#‎MOTIVATED!Do you know the universe is waiting for you? (Five (5) p’s in receiving from the universe)‪

From the creation processes the universe was created to respond to its inhabitant, be it man, animals and even plants. The two ways responses are born out of our definite desires.
This desire is framed in the form of dreams, wishes or wants and its realization is the result of exchanging our desire with the demand of universe.

This definite desire is classified as a raw material to be processed by the universe and give back to the inhabitant as a product and byproduct. The product is the actual thing we desire to actualize of our pursuit while the byproduct is those things that accompany our desires. Eg: Fame and endorsement.
The universe response to creatures in the sense that whatsoever thing living being desire and earnestly pursue, that is exactly what the universe will give back to us and even more. Be it money (riches), power (authority) or respect (fame) and love, happiness or peace as long as it is definite, intense and are seriously pursued the universe will make it available to you.

The universe operates like a computer system, garbage in garbage out. Whatsoever a man wishes to get out of his life that is exactly what the universe will give back to you. Ideally, “The outcome of our pursuit depends on the degree of our desires and our seriousness in actuality.

Five (5) P’s in receiving from universe.

1. Project: Project here is regarded as what one desires to achieve in any areas of his live. For the universe to respond to you, you must have a project for which you want to see come to pass.

2. Plan: This is an outline and detailed method or procedure on how you choose to achieve these desires. Planning is of essence in any areas of our involvements. If you must excel effortlessly planning is inevitable. So learn to plan today!

3. Principles: The fundamental truth or law as the basis of reasoning and living or action. It could be a personal code of conduct coming from a person of higher power/authority. It is the law of nature forming the basis for the operation or working and of on the basis of a moral attitude. As a matter of fact principles are what guides life. Principle of sow and reap, principle of work and wage, principle of meting and procreation. Virtually everything on earth exists as a result of principles. So discover the principle(s) of your project today.

4. Performance: An act (action), process (series of stage), or manner of performing or functioning applied in execution of a project (desires, plans, duty etc.). It could also be regarded as the amount of time spent in perfecting and actualizing the set goal. The time spent per project could be determined from the level and degree of the project. It could be in weeks, months or even years. The continuous performance is one of the greatest tips in receiving from the universe. Perseverance and persistence as we all know are the key words and when add with a degree of review and correction along the way makes a great impart.

5. Pray(er): To pray is an act of request or thanksgiving in respect to your desire. It is a physical exercise performs by an individual or group of individuals. These individual or group is whom I regarded as the prayer(s). Now, the prayer and to pray is a channel of communication between man and divinity. It is believed that all things in existence have a source of supply. Be it knowledge or materials hence nothing that exist ought not to exist. Pray(er) has been stated to be the only proven and guaranteed avenue in gaining access from divinity, access to whatever the desires or projects we are planning or involved. So reconsider pray(er).

In summary, receiving from the universe is real and it depends on your successful completion of the five p’s.

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TECHNOLOGY: Samsung Lunches Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, Cool Like that!

The Galaxy S6, top left, and Galaxy S6 Edge, top right, on display in New York last month.

 

 

 

As Samsung begins taking orders on Thursday for its new high-end phones, it’s only a slight exaggeration to say that this could be the South Korean electronics giant’s last best shot in the smartphone business.

The phones, the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the S6 Edge, will start shipping in the United States on April 10 and represent Samsung’s latest effort to claw back lost ground in the industry in which it was once a high flying leader.

Until last year, according to the research firm IDC, Samsung led all other smartphone makers in market share. But then it put out the Galaxy S5, which was criticized by reviewers and users for its cheap, plasticky hardware and overly complex software. Samsung also faced stiffer competition from Apple, which released a set of popular large-screen phones last fall, and a slew of new Chinese phone makers, including the fast-growing Xiaomi. As a result, Samsung’s market share and profit began to crater last year. With the S6 and the S6 Edge, Samsung is hoping to reverse that slide.

