stomach infrastructure: APC candidate shares rice to party officials in Ogun

   

All Progressives Congress (APC) senatorial candidate for Ogun East, Prince Dapo Abiodun has distributed several bags of rice to the party executives in all electoral units, wards and local councils in all the nine local government areas in the district.

Addressing the party executives at a meeting at Ijebu North East local council Secretariat, Atan, Abiodun said he visited the area in appreciation of the support given to him by the people during the party primaries.

Abiodun assured the people of the district that on market days in each of the wards in the nine local governments, bags of rice would henceforth be distributed to market women and men in the district.

APC announces Prof. Yemi Osibajo as Gen. Buhari's running mate

APC  has finally given us the ruining mate of GEN MUH BUHARI. they will both be representing APC in the coming election which will be coming of February 14th.will this combination work for the

m lets just cross our finger and see

BPG: A new, superior image format that really ought to kill off JPEG

For all of the massive technological advances that we’ve seen over the last few years, there are still a number of dinosaurs from a bygone era that, rather unfortunately, just won’t die. JPEG is one of the most prominent examples: It was created more than 20 years ago, and yet its antiquated, bloated, blocky algorithm still dominates the web. You would think, with the modern web being so image-oriented, that we would replace JPEG with something better — but no, it’s 2014 and JPEGs (and multi-megabyte GIFs!) still reign supreme.

It’s not like people haven’t tried to replace JPEG — but, much like MP3 or ZIP, it’s very hard to unseat an incumbent file format (or, more accurately, a compression technology). The fact is, despite any misgivings we might have about JPEGs or GIFs, almost every computer system in the world can display them — and generally, in the grand scheme of communication, it’s much more important to make sure that your message was seen at all, rather than making sure the message is as small and as optimized as possible. Yes, ExtremeTech could start using a JPEG alternative, and revel in our smaller and faster page loads — but our excitement would be rather short-lived when we discover that, for 99.9% of our readers, the site looks like ass.

JPEG (left) vs. WebP (right) image quality. As you can see, WebP is slightly better — but nothing compared to BPG (below)

One of the most famous attempts to replace JPEG was attempted by Google, with its WebP format — but four years on, and it’s still nothing more than a niche file format that hasn’t gained much widespread support outside of Google’s products and services. (The recent trend towards replacing animated GIFs with WebP is pleasing to see, however.) More recently, Mozilla started experimenting with mozjpeg, which reduces file sizes slightly (~10%) while still retaining JPEG compatibility (a big plus). And now, from the creator of FFMPEG and QEMU, Fabrice Bellard, we have BPG!

Short for Better Portable Graphics, BPG offers around the same image quality as JPEG, but at half the file size. To perform such witchcraft, BPG simply uses a newer codec — x265, the open-source implementation of HEVC/H.265. In essence, a BPG image is the same thing as taking a single frame out of an x265/H.265 video stream. We’ve talked about H.265 at length in the past, but basically it’s just a much better algorithm than JPEG — or MPEG-2 or H.264. Furthermore, BPG also has H.265’s ability to render 14 bits per color channel (JPEG is just 8), plus BPG also brings an alpha channel (transparency). Lossless compression is available (though I haven’t seen how it compares to PNG).

Image quality comparison: Mozjpeg left, BPG right. (Looking at it on ExtremeTech isn’t the best idea – use the link below to compare image quality properly).

To see how BPG compares to JPEG and WebP, head on over to the image comparison site. Move your mouse left and right and marvel at how bad JPEG is. The differences will be less pronounced if you go up to “medium” or “large” file sizes, but that’s because the window is very small — plus, with the shift towards mobile computing, it’s highly compressed images that are most important right now. BPG isn’t just for mobile users, though: 14-bit color, which allows for a much higher dynamic range than 8-bit JPEG or WebP, is perfectly suited to newer cameras and displays.

But, of course, at the end of the day, BPG is still just another file format/codec that has a grand total of no native support anywhere. For now, the only way of rendering a BPG file is with a BPG decoder written in JavaScript — about 71 kilobytes of JS, to be exact. Obviously, if you’re trying to cut down the footprint of a mobile website, downloading and executing yet more JavaScript kind of defeats the point. (On desktop PCs, though, the performance hit from using the JavaScript decoder will be minimal.) There is an open-source BPG library that browser makers and other software developers can build into their apps, but obviously mass integration will take months or years.

There is one other interesting aspect of BPG, too: Because it’s based on HEVC/H.265, any device with hardware decode support for H.265 can also decode BPGs in hardware. This is a big deal, because more advanced compression methods tend to require more computation (and thus power) to decode — which is a no-no on mobile devices. Hardware-decoded BPG would be better than JPEG in every which way — now we just have to pray for adoption by software developers.

YotaPhone 2 combines an AMOLED and an e-ink display, but at a hefty price

 

Who’s ready for another crazy Russian smartphone? The YotaPhone 2 may seem like a relatively standard smartphone running Android 4.4, but it harbors one major twist: it has a second display on the back, and it’s no ordinary screen. This oddball device effectively crams a five-inch AMOLED display and a 4.7-inch e-ink display into a single pocket-sized device. It sounds incredible at first, but the hefty asking price makes this phone a nonstarter.

So, why are there two displays? AMOLED and e-ink displays serve very different purposes. AMOLEDs offer bright and vibrant images, but the power cost is non-trivial. On the other hand, e-ink screens are comparatively limited, but use much less power when displaying static images. Shipping with both types of displays offers the user a ton of flexibility, and definitely sets the YotaPhone 2 apart from the crowd. Unfortunately, there are a few other aspects of this whacky smartphone that may keep you on the fence.

The YotaPhone 2 sports a 2.2GHz quad-coreSnapdragon 800 SoC, 2GB of RAM, and 32GB of storage. Those are competitive internals, but when you combine those with two whopping screens, it’s no surprise that the price tag is outrageous. In the UK, you’ll need to drop £550 to snag an unlocked YotaPhone 2. As of writing, that converts to roughly $863 USD — yikes. Even worse, it’s only currently available in 20 countries, and the US isn’t one of them. Supposedly, this phone will make its way to Asia, North America, and South America sometime in 2015, but will anyone even care by then?

Back in February, our very own Sebastian Anthony got his hands on a prototype YotaPhone 2. He wasn’t sold on the idea, and none of the reviews of the final productcontradict his initial skepticism. This model is much better than the original YotaPhone, but it remains little more than a novelty. You’re still better off sticking with a Nexus 6 or iPhone 6.

