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Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Missing plane defies search technology

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rews looking for the jet carrying 239 people face a vast search area and ocean currents that could be carrying debris more than 50 miles a day.

Despite a wealth of technology, crews trying to find the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner must cover a large swath of the South China Sea that varies widely in depth and is subject to fast-moving currents that could carry debris more than 50 miles a day,

experts say.

The search for the missing Boeing 777 off the southern coast of Vietnam had yielded nothing by early Tuesday. Malaysian and Vietnamese authorities said they had yet to find anything linked to the airliner that carried 239 passengers and crew, and that the search area was being expanded and the operation "intensified."

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Amazing Invention - Wonder Bra Only Unhooks For True Love

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onfused about your feelings for someone?

Just try on Ravijour's recently launched bra.

The Japanese Lingerie Company has introduced a new exquisite bra that only unhooks when you are in true love. Dubbed the 'True Love Tester', the bra is being launched on the occasion of the company's tenth anniversary, blending technology with fashion in a unique way. The newly developed Japanese bra is connected to a smartphone app via Bluetooth. It's clasp will only open when inbuilt sensors in the lingerie

sense true love, i.e., when the user's pulse rate reaches the True Love Rate.

Don't worry, the magic bra will not automatically unhook itself when you break a sweat while walking or jogging. The

chip has the ability to differentiate between heart beat rise due to exercise and romantic enthusiasm.

Ever heard of 'opening up' in love!

The sensors detect a woman's heart beat increase

The Babysitter bucket as I moved my legs, triggered the memory of an event that took place a few years back.

Abuja 2002 Joel Ifeanyi Ogbechie My aunty went shopping for the weekend and I was alone t has been another hot with the kids, Louie 7 and day. I just couldn't help Bethany 5. It was 7 pm and I sticking my legs in a bathed and prepared them bucket of cold soapy water for bed. The little boy Louie when I got home. Life refused to put on his clothes, h a s n ' t b e e n e a s y . rather he was busy insulting Sometimes I say to myself, and cursing me. 'Nepa' has this is not what I signed up done what they do best and for. The work, stress and all I have is a lantern to other challenges that come illuminate the place. I am with it. The sound of the really angry, so I get up to splashing water in the spank him real hard. He

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caused by 'adrenal medulla.'

The adrenal medulla secretes catechlomine, which affects the automatic nerve, and apparently increases the heart rate. The sensors then study the heart signal and dispatch it to the app for examination. The app then calculates the True Love Rate based on the heart rate changes. When the True Love Rate exceeds a certain level, the bra unhooks automatically.

While the bra's automatic unhooking is a 'very interesting concept', Ravijour is advertising it as protective clothing too. The bra was launched with a

video that showed several men trying to forcibly manhandle women or seduce them with money.

However, this special bra only opens when a woman Obododike Timothy C. wants to make love.

However, Ravijour's bra is women's under clothes are not directly available for making headlines. More sale. On a purchase of recently, the Royal Fantasy Ravijour branded products bra by Victoria's Secret set worth 5,000 yen (about headlines on fire. Costing US$50) or above, one can just $10 million, the bra "is win a chance to test it out at adorned with over 4,200 their preferred hotels in six rubies, blue and yellow different cities across sapphires and diamonds Japan. The company will handset in 18-karat gold, then select five lucky and its crowning glory is the couple as winners of the bra's 52-carat pear-shaped contest. ruby drop centerpiece.” < This is not the first time

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moves a step back and his sweet little backside touched the lantern behind him. That's how it started.

He danced a perfect mixture of 'azonto' and 'ajasco' all together as he screamed in pain. “What have I gotten myself into!, Who send me go market?”. I was petrified to the spot. I could barely move a muscle as I stood and watched in horror as he a t t a c k e d t h e f l o o r.

There was little I could do to help him besides an ice pack which i placed on it while he whined like a puppy. “My aunty is definitely going to kill me for this one”. All I

could do was start cooking up a story I was gonna tell.

