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THE bit I like best about the first night of Celebrity Big Bro are the blank, unrecognising looks on the faces of the new housemates as they first greet each other.

You can see them thinking: "Who the heck is this? They promised me there were going to be famous people in here."

This year producers have promised bigger names than ever before, but it's going to be tough for them to top last year's inspired stunt of casting Chantelle, a nobody.

Names like Adam Ant, Boris Johnson, David Hasselhoff, Paul Michael Glaser of Starksy and Hutch fame, American Pie star Tara Reid, H from Steps and former Chelsea player Jason Cundy and his wife have all been thrown into the hat. But until the limo doors open and Davina calls out their names we won't know for sure which celebs had nothing more important to do for the next three and a half weeks.

Hopefully we'll recognise some of them - even if they don't recognise each other.

What we can all count on though are hissy fits, tantrums and strong language and at least one cosmetic surgery freak show to make the next month or so fly by.


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Packaging Corner: New pallet on the block

A new composite pallet offers reusable, returnable benefits to new markets.

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While the benefits of reusable, returnable pallets have long been enjoyed in certain industries—consumer packaged goods (CPG), food and beverage, and automotive among them—for other industries, the switch from wood to another material (like plastic) hasn’t been feasible.

That’s because the strength-to-weight ratio of plastic pallets generally isn’t high enough to accommodate ultra-heavy loads, while still being lightweight enough for manual handling and durable enough to withstand multiple return trips.

“We chose a composite material that is stronger than steel to form the BLOCKPal pallet,” explains David Kalan, senior director of business development for RM2 USA. “It even feels like steel, but it’s made of fiberglass and resin.”

When compared to the 2,800-pound, edge-racking specification for a 48 x 40-inch GMA pallet, “the BLOCKPal’s racking load measures at 6,500 pounds, static loads at 60,000 pounds, and dynamic loads at 9,800 pounds,” Kalan adds.

That means the BLOCKPal gives industries handling heavy, dense materials—such as stone, masonry, metal, tooling and others—the chance to reduce their logistics costs, including cost per trip, damaged pallet waste, or product losses caused by weakened shipping platforms.

Additionally, thanks to the inherent strength of the material, BLOCKPal pallets can be formed in a lower height profile with larger lift truck openings than 9-block wood or plastic pallets. “That means we can get 640 of our empty pallets in a load versus 540 plastic or wood pallets,” Kalan adds. “That’s a 17% freight savings.”

Non-porous and rackable, the material can be affordably pultruded into myriad standard pallet dimensions, as well as specific sizes unique to other industries, he says. Further, the material is naturally fire-resistant without additives, and withstands temperatures from -40°F to 176°F. Like plastic, the material can be recycled through a re-grind process at the end of a pallet’s usable life.
Unlike plastic, however, the BLOCKPal’s material has no aftermarket value. “It essentially returns to silica sand,
reducing the chance of mass theft,” says Kalan.

To help users keep closer tabs on each pallet’s whereabouts and fully maximize the benefits of a pallet pooling system, the company includes tracking with its ERICA asset management system, which also monitors other returnable assets and equipment, regardless of the supplier.

About the Author

Sara Pearson Specter
Sara Pearson Specter has written articles and supplements for Modern Materials Handling and Material Handling Product News as an Editor at Large since 2001. Specter has worked in the fields of graphic design, advertising, marketing, and public relations for nearly 20 years, with a special emphasis on helping business-to-business industrial and manufacturing companies. She owns her own marketing communications firm, Sara Specter, Marketing Mercenary LLC. Clients include companies in a diverse range of fields, including materials handing equipment, systems and packaging, professional and financial services, regional economic development and higher education. Specter graduated from Centre College in Danville, Ky. with a bachelor’s degree in French and history. She lives in Oregon’s Willamette Valley where she and her husband are in the process of establishing a vineyard and winery.

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Wesentlich einfacher wäre es, zumindest erstmal, mit einer Bedingungslosen Existenzsicherung anzufangen. Die kann sogar der Staat bereit stellen in Form eines Grundeinkommens. Zur Sicherung des sozialen und politischen Friedens. Zum ermöglichen von Gönnen können und Liebe.

2018 06 27 heise.de: Bürgereinkommen in Italien: eine repressive Armenfürsorge?

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trendsderzkunft.de: 12.11.2015 Als das erste Land überhaupt plant Finnland die Einführung eines flächendeckenden Basis-Einkommens für alle Bürger in Höhe von 800 Euro, jeden Monat steuerfrei. Dieses Basis-Einkommen kommt aber mit einer Einschränkung bezüglich des Gesundheitssystems. Die Einwohner Finnlands, die dieses Basis-Einkommen erhalten, müssen sich in Zukunft selbst versichern, anstatt wie es bislang üblich war, alles vom Staat übernommen wird, während zusätzliches Einkommen besteuert werden soll.

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Finnland wagt das Sozial-Experiment

Als erstes europäisches Land will Finnland ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen testen. Das heißt aber nicht, dass die Finnen in Zukunft die Füße hochlegen können. Denn die staatliche Grundleistung ist nicht ganz ohne Bedingungen.

motherboard.vice.com: 22.06.2015 Finnland hat das europaweit erste Grundeeinkommensexperiment beschlossen

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motherboard.vice.com: 07 2015 Utrechter bekommen EUR 900,- Grundeinkommen

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Die Detailfragen sind geklärt: #Griechenland hat eine Liste konkreter Reformen geliefert, um das Hilfsprogramm "vorerst" am Laufen zu halten. Der vollständige Brief auf Englisch zum Nachlesen.

"Dear President of the Eurogroup,

In the Eurogroup of 20 February 2015 the Greek government was invited to present to the institutions, by Monday 23rd February 2015, a first comprehensive list of reform measures it is envisaging, to be further specified and agreed by the end of April 2015.

In addition to codifying its reform agenda, in accordance with PM Tsipras' programmatic statement to Greece's Parliament, the Greek government also committed to working in close agreement with European partners and institutions, as well as with the International Monetary Fund, and take actions that strengthen fiscal sustainability, guarantee financial stability and promote economic recovery.

The first comprehensive list of reform measures follows below, as envisaged by the Greek government. It is our intention to implement them while drawing upon available technical assistance and financing from the European Structural and Investment Funds.

Yanis Varoufakis

Minister of Finance

Hellenic Republic

I. Fiscal structural policies

Tax policies - Greece commits to:

  • Reform VAT policy, administration and enforcement. Robust efforts will be made to improve collection and fight evasion making full use of electronic means and other technological innovations. VAT policy will be rationalized in relation to rates that will be streamlined in a manner that maximizes actual revenues without a negative impact on social justice, and with a view to limiting exemptions while eliminating unreasonable discounts.
  • Modify the taxation of collective investment and income tax expenditures which will be integrated in the income tax code.
  • Broaden definition of tax fraud and evasion while disbanding tax immunity.
  • Modernizing the income tax code and eliminating from it tax code exemptions and replacing them, when necessary, with social justice enhancing measures.
  • Resolutely enforce and improve legislation on transfer pricing.
  • Work toward creating a new culture of tax compliance to ensure that all sections of society, and especially the well-off, contribute fairly to the financing of public policies. In this context, establish with the assistance of European and international partners, a wealth database that assists the tax authorities in gauging the veracity of previous income tax returns.

Public Finance Management - Greece will:

  • Adopt amendments to the Organic Budget Law and take steps to improve public finance management. Budget implementation will be improved and clarified as will control and reporting responsibilities. Payment procedures will be modernized and accelerated while providing a higher degree of financial and budgetary flexibility and accountability for independent and/or regulatory entities.
  • Devise and implement a strategy on the clearance of arrears, tax refunds and pension claims.
  • Turn the already established (though hitherto dormant) Fiscal Council into a fully operational entity.
  • Revenue administration - Greece will modernize the tax and custom administrations benefiting from available technical assistance. To this end Greece will:
  • Enhance the openness, transparency and international reach of the process by which the General Secretary of the General Secretariat of Public Revenues is appointed, monitored in terms of performance, and replaced.
  • Strengthen the independence of the General Secretariat of Public Revenues (GSPR), if necessary through further legislation, from all sorts of interference (political or otherwise) while guaranteeing full accountability and transparency of its operations. To this end, the government and the GSPR will make full use of available technical assistance.
  • Staff adequately, both quantitatively and qualitatively, the GSPR and in particular the high wealth and large debtors units of the revenue administration and ensure that it has strong investigative/prosecution powers, and resources building on SDOE's capacities, so as to target effectively tax fraud by, and tax arrears of, high income social groups. Consider the merits of integrating SDOE into GSPR.
  • Augment inspections, risk-based audits, and collection capacities while seeking to integrate the functions of revenue and social security collection across the general government.