Truth be told, I’d be more interested in a low-cost, low-power e-ink smartphone. It obviously wouldn’t be as versatile as a standard smartphone, but the battery savings alone might be worth the compromise. It sure would be nice to go two weeks between charging my phone. As it stands, I’m currently eyeing a battery case to last more than 10 hours at a shot. If nothing else, let’s hope that this niche Russian smartphone inspires other companies to step away from the iPhone mold.

Intel announces 32-layer 3D NAND chips, plans for larger-than-10TB SSDs

      

It’s been clear for several years that three-dimensional NAND die stacking, in which chip layers are oriented vertically as opposed to horizontal planar structures was the way forward for next-generation chip designs. Until now, Samsung has been the only company to take that plunge, but that’s going to change in 2015 with the launch of Intel’s own solution in 2015.
According to Intel, its 256-gigabit MLC NAND chips will consist of 32 layers, and will also be available in a 384-gigabit TLC configuration. Intel is claiming that its own 256Gb die sets efficiency records, but as Anandtech reports, this depends on how you count — Samsung has consciously chosen to use a 32-layer 86Gbit die to minimize its die foot print, as opposed to maximizing capacity. This gives Samsung’s V-NAND the smallest die size of any product currently on the market, with size being a very important factor in many markets.

Moving back up the nanometer ladder

Intel, like Samsung, is expected to announce that it uses a much larger process node for its 3D NAND. In Samsung’s case, it uses a 40nm process for 3D NAND, despite the fact that its working on 14nm planar technology for both logic and DRAM devices. Intel and Micron have already launched 16nm 2D NAND, but the fundamental characteristics of flash mean that device reliability decreases as process nodes shrink.

A new version of Google Glass is coming in 2015, with an Intel x86 chip inside

The next version of Google Glass, which is due out sometime in 2015, will be powered by an Intel x86 chip — rather than the Texas Instruments ARM chip that helms the current Glass Explorer Edition hardware. This will mark the first major hardware revision for Glass, which was first shown off at Google I/O 2012 and went on sale in limited quantities in early 2013. Presumably this is either to boost the performance and battery life of Glass considerably — or Intel cut a very generous deal that encouraged Google to move away from ARM for its wearable computing efforts.
Currently, the Explorer Edition of Google Glass (which is available to public as of May 2014) costs around $1,500 — which is a pretty steep price to pay for a device with limited battery life and an ancient TI OMAP 4430 SoC. When the consumer version of Glass finally arrives, priced at around “the average smartphone,” it will ideally need all-day battery life — a problem, when you’re dealing with such a tiny form factor (it’s not ideal to carry a large battery over your ear). It would also be nice if future versions of Glass had built-in cellular connectivity (at the moment they need to be paired over Bluetooth with a nearby smartphone). Again, though, this would be a big drain on battery life.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the matter, Intel will supply the SoC in the next version of Google Glass. It isn’t clear if this will be the consumer version of Glass, or merely an updated version for developers/early adopters. Sadly, there’s no word on what Intel chip Google has chosen — but given how the current OMAP 4430 SoC is a power-hungry 45nm part, I would’ve thought that many of Intel’s newer 22nm and 14nm parts would potentially fit the bill.
    

Would you sleep in a Barbie Themed Hotel Room? See photos

 

The Hilton hotel in Buenos Aires Argentina has launched the world's first Barbie-themed suite. According to the official room description, it’s based on Barbie’s Dreamhouse with the decor ‘flushed pink’ throughout and it's located on the first floor of the hotel in room 136. You'll be able to spot the suite by its pink door.

It costs £112 per night (rising to £356 during peak holiday season) but the suite is already fully booked till 2015. See the pics after the cut and tell us if you will sleep in it..if you had the opportunity 

 

iPad Air 2 teardown reveals the ‘magic’ of Apple’s thinnest tablet: A smaller battery

         


How undignified: The iPad Air 2 — the world’s thinnest tablet! — has only been officially released for a few hours, and already the brutes at iFixit have torn down Apple’s new fondleslab to find out what magical gubbins lie within. Most notably, the teardown reveals that the iPad Air 2 is thinner and lighter than the original Air because… it has a much smaller battery. This explains why the listed battery life for the iPad Air 2 is the same 10 hours as the Air 1 — and why, in practice, some reviews have found that the new Air 2 actually has less battery life than its predecessor. Curiously, the teardown also found that the iPad Air 2 does have an NFC chip — even though reviews of the tablet show that NFC isn’t available.
Just like the original iPad Air, iFixit found that the iPad Air 2 is almost unrepairable, netting a Repairability Score of just 2 out of 10. Like the original iPad Air, the only way into the device is by removing the screen — and there’s so much adhesive that there’s a significant risk of cracking the display while trying to leverage it out. The Lightning connector is still soldered to the logic board, too, meaning it can’t be easily or cheaply replaced — and yes, removing the battery and its oodles of adhesive glue goo still requires a lot of fiddly elbow grease.


Speaking of the battery, the iPad Air 2 now has a 27.62 Wh (watt-hour) battery, as opposed to the 32.9 Wh unit in the original iPad Air — a reduction of about 17%. Amusingly enough, that reduction is almost exactly tied to iPad Air 2’s thickness, which is 18% thinner than the original iPad Air (6.1mm vs. 7.5mm). Apple maintains that the iPad Air 2 is still capable of the same “10 hours of surfing the web on Wi‑Fi, watching video or listening to music,” but some reviews have found that there is indeed a battery life hit. Recode, for example, found that the iPad Air 2 lasted 10 hours and 37 minutes in a battery life benchmark — a full 86 minutes less than the 12 hours and 13 minutes of last year’s iPad Air 1.
Rounding out the rest of the teardown, iFixit found the same NFC module that’s present on the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, 2GB of Elpida RAM, and a new 8MP iSight camera that, despite the same name and pixel count as the camera on the iPhone 6 Plus, clearly isn’t the same piece of hardware (which explains why the iPad Air 2 still doens’t take great photos). The WiFi antennas have been moved to the top of the iPad Air 2 (they used to be along the bottom), which should improve reception a bit. The NFC module is a bit weird, considering the iPad Air 2 apparently (according to both reviews and Apple) doesn’t have NFC/contactless payments enabled. Maybe Apple will enable NFC at a later date?

