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I can see Gbawe viewing the topic! Lol!
Another O-Pistle coming!
O-Jigbi jigbi!

Lol! Someone forced Andrew Benson, the racist to do a positive profile on Lewis as one of F1's greatest ever!
Poor thing! The racist in him must cringed like he caught the mange!

PS: for those who don't know, the guy in the pic below is not Andrew Benson, but Murray Walker (greatest F1 commentator, now retired).

[size=14pt]BBC: Formula 1's greatest drivers. Number 15: Lewis Hamilton[/size]
By Andrew Benson

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When Lewis Hamilton burst onto the Formula 1 scene in 2007, taking on and often beating the reigning world champion Fernando Alonso in equal cars, in Italy they gave him the nickname 'Il Phenomeno' - the Phenomenon.

As a description of his naked talent, that remains as accurate as ever. But an altogether more complex picture of this fascinating, thrillingly brilliant racing driver has emerged since.

Use accessible player and disable flyout menusWinning in the wet - Monaco GP 2008

In terms of raw ability, very few in the history of F1 can compare with Hamilton. He can do with a racing car things of which most can only dream. As his current team-mate at McLaren Jenson Button put it: "Lewis is one of the fastest drivers ever to race in F1."

Coupled with that breathtaking pace is an ability to overtake that is just as rare, just as dazzling.

Both were on display from the very start of his F1 career, when he passed Alonso around the outside of the first corner in Australia in 2007 and proceeded to lead the Spaniard for much of the grand prix, before being passed during a pit-stop period.

What Hamilton achieved in that debut year still beggars belief; he finished on the podium for his first nine races, winning two of them, and led the championship for much of the season.

In doing so, Alonso was destabilised to the point that his relationship with McLaren completely imploded - and the pressure created by two such towering talents in one organisation almost brought the team to its knees, too.

Use accessible player and disable flyout menusHamilton loses title - Chinese GP 2007

The intensity of the battle led also to the world title slipping through Hamilton's fingers - and with it the chance to win the championship in his rookie year, a record that would almost certainly have stood for ever.

He - and Alonso, for that matter - ended up missing out by a single point. It was nevertheless clear that a unique talent had arrived.

Even the very best drivers have weaknesses, though, and Hamilton is no exception.

In Hamilton's case, his natural talent is so great that he can drive almost any car; perhaps this is partly behind what appears to be less of an aptitude for the engineering side of his job than some of his team-mates have had.

There were in 2007, for example, times when he failed to get the set-up of his car right and Alonso's greater ability in that area enabled him to leave Hamilton trailing. Likewise, McLaren have tended to lean more on Button in recent years for an engineering direction than on his team-mate.


There have also been noticeable occasions when Hamilton's results were compromised by an apparent need sometimes to lean on the team for decisions a driver of his greatness should have been able to make himself.

The most striking of these - although there have been others - was in the penultimate race of 2007 in China. Hamilton needed only to finish third to clinch the title, but McLaren allowed themselves to be distracted by the unnecessary task of getting him to finish ahead of Alonso.

They left him out too long on over-worn tyres, Hamilton did not overrule them, and he ended up sliding off into retirement on his way into the pits. It was an error that put Kimi Raikkonen in a position to snatch the title for Ferrari at the final race.

Hamilton did win the championship the following year, but only by the skin of his teeth after making far too many mistakes in a battle with Ferrari's Felipe Massa.

He followed that with two outstanding seasons in which his driving was of the highest calibre, but his machinery did not match it.

In 2009, which McLaren started with their worst car for 14 years, he stuck with it and took two brilliant victories as his machinery improved in the second half of the season.

Use accessible player and disable flyout menusTaking the title - Brazilian GP 2008

The following year he was even better, in serious contention for the championship in what was generally the third fastest car until errors in two consecutive races in Italy and Singapore took him out of the running.

But then came 2011, when the combination of starting another year without a car capable of battling for the title coupled with ructions in his personal life brought him close to meltdown.

