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dregmaster:
You mean we should still hug in spite of EBOLA? Okay o!

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:Dlolzz...yea bro, Nigeria was long decleard Ebola free since October 25th by W.H.O

New implant improves vision for older people struggling with cataracts, astigmatism, or long and short-sightedness.

For many people getting older brings a catalogue of vision problems which make everyday tasks like reading and driving a major challenge.

But a new lens implant which mimics the working of a youthful eye is giving sight back to people struggling with cataracts, astigmatism, or long and short-sightedness.

It is the first lens that corrects for all types of vision problems at once and can be inserted in just a simple operation. It works at any distance and in any light condition, acting more like a camera zoom than other multi-focal lenses which have three distinct points of focus.

Susan Wright, 57, a charity consultant from Macclesfield, Cheshire, is one of the first people in the world to test the new implant.

She had surgery on both eyes six weeks ago and had her final follow-up appointment with ophthalmic surgeon, Brian Little, at the London Claremont Clinic last week

Ms Wright suffered from cataracts and struggled to see objects up close which made driving virtually impossible and working at a computer increasingly difficult.

“I have never had particularly good eyesight,” said Ms Wright, “I had cataracts and long-sightedness and I would get a sense that there was a blank space in part of my vision.

“I stopped driving a while ago because I didn’t really feel comfortable with it, particularly finding my way anywhere if it was dark. I work with spreadsheets and it was getting difficult to tell the difference between the numbers ‘6’ and ‘8’ on a screen.

“Now my mid and long-range vision is absolutely excellent and I have been told my short range vision will continue to improve. Colours are much brighter and everything is sharper.

“I had planned to do a driving trip across the Pennines to see friends and I have achieved that now. And I can thread needles for the first time when I am sewing and read books and newspapers without reading glasses.”

The lenses are made of plastic and should never need to be replaced. Users have the added benefits that after cataracts are removed, they will never develop again.

Previous multi-focal lenses which can correct near and far vision have produced halo bursts and glare and there is a notable jump when switching rather than the smooth focus of a natural eye.



Details of the lens technology (David Rose/The Telegraph)

However the new implants have tiny circular grooves which change the way light is bent at various parts of the lens allowing for a seamless change when shifting focus.

The new lenses – called TECNIS Symfony Intraocular lenses - also allow more light to get through so that colours are more easy to distinguish.

There are almost two million people in the UK living with sight loss and the poor vision increases with age. 1 in 5 people aged 75 and 1 in 2 aged 90 and over are living have difficulty seeing.

Jenny Brindley, 58, a speech and language therapist, of Camberwell, South London, has also recently had the implants.

“Before the operation my eyesight had deteriorated a lot. Gradually things were becoming more and more yellow,” she said.

“I was quite short sighted and that had got worse and things were quite misty. I like art and visiting galleries and watching foreign films so my eyesight was stopping me doing a lot of the things I love.

“I wore prescription glasses since the age of seven, but I work with children with autism and they grab at them a lot.

“After the first operation it was the first time I could see the end of the bedroom clearly. I noticed for the first time that my husband’s jumper was purple. I had always thought it was brown. It’s really much better than I expected.”

Recent clinical trials of the implant showed that 81 per cent of participants reported 20/20 long-distance vision after surgery. 98 per cent said they never needed glasses for distance vision, 96 per cent for middle distance.

SOURCE:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11304034/.html

The beauty of the glimmering sky during comet showers may turn into a nightmare if predictions by German scientists come true.

According to astrophysicists from Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, a large group of comets may enter the inner solar system and collide with the Earth resulting in a devastating apocalypses.

The comet invasion may wipe out life from Earth completely by creating a gravity imbalance of the solar system.

The report published by the German institute also reveals that asteroids and comets that are orbiting past Neptune will pose a bigger threat to our solar system.

"Stars which pass close to the Sun can perturb the Oort cloud, injecting comets into the inner solar system where they may collide with the Earth," Dr Coryn Bailer-Jones wrote in his report.

Bailer-Jones came to this conclusion after meticulously studying the orbits of 50,000 suns around the galaxy.

"The search uses a Monte Carlo simulation over the covariance of data in order to properly characterize the uncertainties in the times, distances, and speeds of the encounters," the report reads.

Bailer-Jones also mentions that Gliese 710 has the potential to upset the hypothetical Oort cloud which will result in a series of comet showers into the inner Solar system.

