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What about the Galaxy Note 5? Same tip?

Honda took to YouTube today to unveil an all-new, dynamically styled 10th-generation 2016 Civic Sedan, slated for sale in the U.S. this fall. With a more athletic stance and sportier driving position, the 2016 Civic Sedan is a new-from-the-ground-up design intended to recapture the sporty character of Civic while creating the world's best compact car – setting a new benchmark in the mainstream compact class for fun-to-drive performance, safety performance and fuel efficiency, together with a new level of refinement.

The Civic Sedan is the first in a series of new 10th-generation Civic models that will include a sedan, coupe, high-performance Si models, a 5-door hatchback and the first-ever Civic Type-R model for the U.S. market, comprising the most diverse and innovative lineup in Civic's 43-year history.

Credit: http://www.wearobo.com/2015/09/honda-unveils-2016-civic-with-apple.html

German luxury carmaker BMW’s new chief executive, Harald Krueger, fainted on stage at the Frankfurt auto show on Tuesday, a Reuters witness reported.

Krueger collapsed as he was commenting on BMW’s latest models during a news conference. Two men escorted him off stage. Kruger was able to walk.

A BMW spokesman said over the public address system: “I’m a bit lost for words.”
It was the first appearance at a major auto show by Krueger, who took the helm as CEO in May.
BMW later said: “Harald Krueger experienced a moment of dizziness. As a result, the press conference was cancelled in order that Mr Krueger could be examined by a doctor. Mr. Krueger’s health is stable and he is recovering well.”
Chief Financial Officer Friedrich Eichiner took over the press roundtable.



Source http://www.wearobo.com/2015/09/bmw-new-ceo-harald-krueger-faints-on.html

On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen's hatchet that day didn't behave like the rest.
"They got down to the end and had one who was still alive, up and walking around," says the couple's great-grandson, Troy Waters, himself a farmer in Fruita. The chicken kicked and ran, and didn't stop.
It was placed in an old apple box on the farm's screened porch for the night, and when Lloyd Olsen woke the following morning, he stepped outside to see what had happened. "The damn thing was still alive," says Waters.
"It's part of our weird family history," says Christa Waters, Troy's wife.
Waters heard the story as a boy, when his bedridden great-grandfather came to live with Troy's family. The two had adjacent bedrooms, and the old man, often sleepless, would talk for hours.

