Benjamin Franklin's 13 Meticulous Virtues to Greatness

This is so easily thought of but hard to practice in reality....If more people can live up to these virtues , our world will be better of than it is now.

In 1726, at the age of 20, Benjamin Franklin created a system to develop his character.
In his autobiography, Franklin listed his thirteen virtues as:

1. Temperance. Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
2. Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
3. Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
4. Resolution. Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
5. Frugality. Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself; i.e., waste nothing.
6. Industry. Lose no time; be always employ'd in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.
7. Sincerity. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak accordingly.
8. Justice. Wrong none by doing injuries, or omitting the benefits that are your duty.
9. Moderation. Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.
10. Cleanliness. Tolerate no uncleanliness in body, cloths, or habitation.
11. Tranquillity. Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
12. Chastity. Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.
13. Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates.

Female Tourists Should NOT Wear Skirts in India, says Tourism Minister

Owing to the National crime statistics that show 92 women are raped each day in India, mostly in rural areas, though the figure is widely believed to be an underestimate.  Coupled with street harassment and violence, sometimes called “eve-teasing”, experienced by 79% of Indian women according to a recent survey.

India’s tourism minister has proffered a solution advise to foreign women. Female tourist traveling to India should not wear skirts or walk alone at night in the country’s small towns and cities “for their own safety”.

Discussing tourist security in the north Indian city of Agra, site of the Taj Mahal, Mahesh Sharma said foreign arrivals to India were issued a welcome kit that included safety advice for women.

Would You Try Aluminium Foil to Curl Your Hair?

Blogger Helinhair  create her incredibleculy hair using hair straighter and aluminium foil.

In a video posted to her Instagram page, the hair stylist and colourist, who is based in Norway, shows how she easily curls her hair.

She claims that the method not only creates perfect curls but ensures that they last longer than using a curler.

'If your hair is the worst when it comes to holding a curl, this is a fantastic cure to perpetually straight hair,' Helin wrote on Instagram. 

More Sex Between Couple: Researchers Says Boost 5 best health Benefits

 

Looking to get fit, clear your skin, boost your heart health and lighten your mood?Have more sex. According to the advice of two mental health and exercise experts at Curtin University. 

Their new analysis of sexual health studies, the researchers claim consensual sex releases crucial hormones to improve mental and physical well-being.

Pivotal to this health-boosting process is the feeling of trust, love, and affection that sexual partners feel.

'A regular sex experience with our partner, that's positive, is going to facilitate a connection,' Professor Matt Tilley, a sexual health lecturer at Curtin University, explains to ScienceNetwork West Australia.

'When we look at the function that those hormones might have then we can see that they assist to reduce stress, and of course endorphins specifically might act like a natural anti-depressant.

7 Incredible Facts about Texas State thats Amazing

 Texas is one of the States in the United States, and second largest states in America. It is popular said...Everything is big in Texas...

Here are some of the facts about these big states that I like, thanks to BIs compilation:

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Texas has enough crude oil reserves to fill up almost 1,862 Empire State Buildings.

Texas had 12.27 billion barrels of crude oil reserves in 2014, or 515.42 billion gallons. That's 33.7% of US reserves.
The Empire State Building's volume is 37 million cubic feet, or 276,779,000 gallons.
Source: US Energy Information Administration

Texas' total area is nearly twice the size of Germany.

Michaek Kappeler/Pool Photo via AP, File

 

Texas is the largest state in the contiguous US with a total area of 268,596 square miles — more than 7% of the total US.
Germany's area is 137,847 square miles. 
Source: US Census

Newest World's Longest and Highest Glass Bridge Opens in China's 'Avatar' Mountain [photos]

 China's latest  is said to be the world's highest and longest glass-bottomed bridge.

The structure, which was officially unveiled to the public for the first time on Saturday, crosses two peaks in the mountains of Zhangjiajie - the same ranges that inspired the American blockbuster Avatar. 

The bridge pans approximately 430 metres (1,400 feet) across two peaks and is suspended 300 metres (984ft) above a sheer drop. It crosses a canyon that divides two mountain cliffs in Zhangjiajie Park, in China's central Hunan province.

The structure is six metres (19ft8in) wide and made of some 99 panels of clear glass.

It can carry up to 800 people at the same time, an official in Zhangjiajie told China's state news agency Xinhua.

Couples Risky Pre-Wedding Shoot in Vacuum-Packed Plastic bags...Don't Try it!!!

Bizarre shrink wrap pre-wedding shoot that sees  couples are literally wrapped up in each other .

Photographer Haruhiko Kawaguchi, from Tokyo, covers the lovebirds in lube then vacuum packs them together in a huge plastic bag - sucking out all the oxygen and he has just four seconds to take the shots..

He even keeps a paramedic on hand as the suffocated couples hold their breath

 He has been flooded with requests from couples - and even newlyweds - for the odd portrait and wedding pictures.

Sleeping Over $100million Worth Pearl for 10 years..........Knowledge is sure Great

What!!! 

A Fisherman found giant 75lbs pearl worth $100million - but kept the 2ft gem under his bed for TEN YEARS as a good luck charm. Yes this happened to an un-named Filipino fisherman off the coast of the Palwan Islands. 

The man was forced to move house when his wooden shack burned down, but luckily his pearl survived the inferno. The man told tourism officials he discovered the massive pearl in a giant clam. 