However, earthlings need not worry for a catastrophe to happen in the near future as the errant comet showering star won't reach earth until 500,000 years from now.

SOURCE:
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/deadly-comet-showers-destroy-life-earth-forever-german-scientists-believe-so-1480442

Hugs may have healing properties (beyond making you feel warm and fuzzy). This flu season add a hug a day to your regimen--it may help lessen your symptoms should you fall ill, according to one study.

The find was published in Psychological Science and highlighted in Carnegie Mellon University's news by Shilo Rea. Researchers wanted to assess what social support and hugs had on illness. The study singled-out participants that may be more susceptible to a cold's symptoms because of their heightened level of stress in their lives.

The team took 404 adult participants and assessed their perceived level of social support through a questionnaire. Every evening for two weeks, researchers would call participants to inquire about any conflicts in their lives in order to assess their level of stress and how many hugs they received to measure social support. Participants were then intentionally exposed to the common cold and put in quarantine to monitor their symptoms.

The results showed that social support did dictate how bad the symptoms progressed. Those that had a daily helping of hugs had less severe symptoms. Overall, it helped if participants had a great perception of social support and hugs whether or not they were under a great deal of stress. The led by Sheldon Cohen, Professor of Psychology at the Robert E. Doherty University, noted in a press release:

"This suggests that being hugged by a trusted person may act as an effective means of conveying support and that increasing the frequency of hugs might be an effective means of reducing the deleterious effects of stress. The apparent protective effect of hugs may be attributable to the physical contact itself or to hugging being a behavioral indicator of support and intimacy."

One other study, published back in 2010 in the journal of Developmental Review, showed that there was a reduction in heart rate and blood pressure with participants who received massage therapy. Researchers also reported a boost in their immune systems, increasing their “natural killer cells,” as well as decreasing their cortisol levels (a hormone associated with stress).

It's possible that a dose of hugs may be a more welcome immune booster during the cold and flu season. So, instead of running out to buy a pack of vitamin C, consider giving a friend or loved one a hug. But make sure you're not in a state to pass on any infections in the process.

SOURCE:
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/boost-your-immune-system-with-hugs

IKJ66:
if I should really comment on this I would definately get on some peoples nerve buh I would rather drop the much needed STORY FOR THE gODS

...diariz Godooo...bt u made a point!

[quote author=HsLBroker post=29092013][/quote]U hv insight...sound well informed

sufido123:
Buhari is not the change we need. We would be going back to the future of 1983 if we elect Buhari. Listen to IBB:

U nid b delivered frm pdp spell...so u cn get real sense!

berem:
God bless the General!

Sai Buhari 2015!

Gflat:
Its jesus's birthday not hers

I've gat nothing more to add or remove...u've said it ol...so on point. ...#ENDofDISCUSSION

FFK or not...i see him as a distraction to the honest quest of mr. GMB & osinbajo...he cnt stop dis wind of change...as nigeria, really needs a more proactive leadership out of d decadence n shame pdp leadership have brought us into...SAI BUHARI 2015!!!!...APC ...CHANGE!!!

Airforce1:
Lol

To the ladies,

A guy is yours only when he's with you.... the moment he steps out of that door alone, he's a free agent.

This is far from being a generally adopted truth...as there ar exceptions...#am-ONE! to GoD'z glory... As it really satisfying to b faithful to ur spouses, than the emptiness, guilt n vanity of unfaithfulness.

