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r231:
No mail from you sir!!

Kindly check your spam folder. I have just re-sent it though. Please confirm receipt.

r231:
Please email sales@midasshipping.com

Still awaiting your response to my mail o!

r231:

Hi,
I sent you guys a mail earlier today (19:22 HRS GMT+1). Looking forward to a swift response so as to make up my mind.

Regards.

The solar system appears to have a new ninth planet. Today, two scientists announced evidence that a body nearly the size of Neptune—but as yet unseen—orbits the sun every 15,000 years. During the solar system’s infancy 4.5 billion years ago, they say, the giant planet was knocked out of the planet-forming region near the sun. Slowed down by gas, the planet settled into a distant elliptical orbit, where it still lurks today.

The claim is the strongest yet in the centuries-long search for a “Planet X” beyond Neptune. The quest has been plagued by far-fetched claims and even outright quackery. But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations. “If you say, ‘We have evidence for Planet X,’ almost any astronomer will say, ‘This again? These guys are clearly crazy.’ I would, too,” Brown says. “Why is this different? This is different because this time we’re right.”

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Ujsizzle
MkMyers45
Lalasticlala
Seun

Inform our people o!

akin003:
I was gonna quote some one, but so her head won't swell


I'm not an economist or anything but based on what I think is obvious, there are multiple factors at play, albeit with its own cause and effect result.
While the official exchange rate has been pegged at #197( whether this is right or not, I can't say), BDC aren't selling at this rate, they make margins of #60/70 on a dollar which is robbery. CBN stopping sales to BDC means they have to sort elsewhere ('autonomous' I wonder where/who that is ), bottomline is, no free meal for the BDC as no #197 again. This might cause an increase on d black market but it won't last, majorly because banks would now trade dollars (for legitimate reasons only). Importers who the major people in need of the dollar would boycott entirely the BDC's meaning less demand for their own dollars.
Also those that have stockpiled dollars in vaults would likely bring them out in the short term, which would likely crash the price in the black market further.
I think the bottom line is this, the dollar isn't our currency, why the heck are we so keen on having it (as Nigerians in general) even as non importers.
Time would tell though, but I am fairly confident nobody as a one stop solution to fix this problem... I would take CBN govs adaptability and flexibility over those shouting devaluation as the only solution. As time goes on, the CBN would evolve better strategies to fix the loopholes generated by each policy while we pray for better oil prices in 2016.

Insightful post.
Quick question please.
Before now, was it that at some point, commercial banks stopped selling to legit and qualified importers and travelers? If yes, it would explain the surge in demand, ergo, margins between what CBN sold to BDC guys and what they sold to end users.

If No, why the surge in demand then?

glimpse33:
I Am A Single Virgin, Hoping/Seeking/Wanting To Marry A Fellow Virgin Like Me.

If She's Not A Virgin, I Won't Date, Talk less Of Marriage

#Truth

Good luck chief...

Monalisa185:
hehehehe... sorry, I don't share..call me selfish, I don't care

Sorry I had to quote this brilliance..I'm a sucker for poetry..accidental or not. (y)

glimpse33:
My Bad

But Still....

Virgin Girls Rock

Who Wants To Marry A Second-Hand?

Your wife? Maybe? (Here's to assuming you're not a virgin - #DoubleStandards)

No be by V-Yansh abeg! To think that there was a time when I used to feel like "if my wife is a virgin ehn, I'd adore her in a special way"..Furk that shiit mhen! Feels like centuries ago. If I love you enough to wife you, then I'll always adore you in a special way..Where ma tigress at?

glimpse33:
Sister Esther, How Stupid Art Thou? A Male Choosing To Marry A Virgin Female Is Now A Bad Thing Abi?
AnyWays..I Think The Shìt You Typed Above Should Be Directed To The Guy Whom DisVirgined You.
Thanks..

Bros, you for cool down read wetin the babe write wella, con understand am before you comment. See as them dey use pupu rub you now. Take heart..

There are two GTB branches in Ikorodu and around 4 First Bank branches, yet the crowds na die!!!! Na so o!

