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eHustler: I'm with you guy, but am thinking of rescheduling my own to enable me prepare wella cos I don't wanna fail!

Aight... also wanted to reschedule but changed my mind. I go rugged am like that.

Wtf is "heavenly feeling"??... is that the censored version of orga$m?.. Oh, Seun you could have at least used "ecstasy" . That's less ridiculous.

Anyone also invited for the test in port Harcourt on Saturday?

public education is already free in edo state. Unless they'll enrol him in a highbrow school, I don't see any difference the scholarship makes.

Today in our coverage of the ongoing
war between Man and Raccoon, an
81-year-old man in Connecticut was
sitting in his yard waiting to surprise
an invading raccoon with his rifle
when apparently he sneezed, fell off
his chair, and shot himself in the shin.
Presumably the raccoon then laughed
maniacally and scampered away.
The raccoon had been scratching up
the door to James Pace Sr.’s house for
quite a while, which I imagine would
tick anybody off. Pace, however, was
incensed enough to stake out the
area for days and see if he couldn’t
blast the little guy into oblivion using
his own .22 caliber rifle. Just goes to
show that when you’re 81, you really
stop giving a crap about what people
think about you, animal welfare
activists included.
After the incident, Pace’s son took him
to be treated at the Yale-New Haven
Hospital for his non-life threatening
injury, and he was released soon after
with no complications. You know,
except for the profound
embarrassment of shooting yourself
in the leg because of a sneeze.
Might we suggest tossing the raccoon
instead next time?

www.geekosystem.com/raccoon-sneeze-shoot/

fellowbeing: The vehicles presented to the monarchs included 101 cars, 22 jeeps and one Hilux truck.


Source: http://mobile.punchng.com/output.php?link=http://www.punchng.com/news/fayemi-warns-against-desecration-of-traditional-institutions/

Don't mean to be pedantic, but our reporters ought to know the difference between Jeep and SUV.

thumbs up, science. First steps to actualise telepathy. Proudly #HomoSapiens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNRDc714W5I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

University of Washington researchers
have performed what they believe is
the first noninvasive human-to-
human brain interface , with one
researcher able to send a brain signal
via the Internet to control the hand
motions of a fellow researcher.

University of Washington researcher
Rajesh Rao, left, plays a computer
game with his mind. Across campus,
researcher Andrea Stocco, right,
wears a magnetic stimulation coil over
the left motor cortex region of his
brain. Stocco’s right index finger
moved involuntarily to hit the “fire”
button as part of the first human
brain-to-brain interface
demonstration.
Using electrical brain recordings and a
form of magnetic stimulation, Rajesh
Rao sent a brain signal to Andrea
Stocco on the other side of the UW
campus, causing Stocco’s finger to
move on a keyboard.
While researchers at Duke University
have demonstrated brain-to-brain
communication between two rats, and
Harvard researchers have
demonstrated it between a human
and a rat, Rao and Stocco believe this
is the first demonstration of human-
to-human brain interfacing.
“The Internet was a way to connect
computers, and now it can be a way
to connect brains,” Stocco said. “We
want to take the knowledge of a brain
and transmit it directly from brain to
brain.”
The researchers captured the full
demonstration on video recorded in
both labs. The following version has
been edited for length. This video and
high-resolution photos also are
available on the research website.


On Aug. 12, Rao sat in his lab wearing
a cap with electrodes hooked up to an
electroencephalography machine,
which reads electrical activity in the
brain. Stocco was in his lab across
campus wearing a purple swim cap
marked with the stimulation site for
the transcranial magnetic stimulation
coil that was placed directly over his
left motor cortex, which controls hand
movement.
The team had a Skype connection set
up so the two labs could coordinate,
though neither Rao nor Stocco could
see the Skype screens.
Rao looked at a computer screen and
played a simple video game with his
mind. When he was supposed to fire
a cannon at a target, he imagined
moving his right hand (being careful
not to actually move his hand),
causing a cursor to hit the “fire”
button. Almost instantaneously,
Stocco, who wore noise-canceling
earbuds and wasn’t looking at a
computer screen, involuntarily moved
his right index finger to push the
space bar on the keyboard in front of
him, as if firing the cannon. Stocco
compared the feeling of his hand
moving involuntarily to that of a
nervous tic.
“It was both exciting and eerie to
watch an imagined action from my
brain get translated into actual action
by another brain,” Rao said. “This was
basically a one-way flow of
information from my brain to his. The
next step is having a more equitable
two-way conversation directly
between the two brains.”


