Are you a roller, a wrapper, a shrinker, a stacker or a flinger? Check out some tips to holiday packing.

Rollers, flingers, wrappers, shrinkers & stackers:

Rollers

Fold and roll clothes into arrange in an orderly manner within their suitcase

 

Wrappers

Neatly wrap each piece of clothing in tissue paper to prevent creasing

Stackers

Build a stack of clothes starting with the biggest items at the bottom and working up to the smaller items

 

Shrinkers

Make complete outfits and  vacuum pack to utilize space and aid un-packing   

Flingers

Throw everything into a bag with no order or folding involved
 

Plan, colour code, divide, roll and bury: The essential guide to holiday packing

How do you pack yours?

 

Travelodge developed a seven step guide to ensure no essential holiday items are left behind for this year’s summer break.

Step One: Think What & Where
Consider everything you might be doing during your holiday (Posh dinners, sporting activities, sight seeing) then put your favourite items for these scenarios on your bed in piles of tops, bottoms, dresses, shoes, jackets/cover-ups, swimwear. Anything that doesn't have a specific use doesn't need to come with you.

Step Two: Colour Code Clothes:

Look at everything and choose items based on the fact they will work with lots of other items. Thinking of a colour palette makes this even simpler. What you are doing here is ensuring everything works really hard and you don’t end up lugging loads of things that just don’t go with anything else and you will end up never wearing.

Step Three: Divide& Rule

Once you have decided on your clotting, lay it out on the bed before you place them in the suitcase and cut in half. It may sound drastic but it forces you to focus and just remember all the items you have taken on holiday before and never worn.

Step Four: Rollin’, Rollin’, Rollin’
Roll every item that can be rolled, as this will negate creasing. If you take anything remotely tailored, turn it inside out and tuck in the sleeves and it will arrive in the best shape possible.

Sitting on your suitcase to cram everything in is a common last resort

 

Step Five: Bury the shoes  Pack shoes at the bottom of your suitcase and surround them with your underwear. Remember to pack into the corners of your bag - lots of space can be wasted by not filling a bag correctly.

Step Six: Go See Through   
See through wash bags with compartments are brilliant for organizing your toiletries. They tend to be lightweight and you can check quickly to see if you've forgotten anything

Step Seven: Weather planning  
Look at an updated weather forecast just before packing to ensure you are taking the right clothes for the weather conditions at your destination.

Hope you find these helpful! Happy holidays!

Kaduna: Nigerian prostitutes call on the government to help them get out of the business.

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 In recent years, commercial sex workers in several countries, like South Korea, Kenya and France have held public protests against strict anti-prostitution laws. In Nigeria’s conservative north, sex workers are not marching on the streets or calling for more rights. They are calling on the government to help them get out of the business.

 

In this complex in Kaduna, a city in northern Nigeria best known for sectarian violence and ever-deepening poverty, about 30 women pay a little over $8 a day for a spot in a corner of a room.  After they pay their rent, the most money they can make in a day as prostitutes is $10.  Some days they make nothing.

 

One woman, who didn't want to give her name, says the worst part is that besides being desperately poor, they are shunned by their communities.

 

“The majority don’t have respect for us because they think we are not among the living in the society.  They feel we are not supposed to be among them because we are here.  They discriminate us.  While some still take us to be human, the majority don’t really respect and regard us as human," she said. 

 

She said she wants out of the business and that the government and aid agencies should help.  Other women in the complex agree, saying as little as $180 would be enough to get them out.

 

“Of course this is no life.  This is no life.  As I’m talking to you I’m cold. I feel like crying.  No life," said a second woman. 

 

Poverty alleviation in Nigeria, which is rare, usually takes the form of micro-loans or training that helps people start small businesses.  Idris Mussa is a member of the Kaduna State HIV/AIDS department.  He says the department is planning to expand its services to include former prostitutes.

 

“Once they have the basic training  you will be able to give them the small-scale micro-finance.  Something that they can be able do, some income generation,  thereby they can be self reliant on their own," he said. 

 

Other officials say prostitutes who want to quit should have priority in accessing these kinds of services because their work contributes to the spread of HIV/AIDS.

 

Yusuf Arrigasiyyu is the executive director of Muslim League of Accountability in Nigeria, an organization that is calling for government and international assistance in setting up programs to help women who want to leave prostitution.  He says, ultimately, these programs could help save the country money.

 

“If they don’t leave prostitution, government spends more.  Through them you can have HIV, you can have sexually transmitted disease and other diseases that are related to prostitution.  Now government spends more in providing health care for people that are contracting that disease," he said. 

 

Prostitutes say the idea of calling for assistance is relatively new to them and to date they have been entirely neglected by aid organizations and the government.  

 

But Kaduna State Commissioner of Information Alhaji Saidu Adamu says this is not true.  He says the local government would support women who want to leave prostitution, but it’s their job to seek help.

 

“They have to make the initiative.  If they initiate leaving that profession we are ever ready and willing and we will be happy knowing fully that our people now will be more functional, they will be more healthy.  We are also going to reduce the spread of AIDS in our society," he said. 

 

Adamu says prostitutes usually don’t seek government help because they fear they will be arrested.  He promises women will not be incarcerated or harmed if they come forward now.

 

At the complex, the women say they are arrested and harassed constantly.  They say they find the state government's promise hard to believe. 