I got my hands on Samsung’s new phones only Wednesday, so I haven’t had nearly enough time with them to render any definitive assessment. But my first impression was positive. Everything about the phones seems designed to convey a simple message: Samsung has changed.

That message is obvious in the physical design. Rather than the chintzy, faux-leather and faux-metal of Samsung’s recent phones, the S6s are made of glass and aluminum, like the iPhone from Apple and most high-end Android phones. Although there’s something generic about the S6 — it looks like the iPhone 6, but slightly less polished — the glass on the front of the Galaxy S6 Edge features a distinctive, gentle curve alongside the left and right side of the screen. Those sloping edges are supposed to make the phone easier to hold, and they offer a few possibly useful features. For instance, at night, the phone displays the time on the edge of the screen, making it look a bit like an alarm clock.

If that sounds gimmicky, it could be because it is. Samsung has never been above stuffing its phones with unnecessary options. But it’s worth noting that Samsung says it has reduced a large number of features and user menus throughout the phone’s software. I noticed this, too, in my short time with the Samsung phones: Over all, the software feels cleaner and easier to use.

Is that enough to revive Samsung’s phone business? I plan to use the new phones more deeply over the next week, so I’ll let you know soon.

Cool like that!

TECHNOLOGY NEWS: A shuttle bringing employees to Yahoo's campus.

A shuttle bringing employees to Yahoo's campus.Credit Jim Wilson/The New York Times

Bus drivers who shuttle workers from their homes to six large employers in Silicon Valley voted Friday to join the Teamsters union to negotiate better wages and working conditions.

The 158 full-time and part-time drivers involved actually work for Compass Transportation, but they transport workers to and from the offices of Apple, Yahoo, eBay, Zynga, Genentech and Amtrak. In November, the drivers of Facebook’s shuttles, who work for Loop Transportation, also voted to join the Teamsters.

The tech buses have become a symbol of the San Francisco Bay Area’s changing economy. More tech workers are choosing to live in urban areas like San Francisco and commute to suburban corporate campuses 30 or even 60 miles away. That has created competition for scarce housing, driving up rents and home prices.

The working conditions of the drivers — who make it possible for big tech companies to recruit employees who live far away — have become one flash point in the region’s debate over the gap between highly paid technology workers and the lower-paid workers who provide crucial support services. Particularly vexing to the drivers are split shifts, in which they must navigate the hulking buses through thick Silicon Valley traffic during the morning and evening commutes, without enough time to go home or rest properly between the work stints.

“This is another step, in addition to the Facebook drivers, for the workers who support the tech industry to move forward toward decent wages, affordable health care and a pension for the future,” said Rome Aloise, secretary-treasurer of Teamsters Local 853, in a statement.

The vote to unionize was 104 to 38.

The Facebook drivers recently ratified a new contract with Loop, which awaits the approval of Facebook before going into effect. According to the union, the contract would raise the average pay of drivers to $24.50 an hour from $18 now  and provide new benefits like paid vacation and health insurance.

SOURCE: NEWYORKTIMES.

9VOC FAN TEST: ARTIST -ICE PRICE

How well do you know your favorite music artists? Are you familiar with the lyrics of their songs? Can you proudly say, YES! I am a true fan? Well, if you truly think you know, this is your test.

                 

QUESTION: Fill in the correct lyrical contents in the spaces below. (Send your correct answers and your phone number in the comment space below and get a reward of airtime of your network). Free! The first best response, wins.

1. Ah two thousand and four Bolaji was the main ………………
2. My nigga no dey ever comot with the same ………………
3. Fly nigga,................. wey dey make friends
4. If Bolaji no dey the club, the party no dey make ……………

 

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NEWS: iPhone stolen in NYC now in China, iCloud photos reveal.

Like so many other iPhones, a Manhattan man's phone ended up overseas after it was taken.

As CBS New York's Tracee Carrasco explained, you won't believe how he discovered where it ended up.

Matt Stopera was scrolling through the photo stream on his iPhone last month when he saw hundreds of pictures that he didn't take.

