Talebearing24: Honesty is the best policy

Mr. David Greg is a man who is highly esteemed and respected by his friends and colleagues. His well-known alias is ‘’Honesty’’ because his reaction to every fraudulent incident in the bank where he is working is ‘’that it pays to be honest’’. Honesty has become his second name and much of a creed than a mere aphorism of him.
He accepts this as a way of life because of the stern and honest parents he had. According to him, his parents instructed him to be honest always in all his dealings and to accept honesty as his guiding principle. As he was growing up, his father usually told him to be honest and shame the devil. His determination to be honest always eventually has made him what he is today, a respected bank executive.
David had a little education which did not take him beyond secondary school. He couldn’t go beyond secondary school because his father died while he was in school. Despite his poor background, he decided to be honest and truthful. He was however lucky to get employed in a commercial bank as a messenger. In the bank where he was working, he was well-known as a man who always stood by the truth and whose avowed policy is honesty. ‘’we would not be having cases of fraudulent practices in our banks, if we can all be honest’’, was always his spontaneous reaction whenever there are incidents of fraud in the bank. He had contributed to foiling fraud attempts planned by some of his colleagues either by refusing to conspire with them to steal bank money or by alerting his bosses whenever he was aware of any attempt to defraud the bank. This has earned him a second name and he was popular with it.
His honesty paid off one day. One Thursday afternoon, a gang of armed robbers stormed the bank and ordered everybody to lie down and face the ground. The manager of the bank was forced to surrender the key of the vault where the bank’s money was kept. A lot of money was carted away as the robbers collected all the money from the cashiers and the bank’s vault.
As the robbers were hurrying away, they forgot to carry along with them three boxes containing millions of naira which they had packed out of the bank and kept at the back of the bank. Two days after the robbery, David saw the three boxes left at the back of the bank and took them while he was burning some rough papers he was asked to burn by his boss. He called the manager and other top members of the bank and took them to where the boxes were dumped.
The bank management rewarded David with a promotion to the post of a supervisor and a cash award of one hundred thousand naira. His promotion had since then been rapid and in the last Annual General meeting of the bank, he was honoured with promotion to the post of a manager. When he was invited to mount the rostrum, the Master of ceremony said to him: ‘’he is singled out for this honour and award because he has demonstrated that he deserves the alias ’’Honesty’’. In practical terms, honesty is the best policy.

Talebearing24- Respiration as a characteristic of living-things

Respiration as one of the characteristics of living things can be defined as the ability of a living thing to respire or exchange gases between itself/himself  and its/his own non-living environment. Living things exchange gases with their immediate environment. For instance, all animals breathe in oxygen (Inspiration/inhalation) and expel carbon dioxide (Exhalation/Expiration). The main purpose of respiration in living organisms is energy production with the intake of oxygen which helps in the breaking down of complex organic substances into carbon dioxide, water and energy in the form of Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) during a complete oxidation. It can be divided into two major groups: internal respiration and external respiration. These two major shall be discussed in details as follows:
1. Internal respiration- This type of respiration occurs in the cells that is why it is referred to as cellular respiration. The two gases mentioned early on (Carbon dioxide and Oxygen) are exchanged within the cells. The respiratory organs that are involved in this type of gaseous exchange include the following: nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi and lungs.
2. External respiration- This is the exchange of gases between the external environment and a distributing system of the living-thing e.g. lungs of higher vertebrates, tracheal tubes of insects, stomata of plants etc.
Respiration can also be defined with respect to the presence or absence of oxygen in the energy production during respiration. The type of respiration that occurs in the presence of oxygen is called Aerobic respiration. It takes place in the mitochondria and requires oxygen and glucose thereby producing carbon dioxide, water and energy.
Furthermore, any type of respiration that occurs in the absence of oxygen is referred to as anaerobic respiration. This takes place in the cell cytoplasm and produces lactic acid.
CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR RESPIRATION
1. Respiration medium: It refers to the surroundings of the organisms from which it obtains oxygen which include air and water.
2. Respiratory organ: This is the organ through which oxygen is taken in to the body and carbon dioxide and water vapour are given out e.g. lungs in mammals, gills in fish etc.
3. Transport medium: This is the system which moves the dissolved gases e.g. oxygen around the body to all the cells and collects the gases e.g. carbon dioxide which needs to be eliminated from the body e.g. blood in mammals.
4. Ventilation: The movement of water or air in one direction over the respiratory surface is called ventilation.
5. Respiratory surface: It refers to the definite surface of the body where gaseous exchange takes place e.g. the surface of lungs or a gill.
Characteristics of Respiratory Surfaces
1. Respiratory surfaces must be moist
2. It must be permeable to allow gases to pass in and out of it
3. It must be thin-walled to shorten diffusion distance making it easier.
4. It must have adequate supply of transport medium e.g. blood
5. Respiratory areas must be highly vascularized, i.e. equipped with capillaries.