At first blush, this breakthrough brings
to mind all kinds of science fiction
scenarios. Stocco jokingly referred to it
as a “Vulcan mind meld.” But Rao
cautioned this technology only reads
certain kinds of simple brain signals,
not a person’s thoughts. And it
doesn’t give anyone the ability to
control your actions against your will.


www.washington.edu/news/2013/08/27/researcher-controls-colleagues-motions-in-1st-human-brain-to-brain-interface/

Tinyemeka: Does it mean that no nairalander lives below $2 a day?

Hmmm. Have those statistics been lying to us?

$2 a day is barely enough for internet in a month. Nairaland folks are above that.

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Flexskillz: Let's say it does happen, alright. But why clean on a sunday morning before service? Was it part of what was intended for the sunday sermon??

Let's say it does happen, alright. But why clean on a sunday morning before service? Was it part of what was intended for the sunday sermon??

Well, whatever he was doing before the sermon was his personal choice. Does cleaning a gun have any specific right time?
All these questions must have been asked before the Diocese and the authorities can utter such statement. They must have known that he owned a gun and was kinda fond of it.
In furtherance of my earlier post, if the gun had hit my mum fatally, many people wouldn't have believed it was an error. Theories of murder and "blood money" would have popped up from all angles. Thank God it didn't happen.
It's not everything that concerns the Catholic church that is based on conspiracy.

striktlymi: Hmmmm...

The 'accident theory' makes very little sense to me because it leaves us with more questions than answers. The questions that readily comes to mind are:

1) Is the priest in the habit of cleaning his gun when it is loaded?
2) Since the gun is loaded, can't we safely assume that the priest cleaned it the day before?
3) Why would he need to clean the gun that early and at a time that he is expected to be preparing for mass?

The theory really does not add up. Suicide and homicide make a whole lot of sense for me, as a preliminary theory. Anyways, since we are yet to get the facts, we just have to wait and see how this story unfolds.

My dad was cleaning his pump action gun circa 2001. Not knowing there was a cartridge left in the chamber. It blew off, hitting the lintel on top of the bathroom door missing my mum and baby sis by the whiskers. It happens.

muzeze77: Actually Whizkid is correct grammatically, "after erroneously typing ‘i have an hangover’ ". I have a/an [insert adjective here] hangover is correct, you can either use a or an. Normally because hangover starts with H, people expect you to use a, but because when you pronounce it, the H is silent, then you are still correct even if you use 'an'

Dude, the "H" ain't silent.

Wetin be the fan name sef?

lorretta u: Most people here lack basic understanding of biology.hence some of the funny comments I'm reading here.first thing to remember is that the cell is a living unit in itself and all of them make up the organism.so if the doctor can find a way to keep these individual units of life viable until the engine room(heart) is re-activated,what's so #end time signs# about that? Or playing God(worisdat?).we should try thinking outside the box sometimes or at least if we can't,we can encourage those who do.

As in, I tire for my fellow Nigerians. They believe any matter concerning life or death should be left for "GOD". But if they're in health crisis they'll be begging those same scientists playing God to save them.

FOLYKAZE: Scientist, doctors and politicians are now becomming samething. Is this dude calling on public attention or what?

Erm doctor.....could this include those that bullet scatter their heads or those motor smashed their head on motor way or those ritualist had taken their heads away? Mtchewwwww

You clearly didn't read the article. People have been getting "revived" from "clinical" death through electrical defibrillation. He's trying to prove a new method of his can work as well.
He's definitely talking about death by cardiac arrest and probably by hypothermia. And the 24 hours claim will be achievable in a few decades with improvement in research.

The Writer: [size=19pt]
True story. As long as a body is put in stasis (or cryogenic preservation), it is technically possible to reverse death.
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Correct, but unfortunately it appears majority of nairaland readership only understand it to be an act of "playing God" by "oyibo" and is therefore the sign of the "end times" which makes them seem utterly stupid.
Little wonder that British guy said there are too many "d1ck heads" in this country.

otokx: ALUU and UNIPORT have been having 18 hours of light daily for the past 2 days. GEJ is working.

Guy, you never graduate from there since??

Rossikk: Thank you. So because we have not turned to Japan or Germany, it means we've made no progress? For your information on many things you mentioned we have improved, such as infant mortality rates, poverty rates, and even access to clean drinking water. Evidence:

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/nigeria_statistics.html

Even the World Bank the other day admitted that poverty was reducing in Nigeria. What about the roads and rail? What about communications? Was it not under the military that all the infrastructure crumbled, something we're now fixing to great acclaim by Nigerians? Will your foreign visitor/writer know any of this? Afterall he just pops in and out and can write anything.

What rails?? Have we embarked on any major rail project since after independence?
Do we have the most basic of subway or high speed rail lines?

Pukkah: Why would a Minister talk in such a general and nebulous terms like this on a subject that's this important.

