Lifestyle and Balance

Topic:Catarrh Introduction: Catarrh is a build up of mucus in an airway or cavity of the body. The factors that could lead to catarrh are numerous,as the excessive build-up of mucus could occur due to several conditions like allergies,viral illnesses and bacterial infections. Therefore it is very common to see catarrh throat and respiratory tract,when a person suffers from hay fever,sinusitis or even a common cold.In most cases catarrh in the throat is caused by an inflammation in the respiratory tract. Catarrh usually affects back of the nose,the throat or sinuses.(air filled cavities in the bones of the face) It's often temporary,but some people experience it for months or years.This is known as chronic catarrh. Catarrh can be a nuisance and be difficult to get rid off but it's not harmful and there are treatments available. Symptoms associated with catarrh. Catarrh can lead to a; -Constant need to clear your throat -Feeling that your throat i...

Topic:Snoring Just about everyone snores occasionally,but if snoring happens frequently it can affect the quality and quantity of your sleep and that of your family members and room mates. Definition:Snoring is where a person makes a snorting or rattling noise when they breathe during sleep. The noise comes from the soft palate and tissues in the mouth,nose or throat vibrating. Some people snore infrequently and the noise they make isn't loud particularly,wholesale others may snore every night loud enough to be heard in the next room. Healthcare professionals use grading systems to assess a person's snoring.The higher the grade the more severe the snoring is. Some Cause of snoring -Snoring is caused by the vibration of soft tissues in your head and neck as you breathe in and out during sleep.This includes the nasal passages,the soft palate in the roof of your mouth and your tonsils. -Whiles you sleep your airways relax and narrow.This affect air pressure within yo...

Let’s talk about valentine. I believe is fading out gradually. The season is not necessarily to enjoy with love ones. But rather it must be an action time when we strengthen and review the love pattern we hold. Our love can never be perfect until we connect with Jesus’ love. Most people will seize every occasion to chill. Love (valentine) is not colours, is not food is living for others through love. Correcting people through love and more importantly living the action (Praxis) of the Gospel. Before I rest the case I will like you to ponder on the song ‘where is the love ‘by Black eye peas. If indeed we have even a little love let’s look around us how we are treating each other. It looks like we are in a jungle where the strongest survive. Today people are going to use their money to destroy lives. Rape, accidents and the likes. To conclude, life is not about you is about us. Connecting it with the creator in a more harmonious way.   

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016   10. Sergey Brin   Net worth:   $37 billion Age:  42 Country:  US Industry:   Technology Source of wealth:  Self-made; Google Along with cofounder Larry Page, Sergey Brin helped facilitate Google's massive restructuring, which the company  announced in August . The move put Google under the auspices of a new holding company called Alphabet, run by Brin as president and Page as CEO. Google's other ventures, such as Nest and Google X, are now separate companies also under the Alphabet umbrella. The tech giant generated $66 billion in sales in 2014,   up more than $10 billion   from the year before. The restructuring allows Brin to focus on exploring inventive new "moonshot" projects and ideas. With top talent and an abundance of resources at its disposal, Alphabet has already made automated homes  and   self-driving cars  a reality. Brin, who emigrated f...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016   9. Larry Page Net worth:   $38.5 billion Age:  42 Country:  US Industry:  Technology Source of wealth:  Self-made; Google As a Stanford PhD student in 1998,   Larry Page   teamed up with classmate Sergey Brin to create BackRub, an early search engine. The project eventually morphed into Google — now called Alphabet — one of the largest and farthest-reaching companies in the world,   worth more than $500 billion . Page oversaw major changes to Google's business structure last year, starting with the   creation of Alphabet , the new holding company that now manages Google and all of its related ventures, including Nest, Calico, and Google X.  Previously the chief executive of Google, Page moved up to helm Alphabet, which has its hands in everything from home automation to   self-driving cars to prolonging human life. In 2016,   analysts expect t...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016   8. Ingvar Kamprad Net worth:   $39.3 billion Age:  89 Country:  Sweden Industry:  Retail Source of wealth:  Self-made; IKEA At 17,  Ingvar Kamprad   founded IKEA, now the world's largest furniture retailer with   sales exceeding $33 billion . Kamprad's plan from the beginning was to set up "eternal life" for IKEA, which meant keeping it off the stock market and securing it within a   complex corporate structure   that includes a charitable arm and a retail and franchise arm, collectively known as Stichting INGKA Foundation.   While the Swedish business magnate is no longer directly involved in day-to day decision-making operations, he still sits in on meetings as senior adviser to the supervisory board. Among his peers, the 89-year-old founder is   incredibly frugal   despite his massive net worth. He reportedly flies economy, stays in cheap hot...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016   7. Michael Bloomberg   Net worth:   $42.1 billion Age:  73 Country:  US Industry:  Financial services Source of wealth:  Self-made; Bloomberg LP Michael Bloomberg founded his financial-data firm in 1981 following a lucrative career at investment bank Salomon Brothers, which he joined in 1966 after earning his MBA from Harvard Business School. He added a news and media subsidiary to his company in 1990, but even today the bulk of Bloomberg LP's $9 billion in revenues still comes from the sale of terminals that Wall Street traders rely on for the most up-to-date financial and market information. He left the company to run New York City as mayor in 2002 and served three terms. But rather than spend his time after leaving office in 2013 by giving away his immense wealth, as expected, he instead  returned to Bloomberg LP  to overhaul the newsroom and take the company in...