While I was working in a muslim mosque as an imam, as a parish priest, I preach in my parish that Jesus Christ is not God, for me, God was only Allah, and I believed Allah never got married, so no sons for Allah. So I preached there that Jesus is not God,somebody ask me, who is Jesus?’’ from the crowd. Maybe a muslim, but he asked me, who is Jesus?’’ I was preaching he is not God, but the question is who is he? To know who is Jesus? I read the entire Koran once again: 114 chapters, 6666 in the Koran when I read it, the name of prophet Muhammad. I found it in Koran 4 places, but the name of Jesus I found in 25 places. There itself, I was a little confused. Why does the Koran give more preference to Jesus? And second thing, I could not see any woman’s name in Koran: the Prophet Muhammad’s mother’s name, or wife’s name, no, in the Koran, there is only one woman’s name that i found is Mariam, the mother of Jesus no other woman’s name. And in the holy Koran chapter 3, the name of the chapter is family of Mariam,’’ and holy Koran chapter 19, the name of the chapter itself is ‘’MARIAM’’ one chapter is ‘’MARIAM’’ so I was very curious to know why does Koran says all these things about MARIAM, holy Koran chapter 3 verse 34 onwards says that Mary was born without original sin, she never committed any sin in her life, she was ever virgin.
Koran chapter 50 verses 23 say that she went to heaven with her physical body. Even the assumption is writing in the holy Koran and then about Jesus, when I read chapter 3 verses 45 to 55 verses, there is 10 point which the Koran makes about Jesus. The first thing Koran says (kallimatulli) the arabic word which means ‘’the of God’’ and second thing is ( ahimokuli ) which mean spirit of God and the third (isa masi) which means Jesus Christ so Koran give the name for Jesus WORD OF GOD, SPIRIT OF GOD, JESUS CHRIST. And then Koran says that Jesus spoke when he was very small, like 2 days old. after his birth he began to speak , Koran says that Jesus created a live bird with mud. He took some mud, he formed a bird; when breathed into it, it became a live bird. So I think Jesus can give life because he gave life to mud, clay, and then Koran says that Jesus cured a man born blind and a man with leprosy, e.t.c
Curiously, the Koran says that Jesus gave life to dead people; Jesus went to heaven; he is still alive and he will come again. When I saw all these things in the Koran I taught of what Koran says about Muhammad, according to the Koran, prophet Muhammad is not the word of God, not spirit of God he never spoke when he was 2 days old, he never created any bird with mud, he never cure any sick people, he never raised any dead people, he himself died, and according to Islam he is not alive and he will not come back. So there is a lot of different between these two prophets. I didn’t call Jesus, God, you know my idea was ‘’He is a prophet but he is a prophet greater than Muhammad; so one day I went to my teacher, the one who taught me 10 years in Arabic college, and I ask him, teacher, how did God created the universe? Then he said God created the universe through the word,’’ THROUGH THE WORD. Then my question is: ‘’WORD’’ is creator or creation? He must clear this, my question is whether the WORD of God is creator or creation. Koran says Jesus is WORD of God. If my teacher says word of God is creator, which means Jesus is the creator, then muslim must become Christian suppose if he says the word is creation he will be trapped. You know why? He said everything was created through the word. Suppose if he said the word is creation, then how did God created the word? So he cannot say that the word is creator, or creation, so he was quite angry he push me out of his room and said word is not God, not creator or the creation you get out of here, ‘’he said
The reason why Muslim doesn’t accept to be Christian is because they are blinded with the wrong teaching of their priest, Imam. They said that the word is creation they try to prove it wrongly…… they say the word is not creator, not the creation, but not God. And no creation also. They don’t equal with God, that all their problem. So when he said that I told my teacher, word is not the creator or the creation.’’ So, that is why Christian says the word is son of God. Then he told me if there is son for God, I must show him the wife of God. That without wife no chance of having a son then I showed him a portion from the Koran. Koran says that God can see without eyes, God can talk without tongue, God can hear without ears. It is writing in the Koran. I said if that is the case, so God can have a child without a wife. I took my Koran, I put it on my chest, and I said ‘’Allah’’, tell me what I should do because your Koran says Jesus is still alive, and Mohammad is no more. Tell me whom should I accept.’’ after my prayer I opened the Koran, I didn’t asked anyone, I asked only my Allah. When I opened Koran, I saw chapter 10 verses 94. You know what Koran says? It says if you have any doubt in this Koran which I give to you, go and read the Bible, or ask the people, those who read the Bible. The truth is already revealing that.
I beg all muslim to give their life to Christ because he is the only way to the kingdom of God. Please don’t perish like other muslims that is serving the god they do not know. I welcome you into Christ Jesus as you change your mind to accept him today. God bless you

SOURCE:
http://lindaikejist.com/2014/12/shocking-news-the-ex-muslim-priest-said-that-all-muslim-must-change-to-christian-to-avoid-hell-fire/

donmalcolm21:
APC should call their armed wing to order since they went into hibernation when they were jostling for VP slot so that nigerians can follow their VP nomination process.

May God 4give u 4 blackmail... I pitty people like u, dats wat idle mind n hate could breed...may God deliver u n ur likes on NL.

