The Canker-worm in our society called Eating disorders

Eating disorders can be seen as mental illnesses, that tends to affect your eating system, it is not just dieting gone too far as it can lead to serious diseases or sometimes death.

Study shows that about one in 20 Australians suffer from eating disorders, its sometimes caused by a low self-esteem or a simple I don’t care attitude to things, they are categorized into four namely: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder and other specified feeding and  eating disorder (OSEFD) , but the most common of them are the anorexia nervosa and the bulimia nervosa,  and maybe the binge eating disorder (not really popular ) now for the anorexia and bulimia, anorexia is an eating disorder usually caused by the desperate need for weight loss, people with this kind of eating disorder eat very little or nothing at all, and guess what? They actually also exercise a whole lot, they just want to be slim or lean or thin , whatever u you may want to call losing a lot of weight, that’s all they want to be, they tend to avoid food , they tend to focus more on fluids, it is characterized by an intense fear of being obese, its symptoms include:

• losing of at least 15% of body weight (resulting from eating too little despite being really hungry)
• fear of being overweight
• exercising obsessively
• absence of menstrual periods (severe cases)

You know that time when you were just recovering from a sickness and you slimmed down then someone sees you and goes,

hey you look slim, it’s a good look on you

and now are like,

really!

You then start being obsessed with wanting to keep that body weight, that’s how anorexia begins at the early stage you start eating less, taking fluids exercising, then gradually you want faster results, then you want you to notice how slim you are becoming, you stop eating you start fainting.

This eating disorder usually leads to the next one popular among Nigerian ladies, bulimia – this one is characterized by purging and vomiting. Personally I cannot see how somebody will finish eating then take one native drug that will then take you to the toilet to go purge out everything you have eaten, seriously!?!

You know how most ladies like to binge, eat cake, eat chocolates, drink mineral, and eat Shawarma and possibly every junk they can find at Shoprite? Now after eating all these binge they will then sit down, go to an online store then order a slim tea, wanting to get rid of all the extra calories they accumulated while eating the junk and I’m like

“auntie how far now? Who send you?”

These people are even harder to notice because they are close to their body weight, they take laxatives, slim teas, native medicines, and a whole lotta concoction just to reduce weight…

“no now, it’s not good for your heath my dear, you are ruining a whole lot of delicate organs in your stomach”

Bulimia and anorexia when severe can cause you the following;

• harm to your kidneys
• urinary tract infections
• dehydration
• loss of mensuration or irregular menstrual periods
• severe sensitivity to cold (anorexia)
• intestinal and stomach problems(bulimia)

Now you see what happens when you tend to be obsessed with your body weight and wanting to be as slim as Agbani Darego.

We also have the funny one binge eating disorder:  this one is not really popular but it is the exact opposite of the two above, they tend to eat too much, they are the type the Igbo race call “usa”

Kai! They can eat chocolate, fries, food? EVERTHING EDIBLE is good for them, this eating disorder is very dangerous as it can lead to obesity, fatigue, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.

Funny thing about these eating disorders is that one can actually lead to the other, someone with binge disorder with serious low self-esteem might just become bulimic overnight or anorexic then bulimic.

Either way each of these can kill so be careful, eat healthy, take a lot of water, take enough fruits and exercise regularly but not too much.

Slim might be the new ‘BAE’ but obsessing over it is not cute as your life is at stake.

#ducheenazopinion

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RESPECT HIS PERSONAL SPACE or lose him to it.

Hello girls, I want to talk about an issue which has plagued relationships for a long period of time now; it’s called my personal space.

Most people (especially us girls) have refused to understand the value of one’s personal space, a personal space is a ‘me’ time for any human, and trust me it is relished with uttermost pleasure. For an average everyday guy it’s usually that time when they are playing a football match, or when he wants to play his PS3  FIFA or Mortal Kombat or Need For Speed, or whichever game is necessary to him.

Then for the really over-serious, weird or whatever-you-may-want-to-call-them guys, it’s usually that time when they think, read a book, write an article or assignment, listen to music while their eyes are closed, watching a weird detective movie, or meditating and creating new make-the-world-a-better-place-ideas in their head, (now you don’t want to disturb that).

