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Did he mention that he saved LeBron' s legacy in the series against SAS?

VaughnSangrey:
I read Ray Allen's book a few days ago BTW. He shat on Garnett and co and the Celtics franchise and praised lebron and the heat. No surprise there. The Celtics have always been known to be a classless franchise.

But honestly Ole somehow just manages to save his career.

You no better not to try and attack Manchester United.

I am just enjoying this. Roland is going off too.

Don't even bring up the triple double subject. Its no longer a hallowed territory.Westbrook has made normalcy of it Maybe he should try one quadruple double. . I am not disputing the fact that this result is not the ultimate, we still have a lot of time till the playoffs. The problem I have is the injury narrative. If you are hurt, sit your ass down. If you decide to play with the injury, don't cry like a baby. Yen yen yen.

steady986:
I don't get the manhandled part. He almost got a triple double. How come you people are not talking about PG that scored 17 points. Just call the loss a loss, ain't no need to blow things out of proportion.

Trolling? If you are injured then don't play, it isn't the NBA finals. Man up and take the L and don't put it down to injury. Your decision to play through an injury is your choice. He got his balls manhandled, it's as simple as that. He can try again later. I can understand his constant ducking of Kawhi. - You can't be shooting poorly and get owned too. But to get stared down by the "6ft Ninja" as A40 would put it, he has to do so Ervin about it. Excuses yen yen yen. I can't wait for the play offs you so desire for. Maybe this time he will hit his balls against the white board.

steady986:
Excuses for being top in the west? If y'all really want to enjoy trolling, y'all should wait till we get off the top spot and fall to something like fifth. Asides that, I really don't get the point of trolling.

There you go again. Excuses.

VaughnSangrey:
LOL. Unlike your poverty franchise that's tanking for Lamelo Ball we don't care about regular season games because we're trying to win championships. Especially when our best player was obviously injured and we're still on top of the league. Get your priorities straight yomi.

I won't continue the debate about the possibility that these two accounts belong to the same person cos it's gone stale. However I can definitely discuss the fact that his royal majesty got blocked by a 6ft guy. . Why dont you suck it up, take the L in good grace and hope your King does better next time.

VaughnSangrey:
LMAO This is hilarious! This weirdo keeps quoting himself!

Hahaha, I knew the injury excuse was coming.

A40:
Lool the ole groin excuse after getting blocked by a 6ft ninja.

LeNomad is tiresome. Reminds me of the fake cast fiasco. Just accept the L and promise to play better. Lots of games still to play. And we don't want to hear no injuries excuse. If you're not healthy then sit. Stop devaluing and disrespecting the other team with these silly excuses

Leshannon may have to watch the entire game again and try to find a point where LeBron points to his groin, so he can present that as an argument tomorrow.

. But honestly the Lakers still have a lot of room for improvement. They will figure it out before the play offs.

A40:
Lool someone said Brick by brick that's how he will build his own Mount Rushmore.

Man's was getting locked by Pat Bev

The bigs are jacking up a lot of 3s too. The bad of the 3-point revolution. Giannis too went 0-7 today. I don't know who the hell is advising that guy. If he keeps shooting 3s and not improve his efficiency from around 15 feet, I predict a repeat of last year's play-off story.

A40:
It's what really annoys me when people go on about how much tougher and competitive this era of players are. All I see is a proliferation of 3pt shooting. Everybody is just jacking up 3's that's it

They never learn. Even the greatest shooter mixes them up.

A40:
That's the problem with this era. Guys not even trying to mix and match anymore. Nobody wanting to have any type of midrange game. Just like Lillard the other night shooting 0/10 from 3. By your 5th miss you should know it's probably not your night and try something else

What do you want him to do en? . LeBron is one hell of a smart guy. He doesn't want to be the headline tomorrow.

A40:
LeNomad flat out ducking Kawhi right now you love to see it

It looks like LeBron is gonna build a house of bricks tonight. .But there is a positive, keep finding Kuzma.

When we were starting to think he has built enough houses and repented from the brick business . It turns out a leopard never changes its spots.

Roland17:
Westbrook is rebuilding the Eiffel Tower with bricks made in Houston.

As an observant fan, I think it's very risky to work tirelessly trying to improve your efficiency from two extremes without doing it from intermediate distances. Giannis is obviously very efficient within 5 feet of the basket and he is clearly trying to improve his efficiency beyond the 3-point arc, but what about jump shots. Even great shooters have bad shooting nights, sometimes consecutively. I don't know if Giannis thinks shooting 35% beyond the arc automatically translates to over 50% from jump shots. If he keeps this routine and not shoot a considerable number of jump shots this may backfire in the playoffs. I sincerely hope this is just an off-night.