Why would a Minister choose not to quote figures but would rather have me check with the banks or CBN?

I want this policy to succeed but the Minister shouldn't sell us a dummy the way someone said the Ministry of Solid Minerals had employed a whopping 2 million people.

This Minister or another one should tell us in specific terms:

1. When the implementation of this good policy started.

2. The locations of the rice farms/mills.

3. How the government has supported the farms to achieve results.

4. The number of metric tonnes that have been produced and the year(s).

5. The exact decline in Customs revenue and to compensate for this, the (estimated) number of people that have been employed by the farms.

Meanwhile, it should be noted that what the Minister appears to have relied on - reduction in rice importation - is not a sufficient reason to conclude that there is an 'upsurge in local production of rice'. For example, have people found other substitutes? Have importers started evading duties? Etc

In other words,,he pulled the figures out of his a$s...

seun bridget: Goin 2 church wt tablet instead of bible,?? Is one of d sign of d end time of d world. am nt sayn u havn tablet is wrong o. Jesus use tablet when HIM dey d world??

He used a scroll to read verses while at the synagogue. They hadn't invented paper and printing press yet. using your logic, reading the Bible from paper book is a sign of end time as well. I dey laugh you.

Rochas don eff up..... He'll regret this.

From my dictionary...

A´ri`el n. 1. (Zool.) A variety of the gazelle (Antilope dorcas,or Gazella, dorcas), found in Arabia and adjacent countries.

Prosper Onyema: If the owner of Ariel detergent is an illuminati, then what are we talking about. Matter Closed.

What's his name ?
and drop a link where he's professed being a member.

pekelepekele: @OP I believe the pastor is 100% right . If you check the bible very well you will notice that their was only two Saul mentioned in the bible .

The first was a king in the old testament and he ended up his life in a devilish way which made God turned his back against him.

The second was a Saul in the new testament that always attack the Christians and even murder them , When God(Jesus) appeared to him at Damascus .

He didn't only become a change person but God changed his name to Paul . Meaning God didn't like the later name anymore.

Name is very important and it means a lot of things , since it was once mentioned in the bible that ariel city was cursed , I believe anything that has that name also bears the curse .



[size=4pt]If you think am wrong please don't swallow me with abuses just share your own opinion. [/size]

Kudos on your intellectual myopia. I "admire" that.

vislabraye: This lOoks like the result of genetic engineering.

It's a freak of nature... Birth defects have been happening from time immemorial, and always will.

Is abortion even legal as to be openly admitting that in a court of law?

SimonAndal:
I think I'm gay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Change your moniker to SimonAnal... And bend over.

ACM10: Shooting up the clouds won't
work anyway, according to
Rahn. "Absurd--it never works,"
he told me. Maybe that's why,
as China Daily reports, the
deputy chief engineer of the
Beijing Meteorological Bureau is
resorting to another unlikely
technique in secular China:

Yeah, I'm aware of (inefficient) cloud-seeding methods. Thought you were referring to some magicians holding back the rain during the Olympics.

soul_glo: This is sad. We should not forget though that the man had a drug habit. The child got so scared from the assault she would get from her mother so she lied. Maybe if dad was dependable and available for his children the girl would not have felt so threatened by her mother. I don't blame the child at all. The parents are to blame here. Dad set a bad example for the whole family. Mother was no better. The child is the real victim here. He should forgive himself first for failing his children before he can really forgive anyone else. I wish the whole family well

Yeah, right... It's his fault he was set up...

ACM10: I disagree. Chinese did it during the Beijing Olympics.

Reliable link, or you pulled it outta your ass.

domcarez: thanks bro for that wonderful question, no offence to the OP but undergraduates and graduates of the so called private universities always think high of themselves above their contemporaries in state or federal universities probably because they paid exorbitant fees to get admission withou necessarily going through the rigors of writing jamb,post ume and enduring the nonchalant attitude of some staffs of govt schools. Bottom line is, u guys have not tasted the bitter side of university life which is occassioned by constant struggle for survival resulting to a complete individual. Private Universities are business establishments,take it or leave it.

What has this gotta do with the question he asked. As long as the law course in the private uni was accredited by the NUC, he has every right to complain if he hasn't been admitted in law school.
Passing through stress in our inefficient public universities actually does more harm than good.
I attended a federal uni as well, but I don't regard one who attended a private uni as an idiot as you just did.

on a final note, ALL Nigerian public universities produce sub-standard graduates. Prove me wrong. Our system is bleeped and all you can do is beat your chest on how inefficiencies and frustrations in schools make one a "complete" individual? a psychologically beat-down half-baked graduate is a "complete" individual? No make me laugh.