Ukraine in turmoil as armed men seize airports

Viktor Yanukovych, the President of Ukraine went missing days ago.

Ukraine is an interesting place at the moment...

Armed men seize two airports in Ukraine's Crimea, Russia denies involvement

Armed men took control of two airports in the Crimea region on Friday in what Ukraine's government described as an invasion and occupation by Russian forces, raising tension between Moscow and the West.

Russia's Black Sea fleet, which is based in the region, denied its forces were involved in seizing one of the airports, Interfax news agency reported, while a supporter described the group at the other site merely as Crimean militiamen.

Amid the confusion over the men's identity, acting president Oleksander Turchinov called an emergency session of his security chiefs, while parliament urged Moscow to halt any action that might encourage separatism and asked the United Nations Security Council to discuss the crisis.

Tensions have been rising on the Black Sea peninsula, the only Ukrainian region that has an ethnic Russian majority and the last major bastion of resistance to the overthrow of Viktor Yanukovich as president almost a week ago.

Interior Minister Arsen Avakov accused Russian naval forces of taking over a military airport near the port of Sevastopol, where the Black Sea fleet has its base, and other Russian forces of seizing Simferopol's civilian international airport.

Armed men seize Crimea government HQ in Ukraine Play video

Armed men seize Crimea government HQ in Ukraine

"I consider what has happened to be an armed invasion and occupation in violation of all international agreements and norms," Avakov said on his Facebook page, describing it as a "provocation" and calling for talks.

This met with a Russian denial of involvement in the military airport action. "No Black Sea Fleet units have moved toward (the airport), let alone taking any part in blockading it," Interfax quoted a spokesman for the fleet as saying.

Yanukovich is expected to appear before reporters in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don later on Friday, though President Vladimir Putin has not said whether Moscow will harbor the former leader, who is on the run and wanted by the new government for mass murder after the deaths of protestors in Kiev last week.

The United States has told Russia to show in the next few days that it is sincere about a promise not to intervene in Ukraine, saying using force would be a grave mistake.

"We believe that everybody now needs to take a step back and avoid any kind of provocations," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a joint news conference with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. "We want to see in the next days ahead that the choices Russia makes conform to this affirmation we received today."

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Starting a business with zero capital

Starting a business with no money

Money is so ubiquitous and important in our lives that there is hardly anybody on the planet that has not either spent money or had money spent on them. The popular saying goes: “money makes the world go round”. Well, not literally but in the sense that the global economy is based on it as a measure of value and a means of transaction. It is the reason for which most of us work; we need the money to meet our basic needs which according to Abraham Maslow are: food, clothing, shelter and sex.

The world faces a huge unemployment problem which makes it impossible for every individual who is willing and able to work to find a job. Shall these people starve as a result? Unfortunately, some do but most try and create something for themselves like a small business. This leads us nicely to the theme of this article; starting a business without money. You might wonder if this is possible. It is and millions if not billions of people around the world have done it throughout history and so can you.

How?

You should start by understanding the concept of value. Value is the totality of the intrinsic and extrinsic appreciation that people either have for or place on an item, person or business. It is reflected in many forms; respect, admiration, love, goodwill and yes – money.     

Now that we have a definition of the concept of value, we can move swiftly to how you can earn it without having money. Society places value on people, things and businesses that make life easier. Hence, children value their parents for the care and protection they provide, employers value their employees for the work they do to promote their business, employees value their employers for the remuneration they provide in exchange for work done and so on.

The challenge for you as an aspiring entrepreneur with zero capital is to give value to people so that they can appreciate it in many ways including money. This is not very difficult because we are all born with talent and tend to acquire skills over time. You need to do a little soul-searching and identify your talents and skills. They do not have to be unique but you must be willing to deploy them to the benefit of others.

Having identified your talent and skills, the next step is to present them where they are needed. This you can do easily by volunteering, whilst many people and organisations cannot afford to employ workers, they are often willing to engage volunteers who work for nothing or next-to-nothing. However, it can and should be a mutually beneficial relationship because both parties are working together to add value to the society at large and the more successful they are in achieving their objectives, the more valuable they become.

Now, you have created some value for yourself based on your talent and skills, the next step is to develop them to the level that people will be willing to pay for them consistently which is what virtually every business does. Learn from your experience as a volunteer and leverage on your newly acquired networks. For example, let us say you volunteer to clean your local community hall every week, this gives you access to people that manage and use the hall for different functions. You can get a cardboard and some writing material to create your own handwritten posters with a copy like: “Hardworking and efficient cleaner for your home and office is available”, please call ************.”  