Public spending - The Greek authorities will:

  • Review and control spending in every area of government spending (e.g. education, defense, transport, local government, social benefits).
  • Work toward drastically improving the efficiency of central and local government administered departments and units by targeting budgetary processes, management restructuring, and reallocation of poorly deployed resources.
  • Identify cost saving measures through a thorough spending review of every Ministry and rationalization of non-salary and non-pension expenditures which, at present, account for an astounding 56% of total public expenditure.
  • Implement legislation (currently in draft form at the General Accounts Office - GAO) to review non-wage benefits expenditure across the public sector.
  • Validate benefits through cross checks within the relevant authorities and registries (e.g. Tax Number Registry, AMKA registry) that will help identify non-eligible beneficiaries.
  • Control health expenditure and improve the provision and quality of medical services, while granting universal access. In this context, the government intends to table specific proposals in collaboration with European and international institutions, including the OECD.

Social security reform - Greece is committed to continue modernizing the pension system. The authorities will:

  • Continue to work on administrative measures to unify and streamline pension policies and eliminate loopholes and incentives that give rise to an excessive rate of early retirements throughout the economy and, more specifically, in the banking and public sectors.
  • Consolidate pension funds to achieve savings.
  • Phase out charges on behalf of 'third parties' (nuisance charges) in a fiscally neutral manner.
  • Establish a closer link between pension contributions and income, streamline benefits, strengthen incentives to declare paid work, and provide targeted assistance to employees between 50 and 65, including through a Guaranteed Basic Income scheme, so as to eliminate the social and political pressure for early retirement which over-burdens the pension funds.

Public administration & corruption - Greece wants a modern public administration. It will:

  • Turn the fight against corruption into a national priority and operationalize fully the National Plan Against Corruption.
  • Target fuel and tobacco products' smuggling, monitor prices of imported goods (to prevent revenue losses during the importation process), and tackle money laundering. The government intends immediately to set itself ambitious revenue targets, in these areas, to be pursued under the coordination of the newly established position of Minister of State.
  • Reduce (a) the number of Ministries (from 16 to 10), (b) the number of 'special advisors' in general government; and (c) fringe benefits of ministers, Members of Parliament and top officials (e.g. cars, travel expenses, allowances)
  • Tighten the legislation concerning the funding of political parties and include maximum levels of borrowing from financial and other institutions.
  • Activate immediately the current (though dormant) legislation that regulates the revenues of media (press and electronic), ensuring (through appropriately designed auctions) that they pay the state market prices for frequencies used, and prohibits the continued operation of permanently loss-making media outlets (without a transparent process of recapitalization)
  • Establish a transparent, electronic, real time institutional framework for public tenders/procurement - re-establishing DIAVGEIA (a side-lined online public registry of activities relating to public procurement)
  • Reform the public sector wage grid with a view to decompressing the wage distribution through productivity gains and appropriate recruitment policies without reducing the current wage floors but safeguarding that the public sector's wage bill will not increase
  • Rationalize non-wage benefits, to reduce overall expenditure, without imperilling the functioning of the public sector and in accordance with EU good practices
  • Promote measures to: improve recruitment mechanisms, encourage merit-based managerial appointments, base staff appraisals on genuine evaluation, and establish fair processes for maximizing mobility of human and other resources within the public sector

II. Financial stability

Installment schemes - Greece commits to

  • Improve swiftly, in agreement with the institutions, the legislation for repayments of tax and social security arrears
  • Calibrate installment schemes in a manner that helps discriminate efficiently between: (a) strategic default/non-payment and (b) inability to pay; targeting case (a) individuals/firms by means of civil and criminal procedures (especially amongst high income groups) while offering case (b) individuals/firms repayment terms in a manner that enables potentially solvent enterprises to survive, averts free-riding, annuls moral hazard, and reinforces social responsibility as well as a proper re-payment culture.
  • Decriminalize lower income debtors with small liabilities
  • Step up enforcement methods and procedures, including the legal framework for collecting unpaid taxes and effectively implement collection tools

Banking and Non-Performing loans. Greece is committed to:

  • Banks that are run on sound commercial/banking principles
  • Utilize fully the Hellenic Financial Stability Fund and ensure, in collaboration with the SSM, the ECB and the European Commission, that it plays well its key role of securing the banking sector's stability and its lending on commercial basis while complying with EU competition rules.
  • Dealing with non-performing loans in a manner that considers fully the banks' capitalization (taking into account the adopted Code of Conduct for Banks), the functioning of the judiciary system, the state of the real estate market, social justice issues, and any adverse impact on the government's fiscal position.
  • Collaborating with the banks' management and the institutions to avoid, in the forthcoming period, auctions of the main residence of households below a certain income threshold, while punishing strategic defaulters, with a view to: (a) maintaining society's support for the government's broad reform program, (b) preventing a further fall in real estate asset prices (that would have an adverse effect on the banks' own portfolio), (c) minimizing the fiscal impact of greater homelessness, and (d) promoting a strong payment culture. Measures will be taken to support the most vulnerable households who are unable to service their loans
  • Align the out-of-court workout law with the installment schemes after their amendment, to limit risks to public finances and the payment culture, while facilitating private debt restructuring.
  • Modernize bankruptcy law and address the backlog of cases

III. Policies to promote growth

Privatization and public asset management - To attract investment in key sectors and utilize the state's assets efficiently, the Greek authorities will:

  • Commit not to roll back privatizations that have been completed. Where the tender process has been launched the government will respect the process, according to the law.
  • Safeguard the provision of basic public goods and services by privatized firms/industries in line with national policy goals and in compliance with EU legislation.
  • Review privatizations that have not yet been launched, with a view to improving the terms so as to maximize the state's long term benefits, generate revenues, enhance competition in the local economies, promote national economic recovery, and stimulate long term growth prospects.
  • Adopt, henceforth, an approach whereby each new case will be examined separately and on its merits, with an emphasis on long leases, joint ventures (private-public collaboration) and contracts that maximize not only government revenues but also prospective levels of private investment.
  • Unify (HRDAF) with various public asset management agencies (which are currently scattered across the public sector) with a view to developing state assets and enhancing their value through microeconomic and property rights' reforms.

Labor market reforms - Greece commits to:

  • Achieve EU best practice across the range of labor market legislation through a process of consultation with the social partners while benefiting from the expertise and existing input of the ILO, the OECD and the available technical assistance.
  • Expand and develop the existing scheme that provides temporary employment for the unemployed, in agreement with partners and when fiscal space permits and improve the active labor market policy programs with the aim to updating the skills of the long term unemployed.
  • Phasing in a new 'smart' approach to collective wage bargaining that balances the needs for flexibility with fairness. This includes the ambition to streamline and over time raise minimum wages in a manner that safeguards competiveness and employment prospects. The scope and timing of changes to the minimum wage will be made in consultation with social partners and the European and international institutions, including the ILO, and take full account of advice from a new independent body on whether changes in wages are in line with productivity developments and competitiveness.

Product market reforms and a better business environment - As part of a new reform agenda, Greece remains committed to:

  • Removing barriers to competition based on input from the OECD.
  • Strengthen the Hellenic Competition Commission.
  • Introduce actions to reduce the burdens of administrative burden of bureaucracy in line with the OECD's input, including legislation that bans public sector units from requesting (from citizens and business) documents certifying information that the state already possesses (within the same or some other unit).
  • Better land use management, including policies related to spatial planning, land use, and the finalization of a proper Land Registry
  • Pursue efforts to lift disproportionate and unjustified restrictions in regulated professions as part of the overall strategy to tackle vested interests.
  • Align gas and electricity market regulation with EU good practices and legislation

Reform of the judicial system - The Greek government will:

  • Improve the organization of courts through greater specialization and, in this context, adopt a new Code of Civil Procedure.
  • Promote the digitization of legal codes and the electronic submission system, and governance, of the judicial system.