"He took this rooster with him - and back then he was still using the horse and wagon quite a bit. He threw it in the wagon, took the chicken in with him and started betting people beer or something that he had a live headless chicken.""He took the chicken carcasses to town to sell them at the meat market," Waters says.
Word spread around Fruita about the miraculous headless bird. The local paper dispatched a reporter to interview Olsen, and two weeks later a sideshow promoter called Hope Wade travelled nearly 300 miles from Salt Lake City, Utah. He had a simple proposition: take the chicken on to the sideshow circuit - they could make some money.
"Back then in the 1940s, they had a small farm and were struggling," Waters says. "Lloyd said, 'What the hell - we might as well.'"
First they visited Salt Lake City and the University of Utah, where the chicken was put through a battery of tests. Rumour has it that university scientists surgically removed the heads of many other chickens to see whether any would live.
It was here that Life Magazine came to marvel over the story of Miracle Mike the Headless Chicken - as he had by now been branded by Hope Wade. Then Lloyd, Clara and Mike set off on a tour of the US.
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They went to California and Arizona, and Hope Wade took Mike on a tour of the south-eastern United States when the Olsens had to return to their farm to collect the harvest.
The bird's travels were carefully documented by Clara in a scrapbook that is preserved in the Waters's gun safe today.
People around the country wrote letters - 40 or 50 in all - and not all positive. One compared the Olsens to Nazis, another from Alaska asked them to swap Mike's drumstick in exchange for a wooden leg. Some were addressed only to "The owners of the headless chicken in Colorado", yet still found their way to the family farm.
After the initial tour, the Olsens took Mike the Headless Chicken to Phoenix, Arizona, where disaster struck in the spring of 1947.
"That's where it died - in Phoenix," Waters says.
What happens when a chicken's head is chopped off?
Beheading disconnects the brain from the rest of the body, but for a short period the spinal cord circuits still have residual oxygen.
Without input from the brain these circuits start spontaneously. "The neurons become active, the legs start moving," says Dr Tom Smulders of Newcastle University.
Usually the chicken is lying down when this happens, but in rare cases, neurons will fire a motor programme of running.
"The chicken will indeed run for a little while," says Smulders. "But not for 18 months, more like 15 minutes or so."
Mike was fed with liquid food and water that the Olsens dropped directly into his oesophagus. Another vital bodily function they helped with was clearing mucus from his throat. They fed him with a dropper, and cleared his throat with a syringe.
The night Mike died, they were woken in their motel room by the sound of the bird choking. When they looked for the syringe they realised they had left it at the sideshow, and before they could find an alternative, Mike suffocated.
"For years he would claim he had sold [the chicken] to a guy in the sideshow circuit," Waters says, before pausing. "It wasn't until, well, a few years before he died that he finally admitted to me one night that it died on him. I think he didn't ever want to admit he screwed up and let the proverbial goose that lays golden eggs die on him."
Olsen would never tell what he did with the dead bird. "I'm willing to bet he got flipped out in the desert somewhere between here and Phoenix, on the side of the road, probably eaten by coyotes," Waters says.
But by any measure Mike, bred as a fryer chicken, had a good innings. How had he been able to survive for so long?
The thing that surprises Dr Tom Smulders, a chicken expert at the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution at Newcastle University, is that he did not bleed to death. The fact that he was able to continue functioning without a head he finds easier to explain.
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For a human to lose his or her head would involve an almost total loss of the brain. For a chicken, it's rather different.
"You'd be amazed how little brain there is in the front of the head of a chicken," says Smulders.
It is mostly concentrated at the back of the skull, behind the eyes, he explains.
Reports indicate that Mike's beak, face, eyes and an ear were removed with the hatchet blow. But Smulders estimates that up to 80% of his brain by mass - and almost everything that controls the chicken's body, including heart rate, breathing, hunger and digestion - remained untouched.
It was suggested at the time that Mike survived the blow because part or all of the brain stem remained attached to his body. Since then science has evolved, and what was then called the brain stem has been found to be part of the brain proper.
"Most of the bird brain as we know it now would actually be considered the brain stem back then," Smulders says.
"The names that had been given to parts of the bird brain in the late 1800s were all indicating equivalences with the mammalian brain that were in fact wrong."
Image copyrightAP Image captionTroy Waters stands next to a statue of Mike in Fruita, which holds the Headless Chicken festival every year in May

Why those who tried to create a Mike of their own did not succeed is hard to explain. It seems the cut, in Mike's case, came in just the right place, and a timely blood clot luckily prevented him bleeding to death.
Troy Waters suspects that his great-grandfather tried to replicate his success with the hatchet a few times.
Certainly, others did. A neighbour who lived up the road would buy up any chickens for sale at an auction in nearby Grand Junction, Colorado, and stop by the family farm with a six-pack of beer for Olsen, to persuade him to explain exactly how he did it.
"I remember [him] telling me, laughing, that he got free beer every other weekend because the neighbour was sure he got filthy rich off this chicken," Waters says.

"Filthy rich" was an opinion many held in Fruita of the Olsen family. But according to Waters, that was an exaggeration.
"He did make a little money off it," Waters says. He bought a hay baler and two tractors, replacing his horse and mule. And also - a bit of a luxury - a 1946 Chevrolet pickup truck.
Waters once asked Lloyd Olsen if he had fun. "He said, 'Oh yeah, I had a chance to travel around and see parts of the country I probably otherwise wouldn't have seen. I was able to modernise and have farm equipment.' But it was something he put in his past.
"He still farmed the rest of his life, scratched a living out of the dirt."

SOURCE:http://emegr.com/blog/view/6753/unbelievable-miracle-a-chicken-without-head-survived-for-18-months

Can't wait for these handsets to come to Nigeria...

