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Nigerians Suggest Lockdown Extension As Lagos Records All-time Daily High Of 183 COVID-19 Cases

Some Nigerians are piling pressure on the federal and Lagos State government to place a fresh lockdown on Lagos to reduce the spread of Coronavirus.

On Thursday, Lagos recorded an all-time high of 183 cases of COVID-19 in a single day.

A dusk-to-dawn curfew was announced by President Muhammadu Buhari last week after the outrage that greeted the lockdown.

Since the lockdown was lifted on Sunday, the state has recorded 423 cases.

While calling for the extension of the lockdown, some Nigerians are however, urging the government to provide palliatives to cushion the effects of the lockdown.Using the hashtag, #extendlockdown, many Nigerians took to Twitter to ask the government to do something before it gets out of hand.

@Irunnia_ said, “When I saw 183 cases in Lagos, I thought my eyes made a mistake. Please, the government should #extendlockdown before we turn to Italy.”

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@Danny_Walterr tweeted, “The idea of #extendlockdown is brilliant if this government provides palliatives for people just as in other countries but asking people who feed daily from sales to stay at home with nothing and eat what? sand?”

@ezraallen14 said, “183 cases in Lagos. At this rate, if the government doesn’t call for a second total lockdown of the nation, I’m afraid the number will increase drastically within days. How can the government see this happening and still decide to keep quiet?”

@debbietolz said, “183 cases in Lagos and the lockdown has only been lifted for four days. We don’t need a prophet to tell us what would happen if Lagos isn’t locked down. Everyone, please stay at home.”

@bimboro1 tweeted, “183 cases in Lagos! Very impressive! Is this government clueless? Another way to kill Lagosians. Numbers are now getting to this point and no one can think clearly that you should #lockdownLagos now.”

@toyinobaterulp said, “Once upon a time, the total number of cases was less than 300, now we are recording 381 cases in a day. God help us! #lockdownlagos.”

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May 9, 2020
Women’s Intelligence

Women’s Intelligence

That it ought to nonetheless be needed, at this late stage within the senility of the human race to argue that ladies have a effective and fluent intelligence is unquestionably an eloquent proof of the faulty statement, incurable prejudice, and basic imbecility of their lords and masters. One finds only a few professors of the topic, even amongst admitted feminists, approaching the very fact as apparent; virtually all of them suppose it essential to convey up an enormous mass of proof to ascertain what must be an axiom. Even the Franco Englishman, W. L. George, probably the most sharp-witted of the school, wastes a complete guide up on the demonstration, after which, with an awesome air of uttering one thing new, provides it the humourless title of “The Intelligence of Women.” The intelligence of girls, forsooth! As effectively commit a laborious time to the sagacity of serpents, pickpockets, or Holy Church!

Women, in reality, will not be solely clever; they’ve virtually a monopoly of sure of the subtler and extra utile types of intelligence. The factor itself, certainly, is likely to be moderately described as a particular female character; there’s in it, in a couple of of its manifestations, a femaleness as palpable because the femaleness of cruelty, masochism or rouge. Men are robust. Men are courageous in bodily fight. Men have sentiment. Men are romantic, and love what they conceive to be advantage and sweetness. Men incline to religion, hope and charity. Men know learn how to sweat and endure. Men are amiable and fond. But in as far as they present the true fundamentals of intelligence—in as far as they reveal a capability for locating the kernel of everlasting verity within the husk of delusion and hallucination and a ardour for bringing it forth—to that extent, at the least, they’re female, and nonetheless nourished by the milk of their moms. “Human creatures,” says George, borrowing from Weininger, “are never entirely male or entirely female; there are no men, there are no women, but only sexual majorities.” Find me an clearly clever man, a person free from sentimentality and phantasm, a person exhausting to deceive, a person of the primary class, and I’ll present you a person with a large streak of lady in him. Bonaparte had it; Goethe had it; Schopenhauer had it; Bismarck and Lincoln had it; in Shakespeare, if the Freudians are to be believed, it amounted to downright homosexuality. The important traits and qualities of the male, the hallmarks of the unpolluted masculine, are on the identical time the hall-marks of the Schalskopf. The caveman is all muscle tissue and mush. Without a lady to rule him and suppose for him, he’s a really lamentable spectacle: a child with whiskers, a rabbit with the body of an aurochs, a feeble and preposterous caricature of God.

