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Blue-eyed Boy Can Read And See In The Dark

Nicknamed "Cat-Boy," doctors in Dahua, southern China recently learned that this boy has the ability to see at night and can read in complete darkness as if it were day.

Doctors have studied Nong Youhui's amazing eyesight when his dad took him to hospital in Dahua, southern China, concerned over his bright blue eyes.


Dad Ling said: "They told me he would grow out of it and that his eyes would stop glowing and turn black like most Chinese people but they never did."

Medical tests conducted in complete darkness show Youhui can read perfectly without any light and sees as clearly as most people do during the day.

According to doctors in Dahua hospital, south of China, Nong Youhui has a rare genetic condition making his eyes vulnerable to light. His parents are still concerned about the case

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See The 10 Common Habits That Damage Peoples' Kidney

I stumbled on this and though I should share with you guys because you never know whose life you may end up saving with such valuable information. Below are the 10 habits that damage the Kidneys:
1. Not emptying your bladder early
2. Not drinking enough water
3. Taking too much salt
4. Not treating common infections quickly and properly

5. Eating too much meat
6. Not eating enough
7. Painkiller drugs abuse
8. Missing your drugs
9. Drinking too much alcohol
10. Not resting enough
Kindly share this with your friends and family.

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5 TYPES OF WOMEN ALL MEN HATE

It’s time to officially clear the air. There seems to be this common misconception, which suggests that men have lower standards when choosing a mate. That couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, men area lot pickier than we lead you to believe. To prove this point, I’ve decided to share “Five Types of Women That All Men Hate.” So pay close attention, and if this sounds like someone you know, then that may explain why they can’t seem to keep a man
 


1. Ms. “Stick In The Mud” 
This woman never seems to have any fun … ever. Her idea of a good timeis probably a quiet evening at home reading the encyclopedia while eating.... On top of that, she doesn’t know how to give or take a joke, since she takes herself way too seriously. Will you relax … please?


2. Ms. “No One Else”
Ms. “No One Else” wants all of your free time—every single second of it. As soon as the two of you get close, she stops talking to all of her friends and expects you to do the same. Some men may reluctantly agree, but that arrangement soon grows old.
3. Ms. “Something To Prove”
Ms. “Something To Prove” has always worked hard to show the world she was capable of doing anything she set her mind to. And while the entire male population applauds her strength, we get kind of tired of her reminding us about it throughout the entire date.
“I’ve got a good job.”
“I don’t need a man to do anything for me.”
“I’ve always been independent.”
“I’m going to write a book encouraging other women to be strong like me.” 

Honestly, we’d rather listen to a Paula Abdul Greatest Hits album than to sit through an entire evening of that.
4. Ms. “Read My Mind”
For some reason, Ms. “Read My Mind” expects her man to know exactly what she’s thinking at all times. As a result, she constantly tests him, using his responses to gauge his level of love. This type of behavior should be avoided, as very few men are interested in dealing with the constant guessing games.
5. Ms. “Chatterbox”
Communication serves as the cornerstone for all serious relationships. However, some women overdo it a bit. The problem with Ms. “Chatterbox” is that she spends most of her time talking, and none of it listening. Before long, this type of woman grows even more annoying than that one drunk uncle who always tries to hit on your female friends.
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SCIENTIST DEVELOP A DEVICE TO DETECT TIME OF DEATH OF HUMAN

Scientists have developed a ‘death test’ that can tell people how long they have to live.
The non-invasive procedure involves applying a painless laser pulse to the surface of the skin through a wristwatch-style device.
This measures how a person’s body will decline with age by analysing endothelial cells, the Sunday Times reports.
These cells line the smallest blood vessels - capillaries – in our bodies and respond to complex activity elsewhere in the body.
By measuring the oscillations within the cells, the scientists say they can calculate the length of time before death and also test for diseases including cancer and dementia.
The result is graded from 0 for death to 100 for optimum functioning with the predictions becoming more accurate as more data is added.
A user-friendly version of the system is expected to be completed within the next three years.
The test was developed by two physics professors from Lancaster University, Aneta Stefanovska and Peter McClintock, with the help of grants from medical charities and government research bodies.
Professor Stefanovska is credited with inventing the method of analysing endothelial reactivity.
‘I am hoping we will build a database that will become larger and larger, so every person person measured can be compared against it,’ she said.
‘We will then be in a position to tell them the values [that] predict a certain number of years.’