 




So, there you have it: If you were wondering how Apple could make a very thin and light tablet even thinner and lighter, it wasn’t some magical feat of engineering — they just made the battery thinner. Apple was obviously hoping to compensate for the smaller battery with the new A8X SoC — and no doubt some other small system-wide power savings elsewhere  — but seemingly didn’t quite pull it off. It’s worth pointing out that the iPad Air 2’s 10-hour battery life is still comparable to other flagship tablets on the market — but it is somewhat ironic that it’s beaten by last year’s model.
As I’ve said before, our shift towards mobile computing is still very much hindered by battery tech; displays are still doubling in resolution every few years, and chips are posting huge power reductions year over year, but at least for the foreseeable future, batteries are moving very slowly. If you want faster smartphones and tablets, and brighter and higher-resolution screens, battery life is going to take a hit — there’s currently no two ways about it, and there probably won’t be for many years to come.

JLo steps out in green crop top & matching trousers after revealing why she left Marc Anthony

                                                                                    
Lo wore this bright green crop top and matching trousers teamed with spiky black heels as she stepped out in LA yesterday. I think it's a fierce outfit but many people didn't like it. Would you rock it? Meanwhile, the actress and singer has revealed that she left Marc Anthony in 2011 after 7 years of marriage after suffering a panic attack during a photo-shoot. Read what she wrote after the cut..

Jennifer Lopez detailed her split in her new book titled True Love, which will be out on November 4th. She writes;

'As I sat there getting made up, my heart was beating out of my chest and I felt like I couldn't breathe... I became consumed with anxiety. What was happening to me? I leaped from my chair and said to my dear manager Benny Medina, "Benny, something is happening! I feel like I'm going crazy." My mom was there and she rushed to my side too. 

'It was one of those moments when you're so scared you can't even scream. In a blur of fear and panic, I looked at Benny and my mother and blurted out the words: "I don't think I can be with Marc anymore." Then I burst into tears. 

'It was out. The thing I feared more than anything in the world. I collapsed into their arms and began to sob.'

'Anybody looking from the outside in would have thought my life was great. I had a husband and two beautiful children. I was on American Idol and my new single On The Floor had gone to number one all over the world.

'What people didn't know was that life really wasn't that good. My relationship was falling apart and I was terrified.'

Windows 10 will come with a command line package manager, much to the lament of Linux users

   


Sorry, penguin lovers — if you thought that 2015, in the heinous wake of Windows 8, would finally be the year of desktop Linux, you were sadly mistaken. Microsoft is trying its best to make make amends with Windows 10, to ensure it’s the dream OS for billions of people around the world who use a desktop PC with a mouse and keyboard — and, as a result, this means Microsoft is going to ship Windows 10 with a package manager. Yes, in Windows 10 you can open up a command line shell and install VLC or Firefox or thousands of other packages by typing in a single command.
If you’ve ever ventured into the dark and mysterious land of Linutopia, where Ubutologists and Debianites reign, you will have noticed that one of the things that Linux users are most proud of is package management. While Windows and Mac users have to run graphical installers — you know, where you hit Next a few times and try to avoid installing bundled crapware — Linux users can just open up a command line and type sudo apt-get install vlc. I’m a Windows user through and through, but I have to admit that installing apps and keeping a system updated is much more pleasant in Linux.
With Windows 10, however, we are finally getting an official package manager: OneGet. In the current build of Windows 10 Technical Preview, you can open up PowerShell and use OneGet to install thousands of applications with commands such as Find-Package VLC and Install-Package Firefox. OneGet seems to implement all of the usual functions that you’d expect from a package manager. You can search for packages, add new sources/repos, uninstall packages, install packages, and so on. OneGet uses the same package format as Chocolatey, one of the most popular third-party package managers for Windows (and indeed, you can add the Chocolatey repo to OneGet if you so wish).

     
OneGet was originally rolled out as part of the Windows Management Framework 5.0 preview for Windows 8.1, and it’s being actively worked on to try and ship it as a standard tool in Windows 10. As far as we’re aware, it will only be available through PowerShell — a command-line utility that’s mostly used by power users and IT admins. If you don’t know your way around PowerShell (and indeed, it’s a much more complex beast than cmd or most Linux shells), you can still theoretically use OneGet through the standard cmd command line with @PowerShell. HowToGeek has some more details on OneGet and its implementation in Windows 10, if you’re interested

Android 5.0 Lollipop: All the details and features of Google’s sweetest treat yet

     

Google revealed many details about the new version of Android a few months ago, but we didn’t get a name — it was simply “Android L.” Now there’s finally a name and a version number to go with it. Android 5.0 Lollipop is a seismic shift for Android in both design and features. With all the details of Android 5.0 now in the wild, it’s time to tell you all about the latest, largest, and greatest Android release yet. Buckle up and sit back: There’s a lot of awesome new features to run through.

Materially different

Google’s last design language was known as Holo, but that has been replaced by Material Design. This was thoroughly previewed when the developer preview was released, and Google went on to update the design guidelines for developers to start making Material apps. However, Google is stressing something new with the unveiling of Lollipop — consistency across devices.

 From your phone, to your tablet, to your watch, to your car,  to your TV — it’s going to be Android Lollipop all the time. Well, as soon as your device maker gets around to pushing out an update. There will still be manufacturer skins, but Google is trying to create a vibrant new UI that OEMs will have a hard time covering up. The use of “hero” colors in apps is an example of this. The header color will carry over to the status bar (if the developer supports it), and that color is then shown in the header when you open the app switcher. OEMs love to skin the app switcher, but doing so now will mean taking away useful new UI cues, so why bother?



                  
     

                                                                                                                                                                    The preview of Android L came along at a time when there were almost no Material apps to test, but that won’t be a problem when Android 5.0 starts rolling out. It wasn’t clear last spring just how important (and cool) animations were going to be in Android 5.0. Developers have been trying to come up with ways to fake all the subtle button morphing and panel layering of Lollipop on KitKat devices, and these do add something, but Android 5.0′s native support for Material Design is going to make even cookiecutter apps looks amazing. The updated UI samples and upcoming SDK are looking great.

Battery life fixes

Android phones have long suffered from battery life issues caused by the way apps and services can behave in the background. Any app can be granted the power to wake up a device and keep it awake (called a wakelock). This is an important feature of the platform, but sometimes apps are coded poorly or there’s a minor incompatibility that causes a device to stay awake too long. Android 5.0 is supposed to prevent that while also providing you more information about when you’ll have to charge up.