It can be a straightforward matter, certainly, to display that superior expertise in man is virtually at all times accompanied by this female flavour—that full masculinity and stupidity are sometimes indistinguishable. Lest I be misunderstood I hasten so as to add that I don’t imply to say that masculinity contributes nothing to the advanced of chemico-physiological reactions which produces what we name expertise; all I imply to say is that this advanced is inconceivable with out the female contribution that it’s a product of the interaction of the 2 components. In girls of genius we see the other image. They are generally distinctly mannish, and shave in addition to shine. Think of George Sand, Catherine the Great, Elizabeth of England, Rosa Bonheur, Teresa Carreo or Cosima Wagner. The fact is that neither intercourse, with out some fertilization by the complementary characters of the opposite, is able to the very best reaches of human endeavour. Man, with no saving contact of lady in him, is just too doltish, too naive and romantic, too simply deluded and lulled to sleep by his creativeness to be something above a cavalryman, a theologian or a financial institution director. And lady, with out some hint of that divine innocence which is masculine, is just too harshly the realist for these huge projections of the flamboyant which lie on the coronary heart of what we name genius. Here, as elsewhere within the universe, the very best results are obtained by a mingling of components. The wholly manly man lacks the wit needed to provide goal kind to his hovering and secret desires, and the wholly womanly lady is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream in any respect.

Extract from IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN by H. L. Mencken

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April 7, 2020
Saving a Long Distance Relationship: How Do You Know When It’s Heading For The Rocks?

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When you or your significant other are forced to move away for whatever reason, the necessity of saving a long distance relationship is the last thing on your mind. However, the chances are that neither of you has any real idea how to make your long distance relationship work.

Initially you’re both head over heels in love and, while you’re sad at the idea of being apart, you’re both determined that nothing will stop you from being together. You make all the usual promises to each other and for a while things are great. The problem is that in all probability you never got down to the nitty gritty reality of what it would actually be like to be hundreds or even thousands of miles apart, so you’re not prepared for the loneliness that inevitably comes as part of a long distance relationship package.

The initial elation and determination to be together no matter what begins to fade slowly and inevitably, and that’s usually when the insecurities start to set in.

You begin wondering what your partner’s up to. Perhaps they don’t appear to be missing you as much as you’re missing them; maybe they’re not available to talk when you need to. If you’re the one left behind you have the added knowledge that your lover has started a new job and of course you imagine them meeting lots of new people and having a really exciting time. Of course it’s not always the person left behind who has the problems. In your relationship, maybe you’re the one starting the new job and you don’t know anybody. Perhaps you think of your partner back at home surrounded by friends and family and you wonder if they are missing you like you’re missing them, or even if they’re thinking of you at all. But whatever your situation, that feeling of insecurity is horrible and so soul destroying.

You want to talk to your partner but you’re struggling to communicate because you’re frightened of the potential fall-out; that if your lover knew how you really felt, then your relationship would end. At this point, saving a long distance relationship is still not on your mind because the chances are that you are burying your head firmly in the sand, not realizing that by not talking to each other, your relationship is heading inexorably to the rocks.

Eventually loneliness gives way to frustration. You’re not getting what you want out of the relationship so you start to become resentful. Very often at this point it becomes all about you – what your lover wants doesn’t seem to matter.

