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MansoryMX:
This is deep and so interesting. Please what tribe are you if I may ask?

I am from Anambra state. Igbo

Officialgarri:
I think your jobs are done using blender!!! They are super wonderful!!!

I'm getting myself a beast laptop today. Perhaps, I'll start sharing my own jobs too


16gb ram, 12gb graphics memory, 4gb dedicated video memory..... I believe it's a beast

Definitely

megareal:
I went to a Senior friend's house because I needed him to sign a document for me. The wife told me he travelled. I replied that he gave me the appointment to bring the document that day. She asked me to follow her. We entered a dark room that was like a temple (I already knew he dabbled in the occult). There I saw the man lying down dead like. The wife asked me to drop the document on his table and wait. I did, a few moments after she asked me to pick it up. I picked up the signed document with the necessary recommendation I needed in the man's handwriting.

Truly, I wasn't surprised because these eyes of mine have seen some unusual things in these my few years on earth. I was only surprised that the woman chose to trust me to see that. I still wonder why till date.

Ps
The following week I went to see him to thank him, he also acted like it was nothing. Told me he attends such meetings once a month for three days in a certain country. I told him I was grateful he took time out to help me. And he said for me he would do anything. I still wonder why I was so special.

They saw an aura surrounding you. You are potent even if you aren't aware

My grandpa was a Rosicrucian.

He does several mind over matter stuff. He was Pisces and I am a capricorn, I guess that's why we gel together most often than his other grandkids. I got exposed to a lot of esoteric stuff. I was young and intrigued. I never saw all that he taught me in a bad light. One would say I was made to see what the world thought of as weird or evil as an essential path of the cosmos. He was grooming me, I guess. But then Teenage angst set in, my hormones changed. I lost interest in all those stuff. I can still see his disappointment in my mind. He had long moved on to the other side.
But men, can he do things!!!
Imagine an ant stopping in its tracks once you command it.
Imagine water boiling suddenly on it's own accord.
That's my grandfather

And this one project that never got completed

And then this lady-creature came. Looking back, i think this character is cringe-worthy . I've learnt my lessons.

Throwback Fridays.

When i was fixated with hands. I spent a whole month sculpting several hands

Check this

PH should invest in High rises...I mean they have the resources. This is an oil city . We should be looking at avant garde Armani level elegance.

All these low level structures makes it look like third grade Sofia before the USSR disintegration.

That cunt denigrating Abia state should come up with ITS own state thread

This infographic provides Poverty Data rates I must say...

Tt

olagbola45:
Better send your acct details gonna send you something to feed on for d rest of your life

Get yourself a Data plan first

Sneezes, for instance, can launch droplets a lot farther than six feet according to a recent study.
No scientists are suggesting a wholesale change in behavior, or proposing that some other length for separation from another human, like seven, or nine feet, is actually the right one.

“Everything is about probability,” said Dr. Harvey Fineberg, who is the head of the Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. “Three feet is better than nothing. Six feet is better than three feet. At that point, the larger drops have pretty much fallen down. Maybe if you’re out of spitting range, that could be even safer, but six feet is a pretty good number.”

The rule of thumb, or rather feet, has been to stand six feet apart in public. That’s supposed to be a safe distance if a person nearby is coughing or sneezing and is infected with the novel coronavirus, spreading droplets that may carry virus particles.

And scientists agree that six feet is a sensible and useful minimum distance, but, some say, farther away would be better.

Six feet has never been a magic number that guarantees complete protection. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one of the organizations using that measure, bases its recommendation on the idea that most large droplets that people expel when they cough or sneeze will fall to the ground within six feet.

But some scientists, having looked at studies of air flow and being concerned about smaller particles called aerosols, suggest that people consider a number of factors, including their own vulnerability and whether they are outdoors or in an enclosed room, when deciding whether six feet is enough distance.

I am part of this network, if you are a programmer, an epidemiologist plus a 3D Artist, you can join too.

The world’s fastest supercomputer has been created from volunteers loaning spare time on their home PCs to fold proteins, a scientific task that could prove instrumental in the fight against the coronavirus.

According to Folding@Home, the organisation that runs the distributed computing effort, the combined power of the network broke 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations per second – or one “exaflop” – on 25 March.