There were three victories - the ones in China and Germany particularly outstanding - but also far too many basic mistakes.

Hamilton ended the year talking about it being his "worst season" and admitting a need to reset his approach over the winter and try to get back to being in "a good place" mentally.

As those remarks attest, Hamilton tended through the first five years of his career to wear his heart on his sleeve.

Use accessible player and disable flyout menusClassic F1 - Canadian Grand Prix 2007

Just as his daring and combative approach on the track lost him races as well as won them, his willingness to say what was on his mind attracted admiration and trouble in equal measure.

In 2012, he has so far taken a more measured approach - both on the track and with the media.

After finishing third in Malaysia following a comparatively subdued drive in mixed conditions one might have thought were made for him, Hamilton made a remark that was very revealing of his new attitude.

"I can't for the life of me understand how I did it in 2007," he said, explaining his ambition to finish on the podium in every race this year, "so I'm trying to repeat that."

The difference is that in 2012 he is trying to recreate with deliberation something that came naturally in 2007.

It remains to be seen whether that conscious conservatism can be married successfully with the unique off-the-cuff improvisational approach that makes him so exciting and, at his best, so effective.

As he told this writer this year: "I never plan to have those kinds of races, they just evolve unexpectedly."

When they do, when he is at his best, it unlocks something truly exceptional - Hamilton has produced drives that stand comparison with any in the history of the sport.

Use accessible player and disable flyout menusClassic F1 - British Grand Prix 2008

His wet-weather wins in Fuji 2007, Silverstone 2008 and Spa 2010 were as good as any by Ayrton Senna or Michael Schumacher; his swashbuckling victories in Canada 2010 and China and the Nurburgring last year are comparable with those of other great fighters such as Gilles Villeneuve or Nigel Mansell.

Asked in Canada last year whether he compared himself to Schumacher, he responded by saying he hoped by the end of his career he would be likened more to Senna and Villeneuve.

In many ways, the comparison is already valid. Hamilton's natural ability is so huge that, if he can find a way to channel it to best effect, there are virtually no limits to what he can achieve.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/18096591?print=true

Onlytruth: For me, that is the bottom-line. The strategic planning that went into the secession effort was not good enough. I appreciate the effort, though it failed, because history proves that the secessionists were right.
Some argue that not much have changed, and I tend to agree, though I tend to oscillate between the two camps myself (maybe to identify with the best intentions of both sides).

What I'm concerned about is that history must NEVER repeat. My ultimate motives have been to ensure that history never repeats in any way. I say this, not out of fear or emotion, but out of a clear sanity of purpose. I don't ever pick a war I cannot win.

In my book, the so called "Republic of Benin" would have been a very rich and prosperous country today (all things being equal) ; the same for Biafra and Odua. I wouldn't know about the North. Maybe they themselves would have developed their human resources more resolutely and may have created a great country as well.
What everyone nearly agrees on is that Nigeria has not lived up to expectations, hence this talk in 2012.
Quite sad.

Beaf endorses this post.

There is simply no comparison. Reason?...

Buhari people - "Its a primitive World, where we tell lies and throw stones!"

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Nah, I've just returned to this thread and not modified anything.

Obiagu1: This your post helps my point. Assuming, if a Biafra was created tomorrow with some of your Isoko brothers agreeing to it and fight for it, you that do not support it fight against it and your side wins, what will you write in the papers? My people were not carried along! This is the point I tried to make, you can never get everyone on board and whoever side that wins will claim whatever they want, they will always be right.

Yes, you can never get everyone on board, but you can at least try.
If anyone had tried to get the Midwest on board, there would be a history of meetings claimed at least by one side. But there are none.

Things were handled terribly, bro.

PhysicsQED: @ Beaf, Einstein was a very much a 'trained' physicist. His doctoral advisor was this fella:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Kleiner

A good example of a self taught, 'untrained' physicist of note is Oliver Heaviside or George Green.

Yes, I was wrong. He had a teaching diploma, but in 1905, the same year in which he wrote the Special Theory of Relativity, he obtained a PhD.