Statistics - The Greek government reaffirms its readiness to:

  • Honor fully the Commitment on Confidence in Statistics, and in particular the institutional independence of ELSTAT, ensuring that ELSTAT has the necessary resources to implement its work program.
  • Guarantee the transparency and propriety of the process of appointment of the ELSTAT President in September 2015, in cooperation with EUROSTAT.

IV. Humanitarian Crisis

The Greek government affirms its plan to:

  • Address needs arising from the recent rise in absolute poverty (inadequate access to nourishment, shelter, health services and basic energy provision) by means of highly targeted non-pecuniary measures (e.g. food stamps).
  • Do so in a manner that is helpful to the reforming of public administration and the fight against bureaucracy/corruption (e.g. the issuance of a Citizen Smart Card that can be used as an ID card, in the Health System, as well as for gaining access to the food stamp program etc.).
  • Evaluate the pilot Minimum Guaranteed Income scheme with a view to extending it nationwide.
  • Ensure that its fight against the humanitarian crisis has no negative fiscal effect."

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Nokia Lumia 720 and Lumia 520 press images leak

Earlier this month, we spotted the Nokia Lumia 720 and the Nokia Lumia 520 in database of the Directorate Post & Telecommunication, Indonesia which is like the FCC of the US and today popular leakster from Twitter, @Evleaks has posted the press images of the two smartphones.

Nokia-Lumia-720-Leak  The Nokia Lumia 720 and the Lumia 520 are exepected to make an appeareance at the upcoming Mobile World Congress which is just round the corner.

The image you are seeing above is that of the Nokia Lumia 720 which seems to be a successor to the Lumia 710 and is expected to be mid-range smartphone with the rumored specs including a 4.3 inch ClearBlack Display, 1 GHz Dual-core processor, 512 MB RAM, 8GB storage, HSPA+, WP8, microSD, 5 or 8 MP camera with Carl Zeiss Lens coupled with a 2 MP front camera.

Next is the Nokia Lumia 520 which will be the successor to the Lumia 510 and is expected to be priced in the budget or low-end smartphones range and the 520 is expected to arrive with the specifications which include 4 inch Super Sensitive screen, 1 GHz Dual-core processor, 512 MB RAM, 8GB storage, microSD, WP8, 5MP with no front camera and of course run on Windows Phone 8 OS.

The devices will as per tradition, be available in multitude of color options but for now, it is just a matter of a few days until the devices go official and we’ll bring you all the update from the MWC. Stay Tuned!

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Xiaomi Black Shark Helo

Xiaomi Black Shark Helo
Brand: Xiaomi
Category: Mobiles
  • Display: 6.01-inch, 2160 x 1080 pixels, 18:9 aspect ratio
  • RAM: 6GB/ 8GB/ 10GB, 1866 MHz
  • CPU: Octa-core (4 x 2.8 GHz Kryo 385 + 4 x 1.8GHz Kryo 385)
  • Rear Camera: 12MP+20MP, f/1.8+f/1.8 aperture
  • Phone Memory: 128GB/ 256GB (6GB+128GB; 8GB+128GB; 10GB+256GB)
  • OS: Android OS v8.1 Oreo, Joy UI

Mobitabspecs.com Rating

The overall rating is based on review by our experts

9.4 4.7 1
  • Display 9 / 10
  • RAM 10 / 10
  • Processor 10 / 10
  • Camera 9 / 10
  • Connectivity 9 / 10
  • Battery 9 / 10
  • Performance 10 / 10
  • Design 9 / 10

Xiaomi Black Shark Helo - Technical Specification

  • Device Type
  • Model
    Xiaomi Black Shark Helo
  • Announced
    23-Oct-2018 (China)
  • Released
  • Status
  • Price
    6GB+128GB: CNY 3,199 ($461, Rs. 34,100, EUR 402)
    8GB+128GB: CNY 3,499 ($505, Rs. 37,000, EUR 440)
    10GB+256GB: CNY 4,199 ($605, Rs. 44.500, EUR 528)

  • Type Design Type called form factor refers to a mobile phone's size, shape, and style as well as the layout and position of major components of phone. There are three major form factors seen in mobile phones => bar phones, folding phones and sliding phones.
  • Dimensions
    160 mm x 75.2 mm x 8.7 mm (6.30 x 2.96 x 0.34 inches)
  • Weight
    190 g (6.7 oz)
  • Colors
  • Waterproof
  • Fingerprint
  • Face Recognition
  • Dedicated Keys
    Power, Volume, Fingerprint, Shark key
  • Device Security
    Face, Fingerprint, Pattern, Password, Pin lock
  • Features
    -Fingerprint scanner (rear mounted)
    -Metal body design
    -RGB (16.8M) logo with the glowing effect
    -Dual liquid cooling system

  • Display Type Display Technology => A number of display technologies and types used in mobile phones => TFT (Thin Film Transistor), IPS (In-Place Switching), OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode), AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode), Super AMOLED (an even advanced version of AMOLED), Resistive Touchscreen (Resistive touchscreens contain two layer of conductive material with a very small gap between them which acts as a resistance), Capacitive Touchsceen (Capacitive touchscreen technology consists of a layer of glass coated with a transparent conductor)
    AMOLED, Capacitive touch screen
  • Size
  • Secondary Display
  • Touch Screen
    Yes, Multi touch, Up to 10 fingers
  • Pixel Density Pixel Density (PPI) is refers to the concentration of pixels on a particular display, measured in pixels per inch (ppi). Pixel density is calculated by dividing the diagonal pixel resolution of a display by its diagonal size, higher pixel density better display quality.
    ~402 PPI
  • Resolution
    2160 x 1080 Pixels
  • Display Colors Display Colors is refers to the number of different shades of colors that the screen is capable of displaying => 64K colors, 256K colors and 16 million colors, Obviously 16M is highest available range of colors and better than others.
    16 M
  • Display Protection Display Protection => Gorilla Glass is a special alkali-aluminosilicate glass shield with exceptional damage resistance that helps protect mobile displays from scratches, drops, and bumps of everyday use, It is always better to go for a smartphone with Gorilla Glass for that added protection and peace of mind.
  • Features
    -2.5D curved glass
    -Corning Gorilla Glass
    -18:9 aspect ratio
    -100% DCI-P3 color Gamut
    -HDR support
    -430nits brightness
    -60000:1 contrast ratio

  • Supported Network
  • 2G Network
    GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz
  • CDMA CDMA (Code-Division Multiple Access) refers to any of several protocols used in second-generation (2G) and third-generation (3G) wireless communications. As the term implies, CDMA is a form of multiplexing, which allows numerous signals to occupy a single transmission channel, optimizing the use of available bandwidth.
  • TD-SCDMA TD-SCDMA (time division synchronous code division multiple access) is a mobile telephone standard for wireless network operators who want to move from a second generation (2G) wireless network to a third-generation (3G) one.
    1900/ 2100
  • 3G Network
    WCDMA 850/ 900 / 1900/ 2100 MHz
  • 4G Network
    LTE 800/ 850/ 900/ 1700-2100/ 1800/ 2100/ 2600 MHz
    LTE TDD 1900/ 2300/ 2500/ 2600/ 2000 MHz
    VoLTE support
  • SIM SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) is a small card that contains mobile network subscriber's account information. This allows the phone using the card to attach to a mobile network. The SIM card is most commonly associated with GSM and UMTS mobile networks. Moving a SIM card from one phone to another allows a subscriber to switch mobile phones without having to contact their mobile network carrier. SIM cards can also be used by a phone to store limited amounts of data, such as phone numbers and text messages.
    Nano SIM
  • Hybrid Sim
  • Dual SIM
    Yes, Dual stand by

