Amazon Asks FAA For Permission To Test Its Delivery Drones

Amazon has petitioned the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for exemption from rules barring it from testing drones in the United States.

The online shopping company made waves recently by showing off small unmanned aircraft that it claims will be able to deliver parcels to consumers in 30 minutes. The drone delivery service, called Prime Air, could greatly speed up Amazon’s delivery times, creating a competitive advantage for it over other digital marketplaces and lowering the time-threshold advantage that traditional stores still enjoy over their online competition.

Amazon’s plans are not small.

“One day, seeing Amazon Prime Air will be as normal as seeing mail trucks on the road today, resulting in enormous benefits for consumers across the nation,” the company adds. It asks for the exemption so that it can be ready to launch its drones when the legal framework is in place for it to do so.

The drones, it claims, are on their eight and ninth generation, and can fly up to 50 miles per hour.

The FAA is currently testing drones at a number of locations in the United States, but has come under criticism that its work has been too slow thus far to meet set targets. If true, the FAA could in fact retard the growth of the drone industry, something that Amazon obviously thinks will be large.


Why is there foot-dragging about drones? There are rules in place that allow hobbyists to have fun, of course, but commercial use has been frowned on by the government for some time. You can understand their concerns: The FAA is tasked with keeping the skies safe. What happens when a drone accidentally flies into a commercial air pattern and takes out the cockpit window and a few hundred people. That’s a dire hypothetical, but you get the drift.

I’d love to lay wagers on what major technology company is the second into drone technology on Amazon’s scale. Microsoft probably has something in the lab. Google is more focused on cars, and Apple? Well, I don’t see that happening.

Also, when will the first drone-first e-commerce company launch to take on Amazon. And finally, how much venture capital money will be expended in whatever becomes the drone sector rat-race to become Big Drone.

Let’s hope it’s not the next clean tech.

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SO SAD: 21-Yr-Old Student Commits s*****e After Been Jilted By Lover

FRIENDS and family members of a 21-year-old student of Maritime Academy Oron, Effiong Otu are at a loss why he committed s*****e by hanging himself on a rope in his room on Thursday morning after he was jilted by his girl friend.

Ann, a family member told Vanguard that Effiong was found hanging in his room at Diamond Hill, a few minutes after he collected a rope from neighbours who became suspicious soon after he went inside his room with the rope wondering what he wanted to use it for.

According to the source, when his mother Grace Otu, a nurse at the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital left the house at about 3pm on that fateful day, the young man borrowed a rope and killed himself.

According Ann: “The 10th of July was the 10th anniversary of his father’s death in a car accident and after the anniversary and everyone had left the house including his mother, he went to a neighbour and borrowed a rope which he took to his room and hung himself.”

Ann said: “The neighbours became suspicious of what he was doing in his room with the rope and decided to rush there but found the door to the room locked and before they could force the door open he had died.



She said before he hung himself, he called one of his friends, Adu on phone requesting him to tell his girl friend, Blessing who works with the UNICEM that she should now be happy that he has killed himself for her.

“Before his friend could rush to the house, the door had already been forced open by neighbours and Effiong’s body was hanging from the ceiling of the house”.

Ann stated that Effiong was an only son of the family and was given the late father’s name as a source of succor for the family but “he has again left us by this thoughtless action”

Perhaps to give an inkling of his planned action , Effiong had posted his face book page on the 6th of July the following message “It’s not about being engaged, married or in a relationship. It’s about being happy, safe, secured, relieved and feeling good. It’s about peaceful state of mind, it’s about sleeping at night without the fear of losing what you’ve got.

It’s being yourself and not someone else, it’s about feeling loved, happy, respected, understood, cared for and appreciated.! Goodnight my beautiful people!!

Efforts to speak with Hogan Bassey, the Cross River State Police Public Relations Officer did not yield any success as his phone was switched off. Effiong’s body has been removed and de[posited at the mortuary of the General Hospital, Calabar
sources; naijaloaded.com

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Drake and Chris Brown Put Aside Their Differences, In Studio Together For A New Song

Two years ago, Drake and Chris Brown’s rivalry over Rihanna came to a head with a fight at a night club in New York. Finally theyve decided to put aside their differences, they are in the studio together. A friend of Chris who tweeted the pic said the former rivals are making a song together.