That made it six times more powerful than the current world’s fastest traditional supercomputer, the IBM Summit, which is used for scientific research at the US’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. By Monday, it had more than doubled that, hitting a new record of 2.4 exaflops, faster than the top 500 traditional supercomputers combined, thanks to almost 1 million new members of the network.

The breakthrough reflects a huge spike in support for the Folding@Home project. Backers run a simple piece of software on their home computer, which then downloads and performs small tasks to help determine the physical structure of proteins.

All complex proteins are made of one or more strings of amino acids, folded in on themselves in complex – but predictable – ways to make 3D shapes. By applying those predictable rules, even a home computer can carry out folding calculations, and when millions of home computers are running the software at the same time, the total network can far outpace traditional supercomputers.

In March, Folding@Home announced a new set of tasks related to Covid-19 that would put contributors to work simulating the dynamics of the proteins that make up Sars-CoV-2 (the virus that causes Covid-19) to hunt for new prospects for drugs to tackle the disease.

It is already paying off. One effort has been focusing on the “spike” protein that Sars-CoV-2 uses to invade human cells, says Greg Bowman, one of the researchers coordinating the effort. “It is well established that the spike must undergo a dramatic opening motion to reveal the interface that ultimately binds a human cell. Understanding how the spike opens up … could be extremely useful. Every step along the way could potentially be targeted with therapeutics.

“Unfortunately, there is no way to watch a spike undergo this transition, at least with existing experimental techniques. Data on what the open state even looks like is also limited.” But after just a few weeks of project time, the team was able to create a simulation that showed the first stage of the “mouth” opening up.

Those successes have taken the project far beyond its previous peak in 2007, when Sony built support for Folding@Home into its PlayStation 3 consoles, increasing the amount of processing power available at a stroke.

sarrki:
Bro , I haven’t only crossed

I live in one of the best city in the world

N still live there

Lagos in our own standard is beautiful

Yes, I will still reiterate the truism that "Beauty is in the eyes of the Beholder"

Sanchez01:
Dude, I know where you're getting at, like a pastor would know his word. And I know for a fact that no sensible Nigerian would compare Kaduna to Lagos, no apologies. But of course, there's an underlying message here which is obviously a see through.

You claimed Lagos can't hold a candle to Ouagadou and Kaduna, which I took you up on but smartly left out Ouagadou. And I'm wondering whether it's the same Kaduna that can't hold a brief on Ikeja you're yapping about or another.

You once admitted your Anambra is in competition with LAGOS when your drunk of a governor stated otherwise, which you claimed was good and normal for federating states.

I had thought you'd mention Anambra and I was carefully waiting to know where in Anambra you'd mention.

Bitterness is why any man will overlook beauty and claim there's another fairer; like you did.

Strange you asked us to put aside sectionalism, maintained Lagos isn't beautiful but mentioned Kaduna. I'd have recommended Chloroquine to cure your bitterness but I figured it would transpose your bitterness rather than help.

Not to denigrate the other states, but be wise enough not to mention other states in Nigeria when trying to justify LAGOS is ugly. Kaduna, Port Harcourt (which is only a fraction of Rivers) and Abuja got nothing on Lagos and I'm not sorry to admit this.

Why would I mention anambra in relation to being beautiful.

The post you referenced about me comparing Anambra is purely in terms of commerce. Would I compare Lagos and Ouagadou in terms of commerce ....No.
Would I compare them in terms of well laid out avenues and aesthetics.....Yes.

You are the one bringing in sectionalism Into this.
check my antecedents here. I have no reason to lie for where I haven't been to. And u solely reserved the right not to believe my claims.

I have been to Ouagadou and it is far more pleasing. Forget that unbridled sectionalism of yours and be objective. I am from Anambra, I could have compare Lagos with Anambra in such terms if I want to toe the line you are towing

olagbola45:
Hiss and he never step muritala b4 not to talk of the said cities

Yes, you lived with me, perhaps you use remote sensing huh. Not everyone resides forever in Ogbomosho, my boy

sarrki:
In our own standard Mr saner clime

It is beautiful and marvelous in our sight

Yeah, beauty truly lies In the eyes of the beholder, I guess

Sanchez01:
This is bitterness personified. And it is obvious in the way you quickly compared Lagos to some African cities, particularly Kaduna and Ouagadou when you haven't crossed any of Nigeria's border.