  • Chipset Chipset is a group of integrated circuits designed to perform one or a more dedicated functions, often with real time computing constraints, Popular smartphones are equipped with more advanced embedded chipsets that can do many different tasks depending on their programming.
    Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 (10nm) 64 bit
  • CPU CPU (Central Processing Unit) mostly known as processors, CPU processes instructions in order to carry out certain functions that make your device operate properly. Processors are often described as the brain of computers, smartphones and tablets, Smartphones and tablets rely on processors to carry out their every task, Processors are an incredibly important factor in selecting any type of computing device, including your smartphone.
    Octa-core (4x 2.8GHz Kryo 385 + 4x1.8GHz Kryo 385)
  • GPU GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) is a single-chip processor designed to rapidly manipulate and alter memory to accelerate the creation of images in a frame buffer intended for output to a display, This includes things such as lighting effects, object transformations, and 3D motion.
    Adreno 630, 710 MHz
  • RAM (Memory) RAM (Random Access Memory) is a type of computer memory that can be accessed randomly, any byte of memory can be accessed without touching the preceding bytes that allows information to be stored and accessed quickly from random locations. RAM is the most common type of memory found in computer systems, smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices.
    6GB/ 8GB/ 10GB 1866 MHz
  • Internal Storage Internal Storage is a data storage space (flash memory) mostly used in smartphones, tablets and other electronic devices where operating system, apps, music, photos, videos, files and other user data Is stored.
    128GB/ 256GB (6GB+128GB; 8GB+128GB; 10GB+256GB)
  • Card Slot Memory Card Slot is a special slot for inserting a memory card. Memory cards allow you to expand the phone's built-in memory, A memory card (sometimes called a flash memory card or a storage card) is a small storage medium used to store data such as text, pictures, audio, and video, for use on small, portable or remote computing devices such as mobile phones, mp3 players, digital cameras.
  • Dedicated slot Dedicated slot refers to a non-hybrid slot i.e. u can use two sim cards as well as a micro sd memory card at the same time
  • Sensors Sensors are electronic components that detects and responds to some type of input from the physical environment. The specific input could be light, heat, motion, moisture, pressure and location, The output is generally a signal that is converted to use in computing systems, a location sensor, such as a GPS receiver is able to detect current location of your electronic device.
    Ambient light

  • Operating System OS => Every computer system run on a base software called Operating System (OS). Operating System controls all basic operations of the computer (such as smartphone, PDAs, tablet computers and other handheld devices). The Operating System allows the user to install and run third party applications (apps), apps are used to add new functionality to the device.
    Android OS v8.1 Oreo with Joy UI
  • Java Support Java for Mobile Devices is a set of technologies that let developers deliver applications and services to all types of mobile handsets, ranging from price efficient feature-phones to the latest smartphones. Java is currently running on over 3 billion phones worldwide, and growing. It offers unrivaled potential for the distribution and monetization of mobile applications.
  • Youtube Youtube is a popular free video-sharing website, Youtube is the largest video sharing site in the world, Millions of users around the world have created accounts on the site that allow them to upload videos that anyone can watch.
  • Facebook Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. The site is available in 37 different languages.

  • SMS SMS (Short Messaging Service) is a text messaging service component of phone, Web, or mobile communication systems. It uses standardized communications protocols to allow mobile phone devices to exchange short text messages over the networks.
    Yes (threaded view)
  • MMS MMS (Multimedia Messaging Service) is a standard way to send messages that include multimedia content (audio clips, video clips and images) to and from mobile phones over wireless networks using the WAP protocol.
  • Email Email (Electronic Mail) is a system for receiving, sending, and storing electronic messages, Similar to a letter, email is text messages that may contain files, images, or other attachments sent via the internet to a recipient by using applications and software prograps. An email address is required to receive email, and that address is unique to the user.
  • IM IM (Instant Messaging) is an exchange of text messages through a software application, it enable you to create a kind of private chat room with another individual in order to communicate in real time over the Internet.

  • Primary Camera is able to capture photographs and usually videos, The most important characteristics of a camera are the resolution (measured in megapixels), lens focus type (fixed or automatic), higher megapixel cameras are known to capture higher quality photos, but not always a good measurement of the photos quality.
    12MP+20MP, f/1.8+f/1.8 aperture
  • Flash Flash Light => There is commonly two types of flash lights are used in camera mobile phones, LED Flash (LED flash offers lower power consumption with drive circuitry that takes up very little room, LEDs can be strobed faster than any other light source), Xenon Flash (xenon flash produces an extremely intense full-spectrum white light for a very short duration)
    dual LED
  • Front
    20MP. f/2.0 aperture
  • Front Flash
  • Video
  • Camera Features
    Touch focus
    Face detection
    Rear Camera:
    -12MP, f/1.8 aperture, 1.25µm pixel size, dual pixel PDAF
    - 20MP, f/1.8 aperture, 1.0µm pixel size, Autofocus, 2 x optical zoom
    Front Camera:
    - 20MP, f/2.2 aperture, 1.0µm pixel size

  • Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless communications technology for exchanging data between mobile phones, headsets, computers and other network devices over short distances without wires, Bluetooth technology was primarily designed to support simple wireless networking of personal consumer devices.
    Yes, v5.0, A2DP, aptX-HD
  • Infrared Infrared connectivity is an old wireless technology used to connect two electronic devices. It uses a beam of infrared light to transmit information and so requires direct line of sight and operates only at close range.
  • Wi-fi Wi-Fi is a popular wireless networking technology using radio waves to provide high-speed network connections that allows devices to communicate without cords or cables, Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming the preferred mode of internet connectivity all over the world.
    Yes, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, WiFi direct, Dual band,
  • Wi-fi Hotspot
  • GPS GPS The Global Positioning System is a satellite-based radio navigation system, GPS permits users to determine their position, velocity and the time 24 hours a day, in all weather, anywhere in the world, In order to locate your position, your device or GPS receiver must have a clear view of the sky.
  • NFC NFC (Near field communication) is a set of standards for smartphones and similar devices to establish peer-to-peer radio communications with each other by touching them together or bringing them into proximity, usually no more than a few inches.
  • Wireless Charging Wireless Charging (Inductive Charging) uses an electromagnetic field to transfer energy between two objects. This is usually done with a charging station. Energy is sent through an inductive coupling to an electrical device, which can then use that energy to charge batteries or run the device.
  • Headphone Jack
  • HDMI HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) is a compact audio/video interface for transferring uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from a HDMI-compliant source device to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digital audio device.
  • USB
    v2.0, Type C

  • GPRS GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications (GSM), Generally, GPRS is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection.
  • EDGE EDGE (Enhanced Data GSM Environment) is a wireless network technology generally considered the next step in the 2G network offers data transfer rates up to four times faster than ordinary GSM networks, Generally, EDGE is used for the purpose of wireless data transfer, such as sharing pictures and videos or browsing the Internet via a mobile phone connection.
  • Speed
    42.2 Mbps (HSDPA), 5.76 Mbps;(HSUPA), LTE 1200/ 200 Mbps
  • Web Browser Web Browser => a web browser is a software application used to locate, retrieve and display content on the World Wide Web, including Web pages, images, video and other files, The primary function of a web browser is to render HTML, the code used to design or markup webpages.
    HTML 5

  • Video Format
    3GP, M4V, H.263, H.264, MOV, AVI, xVID, WMV, FLV, MP4, H.265
  • Audio Format
    MP3, eAAC+, WAV, Flac player
  • FM Radio
  • Alert Types
    Vibration, MP3
  • Ring Tones
    Wav ring tones
  • Loudspeaker

  • Battery Type Battery Type => Cell phones run on various kinds of batteries depending on the manufacturer, phone size or shape and features. There are basically four types of cell phone batteries => Lithium Polymer, Lithium Ion, Nickel Metal Hydride and Nickel Cadmium.
    Li-Ion (Lithium Ion)
  • Capacity Battery Capacity is a measure (typically in Amp-hr) of the charge stored by the battery, and is determined by the mass of active material contained in the battery. The battery capacity represents the maximum amount of energy that can be extracted from the battery under certain conditions.
  • Placement

  • Features
    1. Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
    2. Document viewer
    3. Photo and video editor
    4. Fast battery charging (QC 3.0)
    5. Type C to 3.5mm headphone jack adaptor
    6. Dual smart PA audio, Biso sound effect
    7. Optional- Black shark game pad
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Big Brother Nigeria in Fear As Morocco Seek Admission into ECOWAS

President Buhari
President Buhari

Nigerians are openly uncomfortable as Morrcco seek admission into ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States). The ECOWAS is currently a Union of fifteen countries that will end up as sixteen when a new member Morocco is finally admitted. The ECOWAS which is a Union of sovereign political and economic nations, with the aim of consolidating their political and economic sovereign resources together, in overcoming their common challenges against other powerful global bodies, in the advantage of the citizens of ECOWAS. This means, ECOWAS as the union of soveign states aim at pooling their collective sovereign powers together, against any other sovereign authority, within or outside the ECOWAS, in promoting the common interest of all ECOWAS citizens.