"I was going through my photos and I was like, 'Oh my God, who is this person?'" Stopera said.

There were dozens of selfies in front of orange trees, storefronts, menus, fireworks, buildings, and other odd pictures.

"It was somewhere I knew in Asia, but I was like, 'What's going on?'" he said.

Stopera quickly realized the pictures were taken in China, on his iPhone that was stolen in January 2014. His stolen iPhone somehow made its way from the East Village across the world, and now he was getting a glimpse of the new owner.

"I signed into my iCloud -- who knows how the iCloud works anyway? No one knows. Sure enough, there was my phone online. My old phone from a year ago," he said

 

Experts say it's not uncommon for stolen or lost iPhones to make their way from the United States to countries overseas where demand for them is high.

"It goes into a network of black marketers who can organize to get these phones to places like China," iPhone expert Ivan Drucker said.

Drucker explained that if you don't notify your service provider and Apple right away, stolen and lost phones can easily be used.

"You have a phone signed into this iPhone account. It gets to China. It's still signed into his stuff, whoever winds up with it doesn't even know that it's signed into his iCloud account. They take pictures, they get uploaded to iCloud," Drucker said.

Many smartphones now have kill switches which allow owners to lock and make the phones useless if ever lost or stolen.

"It makes it possible for these phones to become valueless," Drucker said.

Stopera said it was entertaining to see the bizarre photos and that he learned a lesson about security.

Source: Cbsnews.

TECNOLOGHY: Tech Investors Create a Billion-Dollar-Baby Boom (Snapchat, the messaging app popular with teenagers, is in the market for more money.)

Snapchat, the messaging app popular with teenagers, is in the market for more money.

 What a difference a year makes.

Less than 12 months after investors valued Snapchat, the red-hot messaging app, at about $10 billion, the start-up is again in the market for money — and poised to nearly double that valuation.

A range of other popular start-ups are also poised to propel their net worths to similar multibillion-dollar heights, including the virtual scrapbooking service Pinterest and the ride-hailing app Lyft. Uber, Lyft’s top competitor, has raised more than $3 billion in the last year and now has an eye-popping valuation of $40 billion.

Giant sums of money and sky-high valuations are nothing new in the technology industry. But the latest burst of activity has put on clear display the frenzied pace of investors, who are eager to catch the next blockbuster company like Facebook. The action is also again spurring talk that overeager investors are poised to relive the dot-com boom and bust at the turn of the century, when overinflated start-ups led to a quick and painful downturn.

For investors, the hunt is for the next so-called unicorn, a nascent business worth $1 billion or more — on paper, at least.

Just last year, 38 privately held companies backed by venture capital joined the billion-dollar club, putting the membership of that group at 54, according to the data firm CB Insights. Digi-Capital, a mobile Internet advisory firm, estimates that the total value of mobile Internet start-ups worth $1 billion or more increased $28 billion in just the last quarter of 2014.

“The grand experiment that we are running right now is, Can you cram hundreds of millions of dollars into 80 or 90 different private companies and have it end up well?” said Bill Gurley, a partner at the venture capital firm Benchmark who is also an investor in and one of the most vocal proponents of Uber.

He added: “For some, I think it will end badly.”

Billion-dollar companies were once considered rare. But they are quickly becoming more commonplace. Case in point: Slack, the workplace collaboration start-up, hit the billion-dollar valuation mark just eight months after introducing its service. And at $46 billion, Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone giant that started just five years ago, is the most richly valued private tech company in the world.

Even in recent years, some of the highfliers have landed hard. Fab, an online retailer once valued at close to $1 billion, is now reportedly close to being sold for less than $20 million.

Yet the stories of failure have not dented investor appetite for the brightest stars in the start-up firmament. Pinterest, the social bookmarking site, is in talks to raise $500 million at a valuation of more than $10 billion, according to a person with knowledge of the discussions.

