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A Norwegian island wants to abolish the concept of time, allowing citizens to do “what we want, when we want”. Residents of Sommaroy in West Tromso, north of the Arctic Circle, argue that normal business hours should not apply there as the sun doesn’t rise in winter or set in summer. The Time-Free Zone campaign hopes
You can cut the lawn at 4am’ The 350 residents of Sommarøy in the land of the midnight sun are hoping to free themselves from the tyranny of the clock by declaring the small Norwegian islandthe world’s first time-free zone. their aim will offer flexibility.

It was reported that Visitors to Sommarøy have embraced the idea enthusiastically, with some abandoning their watches and attaching them to a bridge leading to the island.

Do you think this will be possible? How do you when the flight wants to depart? What about shops opening time? Schools opening times?

Share your view with us!

Nearly all applicants for US visas will have to submit their social media details under newly adopted rules.

The State Department regulations say people will have to submit social media names and five years’ worth of email addresses and phone numbers.

When proposed last year, authorities estimated the proposal would affect 14.7 million people annually.

Certain diplomatic and official visa applicants will be exempt from the stringent new measures.

However, people travelling to the US to work or to study will have to hand over their information.

“We are constantly working to find mechanisms to improve our screening processes to protect US citizens, while supporting legitimate travel to the United States,” the department reportedly said.

Previously, only applicants who needed additional vetting – such as people who had been to parts of the world controlled by terrorist groups – would need to hand over this data.

But now applicants will have to give up their account names on a list of social media platforms, and also volunteer the details of their accounts on any sites not listed.

Anyone who lies about their social media use could face “serious immigration consequences” .

A Nigerian scientist, Ernest Ezeajughi, made history Wednesday when he was sworn into office as the first black mayor of the London Borough of Brent, United Kingdom.

After 7 years of working with the best producer in Africa Tiwa Savage part ways with Mavins Records and she began her new international career with Universal music group.

Don Jazzy paid an emotional tribute to Tiwa Savage see below

You don’t need to be in management to be a leader.

Obviously, the CEO of your company and your boss will be seen as leaders, whether they realize it or not. But you, regardless of your role in the organization, can be seen as a leader as well.

And understanding that and acting in that way will be better for your company – and for your own career.

What do you need to do to be seen as a leader, even if aren’t in management? Elizabeth and Lisa Earle McLeod cover it fully in their course, Leading without Formal Authority. But six traits they said you should embody if you want to be seen as a leader are:

1. You actively listen.

People tend to think leading means speaking out. But often, the exact opposite is true.

“I’ll let you in on a little hidden secret,” Elizabeth McLeod said. “If you focus on mindful listening, you can garner more authority without saying a word.”

Mindful listening means more than just keeping your mouth shut and nodding. It means focusing on what the person you are listening to is saying, reading what their body language is telling you and maintaining eye contact. Sounds easy, but it’s something few professionals do.

“Mindful listening helps you sort and frame information and when you do speak, they listen because they know you’ve taken in everything including – most importantly, their point of view,” McLeod said. “If you want to be seen as an authority figure, stop talking, take a break and just listen.”

2. You make your meetings count.

Meetings are where your colleagues see you in action. A key to being seen as a leader is to understand that and make your meetings count.

There are two aspects to this. First, it means making the most out of meetings you call. That means only calling a meeting when it’s absolutely necessary, having an agenda for the meeting, keeping people on topic during the meeting and having clear action items after each meeting that you follow up on.

The second aspect is being active in meetings that you didn’t call or aren’t leading. This means reading any pre-reads ahead of time, actively listening during the meeting, asking relevant questions, sharing any relevant expertise and following through on any action items after the meeting.

“Not all meetings need to be a snoozefest,” Lisa Earle McLeod said. “As an informal leader, you have the opportunity to set the tone. If you’re prepared, focused and action-oriented, meeting with your colleagues can be hugely productive.”

3. You proactively find a mentor.

One trait all great leaders share is they focus on developing their own skills. And one of the best ways to do that is to get a mentor, Lisa Earle McLeod said.

The most obvious and easiest person to start with is your boss. But perhaps your boss isn’t someone you’d pick to be your mentor or you’d like another. Then it’s time to look for someone else to be your mentor.

This sounds daunting – how do you convince someone to be your mentor, particularly if they have a far higher position than you? Well, it isn’t really that hard – start by asking them a specific question.

Lisa Earle McLeod shared her own story of a time earlier in her career when she turned a high-profile executive into her mentor. McLeod started by just sending the exec a specific question via email. The exec responded, and then McLeod responded back saying how she implemented the suggestions and asked her if she could continue to periodically ask the exec questions in the future.

The exec agreed and McLeod continued to do so. It led to a lasting relationship, including in-person meetings – she became McLeod’s mentor.

Are you looking for a mentor? You can follow the same playbook.

