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ClassCaptain:
This is Racist

how? see nothing wrong. they just having fun.

the pdp lawmakers knew they'll have more to lose should this struggle continue.

menix:
Hahahahahaha...

my yelloba folks re jealous that they have been winning the wars on "papa _rape daughter" nd "85yrs Dele _rape Bose 12yrs" so the mofos decided to churn out a version frm Ibadan nd called it Ebonyi...


Yoloba nd teen _rape is like Fridge nd water..

and you've just succeeded in trivializing this serious issue rampaging the society. you deserve a medal as a sown tribalist.

succinctly put...great speech coming from a supposed dullard.

checked on the state code 02...ibadannn?

crotonite:
its called narcolepsy
bubu has it too

bringing back memories of Yogi bear

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jinx broken... congrats guys.

londongal03:
Tinubu should be in jail

for breaking in into your house?

kai! This is the machine baba ebenezer used to barb our hair with in those days reavelling the ekusa on our head. Used to cry my eyeballs out under this tractor.

Madamkilljoy:
All work and no play made him an exceptionally brilliant dude. I don't think he has a girlfriend, that's why he was focused. However, he should prepare to face the most difficult course in life- WOMAN.

thoughtful.

must have been so magical.

tempted to say...good riddance.

papindinho:
watch your back! Stalkers.......lol.

How have you been sir?

not bad prof. lol @stalkers.

Nice write-ups. Keep them coming. . Nairaland sure need a lifting.

why not a shark.

These are the world's
most powerful
passports
A passport from a country on
good diplomatic terms with its
peers is a powerful tool,
allowing holders to travel
across borders with ease.
Financial firm Arton Capital,
which specializes in helping
wealthy individuals obtain
multiple citizenships,
sometimes through immigrant
investor programs, has put
together a ranking of the
world's most powerful
passports.
The ranking shows which
passports give holders the
most global mobility, based on
how many countries can be
visited without a visa, or by
getting one upon arrival.
Developed countries with
advanced economies fare the
best. Tied for first place are
U.S. and U.K. passports, which
give holders access to 147
countries.
Passports from the world's
most populous country, China,
offer quick access to 74
countries. Indian passport
holders aren't so lucky, with 59
easy destinations. A Russian
passport provides 98 country
options.
Here are the top-ranked
passports, followed by the
number of countries they
offer access to:
U.S., U.K. (147 countries
France, South Korea, Germany
(145
Sweden, Italy (144
Denmark, Singapore, Finland,
Japan, Luxembourg,
Netherlands (143
Switzerland (142
And the bottom-ranked
passports:
Congo (Dem. Rep.), Yemen,
Central African Republic,
Kosovo (41
Equatorial Guinea, Bhutan,
Comoros, Burundi (40
Somalia, Eritrea (39
Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq,
Ethiopia, Nepal (38
South Sudan, Solomon Islands,
Palestinian Territories, Sao
Tome and Principe, Myanmar
(28
http://www.cnnmoney.mobi/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoney.cnn.com%2Fmobile%2Fjson%2F2015%2F04%2F17%2Fnews%2Fworlds-most-powerful-passports.json

Timbuktu awaits you sir.

moreeni:
In your fibble minds! It's Lord bless me with a good gene to procreate with

procreation shouldn't be the main reason for marriage but fellowship. Couples with such mindset gets easily frustrated when the kids are not forthcoming in their own time.

Gbotun:
Actually,the bus is not a Chinese brand but a brand new
Nissan NV 300 bus,one of the buses given to them by the state govt about a year or so ago.

Was discussing with a friend of mine in IB poly abt the way those SUG excos drive those buses not knowing
this was going to happen.

when i see these guys driving in town with the bus i feel like spanking them. they move like the bus was invincible. withing a month or two the bus was already looking bad. just sad it had to end this way.

having the notion that a guy that cheats during courtship would eventually change is a great risk that shouldn't be taken into marriage because they rarely do.

PDP never dwell so much on gen. buhari's academic qualifications during the 2011 presidential election. It just shows how Jonathan and his circle are sweating in their pants this time around. how nervvy!

we've become so terrible as humans.

really don't know why it failed under google.

