Kamis, 01 Mei 2014
Strange Facts about Women and Money.
Fact #1 Women live around 5-7 years longer than men on average and also tend to marry men older than themselves.
Fact #2 Many marriages today end in separation or divorce, often leaving women with a lower standard of living and a high economic burden (Statistics show that household income decreases on average 37% after a divorce).
Fact # 3 Almost half of women aged 65-74 are single. Of these, around 30% are widowed, 6% are divorced and 4% have never married.
Fact # 4 Nine out of ten women will be solely responsible for their financial affairs at some point in their lives.
Fact # 5 Women earn around 75% of the income of their male counterparts.
Fact # 6 At retirement, the average female aged 15 today will have saved only 75% as much as the average male.
Fact # 7 Women’s careers are interrupted by child rearing or caring for elderly parents. (It has been said that for every year a woman stays home to look after a child, she must work 5 extra years to recover lost income, retirement savings and career promotions.
Fact # 8 Only 43% of women are saving for retirement compared to 51% of men.
Fact # 9 Nearly 27% of women think that the Government should take the greatest responsibility for retirement saving compared to 17% of men.
Fact # 10 Women in New Zealand are more than twice as likely to live in poverty in old age as men.
Rabu, 30 April 2014
exercise: best anti-aging medicine
Physical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintainsphysical fitness and overall health and wellness. It is performed for various reasons including strengtheningmuscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, weight loss or maintenance, as well as for the purpose of enjoyment. Frequent and regular physical exercise boosts theimmune system, and helps prevent the "diseases of affluence" such as heart disease, cardiovascular disease, Type 2 diabetes and obesity.[1][2] It also improves mental health, helps preventdepression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image, which is also found to be linked with higher levels of self-esteem.[3] Childhood obesity is a growing global concern[4] and physical exercise may help decrease some of the effects of childhood and adult obesity. Health care providers often call exercise the "miracle" or "wonder" drug—alluding to the wide variety of proven benefits that it provides.[5][dead link][6]
Selasa, 29 April 2014
You Use These Web Sites Every Day. But I Bet You Didn’t Know These Mind-Blowing Facts.
If you are anything like me, you are on Facebook constantly, always refreshing to see what’s new from your friends or celebrities you follow. But have you ever wondered just how much new content is being posted every minute to Facebook? Or how many Google searches are performed every minute?
This list here below gives you a really cool insight into just how huge some social networking websites are, and how much data they pump out every minute.
This list here below gives you a really cool insight into just how huge some social networking websites are, and how much data they pump out every minute.
Email users send 204,000,000 messages every minute.
Facebook users share 2,460,000 pieces of content every minute.
Twitter users tweet 277,000 times every minute.
Google receives over 4,000,000 search queries every minute.
Pinterest users pin 3,472 images every minute.
YouTube users upload 72 hours of new video every minute.
Amazon makes $83,000 in online sales every minute.
Pandora users listen to 61,141 hours worth of music every minute.
Tinder users swipe 416,667 times every minute.
WhatsApp users share 347,222 photos every minute.
Vine users share 8,333 videos every minute.
Instagram users posts 216,000 new photos every minute.
Yelp users post 26,380 reviews every minute.
Apple users download 48,000 apps every minute.
10 Inventors Who Were Killed By Their Own Inventions.
You cannot just come out with an invention unless you are an out of the box thinker. But, sometimes this out of the box thinking may backfire. For some of the inventors, their inventions proved to be life taking ones. Here is the list of 10 of those inventors.
Bogdanov was the jack of all trades. He was a renowned physician, philosopher and economist. Writing was also amongst his hobbies. He was conducting scientific experiments for rejuvenation. These experiments involved blood transfusions. He got himself transfused from one his patients who had malaria and TB. These infections took his life eventually.
Cowper Phipps Coles is the inventor of rotating turret for ships. He designed a ship named HMS Captain. The creation of this ship demanded several alterations, which were responsible for the rise of its center of gravity. This ship sunk on 6th September 1870, and killed almost 500 persons along with him.