Gonna check if that domain name is available.

After so many months of rumours and speculations, Apple Inc officially launches its new iPhones--the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. The new iPhone handsets come with a force-sensitivity tech known as 3D touch that bring up short cuts and does so many different things.

As earlier rumoured, the iPhone 6S smartphones have a 12MP iSight camera--up from 8-megapixel--and front-facing 5MP facetime camera with Retina flash.The new iPhones will be able to record and edit 4K videos directly.The iPhone 6S and iPhone 6 S Plus handsets will be available in Silver,Gold,Space Grey and Rose Gold. Pricing and Availability The new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus will be priced the same as last year's models--the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.

Pre-orders for the new iPhones will start on September 12 and will go on sale on September 25 in some countries. http://www.wearobo.com/2015/09/apple-announces-iphone-6s-and-iphone-6.html#sthash.b00FJg7l.dpuf

So you mean l can search Google in reverse order...wow! lalasticlala ishilove do the needful.

Bear Grylls has said it was a "privilege" to trek
through
Alaska with US president Barack Obama this week.
The
pair teamed up to film a special episode of Running
Wild
with Bear Grylls, and have both shared photos from
their
adventurous trip.
The president posted a selfie of himself and Bear
smiling
together on Tuesday evening, joking: "Glad this was
the
only Bear I met in the park."
The post was soon shared by Bear, who added: "Was
such a privilege to adventure with you!"
http://emegr.com/file/view/5940/barack-obama-and-bear-grylls-share-selfies-from-their-alaskan-adventure

http://emegr.com/file/view/5939/giant-iguana-seen.
Went for a little solo photo walk today and got this. It may not be what I classify as beautiful but this big thing is definitely amazing! Photo taken with Olympus OMD EM-1 and M.ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 40-150mm f/2.8 PRO. _____________________________________________

A rough date has been set for round five of the battle
over Samsung’s infringements of Apple patents in five
of its products. The Recorder reports that U.S.
District Judge Lucy Koh has said that the revised
damages will be determined by a jury trial in March
or April 2016.
In case you need a refresher, the story so far is this.
In round 1, the first jury trial, Apple was awarded
$1B in damages. In round 2, Judge Koh
vacated $450M of that award and ordered a retrial to
determine a revised sum. Round 3 was that jury trial,
with Apple awarded a lower sum of $290M – making a
revised total of $930M. In round 4, the US appeals
court ruled that while Samsung did indeed copy iOS
features, it should not have been penalised for
copying the general look of the iPhone, and therefore
the damages should be reduced. The new trial, to
revise those damages, will be round 5.
Unless, that is, the Supreme Court intervenes …
In a parallel track to the damages saga, Samsung has
been attempting to appeal the original verdict, back
in round 1. Its request to the U.S. Federal Circuit
Court of Appeals was rejected last month , and it was
reported that Samsung now plans to take the final
step of appealing to the Supreme Court. Should the
Supreme Court agree to hear the appeal, the
damages case would be postponed pending that
outcome.
Assuming the March/April trial does go ahead, Judge
Koh is not allowing either side to drag things out. She
has set aside seven days for the hearing, and is giving
each side just one day – six hours – to present
evidence. She is also limiting ths scope of that
evidence.
The court will not permit the parties to
expand the scope of the damages retrial
and will not allow the parties to rely on
new sales data, new products, new
methodologies or new theories.
Koh will also be ruling separately on a further 13
products said to infringe Apple’s patents.
A Taiwanese court recently ruled that Samsung used
trade secrets stolen from TSMC to help it win orders
from Apple.

http://emegr.com/blog/view/5935/rough-date-set-for-round-five-of-apple-v-samsung-patent-trial-to-maybe-finalize-damages.

It was almost another tragedy.

But with a boost from social media, an anonymous pen seller in Beirut, Lebanon became a Syrian refugee success story.

When Gissur Simonarson, an activist from Oslo, Norway, posted a photo last week of a father selling pens on the streets of Beirut as he cradled his sleeping daughter, he struck a chord with more than 6,000 followers.