To some fans of chris brown & drake its a surprise and people might as well be wondering what rihanna’s feelings would look like. lool.

when your ex’s became friends…

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TOO BAD: LASTMA Official Allegedly Beats Motorist To Convulsion [See Photo]

A LASTMA official by the name Asorona stopped a car he claimed had violated traffic rules, removed the man from the car and allegedly assaulted him around 7.30 am this morning on Tuesday July 08 in front of BRT yard at Ketu bus stop.

He and his colleagues also seized the man’s car. And before anyone knew what was happening, the young man fell down on the road into convulsion, shaking, according to eye witnesses, like an epileptic patient.

As the LASTMA official tried to leave the scene, he was surrounded by passersby who insisted he must stay there to see what happens to the man.

See more photos below:







- Sources;naijaloaded.com

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Boko Haram Attacks Put A Stop To Aid Work In North Cameroon

                                               Cameroon's Minister of Communication,

                                                             Issa Tchiroma Bakari

Aid and infrastructure projects in Cameroon's Far North region have been suspended due to high levels of insecurity caused by the Islamist group Boko Haram, reports AlertNet, a branch of the Thompson Reuters Foundation.

While the Boko Haram is based in northern Nigeria, the group’s impact is felt in a number of countries that border the region, including Cameroon.

With much relief and development work by the government and international organizations to help protect people from climate impacts now on hold, living conditions are becoming precarious for the Far North's impoverished population ahead of the rainy season in the coming months.

On a visit to the area last month, Cameroon's minister of communication, Issa Tchiroma Bakari, said local people and the authorities are paying the cost of cross-border Boko Haram attacks and abductions, which have led to an atmosphere of fear and insecurity.

Boko Haram, which evolved from a clerical movement, is fighting for an Islamic caliphate in Nigeria. The insurgents' behavior - especially killing civilians and kidnapping girls - has provoked international condemnation.

The Cameroon government has increased its military presence in the region near the group's base in northern Nigeria, to protect people from Boko Haram's violence. Its activities in Cameroon are thought to be motivated by the prospect of financial gain from ransom demands, the minister said.

The group is thought to be behind the kidnappings of a French family, three foreign priests and a nun in the past 18 months, with Reuters having seen evidence that a ransom of over $3 million U.S. dollars was reportedly paid to Boko Haram to free the family of seven.

"The attacks and killing of innocent persons in the Far North region are a serious cause for concern. People can no longer go about their activities as before, while many development activities in the region have been temporarily halted for fear of being ambushed," Bakari said.

"This is really dangerous because we all know how vulnerable this region is, plagued with high malnutrition and poverty due to its extreme climate," he added.

Cherif Musa, a local council worker in Maroua, told Thomson Reuters Foundation people have become wary of staying out late due to the risk of attacks. Bars are shut after 9pm and gatherings after that time are banned, he added.

sources;sahara reporters

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How to Use Reddit to Drive Huge Traffic to Your Blog

Reddit is one of the best social bookmarking sites and very popular. By using it effectively you can get thousands of visitors in your blog. It also helps you increase your online earnings






Hey wait, are you leaving my post and submitting your post on Reddit now? Don’t do it. First read this article or it will be a great mistake just like I did when I started blogging.




One of my friends said me, “Use Reddit and you will get huge traffic.” I asked, “How.” He said, “Sign up there and submit your link and you will get huge traffic.” I was so happy. I did that. I started submitting my posts. But, I didn’t get much traffic. After few days, I was banned from Reddit. I was surprised. I thought that Reddit was not useful for me. But, after that, I found out the reason of my failure. In this article I will tell you about How to Use Reddit to Drive Huge Traffic to Your Blog and my mistakes.




Before describing about “How to Use Reddit to Drive Huge Traffic to Your Blog”, you have to understand about few important things about Reddit.

