown problems, too STAND on the beachfront of Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, and a puzzling scene emerges from the tropical haze: a stately line of container ships, each at anchor, queuing to enter the harbour. Despite the global slump, congestion is not letting up, says the director of the company that runs the privatised port. The number of inbound containers has doubled in the past three years; so far in 2009 there has been no decline. Such is the crush in Lagos that getting cargo from ship to port to lorry still takes an average of six weeks. Such blockages are nothing to celebrate. But they indicate how 140m-odd Nigerians, despite being battered by a sharp fall in oil revenues and by an equally painful 20% devaluation of their currency, the naira, remain hungry for imports. Retailers tell a similar story. Coca-Cola plans to serve Nigerians over 2 billion bottles of sugary drinks this year, as it did last year. Procter & Gamble, which sells nappies, washing powder and so on, reports some slackening growth but still expects the young and fast-growing population to push up consumer demand in the next few years. Mobile-phone companies, notably MTN, which dominates the local market, are even more gung-ho. They continue to brag about healthy sales of handsets and new armies of subscribers, though the rising costs of imported equipment cut into profits; Nigeria now has some 64m lines, up from a handful a decade ago. Anecdotally, at least, businessmen’s bullishness seems so far to be borne out. Good hotels in Lagos still charge astronomical rates, building sites are crowded and vendors throng the city streets as ever; bootleg DVDs of Barack Obama’s inauguration are particularly popular. But like many poor countries (see article), Nigeria has not escaped the global storm. It relies heavily on oil and gas exports, which provide more than 95% of all foreign-exchange earnings and most of the government’s revenue. Both have been thumped by the tumbling price of crude, now at about $40 a barrel, more than $100 less than at last year’s peak. With nothing else to export—all those containers leave empty—Nigeria is especially vulnerable to volatile oil prices. Capital which washed merrily into the economy a year or two ago is flowing the other way. Most of it had served the hydrocarbon industry but some foreign investors, notably Americans, had started to see Nigeria as an emerging market; braver ones were tempted by its stockmarket. No longer. A property bubble has popped; the Nigerian Stock Exchange has tumbled by around 40% from its peak. Speculators and local banks are painfully out of pocket. No wonder the federal government is starting to sound worried. On March 10th President Umaru Yar’Adua at last signed into law a much-delayed expansionary budget, with spending for 2009 at $21.2 billion, a lot more than in early drafts. The newish finance minister, Mansur Muhtar, recently admitted to a meeting of businessmen in Lagos that he saw a “very gloomy picture in the short and medium term”. Nigeria, along with Africa as a whole, should be spared outright recession. Chukwuma Soludo, the central bank’s governor, says he still expects sub-Saharan Africa’s economies to grow by roughly 3% this year. Nigeria, he reckons, should muster more than that, though not the 6%-plus of recent years. That would barely match the rate of population growth, but if those figures are right Nigeria will be doing better than most and should avoid the acute pain of previous commodity-price busts, as in the 1980s, when the government could not pay civil servants and political instability ensued. Nigeria is also in better shape to deal with a slowdown because of some decent macro-economic reforms. Inflation, food aside, is quite low. The government has paid off sizeable debts or been relieved of them. It also has ample foreign-exchange reserves and has ferreted away $20 billion in a fund called the Excess Crude Account, which will help cushion public finances from the downturn. On the other hand, raising cash is getting harder: Mr Muhtar has just postponed plans to sell $500m of bonds on the international market. Trouble at home Yet even if the global crisis has not hit Nigeria as hard as elsewhere, it is exposing some unresolved problems at home. Take the banking system, which Mr Soludo says would have collapsed months ago but for an early round of government-driven consolidation. He calls the banks “shock absorbers” for the economy. But they look increasingly wobbly. Despite claims that they are well capitalised, with generous capital ratios of 22% said to be typical, they have all but stopped lending to each other or to local firms, especially smaller ones. Critics say the banks are frozen because many are dangerously exposed to the stockmarket slump, after rashly securing a large portion of their loans with now almost worthless equities. Without government support, some banks would almost certainly fail. None trusts the others. Oil and gas production, the economy’s mainstay, is also in bad shape. Long Africa’s biggest producer, Nigeria last year ceded the top spot to Angola. Production is dropping, in part, because militants in and off the Niger Delta kidnap workers and scare away oil firms. A new pipeline built to export gas to Ghana, Togo and Benin should have opened in January but lies empty. Talk of spending $12 billion to build another pipeline running 4,400km north across the Sahara to send gas via Algeria to Europe sounds fanciful. A sizeable share of local gas is simply flared off at source. Meanwhile, Nigeria still cannot keep its own lights on. Manufacturers, who account for a feeble 3-4% of GDP but at least create some jobs, grumble that they must rely entirely on costly diesel generators. Power cuts are common. It has long been obvious what should be done: existing turbines lack supplies of gas, transmission cables should be rolled out, more power stations must be built. Successive governments have let power generation dwindle, yet none has let private contractors act instead. Shortly before leaving office the previous president, Olusegun Obasanjo, passed a law ordering the privatisation of some power stations. But Mr Yar’Adua quickly reversed this, saying he was worried about corruption. A rare bright spot is agriculture. Nigeria’s lands are fertile; water, at least in the south, is plentiful. A fertiliser plant has been privatised and is supposed to start supplying farmers. Local food and tobacco prices remain high compared with world prices, which should give farmers good incentives. One day—who knows?—goods may once again flow out of Lagos harbour as well as into it.