For the record, the serpentine bridge is the Third Mainland Bridge and it is strange that you noticed the slum the most.

I have crossed the border (you dont need to believe). I have been to San Francisco and Kaduna. I know what I am saying, sectionalism aside.

You , yourself, knows that this is not beautiful. But sectional pride, ofcourse, overrides your sense of judgement..

I chose serpentine as a descriptive element, to further describe its singular beauty. I know the third mainland bridge

This is not really beautiful.
Lets just say it is eerie that lagos can look calm.


The only beautiful structure is that serpentine bridge cascading via the slums....

If you wanna see beauty see lockdown views of European cities or San Francisco or Tunis or Algiers or Pretoria or Ouagadou or Kaduna

whatdowomenwant:
Obviously, life will not remain the same because of coronavirus. New policies will be enacted, new businesses will be created, new sets of millionaires will be made, and of course, many may die.

This is the time to put up our thinking and praying cap so as to have a personal eagle view of what's happening and to know how best to be positioned. COVID-19 will change the way the world lives.

The greatest beneficiary of this situation is the makers of Zoom and Tiktok

The overall numbers of cases in the next five years, and the level of distancing required, were found to depend crucially on the overall current levels of infection and whether all those who are infected gain immunity and, if so, for how long. The authors cautioned that these are big unknowns and that a precise prediction of the long-term dynamics is not possible.

If immunity is permanent, Covid-19 could disappear for five or more years after the first outbreak, the paper suggests. If people have immunity for about a year, as is seen for some other circulating coronaviruses, an annual outbreak cycle would be the most likely outcome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6mjT_U22KY

Physical distancing measures may need to be in place intermittently until 2022, scientists have warned in an analysis that suggests there could be resurgences of Covid-19 for years to come.

The paper, published in the journal Science, concludes that a one-time lockdown will not be sufficient to bring the pandemic under control and that secondary peaks could be larger than the current one without continued restrictions.

One scenario predicted a resurgence could occur as far in the future as 2025 in the absence of a vaccine or effective treatment.

Marc Lipsitch, a professor of epidemiology at Harvard and co-author of the study, said: “Infections spread when there are two things: infected people and susceptible people. Unless there is some enormously larger amount of herd immunity than we’re aware of … the majority of the population is still susceptible.

“Predicting the end of the pandemic in the summer [of 2020] is not consistent with what we know about the spread of infections.”


Culled from theguardian.co.uk

Most scientists say that this coronavirus probably originated in bats but found its way to humans through an intermediary animal.

There is no conclusive evidence that this happened at Wuhan’s notorious “wet” markets where wild animals were sold for meat. Analysis of the first 41 Covid-19 patients in medical journal the Lancet found that 27 of them had direct exposure to the Wuhan market. But the same analysis found that the first known case did not.

The Pentagon’s top general has said that US intelligence has looked into the possibility that the coronavirus outbreak could have started in a Chinese laboratory, but that the “weight of evidence” so far pointed towards “natural” origins.

The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Gen Mark Milley, was speaking on the day of a Washington Post report about state department cables in 2018 in which US diplomats raised safety concerns about the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) which was conducting studies of coronavirus from bats.

“During interactions with scientists at the WIV laboratory, they noted the new lab has a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,” a cable dated 19 January 2018 said, according to the Post.

The diplomats urged further US support for the laboratory to address the concerns, but no support was given, at a time when the Trump administration was cutting back on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outreach abroad.

Beijing’s official version of the start outbreak was the Covid-19 virus (Sars-CoV-2) was transmitted to humans from animals at Wuhan’s wild animal markets, though some Chinese officials have circulated conspiracy theories suggesting it was engineered in a US bioweapons laboratory.

The cables reported by the Washington Post have emerged at a time when the administration is seeking to focus blame for the pandemic on China and the World Health Organization. The Republican senator Tom Cotton has raised the possibility that the pandemic was a deliberate Chinese bioweapon attack, though he has argued natural transmission from animals to humans, or a lab accident, were more likely scenarios.

