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Do you think we need this toilet in Nigeria?

New innovations and inventions are springing up daily with the use of science and technology. One of such latest innovation is a toilet that uses faeces to charge mobile phones.



According to the story send to BusinessCabal.com, British researchers are developing a self-powered toilet which turns human waste into clean water and even energy to charge mobile phones.
The “nano membrane toilet”, being developed with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, aims to help bring sanitation into the homes of 2.5 billion people still without it in developing countries, without needing water supplies or sewage pipes.

The team at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, say it could also be used in developed countries, for uses ranging from the military to luxury yachts, the construction industry or even as an odour-free alternative to the toilets widely used at music festivals.

PhD student Jake Larsson, one of the team working on the project, said: “The nano membrane toilet is a project that looks to serve the needs of people in developing countries to stop a major spread of disease, which is inadequate sanitation.

“It is a household scale toilet that produces clean water and manageable, pathogen-free, disposable waste, it’s self-standing, it’s small enough to fit in someone’s home and there’s even a little bit of energy left over to charge a mobile phone.

“It is very diverse. Not only it is for developing countries, but it’s also useful for developed countries, maybe for the military, they’re always in desolate places, or for the construction industry or even for yachts.”

The toilet, activated once the lid is closed, rotates the bowl to carry the waste into a holding tank, maintaining an “odour barrier” to prevent smells, and using a sweep mechanism instead of a flush.

In the tank a “nano membrane” only allows through water molecules, separating it from solid waste and pathogens which are too large to pass through it.

The water which is collected is suitable for irrigating fields, washing or cleaning, and could even be made clean enough to drink, while the solid waste is passed into a gasifier which burns it, producing ash which can be used for agriculture.

Heat from burning the waste produces enough electricity to power the unit, and could even produce a little extra for mobile phone charging.

The Cranfield University team aims to start field testing the toilet in 2016.

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Bluestarry:
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The Stock of South Korean biggest condom maker, Unidus Corp. rose up to 15%, after the highest court announced its decision on Thursday to scrap the controversial anti-adultery law.

The court said the law infringed people’s freedom to make their own decisions on sex, and violated the country’s privacy laws.
Adulterers convicted under the law faced up to two years in jail. According to reports in Korean media, more than 50,000 South Koreans have been convicted for cheating on their spouses, and 35,000 were sentenced to jail time.
The anti-adultery law was first passed in 1953 to protect women in the male-dominated society.
It has been challenged three times since 1990, but the Constitutional Court has always upheld it. In 2008, the court struck down a complaint against the law, ruling the prohibition protected social harmony.

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Activityj:
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eyeview:
Greed. She just wants to sell the house,pocket the cash and still live in it with the buyer. And hopefully get it back when he mysteriously dies.

Telecommuting is surging with a rapid rate around the world, thanks to the increased digitization in the domain, high-speed internet, communication tools and infrastructure. Working from home is a dream come true for many of us, who hate 9 to 5 gig, commuting and office politics. Telecommuting is not a third grade job slot anymore. Here are some top companies which let you work from home with the same benefits and salaries as compared to the in-house jobs.




Amazon

Amazon is by far the largest online retailer in the world that offers electronics, books, music, movies, furniture and much more. The company employs more than 90.000 workers worldwide. It hires multiple candidates via single job listing, which are referred to as pipeline listings. You can apply for current job data like Visual Designer, Leadership Development Coordinator etc. Some telecommuting jobs might also open in the future.

IBM

It is an award winning, technology and global consulting company established in 2011. The company is associated with the professional and personal growth of its employees. The company offers plenty of career development opportunities, competitive pay structures, and customizable benefits package. Current job openings are SAP retail senior managing consultant, package solution consultant, product marketing manager, and much more.

SAP

Based in Pennsylvania UA, it is a German company that specializes in enterprise software and related services. Remote jobs are keys to the global reach of the company. It offers jobs in Europe, United States, India, China, Africa, and Australia. The company offers telecommuting jobs in the niches of support advising, software development, and audience relations.

Dell

It is a renowned computer development company that offers part-time commuting and flexible job opportunities from home. Some examples of current job openings are Sales Engineering Manager, Diversity and Inclusion Region Lead/Program Manager, Instructional Designer/Technical Content Specialist etc.

Xerox

The company was found in 1906 and has come a long way now. It specializes in digital printing, workflow solutions and related products. The company contains 160 locations around the globe. The remote job listings include positions like Project Management, research, sales, and customer service.

Kaplan

The company has grown up to provide education at all levels. It offers a great range of telecommuting jobs such as test prep instructor, developer, technical writer, and campus representative.

