Monday, 25 May 2015
Friday, 22 May 2015
Some like it hot: how coffee perks up sex life
Two cups a day improve men’s performance in the bedroom, regardless of weight or blood pressure, finds study of nearly 4,000 participants
Drinking two cups of coffee a day could perk up performance in the bedroom, a study suggests.
Research found that men who drank two cups a day were 42 per cent less likely than non-drinkers to report erectile dysfunction. This fell slightly to 39 per cent for those who drank around three cups, the study of almost 4,000 men found.
The effect remained true regardless of whether men were overweight, obese or suffered from high blood pressure, the University of Texas study found.
However, the impact was reduced among men with diabetes, who have a high risk of erectile dysfunction, the study, in the journal PLOS ONE, found.
Doctors warn drinking more than four cups of coffee a day can be dangerous, causing restlessness, tremors, irritability, insomnia and stomach upset.
Prof David Lopez, of the University of Texas, Houston, said: “Even though we saw a reduction in the prevalence of erectile dysfunction with men who were obese, overweight and hypertensive, that was not true of men with diabetes.”
The researchers believe caffeine triggers a series of pharmacological effects that increase blood flow to the penis by relaxing arteries and muscle.
Estimates suggest that around half of men aged between 40 and 70 will suffer some degree of erectile dysfunction.
Data for the study came from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and erectile dysfunction was assessed by a single question during a computer assisted interview. Two cups of coffee a day — between 85 and 170 milligrams of caffeine daily — was linked to a 42 per cent reduction in erectile dysfunction.
This fell slightly to 39 per cent for those who consumed between 171 and 303 milligrams, the equivalent of about three cups. Caffeine sources in the study included coffee, tea, fizzy drinks and sports drinks.
Previous research has also suggested that coffee could help boost a woman’s sex drive. Another group of US scientists found that caffeine increased the female libido in experiments on rats by it stimulating the part of the brain regulating arousal.
But researchers said a similar effect was only likely to be repeated in humans who did not drink coffee regularly.
And a study of sexual activity in the elderly revealed that women who drank at least one cup of coffee a day had a much higher rate of sexual activity, while men had a much higher potency rate.
In March a study suggested that drinking even more coffee — three to five cups a day — could reduce the risk of a stroke or heart attack. Research on 25,000 middle-aged men and women found that those who drank the least and most coffee had the greatest risk of coronary artery calcium — a sign that the arteries could be clogging, potentially causing heart disease.
There has been much debate over the effect of coffee consumption on heart health, with a number of studies coming to different conclusions.
Other studies have suggested coffee increases the risk of heart disease, by raising blood pressure and cholesterol.
Drinking two cups of coffee a day could perk up performance in the bedroom, a study suggests.
Research found that men who drank two cups a day were 42 per cent less likely than non-drinkers to report erectile dysfunction. This fell slightly to 39 per cent for those who drank around three cups, the study of almost 4,000 men found.
The effect remained true regardless of whether men were overweight, obese or suffered from high blood pressure, the University of Texas study found.
However, the impact was reduced among men with diabetes, who have a high risk of erectile dysfunction, the study, in the journal PLOS ONE, found.
Doctors warn drinking more than four cups of coffee a day can be dangerous, causing restlessness, tremors, irritability, insomnia and stomach upset.
Prof David Lopez, of the University of Texas, Houston, said: “Even though we saw a reduction in the prevalence of erectile dysfunction with men who were obese, overweight and hypertensive, that was not true of men with diabetes.”
The researchers believe caffeine triggers a series of pharmacological effects that increase blood flow to the penis by relaxing arteries and muscle.
Estimates suggest that around half of men aged between 40 and 70 will suffer some degree of erectile dysfunction.
Data for the study came from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and erectile dysfunction was assessed by a single question during a computer assisted interview. Two cups of coffee a day — between 85 and 170 milligrams of caffeine daily — was linked to a 42 per cent reduction in erectile dysfunction.
This fell slightly to 39 per cent for those who consumed between 171 and 303 milligrams, the equivalent of about three cups. Caffeine sources in the study included coffee, tea, fizzy drinks and sports drinks.
Previous research has also suggested that coffee could help boost a woman’s sex drive. Another group of US scientists found that caffeine increased the female libido in experiments on rats by it stimulating the part of the brain regulating arousal.