Snapchat, too, is considering raising $500 million at a valuation of up to $19 billion, according to a person briefed on those talks. Though the company, best known for teenagers flocking to its disappearing messages, has been collecting revenue from advertising for less than a month, the promise of its business has excited many in the tech and media industries.

“I know it’s an ephemeral platform, but my 14-year-old spends half her life there,” Jeremy Zimmer, the head of the United Talent Agency, said at an industry conference, Code Media, this week.

The size of investments has clearly picked up. About $48.3 billion was invested in 2014, up 61 percent from the same time the previous year, according to a report by the National Venture Capital Association and PricewaterhouseCoopers. But that money went into 4,356 deals, up only 4 percent, suggesting that more of that capital is going into fewer — and bigger — rounds.

Investors have been eager to raise even more money to pour into start-ups. Dedicated venture capital firms raised nearly $30 billion last year, a level untouched since 2007, according to Thomson Reuters.

Much of the money that has helped inflate the latest rounds of financing has come from mutual fund giants like BlackRock, Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, known for years for buying shares in start-ups once they go public. But lately the mutual fund companies have been big investors in start-ups like Uber, looking to tap into phenomenal growth.

Executives at these mutual funds say that they had long sought to move into the world of venture capital. But they really gained access in recent years as the size of the investments in start-ups grew into the tens of millions of dollars or more — enough to meaningfully affect their investment returns.

Part of what drives the bigger investments, investors say, is the advent of today’s technology — high-speed Internet connections, the ubiquity of smartphones, modern social networks — that has made it possible for start-ups to become nearly overnight sensations, moving much faster than they would have 15 years ago.

Now, with millions of people using their products and a fertile investment environment, these start-ups are willing to stay private for much longer than they may have years ago.

“It used to be if you wanted to raise the ultimate round of capital, it was only available on the public markets,” said Mark Suster, a partner at Upfront Ventures. “But because these companies are becoming so big, they don’t need to go public quickly, and they’re raising capital in the private markets that they would have in the public markets.”

Many of these investors, according to those on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, are willing to invest at huge valuations because they plan to sell their shares soon after start-ups go public.

But not all participants in the latest mega-rounds want to cash out quickly. Some, like Henry Ellenbogen, are into these companies for the long haul.

Mr. Ellenbogen, the head of the New Horizons fund at T. Rowe Price and an investor in Twitter before it went public, put it best in his letter to investors late last year: “We prefer private companies that we would want to own more of on the I.P.O., not less.”

Harris Wittels, Television Comedy Writer, is Dead at 30.

Harris Wittels, a producer and writer for the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation” who also performed as a stand-up comic and musician, died on Thursday. He was 30.

A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department said Mr. Wittels’s body had been found at his home about noon by his assistant, who called the police and reported a possible overdose. He was pronounced dead at the scene, the police said, but a cause of death will not be known until after an autopsy is performed by the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.

The final episode of “Parks and Recreation,” on which Mr. Wittels served as a co-executive producer, as well as a writer and occasional actor, is to be broadcast next week. This is the show’s seventh season.

Mr. Wittels’s death was first reported by TMZ, which said he had performed at a comedy club in Los Angeles on Wednesday night.

A graduate of Emerson College, Mr. Wittels joined “Parks and Recreation” before its second season. He appeared on the show from time to time as Harris, an animal control officer.

He was also known for popularizing the term “humblebrag,” and in 2012 published a book, “Humblebrag: The Art of False Modesty,” built around the idea of the supposedly modest boast.

In the past, he had performed stand-up comedy on tours with the comedians Sarah Silverman, Louis C.K. and Aziz Ansari, and had also appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

Mr. Wittels had been a writer on “The Sarah Silverman Program,” which aired on Comedy Central from 2007 to 2010. On Thursday, Ms. Silverman and other comics paid tribute to Mr. Wittels on Twitter.

“You should know that Harris was brilliant beyond compare,” she wrote. “That his imagination was without limit. That he loved comedy more than anything.”

Source: The Newyorktimes.