[quote author=ekt_bear]Beaf, may want to check out this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1578493/net-graph-library-around[/quote]Thanks, bro. Thats a great page.

kodewrita: The twitter model seems more user friendly though. And your followership might be a better measure of your usefulness/value than your number of friends. If I like Beaf's comments (psyching in progress), I can follow him without him necessarily knowing.

Chei! Ogini ka in ge me?
Ayam in trouble today!

okeyxyz: do you mean relational database? how can that be? since relational database is the most naturally suited for social analysis(IMO), with little effort you can easily summarize what data-structures(tables) are related, and the number & specific relationships.

No, it isn't. There are very serious problems with the relational model. Firstly, it doesn't sit well in todays OO World and secondly does not represent social graphs naturally or efficiently (the keyword here is efficiency). You will find that all the biggest websites have dumped relational databases for either key-value stores or graph dbs. I am confident that in the next ten years, the relational db would be either extinct (or highly deminished). Wikipedia keeps getting noticably slower every year for example, because they have stubbornly stuck with MysSql.

The main killer of the relational db is the sheer growth in the volume of data applications use, this is in turn driven by ever decreasing storage costs (growing at a much faster rate than processing power can keep up with). That brings in all sorts of scalability and complexity issues and the relational model is already creaking at the seams, long since dumped by the likes of Google and increasing dumped by realtime financial systems websites, games websites etc.
Lets also not forget the facebook, bebo style apps that are beginning to gain currency. There are so many relationships and connections involved that a DBA handling one of those sites would soon find himself recuperating in a mental home. Lol!

The advantages of key-value and graph db's are ease of use (no SQL, you simply write in your favourite language), flexibility, very high scalability, very high performance. They also faithfully represent your OO code structure.

Please folks, my apologies for the long digression.

Blah blah blah!!

[quote author=ndu_chucks]Dede1, I do not admire your foolish antics of calling our dear country cesspit, but I know that you try your best to provide historical facts regardless of whose ox is gored (though you embellish once in a while). Now, what really happened? Why did you, Eziachi (the respected NL biafran warrior) and others do what Beaf alleges? I ask you because I know you do not shy away from difficult questions.[/quote]Dude, we are having a family quarell, strangers are unwelcome. Thanks.

[quote author=ekt_bear]I am not the one who made the claim of a population of 20 million for the SS. You made the claim. So the onus is on you to defend your claim. Not me.[/quote]Dude, the math is not hard. You are the one making sneering remarks, so don't be lazy to show that you haven't been sneering and "laughing into your breakfast" out of stup!dty. The math isn't hard and census figures are out there.

manny4life: Anyway, my point is if we continue on this trend, it's not healthy. The FG is having issues paying its own debt, though it does come low per capita, but not everyone can afford it. Anyway, I'll leave this talk for tomorrow morning, got to sleep now.

States borrowing is part of the FG debt, because the FG borrows externally on behalf of the states.

[quote author=ekt_bear]The population of Akwa Ibom + Cross River combined is 2-4 million?[/quote]Why don't you do the math (not that hard) for the entire ND, then add Akwa Ibom + Cross River.
Lets see if you come to a different figure.

shymmex: And where in the world do they "sift" certain people out because they scored high marks in an examination, and give them "specialised education?" A genius should be able to adapt to anything, and make the best out of it..

Judging people's genius based on one performance is flawed - people peak academically at different times in their lives... So, rather than give certain people special treatment based on one performance - the Nigerian educational system needs to be improved to cater for all.. Let the 'geniuses' compete with other students! There's no harm in competition...

Einstein wasn't given special treatment, neither was Bill Gates - they proved the genius outside the four walls of a University..

Read what I wrote earlier about Thomas Alva Edison. You might not understand where I am coming from.
You mentioned Einstein, I hope you realise he was not a trained physiscist?
Bill Gates? I hope you realise that like Thomas Alva Edison, he pulled out of school?