Onto the main topic; Ladies when your man is watching a match and you can’t watch the match with him, babe it’s just 90mins, how about you actually pick up your phone and check you recent Instagram followers rather than disturb the hell outta him, you go all,

Bae, what are you watching? Like you are blind and cannot see it, baby who’s the guy in blue? Why is he running around the field waving a red card?

I refuse to believe that you do not know that that was actually the referee, but you just had to ask didn’t you? Huh? Honey the least you can do for him is to get him a damn snack and a drink and skedaddle the hell outta there… you are just going to get him irritated with your pest-like attitude.

He needs something to discuss with the guys tomorrow that’s why he’s paying so much attention to the game and you are depriving him of a good point he might need to make.

Girl, if by tomorrow he doesn’t show up at your place or pick your calls, you kind of deserve it because he’s angry that he had to hear from his friends that Torres cried at the end of the match after losing to Real Madrid at the last game of the Champions League, simply because you wouldn’t get out of the front of the TV during the match because you wanted to get his attention on something that was probably not really important or because your ass was feeling a tad bit neglected.

If you cannot force yourself to watch the match like he tries to watch your Telemundo with you, then leave him alone like he does when you are watching Zee World. Simple!

When he is playing a game quietly come and lie down beside him or ask him to teach you how to play, he definitely will oblige, he will. Guys love to teach a girl how to play because they want you to be involved in their life and if you make an attempt to be genuinely involved they’d really love it, but if you can’t it’s nice to just let them be else they’ll tell you off and you won’t like it, no one does.

Now for the other guys, the serious ones, their brains are working 24/7 and they still find time out for you. They watch movies with you and then when they pick up their laptops to work there you are jumping up and down on him, telling him who wooed you, which of your friends broke up with her boyfriend, etc.

Auntie who told you that he wanted to know about them?

These ones unlike the others would not tell you that you are disturbing, they’d just save the page and shut the laptop, but by tomorrow evening he’d come back late and your paranoia will kick in –

he’s cheating on me, isn’t he? He’s coming back late, I will find that b**ch and I will kill her

When all he was actually doing was working at a friend’s crib so you, his nagging-disturbance-of-a-girlfriend would not give him trouble. Then you’d start seeing less and less of him, well you can’t blame anyone, you turned his ‘me’ time to ‘we’ time you encroached his space and suffocated him so he went to look for air some other place.

Before he met you he was himself and you fell for him, so you gotta let him remain him or lose him because you want him to leave him and be us (hope that made sense?)

Bottom line, RESPECT HIS PERSONAL SPACE or lose him to it.

#ducheenazopinion

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What is Sarcasm and Narcissism?

Sarcasm and Narcissism!!! Emmm… I’m sorry, don’t mind my manners; Good morning my esteemed readers, hope you all are good and hope the weekend was favorable to you? Well, mine was boring and lonely but I scaled through though. Anyway one of our over-zealous writer #ducheenazopinion is here again and according to the conversation we had before giving me this article, she said she needed to talk about a really funny topic today; “Sarcasm and Narcissism”, you smiled? Yeah, I knew you would because you are probably sarcastic or narcissistic too. Enjoy and drop your comments on what you think below;

According to the dictionary, Sarcasm is “use of caustic or scornful remarks”, I believe the dictionary was being a little bit too mean with the explanation, to me sarcasm is a way to make a person who is acting rather  stupid  realize that he or she is stupid and if the person is really stupid he’d not realize and maybe not understand your reply, if the person is smart and has a good sense of humor the person will get it then actually laugh and reply with even a higher version of sarcasm. If the person is smart and doesn’t have a funny bone he’d get offended and probably beef you for a long time but hey sarcastic people are cool, don’t you think so?

Now narcissism; Mr. Dictionary defines Narcissism as excessive love for one’s self. I do not argue with him on this one in fact I think he is totally right.