Nielsen

You would be quite familiar with the Nielsen ratings system if you watch TV closely. It is basically a global measurement and information company that provides its services in the niches of forecasting, and trends in plenty of industries. Some renowned jobs offered by Nielson is field service representative, which is responsible for interacting with families involved in the Nielson TV ratings program.

Healthfirst

The company is based in New York and partners with local health providers for offering affordable and quality health assurance coverage. The telecommuting and remote job listings include medical files coordination, care management, quality and service analysis, and plenty of nursing positions.

You should definitely try some of the above-mentioned companies if you are a young professional pursuing yet stress free job.

News has gone viral online about a smart Indonesian business woman and widower who wants to sell her house with an unusual incentive to the buyer- her hand in marriage. According to story and picture made available to BusinessCabal.com, the house goes for around $75,000. The 40-year-old widower is seen in the picture in front if the house. Read details of the story below.



The Internet ad reads for the most part like a regular house listing, saying that the single-storey property has two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a parking space and a fish pond.
But it also proposes to buyers a “rare offer” — “when you buy this house, you can ask the owner to marry you”, alongside a picture of Wina Lia, a 40-year-old widow and beauty salon owner, leaning against a car in front of the house.

The ad said that terms and conditions apply, and notes the offer is “for serious buyers and non-negotiable”. The house in Sleman, on the island of Java, is on the market for 999 million rupiah (about $75,000).

News of the offer quickly spread among Internet users in social media-crazy Indonesia.

A user on popular online forum said Wina Lia is “quite smart — even though the house will be sold, she will remain the owner.”

But the mother of two explained that she had asked a friend who was a property agent to help her find a buyer — and in the process a husband — but she had expected him to pass on the news to a limited number of people, not put an ad online.

“I told a friend of mine who also works as property agent that if there is a buyer who is a single man or a widower who wants to buy a house, and at the same time look for a wife, he can let me know as I’m also a widow,” she said.

Already, a potential buyer had visited on Wednesday, but she refused to give further details about him.

Lots of get rich quick scheme are all over the place, especially the internet. You know the popular sayings “if it’s too good to be true, it’s probably is”. Well, according to a research by BusinessCabal.com , a 28-year-old went ahead to believe one of those get rich quick scheme and became a millionaire instantly.

Sometimes in January, Martin read about a new startup retail/tech company called Jet.com, which had been holding a contest to get people to sign their friends up for a preview version of its service. The startup promised to give 100,000 shares of the company to the person with the highest number of referrals.
Martin spent $18,000 advertising on sites like Swagbucks and Gifthulk, which reward people for signing up for stuff online. Martin works in IT, but it was actually some family members who had suggested those sites to him — early attempts to advertise with Facebook and Google didn’t get him very far.

Within three weeks, Martin referred more than 8,000 people for Jet.com’s “Insider” program. The startup announced Thursday that Martin was the top-enroller, and it handed over the 100,000 shares.

Funny thing about those 100,000 shares: Though Jet.com isn’t even open to the public yet, the company has already secured $220 million in funding, and it’s on the verge of nearly tripling that investment. Though Jet.com is secretive about its finances, 100,000 shares is easily worth millions of dollars (Fusion.com puts the number as high as $20 million).
Martin says he has no idea how much those shares are worth — but he’ll be happy if he makes back his investment. He noted that the shares are locked up until the company is sold or makes an initial public offering, so he can’t cash out just yet.
“I’m not planning on making any lifestyle changes,” Martin said. “I bought some snow crab legs to celebrate, but that’s about it.”

Jet.com was founded by Diapers.com entrepreneur Marc Lore, who sold his company to Amazon in 2010 for $540 million. The company plans to take on Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) by signing up members for $50 a year. In turn, it will offer super-steep discounts on everything (10% to 15% lower than anywhere else online, Jet.com claims). Think of it like an online version of Costco (COST).

Martin couldn’t give his impressions of the site, though. He said Jet.com gave insiders a sneak peak, but he hasn’t used it himself — he was too focused on signing other people up for the site.
“I’m excited about it, though!” Martin said.

Linda Ikeji, one of Nigeria’s most successful blogger has lost her .com blog due to copyright infringement, violation of cyber law and plagiarism. The 34-year-old ex-model turned blogger, who started ‘gossiping’ about celebrities, entertain and aggregates news from different sources, 8 years ago, has made several millions from her blog. She recently rewarded herself with a N24 million range rover jeep as her birthday gift, amidst critics and well-wishers.

Her blog, which is estimated to be worth $1.2 million, was hosted on Google hosted free platform () and was taken down on Wednesday after several complain and petition were made to Google by different people, especially one ‘@MrAyeDee’ who goes by that name on twitter. In a recent update made by Linda, she shed more light into this

“So something has been going on for the past couple of days that I haven’t reacted to because I wanted to see it play out and see how far these people will go. They have gone far and it’s now time to react.