But researchers said a similar effect was only likely to be repeated in humans who did not drink coffee regularly.
And a study of sexual activity in the elderly revealed that women who drank at least one cup of coffee a day had a much higher rate of sexual activity, while men had a much higher potency rate.
In March a study suggested that drinking even more coffee — three to five cups a day — could reduce the risk of a stroke or heart attack. Research on 25,000 middle-aged men and women found that those who drank the least and most coffee had the greatest risk of coronary artery calcium — a sign that the arteries could be clogging, potentially causing heart disease.
There has been much debate over the effect of coffee consumption on heart health, with a number of studies coming to different conclusions.
Other studies have suggested coffee increases the risk of heart disease, by raising blood pressure and cholesterol.
KINGDOM OF LOVE
Mark Zuckerberg: Kids playing video games can lead to programming career
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the global social-media giant Facebook, answered an important question in his Townhall Q&A on May 14th: "What was your favorite video game as a kid? Did that lead into any programming to get to where you are now?"
His answer? Civilization, a game that he still plays today, designing an economy, developing science, and trying to keep everyone peaceful. And, yes, playing video games helped him get into programming.
Zuckerberg pointed out that he hears a lot of parents voicing concerns about their kids playing video games when many parents would love to see their children in technology-focused careers.
Experimentation is paramount, according to Zuckerberg, who says that he definitely would not have gotten into programming if he hadn't played video games as a kid.
Critics of video games, mainly parents, say that excessive screen time takes away from hours that could be spent building relationships with your family, according to an April Reuters report.
"I actually think giving people the opportunity to play around with different things is actually one of the best things to help people explore." (see the video of his Town Hall Q&A on Facebook)
However, others have seen the educational value in digital adventures.
Minecraft is an "open-ended video game that lets players build virtual houses and communities with a few simple keystrokes," according to Slate Magazine. It is especially popular among kids, who can spend hours building and planning.
Minecraft's website has more than 19,500,000 purchases of the computer version of the game and has almost 12,000,000 likes on Facebook. While the game has been widely disputed among parents, many are recognizing its educational value.
Joel Levin, a second-grade teacher at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School in New York City, tells Slate Magazine that he has adapted Minecraft for his classroom, making it a space where his students can work together to solve problems and build decision-making skills. He says that he decided to introduce Minecraft into his classroom when he saw the incredible experience his 5-year-old daughter was having with it.
Lisa Guernsey, author of the article and mother to two Minecraft-obsessed girls, agrees.
"Minecraft has many markers of what makes for a good learning environment: child-initiated projects, deep engagement, challenging tasks that push kids to persist and reach higher goals, excitement over what has been learned or discovered, tools for writing, and multiple modes of play that enable kids (and adults) to mold the game to their liking."
Zuckerberg may have gotten it right when he said that video games taught him the skills needed to work in a tech career.
"I made a lot of games for myself, and they were terrible, but this was how I got into programming."
Gustave Courbet’s The Origin of the World – his clinically voyeuristic 1866 oil painting of a woman shown literally and solely as a sex object, with all distractions, such as her face, ruthlessly removed – hangs in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, opposite his far larger canvas A Burial at Ornans (1849–50).
It is an incredibly powerful juxtaposition, an unforgettable double act. The small, yet white and bright and unavoidably shocking Origin looks across a shadowy space at the huge, dark, funeral scene, with its enigmatic rural faces gathered around the black void of a grave.
If you could ask Courbet what he believed in, this display makes it plain that he would give the same answer as Woody Allen in Sleeper: “Sex and death. Two things that come once in a lifetime, but at least after death you’re not nauseous.”
Facebook, it seems, gets nauseous when it looks at The Origin of the World. It has banned Courbet’s 19th-century painting and closed down the Facebook page of French art lover Frédéric Durand-Baïssas for showing it in breach of its nudity policy. Now Durand-Baïssas is suing for damages and demanding the restoration of his Facebook rights.
He is right of course. Courbet is a great artist and The Origin of the World is an extreme, yet perfect embodiment of his passionate and revolutionary beliefs. Courbet wanted to paint raw reality. He sought out the most fundamental human themes because he wanted to escape art’s cosy citadel and make it express life itself. He painted death as it is – an incomprehensible mystery – and mourners with faces so inscrutable you can’t tell if they are grieving or calculating their inheritances. His art shares the dirty realism of the novelists Flaubert and Zola.