Lenovo completes Motorola takeover after Google sale
By Leo Kelion
Technology desk editor
30 October 2014 From the section Technology
Lenovo already had a successful handset division of its own ahead of
the takeover
Lenovo has completed its takeover of Google's Motorola Mobility
division.
The acquisition gives the Chinese firm control of the unit's Moto and
Droid-branded handsets as well as its 3,500 employees, 2,800 of
whom are based in the US.
Lenovo said the deal made it the world's third bestselling
smartphone-maker after Apple and Samsung.
That knocks its country-mate Xiaomi back down into fourth spot,
based on data from two market research reports.
Lenovo stated that a total of 100 million mobile devices were on
course to be shipped from its existing mobile phone business
combined with that of Motorola's over the current fiscal year, which
ends in March.
Little overlap
Motorola has found recent success with its "budget" Moto G models.
The original version, released last year was the bestselling phone in
the business's history.
The Moto G smartphone has helped reinvigorate Motorola's 86-year-
old brand
More recently it has also entered the wearables sector with the Moto
360 smartwatch, and announced its first Nexus device - a 6in
(15.2cm) "phablet" marketed by Google, which will be one of the first
phones to offer the Android 5.0 operating system.
Lenovo is the world's bestselling PC maker, a position it attained
after the takeover of IBM's personal computer business in 2005.
Its smartphones are already big sellers in Asia and the Middle East,
but they have not been sold in North America and Western Europe.
While Lenovo and Motorola handsets do compete for sales in India,
there is little overlap elsewhere between the two divisions at this
point.
"We're now planning to introduce Motorola-branded products back
into China," Aymar de Lencquesaing, Lenovo's president of Europe, the
Middle East and Africa, told the BBC.
Motorola announced the Nexus 6 shortly before the takeover was
completed
"But right now what we intend to do is leverage the stronger brand in
each particular market.
"For the most part, think of the developed mature world - that's going
to be Motorola-driven. Emerging markets will be Lenovo-driven.
"Some markets will overlap and over time nothing says that in any
given market we couldn't have a dual brand strategy. But, let's put it
this way, it's probably smarter for us right now to walk before we
run."
He ruled out cutting jobs at Motorola and confirmed that the division
would remain headquartered in Chicago.
'Quality phones'
Lenovo had previously stated that one of the reasons it bought the
division for $2.9bn (£1.8bn) was to take advantage of Motorola's
existing relationships with network operators in North America and
Europe.
One analyst said that this could offer a way to launch Lenovo-
branded handsets in those regions if the company later decided to
make the move.
"Lenovo has proven it can manufacture quality phones and it is
already well known as a PC brand in Europe and the US," said Ronan
de Renesse from the telecoms consultancy Ovum.
"So, it doesn't have the cheap aspect to its brand that some of the
other Chinese manufacturers have to deal with."
Motorola's brand has been updated to take account of the acquisition
Mr de Lencquesaing added that a nearer-term advantage to the tie-
up was that Motorola would benefit from his company's supply-line
efficiencies.
The takeover does not include Motorola Solutions, which makes
communications equipment for utility and emergency workers. The two
Motorola businesses formally split in 2011.
Google paid $12.5bn to acquire Motorola Mobility in 2012. It said the
key motivation for the deal was the firm's patents, which it is keeping
hold of.
http://m.bbc.com/news/technology-29833131

[quote author=luxanne post=27531381]*a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide.

*make shallow.




* a gradual increase in loudness.




*walk or tramp about.








English words pls, and do stick to the rules of the game by first giving the definition to the word on ground before dropping yours for orderly sake, thanks.



[b]Next Word: Anathematize

hated and cursed.

tete-a-tete

match is 8;45

crescendo

at 29 he'll be competing for NANS president in nigeria.

