Wednesday 13 November 2013
After A Year Of Parenting, Only One Thing Is Certain
Top 10: Pope Francis ranks #1 most talked about name on the net
So whom did he beat out for the top spot? GLM's list of top names includes organizations and programs in their top fifteen for 2013, but here are the most mentioned individuals from their list:
1. Pope Francis
2. Edward Snowden
3. Kate Middleton
4. Ted Cruz
5. Chris Christie
6. Malala Yousufzai
7. Xi Jinping
8. President Obama
9. Hassan Rouhani
Pope Francis also appeared in the "Top Word" category, as his @Pontifex Twitter handle was the fourth most talked about word for 2013.
GLM explained its methodology on the website, saying:
GLM’s Word of the Year rankings are based upon actual word usage throughout the English-speaking world, which now numbers more than 1.83 billion people. To qualify for these lists, the words, names, and phrases must be found globally, have a minimum of 25,000 citations. and the requisite ‘depth’ and ‘breadth’ of usage. Depth is here defined as appearing in various forms of media; breadth that they must appear world-over, not limited to a particular profession or social group or geography.
Russian Subways Now Accept Squats for Payment
To promote the upcoming 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, subway stations in Moscow have added these impressive new machines which allow passengers to do 30 squats for a train ticket.
It's a little like how you used your Wii Fit that first week after Christmas, but with an actual reward. This machine can also tell if you're cheating, unlike the couch calisthenics you can get away with at home.
Would you be up to the 30 squat challenge?
12 Reasons Women Don't Date 'Nice Guys'
1. Not real. Nice guys are too nice. No one can always be that nice unless they're a saint. They are busy being nice instead of being real and women instinctually don't trust that. Bad boys "keep it real." Nice guys don't want to upset the apple cart.
2. Respect. No one respects a doormat. Nice guys don't set boundaries or make any real demands. A bad boy doesn't let a woman walk all over him or control him. Women can't respect a man they can control. No respect equals no attraction.
3. Predictable. Most people lead boring, predictable lives, so they're attracted to people who are exciting and a bit unpredictable. Bad boys are always a challenge. Nice guys are never a challenge. Predictable plus no excitement plus no challenge.
4. Mother Nature. Women are designed to nurture. However, instead of doing this with children, they often end up doing it with bad boys. They think their love will save them. Nice guys rarely need to be saved.
5. Fixing. Nice guys don't usually need to be fixed. Bad boys usually do, so they become a project. Women think if they can "create" the perfect man, he will never leave them. Also, if they're busy fixing someone else, they don't have to look at what needs to be fixed in their own lives.
6. Genetic wars. Women are designed to procreate with the strongest possible genes. Bad boys are sending an unconscious message that they have great genes, so they're not afraid of losing the woman by misbehaving. Nice guys are sending a message that they don't think their genes are good enough, so they won't misbehave.
7. Fear of intimacy. If a woman is afraid of intimacy, she subconsciously knows she can avoid it with a bad boy, since she can never get close enough to him to have to go there. A nice guy will eventually want a commitment, and that's scary.
8. Low self-esteem: We don't feel comfortable with people who treat us better than we treat ourselves. If you don't think much of yourself, the bad boy is simply reinforcing your negative belief. A nice guy is treating you in a way you're not familiar with.
9. Sex. Women feel a nice guy won't be good in bed. They sometimes like to be manhandled and think a nice guy won't be able to take control and get the job done. A bad boy comes across as being able to deliver, even though that may not always be the case.
10. Hot. Have you ever seen a bad boy who wasn't hot? They probably wouldn't be able to get away with half the stuff they did if they didn't look so good. Meanwhile, when a woman describes someone as a nice guy, she means, "He's not hot."
11. Charm. Nice guys don't always know what to say and are sometimes at a loss for words. Bad boys can be very charming and know exactly what women want to hear. However, they eventually switch over to being selfish. By the time they reveal their true colors, the woman has fallen for them and has a hard time letting go.
12. Protection. Historically, men have protected women — physically and otherwise. Bad boys give the illusion of being able to protect women, while with nice guys, women aren't so sure. Life is about balance. Most men fall into either the bad boy or the nice guy category. The ideal man is neither, but walks that fine line between the two. Until men learn how to do this, more often than not, women will choose the bad boy, until they realize that his bad qualities outweigh his good ones.
Related Post: WOMEN: 11 Ways To Know You Are Dating A REAL MAN And Not A Boy
Pope Francis Speaks Out On Corruption
Corrupt Should be Tied to Rock and Thrown Into the Sea — Pope Francis
Pope Francis gives fire-and-brimstone sermon, saying the corrupt should be tied to a rock and thrown into the sea.
In one of his strongest-worded homilies since he was elected in March, the Argentinean pontiff said Christians who lead “a double life” by giving money to the Church while stealing from the state are sinners who deserve to be punished.
Quoting from the Gospel of St Luke in the New Testament, he said “Jesus says: It would be better for him if a millstone were put around his neck and he be thrown into the sea.”
While he did not allude directly to corruption within the Catholic Church, his remarks come just days after a scandal erupted inside an ancient religious order linked to the Vatican, and as he forges ahead with a determined effort to root out cronyism within the Holy See and financial irregularities in the scandal-tainted Vatican bank.
The Pope described people engaged in corruption as “whitewashed tombs”, explaining that “they appear beautiful from the outside, but inside they are full of dead bones and putrefaction.”
A life based on corruption is “varnished putrefaction”, the Pope said. The Jesuit Pope may have been hailed for adopting a softer, more inclusive stance on sensitive subjects such as homosexuality and divorce since his election in March, but his sermons and homilies often include stern, fire-and-brimstone language and references to the Devil.