Numbers in Revelation Mark W. Wilson Numbers play an important literary and structural role in Revelation. Whether the numbers are to be interpreted literally or symbolically is a much-debated hermeneutical problem. The meaning of some numbers is interpreted. For example, in 1:20 the seven stars and seven golden lamp stands are identified as seven angels and seven churches. However, most numbers are not interpreted. Revelation’s numerology draws on ancient Jewish cosmology in the Old Testament. The numbers four, seven, twelve, and their multiples have particular significance.  Four stands for cosmic completeness, and is the number of living creatures around the throne. Four angels restrain the four winds in the four corners of the earth from prematurely harming the earth before the saints can be sealed. Seven is the most frequently used number and symbolizes perfection and completeness. The Holy Spirit is repeatedly called the “seven spirits” or “sevenfold Spirit.” Seven...

Ways of Interpreting Revelation  There are five main theories about how Revelation should be interpreted : preterist, historicist, futurist, idealist, and eclectic. The preterist theory views Revelation as relating only to the time in which John lived rather than to any future period. John communicates to first-century readers how God plans to deliver them from the wickedness of the Roman Empire.  The historicist theory argues that Revelation gives an overview of the major movements of church history from the first century until the return of Christ. The futurist theory claims that most of Revelation (usually chapters 4—22) deals with a future time just before the end of history. The idealist theory maintains that Revelation is a symbolic portrayal of the ongoing conflict between good and evil.  Revelation offers timeless spiritual truths to encourage Christians of all ages. The eclectic theory combines the strengths of several of the other theories (e.g., a...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016   6. Mark Zuckerberg   Net worth:   $42.8 billion Age:  31 Country:  US Industry:  Technology Source of wealth:  Self-made; Facebook In 2004,   Mark Zuckerberg , then a 19-year-old sophomore at Harvard,   launched TheFacebook.com , a rudimentary version of the now ubiquitous social network known as Facebook. Zuckerberg dropped out of college to work full-time as Facebook's CEO, and the site quickly exploded in popularity. Today, it attracts   more than a billion users daily  and is worth more than  $275 billion , hitting  all-time stock highs   in November after beating earnings expectations. At 31, Zuckerberg is by far the youngest of the 50 richest people in the world. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, welcomed a daughter, Max, into the world in November, and Zuck took two months off from work to spend time with her, setting an ...