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Ban boxing – it's demeaning and dangerous for the Brain

A sport whose sole aim is to cause brain damage to another person is not a "noble art". It has no place in a civilised society, says a leading neuroscientist
 <i>(Image: Andrzej Krauze)</i>

WHEN the 2013 National Football League season kicks off in the US next month, players will have an added layer of protection to go with their helmets and shoulder pads: an independent neurologist at every game to assess them for signs of concussion after receiving a blow to the head.
Head injuries are an occupational hazard for American footballers and a major issue for the NFL. Thousands of retired players are suing the league for negligence and fraud, claiming that the league knew about the long-term risks but hid them.
The condition they fear is chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), previously called punch drunk syndrome, boxer's dementia or dementia pugilistica. This causes progressive memory problems, personality change and slowness of movement. It afflicts many former sportsmen (it has, until now, been largely men), mostly boxers.
The pathology of CTE is well known. In the 1980s, John Corsellis of the Maudsley Hospital in London documented it in a series of papers, culminating in a 1989 review in the BMJ.
He found that many nerve fibres showed evidence of tearing, with some being completely torn, and also reported widespread brain degeneration. He also described how many neurons were filled with tangles of protein, one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease.
Other researchers later showed that the brains of men with CTE had a second type of protein deposit called amyloid, another hallmark of Alzheimer's.
While there is no doubt that these problems are caused by repeated blows to the head, until recently it wasn't known how.
Blows to the head cause two different kinds of injury. The face is cut and bruised by direct impacts, but damage to the brain is caused largely by rotational acceleration of the cerebral cortex around the much smaller midbrain and spinal cord. This damage may be aggravated by boxing gloves since they add weight and thus energy to punches, causing more rotational acceleration.
Brain tissue is largely a soft mass but the blood vessels within it are fibrous and strong, like wires across cheese. When the head is hit, especially with a rotational movement, one of two things can happen. Either a blood vessel can snap, leading to a haemorrhage, or there can be microscopic tearing of the tissue around the vessel.
Large haemorrhages are what cause boxers to fall into comas and occasionally die during bouts, but the microscopic tears to blood vessels can be no less damaging in the long run.
The first thing to note is that sportsmen who were frequently injured in this way in their youth often develop characteristic behaviour patterns as they get older. These are the problems often reported in lurid stories about troubled ex-boxers: depression, drug and alcohol abuse and violent tempers. All are consistent with underlying damage to the frontal cortex, which controls executive functions such as impulse control.
This is not to say that all ex-sportsmen with these problems have CTE, but it is clear that in some cases it is a contributing factor.
What's more, recent experiments in mice have indicated that protein tangles and amyloid deposits can slowly spread from neuron to neuron. The distribution of the tangles in CTE is consistent with this, forming first around blood vessels before spreading.
With these findings we can now formulate a plausible hypothesis as to why repeat head injuries to young men in their teens and 20s lead to personality changes later in adult life and dementia in old age: rotational head injury induces damage, especially around blood vessels, leading to local tangle formation, followed by a slow spread of destruction.
Clearly, considerable effort should be expended in all sports to minimise head injuries. Soccer has already done the right thing by replacing heavy leather balls with lighter plastic-coated ones. American football appears to be going in the right direction. But other sports have some way to go.
In ice hockey, the role of the "enforcer", whose main job appears to be beating up the opposing team's players, should be abolished. And in all sports where there is any risk of head injury – rugby for example – players should be monitored to keep an eye on the damage. Clearly, all who play and coach these sports should be aware of the risks.
Boxing, however, is a special case. No other sport has the express goal of causing injury to the brain. That is certainly the aim of professional boxing. Even in amateur boxing blows to the head are crucial, and protective headgear may not stop injury from rotational acceleration.
Corsellis put it best: "My opinion is that the brain should not be the target in any sport, and no amount of juggling with the regulations can take away the risk. Experienced and outstanding boxers are themselves aware of the risk, difficult as it may be for them eventually to call a halt. Barry McGuigan said 'Boxing damages your brain: don't let anybody tell you different'."

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TINUBU TO GO FOR SURGERY

Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the former Governor of Lagos State and a leading founder of the All Progressives Congress, has been absent from public engagements in the past few days because of health issues, the Tinubu Media Office has said.
“Based on previous sports injury on one of his knees and recent further aggravation on the knee from rigorous political and family related activities, he has been advised by his Doctors, despite his persistent reluctance that orthopedic surgery is necessary at this time,” the brief statement said today.
The surgery will take place this week, and Tinubu will resume normal political activities and public engagements once cleared by his doctors.  
The statement did not say where the procedure will take place.  

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SOME PICTURES OF THE GUEST AT THE WEDDING OF D'BANJ'S SISTER




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