Mark Zuckerberg donates $25million to help fight Ebola

    

Facebook founder and the 13th richest person in the world, Mark Zuckerberg, estimated to be worth over $30billion just announced on his Facebook page that he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. Continue to read the statement he released...
  

Priscilla and I are donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation to help fight Ebola. The Ebola epidemic is at a critical turning point. It has infected 8,400 people so far, but it is spreading very quickly and projections suggest it could infect 1 million people or more over the next several months if not addressed.

We need to get Ebola under control in the near term so that it doesn't spread further and become a long term global health crisis that we end up fighting for decades at large scale, like HIV or polio.

We believe our grant is the quickest way to empower the CDC and the experts in this field to prevent this outcome.

Grants like this directly help the frontline responders in their heroic work. These people are on the ground setting up care centers, training local staff, identifying Ebola cases and much more.

We are hopeful this will help save lives and get this outbreak under control.

Samsung announces production of three-bit, 3D, high-density NAND flash

       




Over the past few years, Samsung has risen to dominate much of the consumer NAND business thanks to a stream of well-reviewed SSDs that combined excellent performance and low prices. The company’s first SSD with three-bit (Triple-level Cell, or TLC) NAND, the Samsung 840, offered modest performance but was quite affordable, and the Samsung 840 Evo upped the ante last year by combining slower TLC with faster SLC NAND. Now, Samsung is moving to combine its TLC NAND production and its 3D vertical NAND in a move that could hit a real consumer sweet spot.
One note is that Samsung is attempting to have its cake and eat it too as far as the NAND is concerned, referring to this as “3-bit multi-level cell (MLC).” That’s not how the term is typically used, and until Samsung demonstrates that it’s built TLC NAND with MLC characteristics in both performance and longevity, it’s a misapplication of terminology for the sake of marketing.
Underneath that marketing, however, there is reason to think that TLC built vertically could be superior to its traditional planar counterpart. Samsung’s 850 Pro, the first SSD to use V-NAND, has substantially better reliability and performance than traditional planar counterparts. If Samsung can keep those characteristics and extend them into a TLC drive, it could create the most attractive consumer drive on the market.
Samsung’s PR also inadvertently highlights the misleading ways that process nodes are used to market to consumers. While it claims that its 3D NAND is more than twice as productive per wafer as its 10nm-class NAND, an editor’s note remarks that “10 nanometer-class means a process technology node somewhere between 10 and 20 nanometers.” Independent analysis from Anandtech has shown that Samsung’s V-NAND has a very small die advantage over the leading 16nm NAND from Micron.


If Samsung’s V-NAND has truly doubled wafer productivity over its old “10nm-class” NAND, either its feature sizes were nowhere near as good as what Micron is building or its wafer yields were absolutely terrible. Or, as is most likely, it’s using alternate meanings of wafer productivity to make the comparison look better.
The reason I’m less concerned about the underlying technology, even if I’m snarky on the marketing, is because Samsung’s 3D NAND has already proven itself as a potent force and the company’s TLC drives have done equally well — even if the 840 Evo family has a performance issue with older data (there’s a fix for that coming in less than a week, if you own an affected drive). In short, there’s good reason to think the company can take the two products and combine them into something even better — possibly pushing SSDs below the 50 cents per GB line that they’ve been bumping against for a while.

Ebola-killing robots now being used in US hospitals

    



Ebola can kill humans quickly, sometimes just a few days after symptoms appear. Its effect on airplanes however, can be even more infectious. Last night for example, the mere mention of the word after a woman threw up caused American Airlines Flight 2791 to make an emergency landing. Hospitals aren’t messing around either: To combat this new threat some have even introduced a special purpose robot — an Ebolabot if you will — to fight back.
The “robot” is not much more than a UV lightbulb on wheels at his point, but it is perhaps a preview of more evolved defenses yet to come. The $115,000 device is made by San Antonio-based Xenex Disinfection services and currently does battle with viruses and bacteria in some 250 hospitals across the US. Certainly not least among these is the Dallas hospital where the first US case of Ebola also just took a drastic turn for the worse last night.


The market for remote decontamination services may be even greater abroad. Other countries, like Spain for example, seem to be be taking things a bit more seriously. Authorities in Madrid have just moved to euthanize the dog of the first person to contract Ebola outside of Africa. A study by the CDC in 2005 indicated that dogs can be infected by the virus yet may not be overtly symptomatic. As for Ebola spreading to the rest of Europe, the World Health Organization (WHO) has already chosen their word for the situation: “unavoidable.”
UV light is certainly one way to kill, but if the virus is lurking in a shadowy corner it seems additional measures may be necessary. It can’t hurt at this point to avail ourselves of the CDC guidelines for disinfection and sterilization for healthcare facilities. Liquid decontamination probably could have a place on version 2.0 of the Ebolabot, as may a gaseous beat-down like ethylene oxide which could reach even more concealed recesses. We are not sterilization experts here, or for that matter Ebola experts, but we do try to keep a bit of common sense handy.

iPhone 6 hardware specs and design: The final leaks and rumors rounded up (updated)

 



As Apple’s iPhone 6 event is almost upon us, it’s time to take one last look at the latest and most reliable leaks for the iPhone 6′s design, hardware specs, and software. It now seems almost certain that the iPhone 6′s design will deviate massively from the iPhone 5 and 5S, adopting a much larger display and softer, curvier edges, like the newer iPads. We should see a 4.7-inch iPhone 6 tomorrow, and possibly a 5.5-inch model too. Other than larger screens, and perhaps the long-overdue unveil of the iWatch, can Apple offer anything that’s truly innovative to fight off the growing market share of Android? Might we see a sapphire display? An actual, working NFC mobile payments solution?

Let’s take a closer look at what we know about the iPhone 6′s hardware specs, design, screen sizes, and software.

iPhone 6 design and screen sizes

For the iPhone 6, an unusually large number of leaks have emerged from the Chinese supply chain this time around. For months now we have been seeing full-size dummies (non-working replicas used in the design and manufacturing process) of a new, curvier iPhone. Later, videos of complete, working phones appear to confirm that the iPhone 6 will indeed be much smoother and rounder than the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5. It now seems almost certain that the iPhone 6 will more closely resemble the newer iPad Air and iPad Mini.