You may want to point out where i copied from, then your accusation can be taken seriously. There are basic rules that apply to all research works in the basic sciences. As a researcher, i thought your argument was interesting, then I checked to confirm. No single paper published in a reliable journal confirms that y chromosomes come from x chromosomes, even remotely. In fact a postdoctoral researcher on quora tried to answer a similar question. https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Y-chromosome-smaller-than-the-X-chromosome?ch=10&share=25403f93&srid=uPVZG. Since you are technically inadequate you may try and read her answer. Decode what? Let me remind you of the genesis of this exchange. You made a wrong assertion to support your claim that the biblical statement that women were created from men was wrong. It's that assertion that I am disputing, as it is not correct and so cannot be used as a support for refuting the biblical statement. Making assertions without being sure of them is wrong may be wrong, but non-admission of a mistake is even worse.

Zooposki:
Published research works? Lmao. I know an intellectual when I see one. Definitely not you. I knew that right from your first post, hence the serious trolling, but if you are smart enough, you can decode what I wrote to get the answers you are looking for, unless it is not your field of study, which I’m sure it’s not from your copy and paste, as you seem confused.

You resort to this? I can now understand that you are not intellectually inadequate. Don't bother replying me. I deal with published research works not articles increasing their visibility. In fact you should address your comment to yourself.

Zooposki:
Im sure if you research hard enough, you will find the answers you are looking for. The answer is right in front of you, unless you are just copying and pasting from google and not understanding what you are copying.

Stop it man. I never mentioned Mary, I was only disputing your argument, which is wrong. You are free to bring up anything else but this. The position that the Y chromosome is shorter than the X chromosome is a reasonable hypothesis, but not a fact. You asserted that that was a generally accepted knowledge by scientists, which is not true cos scientists are leaning in a different direction. They clearly admit that the Y- chromosome is a mutation of it's precursor autosome. Now you introduce conclusions from other research works and fail to connect them to your original argument. How does the degeneration of the Y chromosome ultimately mean they come from X chromosomes? Perhaps that is only a continuation of the mutational processes that brought them to their present state. You didn't get your facts right man, cos your assertion is not factual. Do you even know how to differentiate between a fact and an hypothesis? Do you even know how to select appropriate references for your argument? I won't bother discussing the subject of "Mary the virgin" with you. And don't assume you know what I think on the subject, cos I didn't mention it in my previous post. My point is don't put any information you are not sure of out there and purport that it is a scientific fact. That is intellectually dishonest. And what do you mean by "If you ask me, who I go ask" ? That's a statement I would expect from someone who is intellectually inadequate someone who would rather not admit he was wrong.

Zooposki:
If you ask me, na who I go ask. I already got my facts right. Do you?? The Y chromosome even has less material now. Oh lawd. How do you think Mary got pregnant without a man?

Men may not become extinct after all, according to a new study.

Previous research has suggested the Y sex chromosome, which only men carry, is decaying genetically so fast that it will be extinct in five million years' time.

The predictions were based on comparisons between the human X and Y sex chromosomes. While these chromosomes were once thought to be identical far back in the early history of mammals, the Y chromosome now has about 78 genes, compared with about 800 in the X chromosome.

Mother Earth will take care of you guys. You guys should continue your fuckery.

Where did you get this information from? This is intellectually bogus man. A more acceptable argument suggests that both the X and Y chromosomes were autosomes and the Y chromosowmes underwent a series of mutation. Get your facts right bro.

Zooposki:
That is how the Bible lied to you and we were told woman was created out of man, only to find out through science that the y chromosome in man is a genetic defect of the X chromosome in woman, by it having less of about 2% genetic material. The oldest living being is known as Lucy. Does Lucy sound like a man or woman’s name? Or you think the names, Mother Nature, Mother Earth, Mother Land, Mother of all storms etc just popped out of nowhere.

What do you think the Bible meant by virgin? and no, it does not mean a woman that has never had sex before.