Baby sitting kids is no easy feat unless you are some kind of mysterious kid whisperer. The constant need to dance and fool around to keep them entertained or control them when they are about to pull some catastrophic stunts can be quite overbearing. And of course, bribe them with sweets; tell me about that one. “Hell yea I'll make a great dad”. One minute they are playing with toys, watching TV and the next, they've painted the cat, thrown the chicken off the

roof hoping it'll fly; I did that one during my time, fighting and pulling stunts. My aunts kids are no exception. At one point the 5 year old girl got thirsty and decided to drink straight from the jug instead and in the process spilling water over the entire floor. As a result, one requires understanding, patience, training and ability to create a safe environment.

If you're lacking in any of the mentioned skills, then I'm afraid you have the perfect recipe for disaster.

Ensure you have all phone numbers in case of an emergency, both parents and

doctors. Have a first aid box nearby for good measure. If the child or any of the children has allergies, ensure to find out.

Back to my nephew, well I eventually bribed him with a lollipop to keep him quiet.

Ten minutes later, I heard my aunty's car pull up and my head went fuzzy on how exactly I was gonna get away with what just happened. There was no way she wouldn't know...<

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ith anger I screamed, “It's not coming on” I said with a worried tone to the phone technician. He looked at me over the counter like I just spoke in French.

He had this dark sad-like kind of face with huge eyes; he was playing chess on his iPad, and listening to music with those huge earphones that I call ear speakers and he seemed more concerned about his music than attending to me.

Here I am trying to explain the situation of my tablet to him and he's still looking at me like I'm speaking in French, then at last he said, “let me try turning it

on”. I handed it to him and watched as he tried turning it on by pressholding the power button, but it still didn't come on. To break the awkward silence that coalesced with his struggle to turn on my tablet, I further explained to him that I've been trying to turn on the tablet since morning and that when I press-hold the power button for a while, the home screen appears and goes off after like 3 to 5 seconds.

He wasn't even listening, instead this time he was forcefully pressing down the power button and volume button at the same time, ahhh!!!, these technicians are so unreliable sometimes. I

quickly took my tablet from him and left there before he caused more harm to it. I made up my mind to take my tablet to its manufacturers office to get it fixed, which was in Onitsha.

I never should have come

here anyway, it was a complete waste of time, coupled with the fact that I was travelling to that same day.

So I came down the stairs, feeling disappointed, I walked out the door ready to board a “keke” to Ibusa junction. The traffic had still not cleared, it was so much that I was already feeling discouraged, the heat was too much, I was getting agitated and didn't know when I said “why de sun dey show e self anyhow today na”?

The “keke” driver laughed heartily, the sound of his laughter eased me a little as I soon smiled.

“You funny oh”, he said

still laughing, “you dey travel”?

Karly Obaks “Yes” I said still thinking the driver. about my tablet, and I was getting worried; I wearing off my smile. had mails to send, files to “Ok, safe journey oh”. upload, a scheduled “Thank you oga”, now I Skype conversation, wanted to be alone with Bible to read, Pastor's my thoughts. messages to listen to, I was battling my head pictures to take with my about how I was gonna younger ones, my very take this tablet to Techno schedule for the week office in Onitsha, the was on the tablet, how stressful journey to would I re-organize?

Onitsha main market and “Aunty Grace!, Aunty back was too much to Grace!”. imagine.

I turned to the voice that “Stop oh driver”, I was called me. so lost in my thoughts “Heeeeeeey!! how are that I nearly passed my you?” I said smiling as I bus stop, I quickly came was glad to see a familiar down struggling with my face, I immediately laptop bag and travelling recognized him... < , brought out money from my back pocket and paid continued in next issue...

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cover Xtraordinarily Xcellent: The Nokia X Family Nokia introduces a brand new family of smartphones, the Nokia X family. A range of handsets that combines Nokia design, build quality and services with the ability to run Android apps.

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he first three phones in the family – the Nokia X, X+ and XL – are priced between the existing Asha and Lumia lines, to appeal to new smartphone users looking for popular apps and their first cloud

services.

The X family boasts Nokia’s exciting, high quality hardware design and a range of bright colours. The brand new, tile-based Home screen offers you a simple, elegant way to manage your apps and phone

functions and also reintroduces a redesigned version of the enormously popular Fastlane notifications centre – a second Home screen if you like – from the latest Asha devices.