Early leaks strongly suggested the iPhone 6 would have a sapphire glass display, but more recently they have started to lean in the other direction, saying sapphire glass production isn’t quite up to the level necessary for a full-scale iPhone launch. Maybe we’ll see sapphire glass on the more expensive 5.5-inch model. Or maybe it’s just the iWatch that’ll get sapphire glass.
The sleep/wake button will probably be relocated to the right-hand edge of the phone, to better accommodate for one-handed use of a large-screen phone.


 

Latest Ebola Treatment: Ebola vaccine works on monkeys, will it work on humans?

   



New monkey studies show that one shot of an experimental Ebola vaccine can trigger fast protection, but the effect waned unless the animals got a booster shot made a different way. Some healthy people are rolling up their sleeves at the National Institutes of Health for the first human safety study of this vaccine in hopes it eventually might be used in the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
The NIH today published some of the key animal research behind those injections. One reason the vaccine was deemed promising was that a single dose protected all four vaccinated monkeys when they were exposed to high levels of Ebola virus just five weeks later, researchers reported in the journal Nature Medicine

Is five weeks fast enough? 
That’s in line with other vaccines routinely used today, and fortunately it didn’t take multiple doses to trigger that much protection, said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose employees led the work. The bigger challenge is that the protection wanes over time.
Researchers exposed monkeys to Ebola 10 months after vaccination, and this time only half were protected. Partial protection is better than none, Fauci said. But the goal is long-lasting protection, so it was time to try booster shots. The vaccine is made with a chimpanzee cold virus, used as a delivery system for pieces of an Ebola gene.
The researchers tried simply giving another dose as a booster two months later. That didn’t work well enough. So they tried a different approach called “prime-boost.” The first dose, to prime the immune system, was that original chimp virus-based Ebola vaccine. But for the booster two months later, they made vaccine a different way. They encased the same Ebola gene pieces inside a poxvirus that’s used to make a vaccine against smallpox. (Neither vaccine type can cause Ebola.) 
This time, all four monkeys still were protected 10 months after the initial shot. With the Ebola crisis rapidly worsening, the World Health Organization said Friday that it would try to speed the use of certain experimental products, including two vaccine candidates. The WHO said that in November, it expects early results from first-stage studies to see if the vaccine appears safe and triggers an immune reaction in people. That would help determine whether to test the shots’ effectiveness in health care workers in West Africa.


Latest Ebola Treatment News

The ZMapp
Till now the most effective drug against the Ebola virus has proven to be the ZMapp – a combination of antibodies – that has helped cure two US doctors. The drug is designed to target and inactivate the ebola virus, and is a combination of three different antibodies. The ZMapp works in the same way our natural immune system does only in a more specific way.

Japan’s Avigan
Japan has said that it’s ready to provide a Japanese-developed anti-influenza drug to treat the deadly Ebola Virus. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news agency: ‘Our country is prepared to provide the yet-to-be approved drug in cooperation with the manufacturer if the WHO requests’.  The drug is called Avigan and has been developed by Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings Corp subsidiary Toyama Chemical. The generic name of the drug is favipiravir. The company is also in talks with the USFDA to expand the use of the drug for treatment of Ebola.

Canadian Ebola Vaccine
A vaccine developed by Canadian company Immunovaccine Inc., was found to be protective against Ebola virus in animals. Four monkeys infected with the Ebola virus survived after being injected the vaccine. The company declared the study results on Monday which caused its stock markets to soar high.
The Halifax, Nova Scotia-based company said that the four monkeys were first vaccinated and later a lethal dose of Ebola virus was injected in them. While these four animals survived the viral attack, two monkeys in the control group, who did not receive the vaccine, died within a week. The company started the production of Ebola vaccine few months back after the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) suggested Immunovaccine to develop vaccine for Ebola implementing the technology used by the company in the development of anthrax vaccine

Six Students Of Gombe State University Die In Fatal Motor Accident

   

ix students of the Gombe State University lost their lives in a fatal motor accident which occurred at Sharfuri village in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State on the Bauchi-Gombe Road, last Saturday - See more at: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/09/08/shocking-six-students-gombe-state-university-die-fatal-motor-accident-see-photo/#sthash.rYyluNCR.dpuf

more than five people lost there life in this vital accident may almighty god grant there parent the joy of heart

Six students of the Gombe State University lost their lives in a fatal motor accident which occurred at Sharfuri village in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State on the Bauchi-Gombe Road, last Saturday.
According to a statement made available to journalists in Bauchi on Sunday by the Bauchi State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Haruna Muhammed, the deceased students were among others travelling in a red Volswagen Vento motor vehicle with registration no DAL 195-Gj, according to report from Nigerian Tribune Muhammed stated that policemen from the Kirfi Division visited the scene of accident immediately they got the report of the accident, adding that they rushed the victims to the Alkaleri General Hospital in Alkaleri, where the deceased on arrival, were confirmed dead by a medical doctor.
According to him, the deceased were identified as, Adamu Mohammed A., male of the Department of Education; Musa Sadi Abubakar, male, Department of English and Garba Mariam Anne, female of the Department of English.
Others were Suzy Stephen, female of the Department of English, Kamila Yunusa,female of the Department of English and a yet-to-be identified person.
While informing that efforts were being made to trace the families of the deceased, Haruna, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), stated that their remains had been deposited at the mortuary of the Alkaleri General Hospital.
- See more at: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/09/08/shocking-six-students-gombe-state-university-die-fatal-motor-accident-see-photo/#sthash.rYyluNCR.dpuf

Six students of the Gombe State University lost their lives in a fatal motor accident which occurred at Sharfuri village in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State on the Bauchi-Gombe Road, last Saturday.
According to a statement made available to journalists in Bauchi on Sunday by the Bauchi State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Haruna Muhammed, the deceased students were among others travelling in a red Volswagen Vento motor vehicle with registration no DAL 195-Gj, according to report from Nigerian Tribune Muhammed stated that policemen from the Kirfi Division visited the scene of accident immediately they got the report of the accident, adding that they rushed the victims to the Alkaleri General Hospital in Alkaleri, where the deceased on arrival, were confirmed dead by a medical doctor.
According to him, the deceased were identified as, Adamu Mohammed A., male of the Department of Education; Musa Sadi Abubakar, male, Department of English and Garba Mariam Anne, female of the Department of English.
Others were Suzy Stephen, female of the Department of English, Kamila Yunusa,female of the Department of English and a yet-to-be identified person.
While informing that efforts were being made to trace the families of the deceased, Haruna, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), stated that their remains had been deposited at the mortuary of the Alkaleri General Hospital.
- See more at: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/09/08/shocking-six-students-gombe-state-university-die-fatal-motor-accident-see-photo/#sthash.rYyluNCR.dpuf