About sifting. In your England, I'm sure they have classes based on intelligence, like year 13a, year 13b etc. And I'm sure the teachers take interest in grooming the brighter ones for leadership roles too, as well as pushing them into various community roles and toward schools like Canbridge. That is what is called sifting, but you might not know.

[quote author=ekt_bear]So according to you, Abia, Imo, Ondo + SS, all combined have ~20 million population?[/quote]Thats why I used the word, "technically." Its according to Obj's definition.
In the real sense, the ND amounts to Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers which combined would struggle to get past 14 - 15 million. So the 20 million figure covers Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta and Edo. If we add Akwa Ibom and Cross River, we should get 22 - 24 million (most likely less).

[quote author=ekt_bear]Isn't the SS a lot bigger than the ND? Cross Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Edo...[/quote]Technically, ND includes Abia, Imo and Ondo, it is bigger than the SS.

bayooooooo: Genius my foot. One or two cases are normal but when there is trend, nation wide, of poor performance at that top level, then the system is dead. That was essentially what happened before the introduction of post-JAMB.

Dude, does that not correspond with the picture of our dear country as a place that can neither identify, value nor harness genius?
In countries with more functional education systems such people would be sifted out and given specialised education.
No dunce can score 360 in JAMB. On the other hand, there is nothing in the Nigerian education system to capture the mind of a genius.

I pray that GEJ recognises this and creates programmes to identify geniuses before they waste away.

Obiagu1: Well, it's only your dad that knows exactly who he was during that war.
That aside, I wonder how the US would fight in Afghanistan without passing through other territories. Whatever I said above was as it was; no need rewriting history.
Now when you say "Biafra phucked up by not taking the minorities serious", that will be far from the truth. Minority groups are many and there were many interests, moreover war was raging. There was no way everyone will go with your view no matter how gifted you are, you can't convince everyone.
The people that headed Republic of Benin were convinced, if not they wouldn't have gone ahead with it. Those Ijaws that fought alongside Biafrans bought the idea and did so because they were convinced. It's only a fool that would ignore talking to others in such situation.

Even today, when you talk about Biafra, many are not buying it despite the fact they are not happy with Nigeria. Will you tomorrow, if another Biafra was created and it fell, say that the minorities were not carried along if those that did not agree with its creation cripple our effort? For the fact, Biafra 2nd in command was a minority.

It is simple logic that Biafra decided to overthrow the govt in the Midwest, kill all top officials, install their own govt and declare a spurious republic to be ruled from Enugu. History bears that out, and no amount of lies or sentiment can cover that fact up.
The govt of the so-called Republic of Benin were Biafrans and when the FG invaded, they fled back to Biafra.

If there is another Biafra and the same thing happens, I will not be part of it, NEITHER WILL MY PEOPLE BE. You cannot conquer people or look down on them and hope they will be allies by some miracle.

I am glad that you aknowledge that it is only a fool that would ignore talking to others in the situation Biafra found herself in. Blame your leaders at the time for a colossal error. They could go all the way to Yoruba land to get Banjo, but they couldn't talk to a single Urhobo, Edo or Itsekiri soldier. General Ejoor was neutral, an Urhobo man whose people had just left the Western Region, yet no effort was made to convince him, rather he too was targetted for death. That guy is a family friend. Ok? Biafra did everything they could to scare the wits out of such a powerful and strategic fellow in the Nigerian armed forces and now we hear false stories of "betrayal." Its a pity and it is enraging.

So, there ends another claim.
I wonder what it was that they found though.

Anyway, its just a story until the OP provides a source.

jmaine: Reminds me of this dude in UNILAG who had the best jamb score of the year of about 340 . . . but became the scorn of his Engineering class cos his performance was shyte poor . . . It was such a sad story

He was most likely a genius who was uninterested in school because it wasn't intellectually challemging enough.
JAMB includes extra curricular questions, so is in many ways, an IQ test.

