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This GEJ is a very foolish man.

Do you really want to alienate your neighbors in West Africa like this?

President of the AU is purely symbolic anyways. Why needlessly piss off your neighbors?

Computer translation of first article:

"African Union: Nigeria candidate for presidency?

Officially, only Benin is a candidate for the presidency of the African Union (AU), the Gambia and Guinea are being dropped out. But Nigeria would have expressed interest ,  Bluff or response to the hegemonic will of South Africa, who eyeing the Commission? The summit of African heads of state, held in Addis Ababa from January 29 to 30, will decide.
Who will be the next president of the African Union? Meeting in summit Sunday and Monday in Addis Ababa , the Heads of State and Government of the continent should identify the successor of Equatorial Guinea Teodoro Obiang Nguema. The geographical logic is that this post has come back to West Africa. Banjul, Conakry and Cotonou candidates were officially but in recent days, the Gambia and Guinea in Benin have indicated that it wished to discontinue. However, the Beninese President Boni Yayi is not assured of winning. Behind the scenes, it is rumored that indeed Nigeria might want to head the AU for a year - information that surprised in Cotonou, where we interpret this decision as a response Abuja in Pretoria, which claims that Once the presidency of the AU Commission. The two instances are not directly related, but it is an open secret that Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan to see a dim view of the South African ambitions. Boni Yayi, who can rely on the support of countries of the Council of Understanding ( Benin , Burkina , Ivory Coast , Niger and Togo ) but will be difficult, if appropriate, to align face in Abuja, Will it cost? Response on January 29.
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By Anne-Grangé Kappes , special correspondent in Addis Ababa


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edoyad:
Nice Map! How in heavens carnation did places like Kogi and Benue end up as north?

Demons from hell called the British

Basically, Israel should give up their nukes, Iran should submit to international inspections, and the US should establish a military base in Israel and guarantee the safety of the country.

If in this situation where Israel is nuke-less Iran tries to go nuclear, by all means punish them heavily.

But the current situation is just pure favoritism.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I wonder why Iran is being portrayed as the bad guy here.

Why is Israel the only Middle Eastern country allowed to have nukes? Is Iran evil for not wanting to be at a disadvantage?

I understand why the US and Israel don't want it to happen, but this all seems unjust to me.

Not sure about soccer in general, but for certain other sports it is a business. You can use statistics and mathematics to model the sport, and thus find mis-priced betting opportunities for you to profit from.

Interesting thread, especially the posts by edo.girl on page 1.

Rather than making this list by country, shouldn't you simply make a list of universities to apply to that are also in good countries (where by good, I mean according to this particular criterion you have chosen)?

I dunno, looking at things at the country level, not sure how helpful that will be.

So Sanusi is a murderer too?

Plan plan plan, talk talk talk.

Talking Congress of Nigeria.

26% of Nigeria's oil comes from Delta State, supposedly. Rivers much more. Akwa Ibom is also very high up there. Bayelsa produces substantial amounts too.

Probably 85% of Nigeria's oil from those 4 states.

All of these states can say, "Hey, we are producing all this oil, but only seeing a very small fraction of the value back. We are in effect subsidizing you non oil-producing states."

But obviously someone from Anambra, Abia, Enugu, etc cannot say the same thing to me, at least very convincingly.

With that said, it is sort of strange to say, "what is X contributing to Nigeria?"

Not everyone even believes in the concept of Nigeria sef. So what sense does it make to ask them what they've contributed?

No Imo and Abia produce oil.

I'm just saying. . . it isn't as if today SE oil is say the bedrock of gov't revenue, etc.

The SS can make a very strong, in fact unshakable case for contributing a lot financially to this country.

It is in fact subsidizing the rest of the country.

But is the SE of Nigeria subsidizing anyone else? (modulo the 1 or 2% of Nigeria's oil that they produce but don't get to keep revenue for)

No, I don't think that argument can be made.

nwabobo:
I seem not to understand u here ekt_bear. Are you implying that the oil produced in Imo and Abia states is water? Or do these tates keep the revenue so generated to themselves?

Haba, U can do better than this na!

How much oil does Imo and Abia produce? 1% of Nigeria's total?

And I mean current production, not "billions and billions in the ground untapped", blahblahblah

patriot2:
The oil revenue contributess about 90% of GDP. Wake up !!!

No it does not. Roughly 25%ish.

GDP != government spending

The SS contributes lots of free oil money to Nigeria.

The SE? I'm not sure what they have done.

Your web scripting programming language probably has a Facebook authentication library.

For example in Ruby, there a popular one called omni_auth.

DMX? The rapper?

I thought his terrible lyrics and lack of talent are what destroyed him

wtf?

have I myself been posting on NL much lately, much less caring about what someone else does?

Nope, I'm a Ruby person. . . I don't like C or C++ very much.

If I have the list

1 2 8 10 15 27 3 9 11

And I need to insert 3 in its proper position, I'll need to shift 8, 10, 15, 27 over. O(n) shifts, basically.

Likewise, nice to have met you too.

