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coogar: leeds in 2002 are united's rivals? van persie?
are arsenal united rivals as we speak? besides, van persie was leaving anyway whether united wanted him or not. arsenal were always going to lose van persie. goetze wouldn't have moved an inch if bayern didn't activate his release clause. all these examples cannot be compared to the bayern coup of their closest rivals. the equivalent of this transfer is man utd poaching aguero or yaya toure this summer.

coogar you convieniently left out Eric Cantona's move

Yep.. Arsenal may not be Utd direct rivals but thet are still rivals in the strict sense of the word
So are Spuds (Carrick)
Villa (A Young)
Everton (Rooney)

If these players had still been at these clubs, they may have been able to cement their champions league status, get some good dough and at least get some points off utd
thazall

Fussbot: Dayokanu,u talking asif I said dey shldn't buy players from their league,we talking bout title contenders here..like man utd buying yaya toure or silva from city..coogar has given u d best ansa up dia..here is. klopp"I've known since the night of our 2nd leg against malaga...bayern like to weaken dia opponents,it's one of dia strategies..I know someone is out there dat doesn't want us 2 be succesful,hence dey target our star players bt I promise we will dissapoint them"

HEllllooooooooo

And utd dont weaken opponents


van persie, Cantona, Rio Ferdy, ....

For those of you that started watched premier league footie, there was a time Leeds Utd and Utd were fierce rivals

KingOmarion: you wats the meaning of that dot....that's not wat we need to hear and for Suarez the ban is much was hoping 3match ban

If an english man bites - it's just a yellow card but if it's suarez oh no we don't want no cannibal from south america

2006 jermaine defoe bit javier mascherano

As much as i want Dortmund to prevail...... i see Madrid 2.0

cezeozue: I quite agree that there's a high level of unpredictability and NepaSituation cannot hope to achieve perfect accuracy. However, there is some underlying regularity that we could exploit. Some of the non-fault-related outages are caused by load shedding. This load shedding is rarely announced by PHCN but it happens all the time. If the pattern is relatively simple, you would notice that your light goes out every, say, 6pm and returns at midnight, for instance. For more complex patterns that arise from multiple levels (transmission and distribution) of load shedding, it would take a few days to fully understand the patterns. Algorithms can easily tease apart the patterns way quicker than any human would. Another bit of regularity that the application would exploit is the level of responsiveness of the closest PHCN office. Some PHCN offices respond to faults faster than others and the expected response time is something the application could detect too. Finally, many supposedly random events in the world today fit some underlying probability distribution and with the right amount of training data, the application could exploit this distribution to provide pretty accurate expected times.

In the event that we were overly optimistic about the "predictability" of electricity outages in the development of NepaSituation, at least we now have an app that can save you the trouble of calling your barber to ask if he has light or calling your friend to know whether they have light so you could watch a premiership game with them. The app also provides a daily airtime raffle (shameless plug ) so even if none of the above use cases fit you, at least you know where to possibly win some free airtime . We (I and my brother) also having a great deal of fun and challenge developing the app. It's easy for us to sit back and wonder if there's some predictability in electricity outages but it's only in doing stuff like this that I'm able to know for sure.

Dude,,, u too much

These are the same people that would have told Newton when the apple fell
Eat it wetin consign you with law of gravitation

Carry GOOO

Muppets of the order of Pull Them Down

personaldomest: Generalizations are unacceptable. Stop stereotyping people. People are who they are irrespective of tribe or Nationality. Stereotypes are degrading. Saying that women from a particular tribe bad is just as horrible as generalizing that all Nigerians are corrupt.

sweet post

bigtt76: Probably doing it to hurt you as well as let you know its wrong picking his phone without his consent ...more like letting you what you want to see. I guess you should sit him down and talk over it. Make him know you are in no way jealous or angry over his cheating on you. If you like his kind of phone, get yourself one. If you like picking calls, get your friends calling you so you pick as many as you may want. On a lighter note, You can also look into working on a Customer Support desk of MTN ....you will pick as many calls as you ever dream off

kolo poster

[quote author=Real-Mccoy]Seun Osewa did nothing spectacular, he did what every business man would do at that period of time internet forum wasn't popular in Nigeria. He is not an inventor but an entrepreneur in the naija spec.[/quote]whether inventor. whether preneur.. hin don do am and I hope Seun continues to excel
why do we hate ourselves so much

django1: 1. Wrong, weather data are un linear but highly predictable.