Tourism officer Aileen Cynthia Amurao said: 'The fisherman threw the anchor down and it got stuck on a rock during a storm.

Overview of Rio Olympics Medals by Country... Kenya led the Africa Highest Medal Country

The United States championed the Olympics with 121 medal followed by GreatBritain and China ranking second and third highest medal position. Kenya ranked 15th, with 13 medals with Eliud Kipchoge won a gold medal in the Men's Marathon event in Athletics.Nigeria ranked 78th, with 1 medal.after they won a bronze medal in the Men's event in Football.

Is This Some Form of Identity Crisis? BY Ene Abah

There have been different instances of Nigerians living abroad saying such horrible things about Nigeria. We must understand that when the media reports certain things, they are blown out of proportion. Everything makes the country seem unappealing in every sense of the word to return to. However, bear in mind that with the media, no news is good news!

In the light of this, a friend and I were chatting about some of the ongoing crisis in certain parts of Africa. We ended up having a lengthy chat about the crisis in Central African Republic. At a point, she wrote AFRICA! I asked what about Africa. Was it any different in the United States, where she stays?

I asked her if people were not being killed in broad daylight with not much being done about it. I asked her if she had had to go through the painful speech with her sons of how to behave and how not to behave in public. I asked if she had warned them not to wear hoodies, if every day she didn’t live in fear with the hope that nothing would happen to her children. 

I also asked if the many threats, some that are not even reported are not terrifying enough in the U.S. I am not in any way saying that one conflict/any form of killing is better than the other, but I do not understand why there is the need to ignore the problems that exist in front of us, while we are so quick to point at other people’s? Note in this case, that every person apart from her nuclear family lives in Nigeria. She was born and raised in Nigeria but relocated with her family to the U.S. about four years ago, then all of a sudden, the very place that raised her and accounts for most of who/what she is, is now talked about with disdain. We ended the conversation with her writing, “abi ooo nobody is safe anywhere”.

Woman Goes into Maddness during her Wedding Introduction Ceremony

Sad..but I hope the story behind the picture isn't true.....The shocking incident is reportedly happened in Uganda. The bride to-be was at a dance with her husband suddenly went wild struggling with her family to undress herself in public.

My Biggest Failure Was Exposing My Private Life Too Much – Tiwa Savage

Songstress Tiwa Savage talks about her life at the moments in the latest issue of Elle South Africa magazine in an article tagged “Keeping Up With Tiwa”.

The 36-year old star talks about exposing her private life beyond the limit, a dream collaboration with Beyonce and Rihanna.


Read excerpts from the interview below!
“My biggest failure was exposing my private life too much. There will always be speculation, but by addressing it you are adding more fuel to the fire. I now choose not to address anything.”

Boyfriend writes down long list of rules to his girlfriend before she leaves for college

A text sent by a boyfriend on the day his partner left for college is doing the rounds on social media due to its extremely paranoid nature

This attitude may be seen from a possessive boyfriend who writes down long list of rules to his girlfriend before she leaves for college. What do yout think?

The photograph of a text sent by a boyfriend, believed to be from the US, to his girlfriend ahead of college is doing the rounds on social media due to its rather clingy nature.

The man who is known only as 'Hot Stud Muffin' to his girlfriend, types a list of demands to his departing partner on her first night at college, reports Ladbible.

Pregnant Women who take Paracetamol are 'more likely to have Hyperactive Children'

New research suggests Mothers-to-be who take paracetamol are more likely to have children with behavioral problems

Scientists have found an association between mothers who took the drug in the first and third trimester of pregnancy and hyperactivity and emotional problems in their seven-year-old children.

Paracetamol is the world’s most popular painkiller and is the only one deemed safe to take during pregnancy.

But there is a growing body of research suggesting it could affect the development of children in the womb, with studies linking it with conditions as diverse as asthma, infertility and autism.

Pregnant women have been told there is no need to panic – they should continue to take the lowest dose needed for the shortest time possible and see their doctor if they have any concerns.

In the latest research, carried out by the University of Bristol, scientists analysed records of 7,796 mothers who gave birth between 1991 and 1992 in the UK.

The mothers had been asked at 18 weeks and 32 weeks of pregnancy whether they had taken any paracetamol.

Former FIFA president, João Havelange, Dies at 100

Former FIFA President, João Havelenge, has died at the age of 100. Havelange served as the seventh FIFA president between 1974 and 1998. He resigned as Fifa’s honorary president in April 2013 following an investigation into bribery allegations and was admitted to hospital the following year with a lung infection.

Joao served as a member of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) from 1963 to 2011. He was born on May 8th 1916. May his soul rest in peace Amen.

Vacation Ladies : Dubai is building the World's First Hotel with its own Rainforest - Take a Look

Design by ZAS Architects / Image by Plompmozes

The two towers sitting atop the five floor "podium," which is laced with yellow lighting.
Architects in Dubai are building the world's first hotel with its own rainforest.

Set to open in 2018, the Rosemont Hotel and Residences will boast over 2 million square feet of hotel, residential, and leisure space, an artificial beach, and a glass-bottom pool suspended above the streets of Dubai.

The hotel, designed by ZAS Architects, will be accommodated by a 47-storey tower that neighbours a twin tower of the same height housing 280 residential properties.