I love myself to the moon and back, don’t you? I think I am beautiful, don’t you? Well that is narcissism… Let’s put these two aforementioned traits in one person and what do u get? Sexy…

Unequivocally, the definition of sexy in a dictionary should be someone who is narcissistic and sarcastic all at the same time and loving it… no matter how ugly a person looks, once he or she is convinced that he or she looks extremely good, there is nothing that would not attract you to that person because the more the person tells you he looks good even in a broken mirror you will start seeing how good the person looks from the persons perspective.

Ask a sarcastic fellow if it’s raining and he’ll reply,

No sweetie, I threw some damn water to the sky and it just decided to fall back on my face, ain’t it just lovely?

Then he smirks. You might want to get angry but you know that was a definite turn on for you. My dear, frown or throw a damn tantrum, a guy or a girl that is sarcastic and narcissistic attracts you. I’ve got a friend who isn’t really pretty, not even sexy either but when she looks in the mirror and says,

Cisca, you are too fine

I am like, really this girl… then she looks at me with that sarcastic look on her face and says,

you that is fine what have you gained more than compliments?

and continues with her self-adoration. It actually worked, whenever I look at her picture on my phone all I see is a beautiful girl… I also met this guy that is cute and addicted to mirrors. When he looks at the mirror he tells himself how cute he is and no matter how hard I try I can never stop seeing how cute he just looks. Whenever he replies a comment, its epic and I believe it’s one of the reasons he has so many girls around him, damn! He’s so annoying.

I told a guy who works with me that the chairs in a place were bad and unsafe, he smiled and told me he was going to refer me to the maintenance section of the office where I work so that I could tell them that the chairs were bad, it made me laugh and I simply called him an ass and walked away after which he called after me and said,

it’s a good thing you know.

I just shook my head and kept walking, didn’t need him to know how impressed I was at him.

Honey when you are sarcastic and narcissistic, you so cannot have a low esteem, you cannot be intimidated, you cannot be insulted because everybody that tries to make you feel bad knows that it’s like pouring water on rock, while those that don’t know you regret the attempt immediately. One guy asking me out once told me, (probably meaning to insult me) that

big girls don’t run away from toasters, they face them

I replied,

I didn’t realize you were a toaster, dude I actually had bread this morning that needed toasting.

It drove him crazy, dude is still crazy about me till today.

Narcissism and sarcasm builds your self-esteem, it leaves people yearning for you, it even helps with your flirting skills, and it’s nice to go all Cookie Lyon on people who thought they could intimidate you. You wanna know why Lucius Lyon and Cookie still remains my best Empire characters? It’s simply because you can feel the sarcasm and narcissism oozing from around them.

Make friends with a sarcastic and narcissistic person today, they would help you boost your ego and try not to get angry with them when they throw one at you, instead prepare a dope comeback and throw it at them if you can’t, let them know you were impressed and you’d like to learn *whispers* don’t let anybody hear but that’s their only weakness.

Love you all and see you next time, it’s still #ducheenazopinion

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Hip Hop, The Chains (A tale of Upcoming Artistes)

(Written in both English and Pidgin English)

Guy, Abeg nah you go trans me ooo. I no remember to withdraw and I no dey use ATM

Toby said as we walked down the road to board a bus to the venue of the gig where he is expected to perform his latest song.

I still wondered why people invited him to perform that song; I felt the track was empty and the only thing I could hear was ‘Oshe Baba… Skibo‘ and a noisy instrumental that sounds more like kids playing with stainless plates.

Well it was his latest single and was already trending on Jambaze, TooXclusive and NotJustOk as he would always say, even South East Linda, FranklynOnwubiko.com dey BC the track, except I don’t know if his extended family were doing him the favor of waking their ancestors to download and make the song trend. I sure know that no sensible man would waste his MB on such whack noise. Yes, you could make the mistake of downloading it due to the hype, but sharing it is a taboo you would rather not commit, so I wonder how and where the song is trending. All these broke upcoming artists can give themselves hope sha.

Jeez! I forgot something, I have to go back

Toby said as we approached the bus stop.

What did you forget?

I asked with such concern that the item must be valuable, probably his Durex condom, at least that was valuable for a Guy’s wallet on a friday night.