Interdependence of Animals and Plants during respiration
Animals and plants are largely interdependent as far as respiration is concerned. Animals breathe in oxygen and expel carbon dioxide while plants take in the carbon dioxide and expel oxygen during the day. During the night, plants consume oxygen but they don't release any. One of the byproducts of animal respiration, carbon dioxide is used up by plants during photosynthesis while oxygen that is released during photosynthesis as a byproduct is used up by animals during respiration. What follows after respiration from the acronym MR NIGER CAD is "N" which stands for nutrition!

Talebearing24- Binomial Nomemclature

I would like to digress a bit from what I have started explaining to us on MR NIGER DAC and this one is tagged Binomial Nomenclature! Not everybody will understand the abovementioned terminology if you are not biology inclined to the core! Now, what is binomial nomenclature? Let me break it down to the level we would understand because I believe so much in analyses, bi-2, nomial- naming and nomenclature-system. By joining them together, we have two naming system. Back to Biology, it involves specific and generic name. Your specific name is your first name while your generic/ general name is your last name/surname. So now, if someone asks u what is your binomial nomenclature, that person wants to know your first name and your last name only. Or your specific name which is your first name only. For instance, Adesure Olugbagi, Adesure--first name and Olugbagi is the last name. What name do u bear?! It is well!

Talebearing24- Movement In MR NIGER DAC

M that stands for movement in the acronym ‘’MR NIGER DAC’’ is vividly enunciated below. Movement is defined as the ability of a living being to move from one place to another or it is a change in position of a living thing. This acronym is specifically for living-organisms not non-living entities. It is the only characteristic that conspicuously distinguishes plant from animal. The type of movement we have in animal is what we called locomotion because it requires the use of one or more locomotory organs such as limbs/legs (in man), fins(in fishes), wings(in birds) etc. to move the whole body(Complete movement) unlike plants that move with their branches, leaves and the likes but cannot shift their stems/shoots from one place to another by themselves (Partial movement). There are some organisms that are plant-like and animal-like meaning that they are plants as well as animals. They have the characteristics of plants and the locomotory organ as in the case of animal. For instance, Euglena viridis has flagella for locomotion. Chlamydomonas also has flagella; Amoeba has pseudopodia for locomotion and so on. The reasons why organisms move are very numerous. Is it for reproduction,protection, food, mating, pleasure, help to mention a few? Why does movement concern man? If you look at all these reasons why organisms move, you will see that man also shares the same reasons for his movement with other living organisms. If your movement does not have a purpose, definitely the end thereof will not bring forth something meaningful. Who do you move with? Show me your friend and I will tell you who you are! The calibre of people you move with also plays a vital role in your character, growth and success. Check yourself, if you need to retract from your movement of no good result, do so before it is too late. Your movement determines your success. Change your ways today and you will see that sky is just the beginning into the journey of success. When do you move? You have to be cautious of the time of your movement in order to achieve the planned goal because everything in life has its own time. Time to eat, time to drink, time to move, time to stop, time to plant, time to harvest etc. This is very important as well. Plan your movement! He, who failed to plan, has planned to fail. Success is ours!