CharliParker:
Am regreating voting for GEJ so I cant make that mistake again
SAI BUHARI WILL ALWAYS HAVE MY VOTE

U ar so on ponit bro!!!

hushmail:
as for me and my household

na gej we know and na gej till 2019

Speak 4 urself...leave ur household out of dis...is one vote per head

Sai BUHARI 2015...i wish dem d best...APC!!!...CHANGE!!!

Sai GMB-2015...we need proactive leadership... #myhumbleOPINION!

As the 2015 general elections approaches, the die is cast and the stage is almost set...asuch ,in less than 2 months, we'll b heading to the polls...and of the opinion, lets have an in-house dummy view of the possible 2015 experience. Thankz

mizjules:
Economics, she will just come with her fat body and bore us all day ... U dare not try that in chemistry class, else you'd be made to answer questions meant for the gods

Looolzzzz...story 4 d goduuooo

donmalcolm21:
90% of those illegal entry are in the North.

I hv no doubts abt dat bro...is so pathetic n a shame to Nigeria

ramdris:
Pictures of u in heaven with d angel or I don't believe it.

God is watching u with 10D hubble telescope

Etruth:
you are pathetically clueless. Even kindergarten pupils can't buy ur stale market. Anyway u r just doing ur job.....paid to deceive ppl. Repent. Tell us more abt ur master's achievements in office.

honestly i'm so dazed n Marvell at hw most people still reasons in our modern tym...is quite unfortunate...hw cn dis nation move forward wit such mindset being d bane to nigerias development

str8talk1:
GBAM!

nigerianz...plsssss...lets grow up in our reasoning... as religion is of least essence here...wat matters is d Nigeria's now n posterity...religion n tribalism is grossly immaterial here...asuch even d Jonathan we ar talking abt nw, wouldn't hv been of any choice to us if nt 4 d games obasanjo played dat paved way to his emergence... in d same vein, we cnt realy tell of buhari's prowess , nt untill he'z allowd n being supported by Nigerians....whether APC or PDP, dey ar both Nigerian political parties n bears d well being of Nigerians at heart.

chaaiii...chaiii...dis is grossly unfair... am so xo pained by diz colosal lies...pdp administration na God go pay una back 4 raping n loothing nigerianz dry!!!...diaris God !

cole265: What I really can't understand and that I find so confusing is that learned men and women, well exposed people even professors fall victims and and are follows of all these deceits

may God deliver u'ol from such stack n damning ignorance...is a pity!!!

wishing ma dady in d lord...long life, gud health ,fresh grace n much more unction 4 greater xploitszxx!!! ...happie birthday SIR! ...Tanx alot 4 d mantle 4 xploits...

the "PORTAL"...
between earth n heaven!
between earth n dreamland!

temzybabe: Ilorin is actually very cheap. With 100#, one can even make stew.

So to make jst a pot of stew na wia ur problem dey...lolzzzz...4nnny

ifyalways: Na wao. Heartless beasts of the North strikes yet again.

Tufia X 1000.

...........lolzzzz dearie, hmmmm...u seek to crack ma ribz abi....hahahahahahahahahahah

Pukkah: At least the President has admitted that he can't perform magic because there's no peace in the country.

Well, he should remember that all the problems were present before he became the President and he did promise to solve them.

He should also be told that effective governance is the solution to the problems he identified - militancy, kidnapping and Boko Haram. It is not the absence of those problems that will make him govern effectively. Or what did he achieve in Bayelsa where there was no violence?

If his expectation is that those identified problems must disappear first before he can govern well then he can as well throw in the towel.

Again, he can't perform magic in terms of governance because of problems but he's performing magic in terms of spending? Has his budgetary expenses reduced because he's not been able to deliver? How come the violence didn't stop him from travelling with several aides to Israel and other countries?

Is it violence and kidnapping that has made him unable to fight corruption? Why are the problems facing Nigeria getting worse? People sell kids, sell human parts and do all sorts of outrageous things to make money.

On another note, the President should pay more attention to the way he talks. What's [size=16pt]'shooting gun'[/size]? The part where he called on the youths is also disjointed.

ryt on point jareeeee!!!

payless: LOL!!

Jonathan can't be serious. How is the fight against terrorists in Nigeria coming along? Incompetent president of a failed country.

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