I forgot my chain, just wait for me, I am coming

he said and ran out without waiting for me to say a word. Huh! I had to wait for him because of his chain, not like it was so important, probably to him but not to Me. And the chain in question was a bronze round about that have changed color, you can’t tell whether it was bronze or silver.

What’s so important about the chain anyway? It is just so with most hip hop artists, especially the up coming ones. With just one single that is still under production at AfroBank Studio or Studio 48 they’ve bought different shades of chains for shows they ain’t even sure they would be called for.

It is more annoying when you look at the shades of these chains, Bronze, clay, aluminum not even Gold or Silver. It might appear as Gold on the first day, but when rain meets you, it would change from the fake to the original color. Who buys original gold for N500? Only Upcoming artistes.

Their attire most times can be very irritating, someone is wearing a Coat or Blazers he borrowed from Tino Clothings and he has 7 chains on his neck like Baba’s dogs on rampage.

Funny enough the dude is still owing Mr. Marz or AJ for the instrumental he made for his latest single, the one he used auto tune to decorate.

It has gradually become a world signature in the entertainment industry as every Tom and Jerry adores various shades of Chains from dog chains, Gold, silver and even bronze, actually anything that glitters and can be worn around the neck is a perfect substitute for the insignia that states the art in Hip-Hop.

While it is not bad to wear a chain just like my puppy fancies the one round her neck, it is rather funny that even up and coming arts now save their last peanuts just to afford one.

Your status is rated by the number of Chains you have on your neck, the more it is, the higher your status.

Look clearly, check the records, dig the archives, Use google, then tell me the Hip- Hop artiste that have never worn a chain in his entire career as an artiste.

I wonder how fanciful people appear when they wear a three piece suit and still find space for the chains.

Hip Hop sef who you epp? The thing tire Me…

#DedicatedToUpcomingArtistes

#AugustusBill

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10 Things To Never Say In An Email Message for essential business relationship

10 Things To Never Say In An Email Message – Hi people! I know you must have missed my crazy write-ups, yeah! I miss them too… Anyway, I didn’t come with today though, I just have a lecture to help build your business relationships in the form of disseminating information. Let’s talk about the email and how to use it;

Email is a lifeline in heaps of business circumstances, however it’s not the right channel for each message you have to send.

When you send an email message that is many words long, couple of beneficiaries will have the capacity to dive in and give your message the time you likely feel it merits. Unless your beneficiary has requested that you impart your considerations in full detail in an email message, there is without a doubt a superior decision of medium.

10 Things To Never Say In An Email Message

A more successful approach to impart an extensive perspective or clarification is to talk live or meet in individual. That way, you and your partner, client or merchant can talk through the focuses rather than your beneficiary integrating them in a steady progression in a long email message.

Email is likewise terrible for inwardly loaded messages. There is dependably a superior approach to convey your solid emotions than to dash off a furious email message that can’t in any way, shape or form make the relationship between you and the message recipient more grounded.

Here are 10 Things To Never Say In An Email Message;

1. You messed up

It can entice to impact out an email message that says,

Hey Bozo, you messed up that request

however it is never a smart thought. In the event that you need to disturb the individual you think messed up, then an email message will without a doubt fulfill that objective, however what good will that do? In the event that you need the individual to truly hear you, pick another approach to examine the theme, and don’t put fault.

2. I’m miserable with you, I’m irate, or I’m frustrated in you

It has never been a smart thought to send an email message to tell somebody that you’re feeling harmed, offended or irate, yet individuals do it consistently. Grown-ups convey eye to eye or by means of phone or Skype when they have something sticky or individual to say, and this is your obligation, as well.

3. You’re wrong!

In the event that you hold an alternate supposition from one of your colleagues, that is fine — lively level headed discussion is an awesome path for unfathomable thoughts to rise up out of a group. Never utilize email to say “You’re wrong,” regardless of the possibility that you feel unequivocally about it and regardless of the fact that you have truths to go down your position.

When you step on a collaborator and say “You’re wrong,” you’re stating ”

I’d rather win the fight today and lose the war by souring my association with my colleague than take an ideal opportunity to express what is on my mind while regarding everyone’s perspectives.”