"It's a terribly emotional picture," Simonarson told CNN. "You see the look in his face and just the way he holds the pens out, as if those pens are everything he has in the world."


Within hours, requests poured in from around the world to help the merchant in the photo. But Simonarson did not know who the man was or who took the photograph.

That's where social media came in, with the activists asking others to help Simonarson locate the anonymous pen seller with #BuyPens.


After a two-day search and lots of help, Simonarson located Abdul. "Finally found him," the activist wrote on Twitter. "Been a lot of work, but it was worth it! Now lets help them!"

The single father of two was overwhelmed to learn he was the subject of an international search. His 4-year-old daughter, seen sleeping in the photograph, was excited and asked to take a selfie with Carol Malouf, one of the activists who helped find the family.
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Thanks for the information!

wow! this blog is growing. 118.000 to 153,000 in a month's time. that's impressive!

as part of twitters commiment to create a vibrant social community, a new community has just be added called (emegr) twitter's users now have the option of creating blogs, create groups of their choice, send tweets directly from the application. goole groups is among the very first to be created.

HOW TO REGISTER: registered users of twitter can signin straight away while unregistered members need to register via the site or through twitter to gain access.

an international site for all students and bloggers to showcase their publications.

There are 200million people in
Africa between 15 and 24 years of
age. This represents about 20% of
the population. According to the
Population Research Bureau, Africa
has the fastest growing and most
youthful population in the world.
Over 40 percent of its population is
under 15. Africa’s high fertility rate
is responsible for this. This
demographic finding portends
challenges and opportunities. The
challenges are economic and social;
both are highly connected. As the
population expands, jobs must be
created. If these jobs are not
enough, there will be many young
people who are unemployed.
According to the International
Labor Organization, 3 out of 5
unemployed people in Africa are
young people.
The World Bank 2008 Report titled
‘Youth Employment in Africa: the
potential, the problem and the
promise’ notes that youth
employment is more prevalent in
urban areas. Worsening conditions
in the rural areas lead to rural-
urban migration. This compounds
the unemployment challenge in the
urban centres. This is clearly
evident in many big cities in Africa
including Lagos, Ibadan, Aba, Zaria,
Accra, Darkar, and Johannesburg,
just to mention a few.
Effects of Youth Unemployment
Unemployed youth are therefore
readily available for anti-social
criminal activities that undermine
the stability of society. An unstable
society increases the risk of the
market. This scares investors. Jorge
Saba Arbache of the Africa Region
of the World Bank says
‘unemployed and underemployed
youth are more exposed to
conflicts and illegal activities-many
of them fall prey to armed and
rebel conflicts’.
In Nigeria, the unemployment rate
is worrisome. It has consistently
increased in the last few years.
Former presidential aspirant and
business mogul Prof Pat Utomi
wonders why Nigeria experiences
rising rate of unemployment
despite its rating as one of the
fastest growing economies in the
world. The situation is no different
in the other 6 countries listed in
Africa listed as one of the 10 fastest
growing economies in the world.
Zambian Minister of Finance
Alexander Chikwanda once said that
the youth unemployment is ‘a
ticking time bomb for all of us’.
Response by African Leaders
In response to this challenge,
regional and continental
governments have met severally to
discuss solutions to youth
unemployment in Africa. On 18th
February 2009 in Addis Ababa,
African heads of state declared
2009-2019 as the decade of youth
development in Africa. They
resolved to advance youth
development and ensure increased
investments in youth development
programmes at national levels.
The declaration was reviewed two
years later. On 1st July 2011, the
heads of state and government met
in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea to
discuss the need to ‘accelerate
youth empowerment for
sustainable development’. They
reinforced the Addis Ababa 2009
declaration and promised ‘creation
of safe, decent and competitive
employment opportunities’. In July
2012, the African Development
Bank facilitated a policy dialogue on
youth employment for the
Southern African region, chaired by
its Vice President Prof Mthuli
Ncube.