Six students of the Gombe State University lost their lives in a fatal motor accident which occurred at Sharfuri village in Kirfi Local Government Area of Bauchi State on the Bauchi-Gombe Road, last Saturday.
According to a statement made available to journalists in Bauchi on Sunday by the Bauchi State Police Command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Haruna Muhammed, the deceased students were among others travelling in a red Volswagen Vento motor vehicle with registration no DAL 195-Gj, according to report from Nigerian Tribune Muhammed stated that policemen from the Kirfi Division visited the scene of accident immediately they got the report of the accident, adding that they rushed the victims to the Alkaleri General Hospital in Alkaleri, where the deceased on arrival, were confirmed dead by a medical doctor.
According to him, the deceased were identified as, Adamu Mohammed A., male of the Department of Education; Musa Sadi Abubakar, male, Department of English and Garba Mariam Anne, female of the Department of English.
Others were Suzy Stephen, female of the Department of English, Kamila Yunusa,female of the Department of English and a yet-to-be identified person.
While informing that efforts were being made to trace the families of the deceased, Haruna, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), stated that their remains had been deposited at the mortuary of the Alkaleri General Hospital.
- See more at: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2014/09/08/shocking-six-students-gombe-state-university-die-fatal-motor-accident-see-photo/#sthash.rYyluNCR.dpuf

Windows 9 kills off awful Charms bar, adds virtual desktops to win back disaffected Desktop User

According to the latest leaks out of Microsoft, the next major version of Windows — Windows 9, Windows Threshold — will kill off the Charms bar. And, if that wasn’t enough to win back the droves of Desktop users who were scared off by the disgusting blight of Windows 8 Metroficiation, Windows 9 will also have
virtual desktops!

                  

According to various sources, current internal alpha builds of Windows Threshold do not have the Charms bar. It isn’t clear if the Charms bar is only being removed from the Desktop, or from the Metro interface as well. Metro apps, which currently rely on the Charms bar for sharing and settings, will be changed so that these functions are exposed elsewhere. Don’t forget that Windows 9 will also allow for Metro apps to be run on the Desktop in a window — in which case, the working theory is that these Metro-on-Desktop apps will gain a Settings button in the top corner of the title bar, along with minimize and close. Desktop users will go back to using the resurrected Start menu and system tray — if they ever stopped using them in the first place, anyway.

As a full-time Windows Desktop user, I’m rather excited about Windows 9. Bear in mind that these are just a few of the changes that are coming in Windows 9. Microsoft isn’t expected to release a preview build of Windows 9 until this fall — ahead of a final RTM release in April 2015 — and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot of cool features targeted at mouse-and-keyboard users by the time it rolls around. It might be too much to hope that the Metro-style PC Settings pane gets integrated into the Desktop Control Panel, but you never know.

Mxit is now in Nigeria! meet your love ones

So, who’s using Mxit already? There are several facts about this social media network that you need to be aware of!  Did you know, for instance, that Mxit was created in South Africa and is a uniquely African social network? As such, it is optimized for local users and gives users an experience that is rich in content but light in data.

You can also chat to your friends on Mxit regardless of which device they are using, as Mxit is compatible with over 8 000 devices including mobile phones, smartphones and tablets. You can keep up with the local news, read free e-books, learn more about your favourite music acts and make new friends all in the same place for less.

THIS IS WHAT I CALL TALENT

Some weeks ago i saw this guy on line it was amazing,if you are to be a producer don't you think this guy what a risk . you can check him out here i decide not to put him picture but just check it out

the accident scene involving El Rufai's 23 year old son

El Rufai's son Hamza El Rufai died this morning in a fatal accident. Here are pics from the accident scene. Hamza was driving the black Lexus car (pictured above) when he ran into a stationery blue colored Volkswagen Saloon car around the Ningi Barrack along A.Y.A - Kubwa road aroudn  5.30am this morning July 29th.

Seagate starts shipping 8TB hard drives, with 10TB and HAMR on the horizon

Seagate, after hinting in May that it would release 8TB and 10TB hard drives in the next 12 months, has started delivering early samples of its 8TB hard drive to “major customers” (i.e. enterprise customers). Curiously, while Western Digital hit 6TB last year by filling its drives with helium, Seagate appears to be pushing the 3.5-inch spinning disk storage envelope by simply increasing areal density. Western Digital, incidentally, despite being the first to 6TB, hasn’t announced anything new since November 2013. Maybe helium wasn’t quite ready for prime time?
During Seagate’s quarterly earnings call, CEO Steve Luczo spoke about all of the company’s major efforts — including its recent move into 6-, 8-, and 10-terabyte drives. Seagate officially announced its 6TB non-helium-filled drive in April 2014, and Luczo says that, “In the enterprise market, most of our major OEMs and cloud customers are qualified or are actively qualifying” the drive. With the 6TB done and dusted, attention has moved to even larger drives: “We have also delivered 8 terabyte customer development units to major customers and cloud service providers and the initial customer feedback has been very positive.”
What’s missing from the earnings call, however, is any mention of when these hard drive behemoths are coming to the consumer market — and, more importantly, how exactly Seagate is reaching such incredible storage densities. [Read: How long do hard drives actually live for?]

A diagram showing the advantages of Western Digital HGST’s helium-filled hard drive. Seagate doesn’t have the advantage of helium, so presumably it resorted to good ol’ areal density.