4. You clearly didn’t read my message – read it once more!

It’s baffling when individuals don’t read your email messages, however it’s not an extraordinary group building system to shoot a message that says,

Clearly you haven’t read my email message.

5. Here is my lengthy argument or pitch

Simply ahead and create your lengthy argument or pitch for a thought or an arrangement in composed structure, however don’t send the email message when it’s set! Mastermind to talk through your contribute constant with the individual who needs to hear it.

6. Here’s your raise (or your performance appraisal)

Never, ever impart your colleague’s pay increment or their performance appraisal rating by means of email. That is the tallness of cheapness consolidated with poor initiative. This sort of correspondence shouts for synchronous discussion.

7. Despite everything I’m disturbed about what happened

Try not to utilize email to say “despite everything I’m disturbed about what happened a week ago” or to raise old battles and contentions. No great can happen to that! Locate a calm minute to chat with your collaborator or whomever you had strife with, and say,

I need us to determine whatever came up between us.

You’ll never enhance a relationship by saying “regardless I’m not over what happened.”

8. That isn’t your choice or You don’t have the power

Here and there when a message hits your inbox and its substance caution you — for example, when a collaborator has kept in touch with you and your buddies ‘I’m proceeding proceed with that arrangement‘ and you viciously can’t help contradicting your fellow team member’s bearing — get the telephone and call. Try not to communicate something specific that says,

That isn’t your choice to make!

9. I’m going to go over your head

In the event that you feel so unequivocally that you plan to take your contention to your administrator or another higher-up, do it, however don’t send an email message that says,

I’m going to go over your head.

That sort of message is what might as well be called a revelation of war. Converse with your impermanent enemy live.

10 Things To Never Say In An Email Message

10. Here is the entire story (with all the details)

Nobody can take in a since a long time ago, confounded story when it’s passed on through email. You may think your narrating is as crisp and clean, yet your partners may well differ with you. Try not to drive them to ingest a long, turning story and respond to it. Discover another approach to get your story over!

Use email for accurate issues and customary booking and announcement subjects. Those are the circumstances email is most appropriate for. Save the passionate, muddled issues for live discussions where you and the general population you speak with can clear up any disarray or hurt emotions and proceed onward. Try not to compound the situation by taking part in email fights that never have a victor!

10 Things To Never Say In An Email Message

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LOVE IS IMPAIRED IN MANY WAYS

Love is impaired, don’t you think so? They say love is blind, but I seriously doubt that, actually I feel that the dude is just partially blind, and it wears Binoculars just like Dominic.

Love can see, but the problem is that it can’t identify the object in view. Most times I think it is short-sighted because it can’t see the future. Always seeing a broke Nigga without seeing the future of him being rich, and always seeing a beautiful sister without seeing the future of her handicapped face without makeup.

If I am asked to describe love, I would say, it is an ugly bitch wearing an expensive makeover that covers her ugliness during the day, but after she must have showered, the true beauty of the monster emerges, and by then she have been in bed with you already, and backing out becomes a problem.

Love has two gorgeous and fierce black eyes, and both of them are impaired, she only sees the present, and the physical, it can’t see the future nor the inside. It only sees a handsome or rich dude without seeing the filthy inside of a hot tempered and randy sex maniac; it only sees the beautiful and sexy curves of the lady and not the dirty inside of a lazy and open legs snub.

Yes, love has nose, but a flat one, so flat that its sense of smell is so poor it can’t perceive danger and heartbreak when it is still cooking, but until it gets burnt, then the flat nose starts sniffing.

Hmm… Love is bald, it has no hair, it is so uncovered and it glitters at sunrise, that’s why people can see it from anywhere.

Also, Love has teeth, very sharp ones at that, so sharp that it could bite the arteries and veins off the heart and leave you bleeding profusely.

Yet, love is caring; so caring that it begins to piss you off. Always calling at odd hours just to check up on you like you were a kid. That’s how childish and annoying love can be.

Finally, love is jealous and very stingy, it doesn’t share, and when it catches you sharing that’s the day the friendship ends. Love possesses and guards the possession jealously.