 

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Michael Jackson's Daughter, Paris rushed to hospital after cutting her wrist in suicide attempt

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Paris Jackson was taken to a nearby hospital early Wednesday morning, after reportedly harming herself.

Paris Jackson was rushed to the hospital early Wednesday morning after an attempted suicide, a lawyer for her grandmother, Katherine Jackson, confirmed to the Daily News.
"She's suffered with the loss of her father," the lawyer said. "But we don't know what she was exposed to that precipitated this."

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Paris Jackson tweeted that an argument had escalated - though she did not say with whom.

According to TMZ,  Michael Jackson's 15-year-old daughter was wheeled out of her Calabasas home on a stretcher and taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital early in the morning.

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Jackson, 15, posted lyrics to the Beatles song ‘Yesterday’ on her Twitter page around the time of the reported incident.

The 911 call was received close to 1:30 a.m., and the caller said Jackson had cut her wrists. It is unclear who placed the call.

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Paris Jackson and her brothers are currently in the care of their grandmother, Katherine Jackson.

Jackson's biological mother Debbie Rowe, who she has recently reconnected with, confirmed the ordeal to Entertainment Tonight - adding that the teen is still hospitalized, and saying she has had "a lot going on."
Messages on Jackson's Twitter page Tuesday night and early into Wednesday morning suggested the young starlet may have been upset.

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Michael Jackson's children, Prince Jackson (L), Blanket Jackson (C) and Paris Jackson (R).

Around the time of the incident, she posted lyrics to the Beatles song "Yesterday."

  

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away now it looks as though they're here to stay," she wrote.

Banker sentenced to death for killing wife

 




An Abia State High Court has sentenced a banker, Mr. Theophilus Ajakaiye, to death by hanging for killing his wife, Theodora.

The convict allegedly murdered his wife on October 12, 2009 at Azumini Ndoki in the Ukwa Judicial Division of Abia.

The charge read, “The accused person is charged with one-count of murder contrary to Section 319 (1) of the Criminal Code Vol. 11, Cap. 30 Laws of Eastern Nigeria, 1963, applicable in Abia State.”

Until her death, Theodora was an employee of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc.

The legal battle between the deceased’s family and the accused began soon after the alleged killing until the judgment recently.

The Presiding Judge, Justice T.U. Uzokwe, said in his judgment that having heard from the accused person, learned counsel for the accused and the prosecuting counsel, the offence carried a mandatory sentence which is death.

He said the court had no power to reduce the sentence and that being the case, he had no option but to sentence the accused.

The judge said, “Though the accused was not seen killing the deceased, I find that the accumulated circumstantial facts found proved that the accused indeed murdered his wife, Theodora Ajakaiye.

“Suffice it to say that I find the accused guilty as charged and I convict him accordingly.”

The sentence read, “Theophilus Ajakaiye – The sentence of this court upon you is that you be hanged by the neck until you be dead and may the merciful Lord have mercy on your soul.”

In the allocutus, counsel for the accused pleaded for mercy on behalf of his client.

He said, “I thank the court for this well considered judgment. The accused has no criminal record. We plead for mercy. There are two children to the marriage and they have already lost their mother.”

It was learnt that the convict had yet to appeal against the judgment.

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Video: Kim Kardashian wants to eat her own placenta after giving birth to 'look younger'

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American reality television star Kim Kardashian earlier shocked fans by opting for a vampire facial and is now ready to move on to an even more bizarre fad - eating the placenta of her first child.


The 32-year-old star of Keeping Up with the Kardashians is pregnant with her first child, a daughter. And in the episode of her television show where she revealed the gender of her baby, she also claims she wants to eat the placenta after giving birth.
The episode was the premiere of season eight of the television series and aired on 2 June. Kim Kardashian asked her doctor: "Don't you think it makes you look younger?" Her doctor replied: "Some people believe in that. There are cookbooks on placentas."
Kim Kardashian's mother, present at the time, appeared to be disgusted and stated: "Yuck! I don't think we're going to be eating the fountain of youth, if you know what I mean."
However, a determined Kardashian said she "really wants to do it".

As disturbing as the thought may be, if Kim Kardashian really does eat her own placenta, she won't be the only Hollywood star to follow the practice. Mad Men and X-Men: First Class star January Jones revealed she ate capsules containing dried placenta.
In March 2012, speaking People magazine, Jones said: "Your placenta gets dehydrated and made into vitamins. It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas ... It's not witch-crafty or anything! I suggest it to all moms!"

Eating Placentas: A Fad?
Although eating placentas appears to be a growing trend, there are studies that show there is no real benefit. In a 2012 article, Dr Mark B Kristal, a scientist with the University of Buffalo, wrote in the Huffington Post, stating: "'Placentophagia' pertains to ingestion of placenta, fluids, and tissues by mothers during delivery. The behaviour, which is almost universal among nonhuman mammals (whales and dolphins are exceptions), is virtually absent in human cultures, past and present."
Kristal also explained human cultures normally show a "strong aversion to placentophagia" and suggested the practice could have been inspired by the use of placentas in traditional Chinese medicine.
However, he stressed: "There is no evidence showing that placentophagia by humans medically or physiologically ameliorates... postpartum depression, 'baby blues' fatigue, lactational insufficiency and hormone deficiencies".

Check out the video of Kim Kardashian and the episode of Keeping Up with the Kardashians:

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