Up-votes, Down-votes and Karma

Look at the left side of a submitted link in Reddit. You can see up and down arrow. Up arrow is for up-vote and down arrow is for down-vote. When someone likes your link, he or she can express it by up-vote. When someone is disturbed of your link, he or she may give you down-vote. Voting system is also available for comments. Next thing is Karma. Karma is a point. You get this point when you will get an up-vote for your submitted link or comment. But, you will lose Karma if you get down-vote. If total karma goes below a level, your account can be banned. It may happen, if you submit only your blog posts.

Sub-reddits

Like other social bookmarking sites, you have to select a category to submit your link. But, benefit of Reddit is they have category for almost everything such as news, science, health, technology, iPhone, chrome etc. You may not find this feature to other sites. Reddit calls its category as subreddit.

Stealth ban

Reddit has a unique way to ban spammers, its called stealth ban. In this way reddit ban a spammer silently. It means, the user can do all works normally, but it won’t be publicly visible. For example, after submitting your link, it will be shown “submitted”, but only you can see your link in that sub-reddit, others can’t see it. So, your all activities will become valueless. You can check it now. First login to your Reddit account and copy your profile URL. Now logout and paste your profile url into the address bar. If you are not banned, you can see everything is normal. But, if you are banned, it will show “page not found” and “the page you requested does not exist”




Here are the Steps required

1. Sign up to Reddit click here
2. Share contents from other websites :- I know you are surprised. You are expecting some interesting or valuable tips in second point of my article like sharing your own contents and getting traffic. But, no, it’s the one of the most important or valuable steps. Without it your all work is going to be spoiled. It is one of the reasons for which I failed. After creating your account, for first few days forget about your own blog when you use Reddit. Submit interesting topics from other websites and try to get more and more up-votes and build Karma. Otherwise your account can get banned. You will not get up-votes or karma either. Submit your own links when your Karma is around 150. After you have started submitting your links, I suggest you not to submit links only from your own blog. Reddit rules say to submit post from other sites.
3. Read the rules of sub-reddits and avoid spamming :- Many users submit their links without knowing about the rules of sub-reddit. Reddit is highly concern about spamming. It has a spam filter which automatically filters out spam. But, don’t worry. You can prevent it. Before submitting, read the rules of sub-reddits where you want to submit your link because different sub-reddits have different rules. Also be sure that your link was submitted before by you or someone else or not. After submitting, to check whether your link is alive or not, click the “New” tab of that sub-reddit where you have submitted your link. If it is not there, it means, your link is caught by spam filters.
4. Get more up-votes and make front page of Reddit :- To get huge traffic you need more up-votes. It helps to get your link on the front page of Reddit which is the number one goal of Reddit. For that you need to get first 10 up-votes for your link as quick as possible and it will rise to the top in that sub-reddit. Reddit will favor you more if you manage 100 up-votes in 1 hour. But, if it takes 10 hours, it won’t be effective. Reddit ranks newer stories higher than older stories. So, try to submit newer stories. If your link gets the highest number of up-votes in that sub-reddit, it will rise to the front page. Another thing is the first 10 up-votes have the same power as the next 100 up-votes which have the same power as the next 1,000. But, all these equation will not work if you get significant amount down-votes which will also affect the rank of your link. For example, getting 120 up-votes and 10 down-votes is better than getting 1000 up-votes and 900 down-votes.

But, how will you get more up-votes and more traffic, here is the ways-

a. Find interesting contents and submit it

Like I said before, find and share contents from other popular sites. If you submit your own links only, people won’t like you and think you a spammer. So, there is high chance that you would get down-votes. More down-votes means your account is more in trouble. Keep in mind that Reddit is created for sharing valuable information with people and which is going to help them. What I do is if I submit 5 links, 1 is from my own site. But what types of posts should you submit? Think that you are sharing information or interesting things (photos/videos) with people. Your aim is to make them happy. Share content that is funny, humorous or interesting. The best types may be videos, drawings or interviews. You can search google for this. You can share latest science/technology news from popular sites.