HOW TO GET LOVE

Posted by Dare Ayodele on March 12, 2009 at 11:12am

Love is for giving and not for taking.The paradox is that when we give love to others unconditionally and without any expectations we get it back in plenty without even asking for it.Do not demand ownership of the identity of the other person,for each one of us likes to be a unique individual.

WHAT'S LOVE ?

Posted by Dare Ayodele on March 12, 2009 at 11:10am

Loveispatient,longsuffering,waitspatiently,forbearing.Loveiskind,actsbenevolently.Loveisnotjealous,envious,coveting,desirousof.Loveisnotboastful,doesnotbuildoneselfup,doesnotbrag.Loveisnotarrogant,puffedup,haughty,prideful.Loveisnotrude,doesnotbehavedisgracefully,unseemlyorindecently.Loveisnotselfish,insistentonitsownwayorplottingitsowncourse.Loveisnoteasilyangered,isnotirritableorresentful,isnotprovoked.Lovekeepsnorecordofwrongsorevils,thinksnoevil.Lovedoesnotgloatoverthesinsofothersorrejoicesinactsofiniquity.Loverejoicesanddelightsinthetruth.Lovebearsallthingsinsilentpatience.Lovebelievesorplacestrustinallthings.Lovehasahopeorexpectationinallthings.Loveperseveresorenduresinallthings.Loveneverfailsorhasanending.Loveisthegreatestofthethreelastingthings–faith,hope,andlove.

Love Your Self

Posted by Dare Ayodele on March 12, 2009 at 11:05am

Love starts from our inner self. You can't really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.when we love ourselves, we have a reserve of love inside that allows us to give love to others with greater freedom.Smile and say, "I love you," whenever you see your reflection! Do it as if you are happy to see you! Every single time you see your own reflection, smile, look you in the eyes, and say, "I love you."

VIRUS Woman: Also known as "WIFE"

Posted by LADY on March 12, 2009 at 3:37am

VIRUS Woman: Also known as "WIFE"; when V R not expecting her, she comes, installs herself and uses all your resources.HARD-DISK Woman:She remembers everything, FOREVER.RAM Woman:She forgets about you, the moment you turn her off.WINDOWS Woman:Everyone knows that she can't do a thing right, but no one can live without her.EXCEL Woman:They say she can do a lot of things but you mostly use her for your four basic needs.SCREENSAVER Woman:She is good for nothing but at least she is fun!INTERNET Woman:Difficult to access.SERVER Woman:Always busy when you need her.MULTIMEDIA Woman:She makes horrible things look beautiful.CD-ROM Woman:She is always faster and faster.E-MAIL Woman:Every ten things she says, eight are nonsense.VIRUS Woman:Also known as "WIFE"; when we are not expecting her, she comes, installs herself and uses all our resources. If we try to uninstall her we will losesomething, if you don't try to uninstall her you will lose everything.

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