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ManWater:
Wouldn't mind going on this cruise ship.

Far better than that dangerous Submarine trip to the bottom on the ocean just to see a shipwreck.

Wow, btw your username say it all

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Crazy world of Billionaires

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Seun Lala

It sounds alright to me, what about you?
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seun why na

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4Play:
Nigerians resent racism against blacks in the same way ISIS or Al Qaeda resent discrimination against Muslims or the KKK resent discrimination against whites.

In other words, we are not against prejudice and discrimination in principle, we are just against being at the receiving end of it.

Exactly my point, but it's high time for this attitude to be changed 😒

A paralysed man has regained the ability to walk smoothly using only his thoughts, for the first time.

A previously paralysed man has been able to walk again – just by thinking about it – thanks to a new device that connects his brain and his spinal cord, bypassing an injury he suffered 12 years ago.

A cycling accident in 2011 left Gert-Jan Oskam, 40, with paralysed legs and partially paralysed arms, after his spinal cord was damaged in his neck.

But today he is back on his feet, walking with the use of crutches thanks to a “digital bridge” between his brain and the nerves below his injury.

“Within five to 10 minutes I could control my hips, like the brain implant picked up what I was doing with my hips so that was the best outcome I think for everyone,” Oskam said in a statement.

When he thinks about walking, electrodes on his brain relay the message to electrodes on his spinal cord, stimulating the spine.

“Now I can just do what I want. When I decide to make a step the stimulation will kick in as soon as I think about it,” Oskam said. “This simple pleasure represents a significant change in my life.”

Thinking about walking
Oskam took part in a trial in 2018 that showed, with intensive training, technology to stimulate the spine with electrical impulses could help people with spinal cord injuries to walk again, although, after three years, his improvements had plateaued.

His original spinal implant has been paired with two disc-shaped implants inserted into his skull so that two 64-electrode grids rest against the membrane covering the brain.

Now when Oskam thinks about walking, the skull implants detect electrical activity in the cortex, the outer layer of the brain.

“To walk, the brain must send a command to the region of the spinal cord responsible for the control of movements. When it’s a spinal cord injury this communication is interrupted,” said Professor Gregoire Courtine, a neuroscientist at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

"Our idea was to re-establish this communication with a digital bridge, an electronic communication between the brain and the region of the spinal cord that is still intact and can control the leg movement,” Courtine said.

This signal is wirelessly transmitted and decoded by a computer that Oskam wears in a backpack, which then transmits the information to the spinal pulse generator.

“So when everything is installed, the patient has first to learn how to work with his brain signals and we also have to learn how to correlate these signals to the spinal cord stimulation. But this is pretty short. In a few sessions, everything is linked and the patient starts training,” said Professor Jocelyne Bloch, a neurosurgeon at EPFL.

‘Digital repair’
After about 40 rehabilitation sessions using the brain-spine interface, Oskam regained the ability to voluntarily move his legs and feet.

The team says the study – published on Wednesday in the journal Nature – shows a type of voluntary movement not possible after spinal stimulation alone, and suggests the training sessions with the new device prompted further recovery in nerve cells that were not completely severed during Oskam’s injury.

“What we observed along the duration of this training is a digital repair of the spinal cord,” Courtine said.

“Not only he could leverage the digital bridge in order to control his paralysed muscle, but also show a recovery of neurological function he had lost for many years, suggesting that this digital bridge also promoted the growth of new nerve connections.”

He can now even walk short distances without the device if he uses crutches.

Courtine’s team is currently recruiting three people to see whether a similar device can restore arm movements.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/25/paralysed-man-walks-with-device-that-connects-brain-spinal-cord

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With recent happenings in the football world, particularly in the Spanish league, where acts of racism occurred against Real Madrid player Vinicius Junior, it has once again highlighted the need for condemnation and action against such acts. In this regard, I have witnessed many Nigerians expressing their outrage and condemning the incident, as is expected. It is commendable to see Nigerians standing up against racism, just as they have done in the past when xenophobia reared its ugly head in South Africa.

However, it is disheartening to observe that within Nigeria itself, our youth engage in daily attacks on social media, targeting one another based on differences in sociocultural, religious, and geopolitical backgrounds and beliefs. This internal strife, often fueled by tribalism, poses a significant challenge to the unity and progress of our nation.