The Nokia X family offers terrific value with acclaimed Nokia and Microsoft services and experiences. HERE Maps with turn-by-turn navigation and offline maps are included. Nokia MixRadio offers hundreds of free streaming and offline playlists. Free cloud

storage from Microsoft OneDrive with 7GB of space for free is included out of the box. There’s also access to Outlook.com as your email service. And there’s Skype with a month’s free calls to international landlines in selected markets.

All three of the devices are powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon Dual Core processor and are Dual SIM. A range of third-party apps comes preinstalled, including BBM, Plants vs.

Zombies 2, Viber, Vine

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370: Missing plane defies search technology

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xperts said wreckage could be sitting in water as shallow as 300 feet or as deep as 3,000 feet or more, where the ocean is pitch-black and the temperature is as low as 40 degrees. GPS signals are not effective in salt water and acoustic signals sent from the plane's emergency beacon could be faint.

"Shallow doesn't necessarily mean easy," said David Gallo, who managed search expeditions for Air France Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.

"I can tell you, having been out there ... on a number of occasions, that the ocean becomes a big place when you're looking for an aircraft," he said.

The last known point of radar contact with the Boeing 777 was midway between Malaysia's east coast and the southern tip of Vietnam. Search crews from 10 countries are scouring 10,500 square miles, including the Gulf of Thailand and its currents.

The first step involves sending crews to a likely impact point, where they lower listening devices into the ocean and attempt to pick up the signals from a device called a "pinger" attached to the plane's two black boxes. Battery life of the devices is about 30 days.

Gallo, director of special operations at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, said the device was not likely to

work as well in shallow water where noise from ships could drown it out.

Search crews are probably "plowing" the ocean floor with sonar, he said, and having that many people involved in the hunt could lead to confusion.

"A search is like a symphony," he said. "You need all the members on the team to play the right notes at the same time."

It took searchers five days to find wreckage of the Air France flight and two years to retrieve its black boxes from a depth of about 13,000 feet.

Modern planes, such as the 11-year-old Malaysia Airlines jet that dropped off radar screens Saturday, have technologies that help personnel on the ground learn where the plane is

and how it is operating.

When the Air France plane went down, it sent out a series of automated messages about abnormalities to Air France's maintenance department in the minutes before the crash. The initial event was the simultaneous failure of three sensors that determine airspeed.

The most crucial data about the flight, however, stay on the plane.

Two black boxes record flight data and the voices of the pilots. Debris from the Malaysia Airlines plane could have been pushed miles from the impact point already by wind and ocean currents.

R. Kipp Shearman, an Oregon State University associate professor who studies currents in the South China Sea, said the

and Twitter. As many more as you can fit can be obtained from the Nokia Store, third-party app stores and sideloaded.

The Nokia X is the entry level member of the family, with 4-inch IPS LCD screen, 512MB RAM and a 3-megapixel camera. It will be available in green, black, white, yellow, cyan and red.

The Nokia X+ offers you a little more, as the name suggests: there’s 768MB RAM and a 4GB MicroSD card is included in the box. It

comes in the same colours as the Nokia X. Lastly, the clue is in the name for the Nokia XL, as well, with its 5-inch screen. The Nokia XL also boasts 768MB RAM, the free MicroSD card and it has both a 2megapixel front-facing camera for Skype calls, as well as a 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and flash. The same colours are available as for the Nokia X and X+, except bright orange replaces the red with this model. <

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ocean in the probable crash area was influenced by monsoons and currents that can push floating debris 50 nautical miles in a day.

"March is a period of transition, so the flows can be unpredictable," he said.

With no physical evidence from the aircraft, attention was focused on the fact that two passengers had used stolen passports, one Italian, one Austrian, to board the plane.

Malaysian authorities, who said earlier that they

had closed-circuit video recordings of the passengers, revealed Monday that they had identified one of the two men who used the passports.

"I can confirm that he is not a Malaysian, but cannot divulge which country he is from yet," Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar told the Star, a major Malaysian newspaper. He added that the man was also not from Xinjiang, China — a northwestern province of the mainland 8 Online Reading @ www.latimes.com

Indonesian navy pilots take part in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 near the Malacca Strait.