Talebearing24- MR NIGER DAC

Yesterday, I talked about the acronym of life"MR NIGER DAC", and this morning, I shall be telling us what each letter stands for and later how it relates to our daily lives. M in the acronym stands for Movement, R stands for respiration while N stands for Nutrition, I stands for Irritability/Sensitivity and G stands for growth. Furthermore, E stands for excretion while R stands for reproduction, D stands for death/life span/ultimate end and A stands for adaptation/adaptability, lastly, C stands for competition. These letters are coined out from the characteristics of living-things. Tomorrow, God willing, we shall be looking at these characteristics one after the other in details. Until then, keep your fingers crossed!

Talebearing24- Causes of Cancer and How it can be averted

CAUSES OF CANCER AND HOW IT CAN BE AVERTED
There are three major ways by which our health can be impaired;
* Through what we eat
* Through what we drink
* Through what we expose our body to
THROUGH WHAT WE DRINK
Some do not know that it is not advisable to drink a bottled water or sachet water that had been kept in the car for a day or more most especially when the weather is hot because this can cause CANCER in man. How? This is done through the carcinogenic particles of the bottle or nylon that had mixed with the water as a result of the heat which the bottle or nylon had been subject to.
In the same vein, it is dangerous to use a rubber cup or container to make hot tea or pap at home or in the office because the rubber cup can produce its particles into the hot food or drink that can cause cancer in man.
In addition, it is advisable not to be over-dependent on canned food or bottled drink because some chemicals used as preservatives are not body-friendly. Some react with the container in the presence of moisture to cause cancer in man when consumed.
THROUGH WHAT WE EXPOSE OUR BODY TO
Also, it is disastrous to over-expose our ear to long calls in the process of communication with our phones especially those that make night calls because one of the components of the phone panel is lead, Pb as an element which is liable to cause cancer in man. How? When making or receiving calls, heat will be produced in the phone panel, the longer the call the greater the quantity of heat that will be produced and vice versa thereby causing electromagnetic radiation that is the emission of the Lead particles that can cause cancer in man. For a long call, it is advisable to use earpiece (hand-on) while receiving or making long calls. Left ear is the best place for making or receiving short calls of one to two minutes because it is farther from the heart compared to the distance of the right ear to the heart all in the name of preventing heart cancer.
In summary, cancer is a disease of cells of tissues to undergo uncontrolled or rapid procreation or reproduction. This cannot be possible if there is no something or substance of any form that will trigger the abnormal reproduction of the cells through our day to day activities. The emanation of cancer is not instantaneous and its outgrowth can be curbed at the early stage. It has many form, namely; ovarian cancer, skin cancer, cancer of the eye, lung cancer etc. Cancer is a cell disease meaning that wherever there is cell, cancer is probable to occur. Cell is the unit of life in man. In Biology, cell is defined as the smallest, basic and functional unit of life. No cell no life. Cells in tissue, tissues in organ, organs in system, systems in organism. Organism is man, macro-organism.

Talebearing24- What A Funny Hunting!

           Toye, Taye and Kehinde were children of the same father but of two mothers. Toye was the eldest son among them of age eighteen years. Their father was a driver and a subsistence farmer while both mothers were traders. These children used to go to farm on weekends especially Saturday when their father was out for driving. Their farm was a bit far from their dwellings so they went there by vehicles. The common vehicle on this road was tippers because of the presence of quarry in this area. Every Saturday, they would go to Tipper Park whenever their father did not go with them for free transportation because some of these drivers knew their father with them.

         After getting to the farm under no supervision, they would work for three hours on farm and went for hunting. Snails and crabs were their targets on several occasions and they would pick as many as possible especially in the rainy season. Plucking of ripe pawpaw in their farm was not left out. There was no day they would go to farm without coming home with one thing of the other. Even their friends in their neighborhood always waited for them from farm because of what they would enjoy from their return.

        One day, after work on farm as usual they tried all they could to pick snails and crabs but no way because that was towards the dry season. They decided to go fishing by using the hook and line they had kept for so long on farm. Taye searched for bait they would use and he was able to get few being in the dry season. They started fishing and small fishes were being caught. The day was going dark little by little. All of