Related Post: PHOTOS: Pope embraces disfigured man
Dairy of a Nigerian Student
My school identity card says 2009-2013 but I know that with the way things are going I may not graduate till well into 2015. That is if I am not dead by then, blown away by a bomb, shot down by the police or even beaten to death by a violent legislator. I sound very pessimistic and gloomy, it’s not my fault. The situation at hand has killed my enthusiasm and that of millions of students of government-owned tertiary institutions.
News of an impending strike started trickling into our ears around late June and we shrugged it off as one of those things, ‘normal ASUU wahala’ which would be resolved in no time. Alas, our joy was shortlived in the first week of July when a communiqué was issued confirming the strike action. Students living in far places were confronted with the sad fact that they may yet again have to risk their lives to return home as this strike was actually happening.
Thank God for my Industrial Training, Facebook, and of course Twitter, I won't have to end up idle or exposed to extrajudicial killing. As ironic as this may sound, the combination of some of these 3 facilities, if not more has being responsible for maintaining the sanity of millions of Nigerian students sitting down at home idle and frustrated. So many students are spending virtually this period of strike “facebooking” and tweeting, chatting, visiting friends and just doing anything to kill the boredom.
When two elephants fight, what shall become of the grass? Question for the gods, maybe. No one knows when ASUU will be calling off the strike. How I wish the government and ASUU sheath their swords and pity our plights. How I wish the government pays more attention to funding of universities and investment in human resources.
How I wish ASUU compromises a bit and comes down to reasonable agrrement. All we here everyday is meeting upon meeting, negotiations. To make matters worse, ASUU seems to have pulled out of negotiations and the government itself is concentrating fully on political brouhaha, domestic violence, and Boko Haram issue in no particular order. Well I will not digress into the details of it all, after all what do I know?
All I know is that when I resume back to school (only God knows whenever that is) *sad face*, austerity measures might have to take its place in favour of my usual philanthropic nature. Economic meltdown has taken a rather harsh toll on my dad’s finance consequently affecting my own meagre share; it means no more generosity with my belongings.
We are been told ubiquitously to pray. “Pray for your family. Pray for your country. Pray for the whole world.” So we are praying or at least I have being praying. Even with my deep pessimism and sarcasm, there’s still one tiny voice in my head telling me that things will work out fine. I have survived worse. But for now its back to tweeting, chatting and hustling, at least these ones have not decided to strike yet.
Source http://news.naij.com
PHOTO: Mesut Ozil pokes fun at Manchester United
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Arsenal midfielder Mesut Ozil has been causing quite a stir on Twitter after a picture emerged of him appearing to mock Manchester United's poor Premier League position.
The German playmaker has already won the hearts of Gunners fans after a series of scintillating performances following his £42.5million move to north London.
And, it looks as though the former Real Madrid star will be the toast of the Arsenal terraces again at the weekend, after seemingly poking fun at the reigning champions.
Standing alongside fellow Germans Per Mertesacker and Lukas Podolski - who point out the fact that Arsenal are five points clear at the top of the table, with 25 points from their opening 10 games - Ozil chooses to focus his attention on the Red Devils, currently eight points adrift, in a lowly eighth place.
The image of Ozil - which might well have been photoshopped - is likely to add even more needle ahead of this weekend's crucial Premier League encounter, which sees Arsene Wenger's side travel to Old Trafford to face David Moyes's Manchester United on Sunday afternoon.
Arsenal victory means nothing for Man United's title hopes
The first was that Robin van Persie was happy to beat his former team and that he no longer feels sorry for them. He'll hate to see Arsenal win the title as he languishes at Manchester United and saw this win as further confirmation that he made the right decision.
The second; it showed just how much this victory meant to Manchester United.
In the same fixture last season, the Red Devils played Arsenal off the park in a dominating performance. The 2-1 scoreline paints a different picture but for those who watched the game, you would think the two teams were in a different division. Arsenal were inferior.
United fans and players alike saw the win as an expected formality, but that is no longer the case.
It seemed the win last night was a marquee moment in United's season. Arsenal hadn't gone to Old Trafford with so many expecting a Gunners victory in years.
But the reality is, the Gunners were at the end of a hectic two weeks that saw them play Chelsea, Liverpool, Borussia Dortmund and Manchester United. They were exhausted and had very little left to offer.
Despite the fact that Arsenal's stars were far from their best, Manchester United could only score one very, very lucky goal before relying on Nicklas Bendtner's incompetence to keep their lead intact.
Had the ball not hit Van Persie's shoulder, or if Per Mertesacker had been there to defend the near post as usual, that goal would not have gone in and Arsenal would have got the draw they deserved.
Despite losing, the game delivered many positives for the Gunners.
It confirmed that the defending champions are not the confident force they once were.
They struggled to break down an Arsenal side that was still recovering from a historic win away to Borussia Dortmund whilst United were rested from a meek 0-0 draw to Real Sociedad.
David Moyes was lucky to face Arsenal at the right time - at the end of a hard run of fixtures. Had they been facing the Gunners after the international break it is likely the scoreline would be reversed.
So even though Manchester United have closed the gap on Arsenal to five points, they aren't back in the title race. It does alleviate fears that they could miss out on the top four, but it does not mean they'll be top of the pile come May.
If they struggled to beat an Arsenal side battered by tough fixtures and an injury crisis, they will not beat the Emirates outfit, Chelsea or Manchester City to the title.
They may have got the three points, but the game exposed all of the flaws that will prevent United from retaining their Premier League crown.
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