The only reason this is happening to me is because I’m number one…so I am flattered. I am currently No.10 on Alexa.com, more read than all the other news sites in Nigeria, so I understand why I am the target. If I were them, I’d hate me too…lol.

So here’s what’s going on. Sometime last year, some guys decided it was time to run me out of business (duh, like you can…lol). So they began to spam by blog. And when your blog gets a lot of spam, Google (which hosts my site) can take your blog down. But instead of taking my blog down, Google took my Adsense down for a few months and eventually re-instated it. So they didn’t succeed. These same people started sending strange emails to me…looking for different ways to have access to my blog. But I wouldn’t let them. If they could, they would have hacked it, but they couldn’t so they continued to look for different ways to attack my blog. Please continue…

In April 2014, these guys decided to close down the blog again. In the emails they exchanged back and forth, they said ‘plagiarism is a good excuse to finish her’. (they forget that if they succeed in closing down LIB because I’m on blogger…I could easily start a website). Now let me tell you who these guys are. They are IT people, security experts who know how the internet works. They are hackers and cyber-squatters…and only go after the biggest internet setups.

BrowseDotCom, a web marketing company has announced the date for the second edition of their annual conference, BrowseDotCom Conference 2014.

The theme for this years’ conference is “Creating, Driving and Sustaining Business with Technology”. Over 13 speakers and tech companies will be participating at the conference, which is focused on bringing technology to the grassroots level. The event which will take place on October 18th, 2014 at Ajegunle-Apapa, Lagos, will feature local and international speakers. Some of the speakers whom will be speaking at the conference include; Gbenga Sesan (Paradigm Initiative Nigeria), Alastair Curtis (Uber), Bayero Agabi (AIT Infotech Network), Riccardo Pasqualotto (2go), Tomi Davies (Lagos Angel Network), Shina Oyetosho (Microsoft), Emeka Afigbo (Google), Oyedokun Oyewole (Institute of Information Management), Ope Banwo (America Internet Business School) , Marek Zmyslowski (Jovago) Celebrity Singer, Benita Okojie and others.

Addressing the press, BrowseDotCom Conference Convener, Olatunde Farinde, noted “We are very pleased to be holding the second edition of our conference and are equally optimistic that it is going to be a great event. The purpose of this event is to create a more positive awareness of, promote and strengthen the technological, business and internet ecosystem in Nigeria; one community at a time. We aim to achieve this of course with support from important stakeholders and corporate bodies.”

The BROWSEDOTCOM CONFERENCE, which made it debut in 2012 in partnership with Google, is a day event designed to give the top companies in the tech sectors an opportunity to come together and discuss a wide variety of emerging transformation trends and strategies for business and tech development. The conference will feature presentations from well-known experts from tech companies, local and international speakers as well as leaders within the governmental space.

Speaking further about the conference, Olatunde Noted “Our goal at BROWSEDOTCOM is not only to become hosts of the most significant business and technological events in the history of Africa but also to impact lives in the process and I am delighted to announce that based on the feedback we have received till date following our first annual conference, we are well on our way to achieving this goal. Having met the expectations of over 1000 attendees from our previous conference who were technology enthusiast, computer science students and business owners, we are very optimistic that the result of our 2014 conference will by far supersede that of 2012”

The BROWSEDOTCOM CONFERENCE 2014 team also plans to set up a Non Governmental Organisation that will serve as an ICT training hub in the Ajegunle community. Our organisation will act as a link between corporate bodies and the community in the future, and will as such rely on all volunteer workforces to pull these types of activities together.
Prior to the Conference day, BrowseDotCom will train at least 40 youths and expose them to various technologies in a 3-week boot camp. The 3-week ICT boot camp will be the flagship of their agenda for the ICT training hub and the aim is to train at least 100 youths, every quarter. The participants from this boot camp will be recognised on the conference day where they will also receive a certificate for successfully completing their training course.

“We have the pleasure of inviting everyone with an interest in all areas of technology as this conference will give them unlimited access to inside information and key individuals in this sector. Due to limited seats, we would recommend all participants to pre-register at http://browsedotcom.com/conference in order to secure a seat as well as arrange transportation courtesy of UBER our official conference taxi partners whom are providing all participants with a free luxurious taxi ride between N3,500 and N10,000 to and from the event. Whilst registration is free, there is however a special package for participants who would like to seated in our VIP section.”

joyceok: Why must your interest be a white collar job or why must you have passion for white collar or office jobs alone

Just a few weeks after the deadly Ebola epidemic hit Lagos, top online shopping company: Kaymu reports rise in purchase of sanitary supplies by Lagosians.