When I was little kid, I thought the early 90s Nigerian soccer would represent the beginning of greater success, not the end of it

Nigeria has regressed heavily, soccer-wise

1. You look at her mamma and grandma, see if they are fat.
2. Marry a slim girl, so that after she has kids she'll be average or only above-average in weight.

The biggest threat a woman's waistline is kids, basically.

abdulapopoola: Thing is, those shifting operations (or I guess insertions, as CS people would call them) are part of the theoretical consideration. It is expensive for me to insert() the number 8 into an arbitrary position into an array (since I have to shift everything over to the right by 1) but cheap to do this for a linked list (but then expensive for me to find() arbitrary positions in the list.)

This is part of the basic tradeoff when thinking about what data structure you want to use to represent a list of #s. . . for some applications an array is better, for others a LL is better.

Also, I agree that it is possible for comparison-based sorts to run in O(n log(n)). In fact all of the best ones that people use in practice run in this time (merge, quick, heapsort).

Lol, late at night and I'm clearly losing it.

This:
"I don't think there is any way to do insertion sort even on linked lists in better than O(n log(n))."

should have been this:
"I don't think there is any way to do insertion sort even on linked lists in better than O(n^2)."

and the post after it shouldn't have been made, since it wasn't relevant.

Actually, you 100% cannot. There is a lower bound on the running time of comparison based sorting algorithms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_sort#Lower_bound_for_the_average_number_of_comparisons

No comparison based sort can run in faster than n log(n) time (I assume this means worst running case time.)

I suppose that you could do binary search on a linked list.


You'd build something like this:


           *
     /            \
/     \        /     \
/ \   /  \    /  \   /  \
1 2 3 4  5 6 7 15


And run binary search on it (I guess paying log(n) each time you want to grab any location from your list of #s?)

So you can get a binary search variant that probably runs in like log(n)^2 sort of time, I suppose? So n log(n)^2 running time for this variant of insertion sort you suggest.

Hrm, and you pay only O(n) to build the above data structure.

Hrm, none of this is precise, but now I'm starting to wonder if it can work. I'm not sure it works, because then when you want to insert say the number 8 into the above list, I feel like you have to rebuild the edges above the bottom level. Fix the edges so they point at the right person. this will take you again O(n) time.

So you'd again get an O(n^2) algorithm.

I don't think there is any way to do insertion sort even on linked lists in better than O(n log(n)).

Heapsort is another one worth mentioning.

There are a bunch of non-comparison based sorting algorithms too. . . counting sort, radix sort. But for whatever reason these seem to be less popular (I guess because also less general than comparison based sorts.)

Very nice post.

Btw, regarding this:

"Interestingly, the insertion sort can be made to run in O(nlgn) time. Since the sublist in lower positions is always sorted; if a binary search is used to find the insertion point in this sub-list instead of linear search., the number of comparisons reduces to lg n."

Is this correct? I don't think so. You can spend O(log n) time figuring out where to insert using binary search, but you'll spend O(n) time to shift everything over right by one, no?

Cost of iteration i = Time to find out where x_i should go +  time to shift things over once I've done so.

Or are you imagining a data structure like a linked list where shifting over is cheap? I don't think you can do binary search on linked lists, right?

I think with merge sort, you may as well make your base case a bit higher. At least 2, and possibly bigger than that. No reason to go all the way down to size 1.

Regarding other comparison based algorithms, quicksort is probably the most popular. The default sorting algorithm for a lot of software.

Again, very nice post.

[quote author=Ileke-IdI link=topic=861589.msg10109405#msg10109405 date=1328245881]Michelle is just tall and athletic. I like that in a woman.[/quote]Funny how tastes differ so much racially.

Pretty much every black dude I know thinks she is a MILF, lots of white folks I know think she looks like a man.

dayokanu:
I wont mind Michelle as a MILF

I like my homie Barack well enough, but if he and Michelle by misfortune divorce. . .

She looks good for a 48 year old woman. Or a woman in her 40s period, imo.

Physics: Thanks for that link.

So 26% from Delta State (most of which is produced by Itsekiriland), 5% comes from Ondo (from two Yoruba LGAs), and 3% from Edo State.

Which state outside of the SS produces more than 5% of Nigeria's oil?

Beaf:
The percentage of oil Edo and Ondo states produce is like 3% and 1%.

Ondo State produces only 1% of Nigeria's oil? 1/3 of the amount Edo State produces?

Where did you get those #s from?

Also, Ondo states oil is in Ijaw territory.

You are mistaken. It is Ilajeland from which most of Ondo's oil comes from.

Incidentally, most of Delta State's oil comes from Itsekiri.

The Se also has more oil and gas than the SW, I am not sure if Anambra has more gas than Delta (between those two is Nigeria's gas champ).

HAS more, or PRODUCES more?

In terms of production today, no zone produces more oil than the SW, after the SS.

[quote author=see*noevil link=topic=861564.msg10107921#msg10107921 date=1328217979]where did that come from ??[/quote]Readnoenglish, Readnoenglish, Readnoenglish. How many times did I call you?


Which zone in Nigeria produces more oil today than the SW, after the SS?