#AugustusBill

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Apple to Offer App Developers Access to Siri and iMessage, it’s cool, don’t you think?

Apple to Offer App Developers Access to Siri and iMessage: SAN FRANCISCO — With sales sluggish and stiffening competition from rivals like Google and Facebook, Apple announced on Monday coming improvements to the software that runs its devices, including a revamped Music app, an easier login process and better information-sharing across devices.

More significantly, it also made it easier for app developers to tap the full power of Apple’s technology — from its Siri voice assistant to instant messaging and Apple Pay — in their own apps.

“We believe it is crucial that we provide the best tools so you can produce the best apps,” Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, told a crowd of about 5,000 assembled here for the company’s annual worldwide developer conference.

Third-party developers write the apps that make an iPhone or a Mac more useful and personal. As the company struggles with flat sales of its products, Apple has been trying to mend its sometimes troubled relationship with the people who have filled its App Store with two million apps.

On Monday, Apple said it was allowing access to two of its crown jewels — Siri and its messaging app, iMessage — hoping that the creativity of outside developers will spur a round of innovation to make the iPhone seem as magical as it did when the first apps were introduced eight years ago.

Showing off how developers could use messaging, an Apple executive opened the food-delivery app DoorDash from inside Apple iMessage and put together a joint order with friends.

Earlier this year, Facebook opened up Messenger to bots, automated software assistants that can accomplish various tasks. Google also announced plans to introduce a messaging service with similar capabilities.

“A lot of the messaging apps are moving toward this,” said Brian Blau, a technology analyst with Gartner who attended the event. “If Apple hadn’t announced developer access to messages, I would have been really surprised.”

Developers were also pleased to get access to Siri so they could incorporate voice commands into their own apps. Until now, Siri has mostly been limited to Apple services and has been used for tasks like conducting searches, getting directions or asking the virtual assistant to make a call.

Faizan Buzdar, chief executive of Convo, a business collaboration software maker, said his company had already been using Siri to a limited extent so that customers could bookmark items that pop up in the Convo app.

“But my vision would be to say, ‘What’s our revenue this week?’” he said, adding that Siri would then open Convo, which would pull in data from its app and partner apps, and provide the answer. “That kind of natural language can really push the barriers of business.”

Initially, Siri will only be available for certain categories of apps like those providing ride-hailing, messaging and photo-search services.

Apple has been a leader on mobile devices since the introduction of the iPhone a decade ago. But in some critical respects, it is now playing catch-up.

For example, Google, whose Android smartphone software is more popular than Apple’s globally, uses sophisticated facial recognition technology to organize a user’s photos, and Google’s mapping service works closely with other apps to identify important locations and automatically provide directions to appointments.

Apple said on Monday that it would offer similar features in the next version of its iPhone software, iOS 10, which will be released in the fall with a new crop of iPhones.

Similarly, Apple’s integration of other services into iMessage mirrors what Facebook has done with Messenger and what Tencent, a major Apple rival in China, has done with WeChat messaging.

Unlike Google and Facebook, which rely on uploading a user’s data to the cloud, Apple said the new features will keep data on the phone to protect user privacy.

“In some ways the star of the show wasn’t a particular product but Apple’s refutation of accusations that it can’t compete with Google and Facebook in artificial intelligence and deep learning,” said Jan Dawson, chief analyst of Jackdaw Research, in an email after the presentation.

Apple is a clear leader in some areas, particularly the nascent field of smartwatches. Announcing improvements to its year-old Watch platform, Apple said that the new version of the watch’s operating system would start apps instantly. Users will also be able to scribble responses to messages one letter at time, instead of relying on the canned responses that are currently available.

The Watch remains tethered to the iPhone for most uses, and the company seems to be re-positioning it as a healthy-living accessory, offering improved activity tracking and sharing. There is even a new deep-breathing app.

In an attempt to persuade customers to buy more Apple products, the company also introduced a host of planned features to share data between devices. The documents on the desktop of a Mac, for example, will be accessible on iPads and iPhones. Photos taken with the iPhone can be viewed on the Apple TV.

Apple signaled its desire to be a player in global e-commerce, where sales are expected to total $2 trillion this year, according to the research firm eMarketer.