Following the demise of Patrick Sawyer, the Liberian born American who arrived at the Murtala Mohammed Airport Lagos on July 20 and died five days later, the awareness about the fatal virus has spread like wild fire.

This can be accredited to the prompt actions taken by the Lagos state government to inform Lagosians about the severity of the virus and the continuous coverage of the situation by local and foreign media.

According to a statement released by Kaymu, online search for hand sanitizer on the platform has increased by 130% in the past week and sales of hand washes and lotions have increased significantly.

Managing Director of Kaymu Nigeria, Evangeline Wiles, stated, “It is very encouraging to see that Lagosians are taking the news of this outbreak seriously. Lagosians and Nigerians in general are advised to take to the precautionary measures communicated by health officials, such as frequently washing hands, to ensure the virus is contained and possibly eradicated.”

The Ebola virus is primarily transmitted through contact with body fluids of infected persons, with the skin and mucous membranes being the main routes of entry. As a result the public is cautioned to sanitize their hands and immediate surroundings as often as possible.

Meanwhile supermarkets in the Lekki area of Lagos State have recorded massive sale of hand sanitizers so much so that the demand far outweighs the supply.

According to the Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, one of the doctors that treated Sawyer, the casualty of the first recorded case of Ebola in the country, had contracted the virus, and about eight other persons who came into contact with Sawyer, and had developed the Ebola symptoms, had been quarantined while 70 others were under surveillance.

KiddaBlingzz: Can i also carry my chewing stick and guguru?

86 per cent of parents struggle to keep their kids occupied on plane journeys. British Airways Holidays conducts social experiment, led by Professor Robert Winston, to find the top toys to take a plane.

Parents and experts say ditch the iPad and give youngsters Play-Doh and Loom Bands instead.
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School’s out for most of the country this week and ahead of the great family getaway British Airways Holidays surveyed parents to understand their travel worries and discover the top toys to take on a plane.


British Airways found the biggest concern parents had when flying with their youngsters was keeping them entertained, with 60 per cent of parents revealing they were unable to keep their child occupied for longer than 30 minutes.

The airline conducted a social experiment, placing 30 youngsters on a flight for two hours with a selection of toys. The children, aged two to 10, were given 90 minutes playtime and observed by scientist and TV personality Robert Winston and a team of educational psychologists. Watch the video of the experiment here http://business-matter.com/2014/07/british-airways-top-ten-toys-take-plane/

The surprising findings revealed that it was actually the cheapest toys that kept the children occupied for the longest. Play-Doh and toy-of-the-moment Loom Bands topped the list with 80 per cent of children and 70 per cent of parents saying they

would take these on a flight in the future. Both toys, costing just 74 pence and £1.99 respectively*, kept more than half of the children occupied for longer than 40 minutes.

The most popular toy among two to five year olds was Play-Doh, while Loom Bands were a firm favourite with the five to 10 year olds. Timeless classics such as Lego and Top Trump cards also scored highly with this age group; keeping them entertained for an average of 37 and 33 minutes respectively.

Professor Winston, said: “Although the temptation is for parents to play a film in the hope that their child falls asleep, activity based toys, such as Lego, sticker books and travel games are also a great way to keep them engaged. Bringing out a different toy at regular intervals is guaranteed to keep them quiet for longer than 90 minutes.”

In the poll of 2,000 people a quarter of those surveyed said they worried about their children disturbing other passengers, while more than half were nervous about disrupting their youngster’s sleeping pattern.

Dr Vivian Hill, educational psychologist from the Institute of Education, said: “Toys that spark the imagination and encourage creativity, rather than static toys like soft toys and dolls, are proven to keep children occupied for sustained periods.”



British Airways top ten toys to take on a plane:

Loom Bands
Play-Doh
Lego
Top Trumps
Uno
Usborne Activity Cards
Magnetic travel game
Aquadoodle!
Finger puppets
Sticker book
Dr Vivian Hill shares her top tips for a stress free flight with children:

Have drinks to hand they can sip on for take off and landing so they don’t concentrate on the air pressure; which can affect children more than adults.
Buy new toys and games for the flight as newer toys entertain them for longer.
Bring out different toys at regular intervals. Wrapping them and giving them as presents works really well.
Concentrate on packing activities as opposed to static objects such as dolls and cuddly toys.
Think of games with extended play. Finger puppets and activity cards are both toys that can be drawn out to last a lot longer.
Think about games that you don’t need to carry. Verbal games like I Spy and Twenty Questions are good ways to pass the flight time.
If it’s an evening or night flight take pyjamas. Getting children ready for bed will help avoid disrupting their sleep pattern.