In Western Digital’s 6TB drive, the use of low-density, low-resistance helium allowed the company to squeeze seven platters into a standard-height 3.5-inch hard drive. Seagate, without the hermetically sealed helium tech, had to stick to six platters, with a massive areal density of 1TB per platter. For the 6TB drive, we believe Seagate used conventional perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) rather than shingled magnetic recording (SMR) or heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR).
But how did Seagate squeeze 8TB into a normal 3.5-inch drive? Seagate, rather annoyingly, is keeping schtum on the matter. It seems unlikely that Seagate could’ve upped its areal density from 1TB to 1.3TB per platter in just a few months without deploying a new recording technology. It is also possible that Seagate managed to squeeze seven platters into the enclosure, despite the lack of helium, along with a smaller bump in areal density to 1.14TB per platter for more info you can see how it works here

Android Wear deep-dive review: A smart start to smartwatch software

Over the past few years, companies large and small have been struggling to convince us we need computers on our wrists. And let's not beat around the bush: Their efforts have all been pretty underwhelming.
From the Pebble to the Galaxy Gear (and all of their subsequent variations), no single smartwatch has managed to crack the code -- to establish a compelling use for the technology that's also stylish and simple to operate.
Now it's Google's turn to step up and take a swing. With its new Android Wear platform, Google is hoping to do for smartwatches what it's already done for smartphones: Create a massive and expandable platform that'll attract hordes of manufacturers, developers and, ultimately, consumers.

   
So what's Wear actually like to use in the real world -- and could it succeed where so many other efforts have failed? I've been living with the platform for the past two weeks to find out.
(Note: This review will focus specifically on the software side of the Wear experience. For a detailed look at the first Wear devices, click over to my separate Samsung Gear Live vs. LG G Watch: A real-world evaluation review.)

Getting to know Android Wear

When you walk around a city talking into your watch, you're bound to get a few quizzical glares. In that regard, wearing Android Wear makes you feel a bit futuristic and ahead of the curve -- kind of like living out a James Bond fantasy (minus all the explosions and scantily clad co-stars).
The best way to describe a Wear watch, I think, is as a device that makes it easier to keep up with the information you need. And thanks to all the data Google has collected about you and your world, Wear is in a unique position to provide that service.
Case in point: The heart and soul of Android Wear is Google Now, the intelligent virtual assistant Google has woven into Android and Chrome over the past couple of years. Google Now uses a combination of search data from your Google account, location data from your mobile device and cues from things like your Gmail messages to compile bite-sized tidbits of info -- known as "cards" -- that appear contextually throughout your day.
You might get a card in the morning alerting you to traffic on your route to work, for instance, or a card with directions to a business you searched for earlier in the day. Some cards are as simple as the number of steps you've taken so far that day or the weather for your area -- or for an area you'll be traveling to in the near future. Others are more surprising, like a card that might appear on a Friday evening with the current drive time to a bar or restaurant you tend to frequent on that day of the week.

10 Types of Women That Men Do Not Want to Marry

 

Miss "Bossy Pants": This woman usually can't help herself; she has bossy in her DNA. When a man first meets her, he might think this character trait is cute, for awhile. However, once he starts to feel like he is in grammar school being told what to do by his second grade teacher, he will give this woman her walking papers.
Miss "Playing Games With His Heart": This woman thinks that being a game player will help her land a man. However, even though a man might be intrigued by a hard to get lady in the beginning, as soon as he decides that he is interested in her, all he wants is an honest straightshooter. If this woman doesn't remove Battleship from her repertoire quite quickly, she will be shown the door before she can even sink his vessel.
Miss "I Want To Change You": This woman is lurking everywhere. She is the type of woman many men are the most leery of. (Of course, there are some men who love this woman because of their own insecurities.) She claims that she loves her guy just the way he is, but little by little, she chips away at just about everything about him. First, it's his wardrobe, then it's his taste in music. However, when she gets to his friends and his hobbies, she is usually kicked to the curb.
Miss "Suspiciously Jealous": This woman is on edge all the time because she is very distrusting. Many times, she has been burnt in the past, so she is on guard for anything that looks or feels wrong. When a man first meets this woman, he sees her as a damsel in distress and wants to reassure her that he is nothing like that guy in her past. However, once she accuses him one too many times, he will have no choice to leave her because he can't go through his life being prosecuted for somebody else's crimes.
Miss "I Live For You And I Have Nothing Else Going On": This woman is very difficult for a man to date, let alone marry. At first, he is flattered that she is so into him, but very quickly, he feels overwhelmed and suffocated by her. As a woman, you must have something going on in your own life so that you are not just waiting by the door for him to come home.
Miss "I Have Daddy Issues": This woman usually dates older men and deep down is looking for a father figure, not a boyfriend or husband. Initially, her guy might like how she looks to him for approval and the answer to all of her questions, but soon, he realizes that he wants to have sex with a real woman, not someone who is stuck in her teen years trying to get Daddy to notice her.
Miss "I Speak To My Mother Five Times A Day About Everything": This woman has her mother on speed dial and can't seem to make a decision or do anything without getting her opinion. When a guy first meets her, he thinks it's nice that she is so close to her family, but soon, he finds it to be way too much. A man just doesn't want to have to ask her mother's permission about things in his life.
Miss "Shhh, I Shouldn't Really Be Saying This, But...": This woman is like a human Page Six. She loves to gossip and talk about other people and she loves to hear things about other people as well. Initially when a guy meets her, he might be entertained by her anecdotes but eventually, he begins to wonder what she is saying behind his back.
Miss "Keeping Up With The Joneses": This woman needs to be at least as good as everyone else she knows. She is constantly talking about what the other people do and what the other people have. This places a lot of undue pressure on her guy and eventually, he justs gets fed up that she can't appreciate what they have instead of wishing she was someone else.
Miss "I Don't Eat": This woman picks at her food, is on a never-ending diet or doesn't eat pretty much everything that most people eat. When a man first meets her, he thinks to himself, at least she will never become overweight, but eventually he realizes that it's no fun to eat alone. The fact is men like to eat; they like steak, they like trying different foods, they like dessert and women should be eating too, at least sometimes.
Keep in mind that most men just want a happy and easy going woman who has good values, so just focus on putting the best YOU out there.

LG's G3 Beat is another cheaper, smaller Android flagship

LG's new flagship smartphone the G3 has barely touched down on shop shelves down and already a follow-up device has emerged. The LG G3 Beat, as it will be known in South Korea, or the LG S, as it will be known elsewhere, will sit a tier below the G3 proper with a lower price-tag to match.

LG is no doubt hoping that by sharing a name with the G3, the G3 S will steal a little bit of the hero handset's sunshine, but don't expect it to offer quite the same performance as its namesake. This is after all a mid-range phone.