2. I think the right term for what he's doing is "innovation".

.. NEPA may be random but i believe this algorithm is still a step in the right drirection
The uncertain aspet of it can be factored in a variable


Example Power outage = f (demand, supply, sudden usage, random factor)

That random factor can be modified to suit the Nigerian situation
Also note an invention is almost successfully preacticalised years later

Look at the Derivatives equation used in Wall Street
It was practicalised much later after it was developed

Carry GO Chidubem

bigfrancis21: Its honorary to note that Chidubem once was an active member of this forum, from 2010 and 2011. His moniker is cezeozue and he was active on the 'Preparing for the GRE' thread.

It is really inspiring to read his story. For those that are not familiar with him, I'll quickly go on to summarise his story for you.
1) He attended the University of Nigeria Nsukka where he read Electrical Engineering (my same course and school). I knew him back then in school - I was in my first year then in 2008 and he was in his final year.
2) He graduated that same year with a 4.83 CGPA. He then took the GRE exam, DICED it like some easy piece of cake and scored 800 in Quantitative, 730 in Verbal (170Q & 168V - perfect scores!).
3) In 2009 he initially applied to MIT, Cambridge and Oxford and got rejections from all 3 three universities. However, he remained undaunted. The following year he applied to 8 universities this time: MIT, Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Caltech, UPenn, Penn State, Johns Hopkins, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison and Columbia (with mixes of M.Sc and Phd). Not only that he applied to universities but he applied to the best US engineering universities.
4) Then the rejections started coming in again despite his pristine profile - 6 of the universities all rejected him for admission. Stanford accepted him for admission but offered him Masters instead of the PhD he applied for and, with no funding. He seriously needed admission + funding and intently looked on to it. MIT was his only hope left. And as God would have it, MIT, of all schools, gave him admission plus the much sought-after funding he all along wanted! His joys knew no bounds. At this point he wrote to Stanford rejecting their offer and afterwards he travelled out in 2011 to study.

Very inspiring story indeed.

It is also worthy to note that many years before now, another EE graduate from UNN broke records when he got accepted into the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (The 3rd best US ECE school) to pursue his masters + funding. Before him no other Nigerian had been accepted into the ECE department of UIUC and few years after him one other Nigerian from another university followed suit. Nigerians making Nigeria proud.

This is news that warms my heart
Though this lad is of Igbo extraction, Note he is a Nigerian and for those who believe nothing good can come out of Nazareth

I am proud of you.. Live and Prosper!

acidtalk: A friend of mine called me yesterday and crying and lamenting how herself and colleague went to withdraw N750,000 for their boss and event after watching them count the money over the counter, on getting to the office they discovered about N4,600 was missing from that money, their boss threatened to fire them if they don't confess but both ladies are more than certain the money missed while the banker was pretending to assist in helping them put the money in a nylon bag.

thats sad.. na wa

ayobase: Of course......but talk as a judge now based on evidence!

hmm....i just find it funny that people always believe the man does not have a mind of his own
no one owns the man

when he is single, he is responsible to his mum
when he is married, he is responsible to his partner and his mum... responsibilities squared

NO ONE claims an irresponsible man


This is why people blame young girls for seducing men as if the man is a dundee and cant think for himself

damiso: True that about every parent having their own scale of prefrence.Some parents ambition for their daughter is to marry a rich man.Simples .All the private sch is to that end.

pronto..

Kate Middleton always wanted to marry a prince
Her parents could match it and she went to private school

Voila! Royal escort Katherine

Easy as ABC!

The man owns himself

MRbrownJAY: ^^^^ well said! he drove like he meant business......and it was entertaining to watch.

True he did well coming from second ten to end 5th but he almost jeopardised his teams constructor challenge

Reminded me of vettel and webber

omar22: More like driving like a mad man when he knows that Carlos Slims and his brother were present

LOL

Mad checo

damiso: Its scary though to think that your child might just not be intellectually sound seriously.
I think thats where the onus falls on effort.If your child is a C potential i think without the push or an enabling enviroment they might go down the D or E path.And all these 'experts'dont help,they way they keep harping on about how the early years are very fundamental in a childs academic life,so why wont i put a lil pressure to make sure my child is not another black statistic.Oloun o nije.