Courbet painted naked women in a deliberately unsettling, even kitsch way, to avoid any chance of them being seen in a cosy familiar way as refined sexless “nudes”. In the same year he painted The Origin of the World for a private client he painted Woman with a Parrot to show in the public Salon exhibition. It is a nude that is ludicrously posed, making it all the more carnally real. In Young Ladies on the Banks of the Seine, he portrayed two prostitutes, perhaps lovers, relaxing with one of them showing her underwear. This is sex as the elixir of reality, the secret to making art truly alive.
This revolutionary artist – Courbet really was a revolutionary who took part in the Paris Commune in 1871 – deserves reverence and respect, not the fatuous ignorance behind Facebook’s ban. Suppressing The Origin of the World is as ludicrous as censoring Caravaggio’s Victorious Cupid orerotic frescoes from ancient Pompeii.
On the other hand, the painting is shocking and satisfies most definitions of the word “pornographic”. Maybe even the harshest definitions. The Origin of the World is a violent work of art. Its brutal cropping is aggressive. It has a real sense of evil and madness about it, a David Lynchian evocation of the dark side of sexuality. This was exactly what made it such a cult object for the French avant garde in the 20th century. For a long time, this painting was exchanged as a private exhibit, a shared secret between bohemian connoisseurs who admired its extreme sexual shock.
Jacques Lacan, who bought it in 1955, was married to Sylvia Bataille, who was previously married to the writer Georges Bataille. The name Bataille gets us close to the provocative truth about The Origin of the World. In his pornographic novel,The Story of the Eye this dissident surrealist described murder and torture as arousing – the eye in question is a priest’s that gets gouged out for erotic fun.
Can such a work be literature? Yes, says Bataille in his theoretical writings, andPenguin Modern Classics agrees with him. The daring of the French avant garde, from the 1850s to the 1950s, was to see sex as the stuff of art precisely because it is dangerous and reason-destroying.
Courbet’s extreme masterpiece is at the head of that tradition. It is great art and it is pornography. Got a problem with that, Facebook?
Hundreds of youths protest in Nigeria's Kano over alleged blasphemy: police
KANO, Nigeria: Hundreds of youths ran through the streets of the northern Nigerian city of Kano shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) on Friday to protest against a Muslim cleric accused of blasphemy, and set fire to a sharia court, police said.
The young men took to the streets around 10 a.m. (0900 GMT) to demonstrate against Abdul Nyass, from the Tijani Muslim sect, who was due to appear in the Islamic court accused of comparing the leader of his group to the prophet Muhammad.
Part of the court was set on fire after a bonfire started by protesters caught hold of the building, although it was unclear whether this was deliberate.
"Hundreds of youths were involved. There was no damage, no injuries and nobody died as a result of this," Kano police spokesman Magaji Majiya said by telephone, noting that the protest lasted just over an hour.
Members of different sects usually live peacefully side by side in predominantly Muslim Kano, the biggest city in the north of Africa's most populous country.
Thursday, 14 May 2015
The Innocent virgin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvwYerp1ARE
A virgin was accused for killing every young man that comes to marry........ just look at what they did to here!!!
A film produced by Kenneth okonkwo.
starring , Patience Ozorkwo, Clems Ohamaeze, Longinus Anakwute, T.T Temple Ikeji, Tessy oragwa
A virgin was accused for killing every young man that comes to marry........ just look at what they did to here!!!
A film produced by Kenneth okonkwo.
starring , Patience Ozorkwo, Clems Ohamaeze, Longinus Anakwute, T.T Temple Ikeji, Tessy oragwa
Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Saturday, 2 May 2015
Gov. Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has vacated the Governor’s Lodge at the Government House in Enugu
Barely one month to hand over to new administration, Gov. Sullivan Chime of Enugu State has vacated the Governor’s Lodge at the Government House in Enugu. A top government official, who pleaded anonymity, told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu on Saturday that Chime had moved to his private residence at Independence Layout, Enugu. According to the source, the movement was to facilitate the renovation of the lodge for the Governor-elect, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi. The source also said that Chime would take the governor-elect on tour of the Governor’s Lodge to enable him to familiarise himself with the lodge after its renovation. It said the outgoing governor would also hand over the new Lion Building comprising the Governor’s Office and the staff to the governor-elect. -
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