The Truth About Animals
Is your toddler really smarter than a chimpanzee?
It sounds like a no-brainer, but it's not clear that young children are
any more intelligent than chimpanzees
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Presented by
Justin Gregg
I've spent the last four years teaching my daughter to be human.
There's a lot to learn, from walking, talking and the (strangely
challenging) task of not soiling yourself, to how to make choux
pastry, Chinese history and the basics of quadratic equations.
Although we still have some way to go, it already feels like a hefty
parental investment, especially when compared with species like the
blue wildebeest, whose newborns can stand, walk, and even outrun
predators just a few hours after leaving the womb. But humans aren't
the only species genetically predisposed to spend years rearing their
offspring. Our closest relatives, chimpanzees, also enjoy a prolonged
childhood. As a socially complex species, their infants stick close to
their mothers for the first five years of life, picking up a laundry list of
essential skills by observing and imitating their elders.
Telling a Picasso from a Monet, for example, should be easy for a
chimpanzee
Many skills that we consider complex are in fact the result of
relatively simple - and often universal - cognitive abilities shared by a
great many species
Of course, the life skills a chimpanzee eventually acquires are
nowhere near as complex as those I'm teaching my daughter. Don't
get me wrong – learning how to make a termite-fishing stick is
cognitively complex, but it's hardly up there with learning to read, or
being able to differentiate between a Picasso and a Monet. After four
years of dedicated training from her parents, my daughter should be
able to beat a chimpanzee in a battle of wits, right?
Wrong. Or at least, it depends on the battle. In fact telling a Picasso
from a Monet, for example, should be easy for a chimpanzee – both
honeybees and pigeons have been trained to do it. Scientists taught
these small-brained species that chambers next to pictures by one or
other of these artists contained food. When later presented with new
Picassos and Monets, they were more likely to opt for the artist whose
work had previously led them to a reward - meaning they had picked
up on underlying stylistic differences. Many skills that we consider
complex are in fact the result of relatively simple - and often universal
- cognitive abilities shared by a great many species.
In reality, when it comes to cognitive development, the divide between
infant chimpanzees and infant humans is often startlingly small
. So small in fact that psychologists once wondered if the key
difference between the two species was not our underlying mental
machinery, but the cultural traditions and recorded knowledge that
humans had accumulated through the ages. Perhaps if an infant
chimpanzee was raised in an exclusively human environment, it would
acquire human abilities, complete with language competency and
table manners.
Previous experiments showed chimpanzees lacked the vocal
structures to produce the sounds of human language
In order to test this hypothesis, Allen and Beatrix Gardner,
psychologists at the University of Nevada, Reno, acquired a 10-
month-old chimpanzee named Washoe . She had been born in the wild
in West Africa in 1965, where she was "recruited" by the US Air Force
for use in biomedical testing as part of the space programme. The
Gardeners brought Washoe into their home in 1966. She was dressed
in human clothes, and joined the Gardeners at the dinner table each
evening. Every effort was made to replicate the childhood of a typical
human infant with the hope that she would not just learn human
language, but learn to be human.
Aware from previous experiments that showed chimpanzees lacked
the vocal structures to produce the sounds of human language,
Washoe was taught to communicate using a form of American Sign
Language. By the time she left the Gardeners in 1970, she could
communicate using a few hundred signed symbols. For some, the fact
that she could combine symbols to form new words such as "water
bird" when shown a swan for the first time was evidence of at least
rudimentary language capacity. Many scientists, however, remained
skeptical, suggesting Washoe and other apes were simply responding
to unintentional cues from the researchers working with them.
It was obvious from the Gardeners' experiment that being raised in a
human environment could not give a chimpanzee a human mind.
Although she was one of the first non-human apes to communicate
with humans in the form of signed symbols, she did not ever truly
acquire language. The question scientists still wrestle with today is
what exactly is going on in the minds of toddlers that allows them to
acquire and use language where chimpanzees fail? And how does this
relate to the skills that define human intelligence, allowing us to
create moon landers and chai lattes?
The human need for deeply cooperative group living brought with
it the ability to get into each other's heads
Michael Tomasello, a psychologist and co-director of the Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has spent
the last 30 years studying primate cognition in an effort to answer
questions like these. In his recently published book A Natural History
of Human Thinking, he develops the "shared intentionality" hypothesis
to explain the basic difference between human and chimpanzee
cognition. He defines this as the ability "to participate with others in
collaborative activities with shared goals and intentions
".
"Although humans' great ape ancestors were social beings, they lived
mostly individualistic and competitive lives," suggests Tomasello, "but
early humans were at some point forced by ecological circumstances
into more cooperative lifeways, and so their thinking became more
directed toward figuring out ways to coordinate with others to achieve
joint goals or even collective goals. And this changed everything."
This human need for deeply cooperative group living brought with it
the ability to get into each other's heads. Being able to share
intentions and goals in this way is extremely rare in the animal
kingdom, and many experiments suggest that it's a skill that my
daughter has, but that chimpanzees - like Washoe - lack.
Consider the enigma of human pointing – a strangely difficult signal
for chimpanzees to wrap their heads around. They do not typically