source: http://emegr.com. While the always-eloquent Michelle Antoinette
Obama might deny it publicly, there’s clear
evidence that Barack Obama is indeed
homosexual…and is specifically what’s known in
the black street slang as “being on the Down
Low” or “being a cake boy”. The Obamas’
marriage is an elaborate sham concocted for
their mutual benefit, where Michelle serves as
Barack’s beard and in return she gets to enjoy a
life of fabulous wealth and power she could
only dream of growing up in Chicago and
depending on Jesse Jackson for jobs and other
favors.
Why don’t more people talk about this reality
openly?
Well, since at least the 1964 election the
agenda-driven media in this country has
aggressively promoted the Left’s favored
candidates while strategically targeting
conservatives for destruction. A copy of the
Alinsky Rules for Radicals sits in every
newsroom in the country, where “journalists”
employ Alinsky Methods to polarize, ostracize,
ridicule, and impugn Republicans at every
available opportunity. In the zeal to destroy
conservative politicians, the agenda-drive
media quite often rpeports rumors and
innuendo as concrete fact. Leftist websites like
Politico.com rush to be first! in reporting
Republican scandals, never much worrying
about being “right”.
But for Democrats? You don’t need to look
very hard for irrefutable evidence that the
media protects its favored Leftist politicians
and zealously maintains whatever story most
benefits Democrats. This entails forever
protecting secrets like Barack Obama’s
homosexuality (and drug use) and pretending
that the Obamas are the most perfect
heterosexual black couple since Cliff and Clair
Huxtable from the tee-vee.
A real double-standard’s in play when it comes
to accusations made about politicians: if a
Democrat’s being accused of anything, the
agenda-driven media attacks the accuser,
digging up any dirt it has on the person and
mobilizing the Alinsky Goon Squads to
annihilate this perceived opponent of the Left;
if it’s a Republican who’s been accused of
anything, the agenda-driven media heralds the
accuser as the bravest and most courageous
person on the planet for coming forward with
dirt on the conservative in the race.
If you have followed Barack Hussein Obama’s
meteoric rise to power, you’ve noticed that
anyone asking questions about his background
typically finds him or herself on the receiving
end of the Alinsky Attack Machine. Any
criticism of Obama is permanently branded
RAAACIST! Anyone who inquires about the
many mysteries surrounding his “missing
years” or his activities while in college and in
his early days in Chicago is called every name
in the book in the efforts to discredit that
questioner.
This means Obama is never asked about the
men he sleeps with…
He’s never questioned about his ongoing drug
use…
He doesn’t have to worry about being asked
whether he’s sober during national crises…
He never has to account for his whereabouts
when disasters strike and America expects its
president to be fully aware, present, and in
charge.
Why is that?
Why does the Obama Regime have to be the
most secretive of any presidency in American
history?
Could it all boil down to something as
simple as Barack Obama being gay,
continuing to use and abuse drugs, and not
being anywhere near the magical black man
that the corrupt media desperately wants
him to be?
Is THAT what all the enigma, subterfuge, and
Alinsky Goon Squad assaults are all really
about?
Is Barack Obama our first down-low, closeted
gay President and is Michelle Antoinette
Obama our first fully-complicit “beard” of a
First Lady?
As the agenda-driven media is always so quick
to say when a conservative is accused of
anything: you be the judge.

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following the recent declaration and acceptance of same sex marriage in most part of the world, there has been mixed reaction and feeling s concerning how or if such union could be sustained. if both couples decide to have a child which we all know is stupendously impossible, how could such aspirations and dreams of having their child be realize since they have opted to engaged in same sex union. it be considerately considered of them not to seek or desire anything from the opposite couples since they have openly rejected marriage between a man and woman.

Now this is my argument '' Should gay couples be allowed to adopt children or should the government introduce policies or laws to curb it?

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Laugh wan kill me poo..Nigeria always writing comments before reading the whole story. ishilove helpbme out.

Thanks! got mine s6 screen on my tv.

y r u smiling is it funny?

RobinHez:
An insect that walks on water? Nothing new...

robotic insects, not just an insect.

Can we not bring religion into legitimate discoveries.