And someone is saying they should settle for the sake of the kids? Are those kids even safe at all?

davida222:
Mata, Herreira are allowed to have 1
bad game, can Rooney plaese have just
one good game. Please. He stinks up the entire joint with his performance.The game in all honesty never had the feel of a serious affair,just felt like the united blackburn affair a few years ago where both teams just needed a draw, united to win and blackburn to survive. A sort of mutual agreement to see out the draw, really disappointing attitude from both sides.

I don't understand why a player (skippo or not) will keep underperforming and he'll keep starting games. I don't furking get it! Rooney shouldn't start games, especially not as a Striker.

fiftynaira:
Used to love him but not anymore after watching a documentary of how he betrayed the igbo's during the civil war..

Pray, kind bro, can you send me the link to the video.

Dialing Majek Fashek's line ASAP...He's the only rainmaker I know.

I've always seen these online and it was nice to see one up close. What other stylish designs have you guys come across?

Screenshotted? Omg! See gbagaun for FP!

Mothers!

Youths...na mouth we get, no action. Jokes apart, we're not aptly poised to be involved on that level of politics. When they say the beautiful ones are not yet born, isn't it because the ugly ones are not yet dead? The political methuselahs want to hold on to positions and appointments forever and the youths that should replace them (I'm referring to age group 25-35 ish), are too distracted by the vicissitudes of life to be actively involved in politics. Who then will they hand over to? Who will wrest the power off them? They are the alphas and have eliminated the competition by fuccking the system up, making the youths the political betas. There will be a beta uprising. No one knows when or how, but the zeitgeist is aroused.

*Drops mic*

Southampton fans believe it would've been crazy and disastrous to drop points against a team at the bottom of the Premier League table...*ROTFL*

mustiiz:
Plsss how did u post this thread cos have been writin and writing.. Mine is not even commin on the front page not to talk of people commenting .. Plss tell me d process plsssssss

Where do I start from sef?? Some NLD 101 mhen!

Karmanaut:
Haha.
Was just about to post this.
Also there's a typo on your topic, it should read NASA, not ASA.

Yea man, I saw it but I'm kinda lost on how to rectify it from my mobile phone.

Lobolintin:
Snoring .....confirm UFO first..we know this since 105BC

Sabi man! I see you! Gbogbo Mars Rover!

After having read this news on a number of social media sites and read through some comments, I officially give up on my country's future...Just look at majority of the comments under this topic here...Se na myopia we go call am? Ignorance? Abi na dumbassness? Seriously?? Smh

Typo on the topic...It's NASA!

Seun, Lalasticlala, UjSizzle, MkMyers45 frontpage ya o!

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These darkish streaks appear to ebb and flow over time. They darken and appear to flow down steep slopes during warm seasons, and then fade in cooler seasons. They appear in several locations on Mars when temperatures are above minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 Celsius), and disappear at colder times.

“Our quest on Mars has been to ‘follow the water,’ in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we’ve long suspected,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water -- albeit briny -- is flowing today on the surface of Mars.”

To cut the long story short, water is flowing in Mars as we speak..Want more?

These dark, narrow, 100 meter-long streaks called recurring slope lineae flowing downhill on Mars are inferred to have been formed by contemporary flowing water. Recently, planetary scientists detected hydrated salts on these slopes at Hale crater, corroborating their original hypothesis that the streaks are indeed formed by liquid water. The blue color seen upslope of the dark streaks are thought not to be related to their formation, but instead are from the presence of the mineral pyroxene. The image is produced by draping an orthorectified (Infrared-Red-Blue/Green(IRB)) false color image (ESP_030570_1440) on a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the same site produced by High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (University of Arizona). Vertical exaggeration is 1.5.
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

New findings from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) provide the strongest evidence yet that liquid water flows intermittently on present-day Mars.

Using an imaging spectrometer on MRO, researchers detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes where mysterious streaks are seen on the Red Planet. These darkish streaks appear to ebb and flow over time. They darken and appear to flow down steep slopes during warm seasons, and then fade in cooler seasons. They appear in several locations on Mars when temperatures are above minus 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 23 Celsius), and disappear at colder times.