Slowly frustration begins to turn to anger. Everyone around you seems to be in a relationship in which they’re surgically glued to one another’s side. Your friends and family thinks you’re crazy and give you all kinds of well meaning advice; unfortunately, it’s mostly negative and probably doesn’t involve actually saving a long distance relationship!

Whether you recognize it or not, you are now both firmly at the point of desperately needing to save your long distance relationship and, if neither of you take action, you begin to lose all sense of actually being in a relationship at all and drift towards the final stage in any long distance relationship break down – detachment.

One or both of you allow the resentment and frustration to get the better of you and slowly begin to withdraw into yourself. Your communication dwindles to almost non-existent and when you do speak, neither of you have anything to say.

Maybe at this point saving a long distance relationship seems almost impossible with everything seemingly working against you, but before you get on the phone and end it all, I want to say one final thing: It doesn’t have to be like that!

Ask yourselves this question: Do you and your partner love each other? If the answer to that question is ‘yes’ then, believe me you can save your long distance relationship.

If the love is still there underneath all of the crap that has gotten in the way, you really can halt the slide and pull it back together. Distance doesn’t have to be a deal breaker and you don’t have to be in the same room to share that special intimacy.

It won’t happen overnight, but if you’re both truly prepared to work at it, you won’t only be saving a long distance relationship but making it better than you ever thought possible.

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Source by Beverley Watts

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February 6, 2020
Gifts of a Sand Dollar

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I guess this New York City girl is now a nature enthusiast to the extreme! Our recent sand dollar experience proves it.

Do you remember that famous story about a girl that throws a starfish back into the sea one at a time along the shoreline? When the girl was told by an onlooker that what she was doing wouldn’t matter much, she replied “it matters to that one” and threw another starfish back into the sea.

Well, I have a sand dollar story to share. The other day we happened upon a little island while boating and we couldn’t believe how many live sand dollars were in the water and on the sand, green, fuzzy and thriving. They weren’t white and dry like you buy them in a store. My kids were really interested in them and so were we adults, actually. Other kids were getting them out of the water and hauling them home, showing them off to us, and even offering them to us. My family enjoyed holding them and looking at them, but then we’d each throw the sand dollars back into the water… to keep on living… and we left with only memories as souvenirs.

Now I wasn’t always like this. In fact, when I was a teen, my folks took me to the Bahamas and we had some natives dive down and get us a couple of starfish that we brought back as souvenirs. Back then it seemed like the most normal thing to want to do. I still remember the shock on my kids’ faces when they first would hear about my youthful vacation and the starfish experience, though. They invariably asked why would I do that because didn’t it kill the starfish? Boy that made me feel lousy.

Turns out they had a very good point. I’ve learned from life, from my kids, I don’t know from where else exactly but now I feel the same way as the kids do. I wonder, why DID I want to do that? Oh well, the past is done. But now, we CAN save the sand dollars (and the starfish) one at a time at least.

I guess the other day we all just wanted to save this little bit of marine life. We cared about the little guys in nature. I thought, “now what would happen if ALL the people who came here took the sand dollars out to keep as souvenirs? Then we wouldn’t have had the special magic we found for a little while together on that little strip of sand and sea. And my teenager wouldn’t have said “That was cool, let’s go back there. I liked all the sand dollars that live there”. This straight from the mouth of a known computer enthusiast who spends as much time as possible accompanied by his computer!

With each passing year I can better see the importance of protecting and trying to save the environment and wildlife. Have I been better educated? Am I just more mature? Maybe. But I think it’s more because I can see the picture better through the eyes of my children who seem to see the world through a special focus and help me to see some facets that I might otherwise miss.

So let’s not give up caring for the environment just because we think we can’t save it all or make a big enough impact. If we each do our small part, then we’ll be able to help keep nature’s magic around for ourselves and for our future generations to learn from and enjoy. We’ll play a supporting role in the drama of our living environment when we choose to receive and give… the gifts of a sand dollar.

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Source by Liz Hekimian-Williams

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February 3, 2020