Esp in the UK(hubby thinks am paranoid)but i just think academically odds are stacked against black kids.Some of the factors for this have already been mentioned i.e single parenting,poverty and let me add my own Owambe i must belong mentality.When Daddy and mummy just want to work that dead end job(am not looking down on any job oh its the motive am looking at i respect the working man)with all the hours God can send so they can buy gold and do 40th birthday party and change 6 times,what time is there is to monitor the childs progress.I have aunties moan to me about going to parent evenings Like really?If you dont go for parent evenings how will you know where your child needs help?

As a christian though,i think asking God for wisdom on how to raise a well rounded child who is able to reach his/her full potentials is important.

True but each parent has their set of priorities and will achieve it based on THEIR OWN scale of preference

A child needs to be pushed to the limit of his potential so as to be achieve his destiny but this should be done with patience so as not to alienate the child

What if he finds out that he was just a local champion and not cut off for the big league

Has anyine watched this movie

Parental Guidance

Yes debt can affect a marriage

I will like to know if the lady gets married to the guy will she be incurring some of the debt.

in the west once you are married, the debt becomes common to the marriage

So what advice do you or your friend need exactly

[quote author=tpia@]when the so-called "beauty" doesnt work

the much vaunted "I can sex you pass all your hookers" doesnt work

"see my pity party- na only me dey suffer for nigeria or wherever" doesnt work

"come and see my unclothedness wonder" doesnt work


what else is left besides adding your babalawo's recommendation to the darn food?

vagina water on the loose.[/quote][quote author=tpia@]as for this man or woman who keeps disturbing others on account of the men who she says are following her like lap puppies, may God provide husband for her o!

tashmania or something like that.

and not only that, may she be ok with whoever God provides o, not the one where she'll still be ogling other people's men to see which ones are "better" than hers, because this type seems like someone who wants to have all men.

not sure how she will pull that off, maybe we should wait and see, there might be some wonders she can perform.[/quote]

[quote author=ShyM-X]I don't know about that, bro...

Once the "hymen" kicks the bucket - everything shall be "permeable" on the judgement day... [/quote]badt guy
when the hyM-X jams shM-X...

@flytefalls.. just a little fun no harm

[quote author=ShyM-X]Lmao... Osmosis is the greatest word ever!!!

We shall judge them based on how they move through a partially permeable membrane!!!

#JudgementDay!! [/quote]badt guy,, some membranes are meant to be unpermeable o

mitochondrion.. mitosis ,meiosis... bla bla

yuck

i agree on biologys practicality b i like genetics

XX v XY
AA v aa

coogar: he would adapt!
kids are very flexible - God bless their brains. a kid below 10 can learn 8 different languages without stress. it is what you instil in kids that they would learn. forget all those he might not necessarily be academic. smacking drilled out all the non-academic talents out of me and i embraced academic. what are you talking about? no vacation for me if i don't score 100% in math.

Tiger Dad... well your name is coogar

Duchaello: u te madt....ahhhhhh omo were nie

oga i gentle o

Oahray: ok, somehow Madrid improves while every other club is stagnant? Nice one.

Not saying Madrid cannot win, but do not underestimate Dortmund. Madrid did so in the groupies and got spanked.

tomorrow// lets go there

ileobatojo/Sisikill

a lady obviously misyarns and is stil trying to justify her heinous posts but as usual its the male folk worthy of attack

carry go ...... i see you

Oahray: Excuses. Madrid need that luck too. Madrid cannot trash Dortmund, not this season. If they manage to qualify, it would be after sweating their asses out. Even at that, they do not hold a candle near this compact Bayern side.

If I were you, I'd forget La Decima for now.

You may or may nor be right

Madrid 2.0 is different o

coogar: if the father is brilliant and the mother is brilliant, i don't see how the kids would be dull. the other factors are the environment and the people you let the kids interact with. if those factors are all air-tight, there's no way the child won't be brilliant! all he would see growing up are my books and his mother's old textbooks - in a nutshell, he would be groomed in an academic environment.

coogar this is an urban legend

the childs brilliance may be in other things not necessarily academic

Shugamania: Lol..
U just reminded me of that movie, Scary.
Seriously, i envy these parents..they are blessed.

wow you try,,, u no be small pikin o.. that chick was hot damn fine and see the way the belle develop in minutes

On this one, its ok and its a matter of time

dont worry
#BabaGoDoAm

teadrake: Hello Luis suarez,please help us bite Bayern before they'll humiliate us again,come camp nou.Regards to Gerard and Ur coach

nice one