It is very interesting to note that ECOWAS inability to live up to the expectation of its member states, institutions and citizens, has everything to do with the loose nature of the union despite the fact that the West AFRICAN group remain the most successful of all the other regional bodies on the continent. This loose nature of the West AFRICAN Union leave the authority of the body in the hands of the component States, in place of vesting authority in the hand of an independent body, to govern over everyone of the member states, institutions and citizens, to make the power to controlling the fate of the Union at large. This current tradition of everyone for himself, allows the almighty Nigeria to enjoy the special status of playing the role of the Big Brother of ECOWAS, as the largest and most powerful of all the 15 member states, than the role of the benevolent neutral authority, to be played by the ECOWAS Commission.

So we daily hear the name of President Mohammadu Buhari of Nigeria and his views from Abuja, instead of the voice and views of ECOWAS Commission President, H. E. Marcel Alain De Seuzi, on behalf of the ECOWAS authority from Abuja. No wonder Nigerians like Femi Falana, Bolaji Akinyemi, Frank Udemba Jacob, Geoffrey Onyeama, Emeka Anyaoku, Ignatus C. Olive kea, Bosun Oladele and other Nigerians are desperately calling on their president Mohammadu Buhari not to accept Morrocco into ECOWAS, instead of appealing to President De Seuzi of the ECOWAS Commission. The question then remains, is ECOWAS another name for Nigeria or the name of all the 15 states as a single entity?

The ECOWAS that come into being on the 28th of May, 1975, is still at its teething stage and ironically, everything about ECOWAS seem to be about Nigeria, than about ECOWAS as an independent authority of all the 15 member states. The ECOWAS is still suffering the bureaucratic fate of being about the 15 heads of states and governments of member states, than about the ordinary citizens of the Union. The lack of direct election of the citizens of ECOWAS member states for the Members of ECOWAS Parliament, remove the ordinary person from the principles of "popular participation" that would draw the citizens closer to the Union. Thus, the will of the most powerful president and his country men determines what we all do in ECOWAS, than the will of the ECOWAS Commission.

The above impression is formed by several factors in explaining why the ECOWAS is still struggling to be functional enough to meet up the expectation of all member states, institutions and citizens.

In taking a closer look at how this play out, let consider the factors that make things to be the way they are. First let take a look at the size of Nigeria as a member state of ECOWAS, in term of population, land size and non human natural resources. All the above makes Nigeria a form of big brother in ECOWAS that pose a threat to other ECOWAS member states. In fact in fear of Nigeria, the Francophone countries will rather keep their ties with Frence as a known enemy, than being comfortable with Nigeria as an unknown angel, with a potential of colonizing the rest of West Africa. The Anglophone countries of West Africa are not exemption to this instinctive fear of the big brother which justify why an English speaking ECOWAS member state will prefer working closer with the known enemies of British Commonwealth, than a potential local colonizer that Nigeria could end up into. In fact the evidence speaks for themselves.

Nigeria in ECOWAS is like a big fish in a pond with smaller fishes. Which fool will be blind that big fishes will not be feeding on the smaller ones and naturally the smaller ones will be cautious of their survival? So given the disproportionate advantages Nigeria has over all other ECOWAS member states, it must not be very difficult for us to discontinue to be blind about why the ECOWAS is not progressing. This blindness in turn make us leave behind the effort of overcoming the challenges of addressing the fear of all, by strengthening the common authority enough to control everyone, including big brother Nigeria, to win over the total confidence and trust of all member states, necessary for a more purposeful union befitting our collective dreams and ambitions.

Now, in line with the advantages of Nigeria in terms of population, land size and exploitable none human resources, what exactly are the benefits Nigeria derive in ECOWAS that make other West Africans uncomfortable with the "big brother of the house" and how can these problems be address?

Economics Advantage of Nigeria. We mention earlier that Nigeria has the largest population in Africa with over 150 million people and therefore, largest in West Africa. Large population means large market. So a lot of industries from within out and inside Africa do locate their production activities in Nigeria, than they will do to other West African countries. Here, the free movement of goods across West African States means those locating their industries within Nigeria, are assured of the domestic market and the regional market. Naturally, most industrialists aiming at the regional market, will locate their industries in Nigeria and then facilitate the movement of surplus to other West African countries. Since these industries are majorly locating in Nigeria and producing essential goods, with surplus finding their way to other West African countries, such items will not be travelling by themselves. Either the citizens of other ECOWAS member states must travel to Nigeria to take these goods back to their respective countries or the Nigerians will transport the goods to these countries. The fact is, Nigerians have establish impenetrable dominance in the transportation of these goods to other West African countries.

What we again noticed is, more Nigerians are now domicile in all the West African States to be playing the middleman role, as well as participating in the domestic retailing activities of the countries of ECOWAS. Since it is natural for a Nigerian to trust another Nigerian, than trusting other West Africans, and the fact that in the chain of bulk transfer of goods most of the activities are base on credit and trust, there is a case foe Nigerians to dominate the local retailing business of other ECOWAS states.

So the best part of the commercial activities in ECOWAS favour a Nigerian both within and outside Nigeria, in ECOWAS.

It is also important to add that both domestic or non ECOWAS importers prefer bulk importation into Nigerian as the population provide room for cheaper bulk importation per unit cost than any West African state. Since most importers prefer to import into the Nigerian economy for immidiate market, where surplus find their way to other ECOWAS member states, along with goods produce in Nigeria, more goods from Nigeria find their way into other West African ECOWAS economies than those that goes to Nigeria from others.

What is happening here is, the Nigerians are not only moving goods to other ECOWAS member states but also living in other ECOWAS state in line with Article 2 of the ECOWAS protocol of movement of goods and people. This means Nigerians living in these member states are earning income from such member states, than ECOWAS citizens of other states are doing from Nigeria. So there are more income for Nigerians at the expense of others West Africans, even out side Nigeria within ECOWAS. Furthermore, in addition to the exercise and import duties, Nigeria rake in revenue from ECOWAS states, at the expense of other West Africans due to free movement of foods and service by ECOWAS, while the Nigerians domicile in other ECOWAS member states repatriate their earned income back to their home country of Nigeria. This means, the only one benefiting from the current loose nature of ECOWAS is Nigeria.

In their own response to these subtile Nigerian economic hegemony across West Africa, the French speaking West African States work closely with France to locate industries in Cote De Ivoire and Senegal, so that they will feel protected as well. Thus, most of the products produce in Nigeria, have their French version also produce in Senegal and Cote De Ivoire, for other Francho phone states. This rivalry only weaken our collective position of a common ECOWAS economy, than strengthening us.

Political Advantage of Nigeria. Well, Economic advantages goes hand in hand with political advantage. Nigeria is therefore a formidable political power in ECOWAS, using the economic earned from both within and outside Nigeria, to influence decision across the ECOWAS member states. We therefore live in ECOWAS like we are all Nigerians than ECOWAS citizens. What Nigerians want easily gain control than what the rest of ECOWAS want, as the central authority of the Union is not actively in charge.

The above is something no one can blame on Nigeria or Nigerians but on the current loose system we have in place for the Nigerians to be taking advantage of. This is something that could be controlled by a stronger ECOWAS authority other than the Nigerian government. One cannot pretend the Nigerians are not aware of what is happening and are taking advantage of the situation. It is not strange that Nigeria has a nature of standing against anything or move that will evolve into an ECOWAS authority capable controlling us all, like the EU Commission is doing with the 28 member states of the European Union.

The most recent is the position of Nigeria on the ECOWAS 2020 Common Currency Agenda. As part of the 4 Presidential Task Force on the 2020 introduction of the ECOWAS Common currency, the Nigerian team led by President Buhari made a fool of the whole ECOWAS, by rubbishing the entire project. The 4th presidential Task Force Summit that took place on the 26th October, 2017 in Niamey, Republic of Niger had the Nigerian team engaging in finger pointing and reminding us that even the EU failed, justifying this with Brexit and therefore our common West African currency. In fact the language of the Nigerian team sum up their position that they are not interested in any common currency, now and in the future.