Inside is 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon 400 processor, which is a significant step down from the innards of the G3 -- a phone that produced one of the most impressive benchmark scores we've ever seen. Accompanying this chipset is a measly 1GB of RAM. These lower-tier components are responsible for keeping the phone's price down, however, and will no doubt still provide a reliable and decent level of performance.

The G3 S is smaller than the G3, with a screen measuring 5 inches rather than 5.5 inches, although it still sports a pretty thin bezel meaning there's not a lot a spare handset left over. We really liked both and the feel of the G3 when we conducted our review of the handset, so if the G3 S is as similar the marketing material implies, this will be one very slick and stylish phone.

The similarities with the G3 are not only confined to the G3 S' design though -- some key features like the laser autofocus, smart keyboard, one-touch focus and shoot and gesture shot, which is great for selfies, are also present.
The camera packs an 8-megapixel sensor and its forward-facing counterpart is 1.3 megapixels. Even on a cheaper phone, these sound pretty weak these days. Most of the handset's competitors will sport at least a 5-megapixel camera on the front, and the relatively cheap Huawei Ascend P7 even offers 8 megapixels on the front -- after all this is the age of the digital self-portrait.
We thought the 3,000 mAh battery on the G3 should have been able to keep the phone juiced up for a bit longer than it actually did. As such, it's possible that the 2,540 mAh battery in the G3 S might not stretch as far as we'd like either -- although we'll reserve judgement for our full review.

24: Live Another Day’: Will Jack Bauer Return For Another Season?

The July 14 finale of ’24: Live Another Day’ was the epitome of why the show continues to be a beloved classic among audiences. The finale saw Jack Bauer living to fight on once again. So, could Jack ever return for another round of saving the day?

24: Live Another Day’s July 14 finale was a thrilling and action-packed end to a great season. TV’s most beloved action hero returned for one last go at saving the world. However, is Jack Bauer’s (Kiefer Sutherland) story ever really over and could the show possibly make another epic return? HollywoodLife.com found out that scoop when we chatted with executive producers Manny Coto and Evan Katz for a group interview.

24 fans were overwhelmed with joy when the hit show announced it would be returning after four years for a 12-episode special season. The return of Jack, beloved characters from the original show and the high-paced and intense storylines were a treat for fans.
After the finale, Jack still lives on to save the people he loves from harm. So, could there be more to Jack’s story? Executive producers Manny and Evan reveal whether or not Jack could return for another season.

 

Lionel Messi's Golden Ball Award a bizarre decision

Lionel Messi gained some small consolation for Argentina’s defeat to Germany in the World Cup final when he was named the Golden Ball player of the tournament. 
 
The Barcelona forward played a key role in Argentina's march to the final at the Maracana stadium in Rio, picking up four man-of-the-match awards.                
He scored four goals at the tournament, but failed to pick up the one honour eluding him after Germany substitute Mario Gotze's 113th-minute goal dashed the South Americans' dream of a third title.
Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer kept a clean sheet in the final and he was rewarded for a number of fine performances in Brazil with the Golden Glove award for the best goalkeeper of the tournament.
the question is does messi desvers to be the best player in world although we all know,messi is one of the greatest player ever.but in this competition did messi really deserve the award

Between those two bookends, one of the best World Cups ended with boos for the presidents of Fifa and Brazil, the locals awash with schadenfreude, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany’s best player, limping and drained, the flinty Javier Mascherano weeping and Messi stepping up to receive the Golden Ball for the tournament’s best player: a bizarre choice, which even he will be embarrassed about, given the way this game unfolded. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

Between those two bookends, one of the best World Cups ended with boos for the presidents of Fifa and Brazil, the locals awash with schadenfreude, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany’s best player, limping and drained, the flinty Javier Mascherano weeping and Messi stepping up to receive the Golden Ball for the tournament’s best player: a bizarre choice, which even he will be embarrassed about, given the way this game unfolded. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

Between those two bookends, one of the best World Cups ended with boos for the presidents of Fifa and Brazil, the locals awash with schadenfreude, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany’s best player, limping and drained, the flinty Javier Mascherano weeping and Messi stepping up to receive the Golden Ball for the tournament’s best player: a bizarre choice, which even he will be embarrassed about, given the way this game unfolded. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dp

k that was Argentina’s last chance to make it through to penalties ballooning into the stands. It was strangely reminiscent of Roberto Baggio’s missed penalty in the s - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

k that was Argentina’s last chance to make it through to penalties ballooning into the stands. It was strangely reminiscent of Roberto Baggio’s missed penalty in the s - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

k that was Argentina’s last chance to make it through to penalties ballooning into the stands. It was strangely reminiscent of Roberto Baggio’s missed penalty in the s - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

k that was Argentina’s last chance to make it through to penalties ballooning into the stands. It was strangely reminiscent of Roberto Baggio’s missed penalty in the s - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

k that was Argentina’s last chance to make it through to penalties ballooning into the stands. It was strangely reminiscent of Roberto Baggio’s missed penalty in the s - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

Between those two bookends, one of the best World Cups ended with boos for the presidents of Fifa and Brazil, the locals awash with schadenfreude, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany’s best player, limping and drained, the flinty Javier Mascherano weeping and Messi stepping up to receive the Golden Ball for the tournament’s best player: a bizarre choice, which even he will be embarrassed about, given the way this game unfolded. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

Between those two bookends, one of the best World Cups ended with boos for the presidents of Fifa and Brazil, the locals awash with schadenfreude, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany’s best player, limping and drained, the flinty Javier Mascherano weeping and Messi stepping up to receive the Golden Ball for the tournament’s best player: a bizarre choice, which even he will be embarrassed about, given the way this game unfolded. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

Between those two bookends, one of the best World Cups ended with boos for the presidents of Fifa and Brazil, the locals awash with schadenfreude, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany’s best player, limping and drained, the flinty Javier Mascherano weeping and Messi stepping up to receive the Golden Ball for the tournament’s best player: a bizarre choice, which even he will be embarrassed about, given the way this game unfolded. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf

Between those two bookends, one of the best World Cups ended with boos for the presidents of Fifa and Brazil, the locals awash with schadenfreude, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Germany’s best player, limping and drained, the flinty Javier Mascherano weeping and Messi stepping up to receive the Golden Ball for the tournament’s best player: a bizarre choice, which even he will be embarrassed about, given the way this game unfolded. - See more at: http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/world-cup/lionel-messis-golden-ball-award-a-bizarre-decision-30428856.html#sthash.Wz7fSgZX.dpuf