“Our quest on Mars has been to ‘follow the water,’ in our search for life in the universe, and now we have convincing science that validates what we’ve long suspected,” said John Grunsfeld, astronaut and associate administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. “This is a significant development, as it appears to confirm that water -- albeit briny -- is flowing today on the surface of Mars.”

These downhill flows, known as recurring slope lineae (RSL), often have been described as possibly related to liquid water. The new findings of hydrated salts on the slopes point to what that relationship may be to these dark features. The hydrated salts would lower the freezing point of a liquid brine, just as salt on roads here on Earth causes ice and snow to melt more rapidly. Scientists say it’s likely a shallow subsurface flow, with enough water wicking to the surface to explain the darkening.


"We found the hydrated salts only when the seasonal features were widest, which suggests that either the dark streaks themselves or a process that forms them is the source of the hydration. In either case, the detection of hydrated salts on these slopes means that water plays a vital role in the formation of these streaks," said Lujendra Ojha of the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, lead author of a report on these findings published Sept. 28 by Nature Geoscience.

Ojha first noticed these puzzling features as a University of Arizona undergraduate student in 2010, using images from the MRO's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). HiRISE observations now have documented RSL at dozens of sites on Mars. The new study pairs HiRISE observations with mineral mapping by MRO’s Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM).

The spectrometer observations show signatures of hydrated salts at multiple RSL locations, but only when the dark features were relatively wide. When the researchers looked at the same locations and RSL weren't as extensive, they detected no hydrated salt.

Ojha and his co-authors interpret the spectral signatures as caused by hydrated minerals called perchlorates. The hydrated salts most consistent with the chemical signatures are likely a mixture of magnesium perchlorate, magnesium chlorate and sodium perchlorate. Some perchlorates have been shown to keep liquids from freezing even when conditions are as cold as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 Celsius). On Earth, naturally produced perchlorates are concentrated in deserts, and some types of perchlorates can be used as rocket propellant.

Perchlorates have previously been seen on Mars. NASA's Phoenix lander and Curiosity rover both found them in the planet's soil, and some scientists believe that the Viking missions in the 1970s measured signatures of these salts. However, this study of RSL detected perchlorates, now in hydrated form, in different areas than those explored by the landers. This also is the first time perchlorates have been identified from orbit.

MRO has been examining Mars since 2006 with its six science instruments.

"The ability of MRO to observe for multiple Mars years with a payload able to see the fine detail of these features has enabled findings such as these: first identifying the puzzling seasonal streaks and now making a big step towards explaining what they are," said Rich Zurek, MRO project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

For Ojha, the new findings are more proof that the mysterious lines he first saw darkening Martian slopes five years ago are, indeed, present-day water.

"When most people talk about water on Mars, they're usually talking about ancient water or frozen water," he said. "Now we know there’s more to the story. This is the first spectral detection that unambiguously supports our liquid water-formation hypotheses for RSL."

The discovery is the latest of many breakthroughs by NASA’s Mars missions.

“It took multiple spacecraft over several years to solve this mystery, and now we know there is liquid water on the surface of this cold, desert planet,” said Michael Meyer, lead scientist for NASA’s Mars Exploration Program at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. “It seems that the more we study Mars, the more we learn how life could be supported and where there are resources to support life in the future.”

There are eight co-authors of the Nature Geoscience paper, including Mary Beth Wilhelm at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California and Georgia Tech; CRISM Principal Investigator Scott Murchie of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland; and HiRISE Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, Arizona. Others are at Georgia Tech, the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique in Nantes, France.

The agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Lockheed Martin built the orbiter and collaborates with JPL to operate it.

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars

Your temperament noni..You'll survive joor.

Why did the child fante when his dad got up? He been no want make e die, now e con fear as d man resurrect...Why

I'm neither a doctor nor a medical personnel but I'd rather be gone than be a burden on the living or to languish in pains. Peeps that see it as suicide for the patient fail to see the torture part. As in real torture! But this is just my take sha.

No. But..

How the hell do devilish things come out of one's yansh? Lmsao!

The end justifies the means...I just pin for one corner dey observe..

Op formatting o!!!!

That said, have all these without money and you don't stand a chance with a guy that has all these with money..#Gbam

Disturb her too nao!!!