Angels and Demons William W. Klein Angels and demons constitute an order of celestial spirit beings created by God to serve God. The Greek word aggelos and the corresponding Hebrew term mal’ak mean “messenger,” though their tasks are broader than that. They represent God and the celestial world to his creation. As spirit beings they can navigate between the heavenly and earthly realms, even appearing in human format times (Gen. 19:1—2; Judg. 13:15—21; Acts 12:7—il). The Bible divides angels into two groups: “good angels” and “bad angels.” Created with free will, angels decided whether to serve God faithfully or to rebel. The faithful angels, called “holy angels” or “angels of God” (or “of the Lord”), also have titles such as “heavenly beings,”“holy ones,” or “hosts.” The Bible names only two, the archangel Michael (Dan. 10:13, 21; Jude 9; Rev. 12:7—8) and Gabriel (Dan. 8:16; 9:21; Luke 1:19, 26). Angels function chiefly as God’s messengers in the Old Testament (Gen. 16:7—12;...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016   5. Larry Ellison Net worth:   $45.3 billion Age:  71 Country:  US Industry:  Tech Source of wealth:  Self-made; Oracle In 1977,   Larry Ellison   teamed up with two colleagues from an electronics company to start their own programming firm, which landed a contract not long after to build a relational database-management system for the CIA under the project code Oracle. The project grew into what is known today as Oracle Corp., the second-largest software maker behind Microsoft.  In 2010, Ellison reduced his annual salary from $1 million to $1, but he still takes in more than $60 million in total compensation thanks to generous stock awards. Ellison stepped down as CEO in 2014 after 38 years on the job and took on the role of chief technology officer. Included in Ellison's $45 billion fortune is an expansive  global real-estate portfolio  that fea...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016 4. Jeff Bezos Net worth:   $56.6 billion Age:  51 Country:  US Industry:  Tech Source of wealth:  Self-made; Amazon.com Jeff Bezos   earned his massive fortune by introducing e-commerce to the world. After spending time in finance on Wall Street, Bezos founded Amazon.com in the garage of his Seattle home in 1994 and operated it exclusively as an online book retailer. The company went public three years later and has since grown to include everything from furniture to food to Amazon's own consumer-electronics products, generating   $107 billion in sales   in 2015. While Bezos, chairman and CEO, faced a barrage of   negative media attention   last year for reports that Amazon's warehouses are high-pressure, toxic work environments —   claims he disputed   — the internet retailer continues to thrive with the growth of Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud-comput...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016 3. Warren Buffett Net worth:   $60.7 billion Age:  85 Country:  US Industry:  Diversified investments Source of wealth:  Self-made; Berkshire Hathaway Berkshire Hathaway CEO   Warren Buffett   started his prodigious investing career at a young age. As a child he delivered newspapers on his bike, and  by 11  the precocious Nebraska native had purchased his first shares in the stock market — Cities Service Preferred at $38 apiece — and sold them for a $5 profit. He was   rejected from Harvard Business School , so Buffett went to Columbia Business School instead and learned under iconic value investor Benjamin Graham, who would become a mentor to the budding financier.  Buffett worked as a securities analyst in the early-1950s before starting his own investment firm. He bought textile company Berkshire Hathaway in 1969, transf...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016 2. Amancio Ortega   Net worth:   $66.8 billion Age:  79 Country:  Spain Industry:  Retail Source of wealth:  Self-made; Inditex With a net worth in excess of $66 billion,   Amancio Ortega   is the second-richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 —   turned from a small-town dress shop   into one of the largest fashion empires   on the planet. His rising wealth is tied to the spike in the growth of Inditex, which saw its stock rise 34% last year.   Sales were up 16%   and profits increased 20% for the first nine months of 2015, and the company opened 230 new stores across 48 markets. Much of this success can be attributed to fast-fashion giant Zara, the company's biggest brand. The chain is   changing the landscape of re...

richest-self-made-billionaires January 2016 1. Bill Gates Net worth:   $87.4 billion Age:  60 Country:  US Industry:  Tech Source of wealth:  Self-made; Microsoft At just 20,   Bill Gates   co-founded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Months before his 31st birthday, the company went public, making Gates a billionaire. He served as CEO of the software titan until 2000 and was its chairman and  largest shareholder until 2014 . Though he still sits on the company's board, Gates — whose net worth sits a league above the rest at $87.4 billion — is no longer actively involved in Microsoft. Gates is not only the richest man in the world, but he's also the   most generous . Since 1999, Gates and his wife have helmed the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the most powerful charities in the world. The foundation — which controls an endowment of   more than $40 billion  — aims to lift millions o...