The purpose of the Naimey Summit was not for anyone to come and remind us of the problem we have in ECOWAS. We all know the member states are struggling with double digits budget deficits, double digit inflation figure, over dependency on important due to poor domestic industrial base, very close attachment of the Francophone nations with France, instability of some member state governments and constitutional challenges, but these states need the assistance ECOWAS authority in overcoming the challenge. We all know the problems but our determination is to work around the complications of our problems to introduce the West African Common Currency in 2020 as the common currency will be bringing the fragmented economies closer together, than they currently are. We are therefore meeting to to make sure we meet the 2020 date deadline.

What we expected of the Nigerians is to engage in how to control the ECO (ECOWAS Common Currency) by coming up with technical measures like; setting up of an ECB (ECOWAS Central Bank), location of the bank, appointment of the ECB governor, term of office of the ECB, the mode of transition and the percentage of each national currency to be employ as ECO, during the transition. This means, all the ECOWAS member states will not be using the ECO totally but just a percentage of their national currency will be in ECO.

For example, the bench mark could be 10% or 20% of each country national currency. Here, each country will deposit 10% or 20% of their national currency with the ECB in return for an equivalent of ECO. The countries then would have a choice of using their national currency to make payment for inter ECOWAS member states transactions, including the use of their local currencies, as well as other international none ECOWAS transactions, in addition to the dollar. This position would have made 2020 more realistic than heaping up all the problems of ECOWAS and walking away.

The Nigerian team led by Buhari, reminded us to forget about ECOWAS and focus on the Africa Union common currency. Technically the Nigerians were telling us that they are not as interested in ECOWAS and it's currency, as some of us thought they are. The Nigerians were quick to blame the French speaking countries of West for being the problem of ECOWAS which is not helpful.

Well, the Nigerians who are telling us that the ECOWAS is not good enough and so we should look up at the AU (African Union) for a United Africa, are suddenly on the edge when another member state of the AU, is applying to join what they make us feel is our "useless" ECOWAS. Why, is Nigeria suddenly so concern when another big fish is coming into the pond?

With a population of 38 million, Morrocco will be the second largest economy in ECOWAS when she become a member and that might be a form of threat to the big brother Nigeria. We all know that no West African country can stand up against the bullish Nigeria but probably Morocco can. Nigeria is just uncomfortable because, with the introduction of Morocco into ECOWAS, all the unchallenged position of Nigeria in ECOWAS are going to change. The Nigeria with itself acclaimed delusionary "Veto power" in ECOWAS will be a thing of the past.

Are we now not seeing the fear of big brother Nigeria of ECOWAS, against a formidable rival in the ECOWAS for which she taken for granted? Is this the reason for all these sorts of excuses being employ by the Nigerians to push Morrocco out? How honest are the Nigerian advising us not to admitted Morocco into ECOWAS because of South Western Sahara, who is force to remain in Morocco against its will? How is any country disagreeing with secessionists as crime enough to exclude them from being in ECOWAS, when the same big brother Nigeria is actively forcing the Biafrans to stay in Nigeria against their will? If the Nigerians are saying that Morocco left the AU because of Saharawi issue, are the Moroccans not back in the AU? If Nigerians are saying that Morocco is not in West Africa, to be in ECOWAS, was Mauritanian not once in ECOWAS but left? When did West Africa became the personal property of Nigeria for her to decide what is West Africa and what is not? Has the AU raise any problem with Morrocco joining the ECOWAS and if not, why is Nigeria basing her position on divisions of regional blocks by AU?

At this moment, Morocco is having industries all over West Africa but Moroccans are not common in West Africa. So when Moroccans set up industries in West Africa, the citizens of the countries are employed while the Nigerians industries like banks, are filled up by Nigerians who reside in the respective ECOWAS states. So when Morrocco become a member of ECOWAS, they will be setting up more industries for both Morroccans and citizens of member states to gain employment. Morocco is also closer to Europe and when they become part of ECOWAS, our children who cannot go to Nigeria for jobs but prefer to go to Europe, will be travelling to live in Morocco as ECOWAS citizens, while waiting for opportunity to cross into Europe, than being slaves in Libya. While in Morocco legally, our children will be crossing into Europe, instead of dying in West Africa as Nigerians steal their jobs.

In fact the Moroccans have assured us that Ghana will be the location of all the ECOWAS institutions that are currently in Abuja, if Nigeria choose to leave the Union than being reasonable. The Morroccans are assuring us that they will abide by all the ECOWAS laws of equality of people, institutions and state, than the current system of the "bully and the bullied" in ECOWAS. The Moroccans also promise to fully be committed to ensuring all ECOWAS citizens will be voting directly for their ECOWAS MPs, to make regional laws that will work for everyone and make the ECOWAS authority into a stronger authority, necessary for law and order as well as peace and prosperity.

It is sad the Nigerians are taking their fellow ECOWAS member states for granted and refusing to learn anything from past experiences. Nigerians never learnt any lesson from the experience of the EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement) and why they ended up as the only country to refuse signing up, while almost all the remaining fourteen countries did. Nigeria refused to sign because the EPA risk the extinction of local industry, when dumping of goods from Europe flood and move freely across all member states. Nigeria were worried by how such dumping of European goods will make Nigerian goods to other ECOWAS member states less competitive. What the Nigerians refused to accept is, Ghanaians and others signed the EPA because the industries are not sufficiently on their land and whether the goods are from Nigeria or Europe, it make no difference to the none Nigerian West Africans. We are free to sign anything because the loose ECOWAS authority is not strong enough to control all of us for the common good. It's therefore a matter of time for another fish to get into the water to eat us all up, if Nigeria continue as she is doing while our common authority remain weak.

If these industries are proportionately on the land of Ghanaians just as in other ECOWAS member states, than concentrating in Nigeria, Nigerians will not be the only ones crying out against dumping of goods in West Africa.

Today, all other ECOWAS member states, except Nigeria, have no problem with Morrocco joining the ECOWAS? Why is it only the Nigerians? Are the Nigerians alone the only educated people in ECOWAS to know Morrocco is not located in West Africa? Are the Nigerians the only ones who know that the Morroccans are suppose to be part of the Magrib? Are the Nigerians the only ones in ECOWAS that know the Morrocco is occupying the South Wrstern Sahara? Why then is the Nigerians the only ones saying No, to Morrocco? Why is it that the Nigerians are the only ones saying Morrocco is not good for ECOWAS?

Come to think of it, one could have said the Nigerians are scare of Islamic or Arab influence if someone like Goodluck Jonathan is still the president, but here we are with a Muslim Mohammadu Buhari who is also a Muslem One could also say Nigerians are scare of the Barbar but Mohammadu Buhari's Hausa Fulani are actually descendant of the Barbar and their culture are similar.

Nigerians are now threatening to leave ECOWAS if Morrocco is admitted, as if Nigeria in ECOWAS is doing anyone a favour, than to themselves. Sure, no one want Nigeria to leave the ECOWAS, like the EU never wanted the British to leave the Union. It's however time we stop living in the West Africa of the big brother and small baby brothers. It's time we start to be serious about the ECOWAS that works for everyone, than the ECOWAS that works only for Nigerians. It's time we have every ECOWAS citizen of voting age, voting directly for their respective ECOWAS MPs to make legislative laws that will give the ECOWAS institutions the necessary authority to perform their legitimate functions. It's only on this condition that we can jointly keep recurring challenges of such nature like the Morroccans in ECOWAS from our fate. Sure we can conveniently trade with the Morroccans as we do with other countries of Africa and the rest of the world.

Once again, no one want Nigeria to leave ECOWAS but we cannot continue with Nigeria being ECOWAS, at the expense of the rest of us.

Kofi Ali Abdul-Yekin
Chairman ECRA
(ECOWAS Citizens Right Advocates)
[email protected]
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Holiday Fair in Nathan Phillips Square celebrates the season with an enchanting artisan market, delicious food, festive drinks at the Jackson Triggs Polar Point Bar, live entertainment, and a winter midway, bringing excitement and charm to the hustle and bustle of downtown Toronto, all in support of Epilepsy Toronto.