[quote author=ekt_bear]If indeed the total population of SS indigenes in Nigeria is 20 million out of a country of ~170 million or so, then yes, the SS is by far the most impressive region educationally both on a per capita PASS rate perspective, as well as a per capita TAKE rate perspective.

But somehow, I suspect that you are just making the number up. In any case, doesn't really matter too much...I think my point has been made abundantly clear.

Out of curiosity, are you ever going to provide a reference/citation for those claim that most of the top scorers on JAMB come from those states you mentioned?[/quote]

Hon. Bala Ibn Na’Allah from Kebbi State argued that "nothing was wrong in sacrificing 20 million people to protect over 150 million people."
A statement by a member of the Nigerian National Assembly" said this morning

we can do away with 20 million Niger deltans' The words of Alhaji Bala N'allah,member of the house of reps. with regards to the attack by the JTF on the Nigerdelta region.

http://www.speakersoffice.gov.ng/news_may_22_09_1.htm

Obiagu1: Talking about Midwest, it's known that a Biafran contingent lead by Banjo was headed to Lagos and passed through Midwest.
Mission: take the seat of government and end the war. They were stopped at Ore. Republic of Benin was created with no fuss.

Republic of Benin fell so soon and became Nigeria again and was used as a base by Nigerian forces. Fact.
Some of those from Midwest fought alongside Nigerians, thus became enemies of Biafra. Fact.
So Beaf, if your dad was targeted for execution, he must have been working for Nigerian forces so was a high value target/enemy. Fact.

More so, I still don't know how you got into this discussion since the minorities the post you replied to was those within Biafra. Midwesterners were never classified as betrayals by Biafrans because the were never Biafrans. So how would you betray what you are not part of? Now go figure.

Dude, my father along with many others, had nothing to do with either the FG or Biafra. Both sides were wicked and only saw us as puns. Till today, we have quite a few family friends who are fatherless, because their fathers (whose only crime was being top shots in the Midwest govt) were executed in cold blood by Biafra.
Please do not talk stup!dly about what you do not know.

There is no point whitewashing anything. Neither Biafra nor the FG asked us for any pact or favour; both sides simply came in and trampled the people. In fact, if the Midwest had not been neutral, Biafra wouldn't have been able to come in, because the state would have been armed and ready as part of the FG.
As is common with the majority groups in Nigeria, Biafra phucked up by not taking the minorities serious and talking to them. Afterall, the Midwest had just walked out of the Western region in anger. Stup!d approach and now stup!d rewriting of history.
More than anything, that led to its defeat and the horrors of the war. It is left for the new generation to be wiser.

Lastly, when you guys talk about being betrayed by Niger Deltans or SS people, make sure you define exactly who you are talking about. Even when you talk about Ijaws, note that sizeable populations exist both inland in Delta state and along the coast to Ondo - these were never in Biafra too. You cannot use a wide brush and not expect Niger Deltans and SS people to react angrily.

The population of the SS is 20 million approx.

By your own data, your claims are false.

Logic Mind: Which history? The one made up by your no-victor-no-vanquished nigeria?

Don't you think it is only cowards that prey on smaller guys?
That is exactly what I think each time pathetic basta'rds like you come telling lies and thinking they can whitewash facts and make up fantastic stories against minorities.

You always talk like a fool anyway, so you must be one.

Coward.

Onlytruth: @Beaf, I just thought of this and wanted to get your opinion.
With clear hindsight now, don't you think that "Republic of Benin" would have been a GREAT country by now?
I've never thought of this before. Honestly. I've always thought that the whole idea of Biafran forces entering Midwest and its associated headache was just a distraction and very bad idea. There was NOTHING Biafra would have gained from it except perhaps that the leader of the new Republic of Benin was Igbo. Maybe y'all thought that he would merge the territory with Biafra later. lol

I need your honest answer. I gotta run along though. I'll be back later to continue.

Perhaps it would, but it could also have failed in the same way most colonies and artificial creations fail.

Logic Mind: You call it invasion, I call it passing by.
Some minorities did betray Biafra. Are you one of them?
You were never onlookers. You are part and parcel of the entity called nigeria. You whored to the abokis and are reaping the fruits of your whoredom.
Stop deceiving yourself.