Apple said that retailers’ websites would soon be able to use Apple Pay as a checkout method, and customers could authorize a purchase with their fingerprint on their iPhone. Currently, the digital payment service is restricted to physical stores and apps, where it has gotten a lukewarm response.

A few days before the conference, Apple made two other major announcements affecting developers. It will begin testing paid search ads in the App Store, which will allow developers to buy a slot at the top of the search results when a user looks for an app. Apple also said it would reduce the cut it took from subscriptions in apps to 15 percent, from 30 percent, after the first year.

Whether Apple’s improvements will be enough to keep developers happily writing apps for the iPhone and other Apple products remains to be seen.

If it continues to be difficult for apps to stand out in the App Store, more developers will concentrate on developing great mobile websites instead, said Cathy Boyle, principal analyst for mobile at eMarketer, a research firm.

Creating an iPhone app typically costs $50,000 to $200,000, and some cost as much as $1 million, according to an eMarketer report last June. A website is cheaper, and while it lacks some convenience of an app, there are techniques to make a site easy for web users to find.

“Developers are asking, ‘What is the additional revenue I can get from an app?’” Ms. Boyle said.

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Vex money or f**k up money?

Vex money? Hmm… I like this topic, let me not talk much. Enjoy – Ladies in the house can I hear you say amen… its ducheenazopinion and I have good news for you, but before I share the good news let me at least tell why I chose this topic. You see, I was going through Facebook and one of my amazing friends, Xenny wrote a post about guys f**king up and included the

don’t forget to carry your vex money part.

Now let me define VEX MONEY – Vex money can be defined as that money you carry out when a guy calls you out on a date or preferably let me use Nigerian boys term ‘a hang out’ OR when you are going to visit that guy that is not yet Bae and he’s still trying to be Bae OR that guy that will never be Bae OR that you just want to spend his money with him and for him and he’s kinda far from you.

Now listen up, Vex money has its functions they include;

• To pay for your food if the guy decides to leave you stranded
• To pay your transport fare back if the guy refuses to give u the money for it or if he begins to f**k up
• To pay for your drink if the boy starts insulting you (like I did when a guy insulted me for drinking Malt instead of Smirnoff at a bar)
• To lodge in a hotel if the guy refuses to let you sleep in his house at night because you refused to give it up.

Most girls have fallen prey to a lot of dangerous things because of the lackadaisical attitude they give to need for vex money, a guy calls you to Enugu and you live at Awka or he calls you to Abuja and you live in Lagos, he probably sent you money for taxi or bus fare or flight ticket whatever the case may be pending on the transport system involved, and you decide to embark on that journey, here is what you will do, you calculate the bus fare back from that place and add money for Gala and Lacasera and even Bottled water.

More so, if you do not have a friend at the designated place that you can do simultaneous sleep-overs at their place, then you should add like 7k for hotel bill. In all, carry at least 10 to 15k depending on your destination, then keep it at the bottom of your bag, so that if oga decides to start playing touching-body at night and you did not go there for that, you quietly get up that night, walk out of the house to a nearby hotel, pay for the cheapest room and by morning you leave without so much as a phone call. Let him worry what the hell happened to you.

If the movement was within your environment or a place you are really familiar with, first of all think of the place he is taking you to, if it’s an exotic fast food prepare stomach according to your wallet, when you get there, eat as much as you can pay for so that if he decides to use the ATM in the middle of the meal, and gets automatically stuck there you can pay for your meal and leave, tell anybody who asks that you took yourself out.

The important fact is that we need to pay attention to the use of vex money as it has helped a lot of girls today and will still be helping till… I don’t know; when guys finally start having sense.

And my dear girls if you cannot afford VEX MONEY, DO NOT MOVE AN INCH FROM YOUR HOUSE.

Have a nice day guys, it’s still #ducheenazopinion.

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8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks And Be happy

8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks is a topic I chose because I have finally joined the #dreadgang… lol!!! I’m actually loving the look and won’t show you guys yet so enjoy the suspense while it lasts. Anyway, it isn’t as easy as I thought so I had to research and share 8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks.