Remuneration is another thing, and it is coming in the way of a proper assessment of teachers and lecturers, I must admit. I am a physics guy, and i believe a generally effective way of measuring the aptitude of a professor/researcher is by checking their list of publications and quality. Many professors are not producing quality research. You may want to put this down to remuneration too, but it doesn't change the fact that they are not quite productive. However after thinking about this more deeply, I consider the remuneration a significant factor, something we must solve to be able to properly assess the adequacy of our lecturers. So perhaps we pay the professors their entitlements, watch of their productivity changes and then change the system of recruitment to a contractual one that lasts over a period. Then terminate the contracts of professors with low productivity. All in all, we do have a deeper problem. Bad governance. The original discussion was about the quality of delivery by professors. And you argued that we can't blame the lecturers. But i say, yes we can until proven otherwise. The low quality of delivery by professors is clear. As to whether this is mostly because of Remuneration, I don't believe that. I believe many of them are actually not good enough. My reason for this assertion is because many of them are a product of the low quality of tertiary education. A lion beget a lion.
Meanwhile since we have been exchanging messages for a while now, I say merry Christmas to you and your family.

AlphaStorm:
If u have HR experience/knowledge , u'd know that timely payment of remunerations and other bonuses can affect work output in any organization. Just look at the condition of secondary school teachers all over the country (apart from lagos of course), some have not been paid for over 3months. How do u expect them to function optimally

Many of the teachers are very good but cannot deliver at optimal level cos they are not being rewarded properly. Look, quality of education is affected by so many things. Not just the Universites. I have seen good lecturers who dont have a first class or a 2.1 but can deliver and are very skillful.

True. I didn't miscontrue your point. As much I agree with the argument that the decay reaches secondary school level, i still maintain that you can always trace a significant part of the problem back to the lecturers one way or another. I mean the teacher that taught the students O'level physics was taught by a lecturer too. I am not saying the lecturers were the original source of the problem, rather my argument is they are a significant part of the problem. Majority of them are academically inadequate. It's the fact, although you can't blame the lecturers for their inadequacy, after all they are a product of the student-teacher cycle. Another thing is that trying to solve only one of the major problems may not solve the low quality of education. We may have to adopt a more holistic approach. For example we could try to phase in better qualified lecturers-phd holders with some post-doctoral experience- and at the same time update curricula to reflect modern standards. So we can lay part of the blame of the low quality of education on the inadequacies of our professors, but that's not the only thing.

AlphaStorm:
U've misconstrued what am trying to explain , we cant keep putting blames on lecturers in Universities whilst turning a blind eye to the secondary schools. U can imagine a lecturer teaching O'level physics all over again simply because the students are NOT well grounded in it. If he assumes they have previous knowledge and decides to take university physics directly, they would say he's frustrating them.
How d fvck did they pass O'level physics to begin with

We are not talking about the 60s 70s, and 80s. If you are basing your argument on the status quo in that era, then I am afraid your argument is dead on arrival. The pedagogy of the secondary education students get today is generally outdated or not well tailored to current needs. It will interest you to know that many Nigerian universities were considered the best then. If you check the profile of Nigerian-trained successful professionals making waves in foreign countries, most of them studied degrees in the 80s. So yes our education was good back then, but not anymore.

AlphaStorm:
U just pointed to a very important part in the education sector....secondary schools. How do u expect a student who has faulty O'level to understand and cope with university work

Have u met a man/woman without a Bachelors who schooled in the 60s,70s,80s and early 90s....?? U'd be amazed how well they speak or write.

Everything? Are you kidding me. That sub-par education we get in Nigeria? I am not talking about students who attended fancy private secondary schools. Even for this, the height of intellectual independence is after a bachelor's education. You may even need a master's for intellectual independence in the research world.

AlphaStorm:
Everything needed to be intellectually independent is taught in secondary schools. Do NOT expect to be taught like a secondary schl student.

Sure.

SuomyNona:
Thanks a lot, can I pm you?

Can't we use the word "injury" without adding "genuine" again.It looks like some people are haunted by their constant knock on the genuineness of injuries sustained by some other players.

It would have been better if you had above 160 for the Q part. Your GPA is quite good but the competition for admission into American schools is fierce.The reputation of your school also matters(You may have to state that). In any case you should Apply for a direct Ph.D . Check QS civil engineering subject-ranking for medium-ranked American schools- outside 150. ASU, OSU and others. Do the same for schools Canada, Australia and other countries you may be considering. After selecting suitable schools based on the rankings(seive), go to their websites and find the active research areas you are interested in and contact the professors. Most of the time the professors have research group/personal websites where they clearly indicate that they are looking for graduate students. Most of the applications will cost you though. Some applications cost as much as 100 dollars. However, METU, Ankara, Turkey has a good reputation in civil engineering(100-150)- I know this cos I completed my undergraduate degree there. You can check their website. Find the areas of research you are interested and send an email to the professors in charge asking them if they have projects from which you can earn a monthly stipend. It's a government institution, so the tuition Is low. Around 50k naira per semester, I think. If you decide to apply to METU as a fall back plan perhaps. Apply to their MSc program. Hopefully it can serve as a stepping stone to somewhere better elsewhere. Istanbul University has about the same reputation and is a government school as well. You can try and navigate their websites too. All the best I your search.