I am pretty sick of you lot.

History calls it an invasion. It doesn't matter what a bastar'd like you calls it. Ok?

Logic Mind: There you go again shouting like a castrated baboon with no substance.

Did your people fight during the war? Who did they fight?
Was your land used as base for Nigerian military?

Who did we execute exactly. If you want to know about execution, read up on Asaba massacre.

When Biafra went through mid west, Biafran soldiers did not commit any attrocities. Infact after reading what you posted, you should hide your head in shame and regret because most of you would wish that you have your republic of Benin today.

You bastard. A man without country. Biafra gave you a country and you threw it away, gave your women and your oil wells to abokis and you turn around and accuse us of your woes. Ungrateful nicompoops.

NL is full of people praying to their different gods for division and to have their own countries 45 years after Ojukwu started doing it.

Just listen to yourself speak: so there you were minding your own business and being docile and all and all of a sudden in comes muderous biafran troops executing you and giving you a country of your own. Then comes nigeria rexecuting you and taking your country away. And what did you do? did you retaliate? Did you chicken out? Did a an Yoruba r'.ape your ancestress to transfer cowardice and spirit of betrayal to you?

Now let's leave 1967 and come back to 2012. Where are you and what are you? Where are your riches gone to? Who owns you? What hope do your children have? You want bring mouth for igbos. We have always been and always will be better that you.

Cursed is your land
Cursed are your riches for you
Your inheritance is forever passed to strangers (abokis)

I spit on you and all you represent
I spit on your tribe and customs

Ojukwu was wrong to show you people kindness. The next generation of Biafrans are another breed.

You spit on yourself and your family.

You are stup!d, it is well known that David Ejoor strived to be neutral in the run up to the war.
Go and make up your hateful lies to fill the gaps in your personal shortcomings.

Biafra invaded the Midwest and killed people, only for pathetic scum like you to attempt to invent history.

Lying fool.

[quote author=ekt_bear]1. I've not seen anything in previous years suggesting that the highest scores come from any of those states you mention. Can you provide a reference backing this up? E.g., average JAMB performance per zone?
2. For the year referenced above, your statement is false. The highest JAMB pass rate was in the SW. 87.73% getting above a 170 in the SW, 84.29% in the SE, 81.58% in the SE.[/quote]Per capita is the key phrase you should be looking out for. I noticed in your only link I looked at, that the SS had about the same number of JAMB applications as the SW, whereas we certainly lag far behind in terms of population.

By your own figures, your claims are false.

[quote author=ekt_bear]https://www.nairaland.com/725471/2011-jamb-utme-data-state

In particular, look at the statistics of those getting above 170 on JAMB by zone.

This suggests that SW indigenes perform better on average on at least this particular standardized exam than other people do.[/quote]The highest JAMB scores are always provided by the states I mentioned (Delta, Anambra, Imo and Rivers). I forgot Edo, by the way.
Edo, Delta, Anambra, Imo and Rivers also provide the highest JAMB successes and university intakes per capita.

Its a proven statistic, year after year.

Logic Mind: I get you but Beaf was making allusions to the invasion led by Victor Banjo before the federal troops pushed back.

Your post refers to latter in the war, when Nigerian troops were already occupying mid west and harrassing Biafrans from their base there. Biafra had to attack. Unfortunately, some italians were caught in the crossfire. Nwanne, remember that histories are mostly told by the victor but in this Biafran struggle, we cannot allow lies to continue unabbatted, especially when everyone can see that Biafran struggles were necessary and are justified but current events and the sorry state of nigeria today.

We did what we had to do. What has the mid-westerns done?

You are a phucking liar. I was talking about the invasion of the Midwest by Biafra.
I responded to your hate-filled lies that minorities betrayed Biafra. If anything, we were onlookers caught up in something nobody told us about.

Dude, I'm pretty sick of hearing hateful lies from people like you.