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The Galaxy S6 from Samsung has the very latest innovations and top hardware to make this a powerful phone.

The vibrant 5.1-inch Super AMOLED display is protected by Corning Gorilla Glass 4 and the fingerprint scanner allows you to keep your phone secure. With Android 5.0 on board you get the very latest enhancements from Google and Samsung has added many of their own unique features to the phone including S Health to keep you on track with your fitness goals and S Voice to carry out voice commanded tasks.

The phone is packing an octacore 64-bit processor and 3GB RAM and while there may not be a microSD card you do get 115GB of storage on OneDrive for 2 years. There is a 16-megapixel camera with lots of great extras to make your photos look great. Along with the usual filters and shooting effects you get Optical Image Stabilisation, Select Blur and Pro Mode and the front facing camera is 5-megapixels so your selfies will turn out great too. 4G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Infrared and NFC are on board along with social network integration, a FM radio and S Finder to help you find a file or photo easily.


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Research Request: Is Lead Poisoning Associated With Obesity?

As you all know, exposure to lead in infancy can lead to lower IQ, poor education outcomes, and higher rates of violent crime later in life. But another thought popped into my head this weekend. Among other things, lead does its work by weakening executive control in the brain, which is associated with things like impulse control and the ability to associate future effects from present actions. So aside from crime, what else might be affected by lead exposure?

How about obesity? This is just a guess on my part, but it strikes me that a child who loses impulse control and the ability to think about future consequences, might also be more likely to eat without thinking about the added weight down the road. This could easily lead to obesity later in life.

The only reason I’m mentioning this is that I have no way of testing it myself, so I thought I’d throw it out into the ether and see if anyone else has a bright idea for looking into this. Maybe NHANES data? I’m pretty sure a straight ecological study, of the kind that demonstrates the lead-crime link, wouldn’t do any good. But longitudinal data might. Anyone out there have any ideas?


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Why Democrats Could Still Lose Latino Voters

Arizona’s immigration law has infuriated and mobilized the Latino community. And Republican support for the measure could end up alienating Latino voters and damaging the party’s long-term prospects. At the same time, the circumstances won’t necessarily translate into political gains for the Democrats this year if the party fails to make a strong bid to protect Latino rights, the American Prospect’s Adam Serwer argues:

[T]he anti-immigrant sentiment of today’s GOP won’t keep Latinos voting Democratic if they ultimately get nothing out of it. Latinos today, like black Americans in the past, won’t just be looking for a party that will reach out to them rhetorically — they will want parties and politicians that can achieve their legislative goals.

Serwer draws a comparison with how black Americans ended up moving away from the Republican Party after the Civil War: Despite the racist attitudes of the old Democratic Party, the GOP “proved itself unwilling or unable to continue a sustained struggle for black rights following the Civil War”—and blacks ended up migrating to the other side.

Similarly, present-day Democrats still risk taking Latino voters for granted if they fail to act on their promises to the Latino community. While the GOP has certainly shifted to the right on immigration reform since the failure of the 2007 bill, the Democrats have as well. Since President Obama first took office, the administration has devoted its resources on immigration to ramping up border enforcement and deporting criminal immigrants. In fact, it deported 5 percent more immigrants than the Bush administration in its first year. And the Senate Democrats’ current plan for an immigration overhaul places a huge emphasis on border security and enforcement in their attempt to win over moderates and conservatives, providing extensive detail about cracking down on illegal immigrants in the workplace while making only brief mention of a pathway toward legalization.

But so far, no Republicans have come to the table since Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) pulled away from the discussions. And Obama, in his recent comments, has made it increasingly clear that the Democrats will continue to slow-walk an immigration overhaul this year. So the Democrats are simply left with calls for heightened border security and other immigration crackdowns—which the Republicans are matching with hard-line proposals of their own, as Politico points out.

That doesn’t mean that Latino voters will be particularly eager to run into the arms of the GOP, particularly as more conservatives have begun to embrace the Arizona law. But that doesn’t mean that they’ll swing heavily for the Democrats, either. As TAP’s Gabriel Arana writes, despite their recent denunciation of the Arizona law, “progressives have failed to provide a counterweight to anti-immigrant sentiment” by strongly advocating for immigrant rights. And until then, Latino voters could still decide to stay home this fall and sit this one out.


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Mubarak’s Billions

The details of Mubarak’s fortune are a bit muddy, but according to various press reports, the family’s total wealth runs well into the tens of billions of dollars.

In Asia Times Online, Pepe Escobar reports:

According to a mix of United States, Syrian and Algerian sources his personal fortune amounts to no less than US $40 billion – stolen from the public treasury in the form of “commissions”, on weapons sales, for instance. The Pharaoh controls loads of real estate, especially in the US; accounts in US, German, British and Swiss banks; and has “links” with corporations such as MacDonald’s, Vodafone, Hyundai and Hermes. Suzanne, the British-Irish Pharaoh’s wife, is worth at least $5 billion. And son Gamal – the one that may have fled to London, now stripped of his role as dynastic heir – also boasts a personal fortune of $17 billion. Or some $60 billion. Some speculate the fortune is around $70 billion.’

Should Mubarak skip the country, as Corey Pein points out in War Is Business, he might well do it in a  business jet provided free of charge by the US taxpayers. “Pentagon contracts show that the US government has spent at least $111,160,328 to purchase and maintain Mubarak’s fleet of nine Gulfstream business jets. (For those keeping score, Gulfstream is a subsidiary of General Dynamics.)” War Is Busines provides copies of the actual contracts. Here is one of them:

Gulfstream Aerospace Corp., Savannah, Ga., is being awarded a $19,825,221 firm fixed price contract modification to provide for the Foreign Military Sales Program in support of FMS Case Egyptian. The Air Force provides follow-on maintenance support for the Egyptian Government’s Presidential fleet of Gulfstream aircraft. The program will provide depot maintenance support, parts and material repair, and supply, field team, and Aircraft on Ground or urgent situation support. At this time, $14,825,221 of the funds has been obligated. Further funds will be obligated as individual delivery orders are issued. This work will be complete by November 2005. Solicitation began October 2003 and Negotiations were completed October 2003. The Headquarters Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Tinker Air Force Base, Okla., is the contracting activity (FA8106-04-C-0001).

It’s tit for tat with Egypt. Pein again:

When the two military leaders met in May 2009 to discuss “a wide range of security issues,” Egyptian Defence Minister Hussein Tantawi presented US Defense Secretary Robert Gates with a set of gifts. They included a shotgun (with five bullets), a decorative rug and a gilded photo album.With a confidence that, in retrospect, seems dubious, Gates said “he looks forward to expanding the two countries’ military-to-military relationships in ways that promote regional stability.’Five months after that meeting, the Pentagon announced it would sell a new batch of two dozen F-16 fighter aircraft to Egypt—a $3.2 billion deal that is among the most recent of a long string of arms deliveries from America to its North African ally. These F-16s, according to the Pentagon announcement (pdf) would support “Egypt’s legitimate need for its own self-defense.”

In her blog, Sibel Edmonds, the former FBI translator who exposed corruption and incompetence at the Bureau, writes:

This is where our government takes our dollars, gives it to dictator allies, and then asks them to turn around, give that money (minus the personal share for personal wealth) to our military industrial complex corporations. Then, we have those CEO’s with $$$$$$$ salaries, and $$$$$$$ to the lobbyists and $$$$$$ to our elected representatives, who then in turn, sanction giving more money, aid, tax payers’ dollars, to these dictators; and the cycle repeats, repeats, repeats…well, it’s been repeating nonstop for more than half a century.


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Since the establishment of the company until today, our workshop has successfully operated and gave good and satisfactory service to our customers. We deal with all sorts of vehicles repairs and maintenance.

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The Chocolate Bar You Can Post - Canterbury

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Luxury Chocolate made in Wales

These timeless postcards from the UK's most stunning locations are perfect gifts for chocolate lovers.

Our unique product captures a sense of place as well as great taste.  The bars work equally well as a gift item or an indulgent treat with striking designs that would be well placed on a wall as in a confectionery counter.

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We so wanted to share the wonderful sights of Canterbury. What a marvellous city this is with its resplendent  6th Century Cathedral crowned with those soaring spires. There is much to take in with glorious gothic carvings and Romanesque curves at almost at every turn. Little wonder it became a site of such great pilgrimage. What a terribly beautiful spot for poor old Thomas Beckett to croak it back in 1170.