b. Give an interesting title to your link

Reddit don’t allow you to put link summary like other social bookmarking sites. You can only give a title to your link. So, try to give a clear idea about your post. Also make the title attractive or surprising. For an example, you are sharing a link about facebook’s new feature hashtag. Your title should not be “Facebook’s new feature hashtag”. But, it can be “Facebook turns heat on twitter with hashtag”

c. Submit your link to a suitable sub-reddit

Before choosing a sub-reddit, you have to think about 2 matters. One is name of the sub-reddit and number of subscribers of the sub-reddit. Try to be more specific when you choose a sub-reddit. Find sub-reddit that is the best fit for your post. Suppose you want to submit a link about “Benefits of using Google chrome”. You should choose chrome subreddit for it, not technology/internet. Then see number of subscribers of that sub-reddit. Traffic depends on the number. If you can’t choose a perfect sub-reddit, it won’t be effective.

d. Time for submitting your link

If you submit your link when people are not active, you can not expect many up-votes. Study says that, the best time for submitting your link on most social networks is before 5pm EST. Same timing is helpful for Reddit.

e. Let people know you are active

Try to give valuable and attractive comments to posts which have got high number of up-votes. It will help you to drive traffic to your submitted links. It’s simple. If they love your comments, they can be curious about your posts and they can go to your links and give it an up-vote. Thus they will know about you and may follow you and give you up-vote. But, don’t do it excessively. Do it sometimes.

5. Don’t be crazy to submit all-time

It is another important thing. Other social bookmarking sites may allow you to submit a lot of links everyday. But, Reddit won’t allow you to do so. One link is enough for a day.

6. Don't be frustratedIt will take time to get good result. Your 1st 20 post may get less amount of up-votes. But, don't be frustrated for that. Try to find out why you have failed. Keep trying and you will get success.

7. Follow other Reddit users

It won’t give you up-votes or traffic, but it is very helpful. What you have to do is watch what other users are doing. Specially follow users whose links are on front page. Try to understand why they have got so many up-votes or what types of posts get more up-votes. Find out what’s the difference between your title and their titles. See how they comments on a post. This will give you more knowledge and you can understand what to do next.

Finally, I want to say that, though Reddit has strict rules, you can drive huge traffic to your blog by using it appropriately. Even it can make you happier than other social networking sites.
SOURCE: Tech Blogger

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LIST OF SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES FOR DSSC 22 SELECTION BOARD

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS

The successful candidates below are to report to the Nigerian Naval College Onne, Port Harcourt Rivers State on 24 Feb 14 for DSSC 22 Selection Board with the following:

a.    Original credentials including photo copies and writing materials.

b.    Two pairs of white (unmarked) vest and navy blue shorts.

c.    A pair of white canvas/trainers.

d.    Two white bed sheets/pillow cases.

e.    A set of cutleries.

Candidates who fail to report on the above stated date will be disqualified.

Signed

Navy Secretary

for Chief of the Naval Staff

 Serial    Application Number       Full Names          Sex

ABIA STATE

1 .           NN/DSSC22/005405       AKPAGU DOMINIC CHIJOKE       M

2 .           NN/DSSC22/000057       ARIWAODO ANTHONY IHEANACHO       M

3 .           NN/DSSC22/007585       ARUKWE IKECHUKWU MICHAEL              M

4 .           NN/DSSC22/007063       DIKE-OKONKWO CHINELO          F

5 .           NN/DSSC22/000146       EZEBUIRO ANTHONY CHIEMERIE              M

6 .           NN/DSSC22/008309       IRO CHRISTOPHER CHIEDOZIE    M

7 .           NN/DSSC22/009164       KALU CHIGBO OKORIE  M

8 .           NN/DSSC22/004039       NNEJI ELIZABETH UGOCHI           F

9 .           NN/DSSC22/003426       NWAORJI DEBORAH CHINASA   F

10 .         NN/DSSC22/014174       OKEZIE CYNTHIA CHINWE            F

11 .         NN/DSSC22/003423       OKEZIE-OKEH CHIKEZIE M

12 .         NN/DSSC22/011624       ONUMAH SAMUEL IKECHUKWU              M

13 .         NN/DSSC22/006464       ONWUKA DANIEL ECHEGHE       M

14 .         NN/DSSC22/003753       SAMUEL CHUKWUDI SOLOMON              M

15 .         NN/DSSC22/000559       ZACHEUS KELVIN STEPHEN AKOMA        M

CHECK THE REST HERE OR VIEW IT AS PDF FILE HERE 

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