point in the wild, although individuals working with humans in the lab
will often gesture towards food or objects they want, and sometimes
they do so with a pointed finger. What scientists want to know
however is whether or not a pointing chimpanzee is trying to connect
with the person watching them by establishing collaborative, two-way
communication. It is obviously a communicative act, but the question
is whether it is the result of the chimpanzee trying to get inside the
head of the observer to convey the message: "Excuse me, I would
really like you to fetch that banana for me."
Whereas the babies sat politely and pointed toward the object in
an attempt to get their caregiver's attention, the chimpanzees
moved towards the object while making pointing and reaching
gestures
For humans, these collaborative messages are commonplace, even
without the use of language. Imagine for a moment that I had lost my
voice. I could ask my wife to pass the salt simply by pointing to the
salt shaker sitting on the table. Via this signal, I could share with my
wife the knowledge that I want the salt, and she would immediately
realize that I am asking for her help in achieving what I hope is now
a shared goal. I don't need to fling myself across the table while
making exaggerated grabbing motions.
Chimpanzees, on the other hand, do. In a recent experiment,
chimpanzees were pitted against one-year-old children to see how
their behaviour differed when something they wanted was just out of
reach. Whereas the babies sat politely and pointed toward the object
in an attempt to get their caregiver's attention, the chimpanzees
moved towards the object while making pointing and reaching
gestures. The key difference, the researchers concluded, was that the
human infants realized the pointing gesture alone was enough to tell
their caregiver what they wanted.
Humans, it seems, are born ready to share their thoughts with others.
Once we set aside the cognitive traits that encompass Tomasello's
idea of shared intentionality, however, the list of skills that my
daughter possesses that surpass those of chimpanzees is nearly
exhausted. In fact, there are cognitive skills at which chimpanzees can
easily outshine my daughter. Or you and me for that matter.
In another recent study, chimps went head-to-head with humans in a
test of their strategic thinking
. Participants played a simple two player computer game in which
they had to choose one of two squares displayed on a screen. Player
one won if both players chose the same square, and player two won if
both of them chose the opposite squares. After each game, the two
players could see which one their opponent had chosen, allowing
them to learn about their opponent's behaviour and make educated
guesses about their future choices. Players were pitted against others
of their own species, and human winners were rewarded with cash
prizes while chimps that came out on top got pieces of apple.
If the players make the best possible moves, the game should develop
a specific pattern predicted by game theory. It turned out that after
playing the game for a while, chimpanzees made moves that closely
resembled the optimal strategy predicted by mathematical models.
Humans, on the other hand, didn't.
Perhaps humans just don't have the level of fighting spirit (or
desire for infidelity) that gives chimpanzees the edge in some
battles of wits
With our infamous critical thinking skills, how could humans wind up
being soundly beaten by chimpanzees? We know from previous
research that chimpanzees can have stunning visual memory, and this
might be the key to their success. Ayumu, a young chimpanzee
involved in cognitive research at the Primate Institute of Kyoto
University, in Japan, is famously able to memorize the position of the
numbers one to nine in random positions on a screen in as little as
0.67 seconds. No human even came close to Ayumu's performance.
The scientists studying Ayumu suggest that chimpanzees simply have
a better working memory for visual information than humans
- which might explain why they can beat us in strategy games
involving visual tasks.
The researchers who ran the computer game experiment suggest that
it might also be the ultra-competitive mindset of the chimpanzee that
makes them better at developing strategies. Chimpanzees live in a
social world where they are often trying to outwit other members of
their inner circle. Lower ranking males, for example, try to outwit the
alpha males by having secret trysts with females behind their backs.
Plotting and scheming might be second nature to chimpanzees.
Perhaps humans just don't have the level of fighting spirit (or desire
for infidelity) that gives chimpanzees the edge in some battles of wits.
Maybe in some cognitive realms our bias towards co-operating lets
us down.
All of which leaves me wondering whether it's really fair to consider
my young daughter to be any smarter than a chimpanzee.
Chimpanzees lead lives that are not all that dissimilar from our own
recent ancestors in the days before we invented, and were able to
share our knowledge of, medicine, mathematics and physics. And
much of the social behaviour, problem solving, and reasoning
displayed by chimpanzees frolicking in the bush is still
indistinguishable from children playing in the schoolyard. And, as
we've seen, they even outperform humans at some skills.
In the end, though, it's not about who’s smarter. Both chimpanzees
and humans have cognitive skills that help them survive in their own
worlds. Over the next few years, my daughter's mind will blossom in
uniquely human ways. She'll tap into her shared intentionality
skillset, and join the ranks of schoolchildren learning their ABCs and
capital cities. Thanks to her human mind, this knowledge will be
transferred straight from her teacher's mind to hers through the
medium of language. These skills don't make my daughter any
smarter than a chimpanzee because smartness is a concept that is in
the eye of the beholder.
From my very human perspective, experiencing my daughter wanting
to share her thoughts with me is about the best thing in the whole
wide world. I suspect chimpanzee mothers love their young just as
deeply though, even if they can't – or don't want to – tell anyone
about it. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141012-are-toddlers-smarter-than-chimps

MarthaK:
I won't

just hope you know why you won't dropout.

MarthaK:
So are you advising me to drop out?

if you must.