Kakrel Soucek was the Stuntman from Canada famous for his invention of the modified barrel called the “capsule”. He rode that capsule down the Niagra Falls and survived the fall. In 1985, he was trying the stunt of barrel drop from from the top of the Houston Astrodome in Texas. The stunt didn’t go according to the plan and he suffered severe injuries leading to his death.
Franz Reichelt was a tailor by profession. He belonged to Austria. He gained fame from the parachute made by him. He was of the opinion that it could help him sail swiftly to the ground. He jumped from the Eiffel Tower wearing that parachute, but came straight down. He died at the spot.
Otto Lilienthal is known as the man who introduced the concept of gliding. He made the first successful gliding attempt. Lilienthal unfortunately, fell from a height of 17 meters on 9th August 1896 that broke his spine. He said after the accident that small sacrifices are necessary for the greater goals.
Bullock wan an American who revolutionized the printing industry with his invention of a rotary printing press. He was trying to repair one of his printing press one day when his foot got caught up in that. He died during the operation where his gangrenous foot was being amputated.
Godfrey Parry-Thomas was a Welsh motor-racing driver. He made a modified car and called it Babs. It had a drawback that there were exposed chains connecting the wheels to the engines. He died in 1927 while trying to break the land speed record in his car. One of those chains broke suddenly and hit his neck. He died immediately.
Thomas Midgley Jr. was a chemist. He invented leaded petrol and CFCs. Ultimately, he got lead poisoning. He couldn’t move after that, so he made a system of pulleys and ropes to lift him from the bed. He died after being strangled by one of his own pulleys.
10- Henry Winstanley
He was the creator of the first ever Eddystone lighthouse. He was very confident about its strength. In order to check the strength of this lighthouse, he stayed inside it during the time of a storm. Unfortunately, the lighthouse couldn’t stand tall in front of the gruelling weather and fell down. Five other people also died along with Winstanley that day.
9-Alexander Bogdanov
Bogdanov was the jack of all trades. He was a renowned physician, philosopher and economist. Writing was also amongst his hobbies. He was conducting scientific experiments for rejuvenation. These experiments involved blood transfusions. He got himself transfused from one his patients who had malaria and TB. These infections took his life eventually.
8-Cowper Phipps Coles
Cowper Phipps Coles is the inventor of rotating turret for ships. He designed a ship named HMS Captain. The creation of this ship demanded several alterations, which were responsible for the rise of its center of gravity. This ship sunk on 6th September 1870, and killed almost 500 persons along with him.
7- Karel Soucek
Kakrel Soucek was the Stuntman from Canada famous for his invention of the modified barrel called the “capsule”. He rode that capsule down the Niagra Falls and survived the fall. In 1985, he was trying the stunt of barrel drop from from the top of the Houston Astrodome in Texas. The stunt didn’t go according to the plan and he suffered severe injuries leading to his death.
6-Franz Reichelt
Franz Reichelt was a tailor by profession. He belonged to Austria. He gained fame from the parachute made by him. He was of the opinion that it could help him sail swiftly to the ground. He jumped from the Eiffel Tower wearing that parachute, but came straight down. He died at the spot.
5- Otto Lilienthal
Otto Lilienthal is known as the man who introduced the concept of gliding. He made the first successful gliding attempt. Lilienthal unfortunately, fell from a height of 17 meters on 9th August 1896 that broke his spine. He said after the accident that small sacrifices are necessary for the greater goals.
4-William Bullock
Bullock wan an American who revolutionized the printing industry with his invention of a rotary printing press. He was trying to repair one of his printing press one day when his foot got caught up in that. He died during the operation where his gangrenous foot was being amputated.
3- J. G. Parry-Thomas
Godfrey Parry-Thomas was a Welsh motor-racing driver. He made a modified car and called it Babs. It had a drawback that there were exposed chains connecting the wheels to the engines. He died in 1927 while trying to break the land speed record in his car. One of those chains broke suddenly and hit his neck. He died immediately.
2 Thomas Midgley Jr.
Thomas Midgley Jr. was a chemist. He invented leaded petrol and CFCs. Ultimately, he got lead poisoning. He couldn’t move after that, so he made a system of pulleys and ropes to lift him from the bed. He died after being strangled by one of his own pulleys.
1-Marie Curie
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