Culled from theguardian.co.uk

LucemFerre:
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Beautiful.

I like your style

mployer:
America has reached peak. From 2100 to 1500 and to 1380.

You are using new Zealand to compare. Why not Italy, Spain and UK?

Do you know the population of America compared to those countries?

They didn't expect Trump to win, he just surprised them.

I am using Taiwan, New Zealand to compare because unlike Italy or Britain, their leaders did not dismiss the covid as common flu!

The British leadership was lackadaisical as much as Trump. Boris was dismissing the while covid until people started dropling. Check the British covid timeline and confirm for yourself

mployer:
He has no issues. They are angry he is getting things right in the fight against the virus.

Experts said US will record 240,000 deaths at best effort. Already, 100, 000 body bags has been booked. But as it stands now they might not even record up to 60, 000.

US was the last to reach infection peak, yet they already planning to reopen economy, ahead of UK and others.

Why would anyone revel in the deaths caused by Covid? Why

All the journalists in that room cant be wrong. With the window he has got, US fatality rate should've been as LOW as that of Taiwan (Taiwan is so close to china o) or New Zealand or Australia. These cou tries sprang into action when the rest if world wsre dillydallying. Maybe it helped that Taiwan is governed by an epidemiologist who understands the risks of a pandemic or maybe it's just down to astute leadership (New Zealand and Australia)

Let's face it man, Trump phucked up. And he knows that the world look up to America most times for direction and with these antics and Ineptitude, America is losing her Position as world police to hopelessly corrupt China.

If Trump worked and listened to the advice of the epidemiologists, 20K wouldn't have died and sorry America has not reached its peak yet. Check out the total deaths today

Tpave:
They really want to bring this man down and he knows it. I trust Trump, he's a very intelligent and brave man

Trump has issues. Deep narcissistic issues. Just watch the interview and you cant help but get angry at him.

His very inaction caused those deaths. He was told about covid as far back as January but kept dismissing it as the normal flu...now 20,000 of his people slaughtered like chickens.

I want to compare him to our very own Buhari but that one is too lifeless to warrant any comparison

Jon Karl of ABC News asked in consternation: “Why did you feel the need to do that?”

Trump replied: “Because we’re getting fake news and I like to have it corrected ... Everything we did was right.”

Over and over, Trump highlighted his decision to ban some flights from China in late January before there were any virus-related deaths confirmed in the US – even though nearly 400,000 people travelled to the US from China before the restrictions were in place and 40,000 people have arrived there since.

The CBS News correspondent Paula Reid was having none of it and cut to the chase. “The argument is that you bought yourself some time,” she said “You didn’t use it to prepare hospitals. You didn’t use it to ramp up testing. Right now, nearly 20m people are unemployed. Tens of thousands of Americans are dead.”

Trump talked over her: “You’re so disgraceful. It’s so disgraceful the way you say that.”

Reid demanded: “How is this newsreel or this rant supposed to make people feel confident in an unprecedented crisis?”

Trump reverted to his China travel restrictions but Reid continued to push him on his inaction in February. Trump was unable to muster a reasonable response. It was a case study in how, when he loses an argument, his instinct is to attack the accuser. He trotted out his frayed, timeworn insult: “You know you’re a fake, your whole network the way you cover it is fake ... That’s why you have a lower approval rating than probably you’ve ever had before times three.”

Democrats can only hope Biden was watching Reid for tips on how to debate the president.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVYf_2XQN4

The thin-skinned president lashed out at reporters, swiped at Democrat Joe Biden and refused to accept that he had put a foot wrong. “So the story in the New York Times is a total fake, it’s a fake newspaper and they write fake stories. And someday, hopefully in five years when I’m not here, those papers are all going out of business because nobody’s going to read them,” Trump said.

With a dramatic flourish, the president ordered the briefing room lights dimmed. In a James Bond film, it would be the moment that poisoned gas is piped into the room. What happened wasn’t far off: a campaign-style montage of video clips, shown on screens set up behind the podium. There was footage of doctors saying in January that the coronavirus did not pose an imminent threat, Trump declaring a national emergency, and Democratic governors praising him for providing federal assistance.