The Handwriting on The Wall

A weary mother returned from the store,
Lugging groceries through the kitchen door.
Awaiting her arrival was her 8 year old son,
Anxious to relate what his younger brother had done.

"While I was out playing and Dad was on a call,
T.J. took his crayons and wrote on the wall!
It's on the new paper you just hung in the den.
I told him you'd be mad at having to do it again."

Garden Egg Useful for Weight Reduction – Nutritionist

Hajiya Jummai Hassan, a nutritionist with Wuse General Hospital, Abuja, has said that garden egg also known as eggplant could help to reduce body weight.

According to Hassan, eggplants also referred to as “aubergine’’ had low calorie, low sodium and low protein, was high in dietary fibre and potassium.
“Egg plant is a fruit but it is classified under vegetables, if you really want to lose weight you should eat fresh garden egg.”


“When you take garden egg, it fills the tummy because of its fibre content and it helps reduce the food you consume, thereby reducing the calories and body weight.’’

Insider Threats Still Pose Major Problems For Enterprises

A survey sponsored by SpectorSoft shows that insider threats are one of the most challenging security issues to deal with for a majority of enterprises. 

SpectorSoft, a user activity monitoring and analysis software firm, recently commissioned a survey to identify the top issues surrounding "insider threats" and identify some best practices to deal with those threats. The SpectorSoft 2014 Insider Threat Survey revealed some interesting facts about how enterprises are dealing with the challenges associated with insider threats.

One of the most reveling aspects of the survey is that the majority of enterprises can neither detect nor deter insider threats, making them especially vulnerable to fraud, data breaches, and intellectual property theft. The survey, which tallied the opinions of some 355 IT professionals, showed that some six in ten respondents are not adequately prepared to deal with insider threats.

Energy level: Boost your energy

If you are feeling tired and sluggish lately (go to bed tired and struggle to get up in the morning), your energy level is low metabolism needs a boost. The National Institutes of Health defines metabolism as “all the physical and chemical processes in the body that convert or use energy.” To improve your stamina and general health, avoid trendy supplements and energy drinks that claim to perform metabolism miracles. Instead opt for these time-tested tips to keep your body’s engine humming:

Belly fat: How to lose belly fat fast

Belly fat is the most dangerous type of fat. Belly fat is linked with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Specifically it is the deepest layer of belly fat —the fat you can’t see or grab — that poses health risks. That is because these “visceral” fat cells actually produce hormones and other substances that can affect your health (e.g. increased insulin resistance and/or breast cancer risk).

The fact that “visceral” fat cells are located right next to and in-between organs in your abdominal cavity doesn’t help. For example, fat next to the liver drains into it, causing a fatty liver, which is a risk factor for insulin resistance, setting the stage for Type 2 diabetes.

CARROTS: Healthy Habit that Keeps You Trendy

Carrots provide the highest amount of beta-carotene -Vitamin A- among the list of vegetables . Carrot is an edible root vegetable. It gains high respect in Western and African countries as it has been regarded for its outstanding nutritional and medicinal values.
Carrot offers an excellent source of beta-carotene. Many studies have shown that carrots provide us the highest amount of beta-carotene among the list of vegetables we always consume every day.

In our body, beta-carotene is converted into Vitamin A, which assists in improving our eyesight and the functioning of our immune system, strengthening our bones and teeth, along with preventing possible problems with the functioning of the thyroid gland. Vitamin A also has positive effects on our hair, nails and skin.

Bionic Arm Restores Sense of Feeling

Igor Spetic and his new prosthetic hand

Advances in bionic hands have restored a sense of touch to two patients for more than a year, report US scientists.

The men can now delicately pluck the stalks out of cherries.
Sensors on the artificial hand are used to send signals directly to the nerves, the study, published in Science Translational Medicine, said.
Meanwhile, a Swedish team has made a separate breakthrough in artificial limbs - anchoring bionic arms directly on to the bone to improve control.

4 Practical Steps for Changing Mental Habits

We are essentially a collection of habits. That sort of statement is not intended to minimize our complexity, but when human beings become "human doings" our thinking and behavior is informed more by structure and ritual than randomness. At times we can find these patterns to be somewhat unproductive and, at others, wholly destructive. When confronted with either circumstance, we are also provided with an invitation to change.

13 Simple Tricks To A Long And Happy Marriage

It's no secret that marriage takes work. After all, we're only human, and humans make mistakes, have bad days and sometimes even forget to load the dishwasher (again).
Nevertheless, some couples are able to foster happy, healthy, totally awesome marriages that actually do last a lifetime. How?
A  Reddit thread emerged Sunday asking the happily hitched to reveal their secrets to marital success. Here's what they had to say:
1. Be nice:
"Choose kindness whenever you can -- you should be AT LEAST as nice to your spouse as you would a stranger or you were when you started dating."

5 Simple Methods of Protection From Ebola

Members of the Cleaning Guys Haz Mat clean up company are seen as they work on sanitizing the apartment where Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan was staying before being admitted to a hospital on October 6, 2014 in Dallas, Texas. Preventing infection by the Ebola virus entails simple but rigorously-observed methods of barrier protection and monitoring for signs of ill-health, say experts. PHOTO | AFP 

Preventing infection by the Ebola virus entails simple but rigorously-observed methods of barrier protection and monitoring for signs of ill-health, say experts.
These are recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC):

1. Be alert for symptoms
Symptoms of Ebola include fever, headache, joint and muscle aches, weakness, diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach pain, lack of appetite and in some cases bleeding.

Facebook Messenger to Introduce Mobile Payments System

Facebook’s expansion continues as the company looks set to introduce a mobile payments system on its messenger app.
Screenshots taken by iOS developer Andrew Aude reveal how Facebook users can add a credit or debit card to their account and send money via messages. Transfers appear as though they need to be verified by a pin.

Aude tweeted: “With Facebook Messenger, you attach money like you attach a photo or a location. You don’t even have to link a bank account!”
Jonathan Zdziarski, an iOS forensics expert, also tweeted about possible payments on Facebook.

Ebola outbreak: Britain must start screening for the virus, says Home Office minister

A Home Office minister has said Britain should consider introducing screening for Ebola carriers arriving at airports, after a Spanish nurse became the first person to have caught the virus in Europe.

President Barack Obama announced that the United States is to monitor travellers for signs they are carrying the virus, warning that containment of Ebola is “a top national security priority”.
Public Health England said it had no plans to bring in screening for the disease, which has already claimed 3,400 lives in West Africa. Rates of infection are set to increase dramatically.