4. You look for root causes, not quick fixes.

When things go wrong, it’s easy to either gloss over the problem or look for a quick-fix. But, if you want to be seen as a leader, you need to transcend that and look for root causes.

This starts with being confident enough to admit a failure, which most people avoid. Next, it means looking beyond how to fix that one situation and rethinking processes to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

“Look for patterns or recurring challenges and rack your brain on how to solve them,” Lisa Earle McLeod said. “This will save you from falling into purely reactive behavior down the road.”

5. When things go wrong, you speak the truth, without casting blame.

There’s a mountain of difference between speaking the truth and casting blame. Speaking the truth means explaining what happened in an effort to fix it. Casting blame is done to avoid responsibility, which only takes energy away from solving the problem.

“I want to share with you one of my favorite quotes, and it has stood me well in tough times,” Lisa Earle McLeod said. “Edwin Friedman said, ‘In any situation, the person who can most accurately describe reality, without laying blame, will emerge as the leader, whether designated or not’.”

To get to the truth, you need to actively listen and drill into the numbers to see what went wrong where. By doing this, you can calmly explain where the failings were, and then determine what to fix.

6. You share your passion.

Last but not least, don’t be a robot. Hopefully, you are in a job you are passionate about. Don’t be afraid to share that with your colleagues.

Or, rather than always just throwing out metrics, tell a story. If a new product feature increases sales, don’t just highlight the numbers. Tell the story of why that product feature is making your customer’s lives better, which is causing the increase in sales.

To illustrate the point, McLeod gave the example of a person who works for a plumbing distribution company and is looking to get their colleagues to hit their deadlines. Which pitch to their colleagues will work better?

• “Our customers are depending on us to get these orders out on time.” Or,
• “I remember hearing about the Jones family in Washington. They had 6-week-old twins when their basement flooded and the wife, Karen, was really, really nervous about the mold and the moisture in their house. And they were living in her mom’s basement waiting for their house to be fixed. With both babies and all their stuff in this cramped little room, it put a lot of stress on their new family but because we got those parts there on time, they were able to get back in their house in just two weeks. And they were confident that home was safe for their children. Now there are thousands of families just like the Jones’ who are depending on us to get these materials out on time.”

Clearly the second. Having a passion for your job and then sharing that with your colleagues goes a long way to being seen as a leader.

SEOUL— Samsung Electronics Co. is delaying the rollout of its Galaxy Fold smartphone until at least next month after some tech reviewers said their test devices had malfunctioned.

The Galaxy Fold phone—priced at nearly $2,000 and the industry’s first mainstream foldable-screen device—was slated to hit shelves in the U.S. on Friday. But Samsung, citing the reported problems with the phone, said Monday it plans to announce a new release date in the coming weeks.

“Initial findings from the inspection of reported issues on the display showed that they could be associated with impact on the top and bottom exposed areas of the hinge,” the company said. “There was also an instance where substances found inside the device affected the display performance.”

The only way forward for a better Nigeria is to have free and fair elections.

The people must be allowed to choose those that govern them.

There must be a cap in electoral spending.

Independent candidate must be encouraged.

Candidates must be educated to at atleast Bsc level. Like Sanusi said you cant give what you don’t have .

The city of San Diego in California is set to get a whole lot smarter – and no, we’re not talking about school kids getting better grades.
Instead, the city is to start installing smart streetlights, which use cameras and sensors to monitor traffic, weather conditions and even listen for gunshots.

The Current CityIQ sensors, to appear on 3,200 lights, will be installed by GE and AT&T as part of the Smart Cities programme debuted at CES 2017 in Las Vegas.

One of the major benefits of these smart streetlights is how they help monitor traffic. Using real-time sensor data, the streetlights will be able to direct drivers to free parking spaces and ease traffic jams.
AT&T is taking care of the data side of things, while GE will deal with powering the streetlights. The smart streetlights are just part of a $30 million facelift the city’s lighting system is getting: a further 14,000 LED lights hope to reduce energy costs by up to $2.4 million.

Other uses for the smart streetlights will be tackling crime (as they’ll be able to detect gunshots), monitoring air quality and weather updates.

“Fostering innovation and improving infrastructure are important to enhancing the lives of all San Diegans,” San Diego Mayor Kevin Faulconer said. “This new technology will give the city and developers the opportunity to make our neighbourhoods safer and smarter.”

As with anything in the Internet of Things, security issues have, of course, been raised. However a spokesman for San Diego’s mayor told Reuters that “it’s anonymous data with no personal identifiers”, while the footage captured by the cameras isn’t as detailed as security camera images.

This is likely to be only the beginning for the project, which could be expanded by a further 3,000 sensors later in the year.

If these new streetlights mean that you no longer have to drive around in circles desperately searching for a park, then sign us up.

When I read about things like this, sometimes I weep for my country of birth and my state in particular.

When will Delta State of Nigeria move forward?? No steady electricity, no good road networks, no jobs, no basic transport system, no affordable healthcare. NOTHING.