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gist Ways to Protect Will Keep The Messaging Service Independent your Smartphone from Malware Infection acebook purchased

Facebook Buys WhatsApp For $19B.

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messaging giant WhatsApp for $16 billion in cash and stock, according to a regulatory filing. The deal is being cut for $12 billion in Facebook shares, $4 billion in cash and an additional $3 billion in RSUs for employee retention.

A termination fee is attached to the deal that would cost Facebook $1 billion in cash and $1 billion in shares if the deal fails to pass regulatory muster.

Facebook has posted on its blog, detailing the reasoning behind the acquisition, as well. The post notes that WhatsApp will continue to operate independently and retain its brand. In addition, WhatsApp cofounder and CEO Jan Koum will join Facebook’s board.

Facebook notes that WhatsApp has over 450 million MAUs, with 70 percent of those active each day. In a staggering comparison, Facebook also notes that the messaging volume of WhatsApp approaches the SMS volume of the entire global telecom industry — and that it’s adding 1 million users a day.

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alicious software or Malware is the most common threat to mobile devices. The rise in Smartphones and the host of apps that can be downloaded to spruce up the smartphone is one of the best possible sources of infection.

As we have often associated virus attacks with our computers, we seldom consider the possibility of malware affecting our dear little Smartphone. Come on, isn’t that something we use only to make phone calls and send text messages? Wait a minute. Have you forgotten the countless apps you have downloaded into your phone. If your phone is on the Internet, it is as susceptible to a virus attack as anything else. billion people. The services that reach that milestone are all incredibly valuable,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO in a statement.

“WhatsApp had every option in the world,” Zuckerberg continued in a post to his Facebook page, “so I’m thrilled that they chose to work with us. I’m looking forward to what Facebook and WhatsApp can do together, and to developing great

new mobile services that give people even more options for connecting. I’ve also known Jan for a long time, and I know that we both share the vision of making the world more open and connected.

I’m particularly happy that Jan has agreed to join the Facebook board and partner with me to shape Facebook’s future as well as WhatsApp’s.” <

The Oscars and the “selfie” that rocked Twitter

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omedian and Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres rocked Twitter when she took a selfie with a bevy of Hollywood's biggest stars, such as Brad Pitt, Bradley Cooper, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lawrence -- and said she wanted it to become the most retweeted photo ever.

The Oscars selfie eclipsed the the previous twitpic retweet record -- a photo of President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle hugging, with the message "Four more years." The photo

The twitpic was retweeted nearly 3 million times, and was favorited on Twitter more than 1.4 million times.

The twitpic was posted with DeGeneres' tweet: "If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars."

was tweeted on Nov. 6, 2012 and garnered more than 780,000 retweets.

Not only did the tweet break a record, it also crashed Twitter for a bit. <

Here are things you should take note of to stay protected: Beware of fake apps even on Play Store On the Play Store, there are loads of fake apps designed with the intention of infecting your device and stealing your private information.

Some apps are designed only to push ads to you smartphone. As a matter of fact, most popular apps often have similar ones that are actually fakes. You should be careful with these sort of apps.

Porn is the most efficient source of malware delivery I’m in no position to judge you or tell you what to do with your device but it has been proven that pornographic sites are the most efficient when it comes to infecting your device with malwares.

Well, you know what to do… be careful with sites you visit.

Rooted devices are more susceptible Most advanced users choose to root their devices, giving apps root access. This means the your apps can get access to whatever it wants once you grant the app super user privilege.

Extra care should be taken when using a rooted android device and be careful with apps you grant super user permission.

Install an antivirus There are different antivirus programs available and installing one shouldn’t be that hard. Avast, AVG, Kapersky, Webroot and many others have a mobile version you can use on your smartphone (especially Android).

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This is one way in which manufacturers and carriers ensure that you remain protected from Malware attacks. These updates can include enhancements, bug fixes, new features each of which are designed to keep your system in tune with the right way to tackle the malicious attacks.

Apart from updating your apps, be sure your device operating system is also up to date. < www.geek.ng/profilecaprio

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