SuomyNona:
Profile

GPA: 3.74/4.00
GRE: 317 (V - 159, Q - 158)

Intended grad program: MSc or Ph.D. in Civil Engineering.

Please, If you have info on any school with high chances of securing funding, please kindly hint me I just need directions in the right way.

American schools don't generally offer scholarships for MA/MSc programs. The scholarships/fellowships/assistantships are skewed towards Phd programs.

Evans211:
Good day everyone,

I’m applying to 5 schools;

Bowling Greene state university
Georgia state university
Kansas state university
Cleveland state university
George Washington University

(Here is my profile
GPA- 3.28/4
GRE- 318
Degree of interest- M.A Political science )

The last 3 schools request for financial statement of account as part of the application process. Neither of my sponsors I believe have up to 30 million plus lol. So I’m thinking if there’s a way to get a genuine statement of account legitimately?.. it’s very important to not that, I applied with the intention of winning a scholarship (tuition waiver and assistantship) hence, not sure why statement of account that will cover full tuition Is required..

To the gurus that must have passed through similar stage, kindly help with your inputs please. I’m self funding this application but my sponsor(s) is Willing to help but his financial statement is slightly over 15m which is not enough sadly.

Kindly help please. Deadline for application is fast approaching..

Thanks

Nope, some form of teaching should be present at the university level too. The university is not just for research. Where are you getting that from? You need to be taught, then you can have enough knowledge to know where to look and what to look for.

AlphaStorm:
That is why they are called Lecturers and NOT Teachers. One of the problems we have is faulty O'level. The University is for research and NOT Teaching like u have it in secondary schools.

I am afraid there is a huge dent in your argument. While all professors have specialties, their subfields are subsets of a larger field-for instance physics- for which there are core subjects or perhaps aspects of certain subjects that professors must be well-versed in. Now , being knowledgeable about a subject doesn't always translate to an ability to teach it. In fact there comes the question: what is good Teaching? How do we judge?. From the perspective of the professor? or from the perspective of the student? I mean we can't really blame students lack of understanding of materials on a professor, bur not for the reasons you stated-a better reason could be that the students' previous education was inadequate. From your submission I can understand that you probably were/are not a physics major. There is generally no such thing as professor of electromagnetism today. Electromagnetism is essentially part of core physics now. A large part of the framework of quantum physics is too. Now, professor of condensed matter physics is definitely something and In fact there are sub fields and sub-sub fields of that. However, the fact that you are a professor of condensed matter physics for example means you should be well-versed in certain aspects of quantum mechanics otherwise you have no business teaching it. You may not be a good teacher, but you must know it at least up to the level present in the literature of core physics. That's where qualification comes in. If you didn't go through a decent education, there is a small chance that you understood the core materials to the level expected. Honestly, at this point in time the only solution to our problem is to recruit Phd holders who obtained decent education overseas. This can either come from actually sending students overseas, before they get corrupted I.e at the secondary school. And for this case, the government cannot even properly manage the Scholarship schemes they have instituted. So we are in serious trouble. The student-Professor-Student cycle in Nigeria is corrupt. We need an external input to put cycle back in order and I believe the means is creating an effective system of sending students overseas when their education is still redeemable.

LordAzubuike:
Stop being a fool okay. You can't expect a lecturer to know all. You can't throw random questions at a lecturer and expect him to know it easily. Lecturers have specialty, they have their own field. If you ask him anything outside his field, don't blame him. Same with a professor that you'd expect him to know everything. Professors for instance have their own specialty too. They might all be professors in physics but while one is a professor of acoustic , another is a professor of quantum physics, another is a Prof of electro magnetism and electronics another is a Prof of condensed matter physics. So you can't ask a Prof of acoustics a question relating to electro magnetism and expect him to know it. All of them may answer professor of physics. But they have their own specialty where they did their thesis.

Cc Aremson14

Oh you are still around!. I was hoping I could slip something in without you noticing, watchman . I am at liberty to chose whichever direction my projections point to. One of your friends just wished all the stars-carrying the bulk of the load of their respective teams- injuries. If he can let such a thought out, then my submission is more than a fair assessment. Deal with it.

KarnBarlow:
Thats what you got from that? What is wrong with people like you? I swear there are some toxic people on this thread. Really toxic.