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Canterbury - Did you know that?

  • In Sub-Roman Britain, it was known in Old Welsh as CairCeint ("stronghold of Kent").
  • Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered at the cathedral in 1170.
  • Canterbury Castle was captured by the French Prince Louis during his 1215 invasion.
  • The Black Death hit Canterbury in 1348.
  • During the Second World War, 10,445 bombs were dropped during 135 separate raids.
  • In 2017, 7.2 million people visited the City.
  • The Tour de France has visited the City twice.
  • The first regular passenger steam railway in the world ran along the Canterbury and Whistle line.

Three reasons to send a postcard:

  1. Much like a journal, postcards remind us of the time and place of travels.
  2. Due to their nature, postcards synthesize the high points of a journey into a few important words.
  3. Maybe one day your heirs will get their hands on some of your handwritten notes and enjoy your travels through your unique perspective

Three scientific reasons to gift/eat chocolate:

  1. Stress Buster - A recent Finnish study found eating chocolate reduces stress
  2. Brain Fuel- Eat chocolate to improve reasoning, memory, attention and language.
  3. Good for the heart - According to boffins at the University of Warwick

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Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics

The electronics of the future could operate with light instead of electricity – or a combination of the two. As yet, no ideal light sources are available for this, however, nor are fibre optics fully developed. The development of such materials is one of the challenges that the scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle have taken on. They investigate how the microstructure and nanostructure of metallic compounds affect their physical properties, for example how they behave as fibre optics or their magnetic characteristics. Their research concentrates on materials in low dimensions, for instance in a two-dimensional thin layer, a virtually one-dimensional nanowire or a minute heap of atoms, which physicists call a quantum dot and which, in some respects, resembles a single atom.

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06120 Halle (Saale)
Phone: +49 345 5582-50
Fax: +49 345 5511223

PhD opportunities

This institute has no International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS).

There is always the possibility to do a PhD. Please contact the directors or research group leaders at the Institute.

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Department Nanomagnetism, Experimental Department I

Millennium Technology Prize for new Max Planck Director

Stuart Parkin receives Finnish Millennium Technology Prize, which is worth one million euros and is regarded as Nobel prize for technological innovation

The smallest storage system in the world

Controlling the magnetic moment of individual atoms opens up new possibilities for compact data storage devices and quantum computers

A good wire for nanoelectronics

Silicon nanowires become doped with unexpectedly large amounts of aluminium during growth, so that their conductivity increases

An electrical switch for magnetic current

A multiferroic tunnel junction provides storage media with increased data density

Data storage takes an electric turn

The data density in random access memory could be radically increased

This physicist changed our world: It was Stuart Parkin’s developments in spintronics that first made Facebook and Google possible, as well as many other computer applications without which our everyday lives are now barely conceivable. Parkin has been Director at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle for one year now. For his colleagues there, his energy is impressive and challenging in equal measure.

Research Group Leader (m/f/d)

Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle (Saale) February 06, 2019

What falling cats mean for density functional theory

2017 Requist, Ryan Tyler; Gross, Eberhard K. U.

Material Sciences Particle Physics Quantum Physics

Density functional theory, the most widely used method for calculating the properties of molecules and solids, is limited by its reliance on the Born-Oppenheimer approximation – the assumption that nuclei move infinitely more slowly than electrons. Research conducted at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics has overcome this limitation, exploiting recent advances in the concept of Berry curvature to establish a density functional theory that fully accounts for nonadiabatic coupled electron-nuclear motion.

Helical magnetism in iron nanoislands

2015 Sander, Dirk; Kirschner, Jürgen

Material Sciences Particle Physics Plasma Physics Quantum Physics Solid State Research

Two-dimensional iron islands, some thousand atoms small, exhibit a novel magnetic order on the nanometer scale, which was discovered by spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy. The local magnetization direction of iron rotates continuously over five nearest neighbor distances by 360 degrees. For iron, this magnetic order is unusual, and it is ascribed to the reduced dimensionality of the iron nanostructure. Structural relaxation within the nanostructure modifies the spin-dependent interaction between electrons, and a non-collinear spin alignment results.

Electric field as a switch for nanomagnets

2014 Brovko, Oleg O.; Ruiz-Diaz, Pedro; Dasa, Tamene R.; Stepanyuk, Valeri S.

Material Sciences Particle Physics Plasma Physics Quantum Physics Solid State Research

“Electric Field as a Switch for Nanomagnets” – Nanomagnets are nowadays ubiquitously used as elementary building blocks for data storage devices. The constant strive for miniaturization of those building blocks calls for novel methods of controlling sub-nanoscale magnetic particles and molecules efficiently and selectively. At the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics the effect of electric field on spin (magnetization) orientation and interaction of nanomagnets is studied (with first principles theoretical methods).

Ultrafast magnons for spintronics

2013 Zakeri Lori, Khalil; Zhang, Yu; Chuang, Tzu-Hung; Kirschner, Jürgen

Material Sciences Particle Physics Plasma Physics Quantum Physics Solid State Research

Magnons are the wave-like motions of the magnetic moments in a magnetically ordered solid. Similar to other waves, magnons may also be used for information processing. The study of wavelength, frequency and lifetime of magnons in magnetic solids is an important area of research. At the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics the properties of magnons excited at ferromagnetic surfaces are investigated using spin-polarized electron spectroscopy.

Thermoelectric properties of porous silicon

2012 De Boor, Johannes; Ao, Xianyu; Kim, Dong-Sik; Schmidt, Volker

Material Sciences

By nanostructuring silicon its thermal conductivity can be significantly reduced. Such a reduction can potentially induce a corresponding increase of the thermoelectric efficiency so that the transformation of heat into electric power could be improved. Therefore porous silicon layers were produced by electrochemical etching and the thermoelectric properties of the nanostructured material investigated. These investigations show that the thermal conductivity is indeed strongly reduced but that due to competing effects only moderate increases of the thermoelectric efficiency can be achieved.

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Tune Yourself In: Music and Affect from Adolescence to Old Age

Music can express different moods and can affect a listener’s emotional experience in various ways: It can make a perceiver feel happy, thoughtful or melancholic, it can stir someone up or can be calming. We are interested in finding out how listeners of different age groups perceive emotional expressions of music, what kind of music they prefer in different emotional situations, and whether this might be related to the music’s acoustic cues. For example, does a piece of music sound happy when it reaches a specific tempo or when it includes a specific harmonic progression? Do older people’s evaluations of mood expressed through music differ from those of younger adults? Do individuals listen to specific pieces of music to influence their current mood, and how successful are they in doing so? We are exploring these questions in various studies and in cooperation with the music research group of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt.

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Prime Position Duplex – Invest or Rest and Invest – Offers Wanted

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Beds: 4 Baths: 2 Car: 2 Land Size: 823 m2

This low set well maintained Brick Veneer 2 x 2 duplex is located in a quiet court and walking distance to Private Emmanuel Primary and Holy Spirit High Schools, Public Northview Primary School, Park, Corner Store, Hair Dresser, Takeaway, Mt Pleasant Shopping Centre, Plaza Shopping Centre and Greenfields Complex. Very central on the Mackay map and only a few minutes’ drive into town. Situated on an 823m2 block and returning $520 per week. Great investment with the risk reduction of 2 tenancies for 1 investment or live in one and rent the other. Duplexes for sale in this good a condition and in this sort after area is very rare. Showing a gross return of 6.93% and a net return of 5.08% at full asking price ( and it’s negotiable), in a rising rental market.
Inspection by appointment with Peter Keioskie, call 0438803575.

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Peter is a fully licenced Real Estate Agent born and raised in Mackay. He started his working life as a young soldier in the Australian Army and has the discipline in which the military represents.
After his service he entered civilian life as a Real Estate consultant back home in Mackay in 1985 which gives Peter over 30 years’ experience in the local Mackay Real Estate market.

During this time Peter has gained extensive sales experience in Residential, Business, Commercial and Development Projects. He also finds his building knowledge gained as a partner of a local building company for many years invaluable. Peter believes in giving back to the community and has for many years been a volunteer in service to the community.