Knowing the right tips for tending to dreadlocks is super critical on the off chance that you are attempting to keep up a dreadlock look. One blunder can bring about a wide range of issues (and smells!) in your fears and who needs that?

Along these lines, I’ve ordered a rundown of 8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks…

1. Locate a good locktician

This is the most essential run particularly in your starting phases of developing locks. You need a locktician that can give you awesome guidance and suggest great items. On the off chance that you are bending your officially characteristic hair, please have a genuine discussion about your hair objectives and your craved look with your potential new beautician before them winding your hair.

2. Use residue-free cleansers/shampoos

The more tightly the locs are, the less stray hairs you will have and the smoother the locs will look.

Washing locks with the best possible cleansers and shampoos is vital to keeping them tight. The issue with the dominant part of shampoos, is that they leave scums in the hair after they are flushed out. You can without much of a stretch recognize this buildup by noticing the hair, or your hands, after you have utilized the cleanser.

8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks

3. Palm roll your dreads now and again

Did you realize that palm rolling your dreads is really an incredible approach to keep them tight, keep them looking wonderful and to keep up their shape?

This is actually how you make your dreads too – obviously, utilizing a touch of wax is proposed when you are first beginning.

4. Continuously make a point to blow dry your locks

When you get your dreads wet, the scent can be loathsome in the event that you don’t give them a chance to air dry or blow-dry them.

One of the most exceedingly bad things you can do with your dreads is to wear them up in a cap while they are wet.

Dampness gets caught and that can bring about a scent.

5. Whatever you do, don’t apply wax to your wet hair

On the off chance that you are searching for a truly sticky and difficult to get out mess, completely apply wax to wet hair.

8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks

On the off chance that you need something that is going to look great and be anything but difficult to keep up, apply your wax and palm roll your dreads just when the hair is exceptionally dry.

6. Attempt as much to wear a band or scarf around your head for sleeping.

When you are first getting your dreads all together, it is truly imperative to wear some sort of band around your head when you rest.

Why?

Indeed, in light of the fact that you would prefer not to get wax everywhere on your pillow and destroy it. Rather, wrap a thick scarf around your head to save your pillow.

7. Peppermint for itches

Perhaps it’s just me, however dreadlocks can itch a smidgen when they begin to get more tightly.

8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks

There are a huge amount of creams and splashes out there for the tingling, yet only a couple drops of peppermint fundamental oil can truly quiet the tingling down; well that is as indicated by my beautician.

8. Be Patient

By a long shot the hardest lesson I’ve realized when managing my (short) hair.

This isn’t a procedure that will occur without any forethought. Locking your hair is an excursion and it’s somewhat distinctive for every individual.

Something else my beautician said,

a few people’s hair grow faster than others. Thicker hair tend to grow faster.

The good thing is that in the event that you sustain and take great consideration of your hair, then the development will come. It truly will. Try not to get disheartened.

8 Quick Ways To Maintain Your Dreadlocks

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Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

My name is Emmanuel Emeka Okeke, I’m the CEO and founder of Friendite Global Limited, which comprises of three major branches friendite.com, frienditestore.com and frienditeplus.com.

I’m writing to you knowing that you may or may not get to read or hear about this article, but eventually someday I will meet and talk with you in person…Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg

You were currently in Nigeria, a land filled with great minds and opportunities. Thank you very much for visiting, it’s really an honour… open letter to Mark Zuckerberg

To the main point of writing this, Mark, I understand you have a tight schedule and in as much as I personally will love to see you but because of the distance and not knowing how long you would be staying, seeing you in Nigeria was 90% impossible.

It was really a wonderful thing visiting as I thought you would visit other parts of the states aside Lagos so as to get other techs like myself involved in your practice or equally get us informed when next your coming so we can get to see you (i mean, it’s not every time one gets to see someone that changed the world with codes)

I’m equally a tech person and I have studied a lot about you, because  someday i would like to be better at connecting the world, but before then I really need to learn a lot from you. just as you said “ Facebook is 1% connecting the world“

I really look up to you a whole lot and hope you visit again. Thank you

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