Even if you do not have a phone, you can get the permission of the hall manager or security guard to use theirs and they can refer you to prospective clients that call in regard to your advert. Believe it or not, you just started a business and with the income you make, you can get your own phone and type your next set of posters on A4 paper from a business centre. By the time the demand grows, you can get assistants and before you think too much about it, you could be an employer.

There are so many other ideas that you can develop, it all relates to your desire and willingness to add value. If you think of value first, money will follow in due course provided that you are diligent and trustworthy. Not having capital to start should not be an excuse for failing to start an enterprise and the sooner more people around the world realise this, the better for all of us.

So, what do you think about the tips I have shared in this post? Let me know by dropping a comment below.

Thank you.

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Specifications

Samsung's Galaxy series have helped to propel the South Korean smartphone maker as the world's largest selling manufacturer in terms of volume. Hence, it is not a surprise that the industry and users are buzzing about its new device just launched; the Galaxy S5. View its specifications next...

Samsung Galaxy S5 Specs

General Design Device type: SmartPhone OS: Android OS, v4.4.2 (KitKat) Dimensions: 142 x 72.5 x 8.1 mm (5.59 x 2.85 x 0.32 in) Weight: 145 g (5.11 oz)

Display Features

• Display Size: 1080 x 1920 pixels, 5.1 inches (~432 ppi pixel density)
• Display Features: Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors - Corning Gorilla Glass 3 Protection - Multitouch

Camera

• Primary Camera: 16 MP, 5312 x 2988 pixels, autofocus, LED flash
• Secondary Camera: 2 MP,1080p@30fps, dual video call
• Other Cam Features: Video: 2160p@30fps, 1080p@60fps, video stabilization, dual-video rec. - Features: Dual Shot, Simultaneous HD video and image recording, geo-tagging, touch focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization, HDR

Memory Details

• Internal Memory: 16/32 GB storage, 2 GB RAM - Qualcomm MSM8974AC Snapdragon 801 - Quad-core 2.5 GHz Krait 400
• Card Slot: Yes, MicroSD, up to 128 GB

Other Device Details

• Battery: Li-Ion 2800 mAh battery - Up to 390H Standby - Up to 21H Talktime
• Data: 2G(GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 ) - 3G(HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100) - 4G (LTE 800 / 850 / 900 / 1800 / 2100 / 2600 )
• SIM: Nano SIM
• WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, dual-band, DLNA, Wi-Fi Direct, Wi-Fi hotspot
• Bluetooth: Version 4.0
• USB: MicroUSB v3.0
• Sensors: Accelerometer, gyro, proximity, compass, barometer, temperature, humidity, gesture, heart rate
• Other Phone Features: Java - Wireless charging (market dependent) - ANT+ support - S-Voice natural language commands and dictation - Smart stay, Smart pause, Smart scroll - Air gestures - Dropbox (50 GB cloud storage) - Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic - TV-out (via MHL 2 A/V link) - SNS integration - MP4/DivX/XviD/WMV/H.264/H.263 player - MP3/WAV/eAAC+/FLAC player - Organizer - Image/video editor - Document viewer (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF) - Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Picasa - Voice memo/dial/commands - Predictive text input (Swype)

Facebook stops its email service

This service was very poorly thought-out by Facebook...

Facebook shuts down its email service

Facebook has stopped its @facebook.com mailing service, citing low usage. Those using the email service will soon receive an email telling them that their emails from @facebook.com account will be forwarded to the primary address listed on their email accounts.

A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the news in a statement to the Verge, “Most people have not been using their @facebook.com email address.”

The email id's were initially launched in 2010 to streamline all communication under a single umbrella by the social networking site. Facebook announced the feature in a blog post, "It seems wrong that an email message from your best friend gets sandwiched between a bill and a bank statement."

The service didn't catch up, due to the lack of a friendly interface. The Messages screen always highlighted Facebook messages, and didn't support cc's, bcc's, or subject lines. Facebook received a lot of criticism in June 2012, when it highlighted @facebook.com email addresses on profiles while hiding other email addresses. The move was intended to make user email id's private, but users thought Facebook was favoring its own email services over others. The email id's also caused many privacy issues as users could easily guess others' email id's with just their profile names.

Email forwarding is turned on by default, but users can choose to opt-out of the service by simply removing their primary email address from their account or turning it off from the account settings.

Facebook recently celebrated its 10th anniversary by Look Back videos for million of users. The minute long video highlighted a user's journey on Facebook and showed their most 'liked' and shared photos shared on the site. The video montage was appreciated by users and "proven to be incredibly popular," Facebook stated.

Source: The Verge via thinkdigit