From my perspective, it is crucial to recognize that racism, xenophobia, and tribalism are all forms of prejudice and discrimination that must be condemned with equal vigor. The root causes may differ, but the impact and harm caused by these divisive attitudes are similar. In fact, one could argue that a person who exhibits tribalist tendencies is likely to harbor racist or xenophobic attitudes if they were raised in an environment that condones such behavior.

It is important for us, as Nigerians, to reflect on this double standard and work towards eradicating all forms of discrimination, whether they occur within our borders or elsewhere.

No one chooses to be born black, Igbo, Hausa, Fulani, or Yoruba. As for me, tribalism is a mental illness.

Let's fight the CANCER within before crying victims 😢.

superCleanworks:
and you say you wan make heaven like this

God forgive me

Dagger111:
God will forgive you oo. Say Amen!

Amen

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helinues:
Still experiencing this time changes on my laptop

Now it's 1 hr late. Yesterday, it was 2 hrs + late

May be the satellite of the laptop maker is the one slowing behind.

Mine have been 1 hr late for over 1 year, whenever I manually change it once I connect it to the Internet it goes back.
I just learned to use it that way.

nifemi25:
One motivational speaker must have confuse to him

Hahaha, or one musician don confused am

dawnomike:
He is fortunate to have survived the flight... I hope that he will be granted an assylum.

I wish same to him

January 23, 2022 at 5:27 pm EST
By Bob D'Angelo, Cox Media Group National Content Desk

AMSTERDAM — A stowaway hiding in the nose wheel of a cargo plane survived an 11-hour flight from South Africa to the Netherlands, authorities said Sunday.

The man had been hiding for more than 11 hours since the plane left Johannesburg, a spokesperson at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport told CNN. The man was not identified, but officials said he is believed to be between 16 and 35 years old, the news outlet reported.

It is unusual for stowaways on long flights to survive, due to the cold and low oxygen at high altitudes, the BBC reported.

Stowaway found in South Africa plane wheel at Amsterdam airport.

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 23, 2022
“The man was found alive in the nose wheel section of the plane and was taken to hospital in a stable condition,” Royal Dutch Military Police spokesperson Joanna Helmonds told the AFP news agency. “It is quite remarkable that the man is still alive.”

A spokesperson for freight carrier Cargolux confirmed in an email to Reuters that the stowaway had been on a flight operated by Cargolux Italia.

“We are not in a position to make any further comment until the authorities and the airline have completed their investigation,” the spokesperson said.

According to flight data, the only Cargolux freight flight from Johannesburg to Schiphol on Sunday also stopped in Nairobi, Kenya, the BBC reported. It is unclear whether the man boarded the plane in South Africa or Kenya.

When the plane landed, members of the airport ground spotted the man and immediately notified authorities, CNN reported. Dutch police and emergency services confirmed that the man was alive but had a low body temperature, Helmonds told the news outlet.

The man was revived and stabilized at the airport and then taken to a hospital in Amsterdam, Helmonds told CNN.

“When the man has recovered and cleared by the hospital, he will then be processed at the Asylum Seekers Centre where his status will be determined if he indeed is looking for asylum,” Helmonds told the news outlet.

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https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/stowaway-survives-nose-wheel-during-flight-south-africa-netherlands/UATMQSOYEZBN7F24GL47HKVZBA/

MALIGNANTGuest:
PLEASE, join your mates and leave the country.
The only thing you benefit from joining that is PRESTIGE, which can be gotten on a plater of Gold the moment you relocate to the UK and continue your work!
The UK prestige will definitely come with a fatter bank account, especially now Buhari is hellbent on crashing the country into the sea b4 leaving.
Even NGIGE knows this.

Hi Sir. Thank you for the advice because I'm in the same boat with the OP. Though already contemplating between military and USMLE. But we surely will like to be Mentored by someone like you if possible.

Affable

We are the problem of ourselves, if you can't support someone to fight for his right and fail to make any attempt toward yours, why going against me when I stand for my right?

There is a big problem, all unions have right to fight for themselves.

Thinking this might be of help to someone...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGN-E5rMkIM